The gist: I'm looking for some NPCs to give Jon a little more to do in the setting: some depth, some ties, some opportunities.
Details: Within the Aerie, Jon was essentially a Rook who was not as bad as he could have been, but wasn't especially great or useful, either. A pampered rich kid (the grandson of a Cardinal who elected to die before the events of the story) who had become a depressed alcoholic. He expressed some sympathies with the Congregation to Ellie (in the thread I submitted for powerup, which an NPC with super-hearing might have overheard), but mostly his help was limited to individual proteges, specifically people whose "crimes" had been either situations where they were framed, or where they had been trying to help people, or etc.
After the bombing, he would have been using his powers to help pull NPCs out of the wreckage in the Volary. Most would have been dead, but some would have survived, and he could have done something like using the telepathic end of his powers to keep debris from crushing someone while getting them out of the way. This would have been an uncharacteristic display of heroism and selflessness.
Back in the event over the summer, he also ran around trying to help in small monster-slaying events -- one with Cheris that we didn't thread out but just handwaved, and one in a coffee shop, where Quentin summoned him and he killed a couple of monsters while all of the patrons and staff hid out in the kitchen. It is possible that some of the NPCs from that situation and the NPCs he helped in the Volary could have some crossover. (He is also one of the people who rode the good dragon fighting the bad dragon, but it seems a lot less likely to me that he would be recognizable from that. He got knocked out early in that fight.)
And back in the sim, he was someone who was repeatedly letting himself get captured and taken to the camps, as well as going out with teams and helping people. There are NPCs who might recognize him from that.
He would also be known as someone who works at Red Wings and is friendly with some of the Displaced who have a social media following.
What I'm looking for: 1-2 hooks in human form.
- I am interested in getting him involved in the god/religion stuff, which is likely to somehow happen partly through his CR (but having something to jump start it that he can go to his CR about would help), and it's likely that he'll eventually join Morningstar (it's been on the list for a while).
- I am also looking for him to have a few interesting or useful contacts within New Amsterdam or one of the other cities, maybe someone who wants to put him to work as some kind of model/spokesman (the joke is some kind of boutique whiskey startup, but something like that would obviously be pretty rare in the setting).
- He is involved in going to North America. They need help.
Really, I've never hit up the Plot Engagement post in the past, so I'm open to whatever is fair and interesting! Obviously, it's unlikely to be all of these things: I'm just listing the stuff that might work to give you some options and ideas. I also know the mod team is having a rough time this week, so if it takes a week to get back to me on this, that's cool.
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Details: Within the Aerie, Jon was essentially a Rook who was not as bad as he could have been, but wasn't especially great or useful, either. A pampered rich kid (the grandson of a Cardinal who elected to die before the events of the story) who had become a depressed alcoholic. He expressed some sympathies with the Congregation to Ellie (in the thread I submitted for powerup, which an NPC with super-hearing might have overheard), but mostly his help was limited to individual proteges, specifically people whose "crimes" had been either situations where they were framed, or where they had been trying to help people, or etc.
After the bombing, he would have been using his powers to help pull NPCs out of the wreckage in the Volary. Most would have been dead, but some would have survived, and he could have done something like using the telepathic end of his powers to keep debris from crushing someone while getting them out of the way. This would have been an uncharacteristic display of heroism and selflessness.
Back in the event over the summer, he also ran around trying to help in small monster-slaying events -- one with Cheris that we didn't thread out but just handwaved, and one in a coffee shop, where Quentin summoned him and he killed a couple of monsters while all of the patrons and staff hid out in the kitchen. It is possible that some of the NPCs from that situation and the NPCs he helped in the Volary could have some crossover. (He is also one of the people who rode the good dragon fighting the bad dragon, but it seems a lot less likely to me that he would be recognizable from that. He got knocked out early in that fight.)
And back in the sim, he was someone who was repeatedly letting himself get captured and taken to the camps, as well as going out with teams and helping people. There are NPCs who might recognize him from that.
He would also be known as someone who works at Red Wings and is friendly with some of the Displaced who have a social media following.
What I'm looking for: 1-2 hooks in human form.
- I am interested in getting him involved in the god/religion stuff, which is likely to somehow happen partly through his CR (but having something to jump start it that he can go to his CR about would help), and it's likely that he'll eventually join Morningstar (it's been on the list for a while).
- I am also looking for him to have a few interesting or useful contacts within New Amsterdam or one of the other cities, maybe someone who wants to put him to work as some kind of model/spokesman (the joke is some kind of boutique whiskey startup, but something like that would obviously be pretty rare in the setting).
- He is involved in going to North America. They need help.
Really, I've never hit up the Plot Engagement post in the past, so I'm open to whatever is fair and interesting! Obviously, it's unlikely to be all of these things: I'm just listing the stuff that might work to give you some options and ideas. I also know the mod team is having a rough time this week, so if it takes a week to get back to me on this, that's cool.