outofsticks | OOC PLOTTING: IT'S SUMMER! I'VE GOT MY HAT ON BACKWARDS AND IT'S TIME TO FUCKIN PARTY

SETTING UPDATES

Welcome to Summerrrrrr (more) (hotter)! The Grove largely continues to be “business as usual” after returning from Night Vale. It seems that those of you who were stuck there all month had a much more atypical month than those within the Grove overall.
Flowers continue to bloom, animals flood the forest, the fog wall remains unforgiving and impenetrable… while the fog wall largely prevents creatures from getting in, the occasional smart biblically-accurate deer will accidentally wander onto the true paths and stumble into the Grove. Unfortunately, they can’t figure out how to leave without assistance from those with Golden Glasses. You could also just eat them if you’re hungry, I guess.
The Sea Monkeys on the beach have realised the blessing of society and free-choice, and have begun to stir in their tidepool on the beach. Notably, they cry out to anyone with a Bone Ring that they miss “their God” and that they “wish to see the benevolent deity of blue” and similar such things. They are talking about Mizuki, because Mizuki gave them meaning last summer. Thanks little guy. Aside from that, the other beach creatures are highly active; the mobster lobsters and coconut crabs have moved their turf war down the beach a bit, the fruit sharks happily swim through the air in abundance. Careful eyes may see baby fruit sharks following after their mothers.
The mushrooms that transformed you into monsters will disappear by the end of the month, and with it your transformations will also go (and be just as painful as the first time they happened). Thank you for playing in Wolfie’s Monster Mash!
Amity is bringing us this event and post this time, everyone thank Amity for their hard work on this event! It should hopefully be more lowkey to round out summer; after summer we’re headed into Horror Times, in case you guys forgot we are a Horror Game. :)

PLOT UPDATES

This month will start you off at the Sunset Bay Hotel, a seaside resort that happens to be staffed by man-eating Sirens.
- People that get grabbed to go here will not be able to head back to the regular Grove for about a week or two. We want to mention that this is completely opt-out-able despite the event post itself being vague about it, if you’re not interested in this aspect.
- In my heart the male sirens look like the boy band from KPOP DEMON HUNTERS.
Waking up will find characters in a single room with Rattan furnishings, overlooking a beach stained by a burning red sky. The oppressive heat and burning colors will not go away.
Though the Sirens do their jobs very well, they will also try to charm and eat you. They will not stop. Killing one will send the rest into a frenzy against the perpetrator until the next day.
Amenities are still provided and available, featuring access to a pool, the beach itself, a gym and various eateries. But if you choose to go swimming you will have to deal with more sirens.
However, at some point in your forced stay, the staff will begin kidnapping a handful of guests a day- and at night the building across the hotel will become a theater where the victims must put on a play that is, in essence, a parody of their own life. This can be as cruel or as comedic as players desire, but the audience cannot interrupt (or leave their seat) until after the play begins, and the ‘actors’ cannot flee the stage until at least halfway through.
Players can choose to have them forced to perform the whole thing, if so desired.
The ‘actors’ will shuffle regularly, so that everyone will get a turn. … Yayyyy…
Süri and Zonari are also in the audience, in a box seat above everyone else- they’re very much protected from any potential attack, and will laugh at your efforts. And your plays. They’re dicks.
Eventually, Süri will get bored and drop you all off at the beach again, letting you do what you want.

OOC UPDATES

Welcome to July, and our newest TDM for the summer!
We thank you for your patience as life and the weather and also life continue to be… Existing (derogatory).
Once again we thank Kaed for his June plot, and Aspen for their Pride post!
We’re sorry for yet another secondary location event, we had to get all of them out of our systems. Again, the next handful of events up to October will be very horror-focused and take place in the Grove proper. Thanks for playing in Stickybones!

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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.
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the usual spiel here

Character: Thorns/Isidro
Canon: Arknights

CR: Thorns is a lot of things. In short: Pharmacologist, toxicologist, very smart but tends to unintentionally cause explosions whenever he's working, not very well put together (generally his shirt is inside out/backwards, he's missing a shoe, pants unbuttoned, hair fucked up, might've forgotten a sock... you know, the picture of a man with severe ADHD), doesn't care for his appearance, oblivious... also has a metal arm but it's Not a prosthetic it's just alchemy components that fused with him (it's complicated). His perms post on his journal has all his powers, it's a sort of ridiculous set (I also have yet to fix that the heart/mind essence are now just called Corazonix in the localization whoops). Most importantly he knows how to sail a ship and was Very Briefly a pirate before he instead became more of a seafaring reconnaissance & supply runner for Rhodes Island. Just know that he is not above doing a crime if it means that crime winds up serving the greater good.

Very specifically he can use his cool alchemy arm for various things (outlined on his perms page in the powers section) but the most important is that he can just. find shit with it. like a compass, or a dowsing rod. Surprise it has compass abilities. if you need shit found please hit him up.

Thorns also code switches very frequently. Any Spanish (Iberian) he speaks will be translated in hover text. Sorry mobile taggers this will be super unhelpful for you.

He is also Aegirian (Sea Urchin specifically) and like Mizuki, has ties with the Church of the Deep, except unlike Mizuki he fucking hates Seaborn and is very much struggling with the fact that y'all like them. He can slightly hear the Call, which essentially means he's been corrupted enough by being fed Seaborn secretly as a youth that he's slightly turning into one and joining the hivemind, so he tends to steer clear of the river and lies low when the evolved ones are flying.

He has a friend with him too, named Nene. Nene is a type of land-faring fishlike creature known as a saltfin and responds to commands and orders like a dog.

for Stix: Thorns has taken over the lab in Gnosis' absence IT'S MY BUILDING AND I CAN RECLAIM IT IF I WANT. This also means he's living in the living space back there. He briefly borrowed the clinic to run experiments on himself re: his Corruption... this did not go well but he's essentially made a biochemical weapon (yay?) that he will totally use and I will not forget he has. His goal was to reverse engineer the Corruption into a Suri poison. He will "work on this in the background" but he will not be successful because he is a mod character.

Currently he has a stupid little puppy crush on Sidney and it's going about as well as these things normally go with Thorns, which is to say "he's been stupid about it the entire time".

Plans:

Monster wise: Still have Seaborn Thorns for the remainder of the monsterification. He will be so relieved when this shit wears off.

Events wise: If you wanted to see a dramatic reenactment of everything that happens on board his pirate ship re: his event ingame now's your chance because everything happens so much in that event and Thorns nearly dies like, 5 fucking times. Also, the fact that the sirens would be the remainder of his crew is obnoxiously funny because his crew is mostly composed of Aegir.

Not Seeking: N/A

Anything Else: Still on the prowl for new CR. I apologise for being slow with him, he ate my brain in the first half of the month and then Flamebringer stole the rest of it.

Recent Posts or Toplevels: N/A

Past Life Plotting Toplevel: N/A for him lmao i'll get to it eventually

OOC PLOTTING: IT'S SUMMER! I'VE GOT MY HAT ON BACKWARDS AND IT'S TIME TO FUCKIN PARTY

it's thorns!