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[Pig Boy]

Rharne Plot Notes Request

Hey there boozehounds, brawlers, baddies, beauties, burglars, benefactors, and bystanders! So after talking with some players I wanted to post up a thread where you guys can really easily get access to moderator input on Rharne based plots. That way you don't have to track down myself or another local Prophet and hash things out in private. It can all be done right here in this thread and available for everyone to see. The plan is that you guys can come here and request/suggest a Rharne based plot you'd like to self-mod. These would be specifically plots that you maybe are unsure about or because you know they will have a big impact on the region. We want you all to feel super comfortable changing Rharne via your IC actions! Player impact is so important, it keeps a place fresh and ever changing. So I'm going to break down the kinds of things you might request and below that I'll be putting a basic Plot Note Request Form up for anyone to fill out any time you want mod input/approval on a Rharne plot. I'll also be posting below a "Getting Started Form" for players who need help getting into the region.

What can you do here?

• Request help getting your character settled into the region (This isn't always easy, but we are here to help!)
• Ask to run a self modded moderate or high impact plot. (This way we can figure out the details. )

How do I get started?

• If you know what you'd like your character to do then fill out the Plot Note Request Form below.
  Give us some detail on what you'd like to do and what kind of impact you think it should have. We will respond as quickly as possible and provide you with plot notes as well as final approval if everyone is happy with everything. I'm going to try and contain all conversations to this thread but if it gets unwieldy this will probably be moved to it's own sub-forum so things can be handled similar to the PSF.
• If you are just starting in Rharne and you need help getting into the area let us know! We can take a look at your character and give suggestions as well as plot notes to help you get started! Please fill out a Getting Started Form below.

Plot Note Request Form:
Character Name:
Resident or Visitor: (This will help us gauge how the locals feel about you and how they may react)
Your Suggested Plot: (Let us know what you would like to do here, or at least the general direction you would like to go. Do you want to spy on a a high ranking Rharne official? Maybe try and oust a Shadow Soldier and replace them? Or perhaps you are really feeling the itch to burn Caervalle Town to the ground? Everything is game, just ask and we can help guide you. But at least try and have an idea that you want to use.)
Possible Impact: (Let us know what you think the impact of this plot would be on Rharne .)
Mini Character Summary: Tell us about you - what do the people of Rharne know you as? Do they know you at all?
Dreams: What is something your character wants? And what do you, as the player, want for your character?
Fears: What is something your character fears? And do you, the player, have anything that is off-limits for your character?
Timeframe: Are you / your pc on a time scale? What is it?
Additional Comments: Anything else you’d like to include may go here.

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[b]Character Name:[/b]
[b]Resident or Visitor:[/b] (This will help us gauge how the locals feel about you and how they may react)
[b]Your Suggested Plot: [/b](Let us know what you would like to do here, or at least the general direction you would like to go.  Do you want to spy on a a high ranking Rharne official?  Maybe try and oust a Shadow Soldier and replace them?  Or perhaps you are really feeling the itch to burn Caervalle Town to the ground?  Everything is game, just ask and we can help guide you. But at least try and have an idea that you want to use.)
[b]Possible Impact: [/b] (Let us know what you think the impact of this plot would be on Rharne .)
[b]Mini Character Summary:[/b] Tell us about you - what do the people of Scalvoris know you as? Do they know you at all? 
[b]Dreams:[/b] What is something your character wants? And what do you, as the player, want for your character?
[b]Fears:[/b] What is something your character fears? And do you, the player, have anything that is off-limits for your character?
[b]Timeframe:[/b] Are you / your pc on a time scale? What is it?
[b]Additional Comments:[/b] Anything else you’d like to include may go here. 

Getting Started in Rharne Form
Character Name:
Resident or Visitor:
What sort of plots are you interested in for this character?: (This part is important. Let us know what you are interested in for them and we will try and point you in the right direction.)

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[b][size=150]Getting Started in Rharne Form[/size][/b]
[b]Character Name:[/b]
[b]Resident or Visitor: [/b]
[b]What sort of plots are you interested in for this character?:[/b] (This part is important.  Let us know what you are interested in for them and we will try and point you in the right direction.)

Note: All plots must get final approval from a Prophet before being started.

