EVENT 18: EMERGENCE - OOC POST

[abraxasmods]

Event #18 - OOC Plotting

IC Event Log ⦁ Assignment Info ⦁ Setting Descriptions

On April 6, the storms evolved into an uncontrollable tempest. Lightning strikes with powerful rain and wind. Floods begin to swallow crops, homes, animals, and people alike. With portals disrupted and tightly guarded borders breached by a power no one can stop, authorities in all three territories turn towards their only solution: the Summoned. They believe that the Summoned can reach out to the source of their unique powers and stop the turbulence by approaching the heart of the Singularity.

Characters do not have a choice. They'll be asked to cooperate for the sake of the world and the safety of the natives, but refusal is not an option. The threat is great, and the territories are willing to do whatever it takes to protect their citizens and land from the Singularity's unstable behavior.

Please note when finalizing your character's AU details that character-based lore and actions, if widespread, should be generic enough to apply to multiple Gods or causes (i.e. there can many reasons for a storm). Specific lore aspects (i.e. your character is believed to be responsible for the setting sun) must be contained to individual villages or cults. Additionally, beliefs that center your character in people's minds based on a common event or natural phenomenon (shooting stars, earthquakes, illness) cannot be stated as universal.

In short, try to keep your character's impact on the world from affecting things for everyone on a broad and unignorable scale. On an OOC level, this is to avoid conflict with other player plots or written histories. If you're not sure, just ask!

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Gateway

By APRIL 18, authorities have made a decision. They order the Summoned to be rounded up and taken to the Singularity's crater.

Territory Response

Thorne and the Free Cities will try to secure cooperation by appealing to the Summoned's tendency to want to help the common folk or each other. What about the miners they fought so hard to protect? The fishermen in Nott? Aren't these people's lives important? Guards won't go out of their way to harm resistant characters or mistreat them, but they have orders to follow. Resistors will be placed in special locked carriages and may be restrained as necessary.

Solvunn will appeal to the Summoned's sense of community. Unlike Thorne and the Free Cities, their coercion is more subtle: the entirety of the commune, including neighbors, the elderly, and children will beg them to go, making it exceptionally difficult to refuse. If your character would still say no, please ask us about your character's specific circumstances in that case.

At the Crater

Once at the site of the Singularity, the Summoned will be forced towards the crater. Instead of being drawn into the Horizon, they'll be pulled into an emergent future reality.

A thick fog will descend around the crater throughout the event period. Characters can only vaguely glimpse other Summoned nearby. The natives will be none the wiser. Depending on how long your character has interacted with the Horizon and the magic of Abraxas, their experience entering the crater may differ:

◎ Characters who are new or who do not engage with the Horizon and/or magic will be sucked into the reality immediately.

◎ Characters who have been in Abraxas for 1+ year and who have engaged regularly with the Horizon and/or Abraxan magic (using their gains or actively learning magic) will be able to walk partway into the Singularity's crater before they're sucked in.

◎ Characters who have actively engaged with the Singularity outside of the Dimming (i.e. not during periods of dormancy) at least one time, and who received a unique response will be able to walk up to the Singularity. They will be compelled to approach it and touch it, whether they want to or not.

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Mechanics

The event is based on the following mechanics:

◎ A gradual realization that characters do not belong in the emergent reality, spurred by one or more important catalysts.
◎ Uncovering the meaning of the Summoned's connection to the Singularity and Abraxas.
◎ Interacting with elements of the reality that are normally difficult to access, including the Singularity itself.

The IC Event Log will have prompts to guide you, but players are encouraged to thread any scenarios they come up with. The emphasis will be on self-discovery, lore, and CR development.

Passage of Time

The emergent reality is 800 years in the future. It will play out according to this timeline:

◎ 3 weeks will pass in the standard reality (real world).
◎ 3 months will pass in the emergent reality (future AU).

