the imperious... imprints? impresses?

[groundrules]

The Imperious and her delicious cargo are slowly creep-creeping their way to the icy port citadel of Sa-Hareth, leaving a narrow opportunity for the Archeval-led rescue mission of incoming captives .

To keep things tidy, everyone’s welcome to ask general event questions or specific test-drive meme ones, and to chatter about the fate of the Imperious. Remember: actions have consequences, and sinking the boat too close to the port could congest naval traffic for the foreseeable future.

Test-driving players: Eastbound’s so far survived on locust-style enthusiasm for out-of-the-box plotting, so don’t be afraid to pitch plots or ask tangential questions. The general guideline is that as long as you don’t break the sandbox, you don’t need mod permission, and you can check out the locations page if you need a map or general grasp of Sa-Hareth.

Hydrate & have fun, now with zombie mermaids!

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THE IMPERIOUS

[groundrules]

LET'S BURN HER DOOOOOOOOWWW —

Which is to say, that would be dreadful and irresponsible. Let's definitely not do that.

( Unless. )

[darkeststars]

Oh boy here we go y'all!!

Before this really gets into full swing, I would just mainly like to note that my character is supposed to be a decent leader, but personally logistics are extremely not my strong suit lmao. When in doubt assume everyone is competent and we did something that makes sense. Unless it's more fun not to, I suppose.

EDIT: oh boy that sure is a creepy ass giant mirror

Hey boarding party do we want to take the creepy ass giant mirror (now shattered apparently) or let it sink to the bottom so the mermaids uhhhhhhh get what... they want... kinda........

[weifinder]

For what it can help! Wei Wuxian is not a sea-man, but a river man, so his experience with boats has that cast, but that said, piers being blocked means no river trade, so he would be a voice to bring up that if the boat is being sunk, sail it out of the pier to do so, both so it's not blocking port (since in theory one way out they have is by boat, and if boats can't go, then they don't go that way) and also have a means to get back in (so a smaller dinghy or whatnot to get off, he has no idea if people can fly or otherwise walk on water, or heck, swim without getting hypothermia and dying) once its sunk.

Also if anyone has the extra skillset to shove the ship back out of the shallows of port because otherwise, if they all need to sail it, that's another concern.

(There is one sad joke here, and that joke is once they're in the thick of it and have zombie mermaids around, I can ask how his success rate of getting zombie mermaids to help haul the ship out into waters deep enough to sink could go, but prior to that he has zero skill or ability to move the ship himself.)

[groundrules]

To confirm: you are asking if the dead mermaids unfairly subjugated by thrall and sorcery and addicted to a seemingly malicious mirror, having been cruelly slain in iced waters, can then be raised to Deliveroo your ship, for the lazy party?

Do I have this right?

[weifinder]

See the other thing here is what are we doing with the mirror, because if we sink it for the dead mermaids is that going to fix anything for... the dead mermaids...

Also look if you just give me the resentful energies of the citadel I'm happy letting the mermaids off, since for who knows what reason we can make spirits affect the physical world, and imagine resentful energies alone sending the ship back out of port!!!

[groundrules]

I am willing to negotiate custody of the necromanced mermaids, but it will come at a cost. Secondly, the mermaids are under the mirror's thrall, so you are fighting that influence, meaning they'll require more exertion to be pulled under Wei Wuxian's control. Thirdly, mermaids are not human, so I want an imperfect control of them, based purely on the fact that... they probably can't communicate or resonate as well with Wei Wuxian on that basis.

So I can give you:
1. three mermaids, for four-five hours, 90% control
2. five mermaids for three hours, 80% control, Wei Wuxian is absolutely exhausted for a day or two.
3. eight-ten mermaids for one-two hours, 75% control, Wei Wuxian is dramatically out of it for two-three days, fainting, salts, bring a chair, this man is pregnant, the entire spiel, possibly with backup dancers. No magic for him for days, no bouncing around, nothing. He is useless during the recovery period after this.

Pick an option, if you'd like to go ahead, but know that I can't promise a peaceful follow-up to the event.

