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

[Caspar]

Event B is probably the best time for me.

[Aldsan]

I'd like to sign up for Psycopaths with Artoria, since it seems I was too slow for event B.

[Airka]

ill sign up for event A with reis almost 100% sure im free for that one other dates im not so sure about

[Khira]

Signing up Khira Lhizahla for Event 'a'.

[Zaphir Zurlac]

Reserve, since I was on the last two rounds.

[combatwombat519]

Event C for Shesha please

[V'aleera]

I'll sign V'al up for C

[Khunbish Avagnar]

I'll sign Vael'a up for C and get his new sheet done by then

[Anstarra]

Current event round is over, yay! Well, it was, Sunday.

 

Results:

 

1. One group of (possibly mind-controlled) arcanists confirmed alive, minus one. One minor war between Falling Star tribals and kobolds started.
    
   
2. One heavily-armed, body-half-replaced-by-machinery psycho blown up (but probably not killed). One rich neighborhood secured. One not-void-portal secured.
   
3. One mysterious armored knight villain (?) escaped. One innocent (?) rescued. Two villainous (?) soldiers slain. One major underling captured and comatose.
   
4. One father discovered/confirmed. One tonberry, barely alive but rescued. One Fallen psychopath beaten senseless.(edited)
   

[Anstarra]

Starsfall Turns for Act IV, Scene II: Contrails

 

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

 

Last Updated: August 18

 

New Turns for PCs: 20

New Turns for NPCs: 15

 

Player Turns at the start of this round: 32 [PLAYER TURN CAP FOR THIS ROUND IS 6]

- A'lera: Prepare (1) ~ Makin' a spear

- A'lera: Prepare (1) ~ Makin' a BETTER spear!

- S'imba: Act (1) ~ Portal-jumping!

- Seito: Act (1) ~ Portal-jumping!

- Zaphir: Act (1) ~ Portal-jumping!

- Khira: Act (1) ~ Portal-jumping!

- A'lera: Act (1) ~ Going north!

- Artoria: Act (1) ~ Going north!

- Orrin: Act (1) ~ Going north!

- Nexxa: Act (1) ~ Going north!

- X'cinna: Act (1) ~ Aetheryte-nabbing!

- S'imba: Act (1) ~ Aetheryte-nabbing!

- Reis: Act (1) ~ Aetheryte-nabbing!

- Vael'a: Prepare (1) ~ GRENADE YAY

- Seito: Investigate (2) ~ Finding out general Falling Stars info (chatting with Flames)

- Enju: Investigate (2) ~ Finding out general Goldentail info (a deal with an info broker)

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Remaining Player Turns: 14

 

NPC Turns at the start of this round: 43

- X'addo: Investigage (2) ~ Island exploring

- Goldentail: Prepare (1) ~ Ritual

- X'zarann: Prepare (1) ~ Messing with Goldentail's ritual

- X'ogun: Act (3) ~ Acquiring resources

- X'red: Act (3) ~ Making a killing

- U'dorian: Investigate (2) ~ Island exploring

- Cortez: Prepare (1) ~ Survival

- X'ogun: Investigate (2) ~ Not idle things

- Anstarra: Investigate (2) ~ A quick trip to Camp Glorious

- X'ogun: Prepare (1) ~ Meeting with prospects

- Chagrin: Prepare (1) ~ Recruiting

- X'zarann: Investigate (2) ~ Catching up on his reading

- X'vurr: Act (4) ~ A little bit of warfare

- X'addo: Investigate (2) ~ Spyin'

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Remaining NPC Turns: 16

[Anstarra]

Act IV: Starlit Noon

 

Scene II-b: Player Acts

 

These are time windows in which Act or Discuss actions may be placed, if the GM is needed for one reason or another. They won't necessarily all be used. Time slots are functionally first-come, first-served, though players can of course re-negotiate with each other.

 

 

Rumors and Story Aspects[/b]]

• A febrile peace has settled upon Ul'dah. Those who pay attention to such things are of a mind that /Now is the Calm Before the Storm/.
  