The IC Event Log will be divided into two sections. In the first half, characters are fully submerged in the emergent reality. They will not realize they're from the past. In the second half, characters will begin to reawaken. See Reawakening for more details.

Guidelines about how to approach your character's AU history, abilities, lifted restrictions, and an outline of the new setting are on the ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION post. Be sure to review those details or submit for your assignment if you haven't received one. Characters must have an assignment to participate.

Setting Descriptions

Descriptions of Abraxas' altered setting can be found HERE.
You can reference the information as needed or ask us for additional details at any point. Because of the dreamlike nature of this AU, don't feel like you have to get every detail down. Potential inconsistencies can be explained away via imperfect recollections.

Memories

While inside the emergent reality, characters will suffer some memory loss. The severity is entirely up to you. Memories may be blurry or entirely gone. They can encompass game memories, canon memories, or a combination. The loss might contribute to a major shift in personality or it might reinforce your character's current beliefs.

Players are welcome to choose whether they want to lean into any corruption aspects or retain their character's core morals. The Singularity, the Gods, and the environment will not play a role here. Rather, any changes to a character's arc, for better or worse, will depend on their disposition, relationships, and personal choices.

◎ Memory loss can be patchwork. It does not need to be linear. For instance, a character can recall all their canon memories but forget all of their memories related to important CR who have dropped.

◎ Memories can be replaced by versions that have twisted over time. For example, a character might recall an act of betrayal where there was none.

There's no "right" way to approach how memories work. You can stick to one of the options above or combine them. The main point is that characters must lose a bit of something important to time since regaining those memories is a central feature of the event.

Actions and Consequences

How the Summoned interact with the setting and the Singularity will impact both themselves and the world. Balance is the most important aspect characters will discover. Actions can have consequences, and the existing Gods will step in to prevent any new Gods from threatening this delicate ecosystem if their actions cause too much distress among the mortals.

◎ Summoned who IGNORE their abilities and/or the Horizon will find their tether to Abraxas weakening. They may regularly blank out or become confused about where they are. They will begin to bleed magic built up from disuse and corrupt the land or people around them by unleashing more magic than the earth can sustain. This can exacerbate an unsettling condition in the Witchwood, where the demigods roam.

◎ Summoned who ABUSE their abilities and status as Gods, and/or do not interact meaningfully with the world outside the Horizon will begin to lose more of themselves. They may forget additional memories or struggle to distinguish what's real. They will begin to absorb magic from overuse and corrupt the land or people around them by soaking up life-sustaining magic. This can exacerbate an unsettling condition in the Witchwood, where the demigods roam.

The above is not to dissuade you from leaning towards an extreme. You're encouraged to use this mechanic to explore your characters further. However, characters will have to confront the damage they're doing to themselves and the world, and should be aware they might cause conflict with other Summoned, Gods, or even mortals who may turn to other Gods instead.

Event Interactions

We'll expand on the interactive options on the IC Event Log. Below is a general overview:

◎ ECHOES: A form of "prayer" heard through their connection with the Singularity. Characters do not need to directly touch or approach the Singularity, though they can if they want. They will each be able to "hear" the relic through the same tether-like feeling that links them to the Horizon and access the voices beseeching them from anywhere.

◎ DEMIGODS SPAWNS: Demigod spawns are monstrous beasts that form when the Singularity or the Gods are out of balance. Players can make up their own demigods to add to the "population" in the Witchwoods. Demigods can be a challenge to fight even with their new godlike status. Characters cannot kill their own demigod spawns. They must get help from another Summoned to destroy it for good.

◎ OLDER GODS: The Gods that came before the Summoned exist. Players may request an interaction with a God. The mods will then select one to enter the thread. Interactions will not be long, but the Gods will answer characters as equals.

◎ HORIZON: As described on the Assignment post, characters will feel a powerful connection to the Horizon, which they can now enter effortlessly without having to meditate first. They'll consider it their "true home" and may expand their domain to be as complex as they want. A domain might contain surrealistic elements similar to what the Summoned previously glimpsed. Entering the Horizon will no longer leave behind their corporeal body. If they're in the Horizon, their physical form will not be outside it.

