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Shit Gets Real
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).