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hellonspectacles) wrote2021-05-30 12:36 pm
hellonspectacles) wrote2021-05-30 12:36 pm
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State of the Pups!
Palamedes Sextus
Paaaaaaalllll! My precious new cinnamon roll nerd child! He’s been in Darrow barely two months, and oh man have they been busy. In the first month alone, he made some excellent friends and developed a budding crush on Marianne Sherridan that he does not know what to do with. Given the intensity of his feelings for Dulcinea on the one hand, and the Sixth House’s aggressively practical (and quasi-eugenic) approach to procreation on the other, he doesn’t have a lot of perspective on what he’s supposed to do when he just, like, enjoys spending time with someone he’s attracted to. At some point he will figure out enough that they will start dating, and he’s going to be weird and adorable about it—and very likely a bit of a disaster, too.
On top of all that, he’s super intensely interested in 1) figuring out the limits of his necromancy in a thalergenic environment and 2) figuring out WTF is up with Darrow. He’s obviously never going to find concrete answers, but he’ll be continually chasing theories and building a body of evidence. Like Faye put it, it’s sort of like being an expert in string theory—there’s a lot of math and conceptually sound ideas holding it all together, but there’s never going to be any proof.
AND THEN, just in the last week, both Harrow and and Cam showed up in quick succession, and he is just ecstatic about it. I mean, he’s particularly excited/relieved/just so goddamn HAPPY to have his cavalier and BFF back, but he’s also really pleased to have his necromancer buddyeven if she won’t admit they’re friends. Pal and Cam are pretty close even by necro/cav standards, and now that they’ve gotten each other back, they’re going to be pretty much inseparable for a while. So if your pup sees Pal regularly, they’ll likely start seeing Cam with him, too. XD
With all of it, the kid’s a li’l bit overwhelmed, honestly, but in a cute way. I’ve got some Future Ideas for him, but I also just want to give him some time to breathe and figure shit out.
June Plot: Given that Pal is 1) a genuinely kind and helpful person on the one hand and 2) actually very good at bureaucratic administration stuff on the other, I’m honestly thinking that he might set up (or help someone else set up!) some kind of mutual aid scheme. His instinct will definitely be to find out the best way for those left in Darrow to pool resources and redistribute them in some regulated form. I’d LOVE to coordinate with folks who have pups who’d also be interested in that kind of thing, or at the very least, have a gathering post where he’s set up a sort of…donation and distribution station somewhere. Unless someone else is already planning something along these lines, in which case I/he will just piggyback on that.
ETA: OMG I ALMOST FORGOT AND CAITLIN HAD TO REMIND ME. When all the NPCs are gone, Pal and Darlington are going to BREAK INTO THE DARROW MUSEUM. The goal will be to find out what's in the mysterious Darrow History exhibit, but Danny is going to break his leg and they will never make it in.
Sam Vimes
On top of all that, he’s super intensely interested in 1) figuring out the limits of his necromancy in a thalergenic environment and 2) figuring out WTF is up with Darrow. He’s obviously never going to find concrete answers, but he’ll be continually chasing theories and building a body of evidence. Like Faye put it, it’s sort of like being an expert in string theory—there’s a lot of math and conceptually sound ideas holding it all together, but there’s never going to be any proof.
AND THEN, just in the last week, both Harrow and and Cam showed up in quick succession, and he is just ecstatic about it. I mean, he’s particularly excited/relieved/just so goddamn HAPPY to have his cavalier and BFF back, but he’s also really pleased to have his necromancer buddy
With all of it, the kid’s a li’l bit overwhelmed, honestly, but in a cute way. I’ve got some Future Ideas for him, but I also just want to give him some time to breathe and figure shit out.
June Plot: Given that Pal is 1) a genuinely kind and helpful person on the one hand and 2) actually very good at bureaucratic administration stuff on the other, I’m honestly thinking that he might set up (or help someone else set up!) some kind of mutual aid scheme. His instinct will definitely be to find out the best way for those left in Darrow to pool resources and redistribute them in some regulated form. I’d LOVE to coordinate with folks who have pups who’d also be interested in that kind of thing, or at the very least, have a gathering post where he’s set up a sort of…donation and distribution station somewhere. Unless someone else is already planning something along these lines, in which case I/he will just piggyback on that.
