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OOC PLOTTING: MONSTER MASH (GRAVEYARD SMASH??)

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.

theuniverseleads: to get to have me (048)

Loop !!!

[personal profile] theuniverseleads 2025-04-25 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Loop
Canon: In Stars And Time
CR: hello it is your local depressed star-person with identity issues... if you need someone to provide unhelpful advice and bad puns Loop is HERE. Despite acting obnoxiously cheerful and outgoing 90% of the time they are hella slow to actually open up to literally anyone. you can fit so much timeloop trauma in here. please be their friend they need more friends.

Plans: It is FINALLY time for Be Nice To Loop Month (Real)(Not Clickbait)!!!! ignore the fact that they're still dealing with the loss of two close castmates and now also ANOTHER close friend, they are totally fine yup no therapy needed anymore!!!

Loop is going to get monster'd early on and they are thrilled to have a mouth. They will also be a bug the size of a banana but this will not change their mind, May is a GREAT month they will be having the time of their life.

They will eventually get sick of struggling with doorknobs and being tiny and try to change into something else... buuuut that will either be very very late May or June, so u all have to deal with them being an obnoxious ratbugfairy until then.

They are also gonna be helping with the star disease plotline stuff as... much as they can... which isn't all that much since uhhhh they might die from getting too close to the infected!! but obviously they have good reason to be invested in this. If anyone wants an in on that particular plot I would be thrilled to have Loop get more characters on board.

Not Seeking: romance is still ?????? but they are available technically speaking

Anything Else: lost a lot of major cr these past few months SO I am gonna focusing on Loop a lot, please be their friend i beg of u

Recent Posts or Toplevels: tumbleweed goes by sorry Add devoured the entire braincell for April
ok wait i lied i have!! fammeet tl!!! yay!!!!!!

Past Life Plotting Toplevel: old plotting post I still don't have anything new to add to it so zz

Meme:
Edited 2025-04-25 17:05 (UTC)
psychokinesia: (I-0104)

Add !!!!

[personal profile] psychokinesia 2025-04-25 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Add
Canon: Critically Irrelevant MMORPG Elsword Online
CR: some of u remember my other Add ([personal profile] harmacy) who was passive aggressive as fuck and put a brainchip in his boyfriend and then ??????? went to live in the woods for science. he is still out there, you are not safe. but THIS Add is active aggressive as fuck, and he put cyborg shit in himself, so it's all very different u see. He will cause problems and continue to be a menace to society until I, the player, am stopped.

Anyway, Add really really likes robots/machines, has a ridiculously edgy backstory (parental abuse/neglect! slave trauma! trapped in a spooky library for many years in isolation! thinks his kukuku laugh sounds cool!) and basically like to act like he's some kind of scary intimidating supervillain when actually he is a massive weenie. He is all bark no bite please do not be scared of him, he is lonely and desperate for anyone's approval. Nerds and sciencefolk please @ him. If you have a robot limb or w/e he may or may not grab u out of nowhere, I have an opt in/out for this pls use it thank u.

Plans: looks at the relationship drama still exploding after fammeet, uhhhhh ignoring all THAT mess for now,

Add is still settling in!! And maybe not having the best time of it, but he is trying his best. He'll be bringing back a (nonfunctional)(for now) robot minotaur from the Neo Eden trip so that'll be his fun background repair project for the foreseeable future. If your character likes robots maybe... they can help?????

He's going to be helping the portal plot stuff as well because hey he actually does have a lot of experience with this, but also I tossed him in late so like I'm just following what everyone else is doing. Add is just Here as needed. Dynamo will help moving things they're very good at that.

As for monster tf stuff... I am sitting on TWO dumb ideas. Dumb idea #1 is that Add is not going to get mushroomed, but he is going to unintentionally get a dragon blessing and then just assume that must be from the mushrooms??? he needs cute dragon horns and a tail to wag but i refuse to give them up. He's gonna be real salty when he doesn't go back to normal later, probably, and then he'll get over it, probably.

Dumb idea #2 is that Dynamo is going to get mushroomed, because I think it would be incredibly funny for there to just be a clone(?) of Add hanging around confusing people. Dynamo is very polite and nice actually enjoy while it lasts!!! They also haven't had ???? a face in like 10 years so uhhhhhhhhh they are going to give a lot of creepy stares sorry they are Observing. Also not used to having one body instead of a hivemind occupying six bodies... or things like eating and breathing... another consequence of this is that Add doesn't have functional weapons anymore so. You can bully him but it will make Dynamo upset and they WILL cry about it. You wouldn't wanna make Dynamo sad, huh????

Not Seeking: there is nothing you can do to me that i wouldn't do to myself. yes, you CAN try to romance Add and it WILL make the relationship drama even worse

Anything Else: sorry for be 100x worse about derailing every discord channel with elsword the hyperfixation is REAL

Recent Posts or Toplevels: fammeet TL!! also the Neo Eden tl but that's old news now u can dig it up and go to jail still if u want tho

Past Life Plotting Toplevel: UHHHHHHHH ITS BEEN A LONG TIME AND THREE DIFFERENT ADDS HANG ON i'll remake this later

Meme: