(April 17, 2018 – 2:03 PM)Aldous Crouch Wrote:  

(April 17, 2018 – 1:07 PM)Bella Scrimgeour Wrote:  A: For "The Blackmailer", I think a UC/MC or otherwise notable character would best suited. This is because as WC could simply be quietly murdered by the characters being blackmailed without much inquiry, and that would be no fuuun.

JUST SAYING that there are highly-public/notable WC people too who would be noticed if they went missing! Also a good blackmailer never reveals themself

ANYWAYS BACK ON TASK: what sort of "commitment", for lack of a better term, would this be for the blackmail-ees? I have a couple characters that could for sure work, but am wondering if this is an individual threads thing, a group threads thing, do I have to solve the mystery or can I just exist, etc.!

when am I not up for making my characters' lives difficult lbr.

Touché :P

I was thinking that, if there was no "played" blackmailer, NPC letters could be sent out to the blackmailees notifying them that knowledge of their secrets were in the possession of the blackmailer, and to prevent it they had to do "X". That would likely result in a thread where they had to handle that and any subsequent gossip.

Depending on how perceptive a character might be, they could notice potentially similar things happening with others and initiate threads with other blackmailees, but that would be up to the player's discretion re: who initiates contact.

My hope was that 1-2 of the blackmailees would the the "sleuth" sort of characters (hence why I'm waiting before throwing in a character of my own) who would find hints in letters or in the rumor mill and get all the characters together in the end, where they would hopefully find a way to either blackmail the blackmailer or just end the antics all together. It's easier to see where it goes when we have all the characters lined up (since it's much easier to figure out who would be more inclined to what when there's actual names attached), but I'm up for having characters tentatively signed~

SO BASICALLY depending on your characters' personalities, they could take a more active role in solving the mystery or be passive and have their fate rest in other people's hands :P