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interlude: ellethia



ELLETHIA



Goodbye & farewell to Taravast, as the party heads into the mysterious, if sadly downtrodden Ellethia. Our latest log has gone up to cover 3-17 January, and you can make your individual plotting comments or ask questions here!

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[personal profile] song_of_fire 2022-01-03 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Time for my obvious question: how do animal companions respond to the new locale? Are they effected by the environment in any way? What can dragons, hunt here?
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[personal profile] song_of_fire 2022-01-03 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Hypothetically...are mermaids edible?
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[personal profile] song_of_fire 2022-01-03 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. You love these questions, you know it.
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[personal profile] enucleation 2022-01-03 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Kaneki thanks Enam and his assistance for bringing snacks along, they are important.

TROUBLE AT SEA
So kaneki is highly paranoid and any new undead arrival at the boat will be promptly thrown back into the water. Anyone who refuses to do this will hear Kaneki clearly threaten to eat the undead instead. Those are the only two choices he gives because Kaneki has zero chill ): Anyway, if someone wants to argue with him, I'm all for this!

Kaneki will help anyone whose boat sunk too, despite everything he is actually helpful and cares about the rest of the group. Undead may not get much of his love, but the living do.


ELLETHIA-ALLAYAR
Super cool with fighting some mermaids, and sadly that wonderful gear they must wear will get in the way. Which means if Kaneki fights, kaneki will be getting exposed to air and will have his skin rot. Naturally I'm all for it because torturing my characters is super cool!

(lucky for us, the wounds heal and ken has fast healing too)


ELLETHIA-HAMSOUR
OHH BOY TIME TO COMPETE FOR THAT LIGHTHOUSE.
Being the paranoid man (kid???) kaneki is, naturally obsessive behavior over the lighthouse will come up. To be fair, Kaneki always neglects himself so that behavior won't be new, but I'm totally up for intense confront over who the lighthouse truly wants (it's kaneki, the lighthouse wants kaneki for sure). Anyway, I'm also up to have someone to get Ken to snap out of it, too.
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[personal profile] enucleation 2022-01-03 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahah it's good! Plus he also has the stowaways that try to climb onto the boats ('=
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[personal profile] notsansa 2022-01-03 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Those who share their names with these creatures feel compelled to take them to ground. What about fake names/aliases (like Alayne)?

2. Characters must don their fashionable red gear once they reach land. Over 15 minutes of direct exposure to the crisp Ellethia air leads unprotected skin to erupt in a rash, then into gashes and tissue-deep decay. The wound fully regenerates within the hour. So characters can remove these suits to take care of, um, bathroom needs like going potty and bathing so long as it's quick? Please say our characters can bathe or it's going to get terribly rank up in there. Also, how do they eat? Take the helmets off and mash food into their mouths like they're employees at Walmart taking their 15 minute break? This may all be obvious, but I'm just triple checking on how it works.
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[personal profile] notsansa 2022-01-03 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
ONE FOR THE ROAD ─ TROUBLE AT SEA
While on the ship, Sansa Alayne will probably spend a lot of time checking in on current CR and figuring out what their thoughts are on this bizarre detour. Despite being forced to bring bare essentials, she'll still have smuggled a few lemon cakes aboard, along with a satchel carrying a couple bottles of potions that Hermione helped her brew before the revolution. She probably won't sleep well and will be exhausted by the time they move to the smaller boats. Keep her company while she rocks her insomnia!

Due to fire being so important, she'll probably try to join Zuko on one of the boats, as well as trying to stick close to Jon at the same time, but I am game for Things Going Wrong (in case their players have other plans) and she can end up on a boat with 1-2 others! If someone falls overboard, she's...not going in after them, but she'll try to help pull them back on if they're close enough?

Since she goes by an alias, sharing her name with an undead stowaway won't do anything to her, and she can try to talk others into pushing the undead overboard or move them to a separate boat... Especially if there is a weight limit for the boats and they're already at capacity. She'll feel incredibly guilty, but she doesn't exactly want the boat to sink, tyvm!

