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EVENT PLOTTING: THE EMPTY THRONE PT 2
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
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.
◆ 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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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?
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So he's... He's soft enough to be put in that situation despite everything, I'm just saying. (And also, he probably doesn't look like much of a fighter still anyway, could go with potential escape eventually, etc).
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A leading up to it chat could be fun! Hiccup is a Talker irregardless and will usually try to talk to someone he thinks can be reasoned with before fighting and given he's unarmed... Easy enough to subdue since he's not much of a hand-to-hand fighter (mostly experienced with a sword). He's definitely stronger than he looks though so he'd probably... Notice and be a half willing hostage like SQUINT what are you doing you could be leaving you know.
(He'd also 100% try to convince kenoma to go with them but not push it he's dumb I'm sorry, except maybe not)
A joint TL could work as well! I think if we did something within that regard |b A brief Hiccup tries to communicate then Ciel does the Thing. Be funny to play with the duality of Hiccup realizing she's not taking it super seriously, but my brain is mush on how to word it
(and ofc if it doesn't work out that's fine! even without others it could be a fun set up for future cr since hiccup will just eyes emoji her for the rest of time-- in a good way, not a bad way)
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...Since things REALLY escalated in the server chat today everyone could WTF at the mauling session once it happens later down the thread? This is definitely happening with how much SPICE it's bringing to the table, God. Sorry Hiccup you are absolutely walking out of this more traumatized than Ciel herself is...
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and Hiccup can just be exasperated that this always seems to happen. Injury is also and always is fine! I don't imagine he'd struggle too much at first with it anyway — a genuine 'oh come on, really' personality when he wants to believe in someone. I'm sorry Ciel. So a minor injury and healing for him to go all 🤔🤔🤔( Since he doesn't believe Kenoma are bad people it helps)
I mean.... YEAH. You guys sure did go off. He's not necessarily gonna leave traumatized — he's seen his fear share of stuff that's carefully hidden behind y7 labels ( you don't go to war with dragons and others and have some of them die pretty brutally and not know, they just hide it). He's just gonna be vastly exasperated the only solution someone came up with is MAULING someone.
While they're prob mauling each other it could be possible he undoes his bindings and gets away, maybe? Esp if I decide to go the angle of giving him his sword during it. If that's a decent option (I'd say he could try to intervene which is funnier yet, since he'd be in Big Disagreement but that'd be too chaotic and I htink Abel has that handled)
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Himeka would def fight a bit differently if she were trying to avoid getting a hostage killed and Hiccup doesn't strike her as someone that the Pleroma should just let run off with. (Sorry, Hubert.) I imagine Hiccup's player would want the attempt to be successful to save him? But we can confirm and I am up for their fight in general going either way!
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I hear you may TL so I can come to you, especially if he's just going to be hurt and brooding in a corner after like antisocial aloof doggos are wont to do. She won't need any excuse to check up on him and force him to
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But he will BEGRUGINGLY give her Paw if she's nice about it, he is smart and practical enough to accept help if it'll help him heal up faster. Perhaps she will even get one whole thanks in return.....truly a miracle.
And yes, I will do my best to TL! My one TL for the year before I slink into the shadows and do nothing but closed starters forever....
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She was nice/decent enough to get into some of the npc soldiers' good grace so this may... not be TOO difficult?! Will be very non-nonsense and practical about it too, we need to wrap up here and go to Achamoth, etc. u_u
God I feel you tho, what do you mean I can't just.. tag out 5ever. Whichever works for you in this case! o7
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And YEAH love me my tagging out lifestyle, don't love not being able to not tag other people who also live the tagging out lifestyle. I'm Committed either way but if for some reason I fall on my face and a top level doesn't happen, I'll just hash something out with you another way.
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As for outcomes, I don't mind either way - I'm good with Estinien just not being able to get past her defenses without causing too much risk. Though he will certainly try. He's going to be taking damage from other fights though so he'll probably be close to spent and she can take advantage of that.
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Gonna copypaste (with minor edit) from what I mentioned to Aru/Hiccup's player: would you like to iron this out on Disc later once we get the full setup of the event to see how everyone would like to do this? I'm mainly concerned with how open you guys OOCly want this to be, since this SHOULD be a very public thing others can react to ICly. People checking in on Hiccup to make sure he's ok/reigning Estinien (or popcorning/going WTF, YMMV) back in can be open prompts for both of you to keep pursuing Pleroma side CR, which would hinge on the outcome of the hostage fustercluck. We could either try hashing things out in advance or boomerang a little to set up the foundation? I may be thinking too hard about this, but depending on what YOU would like to do too, we can probably fine tune it more so we can all make use of the aftermath to build other stuff upon?
Also gonna add we should maybe make a separate comment on this post to let others not in the server know it's happening, probably... hard to miss a giant lizard man tear out the throat to some chick in the limited space of the Despair Cave, 🤔
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he knows how to fight so he'd put up a good one while also being all ??? BLUE HAIR THAT SEEMS FAMILIAR!!! i also don't mind the outcome.... so if you wanted to modroll it i'm totally down
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im crying can't believe what gives her away is the fact that she's like one of the very few blue anime haired ppl in this game!! Good thing she'd just tell him he must be hallucinating if he tries confronting her :) Gotta have to go check with a fellow Pleroma who managed to get her hood off for confirmation...
Would you like to determine outcome ASAP or wing it and see how things go first 🤔 re: her goal is to fight like she means it but also... stalling....... so she doesn't mind purposefully drawing things out, just roughing the opposition up a bit is enough in her book because they were ordered to do so. If they're gonna be the evil faction they need to at least TRY acting the part, pls understand 😔
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yah i'm cool with winging it and seeing how things wind up!! god planning threads is my weakness i'm too go with the flow BUT YES!! after a while (because he's stupid) he'll realize she's stalling and be like bruh we don't have TIME for this
oh ciel she's working so hard 😢
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flowgang... 🤝 and wym?? YOU guys are the ones who need time, hello
mfw they're like 3? 4? Kenomas willing to throw hands so far SIGH, can't be helped when you're the carry 😩
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(they should spar after tho she's normally a very capable fighter)
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