[Rozkia]

Plot Note Request Form:
Character Name: Rozkia
Resident or Visitor: Resident
Your Suggested Plot: I'm a bit foggy on details but; i was thinking something related to my PC's amnesia. I had an idea for her to be a sleeper agent from Augiery, perhaps that could be a tie in? Audrae being killed could have something to do with her memories returning maybe. Perhaps a naerikk comes from Augiery to find Roz, maybe her mother or something? I kind of want some kind of intrigue/danger element but I'm not sure haha. I'd love to hear thoughts!
Possible Impact: Well, Rozkia would most likely learn that Audrae perished. I'm not sur elf any of this would impact Rharne so much as it would Roz.
Mini Character Summary: I don't think anyone knows her besides being "that naer"
Dreams: Rozkia wants self sufficiency and independence - power too, I think. She's still discovering herself, and the more she finds out the more questions she has. As for what I want for her, I want her to be a bad person LOL
Fears: Being helpless or abandoned. She's dealt with it enough. For me, I'd say death for now? I don't mind her gaining some scars
Timeframe: Nurp, though I would like something long running!
Additional Comments: Woo!

[Pig Boy]

Plot Note Request Form:
Character Name: Rozkia
Resident or Visitor: Resident
Your Suggested Plot: I'm a bit foggy on details but; i was thinking something related to my PC's amnesia. I had an idea for her to be a sleeper agent from Augiery, perhaps that could be a tie in? Audrae being killed could have something to do with her memories returning maybe. Perhaps a naerikk comes from Augiery to find Roz, maybe her mother or something? I kind of want some kind of intrigue/danger element but I'm not sure haha. I'd love to hear thoughts!
Possible Impact: Well, Rozkia would most likely learn that Audrae perished. I'm not sur elf any of this would impact Rharne so much as it would Roz.
Mini Character Summary: I don't think anyone knows her besides being "that naer"
Dreams: Rozkia wants self sufficiency and independence - power too, I think. She's still discovering herself, and the more she finds out the more questions she has. As for what I want for her, I want her to be a bad person LOL
Fears: Being helpless or abandoned. She's dealt with it enough. For me, I'd say death for now? I don't mind her gaining some scars
Timeframe: Nurp, though I would like something long running!
Additional Comments: Woo!

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Message from: Pig Boy

Rozkia has felt abandoned and helpless too many times in recent memory. She's been tugged along a path, toward something, but for whom or why, she cannot say. The embattled Naer, perhaps feeling the recent losses and beat-downs at the hands of Rharnean brawlers, has begun to toughen up a bit. Learn the streets she calls her current home, and even begun to earn a begrudging yet repulsive sense of respect from the people she brawls against. All the same, though, she hears the words when ensconced in darkness, of a night. During the darkest night of Cylus, when the moons are overcast, she hears it clearly as a bell. "Return to Us" Something inside her trigger a cascade of feeling, and she experiences a flashback, to a time before she was in Rharne. She has a memory from a few arcs ago, in a dark cavernous yet resplendant city. It is Augiery. She was called by a representative of Aurelia, the highest Vice Queen in the city. The Conquering Monarch of Augiery, second only to Audrae herself. Of course, Rozkia wasn't given the honor of a meeting with Aurelia herself, but soon found herself falling into a trap, and made to fight against a round of gladiatorial combatants and slaves as a humiliation to her family, which had fallen out of the favor of Aurelia. There, she fought until she was subdued, and humiliated by the gladiators and their mistresses. At the end, her mind was assaulted by the Empaths of Augiery. She lost all sense of where the memory went off to, after that. But at least in this memory she will have a clue as to what happened that preempted her exile. In the afterdays beyond this flashback, Rozkia will be prompted by some unseen force to attend to the docks of Rharne on one night. The 28th of Cylus. There, she will find a transport which unloads its passengers. One of them will come off the boat, and claim to be Rozkia's mother. Whether this is true or not, is for Rozkia to discover. Whether it's the ploy of a rival house in Augiery, or else true, and that she was also exiled, she will have all manner of information for Rozkia, including news of the death of Audrae. This may lead to a series of long-running plots for you, some of which might coincide with your Shadow Quarter tracker, once it gets going again. But for now, the woman who claims to be Rozkia's mother will be there to help and guide Rozkia, and teach her more of the arts of subterfuge, stealth, and discretion. Do feel free to submit her as a city npc, whether as an antagonist or otherwise. But bear in mind that others may use her. Just do log her uses in either the Antagonist thread or the Shadow Quarter Denizens.

[Vincent Steinitz]

Plot Note Request Form:

Character Name: Vincent Steinitz
Resident or Visitor: Resident
Your Suggested Plot: Vincent and several other Shadow Quarter prospects were approached by a fellow Shadow Quarter Prospect/Associate for a job. They plan to rob a seemingly abandoned manor/ villa in Rharne Proper (Glass quarter/Earth quarter) or an estate outside Rharne. They reported that the manor/villa/estate was staffed by a skeleton crew of household staff and should be easy picking. However, unbeknownst to them, the manor/villa/estate houses several cursed items (haunted painting(s), crying statues, etc.). If they manage to escape the villa/manor/estate, they would have difficulty fencing their stolen goods since potential buyers would either suffer minor bad luck or, worse, death.

