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alem | stage ii
Onwards to Stage II of the Siege of Alem, lasting until 4 March. There is no mod-led log this round, but you can plot, plan and make your own! A final Arc event will follow next month.
Characters can get involved in any scenario, no matter their formal assignments. Click the headers for details!
Siege-struck Alem suffers ongoing losses at Rathakku’s far-reaching claws. Several watch towers succumb, as the dragon Irenia grows more brazen. King Deimar has successfully covered up the explosion authored by the Clawed Stephen Strange, but war fatigue and isolationism fuel Alem’s distrust against foreigners. Expect fewer answers, counsel, supplies or resting quarters. A refugee caravan prepares to depart through the mines, stewarded by Prince Haiva — who needs help to heal. Hell froths, while paladins speak of sacrifice to contain it.
The Reaper strikes again.
- ■ SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS: increasingly restricted to decaying corners of the Keep barracks or the Watch towers.
■ ARSENAL: serviceable weapons or clothes ‘passed on’ from war casualties. You may produce your own weapons in the underground Forges, where Jinx and Stephaniviem are stationed.
■ FOOD: scarcer, with locals less prone to share meals. Collect gems from the creature-infiltrated mines to purchase supplies from traders. Forage or hunt, but beware Rathakku’s forest demons. Jimmy McGill and Nacho have made strong inroads with merchants Batthour and Eles.
■ Rathakku Claws once more between 25-28 February — necromancers, the dead and those sensitive to life and death may optionally become his conscripts. Clawing so soon leaves Rathakku exposed over 1-2 March, when necromancers and those with life/death sorcery can Claw back some of his demonic army. Check in for Clawing (back)!!
THE WATCH TOWERS
The battered Northern Watch Tower collapses after a concerted catapult offensive on 20 February — rescue civilians from the grounds. The Western Tower catches fire on 22 February, burning the main defence posts down. Extinguish the blaze before it spreads to the granaries, imperilling Alem’s scant resources.
- ■ Kamala Khan, Wanda Maximoff, Merrin and Jiang Cheng are moved from the fallen Northern Tower to help Jinx, Vi, Hermione and Chu Wanning on the Eastern Tower. Their medics are Anduin and Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy.
■ Eleven, Xie Yun, Kahl and Eda are re-assigned from the Western Tower to join Jon Snow, Stephen Strange and Red on the Southern Tower. Their medics are Sarah Bishop and Wen Qing.
■ Both towers face the same threats from carnivorous harpies and the repositioned catapults. Characters are forced to rest in the Keep after six-eight hours of battle.
■ The humanoid harpies frequently fly off with soldiers — including NPC Kerrastone (do grab him!). The creatures now dip their razor-sharp claws into a poison that stalls blood coagulation, leading to persistent blood loss if you are wounded.
■ Catapults shoot hard stone and projectiles enveloped in wildfire, which can be put out with great difficulty.
■ Appeal to former regent Thyvault for help and reinforcement.
’FROST SCOURGE’ IRENIA
Emboldened, the dragon Irenia seeks to make her mark.
- ■ The gargantuan, ancient and undead dragon slowly but regularly descends on Tower remnants and the Keep’s rooftop, breathing her withering frost onto fortress grounds.
■ Her cold breath can freeze, paralyze or induce gangrene. Warm yourself immediately.
■ Several merchants withdraw, for fear of Irenia — raising the odds of Alem’s imminent starvation.
■ Irenia’s thickened hide and strong scales defend her greatly. It is unclear if her age has lessened her sight and hearing. You could try to take over catapults or manipulate harpies to attack her.
■ Alternatively, Wei Wuxian learned Irenia once belonged to undead lord Anurr, and physical distance from Rathakku can remove her from his thrall.
■ Plan and vote a solution to rein in Irenia, until 20 February.
PRINCE HAIVA
Bones, Sarah Bishop, Anduin and Wen Qing find Prince Haiva is convalescing in all ways except his walk. He stumbles, as if his bones are broken. No defect is present.
Haiva complains that every other step feels as if he walks on blades. On inspection, the soles of his feet show thin scars from numerous fast-healing cuts. Something sharp-edged occasionally glistens golden on his ankles or calves, like a brief protrusion.
