balmung Starsfall, Once Again, Sign-Ups OOC Masterpost [Fate-14

[Caspar]

Would like to sign Virara up for Better Red than Dead. I'm up to have Virara as a rep for Trouble in Paradise too if anyone can't make it, but I can't be there before 7:30

[Zelmanov]

Sign me up for C!

[Lan Darklyn]

I'll sign up for C if possible!

[Martiallais]

C it is for Seito. Time to keep it going with the Flames.

[Boo the Hamster]

Suppose I'll go for the event tonight at A

[S'imba]

C for me out in the sea

[Nihka]

B. Nihka needs to take responsibility for her actions.

[Zaphir Zurlac]

I'll sign up for D.

[Khira]

Signing up Khira for event B.

[Airka]

if allowed i like to sign reis up for D since it looks like there are not alot of people in this one so far.

[Anstarra]

Starsfall Turns for Act IV, Scene III: Impacts

 

IMPORTANT! Don't forget to take a look at the UPDATED TURN INFO POST

 

Last Updated: September 8

 

New Turns for PCs: 15

New Turns for NPCs: 15

 

Player Turns at the start of this round: 29 [PLAYER TURN CAP FOR THIS ROUND IS 5]

- Virara: Discuss (2) ~ Speaking with X'zarann

- Reis: Investigate (2) ~ Stalking Orrin

- X'cinna: Prepare (1) ~ Buying some REALLY COOL SPEARS from Rowena's people

- X'cinna: Challenge (2) ~ A Curious Exodus begins!

- Seito: Prepare (1) ~ Flow Like Water

- Orrin: Prepare (1) ~ Reports from his contacts about wyrmtear-related things

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Remaining Player Turns: 20

 

NPC Turns at the start of this round: 31

- X'addo - Investigate (2) ~ Gathering Info

- X'ogun - Act (3) ~ Falling Stars in the sky

- Brigie - Investigate (2) ~ Gathering info

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Remaining NPC Turns: 24

[Anstarra]

A NEW STORY ASPECT HAS BEEN CREATED:

 

/A Curious Exodus/ - Warriors from the savage Falling Stars sept have been piqued with a curiosity for the outside world. By land, sea and air, more of them are leaving their home - and traditional, xenophobic mindset - behind in favor of seeing this Outside World that both the Nunh and some of their spear-sisters have been making such a big deal about.

[Anstarra]

END OF ACT IV: A STARLIT NUNH

 

A lot of things happened during this act! A synopsis...

 

PREVIOUSLY:

 

The Falling Stars Sept is a reclusive hidden nation of murderous, xenophobic savages. They have remained unknown to the other people of Eorzea for aeons.. until now. Their leader, X'zarann Silverfall Nunh, has led them out into the world. First there was a wake of carnage, as a secluded settlement was destroyed. Then, open conflict with the Immortal Flames, and Adventurers, and Monetarist interests seeking to use or exploit them; both for their inherent strength, and for the aetherial anomaly that makes it so that their Nunh is a focus of their worship, and is slowly acquiring true Godhood.. or at least Primalhood. At first there was much talk of simply wiping them out, but as some of the savages become civilized (or even sympathetic) and others show more interest in open relations and trade, things become less clear-cut and simple. What will the future hold for the Sept... and the rest of Eorzea?

 

 

IN THIS ACT:

 

A new power player has been introduced: X'ogun Tia, Fallen, chief advisor to X'zarann Nunh. After the Nunh and his apparent nemesis, mysterious monetarist mastermind Moiraine Astervane (AKA Goldentail) vanished in a teleportation mishap, X'ogun has continued his works. His first appearance was in Allagan ruins, whereby he revealed that X'zarann's goal was to become a God through the use of an Allagan communication array that would order everyone in the world to worship him for just a moment.. thus apparently infusing him with Godhood, or something like it, due to the aetherially-mutable nature of the Falling Stars. This information he traded for knowledge on where to find Azys Lla, where the plan might be carried out...

 

X'ogun also apparently possesses a relic first used by X'zarann, which has the power to control the minds of those whom it is used to inscribe certain markings upon. This Spear of Fate was once part of an Allagan telepathic communication array, and likely served as the inspiration for the Godhood plan... several heroes were afflicted by this device, and a number of common soldiers as well; the full range of its impact has yet to be determined. X'ogun was last known to be waging a guerilla war against the Kobolds in La Noscea via subterranean aetheryte invasion, possibly in order to capture large numbers of the beastmen and bolster his ranks with slaves. But to what end? Some suspect a coup against X'zarann. Could they be right? Certainly, it seems the Chief Advisor plays his own game...

 

X'zarann himself, meanwhile, was found. Through a gate in the dungeon-like basement of Goldentail's fortress/manse compound which led to a tropical island paradise where the Nunh has apparently been simply enjoying a vacation. But his ease was only a cover; in part he was engaged in capturing Goldentail herself (who was also stuck on the island). Additionally, his agents had been reporting to him by means which remained mysterious.. until the Nunh revealed that not only was he sharing his body with a powerful and unique voidsent named Starlight (or The Reflected Light of the Falling Stars) but that he is able to bolster his Primal-like power with her aether in order to open Voidgates for rapid travel... and, as witnessed by several, to Temper. As Goldentail discovered to her sorrow.

 

The threat of the Nunh on a personal level reaches a new height, yet he seems unconcerned about people knowing, even allowing Adventurer witnesses to leave the island by Voidgates he opened himself. Hubris? Or some deeper plan? He did capture and slay (or worse) the Flame Captain who had directed most of the campaign against the Falling Stars in the past... what will his next move be? And what use will he have for the almost-lost but never-forgotten Wyrmtear, relic of draconic sorrow and might, which now assuredly lies once more in his possession..?

 

Finally, in the cold lands of the Falling Stars, some few Adventurers heard, read or felt a summons from the enigmatic Whiteseer. Born of the Falling Stars, a Padjal as no miqo'te has ever been, and a masterful White Mage despite the Falling Stars being incapable of magic, she needed their help to lay the ghost of the former Nunh to rest. Once this dire task accomplished, she explained how the task of the Whiteseer, of whom there is only ever one, has ever been to keep the Falling Stars corralled and cloistered in their corner of the world, for their protection and everyone else's. A task which she has now failed at, due to her own love for her own children, one of whom wished only to get away.. and was allowed, by her, when she should have been stopped. And so the other, now the Nunh, was driven by his own obsessions and curiosity to follow his sister out into the greater world. Seeing the destruction of her own people in her son's ambitions, she reaches out to Adventurers, in hopes of helping them find a way to stop him before it's too late. She has demonstrated vast healing power, and the ability to see her son through divination windows formed of ice... a great ally, though now a new question arises. Namely, how long until X'zarann learns of her direct involvement, and moves to place her in check...

 

 

And so we move forward, to the final Act of Starsfall. Savagery and slavery. Allagans and voidsent. Dragons and abominations. Faith and sorrow, love and hate... and ambition. Ambition, most of all.

 

From the frozen depths of the Crucible, to the otherworldly sky-borne peaks of the Fated Array.

 

Stay tuned for Starsfall, Act V: Falling Star, Rising Sun!

 

 

 

MILESTONE REWARDS

 

Everyone likes character progression, right? Sometimes it's through self-realization, sometimes through a small, key role. Sometimes through massive and direct involvement.. and sometimes it's simply by enduring, stepping out of our comfort zone, and soldiering on. Win or lose, we learn much, and this broadens our scope in small-yet significant ways.

 

And so without further ado, the players below receive a SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE.

 

As a reminder: A Significant Milestone (or Sig, for shorthand) grants the following:

1. Improve one of your skills by a +1, up to the maximum of +4. REMEMBER you cannot have more skills at a higher level than lower ones (though you can have equal amounts). This is the Skill Pyramid.
   
2. Place any Severe Consequences that haven't yet been healed in recovery.
   

 

IN ADDITION a Sig also grants the effects of a Minor Milestone, which is to say ONE of the following:

1. Rewrite any one Aspect (except your High-Concept).
   
2. Swap the position of two of your skills on your skill list.
   
3. Replace a +1 skill with a skill you don't have on your list.
   
4. Rewrite one of your Stunts or replace one of your Style Stunts with another from the list.
   
5. Buy a new Stunt at the cost of a permanent Fate Point (to a minimum of 1 remaining Fate Point, only one purchase per Minor).
   

 

And now the list! Please let me know if I've forgotten you.

 

 

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Alec Cromwell

A’lera Treon

Artoria Aldsan

Chachangi Gegenji

Enju Abbagliato

Evangeline McBeef

Jana Ridah

Khira Lhizahla

Khunbish Adarkim

Lan Darklyn

Naoh’a Aznable

Nexxa Tristelle

Nihka Mioni

Orrin Halgren

Reis Okeya

R’shesha Otharn

Seito Moonclaw

S’imba Tia

Vael’a Ruhne

V’aleera Lhuil

Virara Wakuwa

X’cinna Ares

Zaphir Zurlac

 

Also Anstarra Silverain.

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[Anstarra]

Life is change, and change is life. A truth inescapable when a frozen, cold, dead place, still and unmoving for ages... suddenly draws breath... and exhales. A torrent, a heat, a blaze, consuming and destructive and impossibly alive. Those caught in the wake of this breath are tempered and tested, some empowered, others blasted aside. Inevitable is this storm of life, spurred and driven by ambition and the desperate -need- for change. But what will be left once it has passed? Will life blaze brightly as never before, or be snuffed out for all time..?

 

 

Act V: Falling Star, Rising Sun

 

Scene I: Dawn of Reckoning

 

 

 

 

Rumors and Story Aspects

• /End of the Golden(tail) Age/ - Infamous recluse Monetarist Moiraine Astervane (AKA Goldentail) has returned to Ul'dah to face lawful prosecution for the strange happenings, said to be void-related, surrounding her manor and affairs. The vultures close in, but you know what they say about a wounded and cornered beast...
  
• /A City Lit By Flames/ - With a major faction of the Brass Blades taking a major hit, and the leadership of the Golden Horde seeming unfocused without an enemy to fight, the power vacuum in Ul'dah has been filled by the Immortal Flames. Naturally, where power goes, corruption follows...
  
• /Falling Stars, Rising in the West/ - A tribe of miqo'te from the arctic seems to have not only found their way to La Noscea, but engaged in some form of protracted tribal warfare with the kobolds in and around the U'ghamoro Mines. Working in concert with a growing faction of arcanists, numerous crippling blows have been dealt to the beastman tribe, to general acclaim by all the good (non-beastmen) folks of La Noscea.
  
• /A Curious Exodus/ - Warriors from the savage Falling Stars sept have been piqued with a curiosity for the outside world. By land, sea and air, more of them are leaving their home - and traditional, xenophobic mindset - behind in favor of seeing this Outside World that both the Nunh and some of their spear-sisters have been making such a big deal about.
  

 

 

 

a) The Stars-Crossed Lovers: Battle on the Beach! (Friday, October 27th, 2017, 9 pm CST)

 

A'lera Treon and Nexxa Tristelle were half the members of an ill-fated expedition into the Cold Lands over a moon ago; the ill fate was not known at the time, for they returned, mostly none the worse for wear. Only later was it found that their freedom and very agency had been taken from them, usurped by a dangerous Allagan tool in the hands of the leader of the Fallen. Now has come the time to free them from an influence which the relic prevents them from even recognizing consciously.. but will the Falling Stars release their grip so easily?

 

"Living in Mists now, so no one will notice a few explosions, or whatever else goes down... and at the same time if X'zarann shows up, he won't be able to bring an army, so, this is as good a chance as we can hope for. It may be too much to hope that a setting as idyllic as the beach will deter hostilities, but we shall see. I just worry that if we push them too hard, they'll switch out like a linkpearl, leaving only violent slaves of the Falling Stars."

 

 

1. A'lera Treon

2. Nexxa Tristelle

3. Reis Okeya

4. Orrin Halgren

(5. Anstarra Silverain)

 

 

b) Rage Beneath the Earth (Sunday, October 29th, 2017, 5 pm CST FLEXIBLE)

 

Artoria Aldsan, the third member of the expedition into the Cold Lands to be captured and controlled, has found her way to the west in order to continue her life. Now though, stories circulate that she is getting involved with the war against the kobolds... the dark knight is no stranger to conflict, but there? And in a time when the Falling Stars are said to be waging a guerilla war against the same beastmen? Anstarra believes she is being used in their war, and that the time has come to free her.

 

"We've had to move so slowly because we know X'zarann has to expect it, but this is too much. Artoria isn't meant to be controlled.. there's a beast inside her that's bound to snap its chains. We need to set her free. X'ogun himself might be about, though I don't know if that would be lucky or unlucky.. I wouldn't mind an opportunity to stab him in the face. But Artoria must come first."

 

1. Artoria Aldsan

2. Naoh'a Aznable

3. Khira Lhizahla

4. Jana Ridah

(5. Anstarra Silverain)

 

 

c) Trials of the Bright (Saturday, November 4th, 2017, 7 pm CST FLEXIBLE)

 

The Bright Ones. Former Clip-Tails - former warriors of the Falling Stars who were mutilated for failure and made into slaves of the sept, liberated from bondage and led toward a brighter future by benevolent Adventurers. Forced by the Nunh's unnatural wrath to flee Ul'dah, they evaded Goldentail's press-gang force of Blades near the Burning Wall with the help of yet more goodly Adventurers. On to the Black Shroud they pressed, and then further north, through Coerthas unto the borderlands of Dravania itself, seeking a place far enough from their oppressors to be free once and for all. Now, though, they've finished running.