It'll either end with the original crew ditching/destroying all their stolen goods or being haunted by the cursed items until they either find a solution, find solace in death or live with it.
Possible Impact: Not sure, but it probably will have a slight impact depending on how many stolen goods are circulated in the market and how many people were affected by it
Mini Character Summary: Not known aside from a handful of fellow Shadow Quarter prospects and the Associate that invited him into the fold
Dreams: Vincent wanted to run his operation and be promoted in the ranks of the Shadow Quarter. Also, to find out the whereabouts of his mentors. As the player, I wanted to see how he tackled his rise and fall as he pursued his ambitions.
Fears: Being helpless and being in poverty. As the player, nothing-off-limits for Vincent. Reap what you sow, right? It'd be interesting to see how he handles problems
Timeframe: The plan is for him to finish with the main/majority of the story arc before the seasonal timeline.
Additional Comments: Should I dev the NPCs and post them to the Shadow Quarter denizens? Because of the impact they would probably have on Vincent and their duration of appearance (several threads)

[Pig Boy]

Plot Note Request Form:

Character Name: Vincent Steinitz
Resident or Visitor: Resident
Your Suggested Plot: Vincent and several other Shadow Quarter prospects were approached by a fellow Shadow Quarter Prospect/Associate for a job. They plan to rob a seemingly abandoned manor/ villa in Rharne Proper (Glass quarter/Earth quarter) or an estate outside Rharne. They reported that the manor/villa/estate was staffed by a skeleton crew of household staff and should be easy picking. However, unbeknownst to them, the manor/villa/estate houses several cursed items (haunted painting(s), crying statues, etc.). If they manage to escape the villa/manor/estate, they would have difficulty fencing their stolen goods since potential buyers would either suffer minor bad luck or, worse, death.

It'll either end with the original crew ditching/destroying all their stolen goods or being haunted by the cursed items until they either find a solution, find solace in death or live with it.
Possible Impact: Not sure, but it probably will have a slight impact depending on how many stolen goods are circulated in the market and how many people were affected by it
Mini Character Summary: Not known aside from a handful of fellow Shadow Quarter prospects and the Associate that invited him into the fold
Dreams: Vincent wanted to run his operation and be promoted in the ranks of the Shadow Quarter. Also, to find out the whereabouts of his mentors. As the player, I wanted to see how he tackled his rise and fall as he pursued his ambitions.
Fears: Being helpless and being in poverty. As the player, nothing-off-limits for Vincent. Reap what you sow, right? It'd be interesting to see how he handles problems
Timeframe: The plan is for him to finish with the main/majority of the story arc before the seasonal timeline.
Additional Comments: Should I dev the NPCs and post them to the Shadow Quarter denizens? Because of the impact they would probably have on Vincent and their duration of appearance (several threads)

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Message from: Pig Boy

Oooh I love this idea. Very creative. Okay, so rule number one here is don't get caught, because obviously by about the end of the season you only have one crime on your rap sheet So long as you adhere to that one condition, I'm cool with most anything that happens. Yes you should dev any npcs you need for this in shadow quarter denizens, but only if their skills are such that are needed in order to successfully complete the job without detection. Okay, now to my summary: In the Earth Quarter, not far from the neighborhood of 'Little Ivorian', is a long abandoned manor house. It has long stood abandoned, and even rambunctious and adventuresome children will get chills just looking at the place, and not enter. Every few nights, there is a person sent to check on the buliding, usually a new person everytime. Whenever they leave, they do so in various states of distress or with pale faces etc.. Other than that, it would seem easy pickings for a band of miscreants looking to salvage whatever is left there. Treasures you'll find in the course of the adventure: A statue that cries blood (It's not really blood but a special wine decanter, crying red vinegar.) An old dusty jacket, that is a anchor for a phantom ghost. A painting of a cavern entrance, which appears black from certain angles, but shines red eyes when looked at dead on. When the red eyes fall upon anyone who looks at them, they will feel a sense of cold dread, and suffer night-terrors the next time they sleep. A shiny onyx nel, that is gilded with gold. Unbeknown to the thieves, this nel has a curse attached. Once you've done this series, and recovered the items, let me know and I'll mod note more details about the items. Thanks!

