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Other NPCS
OTHER NPCS
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This page contains information on NPCs that occasionally appear through exploring the game setting. They can't be regularly contacted which is why they have their own page.
Good/Neutral Alignment
Airship Station Ladies (All Segments)
Four old ladies living in the Airship Stations in the middle of Segments. Rumor has it they're all witches, but no one has confirmed it. All of them have a lot of cats of different kinds.
Barnabus, the Bad Mecha Employee (Nightwake)
Brother of Bartholomew who doesn't have any gift in magic so he devotes himself to technology. Unfortunately, like his brother, he's attracted to failure.
Bartholomew, the Lousy Mage (Nightwake)
A mage who always goes 'go big or go home' on spells and messes them up somehow. Usually blamed for any magical mishaps.
Frogsuke (Autumn Segment)
A frog that's the size of a small child looks a lot like a ninja frog. He wears a bandanna around his neck and a pouch in which he carriers his "ninja tools". Frogsuke was first encountered in the Forest of Courage, where he asked the help of an otherworlder (Zelgadis) to rescue his frog students from the Abandoned Well. After that he left with his students. | first encounter thread
Gary & Buttercup (Nightwake)
Gary is a worker in the Research Center who brings his pet cat, Buttercup, to work more often than he should. The cat loves doing what cats love doing, which is knocking things off table or onto expensive equipment. (reference)
The Witches Three (currently Summer Segment)
Three witches living in the House in a Tree. They're all retired witches who just want to chill, but will return to action when 'the time is right'. (here)
Criminals
Cups Gang (Nightwake)
A self-proclaimed notorious crime gang, who is actually a laughing stock and hasn't done anything remarkable yet. Usually their crimes are very petty and not so serious, even if They Try. Their graffiti also has a typo. (Introduced in April 2025 TDM).
Nightshade (Nightwake)
A group devoted to destruction and Darkness. Their current mission is to somehow find a way to free The Doctor from jail. They're able to use mind control on their enemies.
Organized Crime (Nightwake City, Underground Mall)
Organized crime groups that hide and work in the lower floors of the Underground Mall. All of them have a different area of crime and they usually don't get along (save for Clubs, who help all of them with their specialities). The Casino, however, is a place where they don't start trouble for each other.
Diamonds are thieves who work on illegal trade and smuggling of various goods. They're the best at getting items that are hard to get for a high price. They manage the card games at the Casino and will send characters to do tasks for them if they lose.
Spades are assassins that can be hired to kill anyone for a high price. They manage the roulette games at the Casino and will attempt to murder a character who loses in their games (or given them a 1/6 chance to survive by playing russian roulette).
Clubs are cleaners who take care of crime scenes before cops arrive in the scene and make sure evidence disappears. They manage the pool tables and darts area of the Casino and will simply make characters clean their side of the place if they lose.
Hearts
The Auctives (or "The Harvesters") (Nightwake, Underground)
The Auctives is a cult that has been unable to utilize touch energy without having to suck it out of others. They command corrupted magics, and have no respect for the Otherworlders or inhabitants of the world above. Their methods have always remained underground, but they crave and explore those who can harness touch energy and have existed for a few centuries and have always remained unseen and somewhat small in number. They aren't above committing atrocities to get the touch energy- they're not necessarily vampires, but their methods to obtain information for their experiments have no limits.
Their appearance seems normal, if slightly pale and grey-toned skin, which they cover with makeup to make themselves look normal. Their pupils, in particular, are odd, and glassy. A lot of their attire will involve some kind of grey hood.
They have been destroyed since end of August 2023, with the remnants taken cared of by The "Wizard" in September 2023 event. They were originally part of a Player Plot that was made a cameo in the normal plot.
Villains
Icarus (Unknown)
Mentioned by the ghost named Margaret. (here).
Information from Herakles: Icarus is a new recruit like Herakles, but something went wrong with the darkness manipulation ability immediately when she got it. Because of this she's been in isolation until her 'mind settles'. This is also the reason Herakles doesn't know a lot about her, other than she definitely didn't look a lot like a human when he last saw her in passing.
