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let's set d o w n some ([personal profile] groundrules) wrote in [community profile] lostcompass2022-02-14 07:45 pm

arc iii: house of ravens



HOUSE OF RAVENS



Welcome to Arc III: House of Ravens — with brand new locations and individual curses and 'family' residential assignments.

As we depart lore-laden Ellethia, pass your eyes over a few key takeaways. It's all aboard on the vessel Salamera II for a trip by sea over 14-22 February, before arriving at the elusive village of Waihu-Jeou.

Jump into plotting, after a quick peek at what to expect from the arrival log of 23 February, which will also serve as our test drive meme.



ELLETHIA TAKEAWAYS



As the Ellethia travel arc has been fertile ground for background revelations, here is a small, incomplete selection of some of the key information gained & publicly revealed by party members over the network, info share sessions, etc. Characters can be assumed to have access to this background:
■ Ellethia was racing to outdo the feats of Taravast’s Attaryl witches, who prevailed to extend lifespans.

■ The Sleepers of the lighthouse, known to the Merchant and attended by caretaker Zenobius, were technicians overseeing mirror experimentation in Ellethia's Institute of Technology. Ellethian civilians were conscripted for trials.

■ Zenobius once gifted a doll to fellow technician Matthias Lemaitre — a ‘pale man,’ newly returned from mourning.

■ The previous lead technician resigned, citing ‘ethical concerns’ and ‘national safety.’ They were grudgingly replaced by Matthias.

■ The undead appeared at the institute between midday and sunset of the same day. Fleeing slaughter, Zenobius was pushed into a well by Matthias. He returned after the Sleepers had already engaged with a destroyed 10th floor mirror.

■ The institute was converted into a lighthouse, which a thralled Zenobius used to lure ships to their mermaid-driven doom. Hundreds of sailors’ bodies lie in the coastal seas. There is no death on Ellethia. The close lighthouse premises are unaffected by Ellethia’s accelerated life-rebirth cycles.

■ The lighthouse thrives off granting wishes.

■ Parts of the broken mirror on the 10th floor are thrown into waters to pacify mermaids. Party members were lured to rebuild the mirror. Upon completion, a man fitting Matthias’ description briefly dragged Jon Snow into the amorphous, dark and aquatic mirror-realm, where a creature hungered for shape.

■ The mermaids obsessively covet the lighthouse and mirror despite their wishes or exhaustion.

■ Zenobius’ ‘duties’ ended when the Sleepers died. At that time, he also fell into Sleep, and the lighthouse premises lost their self-replenishing sustenance.


Full details on all the uncovered information can be found in the February plot roll write-ups, here and here.



DEPARTURE



On 14 February, the Merchant shows his love by sending a large commercial vessel — the Salamera II — to retrieve the party from Ellethia.

To protect the crew, the vessel cannot berth and stays at a sullen distance that characters must cross in their protective red gear by small boat. Pair up in groups of two or three and beware the vicious, waiting mermaids, who will attempt to grab travellers, drag them into water and drown them. Good luck with that.

Characters no longer need to wear their red garments once they have boarded the Salamera II. They receive fresh clothes and ample water and feeding throughout their journey, which lasts until 22 February. A fresh (if gristly) body has been brought along for Kaneki. The crew reluctantly accepts Wei Wuxian’s petition to bring aboard the sleeping Zenobius.

As they depart, the merry mayhemers can see the lighthouse’s topmost floor crumble down, leaving behind just the ruined infrastructure of the Institute of Technology. The intensely sharp-eyed can see a frail figure at the top of the tower, watching on.

In exchange for their hospitality, the captain of the Salamera II requires newcomers to earn their keep through honest labour: cleaning the decks, keeping watch, fishing, assisting in the kitchens (not you, Xie Lian), or looking after the ship’s prized merchantry wares — dozens of exotic parrots, who proudly utter interesting, mean, fond or perverse truths at passers-by in perfect imitations of any voices they’ve heard.

Very heavy storms spark over 17-20 February, with strong winds quaking the Salamera II and threatening to throw voyagers off board — get help asap, if you or the sailors fall over, and lend a helpful hand with any injuries in the line of duty. The Salamera II may need some moderate repairs once the storms break — while handsome shark circle by, waiting for anyone to slip in.



WAIHU-JEOU / KE-WAIHU



After a... peaceful journey by sea, the group discharges at Waihu-Jeou, informally known as Ke-Waihu — the first of three interlinked villages, which encircle a mountain, its haunted forests and the eerie House of Ravens. A developing guide of the locations is here and will be updated as the second and third village (Waiar-Seong /Ke-Waiar and Waicai-Lian/Ke-Waicai) become available.

The villages have a reputation for their devotion to local divinity and their community spirit, but have suffered a strange spell of chronic drought. The Merchant has heard of underground trafficking of young villagers and other conscripts, funnelled to the forces of the undead lieges. The villagers meanwhile speak of being forced to offer human sacrifice to the House of Ravens, to abate the unyielding drought and other curses. They offer to show newcomers to their beacon, if they assist.

Characters are introduced as part of family or clan units, which have been assigned here. You can huddle up and decide what the clan’s identity story is (refugees? merchants? pilgrims?), and who everyone is within that unit. The Merchant has alerted the villagers that fresh tranches of remaining family members could arrive.

To be fully integrated into the villages, party members must join in the regional faith and accept curses, so they can proudly atone for the sins of long deceased local ancestors — then, for their own wrongdoings. You have the entirety of Arc III (roughly three months) to carry out this redemption work...!

The group’s tasks over Arc III are to:
■ Main: end the tributes to the House of Ravens to learn the beacon’s location from the villagers.

■ Atone for ancestral and individual sins.

■ Optional: investigate the village drought.

■ Optional: end the conscription circuit that supplies the undead Brotherhood with new legions.




ARRIVAL LOG



You’ll get the full feast of details when the Arc III arrival log / Test Drive Meme lands on 23 February, but here’s a small “spoiler-free” summary of some things to expect. This does not include events exclusive to test drivers!

Prepare to…
■ Confront a pack of bandits (...yes, hooligans may steal their loot).

Get lost in traverse a forest area where the environment briefly shifts to spaces from characters’ home worlds, also visible to other travellers. This and certain distractions could lure characters to the forest’s unique dangers.

