#plot drop: midsummer ball

    OOC:   For this event, we have instigated LOCK DOWN PAIRED THREADS, though some will be given tasks depending on their in game locations at the time. In-Game you’ll notice the Dornish guards have closed the exits in an effort to stop any of the invisible attackers from gaining entry.

    PARTICIPANTS: Any characters not mentioned in this plot drop are not present in the Great Hall at the time of the incident. Instead they are following up with the previous incidents of the night somewhere in Sunspear's fortress or on the docks as mentioned in the previous plot points.

    REQUIREMENTS: All the paired threads must have 8 NOTES minimum (four replies each) before coming to an end. We ask you prioritise these threads above all other threads and seek to wrap them up quickly as they are important for future plots and establishing what happened to your character during the chaos. We will be keeping an eye on the threads to ensure they are being worked on - and failure to engage with a paired thread will be reflected on activity checks. We have worked long & hard on this plot for you all and therefore ask you to please participate. After the completion of ball threads or tasks, you are welcome to begin plotting and posting as usual, the setting from then on will be the DAY AFTER the ball! *Please note that if you have completed all your ball-related threads and are waiting on a reply from your thread partner, please reach out to the Admin/Moderators Team for their thoughts on it!

    Based on randomised rolls of Dungeons and Dragons dice, these are the pairings, injuries and tasks for our characters!

    INSIDE THE BALLROOM

Each pair will write a 1x1 thread, titled ‘Midsummer Ball Attack’ (or something similar) and be set up until the end of. We have given a brief run down of the setting as well as any injuries your character has sustained. Some details will be up to the player, and some will be already explained, the person who is to write the starter is marked with a【 thick bracket 】but feel free to check in with your partner!

PAIR ONE:【 ROSALYN ARRYN 】& RIAN ARRYN @rosa-arryn, @rianxarryn Rosalyn has been cut by shattered glass in a low-medium fashion, as well as well as being heavily bruised (location UTP). Rian was initially knocked out after being pushed over and has fractured his wrist in the fall (healing time 2WKs IRL) THREAD SETTING: Rian is unconscious after being pushed over and hitting his head, Rosalyn is close by and pushes her way through to him, getting sliced by glass in doing so, and shakes him awake after a full minute.

PAIR TWO: NERIDIA MALLISTER & 【 ANNAYA MALLISTER 】 @ncridia, @lady-annaya Neridia has been badly cut by shattered glass on her body (location UTP) as well as broken her wrist (context UTP, healing time 4WKs IRL). ANNAYA been badly cut by shattered glass across her back, and finds herself bloodied by holding her sister. THREAD SETTING: A shard of glass first hits Neridia in her (bodily location), who collapses and breaks her wrist and seconds after Annaya is sliced across her back when the rest of the window pane falls on her.

PAIR THREE:【 CASSANA MORMONT 】& ROBIN ARRYN @cassanaxmor, @princerobinarryn CASSANA has been knocked down and lightly trampled (bruising), but due to her closeness to the edge of the room she is safe from further injury. ROBIN has been pushed over and additionally bloodied after cutting his hand on glass. THREAD SETTING: Robin has been pushed over, towards the edge of the room cutting his hand on glass. Cassana is knocked not far away, he grabs her by the arm off the floor before she is further trampled.

PAIR FOUR:【 CEDRIC TYRELL 】& NIYAH @cedrictyrell, @niiych CEDRIC has been struck cranially with a rock and is covered in blood from the head wound. NIYAH has suffered a mild concussion but managed to quickly get to shelter. THREAD SETTING: After the windows are shattered and rocks start to fall from the ceiling, Niyah is pushed into a table head-first and gets concussed, but she quickly crawls under it for shelter. She sees Cedric lying on the floor, he is awake but trying to stop the blood flow of the head wound he sustained, she reaches out and pulls him to safety under the table. 

PAIR FIVE:  ARRYK LANNISTER  &【 EMERIC TYRELL 】 @lcnnisterking, @emerictyrell ARRYK has been struck cranially by a rock that was pelted through the windows. Whilst his vision is blurry and his memory spotty, the main source of stinging pain comes from three broken fingers, which had been crushed by the crown falling from his head in the commotion (fingers healing time 2WKs IRL, memory unsure for now). EMERIC has been knocked out by the shower of rocks and glass; he has sustained no major injuries to his head, however, due to an awkward landing his right arm is broken (healing time 3 weeks IRL). THREAD SETTING: Arryk notices Emeric’s motionless body, and makes his way over to the fellow King, eventually managing to shake him awake.

