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OOC PLOTTING: A CREEPING FURY SETTING IN

SETTING UPDATES

Zahliyaquest is almost complete. While we don’t have a full breadth of updates for you now because it’s still in the final phase, we’re noting this here for everyone not involved. There will be a summary posted on OOC plotting after it officially concludes, please look forward to it.
The rains have stopped and the plants have returned back to normal. No harm was done to them during their growing-shrinking phase; they’re just as healthy as they originally were.
Autumn is rolling in! That means the leaves are starting to turn yellow and orange and will soon start falling. If you jump into any piles, mind the two-headed mice that live under them.
Nene has a cute cottage in North Aldric’s Grove now, near the pathway into it and close to the Archives/library.

PLOT UPDATES

Characters will wake up one day- or enter the Grove entirely- to Ydalir getting up to some antics! Specifically, she is running around with a cute poofy witch hat atop her head, and flowy wraps and robes, and handing out enchanted items.
These items will include a wide range of options from a wand that summons a (d20) amount of pigeons, to a goldfish that follows you in a bubble to far more! Players are free to come up with their own enchanted items or roll in the Pain-free gacha (as opposed to the latter event’s very painful gacha) for a mod-generated one.
These items will last for the month. Some may have special rules attached, i.e. the pigeon wand may not summon more than the rolled number of pigeons per day. It also may not summon Passenger. Any extraneous rules will be given upon acquisition; if you make up your own, a good rule of thumb is to not make up items that will give you immortality/a way around plot mechanics easily, and to keep it on the side of silly.
Of course, despite Ydalir’s best efforts, something has set the Black Sun off and he has another game for everyone. One that he’ll be taking much more seriously this time.
This portion of the event will consist of trying to hide from and escape three different entities hunting you down in the forest.
- A very large lichen-covered dragon with many, many legs. (14 or higher)
- A rock-like bear. (12 or higher)
- A giant, mossy frog. (10 or higher)
… and a multitude of small fairies wearing masks with only a single eye painted on. (flip a coin to evade being seen)
To avoid capture, one must roll a die and reach a certain number depending on your encounter(s)- freedom means you can (but are not obliged to) encounter another one of the seekers, up until you are finally caught. Their designated safe rolls are also listed above.
- If you very specifically want your character to be caught by, say, the moss frog — you don’t need to fudge rolls, you can just do it. The rolls exist to give you guys options in case you’re unsure what you want.
Unlike the other three, the fairies are not able to capture you- but they CAN rat you out and sound an alarm to draw one of them to you for capture. However, the fairies can also be bribed with food (honey, flowers, small animals) or sufficiently shiny things. If you wish to bribe a fairy into being your friend, let the mods know! Though… who’s to say how long this will actually last.
Upon capture, player characters will be brought to an enormous tree that seems to be withering. As more players are hooked into the tree, it will begin to drain their life force to reinvigorate itself. The goal of the game is to have at least 10 people free at the end of the game, with victory granting a small boon: every participant will be given a free, small, nonmagical item from home, dropped off via biblically accurate deer courier. If you want to try to free someone from the tree, hash it out with the player in question. If you're unsure or want some randomness to it, hit up a mod! We’ll work with you for a daring rescue. … Or a failed rescue. Depends on the dice.
As a warning, encountering the seekers will include potential mauling, other injuries, and being carried in things’ mouths (Very Gross). Death is only a risk with express player permission, and post-game revival will consist of two things: The first being plantlike scars over the areas where wounds were inflicted — these can either be permanent or impermanent, depending on player, but they will last for at least 24 hours either way. They are non-corrupting and simply meant to scare you. The other is that everyone who dies will be afflicted with 24-hour long total amnesia.
- Remember that deaths caused by a Large Game Event™ do not result in trips to the Garden.
… But, he has always rewarded your survival, and he will continue to do so. As you recover from the lingering effects of Hide and Seek, the entire river will come to a pleasant glow. Investigations will reveal… blinding light that is less pleasant up close!
The river water has always been oddly crisp and clear, but somehow it seems even more so now. Even the most unknowing of people can also tell there is a much wider variety of plant life growing in and around the river, alongside an equally wider variety of animal life.
The lining of the river is also graced with more blessings from the guardians! Alongside the apple tree from Sinann for its initial rescuing and Moder’s blackberry bushes, you can now find a peach tree and an orange tree…
And a durian tree, courtesy of Callan.
… There sure are a lot of small ducks around now, too…
Characters can now unearth more things from their medallion/shell/scale/bone scavenging as well- from the depths of the river and it’s banks, you may now uncover jewelry or old wood or stone toys from a civilization long since passed, or other small items!
And perhaps most importantly, with the river’s growth, Sinnan will undergo some changes itself! It will become much larger (though not quite its true size) — about four feet long now. It will also be able to speak to you guys, without you guys needing a bone ring, hooray! In light of this, it will be bumped up to the Contactable section of NPC contact (along with Callan, because Wolfie forgot to do that last month, rip).

