December 2020 Event Planning Post

[sodder]

DECEMBER 2020 EVENT DETAILS AND PLOTTING

Hello! On this post you will be able to find details about the upcoming event and the option to plot in the comments down below. You may also ask questions about the event on this page.

We will be posting the text from the prompts onto this page so you can see in full what your characters will be experiencing this month. We will then post the event live to the log community by the event's start date.

Event Start Date: December 15th

QUICK LINKS:

Event's Prelude: Here.
Event Questions: Here.
Live Event: Here.

EVENT PROMPTS:

[Event Specific Content Warnings]
[Always Winter] - White Walkers start to wreck havoc on Deerington and it's a real pain...But thankfully....
[Help From the North] - You've got some help from some dope ice bears that are READY to beat the hell out of a White Walker.
[Stars Align] - You get to spend some time as your dream guide.
[Little Hill on the House] - You forget who you are for a while and have an existensial crisis in some house with some people you may or may not know.
[A Long Drive] - You're maybe an AU version of yourself and having a tough conversation with someone in a car. It sucks as much as it sounds.

PLOTTING FORM: Here.

EVENT PROMPTS

CONTENT WARNINGS

Always Winter: Reanimated dead, mentions of reanimated dead children and animals, burning dead bodies.
Help From the North: War-centric violence/culture, violent animals.
Stars Align: Magical transformation (painless), tracking sleepers, potentially emotionally revealing conversations.
Little House on the Hill: Existensial crisis, surrealist horror, feelings of dread, confusion, temporary amnesia, temporary transportation to unknown place.
A Long Drive: Tense conversations, temporary amnesia, temporarily believing you're someone else/temporary AU versions of characters, car crash (mild or severe - player choice), forced psychological strain, emotional uncomfort, interpersonal fighting.

PART ONE PROMPTS

ALWAYS WINTER

Start Date: December
End Date: End of January
Location: All

You see a child standing in the middle of your backyard. Call to her and when she turns to you, you will see a soft face, pale, glowing blue eyes. The corners of her mouth are dark, rotten, and you know that this is no living child. Yet she calmly walks away, sparing you no more attention. It wasn't intelligence in her eyes but something else - like she was listening, paying attention, to something more important than you.

These interactions happen throughout the town. These curiously rotten, intelligent creatures don't seem to have some chaotic must-kill-and-eat instinct that one might anticipate from a zombie-like creature. You see them in pairs, wandering. Sometimes they might stop and stare at you, watching you, before moving on. You may even see White Walker dogs or horses, pokemon, creatures from the woods, wandering about with the same strange, observant behavior.

Then along come the Kings and Queens upon their horses. Large, humanoid creatures with frozen, mummified skin and long, white hair. Women with crowns and icicle collars on frosted dresses. Men with frozen beards and ice crowns that fuse to their icy skin. They ride on dead horses and these are the true danger. You might get lucky. They may merely give you a passing look and move on, but that doesn't last forever.

These are a tactical group. They seem to figure out who's a threat in town and move in slowly. One night you might wake up to skittering across your roof, and then the White Walker servants are pouring in. They're violent, freezing. No matter how many times you cut them down, they pick themselves back up after a few minutes. Your best bet is to run. Exploding them or setting them on fire might bring them down for a longer time, but these creatures are brutal. And if you die, if your pets die, if anyone dies, they will merely rise up as a White Walker themselves.

The White Walkers will pull corpses apart and arrange them in unsettling symbols out in the woods. This isn't just an intimidation tactic: if it's harder to find someone's whole body, it's harder to make sure you burn all of it. They rely on you losing body parts to a corpse to be able to pull it back together and reanimate it.

The Queens and Kings will use undead animals to their advantage. Use undead Sleepers to their advantage. Kings and Queens can freeze your flesh if they touch you directly. Fire doesn't do anything to them. They are savvy fighters and will use strategic plans to fight you rather than just blindly come in. They will use their servants extensively.

Killing a Queen or a King requires a weapon made out of antler or parts of the skeletons you've been finding - or a blade forged from dragon fire. Nothing else will work - no powers, no fire. Once you kill one, all of the nearby White Walker servants will drop dead permanently - and you'll want to burn their bodies. After all, if another Queen or King comes along, they can just reanimate those bodies.

Upon killing a Queen or a King, you will get a startling vision in your mind of a part of any canon's mythos. How your world was created, how certain things might have originated in your world, other worlds. It's only a few seconds long, but apparently, the Kings and Queens are keepers of how the universe has come to be. Killing them won't give you all the answers to the universe, but they sure give you a sneak peek.

INFORMATION:

1. The only things that can permanently kill a White Walker are antlers, pieces of the skeletons found during November's event, or any metals forged from dragon fire.

2. To avoid dead bodies being reanimated, you must burn them before the White Walkers find them. Characters who "die" this month can be reanimated into White Walkers if their bodies are not first burned - even if they died irrelevant to the White Walker prompt.

This is the one month where people's bodies will not simply flake away like usual Deerington deaths. Corpses will need to be handled. Dead animals can also be brought back as servants to the White Walkers.

3. For someone to be reanimated as a White Walker, a King or Queen must visibly be in sight to reanimate the person. If they are not around, you will have an extended amount of time to burn a body.

4. The King/Queens seem to be able to control the White Walkers through some unknown magical hivemind ability.

5. Killing White Walkers/Queens/Kings will cause them to burst into icy chunks. It seems just the touch of an antler/skeleton piece/dragon weapon is enough to kill them.

HELP FROM THE NORTH

Start Date: December
End Date: The bears may linger throughout January and February and slowly "travel back North" one by one.
Location: All

While you are under attack by White Walkers, just as things begin to feel hopeless, a roaring bear will come out of nowhere and slam through the White Walkers. It's twice the size of a polar bear and in gleaming armor. It rips down the White Walkers, claws decorated with metal pieces that make the White Walkers burst apart.

The ice bears seem capable of bringing down White Walkers and seem willing to protect Sleepers. They speak in deep, booming voices, and seem to have a similar war intelligence as the White Walkers. They may identify Sleepers as potential allies and will gladly protect weaker Sleepers and help stronger Sleepers fight.

These ice bears may take breaks from fighting. They are willing to give Sleepers rides, but Sleepers must be respectful and ask for permission otherwise you might get thrown by a huge ass bear. The ice bears do not seem interested in fighting Sleepers. They will confide in Sleepers about the weaknesses the White Walkers have and help Sleepers combat them in a variety of ways. Ice bears will patrol through Deerington and try to keep the White Walkers at bay.

Ice bears rarely take off their armor but may get a Sleeper from point A to point B more quickly. Ice bears do seem to enjoy the company of Sleepers, and while some Sleepers might think the bears are cute, it seems like the ice bears think of Sleepers as "endearing" and will seem to naturally feel fondness towards them like on might a puppy. The ice bears seem to feel the same kind of protectiveness over Sleepers that Sleepers usually feel over each other or the odd animals that come through Deerington.

