MAY 2021 PLOTTING POST

[sodder]

MAY 2021 EVENT DETAILS AND PLOTTING

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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: May 15th

QUICK LINKS:

Event's Prelude: Here.
Event Questions: Here.
Live Event: Will contain a link once the event has been posted.
NPC Interactions: For those who have been saving hairs, you can interact with the NPCs here.
NPC Voting Vote for NPCs sacrifice/awaken/nothing here!

EVENT PROMPTS:

[Event Specific Content Warnings]
[The Mist Reclaims] - The mist comes back down from Mount Rheum bringing back some familiar, eldritch abominations with it.
[Shedding] - The Wastes begin to die and Sleepers find out who they are.
[It Follows] - Sleepers wind up in the Mayor's House accidentally and are stalked/haunted by Mother Superior.
[Sunny Side Up] - Sleepers are given the chance to vote on whether NPCs are sacrificed, awaken, or if they choose to do nothing through eggs.

PLOTTING FORM: Here.

EVENT PROMPTS

CONTENT WARNINGS

The Mist Reclaims: Lovecraftian monsters, insect monsters, insect horror, potentially laying eggs in people, poison, death by insect sings/swelling/allergic reactions, man-eating monsters, tentacles, blood in gif.
Shedding: Bloody gif, inevitable death of NPCs, time shenanigans, duplicates of Sleepers, suggestion of alternate universes/timelines, shedding, peeling skin, potential fourth-walling.
It Follows: Fourth-walling, existensial crisis, harassment, death threats towards family/children, Silent Hill-esque changing of scenery, distorted body gif, being stalked/haunted, ghost themes, allusion towards child endangerment/harm.
Sunny Side Up: Themes of rebirth/birth/new life, destroying eggs/new life, possible allusion to killing NPCs/self, ingesting hair.

PART ONE PROMPTS

Mist Reclaims

Start Date: May 7th
End Date: End of May
Location: Everywhere

They come for you in the stillness of the mist. Writhing and trembling they approach. You stand no chance in this mortal plane of existence. The little ones come first. They light down on windows and outside of your homes and shelters, humming like wasps, seemingly harmless, but nothing with a stinger could possibly be that harmless. They only eat scavenged food, but if they feel threatened by you they will sting you as close to your heart as they possibly can. They have a fast-acting poison that swells up the sting site to twice the size of your head. It takes only a matter of seconds for the poison to completely suffocate you. Those with abilities or fast-acting poison remedies may be able to treat it, but don't hold out for that.

The little ones are preyed upon by significantly larger, more violent flying creatures. While these snappers don't necessarily hunt humans, they don't seem capable of caring to distinguish their prey. If you happen to be in the same area as one that's hunting the little ones, you might get attacked. They use their sharp beak-like appendages to break bones and rip into skin - who wants to go that way? These creatures can see perfectly in the mist and will effortlessly be able to stalk and hunt lost Sleepers. They are not silent fliers - often sounding like giant bats flapping through the sky.

Then come the tentacles. This is for the truly unlucky. No one can see the full appearance of whatever creature this is, but should you stand in the open mist for too long, you might run into it. Tentacles slither across the ground and wrap around your body, clinging, crushing. Some even seem to have mouths and teeth that will rip into your muscles and eat you alive if they get the chance. These tentacles can be cut down with swords and weapons, but trying to fight several tentacles at once can be a challenge on a good day. Tracking them back to the same creature seems impossible, and it might be that there is no creature attached to them at all. Perhaps it is merely an extension of the mist...

These creatures infest the entire town, feeding and invading homes. As they are not magical, wards won't hold them off. These are old-fashioned flesh-and-exoskeleton monsters. They care nothing for humanity and are simply responding to their environment.

The lumbering giants that occasionally walk through town are responsible for taking down several power lines and crushing through residential areas. The only good thing about these massive beasts is that they are so large they don't seem to have any interest in small creatures. They are entirely non-violent. The snappers can be seen flying around them, occasionally taking shelter among the tentacles, and it would seem that they co-exist.

Despite the small creatures being the easiest to deal with, they are also the most invasive. The stingers will invade homes through pipes, will make nests of spider-web-like material all throughout the town. They lay their eggs in these nests and reproduce at an alarmingly fast rate. If they are able, they will use corpses or comatose Sleepers as their nest so that when their babies hatch, they will have fresh meat to feed on.

Man, these guys fucking suck.

INFORMATION:

1. All monsters in the mist can be defeated by regular human means re; guns/knives/blunt objects/blunt force/burning/etc. The bigger ones might just be more difficult to kill.

2. Light does attract all of the flying creatures.

3. Eggs/nests can be destroyed with fire.

Shedding

Start Date: May 7th
End Date: End of May
Location: Everywhere

Perhaps it is something in the mist. Maybe it is the dream collapsing in on itself. You feel maybe those two things are related somehow. It gets harder to breathe, harder to think clearly. The impending dread of The End is nigh and does anyone really know what's about to happen?

You're not the only one impacted by this heavy feeling. Wastes stumble around in the mist, wandering into places of shelter with you, huddling close. It's the first time Wastes have really allowed themselves to be near Sleepers this way, but then it becomes clear as to why they might be feeling braver. You start to see the blood. It's pouring out of their head, over their masks. They stumble and collapse, gasping. Maybe...Maybe you should take their masks off? Surely by now...They could live without?

Take the mask off and underneath is...

You.

Your friends. Your family. But they aren't images. It isn't a trick of the mind. It's really you. Except for a thinner, more hollowed-out version of you. You after you have been surviving the worst fight of your life after hundreds of years. Some of the Wastes are recognizable, some are completely strange, original citizens from Deerington, but at the end of the day, it had been Sleepers who became true citizens of Deerington too, isn't it? All this time, Sleepers had been assimilating to the town even if they didn't realize it. Was this some bizarre time loop?

You can't even bother to ask the Wastes because most of them have died by the time they collapsed. But you may be able to get an answer out of a few of them if you catch them in time.

"Different versions of us have always existed...different timelines. You...The deer...us...the monsters...What's the difference? It's always been about what path we come from. What door we stepped through. There are a hundred different lives you can live. You're just the star of the one you're in right now."

Some of the Wastes were citizens of Deerington before Sodder and they look the most worn, the most exhausted. They somehow manage to last longer than the Sleepers.

"Maybe in the Waking World we'll see you again. Maybe this time...We can all be a little braver...We were just so scared for so long..."

More blood rushes from their heads, and you may be fortunate enough to hold them in their last few minutes of life.

"She was wrong, you know," one of the Wastes says, "The layers aren't peeling away. They aren't crumbling. Breaking..." A deep breath.

"They're shedding. Like...a snake skin. Shedding away to something new. Something stronger...And maybe even...Something better...The snake...I've seen the snake...She waits for us all. She was one of the children too...One of the others...She'll understand better than most."

It isn't just the Wastes that are bleeding out. Some Sleepers may start to bleed from the head as well and may die from this process - however, it's more likely that they will survive. They need only lay down and rest. Once the blood has dried, they can peel it off, and it will have thickened up to the consistency of snakeskin. Beneath the shed layer will be healthy, new skin. Some Sleepers might even find that their new skin has lost some scars or wrinkles or has healed wounds. Maybe not a pleasant experience but apparently not the worst, either.

INFORMATION:

1. There can be a variety of replicas of Sleepers. These are supposed to be "dark timelines" of your characters who have, theoretically, lived in Deerington for 100+ years.

2. You can invent original characters to represent Waste NPCs and extend conversations further than what we have supplied.

3. "The Snake" is a reference to a major NPC that will feature in Chp2.

4. This prompt can happen at any time anywhere.

PART TWO PROMPTS

IT FOLLOWS

Start Date: May 7th
End Date: End of May
Location: Everywhere but technically the Mayor's House

"Do you really think you deserve a second chance?"

The words whisper through your mind one day.