◎ AMONG MORTALS: While in their true God forms, characters will default to being unseen. They must actively choose to become visible to mortal eyes. Additionally, they cannot be seen by mortals, even when they choose to, unless the mortal is seeking them. This only applies to full God forms. They can appear to all mortals when taking on a modified and scaled-down form. As an example, a character can walk into a tavern and mingle as a human-sized God with a couple of extra wings or a pair of horns. However, if they arrive as a 30-foot God, they will not appear to anyone except the individual who is praying to them. Typically, though, Gods will pick an alternate form to communicate with mortals such as a symbolic animal or through visions.

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Reawakening

The first half of the event will allow players to explore their characters while fully absorbed in the emergent reality. The second half, however, will result in a reawakening, brought on by several catalyst incidents that slowly bring their faded memories back - and, ultimately, their true consciousness.

Multiple catalysts and/or catalyst incidents are possible and encouraged. Come up with as many scenarios as you want!

Catalysts

A catalyst can be any encounter or experience that holds significance to your character and reminds them of one or more of their faded memories. They may have this interaction themselves or witness it. For example, they might rescue another player character that reminds them of a time when they were once rescued. Or, they may observe some children and recall a childhood friend.

Catalysts can occur organically, by engaging with the setting and stumbling over the catalyst themselves. Or, they can occur through other characters who are experiencing their own reawakening and may be seeking answers and/or are attempting to awaken others.

With each catalyst, a character regains another small piece of themselves, which might cause these effects:

◎ Temporal cracks will form in the emergent reality. Areas on the map that don't normally exist will flicker out of focus or they'll briefly "see" their normal form reflected instead of their god form.

◎ If a character doubts the reality of their godlike abilities, those abilities might become difficult to control.

◎ A character's Horizon domain might start to revert back to its original design

How your character reacts to the revelation and its effects is also your decision. They might resist their reawakening and require others to intervene. Or, they might embrace it and take on the goal of reawakening others.

Returning to the World

Characters will return to the real world once enough of the Summoned have experienced their "reawakening." To keep things simple, the exact percentage will be vague.

The main indication of reality changing is that the sky will begin to show cracks. As more and more of the Summoned reawaken, the cracks will spread and lightning from the real world will begin to appear. Characters may even glimpse the Singularity reflected upside-down in the sky above. Eventually, the entire illusion will crumble, bringing everyone back to the real world.

Unawakened characters can observe the cracks or they can be oblivious. You can decide based on whether you want your character to be distressed (or convinced) by the crumbling reality or if you want them to remain blissfully unaware and/or refuse to acknowledge the truth.

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Notes

Event Organization

We'll provide two sections in the comments of the IC Event Log:

◎ WORLD BUILDING: You can submit world-building aspects such as a shrine dedicated to your character, a new monster or demigod, or similar. There's no approval process - this will just be for other players to reference the details. If you want to submit something but are unsure if it might break the event, ask us first.

◎ HANDWAVED DETAILS: If you're open to handwaving certain details, you can comment with your character's name, and other players can reply with aspects they would like to handwave with your character. Since the emergent reality spans 3 months, we recommend handwaving smaller details and focusing on key incidents to thread out.

Event Schedule

To allow room for players to get things started, the event post will be going up before the actual in-game date the event occurs.

The IN-GAME EVENT will ICly take place APRIL 18 - MAY 10.
The EVENT POST will go up APRIL 17 for players to participate in.
The WRAP-UP POST will be rolled in with the INTERLUDE on MAY 12.

Ability & Transformation Gain

Characters will receive an ability gain for their participation. For this event, you can choose a stronger gain than typical, though please keep things reasonable. While this gain can be anything, we strongly encourage you to consider a gain that suits characters' experiences throughout the event. See Reward Gains to learn more.