Might as well make the most out of this relationship, huh?

INFORMATION:

1. The ice bear's armor, in this situation, is made out of dragon fire-forged steel.

2. The ice bears cannot be kept as "pets" seeing as they are an actual intelligent race with their own cultures, personalities, etc and implying keeping one as a pet would be insulting/degrading to an ice bear.

At most, you can forge an alliance with one of the bears and it will want to help you, but eventually, all of the ice bears will "leave for the North."

3. For this event, you can temporarily create an identity for whatever ice bear your character has forged a contract/relationship with. The ice bears have names and speak like regular people. Their culture is that of honor and war, so feel free to play into that.

4. The ice bears do not care about Sodder or the town of Deerington. It seems as though they were following the White Walkers and by chance came across Deerington and see the White Walkers as an "enemy" in some northern war. They will not get too specific about the details.

5. There are "male" and "female" ice bears though ice bears don't really see gender the same way people do.

6. Ice bears are extremely powerful. They have thick skin and extremely durable to the cold. They will not freeze/be hurt by the White Walker's cold. They will keep Sleepers warm who need it.

STARS ALIGN

Start Date: December
End Date: First week of January
Location: All

If you venture to Lake Tomie or Koji pond at night, you will see that the frozen surface looks identical to the night sky. You can't even see the ice. When you step on it, you can't even slip. Walk around. You feel like this is what you should be doing like you're looking for the exactly right constellation...But for what?

Then you find it. It's a constellation of a specific animal: your animal. If you already have a dream guide, you'll realize it's a constellation of your dream guide, and if you don't have a dream guide? Congratulations, now you do. If you have your dream guide out permanently, they will begin to glow white. If you're getting one for the first time or don't currently have yours with you, it will form out of the constellation you just stepped on. They will then head right for you and wind up slipping into you.

Warmth will fill you and you will feel yourself transform. It's a painless transformation - if anything, it fills you with confidence and reassurance. It's comfortable. Like a good stretch. Before you know it, you're a glowing version of your own dream guide - you are your dream guide. You can feel them within your soul, or maybe you're in theirs. Either way, you have become one and can now move around town as your dream guide.

This means you can slip through walls. As a dream guide, you will discover a faint, shimmering blue trail of light that seems to weave between all Sleepers. You might even notice that you recognize certain streams over others, knowing instinctually who they belong to. You can't communicate with traditional words - not even if you're a psychic, but you don't need to. You find other Sleepers, maybe friends or maybe strangers, and you'll realize that you can help guide them to safety. You can feel the safe spots in Deerington. You can feel where the danger is happening.

A subtle ability as a dream guide is inspiring the Sleepers you're around to be calmer and more honest, more open about themselves, but gentler towards themselves as well. Sleepers will feel more comfortable talking to you like a dream guide. If you have an established relationship with them, they might even start telling you what they think about you specifically.

Some Sleepers may recognize you if they already know your dream guide, but if they don't, they might just think you're a strange, magical animal helping them out.

INFORMATION:

1. Your character can only be their dream guide for the duration of the night. In order to transform back into their dream guide, they will have to go back to the lake/pond and find the same constellation to step on.

2. You will gain whatever "abilities" the animal you've transformed into is capable of (ie; birds flying, horses galloping fast, etc.)

3. This lasts until the sun rises. When the sun rises you will experience a similar transformation that makes you your normal self again.

PART TWO PROMPTS

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE HILL

Start Date: December
End Date: Beginning of January
Location: Unknown

You open the door. Any door. Your closet door, your front door, a door into the store, and then you're somewhere else entirely.

You don't remember any strange Maine town. You don't really even remember where you came from. It's just you and this dark, cold, empty world.

Except no, it's not completely empty. There's a dull speck of yellow and ah, yes. It begins to take shape. You see a house. You don't need to be told to go to the house, you simply do. It's familiar to you - was it yours? You think maybe it is. It feels familiar, and as you get closer, you start to walk in footsteps identical to your own. You have walked this path before. There are other footprints, but you don't see anyone else. Who would be out in this frozen wasteland? You go inside.

The house is warm, and at a glance, perfectly ordinary. It's like any other farmhouse. None of the furniture is new. Most of it looks second-hand or like it has been passed down from generation to generation. You can hear the floorboards creaking and sighing under the weight of their own age. There's a draft in the house, but you'll find wood stacked by a wood stove. There are pictures all over the walls, carefully organized, full of people.

You're certain you see yourself in some of the pictures, but blink and it's gone. Should you know these people? You think maybe you should. Family, maybe, or friends.

Someone else enters the house. You should feel afraid, but instead, you just feel like it's the company you have been expecting. You forget why you were expecting company...And you forget who the company is supposed to be, but you feel unusually open to the idea of the company. Go and say hello.

Together with your new company, you can explore the house. You both feel like this is where you're supposed to be, but the reason for why changes.

"Oh, I'm here to pick up those puppies you were selling..."

"Puppies? I thought you were picking up honey?"

"Dinner - that's what I'm here for. Dinner."

Neither of you can quite grasp yourselves, but you feel inclined to be friendly with the stranger(s) in your home. It is your home, right?

"Is that you?" they might ask, pointing to one of the pictures.

"Oh, yes."

"I could have sworn it was me," they might say, and when you look, you realize they were right. Or were they?

There's food cooking in the kitchen. Did you start the meal? Or maybe it was your company - but did they go into the kitchen? Something wasn't right...You could swear something didn't feel right...

No, no, it's dinner time now. They came over for dinner, didn't they? Yes, of course. Dinner.

"What's in the basement?" they ask, naturally, noticing the basement door you hadn't noticed before. It's covered in long claw marks, sealed shut with latches.

"Just some old things," you say, and honestly, you can't remember. Wrapping paper rolls. Bins full of clothes that no longer fit. The water heater. And those scratches were probably from a dog you used to own. Maybe.

You start to talk more with your company. Enjoy a meal with them. While you eat in the dining room, you might glance out the window, notice that the snow is falling more heavily. You might also notice that in one window, the snow is falling down, but in the other window the snow is falling up. That's unusual...isn't it?

Little off things start to alert you to the strangeness of this place, of where you are, what you're thinking.

"How did we get here?"

"Here? Well, walking, of course."

"No...I mean how did we get here?"

Slowly, you and your company will begin to realize that this is a weird situation. That things are off. You will have to talk more and more, start to vocalize the oddities around you, what they might mean. And it might result in you exposing more of your past, your feelings than you might normally otherwise. Mostly because...you won't realize until it's too late that you're telling someone about your life. You'll think, maybe, at first, you're talking about someone else's life. And isn't it so much easier to talk about someone else's issues? Someone else's life? About how someone you knew who knew a person who knew a person who had been attacked by a monster?