"Do you really believe people back home miss you? Need you?"

You can feel the temperature drop around you and the pressure grow heavy.

"What is the worth of an imaginary friend? That's all you really are, isn't it? Just an imaginary friend for a lonely child?" The voice laughs, slithering away. After that, you feel alone for a while. You might hear the voice while you're with other people, or it might just have entered your mind from an unknown source.

Yet you increasingly feel less alone. Even while you're with other people, all of you can't help but feel like someone else is there with you. You see the shadow of a nun slide across the floor, see the flicker of her robes as she steps around a corner just as you turn to look.

You can't help but start to obsess with her presence. As you do, the world around you begins to warp. Once you decide to chase after Mother Superior, you wind up in some house, maybe yours, maybe a stranger's, and you start to track her through seemingly endless hallways. The halls seem normal at first. Plain walls with family pictures on them. Stop and look and you will recognize family photographs of Cynthia, Roderick and Sodder wrapped up in bandages but in typical little girl dresses.

You repeat the same few hallways and as you do they grow more chaotic. The pictures look defiled, faces of monsters drawn over the family. Questions in bold red letters written across the wall: "LET THE SODDERS ROT IN THE HELL THEY CAME FROM!"

You come across torn-up books, ruined toys. More ominous graffiti:

"KILLERS!"
"MONSTERS!"
"YOU KILLED MY SON" "MY DAUGHTER" "MY FRIEND"
"LEAVE OUR TOWN"
"THE WITCHES DESERVED DEATH"
"THE MAYOR IS A FALSE PROPHET"

You stop walking the halls and soon find yourself walking throughout the Mayor's House. It's completely ordinary this time around but you come to realize that this is the real Mayor's House. This isn't as blurry and strange as it usually was. This was what was left after Sodder was put to sleep, or perhaps the days leading up to it. It looked like people had invaded the home. Tipped over furniture, smashed everything, left the threatening graffiti. Somewhere a shattered guitar lays in pieces. Sodder's room was destroyed, covered in black paint. You can hear fuzzy recordings of a child laughing that cuts to a woman crying that cut to a child screaming, a man yelling. People yelling. It's an unsettling soundtrack to your adventure through the Sodder home.

This was the truth of the Sodder's family downfall. The chandelier in their dining room yanked down, broken and full of cobwebs. As you explore the ruins of this family home, you can hear someone moving in the house beside you. Blood begins to drip down from the corners of each room, and at last, you turn the right corner, and Mother Superior is standing at the end of a hall.

Only she's not in her typical nun outfit. This is her without her face covering, without her disguise. This is her in her human form, staggeringly tall, one eye missing, skin pale, ruined, mouth foul and grimacing. Maybe she had once maintained a pleasant human form, but the years had eroded her to this ghost-like shell. Her head twitches back and forth, a gurgled noise emitting from her throat.

"You cannot...Possibly understand...The sacrifices..." Mother Superior says, twitching forward, her fingers breaking and resetting, again and again, her shoulders lurching back and forth. "You have no idea...What we were willing...to turn ourselves into...You...Ungrateful...Naive...Child of the dream..."

As she steps towards you, the blood starts to pour faster from the walls, pooling on the ground and making everything slick and hot. Mother Superior rushes at you with a screech.

Then she vanishes just as she reaches out. A laugh rings out. "You have no idea...how to deal with me...Any of us..."

This will lead to a bit of a wild goose chase if one desires. Mother Superior will "haunt" your character, terrorizing them by randomly making the walls curl and bleed, making pieces of furniture drop over, maybe by replacing pictures on the walls with pictures of them, pictures of corpses. This is meant to be a mental game that could wind up with physical injuries if you're not careful.

"Defeating" Mother Superior can be done in a variety of ways. One can insist on believing in themselves, not believing in Mother Superior or the rumors of the townspeople. One can also collect unique items from around the house (such as pieces of Cynthia's guitar, parts of Sodder's toys, pictures of Roderick and his family) and perform sacrificial steps (burning them, etc). We leave it open to interpretation how characters "defeat" Mother Superior though it should generally be done in a ghost/possession freeing sort of style and can be as simple or complex as you want it to be.

Whenever Mother Superior's "ghost" is purged from the home, the entire home will fill with mist before clearing away to reveal the Mayor's House in its regular state without all of the blood. But Sleepers will discover that the destruction and hateful graffiti was real, unfortunately.

INFORMATION:

1. Characters can escape this prompt by actually going out the front door of the Mayor's House. They will wind up in the regular version of Deerington and be safe. If they tried to go back in, they would fail.

Sunny Side Up

Start Date: May 7th
End Date: Voting finalized on the 5th
Location: Everywhere

They begin to appear throughout town one by one: paper bags. These bags look as if something had been left to rot inside, the bottoms heavy with black liquid, oozing at the corners. The bags shift and tremble and coming from the bag is the sound of a shrieking baby. Surely...No? No. Deerington has never had babies before. Not real ones. But that's definitely the sound of a screaming baby, high-pitched wailing that goes on and on.

And then you notice...Your name written on the bag. The name you go by most often, the name you consider to be your true name. The shrieking gets louder and the bag starts to shake as if something is writhing around inside. You have to look.

You can't see anything inside. It's just a dark hole. Which means you might have to put your hand inside. Your fingers touch something damp, warm, and writhing. You can feel something slide and shift, but then it becomes hard. Solid.

Round.

The baby's screaming stops and the thing in your palm feels suspiciously like...an egg.

Take it out and alas - it is exactly that. An egg. The moment you have it out of the bag, you can feel something warm and pulsing within the egg. Hold it up to the light and you can even see the small, beating heart inside. You can't focus too long on the first egg because the bag starts to cry again and there are more eggs to take out.

There are a total of seven eggs in the bag. Some might be covered in a thick film of black grime and gore. Others might be perfectly clean.

SODDER'S EGG: This egg has a translucent hard shell. It's a perfect sphere and roughly the size of a baseball. Along with the beating heart inside, one can also see what appears to be a great amount of dark hair...Or are they tentacles? The soft crying of a girl can be heard from this egg.

CYNTHIA'S EGG: This egg looks the most like a regular chicken egg both in size and color. When held up to the light, the heart developed within isn't beating at all, but you can still see its shape and the arteries stretching out from the heart. What looks like a flower can be seen growing out of the heart. You can hear a woman humming from this egg.

MOTHER SUPERIOR'S EGG: This egg looks more like a fossilized stone. It's the heaviest of the eggs, dark gray and hard, cold. You can barely see into it up against the light. But you can feel the heartbeat from within. It pulses against your palm slow and steadily. You can't hear anything from this egg, but you do feel an uneasy sense of dread.

RAMONA'S EGG: This egg looks like it was made out of sheet metal and welded together to form a perfect egg. It's the size of an ostrich egg and has a small glass window on one side. Inside is a golden liquid and at the center is what appears to be a heart made entirely out of deer antlers. The heart doesn't move, but dim red light pulses somewhere from deep within.

THE DOG KEEPER'S EGG: This is the tiniest egg and feels the most delicate. It looks like a robin's egg except with golden tints instead of blue. It's difficult to see the heartbeat inside of this one as well, but it moves quite a lot like it's ready to hatch any second. It will roll around in your palm and you can even hear a gentle cracking though you can't actually see it forming any cracks. You can hear a puppy's whimper from this one.

THE MAYOR'S EGG: This egg looks and feels like jelly. It's more of a fish's egg than a traditional egg and one doesn't even need to be held up to the light inside. What looks like tentacles wrapped up can be seen inside of the egg and occasionally they slide around. The egg is slick and cold, but whatever's inside is certainly alive. This egg makes no noise, but it does seem to constantly smell strongly of ink and paper.

YOUR EGG: This egg is meant to represent your character. It can look/feel like anything, but it should have some unique interior to represent the "core" of your character's life - whether that's a heartbeat, a flower, mechanics, stardust, or whatever substance. Characters will know immediately that this is their egg and that they have a soul-deep connection and that this egg represents the potential for their "new life."

