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sticks and bones. ([personal profile] sticksandbonesmods) wrote in [community profile] outofsticks2024-05-30 03:03 pm
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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.

eidxiety: (Default)

wolfie brings an offering of four birds

[personal profile] eidxiety 2024-05-31 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
eidxiety: (c. 153)

ain first because he has the braincell

[personal profile] eidxiety 2024-05-31 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Status: Ain just arrived last month and he has already pissed several people off and been a general nuisance. This is pretty much his personality, he'll calm down a little bit when he gets used to people. He's like an anxious cat. That doesn't mean he won't call you all by dumb nicknames which will be your names forever, it just means he might try to be less rude. Try being the operative term because Ain is too socially inept to realise when he's being straight-up rude when he's not trying to be straight-up rude.

Most of his lore info lives on this entry post so I won't reiterate it here and instead ask you to read sorry— the only slight correction I'll have this time around is the fact that he's "quiet", Ain is taken from a later canon point than when I wrote this the first time. True quiet characters don't work well in DWRP anyway. He does however love to people-watch and mimic them because he's Learning To Human so if he's weird and watches you do things just let him.

As an aside, characters with supernatural sense will be able to tell he's an angel, and you're free to call him out on this/just fucking mention it whenever to whoever. The sooner it comes out that he's an angel (and lying about it) the sooner I get to bust out his angel form let's go—

AS FOR THE BEACH WHICH IS THE POINT OF THIS POST i wrote this post, i should focus... Ain will be bringing himself, his owldog, and his church pigeon to the beach. I think we'll call the church pigeon Zinnia. He knows how to swim and will want to explore the environment, so even though I am a mod you are free to grab Ain for any investigations and be like yeah he's totally here.

Seeking: CR in general! Ain has a handful of course but I didn't get him out there as much as I physically could have last month due to the fact that I uhhh (looks at my three other birds) anyway. The boy needs friends to replace the friends he lost, he is mega-dissociating about it because he's like :) surely :) they'll be fine without me back home :) even though I left in the middle of the demon realm :) it's fine :) Also this is less "seeking" and more "sillies", but Ain can be very /casually flirts with u once he gets to know someone more. He won't do this to anyone underage obviously but if this is going to upset anyone just lmk and I will wrangle the Ain.

Not Seeking: nothing come at me, i'm letting my favourite son out of his box

Anything Else: I have an opt-in/opt-out for Ain's powers which are very specific because he is obnoxiously powerful. I think most people here are aware of it but I'm putting it down here for those that missed it... It's not in my journal nav oops I'll fix that later. For regular old opt-outs please go to my permissions post though, this one is specifially for Ain's whack-ass sensory abilities.

Meme:
Edited 2024-05-31 17:12 (UTC)
selenokinesis: (c.114)

harque who is also new :)

[personal profile] selenokinesis 2024-05-31 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Status: Harque also just arrived! He has made it public knowledge that he's dead back home and for a while he thought this was the afterlife. This is not the afterlife. Wow.

Anyway he has an about page (shorter than Ain's) (because he died) if you want to know things. The super tl;dr is he invented time magic and is a healer yayyy. He's very inexperienced with a lot of magic though, please help him learn things. Harque is wildly powerful with no idea how to control all of this.

For the beach... the man has albinism, he will be sunscreened/parasol'ed/dressed in something not super skimpy but also breathable. If anyone wants to teach him to swim then like please teach him to swim. He's excited to see the ocean he is just so liable to fry like a lobster lmao.

Seeking: CR !! In general !!!! A buddy to read with. Someone to tell him that the way his parents raised him is not fucking normal.

Not Seeking: shrugs nebulously come at me. maybe don't kill harque rn for a little bit tho let him live for now.

Meme:
submittome: (pic#17154843)

tal's tots

[personal profile] submittome 2024-05-31 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] amethystic 2024-05-31 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
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
leggierissimo: (God I love incriminating evidence.)

kaed's two real blonds are saying "hello! what is happening?"

[personal profile] leggierissimo 2024-05-31 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
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a pigeon

[personal profile] forwander 2024-05-31 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Elliot "Passenger" Glover, who will ask you to refer to him by his codename Passenger unless you are Sesa, who gets to call him Elliot because they're kissing or something like that—

Status: Me last month: I'm gonna get Passenger out there more haha (and then I did this so hard that he opened a cafe and also infected Pure Vanilla with Oripathy whoops). So anyway, he's had quite the time, he just wants a nap. Maybe a forever nap. Sesa has been protecting him lately though so that's been nice for him, and with the cafe he has discovered the therapy that is cooking. I haven't modified the locations page yet (sorry) but I'll probably make a custom menu for it with cool HTML so that I feel productive and link that there. It is entirely middle Eastern food and coffee and the sort, if you just google for that you'll get basically what's on the menu for vibes.

Anyway that doesn't matter now that we're going to the beach so lol— anyway Passenger will be less engaged with the ocean than he reasonably should be because, due to living in Sargon (the middle east-) his entire life, he has a disdain for sand and how it gets everywhere. I will get him out there a little bit this month though.

Seeking: a nap. someone to braid his hair. but a nap.

Not Seeking: ?? nothing come at me

Anything Else: Since we have new folks I need to make my usual disclaimer: due to his Oripathy, Passenger exhibits some psychosis signs and these are all him talking to a split-off portion of his psyche who takes the appearance of his child self. I haven't pulled this out of my hat in a bit, but this is Little Elliot. Passenger talks to himself (literal). Anyway if this will be upsetting to anyone you may tell me "Wolfie no" and I will not do it in front of you.

