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PLOT IDEAS & REQUESTS (DEFUNCT)

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The world of Dragon Age is big and open and many of our players know at least as much about it as the mods. We hope that Fade Rift will be a collaborative effort where players feel free to contribute and to take ownership of the setting and of the game's direction. To that end, we strongly encourage player plots, quests, missions, adventures, and so on. We are also always open to ideas if players have something in mind but feel for some reason that they can't run a prospective plot themselves.

Plot suggestions can take two forms:

Player Plots: Plots that a player runs, which includes posting OOC sign-ups, posting logs and info, and GMing for other players as needed or desired. These plots can involve the plot-runner's character or not, and they can either be personal in nature ("let's go rescue my brother!") or relevant to the war effort and mot plot. Mod involvement will generally be to supply information to the player running the plot as necessary, signal boost, and otherwise provide support.
Plot Suggestions: If there's some aspect of Thedas you think we should explore or some conflict or plot element you want to see but don't want to run yourself, let us know! No promises, but we'll try.
Info Requests: If your character is looking into something—reading books, conducting experiments, writing to ask NPCs for information, etc.—that doesn't warrant a full plot request, let us know here and we'll tell you what they'll discover. Please keep in mind that these requests must be specific. "My character is reading about the Fade; what will they learn?" is too broad. "My character is researching previous instances of individuals physically entering the Fade; beyond those in canon, are there any in FR's universe I should know about?" is specific.

If you have an idea please fill out the appropriate form below and post it here. We'll get back to you as soon as we're able. Not every idea will be viable as written, or necessarily at all, but we will do our best to help find ways to fit the things players want to do in around setting constraints or behind-the-scenes plot considerations whenever we can. All comments are screened.

Player Plots

WHO: Which characters (if any) are definitely going to be involved?
HOW MANY: How many characters total do you envision this involving?
OPEN/CLOSED: Will this be open to sign-ups from any character in the game, or is it closed to particular group?
WHERE: Where do you plan for this to take place?
WHEN: When, ICly and OOCly, are you hoping this will run?
WHAT: Briefly—in a few sentences—what are characters going to go do? You don't have to give us details or explain the OOC plot mechanics. Just give us the general idea/elevator pitch. If we need more details, we'll follow up to ask you for them.

GOAL: What's your ultimate goal for this? To explore a particular area? Acquire a special object? Trigger some sort of character development? Highlight a particular aspect of the setting/theme? Get characters talking about X or Y? Again, you don't need to provide extensive details of everything you plan to happen, just give us a high-level overview of what you want to accomplish so that we know what's most important to you about it.

IMPACT & CONSEQUENCES: Will this have an impact on PCs other than those that sign up to participate, or on a large number of NPCs? Could it impact the standing of a particular group of PCs (i.e. changing local opinions of Rifters, or creating ill-will toward dwarves in Ansburg, etc.)? What impact do you foresee this having on the Inquisition as a whole? Is it something you think could impact the Inquisition's goals, reputation, or security? What (if any) IC consequences do you foresee for involved characters? Are there limits on the consequences you're willing to accept? If you've already discussed permission for this endeavor with the relevant IC leaders, please also mention that and let us know what they said (but it's not required that you have done so; it can also come after).

MOD INVOLVEMENT: What do you need from us to make this happen? 'Nothing' is an acceptable answer! Please note that as a general rule we won't be GMing or NPCing in player plots, but we can provide information, intel, etc. to you OOC.

If you need additional information in order to run your plot, please ask specific questions. We will no longer be answering general requests like 'let me know what they can learn about X'. These are difficult and very time-consuming for us to answer because they require us to guess what steps your characters would take to investigate what is usually a very broad subject before we can determine what they might learn about it. When asking for additional info/intel, please provide us with context about what your characters will be attempting, how they'll go about it, what theories you/they want to test, and some ideas about potential outcomes. You don't need to have every detail 100% fleshed out, but you do at the very least need to bring us specific ideas about how your character would try to learn the information that you want or what could happen as a result of the experiment you want to try.

Plot Suggestion

As a final note, if you run a plot that pertains to the war effort/larger plot, please file a report using the form on

therookery and tagging the post with the relevant divisions and projects. This is to help everyone keep up with plot developments and is required to get AC bonus points for running a plot.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Since this report, Pel will try scrying with the Lights of Arlathan and the retrieved eluvian shards to confirm whether the lines on the map indicate the locations of eluvians--either where they cross each other on the map, or at the ends of the lines.

Since being able to scry the location of every existing eluvian in Thedas could stifle other plots, we'd like to limit the range of the Lights of Arlathan to approximately the distance shown in canon, so between the Cadash Thaig and/or Brecilian Forest ruins and the Dragonbone Wastes. We're not sure how many miles that is, but you can draw a line between their approximate locations on the map and use that to estimate a geographic range from other points. Remember that scrying also attracts "unwanted attention" in the form of shades, at minimum, so it shouldn't be done lightly or easily.

Bearing that in mind, as well as the extreme rarity of intact eluvians and the incompleteness of the mural and therefore the map, there will be one eluvian located outside Wildervale near one of the lines depicted on the map, but not on an intersection, as well as one to the east that isn't particularly close to any line at all.

From Kirkwall Pel also may be able to scry the location of the eluvian in the Dragonbone Wastes. The southern half of the mural had crumbled and won't be depicted on the map, but there are lines beginning in the Waking Sea that look like they might intersect in that region of Ferelden if the map were complete.

Note that this shouldn't be taken as an exhaustive list of potential eluvians within range of Kirkwall. It's just three samples that will hopefully allow Pel to draw some conclusions and thus stop scrying/attracting demons for the time being. Additionally, at this point, actually retrieving any of the eluvians is impossible: one is underground with no clear way to reach it, another is in a large library and presumably part of a private collection, and the third, in the Dragonbone Wastes, would require a sea journey and fighting through cultists.

Would they find anything out by comparing it to a map of modern Thedas? And geographic things, any specific places the lines cross at/near?

Comparing it to modern Thedas wouldn’t show any particular pattern--the lines cross over land, over bodies of water, in populated areas and in remote ones. They’re thick enough that the points where they cross on the map would encompass the entire island that was visited in the plot, or cover a whole city-dot on a map. Whether that’s genuinely the size and breadth of what’s been recorded or just a coincidence caused by the limitations of mosaic as an artform would need further investigation.

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