(Mab) A Mers Musings

[Mab Prell]

If anyone wants to ever hop in on any of these ideas please feel free to drop me a PM. I'm delighted to thread with anyone!

Thread ideas:

Focus on: Animal husbandry/training, attunement, ranger threads.

1) Hunting thread where a predator is taken down with odd ease - and it's because pilot mice have been feeding on it to excess. (idea based on ghost moose) - need to ask scalv mod for permission

2) Post-work Menagerie hang out that turns into drinking and drunk/tipsy combat/jousting on Irrwaddee. Like water boarding fun with combat and new friends? Haha

3) A group of new element recruits are given a task that incorporates some aspect of each of the branches (since when you first join you usually do time in each) as a way to help them figure out which branch is for them - be a part of the task not the recruits.

4) Join the rangers (approval from Peg already) - Mother proudly sets her off, sister jealous? - Joins and gets Mer NPC mentor?
4a) Our first trip will be a four day trip in the Sweetvine Woods where she will be tested and taught on her survival skills and getting to know her mentor. Maybe ride on the back of a Scalvwing. Mab falls off and into a field of Frost Princesses and starts freezing. - maybe do as 2 separate threads.
4b) Partner with University and do fauna and flora expeditions in the sweetvine woods - UNDERWATER! Woot!
4b1) Development idea - thinking of doing an ecosystem approach - like making a tree and then birds that feed on different levels of it - in the water. Learning about life as an ecosystem.

5) Definitely tackle - why are animals being surrendered to the Menagerie?

History Threads:
1) Get involved in history society?
2) Learn more about history / learn about the people of Scalvoris and old stories - to what end? - dunno yet!

Scalv Town Threads:
1) Meet both newspapers - bad intro to the popular one, likes Penny Bones who runs PB Paper House and pitches that she do some information gathering for the university - then she can publish it and get paid by the university too. She has thought of that (shrewd business woman!) but she just doesn't have the time or experience to be out in the wood adventuring. "I'm a journalist. I observe." Mab offers to go and get the information if Penny will teach her to write about it in an engaging way for the next newspaper release.
2) Interview a PC.
3) Go to new order thing.

[Mab Prell]

Name: Leland 'The Nurse'
Created by: Mab Prell
Race: Mer (Category 2)
Birthday/Age: Zi'da 90th Arc 676
Title: Ranger
Mentees: Mab Prell (PC)
Skills: Mount: ground/water expert (typically a Mergala), Trident expert, Fieldcraft expert, Swimming competent, Teaching competent, Hunting competent, Investigation competent, Cartography novice
Details: Grey, shark-finned with billowing gills atop his head Leland is an intimidating visage of a Mer. The Ranger force affectionately call him 'The Nurse' because he loves to teach and nurture, often taking on more than one mentee. However, this sweet nickname belays his harsh didactic pedagogy. He believes one cannot complain about the state of anything without taking responsibility for correcting it. He values community, self sacrifice, pragmatism and common sense. There's never any need to do things the "right way" just because it's the way it's done. Instead, he'll often find creative and pragmatic alternatives if they are appropriate. While this makes him completely unpromotable, given his inability to play nice in a bureaucracy; he is a valuable team leader and mentor in the Rangers. While Leland is deeply religious, no one knows what immortal exactly he feels the need to pray to daily. Most often Leland can be found in Sweetvine and the Mountains but is often sent to deal with water-based concerns that arise across Idalos. While Leland was once part of the Akktava tribe, since joining the rangers he rarely speaks of the tribe. Some worry he is not as loyal to Scalvoris as he seems - but most find those rumours toxic nonsense about a private man who has long served and sacrificed for Scalvoris.

[Mab Prell]

