Post-death shenanigans can be excused with IT WAS THE APPLE and other sundry science-magic. I'm sure Altair wasn't 100% great with keeping the apple under control or hidden away all the time.
YEAH HE'S NOT ALWAYS THE MOST ORGANIZED. Actually it occurs to me I should ask if there's any particular point in Maria's timeline you'd be most interested in playing with since she's...got more of one to work with RIP ROBERT NEVER FORGET. Like the ~official~ canon point for this journal is post-Bloodlines pre-Assassin boinking but I can roll with pretty much anything up to the point that she stops resembling her icons.
I'd be happy with any and all of them, really, though it seems like it'd have more conflict/be more fun to have them trying to deal with the fallout of After It Turns Out The Templars Are Assholes (2nd ed., feat. magic ressurrection) - so the canonpoint she's at would be perfect if you're interested.
If there's an earlier/later canonpoint you'd like to try out sometime, I'm game for that too! Though I warn that I'll probably be taking a lot of historical accuracy for granted. AC was not kind to the crusade timelines.
That sounds great to me. Like you said, we can always try something else out later, and this is closer to a crossroads point for Maria. So, maybe something like...I don't know, Altaïr's off fucking around whatever the hell city they're in and she pokes the apple and SUDDENLY ROBERT in a hail of sparkly magical plot bullshit? Or something. Those Roman assholes who came before built some trolling capabilities into the thing.
Ahahaha oh yes that is fine. My version of historical accuracy when RPing this fandom mainly involves pestering my English friend (because she JUST KNOWS how things were a thousand years ago) and rolling around Wikipedia.
That's basically how everyone works the Apple anyway, so it works for me! Maybe it's some recreation out of her memory - not real so much as a projection that thinks it's real, something the came-befores made up to pass the time and remind them of lost loved ones or something. Or to remind people they hate of enemies. Trolls to the last and then some. She winds up accidentally triggering that and BOOM?
SAME HERE, except instead of a friend I have a handful of books and terrible movies to supplement me. (Kingdom of Heaven should not count and yet here I am)
Perf. And honestly in terms on interaction and characters being confused it doesn't really matter if he's real-real or just applicious-real. BOOM.
Hahahaha that makes me laugh harder than I really should because said English friend just recommended Kingdom of Heaven to me today and I'm debating picking up the extended cut just for "research." And the only reason I haven't picked up Alamut, the inspiration/basis for a lot of AC1, is because lololol huge list of unread books already sigh.
Pretty much. He's ghost-real and that's fine enough for me. Plus that way she can run him through if he gets it in his mind to stop her before she loses her way too much. Do you want to set up a thing in here/in a journal and we can go from there? OR if you're busy I can start something up! It'd probably be in his journal.
Oh is it a good reference? I was never sure - I've heard reviews go both ways. I don't have the extended edition, unfortunately, but I think there's still some gift cards left I could use ... I can absolutely see the inspiration in that book, holy god damn. I'd never even heard of it. Maybe I should grab it. I've got zero books to read ATM so that might be a good thing for this weekend.
I guess I should probably start something since it'd be her apple-poking to kick the whole shebang off--it'll probably be tomorrow b/c I have to crash earlier than usual tonight or tomorrow, though, so if you're super raring to go and want to set something up I that'd be fine too. Actual tagging it on my end would just come tomorrow also. Bluh, sleep schedules.
I'm told it's a good reference for the historical climate of the time--not sure about specific events, but I do keep hearing repeatedly that the extended edition is a much better film. And Alamut, yeah, seriously--I added it to my wish list a couple months ago after reading an old interview from when they were working on AC1 and a staffer namechecked it. I know I'm going to chuckle every time they bring out "nothing is true, everything is permitted." Because I'm a dork.
That'd be fine - I can reply whenever you're ready, no rush! Depending on how tomorrow goes I might not be online until later in the evening anyway. Just toss me a link and I'll grab it like a starving lion. Or hawk, to make appropriate animal jokes.
I'll have to try and find it again, then - I bought my original copy thinking it was extended. At this point it's probably pretty cheap. HAH, I probably will too. I'll spend the whole thing just replacing the characters with the AC ones. I'm terrible at literature and no-one can stop me.
I'm so sorry! I really wanted to get the start written Friday during the day, but work got away from me and then family arrived to deliver furniture and organize forcefully organize thing and there was all kinds of running around and it wasn't until last night that things got back to normal.
BUT HERE IT IS. I hope it doesn't suck. Forgive the WORDS WORDS WORDS I pretty much always have to start with a plethora of them. But I'm super happy to have it up in any case. c:
Man, I want to be terrible at literature too. Maybe I'll try snagging it for an upcoming trip. Plane entertainment!
HEY IT'S TOTALLY COOL. These sorts of things tend to come up at the least convenient times, so no worries!
