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sticks and bones. ([personal profile] sticksandbonesmods) wrote in [community profile] outofsticks2024-05-30 03:03 pm
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JUNE PLOTTING: LET'S GO TO THE BEACH, BEACH

SETTING UPDATES:
  • Summer has arrived! It’s sweltering, the sun is shining brightly, and the flowers are in full bloom. Sometimes, biblically accurate bees bumble from flower to flower. They aren’t dangerous, they are important to the ecosystem, please treat them with respect.
  • Passenger built a cafe. It’s called the Magic Lamp, and it lies south of the therapy building with a riverside view on the deck. When he isn’t attending to it, the spirit of a capitalist can be seen running it. Like with the ghost in Luca’s bar, this one also isn’t capable of communication with you, but understands basic commands (and also begs for tips).
  • Elsword’s house is gone! Goodbye house! The eyeball lemon trees he planted remain.
  • SilverAsh is cleaning up the burned town. In a month or two, perhaps it’ll be stable enough to walk on without risking falling into a sinkhole? We’ll see. :)
  • Callan remains Corrupted, but some progress has been made to fixing him! Hm hmmm.
  • The Moon Seance (Seeyonce if you want to have a verbal tic for the next week you’re welcome) went well? Or perhaps saying it simply “went” is more accurate. Characters involved have learnt about Ourania, her condition, and how to get home. A short summary lives in the first two comments on this thread. The actual conversation that was threaded out is this way, if you’d like to peruse more.
  • Mizuki also made friends with the Cosmic Serpent that lives in the whirlpool in the sea, with Sesa as his cohort in this. The Serpent is in possession of a sun artifact from Terra now. Time will tell what this means, if anything.
  • Affogato has named the Fallen Sun/False God/Creature “Śuri”... time will tell what this means :). This information is not ICly known unless Affogato chooses to share it with the class, which means Zahliya and Nene don’t know, which means Affogato is spared being strangled by two shorties… for now.
PLOT UPDATES:
  • Run.
  • …aka we’re going to the beach! The overall map has been updated accordingly — the three new maps for this event are at the bottom of the usual gallery. How we get there is very silly, but know that it involves Moder permanently altering some of the trees with her forest magic to create a permanent (safe) pathway down that isn’t near the Lighthouse where the Danger is.
  • Unfortunately, the Creature, who is not fond of the ocean, is now tired of y’all and is trapping you down there with its magic. Stay on the beach and go play in your water you’re all weird ewww — yes, Moder will also be stuck on the beach with you. It will take her the month to break through the Creature’s magic to put you all back, but after this, the beach will be permanently accessible.
  • Other NPCs will be stuck with you — this will include the usual crop of contactable NPCs. Sinann, Callan, and the Behemoth will not be with you, Sinann is a freshwater Guardian you see. That said, if you harass the Cosmic Serpent enough, they might wake up from slumber to ask you wtf you want and babysit you. Heimr and Ydalir’s regular facilities will be accessible — Ydalir’s tent and giant turtle will be the same as always, and Heimr will be set up with his own beachfront store in an old building that looks like it needs some cleaning up. You can help him with this for dad’s love points.
  • Heimr will provide everyone one (1) swimsuit and one (1) beach outfit in either surfer or boho style, your choice, for free upon arrival.
  • As for places to live, fret not: Through a low cave filled with corals and glowing crystals is a pier where cute cabanas are set up for you to live in. There are a limited amount of these, so you might have to room with someone. Each has an attached kitchen and bathroom like the picture so that you guys don’t smell like seawater all month and can, y’know, eat food.
  • The ocean cave will flood with the high tide at night, so unless you can breathe underwater, traversing the cave isn’t recommended. Better get to bed before it floods! Or don’t, we’re not your parents.
  • This is going to be a “do whatever you want” beach event, please do whatever you want. Climb things, walk to the lighthouse, throw coconuts at each other, again we aren’t your parents.
  • Yes, there are horrible Subnautica creatures here. More info to come. You theoretically won’t be attacked by the Sticks version of a reaper leviathan… yet.
  • Next month will have more ocean surprises, stay tuned. :)
OOC UPDATES:
  • Happy summer! As stated in prior plotting posts, summer is going to involve fun but theoretically low-stress events. You are welcome to shift the plot around while you’re here despite the fact we the mods consider these events plot-light. We’re here for whatever crimes you commit.
  • Unhappy summer: The program Wolfie uses to make the maps is shutting down in a couple months, meaning future map updates past… July? August? Who even knows anymore man— may be much slower, which says a lot because they’re already pretty darn slow. Wolfie will be learning how to make maps in RPGMaker to compensate because if we don’t have the coolest map in DWRP, Wolfie will blow up. Thank you for coming (if there are easier programs to use please drop Wolfie a DM she’s trying her best).
  • As always if we forgot something in the plotting post, please let us know so we can edit!


