CR Planning: May 2015

[undergroundmods]

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!

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[undergroundmods]

Heiji

[detectiveofthewest]

Name: Heiji [app]
Faction: fae, Seelie Court

What I'm looking for: Friends for Heiji to hang out with (he'll probably keep quiet about the being a fae thing for now...). Heiji is a bit wary around werewolves, so that could be interesting. He likes ghosts as a general rule.

In the future, there are a few plot-related things I've been thinking about, including someone getting hold of Heiji's gem, which stores part of his power. At some point I'd also like one or more people to find out his true name, which he will not be telling most folks. He's also secretly pretty good with a biwa, but assumes no one in London is interested in listening/would think it was weird he plays a kind of old-fashioned instrument, so finding someone who might want to listen to that might be cool.

Heiji also enjoys talking about mysteries, forensics, how Osaka is literally the best place on the planet, and random facts about psychology, medicine, and so on. He's not a doctor, he just likes reading random crap. Also if anyone over like 50 or so who is supernatural wants to bitch about the good old days, that might be fun. He usually has to pretend he's 20 or something.

OH YEAH I almost forgot, I'd like to do a post where a couple people can end up blundering into the wrong alley at night and are confronted by a fae and it looks like they're about to be menaced, but instead Heiji just asks them Jeopardy questions or something and gives them fifty bucks 35 pounds if they're right.

Shared history: Heiji has a bit of CR from the test drive meme I'd be cool with carrying over to the game, IIRC with Clara and Stiles. If your character stopped by at Barnet, they might have met Heiji at his part-time job at Cafe Poirot.

If there are any Japanese characters around interested in working out a bit of shared history, that might be interesting, too!

Faction stuff: I think there are actually only two fae characters at the moment, but welcome to planning faction stuff. I know fae aren't really in the territory game at this point, and in terms of strategy, Heiji isn't currently the type of character who'd be super aggressive about territory grabs but whatever whatever let's plan.

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.

Dandy

[affluenza]

Name: Dandy Mott
Faction: Islington Nest

CR Possibilities (shared or new):

• Fellow sadist/murderous types.


• Fellow enthusiasts of film and theater. And showtunes.


• ENEMY-WISE, werewolves, hunters, and anyone who hates spoiled brats.


• Anyone he's fed off of in the past.


• Anything really, if you can think of something else! His full app is here.

Faction Claims: Dandy himself isn't pursuing any factions right now because he's too busy bidding on old film reels on eBay and stuff like that. He'd be defensive of Bexley because that's where his mansion is and he doesn't want to move all his stuff.

Aradia

[megidoomed]

Name: Aradia Megido
Faction: Ghost in Circle Midnight
App: Right here

CR Ideas:

• I have no canonmates and I must scream.


• Before she died she was a medium for hire (or low-cost spells, if you knew how to ask), if your character needed to contact one for whatever reason


• Still really sold on her being a murder victim (like in canon), unfortunately we don't really have anyone who'd prompt a revenge plot, sobs.


• If you'd also know her based off her history, hmu I'm down for anything (the tl;dr is she's a witch who fell into a bad crowd, and. her mother possibly works for a supernatural crime boss overseas thanks homestuck)


• Open to pretty much every kind of CR I'll be honest.


• She also had CR with Clara and Willard on the tdm/cr post - would you two be down for keeping that? ouo

Faction Claims: midnight has no territories and it makes me sad Despite being... active-ish in Circle happenings before her death, as a ghost she doesn't really care. whoops. But hey - if you have positive CR with her, you can probably rope her into helping your cause out of sheer boredom. win/win

Re: Aradia

[detectiveofthewest]

Oh oh oh! I didn't know she was a medium before she died, I think Heiji would enjoy talking about that and also about TV psychics like Miss Cleo provided she knows who that is.

Is there anywhere Aradia hangs out in particular?

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.

[alethiological]

So I'm not one to do an ooc post because i'm a huge coward loser haha but HELLO FRIENDS I AM SOME RANDOM DOUCHEBAG
or kat
w/e
friend me over here if you desire > bitchesandtrolls

hey look at that ooc intro done moving on

Name: Willard H. Wright
Faction: Outcast Fae but who cares fuq thos guys. Also Hillingdon my bros!!!
App: Shut up pastme

Blah Blah Blah:
• If we did stuff on the CR meme and you wanna keep it for the main game, lemme know here
• Or we can bs more stuff. WHATEVER.
• He's been in London for like 2ish weeks now, so there's enough time to BS some awkward acquaintance shenanigans
• Most likely to be found lazing in a coffee shop, lazing in random libraries or bookstores, or Actually Doing His Job. But that last one is boring bluhhh
• Or. You know. Killing people.
• Though you can expect really awesome mystery one-shots to start appearing in literary magazines by some anonymous asshole
• I still want non-humans and the Traveling Sunshine Brigade
• Or Sunshine Terrorists
• Or everyone
• I DON'T CARE I WILL FIND A WAY TO CR THE SHIT OUTTA ALL OF YA

Seriously. Throw words at me, let me feast off of your flesh and bones <3

Faction Claims: Will is the laziest of cats, HOWEVER he can be convinced to help out other Hillingdon members if they can out-logic him in a verbal fist fight. He can also be caught via owed favors to be used like a one-use Problem Fixer by any other faction, but he doesn't owe anyone jack right now.

