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TAKEN! ANY LIAM NEESONS IN THE HOUSE?

This month's event, which will go live on March 18th, involves characters (both PCs and NPCs) being kidnapped by extremist groups for leverage against the factions.

The anti-Simwe faction in Olympia will abduct people that appear "important" in some form or fashion and attempt to use the hostages to pressure Simwe into stepping down. Fearing what a coup in Olympia might mean for Wyver, the radical Shaman group will try the same gambit in the belief that they can force Shanrian to step down, take power for themselves, and lead Wyver to victory against Olympia.

With the help of the authorities figures of each city, PCs must work together in order to rescue their loved ones and innocent citizens. If groups of characters are successful in locating the victims, the cities will commend them for their heroic deeds in a special ceremony, possibly earning them rewards and/or further influence on their city governments.

In order to ensure that we can provide each group with an engaging experience, we ask that if you are interested in participating in this plot as either a kidnapped character or a rescuer, you sign up below. This will give us a better idea of how to evenly distribute information to all involved characters.

This event is time-sensitive by nature, as the outcome of it will determine the general atmosphere in both factions for the last week of the month. As such, the OOC timeline for the event is as follows:

▻ March 14th, 11:59 PM EST: Sign ups for the event will close to allow us time to RNG the hostages and form rescue groups. Participants will be contacted with the role their character will be playing as soon as it's determined (March 16th at the very latest).
Those assigned to a Rescuer role will also receive hints about where the victims have been taken. ICly, these clues will be obtained by their own detective work, or shared by cooperating members of the Royal Guard or the Knightryders. OOCly, when your group has decided which location to investigate, let us know what you pick; we will respond with whether you have discovered the correct location or not.

Those assigned to a Hostage role will receive information about what their characters will see when they wake up and how their captors are treating and interrogating them so that they may plot out the extent to which they want their characters to be affected.
▻ March 18th: An event log will go up. In this log, we will post toplevels for each of the hostage groups to play out their interrogations and for each of the rescue groups to play out their rescues. Although you will need to have signed up to take part in the hostage and rescue threads, you do not need to have signed up to post your own toplevels in this log. Characters who have not signed up will be able to play peripheral roles as well.

▻ March 24th, 11:59 PM EST: We ask that players submit a brief summary of their rescue/attempted rescue threads (a projected outcome is fine if it is still ongoing) by this date so that we can incorporate any pertinent details such as casualties, whether perpetrators were caught or escaped, etc. into the outline for next month.

Please note that this event will be primarily player driven. As mods, we will be here to give you your initial information, answer clarifying questions, and confirm whether or not you have picked the correct location. The specifics of how this all plays out will be entirely up to you. As such, we highly encourage submitting your location guesses as soon as possible, preferably before the event log goes live to give you the maximum amount of time to play on the log.

To reiterate: all characters interested in being directly involved in this plot should sign up; kidnapped characters will be determined from the pool of signups by RNG. The remaining characters will form the rescue groups. In the interest of both fairness and keeping things streamlined, we ask that you only sign up one character per player. If you are interested in signing up, please fill out the form in the sign-up comment here.

Signups will close on March 14th at 11:59 PM EST.

Characters who do not sign up for the event will also still have the opportunity to carry out tasks from the monthly outline for March. The submission of a thread where this task is completed in one of your own logs will also have an impact on the outline for the rest of the month. These should also be submitted here by March 24th, 11:59 PM EST.

And finally, a reminder: Any quests that have yet to be updated due to unforeseen mod circumstances, such as Blinded by Science, and To Kill a Mocking Bird will now have the deadline of April 5th. Any quest that has been updated prior to this announcement are still due on March 19th. Moving forward, the quest board will permanently be updated after character intros.

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Three questions!

1) For the quest extentions, are all To Kill A Mockingbird submissions extended to April, or only the ones that haven't gotten through full correspondence with the mods?

2) Just feeling things out, but is there any opportunity for characters to side with the extremeist factions in capturing/interrogating hostages, or being hired as mercenaries to help the more radical cause?

3) How does Cree regard all of this? What is the general atmosphere in the Guilded Cage? (I'm a broken record about this q I'm sorry </3)

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natha - 2018-03-12 03:45 (UTC) - Expand

Hi mods!

Totally get why it makes sense to ask people to only sign up one character. Would it be okay if we signed up for only one *spot* depending?

To clarify: I'd be most interested in having You be a hostage, but she's not much for a rescue talent. So could I sign up with something like "If chosen as a hostage, You; if chosen as a rescuer, Diana?" Or is it just one character, the same character for both?

Thank you!

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natha - 2018-03-12 03:07 (UTC) - Expand

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ayes - 2018-03-12 03:23 (UTC) - Expand

My biggest question is if you're participating in Blinded With Science (part two), does that interfere with the timing on this, and make you ineligible?

