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arc iv: serthica

Hello, hello! Get your goggles on and take a gaze upon Arc IV: Serthica, which kicks off ICly through our 13 August arrival event.

■ The LOCATIONS page now includes the Arc setup and site descriptions for Serthica citadel halves Eidris and Minaras, along with Neutral Zones and the Mouse House underworld.

! Necromancers and the spiritually sensitive cannot sense any spirits or dead things in Serthica, even from fresh corpses.

■ Check out TEAM & LOCATION ASSIGNMENTS. To confirm: characters can still cross over into the ‘opposing’ citadel half or meet on neutral ground — just be discreet.

■ You’ll spot characters have also been assigned false identities and roles in Serthica. They inherit them alongside forged identification papers and are publicly expected to uphold them. No worry: they can be very terrible at their jobs. The roles give characters a personalised local advantage and easier access to certain locations or citizens for information gathering. If there is anything about your character's role you are OOCly uncomfortable playing out, get in touch and we can chat about re-assignment.

■ The Arc IV NPC inbox is now live. You can hit up an available NPC at any point over the Arc’s duration. A grateful Quicksilver Sam has been accepted into the fold, courtesy of our latest vote and/or bleeding hearts.

You’ll get full details of the upcoming three-week event in the 13 August log write-up, but a loose sketch of what to expect:

■ Joyful arrival in Serthica, just in time for yet another Eidris-Minaras commemorative peace summit in the Neutral Zone. The Mouse House team will meet their colleagues there.

Note: no weapons or magical artefacts are allowed in the Neutral Zone. Those who don’t surrender their weapons cannot attend the summit — this is sadly non-negotiable with the locals. If your character can't compromise, they can head to their citadel half.

■ An inevitable assassination attempt against the Minaras officials assembled at the summit. That includes any Minaras PC character representatives.

■ Characters settling into their assigned roles and citadel halves — some barracks and minimal accommodations will be available, but best if they group up fir their own living arrangements ( 2-4 characters per unit).

■ Eidris: a dragon clutch is born, to simultaneous local horror and celebration. No animal or dragon death!

■ Minaras: civic indoctrination sessions, droid acquaintances and close surveillance.

■ ...probably tech errors and/or typos, the log does goes up on the 13th.

If you want to plot & plan, fill out...

QUESTIONS

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...like clockwork!

You're going to get much more information on the event in the write-up, so probably best to focus on any setup or premise questions, for now.

If there's anything you'd find OOCly uncomfortable to play out about your character's assigned role, drop a line here, and we can try to craft them a new one.

PLAYER: Juu
PREFERRED CONTACT:

vilani
CHARACTER & CANON: Ken Kaneki, Tokyo Ghoul

THEIR SERTHICA LOCATION ASSIGNMENT: Minaras

THEIR ROLE IN SERTHICA: Morgue assistant

LIVING/PAIRING ARRANGEMENTS? None so far, but absolutely would love for Ken to live with someone! He has a haunted doll that follows him around nonstop, and he is the keeper of the beating heart (one of the body parts the party carries). He is also a cannibal (and has publicly admitted to be so). If someone wants to feel super uncomfortable, or have an excuse to meet him, or ANY sort of cr (both positive AND negative) I can make him live with your character for sure (=

WILL THEY HAVE A DRAGON/DROID? DESCRIBE THEM: Nope, Kaneki is far too paranoid to allow a robot to follow him around.

ANY LOOSE PLANS:
- Kaneki will be consuming corpses from the morgue, anyone is more than welcome to bring this up
- He is now more attached to the cursed doll y e a h LOOK HE IS VERY LONELY
- he will be exploring the Mouse House and try to hang around the Neutral Zone
- super open for mundane stuff! assignments related, or watching the sky!!! whales!! and, when he visits Eidris, of course he is gonna ride a dragon

PLAYER: ruxi
PREFERRED CONTACT: PM | exar
CHARACTER & CANON: Lan Wangji | The Untamed

THEIR SERTHICA LOCATION ASSIGNMENT: Minaras, whose night life will be especially challenging for the man with a 9pm curfew.

THEIR ROLE IN SERTHICA: world's first sky-ignorant astronomer. Please someone else do sky charts for him, we don't want him accidentally sending shops to doom.

LIVING/PAIRING ARRANGEMENTS? nothing as of yet, but he'll seek out something quiet — if you don't mind living with an eerily tranquil gentleman ~~prone to occasional murder~~, hit him up. Just... know there might be... a few... rules.

WILL THEY HAVE A DRAGON/DROID? DESCRIBE THEM: A highly affectionate droid ~~husband~~ butler that reaches just past the level of his knee, who keeps trailing after him and grooming his robes.

ANY LOOSE PLANS:

✘ The inability to feel any spirits is going to majorly freak him out, so he might want a buddy in Eidris to doublecheck if they're getting the same vibe. He might also hit up the Neutral Zone fora stroll to conduct the same test.

✘ Why are there assassination attempts everywhere??? Why is the government of Minaras so loathed and/or inept everyone wants to off them?

✘ Getting background information on the root of the Eidris-Minaras conflict

✘ ...gently disappointing his droid. Might try to foist it on someone? Hello, is anyone looking for an extra droid......................

✘ Finding and sneaking to see his family :( Please smuggle him into Eidris, he will pay in longing sighs.

give me a fourth son, toshi has spare names still.

..............WILL YOU LOOK WELL AFTER THIS FOURTH SON

And not punish him when he inevitably tries to run away to dad...........