The Doctor (Unknown)
The villain behind "portal" incidents, caught by Olwen and otherworlders and currently comatose in jail with his special magic protecting him from outside influences. Tried to frame Sawyer as the villain. (Introduced in January 2024 event)
Information from Herakles: He possesses a strong mind, which is why we haven't been able to dive into it or wake him up. According to Herakles two of his skills are dream manipulation and mind control, but he's unsure of the third.
The Knight (Unknown)
A mysterious tall and bulky man wearing a black armor. Their sword is used with two hands and can shoot black lasers (they were witnessed fighting monsters, namely Weapon Slimes, with ease). Whenever they leave an area they seem to teleport away, but they always ride a black, demonic, horse. Has been spotted burying dark rods near the barrier previously. (here).
The Pierrot (Unknown)
A very tall man with dark brown, long hair and wore simple, green robes. He has piercing green eyes as well and when he smiles, people feel uneasy. He also had a big ring on his right index finger. Also carries a wooden staff with some sort of a dreamcatcher like talisman on it. Responsible for staging the Tragedy. Mentioned by a ghost named Elliot (here).
Information from Herakles: No one knows about them a lot, but it was them who instigated the Tragedy of Greed. One of their skills is the ability to grant people powers but also take them away. It is unknown if they can give someone else's abilities to another. According to Herakles they're the most dangerous one of the remaining group.
The Scientist (Unknown)
A mysterious scientist responsible for the "Vampirebear" project. (reference). Has recently been linked to the Crystal mines incident (January 2025).
Information from Herakles: As her name suggests, she's big on doing experiments, which include the fusions we saw in the Darkness and some previous monsters we've seen, such as the Vampirebear. Surprising no one one of her abilities is Monster Fusions, but according to Herakles she's also good at technomancy and alchemy.
The Wizard (Unknown)
A mysterious person responsible for the kidnapping of the Fairy Queen and for framing sirens as the culprits. No one has been able to give a proper description of them, just that they were ease to trust and believe until they showed their true intentions. (Introduced in September 2023 event).
Information from Herakles: The Wizard and The Knight come from the same world, apparently. Herakles doesn't know much about them other than that they usually do everything together. What we know about. He's also been appearing with The Scientist quite often.
The Wizard can shapeshift and also use necromancy.
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I'm sure this won't cause any tensions in the future. :)
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As for consequences... Hearts will definitely enlist Spades to try and get Levi assassinated. Play with that however you want! They will likely haunt him for a ~ month, but after that they will lose interest.
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What if he breaks a few fingers, are they still not even telling them that they didn't do shit/haven't even seen him recently or whatever? Because that will just make him suspicious and he'll probably start plotting against them later askdjhasdh
Regarding the assassins, normally I'd say he could just avoid them or knock them out, but if they really come at him with killing intent and/or Erwin or any of the kids end up injured due to them, Levi might absolutely kill some of them. Would they still give up after a month or would this lead to a further feud? Or would they leave him alone but he then instead gets in trouble with the police?
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Someone might even say "isn't it just normal for power holders to change into animals!!" in the middle of it.
They will definitely go with killing intent. If he murders any (which is totally fine, there's a surplus of them-) they will probably send more after him until if/when police gets involved when they will just leave it and leave him to deal with it. However, if he shows up at the casino again, they won't be friendly.
Harrison, however, would mostly sign him community work, since they're criminals that he killed. Of course it's murder, so some form of punishment is needed, but the gangs are a menace.
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He prefers not to kill but absolutely not at the cost of his own life lol so that's good to know! Is it just Hearts/Spades that will be hostile toward him, or the others too? (He's done some crime quests that dealt with stealing stuff so I think Diamonds should still tolerate him?)
And that sounds good to me! (And yes I might just go with cleaning the park lmao.) He likely will claim not to know who attacked him and why, though it's possible some assassin could be arrested along with him alive and the ties dug up from there. Just for IC reference, how long would the community service sentence last?
