Give Em Hell plotting, 10 Days In Limbo Edition - Kahl is gonna make some Magic Masks. TLDR: some power ups for bargizens, some (temporary) Fuck You Up and Turn You Against The NS for NSenes if that's interesting for you
SO a thing he can do in canon is carve masks using this particular ancient art and stain them with blood (including his own godsblood) and then they Invoke Powers when you wear them
in canon he uses some of them to make a bunch of revoluntionaries into superpowered suicide bombers + also the bombs, which isssss intense for RP and I don't want to go that far
doing it is one thing, being sort of mind controlled into it is another thing, being sort of mind controlled into it as a sideline of a much bigger plot a third thing etc
anyway I think it does make sense for pyotr but it's very, uhhh casual for Kahl? so that feels....idk anyway if anybody WANTS their NS person to get stuck with that I'm game but since it takes away other character agency its a different question
but THE POINT IS I was thinking to give him something to do that isn't just trying to kill everyone for 10 days straight, he will be making some masks! and starting in a few days he will start handing out useful ones and leaving Dangerous ones Around, on the principle that the NS is full of idiots just like the barge
the Dangerous Ones I think are going to basically hook into the person and drive them to sabotage the NS, using their own knowledge of her systems (whatever that is) or Fight Their Friends (which could backfire/be fraught and fun angst if they are canonmates with bargizens)
and I think if he does not make them Full Suicide ones, the mask can fall off after the sabotage Damage is Done and the NS folks in question have to decide whether to warn everybody or not admit that they put the thing on
1. John would offer blood btw 2. Saga would offer blood as well (and hers is Probably Weird) 3. Signy (similar powerset to Ulla) is also helping the Barge
(RIP Fjerda, sorry about that time Ulla had a temper tantrum and sang a storm so big it sundered your coastline, drowned a city, and blanketed the country in permafrost)
...he also might ask Durge on purpose as a like. he wants to do good things for Durge because!!!! children betrayed by their terrible godly fathers!!!!! but he knows Durge is more likely to ask for anything he needs if Kahl has already gotten something from HIM and explicitly Owes Him A Favor
he would be trying not to let any info get out to NSers but if she's got magic enough to Suss Out What He's Doing and convinces him she's on team barge, he'd take it
yeah, that works! he's putting Some effort into concealing his efforts from Asmodeus and Hela etc, but not Maximum Effort because they're honestly small potatoes compared to Nahadoth and Yeine and Nemmer
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working on a post for this - Kahl is gonna come dreamwalking and politely ask John if he can talk to some of their mutual ppl that way, would he probably agree or would you rather write it out before I assume those starters can be set in dreams?
but he doesn't want to hurt anybody from the barge with psychic fighting so he's bein polite (and also this will get a chance for them to discuss John Blood Maybe)
...now I'm idly wondering if SOLDIER blood counts as magic, considering they're full of mako. but I'm pretty sure none of the SOLDIERs would even remotely agree to giving any of it away XD
I think Sweeney's blood could definitely help target-to-Cap'n but it would still route through the accessible presence of the Cap'n's power (ie the mast - and that'd be some info for them as well)
(also if Iris is the one wearing it, it would like....kindasorta make her an avatar of, not Sweeney's personhood, but like the concepts he represents/is bound up with, for a short time - cool intimacy stuff there maybe?)
2. Saga would offer blood as well (and hers is Probably Weird)
3. Signy (similar powerset to Ulla) is also helping the Barge