■ Enter the villages and accept the ancestral curses.

■ Take ownership of dwellings as 'blessed' families.

■ Join the village during a strange banquet celebrating multiple weddings and participate in a particular rite of the procession. Face the blood-curdling morning after, under the curse of the regional fox spirits.

■ Lift the curse of the fox spirits by capturing them in the forest or helping track down and rebuild their ancient miniature worship sites.

■ Behold the first of the drought and its ‘dark waters.’



Feel free to plot & plan for the arrival log here. Make friends. Make families. Throw a plotting form on top:



QUESTIONS

song_of_fire: ([Daenerys] Book Daenerys2)

Daenerys Targaryen | A Song of Ice and Fire

[personal profile] song_of_fire 2022-02-14 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Rachel
CHARACTER: Daenerys Targaryen
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] la_fille_en_histoire

CHARACTER FAMILY #1 I like the idea of refugees, but that's just my initial thought. Once everyone talks, we can decide.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS? A rich man neglected all of his many concubines. Struggling to entice him, they began to sabotage each other, leading to vicious competitions and even murder. The rich man never troubled himself to acknowledge their despair, let along end their abuse. My initial thought is that Dany visits the families of each of the concubines and compiles what was known about them, the extent of their suffering and how they died. She finds some way to compensate and offer some means of comfort to the families of the women. At the end of it, she sets up a purified flame with something belonging to the man and burns the list she made. The ashes are scattered over his grave/tomb/whatever so that he has to carry these consequences with him, as he never carried the responsibility of caring for his wives.

GENERAL PLANS: Dany's going to be a bit colder and aloof with her curse behavior. She won't want to be touched. She's also pulling back from establishing relationships with people. She'll be a bit colder to her friends and put a damper on anything approaching closeness. She's definitely going to have a worse opinion of the ancestor that she's atoning for, feeling more sorry for the people he hurt than him. Her distaste for the idea of sex and relationships and general will be influencing that opinion. She already is a lonely person anyway, so it's just going to get a bit worse.
Edited (Ideas keep coming to me) 2022-02-14 20:19 (UTC)
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Wrathion | Warcraft

[personal profile] blackscales 2022-02-14 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Jack
CHARACTER: Wrathion
CONTACT: PM, or ping me in the discord server -- if you aren't in it and want to chat I can PM you my handle!

CHARACTER FAMILY #

#6 | Rufus, Su Xunxian, Marcos, Chu Wanning! Sorry to all of you. At least I can say he won't ask for much?

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?

A horny guard let some graves be defiled. Wrathion doesn't know much about what would help there, so he'll probably initially try to work out if anything has been done for the graves already (to... undefile them? Wrathion has no idea) and consider doing some shifts watching the burial grounds at night himself to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Wrathion's overall attitude would be that he wants to get through this atonement business as quickly as possible. This will mean he initially probably has the wrong attitude, but he will at least want to learn as much as he can as soon as he can which should get him there.

I'm going to give him the lust side-effects, since emotional distance and occasional ruthlessness is... already a thing for Wrathion quite honestly. The scratches will fascinate him, however, until the fact that they don't heal begins to bother him more and more. I don't expect him to leave it so long they become horrendous, but I'm thinking as they progress some will begin to seep his hot lava-ish blood occasionally which will be a problem. It will definitely ruin some clothing for him. Also, seeing too many open cuts on himself may make him panic a little so he'll be covering up everything twice as much he doesn't have to look at them.

The loneliness will be especially interesting. It's something he has felt before, and tuned out, but being magically forced to dwell on it will make him withdrawn until he gets out of this.

GENERAL PLANS:

Wrathion will be very interested in the conscription circuit to the undead brotherhood and the drought. He likes a good mystery, but he's also antsy about the undead legions in general because he's uneasy about the idea he might run into the Beastmaster again (it's a hard No from him). Especially since he hasn't confessed to many people he's a dragon. I am sure there will never be any consequences for his repeated attempts to hide himself.

He's also interested in this human sacrifice aspect, because that really feels... you know. Bad. Culty.

So!

- Looking for people to help Wrathion understand about respect for the dead and how you handle defiled graves. He's very focused on respect for and protecting the living so this is a little outside his remit.

- People interested in investigating the underground trafficking of folk to the undead legions.

- People who also feel human sacrifice is a no-no, and want to know what is going on in the House of Ravens.

- Family Unit Shenanigans. Wrathion has literally never, uh, lived with a family before? He knows theoretically how families behave but be prepared for him to find this confusing.

- Tips for clothing that doesn't burn easily?
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wei wuxian!

[personal profile] weifinder 2022-02-14 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: rakel
CHARACTER: wei wuxian (the untamed)
CONTACT: PM, DM, if you have me on plurk @ me there

CHARACTER FAMILY 4

Wei Wuxian's bringing along Zenobius the Unwaking, so we have +1 sleeping elder for our family group! I personally read the "fox whisperer" portion and started laughing, since Wei Wuxian is afraid of dogs/canines and foxes, well, still look very canine, so: fellow Family #4 members, what are thoughts on them calling themselves a clan of fox whisperers? Only to end up in town and there being whole issues with foxes and they all get to go "..." at the serendipity. Surely it's that!

He'll be regularly sneaking out and/or having Lan Wangji sneak in PROBABLY, ask Ruxi, mostly because they're still attached at the hip and hey, maybe fox whisperers are in demand for consultation, or a clan of them known to have some of the fox's beguiling nature (if everyone's up for being such a cover story, of course).

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?

His curse deals with an ancestor who decided to torture the people he was in power over due to his own dissatisfaction, so dealing with it means Wei Wuxian will... do what he would do anyway, which is leap in to help with all the local issues. Help the people not in power, who are subjugated and tormented unfairly! He's unlikely to see progression of his ancestral curse for that reason, but it means I adore all threads dealing with:

- him shouting and freezing up in fear dealing with fox shenanigans
- him investigating and pursuing the issues of human sacrifice
- and human trafficking for the undead lords
- likewise investigating any Problems arising in the village(s) as they come up, only now he has extra license to go "I have to, look at this ancestral curse, right?"