If questioned, locals share that Alem residents suffered similar hurts in the fortress’ distant past. They soothed their symptoms with tea of maiden’s veil — a rare, fragile winter flower native to the mountain forests.
- ■ Look for maiden’s veil in the Kamalka river — deep in the frozen forests that border Alem.
■ Take care: the forests brim with Rathakku’s creatures, from eye-gauging possessed vultures and ferocious wolves, to undead huntsmen and four-armed ‘patchworks’ — who steal your reflection, memories or abilities if you touch their magical seals, buried beneath snow. They collect these items in baubles that they offer to trade… if you agree to betray or kill your companions for them. Steal back and break the baubles to reclaim what was lost.
■ Maiden’s veil flowers can be found at the bottom of the partly iced Kamalka river. Look into the waters, and you may glimpse a beautiful dark-haired woman with golden eyes. Or perhaps you plunge in to get the flowers, only to spot her silhouette briefly beside you. Seen, she mouths, No and gestures for you not to collect the flowers, seeming distressed or angered. She disappears thereafter.
■ Link your threads if you rescue flowers for Haiva.
THE CARAVAN
Alem expedites evacuation efforts, amid disaster. A caravan of small supply carts and 1,500 of the fortress’ most vulnerable will exit the mountain through mine routes on 24 February. They comprise children, women, elders and the sick, alongside hastily trained militia.
- ■ Help with transport, defence and scouting, as the convoy traverses the stifling mine corridors and overground mountain paths. Don’t let blood paths that mysteriously appear on the mountain derail you during snow storms…
■ The underground outskirts have been invaded by Cold-Hearts — large ice creatures that frequently hide among the icicles of the glacier lake caves. They plunge to crush you or run off with children (or passably small adults), whom they wish to raise as their own.
■ As the convoy journeys through the mountain’s frozen forests, you may encounter undead huntsmen and night weepers — beautiful wo/men of silvered eyes and cold touch, who say they are lost members of previous caravans.
■ Alem residents urge you not to speak to the night weepers. If you engage them, they slowly thrall you to leave the caravan and join their cold bonfire in the forest. Every watcher sees the faces of their loved ones in the flames, speaking to them.
■ The longer you sit by this fire, the more hopelessness overwhelms you. You are saved if someone discreetly persuades you to leave without alerting the equally captivated night weepers.
■ Abandon the convoy when it reaches the foot of the mountain to meet Deimar’s waiting soldiers.
HELLSCAPE
Paladins and sorcerers have been working arduously to bolster wards in the underground Room of Seals that lids the entryway to hell. You overhear their growing frustrations: the war’s death and carnage have fed the hell’s mouth, which gapes wider.
- ■ Some paladins murmur about the first sealing of hell, when hundreds of their Order committed ritual sacrifice. Thyvault favours the practice. Lady Galatea objects.
■ Inevitably, paladin forces dwindle, and the Room of Seals is increasingly less guarded. Enter it discreetly — and find a vast quarter, dimly lit by thin wall-hanged torches and dying braziers. It resembles a cross between a demonic jailhouse, a lost world and a desecrated corridor.
■ Runes have been scrawled in cinnabar on walls and floors. Paper talismans and chains litter the surroundings.
■ There are numerous cracks and deep fissures in the Room, exuding thick, liquid smoke. Here, the invasive voices that haunt the Gut’s Bind deepen and multiply, screaming out in agony — some begging ‘sanctuary’. Agree to give it, and the spirit of one of the previously sacrificed Paladins — now feral, animalistic, afraid — joins you in your body for a day, pushing you to seek out whatever once gave the Paladin comfort: prayer, drink, their dead lover, war. You are likeliest to be possessed by a Paladin whose life story somewhat resembles yours, if only you had taken a turn for the worse/better. Link threads of appeasing paladin ghosts by 28 February for one... hell... of a clue.
■ To accelerate the slow restitching of the Room’s cracks, paper talismans instruct you to redraw a specific rune in cinnabar, donating it energy. Hell is greedy: the unmagical find their physical strength depleted, bodies thinned and their hair temporarily white. Those with supernatural powers feel them briefly consumed. Effects progressively disappear over 1-5 days.
