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let's set d o w n some ([personal profile] groundrules) wrote 2021-11-08 09:37 pm (UTC)

ACCEPTED


Thank you for your application!

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  • When you have a second, have a last read through the game rules and comment to the TAKEN LIST.

  • Join [community profile] eastbound, [community profile] lostcompass, [community profile] westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on [community profile] lostcompass, if you want!

  • All game-relevant updates will be posted on [community profile] lostcompass, but if you’re fond of plurk, consider following [plurk.com profile] eastbound.


  • Like it says on the application page tin — you can have a maximum of two characters in the game, and you can invite one new person in per month!

  • If you’re not already served on that front, we have some custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post. Both are entirely optional, and feel free to customise at will!

  • Your character is exempted from activity requirements this month.

  • There is an informal discord server for the game, if you’re into that kind of thing — you’ll get a private message with an invite, once you comment to the Taken List!

  • We have kicked off Arc II: Taravast, and our latest plot developments are here.

  • I’ll volley the choice back at you and let you decide how big you want Drogon to come in (no bigger than reaching Daenerys’ knees, please).

    NOTES

  • INTRO: Daenerys will be joining the team right after the recent devastation of Taravast. She awakens alone, with her dragon, in a remote desert canyon — the Stairs of Sighs passageway. She is ‘rescued’ by a band of minor nobles and merchant refugees, who took off with all of their belongings and abandoned Taravast to destruction amid the ongoing conflict. Attempting to fight the undead, with the odds so ill balanced against them, is futile, they argue. They would benefit no one — least of all themselves — by persisting in suicide. So, they’ve fled.

    Unlike their water-born kind, pure dragons with the capacity for flight have not been seen in Taravast for decades. Drogon awes them, and they interpret his appearance here and now as a sign that Taravast will prevail despite its recent hardships. Band leader Rosso Capello and several of the cravens travellers repent of their brief episode of cowardice, determined to reconquer the citadel with the help of this mysterious nymph who speaks in tongues and her dragon.

    ...as it happens, by the time they crawl back to Taravast, the citadel has already been purged of the undead, and the merchants apply themselves to building Daenerys (and especially her dragon) a reputation as a nymph embodying purity, virtue, conquest and stalwart bravery. The last-minute branding doesn’t exactly harm their ask price, when they sell both Daenerys and Drogon to the household of Vannozza Spina — who accepts the transaction less for Daenerys’ prospects in determining the tides of war, and more because dragons have historically sometimes helped cure eerie sicknesses. The lady, it will become apparent later in the month, is afflicted. ( Daenerys might get a plot roll closer to the moment when either Vannozza's sickness is revealed, or when the lady Spina begins to desperately try her luck at whatever cures are available. )

    Once slated for Vannozza’s wing of the Palace of the Doxe, Daenerys is intercepted by the sorceress Karsa, an employee of the party’s Merchant benefactor who is currently journeying with the group. She recognises Daenerys as a newcomer to the world and provides her a communication and translation device, so that Daenerys can finally master the local tongue. Karsa discloses Daenerys’ whereabouts and recounts the story so far.

    Karsa can also explain the piazza — a style of communicating to the city at large, with an eye to influence public opinion.


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