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3.2 Event

3.2 Event Plotting

OOC announcements
Welcome to month 2! We're near the midpoint of the cycle and oh boy is it hot out there.

There will be no event post on the main comm. Instead, make your own logs to include these prompts, and any other prompts you want to add. There will be a mini-event log mid-month.

Use the happenings form to report on what your character’s been up to! Did you break something? Did you get into a screaming match in the middle of town? Spill the tea! Everyone’s thirsty for gossip.

Post any bulletins to the bulletin board.
Plotting/CR form
Fill out as much or as little of this form as you like:


New this month

The weather

The weather continues to worsen. In addition to the dry heat from last month, heat lightning crackles across the skies at night, flashing bright. It’s joined by unusual lights in the sky. They seem to have migrated up from the edges of the desert, and they can be found hovering over town in strange formations, blinking at random before disappearing. When the lights are present, the air feels heavy, and smells of ozone.

During the day, heat bakes the desert to a shimmering, cracked surface. Wildlife is practically nonexistent and even the cacti are starting to dry out. Some taller saguaros can be found swaying dangerously, their bases dry and thin. The desert is eerily silent.

At the hotel

The dining hall features one long table and the same meals every day: a nice, continental breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and a roast for dinner.

If you want to go for a swim, this month you’ll… also find an “Out of Order” sign on the door. Inside, the pool is bone dry. Uh-oh. There doesn’t seem to be enough water to fill it back up.

Water is in even shorter supply this month: The taps splutter and spit air instead of water occasionally. It takes forever to fill up a glass or a bottle. Showers will be even shorter, as the water will run out after around 3 minutes. Better hurry through that haircare routine! Don’t even try taking a bath, that tub won’t fill up.

The General Store

The General Store is still full of fun outer space paraphenalia. You can find stationary with stars on it, candles shaped like planets, slime with alien-shaped charms in it, plastic astronaut helmets, whatever your heart desires as long as it’s useless, novelty, and space-themed.

This month, there’s a special on star-shaped pool floaties and novelty sunglasses! How helpful.

Around town

The diner’s special for the month: galaxy brownies! They’re thin, they’re gooey, they’re covered in chocolate frosting and cute little sprinkles.

The jail’s back in action, and with it, everyone’s favorite Coyote Sheriff! This town is definitely big enough for him, too. He’ll be found at the jail during the day and the Cactus Pad at night, taking up a stool at the bar. Slide up a seat! He can’t speak any known language, but sometimes there’s value in silence.

When you visit the few other locations in town, you’ll find the employees friendly and welcoming, although they may say some strange things, in addition to the handful of phrases they usually say:
The receptionist: “Remember, we take water rationing very seriously here at the Staywell. Do your part to save water. It’s for the good of the town.”

Owner of the General Store: “Runnin’ a special on pool floaties! Make sure you stay cool in all this heat, y’hear?”

The bartender: “Remember: Alcohol dehydrates you.”

The waiter: “Boy, it’s a steamy one! How about a nice sweet tea to cool you off?” And he serves you a sweet tea, whether you want one or not.

The gravedigger: She’s nowhere to be seen during the day. At night, she’s digging graves.

The sheriff: Silently watches you like he knows what you did.


Wanted: Dead or Alive
Content warnings: incarceration, animal attacks

The sheriff’s back in town, and he’s got company. Everywhere you turn, there seems to be a coyote, perched on a barrel or crossing the street, watching you with bright, intelligent eyes. They’re not menacing, exactly. They’re not trying to hurt anyone, but they’re definitely watching, waiting for something.

Unfortunately, the sheriff isn’t the only thing that’s back.

Seemingly overnight, the town is absolutely plastered with posters.

Not just any posters: Wanted posters. With your face on them.

Or, well, something that’s probably supposed to be your face. Is that really how your nose looks? Each poster has a drawing of a character, as well as a crime (or list of crimes) they’re wanted for.

