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• Traditionally Emily has worn a different face for the people she interacts with -- her father gets daughter-playfulness, Nives & Ophelia get the good cop/early-20-something, Sully gets caretaker, etc. That's stopping. She's had a lot of fairly awful things happen in the immediate past, and it's made Em finally step up to the plate re: acting like the adult she prefers to be treated as. The mask-wearing is going, and from hereon in most people are going to get a consistent this-is-Em. (Unless, you know, she loathes you. Hi, Nic.) Her very small support network has mostly unraveled, and it got me thinking that Em doesn't really have any truly close friends; the Havenites receive a slight detachment due to that resident/staff disconnect, and most people are kept at some sort of distance. I would really like to fix that. It'd be great to work on the existing relationships, but also to find new people whom Em can interact with and actually find trustworthy; she's sort of queen of the casual acquaintance. This is made particularly awkward by the fact that she's waaaay more comfortable with people who are older than she is (ex: the two people she's closest to are her father and Gryff, both in their 50s), so it'd be interesting to poke at people also in their 20s and see what happens.
• People who need things translated. And obviously, by that I mean the really archaic stuff, languages which are long dead or perhaps generally unknown to the human tongue if magic hasn't turned you into a human Rosetta Stone. There is so much potential for terrible, terrible consequences for all and sundry if Em is tasked with translating Things Man Should Not Know.

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• So the dilemma of Vaughn is that he can't turn the magic off, can't stop using it due to the way Market-magic interacted with Natural ability. This means that he heals himself constantly (which could be worse), but also that physical contact with other people does the same -- Vaughn touches you, and despite himself the magic reaches out to try and fix whatever may be wrong, whether it's a paper-cut or asthma or that heart defect which has never troubled you but is waiting for the opportune moment. Side effects of the healing include Vaughn's 'patient' experiencing a high best recreated in the bedroom with liberal use of needles and opiates, and Vaughn himself receiving an echo of whatever's gone wrong -- not a 1-to-1 match of what may be felt, but close enough where it's made him gun-shy about physical contact. I'd like to a) find reasons to make Vaughn suck it up and heal people regardless, and b) find a way to skirt around his dislike of contact. Candy at The Gem seems like a fairly obvious choice (hi, RM!), but is there anyone else?
• Which kind of segways into just branching out Vaughn's social network in general. He's an unrepentant asshole, and I understand most people don't want to deal with that. Still, it'd be amazing to see someone edge in under the armor and help remind him that he is, in fact, still a human being. It tends to take either someone who is just as willing to hand out verbal abuse as he is, or to a lesser degree, those who have it considerably worse than him. (Jacinta with her past springs to mind.)

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• Words cannot accurately express how much I'd like to add on to the rotating crew of thieves. Without making suggestions which are probably better left to new characters built specifically for the task, I'd just like a show of hands for those who deal in less-than-legal areas. We have a few conmen right now, but even contacts would be great -- a fence, for example, Liam can take stolen goods to.
• Targets. The crew needs more jobs, should cause more upheaval in-game than it currently does. I have my own little list of people I'd like to hit with the conmen, but volunteers would be grand.
• Liam himself is on a downward spiral and has been for quite some time. My secret heart's desire is to find someone he'd recognize as having potential enough to eventually take over the crew, someone he can effectively take on as a protege. Morals need to be there, but elastic. Empathy is a must, and the qualifications list is fairly sizable but sort of boils down to 'chaotic good Robin Hood'.

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• I would love for someone to mess him up. He's twitchy and paranoid about Merchants but so far he's only gotten the snot beaten out every now and then by the thugs he would have fought without magic. The sort of blokes who went down to the pub after and told the story of what a strange night they just had. Avoiding Market attention doesn't make any sense. He wants to be a superhero. I want the world to squish him and reshape him a little. A lot.


• At the same time I would also adore someone to maybe try and explain why he is an idiot. Squishing out of empathy if such a thing is possible. We all have to grow up sometime.


• Partners in crime. >>

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• Someone to save, or at least guide, or act as confessor for.
• Someone to not save. Owen knows this isn't Pokemon; you can't really get them all. I'd like a friend who can be respectful of his faith, and he can be respectful that they aren't yet ready to accept God into their heart (though hopeful that one day this may change, of course).
• Someone to teach. Must be a person with faith in their life, and a goal they have yet to reach.
• Someone to tempt him. The usual sorts won't actually work, in this case - he isn't attracted to vice so much as humanity. This might ordinarily wind up as a ship sort of line, but I should say upfront that it won't get to that level - he might like it to, but with his history in mind, Owen would make the conscious choice to walk away instead of ruining her life and damning himself for eternity.
• Someone to butt heads with. This might be Tel (Julie?), but that doesn't mean it couldn't be others as well.

