INTEREST CHECK: causing problems with new event

[problemsoncauthess]

Hey everyone! It so turned out that Ardyn here is going to have a chance to steal the corpse of the Fisher King and possibly revive him. He won't be able to do it by himself and so would be looking for shady volunteers to help with it; if your character would be interested in participating, please let me know! :D

This is based on this poll and will have consequences if pulled off. To succeed Ardyn would need 4 more player characters (or only 3 more if one is a bargainer who paid a steep price to help with the ritual).

Additionally, if you would like Ardyn can somehow ~trick~ your character into helping out! He is good at lying and manipulating, so if you are interested in having your character be tricked, blackmailed, forced or otherwise coerced into doing morally dubious (or outright bad) things that they normally wouldn't, well, he's your man.

This won't necessarily need to be threaded out right away, since I need to give the mods my answer on whether he succeeds or not by tomorrow. So you can just respond with whether you'd like to help Ardyn and we'll plot from there. :D

Comments

[emet_sulk]

Regrettably signing up Emet-Selch to be duped into helping. :X

[problemsoncauthess]

ardyn 🤝 emet
old man villains (even if it's unwilling in emet's case this time)

[commediadellanime]

yeah, i’ll sign childe up to help with this, Why Not

[problemsoncauthess]

You'll probably get more cool things to fight, Childe! :D

[absentconstellation]

is it cool if my cat just comes along and watches

and makes snide remarks

he wants to see how badly this will go.

[problemsoncauthess]

Certainly! Uncle Ardyn's Wild Ride is open to everybody, regardless of shape, size or age. ;D

Also, he would be happy to meet a fellow Sarcasm Appreciator, plus at this point in his life being murdered by vengeful fae or getting eaten by a giant tree worm or whatever the hell might happen if the ritual goes wrong counts as a win.

Also, if this doesn't go through after all you'd be welcome to come watch Ardyn drag the corpse across the lands and bury it in Broceliande! That's also a fun way to meet people (or cats).

[absentconstellation]

Abject failure will also be immensely entertaining for him. Just be prepared for him to sit on the body the entire time it's being moved, like a fleshy wagon.

[hitokiri]

lmaooo Izō has a history of being lied to and manipulated into doing dubious and outright bad things so what's one more? Plus it's easy to find things out about him, on account of going around unapologetically calling himself Manslayer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[problemsoncauthess]

Do we have Oryou in the game so she can mercilessly mock Izo aferwards :D

Also, Ritsuka's player agreed that Ritsuka might be dragged along too!

[hitokiri]

LOL I WISH. just ryouma to fix problems that izō creates. and awesome! additional reasons to hang around: gotta make sure ritsuka doesn't get into trouble lmao.

[problemsoncauthess]

but who will sell frogs now :((

Meanwhile Ritsuka is probably trying to make sure Izo doesn't get in trouble, and they both fail bc they're still hanging out with Ardyn. :D

That said, success of the venture depends on whether the others trust Ardyn or not... Ardyn would pretend that the corpse is actually the corpse of his ~brother~ who got cursed+murdered by fae, and Ardyn is trying to bring him back bc he misses him even if he's an idiot. Would that fly with Izo? Alternatively, Ardyn can just call him a chicken to goad him into helping out. :D But either way, would Izo actually trust Ardyn in the matter?

[hitokiri]

Izō struggles with trusting his friends lmao so he's always going to be a little suspicious. It's true though that either way he could find a way to get Izō to go along with it! He technically works for Ryouma now even and is making at least a small effort to not ruin the reputation of the business lmao. He makes it too easy to get under his skin for as much as he hates people doing that.

It will also depend on what Ritsuka has to say about it because 1. he sucks at peer pressure even if there isn't any and 2. he trusts her as the Master so it's more comfortable for him to go along with it. Sooo.. if Ardyn convinces Ritsuka he's basically winning.

[problemsoncauthess]

... I regret to inform Izo:

[hitokiri]

LMAO THIS TRACKS
also
"smirking unshaven hobo man with a hat"

[problemsoncauthess]

Oh my GOD you're right and I hate (love) it.

Also I feel like Ardyn and Izo would scoff at the other's brand of chuuni. Ardyn is more gothic, monologuing while having the protags captured, while Izo is MY CURSED BLADE THIRSTS FOR BLOOD.

[hitokiri]

lmao his whole brand is just


monologuing no thanks words hard

[fujimaru]

I dunno Izou-san he seems very trustworthy to me

[fujimaru]

I KNOW I SAID THIS ON PLURK ALREADY BUT COMMENTING HERE FOR POSTERITY'S SAKE, one (1) overly trusting protagonist who has never had the sense not to trust shady guys with a good sob story.

I mean, I say that, but she's probably the designated "this seems like a bad idea but I guess I'm tagging along anyway, please don't break too many things" person.