EVENT PLOTTING: THE EMPTY THRONE PT 2

[aionmods]

The Empty Throne Pt 2

By the end of the seventh day, more and more of those that have resisted the Kenoma's pull will be awakening to the power of the Pleroma, expelling what remains of the ritual's poison. Though they are still being held within the cavern, any lost powers will begin to return... which means that conflict against the ones imprisoning them is inevitable. Xishen, the orchestrator of the ritual, has not made any orders and the Hylician soldiers are increasingly agitated and unsure of what to expect. Are those that remain free of the Kenoma's influence meant to be executed? Imprisoned more securely? Freed?

Unknown to the rest of the Regent's assembly, a short while before this impasse, Xishen bestowed the secret of teleportation to Father Abel Nightroad, suggesting to him that he could use it to escape and bring the other survivors with him. Though her motives for doing so are yet unknown, Abel and any other Pleroma attuned he explains this process to will be able to use the teleportation spell as explained on the powers page to escape the cavern. Two to three casters will be enough to plausibly bring all of the newly christened Pleroma with them; the trouble is that the ritual takes up to a half hour to cast, and once they begin, it will become apparent to their captors what's happening.

Once the teleportation ritual is discovered, Xishen will order the Kenoma inductees to put a stop to it, though she does not step up to fight herself. From there, the Pleroma will have to hold off the Kenoma for 20-30 minutes while the ritual completes, the exact speed depending on how many people are dedicated to casting. Player versus player conflict can occur during this time, and mod-rolled RNG outcomes to individual match ups will be available if they are desired.

Of course, the Kenoma have had time to recover and the Pleroma have not. As if to compensate for this disadvantage, the hope granted by this change of escape will awaken a surge of power in the Pleroma. Similar to how the Kenoma felt upon accepting it, Pleroma will receive a boost in endurance, strength, and magical capabilities during this time, though the effect will gradually fade afterwards.

When the ritual ends it is expected that the Pleroma will be able to escape, whether it's on their feet or by having their battered body hauled into the ritual area by a comrade. All characters who participated in The Empty Throne will be awarded 1 Reward Token which can be used to purchase new abilities and regains.

❖ INCLUDED EVENT PROMPTS

◆ PVP COMBAT: Those Kenoma that are willing to listen to Xishen's orders will have the opportunity to clash against the Pleroma as they try to escape. Fights and mod-rolled RNG results can be requested here. Kenoma are not required to fight but those that do will receive a boosted positive reputation among the Regent's forces.

◆ REGAINED POWERS: All characters who have attuned will have their canon powers returned with the nerfs indicated on their applications. This include all Kenoma and all Pleroma. Pleroma characters will be receiving a hope-based power boost during the escape. For those with the Normie Discount, your Reward Token can be spent immediately and any new powers can manifest during the fight if that's something you'd like to play out.

◆ TELEPORTATION RITUAL: At least 2-3 Pleroma characters will be needed to cast the ritual, but the more there are the faster it will go. Past magical experience is not required for this plot role, though it may help make it more intuitive ICly.

◆ AFTERMATH LOCATIONS: Both sects will have a unique 'aftermath' location to thread in taking place after the escape has happened. This will cover the immediate aftermath of the event. Further locations and travel opportunities will be posted on April 2nd.

◆ ATTUNEMENT TRACKER: As of this event post, most sect attunements should be locked in! Please go update your Attunement Tracker with your character's current sect status.

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LOOKING FOR PVP

[aionmods]

If you are looking for your character to get into a confrontation with members of the opposite sect during this event, please post the form below in response to this comment! If you would like a mod RNG roll to determine the outcome, please indicate as much in the title of one of your plotting comments.

<b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>SECT:</b> <b>NATURE OF CONFLICT:</b> What can someone expect from a conflict with your character? Do you have a preference on the outcome? Do you want the result to be RNG?