IT'S BEAUTIFUL and endless words are never a problem, especially for a start. Especially with AC characters being the stubborn bastards they are. I'll tag immediately!
It's ironic because I spent my entire English major doing nothing but literature and accompanying analysis. On the other hand, it was mostly 19th century Britlit. That balances out somewhere, I think.
I'm open to just about any setup—a scenario from the canon timeline where they're all alive would be difficult, though points to anyone who can think of something. Alternatives: Magical jamjar setting a la a game but without the commitment or official nature of a game, further Apple-summoning shenanigans, etc...? Share ideas, say hello.
Also just for reference, I added Eva Green as a supplemental PB in a fit of icon sorrow since we started the last thread.
Thank you both for inviting me into your Templar treehouse, first off. HI PLAYER OF ROBERT I DON'T HAVE YOUR NAME but I'm Elle, please treat me kindly etc.
Second: the canon timeline is so narrow for Altair after Maria is introduced (ride ride ride fight fight fight) that you'd either have to crowbar in some scene that couldn't have chronologically happened or do something along the lines of 'they met before the funeral memory somehow'... but the further back you reach for that, the less rational Altair gets so uh. Jamjar or Applanigans it is.
Hello! I'm Lex. Or at least that's where I landed after running through six or seven different attempts so that counts right.
Canon timeline would probably have to be prior to the funeral; I'm certain Maria was in the area with Robert for a while, so yeah, it would have to have been some point when Altair was still in prime asshole mode. Fun as that is, it would make things difficult to be anything other than a fight scene. So I'm also game for jamjar/applenanigans, depending on if we want to stay in the AC universe/continue on the storyline started with the two prior threads or not.
There's appeals to both really. I love the idea of them all being confused and irritable with each other in a jamjar setting, as I also love Robert being able to startle the hell out of Altair by appearing through Apple magic.
So I think this might be the first time I ever actually got your name. Which is weird after museboxing off and on for literally a year. BUT IT'S JUST WEIRD TO ASK IF YOU DON'T RIGHT AWAY, OKAY.
Also besides the two trips and a funeral I had this month (yeah that wasn't a joke) I thought Elle was going to reply to this first for like a week I'M SMART. I am tentatively in favor of made-up jamjar setting, at least to start—it'd be a change from applenanigans, and we could always do that later. And then we'd have two opportunities for setup timelines if we got bored. Variety the spice of life etc.
That's what I'm here for: the belated social niceties.
Okay so JAMJAR IT IS. I'm in favour of a survival jamjar so they're in a simple, limited space with some communal goal like 'don't get eaten by the [insert monster/animal/demon hordes here] whilst protecting the city/tower/moon crystal/princess' because that forces teeth-gritted fist-clenched teamwork...... I mean we could also try something further out like pirate ship jamjar or space jamjar or idek superhero city jamjar but there's probably a limit to what they'll accept before it stops being about the characters and starts being about how confused we can make them??
okay i'm going to track this post so i don't miss another reply like i just almost did again.
AND YES. I know how that goes. Asking gets awkward if it doesn't come up, cough. On that topic, I don't know if I know yours yet.
I'd be cool with a survival setting to start off with. Maybe a sort of castle defense thing? If they're all familiar with the territory (since they've all either been in or besieged castles) that could give them more room to try and have to get along as they're trying to fight off whatever's getting in. Alternately, having to work together to figure out a new setting would be a similar kind of trick.
That being said, confusing the hell out of them is always a good thing. They're too serious for their own good most of the time.
also did you play altair in mlj. was he adorably angry all the time.
I'd expect Templars to forget to introduce themselves. uwu This is why you always lose.
Ahem. Castle defense sounds excellent. (so many snide comments to be made) For confusion's sake we could have it be a different kind of base than a medieval castle, but if we assume they've been there for about a week already then they'd have had time to familiarise themselves with the layout so it won't impact beyond 'why are we in [a japanese fortress/an alien base/a skycity]'. Also a week is about as long as you can get before you run into each other during a chaotic attack or a council meeting or sth.
I did not, alas, but he got stuck in the stomach of a dragon with Rarity recently does that count
...you know I always thought "well my name is right on the journal's app if anyone goes looking" but IT IS NOT. Wow. I feel like my entire worldview has jut shifted fundamentally, everything I knew is a lie. Anyway hi I'm Jaina.
I like the castle idea, and possibly it could be a defense against non-humans? Or humans and non-humans, but the idea is they have to work together (along with any npcs we want) but the lack of traditional army throws them off-balance too.
Snide comments are an absolute requirement.
Elle we should probably decide canon points for the wonder couple.
If it makes you feel better, I didn't even think to check. Which would have been a straightforward and simple answer and yet I missed it completely. HI.
