vivalamods | PLAYER PLOTS

Participating Players: Blue, Arna
Participating Characters: Link, Nephenee

Plot Summary:
Looking to track down some of Link's wayward materials, Link and Nephenee will be breaking into an Empire owned Merchant House in Seisgrun. There they'll find some of their lost belongings, and steal them back - along with anything else that looks useful.

Objective:
Both Link and Neph are looking to regain some of their lost items, but they're also looking to stock up on munitions as part of Event 02. In particular, Link knows he lost his stash of bomb flowers and is looking to regain them for use in the mission.

If it's possible for the Merchant House to have any other useful things - like other munitions or materials - they'll also look to steal those too.

Desired Reward:

Link's enchanted korok-pack (100 Notoriety)
Half of Link's materials - more specifically the half that are perishables, i.e. food, plants, insects and lizards. And of course bombs flowers! (50 Notoriety)
Nephenee's Sentinel armour (25 Notoriety)
Nephenee's Wishblade (100 Notoriety)

NOTE: Since this lines up with the Gather Munitions part of Mission 2, we are looking to combine them. Is that alright to do, or would we need to keep it more seperate?

This is approved! You may include this in the Gathering Munitions mission if desired. The requested rewards are all approved, and the group will additionally be able to secure some firearms and ammunition for the attack.

That was quick, thank you!

(Also, because we only just thought of this - can they also find some chocolate at the Merchant House. Just for fun)

The finest German chocolates are yours for the plundering.

Excellent!

Participating Players: Aya and Vehrec
Participating Characters: Angelika and Donnie
Plot Summary: With Hesaeth successfully under Corsair control, Donnie and Angelika opt to assist with the planning and set-up of alternate escape routes, making use of their unique skills. They will identify a prime spot for an undersea egress and take part in clearing out an opening (with eventual assistance of NPCs, if that's okay.)
Objective: To establish an emergency escape route through the mines that leads underwater for submersible extraction.
Desired Reward: ~~Street cred~~ I am not sure what category/costs these would fall under, but Angelika would like a magic crystal for her using her magic, and Donnie would like materials so he can mod out his staff for things like a built in grapple. (If it will require an etherstone for functions would it be considered a magical weapon?)

This is approved! Sorry we totally missed this submission go in, you're free to log it in the original thread and this will count as having been completed this month.

Awesome, thank you!

Participating Players: Shini, Blue, Arna
Participating Characters: Harlock, Nephenee, Link
Plot Summary: Imperial ship salvaging
Objective: To try to salvage Ether stones, weapons, and other useful sundries like medicine from the scuttled ships - primarily to gather resources, but also to shore up defenses.
Desired Reward:

Harlock: Magic Weapon (100 Notoriety) via material, Gun (25 Notoriety)
Nephenee: Vulneraries (50 Notoriety), Gun (25 notoriety)

This is approved and can move forward as-is! It will also give additional resources to the Corsairs, please respond here when the log reaches its conclusion or 50 comments, whichever occurs first.

Participating Players: Wighty, whoever responds
Participating Characters: Shu, whoever responds
Plot Summary: Cow-tastrophe! Reports arise of a highly unethical meat production plant cow-napping the livestock of hard-working peasants and subjecting them to terrible abuses as they prepare luxurious food for the high ranking Empire elites. How udderly despicable! Shu cannot bull-lieve such an atrocity could be committed upon such noble beasts. The steaks have never been higher. Moo-ve out, brave Cowsairs!
Objective: How to Get Away With Moo-der, or Operation Bovine Liberation, or A Log to Get Shu a Flying Cow
Desired Reward: A flying cow. Er, I don't think this really gets anyone else anything unless they want their own cow.

Edited 2024-10-02 00:41 (UTC)

Approved! Once you have at least 5 comments total from Shu in the log you may claim her cow.

Addendum: Anyone who takes part in this log and comments at least 5 times may ALSO claim a flying cow if they want and spend the appropriate amount of notoriety for it.

Edited 2024-10-02 00:57 (UTC)

In the course of threading, there's an opportunity to get Donnie a sloop-class airship. Is that alright as a reward for him? I'll contribute half the Notoriety for that.

Yes, that's fine!

