COTERIE INTERACTIONS (IC) - CHAPTER I

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COTERIE INTERACTIONS

NAVIGATION

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RULES/FAQ

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COTERIES

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LOCATIONS

The leader of each coterie, all colloquially known by the same name as their group—Jaguar, Eagle, Viper, and Salamander—will play a major role in the story, oftentimes appearing in events and even, during major plots, accompanying the player characters on their quests. While having constant access to them in threads would be difficult to keep track of and may lead to unfair advantages for some characters, and they will never directly comment to any network or log posts made in incensed or incenselogs, we do want to offer the opportunity for characters to interact with them. Therefore, with the exception of the aforementioned event posts where the NPCs might appear, all direct interactions with the coterie leaders can be done here. Simply comment below with the leader you'd like to interact with and whether it is in person or via medallion/journal in the subject line.

Note that it is fine to handwave minor interactions with the NPCs, such as in the case of exposition or receiving their quest orders, and you do not need to thread that out here nor ask permission from the mods. Relationships beyond passing familiarity as leader/subordinate cannot be handwaved however—in general, characters will not "build CR" with their leader to the degree they might with other characters in the game. They will still get to know them well over the course of the story, though.

Please also note that the NPCs are played by the mod team and are subject to the same tagging speed or question-answering expectations. We will respond as soon as we can!

Comments

[eidxiety]

[Fire burns, Mr. Eagle, please do not the fire.]

It was quite the battle! We had to split our group and go after the heads like that. Those of us capable of flight or that could move particularly fast — fast enough to dodge the flailing of the heads or their flames — made their way to the top of the tower from outside via crumbling pathways and buttresses. The rest stayed on the lower levels to deal with two of the heads there.

[Eagle is probably perceptive enough to see through Ain's little "us" there, meaning he's one of the ones that can fly. Other than that, he doesn't explain anyone else's flight abilities. One of his friends is literally a robot, she has thrusters. Ain does not, at all, consider this odd or out of place. Everyone has that one friend that can fly, obviously.]

It was quite tough! We had to coordinate killing the four heads at the same time, but at a certain height, communication is impossible with the group on the ground. There's nothing that we did special to communicate when to land a killing blow, but rather, those of us up top carefully watched those on the ground. It was trickier than it sounds.

My job is mostly to heal others and act as support, but one of the heads came bearing down on me. Luckily I had thought to shield myself with magic only moments prior, and a well-timed hit with my sword managed to take out its eye after it couldn't knock me aside. Next to me stood a companion with a penchant for... ah, quite literally imbuing his fists with lightning and punching, who managed to land a killing blow on it after it tried to harm me. A little ways up the pathway, from the corner of my eye, cannonfire from a man known as "The White Wolf of Hamel" rained down on the second head. The explosions were blinding, as I'm sure you can imagine.

[Ain beams.]

When I glanced downwards, I saw a hail of arrows mixing with a flurry of blows from a greatsword, and the third head collided limply into the side of the tower. The fourth, which was slightly obscured from my vision, went down not long after that.

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And that was when the entire tower started to shake and crumble!