OOC PLOTTING: it crimmus, merry chrysler

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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>

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Merlot's one and only character

[quirkynote]

Character: A.B.A

Canon: Guilty Gear

CR: A.B.A is a homunculus whose creator was kidnapped by the government before she got a chance to wake up, so she spent the first ten years of her life alone, bumbling away in a locked up mansion. As one can imagine, this killed any and all social skills she would've otherwise developed and is now terrified of everything. When she finally did leave, she fell in love with a giant demon axe because he looked like a key (her special interest of choice) and immediately declared herself married to him. She will never shut up about him, she's not sorry, and her life goal is to get him a human body so she can live out all her self-shipping fantasies.

She bites.

A lot...happened to her this month. A.B.A once again has a giant (non-sentient) key and will never be seen without it. Please assume she's always dragging this thing around. She also got wings and a tail and is now convinced she'll be reborn as a dragon in the next life, so please don't let her die anytime soon, she will not leave the garden. Awesome. Great. Love playing a reasonable character.

Plans: A.B.A will want to keep taking care of the dragon babies, especially after the dragons have been so nice to her. This is the first time A Society™ has ever accepted her for who she is, bites and all, and she really has...no idea how to handle it! Which is probably why she's going so hard on the dragon thing. She wouldn't be A.B.A if she didn't get weird and obsessive about something she likes.

As for the event? Uhhhhhhhh...idk! A.B.A doesn't have a culture to share with anyone! She's probably never celebrated Christmas! That isn't to say she doesn't know what it and other winter holidays are, she absolutely does, but the holiday season for her was probably admiring lights with Paracelsus and maybe being a little more snuggly. Then moving on. Girl was constantly travelling, okay? That said, she most likely won't be getting anyone any gifts, the idea simply wouldn't cross her mind. WHOOPS. Maybe next year, if she feels bad enough this year.

Not Seeking: No death at the moment please!

Recent Posts or Toplevels: Event TL

Past Life Plotting Toplevel: Here

Meme:

[forwander]

watch passenger invite aba into his cafe and be like i didn't get you a gift but i made christmas food and i want you to eat it. this is kind of a christmas present if you think about it

[quirkynote]

I mean, he's right. Food is the greatest gift of all. Right after a pile of keys.