[weifinder]

If we were expecting a peaceful follow-up we'd probably be tackling the Sith Lord and not letting anyone sink the boat or having funded explosions to get everyone out, but hey, we live we learn—

I adore imperfect control and him trying to convince fish perspectives to work with him, that'll be fun. Realistically, given his issues with not being in control, he'd probably end up ICly going for option 1, on the pretext that he starts with one mermaid and that difficulty, adds in another, another, finds the fourth sinks his ability to direct what they're doing, sticks to three after letting the fourth go again. Would that work? ... And can I make it exhaust him anyway given the thrall he's fighting on the mirror's behalf?

At that rate he'd only aim for them to help protect people fallen overboard and get them out of waters again, and to help lift the anchor/s if the other mermaid undead hadn't ripped those out already (are the undead mermaids scaling the anchor chains).

[groundrules]

That works, sure.

You are always welcome to make things a character so much more than I originally put forward. That's absolutely fine.

[weifinder]

Great, he's getting wrecked between this, energy use, the likely dive into the water, and we're sorry Lan Wangji.

Thank you so much!

[darkeststars]

Yeah, it's been kind of buried deep in threads here and there lmao but Karsa pointed out we couldn't sink the ship right there in the harbor so Arche is planning to try to shove it further out to sea. Telekinesis is part of his skill set and while he certainly can't sit there juggling boats all day I imagine he can manage a few really good pushes, so that is absolutely planned.

Trying to get the zombie mermaids to help us out would honestly be pretty fantastic, though...

[weifinder]

Okay it looks like what he can do is get those undead mermaids to help lift the anchors for the ship, ergo, assisting the process that way! Thus telekinetic pushes won't have anchor drag to fight against in this case, does this help, laughs

[darkeststars]

Sounds amazing. We can assume once everybody else is off board the pair of them will be out there on the end of the pier doing their thing together then, I imagine.

[weifinder]

Yes! Possibly shivering the whole time and liable to pass out when done, but that's how it goes sometimes!

[darkeststars]

Arche will be pretty worn out himself by the time he's lightning'd the ship on fire, I'm sure, but if Wuxian is in a bad way he can probably summon up some ooky necromantic healing and share his energy lol.

[weifinder]

Hahaha hey just make sure he doesn't go into shock and we're good tbh

[downswing]

Hello.

I heard we were inflicting justice with absolute disregard for logistics. I came.

[darkeststars]

Yes hello I am only RPing a character who knows what they are doing, I at all times do not know what I am doing... lmao...

I know you know the spoilers but Wangji's on this heist too! You think he'd vote to take the mirror or leave it?

[downswing]

I'm probably going to focus him on helping rescue people, so he'd coming back very late — probably too late to help with the mirror shards — but if you need just... a tank to help crush this ship, then. This is all he is good for. He is... unbridled destructive power. This is the only reason people put up with him.

[weifinder]

Wei Wuxian gives him the highest passing grade for Destructive Power, and also Defense Power!

[downswing]

Shut up, dry bulk.

[weifinder]

That's Sugar Daddy Dry Bulk to you, sir!

[downswing]

.........................oh rite, we love u, bae.

[weifinder]

love u too bae, pls find the robes he ordered for you delivered while he's ko'd after this event

Mostly unrelated-!

[somebadnews]

Reposting because I know where things go for last-minute plans: Five cameo is going to be a thing. He eavesdrops on everything, and gives zero care to telling anyone what he's doing, so you might have to deal with the thirteen year old appearing in the middle of everything for the sole purpose of finding his family.

He's still probably not at 100% after the super-perfect flawless heist, so his teleporting might crap out on him again. And then... it's fine, an exit strategy will come to him.

Yadda yadda. He'd very much like to grab get to his sister before she destroys the world, and might even recognize the light from her powers from far off, so. That's probably happening.

Do you even want his opinion on burning to down?? He's not preserving any timelines here, go nuts. (Unless it impacts him negatively in any way, and then you're all idiots. That's how this works.)