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FIRST INAUGURAL PLOTTING POST.
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Without giving anything away, here are some features you guys might wanna plot out / play around with before the log goes up on OCT 10!
The Feast Day of Sigsimund will accelerate everyone's hunger.Here are some ideas. (Feel free to come up with your own, use these, or mess around however you like. Just tryin' to spark inspiration.)
- They don't have to feed, but they don't know that. (This is to give some benefit of time to characters who wouldn't kill immediately out the gate, and might need some buildup.)
- Characters will be in a situation without many people to feed on for some time, so by the time they are near humans, their hunger may have reached painful or distracting levels. It may feel as though they will die if they don't feed. The extent of this discomfort and how it expresses itself is up to you, so long as it exists on some level.
- If a character does not feed for the entirety of Sigsimund's day, the painful feelings will not abate, and they will feel weak and listless.
- Characters will need to feed directly from living human specimens to sate their hunger. No animals, no feeding on corpses, and no bottled blood will sate them.
- They will be travelling along with two NPCs before they reach an area populated with humans, and if someone wants to try to feed on the NPCs or kill them, let me know!
- Characters will have one day and one night to feed.
- During this, they will be stuck in an underground area. If they climb out, it's on holy ground, and characters who are weak to holy ground will fall back down.
- There is an alternate route through the sewers, but it will be very painful to traverse (but still possible) because of diluted holy water in the muck.
- Once in the town, they will have to be sneaky and careful-- the villagers know it's Sigsimund's day, and many have made their homes safe with traps and holy items.
- Ultimately, this is to force characters to work together, so each can use their strengths to overcome their weaknesses, etc.
-A character without a weakness to holy water might carry another character through the sewers.
-A character might bring a kidnapped human down the well.
-A character might find some way to knock human defenses like holy objects away without physically touching them.
-A character that does not need permission to enter a human dwelling may convince a human to invite his friend in for dinner.
I'm leaving the shape of the plans up to you, so don't feel the need to ask me for permission if something works. Be creative! Have fun!
Also: Your characters will encounter a large and well-stocked library inside a place holy to Kismet. If your character can't go in holy places but wants some books, please plot out who would get them! Likewise, tell me what books your characters would look for / get, and I'll give you a basic sense of the books and its contents.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS.
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BOOKS.
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- the gods
- sources of vampires
- history of vampires
He'll also be skimming for information on people being brought to Sanguis without being native to the nation
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The Vampyre by Deorwynne of Hrothgar: This book is intended as a guide on vampires. It says all vampires are afraid of light and garlic, cannot enter homes without permission, must feed nightly by killing humans (small children and infants being the most popular), and are all ugly and batlike in appearance. They are all created by the Riven God (also known as the Sundered One and the Other, 'in more vulgar works') for Their dark amusement, and no other purpose.
A History of Blood by Agathon Impelio, who the book notes is a learned scholar from a place called Galenos. It details a murky history of a quasi-historic figure called the Vampire King, who is said to have been native to Sangui (a piece of paper stuck in the book challenges this, saying 'everyone knows the Blood Queen was from Galenos or Siwan!'), who wrought ruin upon it in a time of perpetual dark, when humans were treated as little more than meals for vampires. This event is less a time of historical record and more a time no one living has any proof or memory of, but it's taught widely. The Blood Queen was finally defeated when she fell in love with her prey, (a person variously called the Sacrifice, the Martyr, and the Kindly One) and could not feed. She killed herself rather than become a monster, and the day was saved when Good, Upstanding Soldiers destroyed all her temples to a god riven apart, whose name has been lost to time.
Oddly(?), no books in the library are not from Sangui, but one does stick out:
We Are In Siwan by Merrion ap Olwyne, is a skeezy travelogue mostly concerned with how to get laid by 'beautiful Siwan women'. It also mentions that most Siwan speak Sangui proper, since Sanguine nobility 'owned' the country until very recently. The food is said to be very heavy, but highly strengthening, which explains how the Siwan can be so hardy and happy even after 'that dreadful war business'. (More research will reveal Sangui was a colonial power roughly two centuries ago, but has largely crumpled and let go of all its colonial holdings, due in no small part to their defeat in Anodd at Siwan.)
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Paragraphs will often say things like 'On this day, they were the Blood Queen, and she...' or 'In this event, the Vampire King showed his face, and...'
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The Book of the Bereaved by Niscien Rove, a study of mourning practices throughout Sangui, which has only in the last hundred years become a unified country. The religion is largely orthopraxy, which means customs vary wildly. Professional mourners are considered a must in the north, and only not used by the very poor, while the south finds them very gouache. Public displays of mourning, such as throwing oneself on a coffin or a body, are popular in the north and north east, while stoic mourning is prioritized in the rest of the country. Using a map readily available, Der Tod will be able to tell Ainsmere is in the north east.