Piece by piece, you realize what's going on, you start to remember your real life, your real self. You start to remember Deerington, and you realize that you need to leave the house. Now. But convincing your company might take some time.

INFORMATION:

1. This prompt is meant to put characters into a severe state of surrealism. Reality will continually change based on their personal perceptions, and what they choose to see. They are slowly meant to remember who they actually are through strange conversational paths, through the pictures on the walls.

The conversation above is just an example of the weird conversations that can happen - you do not need to follow this dialogue.

2. The rooms in the house should gradually begin to reflect different parts of a character's personality. Maybe different phases they went through or the different experiences they have had.

3. Photographs on the walls can be of anyone from anyone's canon.

4. It's a full house so this is a group-friendly prompt.

5. No one can plan to go to this prompt, but they will remember it after they have left. People can wind up at this house multiple times and will forget that they have been there before.

6. There should not actually be any monsters or anything technically dangerous in the house. Traumatic experiences might be represented through things like a giant, ominous scratches on the walls, or unusual noises in the house. It's meant to be unsettling rather than directly deadly. Characters may start to feel like they are in danger, and can start to panic, but there should be no actual threat.

7. Once characters remember Deerington/themselves they can finally leave the house. When they open the front (or back) door to leave, they will walk right back through the door they were originally trying to get through when they first got to this place.

8. You can have the prompt specific to one character's life in particular, or you can mesh up the details of all characters involved and have the various rooms and pictures reflect all of the characters.

A LONG DRIVE

Start Date: December
End Date: Beginning of January
Location: A car

Neither of you remembers how you got in the car. It's just a normal car. A truck, maybe a four-door sedan. You're driving, or maybe your companion is, and the roads are white-out conditions. You're driving through a blizzard, and even though you can't see the road ahead, you don't feel afraid. Neither of you is afraid.

Instead, you're both preoccupied with some weighing thought.

You're thinking of ending things.

You just don't know how to tell that to your companion. You need to tell them. You have to. It's been going on for long enough. They deserve to know. It's the right thing to do, but how are you supposed to do it? Is now really the best time? In a quiet car in the middle of a blizzard?

You're compelled to break some sort of bad news to your companion.

"I think...we should break up."

"What?"

"I want to break up with you."

The news makes the car fall silent. Your companion is shocked by the weight of what you just dropped, or maybe you're the unfortunate one hearing it.

And now? Now you have to confront whatever news was just dropped. You're both stuck in a car on this endless, icy road. You have to talk. Maybe you try to change the subject. Maybe you try to comfort, try to ask for explanations. Either way, it's a draining situation. You genuinely believe you know this person, have a relationship or some sort of life with them, even if you have never known them before. That doesn't seem to matter right now. In this car, you're a powerless, normal person. You can't predict the future. You can't read minds. You're just some normal person who was going on a normal car ride and now you have to deal with this heavy, unfortunate conversation.

The conversation makes both of you upset and it gradually worsens the longer you drive. When the conversation hits its climax of absolute emotional explosion, the car swerves off the road and you can feel it spinning, crashing. Glass breaking, your world spinning upside down, and then everything is white.

When you wake back up, you can remember the car crash, the conversation, but you also remember who you are again. You remember Deerington, you remember yourself. Maybe you're hanging upside down from the car if you were wearing a seatbelt, maybe you have some scrapes on your face. Either way, now you have to drag yourself and possibly help your companion(s) out as well.

You'll find that the car crash has occurred on some random street (your choosing) in Deerington. The car itself seems like an ordinary car, but when you look for its license, it's completely blank.

INFORMATION:

1. There can be as many characters in the car as there are seats. If a car seats up to 5 people then there can be 5 characters in the scene. While this is mostly intended to be a 2-person scene, more can always happen and various tense conversations can be instigated depending on who is around.

2. This prompt can be between any characters. It does not need to be between pre-existing CR.

This puts characters in a temporary psychological state of believing they know this person well and have some negative news that they must tell them. The news does not have to be "we need to break up" but it should be something major and impacting to whatever relationship exists between the characters. It could be "I killed your friend" or "I need to fire you" or whatever.

The news also does NOT have to be "real." Again, this is meant to be a psychological prompt that exists to challenge characters emotionally through distorted reality. Characters may believe they are in an actual relationship, even if they aren't, even if they don't actually know each other. You can create alternate universes for the situation to fit this narrative that your characters will temporarily believe until the car crashes.

3. All abilities are temporarily nerfed in this prompt. Not literally - instead, characters with powers will have sincerely forgotten they have powers and therefore have no idea or ability to access them. Powers will be regained the moment the car crashes.

4. The car's atmosphere should make characters increasingly tense and emotional. You can choose to have characters hash out problems that actually exist between them, or fabricated ones for the prompt.

5. Dying from the car crash is unlikely but possible for those that want to explore that option. You are more likely to sustain injuries.

6. It does not matter if the character(s) involved know how to drive cars/are familiar with cars. The unusual psychological manipulation of the situation will ensure that whoever is driving knows how to drive - and even if they didn't, the car is essentially driving itself anyway. You can play into the character actually losing control of the car, or imply that the car loses control of itself.

7. It also does not matter how likely the situation is that your character would be dating the other or would be working for them. If you want to explore au-family scenarios, it does not matter if they are not actually related (ie; maybe you want to create a situation where it is a parent-figure telling their child-figure some bad news).

PLOTTING FORM

Please feel free to use the following form to help format your plans for the month:


<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

[sodder]

Ask questions about the event here!

[savingthrows]

Is it possible to smash the walkers apart with telekinesis, not to kill them ofc, but to hinder them?

And most importantly... if Eleven gets adopted by a bear, can she later, post-event, use her telepathic abilities to stay in long distance contact with bear? ;___;

Inky: Castiel (AU) / Eleven

[perfectantidote]

Player Name:
Preferred Player Contact: inkcharm or inkcharm#4573 or PM.
OOC Limits: Currently not looking to kill either Cas or Eleven. Subject to change based on plotting if I feel cruel.

Fixed Plans

[perfectantidote]

PLACEHOLDER

Fixed Plans for Cas and Eleven, to be edited.

Please don't respond to this comment so I can edit it later.

Orpheus | Hadestown

[themuseabandonsyou]

Character Name:
Preferred Player Contact: questionableveracity or quodVide#2951 or PM.
OOC Limits: No death by car accident, but death by other means is A-OK

Desired CR: I'm always looking for new friends for Orpheus, but characters who would be willing to take advantage of the fact that he trusts basically everyone he meets automatically could be fun too! Negative CR is welcome as well if you can finagle it too, though his nature makes it kind of difficult admittedly.
Unwanted CR: Not looking for romance or sex!

