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DECEMBER PLOTTING
OOC
☀ We are currently at 50+/30 players! Applications will be closed to new players until the player count drops to under 30 again. Current players can app a second after two consecutive months of AC (including the first month's check-in), and also have the option of swapping out one character for another if a character doesn't feel like a good fit for the game, without worrying about the player cap.
☀ Some very very helpful player made google docs (thank you!): housing, event log Q&As, infoshare meeting summary from 11/27 (backdated to 11/27, but is a nice overview of the different mysteries characters are working on). I'm going to create a separate page for this sort of thing and sticky it to the top of the ooc comm, so please leave links below for things like height charts, age charts, permission posts, etc anything you think would be useful to have on hand or that you'd like other players to fill in so we can see where everybody's at.
☀ Since we got a lot of new players recently, I wanted to bring up the lore page again. All the information there can be handwaved so your character knows, or you can charge in blind. December will be lighter on plot since there's so much pending already, and I hadn't expected the game to grow this big or be this fast. That said, please do investigations if you're interested, I love terrorizing everybody's characters.
☀ Some very very helpful player made google docs (thank you!): housing, event log Q&As, infoshare meeting summary from 11/27 (backdated to 11/27, but is a nice overview of the different mysteries characters are working on). I'm going to create a separate page for this sort of thing and sticky it to the top of the ooc comm, so please leave links below for things like height charts, age charts, permission posts, etc anything you think would be useful to have on hand or that you'd like other players to fill in so we can see where everybody's at.
☀ Since we got a lot of new players recently, I wanted to bring up the lore page again. All the information there can be handwaved so your character knows, or you can charge in blind. December will be lighter on plot since there's so much pending already, and I hadn't expected the game to grow this big or be this fast. That said, please do investigations if you're interested, I love terrorizing everybody's characters.
IC
☀ Six silver coins have been gathered and sent to the coffin, and in return, the characters receive a note, written in a foreign script that only Hamtaro (npc) is able to read. He summarizes the note as follows: the writer ("Princess Stephanie Astrapia" aka "Maggie") thanks everybody for their contributions, expresses her excitement in getting to meet everyone, and to introduce them to her friends and family. She will see them all "soon." ... In the last few days of a month, a number of new people show up in town, lost and confused, but no princess, and no townspeople. More information about the results of the sacrifices and the status of both Wave and Albedo will be given in Saturday's event log.
☀ The end of the month draws to a close, and at the stroke of midnight, the church bursts into flames. Over the next few days, the fire grows and grows, like a beacon reaching towards the heavens, although the church itself doesn't seem to burn away, standing undamaged within the flames. Can't say the same for any character who decides to walk inside a burning building, though.
☀ A heavy snowstorm hits town the first weekend of the month, aka event log day, extinguishing the church fire and making the town look almost monochrome under the blanket of snow. IMPORTANT: the event log will contain more information about the state of the church after the snowstorm. At least the field is frozen over, so there's no worry about grabby skeletons reaching up through the dirt. Bad news is that the frozen grass is razor sharp, prone to slicing open any unprotected skin that brushes against it.
☀ At night, the snow reflects the moon's light and makes the nights brighter, the fog thinner, monsters more easily seen... and in turn, it being easier for the monsters to spot your character and attempt to lock eyes with them. Characters who engage in a staring contest with a monster will eventually lose unless they don't need to blink, because the monsters also don't need to blink. Those characters will turn into stone for the duration of the night until they unfreeze at dawn.
☀ With the first snowfall, the temperature keeps falling and falling. By mid-month, the lake will completely freeze over, great for ice skating and/or zipping across the ice with the exciting prospect of finding out what's on the other side of the lake. Spoilers: there is no other side of the lake. Just as if the characters were to follow the train tracks on either side, the lake seems to expand endlessly, although it gets darker and darker the further one goes. They can slide out there for hours, but it'll take the same number of hours to slide back. If characters want to explore the lake, better do it in the first half of the month, unless they want to painstakingly chip away bits of ice to tunnel down through it.
☀ At some point during the month, players have the option of regaining a memory for their character. The requirements for this memory are that:
Merry Christmas! your present is lies.
☀ The end of the month draws to a close, and at the stroke of midnight, the church bursts into flames. Over the next few days, the fire grows and grows, like a beacon reaching towards the heavens, although the church itself doesn't seem to burn away, standing undamaged within the flames. Can't say the same for any character who decides to walk inside a burning building, though.
☀ A heavy snowstorm hits town the first weekend of the month, aka event log day, extinguishing the church fire and making the town look almost monochrome under the blanket of snow. IMPORTANT: the event log will contain more information about the state of the church after the snowstorm. At least the field is frozen over, so there's no worry about grabby skeletons reaching up through the dirt. Bad news is that the frozen grass is razor sharp, prone to slicing open any unprotected skin that brushes against it.
☀ At night, the snow reflects the moon's light and makes the nights brighter, the fog thinner, monsters more easily seen... and in turn, it being easier for the monsters to spot your character and attempt to lock eyes with them. Characters who engage in a staring contest with a monster will eventually lose unless they don't need to blink, because the monsters also don't need to blink. Those characters will turn into stone for the duration of the night until they unfreeze at dawn.
