OOC PLOTTING: MONSTER MASH (GRAVEYARD SMASH??)

[sticksandbonesmods]

SETTING UPDATES:

• You guys have had a productive month, despite me trapping you in Cyberpunk 2077! Good job!
  • Beiwe’s Church has been moved from the forest to the North Grove, right smack dab in the middle of it. It was initially in ruins, however it has been repaired and is now fully operational. A more detailed summary is on the locations page, but in short:
    • Corrupted or those willingly working with Suri cannot enter it, as they will automatically be blocked by Her will
    • The middle of the church has a pseudo-arena space for battles, because it’s Beiwe
    • The rooms in the back contain a kitchen, dining room, and a room for making pottery including pottery wheels and a kiln
  • Luca has resurrected Sehul! Oops! They are currently just walking bones and do not exactly fit in the Grove, the buildings are close together and they are 100ft tall. They will be spending their time on the beach.
    • I have Yet Again bumped up the height limit barrier. It is 200ft. Hold me to this: It will not change again. I keep forgetting how large my creatures are.
    • Sehul also has the original protection circle on the inside of their skull, and their resurrection has significantly strengthened that in tandem with the existing barrier and other hidden circles being quite strong. The turns are tabling!
  • Dion has figured out that Suri’s constructs can be poisoned. :) And Shadow Milk found out how to do A Lot Of Damage. These items were shared at the most recent family meeting.
  • Renard has been rescued (untreed)! He’s walking around despite the fact he should not, but lives out of the General Store for now. He will probably at some point ask Sesa to borrow the workshop so he can make sickass swords. He has a rat in his shirt pocket named Jennie, and probably knows Too Much about where magical items and artifacts are hidden, considering he came back with at least ten of them.
  • The Heimr’s children from the manor are still snzzzing.
  • Sinann can take person form now, since they’ve been fully strengthened. They will make this everybody’s problem.
  • The fog wall has been strengthened, and Suri’s constructs are no longer able to slip into the Grove, barring super extenuating circumstances such as someone physically going into the forest and forcing them through the barrier (don’t do this). The fog wall is also white again and will not automatically harm you when touched. The Golden Glasses are still needed to traverse its paths properly; I’ve given you guys some leeway in the past with this but we’re going to make this a requirement going forward. No more accidentally stumbling into the plot.
• Neo Eden is gone, goodbye Neo Eden. As a reminder you’re allowed to take one (1) item from it, be it clothing, a box set of movies, an espresso machine… as long as an adult can physically carry it without struggle. Again, you cannot have a car.
• The mushrooms fruiting in the forest have gotten worse. They have spread beyond the fog barrier and into the accessible woods to you guys, and when stepped on, a spray of spores may have mystical effects…

PLOT UPDATES:

• Hi. You’ve been waiting for this event for (checks notes) like 4 months. Hope you got your monster-lovin’ bones ready. (Also this month is a TDM!)
• Curious characters who wander into the forest and step on a mushroom may be subjected to some monstery transformations. They can either be very painful or completely painless depending on how you want to play it; we just ask you use appropriate CWs as always.
  • If it was not incredibly obvious I based the mushroom sporing transformation thing on an episode of Dungeon Meshi, and if you haven’t seen Dungeon Meshi go watch it. Our habits of getting sent Cease & Desists will not abate.
• As per the last few posts, we do have rules for how the monstering will operate, outlined below for ease:
  • Your monster can be whatever you want as long as it’s not too massive (i.e. don’t be a 200ft giant). Your monster design cannot be overly mechanical; some mechanics like a cyborg are allowed, but no TVs for heads. Keep it within the setting’s typical low-tech constraints.
  • Whatever monster design you want does not have to be animal based or plant-based, you can be an eldritch horror if that appeals to you.
  • You cannot gain new powers (if you become a cyborg you can’t suddenly shoot lasers if you couldn’t before). Basic powers such as wings that give you flight, being a vampire lets you suck blood, etc, are okay. The ability to shapeshift into a smaller form (i.e. if you decided to make your monster very large) or to change forms (i.e. from merfolk to humanoid) is okay as well, so that you aren’t bared off from buildings.
  • You can choose to keep your existing powerset, or scrap it/parts of it. The only stipulation we have is that you cannot gain powersets (exceptions are noted above — if you aren’t sure, ask). We will not be allowing hard swaps in powersets either, i.e. if your original powerset says you can use fire magic but you wanted an aquatic design, you will not be able to waterbend instead.
  • Those of you who are dragon-blessed do not have to incorporate your dragon blessings into your design if it would interfere with the ~aesthetique~; you will retain the dragon blessing powers either way.
  • Those of you who are Corrupted MUST include the Corruption damage/motifs still, however.
  • The marks left on your person by the Gods (Suri or the lesbians) will remain, if you have them.
  • Personality changes to match your monster/transformation type are not expected, but allowed and encouraged! Dietary changes to match are fun as well, but again, not required.
  • Multiple transformations are allowed, since these are mushrooms in the woods that you step on. This is also the way to reverse the transformation. Story wise this is “random” and not based on your will; OOCly obviously you can do whatever you want.
• At max, the transformations will last 3 months — May, June, July, and end at the beginning of August automatically. You can, again, end this early by stepping on a mushroom. You can opt out entirely by Not stepping on a mushroom.
• There isn’t going to be much “““““plot””””” this time around. We want this first event to be more sandboxy, while everyone gets used to being a creature. That said, we will throw interactable things into the background for everyone so that we’re not entirely boring you. This will be a Vibes Month since we’ve had so much back to back plot.

