outofsticks | 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Character: Nicholas D. Wolfwood

Status: Bro Wolfwood has been Stressed. Like he's Fine, nothing immediately terrible has been happening, but also Vash exploding into a bug and being corrupted now? Kinda stressful!! He's already since worked things out with him so they're fine, but that doesn't mean he isn't 20x more worried about his wellbeing now than he was before. He'll be trying to help monitor his corruption progress and, not gonna lie, he will probably start trying to help seek the corruption cure with those who are working on it if at all possible. So if you want to loop WW into that at all help me up, he's not magical so he can't help there but if you need someone who can shoot things idk he's your man.

He is not going to be as insanely thrilled about beach time as Sesa is, but he will appreciate the change in scenery. You see, No Man's Land did not have oceans (at least not where he was located, but also like I don't think in general given the insane water shortage and desert seas), so this man has never seen the sea ever in his fucking life. If you notice him just kindof sitting and staring at it its because he doesn't even know how to process this much water. Like what the fuck.

This also means he probably can't swim. Nobody I play can swim, it's tragic. He'll be getting his Heimr mandated swim trunks either way because I'm not depriving the world of this man's chest, alright. Also he's bringing his Husky to the beach. Her name is Angelina and she's no longer a tiny puppy, but is in that weird adolescent teenage dog stage where her limbs are too long for her body. She has RBF but is a giant sweetheart.

Seeking: Anything and everything! I know Wolfwood can be a grouch and a little hard to interact with sometimes and I worry that might be offputting to some people, so if there's ever any issue with that please let me know. He's opened up a lot in his time here believe it or not, and even though he's grumpy he's an incredibly good person deep down. But also if you like, WANT just negative snappy cr with him that I am also good for lmao-

Not Seeking: Nothing heavy/serious/death happening please I want a chill summer

Anything Else: So update from the previous plotting post, I am working full time now and will very soon be settled into my position from a long four weeks of training, which means things are actually going to mellow out a lot. We're in the [extremely dead] portion of the year meaning I'll have a lot of down time, so activity shouldn't be an issue. We will be putting a pin in this and revisiting it come August because that's when things will be picking up and getting insane but it's fine that's a problem for future chi-

Meme:

Haha annoys you annoys you annoys you (objectifies a priest) annoys you annoys y

Throws Ain into the sea bye bitch

Unlike you sir Ain knows how to swim and will be fine when tossed

they gotta get back on that mutual trauma bonding i think

THEY REALLY DO grabs Fel like a cat

she is a cat!!!! she is very small

and also sometimes literally a cat

THEY'RE GOING SWIMMING, HOPE ON, WOOWOO.

Also Beat's playing with Angelina.

Affo needs to bug him. ;)

PLEASE this man does not know how to swim please help him

Angelina however DOES know how to swim and will be running at mach speed through the water like rararararara--

Also also x2 please I need him and Affo to be PA at each other

beat will teach him the doggy paddle nods or woowoo can just cling to him and die while angelina laps him like pathetic

AFFO WILL LOVE HIM HONESTLY he needs more people to just be snarky with

dumb idiots melting on a beach together? getting vaguely flustered because they're hot, and not the in the sun kind of way?

also staring at Livio together, that too..

listen chi i just love u

yes, yes, and extra yes holds Vash in my arms like a baby bird

ALSO I LOVE YOU MORE WTF, I hope Vash and Wolfwood both try to brave the water together at some point and somebody ends up thrown into the sea about it

Also Wolfwood is going to be like, staring at Livio disrespectfully the entire time lbr

i absolutely anticipate them squabbling about something and vash getting shoved into the water. he deserves it. it'll be catharsis for wolfwood after everything vash has done.

GET KISSED IDIOT

NOT IF HE KISSES YOU FIRST!!! >:|

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

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