Summer Casting Call/CR Wishlist

[teacosyghost]

Hey folks! To help with all your plotting and enabling needs, welcome to the Summer Casting Call and CR Wishlist! The idea here is to give players somewhere to bat ideas around, get inspired, and advertise their schemey desires.


So what goes here? Any of the following:

• Enabling! Got a particular character/canon you’d love to play with? Show them some love here!

• Plot ideas, new or in progress: Are you setting up an infiltration thread and need a Computer Guy? Do you have just the seed of an idea and want to know if anyone else is interested?

• CR Wanted: Maybe you just need someone for your smart-mouthed villain to trade barbs with. Maybe your naive rookie needs a mentor. Maybe you’ve really got the itch to write a scene where your cocky genius falls on his face for once. Maybe someone can make it happen!

• Standing requests: If there’s a particular dynamic/thread type you’d love to get more of in general interactions, give everyone a heads-up what you’d love to be thrown your way!

Tips to remember:

Make sure to include a header with a bit of information about what you’re looking for, and don’t forget to link to the journals of your relevant characters! If possible, try to be specific about what you’re looking for, and give enough detail for other players to gauge if they’re interested. For example, when looking for CR, give a bit of information about your character and what sort of dynamic you want to go for.

Comments

Business Partner(s), Entertainers, and Artists Needed

[mayfairmonster]

This isn't for something happening right away because Dorian's still wrapped up in some heavy ongoing CR atm, but I wanted to feel out the potential for this idea early and see if it pricks up any ears.

Sometime within the next few months Dorian's going to start looking into cultivating an art gallery in the Nexus. It'll start as a place with a few wings of art and openings for traveling exhibits, but over time double as a space to grab a drink and a show. He'll be a bit hipster about the acts and any food that end up on offer, but the door to all different kinds of art is wide open.

It'd be great if the venture could attract a business partner or two, especially if that person/those people have decent heads for managing money, doing PR, or who just have business experience in general. Dorian wouldn't be opposed to the gallery serving as a space for more morally dubious business ventures for interested parties, but it won't be his first choice while he's searching for someone motivated to help bring the gallery into existence.

As for artists, the door's completely open. Dorian will select a few pieces from offered collections, and if he really likes the cut of someone's jib, will request to host their entire body of work for an amount of time that the two characters negotiate together. Artists will be paid, and welcome to prowl around the space and share their work and make connections/CR with others and other artists.

Music is a little more specific, but generally anything experimental, lower key (think jazzy), or especially queer will be welcomed with open arms. Dorian also has a particular love for traditional orchestras and piano music, so classical musicians or acts will find themselves in high demand.

So, what do y'all think?

[cotyledon]

I am, as you well know, hella laggy with playing her, and they haven't met quite yet, but Abby would actually be an excellent part-time PR agent, especially if potential underground activities are a thing. She's useful to the vampire mafia in her own world specifically because she looks like an innocent, perky intern, and she's good at putting people at ease and getting them to underestimate her.

Also, Steve would be happy to let some or all of his work appear in a Nexus gallery, so once he has some paintings around, that's an option too.

[mayfairmonster]

Vampire mafia, you say? Yes pls.

I love the idea of having that kind of job offer be floated Abby's way at some point. Toby's their common "link", so they could potentially meet through him? Underground activities wouldn't be the initial goal of the gallery, but given enough time, I wouldn't be surprised if that kind of element ended up getting rolled up into the mix. It wouldn't be discouraged, at any rate. People who could navigate an atmosphere like that would be helpful. (As a sidenote, it would also kind of continue the trend of the staff working there having a "what you see is not what you get" theme about their personas vs. their bodily/spiritual/whatever truths.)

And that would work out great! I'll have to check around the internet after work to see what his art looks like, but iirc he does pencil (or charcoal?) drawings?

[cotyledon]

She's been teasing Toby about not having introduced them yet in his birthday guessing-game thread, so I think it's a safe bet they'll meet sooner or later when the stars align properly and we're all three available at once. Yes, Abby lives in New York and works for Emilio Saentz, who is one of a handful of big time vampires in the city. Her canon is a slightly random conglomeration of urban fantasy with WoD influences that was cobbled together through play between me and my husband. Honestly, if you wanted vampire mafia, an interdimensional art gallery is the kind of thing that makes ears perk; art is ideal for money laundering, so Abby could even help broker a deal between Saentz and Dorian at some point.

But since it sounds like that's not the focus you want to start with, maybe we should have them meet and see how they get along and go from there?

In canon, you see Steve doing almost exclusively pencil or ink drawings, but my version has free time now so he's going to be trying a little of everything. He couldn't afford nice supplies in the 1930s but now that he has Nexus access he's attempting watercolor and oils. Probably a lot of cityscapes, maybe animals and portraits.

[knightgallant]

That definitely sounds wild enough that I don't want to take it off the table. Abby would be an interesting and inconspicuous point of contact, and if the vampires had things like valuable or historically significant pieces of art to trade as payment for money laundering, Dorian wouldn't be able to resist.

But yeah, for now, just meeting and seeing if they vibe does seem like a good bet! I showed Amber this thread and she said she was down for it whenever it might happen.

That sounds lovely, honestly. It sounds like it'd make a nice collection to view.

[cotyledon]

There are many shenanigans to be had with respect to vampire art and artifacts. Rey and I had a long running plot at one point involving the statue of a vampire god that could enable one vampire to exert mind control over others. There are things like that out there, as well as non-magical but also old and interesting pieces of art and history.

I am into this idea! I may need to be poked when it's best for the two of you, but I would like to play Abby more actively here and there.

Re: Business Partner(s), Entertainers, and Artists Needed

[sharktoothtotem]

Mira is more into playing the blues with her guitar, though she loooooooves singing with a full band behind her (she used to sing at a little 1940s themed club, where she'd wear a wig to hide her wild colored locks).

And I realize both my girls are artists... both sketch in their journals... Neither would think their sketches were artist quality though. Taylor thinks her sketch of Lucifer with his wings doesn't do the wings any justice! And Mira just doodles where she can fit one in between song lyrics and grease smudges from working on a machine.