October Plotting Post : Part 1

[sodder]

OCTOBER PART 1 PLOT PLOTTING POST

Welcome to the newest event! This is an exciting time and the event provides several chance encounters for your characters. Remember, everyone, all things in this game has consequences so don't think this will be the last you hear of this event.

Or maybe it will be. What do we know?

If you would like to plot or plan for any encounters, feel free to use the form below and post around! Have fun with this event. Use it to explore whatever you like of the town or make IC connections. Enjoy!


<b>Character Name:</b> <b>CR Wanted:</b> <b>CR Not Wanted:</b> <b>Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event:</b>

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Adam Parrish | The Raven Cycle

[hondoyota]

Character Name: Adam Parrish

CR Wanted: All, but most especially other teen friends, other magic friends, and responsible adults who will adopt him / be a good role model for him.

CR Not Wanted: N/A

Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event:

- Adam will be suffering from Insight, which is a bit of what Adam already suffers in Deerington, being too tuned in to the undercurrents of magic, and he will be constantly struggling to tell what is real and what is insight-nightmares. I’d really like a thread of questioning reality, mistaking real things for hallucinations, etc. He will be very confused and alarmed to find out that other people also see blood rivers and pumpkin boats. At least when you’re hallucinating you can reassure yourself that it’s not real.

- Adam will be suffering some pretty serious mood swings throughout the event. On the one hand, he’ll be an excellent and helpful guide if anyone gives him a task or a destination. He can get you there, and safely, possibly with the help of his dream guide. He’ll be quick to help with incense and can lead the way straight through any No Man’s Land.

- On the flip side, Adam’s insecurity and self-doubt will be crippling whenever he’s left alone or without a task to focus on for too long. Without school and homework to occupy his time, he’ll be very prone to listless depression. He’ll be disinclined to leave his dorm. Which will quickly lead to him becoming a witch. His blackened, abandoned body can be found in the community college library.

- In Adam’s No Man’s Land, hard warnings for child abuse. It’s a black, twisted forest-factory of metal trees with cogs for leaves, and there’s a constant shouting rattle of something that sounds partly like factory clanging except that you can almost make out words in the clanging, abusive rhetoric that calls you useless, worthless, a burden.

- Adam’s witch-form is an oozing darkness, an “unmaker” demon of a blackness that consumes and ‘unmakes’ anything that it encounters. Anything it touches withers and crumbles to dust. It’s a pool or an oozing formless mass of no more than ten feet at most, but it oozes and creeps hungrily. It’s drawn to sources of power and magic, and will quickly drain and dissolve them if it can. The unmaker is trying to unmake the entire labyrinth, and the parts it has touched are just black ash and silence. It can be killed by a sacrifice, though what that means to your character is up to you.

- Adam’s Host, more warnings for abuse references, is bruised and shockingly emaciated, wearing rags. He is driven by self-doubt and would prefer to focus on the witch-form rather than his altar, which he would rather hide and avoid. He will encourage killing the witch and will tell you how to do so: it takes a sacrifice.

- I’m open to Adam possibly dying in this event if anyone kills his witch. It’s not my preference, but if it’s the natural tragectory of a thread I’m open to it.
- Adam’s No Man’s Land can be accessed through the glowing tattoo without him becoming a witch, which means it won’t have the witch raging inside.

[vermillon]

i would like a hallucination thread, actually! he can hallucinate cat being... you know, himself, and that would be a slight cause for friction, especially when x'rhun himself is having so much trouble with this place already with so much magic and disorientation goin on

[hondoyota]

Sounds good! yay for hallucinations

[eatwell]

i herd you need a responsible adult (tm)......

merlin's own father was pretty harsh on his brother, so while merlin can't sympathize he'd definitely empathize and want ot help adam not... turn out like his brother (who, uuhh, awakened his magic and killed their dad with it).

merlin also has insight though so that probably won't help figure out if the fleshhead gazebos are real or not, but there's that.

[hondoyota]

Sounds good! Adam does definitely need responsible adults, especially responsible adults who know anything about magic.

Was there anything in particular you wanted to do with these two?

[eatwell]

merlin did... go to school for his sort of magic. then he got kicked out within a few years without even graduating, for the murder thing, see.

i recall seeing you had a prompt for the library? probably good for a first meeting; merlin's a bookworm himself and was still considered a prodigy in magic even if he got kicked out. they likely won't have the same magic system but, given half a chance, he'd definitely like to help adam, and in particular i think would be good for encouraging him? (he's got a bit of a guilty conscience.)