PAIR SIX:  【 JALEESA TARTH 】 &  LYNESSE HIGHTOWER @throneclash, @notthatlynesse JALEESA has been struck in bodily (location UTP) with a large rock, and also lightly concussed. LYNESSE has been badly cut by shattered glass on her body (location UTP) and has a sprained ankle. THREAD SETTING: After Jaleesa was struck by the rock she knocked her head slightly on (surface UTP) due to the momentum. Lynesse has been cut badly by shattered glass and has fallen nearby, spraining her ankle.

PAIR SEVEN: 【 LYSELLA LANNISTER 】 &  MORREC CLEGANE @lysellalannister, @mcrrec LYSELLA has been pushed over and suffered a mild bodily wound (location UTP) from the low impact of her fall, the wound is bleeding and has stained her dress, but the blood flow quickly slows.  MORREC has been cut by the shattered glass (location UTP), he has managed to get to safety from the falling rocks.  THREAD SETTING: Morrec has found a safe spot in the corner of the hall, where he is attending to the worst cuts, Lysella is crawling on the ground near him. 

PAIR EIGHT: 【 WILLEM CLEGANE 】 &  DRAGAN BARATHEON @willem-clegane, @steorras WILLEM has been struck cranially by a smaller rock, and whilst his eyes scan the crowds for his lover as chaos erupts, the continued flurry of rocks causes him to seek shelter alongside other nobles beneath a table. DRAGAN is caught in the stampede of people attempting to escape from the Great Hall; in the chaos, he slips on spilt wine and is trampled under those desperately trying to flee, bruised. THREAD SETTING: Willem notices the Baratheon king on the floor and reaches his hand out, pulling Dragan underneath the table, the two taking cover as the stampede continues.

OUTSIDE THE BALLROOM

Each pair will write a 1x1 thread, titled ‘Midsummer Ball Attack’ (or something similar). We have given a brief run down of the setting as well as any injuries your character has sustained. Some details will be up to the player, and some will be already explained, the person who is to write the starter is marked with a【 thick bracket 】but feel free to check in with your partner!

PAIR ONE: 【 VICKON GREYJOY 】 &  GARLAND REDWYNE @thereapcr, @rcdwyne VICKON has just arrived in Sunspear, to the surprise of everyone, and is standing silently looking at his sister's smoking ship, the fire has been put out, but the smell of ash is strong. On the way to board The Shadow Tide, he runs into Lord Redwyne. GARLAND has just arrived in Sunspear, noting the burning Greyjoy ship in the harbour as they sailed in, he has just left the ship, the Arbor Queen, in order to gather information on what happened regarding the now extinguished fire in concern of the safety of his ship, he spots Lord Greyjoy and approaches him. TIME: During the Midsummer Ball attacks (but oblivious to it). THREAD SETTING: The two men stand upon the docks below The Shadow Tide, their men flanking them.

PAIR TWO:  ADELAYNE HILL  &【 VIDA WATERS 】 @adelaynehill, @liifewcter ADELAYNE following the chaotic events of the night before, makes her way down to Sunspear's bustling bazaars in search of her old friend to try and take her mind off the incident in her chambers. She is shocked to see the state of Vida's wagon, and begins to help. VIDA making use of the sunlight to properly survey the damage to her wagon, as well as cleaning up the mess left behind in the wake of the incident, is relieved to have Adelayne's company and help. TIME: The day after the attack during the ball. THREAD SETTING: Adelayne is sorting through a pile of scattered, half-torn papers whilst Vida cleans shattered glass from the ground, when Adelayne begins to feel as though she is being watched. A scrawny, dirty peasant Dornish girl steps from the shadows, her eyes fixed on the pair of bastard girls as she forces the letter confirming her Lannister heritage back into Adelayne's hands. Vida, noticing Adelayne's pale expression, tries to take a peek at what Ade is grasping to no avail, and demands to know what the little girl thinks she is doing. To both the bastard girls horror, the messenger is found to have her tongue slit; the only sounds coming from her being an ominous, guttural hissing before crawling back into the bustling crowds of Sunspear.

   OUTSIDE HER ROOMS — adelayne.