• Newfound energy grips Ul'dah's underworld; between the strong front posed by the resilient Golden Pride, the sundering of monetarist mastermind Goldentail's estate, and the ill-concealed return to the public eye of formerly-disgraced master thaumaturge (and suspected voidmage) U'dorian the Grey, it seems it's /A Good Time to be Bad/.
  
• In the tundra lands below the mountains of Xelphatol, the Falling Stars, a previously unknown (and, if the rumors are true, violently xenophobic and inhumanly strong and tough) tribe of miqo'te are showing more interest in the outside world. Increased trading activity is gaining the attention of merchants everywhere, as are rumors of the tribals' fighting prowess, coupled with a newfound willingness to hire themselves out as mercenaries. One way or the other, /Interest in the Falling Stars/ is growing.
  

 

 

 

 

a) Free Event Time A (Saturday, August 19th, 2017, 6 pm CST)

 

This is free time for an Act!

 

"Flavour teeeext!"

 

 

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4.

 

 

 

b) Free Event Time B - Aetheryte Absconding (Sunday, August 20th, 2017, 5 pm CST)

 

X'cinna has decided that nothing would make the Golden Prints Sept important and fancy like their very own aetheryte. After copious brainstorming (mostly by others) and drinking (mostly by her) a clear course has been set: to borrow S'imba's renegade corsair, the Sultana's Revenge, sail around the lower cap of Thanalan to the ruins of Rock Falls (or the Bloody Prints Sept, depending who you ask) and 'acquire' the tribal-style duodirectional aetheryte which was once used by her own people to set up their sept there (after everyone in Rock Falls came down with murdered).

 

"I mean, I guess it's okay that she'd get the thing. Last I checked the far end was disabled, and after moving it from its moorings it's basically gonna be the world's largest and fanciest paperweight unless someone really savvy hooks it up again. Which I'm pretty sure Cinna is fine with... also, who's even still posted down there? Dregs of Goldentail's Blades? They'd probably love an excuse to run away from that hole in the ground."

 

 

1. X'cinna Ares

2. Reis Okeya

3.

4. S'imba Tia

 

 

 

c) Free Event Time C - Snow Place Like Home (Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017, 7 pm CST)

 

A'lera and her companions received invitations from X'ogun, chief advisor of the Nunh of the Falling Stars Sept, to come and visit the Crystal Caves of their Home Sept, after proving themselves in battle against a rogue Fallen. It's time for a trip into the cold lands.

 

"Outsiders haven't been invited there openly since... ever. For thousands of years, the only non-Falling Stars to visit the Nunh's holy ground have been prisoners, and most never left."

 

 

1. A'lera Treon

2. Artoria Aldsan

3. Orrin Halgren

4. Nexxa Tristelle

 

 

 

d) Free Event Time D: Through the Looking Glass (Friday, August 25th, 2017, 7 pm CST)

 

S'imba - and anyone else who dares - is going through the portal in the basement of Goldentail's manor!

 

Villainous (and semi-mechanized) Captain Cortez of the Aster was blown through a portal that he started a small neighborhood war to reach. Weighed down by wounds (and bullets) his hunters did not pursue, but now the time has come.

 

"A portal? Down there? Weren't U'dorian and X'addo working on tracking the aetherial trail of Goldentail and X'zarann..."

 

 

1. S'imba Tia

2. Seito Moonclaw

3. Zaphir Zurlac

4. Jana Ridah

5. Khira Lhizahla

 

 

 

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]

I'd like to reserve D

[Zetchryn]

I'd like to reserve C, on A'lera Treon. Visiting the Home Sept.

[Aldsan]

I'll also go to C on Artoria Aldsan.

[Martiallais]

Tentatively adding Seito for the portal jump in Slot D.

[combatwombat519]

was gonna say for the portal event, then remember I am gonna be out of state that day,. doh

[LystAP]

Sign up for B) slot. GONNA DO SOME NYAN!

[Zaphir Zurlac]

What the hey, I'll try D.

[Airka]

i like to sign reis up for free event B plz!

[S'imba]

Put me on reserve for B just to give people who aren't in an event a chance to sign up first.

[Jana]

Against my better judgement, signing up the injured Jana for event D!

[Anstarra]

When stars fall to earth, the impact resonates across the world. The fires of change roar across the land, changing lives, and ending them...

