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CR Planning: September 2015
CR Planning: September 2015
Here is your CR planning post for September! Welcome, welcome. Please feel free to ask any questions about what's happening in the game, whether you're just jumping in or you're a veteran player.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 September is still live! There's time left to claim a plot if you'd like. For those of you thinking about future territory claims, note that Croydon has already been won by the Seelie/Unseelie Court this month, Haringey is now under Redbright rule, and the vampires are plotting to take over Greenwich. The territory map will be updated to reflect these developments in time for the October plotting post.
Happy planning!
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Sylvia Redbright (NPC) | Witch
Sylvia's factions have had mixed fortunes lately: a win (Redbright claiming Haringey), a loss (Daybreak losing Croydon) and a successful defence that nevertheless cost lives (Redbright defending Barnet). Sylvia will of course be looking to improve her factions' prospects where possible, so she would very much support claims to that effect!
Finally, since Circle Midnight won last month's faction reward, the law change they have requested (making it illegal to kill any witch) will come into effect this month! It will be included on the upcoming plotting post. Sylvia will be negotiating that deal in the next few days.
Here's a brief outline of Sylvia's overall strategy for the Redbright Institute:
• Extend the green safe zone to the north of London
• Take over disputed territories and make them peaceful
• Stamp out dark magic completely
• Eventually, negotiate with the vampires and werewolves to broker a peace agreement
• Support Circle Daybreak and Night Council where possible
And her strategy for Circle Daybreak:
• Make a slow expansion to gradually dominate the entire south of London
• Avoid pissing off the vampires unless they get aggressive
• Support Redbright Institute and Night Council where possible
• Aggressively squash any attempts by Circle Midnight to gain territory
Hit me up if you want CR!
Alice Liddell | Witch
She's currently placed in assisted housing for people like her getting out of the hospital and slowly getting on her feet. Since she's a modernized version of her canon self, Alice is almost the same, but on heavy medication for her afflictions. She'll actually stop taking some of them because she dislikes the side affects and because she believes it interferes with learning magic. It doesn't, but Alice is prone to not thinking things through. So, I'm sure all of you remember a meek, timid Alice, right? Alice will actually be getting more and more violent and sassy as time goes on, revealing her real personality.
She's gonna be poking around, fighting vampires. So if this sounds like your thing, comment here! I'll be doing an open post with her.
But yes, she's looking to be closer to her kind and is a very eager newbie.
Her overall goals are unchanging:
- Find her family's murderer
- Find a way to get herself stable financially and emotionally
- Strengthen her magic
Contributions to Circle Midnight:
- Alice will help them because she believes they failed to help her family (they were members of Circle Daybreak!)
- If you're smashing vampires, Alice wants in on that
- NO VAMPIRES
- Attempt to keep a non-violent approach
- Smush her way in, get to know some people even if she's an awkward turtle
Sirius Black | Shapeshifter
He comes from a well-known shapeshifting family (the Blacks) and has connections to the Hillingdon Clan that he is trying to re-strengthen, but otherwise is something of a free agent. His animal form is a large black dog.
His overall goals are pretty simple:
-Find out who framed them and exact some kind of revenge
-Clear his name
In the short-term:
-He's mostly secured a safe-house
-Figure out exactly where he stands with the Hillingdon Clan
-Make friends and allies
-Not get arrested
I would love for him to make more friends and just build up a network of some sort, even if you just know him as a lovable stray. That or cause trouble for him because he's technically an escaped criminal.
He has an open post here for September and a thread at the Harvest Festival here
I can be contacted here or on plurk at
Nancy | Circle Midnight Witch
I'm really looking for any kind of CR. Friends, enemies, clients, victims, you name it.
YEAH.
I've got an open post here, and you can grab me here or at
Lancelot | Meta human / Daybreak & Night Council
Lancelot is very into Sylvia's idea of spreading the safe zone and stamping out dark magic. He's a little twitchy around werewolves, but in general he won't bring down members of other factions on sight and is pretty sympathetic.
Lancelot needs more friends and enemies both! I'm happy to have him investigate people and fail or succeed, to have him help others investigate (to whatever result you desire) or to get completely the wrong idea!
Lancelot is very well meaning and it's fun to have him accidentally dig himself a hole, so if you'd like him to get off on the wrong foot entirely with someone while trying to help that's pretty reasonable!
