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Story Plotting

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

The people are the reception area of the machining guild will tell him to leave. It's not in an aggressive way, but in a way that is somewhat emotionally charged. They clearly don't want him there, especially right now.

This is the first time it's occurring to him that maybe the events of the past week might have had an impact here. That said, that dawning of understanding doesn't translate to compliance; his amiability shifts into something purely superficial, but he makes it clear he's not going anywhere. He's content to wait as long as he needs to.

He's most likely going to end up waiting there for few hours at the very least, with the people there doing their level best to ignore him. Will he do anything in the meantime?

If there's anything interesting to look at in the reception area he might wander around in the general vicinity doing just that, and giving the people there the occasional glance as if to confirm for them that he's not going anywhere. Other than that, he's not gonna do a lot — he's remarkably patient (thanks, decades of mundane space travel) and there won't be any change in his demeanour no matter how long they have him wait. A few hours isn't all that much to him.

With this approach, they just really aren't going to engage with him. The longer he stays with no incidents, the more comfortable they seem that he isn't actually going to do anything. It'll extend to the a matter of days if he pushes it (without a place to sleep or food available to him), at which point he really should be returning to Achamoth to report to the Regent.

He'll take that approach right up until they make it clear they're closing up for the day, at which point he'll heave a weary, put-upon sigh, and ask if they want to do this now or the next day (he's willing to rough it another night; worst case scenario, he knows there's shelter where Eustace's portal is). His tone should indicate he's open to either time they choose, but that's the only choice they have in the matter; if they continue to refuse him, he's going to make an attempt to force his way further into the building (since he knows where Jaina's workshop is, that's where he'd try to go first, but if he's able to make his way further in he isn't going to discriminate on where he goes).

As far as he's concerned, he provided them with advice and schematics; a deal's a deal, and he isn't the one reneging here.

To clarify, Jaina's workshop is not actually in the main guild building, it's a separate building nearby! She'd basically invited him over to her private property for that discussion, which we realize wasn't made clear. The people in the machining building itself do not actually seem to know any of the details of what he's talking about when he finally brings up the idea of them having a deal. He spoke to Jaina exclusively about that project, outside of the comparatively brief conversation he had in the reception room.

Ah, gotcha! That makes sense.

He'd suggest they find some way to get ahold of her and bring her to the guild in that case; that, or he's just going to head over to her workshop on his own.

He'll have to wait another hour or so after making that request, and which point whoever they sent to find her will return. She's been in her private workshop all day, apparently, and has relayed the message that if he wants to talk about the project he should go there.

That's exactly what he does, and despite the long day, he's relatively upbeat when he gets there — and again with an apology that he knows this is a bit sooner than he was expected to be back, but since he was in town...

If she has any reservations about what went on the past week he'll acknowledge them, but ultimately he doesn't really care. As far as he's concerned he's talking to a fellow craftsperson he respects; that's all he's here for, and everything else is irrelevant.

Jaina will tell him once he arrives that he is not making it easy for her to get the work done that she needs to for him. After all, he made the deal with her, and intimidating the rest of guild is accomplishing nothing except making it more difficult to access the knowledge and material she needs.

Him showing up at the Regent's beck and call to execute someone clearly isn't helping either. She doesn't really seem personally offended by it, but it's clearly an inconvenience towards her getting the work done that she needs to.

Also, he showed up early, so there isn't much to show. She'll ask for him to come back later, once she's had some time to try to save the project. She'll also ask that he not go to the guild again, lest he stir even more ill-will.

He's genuinely taken aback, and was unaware this was just between the two of them (which is a point of interest he'll mark for himself, but otherwise leave unsaid). It's definitely noted now, though, and it should be apparent that once she's dressed him down some Amos is taking her words to heart. He'll apologize for the way he's inconvenienced her, but that's all he's really sorry for — at least it's a genuine apology, though.

He'll promise to not go back to the guild again, and ask for a hard date that he should visit her by, no earlier than. He'll honour it, with no more surprise visits from him, barring something truly unforeseen.

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