■ A deeper, ravine-like rift sunders the Room. Kneel down to peer in, and you might see there are steps beneath the floor, which cannot yet be accessed, but are stained by familiar, deathly black water. Now and then, entirely black eyes stare back, before fading.
■ If you are caught in the Room, Galatea casts temporary magical brands shaped like fleur de lis on your wrists, which ease your temper and keep you docile. For their protection, they also compel others to avoid you: the more they care for you, the farther they flee. The brands do not affect their feelings, and the flight compulsion lasts up to three days.
■ On exiting the Room, your powers and energy levels fluctuate for 1-3 days, while your energy feels corrupted to those sensitive to life and death.
KILLER, KILLER, AND NO MIRROR
Another young man is found dead in the Wards on the night of 26 February, his cooling body holding open a doorway to a previously camouflaged stairwell corridor.
- ■ The victim is Vataz, son to Thyvault and cousin to Deimar. Like previous victims, he shows no signs of wounding or sickness. A white string binds his right wrist.
■ A distraught Thyvault storms in to collect the body. He takes his anger out on Prince Haiva, patron of the Wards and the first royal on premise — cursing him and his family for “what they have allowed to happen” and threatening to abandon Alem.
■ Deimar later speaks privately with his uncle — by all accounts, a heated exchange. Deimar walks away with deep bruises. Thyvault stays in Alem.
■ Vataz’s body is placed in the ancient royal crypt — pretend to be an embalmer, or slip by the guards after they’ve drunk heavily in Vataz’s honour. Those sensitive to life forces can sense the sheer nothingness in Vataz’s body — as if his life force has been entirely consumed, or never existed.
■ Alem courtiers can share that Vataz served honourably as a Paladin of Alem. He took no lover, abided no distractions and reportedly assisted his father Thyvault in repeatedly cleansing the forests of demons and Alem of vicious sirens. He survived encountering Rathakku in battle.
■ The stairwell leads to the glacier lake caves in the Gut’s Bind. Reaching the fourth lake, you find the beached corpse of the monstrous creature that previously guarded the waters. Like Vataz, it lacks any signs of life. Magic can be sensed in the lake — the shoreline is tainted with droplets of dark water.
PLOTTING & PLANNING
Get your CR ball rolling and plans in place by filling out the below and tagging around hellishly:
QUESTIONS
The 'world domination' phase is so last season, new generation of death lords says.
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So. Licyn slipping in to visit Vataz's body. Is there any scent he'd pick up on that was different from a. normal ones for Vataz or b. anything related to body preservation should anything be used?
Look if you gave him Vataz to sleep with it's only fair he also has the worst reasons to know exactly how someone should smell when he's coming to give a sort of farewell and "... admittedly, not better you than me, but I'm sure glad to still be living."
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Is there any way he could experiment with this for Irenia? Try to make something that slows Rathakku's influence, so if (if, plan still tbd, and obviously depends on Irenia not being a Murder Babe who wants to kill them all regardless) they move her away it takes more effort to re-claw her? Just buys her time to move off out of range, and to blast the undead lord in the face I guess on the way out. I imagine he'd have to experiment on fellow characters first, since Irenia is harder to wrangle, but we can easily also say it's a one-shot thing so he has no time to make spares for fellow characters. On a deadline! Big dragon is the WMD they need to mitigate first!
He has less example of Anurr's influence, so I am not sure he can manage that. But he has one undead lord in front of him, so one problem at a time?
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After towers start to fall on the 20th, Vanessa will be consistently trying to cast alternating compulsion and death hexes on Rathakku himself. She'll amp it up more when she gains some blood from the local gods/magic creatures in the group for a catalyst (going to thread some of that out), and the hair Jon Snow got her will be used for a fetish/voodoo doll to theoretically strengthen her 'control' for her Super Heavy spellcasting on the 2nd.
Obviously he is the Big Bad so I expect her to fail and I'm fine with that, but I feel like I should still put this somewhere so you know she is giving it the old college try.
Would he even notice? Or would there be any psychic backlash?
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MACRO & NPC PLOTTING
The catapult's calling the shots.
