#kc.plotdrop

[kc-rp]

Hour after hour, the skies slowly darken over the world of Vailar. Once every five hundred years, a heavy, world engulfing eclipse occurs. Dragons take to their nests, their caves, their burrows, and those that choose to live in dragonkin form often find refuge in temples or magaesteriums. Those that don’t, they make easier targets.

Those with magic feel their powers waning and drained. The effects vary from individual to individual, some bounce right back once the eclipse is done, others it may take a week or two. And there are others still, others who remember the last time the eclipse happened, others who have studied at magaesteriums, who have totems enchanted to counteract and negate the draining effects of the eclipse.

Over the course of twenty four hours, the sun is entirely blacked out by Vailar’s moon. The entire event seems magical in itself and few have made guesses as to why the moon’s orbit seems to take longer on this fateful day. And every one of those guesses were wrong.

Across the world though, it is common to feel lethargic in general, the sun is energizing and the moon is peaceful. So one might feel a bit more drained, a bit more lazy than usual. However, others, like those with umbrakinesis who dwell in darkness and shadow, might feel a bit more energized or erratic.

OOC INFO UNDER THE CUT:

Eclipse Event:

The event will be “live” for a month. So from 9/4 - 10/2 you can start posts pertaining to the event. You can of course keep your current threads and after wards you can continue threads for the event. But after 10/2 you won’t be allowed to start new posts regarding the eclipse.

In game, it’s been roughly two months since the attack on Glasswater that happened in the beginning of their summer, the eclipse is happening toward the end of their summer now.

This specific total eclipse happens roughly every 500 years, the moon circling Vailar takes roughly half the day for its entire transit of the sun, the most pronounced of which lasts for roughly four to five hours. (While the moon is totally eclipsing the sun).

Many have used the eclipse over the millennia as a source of power for rituals.

Some say magic goes a little haywire during the different eclipses, and there were reports the last time this one transited that many were left without magic or a weakened form of their magic for days, to weeks.

Magic being what it is though always returns, even if it takes a long while, as it’s part of the natural ebb and flow of the planet.

Dragons seem to be particularly affected, acting lethargic or weak during the eclipse, some having the opposite effect where they become overloaded with power and feel like they need some sort of release.

Most of the magaesterium locations as well as magic tutors have specific wards built into different rooms to counteract the effects of the eclipse (though not the coming ritual).

The rebellion’s plans:

They intend to use the eclipse to cast a worldwide ritual.

Most of the rebels involved directly will be at their base in the Black Keep, spending the day chanting and channeling their magic into an artifact that can supposedly redirect magic.

The intent of the ritual is to drain the magic from dragons and magic users all over the world, and redirect it into members of the rebellion.

For members of the rebellion who want to be indirectly involved, they have been given a token to wear somewhere on their person that will block their magic from being affected.

The outcome:

The ritual will ultimately fail as you cannot take someone’s magic or give it without the express consent of both parties.

However, the outcomes of everyone’s task threads will determine if either side gleans that insight and also, how badly magic users are affected in the coming days/weeks after the eclipse.

Magic also tends to act erratically during changes in natural phenomenon and new magics begin popping up in different people throughout the world. (These would be available to new players, existing ones wouldn’t be able to change or add them):

Added to telempathy: The ability to influence others’ emotions around them.

Magic Negation: The ability to negate magic in an area around yourself (limited to roughly 50 yards)

Teleportation: Literally nightcrawler.

Illusion Magic: The ability to create illusions, constructs, etc.

[aaliyadhavale]

Smoke and Fire (The Rebel Attack)

After dancing and socializing for hours, Aaliya heads to the gardens to take a breath. The Glasswater garden is a beautiful tended garden, filled with blooming flowers and soft, delicate fragrances. She sits down on a stone bench, her bare legs tickled by the long grass. She looks up to the dark sky, littered with thousands of stars and the bright moon. It is a beautiful night, a night of festivities, a night full of dreams... Until it turns into a dark night full of nightmares.

There is a blinding flash like sheet lightning and a fiery ball of yellow flames. Life stops in an instant. The orchestra has played its last note, the partygoers have danced their last dance. Windows shatter. Smoke and fire rush out. The shock waves are so powerful that Aaliya is thrown hard on the floor, her head hitting the edge of a fountain. She looses consciousness for a second and wakes up at the screams of people seeking refuge in the gardens, at alarms blaring at a distance. Her ears are ringing from the explosion, her vision is blurry and her head hurts like never before. She has no idea what happened. She tries to get up, but she finds it difficult to find her balance as she is pushed down by people running past her. A strong arm suddenly grasps her waist, pulling her along the running crowd.