 

 

Act IV: Starlit Noon

 

Scene III: Impacts

 

 

 

 

Rumors and Story Aspects

• /End of the Golden(tail) Age/ - Following an eruption of Voidsent and a pitched battle at reclusive Monetarist Moiraine Astervane (aka Goldentail)'s manor, she is in deep trouble with the Ossuary; combined with previously-started legal mutterings, as driven by rivals, many a rat has begun to desert this sinking ship.
  
• /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 Dangers of Knowing Too Much (Friday, September 1st, 2017, 9 pm CST)

 

Sergeant Donovan, man-at-arms of House Fortemps, is to be questioned for his involvement in the apparent kidnapping and corruption of other armsmen. Inquisitor Brigie suspects that his handlers might try to keep him quiet, most especially the enigmatic and dangerous Lord Chagrin, an apparently rogue Dragoon of Ishgard. She requests the presence of Adventurers to ensure the sergeant's safety, and possibly healers, given the damage the man previously sustained to his mind.

 

"The Inquisition has a... difficult... reputation, but in this instance, it seems like there really is a threat to Ishgard. Or at least some of its people. Kidnappings, rogue dragoons... brainwashing? Mind control maybe even? No, this is no good."

 

 

1. Artoria Aldsan

2. Enju Abbagliato

3. Reis Okeya

4.

 

 

 

b) Better Red Than Dead (Wednesday, September 6th, 2017, 9 pm CST)

 

Sarah Whyte, now-retired Lieutenant of the Brass Blades of the Aster, stationed at Camp Nowhere, has posted a leve. 'My last command was slaughtered out in the desert, the deep south of Thanalan. Thirty soldiers and three priests of Nald'Thal and two of us got out alive. I'm not a Blade anymore but I want closure. It was some sort of monster, a killer with red hair that moved like lightning and cut armored men in half faster than you can blink. It needs to be tracked, and stopped.'

 

"I have a bad feeling. If it's who I think it is, she's either off killing for X'zarann.. or just killing for fun. Either way, I agree with the ex-Blade, she needs to be stopped."

 

1. Jana Ridah

2. Virara Wakuwa

3. Nihka Mioni

4. Khira Lhizahla

 

 

 

c) Trouble in Paradise (Sunday, September 10th, 2017, 6 pm CST)

 

The news that an open (if currently one-way) portal in a ransacked mansion-fortress in the heart of Ul'dah leads to a tropical island paradise is not, in Flame Captain Maximillian Maximus' estimation, cause for celebration. Now-wanted-for-questioning (by the Order of Nald'Thal, as well as various legal entities) Monetarist Goldentail is said to be in hiding there, along with at least one other Person Of Interest: the Nunh of the Falling Stars, X'zarann Silverfall Nunh. The Captain is bringing a sizeable force through the portal, and has come to accept Adventurer assistance as one of the unfortunate necessities of unusual missions.

 

"X'zarann lounging around on a tropical island.. so very suspiciously out of character. Is he really just going to hang out and watch Goldentail get arrested? He doesn't like her all that much, right now... then again these days I don't know what my brother is thinking."

 

1. Orrin Halgren

2. Naoh'a Aznable

3. Seito Moonclaw

4. S'imba Tia

 

 

 

d) Shades of White (Saturday, September 16th, 2017, 7 pm CST)

 

An unquiet soul needs to be put to rest. A message has appeared, to some few; written on a wall, a letter with no sender, a dream.

'A life lived in darkness does not always find the light once ended. For the sake of my children, the ghost of their father must be released from his undying rage, and hate. I beg your aid.'

 

"...mother?"

 

1. X'cinna Ares

2. Zaphir Zurlac

3. R'shesha Otharn

4. Khunbish Adarkim

 

 

 

 

Reserve List

 

1. Reis Okeya (second participation)

2. Lan Darklyn (second participation)

3. Orrin Halgren (second participation)

 

 

 

 

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.

[LystAP]

d)! Nyah!

[Jana]

C makes the most sense but I can't commit to a Saturday right now... Signing Jana up for B.

[Aldsan]

Would like to sign up for Event A.