(OOC PLOTTING) the stars go waltzing

[eviscerates]

Teams have been selected for the missing shardbearers player plot!

I'd also like to thank everyone who signed up; the enthusiastic response has made me super keen to try and do more plots with these themes in the future, so I'll keep you posted! I'm so sorry I couldn't figure out a way to involve everyone ;;;;

TEAM	ONE	TEAM	TWO
Araceli	Ruby	Adelaide	Merrill
Martel	Avery	Bruce	Korrin
Cosima	Daenerys	Bellamy	Ciri
Jamie	Lexa	Sabine	Teren

TIMELINE sorta kinda. • Team One arrives in a village in Orlais; whether they came from Skyhold, from anther mission, from Halamshiral, etc. is flexible. • Successfully close rift one, but during their effort to close rift two they are attacked by a Fuckload of Venatori. • Team One taken to an old Tevinter fortress, and experimented one for Some Days. • After/during the abduction and imprisonment: Skyhold receives word from the village that the second rift is still a problem, and deploy Team Two to close it and find out what happened. • Team Two close the rift, investigate, find Avery and some clues, and then track the Venatori to their fortress. • Clearing/investigating the fortress, a lot of creepy stuff to be found, npc fights and traps. And then, into the dungeon! Basically: fight bad guys, save rifters. • BOSS FIGHT. • Journey back to Skyhold. • ??? LET'S ESTABLISH... • FOR EVERYONE: my original proposed post date for this was the 10th; for the sake of doing some threading of team one and team two's travel before we get into the heavier plot stuff, would you like me to post it a couple of days sooner? my reasoning for this is it would give people a chill extra couple of days so we aren't diving into everything all at once, but it's just an idea and I am 100% happy to go with the original post date, as well. • FOR TEAM ONE: handwave closing the first rift, y/n? • FOR TEAM ONE: would anyone like to attempt a solo/group escape that goes horribly? Cosima, Lexa and Jamie are on the case (lmk if I missed someone!) • FOR ANDY: Andy, bro, bruh, do you want Avery to be dragged along with team two or just allowed to have a nap? Totally up to you :]b AVERY IS TAGGING ALONG yay • FOR TEAM TWO: I thought we could handwave closing the second rift and just have the thread start with the rift closing, y/n? Are you happy with investigation stuff being semi-party style, aka. characters post threads and investigate in groups of two or three and I npc clues? (Avery is one of the clues, potentially?) Handwaving is go, and I've figured out a PLAN for the clues and stuff based on people's comments and some rad ideas people offered me, tyty :]b • FOR TEAM TWO: for the random investigating team ups I was planning on RNGing for opportunities to cr build, but I can leave deciding which characters group up to you guys - what's your preference? TOO BAD IT'S RNG • FOR TEAM TWO: would your character want to — charge in and take the fortress by force? — watch and assess and take it with stealth and cunning? WE'RE DOING BOTH AWWW YISS • FOR EVERYONE: would you like separate chatty plotty post for each team in my journal (with FILTERS oohh technology) so that we can plot and scheme specifics for each team and keep them a ~~~surprise~~~ for the other team, or does that hold zero appeal? Let's just stick with this one ayyyy • FOR EVERYONE: do you have anything you'd really like your character to get to do this plot in terms of random heroics or... anything, really? It'd be cool if we can accomodate random scenarios you'd like to play or character development stuff, although obviously it all depends on what works with the plot, etc. • FOR EVERYONE: I'd like to keep elements of the bossfight to being a bit of a surprise before it happens. Are folks okay with that? If I just post an injury/permissions thing for the plot generally (see below) are you happy with me using that for npcing the boss fight as well even if you don't know much about it? • are there any questions I have neglected horribly oh my god I am bad at these posts PROPOSED THREADS & FORMAT. I've made up a post with the threads I'm currently planning to write up and what format they'd take (party style, one thread, etc) which is HERE. If you could take a peek at that and answer these questions, that would be great. — is this too many threads? is it overwhelming? if yes, what should we look at cutting? — alternatively: are there any other threads you'd like to do that I've not provided a space for? — action or prose are always fine, I figure just go with whatever you're most comfortable with and helps you tag fastest. Some of my GMing things will be really simply laid out action responses, just to make what is happening really easy to understand (and avoid my tendency to excessive rambling sentences lbr.) INJURIES, PERMISSIONS, STUFF. As I have mentioned a few times (I'm so sorry) I'm going to be NPCing bad guys, traps and so on. Please fill in this form to make this easier and include it in your comment with your response for discussion stuff! I've added a few extra questions on top of what's usually in here :]b To be clear, although I will set up injuries, you get the final say on just how bad they are, etc. If your opt for your character to only get minor burns I might say they are in the range of a flame trap, and you can decide how that goes. If you opt for your character to get grievous burns I might say they are in the middle of the flame trap, but you still get to decide if they dodge somehow, just how bad it is, etc. The permissions form, those who crafted it now lost to legend... <b>CHARACTER</b> <b>SUPPLIES FORM</b> This to help me gauge vulnerability of NPCs. What weapons/armour/accessories will they have, what materials/bonuses of note are there? (for example, is the sword flaming, is the dagger made of silverite?) You only need to mention if something is special/intense, I don't actually expect you to know all the things. <b>Offence:</b> <b>Defence:</b> <b>Anything else?</b> <b>INJURY FORM</b> (Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous") <b>Physical pain:</b> <b>Lacerations & puncture wounds:</b> NOTE: some of these cannot be healed by magic, please specify if lacerations that will take longer to heal are acceptable. <b>Burns:</b> <b>Electrocution:</b> <b>Abrasions:</b> <b>Concussions:</b> <b>Sprained joint:</b> <b>Bone fracture:</b> <b>Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed):</b> Y/N <b>Permanent scarring (cannot be healed by magic):</b> Y/N + acceptable locations? <b>NOTES:</b>

Comments

journal wrong character important

[elegiaque]

MARTEL

SUPPLIES FORM
Martel's sword, shield and armor are standard-issue Inquisition gear; in addition to this, he has a silverite belt-knife with a flame enchantment as a back-up.

Offense: Big sword, punch with shield, small knife, with a small window of time he can use offensive magic (but prefers this as a desperate last ditch measure).
Defense: Big man good at sword, defensive magic an option with prep time in advance.
Anything else? Will not woo venatori.


INJURY FORM
He must be fighting fit within six months, but otherwise:

Physical pain:
Fuck him up.

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N, I'm too lazy to photoshop his icons.
Permanent scarring (cannot be healed by magic): Y, anywhere else.


NOTES: I wrote this very ill.

[amygdalae]

BRUCE 'THE LOSER' NOT-BANNER

SUPPLIES FORM
Inquisition standard (light) armor, Inquisition standard staff loaned for this mission, his bag of potions and poultices and other assorted personal effects.

Offence: Mage stuff that can also be used to hit things, bow chika wow wow fire magic
Defence: healing and support magic
Anything else? abrominations


INJURY FORM
(Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous")

Physical pain: Severe
Lacerations & puncture wounds: none because let's spare everyone lyrium infused blood
Burns: Minor
Electrocution: Moderate
Abrasions: Moderate
Concussions: Moderate
Sprained joint: Moderate
Bone fracture: Moderate

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N
Permanent scarring (cannot be healed by magic): Gooooing have to go with no since lol again that requires bleeding which is a Bad Idea generally. Also man already has enough scars as it is.


NOTES: Scarring and bleeding stuff MIGHT change depending on how things pan, will update as events unfold.



ALSO RE: ESTABLISHMENT--

posting whenever is cool with me! Though if its earlier I'll be a bit slow since I have my own plot, but its all fine :|b

handwaving closing the rift is fine, and I think investigation stuff being semi party style is good

I'm fine with either RNG or deciding ourselves, but I think you probably should put a separate thread for that so that its easier to reference either way

Bruce would prefer to lie low and wait for an opportunity to strike... he is somewhat decent at being quiet and sneaky so he can, idk, whack Venatori unconscious with his staff or a rock or something.