GENERAL PLANS:

Truly, see the above in ancestral curse plotting for once they're in the area. He's also here to help people with their curses if it's something that requires multiple parties to help overall accomplish, or if listening out for details is relevant.

He's background looking into a way to help Zenobius wake up, which isn't presently going to be fruitful (he may find a means without possessing the means, or you know, at this point more mirror muckery is called for).

Wei Wuxian is! A necromancer, he can resurrect the dead but hasn't tried this since learning the means of it in Taravast, and is deeply afraid of dogs. If any of that sounds useful to what your character(s) are up to, let me know!

When leaving the lighthouse he can try controlling undead mermaids to help run interference with the live mermaids, but he can't handle too many over a period of time, so setting up bait bombs before leaving and tossing those out along the way and before, away from where they're boating out, might be his suggestion. Especially as one of the guys extra hated for his mermaid meal depriving ways!

On ship heading toward the next location, he'll help where he can while also tending to Zenobius and dragging in anyone else willing to tend to a comatose patient, thank you ahead of time. He's a strong swimmer, so if anyone wants to go overboard during the storm, he can reach them and be hauled back to ship with whatever rope he tied around himself, should that be of interest to anyone!
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2022-02-14 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Sheep
CHARACTER: Five Hargreeves
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] lonesheep

CHARACTER FAMILY #10: Five is not a great actor, but he will be in favor of whatever backstory keeps people away. He's not above saying they were recently orphaned and on the run from a hoard of undead and it's just too painful to talk about, someone sell that for him. (Miss u Winnie... Also don't think he won't be pissy about being separated from his actual family and drop in on them constantly.)

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS? Five has the privilege of atoning for a murderer who sacrificed people for power and also killed his own son. Five will struggle with this because his father was famously terrible and also because he's a big ol' murderer who barely feels anything about the people he's killed, let alone thought about atoning for them. Then there's the fact that he doesn't have a great understanding of the value of things that aren't meant for survival. But fine.

I can see this going badly without intervention, help the old man out before he figures out some kind of horrible solution to his problem. (Like... killing people who are doing the human sacrificing or something ahh.) If only going back in time and murdering that guy wasn't such a bad idea...

For this part he's going to be cursed with GREED. Already having hoarder tendencies (apocalypse habits, okay), it's not a far leap that he would be subjected to this type of curse and that's my excuse.

Depending on how his curse develops, he might/probably will start to take everything the man might have owned and teleporting away with it so he can... offer it up to the gods?? or just stash it, let's see what comes first. If he tracks down and investigates houses of the people he's murdered this might also become a theme.

GENERAL PLANS: For personal reasons I really want him to deal with the rude parrots on the ship, so that should happen. He's got secrets and talks to his not-here mannequin wife often enough, let's please do something with parrot gossip.

When they arrive he's going to be stressed and trying to solve his family's curses before dealing with his own because that was not supposed to happen. Recent memory loss issues already have him on edge and he's going to be obsessively writing things down more than usual. He'll be extra nosey about any magic he sees going on. Really fine person to room with.

He'll be especially weird about mirrors, so he's covering any he sees, and if he notices anyone handling one he's liable to snatch it from them and teleport it away. He's also dumbly still got a cursed mirror in him that absorbs small amounts of anguish from those around him, and none of you are helping by suffering nearby. Just let him be a moody teenager locked in his room scribbling on the walls while he figures this out...
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Anduin Wrynn | Warcraft

[personal profile] chosenbylight 2022-02-14 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Teresa
CHARACTER: Anduin Wrynn
CONTACT: ping me in the discord server or find me at [plurk.com profile] lycanthropy101

CHARACTER FAMILY #

#5 | Ben Mason, Xue Yang, Lorna Dane, Anduin, Lan Wangji

Sorry gang as far as any sort of cover story goes, Anduin is going to need help with this cover story. He is literally a king and though he has not told anyone that here so far, he's not very good at pretending to be normal. It would be very much a case of "How do you do fellow kids peasants!"

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?

For Anduin, the ancestor that he is atoning for is someone who promised beautiful village women a fair future as wives/maids at distant citadels then sold them off to brothels instead. He's getting the curse of sloth/indifference, the longer this takes him to resolve, which will slowly make his body grow stiff and heavy and make him grow more and more distant. This is Unfortunate because Anduin suffers chronic pain from an old injury as it is, and the whole experience will just not be very much fun for him.

FORTUNATELY he's a priest! And so he'd be pretty keen on getting this task done, although he also knows that the fastest way to do something does not always mean it is the best way.

The fact that this may make him emotionally distant or potentially somewhat ruthless is also an interesting take, given Anduin's general Soft Good Boy vibe. He'll feel honestly TERRIBLE for anyone he is mean to, and I can't see him being AWFUL but I can definitely see him being WAY less nice than he usually is (as much because he is uncomfortable as because of the rest of the curse tbh!)

I think in terms of how to atone for the sins of the ancestors, Anduin will need time to track down who these women were and where they wound up. For his sake there were probably only 3 or 4 because otherwise this will take him forever. From there, he's going to want to set things right!!! Those women long ago were promised good marriages/good work, and by hell or high water, he will see that their daughters' daughters will get the promise they deserved...

GENERAL PLANS:

Anduin is feeling in general not great about some of the decisions he's made in the past, especially given the whole Ellethia trip, so he'd throw himself head-first into anything he could that might make himself feel useful. All of this about the underground trafficking of young villagers to the undead for instance sounds BAD and especially since the Merchant just basically accused him of being complicit in their death and destruction thanks to him sparing Rigarda's life, he'd want to make up for that ASAP. Also: he'd want to stick his nose into whatever this human sacrifice thing is, because it Sounds Bad.

Beyond that, I'd be interested in doing some Family Unit Bonding, especially since Anduin's an only child and he's never really had a family :c Beyond his father who was uh, an Interesting Guy.

Also he's going to be helping out with caring for Zenobius when he can which I would assume means sneaking out of his village and over to wherever Wei Wuxian is keeping him haha

He will be available for HEALING, where he can (things that aren't cursed), frowning/fussing over things, and generally sticking his nose into everywhere it does not belong!

