ARC II | VOTE HERE

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Yooo! We’re just shy of closing Arc I: Sa-Hareth, and I wanted to thank everyone for the amazing gung-ho involvement and willingness to go with the flow! We couldn’t have gotten here without you. All of you. Especially the ones who thought neutral options wouldn't burn down the house. To celebrate, check out our shiny new Arc badges!

We're heading into Arc II, which will be preceded by a transitional three-four- week journey Arc that will involve a self-contained quest or assignment. Arc II will have a broader, more substantive plot, so throw your vote in for our destination until 23:59 GMT on 23 June

You get one vote per character. The Merchant will ICly inform characters of their route options on 21 or 22 June. They will get less destination information precisely so you can skew your vote in the direction you prefer OOCly.

I will be abstaining from voting unless we have a tie on deadline. At that point, Rakel has been asked to cast another vote on my behalf. This avoids mod bias for our destination.

Please also cast a vote in on whether the transitional Arc should include a Test Drive Meme (do you feel we need one?) and let me know of any significant inventory additions that will come along for the journey yes, we’re talking NPCs and giant wombats here.

Check out also our Wish Well, where you can leave one broad wish per character for the next Arc, ranging from things like 'I'd like dragons' to 'I'd love for Sparky to get his pockets raided.' No guarantees that all wishes will come true, but we'll give it our all!

Without further ado, the two voyage options:

A Transitional voyage arc: follow a ghostly army in its yearly attempt to conquer a cursed passageway. Arc II: arrive in Taravast, a seat of art, scholarly magic and enlightenment, where two cousins vie for their dying ruling grandfather’s favour to be named as rightful successor. Whoever wins the title will also command an ancient eastern departure beacon — to double the party’s chances, the Merchant will split characters in two groups, each set to support one contender in the inheritance contest. Renaissance era-level technology Characters start off in better positions of power or wealth Characters may have to compete in their support of their assigned patron, while covertly looking after the party, overall Politics, backstabbing, quests, magic, spiders, harpies More information on the mirrors

B Transitional voyage arc: take the vessel Imperious on a delightful cruise down a stretch of haunted seas, and perhaps discover what cursed them. Arc II: arrive in the desert jewel of Yassair, whose splendour has been dimmed by plagues and the increasingly frequent assaults of half-men, half-vipers. A young, newly enthroned prince seeks to win the support of his distrustful, duplicitous ministers — and will grant characters access to his departure beacon, if they help him prevail to save his country. Technology level circa year 1,200 Characters start off as tolerated courtiers Characters will work together at all times, in the service of the same employer Politics, desert exploration, sand worms, scarabs, nagas More information on the life/death cycles of Akhuras

Comments

DESTINATION VOTE

[groundrules]

Please respond to this comment with:

Character name: A / B

You get one vote per character played.

No other info, just to help keep the vote clean. Thanks!

[thehoneybadger]

Rachel, A

[bearshermark]

Eleven: B

My IC and OOC vote were split, but! El is compelled by one specifically for an obvious specific reason

[somebadnews]

Five votes A, he's cool with bypassing any huge barren landscape thanks

[darkeststars]

Archeval: B

Re: DESTINATION VOTE

[royal_venant]

Regulus - A

[binghua]

Xingchen: B








can all these fools really play well together let's find out on this season of survivor: caravan

Re: DESTINATION VOTE

[soulsrob]

Winnie & Vanya both vote B (sorry five)

[sergeant_slick]

Slick, A

[jeoha]

Lee Chang: B

Fox: A ( he will not want to split the party but magic tho... )

[unswervingcompanion]

Hendrik: B

(He's not letting the Luminary out of his sight and this is going to feel something similar to Gallopolis back home)

[lancifolium]

lily goes for a

brb weeping for my betrayal of the naga

Re: DESTINATION VOTE

[corvis]

Gilbert: A

[beitangmoran]

Beitang Moran : A

[scrapgege]

Xie Lian : B

[silverneedles]

wen qing: A

(actually she'd probably go with B because actual vipers are probably better than political vipers but I like A better.)

[consignation]

mingyu: a
jiang cheng: a

[topoiran]

Moran says A, Xunxian is with A.

Sizhui... goes with B on account of, probably more help is needed there.

[weifinder]

B. He knows nothing of deserts or just desserts (lmf), but he's tired of being played between two political bodies, and also their party sucks at it so. Just saying. JUST SAYING Y'ALL CANNOT BE TRUSTED, that's why Haltham is probably coming with us

[plentystrong]

Catra: A

TEST DRIVE MEME

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Should we have one in the transitional Arc? Y/N ?

[darkeststars]

N, our first one was fun so I'd be fine if it did happen, but I don't feel like we really need it.

[somebadnews]

MMMM. MAYBE??? I'll say yes. Yes and then let me magically round up another 5 or so Hargreeves let me dream.

EXTRA INVENTORY

[groundrules]

Declare your wombats, NPCs, etc, here, folks.

Also:
Haltham and Karsa both would like to join the party for the next Arc, as would the free man of the woods that Five captured.

Please throw your character's vote in on which (if any) of them are welcome aboard.

[darkeststars]

Arche's vote: Yes to Karsa & No to Haltham. Tentative No on the free man.

WISH WELL

[groundrules]

Keep it vague ('I'd like a dinosaur!', 'I'd kil lfor Sparky to see a cloud up close!') , and we'll see what we can do!

[darkeststars]

Once he's had time to understand the situation a little better, Arche's wish will be to find some kind of rest or peace for (on behalf of) the hellishly horrible mistake he's about to drag along with him. :')