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treasuremap) wrote2021-09-17 12:45 pm
treasuremap) wrote2021-09-17 12:45 pm
COTERIE INTERACTIONS (IC) - CHAPTER I
COTERIE INTERACTIONS
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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
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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!
viper / medallion, around the 15th
Hey, Miss Viper. You got a minute?
[ Johnny doesn't sound urgent, but he does sound serious. ]
I need to ask you about something.
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'Course, lad. What's up?
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That stuff about people coming back to life - what do you know about it?
[ curious and, perhaps, hopeful. ]
no subject
[ Not great! But what's done is done. ]
So far, it seems like only the outlanders are lucky enough to come back. None of our own people ever have before, an' it hasn't changed since you lot arrived. It ain't the medallions doin' it, so as far as we figure it's got somethin' to do with how you got here. Or what you're made of.
...Why, did someone else bite it? Didja see somethin'?
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[ a hum - but he doesn't sound entirely defeated. Not knowing isn't the same as not being able to find out. Johnny's well aware that the four leaders don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of everything happening here. He is about to ask what she means by "what you're made of," but relents to answer her question first. ]
No. I mean, that girl, Jinx, but everyone knows that... [ sigh. ] There's - someone back home that I'm worried about. H-he's not dead or nothing! I mean... I don't know. I don't think he is. But it looked bad.
[ Johnny's tone is that of a man who has convinced himself to believe something other than the obvious truth. His friend is dead, or dying, and he knows that somewhere inside, but he doesn't want to say it out loud. If he does, then Johnny's sure he'll really die, and it'll be his fault. ]
I'd do anything. If there's a chance...
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[ That's an even bigger gray area, but she does at least sound sorry she doesn't have a better answer. Or... an answer at all, really. Not being able to do much to help or knowing what the hell is going on has been the name of the game for awhile, and it pretty much sucks. ]
Right now we don't even know for sure if it was a fluke. Hell, we don't even know what happens to you people when you disappear, whether you're goin' back home or turnin' into mist and fading away or what. But I don't think... ahh, man. I just don't think it's somethin' we should rely on.