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songerein_ooc2023-03-10 04:41 pm
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Permanent Residency Quest Part II
Hihi! I'm back here again about the permanent residence quest. For those who need a refresher or are new, Eustace made a journal post back in January looking for any who would be interested in looking into finding a way to stay in Songerein permanently. I had made an OOC post for sign-ups at the time, and I now have a permanent info post on Eustace's journal for easy reference.
This will be a several months long endeavor with the final result/solution likely occurring near end of 2023. As for how to actually make progress with this, I've come up with at least a few different categories, all of which can be adjusted and tailored to fit the characters participating. It's all outlined in the info post, but I'll include it here as well:
Thus for this post, I am once again asking if there is anyone who would like to join in! If you do, please feel free to comment to the sign-up thread. Those who signed up last time, if you don't mind please comment again! This helps not only confirm the list, but I have some new fields in the form: Task Preference and Month Preference. If there's a task category you like or a month you'd prefer to do this, please fill it out! March is included, but I would prefer to not have everything happen in the same month, so I would prefer if you could space each other out! If not, I will have to adjust time frames. Characters can participate/help in multiple tasks, we just need to be sure everyone has at least a chance at one.
IMPORTANT! Characters (and players) can freely join and change their mind later, just let me know. Characters can also team up with each other OR have someone not part of the sign-up group help. This sign-up is mostly for those who have primary interest in this endeavor, but anyone else can assist. As for how a character can join later, let's just pretend Eustace made a poster/ad/thing about it on the Dreamboard and Tree of Stories that is always visible and we can handwave or thread out interactions.
If you have any questions, post them in this subthread.
This will be a several months long endeavor with the final result/solution likely occurring near end of 2023. As for how to actually make progress with this, I've come up with at least a few different categories, all of which can be adjusted and tailored to fit the characters participating. It's all outlined in the info post, but I'll include it here as well:
So I have a general idea of what the end solution will be. The regain bauble will be a part of it, as well as needing both dreamotion and nightmare energy in some form. While there will need to be several physical items, they would also have a connecting theme. A character's will and personal trial will also be incorporated in some way. Whether the character must sever their connection to their home world or be able to keep it and maintain control is also something that can be (and currently is!) investigated. It's very likely I will end that as optional, but it will all depend on the input and IC results.
Of course, these are just my loose thoughts and I'll likely be changing or adjusting as time goes on.
For now, this is just a brief list of things I've thought of to try and divvy out to various players. It's not exhaustive, will be updated as specific tasks are given out and completed, and is just giving everyone an idea of what could be done.
Other special locations. Other locations outside of town could be considered, too, if they appear. So mostly a placeholder here.
Library Dive. Aside from general research, go into certain books or stories that could relate to world traveling OR just a story that could have a spell or item that could be used for the final spell or however permanent residency is achieved. Perhaps the stories fit a different theme that is related to all this.
Monster Hunt. Take down a legendary beast that has a lot of dreamotion energy. Could need an item from the monster, or this could be part of the personal trial so need to collect something else, like one's dreamotion energy that manifests during the fight.
Item Fetchquests. Yeah gotta have the staple. It would likely be a chain of get items to create a new item, or could be necessary to unlock something else. Could also be just needing to go on a special treasure hunt to find a specific item. Either way, good fillers if needed.
General Research. Not the most exciting but gotta be done. Where most of the lore dump and discoveries will be found. Could find ways to spice it up, such as needing to curry favor to a certain fae to get answers or help librarians or researchers at the Observatory with something to unlock info.
Dreamotion Connection. Study and research needs to be done on how characters are even connected to the world. This part is a little vague for now...or rather I'm just not spilling the deets here fufu.
Dreams and Dreamwalking. Of course we're going to need a few of these!
Nightmares and Noctaere. This will also be required, but these will be done later in the timeline.
Player Suggestions. I am always open to other ideas, whether it's something not in this list or a special way to incorporate them, I am all ears!