Event Ideas:
[Always Winter]

Orpheus is nnnnot a combatant, to put things lightly, and while his music is sweet enough to move the Lord of the Dead I can't see it protecting him from the ice zombies entirely. He may need rescuing, possibly multiple times over during the course of the month. In fact, if you want your character to fail to rescue someone (maybe it's for angst reasons, maybe you've got a plot in mind, I don't know I don't judge) I'm willing to volunteer him to get killed. I'd prefer this be towards the end of the month so I can play with everything else going on, but I'm more than happy to get him killed off during this.

[Help From the North]

In the meantime, Orpheus is befriending the hell out of some panserbjorne. I promise not to get too obnoxious with the NPCs here but I intend to have a prompt up with him singing to them about the labors of Heracles or some similarly heroic feats for people to wander in on. This would probably be a good prompt for general conversations with people after what all's been going on with him recently too, so there's that.

[Stars Align]

I'd love to do something with this prompt, but I don't have anything in particular in mind! If someone wants to be lead out of danger and back to town by a killdeer that will absolutely not stop singing, I'll throw something together, I guess!!

[Little Hill on the House]

Not sure what to do with this one honestly, but if anyone wants Orpheus for it I'm happy to tag him into their toplevel! Probably won't write one for it myself, though.

[A Long Drive]

Breaking bad news to Orpheus or having him have to tell someone else that something terrible has happened sounds great, and I'm absolutely for doing this whether it involves AUs or actual problems that are real. That said, the idea of Orpheus trying to drive is hilarious to me and probably would undermine the seriousness of whatever we were trying to do, so like, depending on the tone we're going for your character should maybe be the one driving. Or not. I'm flexible.

[demonicbeauty]

Kinda feel like Ariadne needs to make it up to Orpheus for the broken nose by protecting him from a zombie or something.

Thoughts?

Anne!

[acidwashjeans]

Character Name: Steve Harrington
Preferred Player Contact: sprakles or PM.
OOC Limits: nil!

Event Ideas:
WHITE WALKERS: I'm down for threads running away from these things with someone else or just watching them watch our characters! Steve getting super injured would be fun or having to help someone else who's very injured/dying too.
DEER GUIDE: Steve's spirit guide is a deer!!!! I'm keen for him to help people escape the white walkers in deer form? Or just hang out with people as a deer???? Deer things please.
SURREAL HOUSE: I would love take the chance to look at Steve's issues with feeling like he doesn't have anyone he can really rely on, or his issues with feeling like he has to look after everyone, or his trauma being tortured by russians/or all his deerington trauma.
CAR TIMES: I WANT THIS WITH EVERYONE. I love this prompt. Hit me up and we can brainstorm ideas for heavy news that can be broken to people.

Desired CR: Looking for other older teen/young adult cr in particular, but adult cr would be great too!
Unwanted CR: we're all goood

[partridgicide]

Since we talked about Steve meeting bird, Shuu can help tend to Steve's injuries?

[mantleoftruth]

Character Name: Erin
Preferred Player Contact: unkeyboardinated or Unkeyboardinated#9761 or PM.
OOC Limits: Robyn has just arrived, so I do not plan on killing her yet.

Desired CR: She's new so all of it.
Unwanted CR: Nothing overly romantic/shippy

Event Ideas:
Always Winter/Help from the North
Robyn will not engage the White Walkers at first, at least not until they become violent and begin attacking people. At which point she will set out to help aid anyone attempting to find shelter and will volunteer to be a runner/escort for those who need it. Perhaps even teaming up with a few others, or one of the bears to take down a Queen/King.

Stars Align
I really want to explore this prompt with someone. Robyn finding a dream guide would be a pretty good start to her time here.

A long drive
I'm open to playing out any number of things with this. Someone can prod her about her insecurities with Mantel, about what's happening in Atlas, Qrow and Clover's situation, her own relationships. Or maybe about the Wastes and how she isn't sure what she can do in Deerington.

[goldtoxicity]

Character Name:
Preferred Player Contact: minimoffs or FIST FIGHTS#7869 or PM.
OOC Limits: None!

Desired CR:
- People to fight White Walkers and ride bears with!
- maybe get healed and be the reason he's not able to escape their horrible cold grasp
- Come hang out in his shattered psyche house
Unwanted CR:
- None!

Event Ideas: cw claustrophobia, references to being buried alive, gun violence

Always Winter - josh has absolutely no offensive powers of his own but is available to use his (limited) healing abilities. i'd definitely be down for him getting killed and someone needing to burn his body, or him reanimating and going wild on some people.

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE HILL - some elements!

a sense of unrelenting and oppressive pressure. your shoulders will feel heavy like the weight of the world is on them. there's whispers of expectations, consolations for "doing your best" that you don't really feel.

scratches on the doors. not like a monster clawing them up, but like someone trying to claw their way free. some rooms are smaller than others and feel like they're closing in.

bullet holes in the walls.

a rose bush burning in the fire

you look outside the windows and see the vast empty abyss of space, or grave dirt

we need to talk about kevin carved into a railing.

photos of his classmates and friends. they're fine one minute but when you turn around again there are less and less kids in frame, until there's only josh in a funeral suit.

ink black handprints all over the walls.

[ishuikon]

I'm definitely interested in having Qifrey and Josh meet. Qifrey's also been buried alive?? So that sure can be a thing if yo want. Or we can go the white walker route and have them fight together!

Levy | Professor Qifrey | Witch hat Atelier

[ishuikon]

Character Name: Qifrey
Preferred Player Contact: pathogenic or Discord @ levantholos#4601

OOC Limits: I’m pretty much down for everything. So I'll just leave up some warnings for eye gore, drowning, claustrophobia and injury!

Desired CR: Just looking to expand Qifrey’s CR and get him some more?! I am totally down for magic fight buddies but also cooking buddies could be nice too. After a long hard day of killing white walkers people are gonna be hungry, right?!

Unwanted CR: Nothing for now! I’m cool with both positive and negative CR. Qifrey holds grudges like a mofo so you better not get on his bad side?? Or do, whatever you want!

Event Ideas:

Always Winter; I’d really love to do some fight threads for this portion of the event. Qifrey excels in water magic primarily but he is good with other magic as well. He’ll be providing support via ice and water shields mostly so someone to aid in close combat would be ideal for this! Once he finds out the walker's weaknesses are fire and antlers he’ll help with carving them.

Help From the North; Ice bears, fuck yeah?! I’m down for some beary good shenanigans. Not much in the way of planning for this but having ice bears fight and kill stuff is great so if anyone wants to join forces with the one Qifrey will befriend let’s do it!!

Stars Align; Qifrey does not have a spirit guide yet but he’s going to get a white snake and he’ll definitely provide support in directing people towards those safe spots around town! But he is also gonna be open for talks and telling him about yourself! He won’t tell anyone about whatever secrets people might spill, I promise! He’s used to lending an attentive ear being a professor and all, so this isn’t really out of the norm for him!

