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Inner Sanctum Nobility
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WIP for RP with @A. Shadow Dweller
Location:
Kingdom of Arkon
Plot:
When word reaches the Spymaster of Arkon that secret plans that might spark war if fallen into the wrong hands have been stolen, they send their Royal Assassin Jocelyn after the thief. In order not to rouse suspicion, Jocelyn Byron, strikes an unlikely deal with Adrick and his crew of known smugglers through underworld channels. She gets to catch the suspect and they get a hefty purse for their cooperation and no questions asked. Little does she know, Adrick is the thief responsible.
Main Characters:
Jocelyn Byron - Royal assassin, orphan, adopted daughter of Thomas and Eloise Byron, real name Jocelyn Roy. Ten when Pentakot/Arkon war ended.
Adrick Yardent - Nostovic "Merchant" and underworld known smuggler. Fifteen when P/A war ended
Side Characters:
Yardent's crew:
Trena, Donsti, Pilova, and Port Silas (military presence)
-- unscheduled stop in Notneau
Initial meeting in Danum
Ilora is where Arkon capitol is
Volotev pass - where Henri said Jocelyn and him met
In Donsti, I think it would be good to have a message sent to Adrick from the Gull informing him to just go directly to the top guy in Port Silas (where Jocelyn will kill the guy and catch Adrick).
In the meantime, when they go to the more remote port, this is when Jocelyn is informed that the Cormorant is the thief, and is also filled in on the instructions to meet in Port Silas. After she gets the info, she kills the middle man, given how Bonacorsi wanted to eliminate anyone involved.
Location:
Kingdom of Arkon
Plot:
When word reaches the Spymaster of Arkon that secret plans that might spark war if fallen into the wrong hands have been stolen, they send their Royal Assassin Jocelyn after the thief. In order not to rouse suspicion, Jocelyn Byron, strikes an unlikely deal with Adrick and his crew of known smugglers through underworld channels. She gets to catch the suspect and they get a hefty purse for their cooperation and no questions asked. Little does she know, Adrick is the thief responsible.
Main Characters:
Jocelyn Byron - Royal assassin, orphan, adopted daughter of Thomas and Eloise Byron, real name Jocelyn Roy. Ten when Pentakot/Arkon war ended.
Adrick Yardent - Nostovic "Merchant" and underworld known smuggler. Fifteen when P/A war ended
Side Characters:
Yardent's crew:
- Nevaro - first mate (gray/blue eyes, black beard
- Olwyn - ship-wright (carpenter), cousin to Wyn
- Wyn- navigator (red hair, hazel-green eyes), cousin to Olwyn
- Kerina - boatswain (stores, rigging, anchor, sails working order); light honey brown eyes, brown hair cut short) Calls Jocelyn "JJ" for Just Jocelyn.
- Idros - cook, brother of Drados, black hair peppered with white, braided beard
- Drados - cook, brother of Idros, glass eye, black hair peppered with white, braided beard
- Magdon - sailor
- Stevren - sailor (dark curly hair,
- O'Finnegan - sailor who played the Fiddle Off
- Lucky - sailor
- Calder - sailor who saw J in A's bed and spread rumors
- Unknown benefactor
- Old Gull
- Lefty
- Commander Thomas Byron - Jocelyn's adoptive father
- Eloise Byron - Jocelyn's adoptive mother
- Efraim Bonacorsi - King's spymaster
- King?
- Captain Loris - ARA Montague captain
- Henri LaTrec - golden hair, honey eyes, sibling to Simone
- Simone LaTrec - golden hair, honey eyes, sibling to Henri
- Callum Roy - Jocelyns deceased father, Tails River Valley
Trena, Donsti, Pilova, and Port Silas (military presence)
-- unscheduled stop in Notneau
Initial meeting in Danum
Ilora is where Arkon capitol is
Volotev pass - where Henri said Jocelyn and him met
- Adrick steals the valuable chest from ARA Montague
- Danum is the port city the agent returned to after the theft so he could send word to Bonacorsi. Where Jocelyn started her investigation
- Jocelyn convincing Adrick to ferry her around (Danum and Trena, she meets some of the crew) and agrees to have dinner with Captain and sleep on his couch
- After a day of annoyance, Jocelyn reveals herself to not be noble blood and Adrick cools off/starts to enjoy her company. She meets Wyn, Kerina, and Nevaro.
- Trena - Jocelyn finds Montague - gets logs and a bad mood from being called a murderer by Captain Loris. Returns to CdL and gets into a fight with Adrick (he's worried she's come home late and his middleman never showed up)
- Between Trena and Donsti - storm, weather delays journey. Bonding experience. Adrick finds out Jocelyn is good for something other than money
- Donsti - Jocelyn hears of Adrick's alter ego and a few others who could have been hired by the Old Gull who is responsible for Montague theft, Adrick learns from Lefty there is a Jocelyn Byron in polite society, the Commanders' orphaned daughter but it doesn't come into play until after the brawl.
