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FEBRUARY PLOTTING: RULER OF MY HEART
SETTING UPDATES
PLOT UPDATES
HEIMR QUEST
OOC UPDATES
Character:
Status: Who is your character? What did they get up to last month and how is it impacting this month? Did they discover something? Are they harboring a clue? HMM
Seeking: Any CR or plot thread you want to kickstart!
Not Seeking: Anything you'd like to avoid.
Anything Else: A permissions post, opt-in for a character-specific power or whatever else.
Meme: you know you have one.
- Wolfwood built us a church. We know you all know because every single one of our characters have made it their personal mission to annoy the man within his own place of worship, but y’know. Zahliya, who is a Gargoyle, will now be stationed on the church roof at all times. Goodbye inn roof he’s moving out.
- Elsword has planted lemon trees near his house at the riverbank. They will spring up this month. They have eyeballs on the fruits, because lemons in this canon are just like this. Please partake of the eyeball lemons, thank you.
- The fog is going to continue to roll in until it’s back to being the oppressive wall surrounding the Grove that it started as. With it, more monsters will reawaken, though they’re no longer actively out for blood upon entry to the woods. Unless they’re hungry. That’s just hunting though, nothing personal.
- Speaking of hunting, remember the little guys from the wish festival? They’re back and breaking into anywhere warm because while the chill should keep them asleep, the forest is waking up and they don’t want to be hunted. And the warmest place? Why, your homes, of course! Characters will be able to engage with the benign plantanimals permanently! Though… with how these guys break into rooms and steal beds and nestle in closets and drawers, they may not have a choice.
PLOT UPDATES
- Upon touching another resident of the Grove, characters will find themselves in a space representing both of their hearts. Core memories, emotional states given symbolic form, meaningful items, you name it! The two sections conjoined into one are able to be explored by the two, with the ability to even interact with the space around…
- At a cost. Should either of them break something within the heart space, memories related to that something will grow hazy and fade. If you aren’t able to fix it, it will be a permanent loss.
- What would cause someone to break anything in there, anyways? Well, maybe you’re just a clutz. Maybe you have strong cat instincts. Or maybe when you touch an item representing a core memory, that core memory plays... There’s a lot of bad ones out there, after all.
- (Fixing it is flexible, get creative! Unless you want it to stay gone.)
- Meanwhile, Ydalir is handing out candy, some of which is heart shaped, to the residents! This surely has no backfir- oh wait no, no, everyone who partakes is going to feel immensely cuddly, possibly with no reservation as to who they cuddle up to. A warm and fluffy feeling towards their fellow residents will reside in their heart, encouraging affection. Whoops! Turns out mixing magic with creating will turn things into potions.
HEIMR QUEST
- Mid-month, an event regarding our shopkeeper, Heimr, will go live! Much like the above event, this will involve matters of the heart on a very metaphysical level. Characters with a positive relationship with Heimr will be brought into Heimr’s heart, with OOC sign ups below.
- Though they’ll be split up a little, the goal will be the same across the board: you must help Heimr come to terms with his guilt and the loss of his human identity of Aldric, and guide him to the final steps of embracing “Heimr” without forsaking Aldric’s legacy- this can mean his children, the good he did in the past, or something else!
- Upon finishing this event, Heimr will regain a human form, though it will not be the same as Aldric. Though there may be similarities, Heimr and Aldric cannot be one and the same- that is the cost of giving up “Alrdic” to begin with, after all.
- “Quest” events function as optional, player-controlled “choose your own adventure (with mod guidance)” type events, usually in a massive group thread and coordinated offline in the discord. They look a bit like this. At this time, signups are not limited to any certain number of characters since we are a small game, but we do have some caveats:
- You can only play ONE character during this event (so Mizuki and N cannot both go)
- As stated, only characters with existing positive CR with Heimr can go; this can range from “we had one nice conversation once” to “literally cried on the man and he’s my dad now”. If signups are non-existent, we will likely waive this requirement.
- Some amount of activity is necessary; we aren’t asking you to tag 18 times a day, but we are asking you to check in at least once every 3-4 days if possible, since this is a plot-important event.
- Mod tags will only come after all involved characters have tagged in once, players have said “no skip me”, or 24 hours have passed. That said, there isn’t necessarily a tag order unless the players involved want one. We fully embrace chaos.
- If you want to sign up but don’t yet have positive CR with Heimr/have never spoken to the guy in your life, feel free to head to the NPC Contact page and request a thread — last-minute CR absolutely counts.
OOC UPDATES
- The school & rec center are now considered “unowned” buildings. They will operate normally despite this. Players are free to take IC control of these locations without sacrificing their spot for owning a building, just yell somewhere that you want to take over.
- In light of the fact that we have Church and Church (Catholic), the ruined church in the woods will be noted as “ruined church” on the locations page, and the new church will just be “church” from here on.
Character:
Status: Who is your character? What did they get up to last month and how is it impacting this month? Did they discover something? Are they harboring a clue? HMM
Seeking: Any CR or plot thread you want to kickstart!
Not Seeking: Anything you'd like to avoid.
Anything Else: A permissions post, opt-in for a character-specific power or whatever else.
Meme: you know you have one.
"wolfie only plays birds and war criminals"
elsword definitely broke the geneva convention somehow
Status: Alive, corruption stalled, carrying high amounts of disdain for recent events, learned about jesus, probably about to set something on fire—
Ya boi didn't do too too much in January because Elsword operates on the principle of "if there's an enemy I'll fight it" and I didn't feel like writing 3000 fight logs bc I tend to stall on those. So he was fighting stuff. The thing he did do was plant the eyeball lemons, here is the eyeball lemons i finally found a picture. This is a real item you can get in this game they come from the demon realm. I wish I knew guys I wish I knew.
Anyway, this month I want to do things with him because as you know SOMEONE has amnesia that's kind of a little bit healing, but it's gonna be spotty, so I think the heartspace will sort of look... like a home that's falling apart, with random holes everywhere leading into nothingness. I'm still working on it but people will be able to walk through it with him. Please conjoin your heartspaces with him bc he'll want to hang out in yours instead bc his is gonna be all fucked up. My one caveat is I don't want anybody breaking what's left of his for obvious reasons. Please be kind to he.
Seeking: More friends, more hyungs and noonas, if you have not been indoctrinated into his found family yet it's a matter of time at this point
Not Seeking: Additional romantic CR, as usual
Anything Else: btw the geneva convention break was not allowing under-15s to participate in combat lmao this kid started at 13
Meme:
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Also Mizuki will eat the eyeball lemons he ate Elsword’s actual eye after all—
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the eyeball lemons just taste like lemons that are a little salty i hope u know. i don't know what eyeball texture is like. maybe like those burger gummies? u know the texture of those burger bun gummies specifically. that's what i imagine the eye is like.
i'm tired i want to go back to bed
gnosis bombed a railroad bridge once and i think that says enough
Status: Gnosis is deep in his "avoid everyone don't talk to me" phase because like, three people he cared about died just this month and he's Coping by Not Coping At All. He'll be in his lab doing a lot of work and nothing else. Please someone come bother his ass. (As a side note it is not super fun to play out the man being hostile and sheltered so he'll still be around/I will still do tagouts but just know this is happening, he might be grouchy tho).
I'm not quite sure what his heartspace will look like yet, maybe it will be snowy bc Kjerag is snowy, maybe it'll look like his lab at Rhodes Island, maybe it'll be weird and be both. I'm leaning more toward snow and outdoors. Don't break anything in here pls. I think if we combine heartspaces it should just start snowing like surprise—
Seeking: Science friends/friends who will listen to him ramble about science for a bit. If you know a fun fact of any type please share it with him he likes fun facts. Tell him about your weird technology or animals or whatever.
Not Seeking: Romance, the man is married
Meme:
no fucking comment
Status: Clothed (i'm putting him in this but the shirt stays buttoned okay), sharp, 4.5% domesticated, gaming, barely concealing his need to walk into the forest and start murdering things, figured out that he has to eat
I meant to post that log and I did not. I could backdate it. I might backdate it. "Nai gets hypoglycaemia" is still super fucking funny.
His whole heartspace is gonna be (((honks tristamp spoilers))) (amity don't look) we'll have fun with that one. We have some formative memories with pianos and (horrifying thing that formed his entire human hatred that is a spoiler) (there are spoilers everywhere) anyway if I tl with him I'll mark that accordingly so Amity can continue to not look.
(Amity can now look) I'm going to make a small plantanimal cling onto him all month. Just like, in his jacket pocket. I'm not sure what kind of animal I'm thinking a rodent tho.
Seeking: The more normal shit this man does the more entertained I get. We have to teach him normal man stuff. More video games. The Bachelor (???). I have "cooking" on my fucking list thanks to stuff stuck into the discord and I can't unsee it. Please teach him kitchen safety and tell him not to use his knoodles to cut food up because that feels unsanitary somehow.
Not Seeking: N/A come at me I'm ripped
Meme:
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passenger broke every single thing in the geneva convention i'm convinced. on purpose.
emic2Status: Passenger arrived last month and kind of just existed nebulously in people's directions, that's it that's what he's got going on. He waxed poetic to Sesa about wanting to corrupt him, a totally normal thing to do, and had otherwise totally normal conversations with a couple other people. I need to put him out there more tbh. I got him a cute winter outfit tho!! He's waerm now.
His heartspace is going to have a lot of callbacks to his old professor who taught him things when he was only a baby bird, and lots of general imagery surrounding fires/burning buildings and possibly burning people depending on how dark I or anyone else wants to get here. I'm going to say in advance that Passenger's brainfires will not ignite anyone else's spaces unless you want them to?! The other important thing to note is that Little Elliot will be fully visible to everyone who shares a space with him and he will Talk to you as he normally Talks just to Passenger. It will be weird. This is the bird you go to if you want shit to get super weird.
Seeking: Literally just anything at this stage, he just arrived and I'm down to clown
Not Seeking: N/A throw him through a window idc
Anything Else: Please feel free to opt out of this bird if needed because he is A Lot. You can also opt out of just getting his delusion of baby-him in tags if that will be an issue at all, just lmk!
Meme:
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