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lostcompass2022-03-08 07:00 pm
groundrules) wrote in lostcompass2022-03-08 07:00 pm
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march plotting & plot rolls
Hey guys! Getting the plot show on the road, ahead of the 12-13 March update — some of the big-picture mission objectives available:
- ■ finding the babe-eating serpent woman mentioned by Taksui
■ looking into the dark well waters
■ finding out the village links to the feral Beastmaster
Beyond that...
There are three mod-assigned plot rolls/objectives available — — comment here by 23:5 GMT on 11 March to enlist your character.
You can also sign up for a RNG selected conversation with either corrupt village leader Hok-Shinn Weisi or with mysterious blind priestess Hyang-Tai, also by 23:5 GMT on 11 March. The expectation is to try to finish a thread with them by 20 March, if your character is selected — and to share findings with the group, after.
If you want to carry out your own plot or exploration, fill out the below form and try to recruit other other folks into your fun. You can ask for help or a mod roll here, if you want rewards or consequences for something characters try to do (ex: two fools try to burn a volcano. What happens? Heh. )
No ideas? Join someone else's plot!
Regarding ancestral curses — your character's atonement can be as specific or general to the curse story as you want.
Example: if your character is making amends for the wrath/indifference of a daughter-in-law who quietly suffered the nonstop criticism of her new family, until one day she snapped and took an axe to them: you could do story-specific acts of atonement, like finding the remains of the woman's family and making offerings to silence their aggrieved spirits or cleaning the last drop of blood from their decaying house, midway-specific ones like teaching new brides patience or how to cope with nagging in-laws, or more generic solutions, like promoting pacifism worldwide.
Generally, curses are just meant to prompt characters to exit their comfort zones and ice break some new CR — have fun!
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naturally people can just ignore him, push him to the side, and do as they want, but he will not accept using Five oops
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But also, options!
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however
If the doll doesn't work he can try illusions of children
and if that doesn't work he is in fact a shapeshifter, he's just trying to avoid playing that card
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You could just throw some make-up on a shorter adult too, cast an illusion, shape shift, conscript the child of a villager — the doll could work, but you risk losing or harming her, and you'll need her later.
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But Wrathion’s the one with the illusion powers. Or the shapeshifting. If he doesn’t feel comfortable giving that part of himself away, with the Beastmaster so close, then Anduin will see what he can do and find some brave street urchin volunteer. If anything happens to this kid under his watch though he will be Upset. Alternatively he could always pretend shapeshifted Wrathion was the plucky street urchin in a (poor) attempt to cover for him. Where is Wrathion himself? Never mind that.
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If that doesn't work, then we can go for the doll? Honestly Kaneki doesn't care that much about it but as a player, I'd love to see what the doll brings later on too.
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The lady-creature will definitely come, if you leave a child-presenting item/creature/doll/illusion wrapped around a living thing (I have to stress, you cannot cast the illusion on a dead/inanimate item, it needs to have a pulse) in a more desolate or unattended area.
She is roughly 4m in length, comprising a beautiful female head and a serpentine body that's effectively her hair, thickly braided around a coil that cannot be seen. Her teeth are especially sharp, and she can unhinge her jaws. She will be spitting a substance that renders people highly lethargic and weakens their vision if it hits their eyes.
Happy to NPC her for you when you thread, just drop me a link when you want her to appear! Alternatively, let me know if you just want to post about her in the background or something (aka don't need her NPCed), and I can give you some............. thrashing noises? We'll make her more interactive than that.
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I figure for speed I'd start that bit with them having tried a few things and settled on something that "might!" work. To avoid become child killers, and to avoid 'THAT CHILD IS AWFULLY LARGE' I was debating Wrathion them maybe trapping some small animal (frog? Mouse? idk) at kaneki's suggestion and casting the illusion over it so there's something alive underneath, then them all lurking out of sight to watch what happens.
At least then if she unhinges her jaw to eat this child she gets a delicious animal in a box to chew on?
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