PLOT ROLLS | JUNE

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Hello, hello! The latest plot rolls are now live, linked below. They cover events between 22 June and 5 July.

As a reminder: everyone can participate, even if you didn't sign up. The recommendation is to choose one plot roll, to avoid getting overwhelmed — but no one's the boss of you.

You can make your own network posts, or play things out in the logs linked below.

NPC threads have been allocated, but threads will go up within the next few hours — you'll receive a relevant link at the time.

Feel free to use this post for all your plotting needs.

■ THE SUNKEN | LOG | Questions | Plotting

■ THE DISSENT | LOG | Questions | Plotting

■ THE CONCORD | LOG | Questions | Plotting

■ THE PRIESTS | LOG | Questions | Plotting

While much of the events overlap in terms of timeline, loosely you are looking at: the Sunken (towards the edges of the Crossing), the Concord, then the Priests (as the ships deepen their journey into the Crossing). The Dissent takes place more broadly throughout.

Comments

THE SUNKEN

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QUESTIONS

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Sebastian never saw this coming.

[inferus]

Is there anything magical item-wise that Wrath could sense within or near the Versalis? He'd be okay with checking out other areas on the way down if he sensed something potentially powerful/useful? I'd try to recruit help from someone else in the group heading down if there was anything of note to retrieve, but just wanted to know if he'd be able to sense anything nearby

CLAIM YOUR LOG PAGE

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Drop a thread link here, if you've gotten to the point where your character has rescued a page or two from the captain's log — you'll get a brief summary of their findings.

To keep this relevant, submit your threads by 3 July, and please don't forget to share your learnings after!

[inferus]

I know the deadline on this is today, but I noticed there were no logs really at that point that I could see in the post.

Eda and Wrath should be ready in like a tag or two here though. Not sure if this counts, but was hoping that some of the log, at least, could be found especially if it can illuminate some of what Wrath found below. If not, then no big deal. :)

PLOTTING

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[downswing]

I am going to try my damnedest to top level for this, but mostly I really want Wangji to punch a shark. His abilities will be woefully inadequate underwater, but his dexterity with............ killer string......... could help around coral reefs and other prickly places, if your character needs to be quite literally carved out of a trap!

Let me know if you want to do anything in particular \o/

...or just want an underwater souvenir, I guess!

[inferus]

+ Wrath will one hundred percent be making it to the Captain's Quarters of the Vernalis. He is nearly impossible to kill, and even if he does run out of air, he can easily, transvenio up to the top. Also, don't think that he needs air to survive. I'd love for another character to be with him though as they muscle open the door and investigate to find a page together.

+ He is also available to save anyone who may need saving on the descent below. The effects of the ship won't affect him. He can probably help people break out of any psychic control the ship is having over them, or any other traps that might be in their way, or mermaids. He's happy to fight those to save anyone who may need saving. He'll save anyone in the group by virtue of feeling like the whole group is his responsibility in a way... being eternal/ancient and powerful af and knowing they're all after the same ultimate goal: a return home.

+ Also, it seems like there's something magical to the root of the coral, and it would require going dangerously deeper for a few hours. Wrath could survive it, but he'd probably communicate to someone he was going down at least. They could go down too but it's more dangerous... SO if anyone else could likely survive a deeper trip, I'd be down for them going with.

I'll be putting up a top level so be sure to hit that up or let me know here if you have something specific in mind. :)

THE DISSENT

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QUESTIONS

[groundrules]

When you're a pirate, and it's time for your annual review.

[badlypoisoned]

So, if he wanted to ask a little more about this 'mysterious reward', like what is it, how do we know it's actually worth anything...is there anything he might be told? He won't push too hard but a man can't help be curious (is his excuse anyway).

PLOTTING

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[paperbutterflies]

Things Sizhui will be doing:

- Playing the guqin with calming melodies and spiritual energy to ease people down
- Attempting to tell stories which will probably be very different from anything the pirates have known.
- He might agree to some indulging the pirates, but may subtly pout his way out of something too bad.
- Try to seek out the owners of belongings left behind. It wouldn't even occur to him to loot.
- Help with the research / powering of restarting the sails because spiritual energy.

THE CONCORD

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QUESTIONS

[groundrules]

You should probably steal this ship's toiletries.

[winscenario]

I'm not sure if it will be necessary, but regarding the bottle miniature of the lifeboat that Jim got to steal collect, which contained the note "break at sea": Jim's thinking it might grow into a real-size lifeboat if he does that, would that be what happened?

PLOTTING

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THE PRIESTS

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QUESTIONS

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We don't talk about Bruno's dead things.

ASK THE DEAD

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Except we totally talk about dead things.

Ask at most two-three questions/characters of the spirit you end up parlaying with here. Please be specific.

To keep things plot timely, let's aim for last questions by end of play on 2 July.

PLOTTING

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CHARACTER VOTING; HAWK'S OFFER

[winscenario]

This is a post to gather votes on what to do regarding the offer Hawk made to the team visiting the Concord.

He offered them the chance to take up Vane's job to find the rare item, but as part of the deal he wants them to hand over Vane, and supposedly the rest of his crew as well.

Please vote below with what your character would vote for!

• One vote per character!
• Everyone encouraged to vote, even if you don't want to or don't have time to reply to Jim's network post!
• Simply reply with a '+1' on the header in response to the respective sub-comment!
• Voting open until 23:59GMT on July 12th!

YES: take Hawk's offer

[winscenario]

Add a +1 here if your character would agree to take Hawk's offer!

NO: refuse Hawk's offer

[winscenario]

Add a +1 here if your character would want to refuse Hawk's offer!

PLOTTING SUGGESTIONS

[winscenario]

Does your character have an idea on how else they could deal with this situation? Any wild plans they would suggest? Comment here and others can weigh in with more thoughts and/or a +1!