Hiiii, I'd love to be helpful and fill a line for Mara if that sounds good! I'd be down for either third in command (this girl cannot be second lmfao) or scavenger buddy, if you have a pref between those two for character reasons or think either would fit better. (Also if you're like: no thanks not weird not-nurse that's totally fine too!! Mwah mwah)
hiiii i'd love to do either of these things with you maybe if they were on the scavenging trip together it could've been specifically an excursion to try to find some medical supplies since the city is less thoroughly looted than the 'burbs are? but nobody's expressed interest in either of these things so whichever is more compelling to you i am totally on board for!
Hi! Happy to do this as a vignette in an upcoming meme, but I was thinking it might be fun to scene out Mara and John's first interaction, with a possible Roswell cameo? I was thinking the one (and only) time John was sent to barter supplies, he gets railroaded by Mara (maybe 50% intentionally on his part, because he just doesn't care to try and be good at bargaining), and then later they have a conversation at the Whitney bar where he again gets railroaded (now 65% intentionally because he's curious and his learning-about-others conversational technique revolves mainly around revealing things about himself and seeing if the other person will do the same). This sounds boring in summary I realize but I think it could be interesting/fun/an opportunity for some groundwork and voice testing?
And then at the end, John comes back to Lundegaard and Roswell can be like "Why did you barter 20 lbs of rutabaga for 2 boxes of Kleenex what the fuck" and John will be like "I was having a conversation :("
Still thinking about Lundegaard Brunette Man Brain Trust scene thoughts... There's a lot here to work with (positive).
HUGE sigh not only did i forget to post my response to this days ago but i also misread what you wrote slightly, apologies đ i have a starter i wrote for John & Mara here which does feature a Roswell cameo/intrigue, lmk if this works for you! (Roswell is also at Whitney in this scenario). totally happy to adjust but i thought john would enjoy getting this intel lol
also very happy to move thru a few little scenes if you want to hop around and do the bar thing and also a roswell/john scene at the end!
Hiiii I am excited to have some OG group members here :> these are just very sketchy thoughts at the moment, please let me know if you have any particular vision for other group members/their history before they took Whitney Field/etc.
My tentative idea for this group was that they all sort of formed a pack specifically because they were good at going out into the world and scavenging for stuff, and they kind of organically developed their method of scavenging for High Value Items to trade for essentials together as a group. I imagine they were living perhaps in some kind of second-story office building situation before they decided they should relocate and found Whitney Field.
I think itâd be funny if Lolaâs scav mentor/former head of the Scav corps was also part of the OG group and like a crazy daredevil parkour guy who was always pulling ridiculous stunts but somehow never got hurt and just had a generally âIâm invincibleâ attitude which makes their death hit a little harder⌠the antics caught up to them eventuallyâŚ
Maraâs NPC bodyguard Barrett is also part of the OG group so here is a lil info about him
â˘â â met mara right after she split off with her group and he lost his, she saved his life and now they are pair bonded like feral cats, they came to the og whitney group as a pair â˘â â she kind of has a bossy older sister attitude with him, makes him do the stuff she wouldnât ask other ppl to do, and isnât always the nicest to him. bc sheâs pretty closed off emotionally i think it can look like sheâs using him from an outside perspective but if you had a better beat on their relationship she does clearly love him a lot â˘â â trumbull county local but i think more of a like smallsmall town boy than a rural farmboy â˘â â shy in a way that comes off as brusque/haughty
I imagine theyâve lost a good chunk of the group over the years but there are perhaps like one or two other OG members left who are still at Whitney besides these four :|a
The death of [Parkour RyGo] hit Lola hard and has shattered her confidence an eensy, weensy, teeny major bit. But sheâs putting on a brave face for the sake of the Whitney Community. Has somewhat cracked down on parkour to the extent she can crack down on anything.
And Iâm down for all these other ideas! Lola is pretty đ§ at Mara and Barrettâshe knows Mara cares about him but finds the dynamic intriguing regardless of her understanding of its core.
ooooh i do love that focus on the scavenging since that really is billie's only really good skill (i guess cooking is Alright, but people can survive while eating poorly cooked food or scavenge twinkies or whatever, etc.) i do think that embarrassingly billie was still heavily into denying reality when road trip girls encountered mara so it's very possible that billie did have a stockpile of seemingly useless things like the packrat that she is which would later become more notable once they started to try and trade things
i think my opinion is the least relevant toward lola's now-dead mentor but i do love him being an adrenaline junkie parkour man
and unfortunately i think billie sees absolutely nothing questionable about how mara interacts with barrett though take that with a grain of salt because i am still fully figuring out her personality entirely but she was at one point in her inception something of a daisy-like that i brainstormed with sam during train game so she has some mean girl core deep inside still lmao
hello! ♥ crawling into bed, but was considering making second character fill mara's line for the ex-network messenger - but i wanted to make sure/check what specifics you were looking for first!
long story short: this is a very open-ended open and mostly exists to give the PCs direct access to the Network NPC faction without having to always go thru my characters. They'd have a little extra info on the Network, and they can have whatever kind of relationship you'd like with Mitzi Skelton, the local Network NPC. But besides that we can mold it to whatever you're interested in doing with the line.