FOLLOW-UP NOTES
A couple of notes following up on plotlines explored by some characters...
EMILIA & CAITLYN
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CLAWING
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IRENIA OUTCOME
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THREAD TABS
HAIVA'S FLOWERS
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APPEASE A GHOST OR TEN
RATHAKKU CONSCRIPTION
LIA
CONTACT INFO:
YELENA
GENERAL PLANS:
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CONTACT INFO: PM works quickest! Alternatively,
CHARACTER | CANON: Lan Wangji | The Untamed
GENERAL PLANS:
Happy to do an open log with him and some starters later in the week!
■ I'd also love for him to run into patchworks, they're creepy critters — still a little torn between having him go feral after them if they steal his headband, or lost and unmoored if they capture his memories. Also here if your character's the one getting thieved!
■ Rescuing flowers for Haiva. Let's drown in a cold river with a weird lady, y'all.
■ ...shamelessly entering Vataz' funerary quarter, but might need someone more, er, diplomatic or artfully deceitful to sneak him in.
■ He's not donating a lick of energy to actual hell, but can help 'diagnose' your corruption/bad-bad energy vibes, if you do. You know, from a safe fleur-de-lis distance.
■ He still needs to kidnap Cle-Florens and get her out of this dodge, very keen for accomplices, pls submit your wonderful and/or terrible ideas at earliest opportunity.
CAN HELP WITH:
■ Helping communicate with Paladin ghosts, if someone's possessed and can't speak spirit. He can also guide people through appeasing the dead, but might... silently judge the deeds performed.
■ ...keeping tabs of and reining in any dead Clawed back, if anyone proceeds with that — he'll hate it but oh well.
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...well ok like, maybe "wants to" is a little strong? He's willing to, anyway. Let's go.
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CONTACT INFO: candycigarettes on plurk
CHARACTER | CANON: Nacho Varga | Better Call Saul
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crazy physicality you sayCalmer times conversation? Also, she's technically died but not in a way that would get her Clawed, so they could definitely talk about that.
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CHARACTER | CANON: Anduin Wrynn | Warcraft
GENERAL PLANS:
-The Northern Watch Tower is collapsing (hopefully not while he is on it, although he CAN do spells to help people not fall to their deaths!) so he's going to be very disheartened about this. HE TRIED... He'll want to help rescue the people on the ground, which may or may not be the best idea...
-His work with healing Haiva hasn't gone all that well, so when given a new potential lead he'll want to follow up on it and search for the maiden's veil. Does that sound safe? Absolutely not, and he PROBABLY shouldn't go alone... Please help him :c
-Helping with the Caravan is also Very Important to him, and it's possible that he should not go with the caravan itself out through the mountain mine routes, given he is a valuable asset as a healer to the rest of the camp. But also this is too important to him that he might not care what he should and should not do... MAYBE get caught up with the night weepers/wind up seated at their fire, but also I want this to be a win for him HE NEEDS ONE...
-He can't help but poke his nose where it doesn't necessarily belong and that includes into the mystery of The Reaper. Anduin can 100% visit the body for prayers or something and sense the Nothingness in him (the Void...?)
CAN HELP WITH:
-Healing! He is very good at it and this is his moment to shine! Did you almost get killed by a dragon? Tossed off a tower? He's your guy
-DESPITE being a healer guy he's also a fighty guy too and he can help play support along the Caravan route or in the forest against Rathakku's creatures
-Investigating/bouncing ideas! He's smart and nosy and likes to collect information
-Also possibly he can FIGHT BACK against Rathakku bc the Light is technically Life Magic, and he is technically a necromancer, so there is a possibility he can do this as well??? HOW MANY THINGS TO DO, WHICH THINGS TO DO??? Decisions, decisions.
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CONTACT INFO: DM or discord @ lifewasawillow#5524
CHARACTER | CANON: Doctor Who
GENERAL PLANS:
• Until they hit the road, she'll be doing everything she can to get food to any kids who need it.
• Will be going to get some maiden's veil - partner up for later trade torture?
• Will eventually yeet herself into the water to get the plant, so someone should keep her warm, y'know? She's small, loses body heat fast.
