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August Plotting Post

AUGUST 2018 EVENT PLOTTING

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

Or maybe it will be. What do we know?

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

Remember: We are no longer holding horror-mandated months. You do not need to worry about collecting horror points for AC. But feel free to collect them regardless for rewards!

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Character Name: Allura
CR Wanted: ALL THE CR. All of it. New CR, budding CR, old CR--let's do it.
CR Not Wanted: Lies, I want everything.
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event: I have to laugh a little with the power outtage because Allura was JUST talking to Shiro about making some emergency kits in case something went down. WHAT GOOD TIMING.

So, TBH, I want to touch every aspect of this event. DETAILS BELOW!

Good Night Moon

I am also very interested in shacking up in random houses with people, either people she knows or she doesn't, and doing some of that fun memory sharing. What I have to offer in regards to memories is pretty much anything in Voltron up to the end of season 5, but I'm particularly interested in sharing Alfor's (her father) AI going haywire and nearly tricking Allura to piloting everyone into a dying star, battling Haggar one and one, and potentially her experience in Oriande with the White Lion.

Good Morning Sun

Also ALIEN SQUID MONSTERS. Let's have our characters talk to the giant squids in water town and get transported together. In regards to visions of a future that she can't have, Allura would likely see Altea restored--her home planet was destroyed 10,000 years ago in canon--with her father being alive, and just generally things being at peace. But she also knows that isn't really possible, she might also see all of her Paladins alive and well...and returning to Earth, which is their home and prerogative, but would still make her sad.

Truthfully Allura does have quite a bit of guilt and worries that she could be compelled to share, against her better judgment. As for a dream guide, I think she kind of should default to a white lion.

I also off the space mice for shenanigans in helping out with the lights out aspects of the town or not.

POWER SLIDES IN

I'm literally open to anything, but them sharing worries and guilt might be good for them in the long run lmfdj;sdk

YEAH...yeah. It probably would. Both about everything going on back home + Deerington.

ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT IT, this could also be an opportunity to make the time discrepancy very clear! She could also own up to her worries about how their relationship deteriorated.

Character Name: Grey
CR Wanted: Both people who will say "dude that's messed up" re: his life and people who will say "who cares" re: his life. Grey is very pragmatic, and he's fine with people being unsympathetic towards him as long as they don't actively try to take him out.
CR Not Wanted: People who need a lot of protecting. Grey would probably ditch pretty early on, sorry!
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event:
- GOOD NIGHT MOON: Grey doesn't speak, and when he can't communicate visually like he usually does, he's going to end up doing a lot of touching. People who especially dislike physical contact (or like it!) would be interesting for this!
- MY HOME IS YOUR HOME: I REALLY REALLY want to do a scene or two with people entering one of the train cars of Snowpiercer in Grey's memories. I'm aiming for 'real' in terms of Grey's life (which sucked), but there's a lot to mine here. Also, I think Snowpiercer is interesting visually and the setting offers horror for anyone/everyone involved, not just Grey. Depending on what scene is recalled, this could cause a lot of content warnings, but I'll be specific when it comes down to it! A couple of thoughts are: Grey's death, his experiences with other tail enders talking about life on the train, his attempts to help with the rebellion on the train.
- OTHER: Grey isn't getting a Dream Guide because he doesn't want to confess things, whoops. I would love for him to see other people's Dream Guides, or just hang out in the darkness, or... anything. He's new.

Edited 2018-08-13 04:50 (UTC)

stumbles in here.

Freya. I would really like to do future visions with Allura. From what I've seen of Voltron so far, Altea isn't that different from the aesthetic of and technology used during Rei's past and future. Can we do something with that? I don't mind having Allura see bits of Rei's future or her seeing some of Allura's though. There's a whole lot of guilt/fear wrapped up in that stuff.

