At The Gates OOC

It is now the early hours of Day Two: chaos is running riot, London is in a mess and for Librarians, orders are spewing out from Rome like tickets at a good restaurant on a Saturday night. At the Library, confusion is going wild and crazy: the precogs have all simultaneously stopped producing any kind of output (apparently in nightmares of their own) and half the Librarians themselves are experiencing reactions to the magic pouring out from ground zero.

Librarians being dispatched to deal with the gold in Hyde Park

Librarians are being sent to investigate the source of the issue.

Any and all Monitors are being sent to their particular patrols to deal with the fall-out (mind wiping, clear up, etc), any special targets for Monitoring are being checked up on.

Reinforcements from Rome will arrive about midday, including a large number of Praetorians to deal with the massive numbers of demons and beasts that are causing havoc.

Triage centre within the Library in the mess hall: partners are required to keep telepathic tabs on one another at all times to ensure no one is lost in the shuffle.

Tags: !plot: london burning, plot post

Hi kids! So as you can see, shit got real and we're beginning the accompanying fall-out. Figuring out how best to participate?

The Party thread got written up and posted by Rory. Anyone who could feasibly have gone to the bash should go and post over there -- remember, this is the beginning; if you have a predetermined scenario for your nightmare/fantasy, you can always start with the collective here.

Journal posts! Nina's taunting the masses, Jacques is being talkative, but feel free to comment on the weirdnesses, tracking down one another, because the world outside is a very very strange place right now.

Librarians! This is magic gone absolutely batshit and someone needs to find and switch it off whilst there is madness going on -- so many people will need to have magic erased from their understanding, so many demons going deliriously crazy, etc. This is the worst case scenario, the Code Black, etc. Praetorians are out there, but feel free to have a "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?" kind of conversation. Orders have gone out for everyone to do something, and it's a case of combat-zone.

Everyone's fantasies and nightmares are overlapping -- dreams tend to absorb bits and pieces of one another, after all -- so there are zombies wandering some parts of London, there is a unicorn in Trafalgar Square, there's a sink-pit in Oxford Circus and the world is being sucked into it. Whatever you can think of is happening right now, and your characters can interact with the calamity or they can flee from it, but the chaos is not simply contained to player-characters.

As we said, we've slowed game time so this is the first night/night of the party and feel free to make a mess. When we start up Day Two, it'll be the daylight hours of the following day (so likely, Librarians cleaning up the mess and the triage at Haven) and Day Three will be any residual affairs you want to get in order before we re-start time again.

Go and pull the world to pieces!

Tags: !plot: london burning, mod-post

HI EVERYONE! I cannot tell you how excited I am to (finally) be here after months of holds and concepts. Well, I should probably start out by saying who I am: I'm Ruby, 23, living in Southern California (today, we're hitting the 80s in temperature) and I can be found at DARETOCHASE via aim or @gmail.com, as well as despoir.

I have Itkal, a third generation Nephilim, but you'd know her as Brielle LeBlanc, formerly known as Anastaise LeNoir for the past two hundred years or so. Unlike the badass first-gen Nephilims, her powers are a bit more diluted and she'll probably die of old age before they do, but that's just a random tidbit, there are more of those in her journal!

What's different about Brielle is that she doesn't hold the same grudge against THE HEAVENS ABOVE!! as other Nephilim's do. She whole heartedly believes that God still has a purpose for them (Nephilim's), nevermind that her grandfather was killed for being one. She sees herself more angel than human and takes a rather fascinated approach toward them, 'collecting' particular humans to protect and look over, but also as companions because she hates to be alone. She studies magic, mostly in the form of potions, healing and shielding spells, and ways to block her angelic/Nephilim blood. Currently, she's living in the London Nephilim Safehouse.

OVERALL, Brielle is a friendly presence to humans, an innocent curious kitten to fellow Nephilims and also angels (though this is something to be discussed as, you know, they might want to kill her), and a good addition to any person or being as a friend. She may be naive but she's not stupid, and note that she could probably still crush your bones if she really wanted to.

Sorry, this got so long! I'd love any sort of plot and backstory and.. just help in general. It's kind of intimidating to be part of such an amazing game but everyone has been so very helpful! Now I'm off to prepare myself for this PLOT O' DOOM.

