outofsticks | JUNE PLOTTING: LET'S GO TO THE BEACH, BEACH

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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:

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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.

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Character: Mizuki (Arknights)
Status:

A wordy bitch summary of Mizuki

Hi. Hello. Welcome to my ramble of who Mizuki is as a person for those of you new to Me and my little blorbo.

Mizuki was born as an Aegir - a seafaring race from Terra based on water animals. In his case, a moon jellyfish. Aegir are also based a bit on sirens, forming societies underwater once upon a time, and having a language based on melody and song (and also it's just ancient Norse-). Mizuki's voice has a mild amount of supernatural charm and equal parts ominous to him, both from his more siren-y roots, and also his Seaborn nature.

Which brings us to Seaborn. Mizuki is no longer considered an Aegir, and is a Seaborn - a species of seafaring "monsters" from Terra. They share a hivemind with their four "gods", all eldritch and very Bloodborne-esque in the way they function and think. Seaborn adapt and evolve rapidly based on their environments, and have rapid healing on top of that. They have blue blood compared to the standard red, and usually have very little in the way of independence, resistance to the voice of their gods and free will. Mizuki is a special case in this regard.

Mizuki has tons (roughly 30) of tentacles that he keeps constantly hidden with his camouflage. If they're visible, staring at them causes mild fear that ramps up based on how long you look, and can cause headaches and dizziness. He also has a neurotoxin stored in them that can be injected via sting, causing even worse fear and hallucinations that affect all the senses. (It's implied in canon he can also cause hallucinations without the sting, as that's something based on pheromones, but for now unless it becomes relevant we'll just keep it simple and say it's part of the toxins because good lord, boy this is so much-)

Mizuki is immune to disease and poison. However, this means that he is entirely unable to use anything that is considered a "double-edged sword" so to speak. From his world, that would be Originium, which can infect the user with improper use, but also grants them the "magic". As such, he's completely unaware of how magic of any kind works and he's not good at it--

He can also blorp under doors dwbi

Personality wise, Mizuki is a sweet, polite boy. He loves to make friends, and he's a bit socially unaware sometimes, but he's very willing to help out wherever he can. Upon talking with him more, it's clear there's something a bit off about him. He doesn't really think like normal people does. He has problems making decisions for himself. He thinks there's a "right" and a "wrong" and that's it, but doesn't know which is which. He wants to do the right thing, truly, but he freezes up if you try to ask him which is which.

Also he'll occasionally say terrifying things with a smile. Not a menacing smile, just... genuinely doesn't see a problem with it.

Mizuki's very easy to entertain, but if you bore him enough the cheeriness from him is usually replaced with a sense of apathy. He never really "dislikes" anyone, but you can certainly assume he doesn't consider you a friend if you see this side of him. Otherwise, Mizuki is very emotional. He's just really in touch with his emotions and he'll cry when he's sad. he is small.

And I've rambled too much here so uhh oops ignore all this ig and just ask me what's up with Mizuki on discord you'll be stuck listening to me ramble for 38 hours.

Elsword is dead! Add is gone! You would think losing his boyfriend and his commander all in one fell swoop would inflict the depression on this jellyfish, but he's still a ray of sunshine, actually. Also, he ate Elsword and talks about him like he's still here, so! He's very well adjusted.

He got up to a lot of shenanigans in May! Beyond the above, he spoke with Callan, he made friends with the Cosmic Serpent and he regained some laser tag stuff and also A Cow. He's practicing moon magic, and he's also getting more plant-y stuff growing on him re: his seaborn evolution. It absolutely looks like corruption so he's bandaging it all up so he doesn't worry anyone haha-

Otherwise, he's vibing! He's having a good time! The works! He's been here for a good sum of months now so he knows the works particularly well. He's mostly just trying to gauge how everyone else is feeling at this point, and trying to help people out the best he can.