Meme: Rubie didn't make me new pigeon memes so I have nothing—

Re: ain first because he has the braincell

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-05-31 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
gives you and your dogbird matching seashell necklaces

Re: harque who is also new :)

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-05-31 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
when fel regains a copy of the last unicorn to share with harque because its her favorite movie AND book

Re: a pigeon

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-05-31 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
i swear i have more ideas than "Fel shows a bird something cool" but like


shes gonna come up to him like look!!! about various ingredience and cool things she thinks are pretty
hes bossman now shes obliged to bother him
succiduous: (151)

a crane

[personal profile] succiduous 2024-05-31 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Gnosis Edelweiss(-Silverash)

Status: Gay, as usual. Enriched in his enclosure because he made many prosthetics lately. NOT drinking!!! That will change this month because he will be away from the lab and out in the hot and he will have a terrible time that only liquor can help him with. He's gonna be that bitch that drinks a piña colada out of a coconut half. I love him but god.

Anyway Gnosis without the lab means Gnosis will be outdoors exploring things, that cave will interest him he will be in it for way too long taking samples. I probably? won't TL with Gnosis this month unless it's one post that's like "gnosis offers you liquor" because that is just going to be his thing, unless people specifically want to do nerd shit with him? He will find cool rocks and shells and dig a hole idk.

Seeking: more friends for bird. more enrichment. give him a problem to solve.

Not Seeking: don't murder him yet-

Meme:

Re: a crane

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-05-31 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
when are we forcing them in the reconnecting shirt
leggierissimo: (I'm a drunk birthday Cleopatra mess.)

lucif-- I mean joshua

[personal profile] leggierissimo 2024-05-31 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Joshua

Status: Living his best life, as much as he can while not in a city! He has entertainment, and that meets like 90% of his personal needs. This month has been great A+ 10/10 no notes.

Honestly he is just chilling. Keeping an eye on the journals for anything fun. Taking care of Revati and forming a plan to go looking for other stars. He needs to get out more but I'm not his dad.

For beach fun times he is largely going to be spending his time either in a cabana or on the beach on a towel and firmly under an umbrella he will not be getting out into the sun thank you very much. He will also not be swimming. He does not swim he probably can't swim lbr

Seeking: More entertainment. People that are pissed off at him. Friends. He is not seeking friends but I am seeking friends for him I WILL make this man have friends I swear to god

Not Seeking: There is nothing I am not seeking BRING IT ON

Anything Else: If you haven't filled it out before, please fill out Joshua's permissions post! He has some abilities that definitely require permission beforehand.

Meme:
mooninthewater: (251)

Rubie’s Corner where everything is contained and nothing bad happens

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2024-05-31 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] ghostharasser 2024-05-31 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
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)
clottedcream: (56)

cc my boy

[personal profile] clottedcream 2024-05-31 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Clotted Cream Cookie
Status: Surviving! He is slowly adjusting to life without an arm and things are getting???? easier??? by the day. It still sucks but he's not letting it slow him down. He's more or less out of recovery now so he should be getting out and about more often soon!

He is also yearning for deep-seated CRAU memory loss reasons that he cannot remember over Sparkling, who was present for the TDM but has not been apped just yet so the rule of funny is that he's been looking for Sparkling and just keeps missing him or something.

AS FOR BEACH TIME. HOO BOY IS HE GETTING OUT. CC is a mer and his forms are saltwater-based ones so the ocean is going to be his jam. He will more or less live in the ocean constantly. He will sleep in the water under the docks you can't stop him. This boy will be THRIVING. Have you ever seen a shrimp merman? Do you want to???? He is here for all your shramp needs. And possibly jebbly needs also if he feels like being tiny.

Seeking: Any and all CR! He needs to build his CR base. He's been mostly isolated to the other cookies and I want to change that.

Not Seeking: Nothing. Gib me everything.

Meme:
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[personal profile] eidxiety 2024-05-31 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ain will probably drift between cabanas all the time but hell yeah he'll share with Dippindots, they can gremlin at each other and not sleep because they're too busy doing fucking crimes. Ain also won't stop Dipper from touching the horror creatures tho he'll be like oh i'll come with you haha I can keep you out of trouble ^^ and then they'll both get beaten up—
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[personal profile] eidxiety 2024-05-31 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
grabs josh like a cat

this month. i swear this month we will have these two officially meet. sorry i died last month grips your hands
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[personal profile] eidxiety 2024-05-31 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
KAED

I KEEP FORGETTING TO DM YOU

gnosis has basically completed the prosthetic that he promised CC, do you want to handwave the gluing that onto him and just have him be armed, or do you want to thread out theoretical surgery, or do you wanna wait another month for to be armed (and dangerous)... tell me ur thinks
ghostharasser: Art by me! (237)

[personal profile] ghostharasser 2024-05-31 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOURE DEAD and he's died before so its fine lets do crime

Heck yeah lets get into trouble
leggierissimo: (He was an 80s hair band warrior.)

[personal profile] leggierissimo 2024-05-31 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
NO IT'S OKAY I WANT THEM TO MEET SO BAD we will have them meet on the beach it will be great. beach episode fun times
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[personal profile] clottedcream 2024-05-31 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
takes you by the shoulders so very seriously wolfie I want you to research complicated surgery and rp it out with me in perfect detail

no I don't want you to do that actually that sounds awful please don't do that WE CAN HANDWAVE THE GLUING ON OF THE ARM and we can like. idk we can thread out conversation about it if you want. I am handing cc to you pls do what you wish
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[personal profile] eidxiety 2024-05-31 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
you know whenever you guys call him a dogbird i get madds buckley in my head don't you

[personal profile] amethystic 2024-05-31 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
i did consider this before hitting send yes

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