Also, if u wanna help him track down some pretty ladies and help him marry them off (not to him), he won't say no
downswing: (tide will break)

lan wangji | untamed | family #5

[personal profile] downswing 2022-02-14 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: ruxi
CHARACTER: Lan Wangji | The Untamed
CONTACT: PM is genuinely fastest!

CHARACTER FAMILY # 5, with Ben Mason, Lorna Dane, Anduin and.......... Xue Yang, whom everyone else will need to keep him from trying to murder. Again.

A couple of small rules he would be grateful for his 'family' to observe with him:

■ We go to bed at 9pm. Yes, all of us.

■ We wake up at 5am. Yes, all of us.

■ We do not speak when we eat.

■ We do not lie, gossip, run around the house, speak ill of others, prove careless and indifferent, unwise and cowardly, associate with evil, covet wealth, lust, entertain immodesty, stray from virtue, grow impatient, disrespect our elders, our betters, our fellows or those weaker than us, consume more than three bowls for each meal.

■ We need not all be vegetarian, but no one is consuming spice.

■ We practise meditation and exercise our bodies each and every single day.

More to come.


Thank you, Family #5 collective.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?

Bereft the good fortune of her friends, a beautiful woman decided to wed elder, oft sickly men and give them a... gentle nudge towards their demise, until she became a repeatedly merry, wealthy widow.

...so, I'm thinking he will either try to make amends by returning wealth to the descendants of the murdered husbands, or he'll donate money to true widows in need. Either way, he needs coin, and he's... never worked a day in his life.

...anyone got some marketable skills he can learn?


GENERAL PLANS:

■ Fox weddings! Anything spiritual is his brand.

■ He'll want a partner to investigate the dark waters.

■ He needs to look into the trafficking, but as a first step, I think he'd like to understand the forest grounds and the creepy mouths of hell first.

■ Why do locals think this mountain is a stairwell to the heavens????

■ He needs to visit his actual family, thanks.
Edited 2022-02-14 23:52 (UTC)
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eleven | dragon quest xi | family #3

[personal profile] bearshermark 2022-02-15 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Solar
CHARACTER: Eleven
CONTACT: Plurk

CHARACTER FAMILY # 3, with Yan Zhengming, Slick, Jiang Cheng, and Akira

Of this family, he only has meaningful cr with Slick thus far, so I'm interested to see how dynamics play out! Generally, he'll be busy out in the village, but he should be a helpful bean around the house. His cooking skill is limited to simple fare, but he'll source food and if someone else is a better cook, help clean?

Matters of note: Lily is his wonderful girlfriend, and with Hendrik returning to the game, he's going to have a very tall, broad, purple-haired shadow in short order. Expect to see both of them regularly :')

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?
Through a stroke of ill luck, a young man's noble family was rendered destitute. Thinking a peasant or worker's life was beneath him, the man sooner decided to condemn himself and his children to starve, rather than allow them to work for their meals.


Thinking a vegetable garden or efforts to revive a food-bearing field through good old fashioned farming work. ..But also possibly through some magical encouragement, as practice. If that turns out to be fruitless, then maybe apprenticing a few baby smiths, fishermen, or at a stretch, healers.

He'll be suffering Pride effects, until the curse is resolved.

GENERAL PLANS: Aboard the ship, Eleven is going to throw himself into work and take his tasks to heart. He's going to make himself useful if he has to scrub his hands raw to manage it. Also healing injuries, as the storm hits.

He'll set himself to work in the village with similar determination to atone for the ancestor curse, and likely want to help lift the drought curse bc well, bean wants to grow things excuse you?? He's also fully ready to crack down on human sacrifice to the undead bc no.

In his downtime, sparring with Hendrik and vibing with nearby plant life.
Edited 2022-02-15 01:19 (UTC)
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[personal profile] soloritur 2022-02-15 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Sheep
CHARACTER: Marcos Diaz
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] lonesheep

CHARACTER FAMILY #6: Marcos is fine with whatever story they want to come up with. They're a normal family who are just here for the culture. He'll at least initially help to get them situated, he's no stranger to setting up temporary camps.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS? Marcos is tasked with atoning for a handsome man who offered sex to admirers for a favor, and instead had his actual lover help rob or murder them for their own gain. Humans are just the worst sometimes. Marcos won't have a great idea of how to atone for him, so he'll start out finding the roads that they would have taken and try to make them safer, and offer to escort any travelers among them in case there are still any bandits around. He'll also donate whatever coin he has left to people in need.

He's going to be cursed with SLOTH. That curse is the opposite of how he is normally, so it will have a noticeable impact if it goes on for long. He's usually made of empathy and wants to take action etc. though he does have it in him to be cruel and I haven't played with that yet. Anyway, we'll see how that goes.

GENERAL PLANS: VAGUE PLANS. As far as the ship, after the storm breaks Marcos will be around to help repair things. He's great at welding and will volunteer to patch holes and what-have-you.

Until/unless the curse gets the best of him, Marcos will be looking out for the group and providing any useful knowledge he has from running safe houses. And aside from keeping an eye on the people he's closest to, as soon as he's aware of the undead being supplied with fresh legions he'll be bringing it up with everyone he talks to. Very triggering to this mutant, okay. He'll support anyone who wants to figure out how to end it.

You also might catch him praying more often and pulling out the Santa Muerte medallion nightly for protection, because he's... never been cursed before. Ahah. It's pretty upsetting.
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wen qing | the untamed | family #1

[personal profile] silverneedles 2022-02-15 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Thea
CHARACTER: Wen Qing
CONTACT: PM, ping me in discord, or [plurk.com profile] theasaurus

CHARACTER FAMILY # #1 | Daenerys, Emilia, John Connor, Wen Qing, Xie Lian
I am good with refugees or anything we come up with. Wen Qing is huge older sister vibes so if you're her family, expect to be scolded and nagged at and also have food shoved in your hands if you aren't eating enough, made to drink tea if you so much as cough, etc.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS? A visiting warlord in dire need of resources for his depleted armed contingent conquered the village while retreating his forces. He forced the villagers to surrender all their goods, their stored possessions for winter, and even to unbury their dead and remove any gold or precious trinkets they had been sent to the ground with during their funerary rites.

