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outofsticks2024-01-26 11:07 am
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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.
one (1) weasel off the string
livio ⸸⸸ 3gun minimum
Seeking: PLEASE CUDDLE HIM. even if it's a compulsion at first it will hopefully Permanently Unlock the part of his brain that craves affection.
i'm here for memshare with any of his existing cr! [read: if they've even talked once and you're interested, so am i!]
and depending on memories he shares, there just might be some potential strong CW's as is typical for him. they could also potentially involve razlo if anyone is interested in witnessing the worm off the string commit ALL the sins
his heartspace will likely be the not-exactly-neat-but-not-awfully-messy interior of a structurally-rundown group home on a desert plateau
Not Seeking: not looking for permanent memloss at this time but it might depend on what it is i guess?
Anything Else: i'm going to give him a PLANT KITTY CAT!!!!!! probably some sort of coniferous tree theme. it's firry. get it? furry? firry? thank you i'll be here all year
depending on whether anyone else is interested, he may eyeball the school. it needs a lot of repairs that he thinks he could take care of. and also he's just drawn to it? mysterious...
Meme:
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let elsword cuddle him, elsword is great at cuddling it's like all he knows how to do. the plantcat can join in
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i'm so so here for it it's bonkers i love them wolfie I LOVE THEM
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motherfucker you know i'm here for ALL of the above
kiera 🦚🌬️❄️ original
lovetolerate you forever.the snow is nice though.
please note, despite a few of my icons showing their whole face, kiera always has an eyepatch over their right eye.
Seeking: she is extremely secretive so memshare could be a neat way of exposing things she wouldn't willingly share for ages. but also i'm here to use her as a sock if anybody wants to play around with their character's memloss/repair. kiera is an agent of chaos so she could defs cause some trouble. also likes to endear herself to people for future use, so she would also help patch stuff up if desired.
just, uh, yeah, potential CW for manipulation now or in the future. she doesn't usually have malevolent intentions with that sort of thing, she is just self-absorbed and lazy. meaning she wouldn't likely ever put your character in real danger, but she might try to persuade them into doing things she doesn't feel like doing.
their heartspace is a rustic but old-money manor, with apple orchards and vineyards outside.
..... they also would like fuckbuddies please. just don't actually seek a Relationship or they will ghost you harder than luca ghosted renova
Not Seeking: they will NOT partake of the candy as they are vehemently opposed to anything in heart shape. which is good because they would hate nothing more than cuddling and honestly it just wouldn't be that fun bc they would burn any and all bridges with people over it
Anything Else: kiera brought an entire fucking horse if anybody wants to see her. she's a pinto marwari and is very friendly.
Meme: 2 for one
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I feel like a friendship or Something Elsword Thinks Is Friendship Anyway could bloom from this
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spoilers: he would genuinely grow on her very fucking quickly, she's 100x more sentimental than she lets on
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first interaction like-
kiera: hi
elsword: i'll die for you now
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