OOC PLOTTING: don't step on snek

[sticksandbonesmods]

OOC UPDATES

• We’re closer than ever to bringing our magic system to light! We hope to introduce it in a mini-event later in the month. When this occurs, we will also be making an informational announcement on our OOC comms.
  • This system is meant to be a reward for player engagement; for now all we can tell you is that the entry fee to unlock Grove magic for a character is 10 threads, and that learning the magic spell in question requires a proof thread, i.e. it cannot be handwaved. More information will be provided mid-month.
• Reminder: The Monster Mash/Transformation event will happen in May. Y’all got two more months. The mechanics have been loosely described on our last plotting post.
• AC is due today; go do it.

SETTING UPDATES

• Winter is fading to spring, perhaps faster than expected. Though it’s still chilly, the snow is melting more and more, leaving white patches of slush and mud around rather than the blanket of snow that had been present.
• However, this also means the Fog Wall is coming back, as dangerous as ever. As always, there are patches of clarity that can be used for foraging, hunting, wood gathering and the like, but the fog and its monsters are back.
• The beach is more pleasant than it has been, but the chill in the air still hangs heavy.
• Large grooves of fresh, upturned or flattened earth can be found, even within the fog, if one uses the Golden Glasses.
• Daffodils, chamomile, arctic poppy, foxgloves and lavender can be found growing amongst the flora and in clearings, alongside camellia bushes.
• The clinic has largely repaired itself! Some things are still damaged, but it’s now safe to use once again.

PLOT UPDATES

• The sun is out again and it's no longer perpetually nighttime.
• The giant tree of god flesh, the Caerula Arbor, has disappeared. The Nethersea Brand has cleared up, and you are no longer subject to random bouts of paralysis and/or memory sharing.
  • Well, it's mostly cleared up. Where the Arbor once stood is a "scar" on the land where the people-trees are deep in the woods. It's formed of Nethersea Brand and serves as a nest for some new baby Seaborn. They will largely leave you alone, but they will also shoo you off the Brand if you try to touch it. Go on, git.
• The baby Seaborn in the river are beginning to grow up. They saw some of you flying with your dragon wings, and saw Aurora as well, and a handful of them have decided that they’d like to evolve. On occasion, you will now see a flying Seaborn. You have no choice.
• However, not everything is as peaceful as you may like. Almost overnight, black and purple snakes have worked their way into the grove. They hide in bushes, in tall grass, under anything they can and if they bite, a familiar but weakened venom to those here last summer will take its hold:
  • One bite brings an intense pain, full body chills, hallucinations, and ease of bruising increases, alongside a black sun scar forming on the bite.
    • The black sun scars are permanent, as a sign of divine wrath, but can be changed by the Goddesses if asked.
  • Two bites brings an agonized sleep, not unlike a coma.
  • Three bites brings death.
    • As this is an event-related death, it will not yield trips to the Garden.
• Within the woods, two large stone snakes deposit more of the smaller snakes, guarding the paths to the Fallen Sun’s flowers as the non-poisonous ones can be used for easing the venom in medicine. They will restructure immediately upon being broken and will strike back with a vengeance — and should the larger snakes bite you, then you will be hit with the full force of the venom.
• Near the end of the month/close to April itself, characters will receive strange visions of a modernized city flashing through their dreams, and hear the distant clatter of dry bones…

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

M-M-Merlot

[quirkynote]

Character: A.B.A
Canon: Guilty Gear

CR: A.B.A's a homunculus who spent the first ten years of her life alone in a mansion, making her the world's most socially awkward person. Her hobbies include keys, the color blue, the death penalty, and being married to her husband who is a giant axe key. Although she usually comes off as aggressive, the truth is she's really just trying to scare people off because she's timid and hates confrontation. She does best with patient people who can tolerate her bullshit and realize she doesn't mean it.

Plans: After throwing a month-long tantrum and running away after dad stopped loving her, A.B.A is finally returning to the Grove! (aka I'm back from hiatus) ...Although she still seems pretty upset and only appears to be dropping by out of necessity (outta blood). I really just want to focus on getting back into the game, and maybe hitting up some important shit I forgot to finish aaaAAAHHHHHHHH

Not Seeking: Death
Anything Else: Man idk
Past Life Plotting Toplevel: Here
Meme:

[lilyberation]

LILY'S SO RELIEVED HER BABYS OKAY uh. um. sorry she and your father are still divorced but he's fine she's fine everything is fine-

[quirkynote]

So she should....kill him!

[lilyberation]

... No, sweetie, that means that we can't reconcile. Also he's feeling better.

[quirkynote]

But...PUNISHMENT!!


...at least a little punishment?

[lilyberation]

Sweetie, you being mad at him still is punishment.


Please talk to your father she is so worried.

[purevanillacookie]

listen lily divorced him he tried........

[quirkynote]

[aba and lily curled up at the clinic]

Father cares not for us

[purevanillacookie]

NO HE LOVES SHE LEFT HIM

[quirkynote]

He kicked out lily like the football

[purevanillacookie]

peepaw enters his villain arc by being decimated with grief his daughter and wife hate him cacao prolly hates him too all he has is shadow milk he's going to bring the stars down onto the grove in a fiery shower

[quirkynote]

Whoops, sorry for the accidental end game, everyone.

I'm just teasing, though. I already told you she's gonna want a hug.

[purevanillacookie]

teehee

good cause he's gonna squash her so tightly his baby girl

[lilyberation]

no, no, she's the one who left this time-

[quirkynote]

THIS TIME???????????????????