09 September 2010 @ 11:12 pm
Plot Check In  
We do occasional plot check-ins. Sass worked very hard to preserve our check-ins from Inksome. I'm copying and pasting her hard work here. I've edited out bits and pieces that are no longer pertinent to the game.

Check In 1
Garage cheated on Sam with Ganymede. Their marriage thread broke. Garage inadvertently moved in with Ganymede, though it's pretty much on the down low. He's still teaching, only now he travels from Homestead. Ganymede is happy to have Garage around (she's never shown brighter).

Sam's been up and down, conversing with Hamlin on and off. She's finally on the verge of being his girl with a not-so-subtle push from her sister Teàrlag.

Hamlin's been busy with this, that, and the other thing. He's trying to draw attention to the Blanket Plague. He's been chatting up the other-worldly faeries. He's been trying to give Sam her space while still being there for her. And his birthday was on May day.

Ohana has been hanging out with Bethany (we're still working on the thread).

Oharu has been grappling with his relationship with Isabella.

Gideon has been doing his usual lizard king things. He's been attempting to work an angle with Ganymede but without much luck.

Check In 2
Morgan met a squish-face Noah and the two became fast friends.

Gideon schmoozed Morgan. She thinks he's nice.

Morgan visits Miles. Miles puts his foot in his mouth a number of times.

Teàrlag told her sister Samra that she was an idiot for not being with Hamlin. She got a job at Salem Academy and then met her first new student, Evie Chanson whom she informed was a part-faerie.

Hamlin had tea with Seamus and explained marriage in Aylasia, as well as conversing about interdimensional travel. He also received a visit from Samra who finally admitted she was ready to love him. A few days later Ganymede approaches Hamlin to warn him that Gideon has it out for him. Hamlin brushes it off and Ganymede worries about his sudden and out of character recklessness.

Garage helped out Titus who had dropped his books and talked about being a new teacher. A few days later he has a nice moment with Ganymede who reveals that she can grant wishes, a secret she's never told anyone.

Ohana finds love with Bethany who reveals her secret wings. Isabella contacts Ohana to talk about her relationship with Oharu.

Gideon takes Ganymede to dinner in order to learn what secrets he can about Hamlin Graves. He comes up short handed. He then takes Morgan, the weaver out to dinner, hoping to sneak her into his back pocket to use at his will against his enemies. He's not entirely successful, but he didn't fail completely either. At Parliament he chats with Madeline to learn about any new bills that may be coming up. She tells him that Chai wants to introduce some laws about the school. Madeline mentions her siblings, Lucie and Ferand, as well as the king's upcoming birthday celebrations.

BACKSTORY:
Gabriel told Hamlin about some family secrets, basically that his father was Kenichi Abe and that he was part daemon. Hamlin seeks out Kenichi Abe to teach him daemon magic when he learns that Kenichi has the Book of Daemonica. Neither reveals that they know they are family.

Elliot, a law enforcement official and head of the Blanket Plague case, meets with his old friend Chai to see if he has any information regarding a possible lead.

Agatha and her deceased daughter (and Draven's mother), Lilith, get into an argument regarding Draven and his jeopardized, personal well being upon meeting a particular someone. Unable to stop Draven from meeting and spending time with Deirdre, their relationship grows quickly.

Emelie complains to her room mate, Sera, when she realizes her brother's are trying to control her irresponsible spending of their parent's life savings given to them.

Haneul meets a fellow student at Salem Academy.

Check In 3
Noah and Morgan meet again! Noah introduces the weaver to his mage, Titus. Morgan's crushing a little.

Miles and Morgan inspect the apartment offered to her by Gideon.

Gideon writes to Morgan, and she accepts his offer of a place to live.

Morgan receives a letter from the king, and flips out.

Miles and Morgan celebrate Morgan's new home. Turns out she's not so shy when she's drunk.

Sam found out she was pregnant after a visit to Miles. She exchanged letters with Evie about being part-faerie. Later she tells Hamlin about their baby. Much later Hamlin talks about his father with Sam, asks her to marry him, and they have an impromptu wedding ceremony in their backyard.

Hamlin and Enki talk about shifter magic and bake cookies in a bonding moment.

Teàrlag meets Aldrich and Elliot, the later of which is charmed by the faerie.

Gideon meets Lucie Albertine at the official birthday party; he is thoroughly charmed. During the following week Gideon is visited by Fernand (who threatens him), Madeline (who apologizes) and Lucie (who charms him again). Later he exchanges letters in which she apologizes for Fernand's behavior and he assures her that it was not taken seriously.

Hamlin invites Edvin to the hall.

Gwen talks to Agatha about her concerns for the future of her abilities and Agatha tells her about her future niece, foreshadowing that Gwen isn't long for this world.