OOC UPDATES:

• All the now-contactable NPCs will be bumped up on the NPC Contact page. It’s getting pretty long, so we’ll probably look at reorganizing the page again soon. You guys are doing a good job at rescuing people. Aurora’s real name, Freyr, will be included on the page — she will go by either name, she thinks your new name for her is cute.
• Related to NPCs, we’ve had pronoun blurbs under each NPC for a while, but we’d like to remind everyone that they’re there. We know we have quite the robust cast all around and would like to help everyone avoid confusion, especially because we don’t expect you to memorize every single character. Let us know if there’s anything more we can do to help with ease of navigation.

Please use the following form for plotting (and please describe your monster transformation to the class while you're at it!):

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

QUESTIONS

[sticksandbonesmods]

Lavvy !!

[psychokinesia]

wolfie has 5 of these idiots

[eidxiety]

Billie Sue 🌻

[charlastan]

YEAH THAT'S RIGHT I'M COMMENTING ON THE PLOT POST THIS TIME (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

Joey (Min-Gi Park)

[outofsynth]

Character: Min-Gi Park
Canon: Infinity Train
CR: Min-Gi is a music boy so I am always down for CR in that area. Otherwise I'm not fussy! I'm good with both positive and negative CR. Min is perfectly capable of being polite and does try to be, but he can also be abrasive and is struggling to adjust so both are possible.
Plans: Mermin! (Thank you, Chi.) His tail pattern is obscured in the art, but it looks like this. The barbels are a very loose nod to this guy. I'm opting out of giving him a humanoid form and he will be living in the river for most of May. It's uh. Probably a little shallow to be that comfortable a home, but oh well. At least it's wide.

For the sake of not having him immediately opt-out and mushroom himself back I'm saying that part of his changes will include being more or less comfortable with his fishy form. But! By the end of May or so he will be enlisting help. Therefore I'm looking for one (1) volunteer to assist with plopping him down on a mushroom. He may also need some help getting to the river in the first place. The exact timing of him becoming human again is up in the air depending on how much fun I'm having and if there's anything tempting me to let him come back to town.

Anything Else: Please play with my grumpy fish.
Not Seeking: I'm fine with whatever! Flirting will be received awkwardly at best but is technically fine.
Recent Posts or Toplevels: Neo Eden if anyone does want to backdate future stuff!
Past Life Plotting Toplevel: I haven't done much with this, but it's over here. Please use the plotting comment so I can keep editing the main comment.
Meme:

Fish art counts as a meme, right?

Sheep 🐑 | Katsuki Bakugo

[nitrotempered]

Character: Katsuki Bakugo
Canon: My Hero Academia
CR: Looking to befriend or adopt a local tsundere who has anger issues, having spent his now 18 years of life, filled with promises of greatness that he himself put hard work and effort into becoming and reaching towards. That he, recently, got slammed and told he will never attain greatness? And then shit happened that made it truth.

So now his anger issues are all over and, he feels guilty about everything.

I offer you a troublemaker who means well, and earnestly cares about being a Hero, but does not have the personality of one. Despite his delinquent personality, he will follow rules, try his hardest to be good, and do his best to help out when he can, even if he doesn't want to. He prefers beating up bad guys. He is very stuidous and is a fucking nerd, despite how much of a dumbass bully he is.

Plans: Him emo, sad, trying to figure out his not gay feelings for a guy he wants chasing him for the rest of his life. Normal straight man feelings.

Not sure what to do for him as a monster but if you have suggestions let me know! I think i just want him participating in others stuff not so much doing anything reallky. we vibing!

Not Seeking: idm anything

Anything Else: Just want CR and fun stuff. He just got here so he is super paying attention to EVERYONE and studying EVERYTHING, so just be mindful if its public he is _

Recent Posts or Toplevels: Nothing atm he did Introduce himself

Past Life Plotting Toplevel: NOT YET, im still not sure what to do lol.

Meme:
how about cute art instead.

Jami's fuckin. trashfire raccoons

[jesterlies]

Joshua Rosfield

[kingincognito]

Character: Joshua Rosfield
Canon: Final Fantasy XVI

CR: A 28-year-old ex-prince who would be the Archduke of the Grand Duchy of Rosaria right now if his mother hadn't sold them all out to the empire for one corn chip 18 years ago. Dominant of the Phoenix. He has been in frail health his whole life. He can cast fire magicks and can heal someone from the brink of death, and can also transform into the Phoenix if need be. But if he does any of this, it will advance the lithification of his insides, so! He's grounded from all of that right now! Oops.

He's a huge nerd, very bookish, well-spoken and polite. He is very kind and treats everyone equally, and it is very hard to get on his bad side. He is also a bit stubborn (it's a family trait) and can sometimes be a little eager to venture off in search of knowledge in places that may or may not be entirely safe.

Plans:

Joshua will still be working on the portal project this month! And he will be working on it until it's done tbh. He is still sort of reeling from his brother's disappearance so it's going to give me a perfect opportunity for him to accidentally step on a mushroom and poof into something monstery.

Of course for maximum funny I am going to start off the month with him becoming a vampire and going "well that did nothing" for a whole ass hot minute until he realizes in one way or another. But I have plans for other forms for upcoming months, also, so stay tuned!

Really I'm up for just about anything please play with my bird thank u

Not Seeking: No death!

Recent Posts or Toplevels: Fammeet introduction and also some interesting information he found on the supposed state of the world outside of the Grove!

Past Life Plotting Toplevel: Past Life Info and Past Life Plotting!

Meme: