Guest character ideas

Potential Guests in the party

 

Throughout the plot the party would occasionally be split from one another due to certain circumstances in the story; which is where guest characters would be integrated into the party to take the place of who is missing.

We have planned out a few potential idea for the guests, we most likely won't be able to use any of these in the demo. But this is all part of fleshing out our world, it was actually to start with just coming up with a replacement for when the prince leaves the party after his betrayal. Also bouncing around the idea of showing off the different races by adding them in as guest characters would give the player a better insight of them and their homes. It wouldn't be too hard to allow them as temporary team members either as they detective pair would probably require help from someone who knew the area better/ potential witness.

 

The first planned guest was Gus, right at the start of the game when all detectives are split up. He flees the party not too long into it so he isn't even technically a party member.

The integral guest, who later becomes a permanent member of the party is the Gemini mage 'Toffee' (We haven't chosen a proper name for him just yet.), he will take over the princes role, who was also the mage of the party- possibly a stronger version on him. Toffee joins due to his sister being taken, possibly by the prince - meaning that his and the parties goals with have the same destination. The prince takes the sister as she has prophetic visions thanks to her being a seer; he sees her as a big wrench in the works so removes her from the party's access. Fearing that she could see what his plans were and then tell the heroes before he would have the chance to act.

 

A Sagittarius, Scorpio, Aeries and Cancer were potential ideas for guests. We mentioned that it would be difficult to have, for example a Pisces in the party; however I brought up a possible situation that would bring them to such an event and we actually flesh out a very interesting quest. As magic is producing more disturbing strains of monsters, something new was 'born' in the water- which brings them to this case. A few Aquarius fishermen had gone missing on the way out at sea and have not returned; save for one, a female fisherman. She claimed to have heard singing and one of the fellow boats she was fishing with heading straight for it, as if in a trance. "It sounded like he was being eaten... and I saw the figure. It was a Piscean!"

The claim riles up a dispute between them and the Pisces, the party goes to investigate, however the male- Eli bows out due to his fear and focuses of the Aquarians. They find a Piscean who had been locked up under suspicion. She explains how they do not eat people nor do they have the ability to entrance people with their voices, especially just men.

The investigate further and find the source, and new strain of monster, looking shockingly similar to Pisces women- A siren. They defeat her, and settle the situation, but now the two races are fearful of the waters.