Additionally, you may retain one small physical transformation from your character's altered form on top of the gain above. Retained traits should be minor and may not grant extra powers (i.e. eye color changes can't have sight enhancements). Reasonably minor traits include claws, small horns, scaly patches or scars, or similar. Wings or mermaid tails are too large. Retained traits are visually and physically permanent (as opposed to physical changes that only occur when an ability is active or upon command.)

To request your gain, submit it as usual on the upcoming Activity Check form.

Plotting Form

You can use the plotting form below to make plans. Don't feel like you can't change your mind afterward regarding appearances, catalysts, and other elements. Feel free to use this space to brainstorm.

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Assignment:</b> <a href="urlhere">Link title</a> <b>AU Information:</b> (You can provide a link if you have details written down on your journal. Alternatively, you can describe your character's appearance, abilities, history, and more here.) <b>Catalysts:</b> (What memories are you planning on taking away? What type of catalyst are you thinking of that will bring them back? Do you want any characters to be involved with this?) <b>Reawakening:</b> (How will your character approach their reawakening? Will they be resistant or will they be the one trying to convince others of the truth?) <b>Behavior:</b> (How will your character behave while in the emergent reality? Will they be very different than their usual self? Will they answer echoes? Will they abuse their newfound powers and status or will they reject them? Will they strike a good balance? Any lessons you want them to learn?) <b>Wanted History & CR:</b> (Are you filling in any blanks in your character's history that you'd like to involve others in? Do you want to establish any changes to existing CR and/or new CR? Would you like someone to have betrayed your character in this new reality? Do you want to fast-forward a friendship or a romance?) <b>Other plans:</b> (Anything not covered above!)

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Questions and Answers

Be sure to check out the Q&A section on the Assignment post, as well. If, after reading both sets, you're still unsure about anything or your question wasn't covered, please hit up our Questions thread below!

I want mortals to fear my character during certain periods or seasons. Is this possible?

This is possible only if contained to individual sects or villages or the time between visitation is on a vast scale. For instance, a character may represent a "plague" that visits a different village every 50-100 years. However, a character associated with visiting different towns several times a year to curse a handful of people with delusions or disease would result in the older Gods stopping them.

What about territories and borders? Are characters restricted from going home or anything else?

Details about your character's general abilities, lifted travel restrictions, Abraxas's environmental and cultural landscape, and other important setting information are available HERE on the Assignment Information post.

What if I want to play out only threads from the second half (the reawakening) but not before?

You may do this! The purpose of the two halves is so that players who want to explore their character's immersion during the first half can do so without being disrupted by other characters telling them immediately that the reality is fake.

Will there be consequences after the event for characters who resisted?

No, unless your character will behave especially violently upon return or waking up. Please discuss with us if this will be the case.

What are the demigods exactly? Can we make our own?

Demigods are simply stronger and larger monsters that roam the Witchwood. They do not have any sentience and cannot be controlled by anyone, including the Gods. You're welcome to make up your own! They can be anything, and may even be based on canon creatures that you've incorporated as part of your character's assignment. Please limit your creations to one or two per character, just so there aren't too many running around.

How do relationships as a God work? What about offspring?

Relationships with other Summoned and with mortals are possible. Please ask first for relationships with a specific Old God or Cardinal God. There are rumors that descendants of Gods exist, but these are very rare and unconfirmed. You can include those rumors in your backstory if you like! However, in terms of creating visible offspring as NPCs to interact with during the event, we recommend avoiding it due to how infrequently it happens and for the sake of simplicity. Additionally, please refrain from creating children that occur pre-God ascension.

I'm not sure how to make up my character's AU history. Are we allowed to skip that entirely?

Yes, if you would prefer to skip over that entirely, you can just have any memories before the event's formal start date be a blur or inconsistent.

Will characters remember every detail when they wake up?

