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OOC PLOTTING: did you guys know silent hill f is out?
SETTING UPDATES:
OOC UPDATES:
Please use the following form for plotting:
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.
- Autumn rolls in full force, bringing fallen leaves, the constant scent of chai coming from Ydalir’s tent, pumpkins growing out of control out of the roofs and walls — wait what
- The circus is there one moment and gone the next, with not a trace left behind, including the labyrinth of kidnapped cities underneath it. That patch of the woods remains empty for a while, until a house springs up there mysteriously. A sign on the door says “BONE-JANGLES HAUZ! COM IN GET FUD”. Inside the house is Mr. Bone-Jangles, his bone wife, and their six bone kids who are full-grown adults. They will make you any meal you want, including things from your homes or others homes. As you leave, you get a bag of microwave popcorn and a large chocolate bar. Trick-or-Treat! The treat is being loved.
- It’s October though, so that means: The Plot™.
- The truck that crashed through the forest last month remains, and the people driving will help you pack supplies for the trip. They warn you to pack light, as the truck has limited room and will have to make multiple trips no matter what. Those of you who are particularly fast (i.e. can run at truck going through difficult terrain speeds, or can fly/float) might be able to keep up with it if you’d rather.
- The truck can seat up to six people; two in the back seat and four in the bed of the truck.
- Once you’re at the destination, there will be no return trips for a while as others are brought here, and you’ll generally find it hard to return the second you arrive even despite the truck coming back. Not impossible, but hard. You’re given free run of the area, though. Speaking of where you are…
- Welcome to Roseroot (source needed)! Roseroot is a beautiful city north of the mountain range that Zonari gets all her rocks from (you do not remember passing through the mountains) (that is a mystery for another day, friends). It’s a wealthy, affluent area where those of you who have past-life memories of being from here may know as “bougie” and “well-developed”. Per its name, it is covered in roses, all bright and beautiful and in all sorts of colours, including colours that don’t actually happen in Earth roses. All the houses and businesses are empty, though the businesses in particular will still serve you via mysterious means that are impossible to figure out. You go to a restaurant and the food spawns in front of you, the clothing stores basically allow shoplifting, etc etc. Per our JRPG-ish vibes, there’s nothing super technological (it’s nothing like Neo Eden), but it’s still well-developed.
- You can sleep wherever you want in the city — reclaim someone’s house as yours, sleep at the park, go to a hotel, etc.
- When you go to sleep — and you will, you will go to sleep, even those of you who can’t/don’t need sleep — you dream, and every time you dream, good or bad or traumatic or nonsensical, something pulls itself from your memories and manifests somewhere in the city. These are monsters made of your traumas. Yet again, our Trauma Monster Generator™ will be operating (pats Amity on the back) for player ease.
- The traumas have a range of behaviours; some wander and try to hunt you down, some stand perfectly still and only move if approached, some stalk, some wait in place for you to find them. Some hate the light, some hate the dark. All of these traits depend on you and what you bring to the table.
- As the days pass and you dream, the city becomes more and more dilapidated, with many buildings and shops crumbling, others cracking at the foundation, and most if not all buildings will be largely reclaimed by plantlife by the end of your stay. It’ll be colder, dirtier, with the showers refusing to work for those who are particularly unlucky and food getting harder to come by when the stores suddenly experience mass rot.
- (sighs) YES THIS EVENT IS BASED ON SILENT HILL YES WE HAVE RECEIVED ANOTHER CEASE AND DESIST NO WE HAVE NOT CEASED OR DESISTED
- After the first night of people sleeping in Roseroot, which is totally the real Roseroot and not at all a fake planted by our BBEG, the city will become more difficult to leave. The more monsters are around, the more the entrances to the city get obfuscated, move locations, or completely disappear. Characters within the city will have to deal with them somehow. Luckily, they’re killable, unlike the fear monsters.
- Characters will be able to leave on their own and find their way back to the Grove once they either a) find an exit or b) kill enough trauma monsters to allow a natural exit to exist.
- For now, we ask that people hold off on “after escaping Roseroot” type prompts/logs, because of the Situation With The Mountains. :) We will elaborate on that during a mini-event mid-month.
- “Where are the NPCs?” Oh, you see, the situation with the mountains… :)
OOC UPDATES:
- At some point in the future Wolfie will run Ydalirquest. For our new people, our quests are sign-up based, plot-heavy explorations, and usually have a hard limit to how long we let people take between responses (normally 24 hours per mod response to keep everything moving, unless something happens to the mods or the players). If you don’t reply in that 24-hour period, the mod response comes and the thread moves on without you. They are often large group threads, and we politely advise that if you doubt your ability to keep up with them, that you do not sign up. This is for the future but just a note: it’s being thought about finally. Get Ready™.
- This is your last TDM for the year! TDM AC applies to both September and October. November and December will be check-ins to account for the holidays. Go freaking crazy, take a nap, enjoy life, throw rocks, kidnap a duck… the world is your oyster.
- Please remember to do your AC/Hiatus comments/Check in comments for September because Wolfie gets sad when she has to chase you down.
Please use the following form for plotting:
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.
TRAUMA MONSTER GENERATOR
Please describe your character's TRAUMAS, different from the fears of last month. Remember a fear is "starvation" and a trauma is "as a child I was starved to death in the mines".
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What I've got is:
Odile was probably bullied as a kid for being visibly mixed race. It probably sped up her ascent into nerdom which probably got her bullied even more
Her mother left them when Odile was old enough to be hurt by it. idk when or how she found out, but she knows her mother never wanted children so that's pretty ugly
Entirely possible she was also bullied for not having a mom
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Should she get too close to the walls, the shadows will try and grab her, harshly pulling her hair and pinching and scratching, like childhood bullies might. And like children, they just don't know when to stop...