He also tends to not always think too hard about his desire to help people, so if you'd like to strike up a friendship where neither party realises they're in opposing factions until an awkward moment that could be fun!
If you want to butt heads over ideals that'd also be fun! Lancelot is open minded but has a tendency toward stubbornness and grandstanding sometimes, he'll listen but he'll also struggle to see what's wrong with what Circle Daybreak does.
If you want to 'befriend' him for an in with Daybreak and / or Night Council that is also doable -- genuinely or for appearances while silently thinking him an idiot.
Other options obviously available too! Just hit me up!
Gilbert Norrell | Daybreak Witch
Obviously, a guy like this is bound to have enemies -- and I am very open to this. He's a frustrating and terrible little man, even when in his heart he often means well, and he deserves some difficulty! If you'd like to set up existing conflict or plan for one let me know!
He's also going to be very focused on trying to integrate himself firmly into the Night Council. This should be a terrifying prospect for all involved, and you are welcome to know of this -- Norrell's general personality and ethos is one of ban everything I don't like and he doesn't like much.
He has a lot of resources! If you'd like to befriend him for appearances to get at them, or (gasp) genuinely befriend him to get past his prickly exterior do let me know!
Norrell has a habit of buying up books so other people can't have them. If you wish to be slighted by his buying every copy of a book you wanted this could be an amusing kickstart to CR!
His general dogsbody and coven member is Childermass who can also be grilled for information on him. If you are Daybreak and want to belong to his coven, you can indeed join!
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I am guessing that he won't be her absolute favourite person.
(Is he anyone's...)
Eames || Unseelie Fae
No UM. The last... Quite a while has been kinda hard for me and as such I've been generally absent, but here's THIS ASSHOLE. Eames trades in information and favours so he's great for Generic Illegal Doings or Procuring Generic Magic Things. If you want something a lil more specific I would love to work that out with you. He's also not bad at making things seem like it's benefiting you way more than it is or that he's actually a friend, so if you've a particularly gullible character who needs some 'help' he will adore them.
He himself is always in the market for more contacts and I would love that! Shady folks need to stay together. I also love me some negative CR, for which I have no particular ideas but wouldn't turn down!
As far as character goals and whatnot, he has none in particular. Though he's not a fan of this whole "locking the fae out of London" thing that's going on and the presence of the Night Council in particular, so anything that chips away at that is A+. A long-term thing I've been thinking about is establishing a neutral territory that's managed together by various people in each faction. Kind of as a "fuck you, we don't need you to police us" to the Council. Because Redbright territory may be nominally neutral, but he doesn't trust that for shit.
You can get me over at
Arthur | Hillingdon Hunter
Arthur is a human hunter associated with the Hillingdon clan. He's been in London just over a year, and before that he worked as sort of a personal bodyguard for an American witch traveling all over Europe. Before that he was in a special ops division of the US military which aimed to keep the country safe from vampire attacks, so he's very well trained in the art of subduing and killing vampires. He has a great deal of knowledge about the supernatural and feels culturally close with witches, but he's very wary of the Night Council and its general attitudes toward the supernatural world. He plays things very close to the chest, but he's always willing to trade information if he thinks it won't put himself at risk, and he'd like to get himself a little bit closer the political movers and shakers of the supernatural world so he can have his finger on the pulse of big changes and maybe pull a few strings here and there.
Overall his interests are:
• Seeing the vampires lose political power
• Preventing Circle Daybreak from taking over the city (possibly by empowering other factions against them)
• Make connections within Hillingdon in case the faction needs to mobilize
• Make connections with people in other factions to trade information, influence decisions, etc.
• Preferably do all of this without painting a target on his own back
Short-term he is still looking for connections with people who can provide information, potentially in exchange for information or for his services, which can be summed up as either protection or hunting. He's a reasonable person, but he won't give away anything for free unless he trusts someone not to misuse it.
Let me know if you're interested in some CR either here or hit me up at
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Tavros himself is a very sweet person who tries to live most of his life by laying down and not putting up a fight when bigger and stronger people come barreling though. He spends most of his time quietly resenting them in his head.
LONG TERM GOALS: Tavros has no immediate goals or interests. He likes to breeze through town and breeze out again before anyone can make him do anything.
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Horrible, horrible fun.
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Maybe stumbling across him investigating something? Or if he has cause to be at the festival for any reason they could meet there.
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