AHOY, LAND
She is going to HATE the suits with a deep and fiery passion, from the appearance to how awkward it will be to move in them at first. Being young and vain, she might take a little longer than she should to bathe at one point and then immediately regret it! Lesson learned, most painfully. Have others feel free to take her experience as a big Warning Sign. From this point on, she'll already begin to eat less and less often.

After recovering from the rash/gashes, Alayne will reluctantly help find samples of Widow's Yearning, mostly because she'll be interested in if it can be used in future potioncraft. She, however, will not be willing to test it on herself, and will no doubt ask others who are versed in potions for their opinion before doing anything extra with it. That is...after someone wakes her up from a snooze in a field.

I'm willing for her to become a hallucination victim if anyone is feeling mischievous, although I don't know how that could happen. I welcome any ideas!

ELLETHIA-ALLAYAR
Alayne might get lured by a mermaid who mimics someone in the party, so long as Alayne already knows them. Someone stop her from becoming a snack! After that, she'll probably start being too paranoid to really go anywhere unless in the company of others.

I don't really have any major ideas for this area, so please come at me!

ELLETHIA-HAMSOUR
Alayne will gradually become more and more paranoid and possessive of the lighthouse, and may attempt to block others from progressing through any means she can. This can involve drugging people with a sleeping potion or using the Widow's Yearning as a hallucinogen if it's been ICly discovered to do such (in both cases, only with the player's consent!). If there are ways to sabatoge the path ahead for other characters without openly incriminating herself, then she'll do it.

It probably won't last long, as due to the extended lack of sleep and then lack of eating, she'll grow too weak to carry on by the end and might need help in finishing the journey.

Everything above is just loose ideas, and I am more than eager to alter or add plans as they're presented! The only constant is: Alayne is going to hate this journey, and will be very sullen for most of it. There may be times where she overcomes this in order to try to raise hopes for others, but that depends on who she's with. For the home stretch she'll be acting like a sneaky villain.
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[personal profile] bearshermark 2022-01-03 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
At Sea

Don't have much in way of plans for him here, but he can offer to help re-light any candles that go out with a snap of fire magic, as well as try to ward off encroaching undead with a circle of holy light to nearby boats at times. Happy to have him paired up with whomever in a boat for interesting conversations/new cr and such!


On Land

Past the initial horror and distress, Eleven is going get a bit misty-eyed over the fact that there is a cycle here, working visibly- if far too quickly. He's likely to stop and pray a lot, wander off to touch a lot of overgrown foliage at length, and generally be fascinated by the whole phenomenon. If anyone plans to try at test the effects of the air for themselves, he'd love to watch with the promise to heal the injury if it begins to spread too far. Eventually, he's likely to do this himself to get a sense of how it feels at some point ._.


Lighthouse

He's going to heed the siren call of the lighthouse, awakening within him a dark impulse of certainty that if he gets there first, he can bring Light back to the world with it- that no one else can- and fight hard to reach it. Conflict! And then feel really stupid later, even as echoes of that certainty linger and spread to other considerations..
Edited 2022-01-03 23:08 (UTC)
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[personal profile] song_of_fire 2022-01-03 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
ONE FOR THE ROAD - TROUBLE AT SEA
The boat trip is going to be stressful for Dany, between checking on her current CR, keeping an eye on Drogon and helping out where she can. It's not her first harsh travel, so she won't be too grump. Boats also make her happy, but this is no ocean, so there are grumblings. She's not going to be carrying much beyond the standard fare.

She'll work to keep the candles going. I'm debating about having her fall overboard. I like the idea of the unrelenting cold. She could probably try and scramble back up, with some help that doesn't involve others jumping in. After that, she'll be pretty miserable.

She's not really going to share her name with the undead and she'll probably also to try to talk others out of it. She remembers this sort of thing from the House of the Undying. All undead things go off the boats.


