intro & cr meme - the magnificent may edition

[groundrules]

Welcome to May, beautiful people! Applications are still open until 23:59 GMT tonight, unless you’ve pinged about needing a deadline extension, but there’s already some fresh blood to say hi to, and you can seldom go wrong with a bit of CR mingling.

Players of new characters: please nudge if you've been shoved onto the Taken List, and you have no character tag in eastbound & westwhere yet!

OOC INTRO | CR MEME
<small><b>PLAYER:</b></small> <b><small>ARE YOU OPEN TO PLURK/DISCORD FRIENDING FOR RP:</small></b> <b><small>A FEW WORDS ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF:</small></b> <b><small>YOUR LATEST SHOWER EPIPHANY THE WORLD <i>MUST</i> KNOW:</small></b> <b><small>CHARACTER:</b></small> <b><small>CANON:</b></small> <b><small>ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER:</small></b> <b><small>ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:</small></b> i. <i>Your character has been patiently queuing for the past hour, when someone with no extenuating circumstances cuts in. How do they react</i>? ii. <i>What job would your character most majestically fail at</i>? iii. <i>What scent do you associate with your character</i>? <b><small>WHAT’S YOUR CHARACTER BEEN UP TO, SO FAR?</b></small> <b><small>WHAT ARE YOU ITCHING TO HAVE YOUR CHARACTER DO IN SA-HARETH NEXT?</small></b></b></small>

Comments

[silverneedles]

tears are not allowed!!

she's going to cry though

[weifinder]

do we want them to cry at the farm or on the way walking there or something (anything) different

[weifinder]

comes back with, Lan Zhan dropped that he'd seen Wen Qing around and Wei Wuxian went into DESPERATE MUST FIND AND CONFIRM mode here: https://eastbound.dreamwidth.org/6317.html?thread=774573#cmt774573

If you want to play off or with that at all!

[silverneedles]

a week late but yes!! we should. I have to catch up on game things, since I've largely been MIA this week and need to check on what's going on but they need to find each other, especially now that wei wuxian knows!!

[weifinder]

lmk if i can help with a rundown to summarise things or not, it's been amusingly information rich, but also largely: the nights try to lure people to the woods to almost drown, team ragtag squad decided to rescue the captive miners and that ended horribly

... that's my incredibly succinct summary (all pcs are team ragtag squad)

[silverneedles]

a rundown would be amazing but even that helps. ended horribly seems to be the case around here, I'm not surprised.

[weifinder]

all right let me do something a bit more in depth, adding in wifi notes for colour because it amuses me if she heard him but kept not finding him:

calendar: https://groundrules.dreamwidth.org/2536.html

1. start of month! wen qing was rescued from the slaver ship along with the other pcs on it, and other slaves. she may have heard wifi playing flute at the time (he was controlling three undead mermaids to help lift anchor and work to get the ship out of port before it burned completely) but he passed out after, was brought back by our resident sith lord Archeval. not really relevant as a whole, but he would have been MIA after the rescue, recooperating.

2. all were brought back to the brothel that'd been hosting everyone from earlier; by the 9th, they heard from npc Haltham, who says he's found a place to relocate everyone, as there are now too many NPCs to hide in the brothel, and the unhalad forces are getting suspicious (they've been hunting around to find the escaped prisoners since the month prior, aka game opening).

3. trek an hour out of the citadel to a farmhouse in the woods. needs work done, but more importantly: on arrival, wolves. semi-possessed wolves! also people in the trees. the farm holding is fought for and cleared out. (wifi screamed. then got teleported to a farm roof for most this, thank you five.) there are turnips (did you miss them) growing in the indoor greenhouse, the heat for all this is maintained by people donating energy to the runes running it. woah! also working to secure the farmhouse better, as one does. (relevant information in top level of this log: https://westwhere.dreamwidth.org/3035.html)

4. come nightfall the voices and pleading and luring by familiar voices and also the immediate need to murder rats. as you do, when they're large and SWARMING. following the voices/being enthralled by them leads to a late night walk through the woods and going into a lake and experiencing a memory, one of those stolen by the mirror on the now burned to a husk slaver ship. wei wuxian is sitting late night playing music, with talismans on the doors, trying to drive away what's out there. it has limited effectiveness, as in only limited to where he is, hence go out and be wild, everyone!

5. so while this goes on, early in the stay at the farm he learns that jiang cheng is there, and then wangji also belatedly tells him wen qing is there--he then proceeds to go running around like a loon trying to find her.

6. in that first week on the farm, the npc who led them there, Haltham, contacts them again to let them know ( https://lostcompass.dreamwidth.org/2749.html) what's going on at their fringes. oocly we were asked to vote, icly people weighed in ( https://eastbound.dreamwidth.org/6317.html) and at vote tallying, people acted (not sure this has been logged by anyone).

7. the npc kahrsa called everyone idiots after the pcs acted ( https://eastbound.dreamwidth.org/6400.html) and oocly we learned the consequences for pc actions (https://lostcompass.dreamwidth.org/3005.html). this is basically where we are at present, in this particular fallout!

[silverneedles]

you are amazing, thank you!!

okay she's definitely heard him playing, so she knows he's here (or else it's her imagination, which isn't that much of a stretch at this point), just keeps missing him as she looks for him. we will have to play with that!