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]

Hi Mods! A couple assorted questions for you:

If someone were researching the boundaries of Limbo and the Brink, would they find information that no one's returned from the Mag Mell/Northern side? Or would that be the kind of info someone would really have to dig for?

Could a character reach the Brink and lose their physical body but not die? ie. they go into the Brink, not for long or far, and the conditions destroy their body, however they cross back or are forced back before there's any other potential damage. If so, would it be acceptable for them to be able to recreate their body (possibly that task itself taking a few hours) but they're dramatically weakened physically/magically/etc and need proper time to recover as well as recover anima?

Basically Mara here is the sort to see an impossible task as the perfect thing for her to take on, and more relevant she's gone through that specific type of situation before. (Since one of her more unique things is that she's spent a lot of time existing without a physical body, and she's hung out in literal primordial chaos while keeping her awareness/sense of self.) So I'm wondering if she would be allowed to briefly cross the Brink and have it be like one of the times she died in canon. Not looking for this to be a repeatable event, just part of her testing the rules of this realm and trying to figure out how similar or not it is to realms she's familiar with.

And one other question on a completely different note - this is more just for clarifying purposes. Since beings from all kinds of worlds are pulled into Limbo, is it safe to assume there are at least a few establishments that specifically cater to non-humans?

[neonmods]

1. I'd say the amount of research on the northern Brink is very sparse and hard to come by, but there are a few sources that say no one has ever made it to that edge of Limbo and returned. It's hard to tell if this is just a "nobody has reported the contrary" situation or if it's actually true. It's pretty common knowledge that you'd have to be nuts to try going there, though there'll always be curious people wanting to figure out what's out there.

2. Best that Mara's body not get actually destroyed, since there's no known way to recover it once it happens. But what would you think if Mara crossed the Brink and one of the effects severed her from her body and made it vanish? Suddenly she's in ghost form and her body is nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile her body randomly reappears somewhere in the city, and her ghost would have about three days to find and re-inhabit it. Then she'd need an extended period of anima recovery, as you mentioned. That sound nice and juicy?

3. Yes, there are definitely establishments that cater to non-humans. If you come up with a good one and would like it added to the locations list, you know what to do. ;)

[bomblogic]

1. Spiffy, that was my guess but I wanted to confirm.

2. I can totally work with that! Perhaps the severing of soul from body and having the body reappear in the city is a kind of a last-ditch defense mechanism, since as you say completely destroying a body is basically Game Over.

How much interaction can she manage as a ghost? Would she be able to communicate with others to assist in locating her body?

3. Fab. If I come up with any good ideas for locations I'll definitely submit them. :D

[neonmods]

Ghosts can be seen and interact with other Souls just fine, especially a fresh ghost in possession of their faculties. (Some of those who have been ghosts longer start to lose their memories and identities, which is how they end up becoming monsters.)

Ghosts can also physically interact with objects with some concentration. If you've seen the movie... well. Ghost, it works like that.

[bomblogic]

Returning to this for more info since Mara will likely make her little adventure later this month. I'm planning to do a small closed log so there's record of the journey, and as a setup for her brief time as a ghost.

- Would Mara encounter anything notable while trekking through the mountains? Curious snow beasts or spirits?
- Will the curtain of shifting light that marks the boundary still be visible when its reached, or will the blizzard obscure it?
- What would she see or sense while she's briefly on the other side? Losing her body won't immediately have her rushing back (since she'll just think it was destroyed and no big deal, she'll make a new one) so she would likely try to linger at least a few minutes and observe/take in whatever she could.
- As a ghost will she be able to sense her body at all? Aside from just knowing it still exists.
- Will anything on her body be destroyed, or will it/anything she's wearing be in the condition it was just before crossing? (She plans to hunt some furry beasts and bundle up with furs before venturing into the mountains.)
- Anything else I should know, or that would be good for Mara to report on/share with others?

[neonmods]

Thanks for your patience Lynz. Here you go:

- Closer to town, the mountains are thick with pine trees and trails and look rather ordinary. The further north you travel, the trails vanish, the trees become sparse (before vanishing altogether at treeline) and you start to encounter icy cliffs and glaciers. It may involve climbing or even crawling through tunnels, but it is passable, if exhausting. All this on top of the eternal blizzard which starts raging about a mile beyond treeline.

Normal Limbo animals also vanish beyond treeline. Instead there are faint will-o-wisp looking balls of light drifting about (harmless) and beasts that appear to be made entirely of ice. They hide in areas with poor visibility and then charge out to attack. They can be broken or melted, just like ice.

- The Brink will be visible as she approaches. Pretty hard to miss, as it is very bright.

- Stepping beyond the Brink feels strange, initially. A full-body sensation of something wrong, impending dread, or just plain tingling. The landscape becomes extremely bizarre and surreal, with weird lights, hallucinatory visions, and the horizon appearing to simply drop away into nothing.

The Brink sort of works like stepping out of bounds on a video game map, where everything is unpredictable. You may be able to linger for a bit and have a look around, but one wrong step or one second too long and everything shorts out/Mara finds herself evicted from her own body. As a ghost, she can linger a little bit longer but there will quickly come a tugging sensation, like she'll be sucked into the great beyond if she doesn't retreat.

Stepping back across the Brink immediately teleports you to the mountain entrance. So at least she won't have to walk back!

- She will be able to sense her body as a ghost, a faint sort of "call" when she's within about 4 miles of it. Think of standing in a crowded, bustling room and hearing someone say your name- you'll have to concentrate in order to find out where it's coming from and how far away. (You can throw Mara's body anywhere in the city limits you like.)

- Her body will have anything on it that it did when it vanished, provided it was secured to her person. If loose, the furs and other items may be lying around nearby (like a portal opened up and her body crashed through it.)

That should about cover it but feel absolutely free to ask any other clarifying questions!