Barrier Plot Tracker

[Basilisk]

Barrier Plot Tracker

Plot Threads
A Brief Vacation: Padraig, along with Faith and Varlum, make it through the northern barrier and find a land that has been hidden behind the barriers since time immemorial. They meet the locals, the local Dragon, Faith gets some Dragon and Vetrarstig-people blood, and Padraig gets a Kaldvind.

Northern Barrier Notes
Region name: Vetrarstig
Known locations: Veggvack, a village near the Barrier
Known races: Human
Known creatures: Giant fluffy birds of prey
Known people: Adalsteinn and Hallvardur, Padraig's guides when he first entered Vetrarstig
Known entities: Frosvinndur, a dragon who appears to be one of the rulers of Vetrarstig

Things to do

Return to the Northern Barrier: Frosvinndur gave Padraig and friends free leave to return to Vetrarstig, so that they can continue learning about region behind the barrier, and the people behind the barrier can learn of Idalos proper.

Investigate the other Barriers: The Northern Barrier is only one of four barriers. There are three other barriers to explore, with new discoveries awaiting behind each one. However, the lands beyond these Barriers may well be less welcoming than Vetrarstig and you would do well to be prepared.

Discover what happened to the Dragons: There were once Dragons in Idalos. Finding out what happened to them may be important.

Investigate the connection between Ithecal and Dragons: Frosvinndur said there was a connection between Ithecal and Dragons. Maybe the creator of the Ithecal knows why?

Find a way to survive longer beyond the Barriers: Padraig, and other Mortalborn, will die if they spend too long behind the Barriers. You'll need a way to survive the limited connection to Emea if you're going to spend an extended amount of time behind the Barriers.

Investigate the blood: Faith was given some Dragon blood and some blood from the locals of Vetrarstig. Probably worth checking out.

Study the Kaldvind: Padraig got a Dragonling mount. Probably worth finding out more about it and what it can do.

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	Please post links to threads that have a bearing on this plot in this thread and I'll add them and what you learn from those threads to this tracker. Significant enough discoveries will make their way to the Wiki as well.

[Faith Augustin]

Barrier Plot Tracker

Plot Threads
A Brief Vacation: Padraig, along with Faith and Varlum, make it through the northern barrier and find a land that has been hidden behind the barriers since time immemorial. They meet the locals, the local Dragon, Faith gets some Dragon and Vetrarstig-people blood, and Padraig gets a Kaldvind.

Northern Barrier Notes
Region name: Vetrarstig
Known locations: Veggvack, a village near the Barrier
Known races: Human
Known creatures: Giant fluffy birds of prey
Known people: Adalsteinn and Hallvardur, Padraig's guides when he first entered Vetrarstig
Known entities: Frosvinndur, a dragon who appears to be one of the rulers of Vetrarstig

Thanks! We had a lovely time!

Things to do
Rough plan. Subject to change. One of us (lets face it, it'll be me, probably..... ) will posts as threads are started, and then when they're finished. As they are completed, I'll edit this post and put the threads in here.


1. Investigate the other Barriers:
The Northern Barrier is only one of four barriers. There are three other barriers to explore, with new discoveries awaiting behind each one. However, the lands beyond these Barriers may well be less welcoming than Vetrarstig and you would do well to be prepared.

We will do this first. Look at / research:
Legends
History
Stories
All barriers - sea-legends (go talk to my mate the pirate) - research and research more.


2. Discover what happened to the Dragons:
There were once Dragons in Idalos. Finding out what happened to them may be important.
This will follow on from 1. above. Maybe a sort of archaeological dig?

3. Investigate the connection between Ithecal and Dragons:
Frosvinndur said there was a connection between Ithecal and Dragons. Maybe the creator of the Ithecal knows why?
Varlum's gonna do this. He's going to go ask Ethyl.

4. Investigate the blood:
Faith was given some Dragon blood and some blood from the locals of Vetrarstig. Probably worth checking out.
Yup. Lots of that. Specifically looking at differences between it and human blood - separating it out etc. Looking at it in relation to MBorns, too. Maybe ask Fam?

5. Find a way to survive longer beyond the Barriers:
Padraig, and other Mortalborn, will die if they spend too long behind the Barriers. You'll need a way to survive the limited connection to Emea if you're going to spend an extended amount of time behind the Barriers.
This is going to be after the blood investigation - because that will hopefully give us some leads. Then, it's a case of experimenting. It'll be icky and Pad won't like it.

Ongoing: Study the Kaldvind:
Padraig got a Dragonling mount. Probably worth finding out more about it and what it can do.
Probably going to try and including this in the stages above - if that's sufficient. If it's not we'll do specific threads.

6. Return to the Northern Barrier:
Frosvinndur gave Padraig and friends free leave to return to Vetrarstig, so that they can continue learning about region behind the barrier, and the people behind the barrier can learn of Idalos proper.
We'll do this once we've done all of the above. We'll take resources to Vetrarstig, findings from our studies etc - and we'll test out our defences / ways to survive there - where we know it's safe!

7. Investigate the other Barriers:
The Northern Barrier is only one of four barriers. There are three other barriers to explore, with new discoveries awaiting behind each one. However, the lands beyond these Barriers may well be less welcoming than Vetrarstig and you would do well to be prepared.

Then, we'll go look at what's next.