OOC UPDATES:

Wolfie mentioned this in the Discord, but so that it’s on record in a more accessible place: The map is still not updated and I (hi, this is Wolfie) am very sorry about this. The TL;DR is that the program that is used for it is no longer shutting down (yay!) but without Patreon access, the program automatically removes custom-uploaded assets (which the Sticks map has tons of) once the map is loaded. My financial situation is a lot better than it was in summer when the shitstorm of computer/medical bills occurred and this issue will be solved, do not give me money, but unfortunately the OMM team is now having issues syncing up Patreon accounts with client logins. Yes it’s bad, yes I hate the dev team. It will be corrected hopefully this month since I can both afford their Patreon tier and they maybe, probably, will correct their weird issues.
The locations page will continue to be updated in the meantime.
This month and October are double-TDM months because we historically do not run them in Nov-Dec due to the holiday season. TDMs will resume in January!

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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This will also be included on the event log itself since it's a TDM. But SOMEONE is getting my pigeon wand okay.

This will also be on the log. You can roll for rescue on the log itself. :)

As a note this month I'm Hiatusing Passenger, he will be "business as usual" operating the cafe. As for hide and seek let's just consider him Extremely Adept At Hiding.

Character: A.B.A.

Status: Girl is still hanging in there as a local feral creacher. She's gotten...better??? Not everyone is considered scary, at least, and she doesn't jump nearly as high when new people try to talk to her. She's especially fond of communicating through the notebook, since it doesn't involve terrible horrible things like interacting with people face-to-face. And sometimes people agree with her! How fun!

To no one's surprise, I want her magic item to be a key, but I have no idea what goofy effect it's going to have yet.

As for hide and seek, this is going to kind of kill her whole living outside deal, huh? Normally I'd say she'd be down to fight, but she still doesn't have a weapon yet. I'll have to figure that one out, too.

Seeking: Still working on building CR, whether it's making new connections or building on existing ones! Having someone drag her inside for safety will help a lot. Once again I apologize for how difficult she is sometimes.

Not Seeking: Death.

Meme:

Posting this to let yall know I'm going on a full hiatus for the full month of September! Work has picked up massively due to Back To School season, and it's set to get worse after Labor Day (yay). I will hopefully be more sane in October when our blackout dates end.

Due to this, Sesa and Sparkling are on auto-pilot, and Wolfwood is going to be going under for the whole month for a canon update! He will wake back up in October to everything on fire and his boyfriends either dead or missing :)

I'm bad at Rs.

Character: Cacao
Status: much better now that rocks are gone and vanilla and affogato are back. He's decided that the Rockening is a sign he needs mOre self improvement so expect more training and meditation from him. HE HAS GIVEN IN TO APATHY AND MUST FIX IT etcetc

AS FOR THE EVENT im gonna roll for his fun item so we'll just see hiw that goes. But for the hide and seek... well thats the funny bit, cuz a warrior of the Great Icing Ridge does not HIDE. He only SEEKS. We're gonna get our Monster Hunter Wilds on and he's gonna try and track the monsters down and kill them. Esp that dragon. He's good at fighting dragons.

... so he's probs gonna end up beat up and flowery and captured, depending on how op the monsters are. At least Suri can hate him more personally when he takes out chunks of the woods trying to head chop their pets.

Seeking: more cr! He was pretty awol all month so i wanna seek out some of the newer folks

Not Seeking: nothing specific!

