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

Ginko

[biophilia]

Application and Permissions here, for reference.

> Because Ginko is a newcomer, he won't have a ton of established CR-- although he might recognize fae (line of work, and he has a bit of fae in his eye socket) and other witches.

> I believe Ginko is currently the only character besides Sylvia in Circle Daybreak, which is gonna be interesting, because, in addition to being a newcomer, he's ... selective in upholding/agreeing with the ideals of Daybreak. Think a Venn diagram that overlaps with Midnight and Daybreak, but mostly Daybreak.

> I'm looking for CR across the board, because Ginko won't be interested in faction politics. He will, however, have a "cause" in the shape of the consequences faction politics wreak on the normals, the weak, and people he cares about. He also has some overarching ideals about balance that could impact his reactions to conflict.

> Because he's a "fixer" by trade, it's possibly that his name would be floating around in terms of "that guy will handle it without charging too much", so I'd get a kick out of establishing CR that way, too.

In short, I will initiate pretty much any CR, because he's a vagrant who talks to strangers, but will probably have to be reactive in my plotting.

[kleptofaeniac]

Are you interested in some competition for Ginko's "fixer" biz?

Or at least in Kenzi considering him competition, lolol

[biophilia]

Yes, yes I am -- I love playing him off characters like Kenzi (app ended up with changes to backstory or I wouldn've kept tagging that tdm thread), in particular. He lacks pretty much any and all sense of competitiveness and ambition, so that could be potentially hilarious.

[kleptofaeniac]

No worries! Kenzi could honestly be competitive enough for both of them rofl

but i like this whole odd couple thing we could be working with :D

[biophilia]

The oddest, yus. And especially considering Ginko's not going to be so hot on the whole "no dark magic anywhere ever" (so inelegant, to his taste), Kenzi will probably have some serious impact on how he regards Circle Midnight.