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silent night
So long to Serthica on 5 December! Come nightfall, the sorceress Karsa abandons the party to lick the wounds of her depleted energies. Fearing a spartan winter journey might cripple Zenobius, the Merchant reluctantly agrees to a month of travel reprieve.
The party journeys six hours east by zeppelin to a forest-bound enclosure, where a minor castle has been repurposed as an inn. You are the guests of eerie noble Mistress Isakanami.
THE GROUNDS
The inn’s four wings encircle an inner court. The party shares the northern wing with Isakanami’s staff. Individual quarters include floor mattresses, oil lamps, coffers and a wall-sized wooden panel on the door, depicting a spring landscape. Salt is lined nightly on the corridors before each door.
Enjoy the kitchens, bathhouses, two training halls, meditation quarters… and the damp but generous wine cellars.
The weather is crisp, cold, perpetually given to light snowfall. Rare blizzards erupt on 10, 17 and 25 December. Stay warm!
Areas of note:
THE SPRINGS: they’re hot, but mostly they’re cold — restorative streams that slowly heal wounds. They regress but don’t completely cure deadly illnesses. Grit your chattering teeth and bear it.
THE MOUTH: a 1m-deep pit in the inner court, filled with swords and shields: some rusted, some in fine form, some dull, some sorcered. You can collect one sword.
THE WELLS: A triad of sturdy but ancient wells. Each day, you find drops of fresh blood by a different well, which is now firmly lidded.
THE LAKE: deeply frozen, its thickened ice nearly opaque. You can skate, fish, or admire the narrow shadows beneath — 2m-long creatures that occasionally ram the ice.
On 21 December, a creature breaks through, seeking to drag inn servants in. Help the staff who begins to freeze back the lake by shovelling snow in.
THE HOUSEHOLD
A gracious lot, the inn’s keepers happily coexist with several spirits. Most ghosts make minor mischief: sometimes you are locked inexplicably in your quarters, items go missing, you're joined in the springs by a polite ghost holding on to its decapitated head, and you hear the laughter of children or fireside chatter from invisible soldiers.
Attendant ghosts sometimes emerge at night to perform household duties. If you meet them, you are advised to silently nod and ignore them. Engage and you are compelled to finish their work, listen to their stories and let them sleep on your mat. You’re saved if someone sounds one of the many bells or chimes scattered on wall ropes.
Inn staff line salt nightly at your door to ward off the Salt Breaker. If you wake inexplicably or feel a blood-curdling chill after midnight, you are told to check the wooden screen on your door — if its spring landscape is now progressively changing seasons, you must silently go from room to room until you find one where the screen shows a spring painting. If you stay where the landscape shifts to winter, you drop asleep and experience a night of harrowing nightmares. Replenishing salt lines as you flee to delays the Salt Breaker.
House rules:
- ■ Earn your keep: clean the inn, replenish its magical wards, purify stream waters, attend to the other guests, cook, sew, tidy, hold tea parties, teach sports or battle skills to regular guests, heat towels, forage, keep creatures at bay — figure out a credible job or service.
■ All doors and windows magically shut at 21:00. Spend the night in the cold or the abandoned stable of the inner court, if you miss curfew.
NOTEWORTHY GUESTS
■ A small and awkward cult of twelve books the western wing yearly to spawn the world-destroying demonic boar Zulu. They’ve been faithfully laying out seeds, bulbs and nuts in creative patterns in the gardens, fasting and chanting for eight years without success. Bring them snacks… or summon Zulu.
■ A guild of seven merchants who’ve sought to ruin each other for years is ‘team building’ in the southern wing. They’ll offer you money or gifts to spy on their peers’ correspondence or cause them minor grievances — oversalt their food, deprive them of soap, cut holes in silks.
■ None friends brought a bride to party in the eastern wing before her imminent wedding. They’re loud, effusive and quick to draw you into drinking games.
THE SURROUNDINGS
Walk past the inn’s extensive grounds into dense stretches of snow-struck forests. Villagers forage for wood and timber. The inn would be grateful for the forest’s healing herbs, mushrooms and winterberries.
Careful: packs of starved direwolves swarm lone intruders, their frosted breaths briefly freezing you in place.
The night of 13 December, villagers launch a search party for a missing huntsman. A brave few wish to destroy a large direwolves’ den — look after the villagers, talk them down or help them retrieve what they fear will be the huntsman’s remains.
Some villagers trickle back on 14 December, asking shelter, warmth and medical assistance.
SISTERLY BONDS
Every few nights ( 8/19/28 December ), the ghosts of three sorcerer-sisters and their legions wage battle on the grounds. They seek their father’s dark-bladed sword, said to grant his heir glory, prosperity and power.