[Rozkia]

Plot Note Request Form:
Character Name: Rozkia
Resident or Visitor: Resident!
Your Suggested Plot: There's a bounty board claim I'd like to run with with some guidance. The Sweeping the dust quarter quest seems like a potential for good chaos. So here's what I got; Roz gets roped into helping with a sweep of a very old home that seems unassuming for the most part. the only problem is she's alone on the job. no one wants to work with a naer in a dark abandoned home perhaps. anyway, she stumbles upon a hidden cellar, where she finds some thing interesting. A person? A book? Who knows. But it I'd like to have it involve a medium level or danger if possible- nothing too strenuous but nothing super easily solved either.
Possible Impact: Depends on what she found and what it means/does
Mini Character Summary: Well, as of the next cycle she'll either be incarcerated or dead or something else entirely depending on the seasonal lol. For now she has a small criminal record (insignificant really) and is the naer that raked the angler, though not many would recognize she was the one.
Dreams: Power power power. And revenge, that too. As for what I want for Roz, I just want to cause trouble with her, see how far she can get.
Fears: Being weak, used and/or useless. No death perhaps? If she does something dumb kill her though LOL
Timeframe: I'd like something on-going if possible. Potential to involve others or run for a while would be nice!
Additional Comments: No idea if you can work with this, it hit me while going over my GST ad that I could maybe self moderate it and still have a good time! I do require assistance filling in the gaps, but as long as I have a starting point I should be golden!

[Pig Boy]

Plot Note Request Form:
Character Name: Rozkia
Resident or Visitor: Resident!
Your Suggested Plot: There's a bounty board claim I'd like to run with with some guidance. The Sweeping the dust quarter quest seems like a potential for good chaos. So here's what I got; Roz gets roped into helping with a sweep of a very old home that seems unassuming for the most part. the only problem is she's alone on the job. no one wants to work with a naer in a dark abandoned home perhaps. anyway, she stumbles upon a hidden cellar, where she finds some thing interesting. A person? A book? Who knows. But it I'd like to have it involve a medium level or danger if possible- nothing too strenuous but nothing super easily solved either.
Possible Impact: Depends on what she found and what it means/does
Mini Character Summary: Well, as of the next cycle she'll either be incarcerated or dead or something else entirely depending on the seasonal lol. For now she has a small criminal record (insignificant really) and is the naer that raked the angler, though not many would recognize she was the one.
Dreams: Power power power. And revenge, that too. As for what I want for Roz, I just want to cause trouble with her, see how far she can get.
Fears: Being weak, used and/or useless. No death perhaps? If she does something dumb kill her though LOL
Timeframe: I'd like something on-going if possible. Potential to involve others or run for a while would be nice!
Additional Comments: No idea if you can work with this, it hit me while going over my GST ad that I could maybe self moderate it and still have a good time! I do require assistance filling in the gaps, but as long as I have a starting point I should be golden!

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Message from: Pig Boy

Greetings Rozkia! Let's get going then. You find an abandoned cellar in one of the dust quarter hovels. Unusual for that quarter, to even have a basement level, much less one so well contained and deeply dug, yet there it is. At first it appears there's little of interest. But if you bring along a character with at least competent detection or investigation, you'll begin finding things. This should be a PC, not an NPC, because as you say most people are clever enough not to go into a dim dusty cellar with a strange naer... That kind of recklessness really calls for a PC-impact character Anyway, if you bring along someone with competent detection, or else level your own, you'll find a dusty journal, written in grovokian, interestingly enough. Inside, the journal of a Naer housewife. It begins innocently enough, with the Naer dreaming of having children with her beloved human husband. However, it turns dark as the husband was unaware of his wife's nature. When she reveals it to him, and the whole reason she'd had the cellar dug, he turns on her. The beatings begin intermittently at first, but then turn into large scale domestic conflicts between the two. In the end, she is left with a husband, dead at her own hands in self defense. But she's also pregnant. The journal tells of some ingredients she'd stored away for the baby's arrival, inks for the tattoos they'd need, and special ether-infused clays to form and reform her illusionary shell. However, all the searching (if Rozkia or her accomplice remain at competent skill in detection or investigation) will return are dusty mothballs and maybe a small rock or two. Things get interesting if they manage to find someone with expert detection or investigation. They will find a heavy flask of strange fluid. Dark green and fully opaque, that shines with golden opalescence in the candlelight. It would take an expert chemist to identify the substance, and also to replicate it to make more. Master detection and master investigation, and you'll find some of that ether infused clay beneath the sublevel of the foundation. This also requires expert chemistry or alchemy in order to identify. Once you've found these ingredients, please let me know and I'll mod note. Otherwise have fun telling the stories!

