PLAYER PLOTS | 2h APRIL

[groundrules]

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

• 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. GROUND FLOOR: 25-30 sentries, shift changes midday local time. UPPER FLOOR: 15 men, shift changes 11:00. LOWER FLOOR: 15 men, shift changes 10:00 and 14:00. • 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

• 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.

Comments

LOOT

[somebadnews]

Ahaha so... I'm democratic, even though the very tired manchild here is expecting effusive praise for all his (and only his) hard work. So feel free to weigh in!

From the list here I'd say something like this:
Sell:
- All the obvious gold bars ($$)
- Most of the gems. (Make a case?? for the pale ones, because Five isn't making jewelry over here, argue as you like)
- Ring (just looked like it would be worth something, what)
Keep:
- Sword (he probably used it before the heist was over tbh so... maybe less than pristine ??)
- Mirror (shit from the magic vault was hard to get so figure it out)
- Cloak (might... wear it... at some point?? it's cold out?? what would happen...)
- Keys (assuming they're to something come on, they're gold...)


Just my thoughts, discuss as you like. :>

[bearshermark]

tears from your local uninvolved smith who could use the gold/gems to make valuable things if only he had decent forge access. PALE GEMS FOR THRALLING.

[somebadnews]

GET INTO IT, EL... they can always hold on to a few because they're small enough to carry. Little pouch. You could make the case. :'>

[bearshermark]

sadly El isn't assertive enough to try and claim anything- only suggest and nominally at that bc yeah stolen goods and all he did was heal Mina. which, on brand, but ye

[somebadnews]

How sad would he be if the sword he gave Five got a little melted... say if he got stopped from killing a guard with it by Mina....... because that is a thing that I could arrange.

Maybe he can fix it. :> (He had it for TWO HOURS.)

Otherwise he'll just be using the guard's own weapons on them lol. IT WAS A PERFECT HEIST.

I know that has nothing to do with loot

[weifinder]

Wei Wuxian would argue to keep the pale stones and then learn they're better for thralling, but basically he knows not everyone has their own and they'll need more + warming charms given the weather, both are thrall magics.

He'll also outright say the rings likely made of human bone, and there's a soul attached to the cloak. Some old man?

(He's of limited opinion on the rest!)

[somebadnews]

Do you... do you want to keep the human bone ring. Because we could also toss it into the sea.

Logical arguing can sway on the gems, as long as they have enough left over!

[weifinder]

He's ambivalent, he'd ask if they can try to purify it first before whomever gets it (Mingyu or the sea) because that's what he thinks Wangji would want to do.

Yeah he's arguing for the gems because he's been doing the logistics and they need something better at holding thralls. He would in fact take all the pale gems and offer to caretake the cloak as only payment, or his "cut", and say the rest is for escaping.

[descendency]

Re: the ring - sure, can he watch the exorcism or whatever?

Wei Wuxian stop trying to cover for your 1% boyfriend. Everyone has to help fund the escape.

[bearshermark]

bless u wifi

[descendency]

Mingyu would like to be reimbursed to the tune of the 12500g he spent on the map.

Adding up the non-item (just gems/gold/coins) the total take is 130,800. Adding IN the sale value of the magic items, the take is 132,285.

Less the cost of the map, that's 107,285.

Split nine ways, that's roughly 11,920 g per person.

This is assuming we are splitting it equally nine ways to everyone involved?

I imagine we will be able to take the items to someone for appraisal to know the sale value, so we'll know how much the ring/keys/etc. are worth.

I'm for splitting it up this way so that heist people aren't footing the entire bill from the Merchant as we've also got auctions etc. going on. (Rather than setting aside the 100,000 g and playing with the remaining take, I mean.)

Am I making any sense at all, I feel like I'm rambling skjkfhsfks

[somebadnews]

THANK YOU for doing the math, that's fantastic. Might minus a few of the gems if the pale ones get put aside or if anyone needs some for... necklaces or whathaveyou, tell me about it.

Five just wants to get shit moving, so he'll be agreeable to splitting it up as long as they've got enough to cover them. If not... he'll just... take your shares from you when you're not looking probably.

[descendency]

Mingyu would like his take in items mostly, actually. Saves some trouble.

His ask is:
8 pale gems
6 dark blue gems
2 pink gems
1 ruby
2 emeralds
-silver sword
-signet ring (unless someone else really wants it, he just has a curiosity)

Which totals to 11,315 in items and an additional 605 in coins.

Don't ask what he's doing with the gems.

[descendency]

Also re: getting tf out of here, we're making sure all the freeloaders pull their own weight RIGHT Five??? Stares at Lan Wangji in specific.

[downswing]

gtfo, Eleven is recruiting him to gut fish, Cloud Recesses is in shock.





The fishmongers who see him waste like 3/4 of the fish while 'gutting it' are probably not faring much better.

[somebadnews]

I mean Five, as the official leader that everyone now pays attention to after this successful heist, would agree. Everyone owes it to him to at least do everything he says next time, obviously. They can make up to him however.

AND fine with him, whatever. Have your gems and creepy ring but be prepared to contribute to the next cause because he'll have ideas... soon.

[downswing]

If you folks bring the loot back home, Lan Wangji can help identify the ring bone as human for you.

He's. Got experience with.








...yeah.

[descendency]

Wangji, why.

[downswing]

Because when you spend your life exorcising, you get to see a loooooooooooooooooooooooot of bodies.

[weifinder]

Both of them just immediately like, oh yeah, that's human bone--

[downswing]

Off-hand, "Oh yeah."

Re: LOOT

[soulsrob]

raises hand

winnie just wants that fucking mirror pls thank

[somebadnews]

On the condition that you find out what it does this is your mission.

[soulsrob]

well, see, when she holds it up it reflects her beautiful face..........

FINAL ANSWER

[somebadnews]

Sell:
- Three gold bars at 1kg and one gold bar at 500g (for 45,000)
- 14 dark blue gems (450/each for total 6,300)
- 6 pink gems (700/each for total 4,200)
+ 60,000 in gold coins

Keep: (interested party in brackets)
- Mirror (Winnie)
- Cloak (Wei Wuxian)
- 19 pale gems (Mingyu/Wei Wuxian/Moran)
- 6 dark blue gems (Mingyu)
- 2 pink gems (Mingyu)
- 1 ruby (Mingyu)
- 3 emeralds (Mingyu/Five -- a tip to himself for his trouble)
- Sword (Mingyu)
- Creepy Ring (Wei Wuxian/Mingyu/Wangji)
- Keys (Rachel)

The Cut:
- Remaining gold 115,500 to go towards their expenses, any splitting of the take can be argued to your heart's content. (For the record, Five is in favor of a much smaller split of the take to satisfy everyone who participated. Who gets the final vote is entirely up in the air.)


Note: Check my math!