The sisters’ forces are reborn each battle night. They pick up weapons from the Mouth pit and drop them back, come morning. You notice they are drawn to water and reflective surfaces: they’re immobilised (and captured) if you get them to look in closely. This — or making them yield — gives you a temporary power boost that either feeds your existing abilities or that you must channel through brief bursts of elemental magic (yes, you might spit fire or your fingers might spark electricity for a few hours).
Ghost soldiers chase each other across the gardens, balconies or on the rooftops. They cannot enter uninvited and entreat you to let them in. If you broke curfew, silently hide in the deserted inner court stable to avoid getting caught in their crossfire.
The sisters offer coin, jewels or good luck blessings to those who help them defeat their rivals or find the sword.
Soldiers do not outright try to harm you and the sisters passionately plead their cause if they encounter you. Choose wisely:
- i. Saimei: the soft-spoken eldest who wants the sword to ensure world peace, but whose armies behave ruthlessly.
ii. Okutami: the cold-blooded second born, who commands assassins and thinks the sword can restore her family to glory at whatever cost.
iii. Mirasada: the chaotic youngest child whose beauty entrances her followers (and you); she only seeks the sword to vex her siblings.
This is a lighter month to tide the holidays and give characters a brief respite from their Arc duties. Those itching for action can optionally get involved with the sisters, the mystery of the wells, the Salt Breaker or the wolves — but feel free to stick to domestic tasks or bring your own fun!
■ Shout for NPC threads!
■ Check the calendar for the latest dates.
■ We’ll have a midmonth check-in, if you folks want more material. No mod-led log is planned currently, but you’re welcome to your own posts/logs!
■ QUESTIONS
We’re combining our plotting and CR meme this round, so please fill out the below and spam, baby, spam:
QUESTIONS
Yes, Santa's bringing you coal.
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MAYHEM
'Organisation,' but make it chaotic.
SWORD COLLECTION
Pitch the sword, small blade or shield you want your character to pick up from the Mouth pit. You can give it a minor magical ability, but keep it reasonable.
Only one per character — you break or lose it, them's the ropes!
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ZULU
MERCHANTS & MADNESS
DRINKING GAMES
NPC THREADS
kerry ( eve + moiraine + number one )
PREFERRED CONTACT: pm or
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: video games, scifi and magical-esque media, language learning, music, all the cool things
eve baird ► the librarians
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: being too off the market
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: security?? fend off the rabble??
GENERAL PLANS:
CR YOU WANT: eve is new so people anything! friends, people with books she can try and flick through. she's used to wild and weird even if her okayness with actual magic isn't always okay. etc etc etc give me anything
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moiraine damodred ► wheel of time
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number one ► star trek
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bluesy ( number five + marcos diaz )
PREFERRED CONTACT:
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: big into graphite portrait drawing, making graphics, photography, just learned how to crochet, only very cool hobbies
number five
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Tiny unhinged ex-time assassin due to cause another apocalypse.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: He is undatable on account of being nearly 60 in the body of a teenager. His one true love is a mannequin and his social skills are mysteriously abysmal. Not to mention he's so paranoid that he'd probably think the whole thing is a setup. YOU COULD DO BETTER.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Something something delivery something. He'll take .5 seconds out of his day to teleport towels to the springs and call it a great service if anyone asks. Looking like a kid lets him get away with so much.
GENERAL PLANS: Five is going to be dealing with a lot of unfinished business, so do feel free to come to him any time you want to see a very stressed out little guy on the verge of a breakdown. Top of the agenda is getting his memories straightened out, learning how horribly fucked his own future is (to some degree, I'm assuming!), possibly dealing with that pesky arc-one mirror curse, having Time Travel Opinions, and maybe maybe all the trouble he caused in Serthica.
I have no limit on what you'd like to throw at him, especially with plans that fell through in November, very open to anything you're interested in. (Want to summon Zulu, that sounds super cute.) Just don't leave him alone too long, that's how bad things happen.
CR YOU WANT: Positive/negative CR welcome. Serthica was a Bad Time so very interested in following up on the many many awkward encounters he experienced. As always: call him on shit, ask for for unhinged favors, share conspiracy theories, fight with him for knowing more than you, shove him off the deep end, or sympathize with the poor guy and get him a drink. He's one tiny push away from insanity at all times, so enjoy that.
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marcos diaz (eclipse)
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rose | xiao xingchen + izuminokami kanesada
PREFERRED CONTACT:
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: I stream on twitch! I try to play at least once a weekend but life happens a lot. When the Crisis Core remaster drops next week I'll probably be insufferable. I also do reactions to the MXTX books as the official English translations come out and I'll do the same when I get the 2ha book. I cry about Stray Kids occasionally as that is the only kpop group I've allowed myself to get invested in. I also talk about Touken Ranbu a fair amount because swords cool. Various other things like cdramas or Star Wars or whatever hyperfixation has grabbed hold of me.
xiao xingchen
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Blind Chinese Daoist exorcist man who has been tricked into doing some casual murder but is learning to move forward again.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE
I...I mean he IS the blind dateTHEIR JOB AT THE INN: He's going to help out with the cleaning and the warding and things like that.
GENERAL PLANS: Xingchen is flexible so he can end up wherever is needed. After getting smushed by the bear he might want to just chill but we can't always get what we want. Also it's very possible he'll get got by the Salt Breaker because I mean he can't see the dang screens. Oops.
CR YOU WANT:
- A therapist (lol)
- Friends! He always appreciates more friends. Or at least people he can cook very bland food for.
- idk flirt with him?? Not that he'll reciprocate but he's pretty, okay
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izuminokami kanesada
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beck (leonard mccoy)
PREFERRED CONTACT: PM or
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: art (digital & traditional, photography, all that jazz), skincare and cosplay 👍
bones
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Gruffly sweet Southern Belle doctoring in Deep Space, lost his ship less than a week ago, and got a four-year reprieve from EB. Now he's back
for revenge.WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: they talked shit about his captain :|
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Some form of spa & physical therapist. Time to rest and take care of yourselves, folks.
GENERAL PLANS: He was sick for a while and cut off from a lot last time, so now post-healing and canon update he's jumping in with both feet! He'll be touching base with his cr, branching out and meeting more people, treating brushes with hypothermia and doling out some Starfleet (and Risan) therapeutic remedies.
He'll probably get ensnared by a ghostie, opt to go with the team looking for the huntsman's remains, and there may be a demon pig. Like you do.
CR YOU WANT:
+ Friends!
+ Medic-y folks!
+ People to fuss over and tend to
+ idk, who wants to learn yoga?
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thea (wen qing & mo ran)
PREFERRED CONTACT: PM/
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: I'm just finishing up my second semester in grad school, so... that is about it. (also reading, skincare, uhhh... i'm not sure what else)
wen qing | the untamed
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Grumpy older sister and physician.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: Everything is wrong, small talk is boring, and she has better things to do.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Dealing with frostbite, offering massages and acupuncture and teas for those nasty coughs that develop
GENERAL PLANS: She'll get dragged into the bridal party, and otherwise be around the inn providing medical assistance where necessary. She doesn't do well with the cold, since she grew up in a castle on a lake of lava (don't ask). Ice skating is something she's never done, so expect her out on the ice sometime, likely to sprain her ankle. I was pretty quiet with her last arc, and I need to throw her back into things with more vigor.
CR YOU WANT: More people to talk to, someone to dig into her and talk about her brother/missing family.
(Who wants to summon Zulu?)
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mo ran | husky and his white cat shizun
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CJ (the Doctor)
PREFERRED CONTACT:
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: video games, animals (in my dream life I would run an animal sanctuary), cooking/baking, documentaries, music (literally all kinds)
The Doctor (Doctor Who)
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Time-and-space traveling alien bopping about the universe, occasional trouble magnet, helps where he can.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE:
Shows up an hour late claiming that he's perfectly on time because you had extra time to enjoy the karaoke without interruption so clearly he was being considerate! Helpfully suggests bizarre combinations of food. Will probably already know things about you because he went back in time & observed key moments in your life; nothing weird or boundary crossing about this at all! Says dumb things he thinks are flattering like that you've done a remarkable job pushing your hair around in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Blessing everyone with his cooking skills! (I apologize in advance, there's really no skill here, but I'll enjoy it immensely if anyone does happen to enjoy his strange concoctions. Alternately, please feel free to throw food at him in protest!)
GENERAL PLANS:
- Ice skating is top of the list, needs fun things! He's had a time of things recently
- Ghostly things, he's always curious about the ghosts
- Any kind of interaction in reaction to a meal he's made possibly?
- Helping to look for the huntsman if anyone wants to come with!
- Could be available to help with nightmares?
CR YOU WANT:
- More time and/or space travelers to bond with?
- Other parents who are separated from and have lost children? He never really talks about his family and usually avoids even confirming he was a parent/grandparent but Things have happened recently to shift this
- He latches on to people easily and wants to help/protect/bring merriment so positive CR is generally easy with him!
- I guess as a follow up to the above, I always enjoy getting to play out his protective nature and I would enjoy being able to push him a bit more on the side of some of his darker tendencies
- His lack of understanding boundaries sometimes is also always fun to play out! For instance, he is currently trying to do a bit of matchmaking and will be terrible at it because it's also the blind leading the blind. If he thinks he is helping, though, he will sometimes invade your personal space and just assume you're good with him intruding on your life. He means well...
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PREFERRED CONTACT: PM, or catch me in the discord server! If you aren't in the server but want to chat I can PM you my discord!