[Leander]

Plot Note Request Form:
Character Name: Leander Aguilar
Resident or Visitor: Resident
Your Suggested Plot: Something to do with a new hobby for the Shadow Quarter. I am happy for it to be a joint mission (say with Roz or others or NPCs). Looking for something up Leo's street where I can use his shiny new laboratory (The Attic) because I'd hate for the SQ to pour all that money into it for him to never use it! Hehe. I'm not a fan of combat but something... that has an element of challenge to it would be awesome!
Possible Impact: Looking to further the Shadow Quarter's aims
Mini Character Summary: Leo is known as a chemist, and has in the past helped out the Order of the Adunih. Recently they might know him as a bloke who spends too much time with Tristan! But, above all, he is known as someone who spends waaaaay too much time in the many taverns Rharne has to offer: he knows how to hold his liquor and can drink many a person under the table!
Dreams: Leo wants more than anything for his name to be known long after he is gone.
Fears: None, other than no one remembering his name. (OOC: I have no limits. If I do something stupid, I accept my punishment.)
Timeframe: No timeframe, but a multi-thread plot is something I should quite like.
Additional Comments: None!

[Orik Qe'Ryn]

Getting Started in Rharne Form
Character Name: Orik Qe'Ryn
Resident or Visitor: Resident
What sort of plots are you interested in for this character?: Brawling, Drinking, Increasing interest in faith with Illaren

While looking at the Calendar and other events, ie: Rharne Constitutional / Knife Gangs / The Brawling Circuit;

I think I missed the registration deadline for the Rharne Constitutional. Totally fine, but I was wondering if it was possible to make a spin on it for Orik's journey. For example, he attempts to register without knowing the deadline already passed, but runs into some unsavory characters that convince him that he has to do x,y,z as part of an initiation, and this gets him caught up in the knife gang event.

Overall, I'm hoping to somehow hoping to find a way to get Orik involved into the Brawling Circuit. I was bit confused on whether there are already established NPC's for the Knife Gangs or if there's a process I'd have to follow to submit NPC's for that specific calendar event?

Any and all feedback, ideas, etc. would be appreciated, to help with the direction of how to appropriately fit into Rharne! (I'm entirely open to going with different suggested ideas too, im a fan of unexpected plot twists)!

[Pig Boy]

Plot Note Request Form:
Character Name: Leander Aguilar
Resident or Visitor: Resident
Your Suggested Plot: Something to do with a new hobby for the Shadow Quarter. I am happy for it to be a joint mission (say with Roz or others or NPCs). Looking for something up Leo's street where I can use his shiny new laboratory (The Attic) because I'd hate for the SQ to pour all that money into it for him to never use it! Hehe. I'm not a fan of combat but something... that has an element of challenge to it would be awesome!
Possible Impact: Looking to further the Shadow Quarter's aims
Mini Character Summary: Leo is known as a chemist, and has in the past helped out the Order of the Adunih. Recently they might know him as a bloke who spends too much time with Tristan! But, above all, he is known as someone who spends waaaaay too much time in the many taverns Rharne has to offer: he knows how to hold his liquor and can drink many a person under the table!
Dreams: Leo wants more than anything for his name to be known long after he is gone.
Fears: None, other than no one remembering his name. (OOC: I have no limits. If I do something stupid, I accept my punishment.)
Timeframe: No timeframe, but a multi-thread plot is something I should quite like.
Additional Comments: None!

Mature warning for Plot Helper content

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Message from: Pig Boy

Greetings Leander! Let's get this on the road then. The little girl living in the Attic is clearly a supervisor of sorts, or perhaps her presence is mere happenstance. Either way, she does seem to appear when orders come down from Leander's SQ contacts. She's there on just one such a day, and even hands the missive to him, a slight breach of etiquette that Leander may find alarming. Should he discipline her for the act, he would find her absent the next day, but returning in a few trials to resume her supervision. At any rate, the missive that was given instructs Leander to acquire cadavers of various mortal species. Cadouri, Naer, Lotharro, and Sev'ryn are the most highly regarded targets. These instructions come with details on certain various substances (feel free to make them up. Some will be harmful, others inocuous) to test upon the bodies of these cadavers, and to take samples and seal them away in a jar to preserve them. At first, they're not picky about the condition of the cadavers, but as he sends in more samples through the mailbox, he finds their demands increasingly specific as to the freshness of the bodies. This all culminates when the SQ demands that he take a live one of these targets for experimentation. He is assured that the Attic is entirely sound-proof and inescapable once the subject has been lured there. But they do recommend bringing in muscle that Leander feels he can trust. Lest they lay waste to his prospects in the Quarter. Should Leander accomplish all of this in series' of threads, do contact me and I will hand down rewards and review. Have fun!