OOC PLOTTING: it crimmus, merry chrysler

[sticksandbonesmods]

OOC UPDATES

• Short update, slow month, happy holidays if you celebrate!
• Lavvy has joined the mod team as a list mod! Everyone give it up for your newest overlord Lavvy! Yay!
• As a result, some things related to how our pages are maintained and look may be getting a slight overhaul. We will point at them all rapidly as they come because we love and appreciate this.
• Wolfie will be taking a full (100%) mod hiatus in December because Wolfie is on fire. Any NPC requests through Wolfie’s NPCs will be handwaved for the month of December; ongoing investigations she ran in November will still be tagged/completed.
• We have a page about corruption, draconic blessings and a placeholder for the magic system! Please give it a look if you haven’t already.
• Casual reminder that November is a check-in month, aaaand so is December! Historically December always is, so enjoy your two free months. Regular AC will resume in January.

SETTING UPDATES

• Winter’s bite is worsening, and the animals are beginning to grow scarce again. The lake and river aren’t frozen over completely yet, but if you remember last year… in any case, there will be blizzards throughout the month, and near the end of it, the cold grows bad enough to where even our native snowbirds might find the temperatures unforgiving.
• Dark Cacao and his chosen companions have successfully hatched the seven dragons, and early to mid-month will be safe to move to the Grove.
• With this, draconic blessings are fully available to the rest of the game as well (see the above linked page). Draconic blessings have no thread cost but you must speak to the hatchlings for it, and it must be threaded. The thread can be short, don’t worry. As a recap, the blessings are permanent and as follows:
  • Strength: horns and scales visually, and increased durability.
  • Balance: a tail, possibly prehensile.
  • Flight: wings, capable of flight.
  • Sight: dragon eyes (either straight up lizard or something akin to the unique eyes in Flight Rising, if you need ideas) with enhanced vision.
• Those with keen eyes may note that there seem to be less Seaborn in the river. Weird!
• There is a heavy feeling of something watching you from all angles, but it is hard to find the source.

PLOT UPDATES

• The merchants- Ydalir especially- will be hosting a feast and something of a cultural exchange, including Ydalir just yoinking things out of her mirror from your world to eat and share. With a bit of magic, everyone can partake in whatever they’d like! Yes even you, Loop.
• Everyone is invited and while it’s not enforced, you may make a tall shadow woman sad if you don’t stop by for a bite.
• As the temperature drops, the guardians seem to grow drowsy. Callan will temporarily stop living in the lake as he finds the temperatures unforgiving, and will primarily be stationed in Siffrin’s fish tank. Sinann will still be active in the river, but will be seen less frequently. Moder will be active enough to conscript Wolfwood into being Saint Nick again, but otherwise will be sleeping. Aurora will transform into a tiny bird and slip in with the Church pigeons. Zahliya remains semi-active and will conduct his regular patrols, but will stay inside the Church rather than on top of it.
• On the topic of a certain gargoyle guest, Zonari will largely sleep in the barn and not be seen much. She’s also hibernating.
• We have a Christmas gifts thread below, so feel free to put what your character wants for Christmas down! Providing a brief list is fine; note that the mods will only pick one of these things. It can be an item from home that would cost 5 threads or under, so a medium item regain, or something from the usual BAC store for under 5 threads, or something you completely make up for fun (a niche book, a really cool rock, a plushie, idk your life). If physical items aren’t your character’s thing, we can work with that in some way; just write the idea down anyway.
  • Note that we will tally up the gifts the day before the event goes live (Dec. 5th), so if you don’t put anything down, you will receive a handwaved generic gift instead of something personalized to your character.
  • These will be delivered by Wolfwood yes Chi we’re conscripting him again (you asked for it).

Please use the following form for plotting:

Character:
Canon:
CR: Who is your character? Any special powers or things they have going on? Any specific CR you want to kickstart?
Plans: What’s on the agenda for this month? Any interactions with the monthly event? Other things you want to do?
Not Seeking: Anything you'd like to avoid.
Anything Else: A permissions post, opt-in for a character-specific power or whatever else.
Recent Posts or Toplevels: For things you posted that you want additional tag-ins on or that might’ve gone missed.
Past Life Plotting Toplevel: From ye olde post.
Meme: Make us laugh.

