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:

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.

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Character: felicity morais
Status: she's starting to get better! shes' still not confident in her control of her magic to not fuck up and destroy a prosthetic, but she's not being a massive fucking recluse anymore. admittedly, pv rather gently-yet-aggressively taking her in and passenger inviting her to help with the cafe did a LOT for her, in a really good way.

she's refusing to be bothered this month. stuck on the beach? just like home! she's also... starting to open up a little more, and i am considering regaining her cats, because she misses them terribly.

in terms of cabana-staying she would actually prefer to be on her own if possible since they're kinda...small... and she doesnt want to intrude on any of the many couple's privacy anyways. but if theres no room theres no room.

while she does plan on playing in the ocean and chilling in the sun, her real goal is going to be using beach-side plants and flowers to make cosmetics lmao. she might go shelling. bring her fresh fish and she'll cook them for you. otherwise? shes vibing
Seeking: joy and love
Not Seeking: anything that'd make her Not Fun, i am FIXING the felicity. do not unfix her
Anything Else: who's ready to find out about felicity's many, many, many scars :') she wears long skirts and jackets for a reason
Meme:

no meme u_u i have nothing in the mines

Character: Dipper Pines

Status: He just got here and is slowly learning who everyone is and where they are and what the fuck is going on. He's been bullied into staying at the inn, but he makes frequent trips to the burned town area to fix up his family's place.

Seeking: LETS GET CR GOING he's super new so I'm gonna be throwing him around a lot to get established. ANYONE WANT A WEIRD GREMLIN FOR A CABANA MATE

Not Seeking: Nothing romantic probably. He has a boyfriend in another dimension still.

Anything Else: He wants to go touch the horror creatures. someone stop him. ALSO Dipper has an opt-in/out for his weird Deer Country powers that is worth a quick read! i'm sorry if the post is incoherent i am on my third cup of coffee
Meme:

Edited 2024-05-31 20:30 (UTC)

Edited 2024-05-31 23:00 (UTC)

(is two characters a flock? we just don't know.)

anyway big addendum to any posts about my guys. i am doing my best to scramble out of a slowatus so apologies if things are still a little slow going. i'm back to work on monday which might halt things more than usual, hence why i wanna get this done now!

Edited 2024-06-01 22:15 (UTC)

Character: Dark Cacao Cookie
Status: DC had a very exciting past month! He got engaged??? his traitorous advisor/ex showed, his fiance decided to both get rock cancer and tear off a chunk of soul. He got a dog.

Mostly he's just dealing with Personal Drama, so hasn't been involved in the Plot much outside showing the moon his dog which I'm sure will have great plot outcomes at some point.

Seeking: Mostly just wanna get him out more outside the cookie cr circle! He's gonna spend the beach time learning how to swim and fishing and generally having a relaxing dad vacation. Please get him drunk at least once.

Not Seeking: Nothing specific
Anything Else: Depending on when the next chapter of his canon drops he might be canon updating soon which should be Fun. Which is a fun way of saying there might be Even More Personal Drama on the way if folks don't wanna have to icly deal with that.

Meme:

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