Once you have examined the eggs, the paper bag will topple itself over and a strange creature's head will jut out from the bag. The Moss King. The Moss King does not feel like a threat, but the intimidation of his presence is undeniable. Whoever this is, he has an energy that fills up the entire space.

"It is time, Sleeper. What will you bet on? Do you bet that when this is all done and over with, you wake up in your own world? Or do you bet that something greater is beyond...?" The voice speaks to all Sleepers from within their own minds. It does not necessarily have to come in the form of a voice, but it will be communicated one way or another. Sleepers will know what they are being told.

"What shall you sacrifice? Do you sacrifice the girl? Or do you awaken her? Do you sacrifice the Nun or do you dare to wake her? How about the father? The mother? Is it cruel to awaken her to a world that has forsaken her or shall she be mercifully sacrificed? And the loyal Dog Keeper? Do you wake him? Or do you sacrifice his efforts? Ramona? Has she not sacrificed all of you or do you believe she deserves her own chance to go home? I do wonder..."

The Moss King's voice fades, his eyes glowing pale, white light.

"And what of you, Sleeper? Do you want to wake up? Or do you intend to sacrifice yourself for this world? For each other? What do you think of honor? What do you need? One must wonder..." The Moss king pauses. "Or...Perhaps you shall do nothing. Step idly aside and leave these eggs alone. But what will that lead to? You see, doing nothing is sometimes worse than doing something. Doing nothing...makes you complacent to the evil of the world, does it not?"

"And for those of you with the hairs..." The Moss King shifts around, "Now is the time to consume."

The Moss King's head begins to melt away, turning to a black tarlike substance.

"Destroy the egg. Or nurture the egg. Or ignore the egg. What world...do you want to create...For it is how we choose to treat new life..."

Then the Moss King is gone and you are left with the biggest decision in your life.

What will you do?

INFORMATION:

1. Every single Sleeper will find these bags. You can choose to have them appear in their Blessing Baskets, on their front steps, in their fridge, on their bed, or somewhere completely random. It's entirely up to you where the character finds their bag.

2. This is for voting on the NPCs. Please reference this post for voting on what your character will do with their eggs. Voting will end on June 5th and results will be posted.

3. Characters will find out what happens to their eggs, the NPCs, and what door is unlocked on the fifth. Characters will innately understand that their choices will influence which door is opened.

4. At this time, characters who have collected NPC hairs from March's Event or The Dog Keeper's Mini Event will be able to swallow the hair for a direct encounter with the NPCs before their final moments.

The post for what happens with that can be found here.

5. Destroying eggs is as easy as destroying a regular egg. This will represent the "sacrifice" of the NPCs. Mother Superior's is the hardest to break, but it is possible with regular human means. The Mayor's is impossible to "break" but one can still smash it. Arguably the best way to destroy the eggs is to burn them.

If you would prefer a less "violent" means of "destroying" the egg/sacrificing it then your character may simply bury it in the earth, boil it, or put it in a freezer.

6. Nurturing the egg will involve typical things to nurture eggs such as keeping them warm, protected, in a safe location. This will equate to choosing to "awaken" the NPCs.

7. Characters can choose to literally do nothing with the eggs re putting them back in the bag or putting them somewhere out of sight, out of mind.

8. It should be noted that characters do not know if "sacrifice" or "awaken" equate to "killing" or "saving" and instead will have to be discussed among each other to determine what the circumstances could possibly mean.

9. Since this will largely depend on voter turnout, you will have to wait until the June event to figure out what "happens" when the eggs are interacted with. For characters who make immediate choices to destroy any eggs, it will seem like "nothing" is going to happen, but they will feel a distinct weight settle over them like they are now being watched.

10. Yes, asshole, you can eat the fucking egg. Really though, if you have a character that would try and eat the eggs they can cook them like an ordinary egg but it should lead to some horrific things. You may choose how a character is cursed/what happens to them but it should be connected to their personal feelings towards relationships or their relationship to the NPCs. Maybe they die on the spot or grow a second head or can't touch anyone for the remainder of the game. Really up to you!

NPC VOTING

Please reference our voting post here to make your official votes. We recommend that characters engage in discussion to make the decision as ICly realistic as possible. Each character is allowed one vote per NPC. You are not technically required to vote but we do encourage it as it will help determine the setting for Chapter 2.

Thank you and good luck!

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 for Main Event or Companion Event here!

[sodder]

Ask questions about the main event or companion event here!

[ghostharasser]

In regards to the hair, if a character grabbed a small handful of hair from each NPC from the vents, would they be able to share the hair with another character?

[laminae]

Would Fern's antler wreath he received as a bonus reward protect his house from the monsters? Or does that count as a magic ward?

I should specify this was a surprise grant and not an item purchased with points, I am not sure if that makes any difference!

[fatedmahou]

So would those who choose to sacrifice themselves still be able to go into Ch. 2?

Re: Questions for Main Event or Companion Event here!

[onerthes]

A few of us actually managed to get our own hair, or the hair of other characters/PCs. How may that be used/consumed in this case and what will that look like?

use of powerful surprise grant

[clocktowers]

Hello, mods! Ozpin is going to use his Surprise Grant, which reads as follows: Once per day, if he focuses, he will be able to look at a choice he is about to make, and know intrinsically which decision will result in a more positive outcome by his interpretation and which will result in a less positive one. [...] By the end of the day, another decision that he makes will automatically have a negative outcome, on par with the benefit he gained from the use of the crown's power.

Now, here are the things I want to happen here:

Ozpin uses this on 5/07 when faced with the eggs, without having seen the hair visions.

Because this is the most important choice in the game, the price both kills him and permanently destroys the item.

Specifically, I think the "price" will put him face-to-face with mist tentacle monsters. The fight will be unwinnable and almost everything on his person will be destroyed, including the crown and several of his other magic items.

The only question now is what benefit he gets from this! Here are some possibilities:

Oz gets a clue about which eggs to break/destroy for his ideal outcome, which constitutes an OOC clue about how to get his preferred door.

That, but on a smaller scale; he can only "ask" about a single egg, which constitutes an OOC clue as to what impact that specific egg may have.

Given the gravity of the question, he gets a very jumbled vision with no clear guidance, but is still killed by the price.

He is not allowed to do this at all, and it will not kill him.

Any of these are fine by me! If he is allowed to do this, I can provide info on what he'd consider a "positive outcome" by his personal metric.

Sorry for the headache and thank you for the rad as fuck endgame.

[shuttersense]

Character Name: Rei Kurosawa
Preferred Player Contact: nammah or nammah#9659 or PM.
OOC Limits: No limits here! I'm putting her EVERYWHERE.

Desired CR: People to mourn with, people to get injured with, people to scream with, all of the hits really! Rei's just come back in time to see everything just...gestures at
Unwanted CR: Nothing that I can think of!

Event Ideas: Yeah Rei is for sure going to find an alt version of her fiance as one of the Wastes- she would have found a version of herself far less disturbing in comparison. This will be for sure a version of "What if Yuu survived but not Rei" for game canon! She'll likely see a bunch of people that she left behind/left this place before her too, so come and join the freak outs!

She's also going to be helping the dog keeper's egg awaken for sure- she has a lot of positive feelings about him, and the others...it's...mixed at best. She doesn't have an npc hair so she can't see the visions, but if someone does, tell her about it, sway her choices!

As for the house...she has her camera, and if you want to see her try and distract Superior while the other runs or does something to throw her off her tracks, feel free!

Rei will also try to rescue people from the bugs and the mist. She doesn't have any healing powers, but she can run, a bit. Or if you want to rescue her from bad bugs, it's also an option!

Honestly, I am cool with plotting her death here, as she has never died before.

[searingwing]

I'm game for Diluc telling her what he saw in the visions. I like how their cr is shaping up.

Logan | Marvel 616

[howlett]

Character Name: Logan | Wolverine
Preferred Player Contact: DISCORD | roximonoxide#9229 or PM are fastest. You can plurk me at roximonoxide but I don't check it routinely.
OOC Limits: No plans to thread any direct interactions with NPCs but happy to jump in anywhere someone needs a guy with knives in his hands.

Desired CR: Any of it! Friends, foils, dudes & damsels in distress, and absolutely anyone who knows more about Sodder's story than he does. He'd love to hear people's suspicions and theories about now.

Event Ideas:
Familiar Wastes | I'll probably be tormenting him with some familiar faces. He'll be confused and angry about that — get at him if you've got some theories/answers he might be looking for, or if you're just looking to mourn someone along with him.

Misty Monsters | He's always looking for a fight. If you need someone to pull you out of a dangerous situation or just want to help him kill something that might be threatening the town / friends / his home let's kill a real big bug.

Apocalyptic Stuff | As Deerington falls down around them he'll be stretching himself thin trying to round up anyone who needs safe harbour and turning the Parks Dept and his nearby Cabin into some kind of compound. You know, set up a perimeter, keep a food store, kill anything that tries to get in without an invite. Standard survive the end times stuff. If you wanna camp out for safety, or help protect the compound, feel free!

Eggs / Voting | Love to let him have some moral/ethical debates with anyone who might wish to change his mind on these:

He's presently pro dog keeper and pro ramona. Whether that means awaken them or do nothing, remains to be seen.

He's apt to mercy kill Cynthia and destroy the rest. Help him decide what that means?

Ruby Rose | RWBY

[onekindsoul]

Character Name: Ruby Rose
Preferred Player Contact: jjabarrett or jjabarrett#9701 or PM.
OOC Limits: I'm not looking to kill Ruby but if something came up we could discuss it!

Desired CR: Friends, enemies, mentors, people to train. She's an energetic anime protagonist type, so making friends and enemies come pretty naturally to her. She's also good at either more chilled out threads or action based stuff.
Unwanted CR: Negative CR that doesn't really go anywhere.

Event Ideas:

Mist Reclaims: Ruby's a professional monster hunter back in her own world so this kind of stuff comes very naturally to her. I'm down for team ups, rescues, her being saved from something. Just all around down to clown here.

Shedding: Ruby will be trying to help any of the wastes before they pass or at least gathering them up to hopefully give them a proper sort of burial. I'm thinking she might run into an alternate version of herself, or possibly her dead mom at some point here. Since there isn't a lot of canon information on her mom she will likely already be dead. Down for Ruby to have some tough conversations about all this.

It follows: Yes please! Ruby's definitely not a fan of Mother Superior and I'd love to throw her into some situations getting haunted by her. She's a firm believer in the people around her so I'd love to have some inspiring conversations to banish the ghost.

Sunny side up: Ruby's a fairly forgiving person or at someone who generally gives people a chance to redeem and rebuild themselves. So her gut will get her lean toward nurturing a fair number of the eggs. Her own powers come from a desire to preserve life as well. She's not prone to really want to sacrifice anyone but she's also aware some of the npc's feel more chained to their positions at the moment. So I feel like there are some really good conversations that come from this. Ruby will also be finding out she "died" or at least vanished in her own canon. So she'll be kind of making some tough choices for herself during this one.

Other: I'm planning on top leveling in the Deervision player plot too. If anyone wants to deal with a very Fonzie based greaser Ruby Rose. I'd definitely be down to clown there.

Final Note!:

Ruby's current stance on the npc's if anyone wants to do the visions or hash out some conversations.

The Mayor: Help/Ruby's going to bury/burn the basket by the mountain.
Mother Superior: Forgive or flee.
Cynthia: Kill/release.
Ramona: Leave behind/Ignore
Dog Keeper: Wake up. He's a good guy. Ruby likes him.
Sodder: Ending this and kind of letting Sodder's memory rest is probably what's best at this point.

Re: Ruby Rose | RWBY

[trancheuse]

So... Neo's prooooobably going to be hitting up the Group Chat to ask for advice because she doesn't want to fuck up her chance at a new life, and she has no clue what to do in this situation. Feel free to reply there.

That said, am I weird for wanting to watch Ruby and Neo carry a basket for a grieving father up the mountain because it's a weirdly cathartic finale to their story in chapter 1?

Lat's Brats

[onerthes]

Preferred Player Contact: Latroma or Latroma#8410 on Discord or PM.
OOC Limits: None Whatsoever

I'm going to need to do separate plotting mini comments for each girl. Their perspectives are very different.

Vira-Lorr | Record of Agarest War

[onerthes]

Character Name: Vira-Lorr
OOC Limits: None

Desired CR: Any and All.
Unwanted CR: Romantic. The Dance Card is either full, or she's emotionally unavailable until the events of the Vote are concluded

Event Ideas: There will be an Event Top-Level, and a probable second Network Post during this month
The Mist Reclaims:
-I am the least interested in another monster fight for Vira-Lorr. If you want one, let me know, but she is hyper focused on the events of the end of Chapter 1. You may assume that she's there to protect others, but I'd prefer to handwave this unless you have a specific idea. I've done a lot of monster fighting with her and I think that's not the focus for her this month.

Shedding:
-There will be a prompt of her meeting Winfield one last time. I may drag the account I used the last time he "Really showed up." Vira-Lorr will have the momentary relief and sadness to realize that the Winfield and Sharona she's been trying to save all this time have been from another timeline, a "Bad End" timeline where Dyshana goes mad and becomes Chaos Dyshana, having to be killed. She will realize the friends she has desperately tried for years to save were lost, fallen versions of her actual friends.

But they are still her friends, and she'll still be sad.

It Follows:
-A prompt will be available to face Mother Superior. I'm leaning towards Non-Combat responses, but I'm good with whatever you wish.

Sunny Side Up:
-NPC Interactions: I'll have a post up later today of Vira-Lorr interacting with the NPCs and I've inquired of the mods about eating her own hair which she found. Once I get the answer this post will go up. The prompts I'll use will be in chronological order - Herself, Julia, Roderic, Superior

I'm handwaving that she eats all 7 of the strands she has collected, and she might hop into another thread with others but 7 prompts is a lot, so I'll only have 4 prompts in mine, the ones I think will be the bigger deal for her.

-The Vote: Vira-Lorr, after her conversation with the Moss King, will speak on the network. I'll probably wait to mid-month on this. She's going to respond to anyone with whom she has CR who creates a network post. I won't be doing a Moss King event prompt. It's not needed here.

Her Votes and Can They Be Affected Still:
-Awaken Julia Sodder
-Awaken Mother Superior
-Awaken the Dog Keeper
-Awaken Cynthia Sodder
-Awaken Roderic Sodder
-Sacrifice Ramona Derwin
-Sacrifice Herself

While my other two characters can still be impacted in this regard, Vira-Lorr's votes are almost 99% set in stone after 3 years of dealing with the NPCs. She'll give advice that points in this direction to anyone who asks, but she won't judge any vote in any other direction (except sacrificing the Dog Keeper. She'd have opinions about that, hah.).

Fern | Adventure Time

[laminae]

Character Name: Fern
Preferred Player Contact: diremuta or pan#2663 or PM.
OOC Limits: Fern will not be dying.

Desired CR: Any and all! Fern is equally good for both positive and negative cr. He's a fighty boy who cares very deeply for his friends. I'm specifically looking for some convos about the eggs and voting this month!
Unwanted CR: Fern's dance card is full, so only romance in the form of unrequited crushes please.

Event Ideas:

Mist reclaims: Fern is always available to fight monsters! He'll be out in the mist to do supply runs, put Varian's glowing paint down around supply caches and directional arrows to safehouses, and to find lost Sleepers. He has a horse-sized fire wolf and telepathic fire snake to help out, too.