1 - Ymiden's Dawn Thread: Sister announces intent to join Rangers (Following Fathers letter about Darbyton Rangers)	2 - Prepare for travel to Egilrun	3 - Travel to Beacon (15 miles)	4 - Beacon Thread	5-Beer goes stale across Scalvoris - Travel to Egilrun D1 (10 miles)	6 - Travel to Egilrun D2 (10 miles)	7 - Travel to Egilrun D3 (10 miles)	8 - Travel to Egilrun D4 (10 miles)	9 - Travel to Egilrun D5 (10 miles)
10 - Travel to Egilrun D6 (10 miles)	11 - Travelling market pop up (Exotic/Unusual gifts)- Egilrun	12 Xiur's Dusk - Eldest/Youngest Ritual - Egilrun	13 - Egilrun join rangers	14 - Egilrun	15 - Knowledge Hub Proposals Open	16 - Egilrun/Ranger Thread Pigs ruining a crop thread	17 - Egilrun/Ranger Thread	18 - Egilrun/Ranger Thread
19 - Egilrun to Beacon D1 (Mounted)	20 - Egilrun to Beacon D2 (Mounted)	21 - Beacon Thread	22 -Beacon to Scalvoris Town (Reunite with mother) -Change to tentacled form	23 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	24 - Cassion's Feast (With Biqaj) - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	25 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	26 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	27 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working
28 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	29 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working (change back to legs at night)	30 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	31 -Scalvoris Town to Beacon	32 - Travelling casino 33 - Beacon to Egilrun D1 (Mounted)	33 - Beacon to Egilrun D2 (Mounted)	34 - Egilrun	35 - Egilrun to Sweetvine Woods	36 - Hunting for Cassion's Feast
37 - Hunting for Cassion's Feast	38 - War events become apparent *Unknown consequences* - - Hunting for Cassion's Feast	39 - Sweetvine woods back to Egilrun	40 - Hunters Moon (Feast) Egilrun	41 - Harvest Egilrun	42 - Egilrun to Beacon D1 (Mounted)	43 - Egilrun to Beacon D2 (Mounted)	44 - Beacon Thread	45 -Beacon to Scalvoris Town
46 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	47 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	48 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Change to tentacled form	49 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	50 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	51 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	52 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	53 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	54 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working
55 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	56 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	57 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	58 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	59 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	60 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working	61 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Tentacled Form Working (change back to legs at night)	62 - Gratitude Festival - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	63 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -The Mystery of The Missing Mousers
64 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	65 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	66 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	67 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	68 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	69 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	70 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	71 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	72 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie
73 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie -Change to tentacled form	74 - Boat/Swim to Sweetvine -Tentacled Form	75 - Sweetvine -Tentacled Form	76 - Sweetvine -Tentacled Form (change back to legs at night)	77 - Sweetvine	78 Sweetvine (Gather Flowers for Flora Trial) -Change to tentacled form at night	79 - Boat/Swim to Scalvoris Town -Tentacled Form (change back to legs at night)	80 - Flora Trial (Open thread -Decorate animals with flowers in the Menagerie? Give flowers out to random folk in street?)	81 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie
82 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie	83 - Scalvoris Town/Menagerie

[Mab Prell]

Name: Maeve

Race: Human/Biqaj

Date of Birth: 18 years (Zi'da 52nd, 702)

Skills: Hunting 30, Bow 30, Sword 15, Short sword 15, Swimming 5, Field Craft 5

Profession: Ranger Recruit (As of Ymiden 13th 721)

Appearance: Maeve is a stout and sturdy black-haired half-Biqaj. Maeve is as decisive as Mab isn't. At 5'0 she is a lithe bodybuilder who can lift more than one would ever think her small stature could support. She wears her hair long and loose or braided into a ponytail when hunting. She typically wears a pale coloured linen dress and cloak and always has a weapon at her side or back. She has a round face, full lips, and large expressive eyebrows.

Personality: Maeve is as decisive as Mab isn't. She could be desribed as a sickly sweet tea overserved with honey. Can't taste the poison inside? Maeve is the first to hold a babe for a woman struggling with her groceries or stay up all night repairing a friends gown the night before a big date. That doesn't stop her from being vengeful and easily angered, small slights often resulting in tussles. This was all fine and well when she was younger but has the potential to lead to trouble as an adult. Maeve has always been ambitious, idolizing the heroes her sister tells her stories about. he sees the world as clear distinguishable acts that are right and wrong, and is frustrated by equivocating or philosophical debates about ethics. She thrives on competition, and since everything is a competition to her she's rarely lacking in energy or enthusiasm for a task. She enjoys monster-hunting and keeps trophies from any hunt in which she participates - if possible. While she respects the immortals their activities are of no particular interest to her - she'd rather deal with what is right in front of her.

Relationship to PC: Sister

History with Mab: Glued to each other's hips as children, they rarely did anything without the other. However, a failed initiation into attunement by their father left Maeve deaf. While she would never blame Mab, she resents her for her successful initiation into Attunement and her closeness with their father; whom Maeve no longer speaks with. Maeve and Mab speak in common sign to each other primarily.

[Mab Prell]

Starter Quest:

"Sometimes while taking an early morning stroll along the harbor of Scalvoristown, Mab could swear she hears something. At first, it may be dismissed as her imagination, or a strange as yet unknown bird to her, but eventually it dawns on her that it isn't a sound she's hearing... But a feeling a sensation. At first, it appears it might be her attunement spark trying to get an errant frequency, but when she tries to use the magic to sense what might be standing out, the information that returns is inconclusive.

The next morning, while taking a walk along the same harbor, she notices something out of the corner of her eye, something in the water. It's one of her... a mer! But this one looks far less human-like than she does. Its head is monstrous and bulbous, greenish and blue, and its eyes are dark black. It's then that she realizes the mer was speaking to her, through their peculiar telepathy. The large mer, a female by what Mab can tell, calls her into the water, inviting her. Will she answer, or will she resist the curiosity and stay where she is?