- Bar brawl? Adrick gets hurt, Jocelyn tends to him and more is revealed about her/him to each other like Jocelyn's orphaned past and Adrick connects the dots that she's the commander's daughter.
- She reveals that its hard to talk about herself, growing up during the war, and she doesn't know if her handler will kill her if she doesn't get the mission done
- Adrick almost asks her to stay on his ship because he's intrigued by her/wants her to be free from the squabble of kingdoms
- Nevaro shouts at Adrick about Jocelyn and thinks Adrick is trying to sleep with her which Jocelyn overhears
- Awkward day of avoiding each other while Adrick heals with magic salve
- Inventory day where Adrick learns that her weakness is physical touch (which he'll exploit alongside verbal back and forth they have)
- End of day three to Notenau, Kerina teaches Jocelyn to fire a gun and Adrick hijacks lesson as an excuse to make Jocelyn uncomfortable again
- Day four, they reach Notenau
- Jocelyn
- Adrick opens the chest to find Bonacorsi's plans and discovers:
- Record of Bonacorsi's plans and progress for starting a war with Pentakot
- LD, sometimes D, assassinations (list of diplomats/politicians they've gone after)
- Pentakot has weak replacements from his work that will fold when war strikes and their house of cards will fall
- Bonacorsi was negotiating with kingdom on far side of the sea for their support in the coming weeks
- Arkon King will be poisoned at the Peace Summit and Pentakot will be framed
- Yew tree seal
- Jocelyn arrives back at the ship and Adrick can tell something is worrying her. They have another sweet moment. Adrick hugs her, she says its nice, and Adrick tucks her into bed.
- Next day, Calder catches Adrick with his shirt off leaning over Jocelyn in his bed, word slowly spreads around the ship they slept together.
- Adrick shows Nevaro all the gold is present from Jocelyn and she's not looking to swindle them.
- Later that day, word from Calder gets out and gets to Kerina which Nevaro overhears and Kerina doesn't buy Jocelyn's attempts at telling her nothing happened between her and the Captain.
- Nevaro throws Adrick from quarterdeck in blind rage and tries to rally crew against the Captain/Jocelyn which doesn't work
- Runs at Jocelyn who dodges expertly out of the way. Adrick, wounds having opened, stops Nevaro from killing one of them and issues a punishment of night watch until further notice
- Later that day, Jocelyn checks up on Adrick.
- She asks him what he meant about "having her under control" which turns into Adrick saying he can't control her trouble but he can control her through his flirtatious touches.
- Riles her up and intends on leaving her with an almost-kiss to the lips saying he doesn't sleep with his benefactors but sees that she wanted the kiss and steps back to her. Finally, they have their passionate kiss
- When questioned why he didn't walk away, Adrick tells her he didn't want to in a poetic way
- Jocelyn reveals she isn't a good lair and is glad he didn't walk away and she is in fact Jocelyn Byron, daughter of Thomas (Arkon Commander) and Eloise, confirming what Lefty told Adrick in Donsti, and Jocelyn Roy daughter of a Huntsman from the Tails River Valley
- Two discuss what to do about Nevaro now that they -have- done something wrong. Adrick brings up a Stone Oath (blood on stone, make oath, throw into sea as a promise)
- Ideas for future:
- ...
- Bonacorsi's plans (later used to turn Jocelyn's reality on its head)
- Port Silas:
- She has her suspicions of him being the thief (which she denies) but when Adrick goes to meet the main guy, she's killed him and its all confirmed for her that Adrick is the thief (heart sinks)
- Is Jocelyn captured and kept in the brig?
- Nevaro either breaks the Stone Oath and sells out Jocelyn while in jail to Pentakot (successfully or unsuccessfully) or he keeps her identity of being a Byron a secret but doesn't for Lady Death
- When Adrick finds out she is the assassin in the documents, he has a hard time figuring out just how much she lied to him about, claiming she didn't want a war while actively making it possible for the next one to kick off. Although he does believe her in the end but it causes some angst. But Jocelyn going into shock after learning about Bonacorsi's plan makes it pretty clear she didn't know what she was doing = more ammo for his hate for the crown.
In Donsti, I think it would be good to have a message sent to Adrick from the Gull informing him to just go directly to the top guy in Port Silas (where Jocelyn will kill the guy and catch Adrick).
In the meantime, when they go to the more remote port, this is when Jocelyn is informed that the Cormorant is the thief, and is also filled in on the instructions to meet in Port Silas. After she gets the info, she kills the middle man, given how Bonacorsi wanted to eliminate anyone involved.
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