Also I got eaten by work then by P4AU all hail elizabeth and I have more time to do shit tomorrow, so if anyone still doesn't mind tags on the TDM, I still owe four of you. I didn't drop you /cuddles you all to bosom
Unless you shove me away by the face I guess
w/e

sup

[alethiological]

I'm down for that

just don't break his lightbulbs or he's getting the salt

holla

[megidoomed]

no promises bro

you knew that was a possibility going in

[megidoomed]

She probably does know who that is, given she's a total fan of cheesy things like that, so more people to chat about spooky interests is always a plus!

... and I totally forgot to mention her haunts, didn't I? D: She mostly chills at her old apartment building (it's somewhere in Richmond, I think?) but she tends to drift around a lot. Also shows up at Clara's coffee shop sometimes!

[alethiological]

hashtag dont become friends with poltergeists kids

[detectiveofthewest]

Clara's coffee shop sounds like a good spot, since Heiji already knows Clara :|a. Maybe he can come by looking for her and find Aradia instead...

[detectiveofthewest]

So fae are supposed to avoid outcast fae, but maybe we could set it up so our characters meet without both of them strictly knowing who the other one is? I assume that if Willard's a mystery writer, Heiji would be interested in meeting him and it would be amusingly awkward to find out later that he's supposed to be avoiding... Willard...

[megidoomed]

Heiji goes in expecting friendly grandma ghost and gets a grumpy poltergeist instead

poor Heiji

I honestly love that idea, though! :D

[megidoomed]

I'd say #yolo but

well.

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.

[alethiological]

He writes under an alias because he is a big jerkface that thinks people who can't even figure THAT out aren't worth talking too /pretentious author scoff or something - Which just makes it all the funnier to me if Heiji is the one that figures it out and stands there just "oh no why is it an outcast D:"

Ganbatte ne Heiji-san. Also he'd know right off the bat he's a fae but. He doesn't care. At all. why does it even matter FAE ARE STUPID He won't tell if you don't broseidon

this means i actually need to commit to an alias though shit bbl

Eren

[titanocidal]

Name: Eren Jaeger
Faction: Werewolf, East End Pack

Looking for:

• A JOB - I was thinking about giving Eren a part-time job of some sort. If anyone needs an employee/coworker... If I don't get any bites, I'll probably just make something up for him on my own, but it'd be fun to work with someone, you know?


• Vampire CR - negative CR is always fun (I love playing out fight scenes!), but Eren's so convinced that all vampires are evil that it might also be interesting for him to meet a vamp that makes him start questioning that black and white worldview of his.


• Parental figure type people - Eren's relationship with his dad is shaky, so it'd be nice to have someone Eren can honestly look up to. I'm a sucker for the "makeshift family" trope.


• Friends his own age - Eren probably doesn't have many, but the few he does can expect extreme loyalty.


• Moonlight Jewelry - Someone who can make it or has the connections to secure some.


• Werewolf shenanigans


• Anything - Just... anything.

[biophilia]

Oh, hey, he knew this woman who played the biwa and had eyes that could see through her eyelids and into the past and future...

I'd love to work out some commonality with their Japanese background, i.e. magical culture and "remember that one guy who tried x and then y happened". I'd even be game for them having run into one another way back, if you think that would be interesting.

[biophilia]

Moonlight jewelry commissions are right up Ginko's alley. He's a reluctant parental type with "all life is precious" worldview in tow, too, so if they meet on a witch-for-hire basis, that might go somewhere interesting!

[detectiveofthewest]

Yeah, I guess fae are also supposed to sense other supernatural beings, too, but maybe Heiji would kind of overlook that if he was hunting down an author :|a

He could always do the time-honored tradition of stealing names from other authors/mystery stories.

[biophilia]

Ginko has the advantage of being able to see her/summon her, if you like! He's used to chatting up ghosts and would be hella chill.

[alethiological]

Shoosh it'll be okay friend just don't tell anyone. And if anyone tries to outcast heiji for enjoying books, he will headbutt every fae in existence DON'T TEST HIM

Realtalk, I'm tempted to do that because Haha Van Dine Expy My Canons Why but at the same time, on a personal level, his last few books annoy me SO MUCH. So much.
And I think it's fun to try and have players figure it out too. Join in the mystery puzzle shit abyss with meeee

[detectiveofthewest]

I don't have a problem with them having run into each other as long as Ginko's not the type to blow his cover (which I don't think he would be but idk, au)! It might also be interesting if it was a while ago and they didn't immediately recognize each other, if we don't nail down exactly how they met right away. Heiji's from a fairly famous family, though, so maybe that's a thing...

Maybe they could talk about Seimei or something if Ginko figures out what Heiji is, that'd be pretty cool. Since Japan has a giant history of supernatural creatures but it's short on descriptions of vampires/werewolves (iirc it's Chinese vampires/zombies you gotta look out for), I was headcanoning the Kansai area at least as bigger on other types of supernatural creatures. Particularly fae and ghosts since a lot of youkai/urban legends would qualify as those two categories.

I think overall Heiji would be fairly friendly towards Ginko, because at last, someone to talk about Japan with, why don't they have more Japanese food in London...