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

CLARA SEVILLE

[warmheartedly]

NAME;; Clara Seville
SPECIES;; Ghost
FACTION;; Redbright Institute
INFORMATION;; [ APP ] | [ PERMISSIONS ]

SUMMARY;; Clara has been around for a long time in London having moved there in her youth with her husband and is currently haunting a coffeeshop located in Harrow since it used to be her old apartment building. She's made a few number of friends along the way and I'm always up for her having more or a variety to her relationship roster to push her beyond her boundaries!

CR;;

→ OLD CONNECTIONS because like I said she's been around for a looong time since she moved to London around the late 1960s - early 1970s. She would have had the ability to move beyond her haunting spot by the mid 2000s and began to really explore what's out there. I can see her making friends with mediums who wish her to do no harm or metahumans who aren't scared of her presence and even a fae or two if they so desire.

→ SPYING POTENTIAL because I love the idea of a ghostly little old granny taking notes of a conversation and relaying the information to her handler and then going, 'And they didn't wash their hands when they came out of the stall. Just headed straight back to the table and touched the tea. I never.' But seriously -- I would love for her to be involved in the game and her being a spy for a faction would be a good way for her to enter. Since she's a ghost, she's invisible to most people and she has a great memory meaning she can remember a lot of stuff to give back to people. This can be either with her consent, for Redbright's sake or for her friends, or against her will, someone threatening to hurt her loved ones or binding her to do their bidding. I'm up for it going either way!

→ POWER SOURCE … because this is an alternative of having her involved in the game too. If a possibly mean one. Fae and witches can use ghosts for their rituals and stuff like that, right? Maybe Clara can be a willing/very unwilling one to do this sort of stuff long as it doesn't take her out of the game. Like. The ritual/feeding drains her heavily of her energy so they become strong but in turn it makes her weak/volatile/unable to control her powers long after. I would be pumped if we could enter this route because it'll be something she would never imagine herself doing and force her to push pass her comfort zones if she wants to hold herself together for this. Again, I can see her doing this for someone she holds dear or if someone she holds dear is in danger.

→ TOO SPOOKY because sometimes Clara has bad days and she loses control of her powers when she's in the coffeeshop, causing the lightbulbs to go out and machines to break and things like that. Anyone is welcomed to investigate these matters since this is kind of a regular happening at her shop and the shop itself has a reputation of being haunted ever since it opened.

→ GHOSTLY GUARD because she's protective of her few loved ones left. As a result, she can have a bad habit of fussing over those she has a connection with. So I can totally see her trailing after them to make sure they get to their destination safely sometimes. Maybe there can be shenanigans where she finds out the person she cares for isn't really who they claim to be or she finds them doing something dangerous, they need help so she swoops in but reveals herself? She can do it to a complete stranger too! Finding them in a dangerous part of London and wanting to be sure they're safe.

→ FRIEND OF A FRIEND because speaking of her few loved ones left, she has a granddaughter named Magra Seville going to Redbright Institute since she's a metahuman. Clara has a habit of trailing after Magra to school on some days to make sure she's studying and staying out of trouble. Things like that. I'm up for people part of the school, faculty or students, spotting her one day as she hangs around the hallways during class hours and going, 'Excuse me ma'am you're not supposed to be here aaaaah where did you go?' and try to unravel the mystery of the old lady? It can be a bit of a mystery angle here if you want. Digging for information about her past and tracking her haunting spot down and coaxing her out.

→ AND EVERYTHING ELSE HERE I'm so up for her having positive CR to negative CR. Clara isn't really part of a faction, heavily affiliated with Redbright but what can she really do about that, so she merrily floats around minding her own business so I can see her getting involved in things by accident or so.

[biophilia]

Ooh, I could see Ginko being either called in/pinged to investigate the coffee shop. His usual way of dealing with situations like that is to make up a cover story to set the normals at ease, then independently determine if the ghost is benign or a nasty one in need of being shown the door, as it were.

[warmheartedly]

Please don't mind me being super late with this whoops. ; ;

But anyways yesss that'll be great! The coffee shop as a reputation of getting investigated/noticed every once and a while thanks to her shenanigans. More so since she's been traveling a lot and looking after the kids that frequent the playground next to her spot. So there are good chances when he's investigating it, he'll hear about the playground too!

Clara swears she's a good ghost and is only a menace to the poor electricity bills, honest.

[mensrea]

TOO SPOOKY INDEED. Similar to what I suggested for Stiles' CR with Aradia -- he's likely to start investigating the suspicious, unsolved murders in London (because he'll suspect that they're involved with the supernatural, which normal humans obvs wouldn't realize). Maybe he'll check out the coffee shop and experience some GHOST SHENANIGANS. It'd definitely be a start to getting them to meet, at least!

[warmheartedly]

the skeletion war will actually be upon us in a mere few months

To be kinda serious now -- He is totally welcomed to check out either the coffee shop or the playground. The playground and the area surrounding it could or could not be known for accidents befalling on people who were acting shifty/suspicious around kids and suddenly they fall, they trip, they get hurt somehow. I would love for these two to meet, eee. /o\

[mensrea]

screams

Oh, cool! The playground might be a good option too then -- though it probably wouldn't be known that the people injured there were assholes to kids. Maybe the playground just has a reputation for being weirdly accident-prone. TIME TO INVESTIGATE.

[viduation]

I'd really love some CR with Clara just because she seems lovely - he's probably unlikely to sniff around ghosts much, but as I mentioned in regards to Aradia I think it's possible that he might try and seek some out in a bid to get information about his dead sister. It would be a way to get them talking, at least, if you were interested!

[warmheartedly]

She's a ghostly grandma. She just wants everyone to get along and get to bed at a reasonable hour for their sake. I would be excited to have CR with him so he's more than welcomed to speak to Clara about this though she wouldn't have much knowledge about it personally but offer him her help in anyway she can offer it.

Clara also has a habit of floating around out of her haunting space, poking her head into the other territories since no one can really stop her at times. They can run into each other through that method. Him seeing her in a place she shouldn't be and her surprised when he gets her attention or something? / o /

[viduation]

Yeah absolutely! I think that'd work well 8] honestly, he's not even expecting to get much in the way of information, but I think her personality will end up placating him in spite of himself.