The Red String Game

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Runner:	Aly
Summary:	Lathrik Dinnsfield, his colleagues in the Stormwind Guard, and Natalyah Kensington-Whit appear to have stumbled into a complicated scheme involving Count Lester Amerith.

Key Characters
These characters are good points of contact to get involved in this Arc.

Writings for 'The Red String Game'

(2025-05-08) The Amerith Situation: Ren's Report — Reniya writes to Siamus Fallon about the cultist attack that took place at Count Amerith's manor. He encloses the report from Luqe, and Ilanya's own translation of said report.

(2025-05-07) Letter to Elle — Mordecai writes back to Elle.

(2025-05-06) Joelle Letters: Twilight Highlands — Joelle writes to Finley and Mordecai to update them on his current situation.

(2025-05-02) A Shadow of Doubt — Almeiria slips out of the main room of the Highbank inn as she trails after Fray Farrens, a man she is certain she’s seen before.

(2025-04-25) Examination of Phylogenetic Relationships and Physiological Adaptations of Mutual Survival — A study of survival mechanisms, and their implications for conservation strategies, of the Natalyah Kensington-Whit and the Lathrik Dinnsfield specimens, through an exploration of and insights into species origin and evolution in a comprehensive review of the mutualism between the two specimens. 4400~ words. Romantic subplot of the Red String Game plot.

(2025-04-21) A Short and Perhaps Slightly Annoyed Letter — The evening before Shine is due to return from the Highlands, Lena receives a second letter.

(2025-04-20) A Reply "From" Ozzy — A reply arrives fairly swiftly to Peril's letter. Both the wording and the handwriting strongly suggest a collaboration was involved in its creation.

(2025-04-20) A Formal Request For Assistance — Natalyah calls on a connection with Admiral Siamus Fallon to ask him for not one, not two, but three favors, which is how you know things are really desperate for the lepidopterist worgen who hates asking for help. 520~ words.

(2025-01-03) A Modest Inheritance — Estel Herald had an aunt. Who knew?

(2024-11-02) Reply to the Clarification — Almeiria responds to Lena's clarification about the invitation that is surely not an ambush.

(2024-11-01) Clarification to an Invitation — Lena writes back to her dear friend Almeiria about the social ambush she has planned.

(2024-10-31) Reply to an Invitation — Almeiria replies to Lena. As a friend.

(2024-10-30) An Invitation — Lena sends an invitation to Almeiria Fey, as a friend.

(2024-10-25) Oddities and Scruples — Sintha Fallon reports back to her brother with her findings. He has some new data of his own.

(2024-10-24) The Red String Game — Siamus Fallon tries to keep track of his various open questions regarding the situation between Count Amerith and… like, everyone. A lot of people. Just constantly more people.

(2024-10-24) Asking for Trouble — Siamus Fallon needs information, and sends for his favorite source of it. Relevant to the Stormwind Guards plot.

RP Logs for 'The Red String Game'

(2025-05-14) A Courtesy Interview — Subsequent to the Twilight's Hammer attack on Count Amerith's manor, Siamus is summoned to the principal's office to answer some courtesy questions. I mean Pennings' office. Officer Pennings' office.

(2025-05-08) The Rescue of Solari Farrens (Red String Game Fight) — At long last, the strings that have tied and bound both Almeiria Fey and Lathrik Dinnsfield into a web of connections, have been pulled to the center of a conflict years in the making as a team formed of friendship and love take on a powerful Void user known as the "Shadow Man" to end his imprisonment of Solari Farrens, and once and for all break his hold on the one he calls Valendra. Action and Personal Plot RP. The conclusion of the Red String Game Fight. 30k~ words.

(2025-05-08) The Reckoning and Aftermath (Red String Game Fight) — After a brutal multi-front fight against a Twilight's Hammer stronghold to rescue Solari Farrens, that had bonus captives freed from the Shadow Man's hold, the entire team returns to the Highbank Keep Inn to recover and come to terms with revelations from the fight. Part of the Red String Game plot. 8600~ words.

(2025-05-08) Druid Strike Team (Red String Game Fight) — With a dangerous infiltration to rescue Solari Farrens underway in the main camp, three druids and a rogue strike team work together to take down two towers filled with four dangerous elite enemies to ensure success. They'll have to stay on their toes -- or their creepy bone talons -- and adapt on their feet to keep them attached. Action RP. Ominously 6666 words exactly.

