CR Planning: May 2015

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CR Planning: May 2015

Welcome to the Underground! As promised, this is a follow-up post for players who have been accepted into the game to discuss your characters' AU backgrounds with canonmates and other characters, and to establish pre-existing CR (character relations). Feel free to revise your character's history as appropriate to fit in with other characters in 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 begin discussing your in-game strategy.
• Start thinking about what territories you might want to make a claim on.

There will be a plotting post on the 18th where you can stake your territory claims for the opening month of the game, choose a prompt from a list of plots and start planning the events listed in the calendar.

Read the factions page to remind yourself who your allies and enemies are, then take a sneaky look at the territories map as it currently stands and have a think about your faction's goals. Do you want to make an aggressive grab for power? Sit tight and defend the territories you've already got? Play nice and build alliances with other factions? There's no right or wrong way to play: the tactics employed by your faction are completely up to you.

As before, this is a player-led discussion, but I'm happy to answer any questions. Happy planning, and I look forward to playing with everyone when the game opens!

Comments

Balem

[entitles]

Name: Balem Abrasax
Faction: Unseelie Court

CR Possibilities (shared or new):

• Any witches who may have summoned him before for any reason. Balem can be difficult to negotiate with and would usually demand some youth or years of servitude or another person or something like that, but he's really vain and has been known to accept nice expensive things in lieu of the other options as long as they're not asking anything too big of him.


• Characters interested in astronomy/star-based magic in general. If he likes you enough he might be willing to be a grumpy mentor.


• Anyone involved with the Other Realm in general.


• People who have had conflict with him in the past. He's pretty easy to pick a fight with.


• Anything really, if you can think of something else! His full app is here. Anyone he trusts and people who have summoned him or gotten his name from someone else can know him as Balem, anyone is free to know him by his nickname, Cephei.

Faction Claims: SO fae aren't on the faction map yet and he's the only Unseelie, but Balem is a jerk so I was thinking of having him waltz on into one of the unclaimed territories. Both because he's greedy and doesn't want all the non-fae to get too comfortable. Might have to wait for more fae to come in but he can at least start planning it.

Re: Balem

[detectiveofthewest]

I was thinking about how these guys might run into each other and in Japan there's kind of a tradition where you give stuff to your neighbors when you move in somewhere :|a.

So Heiji could come by at some point and give him some shiny trinket or something, if you like.

[entitles]

I'd be up for that! He hasn't really been to Japan so he'd like to get something from there.

[acrookedchild]

She probably doesn't rate high on her radar, but there's a good chance Balem might know the Widdowson name, even traded favors/protection with them for youth and shiny things on occasion, since they stay alive by making contracts with Fae. Probably no close association between these two, but a little bit of knowledge about each other.

[entitles]

Sure, Balem keeps up with Fae affairs well enough that he'd know people who made frequent contracts. She's free to have heard of him, too.