genessia_ooc | EVENT: The Reign of the Ice Queen

Area Affected: Fayren
Event Dates: Begins January 14th - Ends January 31st (possibly sooner depending on character actions)

Beginning on January 14th, Fayren will experience true winter as an ice storm sweeps throughout the realm. The snow will be thick and unending, as not even the hottest fires will be able to melt it. Ice will coat the trees and hang from branches.

Also, the castle and all of its residents will be completely frozen solid. They're not the only ones either -- anyone who does not swear to serve AND love the reigning Ice Queen will have their homes, businesses, and families frozen solid. (Don't worry; they'll still be alive by the end of the event, but it'll be a strong enchantment that can't be easily broken.)

Giant polar bears, ice trolls, and rime fae will be openly patrolling the streets and guarding the archway against trespassers. There's even a snow goliath guarding the castle itself.

Though the identity of the Ice Queen won't be immediately known ICly, here are the OOC details.

1. Winter Schnee is the Ice Queen.

2. The cause of her sudden shift in demeanor is a secret, but some characters may be able to figure it out. The clues are subtle, but they're there. It will likely become public IC knowledge after a certain point.

3. She's looking to collect a new family to replace the one she's become convinced does not truly care for her. Characters can sign up to become either prisoners OR have their hearts frozen to serve as a family member, or one of her guardians/soldiers/servants. Others may also sign up to become frozen statues, but be forewarned that this will put your character out of commission until the spell is broken and the event is at an end.

4. This event is confined ONLY to Fayren. Characters can still sneak in, lay low, conduct espionage, etc. within Fayren unless you're OOCly fine with having them be caught and/or enchanted.

5. No killing Winter or anyone else involved in the plot without express permission from the players. (And she's not going to die in this event.)

6. There are a couple of different ways to solve the event. Depending on how much information is uncovered, you might get all of the possibilities worked out!

7. We're trying to keep this event from being too dark and gruesome, so try to avoid slaughtering NPCs en masse, ultra violent deaths, etc. I'd still like to have Winter be able to live with herself after everything is said and done, and that'll be difficult if she winds up being responsible for the deaths of hundreds.

I'll include two threads below: one for plotting, and one for role sign-ups if you want to be on the Ice Queen's side at some point. I'm excited to get this started, and I think everyone involved should have a lot of fun with it!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

OKAY lets figure this stuff out!

So first and foremost I'm going to be away the weekend of event on and won't be coming back until Monday, time tbd but probably evening/night because I'm looking at an 11+ hour drive so I'm not sure if I'll be tagging then or not.

Spock is my big player in this, as you know. So I don't know where you want the abduction to take place or how. If you wanted him to be unconscious for a day or something then he's fully available at event on (and that action would be entirely you), otherwise if you want a struggle or a talk or whatever it will have to wait. After that, I'm not sure what her plan is with her husband so let's talk about that! You said she's freeze the hearts of family members but I thought he was going to be aware of stuff or something. If he his then I also need to know if he'll have his device on him or not and what story we're going with Kirk since he can't be off fighting eels for two whole weeks.

Jacques is tricky. I know you said she'd ignore him but since he's trying to be a good daddy he's going to have to show up. I think there was talk of an infiltration with Schnee decoys left behind but I don't know how serious that is. So if it's not, he's still gotta play good daddy Schnee, meaning that he will keep pounding on her door or something so you might want to figure out what you want to do with him in that case. I'm up for whatever. If we are sneaking in, though, he's going to follow Weiss' lead on getting into the place (assuming she'll deal with him) and I don't know what his plan is after that ~~try to win her over with stuffed bears as well~~

All of my other people (Colette, Garrus, Hughes) I can really do whatever with, make them as involved or uninvolved as you want them to be ~~though if she's looking for the best dad you can't get better than Hughes~~ I'd say Garrus we'd have to talk about more since he's kind of a Guardian so I'd really want to think more on him

Coming in late is fine! Backtagging can be a thing, or he just might not ICly realize how deeply Winter is involved right from the start. I have some ideas for Jacques too, but we can hammer this out in Plurk and then cement things here once we've got a general idea of how we want shit to go down!

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