THAT WOULD BE AWFUL let's do it

Character Name: Majima Gorō
CR Wanted:
- I'm definitely interested in exploring more of Majima's past with some existing CR, he's pretty tight-lipped about specifics so I imagine this will be one of Those Opportunities to actually talk
-Does your character have horrible trauma and/or do they want a PTSD buddy, well LOOK NO FURTHER (it's fine, everything is a-ok)

An Accident: What's at the reservoir, HE NEEDS TO KNOW does anyone want to find out. Also, unfortunately the dark is probably going to remind Majima pretty strongly of that one time he got super triple ultra banished and had to live in a lightless pit so

enjoy that

My Home is Your Home, Find Me Here: I'll probably be writing specific top-levels for the more psychological stuff, especially as Majima's past is A Lot, so let me know if you're interested in a piece of the past and I'll try to come up with something appropriately traumatic and/or interesting!

Otherwise, I'll be tagging around to new and old CR a bunch, hi I'm bad at making plans, but if you need a save, he's there!

CR Not Wanted:
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event:
- I'm all into the survival horror aspect so any scavenging for supplies, trying to find each other in the dark, locate light sources, etc. is my jam
- F.E.A.R. CR, come at me \o/ let's rescue some people and light some fires and investigate all the spooky things!

Edited 2018-08-13 05:02 (UTC)

Character Name: X'rhun Tia
CR Wanted: Mmmmmore things? I want more people he can bug and bother, and be completely comfortable with. He has a few acquaintances, but actual friends... That's probably a 0. Negative CR is also welcome but I would prefer to build up his positive CR more at this point for reasons. You can totally make friends if you blurt out terrible secrets about yourself to strangers right?!
CR Not Wanted: nah
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event: I want to get him hurt. A lot. Like, close to death hurt protecting whoever is with him at the time, like a fukin hero. Maybe even die? And protecting whoever is with him like a h e r o

Specific things I'm thinking of that could lead to glorious CR:
DEFINITELY want to visit the PT house. Just... oh my god the PT house. Yes please. I might warp it into a house from canon but given he hasn't talked about his childhood at all I maaaay wing it or turn it into another place from FFXIV that he's familiar with instead. Anyone he is with during this part will definitely be confessed to so if you want your character to hear all the horrible shit that has happened to him let me know! He has a lot to unpack however so I can chop things up to little digestible pieces and you can decide which one/s you'd like your character to hear.

Underwater mist thing: The vision of a future he cant have however is one that I'll definitely crib from canon, just with a few twists-- his hometown liberated, his tribe back, his organization rebuilt, everyone he lost alive again, etc etc. He wont confess but he'll get so emotional. I'm sorry in advance for crying cat.

Thinking his Dream Guide would be a lynx. Because fuck that's already his tribal guardian, it's an easy choice to make.

Also as a general note: Because most the bad things are happening at night, X'rhun will be mostly blind because his night vision is horrible so he'll be really reliant on anyone with him! He will also not be at 100% energy because he is aggressively diurnal.

Edited 2018-08-13 05:00 (UTC)

Character Name: ~~Space Dad~~ Shiro
CR Wanted: ANYTHING??? ANYONE???
CR Not Wanted: I really can't think of anything -- with the only caveat being, if you're killing off or severely injuring a child character, I may stay away from that.
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event: RUBS MY HANDS TOGETHER OKAY
GENERALLY:
Shiro's hand generates a glow, so. I am already volunteering him for walking glow-stick detail, if anyone wants. If anyone wants to thread or play something of running into him that way, that's fine! He probably won't sit still once the power goes out.

HOME IS YOUR HOME:
I'm up for accidentally running into people's houses. ASIDE FROM THAT -- I'm up for going one of two ways. Either the Less Traumatic route where suddenly you're in a Spaceship Castle, or the More Traumatic one where it's a hospital wing, but an alien one. The Traumatic Version has more references to experimentation of the medical variety, but both have references to the rest of the Voltorn squad. Less Traumatic just winds up in front of a big glass tube, with some PTSD flashbacks thrown in. And guilt.

I'M UP FOR ANY KIND OF PLOTTING THOUGH, HONESTLY. I love memory share shit and I'm willing to make things as lighthearted or awful as any individual thread wants!

