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NOVEMBER PLOTTING
OOC
☀ We are currently at 20/30 players! As a reminder, players may have up to two characters in the game, and may app their second after passing two consecutive months of AC, of which the initial check-in AC does count.
☀ An OOC post for discussing investigations and theories can be found here
☀ An IC infoshare meeting (dated 10/31) can be found here
☀ And an unofficial game discord can be found here
☀ An OOC post for discussing investigations and theories can be found here
☀ An IC infoshare meeting (dated 10/31) can be found here
☀ And an unofficial game discord can be found here
IC
☀ Looks out the window... The weather continues to get colder as winter approaches, averaging in the high 50Fs to low 20Fs during the day and night respectively. The first two weeks of the month will see on-and-off rain, though it is not yet cold enough for snow to stick, and the wind blows strong enough at times to break off tree branches and send them flying through the air to smack people in the face if they're not paying attention.
☀ In the first half of the month during the rainy spell, the liquified mud of the graveyard acts like quicksand, dragging down anybody who tries to trample over its bones. The lake water, curiously, feels warmer than usual, although still cold. Do not drink the lake water. Animals in the forest appear more agitated than usual, prone to take the initiative and jump at people's faces rather than hiding or running.
☀ The fog gets thicker at night, and there is the feeling of more and more eyes following anybody who wanders outside past dark. Humanoid figures can be seen shrouded in fog at times— running, sitting, stabbing— but just like the town's "monsters," will disappear once a character approaches. For the characters, there will be a feeling of uncertain familiarity towards these shadows, kind of like when you think you recognize somebody but cannot remember their name and maybe you do not know them after all.
☀ Despite Lark's insistence that they'll be here soon, the rest of the townspeople do not magically appear the first Saturday of the month, although the event post will tie into this. There are pending investigations for the train and the dogs, so we'll see if the pit fall spike net interrogation trap does its job, and/or if we're just going to sit back and watch the church bell be destroyed.
☀ No matter how well they've been taken care of, every character's gemstone seems to have an extra chip in it, with its edges marred black.
☀ In the first half of the month during the rainy spell, the liquified mud of the graveyard acts like quicksand, dragging down anybody who tries to trample over its bones. The lake water, curiously, feels warmer than usual, although still cold. Do not drink the lake water. Animals in the forest appear more agitated than usual, prone to take the initiative and jump at people's faces rather than hiding or running.
☀ The fog gets thicker at night, and there is the feeling of more and more eyes following anybody who wanders outside past dark. Humanoid figures can be seen shrouded in fog at times— running, sitting, stabbing— but just like the town's "monsters," will disappear once a character approaches. For the characters, there will be a feeling of uncertain familiarity towards these shadows, kind of like when you think you recognize somebody but cannot remember their name and maybe you do not know them after all.
☀ Despite Lark's insistence that they'll be here soon, the rest of the townspeople do not magically appear the first Saturday of the month, although the event post will tie into this. There are pending investigations for the train and the dogs, so we'll see if the pit fall spike net interrogation trap does its job, and/or if we're just going to sit back and watch the church bell be destroyed.
☀ No matter how well they've been taken care of, every character's gemstone seems to have an extra chip in it, with its edges marred black.
PLOTTING
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Character: Kuja
Canon: Final Fantasy IX
Plans:
I HAVE, A FEW
- make a mysterious glowing crystal the size of a backpack he will be leaving around town because it's too damn heavy. This is his IC diary. It can be "read" by basking in its light, absorbing the information directly. Kuja believes only a fellow Genome would be able to do this, but I have decided any character with any kind of psychic predilections or other mind-based powers can. If no one falls under this umbrella... Let's get creative!!
- Kuja will try to throw himself into situations that will induce another trance. Trance, ftr, is triggered either by feeling like your life is in danger, or being in a state of very high emotion and willpower. Kuja mostly thinks it comes from being mad or in danger, though.
- getting used to the setting! Kuja is still trying to puzzle out. Uh. Whuh happen. He's a little sure he died? Gonna ask other characters if they died, maybe.
- fixate on what the hell is going on with the graveyard. He wants nothing to do with the place but also he feels a little obsessed with it since he WOKE UP THERE BURIED
- Kuja is interested in making the acquaintance of the rest of the game cast, as in actively looking for people! He'll be asking around how many people are here, and looking to meet the ones he hasn't yet. There's no way he can get the measure of this stage if he doesn't know all the players. He believes if he collects enough information about the inhabitants, especially other strangers to this land, he can make a guess as to why he's here. Still pretty sure he's dead.
- the first time kuja manages to enter Trance, he is going to ditch whatever was currently going on to go to the center of town, and try to create another entrance to Memoria -- to see if he can, and maybe to stare at it with a harrowed expression wondering what to do next. He is not going to be able to do this successfully, but I have lots of ideas of what WILL happen that I. May need mod approval for, since the premise do this game is to do with memories? Tl;dr it'll create a weird wobbly flashback zone for like half a day, tops.
- I'll provide more info of my Ideas of how it could work in another comment this is getting long
- I may. Have more ideas later. Sorry everyone
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Here is my idea of how it could work! I am extremely open to altering it/it not progressing this far if it doesn't work w the setting!
He is not going to be able to Rend Space And Time To Touch The Collective Memory Of Existence, but what he WILL do is make a Concerning Energy Orb, cause some visual warping, and optionally give characters weird flashbacky shit in the immediate area. I figure I'd leave it to mun discretion what characters can see what -- Memoria in ff9 goes back and forth on if characters all witness scenes that are playing out, so you can have other people see stuff too.
- in ff9 the memories are not just from people but from places too, but considering this is a mystery game I don't, like, expect to see any of that.
- I'm picturing kind of like, a patchwork of sights overlaid on the area near Kuja, but it wavers like a mirage to show the normal town..
- the 'Mini Memoria' will take the form of a glowing, roiling orb of energy, and Kuja will be right beside it feeding it all the power he can, even after his Trance ends and there's no chance of success. Unless stopped by outside factors he will keep at it until he's totally drained.
- he will not be doing this again because, if nothing else, of the ensuing migraine from hell
- If he figures out the pattern behind the power dampening, he's gonna do this at night. I'd like for the effects (and the orb) to last a good few hours, giving characters a chance to run into it if you want them to despite the time.
SORRY IT'S ME AGAIN
So, Kuja's ended up wondering if the fog is like the Mist from his setting - that is, comprised of restless souls not allowed to move on. He has the ability to stir up the ire of these souls to create scary undead monsters -- and the only way he has to test if the fog has spirits in it and isn't just Spooky is to go ahead and try doing just that!
Obviously this is. Not probably gonna go swimmingly if it works. Kuja is quite confident on his ability to fight anything that appears, and won't think twice about doing this - he'll learn something either way!
I'd say this ought to be an investigation rather than just a question? So I'd like to figure out someone for him to be in cahoots for this bad idea with! And obviously there's a lot going on right now so this will be happening later in the month, so. It'll be either forward-dated or we can wait a while.
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Anyway, I'd like for Papyrus to be in cahoots with this project for personal reasons!
Papyrus is under the impression that he (and Sans, he thought) are undead monsters... in the sense of, human remains that got cleaned up and changed with monster magic to be animated and ensouled. Living skeletons, as opposed to dead skeletons.
He doesn't know if "Mist" is a thing, and he's pretty sure his soul isn't that of a restless dead human (there were only so many human souls, all very much accounted for, after all)... But this sounds vaguely familiar to what (he believes) he was brought to life with! To Papyrus's mind, this is a great opportunity to maybe figure out the rest of the animation process to maybe try doing sometime himself...
And, depending on how honest Kuja is about the "scary undead monsters" part, Papyrus could be hoping to be a good example to undead monsterkind and persuade them not to go on a murdery rampage. (He can't have worse luck with it than he did with the dogs, right?)
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I figure we're about ready to make an investigation request then-- I know the game as a whole is planning to have another town hall meeting soon, So I think an interesting question is whether we want this to happen before or after that
I also think After we've gotten The results of the investigation it would be good to make either a whole new top level or entry for this-- So that other people Can feel welcome to jump in on the chaos(?) That ensues!!
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Anyway I'm leaning shortly after the town hall? Since Kuja also have another iron in his fire eating his attention straight through to the 10th at least
EDIT: OFFICIALLY HAPPENING POST TOWN HALL
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Right now I'm still seeing Papyrus's main contributions being a mix of describing what he "knows" of his own origin, helping keep watch during the experiment, attempting to talk the monsters around, and helping fight when it inevitably goes awry.