I have very few ideas for this and Wen Qing is not generally a curse breaker, so she will seek out help, probably from Wei Wuxian or anyone who might be able to help, to break this curse. She'll be suffering from greed side effects until it's broken and would prefer to stop. She'll probably start with attempting to rebury the dead.

GENERAL PLANS: Wen Qing gets seasick and hasn't had a chance to figure out anything to stop the seasickness, so she is going to be fairly miserable during the journey, especially during the storm. She hates it and will be very annoyed with everyone who comments on it because she's not supposed to be sick, she's a physician and all. She's also going to avoid Zenobius unless he's injured somehow because even looking at him reminds her of her brother and she misses him terribly.

She had to give up her herbs and salves when they left Taravast and she intends to restock and create a more portable stock of tinctures and salves and help where she can, especially with the human trafficking and human sacrifice situations.
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wrath | kingdom of the wicked

[personal profile] inferus 2022-02-15 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Rizzy
CHARACTER: Wrath | Kingdom of the Wicked
CONTACT: snowed on plurk and/or pm

CHARACTER FAMILY #2 Sansa, Wrath, Alina Starkov, Lan Sizhui, Lee Chang

Wrath is an immortal being who has never had an actual family ever (his brothers do not count) SO THIS will be fun. He'll keep up a ruse if necessary, but he doesn't know what a mortal family is truly beyond his observations over the millenia that he has been in existence.

And it's not like looking in on family dynamics is exactly part of his responsibilities/duties. What he knows, he knows from talks with Emilia about her sister. I look forward to him learning about it whether he wishes to or not. Also, Hatisse will probably show up to the home and try to seduce him s'more.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?

I'm going to have him suffering the effects of Envy, because that's the one he'd hate feeling the most and immediately recognize it as his brother's sin. And hate. He will do whatever he can to stop it even if he finds this idea of atonement to be more in line with mortals' views/fears of Hell. Also, he literally is already cursed because of his past actions and has been for centuries, thank-u-very-much.

Will have to think about how he solves his curse as much as it annoys him in general to have to, it appears far simpler than his other curse.

GENERAL PLANS:

Wrath will one hundred percent be interested in stopping the undead army from growing in numbers. It's kind of his personal goal at the moment to figure out how to destroy The Huntress (which includes the Beastmaster) if he can. At the very least, he would like to weaken her and her numbers/find a way to protect himself from her effects after what he experienced from her in Taravast. No one since his Maker has taken choice from him- no one will again if he can help it.

Given the whole sinning and atoning thing, he will want to learn more about the religion(s) of this place. He'll find the human sacrifices to be exceedingly terrible and also unsurprising. Little motivates humans more than their religion and their fears and pride brought on by it. Especially interested in learning curses given he is already cursed.......and Emilia is the most cursed, and he would like to break that please.

I do not know if like the villagers will talk about the actual sins/curses by name, but if they do and anyone wants to notice like his name is Wrath like the sin. ... I'm one hundred percent down with that. He's not really hiding that he's one of the Seven Wicked Princes of Hell (he's less chatty about being the king of Hell/the devil) and the embodiment of his namesake sin : '), but none of that really comes up all that much. AND THIS IS REASON FOR it to come up.
Edited 2022-02-15 03:29 (UTC)
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[personal profile] enucleation 2022-02-15 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Juu
CHARACTER: Ken Kaneki
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] vilani

CHARACTER FAMILY # #8 | Shen Qingqiu, Thistle, Kaneki Ken, Wrench
Kaneki is fine with whatever people want to come up with, but he will probably go with the easiest which is "refugees" since this world is a mess and not entirely strange.


ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?
GLUTTONY, GREED
A village leader was helpless when locusts and vermin assaulted the crops of his people, leaving the village bereft over winter. Desperate, he assembled a band of the village's young and they dressed in the skins of wolves, bears and other fierce woodland creatures, seeking to pillage the granaries of other villages — fearing the 'animals,' the assaulted villagers set fire to their own stock to banish them, inevitably denying both parties the goods.
Kaneki plans on helping gathering food to later divide among the villages, hoping to share it all and atone for the green of the village leader. He may try to farm but in all honesty this lands sucks apparently so he will definitively hunt. AND LOOK HE NEVER HUNTED ANIMALS BEFORE but he has hunted... other ghouls... whom he ate... so yeah, he is a good hunter yes. He also plans on helping figuring out the villages drought since that would help to atone for his curse too.

If anyone joins him in hunts and such, get ready for some body horror because Kaneki hunting is... honestly disgusting )=

And if anyone wants to do anything with the GREED curse... Kaneki and hoarding people is a thing. He is a lonely person desperately in need for companionship so look. LOOK. he may get attached to you. you are now his.


GENERAL PLANS:
Guess who is always hungry! Oh wait, that was a thing already. So Kaneki's objective is to do this right to get to the beacon, therefor he will be diligent and not get distracted (except that may not really happen). With his curse, Kaneki will be wasting away and of course the wounds on his hands but in all honesty Kaneki does not respond to pain or being hurt like a normal person she he like... won't... care...

Kaneki still has a the haunted doll and given she's always following after him, he will just be carrying her in an improvised backback along with the beating heart he also found. It seems like Kaneki is collecting stuff, LET'S SEE WHAT HE WILL COLLECT HERE |8

He will also be interested in the undead brotherhood because he needs to eat and look. Undead are better than living and better than robbing graves. SO yes, let's find some food source and the undead are it. Also what the fuck human sacrifice are you all insane BUT BUUUUT Kaneki lives by a code right now which is "we should not fuck with every single person we find because it's none of our business what people do in this world, all i wanna do is go home"; so unless the whole situation regarding the human sacrifices (and stopping them) actually helps to fix the village, he may not touch that.
Edited 2022-02-15 10:40 (UTC)
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Ben Mason | Falling Skies | #5 family

[personal profile] chemlocked 2022-02-15 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Will
CHARACTER: Ben Mason
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] mythotica

CHARACTER FAMILY # #5 | Ben Mason, Xue Yang, Lorna Dane, Anduin, Lan Wangji
Ben's used to odd quarters and coping with different units coming together so that won't bother him much. He's only really talked to Anduin and Lan Wangji and still finding his footing so he'll go along with their cover story and can likely fake most of it.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS? his curse involves murders and thieves and he's likely going to want to do something to commemorate the dead. They did that at their base and it seemed to help people get through the loss. Likely roadside for a warning and so those passing the same way see it, and see what he can do about compensating the families of those that died and don't have the merchant to raise money for the family.

