September Plotting: The Floor is Lava. Die.

[sticksandbonesmods]

SETTING UPDATES

• Felicity has constructed us a bathhouse. This will be reflected on the locations page and on the Grove map. As a reminder, players are free to purchase one building per character for the continued expansion of the Grove, which can be anything you want, so long as you don’t mind cryptic plot clues attached. :)


• The horrible, evil, carnivorous flowers have been vanquished due to player efforts! The Grove is currently slightly burnt/frozen/weedkilled/hacked to bits, but that’s okay. We as a society can recover from property damage.


• Rusty is fine :) No dogs were harmed in the making of this plotting post. Kind of.


• The river continues to flourish with various peaceful lifeforms. Mushrooms have started to grow in abundance along the banks. Do not eat the fly agaric; everything else is very delicious. Remember to say "thank you" to the woods before you go foraging.


• Characters may start to see large hoof-prints on the outer edges of the Grove this month, just underneath the constant veil of fog.

PLOT UPDATES

• This month will be the Grove’s first "Large Game"; originally the biggest we had was back on our first-ever TDM, with the hide and seek with Mr. Moose Monster. This game will be much larger, and the stakes are higher for the player characters. The NPCs will not be present for this event.
  
  • Characters will wake up one morning to find fog and/or vines wrapping around them. Even if they protest, they won’t be able to escape, and will soon after black out. Upon coming to, the characters will find themselves in a new location only accessible during this event, with one goal laid out before them: Escape with your life.
  
  
  • Characters can escape through climbing the rocky cliff faces before the constantly-rising lava cooks you, or through parkouring across crumbling edifices. Treat this like Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, a movie the mods have definitely seen and think is a good reference. Except there are no dinosaurs and it’s all in a volcano. Did we mention it’s hot in here? The setting is malleable. You are in an action adventure movie. Have fun!
  
  
  • The lava will rise faster the more players complete the game.
  
  
  • Players who complete the game will hear a mysterious victory fanfare and be "locked in" to the top of the volcano in a strange, invisible-walled, air-conditioned space. They will not be able to leave until there are no more players remaining in the game.
  
  
  • Dying is a very real possibility with this event. If you want your character to die, there’s no need to contact a mod, as there is no real "loss" to dying due to it being tied to an in-game event. If you’d like your blorbo to die, you have two options for how you can play it out: Either you can have your character die the "normal" way, or you can let them experience the agonizing pain of being trapped in their burning flesh for 24 in-game hours, unable to move but very very conscious of everything happening. And of the pain. ICly, characters who the forest doesn’t like will get the second option, but we wanted the players to be able to opt out of the more sadistic death just in case. Characters who die during this event will wake up the next day in their beds/usual choice of sleeping spots unscathed. Unless you want them to be scathed. That’s your choice.
  
  
  • Characters will have their abilities "shut off" during the Game, including passive ones; additionally, technology will not work. This means no flying, no warping places, no Dynamo, no magic/Arts, et cetera. Essentially, you have been humanized. Good luck!


• Players can expect to see a mid-month post go up with a more peaceful sub-event so that we’re not dying all month. It will be incredibly light-hearted and "magical-feeling", we promise.

OOC UPDATES

• Praying for good health for all of us in September because good lord what happened with everyone getting sick at once??


• We are trying to clean up small mistakes with some of our pages including clarification behind rules & the setting. These will likely come as we catch them, but if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.


• We have an NPC Contact page now! We initially hesitated to make one because we were unsure how popular the NPCs would be; you guys seem fond of them, so all future threads should be done here now. This will be linked in our nav that’s stickied on the mod account for easy access.


• We do not want the game to get too NPC heavy, so the list of contactable NPCs is being kept to a minimum. You guys have one (1) more contactable NPC to unlock. When will this be? Yes. :) We believe in you guys to create a good opening for this.


• Canon updates are available now! As always, they will come with cryptic messages from the mod team. These will function as your character going to sleep and having a dream ICly. If your canon update involves a physical change to the character (losing a limb, for example), they will instead be compelled to walk directly into the Fog… surely this is fine.

Please use the following form for plotting:

Character:
Status: Who is your character? What did they get up to last month and how is it impacting this month? Did they discover something? Are they harboring a clue? HMM
Seeking: Any CR or plot thread you want to kickstart!
Not Seeking: Anything you'd like to avoid.
Anything Else: A permissions post, opt-in for a character-specific power or whatever else.
Meme: you know you have one.

<strong>Character:</strong> <strong>Status:</strong> <strong>Seeking:</strong> <strong>Not Seeking:</strong> <strong>Anything Else:</strong> <strong>Meme:</strong>