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: Tabletop RPGs, staring into the abyss, spending far too many hours playing Civilisation or Frostpunk, little cakes, MMOs, animals!
CHARACTER & CANON: Wrathion & Warcraft
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Black Dragon Raised By Humans Now Achieves Worst Of Both Worlds!
WHY THEY'D TANK A BLIND DATE: Casually dismisses their prospective partner's opinion, begins explaining down to them.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Replenishing wards, keeping creatures at bay, might do a little sewing if he's feeling it.
GENERAL PLANS:
Wrathion is in desperate need of a recharge after last arc, it did a number on him and as a result I'll be avoiding the Saltbreaker stuff because he needs... sleep. He hit critical levels of 'completely fine', if you know what I'm saying.
He'll be low energy at first, especially when it's very cold, but as he recharges he'll pile on some more layers and get himself going.
Considerations:
- Stirring the pot with the resident merchants. Potential to try and play them all off against each other, maybe in a competition for higher fees too? Maybe fishing for gossip?
- Might be nosy about the wells
- Potential for direwolf hunting shenanigans? That is within his skillset, in theory. Maybe direwolf fur would make a great addition to his clothing.
- Doing some crafting to wind down. If you need something fixed, it can help! Otherwise he'll be probably be putting his sewing skills to use since he's got some nice fabric from the last arc. Maybe he can make some more snow-appropriate clothing.
CR YOU WANT:
- People sharp enough to see he's withdrawn and patient enough to wait out his stubborn 'I am fine' routine, he's never had anything wrong in his life you see.
- Fellow fussy people who just really want to enjoy a good spa day. How come they had to come to a haunted hot springs inn? With night-time ghost wars? Terrible. Complain bitterly with him while combing your hair.
- People to have catty arguments with. Man has never been wrong in his life. Source: him.
- People to cattily commentate on other people with. Those shoes? With that outfit? Tch.
- People to talk shop with. He's at his strongest when trying to problem solve things, so join him at the conspiracy theory board and add some red string. Who is Pepe Silvia?! Does Pepe Silvia know the White Wanderer?!
- People to very openly address the things he thinks he is expertly hiding, like: not being human, being close to Anduin, being suspiciously intense about non-human things/magic user things and especially dragon things, being hotly abrasive about anything that sounds like Experiments. He is very subtle about all of those things, very few people if anyone at all have noticed he is sure. How did you find out?!
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eleven | dragon quest xi s
PREFERRED CONTACT: Plurk: Youkofox13; Discord: Solar #6657
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: recently became a freelance developmental editor for sci-fi/fantasy. reading and writing fanfic.
CHARACTER & CANON: Eleven | Dragon Quest XI S
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Accomplished hero of light with differing sets of overlapping memories from multiple dimensions is confused, but relieved to find himself in a world that expects nothing from him.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: basic awkward uncertainty
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Forager/Healer, occasionally pitching in to clean.
GENERAL PLANS: El will be working to establish a new norm over the first week or so, mostly foraging for food/herbs and killing dire wolves as needed. I project his previous eastbound memories will begin to solidify over the second week, so there will be some coping there into week 3 with likely more time spent healing people. By week 3, he'll likely be able to pop back and forth between the Inn and a set of forges in Sa-Hareth or Taravast
or sooner if someone else wants to transport him between places, so if characters want well-forged (though non-magical) weaponry, he'll be available~CR YOU WANT:
Generally: rekindling old cr, finding shared interests/worldviews in new CR, and maybe aggressively befriending a tsun or two.
Specifics: Sparring buddies, foraging buddy, plant buddy, healing people, fulfilling forging commissions
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Cloude | Clara Oswald
PREFERRED CONTACT: lifewasawillow#5524 and/or journal PM work!
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: Stardew Valley with my wife, aggressively reading (mostly fiction but I'm trying...to branch out to more non-fiction, suggestions welcome!), taking pictures of my cats.
CHARACTER & CANON: Clara
OswinOswaldTHEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: They do say good things come in small packages, and she's practically compact size.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: She'll get way too passionate about books she loves and the themes within, and she'll outright walk out if someone has the audacity to say 'they don't like books.' Clara's an English Lit teacher back home, she can't imagine someone not liking books.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: She'll gather herbs and such, and whatever else the Inn needs from outside. Seems chill~
GENERAL PLANS: Relaxing. I want her to have good times and make new friends + build on the friendships she's already started. I'll have one prompt for needing assistance with the direwolves, but that should be the extent of her 'action' I think. Will help the staff with the creature, and I'm tentatively thinking about having her help Mirasada.