GENERAL PLANS: As a young "villager" in his own world who was kidnapped, harnessed and forced into slave labor, he's going to be all about trying to track down who is behind that and put an end to it. He might be avoiding the house because "dad" set up a bunch of rules and he's still a teenager going wtf. Ben, and I, are still getting our footing so definitely open to helping out and getting him involved.
Edited 2022-02-15 15:21 (UTC)
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Beitang Moran

[personal profile] beitangmoran 2022-02-15 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Dùlin
CHARACTER: Beitang Moran
CONTACT: catch me on the Discord or Plurk if I have you there, or here! Or journal PMs are fine too

CHARACTER FAMILY # 7
So the assignments are thus : Jon Snow, Beitang Moran, Fox, Moiraine, Zhou Zishu and Moran has really only talked with like 1.5 of them so far, and I think none of them know about is power except maybe Fox if he still remembers.

Moran is fine with being the slightly weird book nerd uncle, which is exactly what he is IRL. but also, for those who don't know yet, his special Star Master power is having always accurate visions of the future, so if the fam wants to slightly traumatize themselves with that, don't hesitate to hit me up.

Given their respective ages, they might easier pass as all siblings, maybe, but Moran is ready to tell everyone is their uncle with a straight face (his older brother was actually much older so he's almost the same age as his nephews, he's used to it). They also come with an assortment of weird fashion between themselves, which he would be just as happy to just not even explain, but if anyone has idea, I'll take it.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?
Moran's curse is this one :
ANCESTRAL CURSE
SLOTH, GLUTTONY

A young boy infiltrated nearby altars on nights when funerary offerings were made. He consumed the best and choicest dishes left for spirits and ancestors, therefore denying both the deceased their dues and their survivors the chance to honour their memories over a last meal, come morning.

His plans are to organize a new funerary banquet for the deceased that were affected, with the money from his sugar daddy husband of course. Given that he tends to get absorbed and forget to it, I think it will be funny to have him more affected with gluttony and start demanding food, especially since he cannot cook at all.

GENERAL PLANS:

Being his usual knowledge nerd, Moran will of course attempt to learn a lot more about the history of the place, the various legends, and all that stuff, like he did for Anurr. And also learn the local script/language if he can. There is a chance he might spook the locals with his divination powers, which I still need to ask our dear mod about.

he will also surmise that the whole 'human sacrifice' thing is how they funnel people to undead armies, the problem is proving it and he is used to having a literal army of underlings to command and now he only has Xunxian so he might be recruiting.
Edited 2022-02-15 16:37 (UTC)
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Xie Lian

[personal profile] scrapgege 2022-02-15 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Dùlin
CHARACTER: Xie Lian
CONTACT: catch me on the Discord or Plurk if I have you there, or here! Or journal PMs are fine too

CHARACTER FAMILY # 1
In spite of his ancient age, Xie Lian actually looks 17, so he'll happily be everyone's little brother. Don't let him cook. Refugees is fine for him as background story, he's actually been one several times before.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?
ANCESTRAL CURSE
ENVY, LUST

A girl begrudged the constant praise and attention received by her much more popular twin sister. She set out to "teach her sibling a lesson" by pretending to be her and meeting up with her betrothed. She inevitably fell in love with the young man, but damned them both — her to a broken heart, him to dishonour — when she revealed her true identity and asked the man to elope. She was refused.

Once he understands the situation, Xie Lian's solution to his curse will be to try and organize a 'ghost marriage' between the wo originally bethrothed, and maybe another one for the twin who should have done that so she stops bothering the other two. he'll probably need help.

He will also be more affected by lust.


GENERAL PLANS:
So... droughts, people being drafted against their will, and also his curse effect being marks on the body and/or face, all of this will make Xie Lian flashbacks to some very traumatic moments of his past that precipitated his first fall from heaven. There's a chance of quite a few spoilers and a lot of some really heavy topics cropping up including genocide and quite a lot of gore, so don't hesitate to tell me if you don't want any of that.

But suffice it to say Xie Lian is not going to have fun here.

Howveer, with the fox spirits, he will be team 'repair their shrines and give them offerings' rather than team 'hunt and kill'. he will also want to make sure the altars at the ancient temples are well stocked/maintained/cleaned.
Edited 2022-02-15 16:30 (UTC)
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Akira "Joker" Kurusu | Persona 5 Royal

[personal profile] joker_wild 2022-02-15 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Em
CHARACTER: Akira "Joker" Kurusu
CONTACT: Preferred: [plurk.com profile] cotume27. Also cotume27#5389.

CHARACTER FAMILY #3
Eleven, Yan Zhengming, Slick, Jiang Cheng, Akira

Akira hasn't really spoken to... any of the people in his family, lmfao, so I'm very excited for all the new CR. He's good at being a sudden entrant into a new "family", though, and he'll go along with whatever story the others want to use? Refugees is always a good option, though, since you can blame The Trauma for not having solid stories.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?

A spoiled eighth child with seven sisters made them wait on him and do all the work around the house while refusing to let them marry.

Iiiiii don't know how to have him atone for that, TBH, considering it was just one family affected. He'll already be doing what he can to help out around the village and everything, but that doesn't feel like enough?

It was suggested to me to maybe have him find another family in the area with a similar situation and help uplift the "lesser" siblings - so maybe he can help do some matchmaking for some sisters being ruled over by one of their brothers?

If anyone has suggestions, let me know?

He'll be picking up the side effects of sloth to make it more of a race against time - can he deal with it before he just doesn't care anymore and starts acting like the man from his story?

GENERAL PLANS: Again, he'll be helping out around the village as needed and trying to help stop the sacrifices, because fuck that noise. He will also probably end up drawn into the woods at some point or another while trying to deal with the fox spirits.

Basically, he'll just being himself: walking around, talking to people, and picking up half a dozen part-time jobs.
Edited 2022-02-15 16:23 (UTC)
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xiao xingchen | mo dao zu shi | family #4

[personal profile] binghua 2022-02-15 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Rose
CHARACTER: Xiao Xingchen
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] LadyotRings or yell for me on the disco!

