Planning: The Bloody Countess

[detectiveofthewest]

Hi all, so I'm putting together a plot planned for later in June (no set date yet), which is basically this: A vampire royal is going to roll into town and decide she's pretty damn tired of following the rules. Instead, she's going to start some typical vampire shenanigans, which is to say setting up shop somewhere swanky, biting people, and generally being a menace. She'll be low-key at first; her victims and those of her minions will be dismissed as the work of a serial murderer by local police. But if no one stops her, well...

It's gonna be a bad time.



So why do I care?
Because there's plenty of opportunity to torture your characters, investigate, etc.! Carmilla is a very strong, very old vampire and she can totally mind control your character or show them terrible illusions and all that jazz if you so wish (though she does have to bite them first). If your character has some pent-up angst they haven't dealt with yet, she will happily help you exploit that!

Carmilla is also not above kidnapping, harming loved ones, and murder just because. Plus her bounty might help pay the bills?

A few notes:

• Because she's royalty, I'm going to set up a McGuffin item that can be used to kill her at the end.
• This plot will include blood and violence. Not gore, but... probably a lot of blood, yeah.

I'm at the beginning stages of planning this one, so let me know if you're interested in part or all of it!

Update 6/9:

Okay, so a bit of a planning update! I'm penciling in the main confrontation with the vampire countess for around 6/20 (that's next Saturday). In the meantime, her minions will slowly begin appearing around the city and I will probably be posting a related log or two as buildup.

I'm opening it up for anyone to NPC her minions, even if not directly involved in the plot. They're mostly everyday vampire minions, nothing special. Carmilla herself can also be NPCed, though I ask that if you do have your character encounter her, you leave her alive (well, undead) and sprightly for the final confrontation. If you have any questions about this, let me know!

Planned buildup:

• Investigating vampire rumors: Open to anyone. This is entirely open for different groups to run their own lines of investigation, as a countess rolling into town will probably make waves in several different directions. For example:
  • Heiji will get involved when a dead body (the victim of a vampire minion) practically falls into his lap.
  • Apollo will be interrogating a vampire minion and probably getting wind of the plot through police connections.
  • Sasuke has connections to Hillingdon and Apollo.
  • Your character may also get wind of the news through a news article or two. Nothing front-page, of course, probably just some nut running around stabbing people in the neck...
• Getting the Vampire-killing McGuffin: Open for signups. Still plotting this out a bit. Most likely, the McGuffin will be some kind of weapon made of ash and magicked with mysterious vampire-killing mojo. My basic idea is that it'll involve going to ask an NPC fae lord to borrow his cool vampire-smiting stick. Heiji will most likely be involved in negotiations.

I'm thinking the main confrontation log will include the following threads:

Outside Vampire HQ: anyone but especially Trevor, who will be committing vehicular destruction by driving into the building. A free-for-all in which everyone shows up and possibly wonders who invited all these other nerds.

Rescuing a hostage, possibly Magra: Clara, Heiji, Eren. What it says on the tin. Vampires are not above kidnapping.

Fighting the minions: Derek, Malia, Heiji, Trevor, Sasuke, Eren, ???. Basically a free-for-all.

Fighting Carmilla: A chance to be subjected to a Vampire Rant(TM) about how vampires are totally the best and all you other guys suck. Also, staking :'). Derek, Malia, Heiji, Trevor(?), Sasuke(?), Eren(?).

Comments

[apolly]

well you already know if the police are involved then apollo's gonna hear about it either way

i'm game!! i can help be the... uh, "introducing cast" if that makes sense. whatever i just love the shining

[eyeforaneye]

Ties to Apollo + being a member of Hillingdon would give Sasuke cause to be interested too! He could probably be a decent victim that'd help them get info since if he heard about it he'd try to investigate alone and quickly learn his lesson.

Ah, the young and idiotic... Just so long as he doesn't. You know. Permanently expire.

[crystalmethod]

so like i was saying, i'm pretty open to serving any secondary/tertiary role the plot may need to move it along, but otherwise T can snipe. or provide vehicular assistance. ye.

[chosetofight]

Wanda's come to London as a hunter, even if she'll be joining the Unseelie Court soon. So, she'll be keeping her ear to the ground for anything strange, which means she's pretty likely to get involved.

[warmheartedly]

Hello yes this is Clara-mun, Melly, here!

It's definitely going to be Magra Seville, Clara's granddaughter, who gets nabbed because I'm evil and think it would be a good way to get Clara involved in this. Maybe Magra gets kidnapped because of her powers or because she has particularly tasty blood but yes. Suffer. :V

Anyone else is free to notice either Magra's disappearance from school if they have connections with Redbright Institute and/or a panicking Clara who is so out of whack that she ends up doing super ghostly things due to her temperament like make things rattle, lights flicker if she's in the room. Curious to know when you guys would like for the kidnapping to happen! I can do it anytime.

[kleptofaeniac]

Will Camilla have anything stealable after her death?

I'm asking for science.

[titanocidal]

Oh-ho! If things are going down around the 20th, I'll have the time to focus on this. Yesss.

Eren'll probably just Leeroy Jenkins his way in the thick of things. Everyone likes a good staking, right? For vampire fighting, he can be wherever plot needs him most, but what I'm most interested in is the Rescue Margra stuff. It might be useful to have someone with a super strong sense of smell around to help track her.

[tippytoes]

Confirming Malia in for fighting the countess, and she'll also punch a few minions while she's at it!

[toilandendure]

Ho ho ho!

Tal here's a werewolf in the service of a local fae lord (npc?); because of the tensions between werewolves and vampires as soon as he susses out a Big Bad having rolled into town, he might help those working towards this to appeal to his lord!

I realise I'm a little late on this, but just a thought! c: