(no subject)

[diamondonhissleeve]

I swapped one Outsider Diamond for another; Nicholas the shrink will be killed off at the conclusion of the embezzlement plot (I don't think he had major relationships with anyone so it shouldn't be too big of an issue) and in the meantime I've picked up Lucas, who is hopefully going to end up being Rachel's beau if we play our cards right (haha. Cards. Lame.).

The app grew like mould over a two week old sandwich, so the TL;DR version is that he was a soldier who after a leg injury became an aid worker, met a Diamond aid worker and then sort of married into the Diamonds in the late 90s. But unlike a certain father he didn't go off the rails when his wife died. He's more Diamondy on the exterior than the interior. I think he opens up a little easier and it shouldn't be as hard to get to know him.

I'd like to find some friends for him but due to the nature of his job (he's stationed in the Outposts), he doesn't spend much time in the Castle so that kind of limits his other relationships. I'm hoping that maybe after the last plot some people have ventured out to the uh, shifting landscape that is the Outposts and got to know him. Or maybe he could have been doing something with the Arcana that other people were doing too. He could be involved in whatever if that makes things easier - just let me know. (He has a young daughter too, I think she's 9 this year; maybe she can be the reason he goes into the Castle more often - anyway, if you're keen to make friends with this bloke, we'd make it work somehow)

Anyways, yeah, keen for plots if you can put up with my slowness. I might end up focusing more on Nick when the embezzlement plot kicks in but definitely Lucas will be popping up more often after that plot is over. Ta!

-- Scy

Comments

[diamondonhissleeve]

Yeah I had poked around to see if there was anything about what the Outposts are like, because I hadn't envisioned it to be a sea of nothing with one sad little shed in the middle of nowhere, but it seems like we can paint it however we like. I suspect there'll be a small community there - enough to have like a little township as they'll at least need that general store and watering hole, and probably an infirmary of some sort, possibly a mechanic, etc.

[alwaysmessedup]

Yeah...the idea is kind of...the people who want to be part of the Deck but really just want to do their own thing...seem to end up populating the Outposts. That and the people who do guarding. I expect there could be some form of rotation between guards who work out of their Castle for a while and then get moved out to their Outpost and so on.

[diamondonhissleeve]

Yeah it sounds perfect for him. Can definitely have encountered Johnny somewhere around there then if he was out there for any stretch of time, as it'd be a small enough community that they'd likely all know each other to some degree.