I don't think we really need to filter out stuff? But I'm cool either way. Though keeping it separate might be easier to see though I think you can do the same effect by keeping it in separate threads.

Bruce has no good heroics to give, just him being here is amazing enough by itself tbh

I like surprises!!!!! hit me with it tbh

do you liek mudkips

[youwonscience]

COSIMA NIEHAUS

SUPPLIES FORM
HAHA Cosima is going in there basically naked - her original plan was "stay behind the fighters, help close the rift, go home."

Offence: She heard the shard can shoot things? (She had no idea how to do that.)
Defence: Hiding.
Anything else? Damnit, Ruby, she's a scientist, not a fighter.


INJURY FORM

Physical pain: Severe
Lacerations & puncture wounds: Magically healable - severe; not magically healbale - moderate
Burns: Moderate
Electrocution: Moderate
Abrasions: Severe
Concussions: Minor
Sprained joint: Moderate
Bone fracture: Minor

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N
Permanent scarring (cannot be healed by magic): Y if not on the face

NOTES: From the questions above, I am:
- Fine with starting a few days early
- Handwave closing the first rift is fine
- Cosima probably wouldn't instigate, but would participate in an escape attempt if someone else started it
- I am good with filtered planning or not, either way
- I want to be sure Cosima solidly interacts with someone besides Ruby (and Ruby too, of course)
- Bossfight surprise is fine with me
- Oh god, I haven't had any coffee yet, help

[foxsays]

Araceli Bonaventura

SUPPLIES FORM
2 x rapiers (they're cooler than your dumb swords or daggers Thedas)
1 x knife that flips out from a sheathe
Generic rogue armour; not Inquisition since Tevinter mission was to be kept on the DL
Necklace of the kadan, silverite mermaid bracelet
Necklace and earrings that just look really artsy but are actually lockpicks

Offence: Rapiers, small knife
Defence: Armour
Anything else? All the jewellery. Gotta be cute to fight crime. Her fox son but team two can find him.


INJURY FORM

Physical pain: Grievous
Lacerations & puncture wounds: Severe
Burns: Moderate
Electrocution: Moderate
Abrasions: Severe
Concussions: Severe
Sprained joint: Severe
Bone fracture: Severe

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N
Permanent scarring (cannot be healed by magic): Y; anywhere that isn't the face or neck and that isn't on her tattoos (I can provide a link to her tattoo locations)


NOTES:
Is not a fan of healing magic; Bruce Banner knows this just toss her some booze, a needle and thread, she'll be fine, she'll be totally fine.

[gatheringstorm]

CHARACTER Korrin Ataash

SUPPLIES FORM

Healing Mist grenades
Lyrium potions
Jars of Bees
Her super awesome staff
That one ring she found on a stinky giant
Her dragonhide armor

Offence: spirit blade, staff, lightning magic (and ice and fire, to a lesser degree), rift magic
Defence: She's a Knight-Enchanter, so that barrier of hers will take a lot to breach.
Anything else?


INJURY FORM
(Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous")

Physical pain: Grievous
Lacerations & puncture wounds: Moderate (not magically healable: minor)
Burns: Minor
Electrocution: Minor
Abrasions: Moderate
Concussions: Severe
Sprained joint: Severe
Bone fracture: None

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N
Permanent scarring (cannot be healed by magic): Y + anywhere that isn't her face or neck.


NOTES:

Moving up the posting date is fine.
Handwaving closing the second rift sounds good.
I'm fine with either RNG for pairings or player choice.
Korrin is a charge in and take the fortress by force person, did you really expect anything different.
Plotty posts for each team are fine with me.
Korrin has yet to use her Resurgence ability in a scene, so I'd love the chance for her to save some asses using it.
I'm fine with elements of the bossfight being a surprise.

[fightingale]

SLEEP, FRIEND.

