May 2020 Plotting Post

[sodder]

May 2020 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!

Summary of Event

Deerington is brought to war by the invasion of orcs and wargs, but they will have time to prepare their weapons and find horses to fight with. Robots and ents will aid in the battle. Ents will tell of a mysterious woman one can hope to find under the moonlight at the lake. This has opened up a memory event. The memory event is 100% optional and has to do purely with the origin story of Deerington. Please heed the warnings as the memory has many sensitive topics.

Event Prompts in summary:

Prompt 1: "See The World For What it Truly Is": The world goes black and white and characters must find themselves to restore to the color around them.

Prompt 2: "No Admittance Except on Party Business": Hobbits and the ravens throw a party on the Golf Course. People can find horses, weaponry, and armor there. They can also find fireworks and a lot of really good food.

Prompt 3: "They Come for Blood": Orcs and wargs come to fight Deerington and infest the Enchanted Forest.

Prompt 4: "The Enchanted Forest Prevails": Sleepers can find creepy centipede ladies and magical swords in the lake if they try hard enough.

Prompt 5: "The Trees Speak": Ents come to help fight wargs and orcs and forge alliances with Sleepers.

Prompt 6: "They Who Stand Guard": Robots stay behind in Deerington to keep people safe from wargs and orcs.

May's event prelude can be found here. The result of the raffles can be found here.


<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Preferred Player Contact:</b> <user name=PLURKNAME site=plurk.com> or DISCORD##### or PM. <b>OOC Limits:</b> What do you not want to do for this particular event? <b>Desired CR:</b> <b>Unwanted CR:</b> <b>Event Ideas:</b> Your ideas for what your character will be doing during the various prompts where applicable!

Comments

Questions for the Event

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Questions for the regular event go here.

Questions for the Memory

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Questions for the memory event go here.

Albus Dumbledore | Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts

[chambermusicandtenpins]

Character Name: Catharine
Preferred Player Contact: queenoftheimps
OOC Limits: I'm comfortable with all of this, so none I can think of.

Desired CR: All of it, COME AT ME
Unwanted CR: None

Event Ideas:

1) Dumbledore is going to be FASCINATED by the colors and appreciating the hell out of things to help them shift hues.

2) He will also absolutely attend the party. Come hang out and party hard.

3) He is going to be very actively trying to use magic to protect people from the Orc invasion. If your character needs or wants some form of magical protection, he will be very happy to provide (especially since his magic is mainly functional now.)

Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) | Birds of Prey/DCEU

[crossbow_killer]

Character Name: Huntress/Helena Bertinelli
Preferred Player Contact: queenoftheimps
OOC Limits: None I can think of.

Desired CR: All of it, come at me.
Unwanted CR: N/A

Event Ideas: 1) Huntress is gonna get drunk at the party. Come drink with her.

2) She is going to be all over fighting the Orc battle. She's particularly going to be focused on trying to defend any kids/untrained Sleepers who have no means of defense. She'll also work with FEAR and ally with the Sleepers she knows are capable with fighting to come up with some sort of plan.

3) Huntress is also FOR SURE getting a horse during all this.

4) I am kind of considering the idea of having her get killed at some point in the onslaught, if anyone wants to participate in that.

[11calls]

Alex received Sodder's Mirror from the raffle. If she uses it on the queen, would it work to medusa her? I know she needs to be killed through blunt or magical weapons, but would the Medusa hold her in place long enough for people to be able to do it?

Freya's pups

[princessences]

Preferred Player Contact: doggystyle or PM.
OOC Limits: All clear on this event.

[sodder]

It would stun/turn her to stone temporarily, but only for 10-20 seconds and that could definitely be used as a way to get in a killing blow if used smartly. She will become flesh again after that time is up, and it will take a minute or two for the mirror to work again. The Queen is smart and may try to knock the mirror/weapons out of people's hands with blood.

[knewaguy]

For the Lady of the Lake's gift, in the form of healing items - in Logan, there's a serum that can enhance mutant powers in small doses but can have various side effects in larger ones. Would it be okay to assume a kit of 3-4 vials would count as one item? Or should it only be 1 vial total.

