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LETS BE FRIENDS.
the future is unwritten.
know your rights.
WELCOME TO AGOGE! This is the place you guys can announce yourselves and your new characters before the official IC log goes up! Plot and plan or just say hi!
The following template is just a rubric to give you ideas of what to post; it's not mandatory at all! Feel free to leave categories off if needed, or add your own!
NAME: Who are you?
CONTACT: Where are you?
TIMEZONE: When are you?
CHARACTER: Who's that pokemon?
CANON: Are they ghost type?
GAME GOALS: Do you have any overall plans in game?
PLOT PLANS: Anything you're looking forward to in the next mission?
DESIRED CR: CR your character meshes well with? CR you can provide others?
ANYTHING ELSE? This is where the gifs go.
The plot going up tomorrow will begin in France 1792, in the middle of September, just before the Revolution really kicks off. Combat will be highlighted, as well as morale-boosting and charisma, not to mention a little spycraft and stealth. The first log, going up tomorrow, will be focused on preparing for battle and getting to know the terrain; the actual battle will be later in the month.
In the meanwhile, feel free to peruse the setting infopage!
JON SNOW | GAME OF THRONES | ELIZABETH
CONTACT:
TIMEZONE: EST, but I'm a night owl.
CHARACTER: Jon Snow
CANON: Game of Thrones (show, plus extra flavor from the books).
GAME GOALS: It's hard to say at the start, but in general, Jon is experienced… but maybe not as experienced as he needs to be to go up against the Army of the Dead once and for all in canon (I mean: they have a zombie ice dragon now), so he'd be interested in picking up new tactics, strategies, and fighting styles. He's also going to be wondering a bit about what his network ID means, and worrying a lot about the safety of his favorite person in the world (he won't be alone in that).
PLOT PLANS: Jon's horse and sword experience means he would be ok cavalry, but his lack of gun experience means he might not, so he's most likely going to be a farmer. I may honestly decide this on the basis of what other people do with similar characters. In the case of this particular plot… while he's not IC-ly aware of it, it seems pretty likely at this point that he'll wind up on the Iron Throne in canon if he doesn't get killed in the Great War. He's learned to be pretty sympathetic to people who didn't grow up with his advantages (a medieval noble's lifestyle and education), and he's even been enough of a "man of the people" to get stabbed for it (he died and was resurrected, it was This Whole Big Thing, ask him about his scars so he can get weird and refuse to answer!), but more interaction with or observation of average peasants under an exploitative economic system couldn't hurt. If he ever does reign, it's not going to be like the 18th century French monarchy.
Also, speaking of that whole "got murdered by his own men for showing compassion to people they thought of as their enemies" thing, he's going to be so unhappy to not have chest armor.
DESIRED CR: Well, we're all new, so almost anything is cool. Strategic stuff, discussing each other's worlds, missions, battles, training attempts, you name it. His TDM threads were golden, so let's continue that CR too, please! (If I owe you a tag, it's because I've had a bad cold for a bit here.) The only stuff I typically opt out of is stuff that seems OOC, or not-fun in a long-term way.
ANYTHING ELSE?
I wrote up a brief character explanation for your average OOC intro, and it turns out that it doesn't fit into this format, so I think I'm going to go stick that in his permissions!
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A MEME ON AN OPEN FIELD, NED!
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anyway I was super excited to see a jon on the tdm, and im double glad you're here now! I think a character like jon will be super fucking interesting in a game setting like this, and I cant wait to see what you do to him. likewise midnighter is a big asshole but he does have some respect for people who know their shit and are good at their job, so theres potential for interesting growth there, fingerguns
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and yay, thank you! fingerguns back, this sounds like a plan to attempt. I think Jon is used to big assholes by now (I mean: he's friends with Tormund, Thorne killed him, etc -- all kinds of jerks on his own side and opposing sides) so I think he'll manage just fine.
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LAUGHS im glad. ive only read the books, so idk all the details (are tormund and thorne show only characters? I don't remember them but also those books have 9 billion characters and its been literal decades at this point) but it definitely sounds like a recipe for something hilarious, and that's really my only requirement in rp.
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I've been reading the books for literally 20 years, sob, so much investment. Anyway: Tormund is one of the Wildling chiefs (he's a bit younger in the show than in the books), the one who's a larger-than-life-Norseman/Celt type, and Thorne is the Master-At-Arms at Castle Black who absolutely hates Jon's guts and spearheads the mutiny to murder him in the show (in the books he's sent away to a different castle and is not part of that mutiny). It's funny because the reason Thorne hates Jon is that Jon is "Ned Stark's son" -- except that unbeknownst to everyone, Jon is actually Rhaegar Targaryen's son who Ned Stark raised. Thorne was at Castle Black because he was a Targaryen loyalist during Robert's Rebellion, and he had to join the Night's Watch to avoid execution after his side lost the war. He hates Ned Stark because Ned Stark fought on the opposite side. So in the scenario where Thorne leads the mutiny and stabs Jon, he's responsible for killing the guy he would have thought was the true king if he had known all the facts. Irony!
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I read them all ages ago but I haven't reread since then so I don't remember the smaller details anymore.
the real question: how bitter do you think grrm is that the show got to jon's parentage first
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nah, in all honesty I figured out Jon's parentage as but a wee lower-case E in 1998 or so, and I know the showrunners had to tell GRRM who Jon's real mother is to get his blessing to do the show, so he's probably cool with it. ish.
but write faster, george, for real. Jon is currently dead in the books! Ramsay still has Winterfell! they're a minimum of two seasons behind now! aaaaaaaah.
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Perkin WarbeckProbably Fake Aegon storyline is going, though, and since the show didn't cover it, there's absolutely no way to know. (AND WHAT'S UP WITH LADY STONEHEART AND JAIME?!?!?!? he didn't send his regards like that, Roose!)no subject
tbh I want to know more about penny, I get why the show cut her (im sure it did, it must have) but I found her bits the best part of dwd. also it underscored some of tyrion's personal flaws which we kind of... need.............
I think his writing style is constantly getting distracted, overwhelmed, and hiding from it. it makes sense why he can pump out those wildcard books so much faster; they're short stories so he doesn't have time to overshoot himself
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also agreed about the writing style. I get why he chooses not to outline, but as someone who tried to write fiction without outlining when I was younger, and has learned a lot more about like... outlining, effective scene structure, character arcs, etc... not doing it for the full structure of a complex novel really seems like you're absolutely asking to be where he is now, which I'm pretty sure he's described as a Gordian Knot of plot. Short stories are easier if you're used to writing in the form, and probably also a palate cleanser if you're the author of something like AFFC/ADWD.
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(hi I hope you want our tdm thread as game canon c:)
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And yes! we should do that! do you think their plan was successful?
"ok, so we're going to dig some holes. and we're going to throw some sand-colored cloth over them. and the Crusaders are gonna fall in."
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Real talk though, the idea of them being unlikely battle partners amuses me greatly. Who knows, maybe they can do a mixture of Westeros vs Essos fighting hybrid!
I do think we should probably have a GoT powwow, maybe a little log between us three? :|a
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they can be bros
also congrats you made me like jon snow whomst i have been Unthrilled with since throne games started