Little House on the Hill; This one is a doozy. I really want people to learn about Qifrey’s past so the house changes, if people go in with him, will start with wooden planked walls and the smell of dirt is rather apparent and the windows will show just that, dirt, outside like a grave. But also, it will shift to a house underwater, the windows will indicate that, and Qifrey might talk about his past. So, if anyone wants to collaborate hit me up! Some other changes will be having pictures missing their right eyes?? And probably scratches on the walls because Qifrey sure did try to claw his way out of his casket when he was buried alive.

[arclightning]

I have a cooking AND magic fight buddy to offer here! Mako's been cooking up a storm to stave off the deathflu boredom. I'd love to do the house prompt with him maybe since Mako's going to be pretty down and out of the fighting this month. He would have some Questions about those changes.

[obitus]

Character Name: Nico di Angelo
Preferred Player Contact: relatable or PM.
OOC Limits: Probably still no dying for him just yet.

Desired CR: People to protect!! People to fight alongside! He'll probably gravitate towards the younger crowd for both of these but I'm also always down for adults to see a teenager who looks like a strong wind could bowl him over and mistake him for somebody that needs help too.
Unwanted CR: I'm open to anything right now.

Event Ideas: Nico will be fighting white walkers! He can sense the dead, so he'll be pretty useful at finding them even if he doesn't have the stuff relating to their weaknesses at the start of the month: team-ups would be ideal. Usually he can command the dead, but he won't be able to with these, and he'll be pretty salty about it. He did gather a bunch of bones during November though, so once everybody learns of their weakness he can be persuaded to part with them for weapons purposes.

[bowliever]

POINTS AT EYES POINTS AT YOU

RICHIE TOZIER

[measuringdicks]

Character Name: Richie Tozier
Preferred Player Contact: robbstark or foggytealeafs#7641
OOC Limits: noooot planning on getting Richie turned into a wight this month welp.

Desired CR: adults who can show him how to actually fight! fellow teenagers to commiserate over deeply fucked-up shit with! people he can make fun of! other people from horror canons! anything and everything really. for this month specifically, I'm down with starting off CR via the house on the hill or the car drive, and also for people and bears who will rescue his scrawny ass from danger if he ever accidentally runs into a White Walker.
Unwanted CR: nothing romantic, his dance card is already full.

Event Ideas:

WHITE WALKERS
so Richie won't be directly confronting any of the White Walkers if he can help it (sometimes he can't, but most of the time he will stay the fuck away from them if possible), but he is willing to help in fighting them off. once someone figures out that the bones from November can actually kill the Walkers, Richie will put up the Mist monster skeleton he brought home from November as raw material for whatever weapons they can fashion from it. he's been trying to assemble it in his basement as a conversation piece, but like, this is a much better cause.

BEARS
lbr ten seconds with Richie and he'll be on at least one bear's shit list. I do imagine they'll still rescue him if he gets in trouble bc like, anyone who dies to the White Walkers is resurrected as one of their minions, but pls feel free to have your bear characters view Richie (and sometimes his Mimikyu Venkman) as just a lot of trouble.

STARS ALIGN
I'm not sure yet what Richie's dream guide will look like but atm I'm flip-flopping between beagle and spotted hyena. I got nothing in particular for this but I'm down for whatever people want!

HOUSE ON THE HILL / A LONG DRIVE
OH YES. am planning to have Richie get caught up in both of these prompts like, a lot, both as his usual teenaged self and his adult-sized version. I want people to learn more about Derry and his CRAU experiences in Mask or Menace for the house on the hill prompt, so certainly the house will likely warp to not only fit Richie's memories but also to give away his actual age (a fourteen-year-old boy decorates his room very differently from a forty-year-old man's), if he gets caught up in the house while looking like an adult. as for the car prompt, I don't feel like having false memories of romantic relationships between PCs, but I would love fake familial or boss-employee relationships! and I would dearly love the quintessential "coming out in a car" trope.

[jedies]

Obi-Wan is an adult who can fight! Any preference for prompts?

Fern | Adventure Time

[laminae]

Character Name: Fern
Preferred Player Contact: diremuta or pan#2663 or PM.
OOC Limits: No dying this month. Not interested in the car prompt.

Desired CR: Any and all! Fern is attending high school so kids his age can find him around there. He'll also be starting to work for both Eda and Stan scavenging junk for their respective businesses, so he'll be around the junk yard and in the sink holes. He's also started offering lessons on fighting to anyone who is interested, aimed a little more at kids/teens but open to adults as well. He's always down to spar with people too, because he is a fighty grass child.
Unwanted CR: None.

Event Ideas:

Always Winter: I'm very, very interested in being able to show off some of AT's canon lore! It's a doozy. For this one I'd prefer skipping to the end of the end to focus on the world creation visions.

Help from the North: Since the ice bears are nice Fern will refrain from attempting to skin one to make a new hat. He'll be sad about it, though.

Stars Align: Fern isn't too thrilled with his dream guide due to complicated views surrounding his identity, so he won't be turning into his. I'm however down for him interacting with other Sleepers who have turned into their dream guides.

Little House on the Hill: OH BOY this is my jam. Fern has been through a lot of awful, surreal trauma in his life (involving death and violence, fighting, eldritch monsters, literal objectification, and boatloads of existential crises), and recently stopped repressing the fact that he's part eldritch octopus-spider, so this could be really fun.

Non-event weapons and fisticuffs training: I'll be putting up an open prompt for everyone who expressed interest in sparring/training in Fern's network post. Other characters are free to hop in as well!

[entreats]

PLEASE i'd love to do something with the house on the hill prompt, maybe it's time for ange to learn a little more about fern than she already knows

Lat's Brats

[onerthes]

Player Name: Latroma
Preferred Player Contact: PM, latroma or Latroma#8410 on Discord.
OOC Limits: None, all systems go for this event
--As a specific note: I am not seeking a Death for my characters this month, but if you have a specific idea of using a Death to further augment the surrealist plots, you may contact me. However, in at least two cases, I will need to speak with close CR first before agreeing (unless, obviously, you ARE that CR, heh.). I'm not expecting this, but it's a potentially interesting direction

Vira-Lorr | Record of Agarest War

[onerthes]

Character Name: Vira-Lorr
Canon: Record of Agarest War
OOC Limits: N/A

Desired CR: Any and all, hit me up for whatever.
Unwanted CR: So, I say that, but... Romance would be complicated at this time. Not impossible, but your character would, on some level have to do the approaching. If it's a serious interest, they'll have to deal with her being unsure and not wanting to rebound emotionally from recent disappointment. If it's light/physical interest, she'll teasingly brush it off.

