THE SLEEPER: IC VOTING POST

[ximilian]

● ● ● THE SLEEPER: IC VOTING POST

Hello orbers!

The time has come to vote for how the team is going to get the orb in Kilnan. Note that this is an IC vote — so whatever you vote for has to be what your character would ICly want to do.

Before we get into the vote, here’s a quick recap of what has been found out so far:

• The wizard Remi seems to have fallen victim to the sleeping sickness, as well.

• The orb is hungry and wants to feed on magic / powers.

• The castle is sentient and Remi can be found in a tower.

• According to Aureliah, the princess and Remi's niece, he feeds the orb monthly as part of his bargain. Aureliah is siding with the Orbers and willing to help them find and wake up her uncle — which they need to do in order to stop the orb from spreading the sickness.

• Remi is willing to work with the Orbers to find another solution to his bargain with the orb, and will relinquish it to them as soon as they can figure something out that won't hurt Aureliah.

The team needs to vote on the three things, and each character gets one vote to either suggest a solution or +1 one suggestion of their choice.

For the vote, this is what your character has to choose:

1   How to get into the tower

2   How to wake Remi

3   How to get the orb

Please write your suggestions as comments under the right heading, or +1 other characters' suggestions by responding to their comment. If your character could add something to their suggestion (offer magic, stealth for the tower, protection for someone, whatever!) please add that in your comment as well.

The vote is open until November 28, 6PM GMT, after which the mods will count the votes and write the conclusion based on your characters' actions. You only have one vote per question, but if you end up wanting to vote for something else or edit your vote, you can do so until the voting closes.

Note that the vote doesn’t mean that only one option will be chosen — depending on how it goes, the conclusion may feature elements of a couple of the highest-voted options. The mods may also ask follow-up questions for some courses of action.

And finally, the conclusion will go up on December 1, and characters will return to the station then.

Happy voting!

Comments

questions

[ximilian]

Do you have a question about how the voting works, or about anything else? Leave it here!

Re: questions

[droide]

Just so I make sure I understand, each character gets 1 vote for each of the 3 parts? So 3 votes total?

[ximilian]

Yes, that's right!

1) How to get into the tower

[ximilian]

Leave your suggestions below!

[unclesam]

Team Sphinx (Yelena, Gamora, Sam) has found a magically sealed door to the highest castle tower behind the sphinx. They can get anyone past the sphinx as a result and would like to bring Alina and Aureliah there, so that Aureliah can open the door. Aureliah says her magic is identical to Remi's, and Remi's magic is required to open the door.

[firstroar]

+1

[homeostatic]

+1

[shadysided]

+1

u got this, mcu nerds

+1

[starer]

Definitely all for the peaceful option. Aureliah's the one most affected by all this. So she deserves the chance to make a difference now.

[flickerandfade]

+1; this seems logical.

[laviny]

+1 I am obviously here for this

[krazed]

+1

[peasant]

+1! with the added note that alina would like to ensure that aureliah is protected by anyone who would be willing to lend themselves to the cause of mission: protect the princess and guard her, in case the orb tries to get to her once the door is open.

[hatejakku]

+1

Finn's also chatting with the castle, of course. He's convinced it to open the window again, so it's possible someone can slip in and cause a distraction or steal the orb while Team Sphinx is doing the distracting. Itachi was the one that asked to go back through the window.

Finn's going in with Team Sphinx regardless.

[unbreachable]

+1

[spacedisaster]

This seems like the most coherent and less problematic way to get through the door, so Peter approves. He is also available to cause distractions, if needed.

local ninja does ninja things

[blackfire]

sooo...

itachi does not trust aureliah at all (given what he and kovacs discussed he is extremely paranoid that she's been corrupted or something by the orb's power transfer, or that she's a clone/replacement/soMETHING) and thinks it's a Terrible Idea to give her an opportunity to have the First Strike at Remi or access to the orb.

according to the castle, he could potentially get in through the window with a ninja crow clone (long story) and could in theory administer the antidote (from Bones?) by doing so to wake Remi up directly, since he seems the most likely to know what's going on. HOWEVER:

i as a player Do Not Like The Spotlight and would be a bit gunshy about jumping on what should be a more broadly collaborative plot than just One Character Does A Thing so i'm fine with this being ICly/OOCly voted down, it's just something he would Put Forth as an option. the dastardly trap of playing proactive people curses me again.

and he will definitely be talking about the possibility broadly even though it's going to make him look like a flat-earther.

if the Princess Option is chosen he is probably going to insist that some heavy hitter/magic users accompany her as insurance in any case.

[savingthrows]

Make our own door.

For legal reasons this is a joke. (but also she WOULD suggest it, please don't support her).

2) How to wake Remi

[ximilian]

Leave your suggestions below!

[bindsthedead]

Sabriel will volunteer to use Mosrael. The bell's called the Waker for a reason, and can pull people out of slumber, even magically induced slumber.

[firstroar]

Get Blue in physical contact with Remi's body - he has a confirmed ability to psychically jolt people awake/has done it for other Orbers, and is ready/capable to do so again

[homeostatic]

Bones has his unused antidote, so he can administer it to Remi if necessary, either alone or combined with their magical attempts. Might as well cover all their bases.

3) How to get the orb

[ximilian]

Leave your suggestions below!

[savingthrows]

Juice Phyllie up, Crowdsource Edition.

Eleven has been able to reach out to the orb through her Void once, and can do so again from any location, no physical proximity to the orb required. She has been in the position of pushing power into the orb and cutting the connection before she falls asleep, and is reasonably confident she can manage to pull away without harm to herself. She could act as a conduit to bring not just herself but other sources of energy (Drift's sword/spark, other people, etc) into contact with the orb, so that no one has to give all of themselves to Phyllie on their own, but they can band together to fulfill the bargain.

Making a deal/offering power

[starer]

Bucky's still firmly behind the idea of making a deal with the orb (whether that involves sleeping to talk to it or not). If it's after power, then why not offer it the chance to be reunited with the other orbs? Along with the promise of the team finding more of them in the future to keep adding to their power.

...and if it needs a little incentive, there's already more than a few people on the team who've offered up their own power to help feed the orb till then.