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The catch-all page for plot inquiries, NPC threads, investigations, player plots, plot suggestions, and everything else under that banner. Frequency of replies to NPC thread requests will be subject to mod availability, but we will do our best.

INVESTIGATIONS

This is where you come to seek out conversations with NPCs, have your character investigate the setting, or otherwise declare that your character is doing something we should know about. We are open to doing unsolicited NPC call-out threads but reserve the right to cut them short/handwave if they don't seem to be going anywhere or to limit their scope if we are overburdened. NPCs are not always guaranteed to be up for prolonged conversation, but you can try. To attempt to contact an NPC please put their name in the subject line. For conversations of general plot importance, we may ask you to make an closed log.

For investigations, you can freely use this page to have your character seek out information about the characters, setting, or plot. We do ask that you keep investigations to 1-3 inquiries at most, and to have those inquiries be somewhat related. If you want to investigate things that are completely unrelated, please put them in a separate comment. Additionally, please be specific about the approach your character is taking to find out information; their method will greatly impact how well it goes for them.

PLAYER PLOTS

Aion Teleos is designed to be open to player plots, and would be glad to accomodate them! Let us know in a comment below that you/your character is doing and how you'd like to approach it as a player run event. Please put the words "Player Plot" in the subject line.

PLOT SUGGESTIONS

If you don't specifically want to run a plot yourself but have some vague ideas of an event type you think would scratch an itch for the game, please let us know. We don't guarantee we'll use these ideas, but we will keep them in mind when designing future events.

Comments

[aionmods]

1) For portal locations you'll basically have to tell us what kind of locations he is looking for/his strategy for acquiring access to them.

2) General recon to get the basic setting info is fine!

3) Its not hard to get into Godsblood/you don't really need papers to do so. It is historically very open to travelers. It's just that if you come in as a random traveler you are going to have to work your way up to be trusted with anything important. They might be asked where they're coming from, but not much more than that.

4) He can get a general city map, it'll just be fairly expensive. It's mostly just of the main arteries and locations of the city rather than anything super detailed.

5) We're going to defer this question (about Firebrands) for now because developing this sort of material is actually fairly effort intensive on a mod level and we are hoping to keep things simple this month. In general, Firebrands are most often associated with revolutionary action, so it wouldn't be surprising if some of the stories were about fighting off attempts to oppress the city, the populace, etc.

[lockedon]

Definitely no worries about deferring the Firebrand question, it's mostly personal interest and I absolutely don't want to add more to your plates right now. Whenever it comes up in the future is cool (in an event or otherwise) and I will happily make up some generic stories in the meantime.

As for portal locations, he would definitely not be aiming for any location within the city proper and would be exploring the more hilly farmland to the south in search of any abandoned buildings and/or reasonably-sized woods (more than a handful of trees) for some extra seclusion, ideally within a day's travel. He would also consider taking a few days to scope out the mountains near Brightrock for any unused caverns, but given the more dangerous terrain and the further distance it would be less preferable.

If he doesn't find anything that fits his criteria, he'll just make one in the middle of an empty field somewhere and use it as a one-way trip back for him and Childe and then ask Amos to destroy it later if it doesn't get destroyed first.

I do have one last follow-up question: if he were to ask Xishen after his basic portal lesson if there are any locations that would be advantageous for the Kenoma/the Regent to set up a portal at, would she say anything?

[aionmods]

1) As it turns out, he will find a rundown, seemingly abandoned farmer's shed somewhere in the hills nearby. If he spies on it for a while he won't see anyone coming or going from the area, and the space within the building seems big enough for a portal to be made within. While it looks fairly old, it's still sturdy enough that its unlikely to fall over and crush his portal unexpectedly. It's a bit of a walk back to the outskirts of the city, but it's doable.

2) She'll mostly just say that having access to any of the major settlements (Venera, Godsblood, Hylici) would be useful. Of course, Godsblood is complicated and he'd need to be careful setting up there, and Hylici is off limits currently as the Regent doesn't want people messing about in their ally's territory without reason. Hylici prides itself on its independence, so any uninvited/unprovoked interference from Achamoth could cause problems.

[lockedon]

farmshed portal let's goooo.....

Thank you so much mods and best of luck with all your projects!