So, it's not impossible, but there are some hurdles. If we've previously discussed the possibility, obviously what we discussed still applies

Event Ideas:
-White Walkers/Bears: Yep. Expect a traditional 'learn the weakness' bear prompt (She spent nearly a month as a bear once, so she'll be quite friendly with them) and general walker shenanigans. Fight frozen zombies with her. This can lead to seeing her world's creation story or yours. Or, for the halibut, we can have our characters observe a futurama-esque big bang while cracking open a forty like Fry and the Professor for some random, generic big banged world.
-Be Your Guide: Haha, who wants to get guided by a glowing cornish hen? No, seriously, this could be good for a laugh.
-General Snuggle Pile: If you're positive or potentially neutral CR I am down for some general keep warm snuggles. That prompt is absolutely available.
-Surrealist Cabin: Yes, I am absolutely interested in having Vira-Lorr's head messed with. Having her sense of self called into question is one of those things that I generally enjoy.
-The Drive Home: Absolutely. We can come up with whatever backstory and bad news you want. I'd prefer that it be completely fictitious and I'm comfortable with this happening multiple times in the month, and would even be actively interested. I'd like to have the character questioning her identity a little bit after this month, and it's a plot I'm specifically interested in. The aftermath here is as important, if not more important, than the actual scene.

Ruby Rose | RWBY

[clickclickbloom]

Character Name: Ruby Rose
Preferred Player Contact: jjabarrett or jjabarrett#9701 or PM.
OOC Limits: N/A

Desired CR: Anything and everything. Ruby's a bundle of energy out to do the right thing, she's pretty good at attracting positive and negative CR. She can always use more more friends and mentor type figures, people to protect, people to keep an eye on her when she goes too far at the whole hero bit. She fits in well in both serious and silly situations.
Unwanted CR: Negative CR for the sake of negative CR.

Event Ideas:

White Walkers/Help From the North: Kind of Ruby's specialty. She's from a monster infested planet and fighting them is her jam. Willing to play out some action scenes or rescues, or having her get helped out in a pinch. Will probably be tagging out for this one.

She's also just started a business crafting custom weapons for people. She will probably make a network post offering to make bone and antler weapons in exchange for the materials. She'll also be asking if there are any dragons around to help with forging weapons from that.

Stars Align: Ruby's dream guide is a crow and she'll definitely being flying around town and checking up on people if anyone interested in having her around for this. Probably once again will tag around with this as opposed to having it in the top level, unless someone is interested.

Little House on the Hill: This is my jam. Ruby's bright and sunny attitude holds up despite having gone through a whole lot of trauma and an impossible mission being held on her shoulders. I'd love to play around with a some strong hints of the good and the bad playing into all the rooms she's in. Back in September she also lost the feelings she holds for her mother while using her magic lamp to find out Sodder's feelings for her Cynthia. So this might be a good time to play at some stronger hints of that.

Other: From the prelude definitely including an open prompt for cuddle puddle/general winter shenanigans. Ruby's just been through a mutual break up and could use some friends to help her pick herself back up.

Also definitely willing to have her out lost in the snow or find people lost in the snow to bring in for warmth.

FINALLY! Ruby is going to learn that Santa gets milk and cookies on Christmas eve. She is a gremlin and is going to try and beat him to the punch. She's going to be breaking into peoples houses either via chimney or she slipping through any cracks she can to eat peoples cookies and retreat into the night. I will have a prompt for anyone to catch her in the act.

[ninetieskid]

Gib Rube. maybe White Walker related, maybe not?

adri: Arthur (AU) | Inception

[specifiercity]

Character Name: Arthur (the AU where he's a vampire hunter)
Preferred Player Contact: dreamalittlebigger or kate-kane#6913
OOC Limits: I don't think I'm really into having Arthur die this month but everything else is on the table!

Desired CR: Any and all! I've been really slow trying to get CR so anything is welcome.

Event Ideas:

Always Winter;

Arthur doesn't have a fancy weapon so he'll be on the hunt for them, and he'll be interested in how to put the White Walkers down. If some kind soul can give him a proper item to kill with he'll be hunting down those Kings and Queens wherever and whenever he can. He's happy to trade tactics and protect the people who need protecting, free of charge.

Stars Align;

Arthur's turning into a peregrine falcon or something along those lines! He'll probably do it a few times over the course of December after the first accidental transformation, so there's plenty of opportunity to get to know a new bird friend. I'd love to have him guiding people away from groups of White Walker or whatever else floats your boat! This is his first time "meeting" his dream guide and he's very delighted to be able to fly.

Otherwise...

Nothing jumps to mind for the other prompts but I'm happy to play any of them. I'll update if I have specific ideas!

The Ax Gang

[ninetieskid]

Character Name: Jubilation Lee, AKA Jubilee
Preferred Player Contact: intercession or PM.
OOC Limits: Character Death.

Desired CR: Jubilee needs new friends and new frenemies or rivals.
Unwanted CR: I'm not looking for antagonistic CR just for the sake of antagonistic CR, and not looking for romantic CR.

Event Ideas:

White Walkers: Jubilee has kept a knife made from antlers, and several bones from the previous month so she can actually permanently kill White Walkers. She is also a vampire with some wacky and wild vampire powers so she is a pretty good partner for fighting these things. Let's do stuff with that.

Bear Friends: It's a simple bear necessity that Jubilee becomes befriended by a bear. I would love to write out a battle scene with Jubilee, a Friend, and a Bear Friend doing something together against the Walkers.

Stars Align: So Jubilee's Dream Guide is a Tasmanian Devil. And she will absolutely be down for turning into it and giving people a Frighten. Or helping them out, if anybody wants to deal with that

A Long Drive: I'm really interested in this prompt. It's a little odd, but I think it could be fun! If anyone would like to thread this out, I am down.


Character Name: Rei Hino
OOC Limits: Character Death. not over Christmas

Desired CR: Friends, Foes, and people to mentor.
Unwanted CR: Needlessly antagonistic CR just for the sake of it. And romantic CR is out too.

Event Ideas:

White Walkers: Rei has Fire, and lots of Fire. She also has an antler knife, and kept several bones to do things with. She and Willow had a long talk about how they might be useful, even. So if you want rescues, or just general violence and chaos, a local war/fire goddess is here for you.

Da Bears: I want bear friends. I don't have a lot more to say there, but let's do a thread with bears? Rei already has a friend wolf, so why not a bear.

Dream Guides: Rei's dream guide is a small wolf, and I think she'd be really unsettled by it because of her experiences from June to August, turning into a ghost and all that. she might seek out close friends, or just hole up, depending on if anyone wants to deal with a skulking wolf ghost.

Warped Reality: I'm not as interested in these prompts with Rei, but mostly because I don't have any great ideas for working with them. I'm open to thoughts and suggestions though!

Albus Dumbledore | Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts

[chambermusicandtenpins]

Character Name: Albus Dumbledore
Preferred Player Contact: queenoftheimpsor PM.
OOC Limits: Go wild, baby, I am here for anything.

