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THE TITHE | ARC III FINALE
Hello, good people! It’s all about to go down with a Boom on 18 May during the log finale of Arc III.
- ■ After wrapping up Arc III, the party will enjoy a plot-light(er) ‘journey’ segment totalling four-six weeks, then head into Arc IV.
■ An out-of-character vote will go up over the next few days, so you can choose between two destination options for Arc IV.
■ Our next test drive meme takes place in early June.
For now, a brief idea of what to expect in the Arc III finale log below, so you can plot & plan your moves ahead.
Catch-up: desperate villagers are revisiting human sacrifices in hopes of swaying the Ke-Sanwon volcano’s eruption. The rites were stalled for a few years, during which a traveller’s cure for droughts was purchased with tributes collected by the undead Beastmaster. The witches of the Fetters gained their power and animal hybrids began to roam around this time. Wrath and Emilia discovered the volcano contains magical energy and tormented spirits that have been capped by a fracturing dark mirror. The group stole keys to enter the House of Ravens sacrificial temple — which now opens for the eruption.
In family drama, it emerges the Beastmaster was once married to the Huntress (formerly Anui), who offered their son to Ke-Sanwon without his father’s say. The child disappeared. Both parents hope to find him in the House. Wrathion, Daenerys and Viktor have all will be sharing juicy details by 18 May, once NPC threads wrap up.
Upcoming:
THIS HOUSE IS YOUR HOUSE
The party must infiltrate the House of Ravens overnight and wait until dawns, when the temple dais slowly opens to reveal the mouth of the volcano.
- ■ Those who enter the House are fully or partially depowered and have their ancestral curse immediately lifted.
■ In the midnight to dawns period, characters are supernaturally tempted to act on their greatest individual sin.
■ They are chased by the temple’s… unusually large defenders, if they succumb to these instincts. Good luck til dawns, folks.
LET THERE BE BLOOD
The cultists of Ke-Waicai greet dawns by exposing their first chosen sacrifice to Ke-Sanwon, showcasing exactly what happens to their ‘Chosen.’ Roughly two hundred villagers attend the rites, along with eight powerful priests who use elemental magic.
In good (?) news: seeking his missing son, the Beastmaster bring his xenomorphic creatures to attack the House of Ravens.
Characters should:
- ■ Dress up, join the crowd and free the remaining tributes during the beastly skirmish.
■ Take control of the House’s dais by defeating or killing the priests.
! Characters can remain partially or fully depowered throughout, if you prefer.
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE?
The dais remains under the party’s control as long as a character (literally) shoulders the head priest’s ancient white raven and holds its leash.
- ■ Whoever carries the raven becomes the target of the village mob and of the Beastmaster’s creatures.
■ The raven should be passed around. Defend the bird’s current holder and throw off their pursuers.
■ If the bird dies, the dais closes, and the volcano erupts. No pressure.
For those looking to stop the eruption, options include but are not limited to:
- ■ Throwing more dark water into the volcano to fix the mirror crack.
■ Using ice / cold magic and scientific processes to cool down the volcano’s warmth and help the mirror regenerate itself.
■ Exorcising some of the spirits within the volcano.
■ Absorbing some of the magical power contained by the volcano. IMPORTANTLY, this can lead to substantial or permanent effects for your character, detailed here.
■ Persuading and guiding sane villagers to bring sea water. Helpful tips: remember those cool phoenix rides and the very fast Ke-Waiar werewolves.
■ PLOT HOW TO TACKLE THE VOLCANO. You can come up with your own solution. Calming Ke-Sanwon is a huge enterprise, so the more help, the better.
THE BEASTMASTER
Group up and pitch a plan, if you want to slay the Beastmaster.
He will drive his animal to raid the House of Ravens and devolve into a fury when he does not locate his son. Grief renders him vulnerable and unpredictably violent. He is also significantly less powerful in the House of Ravens.
WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE CIVILIANS?
Beyond the House of Ravens, villagers need help safeguarding their possessions or preparing to evacuate aboard incoming ships. The gradual spread of Ke-Sanwon’s seeping magic will infect some villagers, leading to animal hybridization in the farmers’ ranks — stay safe.