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You can choose between 2 weeks and 2 months! But it doesn't need to be a daily thing, maybe like 2-3 times a week thing.
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And okay gotcha, that's about what I was thinking. (Getting Away With Murder plays in the background)
N...ightshade... #yolo
His goal is pretty much to get some inside information about where they're at with their rescue (and other) plans and potentially hinder them and/or see if he can find out anything worth snitching/reporting to the leaders. Is there anything noteworthy he might discover like this?
For what it's worth, he's willing to commit some crimes to "prove" his commitment, though if it comes to it, he will refuse to expose himself to Darkness corruption, or to actually kill anyone (though he might attempt to fake/lie about the latter and claim that he did do it).
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Right now he can discover that they are planning on enlisting another of The people to help, since their last mission wasn't a success. They also want to "kill the traitor" (Herakles).
If he pushes for information he might get suspicious looks, unless the above has made him a trusted individual.
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We decided that he would pretend to give it his best shot, without any intention to actually let them get their hands on useful data. The details of that depend how exactly it would go (would they just send him on his own...) but basically picture him triumphantly returning with an important looking folder or flashdrive that only has someone's contemporary poetry or Wordle logs on it. Oopsie! It looked like the real deal...
(I can't imagine that's winning him any favors, but also he Does present as Stupid so it might not cause particular suspicion, either... Feel free to surprise me of course!)
Other than that he's happy enough to stay on the down low and take the slow route (unless this failed mission ruins his chances! craugh) with the drip-feed of info. He might push a little in a natural way ("Should we be making preparations yet? Should I do anything specific for this?") but not hard enough to cause serious suspicion (he's better at this than I am!)
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It doesn't destroy his chances though, since he Obviously Tried (or so they think). He will vaguely get information that Something Big is planned for May, but he needs to be deeper in the group to learn what.
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For the time being he'll take it slow and safe and hope the gang warms up to him a little more before any serious shit goes down!
In the meantime, he'd likely try to do some spying around as inconspicuously as possible, potentially using whatever errands he may get as an excuse to get "lost". Is there a conference room? Would it be possible to bug it? Are there any figures passing by in the hallways that the others seem especially reverent towards?
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Unless he manages to go there when there is no such meeting. But they search the room every time they go there for bugs so leaving one there would be difficult.
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He's pretty creative, so depending what exists in the room and how small the listening devices he can get his hands on (or build) are, he might try to stick them in places like inside an electric outlet (needs to be opened with a screwdriver to look), or inside the door lock/a table/any construction in the room that he could make and then close up a hole in with his metal or wood manipulation ability, leaving no trace on the outside!
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The meetings are held every week on Wednesdays during the evenings.
Sadly, most he's able to hear are the sounds of illegal poker night.
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While still going about his casual membership in the gang and trying not to stick out too much.
It's been suggested that he might hear something new from them in April--
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Hijikata has offered to lend him some of his ghosts -- if one of them possessed someone he knows as a more senior member, would they be able to glean anything more?
ALSO SORRY OOC QUESTION TIME... this almost looks event/player plot big so I'm a little lost on how to handle it! Should I be sharing this with other players (Katsura would likely only tell his castmates/trusted people and the leaders themselves at first, but I think between the three of them they have enough CR that most PCs would reasonably be able to hear about it through the grapevine) to potentially organize some guard effort, or is this more future happenstance flavor text where me saying that he'd snitch to Olwen already accomplishes what is needed and this is something that is planned to be a part of a future game event?
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The reply for Zura is "Don't worry about it, you're not high ranking enough". A ghost would be able to possess an senior and tell him that it will happen sometime during end of April/beginning of May, at the middle of the night during the dead of night.
Because of Katsura finding out about it, there's a high chance for a Player Plot at the end of April/Beginning of May (whichever is the player reference). It would involve stopping the attack and making sure the leaders are safe and sound.
You could, for example, gather all the trusted CR into this player plot, but also have opportunities for people outside CR get involved (they do happen in public spaces, albeit likely during the dead of night).
Had Katsura not stumbled in on this information, it would have been an event, so good job Zura :) You prevented chaos.