BACKSTORY:
The building of Graves Hall.

Garage talks to Urie after class about spellcasting.

Gideon checks in on Morgan to ask a favor.

The Party Thread:

Hamlin introduced Lucie Albertine to Edvin

Edvin told Samra that Samra that her baby would be very important to the future of Aylasia

Oharu and Chai speak about magic carpets

Hamlin and Chai chat about being Daemon and Chai's grandmother Sirirat

Sam and Chai - Unfold exchange pleasant conversation about their significant others.

Hamlin chats up his old friend Sirirat. He shares his worries about his recent lack of concentration and becoming a father.

Edvin approaches Hamlin about his visions and asks for advice about what to tell and what to keep to himself.

Draven and Merk get into a argument they've had many times before, though this time (much to Draven's surprise) ends unlike the rest.

Brothers Aldrich and Elliot both meet Teàrlag for the first time.

Emelie has a disturbing nightmare that raises some questions for her. About a week later she writes her brother, Elliot, so she can cut a bitch talk to him about their family financial issue.

Gwen Wells pays Agatha a visit in hopes to get a few questions off her chest about some odd visions she's been having. The following day Agatha heads into New Meridian (where she runs into the newest prophet, Edvin) to find something to help her with a vision problem of her own.

Elliot goes to his sister, Emelie, and Sera's apartment to (surprisingly) see Sera, whom isn't too fond of the idea.

Check In 4
Garage and Sam exchange some letters in which she informs him of her pregnancy and marriage to Hamlin. Neither reacts very well.

Morgan informs Gideon that she couldn't get into Ham's head. He's politely peeved.

Evie and Samra discuss being part-faerie, as well as Sam's pregnancy.

Ohana informs her brother that they're having a huge birthday party. Later she sends out invitations.

Hamlin takes his long needed vacation and meets his familiar, Shirotaiki. Ham and Shiro head out to the hall and he finds that he's to invite Morgan to the hall. He's not happy about it since she's a weaver and he decides not to do it for the moment.

Massive log with Gideon and Hamlin in which Gideon tricks Hamlin into drinking wine laced with truth serum and grills him with questions for the next three hours. Gid learns that Ham has been casting a spell so as not to dream (intentionally), that he has more spellbound secrets than Gideon probably has enemies, and that Morgan's last name is Morrow: Part One and Part Two. As a result Hamlin does invite Morgan to the hall.

Ohana answers King Chai's questions about weaving. My portion of this thread is finished.

Hamlin talks to Miles about his concentration problem.

Gideon takes Lucie out for their first official "date". They share a mostly pleasant lunch. She kisses him during their carriage ride to the dress store. He buys hers a pretty gown and some jewelry. We're still plugging away on this one.

Garage meets Deirdre, the photographer of Without the Sun and Draven's girlfriend.

Evie and Samra are having a chit chat.

Puck and Titus go for a walk.

Titus and Morgan write some letters.

Titus and Morgan have a picnic lunch It's sickeningly adorable.

Morgan got drunk. MILES GOT TO SEE BOOBS!

Isabelle and Morgan meet at the river. There's a mudfight.

Morgan asks Titus if he wants to maybe go out sometime iflikehe'snotbusymaybe?

Titus and Morgan and Noah and Juno picnic. It's fucking adorable.

Draven's band plays at the Rundown where he meets Madeline before his band performs. Deirdre meets a loyal fan, Garage, of her boyfriend's band, the two chat for a while until the band plays. Emelie and Fernand meet, whom get along well right off the bat (to say the least), and end up leaving with each other.

Elliot and Emelie meet for lunch to discuss Emelie's spending habits. Naturally their little meeting ends before Emelie has time to order something to eat.

Sera writes Emelie a letter informing her of an employment opportunity.

Check In 5
Enki has been a busy boy. He spent the night with Evie and Oz during the party thread, it hasn't been posted, but I will do that. He spent a few days with Garage and Ganymede while Samra and Ham were on vacation. Enki discovered that he could do daemon magic under control. He was invited to the Hall and ran into Chai and agreed to study daemon magic with him.

Evie hasn't been up to much, just hanging out with Enki and Oz.

Oz met the other wolves! Yay! He was pretty terrified but excited at the same time.

Titus has been making smooches with Morgan. Sickeningly cute and now he is in a thread with Miles, completely oblivious.

Puck is discovering weird wonky things about his magic and other peoples magic. He brought Juno to the museum one night. He met Evie W and Chai at the twin's party.

Morgan was invited to Graves Hall by the name Morgan Morrow.

She asks Gideon what it means. He says WHO'S YOUR DADDY? ME!

