While the population of Crucible is not robust, there are plenty of other survivors to be found. All named NPCs can be interacted with, appear in network posts, and can inboxed but engagement may be limited. Threaded interactions may be resolved summary style.
Characters may accrue positive or negative reputation with npcs based on personal interactions, public behavior, and hearsay. Shifts in reputation might open up player characters to unique plotting opportunities and consequences.
In-depth threads, interactions, and plots using named NPCs might require the a favor earned from bonus activity.
Feel free to inbox any named NPC like a normal text thread using this post by denoting the NPC name and the interaction style (network, in person, etc)
eaters of sin
The so-called Sin Eaters are long-term residents of the Lonely Fortress and are so named by their preference to indulge in creature comforts to keep their servitors at bay.
Siegfried
The Kindred Scholar
RoleRecord keeping
TemperamentFriendly/Arrogant
Location(s)Library
A demonologist who has been exiled in the Crucible for a significant period of time compared to the others. He is invested studying the Crucible and their purpose within it. As the elder, he is somewhat the de facto voice of leadership among the fortress residents.
Edvin
The Lamenting Baron
Role:Steward
Temperament:Evasive/Haughty
Location(s):Tower Study
A melancholic noble who has lived within the Lonely Fortress for some time. He somewhat oversees (or mostly complains) over stewardship duties around the keep and organizes dinner parties. Mostly yells at people to clean up after themselves.
Mathilde
The Rottflower Prophet
Role:Herbalist/Healer
Temperament:Direct/Kind
Location(s):Greenhouse
A woods witch that cultivates an exotic herb garden collected from egregore-tainted flora. She serves as the spiritual guide and healer to fortress residents, often spearheading experimental rituals to try and bring equilibrium to the egregore.
Romilly
The Sorrow-eater
Role:Companion
Temperament:Friendly/Nurturing
Location(s):Velvet Parlor
A low-born entertainer who apprentices with Mathilde as a healer. She provides council and physical comfort to residents, believing that only love can beat out the darkness that prevails over all exiles. She treats the egregore like an entity to be worshiped, lovingly referring to it as Gregor.
yorick
The Gatekeeper
Role:Lift Operator
Temperament:Friendly/Snarky
Location(s):Lift station, front gate, ramparts.
A cheeky bard that manages the exit ways of the fortress. He knows the keep, the undercroft, and surrounding areas better than the back of his hand. Collects secrets and trinkets, but don't you dare call him a thief. Sometimes provides the musical entertainment to fortress gatherings.
As she finds herself with less and less control over her situation, Brienne's mind turns more and more to the things she had clung to before coming to the Crucible.
From the corner of the room she had watched the players last night, for there is little that can soothe her like a song. With no purpose for coin and only her polite applause to offer, Brienne waits until the next morning, braves the cold to find Yorick and bring him a meager gift. A small magical story tablet she thinks she's found that perhaps he might find use for: aptly titled For You, which she offers him in thanks for his entertainment, especially that one song about the boy and his boat, which she hopes to hear again someday.
Brienne is more savvy than she thinks herself; she knows that if anyone would have spotted who she seeks, it would be the man who watches comings and goings. A mummer especially would have a good eye for anyone who might stand out (and probably especially those who try not to).
She wants to know if he's ever heard tale of or seen either of two sisters pass through. Both young, not yet flowered. One, tall and lovely, with beautiful long auburn hair. The other, smaller and more plain, with dark features.
And if he hasn't, perhaps he will point her in the direction of digging up the information on her own. She does not wish for evidence of Sansa or Arya Stark here (or any young girls for that matter), but she is yet compelled to seek it; it is her one true purpose, after all.
Yorick accepts the gift quietly while Brienne makes her plea, passing the cassette over in his and with careful inspection. His gilded mask yields no further detail as to whether the gift is adequate enough for information or if there is any sort of recognition in her description of two young girls.
In the end, he will inform Brienne that he has operated the lift and ushered in new exiles for quite some time now and that he has seen every face that has passed through these halls. He informs her that he has not seen either girl matching that description, as girls so young are never chosen for the Crucible. He cannot speak to why, but he makes an off handed comment about with the rate that more exiles are arriving, that may change some day soon.
Despite the lack of valuable information, he pockets the cassette anyway. Noting that there are so many nascent spirits that come and go from this keep, none have bothered to keep a ledger of occupants for some time.
If asked as to why Yorick hasn't kept a record of exiles, as the lift operator who purportedly knows everyone by face that lives within the fortress confines, he'll facetiously note that he cannot write or read.
Brienne doesn't clock the sarcasm (mayhaps the mask is unsettling, or she is simply that humorless), and apologizes in a stuttered and confused reply, for it does seem odd that he wouldn't be learned. And it may seem like little information was given, but what a blessing he's actually bestowed on her.
Thank the Seven (thank the Briar?), she doesn't have to worry that her lady's daughters have already passed through this nightmare. For now, at least, she is consoled knowing that she will surely be here to protect them if there is a day the Crucible calls them.
It is with profuse thanks and one last compliment to Yorick's playing that Brienne takes her leave of him.
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From the corner of the room she had watched the players last night, for there is little that can soothe her like a song. With no purpose for coin and only her polite applause to offer, Brienne waits until the next morning, braves the cold to find Yorick and bring him a meager gift. A small magical story tablet she thinks she's found that perhaps he might find use for: aptly titled For You, which she offers him in thanks for his entertainment, especially that one song about the boy and his boat, which she hopes to hear again someday.
Brienne is more savvy than she thinks herself; she knows that if anyone would have spotted who she seeks, it would be the man who watches comings and goings. A mummer especially would have a good eye for anyone who might stand out (and probably especially those who try not to).
She wants to know if he's ever heard tale of or seen either of two sisters pass through. Both young, not yet flowered. One, tall and lovely, with beautiful long auburn hair. The other, smaller and more plain, with dark features.
And if he hasn't, perhaps he will point her in the direction of digging up the information on her own. She does not wish for evidence of Sansa or Arya Stark here (or any young girls for that matter), but she is yet compelled to seek it; it is her one true purpose, after all.
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In the end, he will inform Brienne that he has operated the lift and ushered in new exiles for quite some time now and that he has seen every face that has passed through these halls. He informs her that he has not seen either girl matching that description, as girls so young are never chosen for the Crucible. He cannot speak to why, but he makes an off handed comment about with the rate that more exiles are arriving, that may change some day soon.
Despite the lack of valuable information, he pockets the cassette anyway. Noting that there are so many nascent spirits that come and go from this keep, none have bothered to keep a ledger of occupants for some time.
If asked as to why Yorick hasn't kept a record of exiles, as the lift operator who purportedly knows everyone by face that lives within the fortress confines, he'll facetiously note that he cannot write or read.
no subject
Thank the Seven (thank the Briar?), she doesn't have to worry that her lady's daughters have already passed through this nightmare. For now, at least, she is consoled knowing that she will surely be here to protect them if there is a day the Crucible calls them.
It is with profuse thanks and one last compliment to Yorick's playing that Brienne takes her leave of him.