[aquaveiled]

CHARACTER: Himeka Sui
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: She's the "I'm a healer but" meme except instead of guns she's got big magical booms. Because she's a caster her physical defense is squishy. She'd be just as likely to protect someone from getting hit as well as punching back herself. (For the XIV familiar, she's primarily a White Mage/Black Mage with some minor Red Mage abilities.)

I'm good with any outcome! Happy to RNG it as well for extra spiciness. And also open to MULTIPLE confrontations. Come at her, bro.

Alternatively if people need some healing after all this is over she's here to help.

[vapour]

i feel a need to have Childe bully (short) female protags by default, so... Ehe. even if she's a magic user, I am sure I can have him use his bow to keep it fair in his eyes since he defense stat is meh.

[superbshot]

We need to do something, Freya. It's required.

But since they're on the same team, probably some healing.

[traversal]

lumine will need healing :( she might get a whale thrown at her after all

[coerthantorment]

CHARACTER: Estinien Wyrmblood
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Estinien's powers are mostly just 1) being super good at physical fighting, 2) going beast (dragon) mode, and 3) breaking shit with explosions. However, he has gotten himself hella beat up over the course of things so far so even with the endurance boost his candle is going to be burning at both ends. Also, he doesn't have a lance, which makes things more difficult for him.

Fighting is going to be a wild, feral mess and I am HERE for everyone involved getting trashed. I'm interested in RNG for the outcome - him 'winning' is less important to me than him putting on a good showing/building rivalries and reputations with other characters. Fighting is his thing so I'd like for him to at least make an impression, even if he gets fucked while doing it.

I'm open to multiple fights with this. Taking all challengers.

[vapour]

CHARACTER: Childe
SECT: Kenoma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Childe will be very excited and have a lot of respect for any person that's willing to be an opponent. He only cares to fight people who are serious one way or another (about fighting/defending those conjuring up the escaping method). He'll leave them alone if they don't do much or just want to be human shields. He'll be really hyper aware of Xishen and her actions/words, so he'll do as she orders, but all he cares is about fighting for the sake of a fight since she's not doing anything.

I don't care if he loses or we do RNG; you can assume even if he wins he's just going to leave them be ultimately. The only thing is that I want it so he can easily walk away if he "loses" (like he's not going to be dogged or otherwise hounded if he decides he's no longer interested in fighting x or y opponent) because his main face-off is with Lumine.


As for what to expect visually, you can see his story fight around between 3:00 - 6:00. He won't go into phase two with his delusion (purple and electricity), though, and definitely won't use Foul Legacy. Actually, he probably won't even use his whale, so it'll be a pretty standard magic + weapons pew pew fight.

His weapons are all water (or electricity) conjured, and he has access to any and all of them, so he's a little better equipped than most. He uses all weapon types, but favors the bow, dual blade, and polearms.

[traversal]

CHARACTER: Lumine
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: RNG result for the win! Though her endgame fight in this cave will be Childe so I'd rather that she comes out of the fights in mostly one piece? I'm fine with battered, lol, but standing enough that she can still fight. For Gondor!

Lumine's an all-rounder, mostly being good with a sword and light on her feet and very pigheaded that she'll get up and fight until she can. She currently also has access to three elements (wind/anemo, earth/geo and lightning/electro) and can manipulate them at will. Nothing too fancy with elemental skills, though she can technically summon a whirlwind and small ball of vacuum, create constructs out of earth, and direct electric/lightning using her sword.

She'll be protecting the magic users/spellcasters as much as she can so please, come at her! She'll also be one of the last people to leave, ensuring all her teammates have left first because yknow, protag.

[velvetoversteel]

CHARACTER: Moiraine Damodred
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Moiraine's got her access to the One Power back, which she's gonna be real happy about. With this she can do... basically most wizard spells you might think of from fantasy. Fireballs, lightning, earthquakes, etc. though her magic tends to be elementally based.

