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faderift2020-10-29 08:47 am
murderbaby) wrote in faderift2020-10-29 08:47 am
CLOSED | if i cut off your arms and cut off your legs,
WHO: Mhavos, Barrow, Sawbones, Ellis, Vanadi, Edgard, Athessa, Leander, Dick, & Holden.
WHAT: Slasher Plot / Murderhaus / I should really have come up with a set name for this thing.
WHEN: Late Harvestmere / Early Kingsway.
WHERE: Ostwick.
NOTES: This plot is based on the idea of slasher movies, so there will be blood, violence, torture, cannibalism & NPC death.
YOU MAY REMEMBER going to Ostwick on a Riftwatch mission, closing a rift on the property of the noble Pickney house, and being accosted by the Lady Elsed Pickney. Her (adult) son is missing! Terrible things are afoot!
But that's easy to ignore; Gawen Pickney rather publicly announced his intention to elope with a Dalish elf a few weeks ago. Assurances are made, yes, we'll let you know if we see him, and what can you do but that?
It's time to move on. Traveling back to Kirkwall, a storm breaks out, and everyone decides it's better to find a place to stay for the night than push forward. The Silver Lamp is a cozy Inn on the roadside, and the proprietor, an elderly man named Medrod, is very kind. It's not tourism season in these parts, so he's happy to give everyone a discount for the night, and the meal is on the house. Everyone eats well, has a pleasant enough time, and wanders off to bed for the night.
(The food your characters ate was not people and did not taste strange in any way.)
And then Medrod will let the sleeping gas seep through the Inn, laced with Magebane just in case, and everyone will wake up a few hours later, dizzy and, in many cases, in pain.
(Look for a toplevel with your character's name below.)
HOW WILL THIS WORK? Well, I'll be NPCing Medrod the Murderer. Medrod will be showing up in each thread eventually, after a number of tags I RNG'd. It's entirely possible to escape before he shows up! And don't worry, if you guys get in a rut, I'll make him show up early to spice things up ;)
I'll also be doing dicerolls!
If you have a situation where you feel your character will need to roll (I'm going to let you decide this!) put ROLL in the subject line, and bold what you need me to roll for.
(For example, you can have a whole tag like normal, and then Bob tries to pick the lock. Then I'll roll for success or failure, as well as other factors, and reply to that thread with the results. But if you don't want to rely on dicerolls, for whatever reason, don't worry about it. The dicerolls are an opt-in feature. Use it as much or as little as you want.)
I'll also be rolling for discovery, which will work the same way: if your character is looking for something, put ROLL in the subject line and bold what they're looking for (normal tag normal tag then Alice looked for a lockpick) and I'll reply with results after rolling. But if you just want your character to find the thing without dicerolls, go for it.
IN SHORT, I'm only making this as hard as you want it to be. Your characters are already waking up to torture. If you want them to find the special key and escape in two comments, it's totally fine. (Just respect other people's difficulty levels, if they want to give their characters a harder time.)
The only thing that has to rely on rolls is killing, apprehending or injuring the Murderer, but since I'll be NPCing him, those rolls are automatic and will be baked into his reply comments.
IF YOUR CHARACTERS GET FREE, let me know what they'd want to do next oocly (options below), and I'll set that up for you!
Other potential goals to keep in mind besides escaping:
- Finding / saving others.
- Killing / apprehending Medrod the Murderer.
- Getting evidence of Gawen & his Dalish wife's murder to eventually send to Lady Elsed.
- Getting your stuff back (all obviously visible weapons / staves have been taken away).
You got questions? Lemme know!
DETAILS:
-While in the torture room, your character is free to hear (or not hear) distant screaming. It's muffled enough that you can't identify the source (it's Edgard). The screaming has stopped.
- The hallways between the rooms are pitch-dark, and even those who can see in the dark will find it difficult to navigate, as the walls and ceilings are mirrored, distorting the size, shape, and direction of the hallways.
WHAT: Slasher Plot / Murderhaus / I should really have come up with a set name for this thing.
WHEN: Late Harvestmere / Early Kingsway.
WHERE: Ostwick.
NOTES: This plot is based on the idea of slasher movies, so there will be blood, violence, torture, cannibalism & NPC death.
YOU MAY REMEMBER going to Ostwick on a Riftwatch mission, closing a rift on the property of the noble Pickney house, and being accosted by the Lady Elsed Pickney. Her (adult) son is missing! Terrible things are afoot!
But that's easy to ignore; Gawen Pickney rather publicly announced his intention to elope with a Dalish elf a few weeks ago. Assurances are made, yes, we'll let you know if we see him, and what can you do but that?
It's time to move on. Traveling back to Kirkwall, a storm breaks out, and everyone decides it's better to find a place to stay for the night than push forward. The Silver Lamp is a cozy Inn on the roadside, and the proprietor, an elderly man named Medrod, is very kind. It's not tourism season in these parts, so he's happy to give everyone a discount for the night, and the meal is on the house. Everyone eats well, has a pleasant enough time, and wanders off to bed for the night.
