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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

MS is going to be all over the actual haunting since that's p much what he does. Obviously he's going to be going over legit anything that seems suspicious, but he tends to look for odd behaviours in spirits - for example, what people or objects to they pay particular attention to? Are there other individuals in the house that the spirit(s) are particularly malicious to? Or the opposite - are they making an effort to protect someone? Are there rooms that are locked/sealed that may hold significance? I'm assuming the haunted house is abandoned and kind of shabby - is there anything that looks as though it's been cared for or out of place? He'll be setting up the scales to track the spirit(s) movement - will there be rooms they seem particularly attached to? (idk I'm trying to cover all the bases with what he'd generally pay attention to and look for)

You're right that the warehouse is abandoned and shabby. Nothing looks especially non-shabby our out of place.
The spirits will not pay more attention to any people in particular or be more or less malicious toward anyone as a rule. For the most part, they'll seem unaware that anyone else is there, unless you manage to get very close and speak to them directly and to their faces, at which point most of them will vanish.
The exception will be a back room. The room isn't locked, but the spirits and movement will be more concentrated and more aggressive there, including objects being used as projectiles at anyone who comes too close and spirits that, while unable to do any physical harm, will shriek and get in the faces of people who don't back away.
Ignoring this and examining the room despite them (or dispatching them, alternatively) will reveal nothing immediately amiss, other than the strong scent of decay, but moving crates and furniture aside will eventually reveal a trapdoor on the floor, previously blocked by a heavy crate full of scrap metal.
The space in the floor beneath the crate will hold seven bodies in the late stages of decomposition, six of them slight, likely undernourished denizens of darktown, and one clearly an adult human man. All of them are in shackles and clothing that was bare and tattered even before they died. There are also scratch marks on the underside of the trapdoor.
Opening the trapdoor will also bring out two demons—a despair demon and a rage demon, specifically—that cannot be reasoned with and will attack anyone present until defeated, along with an increase in objects being jerked about or used as projectiles. People may be jerked around physically by unseen forces as well.
Defeating the demons will end the violence but not make the spirit leave. Accomplishing that will require both seeing to the bodies and strengthening the Veil, which may require assistance from native Templars.

Ideas & Requests (Defunct)

Re: INFORMATION REQUESTS

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