Good morning, you beautiful creatures. Just a note that the plot o' doom kicks off today! If you plan on being involved, please take a look over the linked post and check to make sure you have all your bases covered -- there've been a lot of brilliant ideas thrown into the comments, so it's easy to have missed something.

For people attending Morden's bacchanalia of a birthday party, please consider commenting on his original post. This will not only make our lives a little easier in terms of a headcount, but it can help segue into the event itself.

AS FOR THE EVENT. We're 'slowing' game time since everyone is understandably busy: three days of Gates!time = one week RL!time. This should help those of us who have to rely on the weekend.

FINALLY. I'm going to be bringing my laptop to work and trying to carve out some time to put up a series of small, scene-setting posts, but please don't let this stop you from plotting (and for those of you who prefer writing in gdocs, from getting started with logs living there). Rory will be handling setup for the party-goers -- he'll be putting a post up -- so anyone visiting Morden's tent at the Circus will have that to fall back on. And if you have a character who is going to be violent and/or destructive, consider putting up an open thread which damage-taking characters can respond to, or a descriptive narrative people can react to. It doesn't have to be a novel, but every bit helps. Thanks!

(Incidentally, activity checks are February 20. This plot is the perfect opportunity for everyone to make the check totally unnecessary. Since my birthday falls on the 20th, I would really appreciate it if you delicious fiends would make it an unneeded task. ♥)

Hiatus, aka, the rending asunder of my pitiful wee heart! Because of a pretty tremendously unfortunate conflagration of some personal and professional concerns (hopefully temporary), and because of the impending Awesomeness Hurricane of a plot, I'm going to have to hiatus for the next few weeks. Nothing could be further from what I'd like to do (which is naturally take this and run with it), but at this juncture it's unfortunately the only sane option for me, and the only respectful option w/r/t y'all, my awe-inducing fellow players. Naturally I'll be reading up on the the goings-down at every opportunity, and if any of you feel inclined to email me with every little thing--well, I wouldn't hate it. ;)

As for Iain, he'll be zapped off to the mainland for a mission of Utmost Importance for now, for acts of derring-do only a dead-affiliated Librarian with a penchant for the weird could complete, e.g. see his most recent post. ♥

HELLO, HEATHENS. So, we have some plot for you, and it is big. As you may have noticed, Morden's 445th birthday is coming up, and he will be having a party!

THINGS TO KNOW:
- Morden is part of the Circus. Morden manipulates reality.
- Joss is part of the Circus. Joss warps dreams/reality.
- Arazia will be attending the party. Arazia amplifies existing magic.

Things are going to spiral out of control. Morden's shindig will be affecting not just party-goers, but all of London -- it will be a hedonistic orgy of chaos, and peoples' fantasies and nightmares will be coming to life. [Technical explanation: Morden will be giving the perception of dreams/nightmares coming to life. If multiple people believe that is reality, Joss's magic makes it so. Arazia causes that to spread across London. If you are aware that you're facing a hallucination/dream, that will weaken it but not necessarily defeat it.] So not only will this be a case of living nightmares causing damage across the city, but demons will be opportunistically wreaking havoc, vampires will be lashing out, Marion's own djinn abilities will potentially kick in for more (localized) confusion, and the Corinthian is going to start killing.

It's going to be bloody. People will be hurt, can very well lose their lives -- PCs and just regular mundanes across London.

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU:
- Chaos, chaos everywhere.
- This will be ongoing until the Market comes in and shuts things down by 'powering down' Arazia.
- The angels (JEGUDIEL, PENEMUE, SACHIEL -- I AM LOOKING AT YOU) will be able to wade in and take on demons.
- The Library is going to have so much damage control to perform. Not just trying to put out fires, but a long-lasting mess to clean up after the fact. Rome will doubtless send people in to help. (London Librarians may not like this.)
- ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. Again: dreams, fantasies, nightmares. Ghosts could become corporeal. Danny will kick ass in Dumas's name. Jim will have so many superhero opportunities. Go big or go home, basically.

This thing can to escalate to unbelievable proportions, and we really want it to. So! I am posting this tonight in hopes that it gives everyone time to think. Morden's party does not occur until February 9, this coming Thursday. That gives us better part of a week to come up with what our characters will go through, but to further complicate it, we want folks to use this post for plotting purposes. Feel free to ask questions, talk things out -- feedback might give you new ideas and directions to run in! Also, because it will be bloody, we've set up a second post here. We'd like for everybody who's participating to post with a list of their characters -- tell us who's making it through unscathed, who's open to be injured, and who might be up for death. More details are available on the post itself, and comments are screened for the element of surprise.

