Salem's Murder Plot, Chapter One (Closed to recruits)

[capt. salem]

AND CHANCES ARE, THEY WON'T GO FAR | | |

Hi and welcome! If you've got a mercenary type character, or are looking for a unique character bonding experience, this may be right up your alley.

For background, Salem is the former captain of a pirate ship called the Darius II. He was overthrown after eleven years serving as captain, and now his old ship is run by Captain Shire. Salem's out for blood now, and everybody on his old crew is on his hit list.

He has managed to map out a route to one of the meetup spots where the crew of the Darius II sells loot, and is planning a trip over to pay his crew a visit. He's looking for 1-2 people from the Badlands to accompany him, and the mission objective is to get to the meetup, and slaughter anybody there.

ICly the trip will take about five days (two days travel to the meetup, a day spent at the meetup and two days travel back to the Badlands) and it's easy to assume the mission will be dangerous.
Please specify beforehand what sorts of injuries your character can take during the fight, and what isn't allowed. This will be a gunfight, so at the very least your character may get grazed by bullets if they don't get shot.

The IC rewards for helping are as follows:
— A sense of accomplishment
— In-roleplay combat experience that can be used to exemplify your character's fighting prowess
— Salem's gratitude and trust
— Anything your character loots from the location (Weapons, supplies, etc) I will pay for anything that needs to be bought from the BB shop

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As for meta game knowledge, I'll give some basic info on the people they'll be seeing / fighting at the meetup location.

Stephen Wells, Cook
Masculine, 30yrs, average build on the stockier side
Armed with a revolver and whip. Medium difficulty / average skill level
Member of the Darius II crew

Timothy Baxter, Weapons Dealer
Masculine, 24yrs, stout and muscular build
Armed with a rifle and hunting knife. Hard difficulty / near-master skill level
A prospective buyer of the Darius II's loot

Lillian Baxter, Weapons Dealer
Feminine, 23yrs, tall and slender build
Armed with a semi-automatic handgun. Medium difficulty / average skill level
A prospective buyer of the Darius II's loot

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RULES:
I know there are a bunch but stick with me here.

1. Please don't sidetrack the private thread too badly!
   
2. Don't jump on this plot if you are unwilling to let your character obtain any injuries / get hurt in any way
   
3. I will be controlling the NPCs to keep things on track, so please don't say "My character ran up and stabbed their knife into the side of Stephen's neck, killing him near instantly"; I promise to be fair when having the NPCs take hits or dodge, but it's no real fun if there isn't an actual fight
   
4. The private thread will be essentially "turn based", where you reply after everybody else has replied to your previous post. Ex: Example person 1 posts, then example person 2 posts, then example person 3 posts, and then it's back to example person 1. This is to let everybody engage so nobody gets left behind.
   
5. If you're part of the private thread and don't respond for more than 1 week when it's your turn, you will be skipped in the order and may jump back in at any point BUT you will be assumed to be MIA until then.
   

These are just to help keep things snappy, fair and engaging! If you wanna be part of the plot but have qualms about any of these rules, feel free to message me or DM me on discord and we can hash something out.

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So yeah! Just let me know if you want to get in on this and what types of injuries your character can sustain in the fight. And to clarify this is open to characters from other groups, so long as they aren't actively warring with the Badlands.

[justify]No, I don't care what momma says, [abbr=Goes by Salem or Monty ✴ He/Him or They/Them Pronouns ✴ 28yrs Old ✴ 6'3" ✴ Former pirate captain ✴ Sexuality is a unlabeled free for all, romance is questioning]&[/abbr]
You'll wind me up, [abbr=Medium Physically ✴ Hard Mentally ✴ Attacks with whip, scimitar or revolver✴ Open to capture and maim if requested / discussed prior ✴ Not open for death ✴ Difficult but not impossible to defeat or subdue]&[/abbr]
Or you'll wind up dead [abbr=Guy Fieri aesthetic ✴ Ear-length dull brown hair ✴ Bright green eyes ✴ Three piercings on both ears (two on top cartilage, one large on lobe), and a lip piercing ✴ Five o'clock shadow 24/7 but can never grow a real beard  ✴ Both pinky fingers cut off]&[/abbr]
(IC Opinions)[/justify]

[dame]

:eyes:

[ikigai.]

hello i am happy to yeet addy in here
addy is definitely open to any kind of injuries
so long as he doesn't die from it i'm fine yeah

he'd rather not kill people but knowing him he'd probably say he doesn't wanna hurt someone and then end up hurting someone anyway

[capt. salem]

apologies for the slightly late reply! Busy week lol

Bryne- Gimme a concrete answer m8, in my heart I want Cat to tag along but it's up to you

Elysian- Hell yeah, all of that sounds good! In the thread it might come down to fight or get hurt himself, so I mEAn it could make for an interesting moral dilemma + conflict since Salem's not gonna be kind to Addy if he hesitates to kill someone

[ikigai.]

[size=8pt]oh yes i love this
knowing addy he'd be in a situation of like "i can either get hurt by this guy or kill this guy" and then he ends up getting hurt by the guy, then kills him
and is like "or both"

addy would be pissed if salem gave him shit for hesitating and i live for that

[capt. salem]

Oh damn that'd be tragically so funny, Salem would probably chock up Addy's injuries to him gaining them during the struggle even though he eventually won unless Addy says otherwise though, or unless Salem was like. watching the entire time which could definitely happen

Salem would be real pissed both on the count that Addy signed up to do Violent Stuff including explicitly stated murder and hesitated, and also that Addy wouldn't disclose it beforehand since Salem would want to watch Addy's back a lot closer if he knew Addy was squeamish about killing sO they could have a real fun spat about that on the way back home

[ikigai.]

see addy has Murdered plenty of people in his life and didn't feel guilty about it until he was almost murdered himself. so he was more than likely just there to steal stuff from the dead bodies and the surrounding area
but also addy probably wouldn't have trusted salem enough to have him watch his back AH let them have a fun spat when they're back at bl after that so much for a bonding experience


when are you wanting this to start?

[capt. salem]

aH yeah makes sense makes sense, Salem wouldn't mind that Addy was mainly there to steal stuff but. he'd still be worriedly pissed
ooH yeah Salem might also be mad about that part, or at least frustrated that Addy wouldn't trust him to watch his back during a dangerous situation yep throw that bonding part right outta the window And yeah they could just spend the walk back fuming and then just. explode and have a spat when they return to BL

I'm going to wait for Bryne's yes/no on whether or not Cat'll join bUT I'll probably want to start it in the next week or the week after that; I'm still kinda stuck in the RL busy zone for the next month or so but I'm not going to sleep on this plot if I'm not forced to

[dame]

tbh I could see Cat hanging back or going w to make sure everything's everything
y'all have gotten p into it and I don't wanna mess that up
but if Cat goes, they can get injured idrc aand they're a "kill with no hesitation" kinda person
just maybe not w a gun they'd rather get into the thick of things

[Darky]

Okay so I cornered Bryne and forced her to give me a yes/no answer and it was a yes sO hopefully I'll get the thread up in the next week