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• An owner for Alice's talisman! It's been floating around between NPCs, but Laura and I would love to have an actual in-game keeper to bounce off.
  
• I know how to make this happen character-wise, but I'm lodging it as a suggestion -- I'm envisioning a small arc involving Dominic's health taking a turn for the worse (possibly through an accident with Arazia's powers), which leads to needing healing from Vaughn? Because that bodes for all sorts of interesting IMO, and I want more Vaughn. 8)
  
• ‘The Transporter’! A really awful magical item (one that makes others violent/angry? a One Ring effect?) falls into the hands of mortal police. Other magical people are also Very Interested in obtaining this artifact, but Dominic's sent by Market to bail it out of police custody. And while it's being transported, it has a collateral effect on all the mundanes in his vicinity as he moves. LOTS OF MESS. LOTS OF ACTION. And cleanup for the Librarians!
  
• Alice's talisman getting stolen, perhaps; either by an insidious party or a sympathetic party which then allows the Munroes to be together moar?
  
• Experts in magical artifacts! I'm always in need of more people Dom can talk to for advice, consultation, etc.

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• More people to get involved with & help wrap up the Collector storyline!
  
• People who can help with permanently inducing or amplifying magical abilities -- in particular, he desperately wants to 1) regain his teleportation, 2) open a proper portal back to hell.
  
• As a corollary to above, maybe he does open a portal to go back home, but it backfires horridly and unleashes awful creatures into the mundane plane?
  
• I would kill for a hell-based demon with a massive hate-on for Temeluchus. Possibly they were neck-to-neck rivals before the Tartaruch fell, or perhaps they were an inferior ground under Temeluchus' heel who now ranks above him in the pecking order, and is delighting in it. I have a plotline in mind in which a demonic rival starts hunting down & killing off Temeluchus' charges/wards -- ideally, the smackdown for doing this would be hardcore, so I'm leaning towards willingness to fuck up your character, but I'm open to negotation tbh.
  
• Considering he's got degrees of mutual understanding with both of the angels in-game so far, I'd love to see a bigger enemy in the form of an angel. I describe it in his storylines post like so: "Incompatible and unsympathetic, a soldier staring across the party line at Temeluchus as a sort of Benedict Arnold or Quisling. God, how they hate each other. Temeluchus hates them so much it gives him energy. They has to get up early in the morning to hate each other because there isn't time enough in the day."

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• THE LIBRARY:
  
  • I want more Library bonding! Perhaps a work party of some sort, just to get all of them socialising in the same spot and so we can see how they function as a group?
    
  • The Pied Piper storyline still needs to be wrapped up, correct? Moar work for our folk to do!
    
  • Also, I desperately do want Catherine to graduate to full Librarian status eventually as Market-monitor. Things I want to see before that point: her shadowing a member from each Library department and learning from them in turn; a combat/ability practice log with a trainer; participation in some sort of successful mission, which would feed directly into her finally passing to full status.
  
  
• Market work: I have this idea of her using her powers and spotting some smuggling~~ going on and thus unravelling a (small!) operation with some help. Maybe this could be the graduation proof, idk. Things I need for this: shady vendors, Merchants to be annoyed or grudgingly grateful as to the Library's involvement?
  
• I want to see a big-ass electrical storm (Furtur?) overcharging her powers, leading to Catherine blasting and breaking things, and then her abilities going on fritz after that -- shorting out electronics and blowing up powerlines wherever she goes. Which will lead to some time in seclusion out in the countryside to train herself & get her abilities back under control.
  
• Iiiii am sadistic and also kind of want someone to find out about her Market talisman and surgically remove it, thus temporarily rendering her Mundane for a while (her latent abilities depend upon the Market magic propping the metaphorical door open), before she's able to have a new one installed.

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I would love if another Occultist who practices magic that is, uhm, less than socially acceptable (on par with his necromancy, let's say) and is way more into using it for their own gain/others' detriment is chummy with Rainer, which would eventually lead to this person influencing him to use his own abilities more for the Greater Evil than he normally would.

Lis, I must ping you about Magic Box Plot.

I kind of want the Library to become a bit more aware of him, but of course that requires him to do something that is majorly balance-shifting. OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS, &c.

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