Cw uh. Drowning, suffocation, mild gore? Torture.
So one of the big ones is that he was in a café when a volcano started erupting and a blazing hunk of rock crashed in front of him and he got a real good look at burning mangled bodies.
A minor one is that he got dragged into the earth by skeletons. They didn't hurt him but also thats scary as fuck and he didn't know they weren't trying to kill him.
He got to see Rinne and Niki's dead bodies specifically after their gems were smashed, and the fact a DIFFERENT Mayoi popped up after the first died still haunts him.
Annnd the other I think you can use is! He had to face his already established fear of water to dredge the lake of corpses that were still uh. Alive (?) They looked at him, they were suffering through drowning but not allowed to die. He had to free them so they could die and be at peace and it was horribly traumatizing for him.
In canon he also was bullied over being biracial and an otaku to the point he pulled away from people entirely and gave up on having friends
Gatekeeper threatened to kill him once when he and the others in Alkaloid were looking for a way to get Tatsumi out of Sabotaging Trickstar during the SS but that's been a little lowered on his traumas considering everything else.
I FORGOT TO MENTION also he was left behind while the island he was stuck on crumbled into the blood ocean and he had to survive both the volcano and an earthquake until he fell into a chasm and into the void.
And he went from that directly into an active battlefield
:tucheshed:
Like Odile, you're welcome to also have shadowy people on the walls whispering and pointing and giggling- careful though! If Aira gets too close he'll definitely get hurt.
CW: Familial Death, Poisoning
- The death of his father. While for all intents and purposes, Cyrus murdered in an alley by two Castillan agents, the details are a little more gruesome than that. His wound wasn't immediately fatal, but he was inflicted by a poison on the blade that caused his veins to blacken and his body to undergo severe hemorrhaging. Luca was forced to kill him with his own blade in order to end his suffering.
- Everything that happened after the death of his father. "Aspen that's so vague." No I get it but basically waking up that his best friend and sibling had been forced to kill someone they both loved (besties dad), really fucked him up. He still lives with the thought that if he had been stronger, faster, etc, everyone would have been saved from this fate.
- Dying (and being revived) by the Phoenix. Basically, Luca had kind of resigned himself to death and was okay with it. Being dragged back and realizing that Cyrus never had to die to begin with (because Luca would have come back from any injuries inflicted) pretty much fucked him over terribly.
- EDITING TO ADD: I'm not sure if this is on trauma level yet but it's getting close: Learning that River might have just been using him for the sake of killing the beasts.
and also
- Losing Clive and nuking his relationship with Zahliya.
cw: burning bodies
WAVING HI HAVE ANOTHER ONE cw: alcoholism, child abuse
- His First Mission. Nine of his fellow slayers (and friends) were murdered by the demon he came across.
- His Father's Decline into Alcoholism: Not only was it difficult watching his father slide into the bottle after the death of his mother, but the abuse (physical, verbal, and emotional) was extremely debilitating. Worse still was watching the same behavior be turned onto his younger, more vulnerable brother. Though Kyojuro tried to shield Senjuro while he was around, his own duties as a slayer (steadily multiplied as he covered and eventually took over for his father) kept him away for long periods of time. Sort of leads intoooo:
- His Own Death. The circumstances themselves don't necessarily fuck him up and he currently bears no ill will toward its perpetrator. However, the things that he knows he left behind — Senjuro and an already addled and grief stricken father, haunt him.
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The monster itself is not a singular entity, but a group. Disjointed members of the Demon Slayer Corps walking like broken puppets, shambling dead- and with them, demons, though their hands seem to be more like giant spikes, all meant to punch a hole through their victim. Their steps sound like bottles breaking, and if they draw enough blood they begin to echo his father.
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- parents died when he was young. he was sent to an orphanage. the orphanage janitor used to beat children with a broom.
- he was "adopted" by Aulus, who is. "A PRIEST" for the church of the deep (the seaborn cult). when he was a very little Thorns, Aulus killed another child in front of him and while Thorns was crying about it Aulus said "his life wasn't worth it as he is now, but he'll be reborn" and then the corpse started fucking moving because Seaborn Cells. he has nightmares about this to this day lol.
- was made to do "magic tricks" (alchemy) in the street by aulus for money. the Iberian people used to throw rocks at him for this. he was probably 7 years old.
- lots of general cult hivemind doctrine got spewed at him
- Iberians in general are pretty racist to Aegir! usually the Inquisition comes around and rounds them all up and kills them, especially when he was younger.
- Aulus used to feed him Seaborn :') he found out about this recently, he's upset.
- lots and lots of guilt over people dying when he could have saved them, like a lot of the pirates he spent his time with. in his own quest for alchemy he nearly got their crew killed no less than 3 or 4 times. when he was told that his own greed was leading people to their deaths his response was "I know" so uh. he's fine (he's not fine)
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Secondly, the actually dangerous monster takes the form of a very tall priest in holy regalia... except his face is a mass of blue tentacles, singing the song of the Seaborn. He shambles like he no longer remembers how legs work, swaying like a drunk almost, always wandering and reaching for Thorns. If Thorns somehow angers it, it begins throwing rocks at him! Yay! He calls for Thorns always though, in song, in thought, in everything. Pray with him, child. Rejoice with him, child. Feast with him, child. Sing for him, dance for him.
You're of the Deep, after all.
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If he lingers in one place for too long, faces and bodies of those he failed start to emerge from the walls like weird fleshy lumps. If they get to form in full or he gets too close when they have hands they will attack!