AHOY, LAND
Oh gods do these suits do nothing for Dany aesthetically. She hates them. It'll be harder for her to move to control Drogon and handle a whip, so there might be some moments where she accidentally smacks herself or someone else or runs into someone.

She's mostly going to be exploring, though she'll help with basic tasks like replenishing the water supplies or cooking (expect a lot of charred meat). She might want an exploring buddy, so if someone wants to get into trouble, I'm open.


Drogon can't be on the ground for too long, so he's going off to make a lair in the ruins. Say goodbye to the dragon for awhile, he's hunting/roaming/exploring like the wild boi he is.


ELLETHIA-ALLAYAR
Dany won't have as much trouble with mermaids, as Drogon is going to be eating a few of them (you'll thank him later). But she can help if anyone else needs some talking to or a dragon to come rescue them.

I'm open to whatever here.


ELLETHIA-HAMSOUR
Dany wants to get to the lighthouse and will probably become more paranoid and possessive of it. At the same time, she'll understand that she's acting irrationally and probably have a mental breakdown where she worries she's becoming her father. So she'll be a big ball of stress, wanting to fight that paranoia and madness, but at the same time having trouble stopping the effect.

This will be a big psychological thing that could end up with her talking about her father a little and facing who and what he was more, which Book Dany has yet to fully do. Getting into conflict with others will also help fuel that crisis.

This is the one I want to lean into more heavily. So I'd genuinely love volunteers.


Anything else, feel free to ping me on plurk, discord or pm!
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[personal profile] chosenbylight 2022-01-03 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it the candle itself or just light that is warding away evil/scaring the mermaids off? Asking for a Light Priest...
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[personal profile] song_of_fire 2022-01-03 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
So Alayne and Dany are both paranoid/possessive about the lighthouse. Sure this could end well between them?
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[personal profile] notsansa 2022-01-03 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Already sound like a Looney Tunes cartoon in the making, just constantly trying to mess the other one up somehow.

/throws a dead rabbit into the distance to lure Drogon away before messing with her tho. She's crazy not stupid (except for that one time where she was stupid).
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[personal profile] song_of_fire 2022-01-03 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Tripping one, switching "Stark Season/Targaryen Season" signs. Classic slapstick.

(Okay, I legit laughed out loud at that last part you wrote.)

Drogon won't really be paying attention a lot to Dany. There are mermaids and other things to eat and no city where he has to mind his "p"s and "q"s. So he's taking advantage of this and building a lair somewhere.

So Dany is on her own to cause get into trouble. So Alayne and Dany would be on an even playing ground.
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[personal profile] blackscales 2022-01-03 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
1) Was I too last minute to qualify Wrathion for a small token for posting up about helping with the rebuild? If Y, don't worry, If N, only wanted him to ask for a book on herb properties in the area to buy Hermione's friendship with because he's still vaguely thinking about his conversation with her about how he doesn't know what the fuck anything does here. I figure he can't carry too many anyway on this travel-light trip.

2) I'm assuming the skin decay applies to even Wrathion who is only pretending to be a human and is secretly a giant lizard--

Assuming it DOES he'll probably test it for a hot second anyway. So ​-- when Anduin punches him you can see it kind of... breaks his visage for a minute? Like his skin goes black with a scale texture and sort of flame effect, but then it vanishes away like the visage papers over it all "nothing to see here, just normal human skin."

How do you feel about this impacting him the same way? Sort of patches of decay appearing then vanishing under his visage but probably still hurting underneath it etc while he tries to play it off and rapidly suit back up? I like the visual mental image of it weirdly crawling over his skin and then vanishing do you agree Y/Y

3) This is just a formal complain on behalf of fire wielders that they gotta light candles, fire is superior how dare you make them wield puny candles, Ellethia sucks 0/10 on trip advisor
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[personal profile] song_of_fire 2022-01-03 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, one last question. Drogon in ADWD ended up building a lair in the Dothraki Sea. Since he was so cooped up last location, can he find a spot he likes here and just make his lair (complete with bones and whatever else)?

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