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: Sesa

Status: Sesa, individually, has been fine! He has not, however, been extremely thrilled with the things that happened with Passenger last month, and because of that he's kindof been ??? not necessarily avoiding people, but just kindof staying in his own lane so as not to rock the boat further and cause unnecessary rifts by saying something he'll regret, because he knows better than to think he'd be able to keep his mouth shut. If nothing is discussed and nothing else comes of it he'll get over it, but hey if anybody wants a thread about it waggles my eyebrows-

Otherwise though Sesa has been busy with his work on his workshop but I also wanted to kindof ask the game at large since we were thinking about doing a poll about it anyway, I think? But do you guys want the Rec Center to remain as a location...it's the building with the swimming pool and tons of slides and stuff, it's not being used much at the moment and though I had Sesa take it over once its previous owner dropped, he hasn't done much with it either because he's been busy with his own shit. That's mostly my fault though. If somebody else wants to take it who doesn't have their own thing and plans on doing things with it you're welcome to, just let me know so I can inform the mods.

Seeking: Sesa is going to be EXTREMELY EXCITED about the beach. He has been craving the warm weather and sand since the winter was going on when he showed up, so he's just going to bury himself in the sand like a lizard and live there. He is thriving in his lane do not disturb. He'll be dressed in boho style bathing attire because of course, and his little plantimal leaf tailed gecko will be with him, you just may not notice because the little guy is camouflaged all the time and likes to hang out on his horns or in his hair. I desperately want people to do stupid beach shit with sesa. Bury him, make sandcastles with him, teach him to swim because he doesn't know how to either. He'll be bringing his offbrand Switch as well to play games because it's got an originium battery in it it'll last forever.

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

Anything Else: [See Wolfwood's Anything Else section]

Meme:

This showed up when I typed Sesa Meme and forgot to add Arknights and I laughed so here you go there aren't really many Sesa memes bc he isnt popular im sorry

Elliot and Sesa beach date under the stars y/n

YES YES YES YES

maybe Sesa will use this opportunity to say even MORE gay shit to him

SESA IS MORE THAN WELCOME TO CHEW PURE VANILLA OUT IF HE WANTS TO. Sometimes the man needs a scolding.

LISTEN IF YOU WANNA....I AM SUPER DOWN I'm curious to see how it'd go tbh

PV will look like the saddest grandpa in the world that's how it will go

Vash adores Sesa which means he's been avoiding the hell out of him after last month's incident. That means i want to shove them together to make it better because i miss them being himbos with one another

IF YOU'RE UP FOR IT.

This is the wrong account I’m on mobile forgive me BUT I AM 100% UP FOR THIS PLS I WANT THEM TO TALK AND BE FRIENDS AGAIN

IM SURE IF THEY ACTUALLY TALKED IT WOULD BE FINE BUT VASH IS VASHING.

it's okay we'll fix it

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

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