Rituals of the Dead by Langley of Boguslav (a principality of Sangui proper), enumerates on the proper burial practices of the dead. Many are organized around how one buries the dead (entombment, burial, leaving the body in the catacombs that seem to run under the majority of the country, sky burial, burial at sea, burial in the peat moss bogs) and how one decides such practices (it seems to depend on which deity the family principally worships, personal traditions, and the wishes of the deceased). Notably, almost all traditions involve exsanguinating the corpse as part of the embalming process, which is done less for the benefit of open casket, and more to make the corpse unappetizing for scavengers, ghouls, widowmakers, and vampires.
None of the books speak much of what happens after death; it seems of little consequence to Sanguine religious beliefs. The crux of the religion seems to have more to do with how to comport oneself so one doesn't become prey to monsters, especially vampires. Death is not personified, except occasionally as a looming shadow, or a conspicuously negative space. Coincidentally, this is how the Riven god is generally drawn, if at all.
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The Grand Honorate by Stravta (obviously a pseudonym) is a pornographic collection of poetry about what the grand concubine Honorate (a historical figure) got up to in bed with the various people they pleasured-- they were a concubine of the Tsenka dynasty, which meant they were shared by all the children of the monarch. (This is not historically accurate.) There are illustrations.
To Please Thyne Love by anonymous is an entire book about, essentially, finding the clitoris. It also has arguments on why the search is worthwhile. It's unclear whether or not the book is satirical. There are illustrations.
Most of the music is harmony-focused rather than melody-focused (as is more common in the West on Earth), and dirges seem to be the most common form of music. There is a lot of throat-singing.
Assure me, Lover by Theophane of Glotka is a romantic play in three acts, about lovers who must escape a vampire horde in the time of the Blood Queen. Etheldreda, the main heroine, was once chosen to feed the Blood Queen, and now she must escape with her life and her love.
The Dawn Betrays by Thorbuld of Ainsmere is a tragedy in verse (Sestina, specifically) about being in love with a kindly person who at dawn is revealed to be a vampire. The main character, Arnulf, kills them by hacking their head off.
Most of the plays and literature involve vampires in some way, like a cultural obsession. Very few are romantic or sexual toward vampires, except when the vampires trick the human characters.
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They WILL have memories of the TDM dream, unless you don't want them to remember your character! Lemme know!
- Der Tod, being the Coffin Sleeper/Blood Memories combo, is going to be having a HARD TIME as a being who has never experienced pain in their existence before. They will want to go hunt, not one to sit around, but traversing the sewers is gonna SUCK without help. Anyone wanna team up?
- They will want books but can't go into the library! They'll gladly bargain with someone to go in there for them.
- Once in a populated zone, they're not going to have any issues at all with killing once opportunity arises (they are gonna be a hot mess when faced with their first ever thirst) and will happily help others feed if they need it. They are charming and seductive - if someone needs help getting an invite into a home, they might be a good team player for that.
- Generally I am up for shenanigans! Anywhere you want the personification of Death to run into your vamp I am down.
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and frowning at wanton murder
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There is a book getting starter in my top level, please feel free to hit it!!
(It's not WANTON murder exactly, just......... self-justified survival of the fittest)
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guess it's time to see how things shake out, then ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
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After she feeds (shhhh) ellie will be into stealing shit from these people-- clothes, supplies, you name it. Ellie can't enter w/o permission, but he can (tho they're both vulnerable to holy, so that should be fun). wdyt. gotta keep his fancy wardrobe up.
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YES I am so down to continue with this strange friendship between Ellie and what she thinks is a weird edgelord named Tod
Would you like a special starter off my top level, or do you wanna start something off and I will fling death at it?
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i will hit u up tomorrow when im back from vacation, either with a wildcard or a prompto
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Sounds gr8! ๐
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First and foremost, Dettlaff's info can be found here with a basic rundown of permissions/info/hooks/etc for the overly curious. Shorthand summary is he's a very old vampire that was never human, doesn't really understand them, but on the flipside of that coin absolutely loves vampires.
Anyway bullet point details go:
If there's anything else you want to do, want to know, etc, hit me up here or on plurk/ discord at
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ellie will be pushing herself thru the sewers, pls carry her so she stops injuring herself senpai
she'll also want requests from the library, and want to know what he wants from the library. He wants something right. right. don't be a square dettlaff
if you want a study in human emotion(al suffering) i got ellie for you here. im planning on her procuring a guitar somewhere, they can have a Moment
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also Detts wasnโt built for literature half as much as art (or toy repair for that matter), so youโre gonna have to rec him something if you want him to give it a shot
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lmao dw theres almost no prose fiction in the library so they will both be disappointed
General plotting, heyo
Assorted hooks/thoughts: