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OOC PLOTTING: the suri games
SETTING & PLOT 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.
- :) oh boy
- CWs for this post: it will have mentions of murder and suicide and other violence.
- Those of you were here in December may remember the ominous “Are you willing to die?” poll. Many of you voted yes. I’m pleased to announce that you will now die.
- With the Iris still at large, some may notice that the other moons no longer try to rotate night-by-night. Instead, multiple of them show up in the skies at once, and gradually they start to fuse together with sinew. You can thank the Iris for this one. The Woodcrawlers and other threats from last month remain at large, and magic is still suppressed, though many of you who are sensitive to it or previously had it will begin to sense it bubbling under the surface, like a volcano about to erupt. That’s surely not ominous for later!
- Around this time, Suri — or the Forest, or the Fallen God, or the Black Sun, or “that fucking guy” — starts to wake from slumber. His magic has also been suppressed for the most part by everything happening, and he is Not pleased about it. Like hey man, this is his circus and you guys are his monkeys! Stop killing his monkeys, only he can do that!
- This is the point where Suri, who cannot enter the Grove still despite everything, will strike a proposal: Kill each other a little bit so *he* can regain his strength and cast the Iris out of the skies for good.
- One of two marks, either a black sun in the shape of a crescent or a black sun in the shape of a gibbous, will appear on your characters’ inner wrist. Every character in the game will be marked with one of these (regardless of if you plan for them to die or not), and if covered by clothing, they will glow through it. No hiding! If your character lacks a usable or obvious wrist, it will instead show up somewhere else obvious. Maybe their forehead. I’ll let you pick.
- Suri says the goal is very simple: pick off someone with your opposite mark, or take your own life. He’d prefer you don’t pick off someone with your same mark because he set this up to entertain himself too, but like whatever dude, death feeds him. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend but god my friend sucks.)
- There will be incentives to death this time, though. Slightly, somewhat.
- Death will not yield a trip to the Garden (obviously). You will resurrect mark-free 24 hours later. This will also give you temporary immunity to death from the still-lingering horrors or your peers, up until the end of February. Then if you die it’s your fault.
- Have you died previously and gone to the Garden and lost something (a limb, an eye, a memory) that you want back? Should you choose to sacrifice yourself here or get killed by your peers, Zonari will undo one death consequence you suffered previously. This is the ONLY time we’ve offered something like this and likely will be for the foreseeable future.
- Below is a table that I hope works on mobile (sorry phone people) with your marks and assignments :) I tried to make these as evil as I possibly could.
| CRESCENT SUN | GIBBOUS SUN |
| Till | Viktor |
| Jayce | Ezell |
| Flamebringer | Faust |
| Mephisto | Mizuki |
| Elder Faerie | Pavlova |
| Pure Vanilla | White Lily |
| Shadow Milk | Silent Salt |
| Akaza | Genya |
| Senjuro | Kyojuro |
| Shinobu | Muichiro |
| Ain | Elsword |
| Aira | |
| Ras | Vildred |
| Joshua | Stan |
| Dipper | Ryan |
| Min-Gi | |
| Mystery | Zoey |
| Lyle | Astrid |
| Kiera | Luca |
| Corbeau | Urbain |
| Mafuyu | Wolfwood |
| Cy |
- While the inn remains a bastion from the horrors outside, it is NOT an opt-out for your peers murdering each other. If you’re still marked, you can supremely be ganked in the hallway. Be careful!
- At the end of the event (provided enough of you die) (PLEASE don’t make me make the Woodcrawlers permanent) you can expect the setting to change in this way:
- No more Iris, Woodcrawlers, DRD, or Fake People
- Magic comes back to the Grove, but we’re asking you to hold off on forward-dating threads to March for now!
- Beiwe & Ourania will be re-contactable
- Suri and Zonari will slink back to their hovel, wherever it is, and leave you to patch up whatever emotional damage you did to your peers.
- Note that mod character deaths do not count toward my arbitrary “enough people have to die to un-GHE the setting” although they are allowed to participate/kill your characters if you want. The number is pretty low, in a small game like this I’d be happy if 3-5 of you chose to die. More is just a fun little bonus.
- There is a sign-up below for “willing to die”. This is more of a plotting device/mod checklist so we know how many Woodcrawlers to ctrl alt del from the setting. Feel free to volunteer to murder each other under your headers there if it makes your life easier. Note that signing up here GUARANTEES that your character will die. Even if you don’t write out the actual murder, you will have big death.
- March will be a calmer event to break up the horror a little and focus around the topic of regaining magic. We will also be introducing some… treats. :) Then in April we will have our usual April Fools’ funny nonsense. I think you guys will like this year’s April event, but I’ll also never top Neo Eden lmao.
- Remember to submit your AC please!
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.
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