Plotting

[neonmods]

This page is your one-stop shop to pitch ideas to the mods, propose an event, or ask questions about things you’d like to do in the game. Every plot post will also have a Q&A section for this same purpose, but this one’s more for your general ideas and permission.

NPCs and factions, monsters, and locations can be suggested on their respective pages. Feel free to ask questions here, but we may send you to the page proper to officially submit it.

As a refresher, we’d like to be consulted for the following types of plots:

✧ Giving your character a prestigious, influential, or extremely privileged job

✧ Working for City Hall in any capacity

✧ Plots that would impact other players/large portions of the setting

✧ Plots that would damage or destroy public locations

✧ Interactions with major mod NPCs

✧ Killing any NPCs

✧ Plots that attempt to bend setting mechanics (taming a monster, leaving the boundaries of the map, experimenting magically with Shadows, etc - these are not forbidden but we’d like to know what you’re doing so we can give you some results)

If you’re unsure or just want to hash something out with us, go ahead and drop us a line!

So, what can we do for you?

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[bomblogic]

Good evening mods! I've been kicking this idea around for a bit so. If a character were interested in starting/creating a faction, what kind of restrictions would there be with that? Related, can a player faction have friction with the NPC factions or conversely temporarily work with them at some point (ie. player faction and NPC faction both do something to undermine another NPC faction)?

Basically old habits die hard, Mara wants to dig in some roots and ideally secretly/quietly start making it known that Niesha's not the only god in town. Long long term would be Mara trying to make a move or be more of an active rival. In the immediate would just be her looking to "claim" a little territory and feel out how things are behind the scenes, whose palms to grease to get authorities to look the other way if necessary, that sort of thing.

Since she's been spending a lot of time getting to know the nightlife of the city I was thinking she could possibly make connections with some of those type of businesses, not taking much interest in criminal activity (since that's plenty crowded) but instead her recognizing the value in anima generation and plentiful access to it. Which hey, convenient that suddenly there's a secret society she would be very interested in aligning with.

I don't have much for firm thoughts as I wasn't sure what might or might not be allowed and didn't want to get ahead of myself, lol.

[neonmods]

Short answer for now: Yes, we'd be delighted to help you plan and execute an arc like this! I'd say, to start with, we'd probably build out around a dozen NPC followers for Mara (and any player characters who'd be into the idea, of course) and further power and influence could absolutely be provided via AC rewards.

We definitely encourage her to investigate the Carnal D'Elites and exchange ideas with them, when available. This group is going to tie into some plot further down the road, so Mara will likely want to branch off on her own eventually. But let's just say they share her ideas about anima generation and the value therein.

[bomblogic]

Fabulous. Obviously I don't want to step on any toes, overreach, etc etc, so I'd been hesitant about bringing the idea up.

I'll definitely have her investigate the group, she'd love to hear their ideas on such matters. The group's existence will for sure let Mara know she's found a useful avenue that could prove fruitful.