Plotting Post: Fae Festivities

[diceofthegods]

OOC INTRO(S) & PLOTTING

Hello and welcome to Children of Bahamut!

This OOC post will be for all your introductory and/or plotting needs! For newcomers, we want to give a space to outline their initial thoughts and plans to get started strong. For established players, feel free to make your event and other plans for the month of November here!

You can use the form below! If you play more than one character, you're free to make a top-level for just your relevant player information and comment beneath with each respective character.

OOC Into/Plotting Template

<span style="font-family:georgia;color:#555;font-size:30px;font-family:georgia;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5);margin-bottom:0px; display: block; border-bottom: #555 2px solid; width:50%;">⁂ [**PUT YOUR PLAYER NAME HERE**]</span> <b>Contact</b>: plurk, discord, pm, etc. <b>About</b>: Who are you, really? You don't actually have to tell us all that, but we - and others - would like to know a little bit about you! Your interests, hobbies, and anything you think is relevant to know (such as schedule, tagging speed, etc.) <span style="font-family:georgia; color:#555;font-size:30px;font-family:georgia;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5);margin-bottom:0px; display: block; border-bottom: #555 2px solid; width:50%;">⁂ PLOT WITH ME</span> <b>Character</b>: Your character's name <b>Canon</b>: Name of the canon you're playing them from <b>Canon Point</b>: The episode, chapter, book, etc. that your character is coming from <b>Age</b>: A guesstimate will do if there's not concrete canon age for them! <b>Dragon Bond</b>: You can copy and past what you got for your claim, or just tell us a little bit about them here for others to see such as name, type, and basic traits. <b>About Your Blorbo</b>: Give us a basic summary of who your character is and why they're a super cool dude or lady everyone should get to know. Or leave alone, if they're a bit more anti-social <b>Game/Event Plan(s)</b>: How do you anticipate your character adjusting to being in the setting? How will they forge bonds with others and play nice? This is basically a summary of what your hopes for your time in the game are and/or specifically for the most recent event! <b>Interested In</b>: Similarly, what specific types of CR are you looking for? What tropes are your favorite to explore? Any quests in particular that catch your eye you'd like to see about getting people to do? <b>Anything else?</b> This is for anything especially important to note about your character, but also often the designated meme section.

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As a few quick notes:

⁂ The Fae Festivities event log is up in its entirety! Use this post to plot for it, but feel free to top-level or tag into the actual event at your leisure.
⁂ We want to encourage people to continue to use the quest board to get themselves established in the community and building reputation if they want something to do!
⁂ Character claims are always open until we hit the player cap! So, please keep checking back on this post for new players or characters that might be added to ensure everyone receives a warm welcome!

Most of all, we want people to have fun and let us know if your character gets up to anything good, bad, or whatever! All of it will influence the world around them and potentially have benefits or consequences.

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[sleepinglyra]

⁂ Nicholaj
Contact: Nicholaj, Discord@25thNicholaj, or PM
About: I'm a tired snail who loves writing, world building, and mixing magic with music and the other arts whenever possible. Spellcoats by Diana Wynne Jones, The Abhorsen Series, and Children of the Whales are some of my biggest inspirations. I don't have the energy to turn my idea into a visual novel yet so my OCs live vicariously through rp for now. My time zone is PST, but I suffer from chronic fatigue so my schedule is rarely consistent orz

⁂ PLOT WITH ME
Character: Sheliak Saarela
Canon: Original
Canon Point: after Arrakis's death, a year after Althiya was destroyed and the mages were stranded on Earth
Age: Sheliak will say he's 21 but he's actually closer to 23ish. His magic slows his aging and the calendar was different on his world. 21 is also a personal choice for other important reasons
Dragon Bond: A green dragon named Levex whose greatest enjoyment in life was beauty. Making herself beautiful, and those who came to her with the desire to be so as well. A master of make-up, a connoisseur of clothing, matching color and shape effortlessly. She was paid well for her services and did work for various organizations, least of all the theater, the royalty, politicians of note and many of the nobility of both dragon and mankind. Not only was she known for outward beauty, she was known for her confidence. Thankfully, this is something she shared, instilling the same sense of confidence and pride within those she spent time with. Hopefully she can help Sheliak accept the beauty in the flawed side he hides behind his mask of perfection.