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.

submittome: (In a world devoid of color)

Affogato oops im finally doing these

[personal profile] submittome 2024-06-01 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Affogato
Status: Committing Crimes. No really. In Spite for being Banished by Dark Cacao, Affogato went ahead and contacting the Fallen Sun based on writings he found in his handwriting from the past. He then proceeded to give the Creature a Name, as you do when you're trying to suck up to Power. To get Power. You know how it goes.

Then Dark Cacao turned around and was like hey :) thanks for being a Good Boy and had to have Fel act as a liaison cause he really fucking sucks at communication, and now Affogato is in a state of confusion. Doesn't help everyone came over like hey, need to talk? He doesn't know what to do.

He's prolly gonna cause more chaos??? Cause clearly that's what you do when you're confused. He's going to enjoy his time on the beach once he figures out how to stop sand from going in weird places. He's gonna make cosmetics, more jewelry, and hate being sweaty but enjoy being able to walk in water without being sogged.

Seeking: Gentle CR is great but someone be snarky as fuck with him, go back and forth, put him back in his proper state of mind. He's used to being sniped at, let him snipe in return. It pleases the cat.

Not Seeking: I don't want his affiliation out yet. It'll come, sure, but not yet. Let him learn love and friendship, and regret.

Anything Else: Awfulthoto. Aw-a-catto. He will kiss you.

Meme:
NONE TODAY.

Re: lucif-- I mean joshua

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-06-01 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
they gotta bond. with what? Yes
mooninthewater: (11)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2024-06-01 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
I put "if" instead of "safe" but yeah no Passenger won't get random cuddles. Sesa will occasionally when he's at the therapy building w him tho sorry Passenger sometimes he might not come home-

Re: cc my boy

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-06-01 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
they probably should have cr since theyre roommates/adopted siblings/yes

i know his prosthetics coming in but i promise u fel did her best to help him adjust ;w;

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-06-01 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
they gotta get back on that mutual trauma bonding i think
lupusxylem: (43)

[personal profile] lupusxylem 2024-06-01 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
THEY REALLY DO grabs Fel like a cat

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-06-01 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
she is a cat!!!! she is very small


and also sometimes literally a cat
ghostharasser: Art by me! (239)

[personal profile] ghostharasser 2024-06-01 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
hello there









drops dipper in front of mizuki to get his weird little tentacles around him. I am really enjoying their CR so far and it sounds like they could have a really interesting dynamic? They have interests and Mizuki's weirdness is not different from the weirdness he's actually used to. Dipper is also like. probably just the right shade of moral greyness that mizuki might benefit from? Maybe?
mooninthewater: (294)

Re: [Eldritch noises]

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2024-06-01 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
YEAAAA EXPLORING I'm so excited for the ocean lets explore lets kill and eat a leviathan Mizuki's gonna be so stoked-
mooninthewater: (250)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2024-06-01 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
of course I'm enjoying them immensely. Get noodled, idiot.