Shedding: So Fern himself is a time loop variant of Finn and has run into alternate universe versions of AT characters, so Wastes being variants/CRAUs/alt versions is of zero surprise to him. I'm happy to have him run into another version of himself, or someone from Ooo like Ice Finn, as well as him and another Sleeper finding an alt version of the Sleeper. Are you looking for someone to be completely deadpan at this revelation? Fern's the guy for you!

It follows: Fun fact: Fern can canonly kill intangible ghosty creatures with his swords. I'm down for him doing this with MS, or another character being like No Fern you can't stab the ghost and having him grudgingly go along with a proper exorcism instead of being a total barbarian.

Sunny side up: I'm looking for some big conversations with his cr about how to deal with the NPCs and voting. Fern has some strong opinions but he also values that of his friends and family and I would LOVE for him to talk to as much of his cr as possible! This is sort of like the culmination of a lot of cr he's built up over the last few years, so I want to capitalize on it.

Additionally, this is a good time for cr to learn more about his personal life. Namely, he knows he goes home, dies, and reincarnates into something new because oops immortal eldritch being, so this is an opportunity for all of that to come up with friends who don't already know since he'll be a bit more open about it.

He also has NPC hairs and is available for all of the visions, and will be taking care of Varian's egg while Varian takes care of his.

Moss King: I will be doing a special prompt about the Moss King, because Fern knows this jerk and doesn't like him. This sketchy grass person who followed Varian around nonstop several months ago is sus!!!

Voting: Right now Fern is looking like this, though his mind can still be changed:

Julia: Sacrifice, most likely. He isn't sure there will be anything left of her that can awaken.
Cynthia: Sacrifice, though that's more of a mercy kill since she really wants to die.
Roderic: Sacrifice. Dad issues all up in here, and his denial isn't helping matters. It will be hard changing Fern's mind on this one.
Doug: Awaken. No changing his mind here.
Ramona: Sacrifice, most likely? He isn't totally sure of Ramona right now.
Mother Superior: Sacrifice, though he's open to discussing her.
Himself: Sacrifice most likely, though that also depends on whether he can be convinced waking up means he won't just wake up in Ooo. If there's a chance of being able to wake up in a new world he'd like that, though that doesn't seem confirmed at this point so this is something big to talk about with his cr.

[arclightning]

Would love for Fern & Mako to discuss egg times! I know we have a few plans but that seems the most like, necessary next step for them?? They could do this and then get interrupted by something trying its best to murder them or possibly a waste! Like a tack-on to another thread.

Diluc Ragnvindr | Genshin Impact

[searingwing]

Character Name: Diluc
Preferred Player Contact: skyheron or Sam#4924 or PM.
OOC Limits: No limits at this point. I'm going to be all over this event!

Desired CR: People to face grief with, people to help battle things out to kill people, people to rescue, in general just cr and fostering new things and deepening old.
Unwanted CR: Negative cr that doesn't go anywhere.

Event Ideas:

Mist Reclaims - You need a sword or fire? Diluc has this covered. He'll be doing controlled burns and distractions with fire and or rescues. He knows its all going to shit and will be carrying what's left of his medical supplies on him.

By the end of this part, he'll be out of them.

Shedding

So, this part of these events I have ideas for Diluc that will kick start him facing some things. I don't mind who sees it happen. I'll all for people who have started to know him or don't, seeing there's a lot under the surface.

Seeing himself wouldn't have done nearly enough to him to give this part of the event the impact it deserves. Diluc will see the Knights of Favonius - all people he used to work with who were his friends. In some ways they still are.

He will consider mercy killing them but, the knights themselves will tell him not to or die before he can end their suffering. This leads us to the final person he'll find...his father. My aim is to force him to face his own grief and begin in a way, to heal from it. Oh, he'll be upset and rattled by this, but it will force him to reflect.

and he'll get sick after, and need to lay down for a while. When he gets up he'll have fewer scars. I'm a sucker for symbolism.

It Follows

It goes without saying, you need a fighter to fight Mother Superior? He's here and he's a smart fighter.

Sunny Side Up

As a note, I'm going to have Diluc do the companion event too. It helps form his choices, which are the following.

The Mayor - He's going to burn the basket.
Mother Superior: This one hits a little close to home with his own thoughts about past tragedy. He'll forgive her with an emphasis that forgiveness doesn't mean it made things right.
Cynthia: He will mercy kill her. She has suffered enough.
Ramona: I'm up to conversations about her. He knows little about her and needs to come to some kind of decision.
Dog Keeper: He's only heard positive things about him. He'll wake him up.
Sodder: Putting her down is the only fair thing to do. She's already gone.

I'm up to discussion and talks about the npcs. I feel like a lot of good conversations can come from figuring out his ultimate decisions. He will lean towards awakening his own egg. To him, things aren't finished and as long as they're not finished, he can't let go.

[bythelight]

Hey!

We had a TDM thread and I kept meaning to PM you to work out if we wanted to keep it or start again and if so start what but time is an illusion and it got away from me. THAT SAID, We can work it out now! I feel like some combination of their skills would probably even out for this, since Anduin is Less Fighty and Diluc is More Fighty.

[morethanachild]

Character Name: Lysithea
Preferred Player Contact: Holsety
OOC Limits: Lysithea just died, so not up for that again.

Desired CR: At this point, will thread with anyone and anything.
Unwanted CR:

Event Ideas:
Overall:
Lysithea is very sick from death flu and from an extensive ritual to regain her most powerful magical artifact. She's going to struggle to push through her physical ailments and will not be up for much direct combat. Fortunately, her artifact allows her to cast (and visually see) from about a quarter mile away, so she can do some long distance siege magic. At times, she might simply fall over from exhaustion, though.

Mist: Lysithea is going to stay indoors and snipe horrible things from a great distance. She'll try to help people she sees in trouble.

Shedding: Lysithea will find a copy of herself. She'll have to question the foundations of everything she's thought about Deerington as she's been strongly fixated on this idea of 'going home.'

Eggs: Lysithea is going to experience the visions of Cynthia, Sodder, Mother Superior, and Ramona. She also has her own hair. She is missing Roderick and the Dog Keeper's. After experiencing the visions...

Julia: Sacrifice. She will reluctantly conclude that there's nothing to be done that can help Julia, and she ought to be laid to rest.
Cynthia: Sacrifice. It sounds as if Cynthia is in too much pain to continue on and also wants to find peace.
Mother Superior: Sacrifice. Because screw you.
Ramona: Awaken. It does not appear that whatever Ramona is trying to do now is going to be good for anyone. Actually, it appears to be extremely bad. Ramona wants to stay asleep to carry out her plan, so... let's wake her up.
Dog Keeper: Awaken. He has been the only consistent ally.
Roderick: Awaken. As far as she knows, Roderick is a man placed in an unfortunate position who has made some very bad choices but is otherwise not a major threat.
Herself: Awaken.

Lysithea is open to being convinced about some of these. Particularly if anybody thinks there's a way to help Sodder or Cynthia have a 'happy ending', but she thinks that's unlikely.

Varian | Tangled

[droptheious]

Character Name: Varian
Preferred Player Contact: teeff or teefflady#2361 or PM.
OOC Limits: I'm not killing Varian this time

Desired CR: Anyone! Varian's easy for positive or negative CR because he's just That Kind Of Person.
Unwanted CR: No romance unless it's unrequited crush.

Event Ideas:
Mist Reclaims - Varian will only be heading out into the mist to re-supply his caches of glow orbs. Otherwise he'll be staying inside like a sane person. I might be down for a monster fight or two, and he can definitely use some chemically to get rid of the bugs.

Shedding Heck yes I am down for some good solid future AU Varian here. I'm not sure what to do with him exactly yet, but heck ys bring it on. I'm excited for him to meet AU versions of his CR too!!