[fightingale]

lmao oh god can you imagine, everyone is experiencing lyrium overload and bruce just "do not bleed on anyone DO NOT DO ANYTHING"

also, awesome to all of these. and I do liek mudkips, I really do.

[fightingale]

i'm sorry you can only have significant interacts with Ruby OR everyone else, this is the rule, this is a sacrifice you must make

no this is all rad :]b lmao poor Cosima JUST GOING TO LEARN HOW TO CLOSE RIFTS proceeds to have the worst time ever

[amygdalae]

he's here to remind everyone why lyrium is A Very Bad Thing, mostly :'D

and good. here's a mudkip:

[amygdalae]

HE IS HERE FOR YOU, FRIEND.

[gatheringstorm]

And then Korrin firestorms absolutely everything in her path to reach her kadan.

[wontforgetyou]

CHARACTER Jamie McCrimmon

SUPPLIES FORM
Jamie's broadsword and armor are standard-issue Inquistion gear (because his fancy schmancy dargon armor is still being worked on) or generic if needed for the mission, but he also has his dirk from home, and his sporran with odds and ends in it like string and a sharpening stone for the dirk and maybe a interesting rock. He also has his kilt and a plaidweave cloak, a small St. Christopher's medal and a broken watch he still insists on wearing even though it is broken.

Offence: Sword fighting (both one and two handed as need), dirk, hand-to-hand, yelling 'Creag An Tuire' at the top of his lungs and occasionally shooting projectiles out of his hand at the enemy (which can be random or fizzle, he hasn't really gotten any real training on how to reliably hit with these yet)
Defence: Sword fighting, dirk...pretty much the same thing as above. Also agile and good at dodging.
Anything else? Has been known to get conked on his head a few times over the years. Might be able to get distracted by pretty lasses.


INJURY FORM


Physical pain: Grevious
Lacerations & puncture wounds: Severe, ones that take longer to heal are ok
Burns: Moderate
Electrocution: Moderate
Abrasions: Severe
Concussions: Severe
Sprained joint: Severe
Bone fracture: Severe

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N
Permanent scarring (cannot be healed by magic): Y anywhere that isn't his face or hands


NOTES: Moving up the date is fine with me, as is handwaving closing the first rift. I am completely down with going for a failed escape attempt that goes horribly wrong because he would totally try for one, so yes, let's do this thing!

Since I'm not strongly for or against separate plotty posty things and surprise boss fights I'm happy to go with whatever people want there. The threads look fine so far - dunno if you'd want to add one if for an escape attempt or just keep it under one of the other headers, though. Also this icon may turn up during this plot, just sayin'.

[wontforgetyou]

Come try and escape with him, fellow rifter who he hasn't actually met yet? It'll turn out swell! (no it won't)

[youwonscience]

Um, yes please, this sounds like a beautiful disaster.

[chainlightning]

merrill like "can i take some of that"

[wontforgetyou]

He will do his best to try and protect her in the process of everything going wrong, at least? Maybe he can even try and explain how to shoot wee bits of light out of his hand at some point later on, although unfortunately that will be the most unscientific explanation ever.

[chainlightning]

MERRILL

SUPPLIES FORM
+ 1 Vestements of the First with all upgrades
+ 1 Sylaise's Favor
+ 1 The Inner Eye
+ 1 Sylvanwood Ring
+ 1 staff; similar to the Corrupted Acolyte's Staff only a little more. wooden.
+ 1 knife
+ 1 scary war horse
+ however many potions any healers shoved at her since she can't heal her damn self
+ the above but with lyrium
+ her own blood
+ everyone else's blood
+ blood
+ :)

Offence: Elemental, Primal, Spirit, Arcane, and Entropy schools of magic, as well as her specialization, Dalish Pariah, and blood magic. Also she can hit things with her staff. Also her knife. Also maybe her horse?????
Defence: She's really cute don't hit her. No uh- she can do some barrier stuff that's in a few of those magic schools! And like freeze people in place and put them to sleep and trap them in nightmares and in their own mind and stuff, that's kind of... defensiveish...
Anything else? Get your hands off her friends :) :) :)