That said, the major stricture Moiraine has on her usage of the One Power is that she cannot use it as a weapon unless she's in danger of her life (or her Warder or another Aes Sedai, but neither of those are here). The books have a provision for Shadowspawn, which she could probably use to cover the Kenoma characters, but this ain't book Moiraine and the TV series doesn't mention it when talking about the Three Oaths.

So -- she can't actually use the One Power to fight unless she reasonably believes another character is attacking her either with intent to kill or who is powerful enough to kill her regardless of intent. I am absolutely here for volunteers to actually try to fight her, let's discuss. Otherwise she knows an Air weave to restrain an attacker's hands/feet long enough for her/someone else to get to a safe distance, and a similar weave to shield herself/others from ranged attacks.

She'll also be around for healing after the fight for anyone who needs it.

OH ALSO I'm not planning on top leveling for this event, but I'm here for closed starters or hitting up other people's tls c:

[lockedon]

CHARACTER: Eustace
SECT: Kenoma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: When you're just a normie with no powers.... 😔 Thankfully he's got 10+ years of military experience under his belt and he'll probably snag a dagger or two from the guards so he won't be completely defenseless, thx Kenoma. With that said, he's more likely to lean towards techniques that restrain/disable since he's not really a fan of pointless violence. He's just following orders because a) he's good at that and b) he's hoping he can get more information/better gear from the Kenoma side so he has a better chance of surviving as he figures out what the hell is going on here.

Happy to RNG results or just say your character won tbh, I'm easy and I support my character losing at all times. 👍

[expiera]

CHARACTER: Ciel
SECT: Kenoma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: She was an obedient tin soldier in canon and she's going to keep doing that here so let's THROW HANDS 🔪👊 She will absolutely be actively fighting and mostly rely on martial arts over the provided weaponry, though she will take daggers for throwing and the local whips offered by the soldiers that they were all initially strung along with.
-She will adjust her output to match that of any opponent.
-She will look like she's fighting seriously for all intents and purposes, but also avoid vital areas where damage can genuinely endanger someone's life.
-She will focus on dislocating shoulders and incapacitating over causing bleeding wounds, though she may get stabby once it becomes apparent Pleromas have healers who can treat shallow wounds.
-Who wants to ICly get whipped by a girlboss, I ask this unironically because the mods gave me too much power (more like she was nice and helpful to the soldiers so some of them are chill with her now, who knew decency gets rewarded even as a baddie--). She actually has proficiency in most weaponry but favors ranged personally, and while she may be a vampire hunter by trade, she's no Belmont, alas. The whip will most likely be used traditionally for posturing than actually causing harm, but we can arrange things if... anyone is, into that, cough.

As for the outcome I don't mind and neither would Ciel ICly, experienced fighters would be able to tell she knows how to fight and does it well, but is clearly making an impression (or in other words, stalling) over any desire to actually harm or kill. However I am 100% down for her getting injured in the process through any means, she has funky immortality from her canon point that is nerfed to be much slower in Horos but still present nonetheless. All wounds sustained heal on their own as they seem to "rewind", as if time is going backwards until her body is restored to a state before injury.

Fighting her would be akin to fighting a machine, she won't taunt or say much, just keep it purely professional. She can also perform minor healing to assist fellow Kenomas and can use magic, but will mostly not use it offensively if she can help it (i.e. breach a magical Pleroma-erected barrier; she'd be happy to let a more eager Kenoma do it, but will make an effort to step up if she seems like the only one capable).

