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powersthatbe) wrote2019-01-12 06:24 pm
powersthatbe) wrote2019-01-12 06:24 pm
Market of the Vanities: Plot Role Info.
If you are not a plot infiltrator or someone with IC reasons to share knowledge available to plot infiltrators, please do not read the comments of this post.
If you ARE a plot infiltrator, please comment under your toplevel to let us know you've read it; please also pop over here to announce your plotroleishness to the game at large. We prefer that you do any confidential plotting with other plot-important folks in the comments here, rather than on plurk, and please comment no later than January 23rd, January 31st, February 8th, February 16th, & February 24th with a brief (as brief as 1 sentence; as long as you like) summary of your activity during the week & plans for next week. These comments will help the mods shape mingles and plot events to keep the story dynamic and player actions important to the outcome. Likewise, comment at any time with any questions you may have, and a mod will get back to you within 36 hours at the outside.
-Links to folklore are included not to pigeonhole you into using those names or background details, but only to share our inspirations for the roles and allow you to draw from them as much or little as you like.
-All your characters may be safely assumed to have access to monetary resources and minor magic items to sell or trade; doing so will constitute skill proof for the character receiving the item. Such magic items should convey a minor advantage, a cantrip or trick - an endless torch, a self-mending piece of clothing, a sword that draws itself in times of danger - but not an item that conveys a major advantage or wholly new ability, such as a sword that fights on its own, a torch that can light endless fires, or clothing that can alter itself into other outfits. If you're not sure of an item or want to sell or trade something more powerful, contact the mods under your toplevel and ask - the Market is meant to be a place of wonders and you're the biggest suppliers in it.
-Obviously the skills listed below are exceptional even by Traveler standards. If you have concerns about a skill, yours or someone else's, potentially unbalancing the game, please let us know ASAP so we can address that concern & work out a fix if necessary. Your characters are under no obligation to sell, trade, or give away these skills, but are able to do so, and we've worked to give many or most of you some possible motivation to justify the skill trades. If you cannot imagine a circumstance where your character would make any trades, let us know so we can clarify and explain.
If you ARE a plot infiltrator, please comment under your toplevel to let us know you've read it; please also pop over here to announce your plotroleishness to the game at large. We prefer that you do any confidential plotting with other plot-important folks in the comments here, rather than on plurk, and please comment no later than January 23rd, January 31st, February 8th, February 16th, & February 24th with a brief (as brief as 1 sentence; as long as you like) summary of your activity during the week & plans for next week. These comments will help the mods shape mingles and plot events to keep the story dynamic and player actions important to the outcome. Likewise, comment at any time with any questions you may have, and a mod will get back to you within 36 hours at the outside.
-Links to folklore are included not to pigeonhole you into using those names or background details, but only to share our inspirations for the roles and allow you to draw from them as much or little as you like.
-All your characters may be safely assumed to have access to monetary resources and minor magic items to sell or trade; doing so will constitute skill proof for the character receiving the item. Such magic items should convey a minor advantage, a cantrip or trick - an endless torch, a self-mending piece of clothing, a sword that draws itself in times of danger - but not an item that conveys a major advantage or wholly new ability, such as a sword that fights on its own, a torch that can light endless fires, or clothing that can alter itself into other outfits. If you're not sure of an item or want to sell or trade something more powerful, contact the mods under your toplevel and ask - the Market is meant to be a place of wonders and you're the biggest suppliers in it.
-Obviously the skills listed below are exceptional even by Traveler standards. If you have concerns about a skill, yours or someone else's, potentially unbalancing the game, please let us know ASAP so we can address that concern & work out a fix if necessary. Your characters are under no obligation to sell, trade, or give away these skills, but are able to do so, and we've worked to give many or most of you some possible motivation to justify the skill trades. If you cannot imagine a circumstance where your character would make any trades, let us know so we can clarify and explain.
Matt Holt: The Hunter
Thread Expectation: three threads / twelve comments per mingle.
Check-In Expectation: any advantages accrued to the Peregrines; at least three loans of the Orb across five mingles (preferably more).
Privileged Information: No one has given you any privileged information. No one has given you anything. You do not remember your mortal life, and do not consider yourself guilty of sins you do not remember. You are known as The Hunter because, having secured the sword Broken Faith before the Name was used in Melasurei, you used it to hunt down immortal beings who did not honor their bargains with Peregrines, or who exploited and abused them.
Outlook: A firebrand and idealist - Enjolras, Malcolm X, Ned Ludd.
Goals: POWER TO THE PEOPLE. Break the systems of oppression which keep the Peregrines down. Make no compromises which weaken the militant and organized power of the mercenaries you command.
Mythic/Folklore Inspiration: The poetry of William Blake, & most of Les Miserables.
Skills: Demesnes or Dignities may be traded or sold. Graces may only be given away freely. They may only be reported as skills for one character at the end of the Jaunt, but if you give the power away in a thread, that thread counts as a skill proof for you. You are still limited to two skills a month if you do not trade a skill, or three if you do trade a skill.
Orb of the Prince of Peregrines This Demesnes grants you a big space near the middle of the Market to erect a tent; permission to draw water from the Styx at need, a seat and a vote on the Market Council, and the ability to conjure one magical weapon or tool which embodies this authority. Losing physical possession of the tool, when conjured, forfeits the authority of the Princedom to the one who has the tool. The Princedom does not give you de jure authority over all beings of your type or kindred within the Market, but many behave as though it gives you de facto authority. However, since no Peregrines own land nearby and few have any Graces or Dignities, the mere fact of the Princedom makes it far more valuable to Peregrines than the other Princedoms are to their holders or kindreds.
The power of the orb is to view any being whose name is breathed on it for as long as it takes for the breath to evaporate from the glass, and may be invoked once a week, or after the Jaunt, once per Jaunt.
Broken Faith: a broken Angelic sword of lightning. When not grounded in its sheath, lightning pours forth constantly. Demons and Sithen are harmed by the holy lightning; Angels by the act of losing faith which caused the sword to break. No Angel, Demon, or Sithen can safely wield it. The Hunter, in order to wield it, required a deal with the Prince of Gold to fetch rubber gloves and galoshes from the mortal realms, and owes the Prince of Gold an uncalled-in debt as a result.
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I'm all about this.
Out of curiosity, how does Broken Faith work? Is it like Narsil, the Sword That Was Broken? Or is it just.... malfunctioning with its lightning? (Or is it up to me?)
Also... the thought of this very serious face freedom fighter in rubber gloves and wellies is cracking me up.
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In Arthurian Legend, Sir Percival had a perfect sword with one crack, to represent the one flaw in his perfect faith. This is essentially the "after" picture of such a sword.
Hi Sooj.
So, in theory, if you can deal with LIGHTNING FOREVER, it is still a sword, albeit one with a crack, yes?
Re: Hi Sooj.
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