Desired CR: Anybody!
Unwanted CR: Come at me bro

Event Ideas:

1) He is absolutely going to be doing the house thing -- it will probably have remnants of his very-dead family lingering about, but can also tie into other character's setups as well

2) Awkward car crashes, all day and all night

Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) | Birds of Prey

[crossbow_killer]

Character Name: Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)
Preferred Player Contact: queenoftheimps or PM.
OOC Limits: None, go wild

Desired CR: More friends, more foes, more anything
Unwanted CR: Come at me, bro

Event Ideas:
1) She will absolutely help people suit up for White Walker nonsense
2) She will also absolutely get stuck in one of the houses, possibly one with remnants of her very-dead Mafia family
3) Awkward car ride? Awkward car ride!

Jezebel Disraeli | Godchild/The Cain Saga

[delilahs_death]

Character Name: Jezebel Disraeli
Preferred Player Contact: queenoftheimps or PM.
OOC Limits: Nothing, let's go hogwild

Desired CR: Anything, man needs more contacts in his life
Unwanted CR: IDEK

Event Ideas:
1) His animal-obsessed self is gonna be so interested in the polar bears
2) He will also be very curious about the dream guides
3) Come visit his house that will likely be occupied with his very dead family members

K's crew (Carlos and Gee)

[the_scientist]

Player Name: K
Preferred Player Contact: givemedragons or givemedragons#7125
OOC Limits: Not looking to kill anyone but other that

Carlos (the scientist) from Welcome to Night Vale

Desired CR:
+ Open to all kinds of CR! Still looking to build relationships/friendships/frenemies/enemies.
+ Science types and the relentlessly curious
+ FEAR operatives
+ Creepy house companions

Event Ideas:

House on the Hill
Carlos has a history of investigating weird houses and getting trapped places, so this seems right up his alley. I'm really interested in exploring the house with other people, whether they are close CR or brand new. Open to exploring traumatic memories and personality/history-themed rooms, rediscovering themselves through conversation and exploring, and anything else.

Carlos has kept a lot of secrets, and I'm hoping this is a chance to get some of those out there with the "exposing more of your past, your feelings" part.

Gee, OC based in Changeling: The Lost

Desired CR:
+ Open to all kinds of CR! Still looking to build relationships/friendships/frenemies/enemies.
+ Magic types and the relentlessly curious
+ People to fight White Walkers with
+ People wanting to make friends with bears
+ Creepy house companions

Event Ideas:

Always Winter & Help from the North
Super interested in getting Gee involved with fighting White Walkers and hanging out with ice bears.

Gee will be fascinated by whatever the white walkers are doing, particularly the Kings and Queens. If anyone needs/wants help tracking down bodies that have been taken apart, Gee could be useful for that. He has some offensive magic, some of which is fire-based.

Stars Align
Gee has a dream guide - a magpie - and I would love to have some adventure time with him in spiritual bird form. If any of his CR wants to see him in this particular form I'd love that, and also up for meeting new people this way. He will be as helpful as a bird can be.

House on the Hill
I have no idea how this might work with characters that have memory issues, but I think it could be a really fun way for Gee to remember things about himself? It's not his life he's remembering at first, after all, so he'd have no context for some of these things even if they are intimately tied to him. He's spent a lot of time trying to remember who he is and I think this is a potentially neat way to do some of that.

Mads || Eda & Wu

[royalfling]

Preferred Player Contact: spudbud or mads#5287
OOC Limits: Not really looking to kill either of them (if Wu had been here longer I would 100p kill him with the White Walkers, but he needs more CR before he gets dead)

Wu || Legend of Korra

[royalfling]

Desired CR: Everything! Wu is new, he needs friends. He could use people to protect him, other royalty to commiserate with, fellow animal lovers to hang out with.
Unwanted CR: None! Open to negative CR. He's sort of obnoxious, so that shouldn't be too hard to get.

Event Ideas:
White walkers - Wu can't fight, and it's really a threat, so I think the White Walkers will leave him mostly alone. HOWEVER I'm very open to him impeding others/getting in their way/needing to be protected if your character wants to protect a useless adult.
Big Bears - Wu will definitely befriend a Big Bear and will go around town with them.
Dream guides - Wu's dream guide will be a massive badgermole. Badgermoles can earth bend, so he won't be useless in this form! He could help people out, take care of them, keep them safe. Open to CR or new folks.
Spooky house - Wu is very used to fancy parties, and would be a fun host for this one. He's also very adept at social situations and it could be pretty fun to have him parse out whatever you want your character to deal with here.
Break ups in a car - This seems like a lot of fun for strangers! Come break up with a King.

Mako | Legend of Korra

[arclightning]

Character Name: Jordan
Preferred Player Contact: interplanetary
OOC Limits: Mako, like, JUST died, so he's not going to be getting into anything too dramatic this time or dying again, but other than that we're good.

Desired CR: People to protect! People who need a lil comfort / a large tigerdillo to listen to their problems. Mako's been getting a lot of comfort he doesn't know what to do with, and he'd feel a lot better if he could get back to his usual role of protector / caretaker, so if your character needs that this month? He is your GUY.

I'm also particularly interested in New CR with that car prompt, I feel like it would be such an interesting way to meet.

Also, BRING ME your mentor figures. Mako needs an older mentor. He thrives with one.
Unwanted CR: He's got romance stuff on the far horizon so it's off the table, but other than that, nothing much!

Event Ideas:

White Walkers / Bears Mako, as mentioned, JUUUUST died and has been dealing with a lot of fallout from that, so I'm not looking to throw him into any life or death situations. That said, he's a firebender, so he's pretty perfect for taking out some of the lesser white-walkers. I'll probably not do a TL with this but if anyone needs some rescue there's no way Mako's just going to sit around this month. He can help anyone at all out of a fight!

Dream Guides I'm super interested in this one. I don't know why he's on the lake but he will be discovering his dream guide (a tigerdillo, from his canon) and will be available to help make people feel better / sit with them / growl at their problems, if that's something you need. Could be a good way to deepen some of his existing CR!

Little House also VERY interested in this one: Mako's life is messed up and he Does Not emotionally process things that are about him, so the idea that he could do it as if it was someone else is.... powerful. I'll definitely be throwing up a TL for this one, would love to play out stuff like this. I'd love for him to learn more about other people this way, too.

The cars is also pretty interesting to me, specifically: if anyone wants to straight-up meet Mako for the first time in this prompt, I think that would be amazing. He's gone through this EXACT awkward conversation twice before, still hates it, and I think the idea of breaking up with someone you just met is both sad and very funny. Could be a wild start to a relationship.

Other event stuff: The boy obvs needs some cuddles and hugs but is fiercely rejecting any and all attempts at this and will try to foist comfort off onto other people. He's also just learning how to take care of Naga, so I'll probably throw up a prompt with him and Naga in the snow for more general winter fun! He can find your character lost in the snow and help heat them back up / guide them to safety, for sure.