• Ultimately, Clara's gonna go with the caravan because there are kids involved. • I want her to get snatched up while trying to get the kids to safety. Not to be crushed. But because she's been mistaken for a child lmf someone please get her.
CAN HELP WITH:
• continued snatching things from the merchants but now with higher stakes!
• will help get you out of your ~thrall, possibly by emotional manipulation? this is obviously open to change, it was just the one thing that popped into my head.
• congrats, you're possessed! mistaken identity hijinks?
• taking care of you while you're weak?
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CONTACT INFO: PM, or ping me on Discord!
CHARACTER | CANON: Wrathion | Warcraft
GENERAL PLANS:
- Probably assisting with some form of the Irenia plan, warily. He probably wouldn't push to lead any form of the plan, as it isn't his assigned job and he feels too close to the topic to lack bias, but he would absolutely not be able to ignore the situation so he'll be involved and slide into anyone else's plans.
- He can still make Slow-Fall trinkets for anyone at risk of falling off a tower, if anyone new needs one. IC Post if you need a reason to know to ask him. Counts for anyone who wants to be involved in tower shenanigans but isn't assigned there too, obviously.
- Looking into the Haiva situation. He has a theory this is connected to something to do with the rumours of a siren, but it's all pure conjecture based on the Feet situation and sirens not having feet where he's from (scales, you see? Maybe the sharp shiny things are scales? There was a scaled creature in the lake?)
- Trying to understand the Thyvault -- Deimar -- Haiva Family Drama, as he suspects there's bits they don't know
CAN HELP WITH:
- Dragon Advisory
- Enchanting things or enacting magical orientated plans
- Crafting
- Plans that involve 'acting' (lying/impersonation)
- Has had contact with Mysterious Black Water before, so could confirm that and stuff related to it for any characters that have not.
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CONTACT INFO: sprucemoose#7026 or PM
CHARACTER | CANON: Caitlyn Kiramman | Arcane
GENERAL PLANS:
» Getting dunked lmao. Look, getting kidnapped and maybe almost human-sacrificed to some sort of lake monster is an Important Clue, let's focus on that and not worry about processing our feelings about it. The fact that the secret staircase leads down to that same lake and now the lake monster is dead just confirms how important a Clue it is! Full steam ahead on unraveling the mystery!
» Definitely going to try to sneak in to peek at Vataz's body. She's very bad at lying, someone please help :c
» Will probably sneak into the Room of Seals and get possessed by a dead Paladin, because poking her nose someplace bad out of curiosity and then trying to help a sad dead person is exactly the sort of mischief she'd get up to.
» Generally being a nosy little nerd who can't leave well enough alone.
CAN HELP WITH:
» Investigating.
» If she's not too busy with everything else going on, she'll want to help guard the caravan.
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I feel like they are on the same wavelength lmao in that Emilia will definitely play along with this dunking to gather what information she can, and then go Fury on the guards when they just try to leave...
Anywhistle we are doing things, y/y?
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CHARACTER | CANON: Kamala Khan | Marvel Cinematic Universe
GENERAL PLANS: She's on the Northern Tower! Kamala will not leave until she is positive everyone is out safely. She'll be making slides and shields to get people off of it and protected while literally running on thin air and tiny constructs.
I'm torn between a distress call on the network or just some private logs for people who want to deal with it actively happening or fallout stuff.
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-fighting and protecting people???
-cheering people up. she's optimistic!!
-a helper in general. ask her to tag along on your quests!!
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CONTACT INFO:
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CHARACTER | CANON: Wanda Maximoff | MCU
GENERAL PLANS:
- Look, the North Tower was in bad shape to begin with but it was her assigned tower so she's going to be pretty annoyed!!! Also, being buried in rubble is lowkey triggering to her so she might be flinging some of the remains of the tower into the enemy :') See her tiring herself out focusing on catapults with big flashy red magic (something something Avenger)
- Screw your catapults and especially screw your harpies, if you want to be scooped up and rescued by Wanda she'll try to be gentle
- The above will probably have her irritable (what's new) and exhausted to the point of needing to be told to sit down
CAN HELP WITH:
- If you want some of those catapults to turn on the dragon, or those pesky harpies to also attack the dragon, Wanda's your gal
- Bodyguarding anyone that needs their body guarded, she doesn't seem to plan on sleeping only offensive maneuvers
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CONTACT INFO:
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GENERAL PLANS:
- Five has been in his impending-apocalypse mode, so he'll be keeping tabs on everything and generally walking that line between trying to prevent it and completely giving up. He's going to be violent or depressed or weirdly all over the place if he gets an idea in his head.