That all works for me. Maybe against supernatural elements if it's a castle setting - something LOTR style, or ghostly. Or dragons, because I can never not suggest dragons. Possessed humans possibly?
It'll be an endless series of snide one-liners until someone gets a sword in the gut.
yes that counts and sounds hilarious. with rarity of all people
WHOOP meant to reply here earlier. Here is a shiny new plotting/ideas thread that contradicts the cut text to this post. Assassins welcome.
Teenage Assassins + dead Templars + Dadtaïr makes me clutch at my face in rapt horror and I am so sad you didn't do that thread so I could read it now. It would probably be a more productive time for Robert if he wanted to get in their heads at all, because toddlers may be impressionable but they will also smile and nod and go off to do their own bizarre stuff. Little weirdos.
(I don't know I think that's like douchebag squared. But he can pull it off.)
oh whoops This is what I get for not tracking threads like I should. BUT I'M HERE NOW.
I was disappointed, too; we got like two comments in and they just stopped replying. And yeah, I can just imagine. Teenage assassins in the throes of rebellious stages and suddenly here's a Templar. Hi kids, who wants to learn about forbidden Templar not-magic?
BUSTS THROUGH THE WALL LIKE THE KOOL-AID MAN AFTER TWO TRIPS AND A FUNERAL WHICH SOUNDS LIKE A REALLY BAD ROMCOM SEQUEL BUT IN FACT IS NOT
That's super incredibly sad and I'm going to invent some kind of sliders device so we can visit the timeline where it continued. NO ROBERT DON'T BE A HORRIBLE GHOST INFLUENCE except yes do.
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Post-death shenanigans can be excused with IT WAS THE APPLE and other sundry science-magic. I'm sure Altair wasn't 100% great with keeping the apple under control or hidden away all the time.
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YEAH HE'S NOT ALWAYS THE MOST ORGANIZED. Actually it occurs to me I should ask if there's any particular point in Maria's timeline you'd be most interested in playing with since she's...got more of one to work with RIP ROBERT NEVER FORGET. Like the ~official~ canon point for this journal is post-Bloodlines pre-Assassin boinking but I can roll with pretty much anything up to the point that she stops resembling her icons.
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If there's an earlier/later canonpoint you'd like to try out sometime, I'm game for that too! Though I warn that I'll probably be taking a lot of historical accuracy for granted. AC was not kind to the crusade timelines.
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Ahahaha oh yes that is fine. My version of historical accuracy when RPing this fandom mainly involves pestering my English friend (because she JUST KNOWS how things were a thousand years ago) and rolling around Wikipedia.
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SAME HERE, except instead of a friend I have a handful of books and terrible movies to supplement me. (Kingdom of Heaven should not count and yet here I am)
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Hahahaha that makes me laugh harder than I really should because said English friend just recommended Kingdom of Heaven to me today and I'm debating picking up the extended cut just for "research." And the only reason I haven't picked up Alamut, the inspiration/basis for a lot of AC1, is because lololol huge list of unread books already sigh.
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Oh is it a good reference? I was never sure - I've heard reviews go both ways. I don't have the extended edition, unfortunately, but I think there's still some gift cards left I could use ... I can absolutely see the inspiration in that book, holy god damn. I'd never even heard of it. Maybe I should grab it. I've got zero books to read ATM so that might be a good thing for this weekend.
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I'm told it's a good reference for the historical climate of the time--not sure about specific events, but I do keep hearing repeatedly that the extended edition is a much better film. And Alamut, yeah, seriously--I added it to my wish list a couple months ago after reading an old interview from when they were working on AC1 and a staffer namechecked it. I know I'm going to chuckle every time they bring out "nothing is true, everything is permitted." Because I'm a dork.
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I'll have to try and find it again, then - I bought my original copy thinking it was extended. At this point it's probably pretty cheap. HAH, I probably will too. I'll spend the whole thing just replacing the characters with the AC ones. I'm terrible at literature and no-one can stop me.
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I'm so sorry! I really wanted to get the start written Friday during the day, but work got away from me and then family arrived to deliver furniture and organize forcefully organize thing and there was all kinds of running around and it wasn't until last night that things got back to normal.
BUT HERE IT IS. I hope it doesn't suck. Forgive the WORDS WORDS WORDS I pretty much always have to start with a plethora of them. But I'm super happy to have it up in any case. c:
Man, I want to be terrible at literature too. Maybe I'll try snagging it for an upcoming trip. Plane entertainment!
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IT'S BEAUTIFUL and endless words are never a problem, especially for a start. Especially with AC characters being the stubborn bastards they are. I'll tag immediately!
It's ironic because I spent my entire English major doing nothing but literature and accompanying analysis. On the other hand, it was mostly 19th century Britlit. That balances out somewhere, I think.
