march plotting & plot rolls

[groundrules]

PLOT & ROLL

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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...

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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.


PLAYER PLOTS

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. )

<b><Small>PLAYER NAME</small>:</b> <b><Small>BEST CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><Small>CHARACTER</small>:</b> <b><Small>PLOT IDEA</small>:</b> big or small, short or long term - anything goes, just be specific! <b><Small>WHO/WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN</small>:</b> weapons, accomplices...

No ideas? Join someone else's plot!

ANCESTRAL CURSES

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!

QUESTIONS

Comments

[chosenbylight]

OKAY I am assuming we will be threading this out but just as a heads up, Anduin is a monster sympathizer (glances aside at his dragon friend and the corpse-eater he's teamed up with) so he will definitely not want to start throwing punches right away himself. Assuming the lure doesn't make her angry, he'd definitely want to see if they could try to communicate with her in some way and figure out whether she did take the children because at that point he's leaning towards her being a victim in this herself.

[groundrules]

Right, understood. I can't predict how threads will go, unfortunately, and she is feral — hence letting you folks know what to expect upfront if things get violent, so you can make a choice on whether to engage in that way or not, if it comes to it .o/

[blackscales]

Okay, so, if it works for you I'm gonna stick up a log, with an in medias res bit for us variously throwing ourselves in wells and discussing conspiracy theories, and another in medias res bit where we try to make friends with a snake lady and probably eat consequences for you!

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?

[groundrules]

Hey guys — yes, sure, that works. Get the frog out.