Excited for them to be little gremlins together Mizuki is very fond of Dipper and they're gonna go on weird adventures, you're stuck with him now
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Re: [Eldritch noises]

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-06-01 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
fel holding up a scale like "we can grind this up and use it in potions relating to appealing to fate or things related to the ocean" and mizuki is just like

"neat *sinking his teeth into the flesh of it already*"
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Pure Vanilla

[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2024-06-01 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Pure "Peepaw" Vanilla
Status: Broke his Souljam to give a piece of it to Ourania. The consequences are not yet fully known, but one thing is for certain. He's not Immortal anymore! (Technically the Souljam grants immortality in a "ages very very slowly" manner.) He'll adjust to the chunk taken out, then break off another piece for Beiwe. As you do. His Truth sight will slowly get darker/stop working as it breaks apart. When it's gone entirely. Well, we'll find out!

He's also sort of forcefully just adopting the entire grove. These are all his children. I'm sorry. He loves you. He also proposed to Dark Cacao at the dance. Every is welcome when they eventually throw a wedding.

He's going to be absolutely pleased with the beach but also terribly full of anxiety over his children wandering into the ocean. Please be careful!! Please don't go too far out!! Or you're going to make the sheejesus bleat plaintively on the beach to try and herd you back in.

He's also manning the clinic and working on a cure for Oripathy. Once he gets that down, he's going to help empower Zahliya for the corruption maybe.

Seeking: Everything. More children.

Not Seeking: Give me everything. :|

Anything Else: Please fill this out! Souljam Truth Vision thing. Basically it's what would Peepaw see looking @ the truth of your soul with his Souljam. Very little is hidden from it. Or well, used to be. It's broken now. Feel free to obscure or place in something that might be "false".

Meme:
Still no memes :(
soundsurfing: (pic#16347782)

Beat

[personal profile] soundsurfing 2024-06-01 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Beat
Status: Beat is a Werewolf, who is just one big dog brain stuck inside a meat body. So he's been chilling, mostly! He's plotting something for the Summer Equinox for Beiwe, which will be ... actually on the beach, apparently! And that's very gay to have something for Beiwe prolly close to where her gf's statue is. Honestly, what better time to celebrate the Goddess of the Sun proper than on the Beach with your guns out.

I hope y'all are ready.

Other than that, he's a big dog and he just wants to be friends and a big brother to everyone. He's shockingly good at emotional intelligence, so if you need Dog Therapy he's there but also he may tell you to just stop thinking and dig a hole with him. As you do. He's also mildly corrupted, but is got major ptsd of fire and prolly doesn't wanna be purified in case that's what happens when Zahliya purifies. He dunno, he's not risking it.

Seeking: Everything and nothing in particular, he's just vibing right now.

Not Seeking: See above.
mooninthewater: (270)

Re: [Eldritch noises]

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2024-06-01 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[through full mouth] that'sh reawwy coo'
mooninthewater: (207)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2024-06-01 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
fwiw Mizuki would not even consider what he did bad.





Enciodes on the other hand might try to put him in the dirt-
mooninthewater: (210)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2024-06-01 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't gotten to use my crying Mizuki icons in a while so I hope peepaw is ready for this month.
soundsurfing: (Rise against your fate)

[personal profile] soundsurfing 2024-06-01 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
chants swim swim swim swim swim water volleyball

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-06-01 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
swim! ... she doesn't wanna play tho,she'll just watch-
soundsurfing: (To play it safe)

[personal profile] soundsurfing 2024-06-01 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
yeets him into the water at mach 10
soundsurfing: (Default)

[personal profile] soundsurfing 2024-06-01 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
.........................

yotes her

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-06-01 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
oh so THIS is where the fatal second asskicking happens, okay

(yeeting can only happen with PERMISSION)
amethystic: (006)

Re: [Eldritch noises]

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-06-01 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
magic lessons over snacks !!!
soundsurfing: (Default)

[personal profile] soundsurfing 2024-06-01 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
wljfw.fwjkjwsflcs

PLEASE THO

bury him

make him :O

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-06-01 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
he even gets a preview since beachwear has her muscles out but does he listen? nooooo
soundsurfing: (Default)

[personal profile] soundsurfing 2024-06-01 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
ok

but

she has to flex with him

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