Ricas boys

[whyisitwet]

Preferred Player Contact: reveillez or ricamarch#3742
OOC Limits: no limits.

leonard mccoy ( star trek aos )

[dark_ages]

Character Name: Leonard McCoy
Preferred Player Contact: extreminator, ricks#9597 or PM.
OOC Limits: n/a

Desired CR: Any and all!
Unwanted CR: n/a

Event Ideas:
• PARTY: He will reluctantly go to the party and probably look a little grumpy. Feel free to approach and try to cheer him up;
• COLOR BLINDNESS: Leonard will be afflicted with it, and he'll be freaking out inwardly about it while trying to figure out what's wrong. I am all here for him checking up people's eyes/brains either at the hospital or anywhere else to try and figure out what's wrong;
• ORC BATTLE: He's not a fighter but a healer, so he's going to be staying back and setting up some kind of emergency spot along the edge of the city, near the forest. He'll help anyone who comes out of the forest wounded. I'm up for him helping people out, pairing up with other medical types that want to team up with him, and possibly have him be forced to fight an orc or a warg that might make it closer to the edge of the forest and sneak up on him/his patient. Or someone can save his ass when he's attacked?? Anything can happen here.

Allura | Voltron: Legendary Defender

[princessences]

Character Name: Allura
Desired CR: ALL. New, old, I am an open book.
Unwanted CR: I never say anything here.

Event Ideas: So first of all, Allura will definitely want in on the Mini Memory Event, so anyone who wants to go with her and/or meet at Lake Tomie to face the Pthumerian Queen and get some sweet game history, LMK.

That being said, for See The World For What it Truly Is, Allura will likely have moments in gray-scale herself, but will be able to help others/appreciate what they can of the things around them. To an extent. She is a little jaded after having been here for almost 2 years now.

No Admittance Except on Party Business - There is no reason not to attend a Hobbit party. Goodness. She will take part in some of the festivities but seeing weapons being forged, she will definitely want to visit the blacksmith. Also she may be slightly unsettled by the horses. She's got little to no experience with them, except for the Thestrals in the park. Please help her.

What Evil Lurks in the World - There's not much else to say other than kicking orc ass. Let's kick orc ass. Allura may not look like it but she's kind of a tank, so she's here to help.

The Trees Speak - Lastly since Allura was kind of communing with all the Kodama in the forest last month, I figure it makes sense that she would join up with the Ents too? So Ent Moot time and the battle for Isengard.

[trigeminalheadache]

Aw, Bones. Why so grumpy?

[dark_ages]

It's, uh... part of his charm? C:

Re: Questions for the Event

[onerthes]

Magic, sword and sorcery stuff from home can work on orcs normally, yes?

If we are willing to pay the points for it, can the weapon acquired from the lady in the lake be something properly paid for as an augmented reward?

Charles Reed | The Sinking City

[whyisitwet]

Character Name: Charles W. Reed
Desired CR: Everything, he literally just got here, there is no limit to the CR I desire.
Unwanted CR: nah

Event Ideas:

Color blindness- WELP. Charles is a PTSD riddled piece of shit so chances are he'll stay black and white for a really really long time. Eventually it'll freak him out so if anyone wants to... idk, take him to therapy and get him out of this noir hellscape that would be much appreciated.

The rest: I think I'll mostly focus on getting him settled this month, though he could be persuaded to go to the party out of sheer?? paranoia????

Mem event: I won't participate in this but for the love of God, if anyone does Mother of Deerington you gotta talk to him about it. You gotta.

gee // changeling: the lost

[labyrinthinedark]

Character Name: K
Preferred Player Contact: givemedragons or givemedragons#7125 or PM.
OOC Limits: N/A

Desired CR: positive, negative, neutral, bring it on I'm here for it.

Unwanted CR: N/A

Event Ideas:

See The World For What it Truly Is

I'm very interested in playing around with this one, especially since Gee might have a lot of problems with finding himself when he doesn't remember who he used to be. Anyone that's interested in convincing him that who he was isn't as important as who he is now would be really amazing CR. Otherwise, he'll be walking around very sad and greyscale for a while. Especially as I think he would be very good at bringing color back to the world in general: he has a very keen appreciation for the world and most things in it, especially little pleasures like reading a book or sitting in a garden or a perfect cup of coffee. I can imagine things around him will gain color before he does.

Gee is pretty quirky and I think he'd be a good person to help people find themselves, if that makes sense. He sees value in a lot of things, even if it's not obvious, and so if you need anyone to talk up your character, he might be the one to do it.

