lostcompass | PLOT ROLLS

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.

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.

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Other than talking to Maximilian Hawk, Jim will watch what's happening on the ship, take notes of what he deems important, and if/when they get to a point that they have to make an escape, he'll try to go for the diving suits and the steampunk boat.

Jim also has a magical miniature lifeboat in a bottle that will turn into a real-sized lifeboat if he breaks it, so it's a nice back-up plan if they can't get on that boat or if it's sunk by the Concord.

He'll also openly take suggestions on what to tell Hawk, and what to ask him if he gets the chance.

Licyn would ruminate that they should ask Hawk about his perception of Quicksilver's plans. Beyond that, for what Hawk knows of the fate of Quicksilver's prior crew and ship. More of a jest, but also suggest making a pass at him, because that's just what you do, right, if the opportunity presents. (Plus people are chatty when they're satisfied, or at least often suggestible.)

As far as an escape route, Licyn is prepped and ready to thrown down to get them off as soon as possible, because being trapped on a ship that's even less friendly to them than their drug-addled Queen or obsession driven Pariah is a bad plan. He is, in fact, very good at the running away part.

He also suggests they take their boat and the other boat, largely to cut off small vessel pursuit. RUN AWAY EFFECTIVELY, thank you all.

Taking both boats sounds like an excellent idea, Jim supports this! And he'll take Licyn's suggestions into consideration, though he might be a little more careful with making a pass at the guy. Just because it might get a negative reaction and that won't do them any favors (though who would say no to those baby blues, look at him)

Marcos is of course here for backup, but also he's treating the entire talk with the first mate like he would a drug cartel and trying to see if he can plant a seed of cooperation to try to get a sense of their goals. He'll share anything he finds out with Jim, presumably ahead of his meeting with Maximilian and let him know he's semi-suggested what they're capable of. Do feel free to have knowledge of anything that is in the convo upthread! (Also happy to have that convo threaded at some point if you'd like to react to Marcos taking a gamble.) Unsure how it will go, but he's doing his best.

Also here for the miniature lifeboat, that's too fun not to use. Marcos has his flashlight hands, so he's got you for seeing your way out.

This may or may not have turned into a good news/bad news situation with the first mate.

Good news: Marcos got a little bit of backstory about how long this deal with Captain Vane was going on and what their beef is.
Bad news: He may have opened them up to a deal to provide them Vane for safe passage while he was fishing for what they wanted.
Okay news: He doesn't think they want to kill Vane?

So that should be fine. Zero percent stressed about it.

... I cannot stress enough how Not Okay Jim is with handing Vane over, especially when they don't have the whole picture. Not their place!!! And while he wouldn't want to throw Marcos under the bus either, he'd definitely try to do whatever it takes to stop that from happening once they got back to the pirate ships. :(

The situation kind of got away from him, aha. Marcos is very much not for handing over Vane either, because morals, but now they know his name and dammit. He's going to take responsibility for fishing around too much and be very 'okay so we have two bad options' about it.

But yes! Happy to thread out this development at any point, he's very sorry for this first impression. Faking his death is never off the table, it's gotten him out of jams before.

sfmkdlkf I need this thread now just so Jim can go ALL OF THESE PLANS ARE BAD.

Just wait until his girlfriend hears about it, he's definitely going to be on the couch.... hammock... whatever equivalent on pirate ships.

Yes good I need this too. He'll probably only tell Jim because that's very 'get you hanged' kind of talk, then go "good luck talking to the captain"?? or he can tell him afterwards, depending on how much you think it would impact his thread with him.

He was trying to help, honestly.

Sleeping on the deck, out in the wind/rain/cold. Have fun with that, buddy.

So far I don't think this knowledge would've influenced his talk with the captain, but we can leave it for after, sure! either way it's not like his chat with the captain is going GREAT, he's starting to think they were purposefully set up for failure with those gifts, sobs.

To update: the good ol' first mate gave Marcos an hour window to consult with them when he was trying to see if they had any wiggle room. He'll definitely pull Jim aside first! He needs to loudly whisper about this asap.

JUST MAYBE maybe it was a set up and you shouldn't send people you've known for days on diplomatic missions. But it's fine, they can fix this. Until they get chased off the ship, but you know, there's a tiny window where it might look like they can fix this.

Ok excellent, come share your findings and things with him!!

Meanwhile Hawk might be offering passage onto his ship for the refugees. But also Jim's just told him how many there are and that there are women among them sssssoooo who knows how he might take that.

Edited 2022-06-27 19:18 (UTC)

So they have options! Look at all the great things they're doing. Totally have this handled with just some minor complications to work out.

Excellent. I'll get something going on the side to have this very calm talk in a bit.

Slips this in.

Perfect! I'll hop right on over. :)

PLOT ROLLS | JUNE

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