CHARACTER FAMILY #4 with Hendrik, Yun Yifeng, Wei Wuxian, Allison....and Uncle Zenobius

I'm down for Rakel's idea for this gang to all be fox whisperer, but if the consensus rolls toward something else, I can do that, too. Xingchen isn't particularly good at acting, but he won't put up a fight, either, for the good of the group.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?
An official who diligently trained his entire life for public service but came from a modest family was assigned to oversee the peripheral villages, while his peers were promoted into prestigious positions in lavish cities. He accepted the post, but laced the drink of his peers during his departure feast and whispered lies in their ears, until the drunk men assaulted each other — losing their dignities and their fancy offices.

I don't have any concrete plans for solving this one, though it probably would make more sense for Xingchen to become a bar bouncer as opposed to trying to restore these old ancestors the titles they deserve or something. He prefers being a peacekeeper more, anyway.

As to how successful this will be, I'm also not sure! What I DO know is he'll be affected by the curse of Envy, which will be super fun since he's ready blind and relies on his other senses, of course. So if/when those start to fail, he'll just be a cranky asshole. I'm sorry in advance.

GENERAL PLANS: He can't keep well enough alone, so Xingchen will deffo want to investigate any of the nonsense going on, especially human sacrifices and trafficking because that's bad??? Please stop that????

If they're under the guise of fox whisperers, he'll also want to help fix their shrines. Which he'd rather do, anyway.

AND THEN I'm just mean so if anything else comes up to make Xingchen more miserable I'll probably be there. I need to be stopped.
Edited (html on mobile...I am a fool) 2022-02-15 18:28 (UTC)
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emilia di carlo, kingdom of the wicked

[personal profile] valeas 2022-02-15 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Elle
CHARACTER: Emilia di Carlo
CONTACT: Plurk @ moonstones or PM

CHARACTER FAMILY #1: Daenerys, John Connor, Wen Qing, Xie Lian. Refugees is the favored option and it definitely works with me!
Emilia is driven, resourceful, and forceful if not reserved. She's a caretaker at heart, and has been cooking from the moment her motor skills kicked in, so she's got y'all covered and will feed you yummy things.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?
A young man's parents died in his infancy. He spent his entire inheritance wildly on lovers, feasts and revelry — neglecting to look after the fields and estates left to him, and after the people who depended on them for employment and feeding.
My first thought is that this might be a wonderful opportunity for me to play into the nurturing side of her, since canon events have forced her to lean into the more furious and merciless side. Emilia wanted to be a green witch prior to her life being upended by death and destruction. She has a green thumb and does very well with herbs and plants and flowers, even beyond magic means. So maybe being able to heal patches of land to help feed people. I'd really love that! I think it would be good for her.

I'm still thinking of other things she can do and am open to suggestions. Her individual curse is Wrath. Because of course.

GENERAL PLANS: ○ Emilia was already cursed prior to all of this. It's a pretty big Thing in her books. She's grown more familiar with the nature of that curse and is committed to breaking it on top of all this, as it would unlock both her stolen memories and the full brunt of her power. If achieved, she could very well take on the likes of the Beastmaster and that is potentially scary, yes.

○ Despite (or because?) her thirst for vengeance, broader injustices are very important to her, not just personal injury. She would absolutely look into the trafficking situation/try to get the full picture. This leads to my favorite which is buddy mystery investigations and adventures, etc!

○ She and Zuko had been planning to look into Karsa going MIA, and I'd still maybe want to do something with that if anyone else is interested.

○ In general, I'd really just like to integrate her back into the game since December/January were slower months for me. She's a decisive and hands-on character and I'd like to reflect that better.

○ She also returned from her canon update with a divine object and I don't have plans for that yet, I just think it's neat.
Edited 2022-02-15 20:48 (UTC)
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lily evans, hp, famjam 9

[personal profile] lancifolium 2022-02-15 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: chel
CHARACTER: Lily Evans
CONTACT: pm or [plurk.com profile] againstme

CHARACTER FAMILY #

#9 | Lily Evans, Bai Mingyu, Diego, Yennefer

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?

A man ruined the welfare and reputation of a dozen widows and widowers by seducing them to break their vows of chastity and to spend the coin they inherited on him. He would leave his lovers as soon as their money ended.


I'm kind of toying around with her either handing over the gold she's acquired to single-parent families who obviously need it, or becoming some kind of vigilante cockblocker. This is very much still being worked out, I'd love suggestions.

GENERAL PLANS:

This month my life is crazy and I'm taking it really slow and light (probably into next month as I move house) so I'm trying to keep plans minimal so I don't get overwhelmed. At some point, I'd love to play into the Greed curse making her compelled to hoard things and people (looking at you Eleven, Wei Wuxian, Emilia, and basically anyone she's got some good CR going with). Otherwise, I'm plan-less and down to support anyone else's plans if your character needs an incredibly helpful, lore-hungry magical nerd supporting them.
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Rufus Shinra | Family #6

[personal profile] ambitiousblond 2022-02-15 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Hebe
CHARACTER: Rufus Shinra
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] illuminations

CHARACTER FAMILY # #6 | Rufus, Su Xunxian, Marcos, Wrathion, Chu Wanning

Rufus doesn't know the first thing of what normal families are like in reality or how any of that even works so this will be a bit of a learning experience for him.

It can't be worse than what his real family was like where everyone tried to kill each other and got stabbed and/or shot like idiots but that's not a high bar.

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?

Ancestral curse: A thief persuaded his wife to seduce and distract a nobleman whose home he wished to infiltrate. While there, realising the great fortune amassed by his target and that he could use it to start a fresh life, the thief killed the nobleman and his own wife in cold blood, injecting 'proof' that this was a murder-suicide carried out by one of the lovers.

Rufus is going to be struggling to atone for greed- he benefited from his father's extreme greed which then practically destroyed an entire planet so he knows what greed can do, how it can twist people into monsters.

He's not going to be sympathetic to the thief in the least. He knows what greed can do if it goes unchecked and he's going to make sure the thief gets punished to the full extent because of what he wishes he or someone else did to his father before it was too late.

