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faderift2024-01-31 09:20 pm
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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)
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):
random!
Oh, uh... [ Hold on, she's gotta count months on her fingers. ] A year and six... no, seven months.
2. What is the most dramatic thing that has ever happened to Riftwatch?
Oh, definitely that time half of us died. Half's kind of an exaggeration, but it was like, most of the Forces division and a bunch of other people.*
3. What is Riftwatch's greatest triumph?
Going back in time. I wasn't involved in that. I was one of the dead ones, so you'd have to ask someone else.
4. What should be the play’s genre?
The play's what? Who cares. Just don't make it boring.
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?
Just make it all the division leaders. That way you won't piss someone off by ignoring them.
6. Who is the villain?
Of... Riftwatch? Man, you should add a twist where one of us has been feeding information to the enemy this entire time. Not me, obviously. Someone else. Wait, actually— [ That could ruin someone's life, Clarisse. ] Don't do that, actually.
7. How about comic relief?
The griffons. Everyone loves to watch animals fucking with people.
8. Any other notable characters among the people you know or have known?
Everybody here is a weirdo. If you ask around you'll get a ton of material.*
9. Have there been any great romances in Riftwatch?
I don't know anything about that shit. [ Shut up!!!! ]
10. Great tragedies?
Like I already said, the time a ton of us died? You could also go into the way rifters disappear, but—look, you can't have a bunch of sad shit without a happy ending. That's just tragedy, and nobody wants to sit around and watch a tragedy about a war we're still in the middle of. At least the Granitefell thing worked out in the end. Use that.
11. If an actor should portray you in the production, what is most important for them to get right?
My muscles, obviously. [ She's flexing. ]
12. If one person in Riftwatch were to have a cameo in the play who should it be?
Not me.
13. Do you have any great song ideas?
There's this song by Metallica called For Whom the Bell Tolls? It has this awesome guitar solo in the beginning. It goes like— [ She's wiggling her fingers like she's playing air guitar and "da na na na"ing under her breath, but after a few seconds she gives up. ] Forget it, you're just going to pick something boring anyway.
14. How do you think the story should end?
Am I going to get paid for doing your job for you? Come on.
15. Any other comments?
I'm late for lunch.
Hi it's me Jean Evain, question 2
Sorry, which people?
no subject
no subject
Anyone of particular significance? To you, I mean.
no subject
no subject
The Warden and one of the other rifters. [Got it.] Do you know how they were killed?
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
[To his credit, it seems as if Evain is genuine in this assessment. It is, in fact, devastating.
So devastating actually that here he pauses writing for a moment to produce a small wax paper packet from his pocket. Crinkling it open reveals a series of faintly red powdery candies. He offers one of Clarisse while asking—]
Would you say that was the first time you witnessed the horrors of war up close?
no subject
No. I've fought in other wars before, back home. And I was at Starkhaven.