INJURY FORM
She has to be able to go to the Anderfeels (that was a typo but legit so I'm keeping it) soonish after but that is why healing magic exists bc I said so

Physical pain: Severe
Lacerations & puncture wounds: Severe if can be healed by magic, otherwise lower-grade.
Burns: Severe
Electrocution: Severe
Abrasions: Severe
Concussions: Moderate
Sprained joint: Severe
Bone fracture: Moderate

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): Y
Permanent scarring (cannot be healed by magic): Y pretty much anywhere I don't care


NOTES:
moved up posting date sounds fine
handwave rift closing sounds good
party investigating sounds good
I don't particularly care re: RNGing
Merrill wants to charge in fuck the Venatori kill them all those are her FRIENDS
separate stuff sounds like Work
I really want Merrill to gas a cloud of Venatori with horrifying entropy spells by surprise and I also want one to get so close that she can't magic or use her staff and she has to stab them and gets blood everywhere
for bossfight surprise my opinion doesn't count bc I know a bit about it so c:
/eats threads

[youwonscience]

I mean, still helpful? Possibly?

[glandival]

CHARACTER Sabine

SUPPLIES FORM
Bow and arrows, daggers, lock picking equipment (or other rogueish items as is called for). Standard-issue lightweight rogue armour.

Offence: Arrows! Knives with death-from-above type theatrics!
Defence: Armour! Dodging!
Anything else?

INJURY FORM
(Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous")

Physical pain: Grievous
Lacerations & puncture wounds: Grievous
Burns: Grievous
Electrocution: Grievous
Abrasions: Grievous
Concussions: Grievous
Sprained joint: Grievous
Bone fracture: Grievous

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N, unless it can be healed.
Permanent scarring (cannot be healed by magic): Y, just not the face because icons.

NOTES:

Sabine favours stealth approaches, maybe a mixture? Sneaking into fortresses and unlocking from inside, or moving to free captives while the tanks tank? Like fortresses are innately built to defend, and this one is full of wizards, so having a two-pronged approach seems wwwise.

Other stuff:

Handwaving the rift close is good by me. She will be there to help with that.

RNG is fine! I'm easy with the majority vote.

See above about stealth ideas.

The chattychats doesn't appeal to me. I think this is best figured out OOCly and getting into the action, and additional surprises may just be hard.

If I get my stealth ways, I'm a happy camper. If we go 100% tanking in, then I'll probably just find opportunities to do some heroics but she will probably get injured, because consequences.

Surprise bossfight is fine!

It's a bunch of threads but I'm fine with them.

[fightingale]

• sweet, looks like we are leaning that way atm
• ditto
• i will wait until we have a few more folks votes in and then do an update in the post on this
• EASY this is probably easier
• we will find means for HEROICS never you fear
• SWEET

• adds more to upset you

• also Herian might lend Sabine her noble steed if you want

[fightingale]

• thx gurl
• extra thx
• should i just keep saying thx idk
• a+
• HAHA awesome i will wait until more people have commented re: tactics and then let all yall know
• yeah fuck separate stuff tbh
• that sounds amazing lets make it happen
• there are more surprises that even you do not know ~~~~dramatic music~~~~~
• dude pls

[fightingale]

anyway a better response

• how dare you ALSO LIKE i figure the travel stuff is the least urgent stuff anyway so 8Db
• awesome good good
• and yes definitely, separate threads for each to make life Pain Free
• I am going to wait for more comments on this and then left folks know BD
• nah i've decided i'm too lazy and communication might be easiest
• lsfbkfj GAL PAL
• c:
• I am so honoured by these mudkips

[glandival]

please do

she will bring it back no worse for wear she promises

[fightingale]

RIDE HARD pls bring back cosima in one piece she likes that one
and araceli is decent

also i guess look after yourself or something B(

[amygdalae]

merrill no