January Plotting Post + Event Sign Up

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JANUARY'S EVENT SIGN UP + PLOTTING POST

Welcome to the event for January that extends into February! The official timeline for the events over this month and the next are:

Jan 15th: The Sinkhole appears.
Jan 16th: Golems come down asking for help and providing help. The sickness begins to spread.
Feb 12th: A regular mod event is scheduled.
Feb 20th: Conclusion to finding the cure for the sickness that begins to spread in January.

Any player accepted into the game between January and February application rounds can take part in this event! The information from January will be linked to new players in February.

There will be a regular event posted in February on the 12th. This event will be for all characters.

Then the sign-up only event for the sickness plot will be posted on the 20th of February. Only characters signed up for specific roles on this page may take part in this event.

The effects and world changes of the January event will last until the end of February.

If you have any questions on how this will work, please feel free to ask in the appropriate section below!

In the meantime, feel free to use this page as a plotting page as well as a sign-up!

MEDIC/EXPLORER REQUEST FORMS

You have until February 20th to sign your character up as a Medic and/or an Explorer.

Characters must fit what they are signed up for in some way.

Medics should have medical knowledge, however characters who have a tendency to be nurturing or caring may also be signed up as it would be expected of them to have good intentions for helping people.

Explorers should have the stomach for...you guessed it: exploration in dangerous places. They don't have to be fighters by any means. They could just have a knack for wanting to find things, wanting to help in a different way than a medic.

Characters who are signed up can still get sick. Neither role is immune from the flu!

Characters do not have to do anything with the roles they are given. You can sign your character up and then do nothing with it! You don't have to partake in the Find the Cure event on the 20th of February either! As always, these are options to further your game experience.

Characters can take on both roles if they would fit both roles. If you want to have them be both, please fill out both forms and put them in the appropriate sections below.

Details on what a medic or explorer entails can be found on the event.

Once you are signed up, you can choose how and when the golem grants your character their temporary abilities. If we see a character that doesn't make sense with a role, we will reach out to you to ask for further clarification.

Medic Form

<textarea cols=500 rows=5 style="max-width: 50%"> <b>Character Name:</b> Character Name | <user name="USERNAME"> <b>Why they would be chose as a medic:</b> Explain why your character would be chosen as a medic. This can be as simple as they ICly are medically inclined, or you can get into how they are a nurturing person.



Explorer Form

<textarea cols=500 rows=5 style="max-width: 50%"> <b>Character Name:</b> Character Name | <user name="USERNAME"> <b>Why they would make a good explorer:</b> Maybe exploration is part of their job description already. Or maybe it fits with their personality. Tell us why they would be a good explorer here!

Comments

Questions

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Ask questions about the event here!

Medic Sign-Ups

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Please respond to this comment if you want to sign your character up as a medic!

Explorer Sign-Ups

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Please respond to this comment if you want to sign your character up as an explorer!

Player Plotting After This Comment

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Please feel free to use the rest of this page after this comment for standard event plotting. Thank you!

[legendaring]

<b>Character Name:</b> Lara Croft | <user name="Legendaring"> <b>Why they would make a good explorer:</b> This is literally her day job. Lara seeks out mysteries, hidden objects, and everything else. She is an adventurer, and she already has incredibly keen survival senses. I see no reason why she wouldn't be an ideal candidate!

[gaylic]

<b>Character Name:</b> Moira O'Deorain | <user name="gaylic"> <b>Why they would be chose as a medic:</b> She's already a doctor and she would feel obligated to do something to try and help.

[tagartist]

<b>Character Name:</b> Chloe Price | <user name="homeshithome"> <b>Why they would make a good explorer:</b> Chloe's not very good with medicine even though she knows basic first aid, but she's heavily inclined to exploration. She investigates the shit out of everything.

[barmherzig]

<b>Character Name:</b> Angela Ziegler | <user name="barmherzig"> <b>Why they would be chose as a medic:</b> Angela is a doctor and she specializes in finding cures for deadly diseases. She would be determined to help everyone who gets sick and find a means to end the illness altogether.

[justbeingknife]

<b>Character Name:</b> Majima Gorō | <user name="justbeingknife"> <b>Why they would make a good explorer:</b> Majima has already done some pretty extensive exploration in Deerington, and is combat-ready, so I think it makes sense for him to be into poking his nose into more dangerous places..

[newtralize]

<b>Character Name:</b> Newt Scamander | <user name="Newtralize"> <b>Why they would be chose as a medic:</b> Newt canonically is a nurturing and helpful person. He takes care of creatures as a norm, but seems to have an extensive apothecary and potion knowledge. He's shown to be able to use that knowledge by making a poultice to help with a character's symptoms from a bite they had received. Newt is also being signed up for exploration and will be able to assist explorers alongside him.