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TEMPLAR PLOTTING CLUB ROUND 2
I'm open to just about any setup—a scenario from the canon timeline where they're all alive would be difficult, though points to anyone who can think of something. Alternatives: Magical jamjar setting a la a game but without the commitment or official nature of a game, further Apple-summoning shenanigans, etc...? Share ideas, say hello.
Also just for reference, I added Eva Green as a supplemental PB in a fit of icon sorrow since we started the last thread.
TEMPLAR PLOTTING CLUB ROUND 2
Second: the canon timeline is so narrow for Altair after Maria is introduced (ride ride ride fight fight fight) that you'd either have to crowbar in some scene that couldn't have chronologically happened or do something along the lines of 'they met before the funeral memory somehow'... but the further back you reach for that, the less rational Altair gets so uh. Jamjar or Applanigans it is.
Re: TEMPLAR PLOTTING CLUB ROUND 2
Canon timeline would probably have to be prior to the funeral; I'm certain Maria was in the area with Robert for a while, so yeah, it would have to have been some point when Altair was still in prime asshole mode. Fun as that is, it would make things difficult to be anything other than a fight scene. So I'm also game for jamjar/applenanigans, depending on if we want to stay in the AC universe/continue on the storyline started with the two prior threads or not.
There's appeals to both really. I love the idea of them all being confused and irritable with each other in a jamjar setting, as I also love Robert being able to startle the hell out of Altair by appearing through Apple magic.
Re: TEMPLAR PLOTTING CLUB ROUND 2
Also besides the two trips and a funeral I had this month (yeah that wasn't a joke) I thought Elle was going to reply to this first for like a week I'M SMART. I am tentatively in favor of made-up jamjar setting, at least to start—it'd be a change from applenanigans, and we could always do that later. And then we'd have two opportunities for setup timelines if we got bored. Variety the spice of life etc.
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Okay so JAMJAR IT IS. I'm in favour of a survival jamjar so they're in a simple, limited space with some communal goal like 'don't get eaten by the [insert monster/animal/demon hordes here] whilst protecting the city/tower/moon crystal/princess' because that forces teeth-gritted fist-clenched teamwork...... I mean we could also try something further out like pirate ship jamjar or space jamjar or idek superhero city jamjar but there's probably a limit to what they'll accept before it stops being about the characters and starts being about how confused we can make them??
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AND YES. I know how that goes. Asking gets awkward if it doesn't come up, cough. On that topic, I don't know if I know yours yet.
I'd be cool with a survival setting to start off with. Maybe a sort of castle defense thing? If they're all familiar with the territory (since they've all either been in or besieged castles) that could give them more room to try and have to get along as they're trying to fight off whatever's getting in. Alternately, having to work together to figure out a new setting would be a similar kind of trick.
That being said, confusing the hell out of them is always a good thing. They're too serious for their own good most of the time.
also did you play altair in mlj. was he adorably angry all the time.
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Ahem. Castle defense sounds excellent. (so many snide comments to be made) For confusion's sake we could have it be a different kind of base than a medieval castle, but if we assume they've been there for about a week already then they'd have had time to familiarise themselves with the layout so it won't impact beyond 'why are we in [a japanese fortress/an alien base/a skycity]'. Also a week is about as long as you can get before you run into each other during a chaotic attack or a council meeting or sth.
I did not, alas, but he got stuck in the stomach of a dragon with Rarity recently does that count
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I like the castle idea, and possibly it could be a defense against non-humans? Or humans and non-humans, but the idea is they have to work together (along with any npcs we want) but the lack of traditional army throws them off-balance too.
Snide comments are an absolute requirement.
Elle we should probably decide canon points for the wonder couple.
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That all works for me. Maybe against supernatural elements if it's a castle setting - something LOTR style, or ghostly. Or dragons, because I can never not suggest dragons. Possessed humans possibly?
It'll be an endless series of snide one-liners until someone gets a sword in the gut.
yes that counts and sounds hilarious. with rarity of all people
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Teenage Assassins + dead Templars + Dadtaïr makes me clutch at my face in rapt horror and I am so sad you didn't do that thread so I could read it now. It would probably be a more productive time for Robert if he wanted to get in their heads at all, because toddlers may be impressionable but they will also smile and nod and go off to do their own bizarre stuff. Little weirdos.
(I don't know I think that's like douchebag squared. But he can pull it off.)
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I was disappointed, too; we got like two comments in and they just stopped replying. And yeah, I can just imagine. Teenage assassins in the throes of rebellious stages and suddenly here's a Templar. Hi kids, who wants to learn about forbidden Templar not-magic?
(Dbag cubed, possibly. He'd manage it.)
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That's super incredibly sad and I'm going to invent some kind of sliders device so we can visit the timeline where it continued. NO ROBERT DON'T BE A HORRIBLE GHOST INFLUENCE except yes do.
(Oh he would. He's ambitious.)