They Come for Blood

OKAY so Gee is kind of a weird fighter, in that he relies a lot on magic and guile rather than outright physical force (though he can if he has to). His magic in Deerington occasionally misfires, so if anyone wants to be involved in fighting alongside him, particularly in the Enchanted Forest, that could be something fun to play with.

The Enchanted Forest Prevails

I'm here for creepy monsters and magical swords. Anyone wanting to adventure into the Enchanted Forest with someone that has a handle on magical things and a very low sense of self-preservation in search of knowledge, step right up.

The Trees Speak

Ents! Gee is all about digging up information and he is willing to sit through long, boring conversations to do it. I'm definitely interested in him trying to find out more about the history of Deerington/Sodder as much as he can with the tree folk. He is vaguely suspicious of them because there are some elements about him that remind him of the Gentry, but they are way less eldritch horror so he'll get over it.

Mini-Memory Event

THIS SEEMS SO COOL and right up Gee's alley. Since he will absolutely be following the advice of the Ents, he has every reason to head into this event. He has no qualms with waltzing into a giant dead body or fighting creepy magic opponents - in fact, this might be his time to shine. When it comes to magical battles, Gee can actually be pretty ruthless, so if there are party members that have any qualms about fighting the character described in the event post, this could be a really interesting bit of CR building/destroying. There is literally nothing about this that will make him hesitate if it means getting information.If anyone's interested in forming a party to go check this out, please let me know.

[thenewkidontheblock]

Character Name: Gann
Preferred Player Contact: redlionspride or RedLionsPride#9087 or PM. FEEL FREE TO ADD ME
OOC Limits: N/A

Characters to Follow:
Ben Hanscom
Genji Shimada
Zed Martin

[laminae]

Could you clarify what you mean by antler/dream weapons/defense mechanisms for the memory event? Mostly not sure what constitutes a 'dream weapon' (weapons acquired in Deerington, blessings basket gifts, Great Sleep weapons, etc.). Thanks!

Orihime Inoue | Bleach

[lastcomfort]

Character Name: Orihime
Desired CR: All! She's brand new so really looking for new CR of positive or negative.
Unwanted CR: I still never say anything here.

Event Ideas: Trying to do some different things between my girls, but to start off...

See The World For What it Truly Is - Orihime is generally someone who can see the good in almost anyone and anything, so she will likely be very useful in returning colors to people and the world around them. She is here to help! She may have moments of gray-scale on her own too, feeling disconnected from her friends in a completely new place, so anyone to help her as well would be welcome.

No Admittance Except on Party Business - She's going to find this entire thing delightful and charming and will be happy to be there. She'll love the music and the food--got to try everything if she can!--and will also really enjoy watching the fireworks. Meeting people, mingling, making friends and/or mishaps are all on the table!

What Evil Lurks in the World - Wargs...maybe? Dealing with them? Might be fun. Poor puppies.

The Enchanted Forest Prevails - I would love for Hime and someone (or multiple someones) to run into creepy centipede lady. Though Orihime does have battle experience, she is best utelized as battle defense and a healer, notably her powers are kind of nerfed, she will still be able to help in some fashion. So she would be be best paired with others who can do the main tanking/dealing damage though she can DPS some of this.

And meeting the Lady of the Lake would be neat.

They Who Stand Guard - She kind of loves robots, so having her go around and run into these would be fun. Potentially seeing one defending someone/being defended by one of them? Any interactions, really!

carly | wynonna earp, dana polk, bo peep

[earps]

Preferred Player Contact: favoritings or disco:carly#5387 or PM.
OOC Limits: No deaths; everything else is open to discussion!


Character Name: Wynonna Earp
Desired CR: All types! Friends, drinking buddies, found family, kids for her to secretly mom, folks with supernatural/demon-type experience.
Unwanted CR: Not super negative CR (unless there's an event-motivated reason behind it) but I'd be more than okay with her having a frenemy or someone she gently butts heads with on occasion. She's also happily spoken for in the romance department.

Event Ideas: The two things I want to do most of all with Wynonna this month are the color plot and the golf course party; she just wants to have a good time, okay, and she'll probably be making a lot of bad Lord of the Rings jokes because she's not a total Tolkien nerd. But I'm really into the idea of her either trying and failing (or, remarkably, succeeding) to help someone get their color back via helping them find their inner sense of self-appreciation or just hanging out and enjoying the fireworks with people. It's going to be another light month. Maybe she'll see if one of the people making weapons would be willing to give her a sword because, uh, as seen above, she looks real badass with it.