FIND ME HERE:
No real concrete ideas for this one. Except for admitting things like fear of failure or loss, or just straight up listening to people as needed, ~~while ignoring his own issues~~.

IN GENERAL -- I know the new season just came out, but there won't be any major Voltron spoilers in my threads, he's not anywhere close to that canon point anyway.

Edited 2018-08-13 05:03 (UTC)

Character Name: Bucky Barnes
CR Wanted: Friendos! Mutual intimate secret sharers and freaked out people helping each other out.
CR Not Wanted: not too interested in courting a ton of negative CR right now
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event:
-For the darkness stuff, Bucky will be staying once it's clear it's not going to stop, but he'll have a few nights when he thinks it might stop and he works a few nights a week at Glass bartending, so there's potential to deal with the dark together at the start of the event. He's got a lot to feel ashamed about, so confessions are easy with him.
-He'll be reliving some memories, both things from before/after his time with HYDRA are on the table and also maybe a HYDRA facility as well, so there are a lot of options, whether you'd like your character to see his life in Brooklyn in the 40s, maybe his time in the war, his time as a brainwashed weapon or his recovery after the fact with a goat farm in Wakanda. (I would like to keep this one to closed prompts so I can do different memories instead of any repeats)
-The ink will show Bucky and whoever is with him a vision of his farm back in Wakanda. Steve will be there and neither of them will have any weapons or armor on. I'm also happy to have him see someone else's. His might not be the most exciting dream future because he craves the complete lack of excitement these days.
-Bucky's dream guide will be a wolf and he does have a dreamcatcher

Grey is new and they don't know each other, but he's curious and will want to go to the reservoir! Ill-advised as that may be...

Unfortunately he's not great at foraging, he's good at staying alive and not being freaked out by the dark though.

Character Name: Kagerou
CR Wanted: ... any, he's brand new.
CR Not Wanted: N/A
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event:
Kagerou is absolutely brand new. He's also... a car. So. He'll have headlights to use if necessary.

Memory share will probably just be covered in pictures of Shadowmaru. Because that's all that matters to Kagerou. That's the only person who matters to him.

As far as the rest goes, I'm pretty open to anything. He'd probably also see a vision in the ink of... well. Being with Shadowmaru. I'm not kidding when I say this robot has a Fixation. If he does admit to anything, he'll probably end up with a crow as a guide.

Grey's gonna see his hand glowing and follow him around without telling him tbh if he sees it but Shiro would be free to notice and respond as he will. I also love memory sharing--does Shiro want to see this train kid's upbringing??

Character Name: Will Byers
CR Wanted: ALL OF IT GIVE ME EVERYTHING PLEASE sad CR fluffy CR Trina CR give me it ALL
CR Not Wanted: not gonna wanna kill Will during this event (because bene there done that has a headstone back home and everything lol)
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event: Oh man so much -- since ooc I've been sort of out of it, I'm going to go with the idea that Will's canonical guilt and grief about the deaths he inadvertently caused while possessed have consumed him. So of course that's what he's going to want to confess, that he was used by a demonic monster to kill multiple people and since demon monster was sort of a hive mind, he has very vivid memories of doing it himself.

Also he's a kid and he doesn't like the dark so that's going to play a part in this.

"ah good another wayward individual to casually adopt"

But sure! I'd be up for that.

HEY GLOWY DAD LETS SHARE SOME TRAUMA.

HEY THERE YOURE THE COOL SPACE DADS ROOMMATE care for a traumatized child?

Oh snap. YES I AM SO DOWN FOR THIS? They can both be nostalgic and homesick...

hey will wanna see the dude he just straight up spaced

HELL YEAH IT'S A DATE

YES?? She promises to do her best to take care of him in Dad's absence.

Character Name: Eddie Kaspbrak
CR Wanted: All things. Growing closer with friends he already has and making new ones.
CR Not Wanted: Blegh what's that even mean
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event: Gosh. I think this could provide some good confession scenes for Eddie in a couple ways so that'll be interesting. Maybe even accepting certain parts about himself a little more? Idek.