Anything Else: nada
Meme: im on mobile ill find something later

Character: Timekeeper Cookie

Status: Aside from pestering the shit out of Loop, she's uh, not had a good time with the depression rocks the rest of the month. She hacked most of her hair off in a Depression Fit, her scissors are busted, and she's still not fully emotionally recovered. Don't worry, she'll bounce back soon! ...possibly by being a menace to people some more.

She hasn't discarded her chopped off hair, mostly because it's saturated with Time and might still have useful properties. The Sonic Embroider is in repairs, although she's currently only in possession of one half of it - the other is in the hands of someone else, and she'll definitely be seeking to get it back. (Who has it is currently up in the air - likely culprits are either Siffrin or Livio, depending on how various threads shake out.) Since she built those scissors herself she's fully capable of fixing them - but she might need materials that are difficult to get here.

Regardless, she's going to be a bit more subdued than usual at the beginning of the month, if anyone wants to catch her in a slightly more honest mood.

Seeking: Just about anything really, but someone PLEASE drag her to therapy for the love of cheese. She does not believe she needs it. She is extremely wrong.

Not Seeking: Probably not looking to have her bite it just yet in this event.

Anything Else: Keep your eyes peeled for a ghost boy on the next TDM uehehehe

Meme:

idk have croissant telling tk she can't fast forward time to skip the line

Character: Loop

Status: Doing BAD thanks for asking!! Loop died like 4 times last month holy shit, I am going to be nice and not kill them this month. someone else can have a turn. September is Loop Goes To Therapy Month whether they like it or not

They are also! still living under a tree!! I lied when I said that would stop last month they rly just slept outside in the rain and mud for all of August. I am begging someone to drag their ass indoors and make them stay there, Siffrin can't do this alone please help them make a good life choice for once.

Other than that tbh I have no solid plans! Loop is the type to just kind of wallow in depression when not under direct observation anyway so uhhhhh they dont rly have... plans either... they are coasting along. feel free to give them Tasks to help with, they like to be helpful.

Seeking: Loop doesn't want to make to make friends because attachment is scary but I want them to make friends, please be their friend, they are so lonely. Bonus points for anyone who knows literally anything about astronomy or stars, they would be ecstatic just to hear about your horoscope ok

Not Seeking: romance... bad idea. uhhhhh also trying not to make them spiral too hard this month so like, I'm not gonna say NO to negative cr but maybe don't egg on their self loathing/suicidal tendencies too much, please i am trying so hard to be nice to them

Anything Else: This isn't quite in the realm of "solid plans that are happening" yet but they are... still walking around naked... which is FINE they have nothing down there but also it's pretty awful for their mental health. so if anyone wants to help with that please tell Loop to put some pants on or give them a coat or something idk. it's getting cold out.

Meme:

Character: Jade Leech
Status: He's doing as well as he can be! He didn't actually take one of the rocks so he's a bit better off than the people whose personalities got all goofed up!! He may not say it, but he definitely misses Floyd and Azul a bunch, and isn't used to being away from them for THIS long. So, if he starts hanging around people more often and doing things for them, it's fine. He just wants to be useful. Oh, and he's also sad the plants have returned to their small sizes. So long, big mushies.

For the new event, however, Jade will definitely try to help people out during the Hide and Seek game! He thinks the creatures are intriguing and will do his best to bribe the fairies.

Plus, he wants to talk to Sinann!! Fish to fish communication. I'll probably put more under this post if I think of anything else.
Seeking: More CR!! Hang out with Jade- he is very polite and mysterious, and also ominous.
Not Seeking: Mmmmaybe not death? We'll see.
Anything Else: Naur
Meme:

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QUESTIONS

GACHA FOR WHACKY ITEMS

ROLLIES FOR HIDE AND SEEK CATCHIN

Tal's Two

wolfie goes here

Merlot and friend

All of Chi's men: HIATUS

amity's gals

Jami's Cryptids of Indeterminate Gender

Rubie's Rabid Rebels

Dark Cacao Cookie (one day ill app a second maybe)

Timekeeper!

lavvy has only one character and thats fine

Pumpkin, party of 1