ARC II | VOTE HERE

[groundrules]

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

[groundrules]

I will say, vote with your OOC gut a bit just because characters will get much less info!

[bearshermark]

Thanks! Think I'll keep it though. I like deserts and sandworms and lmao, it would be somewhat reminiscent of the desert city in DQXI with the young prince so that'd be funny ICly too.

BUT if A wins, I'll be happy with that as well- scholarly magic and sort of covert party shenanigans. More wealth and power hmhmhm! DElicious.

[somebadnews]

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

[darkeststars]

Archeval: B

[darkeststars]

in a separate comment so hopefully it's cleaner for Ruxi

for the record I'm voting this way purely because it doesn't place the group in competition. This party already barely trusts each other lol.

[groundrules]

Hunger Gaaaaaaaames.

But, in theory, if the group is smart, one half works to sabotage one of the competitors, the other to support the rival

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

[sergeant_slick]

fighting in confined spaces sucks, but ships on the ocean? made of wood?? w h a t??? how is that safe????

And with regards to the cities: Slick is good at sabotaging things. Or at least he was for a bit. Politics, on the other hand, he's got no clue about that.

[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