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Character Name: Dana Polk
Desired CR: All kinds! Friends, artists or artistically-inclined individuals, fellow survivors of supernatural or spoopy events, fellow werewolves/anyone who might be able to sense that she's one or something not entirely human.
Unwanted CR: Not super negative CR (unless there's an event-motivated reason behind it) but I'm game for her to have the occasional conflict with someone or that person in her life that she just can't seem to say the right things around, especially if it keeps happening while she's under the influence of something that would make her more likely to speak her mind. She's also covered in terms of romance.

Event Ideas: Color encouragement for sure; she's working on trying to acknowledge her own sense of value but sometimes her self-confidence isn't always at its peak, so she'll probably be starting out as one of the folks in greyscale until she manages to get a pep talk from someone else and then she'll be in more of a position to pass on the positive reinforcement to another friend, keep the feelgood chain going. Other than that, I'd love some golf course party hangouts and maybe, just maybe, someone might be interested in a werewolf with red fur rescuing them from the orcs or wargs?

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Character Name: Bo Peep
Desired CR: Everyone! She hasn't fully outed herself as a toy like some of her compatriots have, so she'd be more inclined to openly befriend non-human CR at the start while staying relatively incognito the rest of the time. I would also love, love, love her to meet more kids who are open to playing with her, because she's a toy who secretly loves that even now.
Unwanted CR: Not super negative CR (unless there's an event-motivated reason behind it). She's also got her heart on lock for a certain gangly sheriff, so romance isn't in the cards either.

Event Ideas: This girl is going to start off in color, lbr, but she is on hand for any pep talks that folks might be in need of for them to regain their more colorful sides again. Now that she's starting to have more out-in-the-open interactions in Deerington, she's willing to let herself be seen, although she's still more comfortable with one-on-one interactions rather than just walking around within a large group. She'll still make an appearance at the golf course party and will probably, at some point, win herself a weapon from the lady of the lake, as well as talk to the ents. But she's going to actively take more of a role supporting friends and other close CR this month, for the most part.

Lat's Brats

[onerthes]

Character Name: Vira-Lorr
Preferred Player Contact: latroma or PM.
OOC Limits: None applicable this month.

Desired CR: Fantasy Warfare. All the Sword and Sorcery your little eyes can handle
Unwanted CR: Romance, unless you've got close CR and an interest this month.

Her Top Level: It was easy to write for her - Hop in if you want.

Event Ideas:
-Vira Lorr is taking a pass on the Raven's party for IC reasons. She's in her element, and she doesn't need their help. She will, however, be polite and thank them for the invite and direct kids their way.
-She won't be at home a lot this month. She's out being hero. I'm handwaving that a robot is in her front lawn keeping the orcs at bay.
-She is, very much, in her element. This may be Tolkein, but it's basically her bailiwick. She will be fighting pitched battles, backed up by a magic slinging fairy chicken, an Absol, whatever Ents she can convince to help her out and... YOU! Expect her to issue commands, say things like flanking maneuvers or the like. She is openly out to protect and save anyone and everyone she can and will take all the help she can get.

SPECIAL NOTE: Sometime around the very absolute end of May or early June, Vira-Lorr is expected to die in the Enchanted Forest. I will be buying off her Deerington memory loss and sickness again this time around, so she will deal with aches for the month, sleepwalking and sensory dep (Sense of Touch) for the next five months. I won't be buying off her memory loss from home, however. She'll remember her skills, but nothing else from there, so she'll continue the fight but all of that tactical know-how will be gone. (Admittedly, the orcs will be thinning out by then so it should be fine.).

This does, however, mean that she'll be out of commission from about June 1-7. Just a heads up.

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Character Name: Larxene
Preferred Player Contact: latroma or PM.
OOC Limits: None applicable this month.

Desired CR: Any
Unwanted CR: Romance. Hey, even if she IS acting more like Elrena, what sane person flirts with lightning girl?

Event Ideas:
-Larxene's going to be out and about, getting her anti-hero on. She'll be having fun with folks, getting into fights and picking them. I'm going to have her do this more through 'tag in' than tag out this month, but hey. If you want a top level, let me know.
-She'll spend some time at the party, so if you're wanting her weird sort of humor there, let me know.

