[Arachne]

This is a really shitty situation to be in for all involved parties and I hate that the responses here can become a representation for what people think is waiting for them in the game. It’s really disappointing to see that this stuff is still happening.

It is an extremely big deal to kill another character regardless of them being a lieutenant guest or a regular character. Everyone deserves to be treated to some kind of scene approaching their death. And if you are an involved party incapable of meaningfully engaging at that time due to time constraints or anything, then there is nothing wrong with prolonging and leaving them in confinement with an OOC note or tell exchange to coordinate with the captive for times that sync. It’s too many options on the table for how to deal with an enemy that narratively makes sense and ensures both parties are getting a meaningful story out of it.

We need to remember that we’re players who are engaging in a game, so what a character would realistically do is not always synonymous with what gives the most narrative value in a RP game like this.

There is no situation that isn’t explicitly arranged between players where no-RP PK is okay. PVP is already extremely stressful for all involved parties, so please have grace and approach scenes with other people the way you would want someone to handle you if you were in the same situation.

[Arachne]

Help Politics Guide

The 63rd is counted as having done the same flat-amount of each activity in each
borough, meaning that doing more of a given activity will work to drive down their
control percentage. The 63rd gains large bonuses to their level of control based on
how non-competitive a borough is. If a borough has only one group that has
contributed to it the 63rd will be about 10 times stronger than they would be in a
borough which is neck and neck between two groups.

Penalties are applied to a faction for every additional borough they control. A
penalty is also applied for the number of concurrent election cycles they have
controlled that given borough. These penalties also apply to the 63rd.

This is specifically for Esme and anyone else who is finding that their contributions are just boosting the 63rd. If you’re trying to win a borough that another society or faction isn’t competing for, you’re going to be fighting like hell uphill to get it.

[Arachne]

SophieParticipantAugust 12, 2025 at 12:23 pm
How often are these done? I can see if they’re overdone it gives heavy ‘pick me’ player energy. I’m fascinated by the idea.

The beauty of incitements and opportunities is that you can change them out whenever you like. However, players are limited to 1 courier patrol and 1 predator patrol once a week, roughly, give or take. They’re also opt-in, so you don’t have to do these if you don’t want to. They’re great and fun, and you don’t have to get captured once the fight’s over, and can flee, which I also think is an additional layer of assurance that you don’t just end up being forced into more than you were willing to give. That’s the fun of the RPfight system.

[Arachne]

Incitement
Eligibility: The Hand, Tier 3, The Hollow Conclave
Description: The name of Arachne BabyOrderite Mercer has been appearing in myriad intelligence reports, outlining her constant meddling in the affairs of groups like The Hollow Conclave and The Hand as of late. Details report her to be an overzealous glory hound, chasing opportunities to disrupt the Hand’s operations to target vulnerable humans and even recently went so far as to run schemes to make the Hollow Conclave’s lesser supplicants to repent and seek holistic ways of dealing with their pain and suffering rather than inflicting it on others.

Incitement
Eligibility: Any
Description: A relatively new face in the city of New Haven, Arachne BabyOrderite Mercer has not yet become wise to the natural order of things within the city, and is often stumbling her way from one situation after another, fueled by her desire to make a name for herself as quickly as possible to curry favor with her superiors in the Order. Another glory hound in the makings, it seems. What trouble will befall the young plucky heroine now?

Incitement
Eligibility Tier 3, Tier 4, Tier 5
Description: Arachne BabyOrderite Mercer has been known to invite forces of darkness in her life, foolishly believing that the light of her hope can somehow provide an opportunity to draw them in to redemption by offering herself up as a lure. Better her, who is prepared for what comes, than a helpless victim.

[Arachne]

strong>Incitements provide plausible IC reason for why the character using lookfor [the aggressor/attacker] would engage with your character. The easiest and most basic examples are them being enemies in conflict.

Incitements let you make eligibility criteria for different groups of people, and can have multiple ones. Remember that these are essentially RP hooks that are going to be seen by the person who matches to antagonize/attack you, so it makes sense to put a teensy bit of thought into these.

In general, the best place to look for faction or society-related RP hooks can be from the faction pages themselves, under their listed goals. For these examples, I am going to write my incitements like I were a new, bright-eyed Librarian of the Order and use both my character’s personal hooks, the Order’s missions, and the Hand’s missions since they’re ideological enemies.

To make an incitement, you’ll type make incitement which gives you a blank slate that looks like this:

Incitement
Eligibility:
Description:

Note: Eligibility can take multiple critiera using:
eligibility The Hand, Tier 3, The Hollow Conclave

Examples are below.

[Arachne]

Example Opportunities are:

Opportunity
Location: Fish Market Warehouse
Outfit: DangerDanFit
Hour: Any
Predatory: Yes
Courier: Yes
Social: No
Description:
A tip-off about a potential package of interest may have been intercepted, placing a member of the Illusium Court/The Hand in the general vicinity of Fish Market Warehouse to receive it and bring it back to an undisclosed drop-off.

Opportunity
Location: La Tresor Fuyant Bordello
Outfit: Baddie Fit
Hour: 23:00
Predatory: Yes
Courier: Yes
Social: No
Description:
A young woman skulks about the bordello’s front room uncomfortably, constantly checking her phone, and pacing anxiously just beside the door. Guests eye her curiously, but give her wide berth, assuming she must be waiting for someone – or something.

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