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

[livelongenough]

Obviously, she and Henry will know each other. He'll be happy to help where he can with Institute plans.

[brightwitch]

Excellent. She expects your undying loyalty, Henry. Trusted allies are the best sort of allies. I like the idea of them being old friends too, maybe they even met in Sylvia's youth? Is there any point in Henry's history that could fit that?

[livelongenough]

Definitely! I kept Henry's travels vague. He might have met her when Abraham was young and they were in London instead of New York after an accidental recognition in NY.

[brightwitch]

Would that be 20-30 years ago? Even back then Sylvia was a high-ranking witch, so she would have been well-known in the witch community. Although if he visited the Redbright Institute, he would have met her father first.

[livelongenough]

It could have been 20~ years ago. Henry would've just been talked out of continuing his search for his missing wife, so he could easily have been in London to regroup his thoughts, etc.

Whether he met her father or not is something to consider!

[brightwitch]

Twenty years ago sounds good! I'm thinking given that Henry works at Redbright now, it would make sense if he had met Sylvia's father. If Sylvia knew that her father trusted Henry at one time, that would make her more favourable towards him.

[livelongenough]

That sounds perfect. He might have helped him in an unofficial physician capacity. Technically, he gave up the profession, but he always acts when others are in need, so. That might have cemented trust and given Sylvia a reason to hire him when he returned... looking not a day older.

[brightwitch]

I can go with that!