betwixtbetween | TEMPLAR PLOTTING CLUB

NEW THREAD FOR NEW PLOTTING, SUPER EXCITING.

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??

my little pony jamjar

hey i'll try anything twice

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

I swear this is Elle I'm just too lazy to switch out of meme tagging mode.

Now all I can imagine is them being trapped in Minas Tirith fighting the hordes of Mordor because look at all those tiered city levels you could jump off as a shortcut. Plus it has undead, dragons, possession, copious numbers of orcs and goblins...

I have the utmost faith in all three that they could continue delivering snide one-liners well after taking a sword to the stomach.

Rarity is best pony except when she freaks out because you're checking if the tiny horse is alive.

oh god canon points uhhh. I mean I can and will play douchetair if that is what is desired but that version doesn't have a particularly long lifespan. YOU PICK..?

Pardon my delighted Basara shrieking here for a second you play tsuruhime screams i can never find basara people. this is the best day.

Maybe we could roll with that then. Or at least a really similar setup - it might work if we have that to base it off of. Plus them versus the endless armies of Sauron 2.0 gives plenty of opportunities for grudging cooperation.

That's a good point. I keep forgetting this is the canon with the long, drawn-out conversation with people who just took a wristblade to the throat.

Whatever canonpoints you guys want to go with are fine by me, too - Robert will be post-throatstab on the grounds that it makes things the most interesting.

CAN IT BE THAT WE WERE FATED TO BE BASARA FRIENDS.

JSYK Robert's side-eyeing in your icon is making me feel guilty by proxy. I'm sorry for making Altair wristblade you in the jugular. (Except I'm not because that fight beforehand is the actual worst and I just wanted it to be over.)

If all else fails we can imagine that Gandalf The NPC showed up, knocked their heads together and stormed away again shouting I WILL NOT HAVE YOUR PETTY FIGHTS WITHIN THESE WALLS

OH MAN I HOPE SO I've got a Mitsunari and a Magoichi on hand if you ever want to run shenanigans sometime.

Never feel guilt. After that fight it was a public service. (But here's an icon of him being even more accusatory anyway because he's always still blasted about it.)

Picturing that is both really really easy and really funny, so I'm entirely in support of something like that having happened and that's what started their grudging truce. Or at least started it on Robert's side of things.

wow you play dweebs-- I MEAN yes please. Tsuruhime and Itsuki are my offerings but I can pressgang an Oichi and I think an Ieyasu.

(WOW have a matching Altair icon.)

Back on topic: after deliberation their canonpoints will both be just pre-marriage so mid-1193. What else do we need to work out...

lalala too lazy to log out have two altairs for the price one one

I just want to say I'm here and have been reading but watching you guys nerd out was too cute to do anything bit chinhand

I play the most emotionally competent characters in all of Basara, I agree. And I will take all of your offerings and run with them, forever, if you want to try a thing just throw me a PM, I think Tsuruhime and Magoichi would be ten kinds of adorable, maybe a meme somewhere

-- how many altairs is a templar supposed to put up with Though I laughed when I checked my e-mail and had notifs from both Actual Urban Fantasy Heroine AND Angry Wikipedia Editor Altair. Afternoon improved greatly.

AHA yes sorry I did run off into derailing territory a bit. I am Basara'd at the moment. But also AssCreed'd! I think if you have your canon points worked out we could probably just roll right into a post, starting just pre-battle as they all glower at each other for varying reasons.

also here, you can both have this icon, which is clearly the best icon.

JUST TELL US THAT EITHER OF THOSE NAMES ARE INACCURATE. THAT'S RIGHT, YOU CAN'T.

Sigh that was not his finest hour. Altaïr's, I mean. It was pretty good for Robert.

I think my only question left is 1) have they already met 2) what did they learn about each other if so (let's face it that mostly goes for what Robert learned about them) and 3) who gets the most glares, Maria for having atrocious taste or Altaïr for stealing his steward?

NO ARGUMENTS HERE HE IS THE FINEST OF BOTH WORLDS

It's always a note of a good game when the first 20 minutes makes me laugh because someone got smacked in the face. (see also: why ac3 made me start dragging cross through every musebox i have)

I'd say 1) probably yes, insofar that someone told them to nut up and shut up about their petty angry squabbles 2) I'll leave that up to you guys though if Robert knew the two of them were involved and both Assasins it would push things along quicker, I think and 3) both. They both get the most glares. Though Altair gets the burden of his animosity because you take his life AND his best soldier? Unforgivable.

He's gonna put a baby in her too 8) twice

shh me

IM GETTING CONFUSED BECAUSE WE HAVE THE SAME ICONS jai why are you doing this to my poor brain

anyway. In that case I propose that they've met, had one blistering argument-turned-fight then been sent to various naughty corners by the Gandalf Expy, been dragged OUT of those corners when a battle starts and 'what are you doing over there come kill orcs' after which there's a tentative and highly sullen truce punctuated by occasional snide encounters in the mess hall bc nothing's actually been sorted beyond "i killed you" "it didn't stick"/"i'm an assassin" "you're fucking fired is what you are" but after that initial attack it's been pretty quiet and they're getting really good at being ships passing in the night-

AND WHERE WE AGAIN ENCOUNTER OUR ERSTWHILE HEROES, THE FORCES OF EVIL HAVE INFILTRATED THE FIRST RING AND CORRUPTED A DISTRICT OF CIVILIANS AND GUARDS whilst all three were in that district on leave or sth so they had to band together to survive the Mordor Zombie Attack and here we are. They're all tired and probably more than a little bloody and everything's only just stopped being on fire and screaming.

yes totally one should come up eventually i will keep a close eye on bakerstreet. I HAVEN'T. do you have links to where I can watch it because if so I am all over that.

KA-BAM.

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