It Follows - Varian really hates Mother Superior and will be very pro fighting her. He's going to remain solidly in belief of himself- despite knowing he at least has his roots in fiction at this point. Let's have a team up and take her down!

Sunny Side Up - Varian's own egg will be taken care of by Fern (and vice versa) while he tries to figure out what he does with it. Self-loathing doth not make for good egg caretaking. He also has all the hairs! So come with him on this fun adventure with the NPCs. He's also pretty fond of the Moss King after his story clue, so he's gonna be happy to see him again, HI OTHER PLANT FRIEND.

Here are his current vote thoughts, most of these can be swayed, and I really want him to talk to CR over their choices on this:

Julia - Sacrifice - After seeing her memory, there's clearly nothing left of her to save. It would be more like exorcising a demon at this point.
Mother Superior - Sacrifice- BUT after seeing her memory he'll be a little more conflicted about it because doing an unspeakable thing for your loved ones is something he has experience in.
Roderic - Awaken - As much as he knows the Mayor has done Bad Things, he also knows it's not out of spite. He sees Roderic as a victim who was played like a chess piece by powers larger than himself.
Dog Keeper - Awaken - He's the only one Varian would staunchly stick on. Doug is good people, he's not gonna murder him!
Cynthia - Sacrifice - She very clearly doesn't want to live any more so it's a mercy kill more than anything else at this point, much like Julia.
Ramona - Awaken/Sacrifice - This is one he'll be more conflicted on. He's not quite sure what will happen if she wakes up- this also ties into his own:
His egg - Varian doesn't want to wake up if it means waking up back home. There are too many people here he cannot bear to be parted from and whom he doesn't want to forget. If he learns waking up means waking up somewhere else then he will nurture his egg to that- if it means waking up properly, then he will smash the hell out of that egg.
So his own egg and Ramona's are going to be big conversation pieces for him, because what he does with one, he'll inevitably do with the other.

Re: Varian | Tangled

[imaglyphwitch]

Ooh, how's about a team up for "It Follows?" Luz will be all for fighting against Mother Superior after everything she seems to have done!

[bythelight]

Character Name: Anduin Wrynn
Preferred Player Contact: Reply here, or PM if you wanna chat 1 on 1 and I'll shoot you my disc!
OOC Limits: I think I'm gonna avoid Anduin dying, unless someone has a super neat idea, but I'm down to have him watch waste versions of himself/others die just fine (and injury is fine!)

Desired CR: Anduin is brand new to all this nonsense, so anyone who wants to help him form opinions (good or bad!) about these NPCs is great! Likewise, if anyone fighty either wants someone to heal them or to protect I am down! Anduin is good at shielding and healing but he isn't very offensive, naturally.
Unwanted CR: I can't think of anything specific! Though he's probably too tired to be particularly entertaining to bait into stupid arguments right now.

Event Ideas: I think Anduin is mostly going to be support for this event, since he's new!

For the Mist Reclaims Anduin is happy to keep anyone alive who is fighting back the monsters (and... egg laying shenanigans? ew), though he will tire much quicker than normal and now his healing has a cost! So there's a chance you will tip him over and his warps will kick in. But Shadow Priest is a legitimate spec? Don't judge!

For the Shedding Anduin has... actually seen himself die before, err, so this isn't the most shocking thing he's done all day. That doesn't make it less upsetting, though! If you want to watch him cradle himself as he dies, or be supported through facing an alternate version of yourself, he's here for you! Timeway shenanigans are really a pain.

For IT FOLLOWS, the Mother superior shenanigans, I don't know if Anduin would know what we consider 'traditional' ghost/possession cleansing rituals. He can technically 'dispel magic' and 'purify' harmful effects but WoW solves most problems by killing things... maybe someone can help him figure out a ritual combining some combination of skills here? He can also pray! He's great at praying!

For Sunny Side Up, Anduin doesn't know enough about these NPCs to know what the fuck to make of this nobelgarden egg business. If anyone wants to talk out their own opinions, it might help him form his!

[demonicbeauty]

Airy's definitely going to be fighting off small stingers, if you'd like to have these two meet up again.

Mako | Legend of Korra

[arclightning]

Character Name: Mako
Preferred Player Contact: interplanetary or PM!
OOC Limits: Not looking to kill Mako or get him seriously hurt this time; he's mostly focusing on endgame choices / staying alive!

Desired CR: I mean we're in endgame so I guess we're planning for sandbox-times, etc., so: high-energy people for him to be exasperated by; people whose life choices he can question; people who need saving from the mist or a semi-grumpy firebender escort
Unwanted CR: Romance is off the table, boy got himself a bf

Event Ideas: ⮕ Mako's getting a top-level this month!

Okay so! Mako's May is starting rocky, with being swallowed by a giant spirit-dragon version of Vyng and sucked into a spiritual maelstrom. He'll run to Korra to help fix it, feel bad about doing that, and then try to make sure there are lit caches all around town. Not gonna do a prompt with that but feel free to work it into your own stuff, everyone's been doing such cool stuff with lighting!

He'll be available as a human bug-zapper and to light the way through the mist, especially with some neat lil glasses from Oz that'll help him see, so if anyone wants to get lost and run into some Wastes or get yelled at by Mother Superior or chased by bugs, Mako's your guy! He'll be shepherding people who need it back to Wu's safehouse, which now also includes Kristoff & Anna's old place next door (it's another mansion. So many mansions).

For shedding, I'm definitely looking to have Mako run into Waste versions of Sleepers he knows, so if you'd like him to run into a Waste version of your character or something, hit me up! This will confirm a lot of the theories that, uh, he really didn't want confirmed, so he'll be kind of fucked up about it and probably looking to burn the bodies to put them to rest, per Fire Nation customs he's hastily adopting.

It follows and Mako's not thrilled about it. He'll get trapped in the mayor's house at least once, but open to more if anyone wants to do this with him. Mako's pretty good at solving puzzles so he's a good boy to have at your side. If we do this prompt, I'm more interested in the very end + getting out and talking about what they experienced, so I might start in the middle of the experience for interested folks!

And thennnnnn the eggs.

Okay, so Mako's got strong opinions about all of these, especially since he's been working on theories about this stuff for months now. He's got the hair, and he'll be teaming up with Ozpin and Ruby to run through the NPC experiences and will then be available to talk through his choices to CR; he's going to want to be very sure about his choices, so if anyone wants a thread of talking it out I'm super down for that!

the TLDR on Mako's choices is:

Julia ⮕ Sacrifice. He sees this as the safest choice and also the most humane, after seeing what she's become. Maybe by sacrificing her, her power won't be taking over who she is anymore.

Cynthia ⮕ Sacrifice. She wants that, and Mako isn't going to argue.

Mother Superior ⮕ Sacrifice, screw her, she's the worst and Mako doesn't trust her anger. Only so many second chances.

Ramona ⮕ Awaken, even if she doesn't want it. Mako's pretty sure all Sleepers are part of this town, so if she really wants to exist, waking up is the best way to make that happen.

The Dog Keeper ⮕ Awaken, he's chill, let him experience instead of protecting

The Mayer ⮕ Awaken. He seems to have experience that could help the Sleepers out, and Mako thinks he deserves another chance.

His own egg ⮕ Awaken! Whatever this ends up meaning, Mako's not sacrificing himself and he's definitely not going to just do nothing.

I know that was a lot but IT HERE Y'ALL wow, I'm stoked.

[avatar_state]

Character Name: Korra
Preferred Player Contact: c_for_characters or PM.
OOC Limits: Suggest away, for now no limits since this is Endgame

Desired CR:

There's going to be a lot of arguing with the eggs, and I look forward to it - Korra has a very strong and straightforward moral code, and to her destroying the eggs is, unequivocally, murder. She will stick to this point absolutely. She will choose nurture, and if she can would even pick up abandoned eggs to nurture as well.

