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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my spiel about arknights i give every month

Character: Passenger / Elliot
Canon: Arknights

CR:
Passenger is a Liberi (specifically a passenger pigeon) (which are extinct) who (checks notes)... is Columbian (American) but spent a majority of his life starting from childhood in Sargon (nebulously "every Arabic country that exists"). Part of that life was spent with his mentor Thorne NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THORNS ABOVE I KNOW THIS IS HARD, who was killed by a Lord Ameer ("Sargonian guy with a lot of political power/status"). Passenger then spent TWENTY YEARS!! TWENTY FUCKING YEARS!! on a revenge plot that involved burning the city & black market of Ibut — which he built up with his own hands — to the ground, while said Lord Ameer was trapped there. He started this revenge plot when he was a child. Also detonated an Originium bomb part in his hands which is how he got Infected with Oripathy (rock cancer). His Oripathy causes severe emotion and personality loss since it's almost directly in his brain, and despite only being Stage 1 the medical professionals on Terra really don't think he'll live that long. He's also pushing 40 though so lmao.

He has an unhealthy obsession with Sesa/they are MARRIED NOW!! yaaay, and he has a childhood version of himself living in his brain who talks to him. I simply refer to him as "Little Elliot". If you can read minds or etc you might get to hear him talking, he's a nice boy. Passenger is not.

for Stix: Passenger lives in the workshop with Sesa and owns the Magic Lamp. He is otherwise pretty quiet; technically he works on machinery and lightning-shooting devices and things like that, but since he gets unattached to his projects quickly I rarely bring this up. It's safe to assume most of the time he's putting his creative impulses into food instead, because there's simply no need for him to make 1 billion scrap projects here.

Anyway the wedding went well and Passe finally has new CR which has been nice/really re-motivating for me lmao. I thought I was losing my grip on him and no it turns out his brain was just mad that his friends left, but do not worry he has new ones.

Plans: Undecided on if I'm going to unmonster Passenger or not yet. Shrugging nebulously.

The only thing I can think of for the play is the burning of Ibut when he murdered that Lord Ameer, and there's something hilarious in the thought of telling a 20 year story in like 4 miserable fucking hours (or 8, 8 is even funnier) but I also don't TL with Passe because he's an awkward-TL-er, so if anyone wants this lmk and I'll inbox it to you, otherwise I'm going to come to Your TL Instead.

Not Seeking: n/a come at me

Anything Else: please let me continue to be a slow tagger and don't drop my threads when i haven't tagged back for a week i swear i'm getting to them and trying my best- AAAAAAAAAAA ok thanks

Recent Posts or Toplevels: n/a

Past Life Plotting Toplevel: pigeon

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

it's passenger!