“What's happening?” she asked, dazed.

@alekashcraft

[kc-rp]

ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST PLOT DROP!

THE REBEL ATTACK.

General Info:

THE PLOTDROP BEGINS 6/19 AND THERE WILL BE AN OFFICIAL POST THAT ALLOWS YOU TO START THREADS FOR IT FOR THREE WEEKS.

After the initial three weeks, you can finish threads just not start new ones.

Here is the write up for the initial attack.

What follows after is essentially chaos all across Glasswater.

The main explosion itself is concentrated on the center of the ballroom and explodes outwards to the front of the palace. It takes out much of the ballroom and entrance and into the second story and leaves rubble all over the front lawn of the palace.

Throughout the city, several other areas were attacked at the same time, including hospitals, businesses, the library/city square, and a few notable person’s homes (admin’s note: if your character is a nobility and you want their home being attacked, message either of the admins and let us know).

After the initial attack, rebels take to the streets, their goal is to flush out and capture as many dragons as possible who might be in their dragonkin form and easier to subdue. They’ve come armed with enchanted and poisoned weapons that would begin the process of blood binding to a dragonkin and weaken them, enabling them to be captured and taken away.

Many of the rebels are attacking fleeing nobility and their posses, with goals differing from the ones aimed at dragons, they want to take as much as they can from the ‘ruling class’.

Outside of Glasswater in most if not all of the larger cities, there are people disappearing from notable cities. It is unclear if they’re being kidnapped, killed, or fleeing.

There are smaller attacks that are happening across the world as well, though nowhere near the scale as the attack on Glasswater.

If you would like a specific plot for your character, please bring your ideas to the admins and we’ll work it in.

Also, if you would like your character to be injured/kidnapped/etc please let us know. Or a character related to yours too, and we’ll work it into the summary after the event.

Once the official reminder goes out, please don’t create any more masquerade threads, though you are welcome to continue those or wrap them up however you see fit.

[kc-rp]

The smell of brimstone and electricity hung in the air,

the palace and the city in chaos. The sounds of screaming and crying, the smell of death and flame and magic falls upon Glasswater Keep. And somewhere in the world, a shadowy figure laughs at their accomplishment.

     “To all ends, hellfire and magic. There is no greater justice than this for a person... a people scorned. A new domain will rise. My kingdom come. My empire will move.”

     Beginning today (5/19) with this post, all players can begin posting about the events regarding the rebel attacks, focused mostly in Glasswater, but the kidnappings and/or people going missing from other cities as well.      Just as a reminder here are the links to the logistics post as well as the plotdrop itself:

Logistics Post

Plotdrop

     The event will be open for new threads for three weeks and after that, you can continue threads just not create new ones.

     Please come to the admins if you have any questions, and have fun!

LET THERE BE PAIN.

[kc-rp]

Announcing our Thread Tasks!

The attack was a success. The mighty have fallen.

Thank you to all of our players for making the first big plotdrop so much fun. Even if it was heartbreaking.

Our next event and plotdrop won’t happen for a month and a half but to give our players some opportunities to branch out and roleplay during the interrim, we’re going to be sending thread tasks to everyone. The idea for these tasks is to further either your characters’ plots or their development. Hopefully they help! If there are no objections after we send out all of the tasks, we will also be posting the link to our spreadsheet so that you guys can compare tasks and possibly combine them (because some of them will overlap with other players’ tasks). The rules are simple:

Plot a thread with someone, the admins won’t have their own tasks but we’ll be available with our characters for plotting.

Start the thread and have your character’s thoughts or actions revealed as they relate to the task before the next event.

Reply to the ask the admins will send with a link to the thread for the task.

The next plot drop/event will happen 9/4 sometime EST.

That’s it, those are your rules. Now, the tasks will impact the next event in two ways.

The first, the event’s outcome will be determined by the characters’ decisions/thoughts during their threads. That’s why it’s important that the admins have the links, so that we can navigate what happens during the plotdrop.

The second, how many of you complete the tasks will determine the outcome as well. Just in terms of who has the upper hand at the end, etc.

You may notice that one or two characters aren’t on the list once we send that out, those characters are either admin characters, on hiatus, or the player didn’t feel as if they’ve played them long enough to have a firm grasp on their progression yet.

We really appreciate our players and we hope this gives you guys tons of ideas for plotting with different people. Thank you guys!