Good Night Moon:

Yo literally just please read Eddie's content warnings because they're ALL ABOUT TO APPLY.

Eddie has a few CORE scenes that are extremely good to explore. And I have a few ideas.

➔ The leper scene is hands down the most uncomfortable to explore. I won't lie. It's. It's a really rough scene. It has some sensitive content in it but I am less interested in the scene itself but instead I'd love for Eddie to finally fully acknowledge what happened in that scene and what it fully meant and how maybe he isn't quite so scared of that part of himself anymore. I've explored that scene before but not in THIS kinda way? He's matured a bit and developed a lot more so I'd love to just be able to examine it from there.

Unlockable Confession: Potential admission to his preference and the discomfort he still feels towards it but the comparison to how he felt about it back then.

➔ The Mr. Keene scene is overall pretty upsetting since it's just an adult telling Eddie he's "crazy" which is sad? And it follows up to Henry beating the shit out of Eddie and breaking his arm which is preeetty gruesome so that's always interesting to explore. Especially since that day was EXTREMELY important to Eddie.

Unlockable Confession: That Eddie fears for his overall mental health not just regarding thinking he is sick, but potential delusions he suffers from. How pain isn't so scary for him because it makes him feel very alive and reminds him what real hurt is.

➔ Actually really interested in exploring the scene where Eddie tells his mom off. I've never explored that scene before in a game and it's an intense scene and it .......really showcases the fact that Eddie has powers which could be VERY interesting.

Unlockable Confession: Eddie feeling a DESPERATE urge to flee from his mother and never see her again. He desperately wants to be free, and he feels INCREDIBLE guilt over the fact that he doesn't want to be with his mom anymore. He also feels guilty for loving her and disliking her at the same time. This could be a loaded gun since he really hasn't FULLY talked out all his feelings about his mom yet. He's touched on it a few times but...yeaaah!

Other:

Eddie's dream guide is gonna be a cheetah because they basically start at a walking pace and THEN BURST TO FULL SPEED in thirty seconds much like the tidal wave that is Eddie as a person. But also they can like die from loneliness and benefit from having like dogs with them in zoos because they're so lonely and desperate?

Also they are FIERCE PREDATORS but honestly seem so cowardly all the time and listen to their "roar"

I am down for Eddie experiencing other people's pasts too! We can collective share all things. Eddie is a bleeding heart so yanno.

Edited 2018-08-13 05:20 (UTC)

eddie will hold your hand it's okay will.

okay but the real question is

does she get a lion as her guide

Character Name: John Blake
CR Wanted: New CR + strengthening old CR
CR Not Wanted: N/A for now
Ideas/Wishes pertaining the event:

ETA: Blake is a CRAU character and you can find his opt-out post and information here at any time. :)

My Home is Your Home

Definitely interested in this prompt. Blake has plenty of memories to share, some gruesome, some bizarre. It would also be a great opportunity for anyone who might wish to explore the CRAU history before coming to Deerington, as this could give a direct view into another game's world.

Not any one person interested will receive the same memory and I would love to share as many as people are interested in (much to Blake's dismay). Some of the options includes the murder of his father, some rough times during foster care, his tumultuous teens, any of the events of the Nolanverse Batman films, and anything from his past two games. He'll be an open book, whether he wants to be or not.

He's also open to seeing the memories of others, so if you want someone to observe, please hit me up for that, too.

Find Me Here

Show Blake your most wanted futures, mwahaha. He's open for seeing anyone's, so hit me up if that's a thing you want.

For his own future wants/desires, I'd like to keep this pretty limited, so maybe one or two people. He's a very private individual and as soon as he gets the sense of what's going on, he's going to be reticent to share.

Your Dream Guide

Open to interactions with others, but no dream guide for Blake this time around.

Edited 2018-08-13 05:28 (UTC)

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Bucky Barnes | Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Kagerou | Brave Police: J-Decker

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