Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

edited!

 

ok so i'm gonna pull some character building straight out of my ass. here's the five vampires that (currently) live in a hive in the desert and are sort of an eccentric fibercrafts collective/coven. all ages are in human years as sweeps aren't very precise.

-Hess: she looks about 14-15. very fat. short hair, simple black clothes, nubbly immature horns. she's pushing 300 and is very sweet, though she's also messy and forgetful.
-Grue: she looks about 24-25, tall and sturdy, imposing front-swept horns like a bull's. does not wear shirts or bras but does wear jeans and combat boots. has rainbowy enamel bangles from wrist to elbow and makes a chiming noise wherever she goes. she's only about 60 and likes to be obnoxious, but she's also briskly efficient.
-Greenteeth: the troll bel met in the bathrobe. they look about 18-20 and wear a rotating collection of vivid robes, sashes, scarves, and chunky jewelry, in all hues of green but only green. they tend to be briskly cheerful but they're also sadistic. they're probably about 150.
-Starfucker: the boy with the sawed-short horn stumps, he looks about 16. he's anxious to please and a diligent worker. 200 years old, used to work in the brooding caverns, and can't remember his death. everyone's pretty sure it caused a lot of brain damage, though, his hair comes in patchy so he keeps it buzzed short. he hallucinates and is savagely aggressive towards the brightly glowing, evil ball-lightning creatures he sees.
-King Mud: we have not met this guy yet and no one knows how old he really is, though it's at least a few centuries. he looks 5-6, does not talk, and collects buttons. he will pull buttons off people's clothes if he can get close enough. he wears whatever clothes anyone cares to dress him in but is always dirty.

 

are these by sweeps or years?

 

i get mad when i have to make characters because i will jot down a bunch of random shit that seems interesting and then it's like, fuck, i have to care about this person now...

 

ugh, dude, i'm sorry i keep blanking! but i'm not sure what kind of smalltalk i should have the dudes be making here, or how to lead around to hess asking bel for compensation, aarrrgh. ideas?

 

hmm, i try to dance around any hard and fast declarations, and i don't know if i want to be the dude to establish all the hard rules about how we're treating vampires in this universe, unless that's actually okay with everyone!

 

oh, yes, it's very in character for him. i'm using hess's preference for not dwelling on icky and upsetting things to have her frame the whole situation in very clean and clinical terms. she's definitely leaving out the whole 'also it induces artificial tranquility and euphoria so you stop trying to get away' thing i've been rolling with.

but yeah i still think it varies case by case. erskin is still trying to work out how to deal with his anxieties, and bel is much more self-possessed, plus he's had a moirail for way longer. an artificially induced peacefulness wouldn't be nearly as compelling to him. so feel free to write bel's experience however you think is best!

 

*BIG SHRUG* i think it's pretty much up to you? also whether or not it's kind of sexually charged definitely depends on how Bel feels about getting up close and personal with a shirtless older woman who's been challengingly teasing him for a while. if he only likes males concupiscently then it would make sense for him to just take it as more of an opiate and not get off on it, i think?

 

huffs, this is so interesting but i am so sleepy ;__;

 

yeah, she's obnoxious, not evil, and the collective sticks a lot closer to the spirit of 'we don't take the unwilling' than some other groups of drinkers might.

 

awww, poor kid. i think it just fits in with how in this 'verse, rainbowdrinkers mellow out over time, and have their own social scene going on— they've had a lot more time and inclination to develop ideas about consent than a bunch of hyped-up adolescents.

also i am loving this but i must snoooooze ok, see you later!