Participating Players: Blue, Kristine, Arnavet, Shini, Stareyes
Participating Characters: Link, Nephenee, Atom, Harlock, Ilphyll

Plot Summary:
Lord Willoughby Wigglesworth Pinkerton the Third (derogatorily known as 'Lord Pimpersnoodle') is the kind of Imperial who likes to fancy himself a collector. A purveyor of curious artifacts and historical curiosities. His grand mansion is practically a museum, littered with his ‘collection’ - which largely consists of items coerced or stolen from their original owners. Not that he calls it that, of course. He calls it ‘protecting their historical significance’.

And some of these items, of course, were taken from Servants.

After breaking into the Merchant House, and finding a list of those who had ‘bought’ stolen Outlander items, the Corsairs have now tracked them down to Lord Pinkerton’s mansion. The plan: pretend to be visiting tradespeople or servants to gain access to the mansion. Locate the stolen items. Then, cause a distraction that will allow them to get away with the goods.

And if they’re lucky, deliver karma to the likes of Lord Willoughby Wigglesworth Pinkerton the Third while they’re at it.

Objective: Break into the mansion, steal some shit, and fuck things up for a high-ranking official

Desired Reward:
Link will be looking to retrieve some of his lost items, specifically the following:

Master Sword (200)
Paraglider (50)
Remaining half of Link's materials (50)

While Ilphyl will also be finding:

Spell focus
Goggles

Edited 2024-10-13 00:58 (UTC)

Approved!

Awesome, thank you!

Also, a late addition - Neph will also be finding her Rudol Gem!

Participating Players: Kristine, Aya, and Arna. Whoever else responds.
Participating Characters: Atom, Donnie, Nephenee. Maybe leaving it open to others who want to tag in on a salvaging post opportunity.

Plot Summary: After talking with Donnie, Atom wants to find an ether stone for his energy concerns ~~and eventual other developments~~, and found some fellow Corsairs willing to help him search the downed Imperial ships.

Objective: Explore the Imperial ships that were downed in the battle last month, looking for useful materials.

Desired Reward:
-Atom will find an ether stone (to be used eventually for an ether stone engine installation notoriety purchase).
-Other participants will gain a material.

This is approved! You may claim your rewards once you each have 5 comments in the log. Additionally, the team will be able to recover the following which will be made available to the general pool for Notoriety purchase:

2 airship-grade Ether Stones which can be installed on ships to turn them into airships.
4 armor-grade Ether Stones which can be used to craft armors

Participating Players: Aya and whoever else wishes to pop in!
Participating Characters: Donnie and TBD
Plot Summary: Scavenging the wreckage of airships back on Hesaeth before the Imps can
Objective: Grab anything useful by way of parts and equipment, supplies, perhaps. Maybe have a run-in with survivors, stragglers.
Desired Reward: If it's possible, secure a Commander-grade Feder armor, even if it might need some repairs. Donnie's taken an interest in flight and going fast thanks to flying cows...

This is approved, Donnie and crew will be able to secure 1 the frame and Ether stone of 1 Commander-grade Armor of any classification per 2 participants. They will be in bad shape but repairable.

Iiii wasn't sure if I was supposed to make note of it - I'm guessing so so it can be added to the list or something? But 2 people participated in obtaining a Commander-grade armor (Feder). :)

Thanks for letting us know! We'll add this to the list of available resources.

Participating Players:

Fabricati and any others interested.
Participating Characters: Natalia Koutolika and any interested parties.
Plot Summary: The Sea Bark known as the Mad Archer went missing in the time between the beginning of the new year and the Emperor's address. No report of its definitive sinking have been found, and no report of its capture by Imperial forces have been noted.

However, Natalia has pieced together its last known location from half-remembered ENC transmissions from the Archer's fleet detachment, intercepted Imperial communications, and dead reckoning: one of the Fallen Islands, Aelmesraest.

As this is a personal matter for her, she has proposed a mission to find and, if necessary, salvage the Mad Archer and rescue her crew to the higher-ups.

Amid an island of ruined charity, a ghost ship hunt begins...
Objective: Find and recover the Mad Archer and rescue all surviving crew members.

Opposing forces unknown. Assume Imperial involvement and Etheric interference, or worse.

Desired Reward:
Natalia to recover the Sea Bark Mad Archer, and possibly limp her home as an Air Bark from pieced-together Imperial equipment to be fully repaired later-- or immediately recovered. Anyone participating in this player plot may choose partial ownership of the Mad Archer. Current intent is to use her as a rapid response or smuggling ship.
All others to recover Imperial materiel or gain new magic items, to be discovered at Aelmesraest.