Morgan is impressed by Graves Hall's built-in decorating skillz.

Miles is annoyed to find out that Morgan is stupid-in-love with Titus.

Ohana wove a dream for Garage in which she learned that he is still hung up on his ex. Ohana dropped a bomb about Oharu having once been married and widowed, and later using memory modification magic to forget about the whole thing (also serving time for using that magic, which finally explained his dislike of most leos).

Hamlin officially announced his marriage to Samra and that they are expecting. He later invites Aldrich and Enki to become members of the hall. He suggests a little vacation/honeymoon to Samra, which they take to Sparrow Island and discuss why it is that Hamlin's having concentration problems.

NPC Theresa discusses plans that will result in the downfall of Gideon Morrow with a mystery NPC. The Mystery NPC casts dark and dangerous magic to make good on those plans.

Hamlin invited Ohana to the hall when he realized that Morgan could not be trusted to weave for him (if only because of her relation to Gideon). She wove a dream for him. The next morning they discussed a ritual that would bind her to him as his official weaver.

Gideon goes to Hotel Mosaique to talk to Evie about recent events, only to finally realize that Evie no longer works there. He ends up meeting Mariella instead and the spell that the mystery NPC cast is realized (it was a lust-compulsion spell that would react only to Mariella and caused Gideon to do rather inappropriate things with her).

Teàrlag is starting to realize that she's got the blanket plague.

Ganymede's mother Meissa comes to speak with her about matters relating to stars (and I'm not revealing exactly what yet).

At the twins' birthday party:
Garage introduced Ganymede to Ohana.

Hamlin and Samra arrived late and left early. They chatted with Ohana and Oharu and had an awkward moment with Ganymede and Garage.

Ganymede and Riona have a nice moment and Gany introduces her fellow star to Garage.

Gideon escorted Lucie to the party. Even though they were being relatively discreet it still caused gossip later.

Cressida asked Ohana to marry her and Ohana exuberantly said yes.

Oharu asked for dance lessons from Isabella, whose birthday present for him was a surprise vacation.

Grandmother and grandson chat about his ventures outside the home against her wishes.

Deirdre visits Elliot, at his office, to discuss 'business'.

Agatha writes to Isabella Aznar requesting her attendance at her home for a meeting that happens later that evening.

Emelie attends Ohana and Oharu's birthday party and talks to several of the guests.

Miles reprimands Isabelle for her lack of punctuality and her tendency to smell like river.

Check In 6
Isabelle tells Morgan about the birds and the bees.

Titus invites Morgan to go swimming sometime soon. She demands he come to her house right away. Where she tries to jump him.

Ganymede tells Hamlin a little bit of truth that she's learned (mostly that her mother meddled and now everyone's futures have changed) and that it's very important that he protect Samra and their unborn son.

Ohana makes wedding plans with Cressida. She's practically bursting at the seams about it.

Gideon is confronted by Madeline. He decides to lay it all out on the table and tells her that he'd like to marry Lucie. It doesn't go over very well, but it's not disastrous either.

Of note: some time after this Lucie was removed from the game. Gideon's player decided to replay his romance with Lucie as if she were an entirely new character named Isadore.

Check In 7
Teàrlag has a series of visions all about terrible things to come for Samra and the baby.

The meeting between Agatha and Isabella is finished (finally).

An unfamiliar scent leads Draven to Elliot.

Elliot resorts to desperate measures to the find answers to all of his questions.

Aldrich [hopefully] meets with Edvin.

Check In 8
Morgan learned how to make cupcakes, which she tested on Gideon. He invited her to his wedding, which she attended with Miles.

Not long after, she recieved an invite to Bethany and Ohana's wedding, and a letter from Titus. She asks Titus to be her date to the wedding, and they make plans to take Juno swimming. Also, she rsvps to the wedding... three times. (Which pretty much made Ohana's day.)

Gideon has a bonding moment with Morgan about his then upcoming nuptials and her budding relationship with Titus. The backdated wedding to Isadore went surprisingly well.

Ohana sent out wedding invitations of her own for her upcoming union with Cressida. A few days later she's invited to visit her brother to talk about weddings, proposals, and relationships.

Sam and Ham have a romantic evening.

Gideon finally succeeded in his breakbinding endeavors and finally learns Hamlin's first spellbound secret. Later he confronts Samra about what he thinks he's seen.

Aldrich and Edvin meet for dinner, a meeting that is slowly developing into a romantic date.

Emelie meets with Fernand to break the news that he's going to, unbelievably, be a father to her unborn child.

Elliot attends Gideon and Isadore's wedding.

Draven ends his relationship with Deirdre.

Deirdre meets with Elliot who sends her on her next mission.