She absolutely will put up a fight over this, because Korra will always choose mercy, even when it's self-sacrificial. Her time in Deerington has been wearing her down, but this is the very core of what the Avatar is, and who she is. She'll work herself to death if needs be to convince others. Argue with her, pick a fight with her over it; she's going to push back to her fullest - even if it's her closest friends disagreeing.

If you're choosing to abandon the eggs/put them out of sight, she'd likely try to collect them, come to think of it.

Unwanted CR: Will list if any comes up.

Event Ideas:

Mist Reclaims- I've had mistbending suggested to me, and she will definitely be trying this. She can maybe clear areas temporarily in an emergency, but will absolutely need her back watched for those sorts of moments, otherwise she's gonna get crunched.

When it comes to pushing back against nests of these creatures, she can bring unlimited supplies of fire if you need. She thinks these creatures are artificial in some way - the endless hostility of the place doesn't make sense to her as a natural thing.

Shedding- She's been trying to help the Wastes, so watching them die will be extremely difficult for her. Willing to do a lot here.

It Follows- Korra has uniquely strong self-belief, and would love to do something here with a challenge to her spiritual energy. If anybody needs help, she'd be a very strong ally for this. Mother Superior reminds her a lot of some of the villains she's faced, so she is a lot more impervious to attempts to weasel into her mind that way.

Sunny Side Up- See above for a shorter summary. This will be the core of everything to her. Her argument is always for mercy, to give the chance for something new to be born, and she'll pursue this even to the point of self-sacrifice, because anything else is just murder, and completely unjustifiable to her mind. Murder is murder, and she won't accept the argument that it's 'mercy' since it demonstrably isn't - they aren't being asked to perform an act of mercy, but to choose between nurturing and destruction. Only one of those is acceptable.

There are no practical limits to how far she'll go here - try to destroy eggs in front of her, it's going to be an actual, physical fight as she tries to save them. She will fight to the death to preserve life, otherwise she's neither the Avatar nor Korra anymore. Especially after seeing what happened to the Wastes, she'll fight all the harder.

I'm undecided what her long-term thoughts will be about people who choose destruction. Probably quite negative, though, at least initially. She might be talked around, eventually, to the idea that people were so worn down by Deerington that they made the wrong choice. But someone will actively need to do that, else she won't forgive or forget. (Essentially, gonna need someone who cares about her to be a diplomat.)

[onerthes]

Honestly these two should chat. With the exception of Ramona, she and Korra see very much eye to eye on the eggs, so it might be interesting to have them bounce off of each other since it sounds like the two of them are going to be going pretty heavy on the "Awakening" track of things.

Which has a lot to do with their respective canons I think. Both have a lot of reasons to be guided towards "Saving them is preferable to destroying them in creating a new world."

Gore's Group

[beastfootforward]

Character Name: Gar Logan / Beast Boy and Scorpia
Preferred Player Contact: goreo or PM.
OOC Limits: Nothing that specifically comes to mind!

Desired CR: Anyone! Friends/allies/enemies, if you want to throw someone at either Beast Boy or Scorpia, now's the time! Let's get some good endgame team-ups!
Unwanted CR: No shipping for Gar.

Event Ideas:

- Both Gar and Scorpia will be available for misadventures in the mist and fighting off creatures. Scorpia's home will be destroyed, so she will seek out somewhere else to stay. Gar will remain at his home at the David Cliff Apartments and offer shelter to others.

- Gar (and possibly Scorpia as well?) will encounter a dying Waste version of himself.

- Both of them could also be available for dealing with the haunting of Mother Superior at the Mayor's House!

- And then there's egg time! Now, I'm still in the process of thinking over choices, and I've mostly been thinking about Gar's choices, though Scorpia may choose similarly to him. I am open to both of them talking out the options with others before finalizing decisions, especially as I've only pinned down a few choices so far! Those choices are: for Gar, I'm thinking that he will choose to awaken the Dog Keeper and sacrifice Cynthia, and both of them will also awaken their own eggs too. He's on the fence about Mother Superior, as he would want to awaken her if it could result in her existing without being bound by her power. He's also reluctant to sacrifice Julia, but it seems that might be the only viable option, so he might just need a nudge in that direction. Generally, Gar doesn't want to use this choice as a way to judge or punish the figures in question, but he wants to figure out what's best for each person (specifically in ways that could help them become better people if possible) and/or the world in general.

- Gar is my only one who gained hairs, so I'll be putting him on the companion event too. The top level should include battles with Mother Superior and the monster summoned by Julia, as well as more opportunities for discussion and chilling with the Dog Keeper.

Shiro Space Dad Shirogane

[shiro2hero]

Character Name: Shiro
Preferred Player Contact: redfirelight or PM.
OOC Limits: Might be avoiding the Mayor prompt for the NPC stuff, but I'm pretty open this time around!

Desired CR: Same as always! I'm game for new CR, old CR. Anything!
Unwanted CR: Nada

Event Ideas:
Well. This is fine. This is all fine. Anyway -

WHO WANTS TO FIGHT A NUN?
Because Shiro has absolutely been waiting for a chance to throw down with Mother Superior. You can bet he will hit up the It Follows prompt. And probably get his dumb self beat up in the process before ultimately fighting her in the NPC visions. I'm so down for anyone helping him out in any way, join forces, back to back fight bros, anything!! But no one is gonna stop this man from finally having it out with this lady. It's personal, folks.

THE WASTES
SO inspired by certain people - I'm totally open to people running into a Waste version of Shiro! Either with the guy himself or on his own. Or you know, I'm up for him running into his CR as a Waste, I'm ~ flexible ~. Haven't quite decided which of his previous CR I'll throw in though. We'll see!

THE NPC VISIONS
So Julia and Cynthia are the most important ones to Shiro in his time here. He's really... really been devoted to the idea of Julia Sodder as someone to save, someone in a familiar position, and if he could just get to her, maybe something would change for the better! Except nope she's a weird pile of gross. So that'll be fun, and he'll probably end up getting his dorito-shaped butt kicked by the shape of his own failure! You know, his biggest fear.

As for Cynthia, he would not want to hurt her. Or kill her. But he does want to do right by her. So that one may... be best experienced with someone else.

Plus, you know, fighting Mother Superior in the pit. I'm open to anything, really! Those three are the ones I'll probably be doing prompts for, but if anyone wants him in theirs, I'm game!!

THE EGGS
brb smashing a nun egg

No seriously, he absolutely hates Mother Superior, and he would absolutely advocate for smashing the egg belonging to her. She's never done anything for them, she hates them, she's tried to kill them, bye bitch.

On the others, he's more conflicted, and would absolutely be willing to talk about them with other people. Share what he's learned since he's been here.

... and possibly put his own egg up for sacrifice unless someone with more brain cells stops him.


MISC
Also he has an open post for any of the May Prelude shenanigans here!!

Luz and the last chapter

[imaglyphwitch]

Character Name: Luz Noceda
Preferred Player Contact: elpedrososama or PM.
OOC Limits: I'm avoiding Luz dying, mostly.

Desired CR: I'm kinda excited about what she'll do in Chapter 2, so if she happens to get more friends or deepening relationships I am all for that!


Event Ideas:

Mist Reclaims- This will be Luz's time to shine, or at least, the culmination of her fighting from the time she'd been in Deerington to now. She'll be going full on fighting here, taking no prisoners, continuing her stand against the monsters that might hurt anyone here and reaffirming her stance on fighting and stopping killers.

Shedding- This will be Luz's worse nightmare: coming face to face with a her hardened and left broken by this place, left with little more than the promise that there might be something better even as that hope dwindles. For this Luz will definitely need some assurance: this is the absolute breaking point for her and I can't imagine she'll be able to deal with this alternate self of hers alone.

It Follows- Luz is going to be pretty angry about what she's been through so far, and stumbling into the mayor's house she'll find the horrors of what happened to Julia and the Mayor here and will be fighting mad. Granted, Mother Superior will be way more than Luz can fight alone, so she'll likely partner up in an attempt to rid the wretched nun from the home once and for all.