Mostly because while my group has started that log and are just waiting for the information, I just kinda forward-dated it to be more recent, but it could also easily take place earlier in the month.

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natha - 2018-03-12 14:57 (UTC) - Expand

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revlon - 2018-03-17 20:04 (UTC) - Expand

Hello! New player here, trying to find my footing with my character in the game with a quick question! If characters are sort of established in one city/with one faction does that disqualify them from trying to rescue characters who've been kidnapped in the other city?

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natha - 2018-03-12 22:48 (UTC) - Expand

If a character dies during this event (or in general I guess) how do npcs react to their return? Are they considered an entirely new person, or is the memory of their death erased by the Natha?

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natha - 2018-03-14 00:06 (UTC) - Expand

Do the groups have some way of interfering with a kidnapped character's powers (magical drugs, for example)? Kale is a little tank, so ordinary means of imprisoning someone (a cage, handcuffs, etc.) wouldn't be terribly useful unless she was fairly sedated or otherwise had something preventing her from punching her way out.

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natha - 2018-03-14 03:34 (UTC) - Expand

Would it be all right to assume magic or some other supernatural means to subdue and subsequently transport the taken? I'm only asking because Rein is 7'4 and 500+ lbs of dead weight and I want to be correct in my plotting as to the means of taking him to *place refacted*

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natha - 2018-03-16 16:02 (UTC) - Expand

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panzersoldat - 2018-03-17 03:02 (UTC) - Expand

Players that are interested in participating in this event as a hostage or rescuer should fill out the following form and submit it here no later than March 14 11:59PM EST.

Player Name:
Character Name:
Timezone & Availability:
Faction: The faction your character will be in on the 18th, when the plot begins. This will influence where they may be taken or who they will be initially reporting to.
Desired Role: Hostage/Rescuer/No preference
Secondary Role: Hostage/Rescuer/None. If you choose None here, we will NOT include your character in this event unless their desired role is available.
Summary of Activity: What sorts of things has your character been up to since their arrival in El Nysa? Anything that might have made your character stand out may draw the attention of the radical groups. Traveling between factions and other notable activity (e.g. frequently going to Voss or Cree for quests, taking large action in the riot event, new characters that are already creating waves, etc.) is fair game. Characters who hold official city jobs (Olympian Royal Guard, Simwe Institute, Knightryders, etc.) are also prime targets. Feel free to be creative in giving us a reason why your character might stand out!
Limits: There is the possibility of mental and/or physical torture against kidnapped characters. Please let us know your OOC limits. If you are interested in exploring the possibility of death (The Natha Orbiters grant all characters 1 free revival), let us know!

!!INCLUDE CHARACTER NAME AND CANON IN THE SUBJECT LINE!!
Player Name: 
Character Name:
Timezone & Availability: 
Faction: The faction your character will be in on the 18th, when the plot begins. This will influence where they may be taken or who they will be initially reporting to.
Desired Role: Hostage/Rescuer/No preference
Secondary Role: Hostage/Rescuer/None. If you choose None here, we will NOT include your character in this event unless their desired role is available.
Summary of Activity: What sorts of things has your character been up to since their arrival in El Nysa? Anything that might have made your character stand out may draw the attention of the radical groups. Traveling between factions and other notable activity (e.g. frequently going to Voss or Cree for quests, taking large action in the riot event, new characters that are already creating waves, etc.) is fair game. Characters who hold official city jobs (Olympian Royal Guard, Simwe Institute, Knightryders, etc.) are also prime targets. Feel free to be creative in giving us a reason why your character might stand out!
Limits: There is the possibility of mental and/or physical torture against kidnapped characters. Please let us know your OOC limits. If you are interested in exploring the possibility of death (The Natha Orbiters grant all characters 1 free revival), let us know!

Player Name: Pixy
Character Name: Prior Walter
Timezone & Availability: GMT, pretty good.
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity: Prior's the party planner for Shades Darker, which doesn't make him especially important on a personal level, but could give him access to quite a wide reaching address book of Olympia's fancy and free, along with possible knowledge of what they're, you know, into. (Whether he has this knowledge or not about anyone specific is open of course) Beyond that, he got into altercations with two separate groups of looters/rioters recently so might be seen as pro-Simwe when he's mostly anti-people-fucking-with-him-for-godssakes.
Limits: Torture is a-ok, not interested in death at this point. Cheers m'dears.