(The food your characters ate was not people and did not taste strange in any way.)
And then Medrod will let the sleeping gas seep through the Inn, laced with Magebane just in case, and everyone will wake up a few hours later, dizzy and, in many cases, in pain.
(Look for a toplevel with your character's name below.)
HOW WILL THIS WORK? Well, I'll be NPCing Medrod the Murderer. Medrod will be showing up in each thread eventually, after a number of tags I RNG'd. It's entirely possible to escape before he shows up! And don't worry, if you guys get in a rut, I'll make him show up early to spice things up ;)
I'll also be doing dicerolls!
If you have a situation where you feel your character will need to roll (I'm going to let you decide this!) put ROLL in the subject line, and bold what you need me to roll for.
(For example, you can have a whole tag like normal, and then Bob tries to pick the lock. Then I'll roll for success or failure, as well as other factors, and reply to that thread with the results. But if you don't want to rely on dicerolls, for whatever reason, don't worry about it. The dicerolls are an opt-in feature. Use it as much or as little as you want.)
I'll also be rolling for discovery, which will work the same way: if your character is looking for something, put ROLL in the subject line and bold what they're looking for (normal tag normal tag then Alice looked for a lockpick) and I'll reply with results after rolling. But if you just want your character to find the thing without dicerolls, go for it.
IN SHORT, I'm only making this as hard as you want it to be. Your characters are already waking up to torture. If you want them to find the special key and escape in two comments, it's totally fine. (Just respect other people's difficulty levels, if they want to give their characters a harder time.)
The only thing that has to rely on rolls is killing, apprehending or injuring the Murderer, but since I'll be NPCing him, those rolls are automatic and will be baked into his reply comments.
IF YOUR CHARACTERS GET FREE, let me know what they'd want to do next oocly (options below), and I'll set that up for you!
Other potential goals to keep in mind besides escaping:
- Finding / saving others.
- Killing / apprehending Medrod the Murderer.
- Getting evidence of Gawen & his Dalish wife's murder to eventually send to Lady Elsed.
- Getting your stuff back (all obviously visible weapons / staves have been taken away).
You got questions? Lemme know!
DETAILS:
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- The hallways between the rooms are pitch-dark, and even those who can see in the dark will find it difficult to navigate, as the walls and ceilings are mirrored, distorting the size, shape, and direction of the hallways.
2 MAN ROLL
ROLL: NARROW SUCCESS.
The axe catches him in the shoulder, but he still manages to run away. In the dim light, there's a blood trail to follow.
ROLL
ROLL: MEDIUM SUCCESS.
He manages to kick Athessa in the gut. "You've poisoned me!" He howls
ROLL!
She lunges for the hand holding the knife, trying to wrest the blade from his grasp.
ROLL: MEDIUM FAILURE.
Pulling open another trap door, he climbs out of it, trying to trap the party in the tunnels.
ROLL
ROLL: MAJOR FAILURE.
Suffice to say that slows him down a bit.
ROLL
It doesn't always work, willpower is ever a factor, and if it works it never does for long. But Vanadi's getting a little desperate, here.
ROLL: NARROW SUCCESS.
Vanadi has bought the party time, use it quickly.
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But for how long does she got it?
ROLL
"Hold on!" To Athessa. Edgard sticks his axe in the door to pry and prop it open. He bleeds all over everything in the process.
ROLL: MAJOR SUCCESS.
It's dark and quiet outside the trapdoor.
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"I could — set up an illusion, if he's up there waiting," he murmurs, voice kept low. "But it's wasted energy if he's still running."
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Athessa peers up at the trap door, then turns to her strapping companions.
"One of you give me a boost, I'm quick enough to dodge if he's waiting for an opportunity."
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Edgard's wound is beginning to twinge and its in his dominant shoulder. He doesn't hesitate and boosts Athessa up with his other arm, albeit a little awkwardly.
"We're behind you." He will climb his way up once she's held onto something.
ROLL!!
ROLL: MAJOR SUCCESS.
You need to stop rolling so well.
ROLL
ROSS: NARROW SUCCESS.
The Murderer falls to the ground. "You've poisoned it all," he moans. "The sacred grounds..."
ROLL
He blinks, his vision blurring a little, and sees Medrod with a knife in his chest still speaking. Edgard strides over to him and tries to chop his head off a second time. He falls to the ground with the effort.
ROLL: MEDIUM SUCCESS.
"How dare you," he hisses between bloody lips, "how dare you."
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"Move, please," she says quietly to Edgard, but her eyes never leave Medrod's face. "Leave the axe."
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He looks around and all he sees is blood and his heart races. He sees a falling axe behind closed eyes and then feels a real one in his hand. He lets go and scrambles away on the floor, breath hissing through his teeth, slipping on the ground because he is coated with blood, his own and Medrod's.
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