[hitstuff]

hello! i’d be super down to have mako and nora meet by “breaking up” with each other in the car! nora is going through her own canon relationship troubles right now, so i am absolutely crylaughing at the idea of nora mistakenly unloading that on some stranger and then getting in a car crash with him oops

Margot | Kipo

[flowerbracelet]

Character Name: Margot
Preferred Player Contact: Teenysanguini or PM
OOC Limits: I’m pretty open to anything!

Desired CR: Friends! Building up CR with her current CR, people she can explore her issues with
Unwanted CR: None

Event Ideas:

White walkers: Margot will be fighting these guys, and she’s a pretty good fighter! Feel free to have her save your character from frosty zombies.

Dream Guide: Hers will be a wolf (of course). She will be all panicky about turning into a real wolf.

Spooky House: I’d like to explore some of Margot’s issues regarding getting turned into a feral wolf, or her family, or almost eating a human.

Breakup car: feel free to give Margot some kind of bad news. Maybe you want to stop being her friend...?

Re: Margot | Kipo

[imaglyphwitch]

Hey, volunteering to throw Luz at you! Would you be cool with Spooky house with these two?

Red's Boys

[shiro2hero]

Character Name: Red
Preferred Player Contact: redfirelight or PM!
OOC Limits: None death for my guys.

Shiro Dorito Shirogane | space lions

[shiro2hero]

Desired CR: Old friends, new friends? FRIENDS?? He's naturally a helpful dude so he'll throw in for just about anyone.
Unwanted CR: Naaaaaaah

Event Ideas:
Probably won't put up a prompt for the house or the car, but I'm open to plotting things out with people for those!

> Full Paladin Fighting Ice Creatures
He has a giant horse, he has armor, and he has a weapon from the Great Sleep (ie. made of deer antler). He's absolutely going to go fight the monsters. Probably a little recklessly, considering his current... state of mind. Absolutely up to teaming up with people! Rescuing people! Just not dying or murdering things that aren't... snow zombies.

> Bear Shenanigans
Local Dorito gets adopted by a bear who keeps throwing Knowing Looks at the Black Lion like "this guy...".

It sounded funny in my head okay. I haven't quite gotten to plotting out anything specific for this guy but I'm open to bear-nanigans with everyone and anyone.

> spending... a lot of time... as a dream guide lion
Shiro's had his dream guide since the Great Sleep opened up. Fittingly, it's a lion. He'll spend a lot of time as said dream lion, because hey the stars are neat, and also hey, he can help people better this way. Feel free to recognize him! He'll be visiting people he knows, but he could absolutely drop in on new CR too. It's hard to navigate as a dream creature okay, maybe he got lost.

> December In General Prompts
Snowball fights?? Stargazing?? Super cuddle time?? Yes. Shiro's not in a super great mental place right now, with Allura's leaving. He's kind of more likely to do some kind of stupid reckless nonsense. It's really hard for him to accept she's gone and he's uh. Not taking it well.

SO!! Therefore!! I'll probably throw in a prompt for some general December shenanigans too.

There's also his log for his Personal Horror still going on, too!

Basil's Farmboy

[justoscar]

Character Name: Oscar Pine
Preferred Player Contact: woodrift

OOC Limits: No death, not interested in reality warping

Desired CR: Anything and everything! Though I need to get Oscar some friends that are closer to his age and not immediately connected to his cast. He's a freshman in high school, and rather short for his age.
Unwanted CR: Negative CR for the sake of it.

Event Ideas: My ideas for this are simple.

1) Ice Bears. Oscar has a habit of befriending any creature he can because life is more interesting that way, and there's no doubt that he's going to try to befriend some of these soft, warm ice bears.

2) Oscar's dream guide is a little Saw Whet Owl, and I'm more than game for him to get stuck as it for a night. Anyone who needs a small, soft friend comforting them, let me know!

Otherwise: Oscar is from a canon where they don't really have an analogue for any real world holidays that we know of, so he's going to be trying to enjoy the festivities to the best that he knows how to. Some details may get... mixed up? Others may be drawn from a completely unrelated source, but at least he gets the idea of it!

Gore's Group

[beastfootforward]

Player Name: Gore
Preferred Player Contact: goreo or disgore#1426 or PM.

[beastfootforward]

Character Name: Gar Logan / Beast Boy
OOC Limits: Not looking to kill him this month

Desired CR: Friends, allies, people he has trouble seeing eye-to-eye with, pretty much anything. Fellow people with powers/crime fighters, animal lovers, animal people, fellow youths, potential mentors, whoever!
Unwanted CR: No shipping for him, although crushing is fine.

Event Ideas:

- Beast Boy will be patrolling around to help with fighting White Walkers. His animal transformation powers can be helpful for fending them off and/or helping people to retreat. He will also absolutely be befriending and working with the bears, so they could come along as back-up as well! He won't transform into his dream guide, but he can interact with other transformed Sleepers!

- Gar can also available for the Little Hill on the House! I do love the idea of playing around with the surrealism, and I'm open to meshing up both characters being reflected in the room or just one.

- The Long Drive prompt is also doable, either as a break-up with fellow teens, or other variations on the bad news can be welcome, including AU family-ing. This can go either way in either being ridiculous (with made-up qualms/problems) or seriously addressing actual issues. Regardless, Gar will probably sustain action injuries from the crash.

Kei: Ford + Glynda

[cryptograms]

Character Names: Ford Pines and Glynda Goodwitch
Preferred Player Contact: begleiter or kikeito#7904
OOC Limits: N/A

Ford Pines

[cryptograms]

Desired CR: Any, particularly anyone who might be as fearlessly, recklessly curious as he is!
Unwanted CR: N/A

Event Ideas
Always Winter/Help From The North

I won't be doing much with these prompts themselves, but know that the Pines household accumulated a significant number of b o n e s throughout November. Ford will be available to help craft weapons, particularly bone-tipped projectiles, so hit me up if your character needs an assist on that front!

Stars Align

Ford's going to discover this one accidentally and proceed to have a blast with it all month long. He will be available to guide characters to safety, be guided to safety himself, and teach others how to activate the constellations on the lakes! Ford's dream guide form is a bat, so let me know if you're squeamish about them and I can keep descriptions and image links to a minimum.

Little House On The Hill

I would love to do something with this prompt with both new and established CR! Ford is naturally curious and has been through some very interesting things, so he's good for both prying into other peoples' lives and dropping some details about his own! Some particular things about his past that could come up include:

- Assorted antics he got into as a poorly supervised child
- His time exploring Gravity Falls, a town packed full of supernatural weirdness
- That time he didn't talk to his twin brother for 40 years
- That time he built a portal to another diemnsion
- That time he summoned an eldritch nightmare and sent himself spiraling into unhinged paranoia
- That time he almost ended the world by keeping too many secrets from his family
- And more!