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[Dread]

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STRENG GEHEIM

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin

Recommended Levels: [REDACTED]
Recommended Classes: [REDACTED]
Risk Level: High..
How to Get Involved: [REDACTED]
% until plot is ready: 50%
% of plot completed in game: 0%

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Glory to Vladantilan!

"Nothing is evil which is according to nature." - Marcus Aurelius

Recommended Levels: Any
Recommended Classes: Rogues, Bards, or any Socially-Oriented Classes
Risk Level: Medium-High.
How to Get Involved: Be active and around in Dementlieu
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%

[Drekavac]

FIN

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The Black Army of Navorhan

“Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.”
Elbert Hubbard

Word has reached Western Barovia the movement of a rebel-friendly band of mercenaries calling themselves Fekete Sereg. The entry of this force armed with gunpowder weapons and modern tactics, battle-hardened on western battlefields could only end in bloodshed...

Recommended Levels: Any
Recommended Classes: Any
Risk Level: High.
How to Get Involved: Be active and around in Barovia. Rebels, Garda, and Criminal groups will find much to do.
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 25%

You may also contact me specifically if you are interested in the rebel side of things.

[Dread]

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“At the round earth's imagined corners blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go ;
All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow,
All whom war, dea[r]th, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance hath slain, and you, whose eyes
Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe.
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space ;
For, if above all these my sins abound,
'Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace,
When we are there. Here on this lowly ground,
Teach me how to repent, for that's as good
As if Thou hadst seal'd my pardon with Thy blood.”
― John Donne

Recommended Levels: Any
Recommended Classes: Any
Risk Level: Medium-High.
How to Get Involved: Be in or close to the Church of Ezra faction.
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%

[Dread]

The Silent Partner

(credit to CosmicRay/DM Erebus for concept)

"When I started out I was just a peddler moving across the blind face of a distant land. Moving, always moving. Always gone... and in the end I'd always offer weapons. And they'd always take them. Of course I was gone before they realized what they'd purchased." - Leland Gaunt, 'Needful Things'

Recommended Levels: Any
Recommended Classes: Any
Risk Level: Very High.
How to Get Involved: Be active and around in Dementlieu
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 60%

[Dread]

The Time of Unparalleled Darkness

“On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.

On the day the world ends,
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street,
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.

And those who expected lightning and thunder,
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels' trumps,
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born,
No one believes it is happening now.

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet,
Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
No other end of the world will there be,
No other end of the world will there be.”

― Czeslaw Milosz, "A Song on the End of the World"

[DM Brimstone]

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Frostbitten



“Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.” – Catherine Fisher

Features:
Domains: The Frozen Reaches – Vorostokov.
Levels: 5 - 10
Classes: Any.
Alignments: Any.
Risk Level: Medium - High.  Permanent IC consequences are possible dependent on choices.
Themes: Tyranny, Oppressive Elements, Arrogance, Degeneracy.
How to Get Involved:  Express interest through forum PM or discord message.   ((All spots filled))
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%[/s]

Additional Notes: This episodic plot consisting of three to five sessions will be run nightly from roughly 8/9PM CST to ~ 12/1AM CST (possibly with a weekend session for a denouement, if needed).  During the course of this plot, your PC will be unavailable outside of the plot so make arrangements with an alternate character if you plan to play outside of the event’s duration. 

Six to eight slots are available starting with players that have never been in a DM event or plot before.  If all the slots are not taken, I’ll make an announcement and expand the involvement criteria, but this is intentionally designed for an opportunity to those that haven’t experienced a DM plot/event before.  This plot will kick off in one to two weeks and occur during the week. If you wish to create a new character for it, go ahead and start their play and RP.  Bear in mind the encounters will be balanced for the level range listed above. Feel free to message me on discord or via forum PM if you have questions.[/center]

[Drekavac]

The Forbidden Melodies

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ― Leonard Bernstein

Recommended Levels: 5-10
Domains: Kartakass
Alignments: Any.
Themes: Adventure, Storytelling, Mystery, Monsters
Recommended Classes: Any.
Risk Level: Medium-High.
How to Get Involved: Vallaki Based. Contact for interest. Will have to be available for a PST-time DM. https://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=57507.msg679217#msg679217
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 90%

[Dread]

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The Forgotten Terror: Facets of a Fragmented Mind