PLAYER: morgan
PREFERRED CONTACT:

undecipher
CHARACTER & CANON: Hijikata Toshizou | Hakuouki

THEIR SERTHICA LOCATION ASSIGNMENT: minaras, thank fuck. he has a serious sunlight allergy no one needs to see.

THEIR ROLE IN SERTHICA: droid socialiser. this man who has barely lived past the invention of muskets. no matter, he accepts his strange metal sons even if he doesn't understand them. and at least he's not in danger of eating them! unlike his roommate.

LIVING/PAIRING ARRANGEMENTS? speaking of, izumi, how do you feel about being a midnight snack? shinsengumi have to stick together so there's no opt out here.

WILL THEY HAVE A DRAGON/DROID? DESCRIBE THEM: he has THREE he is training to act like his dead friends, a healthy and well-adjusted hobby for a man to have. please meet heisuke, sano, and shinpachi. they're all different flavors of idiots, but they're doing their best. one is noticeably shorter than the other two.

ANY LOOSE PLANS:

- he's overdue to eat someone (again) please volunteer

- constant low grade migraine due to okita souji being in the other faction, he will conscript people in eidris to keep an eye on his shitty little brother. he will pay in... something. we can negotiate.

- would you like to fall in love with a handsome, furious, emotionally constipated samurai? form a fanclub? write him letters? if any of this is appealing or hilarious to you, please reach out.

CHARACTER & CANON: jiang cheng | the untamed

THEIR SERTHICA LOCATION ASSIGNMENT: eidris

THEIR ROLE IN SERTHICA: hired chaperone, god help us all

LIVING/PAIRING ARRANGEMENTS? none yet, who wants to room with a surly, cranky, extremely contrary man whose primary weapon is a whip?

WILL THEY HAVE A DRAGON/DROID? DESCRIBE THEM: what is a dragon but a big scaly dog? jiang cheng wants one, and he will baby it and give it a cute name and defend it with his life.

ANY LOOSE PLANS:

- complain several days about women being impossible and men being pigs

- be just the absolute worst at his job, bottom of the barrel, could not be more ill-suited

- maybe give him 1 friend, as a treat

yes, he will name that one chizuru, who definitely isn't his canon love interest but is a normal thing to name a droid that keeps abandoning you.

PLAYER: vi
PREFERRED CONTACT: PM +

moonstones
CHARACTER & CANON: Emilia di Carlo from the Kingdom of the Wicked series

THEIR SERTHICA LOCATION ASSIGNMENT: Eidris

THEIR ROLE IN SERTHICA: an opiate ring leader lmao

The good news is she is plant mom so she knows all the things and can quickly learn what she doesn't, and will be trying to gather as much ingredients as possible for her/the group's benefit. Bless Lily Evans for giving her a bag with an extension charm, she carries it everywhere.

The bad news is on principle she'd refuse to worsen Mouse House's deplorable conditions so I might need to think of clever ways for her to keep 'expanding' her empire within Eidris while not compromising her principles but we'll see.

LIVING/PAIRING ARRANGEMENTS? none as of yet, but anyone who does want to/ends up living with her will be incredibly well fed and surrounded by herbs/flowers. Her family owned a small Sicilian trattoria and she's cooked her whole life.

WILL THEY HAVE A DRAGON/DROID? DESCRIBE THEM: The goal is definitely to have them end up with a bonded dragon. She is kind of a dragon herself and can breathe fire if she wants to lmao. I want the dragon to remind Emilia of her war horse Tanzie, so maybe something starlight-y like this once she gets past the smaller white dragons?

ANY LOOSE PLANS: ☾ All the exploration. All of it. Including the Neutral Zone and all the markets. Learning the ins and outs of every location she arrives in is always part of her plans.

☾ Learning about the conflict between Eidris/Minara, learning any info she can find on beacons, prior locations and undead beings, etc. Snooping and scheming will be the name of the game.

☾ I love inbox-ing so for those who are in Minaras, that'll have to happen aside from secret gatherings, of course. She'll miss y'all...

☾ Find somewhere she can start making her own garden/work base.

☾ For her assistance with the volcano, Emilia was given an amulet that makes her more susceptible to spirits. So she might use that to help explore wtf is up with the lack of them?

☾ I'm just excited and here for it all tbh

Since both sides believe the other is non-human, does that mean that visibly non-human characters would be advised to hide those traits? (IE would Spock be advised to continue hiding his ears?) Thanks!

It's a boy bot —

You know what, yes, okay, TREAT THE BOT WELL, Lan Wangji will be the distant father who is elegant, smooth and impressive when he only pops in once in a blue moon with road gifts

...so like he raised Sizhui, effectively

Nope, the ears are fine!

chizuru crossdresses it's close enough

Thank you for adopting robot son, Toshi, you will be remembered as a legend, a king and a scholar

Wangji will donate you some money

The second he has any.

...Jiang Cheng, pls don't destroy someone's true love, just keep an ear out among the rich people, be subtle —

We're screwed.

Excellent ty! He's just a pointy human don't worry, guys. :>

Okay, but hear me out — make vitamins.

PS: come to the Neutral Zone with Wangji, he brings idk, gifts.

You don't mess with the cog man.

omg yes vitamins i love it

AND YEAH I WAS JUST about to reply to you bc i'm feeling that option so hard. would also still kind of love if they could (if it doesn't make sense right now) at some point do their hybrid ablution. It'd be so good/give them a greater glimpse of each other's workings.