[Faith Augustin]

Barrier Plot Tracker

Main List of Threads

A Brief Vacation: Padraig, along with Faith and Varlum, make it through the northern barrier and find a land that has been hidden behind the barriers since time immemorial. They meet the locals, the local Dragon, Faith gets some Dragon and Vetrarstig-people blood, and Padraig gets a Kaldvind.
Family Dinner - Asking Famula.
It's All Just Academic - asking Knots and his friends about legends of other barriers.
Researching Dragons I: Wingspan - finding out what else has been looked at since Padraig's first expedition and the second - find out what spin off theories there are for his research - and see if anything makes sense.
Researching Dragons II: Tales - legends and tales of dragons.
Returning to the Beginning - Dragon blood
What Makes the Candle Flutter Preparing for the journey.

[Faith Augustin]

Investigating the other barriers: Started this thread: here where Faith picks up with an old contact called Knots. He helped her when she was looking for Padraig the first time he went to the barriers. That thread is linked in there

Thread Completed.

Faith learns:
There are barriers all around the world.
They're known to some as Chrien's Wall

Questions from this:
Is Idalos a jail, and the barriers the bars?
Would a Chrien Talisman (she has one from Zvezdana) be protection?

[Faith Augustin]

Investigating the other barriers: Researching Dragons I: Wingspan - In this thread, Faith travels to Viden and sets herself up to research. This will be an ongoing thing.

Thread Completed!
In this thread, Faith sets up her research in her usual meticulous fashion. She's doing this using her Tier 2 Logistics, and I'm hoping that she might find that there's something she's done which leads her somewhere useful. The Tier 2 ability in question is:

Faith has developed her skill to the point where she can plan for the worst-case-scenario in the most efficient way possible and make logistical decisions which may seem to be unusual or extreme but which are, in fact, exactly what's needed. This leads to her having something on hand which could help against even the most obscure and difficult turn of events. So, to give an example, the gut instinct to bring a beautiful bird along for company on the voyage is directly helpful when a priest of Delroth seeks to impede their progress. I think it'll be interesting for story and will be something mods can use if they wish

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	Faith's Tier Logistics results: She has the gut instinct to bring medical supplies that will help her both induce and maintain sleep.

[Faith Augustin]

Researching Dragons: In this thread Faith starts her dragon research. She links it to the legends of the jacadon in Rynmere - not because she thinks they are dragons, necessarily, but because legends and stories often share aspects and, since it is a known place to start, it allows her to use the referencing system of the library to it's advantage.


Thread Completed!

Faith discovered:
It led Faith to thinking about the rock Padraig licked - and it has taken her to some science-y places.
She's got the idea that the rock from Uthaldria might be able to be used to negate the effects of the barrier - and that the barrier might be created by a similar kind of rock which is being conducted outward in the water.
She found lots of legends of dragons - mostly useless - but she's made a map which she puts dotties on when there's a rumour / myth / legend. As she continues to work, it will show her more and more "Hotspots"
She found a legend of people fighting a dragon in the Hotlands and she thinks she's kinda sorta almost worked out where.

[Faith Augustin]

Investigating blood here Faith and Pad are lookin' at dragon blood. Might need a modnote?

Has been modnoted. Changes everything. Yay!

Thread Complete - review says:

"Results of the Alchemy: Blood-Ether Potion creation is partially successful. The potion does give whoever takes it an ether regenerating effect. However, there are two downsides to the current iteration of the potion. The first is that the effect doesn't last for very long. One potion only lasts for six hours, as the ether regeneration quickly burns itself out in a mortal or mortalborn body, as they can't sustain it. Second, it also overclocks abilities that use ether. While Blessings aren't effected due to the Blessing itself acting as inhibitor, Domain Magic and Mortalborn powers have no such inherent safeguard. Anyone using Domain Magic while under the effects of this potion will have a significantly increased chance of Overstepping, and anyone using Mortalborn powers will have a significantly increased chance of Fracturing.

Dragon Blood, and Draconic Ether, is still very new to them, however. As their understanding and experience with Dragon blood as alchemical agent grows, they may be able to improve the potion."

Yay

[Faith Augustin]

Researching the Barriers Researching Dragons III: Breathing Fire - Faith is looking at the original reports from Padraig and their own experiences when they both went. She's linking the geographical, weather, etc anomalies and looking for them elsewhere.

Thread Complete

Faith realises that they need to take things over the barrier - having examined the items / plants / etc from behind the barrier, the only thing that she sees as a difference is the lack of ether. This leads her to question what would happen if mundane flora / fauna was taken over there. She decides to set up a list of what to take and that she'll start researching the other barriers in more detail once they've been back again and know that they have a solution to the ether drain.

[Faith Augustin]

Researching the blood: A Brief History of Everything - Faith goes over all the medical knowledge on blood and blood mutations - just in case there are links to be made with dragons or mortals beyond the barrier.

Thread Complete
Faith documents the links between dragon blood and ithecal blood - will be testing blood infusions from dragons for MB and NonMB ithecal first chance she gets

Then, she examines dragon blood and starts to think about vaccination as a concept (though she doesn't call it that) and the use of the body's own defence.

[Faith Augustin]

Researching Barriers: Space is big, dreams are bigger. Faith starts researching Emea and its relationship to the barriers.