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

[acrookedchild]

Since the Hales are an old supernatural family and so are the Widdowsons, these two have probably at least heard of each other. Abigail won't be very helpful with information about Derek's sister's murder, but she will be willing to help if he runs into blockades that can be removed or lessened with money. Something like that murder? Would unsettle Abigail a lot, so she'd want to help.

[viduation]

Oh yes, absolutely! How much information about them do you think might be open to picking up? While Derek wouldn't have cared that much before, since settling in London he's probably made an effort to learn things like this! c:

As for murder related things, I think Derek would be able to cover financial hurdles - but the Widdowson name and Abby's potential sway in her own right could be really helpful, I think?

[acrookedchild]

Either way, she'll be totally down with helping Derek (and werewolves in general) in any way she can. Since... werewolves and Circle Midnight both are kind of locked out of politics, and she's going to end up an activist.

Most of the Widdowson history is pretty open to the supernatural community. The curse isn't known, but it is assumed because of how many accidents, murders, and suicides plague the Widdowson line. Their use of the Fae to keep themselves alive and having children is... hinted at a lot, but no one has solid proof. Their fortune and how far they date back is well known. The fact that Abby is the last is definitely known, as well as that her mother, father, and baby brother died when she was thirteen.

[viduation]

Okay! I shall keep that in mind. Derek will be able to uncomfortably relate to that as well and he may end up feeling a kind of camaraderie because of it.