House of Cards OOC

This morning Victor and Zoe left for the Spade Outpost so that she can audit the hell out of their accounts to see if that helps fish out the embezzling culprit. This will take two days; after that, Victor is taking her off to Paris/Vienna for a real honeymoon.

They shall return in 5-7 days. I know. I'm so exact.

We survived Southern California. It was a miracle, I swear. But anyway, looking to get back from hiatus here soon, and since I missed the last "plotty post thing", I'll offer up my kids now that I'm not running around like a chicken with its head on backwards. Because I srsly need some posty ideas, lovelies.

Ethan A♠--is working very hard to settle into the new job, workaholicing like a boss (much to Kee'lah's dismay, I'm sure) and is still pissed at Amy (idek why, but he is)

Ivona 10♠--her main function is to make Clive's life miserable. Other than that, she has a hard time not looking down her nose at, well, everybody.

Theo K♥--is more than likely looking for a replacement Jack. (Was there an IC reason for Mano's disappearance or are we just winging it?) And also workaholicing a lot.

Juliette ɉ--is being weirder than usual, skulking about due to her massive mental problems, hiding from everyone and refusing to talk when she is found.

Hit me, bros. And yay for finally being home!

So I was going to try to catch everyone involved in chat, and then I realized the likelihood of that actually happening was somewhere between slim and none, so HERE WE GO.

The general idea is that a ring of low-ranking Cards working primarily in Deck finance - either at the Castles, or at the bank in Town - concoct a plan to siphon off funds from the Suits. Also involved - possibly even the mastermind behind it - is Nicholas, the Diamond psychiatrist. They start with trace amounts of money that shouldn't really be noticed, but as they get bolder and more overconfident, it comes to the attention of characters working in those departments - namely Zoe in the Spades and Rita and Iggy in the Hearts. NPCly, Leona probably notices in the Clubs and Lotty Berthier in the Diamonds.

This puts the pressure on the embezzlement ring, and especially Nicholas, who is keen to cover his tracks. He first kills Edison O'Brien, the Five of Spades who was their inside man for the Spades, and then Lotty Berthier, who was susceptible to his flirting but now suspects something.

These two deaths lead to Cadogan getting rid of this Problem Diamond by killing him and trying to clean up the mess.

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This is just what I've come up with after conversations with Song and Scy about it; obviously, other characters should be and can be involved! Particularly, I think it would be a great opportunity for the accountants to all get together and do stuff. And if anyone's like NO THIS WOULD SUCK CHANGE IT TO THIS about any of these things, I am totally open.

But...Avery has left for vacation in Italy and will be back in a week. Presumably Ethan will be joining her after Amy's challenge.

Säde and Leigh will be away from the Deck starting today until mid-April, in Finland to observe Säde's brother's and mother's death anniversaries. Any Suit business that can't be resolved by the other three Face Cards or over the phone is likely to have Säde snarling when she returns. (Peter's interrogation goes on with Avery and Cadogan leading.)

Annie, Iggy and Rap go on as usual.

Also, March's Gossip Card is up!

Friday, Saturday and Sunday sees a bevy of beauties leaving the Deck for Venice, where they will enjoy a spa weekend, questionable entertainment provided by the bridesmaid, wining, dining, shopping and most importantly pampering of the bride, one Zoe Kattalakis. They'll return either Sunday at some point or Monday morning depending on the individual. Absent will be:

Zoe, Sophie, Blythe, Annie, Edie, Leona, Riley and Teresa. It's rumored certain menfolk may make an appearance, some known and some not known (oh, Blythe). Shenanigans may be watched here. They probably all have their cell phones in case anyone really needs to get hold of one of them.

Until Monday!

Tomorrow is the first night of Passover, and lucky Elisha has been Summoned to New York to partake in a seder with his straight out of Gossip Girl charming Kagan relatives. He's dragging Hadyn, Eileen, and possibly Leona along with.

They will return from war by Wednesday at the very latest.

So we thought it might be helpful if there was a place players could come and put down what their characters were up to in regards to the plot, since there's a few things happening at once and we don't necessarily want something to get overlooked or toes stepped on. Plus people who aren't sure where they should get involved might get ideas. And basically everybody can hash out what they want to here. So...go to town? <3

To get things started, there's a few comment headers below for threads, if you've got something going on with that. Feel free to create your own threads if there's something we forgot (probably did, it's getting late!).

Going to be on slow/possibly hiatus for the next two weeks or so because of midterms, Spring Break, and the plague. Should be back properly by the 16th!

Love ya!
Drea

Taking a break from computer life for a week or so, peebles. And...going to go ahead and drop Claudia since I don't see her making AC this month anyway. Bitches are just exhausting to write, omgwat. Will be slowly catching up on existing tags/threads, but making an official hiatus post because I won't be starting/tagging anything new for a bit.

Effects Ethan (cutslikeaspade), who will be doing his thing in the armory and scowling at anyone who leaves shit where it doesn't belong, Theo (holdsmyheart), who's going to be getting on with the being of King for the Hearts (and still looking for IC PA's for all the Royals) and Juliette (jokeswithknives), who's going to be riding her gigantic horsie around and stealing all the apples from everywhere ever.

Take care, lovelies. <3

So, since I'm a busy bug, I'm going to be extending my hiatus. I didn't even really rediscover the internet until today, and I'm out of town this weekend, and then I leave on Thursday for Spring Break. So, I'm going to label this hiatus until 3/12. I might have tag ability while I'm at Emma's, but I don't want to make promises.

SO!

• Karisa is library assistant-ing around, and also being a waitress at MacKinnon's. She doesn't have much CR, so this one isn't difficult.
  
• Pierre is. Doing things, idek. Muzy and Emma have NPC rights here. If you need him for something, ask me first.
  
• Silas is having a panic attack loving on Dr. Caleb being a King. NPC capacity falls to Muzy, Yin, and Qi, basically.
  
• Amy is being sober like a pro. Probably trying to put her hands in Clive's pants, too, but whatever. Also being a nosy bitch and trying to figure out just what Mr. Callender is up to, on top of training for a challenge and working her ass off.

Contact deets are the same as my last post. Use them if you like~

Love,
Kelsan

So we posted an application for a new mod at the beginning of the month and are finally announcing the result of that.

So you can now also go to Muzy for all your mod assistance needs!

Questions or comments you can put below or PM the mod account and we'll be happy to discuss it. :)

In a minute (or tonight, considering I have to go to work), Avery will be posting about an election for the Lord or Lady of Misrule for the Diamonds' Feast of Fools. Now, I could RNG, but it's far better to get volunteers, I think, so that the person named actually wants to do something with it.

If we don't get a volunteer, it'll be an NPC and you'll all be subjected to the most ridiculous decrees I can come up with on the 28th.

So. Help? :D

I will be in the process of travelling back to +8 for a month over the course of the next few days. Internet access may be dubious as I airport/hotel hop, so if I dissappear for a few days, that's why, and I'll be seeing you from the other side of the world. <3 If not, you shall be hit with all the tags as per usual. :3

Not making this a hiatus because it's so brief, just thought you ought to know!

♥♣♦♠
~Drea

As Hanukkah begins at sunset today, Elisha and Hadyn are gone for the next eight days, returning after Hadyn has been inflicted with a week of Jewish family togetherness and they've both eaten everything that can be fried in olive oil.

Elisha may be available via phone.

This is hell week, so I'm going to be slow to do much of anything until after class Friday night. Next week is just finals. Pfft. But this week, I have three tests and a ten-page paper due (plus the other test and thirty assignments I had due Monday) by Friday, so things are a little crazy. I promise I will be back to full speed starting Saturday. I love you guys. <3

~Kels

Affected: bitchwithabite; karatofquality; hommesadique

For reasons noted in my previous post, my slowatus will be a hiatus until the end of the month, to officially end on December 2nd. I love you all, but at this exact moment, I don't have the brain for an organized game.

I will be around the AIM still.

This morning, Victor and Zoe departed for a five day romantic getaway in Prague with far more dresses and shoes than any woman needs. They will return on Friday, having missed the Halloween festival - which was sort of the point.

However, because no Victor trip off-Deck is complete without death or confronting the past: Ben will be slipping off-Deck tomorrow to aid Victor in killing Agent Hamish Ramsay of Interpol. Agent Ramsay was once Sergeant Ramsay of the Grampian Police Force and Ben's superior officer, and he's been chasing Victor ever since he and Ben initially arrested him thirteen years ago.

So now he gets to die.

Best vacation ever.

As far as Ben's Face Cards are concerned, he'll be off-Deck two days to take care of a personal issue. Which...isn't exactly a lie.

A new card was added, please welcome her to the game when she posts! :)

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Okay, so...since it has been several months since Argine was officially dropped and the person who was interested in adopting her has left the game, to make the post of Queen of Clubs fully open, we are just saying that, due to her health concerns and so she can focus more on her daughter, Argine has chosen to retire down to the rank of Ten and leave open the rank of Queen for someone else to manage.

Apparently, Elisha's recent trip off Deck brought the fact home to her that she is no longer fully capable of being Queen and thus, for the health of the suit, she is choosing to let it go to someone who can. There is no formal announcement, but the gossip will likely spread quickly.

In Briony's last post, she and Cooper came up with the idea of a community garden to be put on the Green where the fallen trees are from Gustave's magic - sort of a way of taking what's been destroyed and making it into something the entire Deck can participate in.

I think it'd be a fun, light thing for people to participate in, and I can think of some Cards who'd probably be interested - but I'm wondering if people would like to volunteer their people to be people that Cooper and Briony talk to about it? I'd also love garden ideas! I vaguely have some idea of flowers around the perimeter and fruits and vegetables towards the center, but I haven't gardened since college, so anyone with more experience and ideas should throw them at us.

Thank you! :D

Muzy