      ADELAYNE / ACE:   your door is violently kicked in, your small & understated room is in a state of absolute destruction. the bedding is shredded, feathers all across the room, the clay water bowl is shattered against the wall and soaking the ground.  your box of belongings: dresses, shoes, undergarments —  all have been tossed around the room and all are ripped, soaked in dirty water or damaged in some way.  there is nothing left untouched, nothing left unturned and you know what is gone before you find the obliterated shards of the small wooden box.   though you will go on to search again and again, the letter explaining your lannister birthright is gone.  that is not what scares you most.    on your bedside table, atop where the draws have been ripped out and emptied, it is neat... uncannily so.  disturbingly so.  your small shrine brought from home to honour the seven, the seven-pointed holy star, and your book of scriptures are neatly arranged, with seven candles lit.

your legs finally buckle in your golden dress, you grab the bed as you sink to the floor fighting the urge to cry out... you had never purchased candles in your rooms in dorne —  it was too hot.   and the papers on the seven, your private prayers and thanks to them...  they were carefully stashed at the bottom of your trunk, wrapped in the shawl you used to bind your hair back when you were training to join the septas.   sitting in shock for a moment, you pick yourself up and turn to the door at the sounds of masculine shouts echoing off the wall but you freeze all over again as your eyes lift higher... above the door, which is hanging off one hinge, you see the words ‘SINS OF THE FATHER’ in a dark red, dripping paint scrawl and maybe, maybe now you know why you have been targeted.

LIST OF DAMAGE IN THE ROOM: discovered after cleaning and sorting through mess

There are very few items that aren’t damaged in some way.

ALL of her new dresses have been shredded by some sort of blade and had the same dark red paint poured over them

ITEMS LEFT UNTOUCHED: a plain and modest dress with long sleeves, and a similar dress though with shorter sleeves for the warmer days, shawl from the Septas of the Seven, given to noviciates to cover their hair & ensure their modesty.  (& obviously the small shrine atop the side table)

MISSING:

The letter decreeing Adelayne as a blood member of House Lannister, last-born daughter of the Grey Lion of the West.

TASK:

ADELAYNE / ACE: One shot describing her arriving at her rooms, and going through her items to find that her document about her heritage has been stolen.

   OUTSIDE HER ROOMS — daenys.

      DAENYS / GINNY:  you slide your key into the lock of your room, solid clunk of the mechanism allowing you to turn the handle and enter.  it is slightly cooler than you were expecting, which is a nice change, and you call for a servant to bring flint to light the oil lamps.  no answer comes at your call, and you send a guard to go find one thinking perhaps they were enjoying their own celebrations but as you step further into your room to un-shutter your bedside lamp a crisp, grinding crunch underfoot stops you in your tracks.   you call for the other guard to bring one of the wall-lamps as you notice the curtains of your window flapping strangely...  you had not left a window open, had you?   as the guard confirms there are no marauders hidden under the bed, in the wardrobe, nowhere in the strangely untouched room you notice a clean sheet of paper laying neatly on your bed.

as you reach for it curiously, a loud yell of ‘OH, GODS — NO!’ from the guard you had sent to find a servant to assist you causes you to jump on the spot. both you and the guard hurry to the source of the cry, and the sight churns your stomach...  you turn away immediately as tears spring to your eyes.   the closest servants of both you and your sister have been found... bound and hung by the neck in the wine cellar.   below them, the ground is saturated with spilt wine as it appears several casks have been uncorked and tipped on their side.    as you stand, trembling in shock and fear and revulsion you look down at the paper in your hand, the one that had been on your bed.   it reads:

❝𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐞 — 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐝. 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.    𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲.❞

a tremble creeps up your spine, a tremor in your hands as you re-read the words again, willing the image of the poor servants out of your mind.  none of it makes sense, and you find yourself demanding  (screaming? you’re not sure anymore...)  for the guards to find your sister immediately.

LIST OF DAMAGE IN THE ROOM: discovered after cleaning and sorting through mess

The window is completely shattered in: they locate a large sea-worn stone the size of a large pomegranate under the bed, other than that the room seems untouched

MISSING:

Some jewellery, coins, you note nothing else out of place

TASK:

DAENYS / GINNY:  a 1x1 thread between you and @drragonbcrn when the guards arrive, it is up to you if you share the note with her (or anyone) as you try to make sense of the attack and the senseless murder of their dear servants.