This event is less her 'thing' than it is Vira-Lorr, but it's certainly up her alley. I'm going to be angling her more towards already established CR, but I'm open to new ones.

Expect something else to come up this month. I intend to buy her a Surprise Gift with the points she's finally saved up enough for. She'll be asking for a Stabilizing Gem, but that's not what she's getting because I'm not giving her that.

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Character Name: Neopolitan
Preferred Player Contact: latroma or PM.
OOC Limits: None applicable this month.

Desired CR: Any
Unwanted CR: Romance

Event Ideas:
- Neo has a separate, very stupid plot that's about to come to pass. It involves yet another unsuccessful plot to kill Ruby and those enchanted books you've heard so much about. It's there if you want something light-hearted and dumb.
- Neo may involve herself in the fighting if I see close CR wanting her presence, but I won't be doing a top-level in this case for the Orcs. On the other hand...
- I'm going to do a top level for the party and for color stuff. She's a good option for this type of thing, and it gives me a chance to explore the rest of the event.

Clifford Norman | Wilde Life

[thebigred]

Character Name: Clifford Norman

Desired CR: I'm up for all of it! Cliff could honestly use some new friends his own age, he's lost some significant CR over the last few months and is all bummed out about it. Bonus points if they get him into (fun) trouble.
Unwanted CR: nah

Event Ideas

Color blindness: Cliff will have an easier time regaining colors, especially once he figures out the trick to it — he'll think it's real fucking stupid, but he'll do it. He will however have some difficulty regaining his own color, so if anyone feels up to giving him a pep talk that would be welcome!

Hobbit party: The last raven party was probably the one good thing that happened over several months, so although he's weary about this whole deal he will be there. He'll spend some time at the actual party and then sober up real quick when he figures out that 1) oh actual war and 2) they can prepare for this one? Really? I'd like him to at least get some armour, or maybe some saddle contraption for my next trick...

Orc attacks: You betcha Cliff will fight to keep his found Deerington family and friends safe, with everything he's got! For most of it he'll stay in wolf form as that makes him downright dangerous, but it'll also wear him out and while I'm not settled on anything I'd like him to at least get injured if not outright killed.

Also. I want nothing more than for lighter/smaller people to ride him like a warg into battle. Please.

[trigeminalheadache]

Does that mean he becomes less charming the more he’s cheered up?

felix hugo fraldarius | fe:3h

[brothered]

Character Name: Felix Hugo Fraldarius
Preferred Player Contact: tuchanka ! feel free to add! or just ask me for my discord
OOC Limits: n/a

Desired CR: Everything! Please! He is braaaaaaaand new and I want him to form Connections.
Unwanted CR: Nothing, baybee... I want it all.

Event Ideas: Let's see here...

• Color-wise, Felix is going to monochrome for a week and a half or so... and he's going to be real annoyed about that, so. We shall See how that goes. I'm down for people seeing him all grey and gross and being like, oh, so you don't love yourself, huh? well.


• Felix will be at the party... probably standing on the sidelines, looking real grumpy about everything because that's his hobby. He does know how to dance, though! He's a noble lad... someone please pull him out on the dance floor.


• The Blacksmith. Boy! Felix is going to be hanging around here most of the time, because Felix lives—lives—for quality weaponry?? He's a master swordsman, so he is here to tell you you're holding that sword wrong, that sword is the wrong length for you, why are you swinging it like that??? Gosh! He's also halfway decent with a bow, so points at eyes, points at y'all, if you need a ye olde weaponry teacher! This ye olde is HERE! We can even start some CR and handwave the actual lessons, tbh. Make it a recurring thing! Just know that he's a tough teacher.


• Felix is down to fight these orcs, since he's already spent the past, what, five years fighting in a war. Same old, same old! Fighting is what he's good at, so he'll be out and about doing whatever needs to be done. He's a bit of a lone wolf, so naturally I'm here to offer him for any team-ups? Just know that he's going to stubbornly refuse to use anything but his cool sword. >:/ He'll also help anyone who needs help! Save anyone who's in a bit of a bind! He will protect you... and then give you shit about it, tbh, but listen. It's Concern.


• Anyone want to go into the Enchanted Forest and maybe fight a centipede? 👀 Yeehaw.


• This is long kfjgfg but I'm also open to! Anything else! If you want Felix, I can and will make it happen... hit me with anything...

[dark_ages]

Wow, don't turn this around on him. He's a delight!