ETA: OMG I ALMOST FORGOT AND CAITLIN HAD TO REMIND ME. When all the NPCs are gone, Pal and Darlington are going to BREAK INTO THE DARROW MUSEUM. The goal will be to find out what's in the mysterious Darrow History exhibit, but Danny is going to break his leg and they will never make it in.
Sam Vimes
Poor man, he's having a rough time of it. May 25th is always hard, but this year he's really mourning the loss of his family as well as all the losses he usually associates with the Glorious 25th of May. Other than his EP (which is still open!), I've been kind of neglectful of him since Pal took up residence in my brain, but he's been keeping pretty busy in the background. He's still investigating corruption in the DPD, and it's become clear enough to his superiors that they're just...quietly punishing him by giving him crappy assignments that no one wants. On the one hand, he's definitely enjoying the 'you're know you're doing the right thing when you start pissing people off' thrill of it, but on the other hand, he'd like to go back to solving real crime instead of, like, being sent to deal with noise complaints and suchlike. John Reese's disappearance also set him back, since they were working on it together. Sometime this summer I do want to move that plot along, so I need to do some thinking about that. I have some ideas for the arc of it, but I need to check with various people about it first.
June Plot: Honestly, he's gonna love this. I mean, he's going to be Angry As Hell and also Very Very Tired, but he's also likely going to end up wrangling whatever police officers and emergency personnel are left. While he isn't going to have any real power, it's the closest he will have been to In Change of Stuff in a while. And he misses that! I'm definitely interested in doing some threads with DPD/emergency personnel left behind, probably as a mini-gathering post kind of thing, if folks would be into that. HMU, muns of competent pups!
June Plot: Honestly, he's gonna love this. I mean, he's going to be Angry As Hell and also Very Very Tired, but he's also likely going to end up wrangling whatever police officers and emergency personnel are left. While he isn't going to have any real power, it's the closest he will have been to In Change of Stuff in a while. And he misses that! I'm definitely interested in doing some threads with DPD/emergency personnel left behind, probably as a mini-gathering post kind of thing, if folks would be into that. HMU, muns of competent pups!
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YES to a thread with Pal introducing Cam and Marianne! I think after we finish the debut thread and Ruth and I finish the thread where Pal apologizes for going radio silent on her, the next thing I want to do is something with the three of them. :D I do think that in general we can handwave Pal introducing Cam to various people, but that one feels important to play out.
(Speaking of, kinda: You should also feel free to godmod Pal/handwave him being nearby as needed for Cam! Especially at first, but even just generally, I'm expecting that they are almost always together, and I'm confident that we can both stick each other's pups where they need to be to allow for our own threads to happen)
(Speaking of speaking of: Another thing I'd love to do at some point is a joint EP--either in the traditional sense or as a toplevel in some upcoming gathering post--that would give pups an easy chance to hang out with them together.)
I will get back to you SOON about the Blue and Vimes thing--but basically YES.
And also YAY to all the June plot thoughts and suggestions. I think unless someone else does something similar first, I will probably write a gathering post for the mutual aid thing, so I am excited to hear that your pups will be into it.
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I'd love that! Yeah, I agree that it's important, and I also think we can too. I definitely want to play out a thread with Cam and Darlington, but I don't know that it needs to be the absolute INTRODUCTION thread (or, for that matter, she could run into him running, or something before they're introduced -- I might have some kind of workout be her first public EP, just so she doesn't default to letting Pal do the talking with people he already knows).
o7! I'm sure we can manage it while still implying they're a duo. I fully agree with them pretty much always being together, and if they need to split up they're still able to, but that just makes sense. (That reminds me, we should probably definitively figure out where Cam's actually living/sleeping most of the time, lol. These are logical people, adults should get privacy, blah blah but let's be real, at least for the first little while she'd be perfectly content to curl up on the floor in Pal's bedroom. I don't know. Thoughts?)
OOH, a joint EP would be FANTASTIC. You're right, that makes it really easy to round-robin or even just make it very clear they're both there to hang out with.
Yay for June plot stuff! :D I'm excited. I think this is all going to be good. (And possibly post-June, with Blue and Vimes.)