CR YOU WANT: I really want her to have some lighthearted CR. I can easily toss her in the bathhouse, have her exploring in a non-dangerous setting, or having fun skating/snowball fighting/snowman building. She also misses books so much, so if anyone would want to be a book buddy and always on the lookout, that'd be awesome. She'd love to hear stories from people's worlds in lieu of being able to read books.
She also really loves having conversations with people, so after a lot of action, it'll be nice to just talk.
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PREFERRED CONTACT:
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: I plurk about video games and work. Things I enjoy include various nintendos (metroid, animal crossing, splatoon), elder scrolls, valve properties (portal, half-life), HZD/FW. Sometimes, occasionally, I draw a game-related thing. Please feel free to add me I love to make new game friends.
CHARACTER & CANON: Viktor, Arcane
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: magitech engineer faces down impending death and chooses science crime (info post, app)
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: probably he forgets to show up!!!
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: fixing people's broken stuff. no stuff is too dumb for this
GENERAL PLANS:
WELL he's got some people here from his own world now, and with one of them came the very thing he needs to build the thing he needs to (hopefully) cure himself. so probably he'll be focusing some of his energy on that if you want to ask why he's building a rubiks cube out of scrap metal. otherwise he'll be doing his best to not get locked outside.
CR YOU WANT:
here u go
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— a small machine to line salt at night for them lmf
— an ICE MACHINE once the lake ice ruptures
...they'll pay in. Pastries. A lot of them. An immensity. A glorious wealth of carbs.
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Kitty (Xie Yun)
PREFERRED CONTACT: PM
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: Video games, reading, and music
CHARACTER & CANON: Xie Yun, Legend of Fei
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: A smiling jack-of-all-trades with a hidden station in life and the godbrother of the third prince.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: They're already spoken for by their soulmate.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Cooking and forging
GENERAL PLANS:
- Cooking at the inn for those who want good food.
- Forging swords if the need arises
- Dealing with ghosts
- Fight where the fight is needed
- Help the search party
- Dealing with nightmares
- ( Also up for other ideas too )
CR YOU WANT:
-Positive/Negative CR
-people to cook with
-people to play music with
- Fun with anyone who forges weapons
- Talk of home/missing his wife/family
- Give the man ideas for the storytelling part of his OTHER persona.
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rose | kamala khan
PREFERRED CONTACT: Plurk - Feel free to friend! / aroseblazing#3394 on discord
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: Comics/Anime/Movies/Working out/Cooking
CHARACTER & CANON: Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel) - MCU
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Tiny fangirl turned superhero with zero attention span and a ton of love to give
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: Someone called Carol Danvers overrated.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Probably hosting those tea parties. You know her Ammi made her learn how to make chai. Her time has come!!! (No one tell her mom she knew how to do it right all along.)
GENERAL PLANS:
- Ghost shenningans. One of them can kidnap her cute, giant sloth and face her wrath forever aka help her chase down her pillow that isn't totally a stuffed animal she has to cuddle every night to sleep!!!
-Nightmares :( Aka that salt breaker plot
-Maybe the surroundings plot? As in she'll forage because being inside is boring and get herself into trouble.
CR YOU WANT: Teen friends!! Adults to look out for her!! Seriously Five wants to train her. Does anyone think that's a good idea??
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Sara | Christopher Pike
PREFERRED CONTACT: Plurk for Sure margin_oferror.
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: Music, Cosplay, going to cons, and watching entirely too much tv.
CHARACTER & CANON: Captain Christopher Pike | Star Trek
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Starfleet's Boy Scout, Captain of the Flagship, & an excellent cook as a bonus!
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: This is the man who took Hanna Flowers on a date to the Botany Lab. He's not the best at dates also he's stupidly in love with his XO but he does not acknowledge that at all.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Cook or helping with the horses.
GENERAL PLANS:
Riding horses!
Meeting new people
Drinking his way through a drinking game
Finding out more about magic & time travel
CR YOU WANT: He wants to meet more space people & anyone who loves horses.
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INTERESTS BEYOND RP: coffee, books/reading, writing the fanfics, gaming, TV, my pets, singing, dessert...
CHARACTER & CANON: Anduin Wrynn, Warcraft
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Soft priest boy inherits the throne and takes up his father's sword in the name of Peace.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: Likely because he wouldn't realistically be allowed a blind date and his professional bodyguards would have vetted your full character and life history before you even stepped foot through the door...
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Replenishing the wards, purifying the stream waters, he's a healer so he will offer his services to anyone in the group who needs healing! He's also do some activities like combat training or stretching or group meditation with other people, not sure if that counts as a job but it's up for consideration!
GENERAL PLANS: Anduin has (surprise, surprise) stretched himself a little thin, doing everything he could to rescue the last city (and the boat before, and the city before that...) He could use a little downtime to rest and recuperate himself, and he'll be spending some time in the springs to help himself relax and regenerate his energy.
