lostcompass | november plot rolls

FALLOUT & PLOT ROLLS

With two towers activated and Taravast’s battlements reinforced, the witches of Bessis successfully take position on the citadel’s walls and rain down fiery hell upon Taravast’s beastly assailants. Following his brief confrontation with the Beastmaster, the undead warlord Anurr retreats to western frozen citadel Sa-Hareth — he can be pursued through the Stairs of Sigh passageway, if you so choose. The Beastmaster’s forces withdraw east.

In their wake, Taravast is partly savaged: the necromantic district has particularly taken a hit, after all the local undead and some resident necromancers were compelled to follow Anurr, the Huntress or the Beastmaster against their wishes. The damage spreads to ruined homes and necromantic schools, destroyed supplies and heavy looting. The healers’ and merchants’ sectors are also tarnished, with several roads blocked or rendered unusable and some damage sustained at underground aqueducts. Here, the great threat has been the theft of resources. The main sorcery area, Artes Mundi, has fallen under substantial and repeated siege. The southern residential district held by Anurr has been evacuated and remains exceedingly — but non-magically — cold, haunted and uninhabitable.

Much of the greenery of Taravast has withered, while some of the canals’ waters have dried. Taking advantage of the unrest, some citizens take up looting and the crime rate greatly intensifies. The rich of Taravast are sometimes robbed in plain daylight.

Some of Macaluso Spina’s foreign suitors withdraw, as their sponsors fear Taravast is slated for upcoming destruction by the undead and an alliance now would bring limited advantage. As Bonaccorso, Vannozza and Macaluso return to the Palace of the Doxe, many citizens crowd on site, begging relief, guidance and protection from the ailing Bonaccorso. Vannozza and Macaluso face a prime opportunity to further their political claim to their grandfather’s title by establishing themselves as reliable and efficient leaders in this period of immense crisis. Characters may return to their Palace lodgings, which have been only minorly raided. Dealer’s choice on what (if anything) of your characters’ was stolen.

Generally, across the month, characters can:

■ Help displaced refugees or the poor by raising and distributing donations of goods from Taravast’s nobility

■ Hunt down and kill any of the Beastmaster’s remaining creatures

■ Calm down the tempers of Taravast’s residents, whether by speaking to locals or making posts to the piazza

■ Save citizens (or nobility!) from looters and thieves

■ Lend a hand with reconstructing the citadel, rescuing and refurbishing the artifacts of the damaged districts, or exorcising some of the ghosts of the area formerly held by Anurr

■ Get involved with Vannozza and Macaluso’s campaigns to gain political favour.

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You can find this month’s plot rolls or follow-up to previous plot developments below. Your character can try to tackle the roll alone, or recruit help — feel free to use this post to plan or make your own OOC posts on the community. Whatever works best for you!

One small request: if you can try to share the information ICly, ideally with the entire game (think network posts, logs, etc) rather than with just one-two characters, that would be A+ — it helps get the word out and get more folks involved. Thank you so much!

PLOT ROLLS:

■ Aang & Wrench
■ Alina Starkov & Diego Hargreeves
■ Anakin Skywalker, Eleven and Shen Qingqiu
■ Chu Wanning, Xiao Xingchen and the Doctor
■ Five Hargreeves
■ Lily Evans & Wei Wuxian
■ Su Xunxian
■ Wen Qing & Wrath

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Hi hello I bring you the escape plan:

After being alerted to what is happening to Eleven and Shen Qingqiu Lily will seek out Five, followed by Wei Wuxian. Shen Qingqiu will reach out to Chu Wanning, and Anakin will be alerted by the servants as per the plot roll (there will obviously be some network/inbox discussion to get everyone where they need to be ic).

The plan is for the gang to wait for the convoy of weapons and hostages to depart Taravast before intercepting it.

Five will be teleporting into Macaluso territory to steal guard uniforms for some of the group to wear, the rest will be disguised, everyone will be masked.

Using stolen horses stolen by Anakin the gang will ride out to intercept the caravan using hopefully non-lethal force to retrieve the hostages and send the rest on their merry way.