OOC NOTE:

if you have been assigned a task or paired thread, (not everyone will be, it is again up to  chance!)  please do complete it as we have put a lot of energy and time into creating these and tailoring them to each character or pair. there is no word count minimum, or any conditions save for completing the task within a fortnight/14 days of it being posted.    we cannot stress this enough: it does not need to be long, the point is to have your character react to what has happened to/around them. unless you have spoken with the admins, if you don’t complete the task, or respond/reply to the paired thread it will affect your activity come the applicable check, as well as this your character will not be eligible for the next random event selection.

 while this may seem quite stern, we don’t mean it to be. though we must impress that the admin and mods put several hours of work into these posts, we know and love how you all get very enthusiastic at the idea of the random events, and we are ridiculously excited to bring them to you all, but it is very discouraging when nothing comes of the plots we post up and we have noticed this has been happening. if you have any problems please let us know via the main blog, but in the mean time —

          THE FABLED D&D DICE OF IRONFORGED HAVE BEEN CAST …

FALHAR / ALLY: as you are making your way back to your chambers, the accompanying guards inform you of what has happened. one of the guards stationed outside your door was drugged with a concoction that would send him into a deep sleep; whilst the other was found strangled to death inside your chambers. after catching a strangely familiar face in an unlikely place; falhar could not stop the lannister guards from holding down florian as it happened too quickly. taking the opportunity to search your chambers for any damage, avoiding the body of the strangled guard, you notice your desk has been ransacked, with paperwork scattered and shredded all across the floor and vital documents missing. upon entering the hallway once again and looking at the culprit’s face, falhar could not help but remember their most recent interaction, in which florian told him he was only in dorne ‘for the drama.’ quietly ordering the guards to take florian to a cell, falhar follows suit, attempting to get to the bottom of this mystery.

MISSING: 

- An important document drafting confidential information of how many men the Iron Throne could muster if the situation called for it. - An important draft engineers put together regarding developing more mobile and lighter catapults, as well as other weapons.

PAIRED THREAD: 1x1 with Florian, you are the first to write the starter. Try and get to the bottom of what has occurred in tonight’s events.

FLORIAN / DEVIN: as you are making your way to willem clegane’s chambers, you have been set up to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and have been made to look guilty of murder, breaking and entering and theft. before you can realise what is going on, lannister guards have pinned you to the ground and in the chaos you are momentarily knocked out. upon awakening, you find yourself in a holding cell, deep in the underground labyrinths of sunspear’s fortress. as your vision becomes less of a haze, you recognise the face of falhar fanghorn sat on a chair opposite the cell. how will you be able to talk your way out of this one?

MISSING:  N/A.

PAIRED THREAD: 1x1 with Falhar, try and persuade the Lord that you are innocent without giving away your relationship with Willem Clegane.

OOC NOTE:

if you have been assigned a task or paired thread,  (not everyone will be, it is again up to  chance!)  please do complete it as we have put a lot of energy and time into creating these and tailoring them to each character or pair. there is no word count minimum, or any conditions save for completing the task within a fortnight/14 days of it being posted.    we cannot stress this enough: it does not need to be long, the point is to have your character react to what has happened to/around them. unless you have spoken with the admins, if you don’t complete the task, or respond/reply to the paired thread it will affect your activity come the applicable check, as well as this your character will not be eligible for the next random event selection.

  while this may seem quite stern, we don’t mean it to be. though we must impress that the admin and mods put several hours of work into these posts, we know and love how you all get very enthusiastic at the idea of the random events, and we are ridiculously excited to bring them to you all, but it is very discouraging when nothing comes of the plots we post up and we have noticed this has been happening.  if you have any problems please let us know via the main blog, but in the mean time —

    THE FABLED D&D DICE OF IRONFORGED HAVE BEEN CAST …

   OOC:   important

    hello all!   this marks the end of the midsummer ball event in game, as you can tell there is another post to come but as of now no more starters (save for the assigned tasks given in the plot points) should be posted.

    also, from this point on you will have 10 DAYS to wrap up any threads set at the ball and any threads pre-dating it as we are on the cusp of a very special roleplay-wide event to be announced in coming days!