Whoever stays in the villages can also coordinate water and supply deliveries with those at the House of Ravens.
The Arc III beacon will briefly open, allowing characters to head home before sadly faltering. All characters dropped or AC swept in May will be said to have safely gone home through the beacon.
COMMENT HERE if you want a canon update for your character. They will briefly go to their home world, then return when the beacon fails. Characters do not retain memories, items or powers gained in game while they are in their home worlds, but they recover them on return.
It’s an Arc finale: go BIG, and you might go home. Respond with your very own shiny plotting comment, featuring:
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CHARACTER & CANON: Anduin Wrynn | Warcraft
WHERE THEY'RE SPENDING THE FINALE: See answer below but he's probably going to be spending his time equal parts trying to help in the village and up the mountain in the House of Ravens, because he can't not try to save everyone he can
ANY PLANS: Anduin has been trying to solve the cure of the dark waters but it has thus far been a losing battle. The true fight is with the volcano itself, stopping the eruption, and he isn't certain that he can, not with the limited resources he has to hand. Anduin's focus is going to be on the villagers themselves, and the tributes. As I've said before and will save again, if he could save everyone, he would. Literally. Everyone. Pair this with the dawning of his own individual sin, which is Envy: Characters become increasingly self-aware of their own fallacies and cripplingly paranoid that they will fall short. Basically, Anduin's life is about to be super miserable!!!
He is no stranger to this awful feeling though so I'm thinking that Anduin might rally the delivery of water and supplies to the House of Ravens? And also facilitate in helping to get the tributes the hell off the mountain. Phoenix rides were suggested in the post itself and this could be fun, the flaming cavalry literally swooping in? He's ridden on gryphon's before, surely phoenixes aren't THAT much different. Right...???
NEED HELP WITH ANYTHING? As stated above I'm thinking of having Anduin organize water transport/tribute rescue, possibly with phoenix riding thrown into the mix for some extra heroics. He'd be happy to have help with this and/or help get people up the mountain fast?
ALSO when all of this seems under control, he'd probably start herding people to safety on the ships, Just In Case. Likely with some sort of escape plan for them to get Zenobius out of there as well, just in case the whole thing goes to pot.
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Happy to lend you Wangji if you need a path cleared for phoenix landing for your water deliveries? He's staying at the House of Ravens, so he can try to protect while the couriers go in/out, if he's not... doing something else... or wailing by the volcano's rim ig
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apparently he is even getting the offer of a DRAGON which is even more superior (at least in his mind, though he may be biased HAHA)
he's gonna need EXTRA landing room for his dragon landing, bonus that wangji would know said dragon is wrathion 👀 help him gather as many tributes as he can and/or help him convince them that he and the dragon really ARE here to help??
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he's gonna bring water on the way in but might as well shuttle the tributes on the way OUT, since if they need to get more water they'd need to leave anyway!
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Also please blast any beastmaster minions that think about flying close? Nobody wants that.
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these are not the circumstances that anduin had IMAGINED when wrathion had offered to take him on a flight, Back In The Day. BUT!!! the fact that wrathion is offering to help in such a way, and what a BIG HELP it is too, it would mean a lot to him!! ;;
anduin would 100% do his part, keeping the kids safe, keeping wrathion safe, maybe they could fly with others who are on phoenixes if anduin manages to get anyone else together to help with this, a+ this is a great idea i love it
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anduin has been the king during a war or two but he's had yk, people helping him during that time. he's never had to organize people without having his advisors there to assist, and yk. ADVISE HAHA
he's super appreciate that ;;
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also please assume that hermione with lend a hand to all of Anduin's ideas, but also add in there that she will try to steal some more cure from Sairen and then name Anduin as the best candidate to distribute it fairly among the farmers
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I HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP calling him bestie and then her faith in him to be able to distribute the cure ;; THIS IS exactly what will come up with the envy curse, making him think he isn't good enough
(he doesn't think he is good enough, it isn't just the curse doing this to him...)
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