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OOC PLOTTING: don't step on snek
OOC UPDATES
PLOT UPDATES
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- One bite brings an intense pain, full body chills, hallucinations, and ease of bruising increases, alongside a black sun scar forming on the bite.
- 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.
Till | Alien Stage
Canon: Alien Stage
CR: Spoilers for Alien Stage and ALSO BIG CWS for: human slavery/experimentation, exploitation, abuse, death
Till is a human from a version of our world in which aliens have abducted all human life from Earth. It's unclear what happened to Earth, just that humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain: aliens are. The aliens that populate the world they live in treat humans like pets, raising them as if they were cattle to be sold and profited from. The main idea behind Alien Stage is really what the name both implies and outright states: children born into this world are taken to a "kindergarten" of sorts and raised to be performers, singers, musicians, to them be later bought by the highest bidder. A select number from each class will be chosen to participate in a competition in which human competitors are pit against one another to sing on stage, and whoever gets the highest score at the end of the song is allowed to proceed...while the loser is killed on stage, immediately. The aliens see it as the highest form of entertainment. It's great!!!
Till himself is a 21 year old who has progressed up past round 6 of the competition, and has uh...he's not doing super well about it. He's literally on the cusp of one of his childhood friends/classmates sacrificing himself so that he could continue on living, and on top of his other childhood friend/crush is missing and more than likely dead, he's been left with little reasons to keep going. He's considered to be a wild card and a rebel, to the point where he's one of the only contestants required to wear a collar because he acts out against his captors so frequently. In reality, Till isn't a bad person, just heavily traumatized and desperate to escape...but not if it means leaving his loved ones behind.
Plans: As Till is going to be a fresh new baby arriving into the Grove, I want literally everything. Good CR, bad CR, we can plan things or just have it shake out however it will. A fair warning in advance in that Till has never, ever seen anything beyond the world of his captivity (and even the brief glimpse he HAS had of the outside is still really nothing like Earth), and given how many of the cast have been given boons and blessings...he's going to think 99% of the people here are aliens, rip. He will also 100% just try to immediately flee into the Forest so gl-
Till is also going to be arriving wearing a collar that is specially designed so that he himself cannot remove it. It will stay around his neck until such a point someone realizes it can actually be removed. Once it is taken off he's going to try to destroy it (unsure if this is even possible), but yaknow we'll get rid of it somehow. Assuming it doesn't mysteriously reappear on his desk...BUT I wanna go the "timey wimey RP" route for this so it's not restricted to just one thread/person doing it if they want, so if your character is receptive to that sort of thing please help him if you can get past him trying to bite, he's so small.
Not Seeking: No death this early in the game, but otherwise I have no specific plans for him go nuts.
Anything Else: My usual phobias/triggers apply as with Wolfwood and Sesa, but please PLEASE if you are made uncomfortable by ANY of the subject matter in this canon, please do not hesitate to reach out and ask I do not tag you with Till. I am also happy to just avoid those topics entirely (Till will NOT be telling just anybody about his experiences I can tell you that much).
Recent Posts or Toplevels: I will be probably making a post when I get home later today because I am too anxious to wait for the TDM to go up pls wait for me
Past Life Plotting Toplevel: Nothing yet, but soon
Meme:
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cw slavery mention
"why the fuck would your owners do that"
"oh, i see i need to go destroy your home and free your people the hard way! okay. have some tea."
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