Edit: For those of you signing up for injury, death or the scale between, we're dice-rolling to find out the severity for each character and then, so it stays secret, emailing you the outcomes. What we suggest you do is confab to find someone who can provide your smackdown or be unfortunate-victim-of-it, but keep the outcome between the two (or three!) of you for now; if you're going to write this up in some way. We're going to be pausing time so a week equates to three IC days, which gives people time to write logs etc, and then at the end, we'll be posting everyone's stats so that everyone has an idea of the outcomes. We suggest keeping it secret until you're done playing, to keep that element of surprise (death is a nasty little gift at the end of the period, etc).

Zoe here! I haven't brought in a new character since last year so I feel completely excused.

This is Marko Velazquez. He is 26, an eternal optimist, still lives at home with his aunt and uncle (who took him in when he was 9, after he got shipped up from Spain by his grandparents), and worked as a dishwasher at the London Diner until recently! He got promoted to waiter, which isn't really a promotion depending on who you ask, surely. For most of his life, he's been totally ordinary, mundane and an eternal under-achiever who gets along with nearly everyone while they take continual advantage of his laid-back nature and unquestioning generosity. Not all that long ago (a couple of months ago), however, he had the pleasure of experiencing a late-blooming Natural ability manifest, which is his sonic scream. It's exactly what it sounds like: he's destroyed an underground club and a grocery store so far with just his voice. He's terrified to speak since then and has been toting around an actual notebook to write notes to people in when he has to, claiming eternal laryngitis.

His profile is here with the deets on his full life story and my plot ideas -- there's a ton of them so feel free to paw through and pounce on something! Hopefully he'll be dragged to Haven soon by a friend (Niiiiives?) and some hapless Librarian will catch up with him (takers?). Come at me, bros!

Hi, I'm new! My name is Cassie and I'm playing Helena Clemens, who eats souls in order to live longer and stay young. She is 368 years old. She's doing a lot of theater work in London but looking for ways that can get her access to more souls. You can read more about Helen in her app, but in sum: she's duplicitously two-faced, one half being the more public persona which is very loud and gay, deceptively carefree, and the other half being quiet, deadly, shrewd.

SO... HI! :D

Everyone, this is Balthazar. Balthazar, everyone. He probably watches your workouts & sexcapades before deciding to move into your skin. He's here to purr, shit-stir, and play the occasional entrepreneur.

Feed me plots. Anything!

~ Gia

So in celebration of the end of celebrations -- seriously, goodbye January and the fail of falling snow, bankruptcy post Christmas et-al -- I am reviving a meme we used to great success in Gate's first few months.

The morning after meme! This is that awful-terrible-no-good-wonderful set-up where no matter what your character was doing last night, they're waking up with someone else on the other side of the bed and facing that moment of 'who?' and all the delicious awkwardness that comes with tossing people together. Generally, this is of the wonderful-crack type meme but we have had lines play out from this affair before.

How it works: You comment with your character's journal, their name in the subject line. Other people then comment on that comment, with their character's name in the subject line -- and an opening to a ~morning after scene, a line of dialogue, anything. The way this really works is if everyone crawls over every post ridiculously and do not feel this is a moment for polished dialogue and witty words. This is nonsense, desirous of putting characters in hideously embarrassing situations for your own fun and ignoring their own sanity.

So, as will be forthcoming from the recent post, the Library is shutting down the Market temporarily as retribution for the whole 'you made ghosts dance like puppets on a string' Masquerade thing.

Which means the Market that ought be in town from the 17th to the 25th of January is not. Market grounds are empty, no one is there and the kit and kaboodle are out of town until February. Feel free to spit feathers/get irritated as charms and magic purchased last Market likely will be running out of juice if they're the renewable kind. The Library wielding heft is going to be pissing off the Merchants, so watch out for future plotlets spun as Library vs Market begins to kick off.

This of course means demons etc can take full advantage of the distractions. Please feel free to run with this in whatever direction you please; the Metropolitan will be reporting on it to shit-stir further, so go forth, multiply and take advantage!

just a head's up that i'll be out of town this weekend from friday to sunday! i might pop on but expect no serious comments to happen. i'll still be reachable by e-mail, but i'm going to be busy doing things in the poconos like frolicking in the snow and making merry with friends and carousing by warm fires with equally warm libations.

SINCERELY, TIFF

(you will see this crossposted everywhere.)

hello again! tiff here, with her lack of capital letters & proper punctuation (i hope you do not mind me butchering the english language ooc-ly -- i just came back from the doctor's and am sorely needing coffee to wake me up because this is usually when i am still snoozing). i've brought my second character in already because i intend to make a nest and stay here and i've got more on my to-do list!!, but for all intents & purposes, i give you sachiel, my very first angel~.

sachiel, in a nutshell, has been around on earth for about four-hundred years, made acquaintances with several notable figures in history and earnestly refers to them by first name in casual conversation, is delighted by humans and the strange things they do, and has learned emotion -- or as much emotion as an angel can learn. after you spend hundreds of years with one of God's creations, it's about time you learn what makes them tick. he is, of course, earnestly trying to get people to join Heaven's ranks, but a recent problem in the angel hierarchy (as per Hellblazer canon, an angel can die, which occurred, and now there's a GAPING HOLE in the power structure -- guess who got to fill it) has given him new responsibilities regarding the judgement of human souls. he's intended to be part of a good cop/bad cop angel pair, equal parts comedic and hilarious as well as plot-providing, and i hope you will all give him everything you've got.

for now, he calls himself alton absalom brown and runs a tiny kitchen restaurant called Absalom Brown's Good Eats Ole Lassie, which is essentially that foodie mecca thing called a 'gastropub' -- think lots of delicious, greasy things, lots of pouring beer into food, etc. (For mods: would it be all right to e-mail you a description of aforementioned restaurant so it may be added to the Places to Know page? bat eyelash, bat eyelash), serving mundanes & whomever -- though demons will, of course, earn a cursory glance from the chef. i am slowly realizing that this is an awesome little opportunity for characters to neatly slide in, so if you ever feel the itch to play a waitress... not that i am hinting at anything.

potential lines i'd loved to see filled: human acquaintances/"friends", of course hammering out details of his relationship w/ the other two angels. demon types for him to get old and ornery at. everything.

Ahoy hoy! (That's how they used to talk in the olden days, don't you know?) My name is Rory and, though I know a few of you, I think I am a stranger to the majority! In that vein, I am going to approach this introduction as though I am completely unfamiliar to you all - the old hands who've been round the block with me before can skip down to the end, or you can reacquaint yourselves with my lovely and modest self. So!

Like I just said, my name's Rory. I'm 25, English, a Leo with Scorpio rising and my three favourite television detectives (in order) are Miss Marple, Jessica Fletcher and Hetty Wainthropp. You may notice an overarching theme of these venerable sleuths and you would be right - I do love me some older women. But that is a conversation for another day and another character (ohoho!) So I graduated a few years ago and never really got a job that suited me, so I kind of intend to drift along until my parents die and I inherit all their stuff/debts/ancient feuds. I love video games (if you ever IM me, be prepared to be bored to death by me chatting on about The Old Republic!) and tend to come off as a little acerbic at first. Also I hate putting things in order, which is why this list is all over the place. My woefully underused CDJ is shirleyschmidt which you can feel free to add, and my AIM screen names are challenge joan (iPhone) and deathknightdoris (desktop). I'm available all the time, mostly because I am a horrible leech at the moment but even when I work they can't prise my phone out of my hand, so.

That's the me bit over, so welcome back, old hands. MOVING ONWARDS! This dreadful beast is Morden Garrard, the most adorable monster ever to crawl out of the sixteenth century. Morden is an Occultist, and a powerful one considering how long he's been practising. Originally an apprentice apothecary, he worked his way up through traitor to the crown, to court magician, to royal pet, to traitor to the new crown, to itinerant sex fiend. It's been a...varied life, to be sure, but one thing has remained constant throughout all of that: Morden is a very dangerous old man whose only loyalty is to himself and, very minutely, to the Circus that he now inhabits with his other crazy denizens. He is a guiltless, narcissistic murderer and frankly, murder is probably the least dreadful thing he's done. But, like the Chaotic Neutral madbox that he is, Morden's also capable of grand acts of kindness - he's unpredictable, and predictable in its unpredictability. You can pretty much count on him to betray you, and he assumes you know that when you start dealing with him. It's perfectly possible (because I'm telling you it is) that all of this masks a very tired, frightened old bloke who doesn't quite know why he's still alive, but most people won't see that side of him. Most people will only see the depraved, debasing maniac or the laughing, elfin young man who wants to pay for everyone's drinks.

Oh yes, his signature ability: through great effort and force of will, Morden can channel a reality-altering ritual through the power of his voice. Specifically, through his singing voice: originally a very difficult ritual, he's now contained it within a single act of chanting. I'll quote his app here since it sums it up best - "Morden can affect his immediate environment, alter things to make life a little more ‘interesting’: he can bring unlikely creatures to life, or turn the inside of his circus tent into a tropical paradise. The laws of physics need not apply, the natural rule is second to his will, and -crucially- he can implant ideas and suggestions into his willing audience members." Yes, indeed - he sings the world different. I think there's at least one Librarian who he'll be very wary of, if you know what I mean. Whilst this ability naturally has many uses, Morden mostly uses it to stage elaborate, orgiastic performances within his tent at the Circus. He enjoys titillating people, altering their perceptions and basically making sure everybody (but mostly himself) has a bloody good time.

Have I forgotten anything? Probably, I always do. Oh well, his profile is here, and contains more information than I've given you here. I think it's worth a read, but then I would say that since I wrote it. DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? Then this post would be an ideal place to add them.

As per the latest narrative -- Gryff is back at Haven and pulling the ~new leaf aspect. Which means he's rarely in the office, if ever, a lot of moving around and being about the place but difficult to find because of the constant roving. He is not, by any means a puppy of a man so do not expect smiles nor cuddles when you bring him problems but he is a lot more obviously there than before -- even if he's disappearing frequently to go places like church and ex-Havenite houses and weird little nooks and crannies 'round London.

This means he's up for being fucked with & anyone who wants at him can have him -- he'll be picking an eventual fight with the Merchants and Market, which means Marion will get to fend him off, Julie and he'll be stretching out toward family & friends which means the Gryffiths women and dealing with that pesky 'champion' status.

Hello everyone! I'm Tiffany and I'm ~*~new~*~, complete with sparkles and energy and earnestness. I'm twenty, a junior at a university somewhere on the east coast, and an Anthropology/Asian/Pacific-American Studies double-major with a minor in English (previously a major: dropped because I SERIOUSLY CANNOT STAND OLD ENGLISH, I APOLOGIZE A THOUSAND TIMES OVER. DO NOT HAVE THE PATIENCE NOR THE INTEREST TO PUT MYSELF THROUGH IT AGAIN). Feel free to add my cdj millefeuilles or contact me via g-mail (cakemixing) or aim (sesame milk tea). I'm available ALL THE TIME because I'm on my last week and a half of vacation, but come the start of the new semester, expect to see me during the evenings. ANYWAYS, ENOUGH BABBLE ABOUT ME. HERE'S WHAT YOU'RE REALLY INTERESTED IN.

No, this is not Mr. Saito – it just looks like him. But vendors, merchants, and market-goers might want to take interest in Yoshinori Hashimoto! Yoshi's a merchant too, and he comes from a long, long line of merchants: if you go up far enough on his family tree, you find out that one of his ancestors was lucky enough to marry a merchant's daughter and it goes on from there. Thus, Yoshi's been all around the world and raised by various families; he's fluent in a number of languages as a result, such as Chinese, Japanese, and English. He spends most of his time in the Hashimoto family home in Sapporo, but thanks to portals and things like that, he's pretty much everywhere.

A few notes on his personality as well: Yoshi, to most people, comes off as a surprisingly easygoing man. He's rarely perturbed and seems to maintain a sense of calm no matter the situation. Very difficult to rile him up. Harmless. My whole concept of him was this sort of affable zen uncle, which he pulls off very well – but it's not him at all. Beneath the surface, Yoshi is as conniving as the next merchant, ambitious, and a family man (note that lower-case F; he's loyal to things outside of the merchants). He's also marionnettes's second-cousin (her father being his actual cousin) but in lieu of the Iwakura fail, Yoshi's taken up the mantle in being a caring family member for Marion and views her as one of his own.

I think that's everything so I'm just going to say I CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY WITH YOU GUYS. I'VE BEEN STALKING SINCE FOREVER.

