CR Planning: July 2015

[undergroundmods]

CR Planning: July 2015

Welcome to the Underground! Newbies, we're very excited to have you! As mentioned in the calendar, there will be a welcome log posted on the 19th for newbies and current players alike to mingle. However, don't feel that you can't post until then, feel free to jump in right away! In the meantime, this post is a free-for-all for everyone to make new CR and figure out how to get involved with the game.

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.

The plotting post for July is still live with a couple of prompts left to claim, so please do feel free to use it!

I also want to add a quick reminder about the HMD meme that went up a couple of days ago, and in particular my request for feedback on the game. I've had a lot of great feedback already and am very happy to hear more suggestions, whether you've just joined or you've been around since the beginning. I will be starting to make the changes discussed from this weekend onwards, and more input is always welcome.

In the meantime, happy planning!

Comments

Arthur | Human Hunter

[specifiercity]

Arthur is an experienced human hunter who's been living and working in London for the past year or so, having been previously traveling with a witch and his wife as they conducted research around the world. He's more interested in learning about supernatural species than he is killing them, but he is very good at killing/incapacitating them.

My plans for him rn aren't going in a specific direction, I just want to get him some CR and see where it takes him! Ultimately I'd love for him to get involved in a faction struggle, whether it's between Hillingdon and someone else, or two other factions that he gets caught up with because he's so ~involved~.

DESIRED CR

• FACTION CONTACTS: I'd love to set up some contacts in different factions so that Arthur can get some intel moving. He'd like to have his finger on (or near) the pulse of all the faction movement in the city. Obviously this isn't going to be totally possible, but Arthur's pretty good at networking and he'd seek out people with insider information wherever possible.


• ANTAGONISTIC RELATIONSHIPS: I'm trash who loves conflict. I'd love to have at least a few relationships for Arthur where he has to have one hand on his gun whenever they meet, or where he has to emotionally prepare himself to throw down whenever this person walks into the bar. I don't want anyone out to kill him (since he's just a squishy human and can die pretty easily) but it's not like Arthur's always easy to get along with.


• ANYTHING ELSE!: Seriously I'm down for anything. Casual acquaintances, UST, people who think he's a pain in the ass. If you have an idea, I'm probably up for it.

[detectiveofthewest]

Hi there! I think Heiji could be a pretty decent source of info, depending on how they got on? And even if not, he's actually putting himself out there to get to know some more folks from Hillingdon. It's hard to know if they'll get along or clash, but either way I could throw my characters at Arthur and see what happens!

If Arthur ever needs patching up, Faust would also be happy to lend a (slightly creepy) hand.

[specifiercity]

Arthur's definitely going to need someone to go to if/when he's dealing with supernaturally inflicted injuries so if he gets along with Faust well enough we could definitely work from there!

I'd definitely be into having Heiji and Arthur interact and see if they could work something out! He needs some Seelie contacts to let him know what's going on in that court (8

[detectiveofthewest]

Then that sounds like a plan, we can intro them and see what shakes out B). Faust is pretty easy to get along with, really, as long as you don't bag on his wife and don't mind the occasional rant.

And of course depending on how things with Heiji and Arthur go, it could be quite a beneficial relationship! Especially if Arthur's willing to part with some deets on his end. Where's that googly eyes emote when I need it?

[specifiercity]

Arthur's definitely careful about what he shares, but he's into an equal exchange of information when it's appropriate.

For either of these would you like to assume some previous interaction or I can just keep an eye out for some opportunities to introduce them!

[detectiveofthewest]

I'm cool for introing them in-game!

[specifiercity]

Alright! I'll keep an eye out for Heiji and try and brain up a tag for Faust on the open log there. I may be trying to set up an open log for Arthur at some point so I'll make sure to keep them in mind!

[acrookedchild]

I have three different potential contacts to offer, if any/all of them would appeal to you.

Abigail is heading up the new coven for Circle Midnight, which is the only public coven for them at present. She's also a socialite of London, so he's probably heard of the Widdowson name at least peripherally.

Henry is the next. Metahuman with immortality who is a doctor (trying to study and understand the supernatural himself) and allied with Redbright Institute and the Night Council.

The last one is Azula, and those two met on the Test Drive. Not sure if you want that thread to be game canon or not. Totally up to you! She's Seelie and very happy to barter the information she has (or parts of it, at least) for favors from humans.

[specifiercity]

Arthur takes a special interest in witchcraft, so he'd definitely be interested in what Abigail's up to. He'd have been asking around with any of his Circle Midnight contacts to figure out how things are going to go and he generally likes to stay under the radar, but it would be cool for them to cross paths at some point. Maybe they already have and he played a bit dumb because he was trying to figure out if he needs to put a hit on her or not (':.

WRT Henry, Arthur might be interested if Henry were interested in trading information. He's pretty wary of the Institute and the Night Council, but he'll need a few contacts for patching him up when he's dealing with supernatural related injuries and he might use that as a way to find out waht's going on with those factions.

I'm cool with the TDM thread with Azula being canon if you like! He probably won't follow up with her

[rules_winter]

Well if he wants to be on his toes, Mab will be happy to be a source of tension. I'm interested to see how the two will get along. Even when you get along with her though, it's good to be on guard.

[specifiercity]

he would definitely be interested in what someone who's so ambitious would have to say (8

do you want them to run into each other or would you like to assume they've already met?

[rules_winter]

Either way is good for me. If you want them to already know each other you should decide if you want to know her as a fae already or just know her as what appears to be a human possibly with some witch magic. I don't think she'd have given him her name just yet so if he knows her as Fae she'd just be Lady of Air and Darkness. If he knows her as a human it would be Ms Sommerset.