A quick and dirty little player plot
All righty! Now that the three of us have been able to coordinate our schedules, I have an announcement regarding one Rupert Giles for people to take note of, starting from the 26th to...call it the 8th of January, when I'm still planning to have him mallynapped.
So, as probably all of you who knows Giles probably know, he is very good friends with one lostinmyway. However, said lady is also in love with a certain whatdeheckisdat who is rather notorious in his distrust of humans. Giles and Dhaos have been wary of one another for rather a while, now, but lately things have started to come to a head with their respective places in Grune's life. Starting in a log the three of us have up, Dhaos is finally going to get enough evidence to decide that Giles is a Bad Influence in Grune's life and do something about it.
Dhaos' idea of doing something about it involves mind control.
Now, the specifications of the spell in Tales of Phantasia are sketchy at best, so the three of us have had to patch together a great deal here.
But here is what Giles' CR, and to a limited degree villagers in general, might need to know. While this idea was chiefly inspired by and involves these three, anyone who wants to take note of the changes to Giles while he's affected should take note of the following.
1. The most immediate and noticeable effect is that Giles' reflection will take on the appearance of a skeleton in a black robe - a Grim Reaper, if you will. Giles, obviously, will notice nothing of the sort, but enough people telling him as much will still get his attention.
2. Dhaos' mind control spell amplifies a trait the person already possesses - in this case, Giles' anxiety and self esteem issues that were the main roadblock to his becoming friends with Grune at all. Gameplay wise, this will probably mean a partial backslide to how he was about April or May, for those of you who have been around that long. He will be avoiding interaction with Grune more or less at all costs, and CR with similar natures or personality types - basically anyone Giles still considers an "innocent" - might find getting a hold of him to be difficult.
If you think your character might be affected by the spell, please ask here. Giles isn't barred from interacting with anyone besides Grune while the spell is in place, so threads can still happen, but you might notice a reticence about him that he either hasn't demonstrated in the past or hasn't demonstrated in months. Feel free to bring it to his attention if your character would be affected by this.
3. Dhaos' influence will leave traces on Giles. The example we could come up with is that a spell exists in BtVS known as "Part the Veil" that reveals the existence of magic or enchantment, often in a stylized, symbolic, or metaphorical way meant to show to the caster what they're dealing with (a spell meant to make a person ill would manifest as a spectral hand around their throat, a spell to bring someone into existence where they weren't before would show them flickering in and out of existence, etc.) If your character has an ability that is similar to this, or can manage magic similar to this, and you want to do something to that effect, then ask here.
This is a quick plot, only going to last about two weeks and won't drastically affect most of you. I know most of us are busy either with the holidays, LJ's bullshit, or just generally enjoying the break, and this is not something that anyone really has to get involved with, even if they're CR.
However, if you'd like to do something with it, anything from having a discussion with Giles trying to find out what's happened or trying to undo the spell, here is the place to propose your ideas.
AS FOR THE VAMPIRE PLOT, I have not forgotten about it. I know there are several characters I haven't gotten back to yet, I knowI haven't delivered a finalized timeline, and overall I know I'm due for a follow up post on that way more than this. The reason I'm not is, quite simply, because I'm waiting to hear back on what we're doing for the move. Everyone is busy now, everyone will be busy later, and I'm trying to see if I really do need to reschedule. So, once I know what the game is doing, you'll know what I'm doing. Thank you for your patience. For those of you who I haven't actually replied to on the first post, figure that your character can be involved however you proposed, as an attacker or a victim. There weren't any difficulties or problems with that that I could see.
EDIT: Okay! It seems like everyone who is free enough to be involved has chimed in. So I'd like to ask a new question - since this is going to require a lot of mass interaction among our CR, I was thinking of putting up a mass interaction log today or tomorrow for people to start coordinating their respective freakouts. Would that be a good time for people? And, although it won't happen until the 2nd (schedule's allowing), I would like to go ahead and include the note Giles will be leaving to his and Grune's CR once he and Buffy are able to confirm that he's been somehow enscorcelled. Thoughts? Suggestions?