About Your Blorbo: Sheliak was the only son and sole heir to the Saarela house and he was forced to carry the incredibly high expectations of his house. His family was so certain they could make him great that they named him after a minor constellation instead of relying on the goddess’s favor by choosing a major constellation. He maintains a careful stillness, never causing any unnecessary ripples that could damage his family’s reputation and he hides his flaws behind a mask of perfection. He’s cold, arrogant and calculating, however deep down he resents the responsibility that has been forced on him. Underneath his mask he’s more selfish, impulsive and passionate, although it’s always a battle for him to accept these imperfect feelings that he hides away. Although sometimes you can see a hint of the side he hides behind his mask, like with his love for music and his habit of napping where he deliberately chooses places that won’t inconvenience anyone but he also stubbornly refuses to move unless he has to. His strange habit has earned him the nickname of sleeping beauty.

Game/Event Plan(s):

General Plans - Sheliak is new and I'm excited to see how he grows here! He’s been stranded on another world before so he will stubbornly focus on adjusting to this new world rather than think about how devastated he is about his best friend and love Arrakis's death. As a mage he’s duty bound to help others so he will work with others well enough. Unfortunately he's a noble so he may need some reminding to help out, unless there is a crisis, and his arrogant attitude will probably get him into trouble.

I welcome clashes with his elitist worldview! His rivalry with Altair, the first commoner to be chosen as a mage, was the best way to get him to question his views. He can be incredibly stubborn however and that has only gotten worse after his world was destroyed since clinging to what he knows is how he copes.

Event Plans - Sheliak is new to this world and the last thing he wants to do is offend the fae by not accepting their invitation. Sheliak may seem like he belongs at social gatherings like this but he's an introvert at heart and he will slip away to one of the huts for a well deserved nap.

Sheliak can be very competitive so he will be reluctantly curious about the games. I'm open to all of them but I'm particularly interested in three:

Battleship - Sheliak is an excellent strategist so he will feel personally insulted if he misses. He will not rest until he has found them all.

What's in the box - Sheliak may look human but he's secretly a being of magic that is tied to a human soul. His human form is nothing more than a physical vessel for his magic now and it is crafted by his memories of when he was still human. He can still feel things if he focuses on how it felt when he was human but it still feels like he's looking back on a memory instead of the real thing. Touch is especially affected and he won't be able to determine what memory he should focus on if he can't see what he's touching, making this game near impossible for him. Yet even knowing that Sheliak misses being human so he will be drawn to the game regardless. This will be a fun opportunity to hint that he's not as human as he pretends to be. Or maybe he's just terrible at guessing.

Bobbing for Onions - As the water mage Sheliak is obsessed with water, and he can breath underwater so this one could be fun, if someone can convince him to try this ridiculous game.

Sheliak loves music so he will be watching Slayd & The Possums perform, as well as any other talented individuals who going him. He has no musical talent though so he will not be participating. He's also gentler with musicians.

While Sheliak would not disobey the rules and wander off on his own, if others may be in danger he won't hesitate to offer his assistance. He has a terrible sense of direction however and will end up getting hopelessly lost. All of the layers sound intriguing! The second and fourth interest me the most. I want to give him a cursed object from home and the reflection in the pools of the fourth layer is similar to the water mage's ability that lets him see how close someone is to death.

Interested In: Everything! Positive, negative, it's complicated, etc. Sheliak is new and I love seeing where unexpected CR goes. Sheliak can be a bit of an asshole so negative CR is easy for him. I love it when negative CR challenges him to be better though so please come torment him! Shipping could be fun down the line. He's still grieving over the loss of his first love so he's not looking for another relationship but if it happens naturally I'm all for it! Some other specifics are rivals, chess players, musicians, fellow magic users and non humans. Sheliak has a lot of conflicted feelings about his magic and the magical being he secretly is.

Anything else? Sheliak just arrived so he hasn't noticed his dragon soul yet, except that it has made his water magic weaker, like when his soul had to get used to his magic when he was first chosen. His magic will grow stronger as his bond with his dragon deepens.

Also, when Sheliak uses too much magic he turns into a water snake, a mythical creature from his world that's a snake with a foxlike face and a crest of fur down its back. His human consciousness is asleep when he's an animal. It's replaced with an animal mindset with his personality so it's a fun way to see what Sheliak is like without his mask. If enough people are interested I might make a transformation log after the event.