This is approved! You may claim your rewards once you each have 5 comments in the log. The team will be able to recover Materiel for magic items (or if desired, find a magic item themselves with a waived Materiel from the notoriety requirements, depending on the desires of the player).

Participating Players: Chrysan and Aya
Participating Characters: Renne, Donnie, and likely 2 more after recruiting
Plot Summary: Raiding an Imperial research laboratory for Ether stones and running into the DG Cult remnants from Renne's past
Objective: Initially Renne's intention is just to get some Ether stones for herself and Donnie to tinker with, but it's going to change to "destroy the facility and salt the earth" pretty quickly.
Desired Reward: Probably Materiel for Renne to make a band attachment for her upgraded ENC and Materiel for Donnie to tinker with, if Renne is able to get 2 Materiel I'm interested in also upgrading her scythe but that can be another mission if needed.

This is approved! You may claim your rewards once you each have 5 comments in the log, and gaining 2 Material is fine.

Participating Players: Teri
Participating Characters: Oki
Plot Summary: Looking to locate the duffel containing Oki's equipment, arms and actual armor and recover them, along with any materiel and intelligence on site.
Objective: Recover Oki's powered armor and anti-materiel rifle.
Desired Reward:

Oki's advanced and close-fitting suit of Power Armor. (200 Notoriety)
Oki's Antimateriel Rifle. (200 Notoriety)

This is approved, you may recover Oki's gear and any other participating players will instead receive 2 Materiel each. You will still need to spend the Notoriety to unlock the desired items, but this will allow you to buy them back without any expenditure of Materiel. You may claim your rewards once you each have 5 comments in the log.

Edited 2025-02-07 08:01 (UTC)

Participating Players: Shini, Chrysan, Fabricati, Kristine, Aya, Inc
Participating Characters: Harlock, Terra, Donatello, Atom, Kaitlyn, Kanna
Plot Summary: Harlock is taking advantage of the chaos caused by airship thefts to get the Arcadia back and rescue his best dead friend.
Objective: -Retrieving the Arcadia (and his bestie), albeit in a damaged state,
-Causing a setback in the research in Out of World artifacts incidentally.
Desired Reward:
-Arcadia (essentially a galleon - flight and space travel ability temporarily disabled) - (700 Notoriety)
-Materials for Kaitlyn and Kanna

Also just for the record: I assume the ability to act as a submarine might be disabled for the 700-notoriety level.

Approved! The submersible ability will be temporarily disabled as well, that can be added for an additional 200 above and beyond the airship cost. All participating characters may acquire Materiel if they so desire.

Participating Players: Aya, Din, MK, and anyone else who signs up

Participating Characters: Maleficent, Aira, Donnie, Raph, others

Plot Summary: During the Vindess Liberation mission, Aira, Donnie and Raph’s encounter with Maleficent will result in Donnie and Aira being captured and taken to Maleficent’s castle. Raph will escape to tell the Corsairs of what transpired.

Leaving Aira and Donnie in Maleficent’s prisons will put the Corsairs at risk - so a rescue operation will need to be mounted. As part of this, there will be two different ‘missions:’

Mission 1: Rescue
A covert rescue mission, involving characters sneaking into Maleficent’s dungeons to break out Aira and Donnie. Can involve infiltrations and other sneaky operations.

Mission 2: Attack
The Corsairs could choose to pair the rescue mission with an attack on Maleficent’s castle. This would then serve as a distraction - and as an attempt to take Maleficent out of the picture entirely. There could be multiple threads for this, with some attackers facing Maleficent’s ravens and soldiers, while others face Maleficent directly.

Alternatively, just the rescue mission could play out (with no accompanying Corsair attack). This would enrage Maleficent, leading to her to attack Flotsam directly. (This doesn’t necessarily have to happen in May - it could be pushed to June if that works better for the timeline).

Anyhow, I think what options will work better here is going to depend a lot on what other mission stuff is planned - so let me know what’s going to better integrate into that.

Objective: The objectives are:

Rescue Aira and Donnie!
Kick Imperial Butt!
Defeat Maleficent!

Desired Reward: Maleficent will Be Very Dead at the end of this, so she will not be getting any rewards! However, there’s a number of potential rewards that the Corsairs / participating players could receive:

The end of all Maleficent’s curses - including on many, many other poor people she’s cursed over the years. The Corsairs could promote their hand in taking Maleficent down to gain the goodwill of those people
Resources & magical artifacts - as a high ranking Imperial, Maleficent would have a lot of wealth and magical items in her castle. Possibly some of these could be acquired by the Corsairs?
Bragging rights

This is approved! We are open to some magic items becoming available, but we'll need to review a list of items before we can approve those, so this is conditional approval for the items, once we have a list of potentials we'll get into specifics.