So, as probably all of you who knows Giles probably know, he is very good friends with one lostinmyway. However, said lady is also in love with a certain whatdeheckisdat who is rather notorious in his distrust of humans. Giles and Dhaos have been wary of one another for rather a while, now, but lately things have started to come to a head with their respective places in Grune's life. Starting in a log the three of us have up, Dhaos is finally going to get enough evidence to decide that Giles is a Bad Influence in Grune's life and do something about it.
Dhaos' idea of doing something about it involves mind control.
Now, the specifications of the spell in Tales of Phantasia are sketchy at best, so the three of us have had to patch together a great deal here.
But here is what Giles' CR, and to a limited degree villagers in general, might need to know. While this idea was chiefly inspired by and involves these three, anyone who wants to take note of the changes to Giles while he's affected should take note of the following.
1. The most immediate and noticeable effect is that Giles' reflection will take on the appearance of a skeleton in a black robe - a Grim Reaper, if you will. Giles, obviously, will notice nothing of the sort, but enough people telling him as much will still get his attention.
2. Dhaos' mind control spell amplifies a trait the person already possesses - in this case, Giles' anxiety and self esteem issues that were the main roadblock to his becoming friends with Grune at all. Gameplay wise, this will probably mean a partial backslide to how he was about April or May, for those of you who have been around that long. He will be avoiding interaction with Grune more or less at all costs, and CR with similar natures or personality types - basically anyone Giles still considers an "innocent" - might find getting a hold of him to be difficult.
If you think your character might be affected by the spell, please ask here. Giles isn't barred from interacting with anyone besides Grune while the spell is in place, so threads can still happen, but you might notice a reticence about him that he either hasn't demonstrated in the past or hasn't demonstrated in months. Feel free to bring it to his attention if your character would be affected by this.
3. Dhaos' influence will leave traces on Giles. The example we could come up with is that a spell exists in BtVS known as "Part the Veil" that reveals the existence of magic or enchantment, often in a stylized, symbolic, or metaphorical way meant to show to the caster what they're dealing with (a spell meant to make a person ill would manifest as a spectral hand around their throat, a spell to bring someone into existence where they weren't before would show them flickering in and out of existence, etc.) If your character has an ability that is similar to this, or can manage magic similar to this, and you want to do something to that effect, then ask here.
This is a quick plot, only going to last about two weeks and won't drastically affect most of you. I know most of us are busy either with the holidays, LJ's bullshit, or just generally enjoying the break, and this is not something that anyone really has to get involved with, even if they're CR.
However, if you'd like to do something with it, anything from having a discussion with Giles trying to find out what's happened or trying to undo the spell, here is the place to propose your ideas.
AS FOR THE VAMPIRE PLOT, I have not forgotten about it. I know there are several characters I haven't gotten back to yet, I knowI haven't delivered a finalized timeline, and overall I know I'm due for a follow up post on that way more than this. The reason I'm not is, quite simply, because I'm waiting to hear back on what we're doing for the move. Everyone is busy now, everyone will be busy later, and I'm trying to see if I really do need to reschedule. So, once I know what the game is doing, you'll know what I'm doing. Thank you for your patience. For those of you who I haven't actually replied to on the first post, figure that your character can be involved however you proposed, as an attacker or a victim. There weren't any difficulties or problems with that that I could see.
EDIT: Okay! It seems like everyone who is free enough to be involved has chimed in. So I'd like to ask a new question - since this is going to require a lot of mass interaction among our CR, I was thinking of putting up a mass interaction log today or tomorrow for people to start coordinating their respective freakouts. Would that be a good time for people? And, although it won't happen until the 2nd (schedule's allowing), I would like to go ahead and include the note Giles will be leaving to his and Grune's CR once he and Buffy are able to confirm that he's been somehow enscorcelled. Thoughts? Suggestions?