THEREFORE general plans include:
-spending time in the hotsprings
-meditating
-catching up on some swordy training practice?
-walks around the lake/gentle investigation of the creatures within
-gently fussing over everyone's health (including Zenobius)
-staying warm, there have to be fireplaces here right???
CR YOU WANT:
-People who might fuss over Anduin for a change, be able to spot just how tired he is when he thinks no one is looking, force him to sit down and talk it out and/or just sit and relax with him
-People who would want to spend the day relaxing with him in general as he tries to pretend he is fine and maybe falls asleep in the hot springs
-People for him to fuss over because he will never be able to turn the fussy off
-People to meditate with or train with??
-People to try and convince him into the drinking games perhaps -- he'd maybe not join on his own but he's a people pleaser and would be easily dragged in
-People to enjoy some quiet time around the lake with him and/or help fill in the hole the of the creature trying to break free
-People to notice that he spends a lot of time with Wrathion, talking about Wrathion, shares a room with Wrathion just about everywhere they go, etc. Very Subtle. Make him talk about it: the relationship gossip option
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mutual fuss?? meditation! soft light boys. possible drinking game!
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PREFERRED CONTACT:
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: Currently deep in a TLOU-shaped hole in anticipation of the HBO show premiering next month. I also love trashy reality TV and have been making my way through the various Real Housewives franchises.
CHARACTER & CANON: Yelena Belova (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Your friendly neighborhood formerly brainwashed assassin.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: She would probably answer personal questions too honestly without sugar-coating all the trauma and violence. Oops.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Some sort of personal stylist at the spa/salon. Everyone gets intricate braids and colorful eyeliner.
GENERAL PLANS:
CR YOU WANT:
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emily | allison hargreeves
PREFERRED CONTACT:
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: TV, reading, movies, writing - I also own cats so I talk about them a lot two. They're quite precious.
CHARACTER & CANON: Allison Hargreeves | The Umbrella Academy
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Recovering narcissistic ex-actress with the power to bend the world to her wants and a penchant for getting married. With her canon bump, her buried rage is no longer so buried.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: One of her siblings would inevitably crash. Also she'd spend a lot of time talking about herself. It's not really a fun time, charming as she can be.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Probably floating between cleaning, battle training and foraging. She also might put her hairdresser skills to good use with the bachelorette party, maybe.
GENERAL PLANS: Allison is going to be recovering from a canon bump, so there's going to be a lot of the fall out from that. Otherwise, she's just going to be chilling out until she's sure she can keep her feelings in check and not start rumoring people who don't deserve it.
CR YOU WANT: Friends, people who know her brother and want to wonder how they came from the same family, people who want to commiserate with her on her sadness, I'm down for a range of options.
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fudgey | wanda maximoff
PREFERRED CONTACT: PM/ithilien#7329
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: Video games (currently playing Pokemon Scarlet and God of War... getting to Ragnarok! also please forgive my screaming about The Last of Us HBO airing soon), my dog, and hipster brunch spots.
CHARACTER & CANON: Wanda Maximoff | MCU
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Sad witch is big sad, bigger mess.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: She'd lead with how she had to kill her ex and how most people around her tend to suffer similar fates. Very charming. Pure sunshine.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Tidying and keeping creatures at bay. Someone likes to keep busy.
GENERAL PLANS:
- hang out with the ghosts
- maybe get a small blade from the mouth, but she is not good at stabbing
- check out that LAKE, someone please skate out there for moral support and she'll make sure you don't eat shit (too badly)
- those wells are spooky let's check them out, surely nothing bad will happen
CR YOU WANT: Wanda's just joined the gang so she's a new face. I'd love for her to get some good strong foundations for CR since this is a slower month and good for chatting it up :) Friends!!! Or not friends and just people to be bristly at one another works, too.
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Spider | Kahl-175
PREFERRED CONTACT: CellarSpider#9984, DM,
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: linguistics, whittling things with lots of tentacles, biological sciences, enthusiastic rambling about a revolving set of subjects on an unpredictable schedule
CHARACTER & CANON: Kahl-175
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Big cyborg lad creates an abolitionist strike force by aggressively collecting found family.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: Doesn't everyone use their helmet as a soup bowl?
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Kahl can do basic chores and teach combat stuff to others. If someone's needed on patrol, he can help on that too.
GENERAL PLANS: Kahl's priorities are getting to know people, taking a rest and doing some fishing, and checking in with his brothers. ...And probably adding new ones. He's going to adopt all of you, just give him time.
CR YOU WANT: Kahl's had a bit of a rough time since he arrived during the Unwinding, so for right now, friendly interactions are preferred. Having a bit of a rest is important before diving back into the fight, yeah?
