This was originally a question and it accidentally grew into the bones of a plot but it'll still need a lot of bandying about with fellow players before it's ready to submit - I mostly just wanted to work on it with you guys to see if it was an option and if there are any points that need to be altered to fit the setting.
So I have a goal to eventually set Stephen up in a Big Spooky House in Sunset Falls, but I want to get there in a plot-integrated way rather than Make Money Get House. So I'm wondering if something like the following might be an option - I first thought as a small player plot but it could also probably be upsized to something a bit larger depending on how many people wanted to get involved.
- Rich family has big old house in Sunset Falls - House has fallen into disrepair and become the spot all the local kids go to start testing out their magic and wreaking havoc in a contained space. Instead of drinking and graffiti we've got blood pacts and summoning circles cast by magically talented under 21s, so it's kind of just heavily cursed - The owners have put out an ad locally for someone to clear the place out and de-curse it - None of the locals really care to get involved because the owners abandoned the area and while the kids are using that one house they're not out menacing the rest of the neighbourhood
Plot suggestion:
Some of the PC kids have heard about this place through the grapevine and decide to go there to practice some cool (shady) magic stuff they found tucked away at the back of the school library, and end up causing an even bigger mess than any of the local kids have because they have 0 idea what they're messing with. (Possibility for establishing a bit of ongoing continuity here if the book they pick up is a plant by an as yet unspecified NPC.) -- it doesn't necessarily have to be PCs but I think it would be cooler to hold off until there are some PC kids interested in this role.
A plucky team of metas Stephen had compiled to help him usher rowdy kids out of this house so he can work on lifting some of the magic are then instead confronted with a Big Magical Mess they need to fix and some kids that need rescuing.
My thought for this is maybe the spell, fuelled by the aura of Sunset Hills and the Cursed Vibes of the house itself and the energy of meta kids and how broken dimensional magic is at the moment, turns the inside of the house into a House of Leaves style yawning, shifting, bad energy maze and the mission becomes to get everyone out so they can seal up the rift caused by the spell. Time sensitive on account of the magic being wildly out of control having been cast by inexperienced practitioners in a place imbued with too many years of chaotic power, and the spell therefore seemingly being on a trajectory of exponential growth.
Could potentially be extended to a bigger plot depending on how many people want to play with it, ie the house could start dragging random metas from wherever they are into the maze and those outside would need to pile in to help retrieve them while magic folk work to contain the spell.
(Once it's all over the dream would be for Stephen to move in as groundsman to maintain the safety of the binding spell keeping the house mostly in check and to stop people from blundering into or intentionally disrupting what is now an even more cursed, but at least contained, property.)
We love this idea, Gee! We agree that it would benefit from a clearer way of getting other players involved, so perhaps any door in Sunset Falls might lead into the maze of the house and trap them, further playing up the eldritch/psychological horror elements.
Are you interested in developing it further for a March event, provided you get cooperation from teen characters willing to cause the mayhem?
We ask that you please draft up a post pitching your plot to the OOC community and asking for teen volunteers while people are touring the cities on the Guilds' dime — especially in Sunset Falls. This will be really good timing to give people a good reason to be there in anticipation of a March event. Once you've got volunteers, we can make further decisions on timing and duration.
Would you rather draft the event log yourself based on the information as you have it, or have us assist you with it further? We're happy to post it from the mod account (and it will be added to the mod calendar) to promote player engagement, for the record.
Great, I'll start on the recruitment pitch soon and hopefully have it up by the weekend. Should I be leaving some mystery about the event itself and just pitching the premise and what the kids are needed for or detailing the whole thing? Baby's first plot pitch help and apologies in advance for my Nerves
I think I'll attempt to draft the log and keep in communication with you guys for checks and tweaks if that's alright? I've never drafted an event before so I will probably need some guidance on form and a little handholding of that nature but I'm willing to give it a crack if you're happy for me to try!
Thank you for the thumbs up on the plot idea and for your support!
I think you can broadly describe a cursed house that Stephen will eventually live in, and that poorly executed magic by teens who need rescuing will be the lead-in for the March event based around your player plot. It might be good to leave out specifics about the effects of the house and the extent of it, simply because we haven't finalized those elements yet.
We're happy to do any handholding. As you develop the event, feel free to utilize our Discord group chat if that's more comfortable than this contact post for in-depth support or brief/easy questions.
NAME: Meta Mods CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Ash Ketchum, June/Offred, Optimus Prime, Clarke Griffin DESIRED DATES AND DURATION: November 2021 SUMMARY: June (Offred) has caught wind that The Green Serpents, a Central City gang that Clarke has been trying to take control of, have gotten involved with sex trafficking. Ash Ketchum and Optimus Prime will be helping June destroy their resources in the shipyard in the harbor — including a freighter, a number of shipping crates, and a warehouse.
