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

[sticksandbonesmods]

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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Comments

kiera

[cryopathy]

Status: kiera hates running water [flooding cave]. kiera hates deep water [ocean]. kiera hates it here. they don't even have their horse to keep them company. they will go back and forth between being hypervigilant and being drunk off their ass all month. they maaay try to [mostly benignly] harass other folks in an effort to make themself feel in control. sorry not sorry

the one silver lining: beach is a great excuse to walk around half naked so at least they have that going for them

Seeking: literally anything tbh

Not Seeking: re: livio, nothing SUPER intense plz

Meme:

[unheiring]

TIME TO DRINK. big baby brother has a bottle with her name on it. they can both be miserable about the water, and he can be extra miserable about Kiera slutting it up.

[cryopathy]

luca you are NOT allowed to judge her for being a slut, she is stuck on this beach episode with you AND your boyfriend

[unheiring]

they're not boyfriends!!!! what are you talking about Kiera shut up stop embarrassing him!!

[eidxiety]

HI i want to ask a kiera question— which relates to how ain nicknames people (mr./ms. [funny name here]), i don't want you as a player to be uncomf so i wanted to ask

do you have a preferred way this happens? do you want mx. to be used, do you want him to just switch pronouns used, do you want to be special and have no gender marker what are you feelin in your wease bones

[cryopathy]

HELLO THANK YOU. mx and the occasional ms are acceptable to kiera, though she prefers "ser" and will introduce herself as such. switching pronouns is also great! i usually just go with whatever makes the narration the least confusing lol

[eidxiety]

she will be "ser" when Ain decides they vibe it'll be great, could be fast could be slow but she will be the only one who gets ser. kiera gets to be special

[submittome]

affo NEEDS to meet kiera cause luca went omg you're like them :T and affogato said omg who is this other being of perfection then

so i need them to vibrate at each other and annoy luca

[cryopathy]

YESSS i have been staring longingly during my hiatus but i am so ready. idk about affo but kiera will either adore or hate him no in between and i cannot wait to find out