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.” ― Akira Kurosawa

Recommended Levels: 12-16
Domains: ???
Alignments: Any.
Themes: Psychological Horror, Imprisonment, High Fantasy
Recommended Classes: Any.
Risk Level: High.
How to Get Involved: This will be a one-shot adventure that I shall do, on Saturday, March 6th, starting at 12:00 PM ET/GMT -5. There will be seven slots for players, first-come and first-serve. I will, however, be prioritizing players who have not participated in my events before for whatever reason. Additionally, I shall be prioritizing outlander characters hailing from the Forgotten Realms. PM me or shoot me a message on Discord, if interested.
% until plot is ready: 25%
% of plot completed in game: 0%

[Dread]

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The Gleam Brothers: A Storybook of Tales For Children

“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”  ― W. H. Audin

Recommended Levels: Level 10 and Below
Domains: ???
Alignments: Any.
Themes: Dark Fairy-Tale
Recommended Classes: Any.
Risk Level: High.
How to Get Involved: This is another one-shot; it shall start on Saturday, March 27th, starting at 12:00 PM ET/GMT -5.. Once again, there will be seven slots for players, first-come and first-serve. I will be prioritizing new players for this.
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%

[DM Bara]

Shay Al Mawt

 "As for all men who shall enter this my tomb...
impure... there will be judgment...
an end shall be made for him...
I shall seize his neck like a bird...
I shall cast the fear of myself into him"”

― The tomb of Khentika Ikhekhi―

Recommended Levels: 8-13
Domains: Har'Akir
Alignments: Any.
Themes: Desert, Entrapment, Claustrophobia, Necromancy, Curse
Recommended Classes: Any.
Risk Level: High. Permanent IC consequences are possible
How to Get Involved: Be active in Har'Akir and Muhar.  Available 19:30-23:00 GMT
% until plot is ready: 0%
% of plot completed in game: 100%

[DM Bara]

Shay Al Mawt plot is full with participants =) Ill update if a spot opens up!

[Dread]

Danse Macabre

"A Death blow is a Life blow to Some
Who till they died, did not alive become—
Who had they lived, had died but when
They died, Vitality begun. " - Emily Dickenson

Recommended Levels: Any
Recommended Classes: Any
Risk Level: Legendary. "You face opponents who have never known defeat, who laugh cruelly at your efforts to survive. This is suicide."
How to Get Involved: Check in-game and on the forums, be involved or loosely associated with scholastic factions like the Society of the Erudite or with other organizations like the University of Dementlieu.
% until plot is ready: 50%
% of plot completed in game: 3%

[DM Strigoi]

"She was beyond beauty as a river in a spring flood was to a drop of water.
She was sky and earth, air and music, sunlight without shadow..."     

~ Count Strahd von Zarovich

Recommended Levels: Any
Recommended Classes: Any
Risk Level: Moderate - High “Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore”. There will be points were characters will have to make hard choices. Risk of story closure is a possibility, dependent on the risks taken by the players involved.
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%

[Soulbourne]

The Widow Banshee of Berez

 “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” — Stephen King

Recommended Levels: 6-11
Domains: Barovia
Alignments: Any.
Themes: Ghosts, Hauntings, Monster-Hunting
Recommended Classes: Any.
Risk Level: Medium-High
How to Get Involved: Be active in Berez and watch for rumors of monster sightings... (Available 1900-2300 CST)
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%

How to Get Involved (Continued): Berez has posted up a bounty calling for Monster Hunters to aid in slaying the creature! Send a PM if you want to answer the call.
https://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=57962.msg688433#msg688433

[DM Bara]

The Missing

 "“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”"

― Albert Einstein―

Recommended Levels:4-10, This plot is aimed for low-mid level chars and new players.
Domains: Barovia
Alignments: Any.
Themes: Monster-Hunting, Adventure, Investigation, Grief
Recommended Classes: Any.
Risk Level: Medium.
How to Get Involved: Be active in the Vallaki area, Garda will have things to do.    Available 20:30-23:59 CEST (Central European Summer Time)
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 0%

NOTE: If you have never been in a DM plot before, are available to be IG during the playtimes of 20:30 - 23:30 CEST, are open to high-risk/high-reward play with potential consequences feel free to send me a forum PM with your character concept, background, and character name.  If viable, I’ll make a possible hook for involvement.

[Agony]

Feast of Famine

 "The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people."