I will most likely TL for part two and am open to wildcard starters/touching base with more fellow Kenoma to establish rapport. Happy to plot o/

BONUS: May I interest anyone/people in a hostage situation... I want to say she won't harm non-combatants, and while it's generally true, she's also better than she SHOULD be at playing the villain on top of being a practitioner of "the ends justify the means". I'm only entertaining the idea if things ICly end up being too "slow" or TOO chaotic, ie not enough Kenomas are trying and it's making them look bad, or it's looking like there will be too many casualties (unlikely?). She would have no intention of seriously harming (sorry for a few minor bruises, gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette) or keeping the hostage even if she secures one, but the tension and drama sure would be enough to make it look like they're all doing something while "negotiations" continue buying Pleromas time, which she'll probably pick up on relatively quickly. This is a very tentative proposition that would require plotting, but if it sounds interesting to people, let's hash something out?

[youngprodigy]

CHARACTER: Cid Garlond
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Cid has no powers to speak of, but that doesn't mean he's not a fighter. Normally he'd be using his gunblade he made himself, but since he's currently lacking that, punching things is a go. I'm good with RNG deciding things, as well as multiple fights.

He has managed not to pick fights up until now, so this should be... interesting!

[goldendeceiver]

CHARACTER: Ernesto Salas
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Ernesto is going to try so, so hard to talk it out before it comes to fists flying. He has military training, but he does better with weapons than he does hand-to-hand combat. He also doesn't have any powers that are going to give him an edge here, so he's theoretically not that hard to take in a fight.

So looking for either a. him to successfully (to his own surprise) talk some Kenoma out of continuing going after Pleroma or b. FIGHTS!! I'm perfectly happy to believably have someone stronger than him beat him up, but I'm also cool with RNG if he's squaring off against someone that's a more even (normie) match.

[zauneyete]

CHARACTER: silco
SECT: kenoma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: I'm probably not going to be a top level this time around, and I'm probably going to waffle on what to get in terms of power for a long while, so if you want a normie with a dagger he probably "procured" from a guard to attack your folks, hit me up! Silco is scrappy and mean, but he's pretty much a normal tiny guy with a knife, so he's probably not going to be much challenge, if you're looking for a way for your character to get out of dodge with a little fight that will very much likely go in their favor!

[inutilis]

CHARACTER: Abel Nightroad
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: I offer you any of the below:

→ someone (you?) attempting to interrupt the teleportation ritual shenanigans
→ abel "dumbass" nightroad attempting to convince any Kenoma to come with the Pleroma, no really, please come with them it isn't too late 🥺 just inviting the enemy to hop in the teleporter with them, it's probably fine,
→ you could beat on this man if you wanted to?? he won't fight back unless in preservation of another person and only act in minimal self defense. someone could rescue him if we feel like getting fancy.... have his back while he's doing teleport things? i would be down!
→ it should be noted he would stop any of his fellows from dealing critical damage to a Kenoma as well as vise versa, though. so please try to murder one another out of his line of sight, or else risk Meddling,
→ also willing to drag anyone who needs dragging through to safety at the end if they get carried away... sometimes one goes feral, we've all been there. Abel can pick 'em up by the scruff and drag them back to their senses if need be
→ anything else?? I am so up for plotting so if none of the above work, I'm all ears!!

[salvageable]

CHARACTER: Kim Dokja
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: I know he doesn't look like much but Dokja is a combatant. He's got neato wind and lightning powers and he can also move very fast? And he's strong? If someone wants to see him transform into a Demon King (he literally just grows horns and wings and has demonic energy), that can also happen. I just got off of work my brain is mush. He'll most likely be hanging around the casters and making sure they're safe so they can beam on out of there.

I have zero preference for the outcome and am happy to let the mods rng it or if you want a victory for your character, I'm more than happy to oblige. He's not going to be in the best of shape anyway.

Also if you want to see him go out of his way to punch a teenager (GEN 😡) in the face, feel free to judge him.

[regretsor]

CHARACTER: Yoo Joonghyuk
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: So Yoo Joonghyuk has three lives worth of experience in combat. Sucks to suck when you can't die and just keep returning in time. Suffering is just cool you know? It's shown in canon that he's also quite skilled in...just about anything. I hate it too.

As with everyone in ORV, he has enhanced strength and speed and he has some abilities that are pretty cool.

