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lostcompass2021-04-11 07:42 pm
PLAYER PLOTS | 2h APRIL
Hello, busy people! Just patching together details of the two upcoming optional player mini-plots you folks have nimbly sewn together!
HEISTING HOMIES
With so much salt in this city, eating the rich was never tastier. IC and OOC momentum has been building, so now's probably a good time to iron out who's doing what.
As per our beautiful calendar, the merchant vessels are discharging in the second half of the month, and the auction houses start earning sweet coin over the 17-24 April period — meaning more eyes will be on them and on guaranteeing safe transfer of the revenues they earn, than on the bank itself.
I hadn't planned on a mod-led log for this, as I was thinking you might want to do your own posts — but let me know if you need me to put up a post on this on 17 April.
Otherwise...
| MAKE IT RAIN |
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| • A SCRAWNY BANK MAP APPEARS. Like a manta ray on Sci-Fi steroids. • The bank is publicly open between 6:00 - 18:00 and locked up with magical reinforcements overnight. • GENERAL ACTIVITY the public at large is welcome on the ground floor open area, and in the spots for lenders and currency exchange. The government finance and library keep are open to administrative personnel and rare government officials. High-ranking merchants might be permitted to escort their goods for storage, or to meet on the upper floor. The lower floor is exclusively open to bank personnel. • SECURITY: armed lightly — swords, batons, some rare talisman-crafted binding magic that can temporarily paralyse targets, if they're struck. Day-to-day security forces are neither magic users, nor adept at casting magic.
• Civilian administrative personnel (lenders, cashiers, servants) are unlikely to risk their hides to defend the goods. • SLEEP CURSE: cross into the casting regions (helpfully delineated by purple carpets), fall down dead asleep for four hours. Security sentry badges have been magically enhanced to protect against the curse. The guards have a curse-breaking password that will wake the affected instantly or render speakers immune for eight hours. The password changes daily. • Actual vaults are locked securely and might need a lock-breaker. Unless someone's got some interesting picking skills in their satchel — hire a NPC? • PLANNING THREAD HERE. |
ROW THEM BOATS
As merchant ships gather to sell human alongside inanimate wares, Archeval (
darkeststars ) player Loren said our resident Sith Lord would be prime game to raid some boats and release some of the (wo)man-shaped merchandise. He will lead this fine expedition, with some help from NPCs and from any other characters willing to throw their hats in the ring. This plot allows us a window of opportunity to try our hand at a test drive meme — so let's see how we do, and how we like the idea. Some key points:
| JUST ANOTHER SAVIOUR COMPLEX |
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| • Calendar dixit: the weather starts deteriorating again over 26-30 April, to certain supernatural effects. • Ahead of that, a NPC post on 24 or 25 April (TBD!) will alert characters of the arrival of the vessel Imperious (that's right, Archeval), carrying a substantial number of slaves and potentially some otherworldly captives. Characters will be ICly asked to join the rescue, but participation is optional on an OOC level. • Scout information from the so-far absentee Merchant will relay some of the obstacles ahead. • 27 April: we will have a combined log for existing characters playing out the rescue, as well as any new characters interested to test drive. • This event will count as game canon for any characters that participate. • APPLICATIONS OPEN: 3 May. • QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CHAT THREAD HERE. |
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Also I'm fully up for a hit to his ego if anything goes wrong. Because getting hit with a sleeping curse and having to be carried out would be something he did not anticipate...
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... Please.
IM VOLUNTEERING OTHER CHARACTERS I REALISE!
Wei Wuxian is much better at scouting out the situation, but look Mina can produce endless Acid. That's useful inside! THEY CAN TAKE SHORTCUTS. But yeah Wei Wuxian can scout out the floors and have that inside eye on things, depending on mod decree on what a tiny paperman carrying a guy's consciousness can witness and deduce.
Wei Wuxian's usefulness in this would be more to scouting out the area, or in asking Lan Wangji to carry things afterward as needed (are the things him, seems possible).
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And yes 100% absolutely they need Wei Wuxian for this. I am fully invested in having a paper doll recon so they can scope out what their openings are. Air tight plan.
They probably need to have a meeting of the morally ambiguous at some point to hash these things out.
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just pls don't kill people Five........
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And he'll be happy to put in very plain language why they're doing this. He's not crazy at all and speaks only logic.
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But she is very "support" oriented too, though! So she will do her best to help this murderous not!child
(also yes please put it in very plain language, Mina isn't ... the brightest...)
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And then you know... saving a life! Totally worth going haha. (Shhh he's not a psychopath Mina, don't even worry.)
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(of course you aren't Five......)
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(Only when you compare him to like... people......... but whatever he's a 'pragmatist'.)
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I'd probably volunteer him to pose as a client in the lobby, maybe dressing in his best finery to appear as a rich merchant and going in to ask for what possible service he could get, thus distracting some of the ground floor employees into catering to him.
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Ah, so the moth-eaten rags, not the knife-torn ones?
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Should have thought of this teamwork thing days ago, what a prince. :'>