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Jesse | Vanessa Ives & Vi
PREFERRED CONTACT:
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: Buying books I'll never read, writing things nobody else will ever read... Bothering the hell out of my bunny and my cat in any spare time. Playing vidya games.
Vanessa Ives
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Local woman yeets Satan out of her life; accidentally yeets all of her friends out, too.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: Gets caught stalking the date before they even make it to the meeting place.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Foraging for the kitchen if there's anything that isn't frozen over. Otherwise, serving whatever's cooked up at breakfast to guests.
GENERAL PLANS:
CR YOU WANT:
post canon-bump vibe:
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rakel
PREFERRED CONTACT: plurk is at whimsea, discord is also whimsea if you see me on the server!
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: long ambling walks with a dog while playing pokemon go, hikes into beautiful areas and out again without too steep of inclines because those both kill my knees and also my recovering vitality, reading, so much reading if it's fantasy or scifi, thinking about playing video games, sometimes i even actually play video games, reading
wei wuxian (the untamed)
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Local optimistic, justice-favouring man becomes necromancer, spends lives after driving all who know him to horror of various kinds.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: He'd never figure out it was a date. All flirting would be social-lubricant based.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Kite flying with the kiddos. He's also teaching them to shoot at the kites but that's you know. Something.
He'll help out in odd jobs too, or any fellow character's jobs, but if he's let near the kitchen all who are not in love with spicy food will have regrets.
GENERAL PLANS:
He's incapable of not exploring the odd goings on, he'll want to see if any spirits can be settled in the sense of "do any of them want to/are any stuck which shouldn't", he won't intentionally summon Zulu but he would definitely accidentally help that happen.
CR YOU WANT:
Investigating mysteries. While CR building!
If anyone likes him screaming, have him meet any direwolf. In fact have him meet them once, and then watch him refuse to leave the palace/resort grounds the rest of the time.
He'll take money from all the merchants to overspice their food. Equal opportunity.
He would accidentally summon Zulu. Would you?
Let's hang out with the bridal party! But have it lead to dealing with Salt Breaker.
In fact lets deal with silently moving around away from shifting images and keeping Salt Breaker from locking them in nightmares.
Also what does anyway say to a joke on cursed mistletoe, because I'm thinking Wei Wuxian's luck is such that he could end up invoking cursed mistletoe somehow. Only not even mistletoe, but conceptually another pretty looking fungal growth curse hanging from doorways. At uncomfortable hours/where you really want to get through. Anyone else amused by this?
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licyn mansbane (original character)
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PREFERRED CONTACT: PM or
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: cake, digital art, news, capybaras (but also increasingly hedgehogs)...
CHARACTER & CANON: Lan Wangji | The Untamed
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Line-faced exorcist who's never met a necromancer-shaped disaster he wouldn't drop down a ditch — ...too soon.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: accidentally sips the wine, instantly knocked out. Boom.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: water carrier and/or fetcher + I guess he can teach some folks calligraphy!
GENERAL PLANS: not the best at SoL, so will probably steer more towards the ghostly/ghastly side of things —
✘ bringing water only to find the ghosts in the spring, pls join him in "????"
✘ Guanyin help the spirit who steals his headband, this man will burn every room on his warpath
✘ Happy to dally with the Salt Breaker, if you want him bursting in your room at night, or running with him? Or hey, dash into his room, it's. Probably very cold.
✘ He'll be checking out the blood and might try removing the lid off a sealed well, if someone else wants to join!
✘ I don't think he'd ally himself with any of the sisters, because they seem Unrighteous [TM], but I'd love to have him caught out past curfew and engaging with them!
I'm starting a new job and might be a little on the surprisePikachu.jpg side of things for a few days, but happy to put up a post over the month or set up a few logs faster!
CR YOU WANT: he's been fighting his way through Arc IV, both physically and verbally, so he'd probably be drawn to settled or peaceful people for a bit. I like the idea of him learning more about the future — which, considering his time period, isn't very difficult!
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well, you can't get more peaceful than a priest boy??
long and short, i want more wangji and anduin bonding time. anduin has had a hard time of things as of late and it sounds like wangji has too? they ran into each other in the last event but they didn't do much catching up, they should!!
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Jimmy McGill | Better Call Saul
PREFERRED CONTACT: PM or
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: Movies, movie-watching challenges...all my TV shows got cancelled (lol) or ended, though I'm very slowly watching Andor. And I am (semi) liveplurking Heat 2, highly recommended.
CHARACTER & CANON: Jimmy McGill, Better Call Saul (it's him he's Saul)
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: What's the difference between a lawyer and a con artist? No really, tell him, he doesn't know.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: Spending half an hour sharing anecdotes about the making of Waterworld (which he directed).
Also he is married.