Here's a blurb I wrote awhile back for a lil more context:
Mara is working with The Network on establishing trade routes around the PNW and west coast as well as out into the Great Plains and beyond. I was imagining this person was a former deliveryperson for the Network, doing like Pony Express style deliveries on horseback, so they wouldâve met Mara a handful of times when they were in the Quad area so she could talk to them about like road conditions, how other areas of the country are doing, etc.
Since they used to work for the Network, theyâd know the NPC in the area (who is a woman named Mitzi Skelton, but I have not made many concrete decisions about who she is or what sheâs like yet â your character can have basically any relationship to this NPC that you want them to, whateverâs interesting!), and also have access to a little more information about the Networkâs goals, projects, and structure than other characters in the game.
For coordinating plot stuff, I donât have super specific stuff in mind for this yet bc I did want the game-wide plot to be flexible so the characters could focus on what interested them. Sam/John is currently working on a plot to get the power grid back online which I imagine the Network could be good support on for example!
that totally works! since i was thinking of very much a: was looking for someone and that didn't pan out, now attempting staying in one place a little bit more situation. not a terrible break with the network, just kind of exhausted that resource and is more than happy to do shorter delivery runs for mara instead.
and i can definitely leave things vague on the whole network front so that they can go whatever way they need to/works best as things go ahead.
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And then at the end, John comes back to Lundegaard and Roswell can be like "Why did you barter 20 lbs of rutabaga for 2 boxes of Kleenex what the fuck" and John will be like "I was having a conversation :("
Still thinking about Lundegaard Brunette Man Brain Trust scene thoughts... There's a lot here to work with (positive).
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also very happy to move thru a few little scenes if you want to hop around and do the bar thing and also a roswell/john scene at the end!
The OG Whitney Group
My tentative idea for this group was that they all sort of formed a pack specifically because they were good at going out into the world and scavenging for stuff, and they kind of organically developed their method of scavenging for High Value Items to trade for essentials together as a group. I imagine they were living perhaps in some kind of second-story office building situation before they decided they should relocate and found Whitney Field.
I think itâd be funny if Lolaâs scav mentor/former head of the Scav corps was also part of the OG group and like a crazy daredevil parkour guy who was always pulling ridiculous stunts but somehow never got hurt and just had a generally âIâm invincibleâ attitude which makes their death hit a little harder⌠the antics caught up to them eventuallyâŚ
Maraâs NPC bodyguard Barrett is also part of the OG group so here is a lil info about him
I imagine theyâve lost a good chunk of the group over the years but there are perhaps like one or two other OG members left who are still at Whitney besides these four :|a
Re: The OG Whitney Group
The death of [Parkour RyGo] hit Lola hard and has shattered her confidence an eensy, weensy, teeny major bit. But sheâs putting on a brave face for the sake of the Whitney Community. Has somewhat cracked down on parkour to the extent she can crack down on anything.
And Iâm down for all these other ideas! Lola is pretty đ§ at Mara and Barrettâshe knows Mara cares about him but finds the dynamic intriguing regardless of her understanding of its core.
Re: The OG Whitney Group
i think my opinion is the least relevant toward lola's now-dead mentor but i do love him being an adrenaline junkie parkour man
and unfortunately i think billie sees absolutely nothing questionable about how mara interacts with barrett though take that with a grain of salt because i am still fully figuring out her personality entirely but she was at one point in her inception something of a daisy-like that i brainstormed with sam during train game so she has some mean girl core deep inside still lmao
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long story short: this is a very open-ended open and mostly exists to give the PCs direct access to the Network NPC faction without having to always go thru my characters. They'd have a little extra info on the Network, and they can have whatever kind of relationship you'd like with Mitzi Skelton, the local Network NPC. But besides that we can mold it to whatever you're interested in doing with the line.
Here's a blurb I wrote awhile back for a lil more context:
Mara is working with The Network on establishing trade routes around the PNW and west coast as well as out into the Great Plains and beyond. I was imagining this person was a former deliveryperson for the Network, doing like Pony Express style deliveries on horseback, so they wouldâve met Mara a handful of times when they were in the Quad area so she could talk to them about like road conditions, how other areas of the country are doing, etc.
Since they used to work for the Network, theyâd know the NPC in the area (who is a woman named Mitzi Skelton, but I have not made many concrete decisions about who she is or what sheâs like yet â your character can have basically any relationship to this NPC that you want them to, whateverâs interesting!), and also have access to a little more information about the Networkâs goals, projects, and structure than other characters in the game.
For coordinating plot stuff, I donât have super specific stuff in mind for this yet bc I did want the game-wide plot to be flexible so the characters could focus on what interested them. Sam/John is currently working on a plot to get the power grid back online which I imagine the Network could be good support on for example!
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and i can definitely leave things vague on the whole network front so that they can go whatever way they need to/works best as things go ahead.