There can be as many wanted posters as you like, and as many crimes as you like. The crimes can be real, or made up. They can be serious, or not. The drawing of your character doesn’t even have to be very good.

Your wanted posters could have your given name, preferred name, or it might give you a new outlaw name, reminiscent of criminals in the Old West.

When you look at one, you’ll feel a very strong urge to confess to whatever is on the poster to the first person you see. The more you hold back this urge, the more explosive the eventual confession will be, so maybe just get it over with?

As you confess, you regain a memory in that moment of whatever you're confessing to, as long as it's a real "crime" that your character committed. The memory hits them immediately.

Too bad they don't have much time to take in what just happened, because The moment you confess, you and anyone around you will be swarmed with coyotes insistently trying to herd you to jail. You can get free of this with a little creativity, but the more you confess and escape, the harder they'll try to take you to jail. If they succeed, you'll be locked up for 24 hours before being set free.

You may regain up to 3 memory points with this prompt.

tl;dr:
  • Coyotes are around town, and they're watching you.
  • The wanted posters are also back, and have your name, face, and list of crimes. The crimes can be real or fake.
  • When you see your poster, you feel a strong urge to confess to the crime.
  • If you confess, you both regain a memory of the crime, and you and whoever you're with will be immediately arrested and taken to jail by the coyotes.
  • You can escape jail, or you'll be released after 24 hours.

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Content warnings: body horror, abduction

It happens suddenly. You’re minding your own business, going about your day or night, when a beam of light shines down from nowhere. It surrounds you, lighting up the ground and the edges of your vision, so bright that you can’t seem to see anything else. You’re paralyzed, standing there in the light; your limbs won’t respond to you, no matter what you do. The light flares brighter and brighter, and you’re lifted off your feet, pulled up off the ground by a force stronger than anything you know—

That’s the last thing you remember. Light, and levitation.

When you come to, you’re back in town, but you’re not where you were when you were taken. In fact, you aren’t even who you were when you were taken.

Congratulations: you’ve woken up in someone else’s body. All your memories and personality are otherwise intact, but you sound like them, you feel like them, and you certainly look like them.

Which might be a problem this month! Apparently, the sheriff and his coyotes can’t really tell that anything’s changed. Even worse: while you’ll still definitely feel compelled to confess to your crimes, should you see your own wanted poster, if you see the person whose body you’re piloting on a poster, you’ll feel the same urge to confess to their crimes as loudly as possible, and you can definitely still get arrested for them. Too bad there’s no such thing as a trial in this town!

To get your body back, there doesn't seem to be a way except to wait until the same light comes down and switches you back into your original form, although there’s an equally strong chance you’ll just become someone else instead. Everyone will be back in their original bodies by early October (although, feel free to have it take a little longer if you like!).

tl;dr:
  • Body swap! You get abducted by the lights around the town, stolen, paralyzed, and lose some time.
  • When you come to, you're somewhere else, in someone else's body. You keep your own memories, personality, and skills.
  • If you interact with the wanted posters, you'll feel the urge to confess to the person whose body you're in's crimes, and can be arrested for them.
  • You can return to your own body, or swap to another character's body, by being abducted again.
  • Everyone will be back to normal by early October.

UNEARTHED
Content warnings: N/A

The lights in the sky seem to congregate over an area in the desert, and that area looks a little different than the rest of the desert. While most of the desert around town is flat and featureless, this area is craggy and irregular.

If you follow the lights, you find something that wasn’t there before: maybe revealed by the storms, or brought by the strange lights in the sky, but now this area, roughly a mile outside of town to the east, is littered with strange structures: vehicles.

And not just any vehicles: ships. Ships of all kinds. Ships made for the sea, the sky, outerspace. Ships from your world, perhaps, or from any world. Giant starships to tiny dinghies. One ship is bigger than the others: a massive structure half-buried in sand, its curved hull visible even from the town, glimmering in the overbearing sunlight.

Parts from these ships are salvageable, from sheets of metal to wood to tech that may or may not work. It all looks very old and degraded by its time in the desert. Who knows what you might find in there?