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Wow it's like you people have never heard of capitalism...does the inn want Jimmy to design billboards for them or write up waivers for all the guests to sign? No? Maybe Mistress Isakanami needs a will? Still no? Then he'll probably teach people some bullshit sport he just made up or host parlor games.
WHAT I WOULD REALLY LOVE THO is for a magically inclined person to force/ask him to run errands for them (maybe by neglecting to mention it's for magical purposes??), he currently kinda hates magic and I'd like to get him involved with it in a way that doesn't scare the shit out of him.
He's not doing anything involving tea, though. Absolutely done with tea.
GENERAL PLANS: WELL FIRST OF ALL profuse apologies to all the people I made plans with and punked out on during the last arc, IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU GUYS I ended up getting overwhelmed by the plot. (That said I do intend to keep plugging away at tags from the last event.)
With all that in mind, I'm aiming to make a month-long catchall and just kinda throw shit in there as inspiration strikes/time permits, if you comment with an idea I'll toss you a link when it's up! My December shouldn't be too busy but it's December so one never knows...
ONTO THE IDEAS (some of these are specific, some are Vibes):
- why are you guys so obsessed with swords, let me tell you about a scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark
- I'd like for a mischievous ghost to lock Jimmy + someone else in the wine cellars, WHATEVER SHALL WE DO IT'S JUST US AND ALL THIS WINE
- relatedly: trying to use the springs to cure a hangover
- he will probably spend like a week in VACATION MODE, which will p much entail: not acknowledging anything bad that's happening and insisting he's on vacation, and doing stuff for Kim 🥺 (help him do something romantic for her!!!)
- ghost stuff that won't terrify him, right now he's scared of even the IDEA of ghosts so I'd like him to uh start to get over that—potentially he could be freaked out by a (fairly) harmless ghost popping up somewhere and another char shows him how to handle it, or he could fail to ignore an attendant ghost and get locked into doing their chores/listening to them until he's rescued by another char
- he's from Chicago but it's been a while since he experienced Actual Winter, expect him to be happy about it for like two days and bitching the rest of the time...that said he's used to snow and can maybe be roped into ice skating
- Jimmy is now the proud owner of a sample case full of cogs, gears, screwdrivers, and lube (for your machine's pleasure) that he knows basically nothing about but WILL enthusiastically try to sell to people. Buy something! String him along! Be annoyed/try to teach him a goddamn thing about mechanics if you actually know about this stuff!
- I know this is light on plot stuff but I'm totally down to engage with it as long as it won't scare the shit out of him! Pitch me!
CR YOU WANT:
the dream
BUT NO I'd like to basically focus on getting to know people! That's probably the primary goal, Jimmy's very social so it doesn't take much to get him talking. (This very much includes negative/complicated CR as well as positive, I love tension and there are like 4000 reasons to distrust or sideeye him, if you need me to supply one I will be MORE THAN HAPPY TO.)
Jimmy is good at: keeping things light and cheering people up (or, well, he tries to be), scheming, salesmanship and putting on a ~show~, and empathizes pretty readily with underdogs and criminal types. He is lol bad at: emotional awareness and self-examination, physical confrontation of any kind, being straightforward, and will be knee-jerk a dick to know-it-alls, anyone who comes off as entitled or snobbish, and lmao probably magic users...sorry... He is absolutely confounded by people with unwavering principles/extremely strict codes of honor or ethics. I'm into digging into any of this!
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Illumination 𓆣 OC 𓆣 ota.
PREFERRED CONTACT: Please! You can find me at Bootknife on plurk or Bootknife#7474 on Disco.
INTERESTS BEYOND RP: On plurk, I tl;dr a lot about knitting, politics, my job (which is currently a gong show of epic proportions), tea, coffee, tea-and-coffee, trashy novels, yelling about crossword puzzles, and nonsense memes.
CHARACTER & CANON: Illumination, an OC from a tabletop homebrew.
THEIR ONE-LINE ELEVATOR PITCH: Eusocial demon(ish) being follows the Song of Hell and just wants you to know that she loves you no matter waht.
WHY THEY’D TANK A BLIND DATE: Assuming that the horns and tail aren't a problem, she is a bit of a supercilious bitch. (Sorry not sorry? It's not you, it's her and her very high standards.)
THEIR JOB AT THE INN: Illumination is pretty good at useful charms and doesn't mind getting her hands in on the more menial tasks - heating towels or working in the kitchens.
GENERAL PLANS: She's not injured and she has a very high heat tolerance, so you'd best believe she's going to bask in any hot spring she can. All the better if it has a nice sulfurous tinge. Should anyone need a hand with a fight or otherwise wrangling some creatures, that's something she'd be good at! (Provided there's a promise of hot wine for afters.)
CR YOU WANT: I have just joined, so I am all of CR that will help settle her into the world. Let's make friends! Or tolerated acquaintances.
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