EVENT #3 OOC POST

[abraxasmods]

EVENT #3/JAILBREAK OOC PLOTTING

As of this thread, Relena has been returned to the dungeons to reunite with the other prisoners! However, she will have little time to do so, because immediately following her return, JAILBREAK WILL COMMENCE.

Things to note:

• There will be no NPC interaction with Ambrose, Oliver or Elizabeth. Ambrose is frozen and cannot speak. Oliver and Elizabeth are enemies of Thorne who only wished to open the portals. As of the end of the post, they have left and will not return for the time being.

• Everyone's powers have been restored, but powers cannot be used to force other characters to stay in Thorne or make a different decision. IC, this is due to the massive amounts of magic currently in use. Characters have to use their words to figure out where they're going to go and convince their friends to join them.

• When the hour is up, the portals will close and the natives will be unfrozen. If your character is still in Thorne at that time, then they are stuck in Thorne.

• The three cities do not like each other, and your characters will not be able to travel between cities yet. However, this does not mean that communications between characters who are separated will cease! All characters still have access to the Horizon and may visit each other there. If your character has not yet visited the Horizon, they will first need to join another character who has gone there (via physical contact), and they will then have access to their own Horizon.
  • But characters who begin spending too much time in the Horizon may become suspicious to natives, who will worry that secrets are being shared with their enemies!

• Any prisoners who choose to stay in Thorne will be rearrested. Thornean authorities will be treating all characters with great suspicion and distrust, but previously welcomed guests may be able to establish their loyalty via information sharing and acts of service.
  • If you would like for your character to remain in Thorne but not be rearrested, they can use this opportunity to flee Thorne proper for the neighboring town of Nott. This will allow them to remain close enough to keep tabs on Thorne while also not being at risk of imprisonment.

• Thornean authorities will not chase escapees. To do so would necessitate sending their armies against those of Solvunn and the Free Cities, and they do not yet see the need for all-out war.

• More information about Solvunn and the Free Cities can be found here, but this is not information that characters will have during their hour of decision-making. Oliver's advice to choose based on each locations' relationship to the Singularity is all they really have to go on.

• Individual posts for Solvunn and the Free Cities will be going up within the next few days. These posts will have more information about each location, as well as the opportunity for NPC interaction in each.

• Please use this post to plot with each other where your characters will go, how they will decide to group together, and how they will attempt to convince each other to stay or leave!

Comments

Sasarai | Thorne but kinda sneaky

[harmonian]

Sasarai is staying in Thorne and will not try to convince anyone else to stay with him. He doesn't trust Thorne but based on his limited understanding of this world so far Thorne is a lot like Harmonia which means he feels like he can navigate the political landscape and survive and thrive there well enough to do some good.

He would be interested in routinely meeting people who leave at Horizon once he learns to access the place as a way of sharing information. He might try to convince people to reach out to him from time to time before they leave. This might mean asking someone untrustworthy but Sasarai is not above finding ways to socially crush anyone trying to make his life difficult. He's a war-time politician, after all; tiny but ruthless.

Obviously, this all means he's keeping a personal tally of who goes where. In all of the chaos he won't be able to keep track of everyone so this tally is opt-in only. Let me know if you want Sasarai to have a general knowledge of where your character went. Keep in mind him knowing might mean someone else in Thorne knowing in the future, depending on how things go in game.

[hylife]

I'm ok with Sasarai knowing where small blond elf went! we could handwave some initial interaction, if you like, or have them meet up in the Horizon at some point. Link will still be interested in the goings-on at Thorne wrt the Singularity (more out of genuine concern for its impact on their own worlds than any seditious reasoning)

[harmonian]

Sasarai would love to learn more about the Singularity and hear about other peoples' experiences.

Honestly, his desire to keep track of people is because this is his sketchy Batman's Bat Computer way of making sure he knows where all the moving pieces are so he can avoid any drawn out conflicts in the future (and squash any conflicts that do happen before they can be drawn out). Sedition is actually the opposite of what he wants.

[coerthantorment]

Sasarai is welcome to notice Estinien going to Solvunn, and also notice him putting in a pretty solid attempt on Ambrose's life, especially since I noticed he might be keeping an eye on Ambrose. It won't work, of course, most likely because people get in his way (and the time freeze rules it out anyway) but the intent to take Ambrose's life is pretty clear and I don't mind that being shared.

[harmonian]

(?) Sasarai will remember that.

Estinien, violence isn't the answer to literally everything.

[coerthantorment]

Right now it's the only one he's got, ok! Maybe later he'll think of something better.

(Or maybe he won't.)

[harmonian]

Sasarai was asked about what he saw by the NPC in the Thorne log and was specifically asked about who he saw leaving so he mentioned Estinien (though as "the elf").

Here! https://abraxaslogs.dreamwidth.org/11989.html?thread=1867477#cmt1867477

In case you want to keep tabs on it.

[coerthantorment]

Ahhh, excellent! Thanks for showing me! This is awesome, lol.