Comment on the exploration prompt with what type of ship your character is exploring to see what you might find!

tl;dr:
  • In the desert, a ship graveyard has been unearthed.
  • You can explore the ships and find interesting and salvageable things. Comment on the exploration comment to see what you find!

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[personal profile] toteninsel 2023-08-31 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
hello! for the ship prompt: i noticed it said that characters may find "ships from your world." ariane has spent a lot of time on a specific spaceship in canon, and she has memories of her day-to-day life on that ship. is it possible for ariane to salvage pieces from her specific ship, or would she just find parts of that generic type of spaceship from her world (but not the one she actually traveled on)?
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[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-08-31 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
When bodyswapping, if you swap into a body that has powers (magic, super strength, etc.) will you have access to those powers as well?

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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-08-31 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Can the posters be archived/kept stowed away with other paper goods?

2. Would residents have access to any freezers in either the hotel or diner?

3. Are there any noticeable changes to the graveyard during this month?
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[personal profile] chickenchoicejudy 2023-08-31 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
If you body swap with someone and they confess one of your crimes when seeing a wanted poster, do you still get the memory point? Like, once the person on the poster gets back to their body, will they remember what was confessed even if they weren't present?
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[personal profile] d9x 2023-08-31 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Is bodyswapping anyone from their canon such as friends or Dax’s other last bodies, or is swapping reserved to other player characters in Wellstone?

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[personal profile] masculinitea 2023-09-01 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
what happens if a whole lot of water with lemon slices and mint sprigs gets conjured into the pool

other than it starts to smell and get gross after a few days

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[personal profile] oniicursed 2023-09-06 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
So with the crime prompt, I noticed that the crimes can be real or false, if the crimes are false then do they still gain a memory from it?
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[personal profile] d9x 2023-09-08 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
1. Dax would like to try to track down the town's reservoir. Is there any indication of a reservoir the pipes might lead to? Does the water from the taste that might indicate a type of source (ie mineral heavy like from an aquifer)? She'd be looking for any particular significant low-points in the town (or visible from the town) or anything in basement buildings.

2. Cam and Dax are going to body-swap. Traditionally in ST, when temporary body-swaps happen, Dax (the symbiont) would retain the memories of what Cam does during the swap, so Ezri would have them when they're swapped back. (This of course does not include any past memories or personality notes from the person swapping. Just how the body was piloted during the swap itself.) Is it alright for this to remain true for Dax swaps in Well?

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[personal profile] go_loud 2023-09-13 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
A topic of some confusion: when you're body swapped, is it the character's real body? Eg, would any scars, bruises, ill-advised tattoos (this is not a thing we're planning yet, just, y'know, spitballing), illnesses, haircuts, miracle cures, deaths, etc still be applicable to the character when they get their body back?

Or is it a simulacrum of the body and all the damage to their liver is fiiine? :P
(It's possible this has been answered in threads but I'm ridiculously behind.)
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[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-08-31 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Darin will absolutely be going to the big, half buried ship looking for supplies and anything he can use to help fortify the Staywell for the coming two months. He'd be interested in looking for any sign of the crew (logs, journals, etc) and maybe where they were going before they wound up here so charts/maps or maybe even something that indicates where this place even is.

Darin's adaptable and proficient at exploration but not so much sensitive electronics. He grew up in a port town so he knows a decent amount about ships and navigation. Also the type to look before leaping so if he found something dangerous, it wouldn't be all that surprising.

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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-08-31 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to focus on a space-faring ship not unlike the kinds in Treasure Planet/dnd spelljammers (open-air, more wood than metal, magic-oriented and such).

Key focus points: inscriptions/carvings on the structure (anything she can use her Mending skills on to get a better look at?), logs/records/anything with writing on it, any traces of latent magic that can be sensed (or any familiarity linked to the ghosts she's been reaching out to with Palamedes), trinkets
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[personal profile] chickenchoicejudy 2023-08-31 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ryan will be exploring ships! Less to find any specific items and more because he's sick of sitting around being safe instead of trying to find out more about himself or about his life or anything even vaguely useful. He's never done the adventuring thing before but...couldn't hurt to try, right? Plus he has a decent amount of upper body strength, so he could probably force open a door or something.