However, it's more than likely that they will figure out the leak of their plans was Katsura and he would be on their shitlist from then on.
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Is this something that I would be writing up myself (in which case, would I be getting more information about the exact happenings/what actions would be successful and/or freedom to describe NPC involvement) or would it be more of a collaborative effort with the mods (in which case, can I suggest/pitch some ideas for it?) Should I take this to the player plot post?
And yes obviously once stuff is going down anybody would be able to join in, I meant that he would try to keep it more lowkey during the more initial/planning phase ICly, since he wouldn't trust the network. But again anybody who OOCly wants to should reasonably be able to ICly find out and take part.
Also I'm fine with the gang figuring out it was Zura -- in fact I was going to suggest that they could grab him once he walks in like he's perfectly innocent, giving PCs another potential challenge in the same event/plot to also rescue him, before he's thrown into the Barrier or something (but obviously if that wouldn't work well with the rest it doesn't need to happen).
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End of April works fine, as they would move/plan things to go about during the busy season of the Arts Festival.
That works fine, re: Zura consequences. The group would be very much looking for revenge.
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I'll try to do so within a week since it would be nice to give people at least a week's heads up but I'll poke you if something goes awry.
And cool! He can be their scapegoat for a little bit 😌
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He'd set up a meeting place and time during the Arts Festival for those interested in continuing their work.
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Once the license for Voxtek is obtained, the three of them will have new fancy job titles at Voxtek R&D with Morty.
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So during the raid on their base, Zayne decided to take quite a bit of paperwork from their back offices (not the secret bunker from that one quest) and wanted to see what they had planned, mainly seeing a bunch of research proposals and financial stuff. Is there anything important or of note that he'll find during his search?
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Some of them are told to have been already made into medicine and taken somewhere secure outside of the hideouts and will be "handed out to test subjects" in June. These forms are marked off as:
- Giants
- Bug Hybrids
- Demons
- Vampires
- Shades/Poltergeist/Revenants/Wraith
- Androids/Cyborgs
One notable medicine they have been researching and already planned on distributing is strengthening the monster forms that already exist, in an attempt to make them go berserk.
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-So about this secure area outside the hideouts for the new "medicine", any clues as to where it might be and anyone listed involved? Is there a list of potential areas to start distributing and those who might have connections to the gang because someone needs to slip the stuff in.
-The "medicine" that will try to make the existing monster forms go strong enough to go berserk...that also will concern Zayne very much. What other kind of information will he find about if he digs into it more? Who's involved and are they still out there? Any kind of weird money trail to look out for?
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- The medicine does give the name "The Scientist" that leads a money trail to a business at the outskirts of Blossomcrown. An NPC run potion and magical technology shop.
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Zayne wants to see what all they are showing to the public before deciding how to approach this because if it has some reach, he needs to keep in mind what the impact can possibly be.
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Crow Accessory interaction requests
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However, come September, she will start receiving glances from others wearing crow accessories. This may escalate (if wanted) to attempted kidnapping by Nightshade which leads to attempted hypnotism on her to join the dark side.
Otherwise she will start getting mysterious donations of different crow related accessories - that are cursed to make her lose energy. When the accessories gain enough energy (a.k.a when Annie's too weak to do anything) they turn into four-eyed monster crows that have teeth that go around attacking people.
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Should he talk to the police about this, he will get some permanent stalkers who will wait for an opportune moment to try and "rough him up". Since clearly he's a traitor (?) of the crow emblem.
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He would respond to them that he might consider it, but only if they could provide insight into the reason for the sensitive government information.
He can end up in big trouble for this if caught after all, and would hate to be a fall-guy for people who haven't even properly introduced themselves~
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It's not like he didn't offer them a chance! If they try to come and beat him up, he will do his best to hold back as much as possible on the goons. But he can't make any promises. ♥
If he manages to take down any villains without getting overpowered, he will attempt to drop the knocked-out villains and the cameras he received at the doorstep of the police facility, issuing a friendly warning to keep an eye out for suspicious activity in the government buildings.
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