― Charles Trevelyan―

Recommended Levels: Any
Domains: Dementlieu
Alignments: Any.
Themes: Investigation, Psychological Horror, Class Disparity
Recommended Classes: Any.
Risk Level: Moderate.
How to Get Involved: Be active in the Port-a-Lucine area. Times will vary, but generally US Eastern afternoons or evenings.
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 90%

[DM Brimstone]

Tarnished Gold
NCE Plot

“Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the demons in the outer dark look on amazed and recognize
That vengeance is the business of a man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind


Features:
Domains: Primarily Barovia
Levels: 4 - 8
Classes: Any though the focal point will likely be a martial class.
Alignments: Any.
Risk Level: Moderate.  Players involved should prepare themselves for potential consequences depending on their involvement and choices.
Themes: Degeneration, Avarice, Isolation, the Supernatural and Oppression.
How to Get Involved:  Look for IG clues, investigate rumors, and interact with DM-NPCs involved.

NOTE: If you have never been in a DM plot before, are available to be IG during the playtimes of 11PM CST – 2AM CST, are open to high-risk/high-reward play with potential consequences, and are playing a martial class for NCE, feel free to send me a forum PM with your character concept, background, and character name.  If viable, I’ll make a possible hook for involvement.

Due to irl obligations, the plot will kick off the night of 6/30.

% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%

Besides some small follow-ups, this plot is -FIN-

[Soulbourne]

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” – Frankenstein

Recommended Levels: 5-14
Domains: Barovia
Alignments: Any.
Themes: Mystery, Monsters, Dark Magic
Recommended Classes: Any.
Risk Level: Medium-High.
How to Get Involved: Vallaki Based. Events will range on time from noon to nights CST. Some clues have already appeared. Seek information about abnormal monster behavior and factions in conflict.
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%

[DM Indolence]

A Tear-Soaked Stage

“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Recommended Levels: 4-14
Domains: Dementlieu
Alignments: Any
Themes: Decadence, Conspiracy, Corruption, Performance
Recommended Classes: Any
Difficulty: Medium High. Potential for permanent consequences.
How to Get Involved: Be active in Dementlieu. Investigate mysteries, take risks, answer calls to aid, secure auditions and invitations.
% Until Plot is Ready: 100%
% of Plot Completed in Game: 100%

Fin.

[DM Brimstone]

Gluttony of the Covetous
2021 Winter NCE Plot

“There are few retreats that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.”
-Thomas Clarkson

Features:
Domains: Primarily Barovia
Levels: 4 - 12
Classes: Any
Alignments: Any.
Risk Level: High.  Players involved should prepare themselves for potential consequences depending on their involvement and choices.
Themes: Avarice, Degeneration, Fanaticism, and Vice.
How to Get Involved:  Look for IG clues, investigate rumors, accept risks, and being unscrupulous is a plus. Faction membership in the RVT is a probable in.  AMPCs or AMPC concepts who would like involvement can send me a forum PM.  Players interested can send a forum PM to me with their character’s background, objectives, and fears.  As usual, I’ll prioritize players that are new or have yet to be involved in a DM plot before.
Be mindful that my typical online times are late night to early morning CST (~9/10PM – 2/3AM CST) and most events/interactions will occur around those times.
% until plot is ready: 99%
% of plot completed in game: 25% (wheels are already in motion based upon pre-NCE events)

[DM Stygian Witch]

The Tepurich Terror NCE October 2019 December 2021

- Find it, kill it.

NCE 2021. No one has found it yet.

[DM Indolence]

My Bleeding Hart

A Plot for Winter NCE 2021

Domains: Barovia
Levels: 2 - 10
Classes: Any
Alignments: Any.
Risk Level: Medium High.  Potential for consequences depending on involvement and choices.
Themes: Hunting, Cat-and-Mouse, Occultism
How to Get Involved:  Look for IG clues, investigate rumors.
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%

Fin.

[Cassius]

Turn of a Friendly Card

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

Domains: Barovia
Recommended Levels: All
Classes: All
Alignments: Any
Risk level: Very High
Themes: Fate, The Monkey's Paw
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 50%

It's coming back... Keep your eyes and ears open this week.

[Drekavac]

The Slumberer in Stone

“ We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
    Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
      Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
    He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
      What powerful but unrecorded race
      Once dwelt in that annihilated place.”
― Horace Chase

Recommended Levels: 8-15
Recommended Classes: Any
Risk Level: High, potential consequences for actions taken.
How to Get Involved: Barovia-based, a notice shall be placed soon. Players interested can send me a forum PM, preference to those new to DM events/involvement. EST-based availability.
Themes: Archaeology, Investigation, Mystery
% until plot is ready: 100%
% of plot completed in game: 100%