HELLO GATES. Immense apologies for my more-extended-than-usual absence in December; holidays + European timezone + catching up with high school friends + NO INTERNET!!! + 34 hours of plane travel = not conducive to RP. 8| But I'm getting settled, recovering from jetlag, and doing my catchup now, so pls be prepared for backdated IC comments. If you could just roll with it and pretend that these comments happened around the time of your character's post, that would be awesome. :3

And on another note: Talia Sullivan finally got her Mormon!state fixed in the period between Christmas and New Year's, because holy hells it was about time. This backdated post will eventually fill in the blanks as to the 'how' -- Loren, Librarian players, consider this your opening to decide who gets to hunt down Elder Young?

For all intents and purposes, however, normal!Talia is back. It's safe to say that she's been avoiding her usual haunts out of embarrassment, but will be coming out of the woodwork now. (Much like I am. How about that?)

Hello! I'm Jamie and I'm new. I'm 21, English and in the middle of my last year of uni O_O. I am uninteresting. It's a thing. But feel free to add me at archangels or im me whenever at deadlybirdsof! I'm not used to log-centric games so I also made a log post sticky, as an easy place to hit me up for stuff/list of possible ideas that is v much WIP.Apologies in advance, I suck at intros and making things short, but I am armed with bullet points so it might work. This is Danny Best. He won't answer to Daniel, in all likelihood.

Basics: He is Australian! But he is a total nomad who moves around a fuckton, the most recent one being from Rome to London just before Christmas. As of right now, he is crashing at Haven. He's 27, but thanks to mystical reasons~ only looks 24. He's a travel writer for Lonely Planet, a former paramedic and comes from a Mundane family. He has third degree burns up his left arm and side. He smokes a lot and will wear sunglasses even when it's raining.

Why the fuck he is here: He is the vassal of Duma, angel of silence and the stillness of death. So he is very religious, but not loyal to any domination and is deeply private about Duma. Powers -- cigarette lighter that turns into a fiery sword of justice~ (ty catwo always for coming up with that), enhanced strength/stamina/healing, two-way connection with Duma, able to see~ things other mundanes can't like if people are possessed or w/e. Sometimes, she teleports him elsewhere in the world to do her bidding. I've said that the lower/lowest level demons generally steer clear of him just because, you know, good thing to do with fire-and-brimstone angel's boy. Also, demon people and angel people, I am staring at you right now for plot of some kind. Just saying. It is a very creepy and impressive stare.

Personality: Does whatever he thinks is right and best, no matter the consequences. Lawful good, in the crusader sense of it. Incredibly self-assured. Outgoing, friendly, quick to invite someone he takes a liking to do something fun. Kind, but not nice. Cheerful. Doesn't take shit to the point of harshness. Adventurous. Shameless. Total flirt. Very responsible. Loves a good time and to be around other people. Hates thoughtlessness, prejudice and anyone trying to tell him what to do. Cheeky and can take things too far. Insouciant attitude, by and large. Always and forever on the go. Reliable and anal about things like timing. Being Duma's vassal does mean he has a total hunger for justice and it has totally gotten him in trouble/arrested before. Oops. More on him here.

So yes HI, hopefully I haven't forgotten anything vital, it is nice to me here, hit me ((((:

Hello, delightful heathens, and a happy new year to you all. With the holidays officially behind us, we're looking to roll out some plot and shake a few trees in order to get things rolling again. Part of our unofficial new year's mod resolution is to not just throw more crazy happenings into the fray, but also to encourage everybody to step in and get up to their own no-good. We want to ensure that everybody is comfortable here, and especially comfortable enough to strike out with their own plots and storylines -- this game is as much yours as ours, so remember that it is completely okay to throw things out there at your leisure... at least provided that you don't blow up all of London without warning us first. (Such as: Demons doing what they do best. Occultists' spells going wrong. Market Vendors feeling suffocated by their agreement with the Merchants, and subsequently taking a stand.)

To start it all off, we wanted to put this post up with intent of open plotting. Comment with your character(s), and tell us what you want for them. Not just unfilled roles like 'I'd really like to see my characters's x relative here', but your goals for them, the storylets you'd love to write, but perhaps aren't yet sure how to put in play. People can then respond with ideas, or volunteer their own characters, and perhaps along the way we'll stumble across a few new dynamics which can be built out.

My 'huh, neat' visual gift to you all.