We welcome other players to get involved via: 1) Members of the Green Serpents or Society Allies — as with Clarke, this doesn't have to be direct participation in the sex trafficking side of things. It could just be aiding and abetting unknowingly by participating in other elements of the gang's activity. (Note: this will probably result in some jail time unless you want your character to escape/go into hiding.) 2) Guild Members — Ash and Optimus Prime are acting on Alliance authority, and anyone could feasibly be invited to intervene alongside them if they're Alliance and in Central City at the time of the plot. DESIRED OUTCOME: A reduction in gang activity (especially sex trafficking and especially by the Green Serpents) in Central City, a boosted street reputation for Clarke Griffin (and potential chance for her to take over the Green Serpents once she's out of jail), and a boosted Alliance reputation for Ash and Optimus Prime. EXPECTED FALLOUT: The arrest of Clarke Griffin and other Green Serpents members (potentially warrants for escaped PC/NPC members of the Green Serpents)
Please post your summary to the OOC community for sign-ups.
Please add a note that any characters who sign-up for option one will need to be either arrested and brought to Central City Prison, or on the lam following this plot. Ask players to specify which in their sign-ups. (Arrested characters who want to stage a break-out should submit a plotting comment of appropriate scale to this post.)
Any Guild members who participate in taking down the gang's efforts will be invited to a small social gathering where the heroes who intervened are recognized by name and with a small monetary bonus.
Following this plot, gang activity in Central City will decline for two weeks, and the Green Serpents will lose some of their standing relative to the city's other gangs. The Green Serpents' leader will be sentenced in December, at which point Clarke will need someone to break her out of prison in order for her to take over the gang while it is in chaos and leaderless. (Note: the gang's profits will be greatly diminished by the loss of their sex trafficking industry.) However, she will definitely be a viable contender. Feel free to invent a few other NPC gang members for her to compete with for this (and note that they'd probably be invested in her staying in prison).
Wario will be arrested and brought to Sunset Falls Prison just outside of town pending trial. If Wario's player would like to plot a breakout, just make sure it gets submitted to us here.
And the Society is indeed looking sideways at Loki now, wondering why he's interfering with other members' pursuits — as far as they're concerned, Wario's plot was exactly what they're about! For the time being, his membership isn't in danger, but he'll get a stern talking to about minding his own business.
Note: Since Balthier is not a member of either Guild, he won't be formally recognized for his efforts. News reports won't include his name unless Elena, as an Alliance member, is willing to give an interview and share it!
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SETTING ENGAGEMENT QUESTIONS
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So I have a goal to eventually set Stephen up in a Big Spooky House in Sunset Falls, but I want to get there in a plot-integrated way rather than Make Money Get House. So I'm wondering if something like the following might be an option - I first thought as a small player plot but it could also probably be upsized to something a bit larger depending on how many people wanted to get involved.
- Rich family has big old house in Sunset Falls
- House has fallen into disrepair and become the spot all the local kids go to start testing out their magic and wreaking havoc in a contained space. Instead of drinking and graffiti we've got blood pacts and summoning circles cast by magically talented under 21s, so it's kind of just heavily cursed
- The owners have put out an ad locally for someone to clear the place out and de-curse it
- None of the locals really care to get involved because the owners abandoned the area and while the kids are using that one house they're not out menacing the rest of the neighbourhood
Plot suggestion:
Some of the PC kids have heard about this place through the grapevine and decide to go there to practice some cool (shady) magic stuff they found tucked away at the back of the school library, and end up causing an even bigger mess than any of the local kids have because they have 0 idea what they're messing with. (Possibility for establishing a bit of ongoing continuity here if the book they pick up is a plant by an as yet unspecified NPC.) -- it doesn't necessarily have to be PCs but I think it would be cooler to hold off until there are some PC kids interested in this role.
A plucky team of metas Stephen had compiled to help him usher rowdy kids out of this house so he can work on lifting some of the magic are then instead confronted with a Big Magical Mess they need to fix and some kids that need rescuing.
My thought for this is maybe the spell, fuelled by the aura of Sunset Hills and the Cursed Vibes of the house itself and the energy of meta kids and how broken dimensional magic is at the moment, turns the inside of the house into a House of Leaves style yawning, shifting, bad energy maze and the mission becomes to get everyone out so they can seal up the rift caused by the spell. Time sensitive on account of the magic being wildly out of control having been cast by inexperienced practitioners in a place imbued with too many years of chaotic power, and the spell therefore seemingly being on a trajectory of exponential growth.
Could potentially be extended to a bigger plot depending on how many people want to play with it, ie the house could start dragging random metas from wherever they are into the maze and those outside would need to pile in to help retrieve them while magic folk work to contain the spell.