Sunny Side Up- Luz will find that, after everything, she'll have a choice to make. But Luz, unsurprisingly, is not the girl to decide who gets to be destroyed. After all of this and everything, she'll nurture the eggs, hoping that all of the monstrous beings that have come out of Deerington can find peace, that this place of Wastes and suffering people will get a second chance. In this decision, Luz realizes if she is to ever go home, it will be a thing that happens on its own, not a thing she will choose. People have become dear to her here as they have anywhere she's gone, so she won't abandon them.

[onekindsoul]

Okay. I would love for Ruby to be around with Luz for the Shedding prompt. She's seen Luz having a rough time around town and would really just like to be there especially after Luz had helped her through the Hound stuff.

Alternatively I'd totally love a bug fight or mother superior show down.

manabu

[siriusly]

Character Name: Manabu Yuuki
Preferred Player Contact: whyellewhy or just commenting at me here
OOC Limits: Not gonna kill the lad, but maybe he'd prefer that

Desired CR: most anything is game, it's end of the world let's go?? Manabu is still more a support role despite having some identity problems happening, but that's all the more reason for him to focus on OTHER people instead ya feel

Event Ideas: I have open starter prompts for the mists, shedding, and it follows events that any/everyone is welcome to engaging with for fun and profit!

[the_archivist]

Character Name: Jonathan Sims/The Archivist
Preferred Player Contact: zaliachimera
OOC Limits: Don't want to kill Jon, Probably not going for having legs laid in him for extreme body horror.

Desired CR: I'm up for pretty much anything!

Event Ideas:
Mist Reclaims
Jon is himself an eldritch horror so I'm up for having him see things in the mists, and maybe help people if they need it. He's also going to be burning nests and bugs with extreme prejudice.

Shedding
Jon is going to find a copy of himself who looks particularly bad - more like the Jon who stalks dreams than his physical form. He's also going to be bleeding a fair amount, so feel free to find him trying to rest and peeling off dried blood.

It Follows
I am always up for Jon being mentally and emotionally wrecked by accusations, so he's going to be just a bit twitchy, hearing things, and will probably decide to go exploring on his own. He has a lot of guilt, and a lot of reasons to hate himself so this will probably hit him hard. He'll be distracted and more depressed than usual. Feel free to try chatting to him, or accompany him on explorations.

Sunny Side Up
Jon's egg is going to seem to contain fear! All of the fear.

Otherwise he really doesn't know enough about the NPCs to make a decision. He'll be happy to discuss it with lots of people though.

Jon is also massively self-sacrificing so if he thinks his life will save people then he will offer himself up.

Tony's Gents (Steve Rogers and Tim Stoker)

[alongkayakingtrip]

Character Name: Steve Rogers | Tim Stoker
Preferred Player Contact: besosde or krempuffs#5806 or PM.
OOC Limits: No deaths for either!

Desired CR: Focusing on a lot of established this CR this round because both the boys will be tagging out rather than having open stuff. That being said, even if they've only talked briefly, let me know if you'd like to do a thread!

Event Ideas:
Steve
+ Available for Mists and Shedding. He's been doing a lot of home-base stuff hanging out pretty close with Bucky as much as possible through the Prelude, and keeping in touch with canonmates and close CR as much as possible. He has no special boons or anything to help him out in the mists, but he's also dumb enough to just go out there.
+ Sunny Side Up yo. Because he did vent escapes with Bucky and Manabu from the Lab in March, he has hairs for everyone but the Dog Keeper; he doesn't trust this 'Moss King' guy and everything about this sounds sus. Steve's thoughts on the whole thing below:

- Steve's only really encountered The Mayor, though he's heard a little bit about The Dog Keeper and Mother Superior. He doesn't like TM or MS at all.
- Lack of trust in the Moss King means that Steve is naturally inclined to seek out the opposite of whatever it seems it wants because Steve is a contrary shit.
- Though he has hairs, the incident with TM and going to the Labs will dissuade him from utilizing them in any meaningful capacity. Instead, trustworthy CR that has insights will be a better bet for convincing him to do something with an egg.
- Steve is going to ignore his egg entirely (good thing Bucky's around).

Tim
+ Available for the Mists and Shedding
+ Also, in keeping with Tim's "ending in surreal and terrible places that traumatize him" gamut, available for It Follows
+ Tim did not do anything with The Mayor's tea/the Labs, but he has had prior experiences with TM and the Dog Keeper, and there's still the red string wall at the Archives House. Here's his sitch for Sunny Side Up

- He'll be keeping all of his and his friend's eggs together and SAFE and nurturing them (unless Gerry specifically asks for his to be destroyed), because he doesn't trust his friends to not be Fucking Idiots About This
- Informed decisions based on CR, prior encounters, and a bit of debate at the Archive House
- Specifically: Fuck The Mayor, he's smashing that shit.

[borntolove]

Character Name: 10th Doctor
Preferred Player Contact: weefolk or PM.
OOC Limits: What do you not want to do for this particular event? Death

Desired CR: All
Unwanted CR: romance

Event Ideas: Hit me up on plurk or pp Ten's journal or just hit up the Open thread :)

Lance | Voltron

[azurestar]

Character Name: Lance
Preferred Player Contact: spypigeon or charley#8222 or PM.
OOC Limits: I'm down for all of it.

Desired CR: Everything.
Unwanted CR: N/A

Event Ideas: I am interested in every single NPC's companion event prompt, but I think Lance would only visit each one once. Notably:

- he will probably break down a bit in Cynthia's and eventually mercy kill her after vibing being sad in the field for a while.
- he'll have a lot of conflict about the Mayor and try really hard to talk to him and ask him stuff and then have feelings about the basket and not know what to do.
- Dog Keeper's prompt will have him feeling the most at ease and comfortable and he'll probably just kind of treat the man like a wise sage and chill out with him for as long as possible.
- If he experiences Cynthia's prompt before Ramona, he is gonna get real frustrated and emotional and tear her crown thing off. Then probably yell at her and start glowing, might need an intervention.
- Mother Superior will conflict him about as much as the mayor and he'll probably be frozen on what to do. Who he is with will determine how he acts, which can go any way.
- And Julia's will probably wreck and confuse him and I'm down for the boss battle there for sure. He may be utterly useless at times though because this is a lot.

So if any of these interest you too, lmk. I'm also interested in everything about the mist and the mist monsters, Lance will be having the flu and sleepwalking problems as a result of reviving from his 4th death and regularly be in danger. And with the deer gone, he only has fellow sleepers and his fierce animal companions to rely on for protection.

I definitely want him to run into some wastes that are people he know, like his family members and past CR/castmates that have gone. Also, even himself. Each conversation would be different after the first one that's in the event prompt to cut down on repetition and it'll be a big mind fuck so lmk if you wanna get involved with that and/or if you want Lance involved in your character coming across a waste that's significant to them.

**Important to note: I want to kill him for the 5th time this month, and he will lose his sight and be blind for half the month. So depending on when any of these interactions happen, he may also be blind during them. I am gonna leave that added complication up to potential thread partners. Except for a number of the NPC prompts, that is, because I'd like him to be able to see for a few of them.

I also have not yet finalized the circumstances of his death and exactly when it'll happen. What I know is: it'll be in the mist and as a result of him sleepwalking into it. I am down to have him wake up and then try to protect your character from a threat that he feels he got them into and die that way. I am also down for your character failing to protect him before he wakes up. Definitely open to suggestions and ideas. When it happens will depend on what I end up planning around it, but I'm aiming for early to mid month. EDIT: Aside from the mist, I realized that his death can also happen in the Julia boss fight.

[searingwing]

I keep trading wastes fun times so if you’re up for more about Diluc and Diluc learning more about Lance. I’m game. but I feel they would be really interesting together against mother superior’s vision or the mayor’s. Or both!