I'm pretty open with just about anything. RNG or talking it out. Look, I'm looking to get this angry man beaten up and for him to beat up other people because his default in making decisions is to fight first. Gimme 1v1s or even 2v1s or whatever. Please beat him up because Yoo Joonghyuk is definitely someone who will push his body past what is safe to do to your body and I love me a good tussle. He'll probably push forward to try and put as much distance between casters/those performing the teleportation circle and Kenoma.

[devilmancrybaby]

CHARACTER: Luo Binghe
SECT: Kenoma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Binghe isn't like raring to fight (Unless You Are Estinien, in which case he will meet you in the pit), but he does want to put in a decent showing for the new boss so he will be doing some cursory pleroma-punching. To prove he is a good boy.

Powers/skills wise you can expect martial arts enhanced by spiritual and demonic qi, so superhuman speed/strength/improbable leaping, blows charged with sinister energies, that sort of thing. He might grab a sword, but it not being a magic sword he won't be able to do anything too silly with it.

I'm equally happy to have him win or lose any conflict he gets tossed into! I love RNG!

BONUS: WOULD YOU LIKE TO INGEST HIS BLOOD? if binghe's blood gets inside your body he can use it to control your limbs, inflict terrible pain, and in the long term track your location (although it will dissipate after a while). He can also use it for healing but lmao why would he do that! If this sounds like the kind of thing you would like to have happen to your character. let me know and we can get it in there

[superbshot]

CHARACTER: Caitlyn Kiramman
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Caitlyn has requested her first power, and she's almost immediately going to put it to use. She's got the ability to conjure up a magical gun, and she's more than willing to do something with it. Her primary focus in any fight is never going to be to kill, but to disable. She's a fantastic shot, so that means that if you want your character to get shot in the arm, the hand, the leg, or some other non-lethal spot I'm more than happy to provide. You can even handwave, if you want, just let me know who she's shot!

Additionally, if your character's the type to try and rush a sniper who's set up somewhere, or sneak up on one let's talk about more close-in fighting. Cait has pretty good hand-to-hand skills and her gun can shift to being a pistol if need me. I'm not looking to get Cait seriously injured just yet, but I'm happy for some scuffles that end in her slipping away or driving your character away.

[lifespanned]

CHARACTER: Misa Amane
SECT: Kenoma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: basically, if you're a pleroma looking for a win (and maybe an emotionally fraught battle with a side of betrayal), you can hit her up ✌😔 Misa is small and not very good at fighting, so she will take the more manipulative route:

🍎 she will go as far as pretend like she's going to change sides to stab you in the back (literally) at an inopportune moment
🍎 or it may be something as innocuous as hashtag ✨WASTING YOUR TIME✨ by slowing you down. clinging to you like a koala? a possibility. pretending like she's gonna run away with you, but walking ridiculously slow and/or pretending to have a terrible injury? she is not above it.
🍎 she will also try last ditch attempts to convince pleromas to come to the dark side, if that's more your cuppa. she feels very passionate about reforming the world and will plead her case with grand emotions!

as far as the results, she will give up very quickly if injured seriously as she is a normie, so she will most likely lose all conflicts. i'm 100% down for her to get her ass whooped for being fake though so feel free to come at her with everything!

she'll probably(?) need some post fight healing, and will be a huge big baby even over the smallest cut, so there's that too. let her annoy your battle worn healers/charas who have dealt with much much worse 🙏🥺

[passio]

CHARACTER: koriel xii (dextera)
SECT: pleroma!
NATURE OF CONFLICT: i’m late to this, sorry, but as a pleroma with his newly awakened powers, he’s got HOT HOLY FIRE* that he will very much try to use on people who try to stop him. i’m happy to handwave some interactions they might have had during the week in the sense that dextera has, up to now, been a very mild/passive observer and therefore should seem like easy pickings… otherwise, he’s just a guy who will come punching with his li’l god fists.