He wants to believe he's better than his father and the greed which consumed him so his goal will try to be to atone as soon as possible, the best way possible.

GENERAL PLANS:

I don't have any concrete plans yet other than family bonding time which should be interesting since Rufus's idea of family is fucked up, to say the least.

He'll want to investigate putting an end to the trafficking to the undead as well, if anyone needs help with that. He's an excellent shot with a shotgun and will be working to regain his strength after nearly dying a few times here and there.

Other than that, I'm open to whatever trouble he manages to get himself into.
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Diego Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Famjam 9

[personal profile] gladiokinesis 2022-02-15 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Katie
CHARACTER: Diego Hargreeves
CONTACT: pm or plurk @ autoclave

CHARACTER FAMILY # #9 | Lily Evans, Bai Mingyu, Diego, Yennefer | I hope you all like his five pet wolves aka the Graces. Maybe they could be animal wranglers/trainers??? He's not going to be super psyched about a family that isn't his real one, sorry guys....

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS? A woman who once slaughtered several squirrels to make herself a shawl of their stitched pelts was infused with their spirit and began to never be satisfied with her stored meals. She constantly chewed treats and pilfered the shining goods and meals set for storage by her neighbours.

He's probably not going to do anything about that yet, and suffer the effects of Envy for it.....

GENERAL PLANS:
So, I'm about to start a new job so I might still be slowish but I want to dive back in and do things. So he's going to be very Worried about Five and probably be trying to find some way to fix his memories more than working on his own ancestral curse....which means he's going to start feeling the effects of Envy with his eyesight getting worse gradually and his insecurities getting worse slowly as well. It'll be fine, I'm sure. Or not. He'll also have his five wolves, the Graces, with him so I hope his new "family" is excited about that. They have bonded to him so they probably won't attack anyone unless they think he's threatened. Yes, he named all five of them after his Robo-mom. Boy's got a bit of an Oedipus complex, don't judge him.....

On the ship he'll be mostly on watch duty, probably idly twirling his knives a lot because that's how he do. I also would like to get in on parrot gossip.....He will also fight some bandits, and be happy for the chance to do so.
Edited 2022-02-15 23:52 (UTC)
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moiraine damodred ► the wheel of time

[personal profile] cairhien 2022-02-16 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: kerry
CHARACTER: moiraine damodred
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] skitties

CHARACTER FAMILY #7 ( Jon Snow, Beitang Moran, Fox, Moiraine, Zhou Zishu )

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS? moiraine's curse is based in lust and i'd love to figure out some way she can atone! perhaps something to do with working within the religion/beliefs and refusing certain attentions/contacts? i might need some help

GENERAL PLANS: she'd be interested in investigating the drought and offering her cloud dancing talent to try and help with some rainfall even if it was only for short measures (the more she channels the more it drains her!) she will also absolutely go explore the forest. my initial thoughts for places that it could look like would be the blight (oh dear!) or maybe even a quick glimpse in the distance of the white tower?

i'd also love for her to get to know people she hasn't yet met, better get to know people she has already met and get dragged into other people's shenanigans even as strangers!
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yennefer of vengerberg | the witcher

[personal profile] violetchaos 2022-02-17 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Lily
CHARACTER: Yennefer
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] lilbeejack

CHARACTER FAMILY # 9 with Lily, Bai Mingyu and Diego. Yenn's family memories aren't very happy ones so I can see her going into this pretty passively and not caring if they can pull off or not. Sister with a Big Attitude, at your service. All in all, definitely looking forward to her getting some new CR here!

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS? Yenn has to atone for a pretty witch who made a bargain with the goddess she worshipped in exchange for the attention of several men. only there was a condition, as there usually is with these kinds of deals, in that she becomes a mantis and eats their heads after the intimacy ends.

Not sure how she'll atone for this but lots of thinking will be done on it. Taking suggestions!

She will also be getting hit with the effects of the gluttony curse, which will make her a joy to be around, let me tell you that.

GENERAL PLANS: Mostly, going with the flow right after they arrive and then her mood will steadily drop. However, in the meantime, I would like to shove her into some distractions. Particularly the main task of ending the tributes to the House of Ravens. Also investigating the drought, among other things as they come up. So, I'll be looking for CR that she can do that with.
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Sergeant Slick | The Clone Wars | Family #3

[personal profile] sergeant_slick 2022-02-17 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Spider
CHARACTER: Sergeant Slick (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] PaleAntiquarian, and Cellarspider#9984 on the disco

CHARACTER FAMILY # 3 | Eleven, Yan Zhengming, Jiang Cheng, Akira

ANCESTRAL CURSE PLANS?
A young woman of exquisite beauty and grace entertained the advances, seduction and gifts of many young men, before cruelly refusing their marriage proposals. One threatened to kill himself, if she did not concede to belong to him — she goaded him to go ahead, telling him she would rather be a queen of corpses than the wife of a miller. He proceeded.

Well, looks like making amends with at least one guy's spirit is in order. Suicide threats are still a jerk move, though, and Slick's got a Wrath curse he's going to be falling under. He may end up leaning toward some tough love for this guy, while also finding some way to denounce the woman's behavior.

GENERAL PLANS: Slick helps protect the boats heading to the Salamera by deploying the last of the mermaid baits Zenobius showed him how to make, which should keep them distracted.

While en route, he's going to be adjusting fast to life on the ship, as ships quarters are closer to what he grew up with than anything else so far. He's good for keeping watch as well, so you might find him way up in the rigging somewhere. During the storm he'll be helping secure objects and people on-deck.

Once they get to Ke-Waihu, he's going to be doing a certain amount of organizing--making sure he's met the rest of the family he's been put together with, and figuring out what supplies to stock up on, either through lawful or illicit means.

He's going to be focusing on the trafficking stuff, because that hits closest to home for him. The human sacrifice is a close second. He'll also be trying to figure out information about the local beacon, because he wants to have a backup plan here.

As stated above, Slick is going to be falling under a Wrath curse, so he's going to be getting more aggressive as time goes on. ...Which also means he's going to be increasingly pissed off at the locals for giving out these curses in the first place. This also means more rash decisions from him, both to get plot objectives done, and social moves he might make.

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