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lostcompass2023-05-12 07:08 pm
ARC VI: THE SUNKEN
Happy Friday! Curtains are drawing on the Dream a little dream of her... travel arc, with the conclusion one cut away — warning for spoilers, if you're still threading out the mysteryIT WAS ALL A DREAM
Seeing her spouse mired in conflict, Prassenze emerges from where she has been changing appearance in the passenger crowd. A blank slate more than a person, she confesses she is also living dream, forged as a companion to Firo. As the party suspected, she has been using a dream thief to recreate herself on each wedding day and better suit beloved Firo and her companions. Sadly, Prassenze and the dream thief ran out of dream tokens to power their efforts, and Prassenze chose to hide away. Hugo — Natasha has learned, of the Merchant's homeland Ellethia — bashfully admits he is the dream thief, who created the perfect hero (Firo), her stalwart sister (Lita) and the blushing bride (Prassenze).
While the Conductor should remove living dreams from the train, Hugo patiently reminds him of the many years when he and his team allowed dream thieves to continue their work undeterred on the Sandman, for a price. To protect the train's reputation, the Conductor calls the incident closed. The group retires to their compartments — Firo and Prassenze agreeing to talk, Lita a little shattered, and Hugo... telling the Merchant's party that, if he had known what trouble they would cause, he would not have procured their tickets.
Betting results: 40,000 coins to Wei Wuxian and Dean each, 20,000 to Beitang Moran and Lan Sizhui each, 30,000 to Five.
We officially enter Arc VI on 15 May, when the group arrives in sunken village Yancai during a first log event — which doubles as a test drive meme.
- ■ Yancai location details are now live!
■ Courtesy of the Merchant, characters are assigned false identities/occupations and dwellings while in Yancai. Unrelated to the Merchant, they might be haunted. CTRL+F your character's name to learn their fate. The haunting & atonement are entirely optional — feel free to ignore or tweak.
■ A new NPC inbox will follow shortly.
■ Characters are coming into Arc VI with varying levels of false memories of being native to Yancai. These false memories are temporary and will dispel within days of arrival. During this period, characters can still sense they have a connection with their CR (as deeply or shallowly as you want), even if they have a diffuse sense of how it was formed. Ex: character A might know they love B, even if they don't recall B is their spouse of 50 years. They would (and should) be startled by this discrepancy in their memories.
■ the first Arc VI log will cover: a few days of acclimating to the village (and fully recovering character memories, where applicable), getting optionally haunted, exploring the lakes and and searching sunken territories for clues about the time-warping decay.
■ QUESTIONS
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Nacho Varga | Better Call Saul
CONTACT INFO: candycigarettes @ plurk!
CHARACTER | CANON: Ignacio "Nacho" Varga | Better Call Saul
WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER IN YANCAI? There are only two things certain in this world -- death and taxes. Nacho is a tax collector, which, as I'm sure you can guess, doesn't exactly make him popular with the locals. He's an intimidating figure, because he has ways of getting what you owe out of you.
How demanding or lenient he is depends on you. He will try, mostly, to be ethical about it, in the spirit of trying to have the kind of "legitimate", law-abiding job that his dad might want him to have.
BUT try to play him for a fool and you might end up owing 10% more. Now it's 15% more. Now 30% more. Wanna keep pushing your luck, son?
On the other hand, if you're a struggling single parent, an orphaned child, or just genuinely down on your luck, he will assuredly let you slide. Shhh. Don't tell anyone he's a soft touch, okay?
He lives at The Dancing Seagull with Mo Ran, America Chavez, Xie Lian, Kumoi Yuuri! Housemates, never fear -- if Nacho's around when obnoxious locals come by ringing bells, he'll be happy to chase them off for you so you can get your beauty rest.
He will be haunted by The Lumberjack, who speaks in the voice of his father. The first time this happens, he's going to go looking for his dad, just in case. He won't find anyone, and he won't go looking again after not finding anybody the first time. If anyone wants to make sure he doesn't get lost wandering around e v e r y w h e r e looking for dear old Dad,
though, that'd be great...!
(Oh, and maybe stay out of his room. It'll smell like an upholstery shop...)
MEMORY STATUS: Memories unchanged, but feels a deep sense of rightness about staying in the village.
GENERAL PLANS: None yet! Let's make some. He needs someone he can rescue or share camaraderie with for his haunting. :D Beyond that, I'm open to pretty much anything and everything. Sorry, I know that's SUCH a lame thing to say! It is true, though. Hit me with anything you got!
<3
Jesse's plotting post is here.
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He may eventually have a crisis of conscience about taking advantage of desperate people and start refusing to sell them to people he deems too destitute to be spending money on this CANDLES (since, as a tax collector, he'd have a reasonably good idea of what most people make). He'd have nooooo problem selling them to rich idiots with more money than sense, though.
ALSO BEACON STUFF
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Re: Nacho Varga | Better Call Saul
(also this is not why he sometimes does not eat and maybe he can explain to you why and horrify you a little bit more)
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Vague ideas, but do feel free to come at me with anything I'd love to explore them together. :>
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Ooh, idea! Maybe Nacho can show him who to go after with his candle-selling for best effect, if you think that's something Five would want advice on. Like, "You wanna go over to that guy. He's obviously a rich idiot and you can tell because of xyz."
Or something else! I'm not picky.
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He’s a billionaire’s son who spent most of his life as the only person on earth, money and economics are as lost to him as socializing, but like… it’s interesting! Let him pad his savings, he likes having enough to throw around when he needs to hire someone to do something like taste his food for poison etc. Two birds!
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Nacho will be the person who is actually better at socializing than someone for maybe the first time ever in his entire life. Beautiful.
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