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Plotting Post: Brain Boggling
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 future 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.
As a few quick notes:
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.
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 future 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
- ⁂ The Brain Boggling 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.
Cherry | Emet-Selch (Final Fantasy XIV)
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About: Cat mom and newbie rock tumbler. I like art, washi tape, shoujo manga, video games, broadway musicals and panang curry. I also work full time in graphic design/customer service/sales (yes...all three at once...somehow), so my tagging can be all over the place. This month I'll be focusing most of my energy on the event, with backtags as I'm able to get to them. You're always welcome to give me a poke if a thread has been sitting for awhile, and I'll be happy to give it priority or hash out a conclusion with you.
⁂ PLOT WITH ME
Character: Emet-Selch
Canon: Final Fantasy XIV
Canon Point: Endwalker, following Ultima Thule
Age: 12,000+
Dragon Bond: Ossalur Isk
Ossalur could only be described as a classic adventurer through and through. Bouncing from one fiasco to the next. He always left a strong impression in his wake and was a dragon known for having connections. His first and foremost priority was helping people. No task too big, no job too banal, Ossalur would do it all without hesitation if it brought light to those who needed it. In times when he found himself in need of help, he had countless many to call upon for various skills and information who were all too happy to return the favor. That said, he was known to be a bit... odd. Not in a bad way, but more in a kind of chaotic 'cooking with explosives' kind of way.
About Your Blorbo: Emet-Selch is one of fourteen representatives of his world's governing body, his duties being those that involve the Underworld (ie. aetherial sea or afterlife) and his ability to see souls. He's a powerful mage and an absolute magnet for gremlin energy. At first meeting, he can be quite prickly and grumpy, but one will soon learn that he's a rather sentimental sort who will cave to the whims of others if he feels the issue warrants his attention (and if others ask nicely enough). He's passionate about theatre, magicks, good literature and long naps in the park.
Game/Event Plan(s): Though some have chosen to focus on protecting everyone and killing IDs on sight, Emet-Selch will take a more subdued and practical approach - focused instead on assisting otherworlders and residents of Town alike in weathering the poorly-timed blizzard (having some prior experience when it comes to such matters, naturally). If you don't have a fire-breather readily available, Emet-Selch will light your hearth or heat up your bath water. He's also available as an escort and will prove mostly amenable to joining others on their patrols - he does like to keep an eye on things, after all, and certain people need to be watched lest they snuff themselves out by overdoing things. For those who do need additional manpower, he is a skilled sorcerer (black mage) capable of tanking (dark knight) in a pinch. Thanks to his time in Hast, he has come into possession of some reasonably acceptable gear in service of the latter.
Ultimately Emet-Selch will fall victim to the IDs' memory munching, likely within his own (now rather lonely) home whilst he's attempting to get a few hours of shut-eye inbetween chores. He has thousands of years of memories to draw upon and an outrageous attention to detail - not only related to the history of his own people, but of generations upon generations of civilizations on Etheirys. I'm quite keen to let Shadowbringers flavor Emet-Selch back out of his cardboard box, but really anything is on the table here depending on if you'd rather see him in a better or worse light. There's still an unrepentant villain living within him, make no mistake.
Emet-Selch's dragon transformation is complete as of February, though it should be noted he will not be able to fly with any success for the duration of the blizzard (think: flying a kite during a windstorm). He will favor it outdoors when the weather is particularly foul, because there is nothing worse than shivering out of one's own skin. Indoors he will revert to his Ancient appearance, just with slightly longer white hair and golden claws.
Personality-wise, you may expect him to swing back and forth between subdued, emotionally volatile, and intentionally dramatic this month (he's coping just fine, really he is!)
He will also be gaining additional insight into the Amani Simulation.
**ADDENDUM: OH RIGHT! I forgot to mention that (once things calm down a bit, haha) Emet-Selch will be looking into combining bond points and pulling in the Akadaemia Anyder from home (it's a university building with different sections that can be reconfigured for various uses including teaching, research, etc... there's even a pool). I envision this as a group effort with the Ancients taking suggestions/applications for proposed uses of the unclaimed sections, and am open to further plotting/discussion about it.
Interested In: I love how people are adopting this grumpy old grandpa, but I am also not opposed to Emet-Selch causing trouble or mucking up his reputation thanks to events of his past.
Anything else?
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(Also he's sorry for getting his brain munched. This was not part of the plan.)
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Could have a thing where Elidibus kills one of the things that munched on Emet, blowing it up in his yard and getting blasted. That'd probably wake him up?
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He'll do what he can to watch over Elidibus until he can't anymore. Fortunately, this probably means Emet-Selch won't be out of commission for too long. His sudden absence would be difficult to otherwise overlook.
And I'd be down for something like that! (Someone please save this man and his ancient brain full of ancient secrets...) Are there any memories particularly that you'd like Elidibus to witness as a result?
(Oh yes, that'd wake him up. If the memories of others don't do it first.)
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We could have ShB Emet from being on the First, since Elidibus wasn't there at all! It would be interesting to see how things happened there first (second?) hand. All Elidibus knows right now is that Emet went there....and then bit it. He does know details from WoLs about what happened, but that's vague at best.
That picture is a Very Large Emotion and I understand him
Oh god it's Soren from her gamesI mean hello! I do love me an Emet-Selch. Maybe they can patrol together? Nephenee's used to prickly mages (see the aforementioned Soren). She's basically a fairly reticent girl who's a mixture of dragoon and paladin in fighting style (can jump good and uses lances, but is also an off-tank.).Also, will the Akadaemia Anyder have its jazz music? This is important.
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As for the jazz music... they will come up with something. Even if he and Elidibus have to perform it themselves.
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Prickly mages are fine: Soren, the tactician for their group, would give Emet a run for his money. (At least Emet has a sense of humour.)
Would you still be up for threading that?
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But he'll fish her out of a snowdrift if he must.
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I think Lahabrea could source Akadaemia Anyder on his own at this point but I am here for the Ancients to put their heads together for it! Also if Emet wants to see what really went down with the Athena situation I'd be here for that too.