He's also incredibly liable to lurk on people. I'll generally try to ask if it's alright if Mizuki sees xyz thing because he just canonically camouflages and follows people around, but feel free to tell me no, that's fine. Alternatively, if you're like "hey Mizuki SHOULD watch this, I want him too, give me the freak jellyfish" you can do that too--

Seeking:

General

- In general, I'm always seeking new CR. Mizuki loves to make friends and he says some mildly unhinged things sometimes that makes for fun threads. Let him pick your brain, let him excitedly show you video games, let him talk about his special interest, Mizuki is autistic-
- He just lost a commander as well, and while Affogato has very recently taken on that role now, it's Very Fresh, and if u wanted to do something w that w Tal and I, I'm sure we would love to discuss shenanigans.
- Mizuki also needs a new partner to hold hands with. It's a very bad idea to do this, he's very Yandere, but consider I'm a monster and want it anyway.
- Patients for psychology stuff. He's not licensed or rly even good at it but that's the fun of it-
- Someone who wants to talk to the hivemind because that sounds like so much fun tbh
- Someone who wants to teach Mizuki how to make decisions maybe?? :thinking:
- Exploring buddies! Take him with you! Let him discover lore with you and stop doing it on his own because good lord-
- Mizuki is going to be breaking into people's room to cuddle them at night, sorry
- come talk to Mizuki he is an open book
- help mizuki take care of cow

Month Specific

- I have plans for this month and I don't know how to word them but I'm gonna do my best. uh. Mizuki's going to sleep in the cave underwater because he missed saltwater
- the cuddling thing will be worse with the cabanas sorry to everyone I hope you're ready to be cocooned in tentacles in the morning
- Mizuki's also going to explore the ocean so uh idk if someone has some sort of underwater walkie talkie or some shit maybe we could do something there
- Mizuki's also gonna go out and read to the cosmic serpent if anyone wants to join him-
- laser tag .... at some point. maybe not this month bc we're stuck on the beach, but maybe I could wink aggressively at Wolfie idk.
- emotional support Mizuki's gonna be so happy but so sad to be by the ocean
- surprise stuff.................... dw. u can always rope me into things if u wanna do something fun I'm here for it.
- blend the jellyfish

Not Seeking:
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Anything Else: sorry this was long I love my boy.

Meme:

We're not blending Mizuki!!!!

Anyway I think u and I talked about it but Ain will be willing to cuddle and hold hands. The El Search Party canonically does All of this in general so it won't even phase him.

Harque also will cuddle and hold hands because harque is touch starved :)

Re: laser tag that's fine to play it on the beach ydalir can just magic portal his shit over to him yayyy

yaaaay thanks wolfie

Also good he'll hold the elswordians and if u think Gnosis is safe ur wrong. Passenger is if only because he doesn't wanna disturb him and Sesa. Enciodes doesn't get that same respect because his sleep schedule is also a little silly so Mizuki has to make sure Gnosis sleeps-

Passenger too ??? weird to accept random touch, meanwhile Gnosis like sigh (begrudging) but accepts this behavior because Mizuki is little and helpful

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-

holds up fel. i love they. also i noted this in my own post but she's finally... starting to open up a little...

anways please hug your local star cat. she'll go esplore with him. she's also confirmed he can come snug whenever so yeah!!!

if she puts herself in her bubble shield he can take her underwater safely

YEAAAA EXPLORING I'm so excited for the ocean lets explore lets kill and eat a leviathan Mizuki's gonna be so stoked-

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*"

[through full mouth] that'sh reawwy coo'

magic lessons over snacks !!!

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?

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

awfulthoto might be a little upsetti spaghetti if his mizuki cuddles with other people but then also be like (how can i turn this to my advantage).

listen in on them.

get forehead kisses. smoochie.

salkjfklf crying. I'm so glad they've had one whole interaction and it's already "this one's mine". Both of them are like this. It will get worse, I'm sorry-