CR Planning: June 2015

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CR Planning: June 2015

Welcome to the Underground! Newbies, we're very excited to have you! This post is both a CR meme and a general update about what's happening in the game, so please do read and feel free to ask any questions.

You can use this post to:

• Discuss your character's background history with other players and make changes where needed.
• Work out shared history with canonmates and build in cross-canon CR.
• Say what kind of CR you're looking for and reply to others to offer CR.
• Say hi to the members of your faction and discuss your in-game strategy.
• Think about what territories you might want to make a claim on.

Newbies, are you wondering how to get started? The plotting post for June is still live, and there's room to jump in! Here are some plots in the works that are open to join:

Vampire & hunter shenanigans
• The Bloody Countess (20th June, Heiji Hattori)

Fae shenanigans
• Litha Feast: aka kidnapped by the Seelie (21st June, Heiji Hattori)
• Missing teens: aka who got kidnapped by the Seelie (in-progress, Pel Lavellan)

Witchy shenanigans
• Forming a Circle Midnight coven (25th June, Abigail Widdowson)
• Throwing a Midnight party at Geap Manor (1st July, Abigail Widdowson)

There will also be some new game information to be added this month: the Elites, a list of the most influential characters in each faction. These will be exclusively made up of level 4 or 5 ranking characters, and therefore to start off this page will be populated by NPCs. The twist? They'll be made up by you, so that you can put a name and a face to your faction leaders. Look out for an OOC post on that soon.

In the meantime, happy planning!

Comments

Horace Slughorn / Circle Daybreak Witch

[jointheclub]

Slughorn! Probably the oldest witch in the UK at this point, and responsible for a great deal of witch politics for decades now. Possibly including the rise of one hell of a Dark Lord back in the WW2 days.

I have no specific plans for the old man, but in general:

Collecting. As in canon, Slughorn has connections and favors that stretch back, and rigidly maintains his acquisition of more by adding people to his personal circle if he believes knowing them will be advantageous -- or if they're just pretty awesome in some way. Despite what certain Chosen Ones might think, this really isn't reprehensible -- it's just Good Ol' Boy politics at play, more like a Skull and Bones Society than anything malefic. If your character has worthwhile connections or is useful or interesting, Slughorn will want you.

Unless he knows or suspects you're into dark magic. He doesn't want that.

Potions. Slughorn has opened an apothecarium, and so long as you're not gunning for Circle Daybreak or plotting evil, he has no problem selling potions to those in need.

Favor-trading. Half of the first and half of the second, Slughorn is willing to keep in people's good graces and keep favors coming his way by trading them out. A good deed here for a good deed there? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours?

A Dark History. People versed in the lore of Circle Midnight might know that his talent and skill have been a desirable acquisition for decades.

CR I'm looking for:

-Really, pretty much anything at this point. He's barely established, so toss stuff at me and we'll see what sticks!

[livelongenough]

Since Slughorn is relatively older than most people, would you be interested in having Slughorn and Henry meet and say that they met last time Henry was in London? Which was probably 30+ years ago?

[jointheclub]

Slughorn has historically been up north, but there's no reason they couldn't have had the meeting at some point when he was in the city.

[livelongenough]

And Henry could have easily travelled up north and met him there, at least briefly. Wherever you'd prefer, since Henry does move around fairly frequently.

[jointheclub]

London makes more sense just because it's more centralized and established, IMO. Everything 'up north' is all generic at the moment!

[livelongenough]

Sounds great!

[rules_winter]

Oh Slughorn. I really want a history with you. And I want to meet you and freak you out completely, and be disturbingly affectionate. Also get all your information. Sweet man. I totally want to know your dirty little secrets.

Seriously though if you want them to have a history where she can actually suss him out to make him give her information I would be all over that like white on rice. Mab is a bully!

[jointheclub]

If anything he can end up spilling stuff to her because she'd dangerous and he's kind of a coward. There are levels he can be pushed to where he won't talk or will seek protection...

[rules_winter]

That's just fine. Mab can play a balancing act. Do you want him to know who she is and vice versa?

[jointheclub]

It would make the most sense. He's no fool, and she's... Mab. :D