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A NEW YEAR, A FORGOTTEN YOU
Once upon a time, in the continent of Ostorn, there was a town called Haven. After a deadly plague had ravaged the lands, a man decided to strike out and pave a new trade route to cities barred by a lack of roads and an abundance of natural blockades...
Welcome to the first past life plotting post of 2025! Sticks and Bones is a setting where player characters are the reincarnations of previous residents of the town that Aldric founded within the woods as a midway stop between cities on his new trade route. The continent of Ostorn and the world of Sticks and Bones is a magical land inspired by the Tales of series, among other games. Below in the comments are some explanations, locations and pre-existing NPCs who can be referenced!
Players with dropped characters are encouraged to include their dropped characters if only for potential backstory purposes for others, but it is not a requirement.
While we don't want to restrict things a lot, we must ask you keep the following in mind!
When you're ready, please use this form and then tag out!
Name: it u
Place of Birth: where u from
Reasons for Joining the Grove: why u here
History: whahappun (also how did u die)
Role: what u doin
Looking for: what are you most interested in having for your past life cr?
Wants and Wishes: anything else!
Welcome to the first past life plotting post of 2025! Sticks and Bones is a setting where player characters are the reincarnations of previous residents of the town that Aldric founded within the woods as a midway stop between cities on his new trade route. The continent of Ostorn and the world of Sticks and Bones is a magical land inspired by the Tales of series, among other games. Below in the comments are some explanations, locations and pre-existing NPCs who can be referenced!
Players with dropped characters are encouraged to include their dropped characters if only for potential backstory purposes for others, but it is not a requirement.
While we don't want to restrict things a lot, we must ask you keep the following in mind!
- Although this is a magical setting where plant-animals and beasts like the Guardians exist, characters must be human in their past life, with few exceptions. Please speak to the mods if you feel something else is better for your character.
- The level of technology was a bit skewed, but largely it was very basic electricity that just... happened to be magic. Light bulbs, the magic of indoor plumbing.
- Speaking of magic, while there are forms of magic such as enchantment and standard RPG mechanics, the Celestial magic that's been included in the game plot is not open to characters in their past lives.
- You are more than welcome to include new locations or expand on current ones, though if it is noted to reach out to a specific player about it, please do that. Ostorn is a large continent, and there is an even bigger world out there.
- The Goddesses are known, but very distantly as ancient history. Religion depends on the region, but Guardians, being demigod animals, are frequent objects of worship.
- Your past life should not be a 1:1 parallel to your current life! Things change, situations change, and the new reincarnations got off very badly actually.
When you're ready, please use this form and then tag out!
Name: it u
Place of Birth: where u from
Reasons for Joining the Grove: why u here
History: whahappun (also how did u die)
Role: what u doin
Looking for: what are you most interested in having for your past life cr?
Wants and Wishes: anything else!
Jami's freaks
Dipper Pines
Place of Birth: Haven
Reasons for Joining the Grove: Hilariously, the Pines were in the faewoods before the Grove, and simply got assimilated into the Grove as the town popped up around them.
History: Dipper and his twin sister Mabel originally came to live with their Uncles in the woods after losing their parents and the rest of the family to the plague. Stan and Ford had opted to settle in the Faewoods and build a cabin to help raise the kids. It wasn't long after this that Aldric settled the grove and the Pines simply became neighbors of the settlement.
Though Mabel was a social butterfly, Dipper, eventually going by Mason as he got older, was much more reserved and usually kept to himself. He could be found with a his nose in a mystery novel, or just following Mabel around trying to keep her out of trouble. Mason and Mabel were close, despite how they could be like night and day. Mabel always willing to embrace a brighter side of life while Mason was often more pragmatic in how he approached things. Losing their parents gave both the twins an interesting outlook on life, and Mason's hyper-vigilance and constant need to prove his own maturity could be easily linked back to a strive to grow up as fast as possible.
When things in the Grove started to take their turn, Mason caught on and decided to look into it himself. Having uncovered Alexi's cult, He decided the best way to learn more about the threat it was posing to the Grove was to join under the guise of being tempted by all that tasty dark knowledge and in return, Mason would use the things he's learned and studied from his uncles to help them with their rituals. As it turns out ...it's very hard to leave a cult once you're neck deep in shit, and whatever horrible blood pact Mason had to make with the rest of the followers to prove his loyalty only came back to haunt him when Mabel helped him make a clean break.
Role: Mason sure did help the cult grow to power by helping them with this dark magic and shit! He promised it was all for the purpose of learning what was going on but it sure blew up in his face! Whoops!
Looking for: Honestly I'm open to anything! People his age that he was awkward around, people who were frequenting Stan's outpost shop, people from the cult that helped him make terrible decisions. All sorts of stuff!!
Wants and Wishes: have this comic i made
Dipper Plotting
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he really
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Shadow Milk Cookie
Place of Birth: Haven
Reasons for Joining the Grove: Though he had visited and lived there on and off over the years, he did not settle in the Grove until a particularly worrying letter from Percival.
History: Seamus was a talented scholar who raised through the ranks of academia at a young age. While he studied many things, from philosophy to history, his interest had always been in magic, and he fancied himself an expert in the obscure arcane of the world. Always looking for the things people shied from, because how can one overcome fears if they do not understand what frightens them?
Despite being an eccentric and dabbling in stuff that was probably frowned upon, he was still a highly respected scholar and professor, and often traveled to hold lectures. It was his childhood friendship with the Vienetta's that brought him to visit the Grove on occasion. Though these visits did wane after time with old age.
It was not until he got a particularly concerning letter from Percival, that Seamus came to stay full time with the Grove. He established himself as a tutor and researcher, built himself a place to stay, and worked day and night to help Percy try to save Lily, who had been one of Seamus' most cherished childhood friends ever since their early days of academia.
Role: A scholar and teacher! He would often personally tutor members of the grove, and he also served as a sage of magic should anyone come to him for guidance.
Looking for: Students! Old men for him to drink wine with! Anyone interested in his magic research. Anyone side eyeing his weirder independent studies-
Wants and Wishes: Look at this silly old man, it would be a shame if something horrible happened to him in the next life
SM Plotting!
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oh my god. their little tea set, this is also canon now I demand. They each get a color.
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but also
rivals >:(
NOT AS SMART AS YOU THINK YOU OLD SHIT
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We should set aside this silly rivalry you know, why don't you try this tea he crafted to relax (it is a laxative, he is still a little shit.)
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once he's done dying because you know he'd try the tea out of friendship
it's on you fuck
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This is the tea he serves to mafuyu's mom that heimr claimed poisoned her with.
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He just doesn't understand why anyone would stifle academic talent! Terrible! He will sneak you books.
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anyway since Odile is the local teacher these two probably had a lot of talks about particular students.