VIDA / PENROSE: when you arrive where you secured your wagon, you find the metal lock prised open and the wooden doors hanging open. the interior is obviously disturbed, many potted plants smashed on the floor, trampled, and samples that hung carefully above to dry seemed to have been ripped down. papers of commonly known Westerosi recipes also are thrown around, some fallen on the dry, dusty ground outside the open doors. a few yards away is your horse, Adrestia who is whinnying softly in pain. a quick inspection finds that the blood is coming from a long, but thankfully shallow cut to her right foreleg. it seems as though she had reared up on her hind legs and thats how she was sliced by the thief’s knife. after tending to her and dressing the wound, you spent the next hour straightening the damage and figuring out what has been taken. MISSING: Two (2) vials of Basilisk Blood, a poison One (1) flask of Demons Dance, a poison Five (5) flasks of brewed Moon Tea, a contraceptive & a few scrap note papers on general healing plants, nothing worrisome TASK A one-shot from Vida’s POV about having been robbed and going through her inventory.

BANNEN / TEE: your guards have caught a thin, scraggly-bearded man of dornish origins attempting to cut his way into your tent, but found himself stuck when the rusted blade snapped. he was caught by two passing members of house glover’s company and shackled. upon interrogation and a search of his bodily possessions, it appears to be nothing more than an opportune thief who picked the wrong place to burgle. if is up to you what you wish to do with the captured man, though he is a citizen of dorne.  you spend a great deal of time going through your belongings, but there is nothing out of place and save  for the small hole roughly cut into the side wall —  everything is as it should be. MISSING: N/A. TASK N/A.

OOC NOTE:

    if you have been assigned a task or paired thread,  (not everyone will be, it is again up to  chance!)  please do complete it as we have put a lot of energy and time into creating these and tailoring them to each character or pair. there is no word count minimum, or any conditions save for completing the task within a fortnight/14 days of it being posted.    we cannot stress this enough: it does not need to be long, the point is to have your character react to what has happened to/around them. unless you have spoken with the admins, if you don’t complete the task, or respond/reply to the paired thread it will affect your activity come the applicable check, as well as this your character will not be eligible for the next random event selection.

    while this may seem quite stern, we don’t mean it to be. though we must impress that the admin and mods put several hours of work into these posts, we know and love how you all get very enthusiastic at the idea of the random events, and we are ridiculously excited to bring them to you all, but it is very discouraging when nothing comes of the plots we post up and we have noticed this has been happening.    if you have any problems please let us know via the main blog, but in the mean time —

  THE FABLED D&D DICE OF IRONFORGED HAVE BEEN CAST ...

    DOWN ON THE DOCKS — morra.

       MORRA / HANNAH:  you arrive, exhausted and breathless from running to the docks of sunspear, skidding in horror in the sand with shoes long gone as you behold the shadow tide wrapped in flames and plumes of black, acrid smoke. you know the smell of burning wood, you’ve seen it many times before but this smell is mixed with the smell of pitch. you know then that this is an intentional fire. luckily, the crew are working hard and have smothered most of the fire down but the heat from the charred wood is still strong, and the damage is clear. luckily, the hull is not breached and the ship is in no danger of taking on water but the shadow tide is grounded until further notice.  it takes another hour of work and countless buckets of water before it’s safe to board again, at which time the crew all fan out to inspect the extent of the damage.  the first thing that comes to your mind is the confidential documents and correspondence between you and your eldest brother, the lord reaper of pyke detailing the new changes to the iron fleet and the growing number of new vessels that have joined the growing fleet in the last two years since your father passed. arriving at your captains cabin you find, to you utter relief, that the fire only licked at the door and the solid wood and iron lock is still in tact, un-breached. you breathe a sigh of relief as a call from your loyal men pulls your attention, the crew headcount is complete: one member’s body has been found floating in the dark waters - having jumped to save himself from the flames but perished, several have burns to their hands and arms but nothing life threatening... however a long-time loyal member of the shadow tide’s crew, RED HARRAS, a bastard sailor from old wyk, is the only man unaccounted for.  as the last man aboard the ship on patrol duty you order a stern to bow sweep of the smouldering, blackened ship in search and then you move to inspect your chambers, a worrying feeling settling in your stomach.