Player Name: Vera
Character Name: Ozymandias
Timezone & Availability: EST, availability mostly open during weekends, 5PM - 12AM on weekdays.
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Rescuer
Secondary Role: Hostage
Summary of Activity: Ozymandias is a newcomer that had minor involvement in apprehending rioters and helping the injured in Olympia. Disillusioned with the events in that city, he traveled to Wyver and participated in their tournament, only to return to Olympia shortly after discovering Wyver wasn’t any better. He’s currently working for the Temples of Thesa, as he attempts to unearth more information about the anti-Simwe faction.
Limits: Torture is fine. I’ll opt out of death at this time.

Player Name: Kat
Character Name: Olivier Armstrong
Timezone & Availability: EST, mainly around for tagging later at night unless work plays nice
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity: Member of the Olympian Royal Guard and has done several jobs for Voss. Has had no problem telling people how stupid they are whether it's in general or for the whole "let's fight Wyver" because it's the way things are.
Limits: I am open to anything!

Player Name: Kalyn
Character Name: Mipha
Timezone & Availability: EST. Basically always?
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity: - Member of the Sanctuary
- One of the openly named people who helped find the cure for the illness that plagued them
- Travels to Wyver occasionally to heal people at friends' requests
- Openly uses her healing powers both in the Sanctuary and on the street for the members of the guard, anyone injured she happens to be walking by, etc. She's free and open with it, and it probably attracts a bit of attention given that it's a bright white glow and magically heals any physical injuries.
- Helped put out the fires and returned artifacts to the palace.
- I mean, she's a walking talking fish-lady in a city of almost entirely humanoids, she sticks out even if she was trying to lay low... sweats
Limits: I'm down for it all man. I'm okay with her being killed--she's died once before, she can handle that--but if she's NOT going to be killed, the only line I draw is permanent facial disfigurement or permanently losing body parts.
ETA: Also since Mipha's a healer I'm down for anything that involves her being forced to heal any of the other tortured hostages so they can keep, ya know, torturing. Finger guns.

Edited 2018-03-12 01:36 (UTC)

Player Name: Lausanne
Character Name: Loras Tyrell
Timezone & Availability: MST, fairly open.
Faction: Wyver.
Desired Role: Hostage.
Secondary Role: Rescuer.
Summary of Activity: Loras decided to make Wyver home pretty much from the moment he first went there. He joined the Knightryders at first chance and he isn't afraid to hide if, and he feels a strong sense of duty when it comes to his position. He does quite well in the rings, to bring home some extra silver, but while he'll do what his commander says, he's clearer one of the softer ones. He's been trying to resolve issues through diplomacy and kindness rather than force. He also has ties to Olympia, as most of his fellow Westerosi reside there, and that could give one the impression he may sympathize with Olympia (even if he is outwardly a strong supporter of Wyver).
Limits: None! Take him as far as you'd like, even death.

Player Name: Jena
Character Name: Alphinaud Leveilleur
Timezone & Availability: JST, most often available during EST's evening/nighttime
Faction: Wyver
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity: Alphinaud is new but has been actively moving between the cities, including during the rioting events. He's also taken an active role in healing people in Olympia and ran into shaman issues in Wyver. And is also trying to do a dragon blood drug bust in a current thread. Outside of threads he fills his time with wandering about either faction and snooping around because god forbid he stay inside and not stick his nose in things.
Limits: Aside from death or permanent disfigurements (i.e. loss of limb), I'm cool with torture and most anything else!

Player Name: Fudgey
Character Name: Claire Fraser
Timezone & Availability: PST/about 4PM onwards to about 10pm, the only day I tend to be spotty is Friday.
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity: Claire's been working at the Sanctuary pretty much since her arrival in the first wave, so she's a very familiar face there. She was around through the sickness and the evacuation to Wyver, helping to find a cure, and during the rioting she helped establish a sort of field clinic and was out and about trying to find supplies and help who she can. If there's been a medical emergency she's tried to be there. Despite being pissed off with the Sanctaury's actions during the riots, she went right back once the doors opened.
Limits: No limits! And maaaaybe death?! I'd want to talk to some of my CR before anything is finalized, but I'm always down for doing things for science.

Player Name: Kitty
Character Name: Peter Parker
Timezone & Availability: CST, usually at night
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity: Peter has been an assistant at the institute for almost as long as the game has been over rn and has lived in Olympia off and on since that time. However, he travels to Wyver a great deal for "research purposes" and notably scorned Olympia tradition by testing the water at flona cove instead of being impressed by its magical properties.
Limits: anything goes... admittedly I hope for him to be abducted bc he is used to doing the saving, and I'm game for whatever if that's the role he gets! If not then prepare for a spider rescue.

Player Name: Nemo
Character Name: Sandra
Timezone & Availability: CST! Mainly around all day Sat/Sun and Weekday mornings.
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: None, since... She can't move.
Summary of Activity: Sandra has been involved in a couple quests for Voss now, and has done a bit of piggybacking between cities. She's gotten passed around the city plenty, being stolen, and she does have a tendency to stand out as something weird whenever she ghosts about. She did definitely take out some bandits during the riots like this.
Limits: No limits!! Except for death. But since she doesn't have a body and is a pretty old and hardened individual, torture might have to get inventive.

