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cambium ([personal profile] cambium) wrote in [community profile] penitente2022-11-01 12:29 pm
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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

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.

PLOTTING

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finalbows: (i'm the mover i'm the shaker)

SORRY IT'S ME AGAIN

[personal profile] finalbows 2022-11-06 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I IN FACT HAVE RETURNED WITH ANOTHER IDEA and a new top-level

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.
Edited 2022-11-06 17:58 (UTC)
spaghettimonster: (TWO THUMBS UP)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2022-11-10 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's see if my brain wants to work for tags today, but even if it doesn't I figure we don't need their intro thread to reach discussing this - they've touched on enough details that it could come up in a later conversation. We can be flexible.

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?)
finalbows: (hee hee hee)

[personal profile] finalbows 2022-11-11 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
EXCELLENT ✨

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!!
finalbows: ✌️ ( >v9 ) ✨ (can't help being a gemini)

[personal profile] finalbows 2022-11-11 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
Also I think kuja would be pretty honest (This time) about what's going to happen when he starts trying to shake dead people by their lapels. It's hard to argue what the results of invoking the mist is once you've explained its nature

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
Edited 2022-11-12 04:45 (UTC)
spaghettimonster: (THIS WAS A TRIUMPH)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2022-11-12 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
\o/ POST-TOWN HALL WITH TOWN HALL ANNOUNCEMENT! The better to stir up anticipation and "I told you so"s
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[personal profile] finalbows 2022-11-12 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
yeyyy. i'm gonna go ahead and make the investigation request - i was thinking the 17th would be a good day
spaghettimonster: (THERE'S NOTHING TO FEAR)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2022-11-12 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds good for an IC day, half a week after the town hall it's announced at. o7

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.