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eastbound } { volcano plotting

A one stop shop for all your plotting/touch base needs! A couple of starting thoughts:

• The best format for this might be a closed long with no tag order to keep things moving, as long as that works for everyone? We can also break out certain portions of the adventure if some of us are more into one aspect than others.

• What kinds of thoughts or feelings do we want shared? Would it make more sense to set that portion up as a space for one-on-one threads to make the most of those CR building moments?

• How successful do we want them to be? Do we want to go for the reward?

I figure we can use this to compile our questions/plan and take this over to Ruxi when we're all ready. Threadjack/comment/track as needed!

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I had another thought in terms of structuring this log - it might be best to pick the beats we really want/need to thread, and handwave/apply time skips as needed. So aside from the thought sharing, which will have it's own section on the log, what are the areas we really want to hit?

I guess -- do we want to handwave them agreeing to look into this together or play that out? We need some vague agreement for how they came to that point.

Do we all actually know each other?

I think Wrathion has technically spoken to Allison once via that one whole network comment but I guess theoretically (?) they might have interacted more during that event.

If not necessarily the agreement/etc, potentially arriving at the entrances and initially entering as they discuss the theory of the volcano? Commenting on how creepy the entrances are?

The actual skull retrieval bit seems important. Are we gonna have one person pick them up or all collectively take turns carrying weird skull or what?

Does anyone have a particular desire for their character to begin becoming paranoid? If so that's a good focus. Does anyone have a particular reaction to heat/volcanos/paranoia ICly? Wrathion will be surprised he's not immune to heat tbh

I guess also -- does anyone have a curse they want to play up during this?

I'm good with some handwaving. I sometimes like starting a thread midway, I find that gets the ball rolling in interesting ways so long as everyone is on the same page about the details, of course. I can see small clusters of people meeting up at the entrance of the volcano and realizing they're all there for the same reason.

I do think they'd all know of each other by now, if not directly. The group isn't that big and they all travel together, so even if first meetings are not played out, it makes sense to me there'd be at least a passing familiarity, in a 'oh they're one of us' kind of way.

I'm among those who'd be interested in playing out some paranoia that'd need to be shaken off. Emilia is a witch, and in her canon, they're very much burned at the pyre. So that used to be a fear of hers, before she discovered she could actually summon fire.

I'm also +1 to handwaving the introductions, as needed. Given that everyone in the group has a connection to at least one of the others, I think we can make it work, we can just sort out the details OOCly.

I'm down for playing up the paranoia! Allison is also struggling with a Pride curse which I think could lead to some crises of confidence as they get deeper in, which the paranoia could play into.

I'm sure that will be fine.

Agreed with the handwaving!! The traveling group is relatively small enough that they would all know of each other even if they didn't know each other's names. Otherwise, I think Wrath has talked to like everyone in the group and has close CR w/ Emilia and Allison at least so I think everyone can easily be wrapped in.

Since there's multiple skulls, maybe everyone can carry some to make it fair? I am just gonna assume they brought like bags or something they can carry them out w/. Not sure how many skulls are down there.

I will not have Wrath get paranoid himself because that would be very bad, but he's definitely here to help out others who might get paranoid and do something wild. Wrath is not affected by like heat/fire, but fire does turn like silver when he's standing near it, which is pretty damn coollllllll so I'll try to mention that as often as I can for flavor!!

FYI when I asked, I was told Wrathion would be impacted by the heat/fire even though he normally isn't! Some supernatural nonsense. SWEAT WITH THE REST OF US.

ETA: idk I was vague on reread I said 'side-effects'.

Edited 2022-03-19 17:03 (UTC)

YES, I saw that. Wrath is generally not affected by supernatural-fire or supernatural effects either. There's a lot of both of those things that in Hell. I probably could if I wanted to, but it wouldn't really make sense since he's the Devil and just ridonk powerful.

For whenever you're ready

I definitely like the paranoia angle, given that Dany is a bit worried about her mental state. Being around fire is going to make her think of her father again. Plus she's suffering the lust curse. She'd be paranoid about others coming too close.

hello! sorry to be so late with this. i'm good with handwaving to get to the point where they all start searching (lorna knows allison and is maybe acquainted with the rest of the group, i don't mind people saying they'd talked to her at some point; she's been around for a few months).

i'm not sure how scientifically accurate this is but lorna's got the ability to manipulate and detect metals, so if there's rocks or magma in their way she might be able to hold it back or move it. she might be helpful to have as backup for whoever ends up going in.

also i'm on EST and usually around in the evenings/weekends!

Edited 2022-03-20 01:23 (UTC)

For whenever you're ready!

I think the other beat that I'm most interested for Emilia/on my end is the one about them becoming alert/paranoid they're secretly trying to be burned (for reasons you well know). Maybe someone pulling her off an NPC or something lmao.

Ooooh yes, poor Emilia, being stuck around all that fire.

ikr

i also forgot to mention this but emilia has a catch-all/open post for all of march, if we wanted to kickstart things off there

If you like, I'm down to have Emilia turn on Wrathion -- he might just conjure flame instead of using a torch (potentially not immediately, but maybe later I can have him lose his torch or sth so it's a surprise in some way). It might give them something to talk about later after all, once they're free!

Ooh, yes! I think that could be very interesting, and it's something they could touch base on later/give us something meaty for them to talk about. They still don't really know the extent of what the other can do, or what the other even is.

They don't! And like, Wrathion is capable of defending himself non-lethally if you want to have her persistently try to do him damage for the affront. He can cast a spell that like, fills a room with illusory duplicates of himself to make it harder to hit the real him, for example. So I don't mind her trying until someone talks her down!

(He'd very much not want to hurt her, obviously).

I'm good with playing it by ear and seeing how it goes! I don't think it'll need anything too extreme, as she's been training with Wrath to fight off mental attacks like this one, but I also want to give you room to have Wrathion show any tricks you'd like him to. She would definitely pull back, though!

Do we want to set up a separate thread for this for Emilia & Wrath?

I had to hiatus for April and I apologize profusely for dropping the ball on this. Ruxi worked with me and Wrath's mun to explain their absence, however, and it does involve volcano things if you are interested in that development.

I'm open to it!

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OMG YESSS, but also SOBS EMILIA that makes perfect sense ;o; If you have her go after Wrathion potentially, you know I got Wrath here to like help pull her off him or whatever the case may be /dies .-.

LMAO YES THAT MIGHT BE GOOD. Wrathion would intend to like conjure flame and Wrath could always pull her back before she reciprocated in kind and it got all unwieldy. You know. >>"

YESSSS oooh maybe we can tie it into their training a bit where Wrath could like remind her to use the mental shields/stuff they've been working on together. So he holds her back, but she's able to like shove away some of that paranoia ultimately to at least like gather herself :eyes:

y e s i was just thinking that. i was also thinking it'd be kind of neat if they don't actually arrive together lmao. like maybe wrath arrives with allison instead (while emilia with dany and potentially wrathion) because by now maybe some of her curse has kicked in and she is Staying Away.

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