- Very interested in what's going on in the Room of Seals, and I'm up for any range of consequences for going inside if there's a scenario that you'd like to play with.
- FYI he's team Kill The Dragon or alternately Take The Dragon Out of Here and Then Kill it, but he mostly just has his valued opinions to offer on this subject. (Don't tell Anurr.)
- Will be very pressed if he hears that they tried to drown Emilia, so maybe break that to him carefully.
- Panic attacks?? Guy has some feelings about the apocalypse and he's still cursed in ways we don't talk about.
CAN HELP WITH:
- Teleporting you into/out of a jam
- Planning/Giving you a rundown of worst case scenarios (also hit him up if you want some assassination ideas)
- Other old-timer knowledge
- Owner of two evil body parts if things really get shitty (one summons a kraken and the other an undead warlord so you know... PLAN B/C IS COVERED)
- Etc...!
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marcos (aka eclipse)
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CONTACT INFO: PM |
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CHARACTER | CANON: Xie Yun | Legend of Fei
GENERAL PLANS:
- Do what he can to keep the Southern Tower safe now that he's been re-assigned.
- Food is a definite must. He'll do whatever it takes to steal it or whatever needs to happen in order to feed those that need fed.
- Heading into the forest, might end up losing memories. Ooops.
- Investigate the ravine, sure. Why not. Damnable black water.
CAN HELP WITH:
- Defense
- Getting food out there for others
- Sword play (Shh... He *really* hates his sword sometimes, it shines more than he does)
- Forging weapons if need be.
- Giving people music with his xiao.
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CHARACTER | CANON: Dr. Stephen Strange, MCU
GENERAL PLANS:
- This bad boy can fit SO much fighting in the Southern Tower. He'll spending the majority of his time being a tank against dragons and harpies and catapults, oh my, so get ready to witness some truly terrifying feats of magic! Try not to think too hard about how this dude was aiming that magic at the gates of Alem not so very long ago!
- Advocating for and involving himself in the plan to lure Irenia all the way away from Alem.
- Low key invested in keeping Alem's tired, potato-wielding king alive so will be keeping his eyes peeled for any further signs of dissent in the ranks
- Any time his body is finally forced to rest he'll wander the castle in his Astral form. (If your characters are sensitive to ghosts/the otherworldly they may be able to see him floating around or if they're doing anything particularly interesting he can pop through the veil and make himself visible to them.) Might use this to get in on investigating the latest killing/the royals' interpersonal drama, and/or the Room of Seals.
CAN HELP WITH:
- Fighting!!! The man is ready to throw down, if you have an emergency and he's not currently fighting a dragon he can be there in a hot second
- Transport!! If you need to go somewhere in a hurry, he's got you. Potentially useful for moving fighters between the two remaining towers as threats amass or getting casualties out to be tended to somewhere slightly safer for our medics.
- Can precision-target his portal locations to a specific individual using some of their DNA, so he may put a call out for people going out with the evacuation caravan who want to donate their hair so he or somebody else from the castle can get out to them in am emergency. (This may not end up actually working but!! the offer is there).
- Spying!! Astral form snooping hours
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CHARACTER | CANON: bucky barnes | mcu
GENERAL PLANS:
→ definitely want bucky to get possessed by the soul of a paladin because that's just his goddamn luck
→ he'll probably stay in and around gut's bind, helping out there, investigating places that might be walled off
→ he might try and get to the room underneath the water. please stop him or he'll fail.
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→ he's got experience with brainwashing and mind control so he can help...in a way. he won't be hugely comforting and offer hugs but he knows how to deal with it
→ also a good tank to help with fighting the dragon. he's strong
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Carolyn
CONTACT INFO: PM or smugfrog@plurk!
