outofsticks | OOC PLOTTING: IT'S GONNA BE MAY

SETTING UPDATES

Kiera built us a barn. It lives in the north of the Grove, Wolfie will update the map when Wolfie has a second. You can house livestock here, as well as catch random biblically accurate animals and stuff them in here. Since the barn is owned by Kiera/Weasel, please ask Weasel’s permission before you start stuffing your own animals in there, unless Weasel wants to give blanket permission. Do not assume, do communicate, etc.
Heimr’s human now! Or human enough. He’s not sure. The name “Aldric” when referring to him is no longer garbled, but it’s also just not who he is anymore.
The Alpha Mart is gone, and the doors are unscrambled. Mr. Bone-Jangles returns to his cryptid status of only showing up during mod-mandated silly time. We miss you every day king.
? ? ? That’s it, we had a chill month last month and no one broke the setting. If we forgot something though… you know where we’re at, we’re happy to edit.

PLOT UPDATES

Spring is in its heights and flowers are blooming everywhere! Butterflies and bees are everywhere, plantimals have stared sprouting accommodating flowers if they haven’t already, and those who are Corrupted may find their flowers seem more vibrant and lively without their suffering.
The fruit trees and bushes seem more full of life as well, and relatedly, Rusty is taking it upon himself to bring residents of the grove baskets of fruits and berries… though you might have to keep him from eating the spoils of his harvest.
But it’s not Aldric’s Grove without something going… wrong. And come nightfall, every night, a shimmering purple mist wafts into the town. Though it doesn’t come into any buildings, looking at it makes you want to step into it, and stepping into it grants you a lovely vision- a perfect daydream, even! Where everything is as it should be.
In reality, as you move through the dream, you will be waltzing right into danger, only to be pulled from the brink of an imminent death at the last minute, with the dream fading. Maybe a Guardian saved you, or maybe you just managed to avoid stepping into Callan’s lake, but a death you would have happily walked into is only narrowly avoided.
The worst part is, with every venture into the mist, the stronger its pull the next night is. Good luck!
You’ve asked, and we’re answering: this month you’ll have prom! Not that… any of the natives know what Prom is. As what should be the equinox approaches, one night a friendly spirit will enter the grove to escort everyone to a secondary location. Fancy outfits, fresh food, a fountain, and even a dance floor under the most beautiful moonlight will be waiting. We assume you’re going to pick your own prom dates, but if you’re feeling unhinged, matchmaking services are available by pinging us in the mod discord.
If you play hankey pankey at Prom, you will be physically thrown out of the venue by a bunch of spirits. Do not do the horizontal tango on the dance floor, take that to the woods or your houses. Points at our eyes points at yours.
This month also doubles as a TDM month which means ? ? ? TDMers get Prom, congrats!

OOC UPDATES

We still have plothooks waiting for pickup!
As a reminder, summer is going to be full of fairly lowkey months save for player-initiated developments.

Please use the following form for plotting:

Character:
Status: Who is your character? What did they get up to last month and how is it impacting this month? Did they discover something? Are they harboring a clue? HMM
Seeking: Any CR or plot thread you want to kickstart!
Not Seeking: Anything you'd like to avoid.
Anything Else: A permissions post, opt-in for a character-specific power or whatever else.
Meme: you know you have one.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

hi this is wolfie... there's like an 80% chance I'm dropping Elsword this month so only two birds here idk I gotta think about it further

I will be TDMing + possibly bringing in another character so we'll see who sticks (haha teehee), I have lots of active muses it's just an issue of who to bring... anyway be prom dates with my TDMers thank yous

Status: Doing fine, he spent the month chillin' and makin' a leg. Chi lmk when you want this leg. It's all he's been doing ever since the doors broke, once he figured out how to get back to the lab and all. Having something to do makes a bird happy or something.

Anyway, not sure how the mist will affect him yet because Gnosis is weird like that, I think his happiest dream would be his wedding night (audience awws) and just reliving that over and over. The man is too paranoid to think anything else nice could be real. The dream mist like "I will tempt you teehee heehee" and Gnosis is like you're right I am tempted but the more idyllic shit you show me the more uncomfortable I am. SO. If you want to be rescued from tripping balls by Gnosis lmk he tends to be good at this.

And as for prom you'll never believe who he's going with wow (he will do platonic dances and/or eat the party food with you) (spoilers there will be food there ig)

Seeking: Task-based enrichment

Not Seeking: Don't murder him

Anything Else: I am sorry... for being so slow this month... tl;dr work got really busy and I had no breathing room and by the time I got off work I just wanted to go to bed and die for 8 hours. Now that I am moderately less busy at work I'm STILL exhausted but I'll get to all my backtags ty for your patience

Meme:

Hello it Chi I will make my own plotting post eventually but Gnosis can deliver leg any time! We can do a thread it will be cash money

Jury's out on whether or not he'll be practiced with it enough to do any kind of dancing at prom but lbr was he ever going to-

OKAY GREAT i'll prolly hit you up when it's actually May, it will have taken Gnosis the whole month to make that thing anyway so it works!!!

Let Wolfwood dance at prom :/

Status: Wolfie of last month: I'm gonna get Passenger out there more
And then work got too busy and Wolfie could not. Great cool we love to see it.

Anyway! Still going to try to do this! I don't know how/what he'll react to in the mists so we'll see, it would be fucked up if his dreams were just about growing up with his teacher who died haha teehee— we'll see tho. As for prom you'll never guess who his date will be— more platonic dancing is available, Passenger can teach you Sargonian dances "doesn't he hate his homeland" yes but it's like in that way where Americans hate America but it's the culture so you don't get away from it, don't make me use metaphors at 10am. Learn Sargonian (Arabic) dances. He will be dressed nice probably.

Seeking: ~~free time~~ Friends for bird, this was supposed to happen last month and then ? yeah oops sorry TRYING AGAIN THO!!

Not Seeking: Don't stab him yet. it has to be a meaningful stabbing. He deserves to be stabbed but not randomly.

Meme:

OOC PLOTTING: IT'S GONNA BE MAY

WOLFIE'S BIRDS... MINUS ONE :(

GNOSIS! HE'S HERE

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PASSENGER ! ALSO HERE!