*not actually fire, but it is holy and based on purification and The Lord. divine punching

i am totally fine with dextera “losing” every encounter he gets into as long as he can limp away, lmao, but if you also want a cocky kenoma to get put in their place by underestimating him then that’s all fine too!

Re: LOOKING FOR PVP

[galdorleod]

CHARACTER: Howl
SECT: Kenoma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: I did most of my plotting for this already on the Discord, but, basically Howl is going to be trying to help the Pleroma escape because he's very much against the idea of making people stay in the murder cave if they don't want to be there anymore. But, he's going to be doing it in as subtle a way as possible, to try to not get caught in the process. This will all go out the window once people start trying to kill each other, so with some threadjacking-with-permission, Howl is going to openly intervene once things escalate to that point!

He's available for just about anything - Pleromas trying to convince him to come with them, Kenomas noticing him sabotaging of their efforts to stop them, combat, non-physical combat of the mental kind, whatever. I probably won't top level unless someone wants him for something specific so please let me know if thats the case!

somehow both late and early - kenoma-on-kenoma violence?

[semicharmed]

CHARACTER: Matt Jamison
SECT: Kenoma (Visionary)
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Okay, so while Matt has drunk the Kenoma Kool-Aid and believes in the essential rightness of burning down the universe to birth a new one ... he doesn't want to hurt or physically detain people into accepting that truth.

So he'll be helping Pleromas escape in some pretty unsubtle ways, which could put him into conflict with Kenoma friends. Some things I can see going down:

Matt may use his levitation powers to try to tug weapons out of Kenomas' hands, or like ... trip them.

He won't intentionally hurt anybody on either side, but he may also try to encase a Kenoma in a shield spell, aka stick them in a magical hamster ball. This lasts a max of 5-10 minutes if you're a normie, one hit of a fireball or something if not.

It seems like Matt will be facing something like an official reprimand for his idiosyncratic approach to Promoting Kenoma Values. But that doesn't mean your character shouldn't profit! If a Kenoma wants to take him down, I'm 1000% in favor. (Also, it will be easy.) Maybe your character will get a shiny gold star, oooh.

And of course, I'm interested in whatever Pleromas would like to notice Matt's doing this, try to convince him to come with, mistake him for an enemy combatant and hit him, or what have you.

MISC: Please accept this Kenoma playlist I'm working on.

[killandrecycle]

CHARACTER: Majorita
SECT: Kenoma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Looking to fight against someone that you think you can break like a twig but totally won't? Majorita has you covered. As a magic focused combatant, she's gonna be shooting all sorts of doom your way should you happen to tangle with her. While her most spooky power of raising the dead as minions isn't really available in a place without any handy corpses, she has enough explosions and magiclasers to make up for it. And if that isn't enough, she can curse you as well, which is basically just getting a typical jrpg status effect which she, of course, will tailor to be as annoying as possible.

I can do freeform rp to see who wins or we can use rng to keep any arguments out the window. Up to you! With her not having any cute little corpsey minions on hand it could be said to put her at a mild disadvantage? Either way, she's going to be a loyal Kenoma follower, so trying to escape makes you her enemy, that is the only reason she needs!

shows up two days late with starbucks

[judicatus]

CHARACTER: Gabranth
SECT: Pleroma
NATURE OF CONFLICT: Gabranth will primarily be focusing on protecting those casting the ritual, or otherwise stopping Kenoma from (badly) hurting his fellow Pleroma! He does have some magical capabilities, but without any weapons he won't be able to use that magic to do any harm; he DOES have some basic mastery of healing and supportive spells, so if you'd like a human shield who can give a little boost to whoever he's healing, Gab is your guy! I'm also totally down for him getting so badly beaten he needs to be rescued himself at some point, so I'm good with having him lose against your Kenoma character -- or we can have RNG decide, I'm not picky!