Awesome! As for some potential magic items:

Flying carpet - could also potentially have the same personality as the one in Aladdin, if that's permitted - otherwise, can just be a rug that flies
Seashell necklace - can be used to perfectly mimic the voice of another
Oil lamp - a lamp with an interior extra-dimensional space containing a large living room, dining room, and master bedroom. Accessed by rubbing the side of the lamp
Spinning wheel - using the spinning wheel will make other people nearby fall asleep. Effect ends as soon as the person stops spinning
Trident - shoots energy beams! And is also very sharp.

Anyhow, let me know if any of these won't work / need tweaking!

These are all approved but we will still require an expenditure of 100 Notoriety per item to acquire them on a character - members participating in the log will have first dibs and can hold them until they have the Notoriety available, but if not claimed they will go to the general pool. The Flying Carpet may retain the personality/sentience but will cost 200 Notoriety instead.

Awesome, thank you!

Participating Players: Arna and whoever wants in!
Participating Characters: Nephenee and whoever comes to help!
Plot Summary: Nephenee was sent by the Corsairs several months back to the floating isle of Eiglun to get to know the lower-class there, since they're farmers and very much of the same background as her, try to find sympathizers to the cause, as well as sussing out recruits and finding out issues they're having with the Imperials.

It'd been going really well! AND THEN SHE FOUND OUT THE NOBLES ARE PLANNING A HUNT ON THE COMMUNITY SHE'S IN! She needs help evacuating folks and beating up nobles who try to hurt people!

Objective: NOT getting a bunch of civvies killed! But also showing the nobles these are not your cattle to be culled.
Desired Reward: ~~You mean saving the poor, innocent farmers isn't enough?~~ Recruits among the farmers, maybe some supplies for the Corsairs? If people want to get stuff with their points here, they can! Maybe they'll get lucky and somehow catch some of the hunting monsters used and also MAYBE RECRUIT A NOBLE WHO REALIZES THEY EFFED UP? If anyone has more ideas for rewards I will happily hear them!

Kaitlyn here is specifically interested in traumatizing as many nobles who dare to participate in this hunt as possible.

Oh no.

How many war crimes are you trying to commit, Kait? And which ones?

Nothing lethal! Just nightmarish terror brought about by little things like ice traps!

She probably should be talked down a ways.

Edited 2025-08-31 23:18 (UTC)

Time to be a menace. Potentially with the traditional lure nobles off into the wilds alone or in small groups, then scare them half to death by weird shit from people or animals they can't quite see.

(Ilphyl is limiting this to scaring people and maybe a lecture about respectful hunting: yes: hunt beasts you need to eat, or who are threatening your people; no: hunt for sport, especially people.)

[gestures to rifle] beating up?

in seriousness as her backstory includes murking a minor noble who was doing exactly this? She'd be in as soon as she heard.

Approved. In addition to freeing farmers for the benefit of the Corsairs/recruit an NPC noble ally who is at odds with his country, the team will each be able to bring back one non-Dragon Flying Monster of their choice to be added to the reward pool and gain a 100 Notoriety discount on purchasing that monster for themselves, or a 50 Notoriety discount on their next purchase, whichever they prefer. Participants may respond to this with the monster they wish to claim.

Some general potential monster suggestions are:
Pegasi
Wyverns
Griffins
Manticores

So Emery is actually from Eiglun even if not necessarily the part of Eiglun where this is scheduled to happen, so this is something he's gonna be compelled to get involved with, even if he might potentially get himself cursed for it. (Godly interference rules and all that.) Couple of thoughts:

- There's a good chance of Emery knowing some of the nobles participating, so he'll be disguising himself with illusion magic.
- He can thus probably give some insight into how they'll act and how serf hunts are often organized. (Lord Sommerheim has probably tried to get Emery to participate in hunts in the past.)
- How down he'll be to kill any nobles may depend on how well he knows the participants. He's pretty pacifistic by nature but he also knows how ruthless the nobility can be.

I think you've got plenty of folks, but if you do need more Renne will happily teach a lesson, her methods just usually involve messy decapitation and disembowelment of the offending party~

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hargh I meant to do this earlier where did the time go

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Disappearance of the Mad Archer

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