<strong>Character:</strong> <strong>Canon:</strong> <strong>CR:</strong> <strong>Plans:</strong> <strong>Not Seeking:</strong> <strong>Anything Else:</strong> <strong>Recent Posts or Toplevels:</strong> <strong>Past Life Plotting Toplevel:</strong> <strong>Meme:</strong>

Comments

CRIMMUS GIFTS

[sticksandbonesmods]

If you play multiple characters, specify which character wants which thing(s). Pls do this by Dec 5th, thanks!

wolfie's morons

[thebladebringstheflame]

Ain: A large hedgehog plushie that's the size of a pillow
Gnosis: Sheet metal. That's it, he just wants a package of sheet metal.
Passenger: A new hair care set please GOD he's DYING
Flamebringer: largely not interested in christmas itself, but when he hears about Wolfwood being conscripted he will suddenly think this is hilarious and request a handwritten note from Wolfwood detailing how Cool Ww thinks Flamebringer is. @ Chi I'm on my knees please—

[quirkynote]

key

[lupusxylem]

For Sesa: A small collection of really cozy farming sim games so he doesn't literally blow up
For Sparkling: A gift basket that has a sampler of a variety of juices from Earthbread
For Wolfwood: HIS MOTORCYCLE except it's a teeny tiny desk-display model of it, sorry Wolfwood get fucked

[purevanillacookie]

Beat: Bone. A bone that he always remembers where he buries so he can dig it back up again. 😔
Affogato: What DOESN'T he want? Power. Jewelry. Uh he wants a hair care set too? He can make his own nail polish and make up he guesses. Tail jewelry cause now he has a tail he can properly decorate. He wants to jingle and shine.
PV: For everyone else to get what they desire! 😊
edit: Except for Suri. Fuck him.

[lilyberation]

Lily would like to correct this in that PV would love new books and probably stationery, seeds for plants he doesn't have yet, and something small to raise, because he likes to raise babies.

[purevanillacookie]

hey

[lilyberation]

Mafuyu: Something with rabbits, or an instrument (piano is something she canonically plays but also learning something new is fun...)
White Lily Cookie: she blanked upon being asked instantly, unfortunately, before stammering something about books? oh no

[purevanillacookie]

PV WILL give a list. This is a list of things he knows Lily likes. Magic to take apart, history/lore to decode or decipher, anything to help her aid everyone around her because her soul is so beautiful.

[leggierissimo]

Joshua: idk he'd ask for some quality entertainment, do with that what you will
Clotted Cream: A nice set of stationery and pens
Jiaoqiu: A good quality set of cookware

[ghostharasser]

Dipper would like a Nintendo Switch of his very own, pre loaded with minecraft and maybe also mario party because that will DEFINITELY not be a terrible idea for the Pines family to play.

Mayoi would like craft supplies for making dioramas!!

[ephemeralflow]

Unsurprisingly for the former crafter main needing to put those skills back to the grindstone: extra materials can never go wrong, but tools for delicate metalwork/machining that she doesn't already have are very much also needed.

...Or just get her some steampunk-ass custom tailored men's clothing, that's probably easier.

(These are the things she'll mention out of necessity if asked directly, though she'll also comment that it's rather needless for anyone to bother with gifts for her. Observant people might notice that her hair still looks kind of rough (she can't make it perfect and then put it in time stasis anymore lol), and that she's uniquely terrible at feeding herself. There is No food in that clock tower. Maybe some drinks. Maybe she's a cafe regular for more reasons than just bothering Dipper...)

[livlaughlove]

kiera doesn't know what the fuck crimmus is but if pressed they'll just dismissively say they'll accept "something from home" and avoid giving any detail. (assuming yiddler just grabs something random, some item ideas could be a bottle of aurelian wine, one of dad's canes or handpainted maps, a wooden stashbox from their bogfriend iggy, a stuffed unicorn albi left at their house, a letter of disciplinary action from aquila assigning them to records duty...)

livio... panics and doesn't know what to ask for. something to make his loved one's lives easier?? something to make them happy?? feel better for a while??? he doesn't know this is too much pressure!!

[winterfrosting]

Cacao is gonna be very startled to be asked and probably just grunt out that he could use some more ink for his calligraphy set.

[theuniverseleads]

Loop: a pair of silver safety pins that are ever-so-slightly larger than the pins Siffrin has on his cloak. Wear clothes more, bitch.

sidenote that obviously, they are not going to be normal and ASK for anything, but i am gonna assume ydalir or whoever is in charge of gift-getting here just grabs a Thing intuiting that it is Gift Worthy Enough i'm not thinking that hard about it ok

[start_again]

telescope?? maybe????