They will recall the 3-month event period at minimum and may remember the entire 800 years if you like. While some details can be fuzzy or faded, especially events that took place before the 3-month event period, characters will overall remember new relationships formed (or broken), things that were said and done, and feelings or thoughts they had while not entirely themselves.

Can my character hide or evade authorities?

No, all characters will be found and rounded up, no matter where they've gone. However, if you're unable to participate, your character will spend the duration of the event unconscious and will wake up with no memory of the emergent reality.

Is making a new Horizon domain required?

Not at all! IC, characters are drawn to the Horizon and will likely feel compelled to enter it at least semi-regularly. OOC, incorporating the Horizon into threads during the event is optional.

What will happen to my character's physical body while it's in the real world?

Characters will be "unconscious" while in the real world. The fog will remain over the crater around the Singularity. During this period, characters won't experience hunger, thirst, or other physical changes (including hair growth). They'll wake up feeling and looking exactly the same as they did when they arrived there 3 weeks ago.

Can I link a retained trait to the ability gain?

Yes! If you would like to have claws as your permanently retained trait and request an ability gain of corrosive secretions, that's acceptable.

What defines "regular engagement" with the Horizon and Abraxan magic?

In the Horizon, this includes occasionally altering a domain, creating or keeping sustained life such as animals or pets, and having a domain inhabited by other Summoned or receives visitors. Regarding Abraxan magic, this includes learning new spells or using their Horizon/Event gains. It does not include using canon abilities they arrived with. Generally speaking, if your character has been active in the game and participating in the setting, then they've likely been engaging regularly.

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Comments

Alucard / Guardian of Architectonics

[cryptsleeper]

Character Name: Alucard
Assignment: Guardian of Architectonics

AU Information: Al has a write up here.

Catalysts: Some of Al's missing memories relate to partner violence so while I'm comfortable in having that come about from someone else, I want to be very thoughtful and careful on that front. Other missing memories include some of Al's actions in helping people including Viktor and the blood experiments, vaguer future history points, and certain points of childhood. I would LOVE for this to be a collaborative process and would also love to lean into horror tropes to do it. Vampire cliches for sure (blood, blood exchange, etc.) but slower, creeping atmospheric horror would also be loved.

Reawakening: Al will be resistant to reawakening at first, as he will feel overall very content with where he personally ends up in this AU. He will not burst anyone's bubbles unless they come to him specifically having noticed cracks in realities and wanting clarification. This actually fits with Al's overall godly aspects of rebuilding and destruction, so we can play around with Al being more human or being in more godly form when this takes place.

Behavior: A lot of this is covered in Al's write up, but overall Al is going to put in a lot of effort to be as human as possible in this reality. He has the luxury of having always been part human and knowing his life will be long, so he considers himself overall very well adjusted. Is he going to be a petty bitch about how other people retain themselves and ties to reality? Hell yeah.

Overall, he'll be ignoring echoes and interacting with the world on his terms. A lot of his existing game work has been about balance. However I am not opposed to opportunities to upset it.

Wanted History & CR:

Would you like to smooch a less depressed dhampir? Let's talk. Al's going to have a steady relationship in the reality, but there's 800 years to play around with. Let's talk.

Off balance: I'd love opportunities for Al to be thrown off balance and force him to recover. This can be from real fights, getting caught up the middle of other people's drama, or other opportunities that you need some supporting cast for. I'm here, and Al's sometimes best when he is in that supporting role.

Weird blood stuff: look i wanna do more vampire shenanigans let's make it happen.

Points of aggression or friction: Similar to the off balance remark above! Al needs challenges, and I'd love to lean into butting heads, especially about being gods and how to interact with the world at large. Al has a lot of strong feelings, and he'd doubtlessly conflict with others.

Other plans: Look I'm giving everyone a song call from the Pogues on this one.