[ishisstrength]

<b>Character Name:</b> Justine | <user name="ishisstrength"> <b>Why they would be chose as a medic:</b> Justine has some medical training but she also has a natural motherly instinct that she sometimes tries to ignore but it's slowly been nurtured in Deerington.

[newtralize]

<b>Character Name:</b> Newt Scamander | <user name="Newtralize"> <b>Why they would make a good explorer:</b> Newt 's occupation is researching creatures and he had spent the last year traveling and exploring. He's been through any possible terrain and climate and has a fairly vast knowledge from it. It would be natural for him to also just explore Deerington. He has good combat skills and a plethora of spells for assisting and tracking. I also have him signed up for Medic duty.

[imaginationswoes]

<b>Character Name:</b> Airy Miller | <user name="imaginationswoes"> <b>Why they would make a good explorer:</b> This is very similar to what Airy is currently doing in her canon. She is learning how to fight but also seeking answers. She's been tomb raiding before and has solved mysteries in order to find the origins of <i>The Creator</i>.

[herbmancer]

Still reading through everything so forgive me if I've misinterpreted anything, but for the "explorer" contingent who accept the golems' request to help in Jan, what is it they're asked to help with that month? The medic role seems straightforward, they can offer medical assistance over the course of Jan.

On the explorers' side, are they expected to do down into the hole and poke around? Or do they not receive any specific direction until the end of Feb?

General Plotting for Justine & Airy Miller

[imaginationswoes]

JUSTINE

- I don't know if she'll go down the hole. Maybe if Majima or one of her other close CR goes or if she has someone to go with. She'll be acting as a medic and will be focusing on healing people.

- I kind of want to mess with her sanity... either monster or sickness.

- Maybe death??? I don't like death for death's sake but something turamatic and fun and maybe to show some of her growth in Deerington since I don't think she's realized how much the town has changed her.

- She's been learning to fight and has an ice dagger, so it might be cool for her to help save someone.

AIRY MILLER

- F.E.A.R stuff for sure! She will be doing her recon thing with her composition notebook.

- Airy is very powerful and it'd be great to have her face something extreme to show off that power. That said, one of those paralyzing things could totally kill her.

- I don't know if I want her to die though.

- She can help anyone!!!

- Lots of exploring.

I am brain storming so come at me!!!!

Re: Questions

[onerthes]

Oooh, so... uh... if Vira-Lorr signs up for one of these roles, can they put the colored cross underneath her third eye? Just cause?

Also double checking timeline -
Jan 15: Earthquake/Sinkhole (With monsters down below)
Jan 16+: Flu symptoms crop up in the meantime.
Feb 11: Golems come down looking for victims and to help. Symptoms can be alleviated but flu remains until...
Feb 20: Event to find/administer the cure.

Give or take, is that about right?

[onerthes]

<b>Character Name:</b> Vira-Lorr | <user name="onerthes"> <b>Why they would make a good explorer:</b> Vira-Lorr has explored countless dank caverns, ruins and army encampments to fight unspeakable horrors and find secret magical ingredients to conjure powerful artifacts over the span of five different continents. She's traveled the length and breadth of those and into another plane of reality in her quests, so... yep. It's kind of in her wheelhouse. She's not usually the scout in these missions, but she's definitely up for a good bit of spelunking into hell.

Osomatsu Matsuno

[relieable]

he is neither a medic, nor explorer, so i mostly want to play around with him getting the Sickness. he hasn't had a flu shot either. hm!

some of the symptoms i want to play with are: forgetfulness, dissociation, hyper sensitivity, restless sleeping, dryness/cracking/bleeding

i really want more CR! i want him to meet new people so come at me, or poke lovebakery for plotting.

Plotting - Vira-Lorr (Warning for mention of gore/body horror)

[onerthes]

- Am I going to send what is basically a D&D style witch down into the horrible place with all the silently screaming monsters looking for answers? Is the sky blue?

- So, yeah, she'll be entering the sinkhole. Exploration horror is a likely result. She's going to be avoiding the icky somewhat with a little magical floatation, but like all of her magic, it's spotty at best so she won't always be so lucky.
- Fighting horrors is a very likely option. I am going to call what we see down in this place as "Undead" in general, so her magic isn't especially good against them, but she has some defenses. Most of these fights will be 'positive' experiences but...
- I want to get Vira-Lorr stitched into the flooring. Non-fatally, but that's part of the raw horror of this event isn't it? This can be either her and her partner overpowered and both added to the tapestry, one hand free enough to slowly fight their way free... or someone finding her afterwards, perhaps waking her up as they step on her and have to help her free. I would prefer that this not be fatal, however. Just mind-numbingly horrific.

