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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.
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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...'