☀ With the first snowfall, the temperature keeps falling and falling. By mid-month, the lake will completely freeze over, great for ice skating and/or zipping across the ice with the exciting prospect of finding out what's on the other side of the lake. Spoilers: there is no other side of the lake. Just as if the characters were to follow the train tracks on either side, the lake seems to expand endlessly, although it gets darker and darker the further one goes. They can slide out there for hours, but it'll take the same number of hours to slide back. If characters want to explore the lake, better do it in the first half of the month, unless they want to painstakingly chip away bits of ice to tunnel down through it.
☀ At some point during the month, players have the option of regaining a memory for their character. The requirements for this memory are that:
1) the memory is 100% fake,
2) it does not contradict any existing memories including the altered one, and
3) it's a happy memory.
This memory can be triggered at any time during the month by a sight or smell associated with it, and characters who have regained the false memory will find that their gemstone is partially restored, although with clear stone instead of its original colors. Characters from last month had found their gemstones chipped, with black edges, and while the clear stone may replace the chip, the black edges will remain.2) it does not contradict any existing memories including the altered one, and
3) it's a happy memory.
PLOTTING
GO MAKE FRIENDS, GUYS
Use the space below to introduce yourselves, let people know how best to contact you/if it's okay to add you, talk about your characters and desired CR or character arcs, long or short term goals, mysteries you're interested in pursuing, etc. Also important, if you have pets please show me your pets, thank you.
Use the space below to introduce yourselves, let people know how best to contact you/if it's okay to add you, talk about your characters and desired CR or character arcs, long or short term goals, mysteries you're interested in pursuing, etc. Also important, if you have pets please show me your pets, thank you.
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Contact info: PM this journal, simplistic#3432 on disco,
About me? I'm in the US on EST (GMT-5) time and I work as a commercial workforce project manager! Right now my workplace is extremely busy and I'm working a lot more overtime than expected, so I'm playing the next month by ear on whether this will affect my time in the game, but I'll be doing my best to find a solution. Apologies if I'm slow getting back to anything but please reach out if I've missed things so I can get back to you ASAP.
I also have uno cat. She is white and round and her name is Alaska. I am sorry I do not have a picture but please use your imaginations.
Character: Luna
Canon: Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Plans for December: Nothing concrete right this moment. I'd like to take December to actually secure some CR before the plot goes full swing again. Luna's rather shy and will usually take a step back on leading anything, but I know I have a few things I'd like to look forward to for CR or the like:
If you have anything you want to get the robodoc involved in just holler. Her UN on the network is milkevoli and her ic inbox is always open!
PLANNING COMMENT, DO NOT RESPOND
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Or if not, I might be considering on putting up one myself. Either way, probably catch her observing the surroundings? Dainsleif is a rather observative person so he'd be outside anyway, as he is a lot of the time...lol
I am cool with anything or even just going with the flow. Whatever's easiest.
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She'd appreciate a more one on one conversation! She'd love to learn more about Teyvat just knowing there's a ton of them now, and recognizing that it might be easier to discuss some things when they aren't surrounded by so many others. From what I remember of Dainsleif she'll enjoy how matter-of-fact he is, even if he is cagey about personal details - she can't complain, she has to do the same thing.
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He can give some information about Teyvat in general, since that will be easy enough, and he happens to know a great deal. Then potentially segue into whatever else; he is, yes, cagey about personal dealios, but at least they have something in common with that (??) I don't know her too well though I can easily believe it, given how Zero Escape games are. Though hey no time like the present to level up character interactions to potentially get there \o/
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Kuja's gonna come approach Luna to talk about her attempts to treat Aoi's injuries, and if the conversation goes long enough he'll admit he's interested specifically because he has a "similar" injury -- which he'll admit is going to be eventually fatal.
He'll offer to help specifically for things Luna needs related to attempts to help Aoi. Obviously they are not going to get anywhere but it would be really fun to write them trying!
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From what I'm already seeing, it does look like we have quite a bit more medical characters than Luna as well (someone's already talking of starting a clinic and Luna will likely defer to that character if that does happen), so she might very well recommend both of them to follow up with some of the characters that have more magic based healing abilities - she'll be upfront that all she's doing at this point is trying to establish comfort and keep what remains of the injuries viable, there is not much else she CAN do otherwise and she isn't a magician. But we can play it by ear. Since we have new characters coming in, that might also be something Kuja and Aoi can both look into - if Luna hears anything back ICly she can let them both know, but it will depend on how specific Kuja is about his specific situation. If Aoi's player wants me to do the same for Aoi, I can talk to her too.
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this all sounds good to me!! even if they start going to another doctor as it were I hope this can lead to more interesting jumping off points with all the characters involved.
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She'll want to follow up with Papyrus and Sans on just what exactly they are in case an emergency comes up, especially if one of them isn't around for whatever reason, so maybe he can tell her more about how monsters work?
will we ever address the ??? LVL situation, who knows
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Sans enjoys not addressing all the LV situations happening. There are too many. Everyone stop.
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We can play it by ear! At the very least she'll want to see if she's even a viable option for them medically speaking, but we've got a much of medical characters popping in so if they need something outside of her scope she'll want to be able to ask on their behalf, if they trust her to do so, so she'll want to talk regardless. Doctor/Patient relationship and all that.
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aside from that, i'd be down for more CR between them once wave gets back! she'll be enthralled by the snow too, though she'll be grumping about being cold... or if she finds out about the batteries thing, she'll be asking questions about like. can you recharge them can you plug in... there's gotta be a way to convert that somehow right????
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Marcus wouldn't be able to tell that she's mechanical, but I'd be really interested in getting to a place where he could try to help her with the power issue. He's not human either, and his own "batteries" have their own complications.