[aquaveiled]

Hello yes my lizard is friendly girlypop but I love horror, so her secondary Famine form is basically Mother Kos from Bloodborne. Which literally sucks the life essecence out of things and turns them into bleached husks and I would love for awful things to have happened while she was in it, if that could somehow overlap with darker elements you'd like to explore? (Blood could be involved!)

[cryptsleeper]

>fuck to the yes especially since that's a great way to explore destruction/reconstruction with al. do you have any particular specs in mind for what kind of awful things you'd like to have happen first? i can scaffold around your central concept. and al's not afraid to kick a friend's ass either. he's stabbed family before, a friend is like, way easier.

[aquaveiled]

Eeeexcellent! I was kind of thinking along the lines of her affliction being difficult to control a bit at first. Like she's so eager to try and help everyone and answer their prayers/summons that something goes wrong and a boon turns into a curse somehow? And in her famine form, she isn't really feeling herself but just driven by a hunger/need to fill that she can't satiate, so it's a little mindless. Maybe like her coming down on a small village or farmlands somewhere and wrecking havoc. (Even more points if it was a town she had a good rep in before, rip.)

He probably knows she doesn't WANT to hurt people if she can avoid it. I'm all for Alucard taking any action he deems necessary.

[cryptsleeper]

Oh I love the idea of the affliction being difficult to get a hang of and bake firing. I'd be all for using a small village, your call if you want it to tank her reputation!

Al would probably avoid like, actual murder, but he would probably struggle to figure out what type of maiming action or enforced restraint would help Himeka snap out of it...

[aquaveiled]

Yeah! I'm stemming it from the fact that because she's kind of naturally gifted at magicks in her own world, she tends to pick magical things up quickly without much trying...and practice. So while her casting is generally powerful it's also a bit messy and chaotic. So my hope is this that this may help her realize she should put more effort into refining things.

I'm totally fine with her tanking her rep somewhere. She'd desperately work to gain it back at a later time when she feels like she deserves forgiveness (may be a while), bc she genuinely doesn't like hurting people. But it happens, y'know?

I'd be up to see if you wanted to use his blood somehow? She's kind of lacking that sort of sustenance in that form. The thought is that feeding her enough of something or returning her to the water can help chill her out. Or (in addition/alternatively), he could use his construction/destruction powers somehow? I see he's got like reforming minds/bodies which may work or more literally trapping her in something?? Build a box for a naughty fish. OR breaking it down, literally and figuratively. Basically I'm open!

[cryptsleeper]

ugh lmao bake firing this is what I get for replying before bed. At least it's thematically correct.

The emphasis on refining and taking one's time is a great lesson to learn and aligns nicely with Al's thematics! And it absolutely makes sense that this would all be coming from a real attempt to do something good, this is such a good scenario all around.

I'm going to ruminate a bit on how to bring blood into this, because I Want To Do That but I don't want it to be forced. A while ago mods approved the properties of taking any of Al's blood too, so it does have rapid healing properties and a few other short term aspects. The only permanent one is the person on the receiving end suddenly has much nicer hair, so please take that and run. Viktor's the only one who has benefited from this in game thus far.

If we Build a Tank it could be a nice call back to the hippo situation, although perhaps a bit repetitive. I like the trapping idea though, I think the question is how to pull it off elegantly. Or if there's a way to just like, yeet her into the ocean.

[cryptsleeper]

Okay between gardening and walkies, I did have a suggestion!

If Alucard's tapped by say, Thancred, to help out with this situation, Alucard could use his blood to bait Himeka into attacking him specifically. His blood has healing properties (and a few weirder side effects, would Himeka like to float?), and if someone can open a portal to get them to the ocean, perhaps that could at least shock her back out of the immediate present?

[aquaveiled]

First of all I'm LAUGHING at the hair buff! Himeka's regular god form has so much hair so I would absolutely love for her to get it even more glamorous.

Their hippo attempt was legendary, though...they were so inspired. (And silly.)

