a dragon hunting someone else will go

[groundrules]

(STILL) SCALING THE TOWER

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Comments

[weifinder]

- Macaluso getting some aid from... Wei Wuxian stealing a mask from someone else and running around in wet underdress then, that'll be Grand, thank you! Part of this will then be him trying to get those three witches under control, but I'd figure with them fighting him, it'll be a whole staged production--not three at once, but three total by the time they've turned to dealing with the dragon.

- Hahaha sounds good, though I hope not to have that opportunity (and given current vote, likely won't)--but lovely to know! And this grudge-bearing creature is what some people want to keep as a pet. (Is Anurr lusting for the dragon yet.)

- Wonderful, I'll have that be a continuing thread of him working to get that control, then, so he gets up to three, not starting out able to grab three. He'll be extra "ffs" over this, because he's been wondering with the burned dead out in the private hunting forest if more of the witches weren't likewise undead and wandering around somewhere. Way to find out... thank you! Gives me what I wanted to know to write up a top level after sleeping, rubs hands together.

[groundrules]

All sounds good! I could give you up to five witches, but I'd need two back at least by the end of it. You can keep three, though.

Careful as Macaluso might not be keen on the witches........

[weifinder]

Maybe up to five within the tower, a loss of control over two when redirecting them toward dragon shenanigans outside the tower?

I laugh, Macaluso, these are what your allies have done, ah? And where, oh where, are the Bessis dead, oh where oh where might they beeeee. But noted, Wei Wuxian will not make himself a witch harem like certain novel counterparts. /fingerguns! He'll also do what he can to get them interfering with the other witches (and I see we have many ways they're getting handled, reading question threads) but whisk them away from Bessis trying to light way too late pyres. Shove an uncontrolled dead witch... to burn... man that's sad and horrific and actually he'd hate that, does decapitation work to prevent these undead witches from continuing to power on?

I'll probably have him do a sound off with Lily and/or Vannozza, but since it seems like Vannozza's hardcore pillowqueening, it's likely something I'll toss to the Lily-player to see what kind of in passing chaotic check-in they might be able to exchange.

[groundrules]

Yes, that's one problem - the Bessis wouldn't really rush to avoid burning dead Attaryl, and the dead wouldn't think favourably of their killers and captors. In better news, the crowding is horrifying enough that you can plausibly get away with keeping them out of each other's reach.

And sure, re: witches, that all sounds good. Basically I just want to make sure enough stay alive for the second part of the vote/mission, or else I'd let you guys have/hack more!

[weifinder]

It's a game of cat and mouse and frankly everyone sucks at this party, time to blow this joint--to outside, shedding the extra two witches in the process for mod purposes.

... Dear stars are these witches conscious enough to have opinions on what they want to do afterward?

[groundrules]

Good question! They are certainly more mentally aware than some of the other undead (think: the ones in Vannozza's forest, the undead of Unhalad), so I'd say they retain personalities that will express themselves more the longer the witches are outside of the reach of the myrriad of wards they were put under.

[weifinder]

It's very silly, but part of it is while he's their Master/controller, he'd probably want to ask what they want, if they hit a point of being able to verbalise that. It's dangerous just leaving them to their own unattached ends, especially when he knows Anurr is lurking around out there somewhere, but who wants to be Master to dead mind control witches forever.

... Actually, lots of people not him.

[groundrules]

What they want is pretty straightforward: relief from their burns (which can't really be offered to the extent that they want) and vengeance (which they're taking). So there isn't much that Wei Wuxian can do for them, that they're not already doing for themselves.