(2025-05-07) The Death Flag — On the night before the final battle for Lathrik's body and soul, the paladin and his Scientist of the Light share a moment in defiance of the literary device of the death flag.3K~ words. Romance RP.

(2025-05-06) Ozzy and Elle — Joelle and Ozzy have a conversation early morning in Highbank.

(2025-05-05) Red String Strategy — Following Blue Squad's successful raid on the Twilight Citadel, Dane and Shine return to Highbank, and Dane immediately gets wrapped up in Red String. The team comes together to talk strategy and make plans.

(2025-05-03) An Afternoon in Highbank — Merelda, Lena, Aze, Ozzy, Shine, Shun, Fray, and Joelle have an afternoon coffee in the inn at Highbank, getting to know one another a little better before their main mission in the region commences. ~7100 words.

(2025-05-02) Estel Makes Friends (Makes People Be Friends with Each Other) — Out there in the world is one very powerful Shadow Man who has now managed to make enemies of two separate teams, one gathered around the Stormwind Guard Lathrik Dinnsfield, and around the very-altruistic Almeiria Fey, and with the friendship making power of Estel Herald, those two teams become one with common goals. More or less. 10k~ words. Part of the Red String Game plot.

(2025-05-01) Target. Mark. Quarry. Prey. — Almeiria has a job for Shun and Estel: help her kill her master, who has finally been located. Or: Estel's two friends with extreme trust issues finally meet. Part of the Red String Game plot. ~1.4k words.

(2025-04-28) Learning It As We Go: A Farrens Family Reunion — At long last, the Farrens sons are reunited with their long lost father, Fray, proving that some things may be nurtured, but others are nature. 4300~ words. Part of the Red String Game Plot.

(2025-04-25) Settling In: Emerine and Aszera — Emerine and Aszera are sharing a room in the inn at Highbank, during the Red-String mission. That may not be all they share. ~3000 words.

(2025-04-25) Mingling in Highbank — On the day of the Red String team's arrival in the highlands, a few of them (Aszera, Averlena, Bertrand, Joelle, Merelda, Oslynn, Siamus) gather in the common room to make better acquaintance of one another. Some new friends are made? ~6100 words.

(2025-04-23) There Is Too Much, Let Me Sum Up — In preparation for action, allies are assembled to be informed of the current state of the Lathrik curse situation. Lena is there to summon the druids, Merelda and Oslynn. Then Siamus, together with Lathrik and Peril, brings the aforementioned as well as Aszera, Bertrand, and Emerine up to speed. Miss Curran is there as well, assisting Lathrik. ~5400 words.

(2025-04-23) The Patient Sentry Ghosts — Emerine heads for the highlands to give Shine a break from playing friendly ghost.

(2025-04-21) One Druid(ish), Reporting For Duty — The day after Lathrik's decline is discovered, the first assembly of help arrives, bearing good news, and with a variety of useful and unexpected skills. 1800~ words. Part of the Red String Game plot.

(2025-04-21) Give a Man a Fish — Siamus pays a call on Count Lester Amerith in an urgent quest for information.

(2025-04-21) Awfully Well Informed — At Siamus's instruction and on Lathrik's behalf, with the help of a mysterious stranger, Shine sets out to collect Fray Farrens. His strategy requires him to talk a lot, but these are the sacrifices he makes for friends.

(2025-04-20) The Deadline Approaches — Lathrik and Reniya make it back to the Dinnsfield-Kensington-Whit house with the news that the deadline to find an answer to the near lifelong affliction Lathrik has suffered just got moved a lot closer. It's time for all hands on deck, as Natalyah makes Lathrik a deal, and Lathrik risks an additional seven years of bad luck. 4500~ words. Part of the Red String Game Plot.

(2024-11-19) The Spirit of Cooperation In A Cane and the Hat of Gifts — Lester Amerith and Ilanya pay a call on the Fallons at home, to offer up some potential pieces in a widely spun game, and to assess the potential for an Alliance of disparate approaches to the law and truth with a common far more dangerous enemy. 4400~ words. Red String Game RP.

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