- The Flu: Ok, it's been cleared up that flu shots were an event before the November Event and that most of them had been destroyed. So, Vira-Lorr won't be vaccinated.
- Vira-Lorr, despite her injuries, won't catch the flu initially. She'll be taking precautions and using her magic for self-recovery (hazardous for those around her). However, she will get sick around the start of February. She'll be suffering the lower-tier (through body disassociation) symptoms while helping to Explore, and wearing a mask the whole time.

- Event: For the 20th, she will be joining the Explorer side of the event. It's far more in her nature than Medic, and her basic healing magic is pretty spotty right now, and prone to hurting others.

- Special: She's going to be potentially getting a Surprise Grant around this time, so god knows what that will do, or how it will help.

Re: Medic Sign-Ups

[lovesuwithknives]

<b>Character Name:</b> Azwel | <user name="lovesuwithknives"> <b>Why they would be chose as a medic:</b> Canon states he studied medicine extensively and tended plague victims sometime in the past, not to mention his doings in the actual story were basically experimental medicine.

[no_reload]

<b>Character Name:</b> Reaper | <user name="no_reload"> <b>Why they would make a good explorer:</b> Reaper is someone who values information, has an excellent mind when its comes to making maps and an excellent directional sense. He isn't easily turned around, and he is pretty determined to find all information relating to why Deerington is the way it is, so he's motivated. <s>Also, someone has to make sure Chloe doesn't die again so he doesn't owe her gross cake.</s>

[lovesuwithknives]

Azwel has learnt nothing from the mine experience. His curiosity will lead him into that goddamn sinkhole and he might come back out missing some more of his already precarious sanity.

You bet your ass he's gonna catch that flu, too, and be baffled because back home he came through the plague unscathed. But that genetic immunity is pretty specific.

He'll be going into the second part of the event as a Medic, so that'll be fun with that flu. Still, he'll wrap up in iso gear and soldier on.

[azurestar]

<b>Character Name:</b> Lance | <user name="ironlionzion"> <b>Why they would make a good explorer:</b> Lance was training to be a space explorer before he became a defender of the universe. He's an active hero-y type of guy who will put himself in harm's way for the sake of others and wants to do what's right. He has keen instincts for danger, and an awesome sense of direction as well as varied combat skills, survival instincts and training.

Plotting - Reaper

[no_reload]

Reaper is basically going to go exploring and walking around on corpses doesn't bother him nearly as much as it probably should work place hazard. He's hopefully going to be allowed to be an explorer and he's a tactician and he has excellent directional sense especially in the dark.

The Flu: I will likely not be having him endure sickness; he's already still suffering after his brush with death. Moira probably walked by and stabbed him in the ass to vaccinate him or something. He will dealing aches and pains already, and he expects the mask he's wearing under his other mask offers double protection.

Sink hole: You better believe he's going down there. He will not be stitched to the floor because he's going to likely wraith his way over the yellow-brick-body road and not draw particular attention to himself. He will be happy to take on the lickers and the winter lanterns, and his abilities will allow him to contest them quite well.

He might even be a team player! I mean... he'll save people with disparaging comments. If your name is Chloe and you're going to die, he'll probably show up and kill whatever is making a meal out of you. If your name isn't Chloe, he'll likely still save you because it means killing stuff and he needs his reaping if full working order (he gets 50% reaping healing now, guys! Uncle Jeff makes it so!).

I am hoping he can team up with one other person who may share his... ah, eccentric abilities to reduce an enemy to a twitching mass. Or not. I'm not the boss of you guys.

Allura | Voltron

[princessences]

I believe that I will sign Allura up to be both a medic and an explorer! She has basic first aid and intense combat training, can do some magical space healing with her abilities to manipulate people's energies and/or supply them with her own. Downside of doing that energy/quintessence part is that it means that in Deerington she actually takes on the injuries/illness of those affected. SO. That...would be fun to play with, potentially?

So things that in general I would like for Allura to do this month...

➤ Explore the sinkhole! Anyone who wants to partner up and go down into the depths with her would be appreciated. General exploration, with some monster subcategories below....BECAUSE I AM IN LOVE WITH ALL THE MONSTERS I CAN'T CHOOSE JUST ONE.

➤ Open to stitches! either having her get stitched or saving someone from being stitched. As to how far the stitching goes could be up to discussion. I'm thinking maybe the latter just because she's got superhuman strength and so it would be more difficult for the walking carpet to subjugate her long enough to tie her down.

➤ Licker Encounters! Oh yes, I want this. Let's fuck up some creepy zombies.

➤ I am VERY tempted to have Allura get fucked up by a Winter Lantern, though how fucked up I am still deciding. I realize death here may be a more appropriate avenue if she ends up losing her sanity in the process. Anyone who has interest in those creatures too, hit me up!

Allura MAY not be getting sick, depending on how badly sinkhole goes for her. If she gets out mostly unscathed she will get the virus.