 

"X'vann and X'orri... from what they were before, to this. Leaders of the Bright Ones; Vann of the Leaf, pugilist and scholar, and Orri the Redeemed, protector and steward. They've led the others, near two-score of them reunited once more, equipped with the skills they learned from every discipline of the hand, land and war.. to the realm of dragons. With a plan to go higher yet, though not in flight... or, hah, perhaps exactly that. For they mean to help face their former Nunh in Azys Lla when the time comes, and to get there, you need wings..."

 

1. X'imba Tia

2. Nihka Mioni

3. Seito Moonclaw

4. Virara Wakuwa

 

 

 

 

Reserve List

 

1. Zaphir Zurlac

2.

 

 

 

 

HOUSE RULE: For Starsfall, players are allowed to, if they wish, purchase a Stunt (like any other stunt, this is not a bonus stunt, simply a bonus rule for Starsfall) that works in the following manner: +1 to a single skill, with a single, simple condition, otherwise always active. The cap to which a skill may be brought with this sort of Stunt is 5.

NOTE: This Stunt is not available to characters who already have a natural +5 in a skill.

EXAMPLE: Gain +1 to Fight as long as you are fighting with fist weapons. This may not bring your Fight higher than 5.

[S'imba]

C for X'imba

[Lan Darklyn]

I'd like to sign Naoh'a up for B

[Nihka]

Nihka must be there for the Bright Ones

C for Nihka

[Khira]

Khira for B pls.

[Martiallais]

Seito Moonclaw for event C!

[Caspar]

I'm interested in event C for Virara

[Airka]

ill sign reis up for event A plz! ^^

[Jana]

Jana for the last spot on B, assuming it's still open.

[Zaphir Zurlac]

Reserve, if needed for some reason.

[Anstarra]

Starsfall Turns for Act V, Scene I: Dawn of Reckoning

 

IMPORTANT! Don't forget to take a look at the UPDATED TURN INFO POST

 

Last Updated: October 24

 

New Turns for PCs: 10

New Turns for NPCs: 10

 

Player Turns at the start of this round: 30 [PLAYER TURN CAP FOR THIS ROUND IS 6]

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Remaining Player Turns: 30

 

NPC Turns at the start of this round: 34

- Anstarra - Investigate (2) ~ Searching for the Crucible

- X'ennaliss - Act (3) ~ Exorcising Orrin

- X'ogun - Prepare (1) ~ Coordinating forces

- Goldentail - Act (3) ~ Re-establishing control

- U'dorian - Investigate (2) ~ About Primals and Tempering

- Cortez - Prepare (1) ~ Stronger, better, faster

- X'zarann - Act (3) ~ Nunh Responsibilities

- X'ogun - Investigate (2) ~ Research...

- Orri - Act (3) ~ Establishing a safe place

- Vann - Investigate (2) ~ Dragons, really?

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Remaining NPC Turns: 12

[Zelmanov]

Amidst the chaos laid bare some many sennights ago in the harsh jungles of some unknown isle, a group of heroes work tirelessly to come back from the crushing blow made by the ever more powerful Nunh of the Falling Stars tribe. Minds taken must now be reclaimed in hopes of unifying in a single cause.

 

Rogue Three:

A Starsfall Story

 

 

RUMORS AND STORY ASPECTS:

 

 

/Peaceful trade routes/ Seems that trade was being accosted some moons ago by an infamous group of bandits known as the Stinging Sabotenders, known to swarm caravans with their "Thousand Needle Strike". It is only now after such long inactivity that the bandits are thought properly dead and gone after the Brass Blades ran them into The Burning Wall

 

 

All previously established aspects mentioned.

 

EVENT

 

 

 

 

a) Stealing from thieves (Friday, November 17th, 2017, 10 pm EST)

 

 Adventurer and retainer to Orrin de Halgren, Reis risked her very own safety in revealing the location of a downed Garlean science vessel deep within the Burning Wall to her master. After sufficient scouting, Orrin has deemed that the vessel warranted investigation. However, they are not the only ones at the crash site. Orrin asks for aid from his comrades in dealing with the numerous scavengers and get in deep within the bowels of the ship in order to help some "very dear friends" of his.

 

"'No body, no death.' That was something commonly believed by old widows back in the Dragonsong War, but I'll be damned to the 7th hell because it may as well be true this time. Seems the once infamous bandits known as the Stinging Sabotenders did not meet their end many moons ago but have instead set up shop, they do not seem intent on bartering for access, which is why I need you all for help."

 

 

1. Vael'a (Khunbish)

2. Reis Okeya

3. Jana Ridah

4. Anstarra Silverain

(5. Orrin Halgren DMPC)

 

 

Reserves:

1.

2.

3.

 

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((This is a side story that will be two events with the aim of freeing A'lera, Artoria and Nexxa from their mind control while the plot is on hiatus. Event 2 will occur the following week once schedules are properly sorted out. By the way this shall be conducted via discord.))