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

[productid4]

Phoenix will be sorry to see Hector go somewhere else, but will keep in touch in the Horizon. Things will be rushed on the way out, but he'll still stop Hector briefly to wish him luck and ask him to touch base in the Horizon once he's settled. (Phoenix gets fond of people easy, so sue him.)

Louis on the other hand is going to the Free Cities, and he's in need of someone who can show him how to get into the Horizon and who can forge a proper prosthetic leg for him. He also doesn't believe that anything's free, so he'd be down to work out an arrangement to repay Hector for it.

[petcromancer]

Phoenix is alwright. Such a good boy.

And question for Louis- does he want a normal prosthetic, or an organic monster leg prosthetic. Hector can do either.

[productid4]

...Louis has questions about this organic monster leg prosthetic. If it gives him more mobility than the normal prosthetic, he's very interested, but also wondering what the catch is.

[petcromancer]

The catch is he'd need a leg from something else to attach, and there would probably be some pain involved integrating it with Louis's leg.

[productid4]

Is grave robbing out of the question or does he have to kill someone himself

Provided he doesn't have to kill someone, Louis is probably going to settle on the monster leg because he wants as much mobility as possible. And the only reason he'd be unwilling to kill someone is that he thinks it'd disappoint his loved ones if he killed a person specifically for their leg.

But he's definitely going to be interested in fostering a professional relationship with Hector, because that is a hella cool skill set and Louis thinks this guy is probably good to know.

[petcromancer]

Don't get offended, but Hector could just go to the butchers, Louis

Hector wouldn't ask Louis to murder someone (unless they come across someone who deserves it), but fresher is better. If they happen to come across a fresh corpse, that's the best material to work with, but if not, Hector could probably make due with a large animal leg, since it's not being integrated with a human.

Hector will be hype to meet Louis. Non human, takes no shit, got a gun and willing to use it, these are all positives in Hector's book.

[productid4]

!!! D:< D:< !!!

Louis will be very involved in picking out a leg and discussing the pros and cons of different sources. He is nothing if not thorough and weirdly good at staying cool as a cucumber when talking about spare limb hunting.

Louis likes a professional who appreciates the value of the power of Gun and Taking No Shit. Maybe one day he'll even warm up enough to call Hector a friend.