PC-driven plot

[cynricstgeorge]

It has come to my attention that a number of PCs playing in the NH-002-D Requiem game are lacking for things to do. As the player of the Prince in said Domain's Requiem Venue, I have some ability to potentially generate plot for you, if you are one of the aforementioned players. What I need from you, then, is as follows:

1). Your character's name.

Comments

[kao_ni_ki]

What is your name

[cynricstgeorge]

It sounds like Ki's skillset is primarily tailored toward being a spy. What sort of spying, in particular, interests you ("overhearing" things, intrusion and retrieval, etc.?) Are you looking to have Ki operating as a free agent (information broker type) or someone specifically attached to a court (even if not openly?)

I keep coming back to the courier thing, but I'm trying to think of some angle to make it work. Trusting another Kindred to carry sensitive information is foolish if either the sender of a message, or the receiver, doesn't have 100% faith in said Kindred's trustworthiness.

Being able to shut down an inconvenient frenzy is good. Causing people to frenzy is a little less useful to Cynric (he's not the, "Make you frenzy in court to make you look bad," sort of Kindred.)

Also, if I'm remembering correctly, you are going to be attending Connecticon this weekend? If so, Cynric definitely has immediate work for Ki. He needs to know if there are any unrecognized Kindred within the territory he claims. (As in, "Any new players

[kao_ni_ki]

Spying is good, but she's also good at manipulating people, especially people with certain vices (ahemwrathcoughahem). This could be useful for getting inconvenient people discredited, or getting your enemies in trouble with someone else. Great way to eliminate threats without your hands getting dirty

[bagakaw_pgwas]

Thanks for offering my services.. Mom... if you wanted to be able to pimp me out you shouldn't have released me so soon ; ).. Seriously Pierce will be glad to help his Master and his Mommy exploit the newbies

[cynricstgeorge]

All right. As I see it, we need to condense things down to what Ki does that others don't.

Manipulating people is good, but it's a booming industry by Kindred standards; I'd say that something like 3 out of every 5 vampires are skilled manipulators, to one degree or another. I can't think of a good reason for Cynric to bring another such Kindred on board locally.

Building a courier service, maybe with Animalism-trained versions of carrier pigegons, for sensitive messages (the sort of thing you wouldn't send via post or e-mail) is a possibility. The trick is that such a thing would need a slow build, with Kindred being given reason to trust the service before they use it for any serious correspondence. (They'd need to believe that Ki could absolutely never, under any circumstances, violate the privacy of those that use the service. I have a few thoughts on how such a thing could be managed.) You know, doing something like this with owls or bats could be pretty damned classy

[bagakaw_pgwas]

Ki's powers also make her the perfect haven breaker. I can't imagine Cynric has no one he would like to see scrambling and begging for a place to hide from the sun.

[cynricstgeorge]

Again, it's an "as needed" service, and not one that he'd keep someone "on staff" for.