Some of these could be random discovery, or they could be directed/discovered in research.
I also plan to have some general, public quests/tasks that will go up on the dream board that anyone can participate that would connect and help develop this.
Of course, these are just my loose thoughts and I'll likely be changing or adjusting as time goes on.
For now, this is just a brief list of things I've thought of to try and divvy out to various players. It's not exhaustive, will be updated as specific tasks are given out and completed, and is just giving everyone an idea of what could be done.
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- Dragon Island. Get some tasty info from the dragons since they have cool magic and stuff. And other things. Some tasks could be dragons making a challenge to succeed, a quest or job fulfill, some problem that's come up that solving will help garner trust. Some possible rewards:
- Info: could be about magic, something about the world or dream connection the dragons might know
- Special item: dragon scale, dragon treasure, special jewel from the island, some talisman, fruit, endless possibilities
- Info: could be about magic, something about the world or dream connection the dragons might know
Some of these could be random discovery, or they could be directed/discovered in research.
I also plan to have some general, public quests/tasks that will go up on the dream board that anyone can participate that would connect and help develop this.
Thus for this post, I am once again asking if there is anyone who would like to join in! If you do, please feel free to comment to the sign-up thread. Those who signed up last time, if you don't mind please comment again! This helps not only confirm the list, but I have some new fields in the form: Task Preference and Month Preference. If there's a task category you like or a month you'd prefer to do this, please fill it out! March is included, but I would prefer to not have everything happen in the same month, so I would prefer if you could space each other out! If not, I will have to adjust time frames. Characters can participate/help in multiple tasks, we just need to be sure everyone has at least a chance at one.
IMPORTANT! Characters (and players) can freely join and change their mind later, just let me know. Characters can also team up with each other OR have someone not part of the sign-up group help. This sign-up is mostly for those who have primary interest in this endeavor, but anyone else can assist. As for how a character can join later, let's just pretend Eustace made a poster/ad/thing about it on the Dreamboard and Tree of Stories that is always visible and we can handwave or thread out interactions.
If you have any questions, post them in this subthread.
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Character: Nuadha
Reason for Joining: As I mentioned before, Nuadha comes from a world that's basically built out of pieces of other worlds (including people from other worlds) so he's familiar with the concept of transplanting things from one world into another and making them a part of that new world. He isn't actively planning to stay, but at the same time he still thinks that he's dead in his world...
Task Preference: Given what he and Eustace discussed earlier, Dreamotion connection would be a good one for him! Aside from that, Monster Hunt and Nightmares/Noctaere would also be up his alley because this man likes to try to solve problems by eliminating them from existence... or Library Dive/General Research as he does a lot of that back at home. He's pretty flexible, just don't ask him to do any sort of diplomacy with dragons because /points at the liking to solve problems by eliminating them
Month Preference: Anything other than April or May would be good!
Suggestions: He's going to be working on the idea of forming a connection to an inanimate object and then seeing if that connection can then be manipulated or altered, as he and Eustace discussed.
Questions: Not at the moment!
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But yeye I think we can start with the current plan of him trying to form that connection and somehow weave it all into the final result! This will probably put Nuadha more on the dreamotion side of things, but can always have him do something else, too.
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That definitely works for me! Given that he's a mirrist, it's a logical thing for him to focus his energy on as it's something that's already in his wheelhouse in that sense.
Rolls up sleeves and prepares to dive back into the game script to try to figure out the nitty-gritty details of exactly what all mirristry is capable ofwe love Tales games, reallyI think there might also be the potential for Nightmare/Noctaere stuff with him just because of his pessimistic nature and the fact that he's so devoted to the idea of being dead that even a god wasn't able to get through to him. He's gradually beginning to become a little more open to the idea of living at his canon point (and here in Reverein) but he's still very much a work in progress on that front, so I'd be willing to play around with that too!
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I've decided to make a discord server for all this to make it easier to coordinate and keep info up to date, so if you could join it that would be great!!