(Once it's all over the dream would be for Stephen to move in as groundsman to maintain the safety of the binding spell keeping the house mostly in check and to stop people from blundering into or intentionally disrupting what is now an even more cursed, but at least contained, property.)
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Are you interested in developing it further for a March event, provided you get cooperation from teen characters willing to cause the mayhem?
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Yes absolutely, if there are some teens ready to light the match I'd love to develop this for March.
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We ask that you please draft up a post pitching your plot to the OOC community and asking for teen volunteers while people are touring the cities on the Guilds' dime — especially in Sunset Falls. This will be really good timing to give people a good reason to be there in anticipation of a March event. Once you've got volunteers, we can make further decisions on timing and duration.
Would you rather draft the event log yourself based on the information as you have it, or have us assist you with it further? We're happy to post it from the mod account (and it will be added to the mod calendar) to promote player engagement, for the record.
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I think I'll attempt to draft the log and keep in communication with you guys for checks and tweaks if that's alright? I've never drafted an event before so I will probably need some guidance on form and a little handholding of that nature but I'm willing to give it a crack if you're happy for me to try!
Thank you for the thumbs up on the plot idea and for your support!
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We're happy to do any handholding. As you develop the event, feel free to utilize our Discord group chat if that's more comfortable than this contact post for in-depth support or brief/easy questions.
LARGE SCALE PLOT (CW: SEX TRAFFICKING REF)
CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Ash Ketchum, June/Offred, Optimus Prime, Clarke Griffin
DESIRED DATES AND DURATION: November 2021
SUMMARY: June (Offred) has caught wind that The Green Serpents, a Central City gang that Clarke has been trying to take control of, have gotten involved with sex trafficking. Ash Ketchum and Optimus Prime will be helping June destroy their resources in the shipyard in the harbor — including a freighter, a number of shipping crates, and a warehouse.
We welcome other players to get involved via:
1) Members of the Green Serpents or Society Allies — as with Clarke, this doesn't have to be direct participation in the sex trafficking side of things. It could just be aiding and abetting unknowingly by participating in other elements of the gang's activity. (Note: this will probably result in some jail time unless you want your character to escape/go into hiding.)
2) Guild Members — Ash and Optimus Prime are acting on Alliance authority, and anyone could feasibly be invited to intervene alongside them if they're Alliance and in Central City at the time of the plot.
DESIRED OUTCOME: A reduction in gang activity (especially sex trafficking and especially by the Green Serpents) in Central City, a boosted street reputation for Clarke Griffin (and potential chance for her to take over the Green Serpents once she's out of jail), and a boosted Alliance reputation for Ash and Optimus Prime.
EXPECTED FALLOUT: The arrest of Clarke Griffin and other Green Serpents members (potentially warrants for escaped PC/NPC members of the Green Serpents)
APPROVED
Please add a note that any characters who sign-up for option one will need to be either arrested and brought to Central City Prison, or on the lam following this plot. Ask players to specify which in their sign-ups. (Arrested characters who want to stage a break-out should submit a plotting comment of appropriate scale to this post.)
Any Guild members who participate in taking down the gang's efforts will be invited to a small social gathering where the heroes who intervened are recognized by name and with a small monetary bonus.
Following this plot, gang activity in Central City will decline for two weeks, and the Green Serpents will lose some of their standing relative to the city's other gangs. The Green Serpents' leader will be sentenced in December, at which point Clarke will need someone to break her out of prison in order for her to take over the gang while it is in chaos and leaderless. (Note: the gang's profits will be greatly diminished by the loss of their sex trafficking industry.) However, she will definitely be a viable contender. Feel free to invent a few other NPC gang members for her to compete with for this (and note that they'd probably be invested in her staying in prison).
MEDIUM SCALE PLOT (CW: KIDNAPPING, CULTS)
CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Wario, Loki (MCU), Elena Gilbert, Balthier
DATE IT OCCURS: November 2021
LINK TO THREAD OR INFO POST: Wario takes Elena Gilbert hostage so he can sell her to a cult in Sunset Falls, but Balthier and Loki arrive to save her. Loki and Balthier destroy the upper levels of an under-construction office building in the ensuing fight.
DESIRED OUTCOME: Wario is arrested by the police; Loki's reputation as a villain is lessened a little.
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Wario will be arrested and brought to Sunset Falls Prison just outside of town pending trial. If Wario's player would like to plot a breakout, just make sure it gets submitted to us here.
And the Society is indeed looking sideways at Loki now, wondering why he's interfering with other members' pursuits — as far as they're concerned, Wario's plot was exactly what they're about! For the time being, his membership isn't in danger, but he'll get a stern talking to about minding his own business.
Note: Since Balthier is not a member of either Guild, he won't be formally recognized for his efforts. News reports won't include his name unless Elena, as an Alliance member, is willing to give an interview and share it!