Player Name: Rachel
Character Name: Jon Snow
Timezone & Availability: CST. For the event, I'll be available every other day.
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Rescuer
Secondary Role: Hostage (but only if Rescuer isn't available).
Summary of Activity: Jon is a member of the Royal Guard and has been active in a few quests, including capturing a criminal in the Entertainment district, investigating possible treason, and rescuing refugees. During the rioting, he made efforts to diffuse the violence and attacks, especially on the palace. His lover is currently living in Wyver, but going between the kingdoms to see him. Their relationship isn't hidden and is fairly obvious to anyone who might see them together.
Limits: Anything is fair game. Mental, physical torture works for me. I'd prefer no death, if only because that might mess him up since he is still dealing with his resurrection in canon.

Player Name: Kit
Character Name: Rosalind Lutece
Timezone & Availability: EST, fairly available
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity: Rosalind's been working at the Institute since she arrived here. She worked to help cure that plague half a year ago. She's been openly traveling between Wyver and Olympia, and has disparaged both equally (so there's definitely a chance people think she's ~selling secrets~ to Wyver). She's also been trying to break away and settle in on her own.
Limits: I'm fine with emotional and physical stuff! Physical torture, psychological torture, etc. I'd be open to death, but I'd like to talk about it before I commit!

Player Name: Tori
Character Name: Daenerys Targaryen
Timezone & Availability: EST, most evenings, weekends.
Faction: Wyver
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity:
- Traveling between Wyver and Olympia fairly frequently before publicly announcing herself for Wyver. Lately, she's been traveling to a plot of land on the outskirts of Olympia territory to visit with her Olympian lover. She's got a number of Westerosi friends who live in Olympia as well.
- Her clothing whenever she travels beyond the humid jungles = Targaryen colors, which just so happen to be Wyver colors as well. She has jewelry that is dragon-themed.
- While in Olympia, she stood against its citizens to save the baby dragons, even to the point of nearly starting physical brawls with them (that onlookers had to intervene with since she's a squishy).
Limits: Not interested in death or permanent maiming. I'd prefer mental torture > physical torture, though I'm totally okay with roughing her up.

Edited 2018-03-12 01:25 (UTC)

Player Name: Kath
Character Name: Jean Valjean
Timezone & Availability: CST; available nights and weekends
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Rescuer
Secondary Role: Hostage
Summary of Activity: Valjean has stepped in on multiple occasions when citizens were being harassed by those who share in anti-Simwe and anti-refugee sentiments. He was also quite visible during the period of restoration following the rioting, which might make him identifiable as someone in support of the current order.
Limits: The limit does not exist (short of death).

Player Name: Clara
Character Name: James T Kirk
Timezone & Availability: pst/regularly, usually late evening/early am, though i can prioritize plot tags with some ahead notice.
Faction: Wyver
Desired Role: Rescuer
Secondary Role: Hostage, or none (hedging my bets - i don't know that he's been around enough to be a viable hostage target, so i'm happy to go with mod discretion either way)
Summary of Activity: traveling between cities including during heavily scrutinized periods of the last unrest/riots, fought a chimera, participated in trying to round up shamans, has been kind of cranky about the politics all around
Limits: no death pls, everything else fair game.

Player Name: Melonbread
Character Name: Mai
Timezone & Availability: EST, around most evenings
Faction: Wyver
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity: Mai was among the first batch of refugees to arrive. She worked for quite some time as security at Shades Darker and until recently traveled very frequently between Olympia and Wyver. She can be spotted fairly often at The Gilded Cage and had been moving between there and Shades Darker when she still worked there. She's made it no secret as well that she's not sure she trusts either the Knightryders or Mythi's Fang when it comes to cooperation with the shaman. She also held her own decently well in all the fighting and willingly participated after the confidence boost dragon's blood gave her.
Limits: No problem here with death or mental/physical torture.

Edited 2018-03-12 02:01 (UTC)

Player Name: Mary Beth
Character Name: Emma Swan
Timezone & Availability: EST, nights.
Faction: Olympia
Desired Role: Hostage
Secondary Role: Rescuer
Summary of Activity: Emma is a member of the Royal Guard. She's been breaking up fights and trying to protect citizens from harm ever since she joined up, and takes her responsibilities there seriously. She's completed a quest and started to get to know her fellow refugees, and has tried to work to help restore the city after recent conflicts (rebuilding, dragon rescuing, stopping rioters).
Limits: Please don't kill her or do permanent physical damage, but mental and physical torture are fine.