faderift | player plot: we'll put on a show (part 1?)

WHO: Everyone (EVERYONE)
WHAT: interviews for the dramatic rendition of Riftwatch’s glorious tale
WHEN: late Wintermarch/early Guardian
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: A follow-up to this post. (big ups to Cass & Lana for helping me come up with questions)

On one auspicious day, in the very early morning, the first ferry brings to Riftwatch four tablet-and-charcoal bearing scribes in the unmistakably gaudy finery marking them as employees of Val Royeaux’s foremost playwright, André L’Euilled Ouebbre. They set about their task at once, leaving no stone unturned and no member of Riftwatch un-interviewed, even if this means following them into the baths, standing outside the lavatory, shouting at an office door, or trotting up many flights of stairs.

They can, of course, be forcibly removed under the right circumstances, but the repercussions of doing this may be undesirable. Who can say.

[While filling out the following questionnaire, please place an asterisk beside any answers on which you would like to elaborate further, in which case you will be assigned a scribe to tag out the resulting conversation.

In the subject line, you can either select one of the following or say ‘random’ to be assigned someone via RNG:

Jean Evain, a middle-aged Orlesian who carries snacks with him to entice his subjects to stop and chat longer; however, they will find that these snacks are way too spicy,

Eileen Marrow, a serious and hard-boiled war reporter who seems rather incongruously matched with this set, but is nonetheless here to get the facts at any cost,

Thibault Gérin, a straight-faced young fellow who takes copious notes in magnificent penmanship, who listens with rapt intent but somehow seems incapable of taking away the correct message,

and

Louis Boucher, a fast-talking and bright-eyed man with an avid interest in his subjects and a talent for twisting their words into whatever he finds more interesting in the moment.

All data will be taken into account, and there will be a follow-up post/announcement/plot sometime in the future after the play is written and the PR reckoning is at hand.

And now, without further ado, the questionnaire (please answer as though your character is being interviewed in person):

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1. How long have you been with Riftwatch?

A few months. I was supposed to be gone already, but, [ shrug! ]

2. What is the most dramatic thing that has ever happened to Riftwatch?

Dragons. I've seen plenty of dragons before. There was a whole pack of drakes harassing people in Antiva, outside Seleny, did you hear about that? We took care of them. Me and my friends. But these are high dragons Riftwatch keeps running into. I've seen two in six months! That doesn't happen.

3. What is Riftwatch's greatest triumph?

Well, that I've seen? One of the dragons is dead. Otherwise I think everyone is still working on it.

4. What should be the play’s genre?

Action. Adventure.

5. If you had to pick a protagonist, or main character, from Riftwatch’s ranks, who would it be? (You can nominate yourself, or someone who isn’t here anymore.) Why?

All right, listen, consider me. Because I'm so new, right? You don't have to tell eight years of this. You can tell what's happening right now, through the eyes of someone who wasn't here for all of that other stuff and has to ask about it just like the audience. And I'm fun, and I have style, and if you make me a human I won't be angry.

6. Who is the villain?

Corypheus? I've heard he's the point of all this.

7. How about comic relief?

Mmm. Corypheus again.

8. Any other notable characters among the people you know or have known?

If you do make me the main character, you have to include Evelyn and Fivera — they're my friends. I wouldn't make Fivera human, though. She'll get angry.

9. Have there been any great romances in Riftwatch?

Ugh, [ is an ugh of why do other people get to have great romances without me, not disgust. ] Probably.

10. Great tragedies?

Evelyn and Fivera and me, we are here because the Venatori took our friend. That's tragic. And I guess some other people have died and disappeared. I didn't know them well though.

11. If an actor should portray you in the production, what is most important for them to get right?

Swagger.

12. If one person in Riftwatch were to have a cameo in the play who should it be?

I've said me too much already, haven't I? I heard there's a real actor here somewhere. Or you could take one of the mages and have them do some real magic on the stage, for pizzaz.

13. Do you have any great song ideas?

Corypheus should sing. I bet he would hate that.

14. How do you think the story should end?

Not on a down note. If you make people so sad they give up or stop helping us and the war is lost and my friend is dead, I'll come after you.

15. Any other comments?

I really will.

Edited (aesthetics) 2024-02-02 00:53 (UTC)

[Eileen leans in.]

Circling back to what you said about the right now, what is most important right now here at Riftwatch?

In general? The same thing as always, I guess. Corypheus. Rifts. But we have divisions, so we're divided, right? Everyone is working on something different. I'm here to help with artifact recovery — that's what I do.

[Eileen scribbes intensely]

Would you say that being divided causes tension? Also, regarding artifacts, have you recovered anything very interesting?

player plot: we'll put on a show (part 1?)

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