your suspicions are proven right when you find the back window of your captains quarters smashed in and wooden boxes broken open: clothes, shoes, smashed wine bottles staining fabrics, bedding ripped apart, papers obviously strewn about, trod on and it is clear someone has been searching viciously through your belongings. you pour over the documents frantically, hoping the confidential ones detailing the fleets growth aren’t gone —  but deep down, you know that they aren’t to be located.  after the search of the ship, red harras is nowhere to be found... and a lifeboat is found to be missing along with some rations and a sick feeling of potential betrayal sinks into your stomach. that doesn’t end the chaos of the evening, when your first mate swears loudly, angrily and yells ‘captain!!’ — pulling you from your rooms, though you pause to lock the door behind you. rough bristled deck-brushes, hard work and fresh, sea water have revealed the shocking scorch pattern of the fires origins... and clear as day in the ruined wood of the bow’s deck is the thick outline of a seven-pointed star: the holy sigil of the faith of the seven. the followers of the drowned gods are riotous, an attack on the religion of the iron isles is beyond what was expected and the malcontent spreads quicker than the fire did.

LIST OF DAMAGE TO ‘THE SHADOW TIDE’: discovered after the fire is fully extinguished and morra, with the help of her crew, has taken complete stock of the damage over a few hours.

the flames have destroyed the fabric of all sails completely

the main mast is broken; snapped in half and charcoal red-black

the other masts are also broken, burned away into blackened toothpicks

the whole deck is charred various shades of black, covered in ash and soaked wet from the effort of the crew

the railings all around the bow are compromised and burned

the hull is charred but not breached

the bow-section of the deck is the most damaged, and clearly where the fire was started and burned hottest

the back window the captains quarters has been smashed inwards

MISSING:

a lifeboat, it appears to have been cut free

a half-sword, chainmail, rations of food, wine and water

confidential documents detailing the true numbers in the iron fleet (only morra knows of this)

pouch of gold dragons from the captains quarters

TASK: 

MORRA / HANNAH: write a letter to your eldest brother the ruling lord greyjoy in first person format. strictly informing him of what has happened, the potential traitor in the crew (red harras), the missing documents and letters, ultimately asking him to join you in sunspear in the wake of the attack.

  OUTSIDE ELIA’S SMILE — nicholas.

      NICHOLAS / CHERYL:  with each step, you find your anger growing, your thirst for revenge seeming like it would be near insatiable... but then, in the darkness of the dornish evening, your feet hit a semi-solid lump near tripping over, and a choked groan leaves the ‘lump’ —  which you now realize is a man.  you look down in surprise, eyes focussing in the shadowy lamp-lit street, to see a man.  he is shirtless with blood streaming from a messy head wound, giant bruises upon his chest and abdomen, his face horribly beaten up and mangled.   your first instinct is to kneel to help, but you pause as you recognise (just) the beaten mess at your feet.  some of those bruises you know are yours from earlier... but when you were pulled away the fool had still been able to stand.

the man gasps, coughing pitifully as he struggles to breathe, but before you can decide what to do, a shrill scream assaults your ears and you instantly look up from the wheezing, likely death-bound man to see the elegant signage of ELIA’S SMILE, dorne’s famed brothel.   you lock eyes with a dark-haired woman surrounded by other prostitutes as she stares at you in horror, disgust and fear.  you open your mouth to explain but she points her trembling finger at you,   ‘lord lannister came to finish the job, he was the one who beat up my sweet ulwyck and now he's murdered him!’  the woman shrieks, sobbing as the other women wrap their arms around the woman.

then all hell seems to break loose around you.  more dornish townsfolk, drawn out by the screams and sobbing, gather around the scene with their faces contorted in rage, all seemingly condemning you as guilty.  you try to convince the hoard of dornish men and women that ulwyck is indeed still alive, but they dare not approach you, nor do they seem to believe you. shouts of ‘murderer!’ ‘foreign dog!’ only draws more attention to the scene... but then among all the hostile faces of strangers you see a face you recognise, the only one with no fury in their gaze — it’s LOREN SERRETT ( @lordlorenserrett ), your brother's master of coin.   you decide to push through the crowd, trying to keep a blank expression in front of the mob hurling insults at you. grabbing hold of loren serrett, the two of you begin to quickly make your way back to the festivities, going through the backstreets to avoid coming across any more angry locals. you are in shock and furious upon the realisation that someone has set you up to look like a brutish and corrupt lord commander. 

TASK:

NICHOLAS / CHERYL:  1x1 thread with loren serrett who had been sent by arryk to keep an eye over the lannister lion; though it looks as though loren was perhaps too late. persuade loren serrett that you were not responsible for the state of the man, that you are being set up, and try to ensure that he keeps this between the two of them. work out which one of you will be the one to inform king arryk.

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