Honestly I love that though! Himeka attacking Alucard and then suffering a bit for it (or the opposite of suffering!) as a way to knock her off balance before setting her straight. And then later her hair is more beautiful than ever...

[restingstitchface]

Hello! I love the Pogues and that's a gorgeous song.

But yes. We haven't had the chance for much CR due to how each is unwilling to tolerate outright conflict - Alucard avoiding it while Crane responds by creating it. But I feel with your wanted CR including points of agreession they could but heads about being gods? They both put effort/choose to look human but I imagine their ideas of helping people differ?

[cryptsleeper]

Oh, I am very into the idea of having extremely different understandings of how to help people. Especially since Al's entire schtick is pretty much "be as human as possible, work like normal, fake own death every few decades, repeat." Getting Fuckin' Into It on a larger scale could be a lot of fun, especially if Al isn't relying solely on brute strength/dumb vampire powers.

[restingstitchface]

Sounds good! Crane's approach is to look as human as possible because that makes humans feel more comfortable, which in turn makes his work more efficient if not easier. Alucard's gamework has involved balance and Crane's work as a god is to maintain it for people, mentally speaking. But his powers allow him to upset it and he will certainly have done so. They are both interacting with this world on their terms which is perhaps something they could talk reasonably about.

Their blessings and afflictions can also work well together, I feel? They have some things in common. Alucard hates being regarded as a deity and Crane is indifferent. Crane also encourages only small amounts of worship because it pays to have tools, right? He is also getting into... academic arguments with Viktor... if you want another sticking point.

[cryptsleeper]

Truth be told, I think academic arguments with Viktor would be the only way that they'd be likely to come into contact with each other. I think a LOT would depend on how that conversation went, as the very scant interaction they had set Alucard's teeth on edge and he got a Bad Vibe. If that same kind of feeling happened again, Alucard would continue to keep a wide berth.

[restingstitchface]

Of course! I'll get back in touch when I've gone over some history with Viktor's player. Since that would possibly bring Crane into Alucard's sphere.

[cryptsleeper]

Cool, just be in touch when you can.

[blackeyedprince]

weird blood stuff? something something kell has a blood cult that got a bit out of hand? something something corrupted boars hunting?
also hey, kell would definitely like to smooch a dhampir!

[cryptsleeper]

tell me more about the blood cult he hates it already HAVE WE NOT LEARNED FROM THE ONE CULT ALREADY?????????????

[blackeyedprince]

kell has blood sacrifices written into affliction side of his assignment. very fitting given he is a blood magician. he miiiiight have slipped while doing reconstruction work on Nott pier ... and it went downhill from there look kell hates it too, why people keep doing this

[cryptsleeper]

bro do you want help like, stopping your own cult????????????

[blackeyedprince]

like yesterday, there's nothing he can say that can make them go away
only lisan al gaib would say he's not lisan al gaib...
or something

[cryptsleeper]

great news aluard loves dramatics and would be happy to help engineer some destruction

[itookashot]

I'd love Alucard and Jesper to have become actual friends at this point and maybe he's the friend who tries to encourage him to get out more and have comfortable fun. He's making the businesses with Hilda when they're also pretending to be human, so I feel like they would have spent some time together connected to creating new mortal lives, so they could have bonded over that. Jesper is essentially a god of love so I'm totally open to them having smooched at least once because he's warm and flirtatious like that, but otherwise just being pals would be really neat.

[cryptsleeper]

I think that Al will probably have a better chance at warming up to Jesper during Hilda's Big Comeback, as Al is pretty much set to spend that human lifetime as the business/office manager for whatever fashion brand comes out of it. he's fulfilling the househusband dream, finally. I think that he'd err towards just friends/not smooching in that circumstance.

[itookashot]

That works for me! Yeah Hilda and Jesper decided they were done being fashion geniuses only in the past so they relaunched themselves as "humans." So they can be pals by now.

[cryptsleeper]

Sounds good!