CHARACTER | CANON: Jimmy McGill | Better Call Saul
GENERAL PLANS: First of all, I won’t have internet till Tuesday (damn you…presidents…), so apologies if replies here and elsewhere are scarce!
With that out of the way, my main plan is: GEM HEIST
Basically, Alem made the mistake of letting Jimmy borrow a gem from their royal cache and he promptly
gave it away, don’t worry about itused it to get in good with Batthour, grain merchant and noted gem enthusiast. In light of the king wanting to sell him and, more importantly, HIS WIFE to the nearest undead liege, Jimmy would be delighted to screw him over even more!!In short, I’d love to get a team of chars together to swipe the royal jewels (maybe swapping them out for less desirable jewels??) and then trade them for food (or keep them, I’m not the cops…tho Jimmy might notice…also children are starving you heartless bastard). Specifics will depend on how many people want to be involved/what kind of powers they have (+ mod approval lol), but I’d like to hit the sweet spot of challenging but not too insanely hard.
If a politically inclined char would want to frame someone for this, I’d be into that too! Or whatever other wrinkles you might want to add! And don’t worry if your char’s never met Jimmy, we can figure something out.
Other plans:
- I don’t think I can swing Jimmy getting possessed by a paladin, but I would LOVE to do stuff with possessed folks! He’ll probably…play along…look it’s what he does.
- Lmao he is definitely more, uh, interested in evacuation routes now that shit’s getting real, and might even go so far as to help get the caravan through the mines. No way is he going into creepy forests though.
- Depending on timing/how things play out IC, he might have some kind of reaction to Rathakku’s business proposal (whether it's talking himself up on the network or trying to find a "group leader" and bargain for Kim's safety)—HE KNOWS HE’S A WEAK LINK HERE and doesn’t really believe in selflessness
CAN HELP WITH:
- Merchants! He and Batthour have a ~rapport~ (no, not like that). Also if you want to trade some junk, let him craft a pitch for you!
- Lying. That’s it, that’s the bullet point. He’s noticed some of you have trouble.
- There's other stuff but I have to leave the library now....JUST DRAG HIM INTO THINGS OK
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There's also the fact that Nacho has a rapport with Eles and Jimmy has one with Batthour! Maybe they should put their heads together?
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Sealing Hell
Mod said that his ice seal will hold for 2-3 days, and that with that help, he will be able to re-seal when it starts to thaw.
In need of the following for this plot:
+ Will put up a call for action for honestly anyone with magic/powers who might be able to help. Even if they do not have experience sealing Hell itself, Wrath does, and he should be able to help them utilize magic and power toward the seals.
+ Guards/look-outs - to be sure no one will interrupt what is happening inside.
+ People to be near when everything near the room of seals and the hallways turn to sheer ice. Sorry about your hypothermia/slipping and falling. Thank you for the ice rink provided.
+Also, yes, if you don't already know that Wrath is associated with Hell/a demon prince/not-just-your-run-of-the-mill demon, oops. This is definitely a time to put two and two together.
Let me know if you're interested in any of this here, or you can also just respond to his network post that will go up relatively soon!
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He's able to pop in and out as needed to check on them and get messages out. Whatever they need, he's on it.
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Re: Sealing Hell
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licyn mansbane | original character
CONTACT INFO: pm,
CHARACTER | CANON: licyn mansbane | original character
GENERAL PLANS:
1. He wants to hear people say Vataz was so virginal so he can start coughing to disguise any laughter. He literally slept with Vataz, this is great post-mortem PR.
2. On that note he will slip past the drunks to say goodbye, poor guy. Should have slept with him more often, alas.
3. He'll be accompanying the caravan, and is on hand as man or wolf to help keep you from being kidnapped by ice creatures. Or come up and whisper in your ear if you're staring into fires with the icedead people, who creep him right out.
4. In the Hell Room he'll be on hand to be a magic battery for Wrath at some point. He'll also unwittingly agree to a shared body situation, which given his personality. Is like a Ghost moment here for making love so I'm. Sobs!!! Anyway if someone's game to thread out dead Paladin's last hurrah please let me know!
CAN HELP WITH:
Anything that needs a fighter, a magical battery, a wolf, a good nose, or someone to flirt with someone else. He's got that on lock!