From this point, Five will likely teleport Eleven to Sa-Hareth to hide out, (Shen Qingqiu too?? Not sure) and the gang will sneak back into Taravast.

Quick question: would Eleven and Shen Qingqiu's belongings be brought with the convoy or will they be left behind in the prison they'll be held in? If they're left behind Five will grab them.

Sounds good - I guess, yes, maybe a network post or some such in case anyone else might want to join in!

So, to confirm: Eleven is staying back in Sa-Hareth? I assume Five is going to be calling on what Anurr favour he still has to earn him a welcome. This would isolate Eleven from everyone else for a while, is the player sure?

The weapons would likely be thrown in with the others in the latest convoy.

Yes! I'm fine with El being isolated for awhile. He could use some time to lay low and chill out. Stalk the network. He could always teleport back in an emergency.

Sure, whatever works for you guys.

Just want to clarify what calling in the favor entails. (Technically yes, he's assuming he'd be welcome enough for mystery reasons.) He will have the finger on him, but I wasn't planning on him burning it just yet. I might rework things if that's a needed caveat!

Also fine with El attempting to just hide out in a inn room and hope to go unnoticed.

No worries! I just wanted to make sure I wasn't cashing in something too soon. Five can get him there and make sure he's put up someplace nice... just enjoy that, El. Don't question why any of this is happening.

Has questions!! ...But likely just resolves to be a little nicer/more considerate toward Five in the future.

I know, he's always so mean... to him...

And he can thank Lily. He feels some kind of way for trying to kill/attack her/maybe contributing to the circumstances that turned her into a terrifying monster idk. It's possible he owed her one.

lmf listen by bean standards, he's been almost rude to him a few times. but daw Five you do have a heart :>

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somebadnews - 2021-11-19 00:24 (UTC) - Expand

first collabing on rescues, next they collab on a palette

Edited 2021-11-18 23:42 (UTC)

I don't think using the finger is necessary. Five will enjoy a bit more sway than most folks in Sa-Hareth now, regardless. It's what happens when you have an in with the boss.

Okay, great! I assumed this I just wanted to check. :)

How much freedom will Eleven have to roam Sa-Hareth? I've been assuming he'd mostly stay holed up wherever he's put to, but hm.. may have a commission he could work on and a tree to revisit in his newfound downtime.

He can roam Sa-Hareth freely, but anything deep in Anurr's forest territory will be more difficult to access.

fair enough, thanks! I don't think he'd press his luck if getting to the tree seems to be a good bit of trouble.

No problem! Enjoy the cold and the markets, Eleven.

bearshermark - 2021-11-28 23:43 (UTC) - Expand

groundrules - 2021-11-28 23:46 (UTC) - Expand

bearshermark - 2021-11-28 23:50 (UTC) - Expand

groundrules - 2021-11-28 23:50 (UTC) - Expand

Related question as we rp this all out: since the weapons were being stored (foolishly?) in the house, would the grandpa ghosts have overheard anything about what's going to happen to Eleven and Shen Qingqiu while the house was being raided for them?

Also, if paperman was deployed at Rigarda's following their arrest, would he find out anything?

Heya - I don't really imagine guards would have discussed this while apprehending someone, I think it would be more of an in/out kind of operation. Unless you guys haven't worked out a way to find Eleven/Shen Qingqiu, case in which we could slip something out, I guess. At first sight, I wouldn't think so, though. But, obviously, we can make some allowances if you guys are stranded.

What's paperman listening for / what do you mean by anything?

That was my guess too! I don't think we're stranded, just icly working through info gathering so that plans can come together.

Paperman would be listening for any discussion about what's going to be done with the prisoners.

So, paperman is coming after the two have been captured, right? I assume some hours later, because Wei Wuxian would have to have heard they were taken?

Yes definitely, paperman would be stopping by hours after the arrest when they're already in custody.

groundrules - 2021-11-23 18:55 (UTC) - Expand

Can you folks let me know what the fate of Shen Qingqiu is, when you have a second? Since he's the one the people want protected at all costs, guess we should keep an eye out for him...........

He's probably running to sa-hareth unless a better option is presented to him.

All right - so he's out of the citadel. Thanks!