OOC Info [Alvadas] False Impressions

[Seju]

Tapestry, those mini-quests sounds great to me. You have good points about seasonal quests. It took over a year for Fallacy and two of like... ten players to finish the last one in Alvadas, so I suppose expecting vastly dissimilar results is overly optimistic.

Also, I'm down to try my hand at development and maybe have some things approved. In all honesty, perks points for that would be pretty cool.

Renate, your comment on wizards and rebels outside the walls makes me wonder... what if there was a sect/group opposed to illusions, which actively worked to destroy them? Or maybe just usurp them from Ionu? I don't know. I keep imagining lots of deranged Holmes and Marples and Poirots running around, and I'm not certain what to make of it.

I very much like Rowland's ideas of the park and museum as well, those kinds of locations are mostly absent. I can only imagine the museum doubling as a house of horrors because of how the illusions might affect it.

[Tapestry]

I've given some thought to those who want to make a traveling performance group.

I think we could work something interesting out. Since Alvadas is well known for its acts and performances...if you guys do a bang up job of attracting the right attention, Kenash, Syliras, and Riverfall might PAY you guys to travel to their city for a season for performances.

Rad huh? You could be sponsored by a family in Alvadas (major families inbound) and do traveling shows.

Sound like something I should start setting up?



Also. Special thanks to Nyxie for my shiny new posting skin. Bwahahahahaha...I have a lot of these now

[Kuvarakh]

Hey Tap,

Just to be sure you saw this entry in the Traveling Performance Group forum, Kuvarakh had already offered to help promote this effort IC.

However this certainly does not exclude your above suggestion. So I added:

And as for the backing of an influential Alvad family, they may well want to have it be through a member of the more common citizenry, like Kuvarakh. It would serve as a buffer, not only in a financial capacity, but also allow them to stay in the background to make it more appealing to this common citizenry, who might otherwise see it as "just another way for the rich to take our money."

I am open for collaboration.

[Tapestry]

*nod*

There's logic there...however the way the support of the Arts are in Alvadas is done a little differently. You'll see when the Womiyu rewrites and influential families are up.

But Kuv supporting would be fantastic...I love PC involvement with other PC efforts.

[Nyxie Nadira Draer]

Guys, how does an Alvad Tattoo Studio sound?

Seeing as how Alvadas prides itself in the arts, it feels like a perfect fit. There's just one thing missing: an element of illusion

So I was thinking... what if the tattoos were 'magical'? Now, I know this might sound a little far-fetched, and so I'll need help trying to make this workable with pre-existing lore. ...What if the ink was made from a Philter that was infused with the Ionu's gnosis of Illusionism?

Could this work? Are there other ways we could approach this idea? Let me know what you think

[Tapestry]

Great idea!

Did you want to write up the location?

Ionu's gnosis usually isn't permanent...so a philter made with Illusionism would be temporary...but still something that could work...body art for all kinds of occasions, and some really trippy tattoos

[Nyxie Nadira Draer]

Sure, I could give it a shot!

Temporary, yes, that's what I was afraid of. I wonder whether there could be a way of making the philter/ink more permanent... perhaps by adding some manipulated form of Res... we could maybe call it 'Chimera Ink'...

In any case, Nyxie doesn't have the skills to do any of that But it'd be so cool if the NPC artist in the Tattoo Studio could!

[Tapestry]

I'll see what I can do with a write up.


Hey all! How are we feeling? What's going on? Anything I could be speeding up on to help you all out?

[Shiloh Walker]

Heya!

While a recent addition to Alvadas, I've done some developmental stuff with Mirage, which I think she was pretty happy with. I'd be happy to do developmental stuff from flora and fauna to NPCs with rewards or no. I think the perk points are kind fun, but sometimes the rewards kind of confused me with how they'd logically weave into my characters, if that makes sense. Alvadas seems like a really excellent place to write in, and it's all the more exciting I get to write under someone like you, Tap! Ever since I joined, I've been wanting to write with you someway/somehow, so I'm really excited that I have a chance to do so now!

Anyway, since I haven't actually been writing in the city, I'm not really one for knowing what it's lacking or could use to make it all that more interesting. As a lot of people have already say, I think mini-seasonal quests would probably be a better idea than those larger ones, but that darn necessity for everyone to be active in a thread makes things kinda messy story wise. One thing you could consider would be something like a synergy of solos with quest prompts? Maybe there's a larger city-wide puzzle, and each character has a piece of the puzzle, but with multiple pieces (so if someone isn't able to finish, it's not like someone else - NPC - couldn't figure it out and bring it to the table for a final thread). Just a thought on that, because there's a whole lotta potential for city-wide threads and mysteries!

I went and read through all the posts before, and everyone seems to have awesome ideas! Rowland's idea of a costume shop is brilliant, and Nyxie's tattoo parlor is cool, even if the ink won't be a permanent illusion. The costume shop could also sell temporary illusions? Morphing masks, etc, with Ionu's mark maybe?

Anyway, I'm excited to see what all everyone brings to Alvadas (and has been bringing). I'm glad I'm joining during this revamp-ish period, so I have a little input and get to learn the new stuff as the only stuff, haha.

Happy writing all!

And Tap, I'd love to do some plotting with you, and maybe a quest or modded thread when things are more manageable for you!

[Kuvarakh]

On the tattoo thing...

What if the tattoo artist incorporated glyphs into the design?

It's my understanding that glyphs can only be activated a single time. But maybe that one use would then be permanent.