The ship that will catch his attention while he's alone is this one here mostly buried in sand because huh, that's kind of a weird shape for a ship, what the hell is that?

But, I have an evil thought (approved by Joey). This would be a terrible time for him to switch bodies with someone, so we'd like to have Ryan get caught in a body swap beam right here (maybe there's a hole in the ceiling or it goes through the door or something) and switch with Min-Gi.

Is this feasible? And if so, what does Min-Gi find in this strange ship he's never seen before in his life? :)
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Re: Exploration

[personal profile] mediaphobic 2023-09-01 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Aizawa plans to explore the ships, with a focus on salvaging whatever looks like communications tech to see if theres anything in it that can help with his own radio project.

He picks out something that's probably as big as a large party boat that would not look too out of place in a canon like Star Trek, or like underwater vessels that are properly designed and not likely to implode when it reaches a certain depth.

He's not especially trained, but he's from a world with a tech level comparable to our own.
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[personal profile] toteninsel 2023-09-01 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Ariane will want to explore a generic Penrose-class vessel of the Eusan's People's Navy! (AKA, a compact deep-space exploration space ship.) For the sake of convenience, she'll only explore the upper floor, a map of which can be found here.

Since Ariane has been on a ship like this before, she'll be pretty capable at exploring it. She will be particularly interested in any technology that resembles a radio, and any artistic/cultural artifacts.
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[personal profile] masculinitea 2023-09-02 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
pauses

annoyed sigh

are there any ships with like. sexy female figureheads that could be removed.

regardless Vic is drawn to wooden sea vessels without knowing why but his huge bigness means he can't climb or really get into them mostly. He wants to find cannons and cannonballs, and that's only partially because they're good for lifting. Maybe rope? Sailcloth? Hardtack?

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Darin Altway | Original Character

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-08-31 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Your name: Ant
Your pronouns: He/Him
Contact: [plurk.com profile] bitterbearface | Discord: bitterbearface| PM
OOC limitations: I tag sporadically throughout the day. No real limitations here.

Character name: Darin Altway
Permissions: Right here!
General impressions of your character: Big, beefy, blue-haired shounen JRPG style protagonist. He's loud, sometimes arrogant, but altogether means well and wants to help people adjust and make it through this.
CR you're interested in: Literally anything give it to me.
CR you're not interested in: All good on the relationship front, this boy's taken

General ideas or plans for the month: Darin is going to continue his demo and reconstruction of the Staywell. He's done most of the demo work on the ground floor and is working on the next floor up so if you live on that floor, you'll see him breaking down empty rooms. Come say hi!
Event ideas: -WANTED- Darin hasn't committed any major crimes but he's not above getting into bar fights and occasionally using his powers to break weapons from rival smiths who used cheap materials to pocket the differences in cost. He has scruples about that sort of thing so most of his crimes will be petty and stupid. It'll be fun.
-BODYSNATCHERS- Totally up for having Darin swap bodies with someone for a few days for funsies. Anyone want super strength and heightened resilience and also one other special power that Darin doesn't know he has? Want to be coached in managing your super strength so you don't explode doors when you open them or crush the ground when walking or flex out of your(his) clothes? I'm mostly up for shenanigans with this.
-UNEARTHED- This boy is going to explore these ships as much as he can and will be looking for logs/maps/charts/journals and also will be trying to strip down whatever metals he can. He would love the help, especially if anyone has any knowledge of the more advanced ships.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Yes always
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i'm already signed up here bye

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[personal profile] outofsynth 2023-08-31 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Your name: Joey
Your pronouns: He/Him
Contact: [plurk.com profile] thlayli or PM or fourthling (discord)
OOC limitations: Nah

Character name: Min-Gi Park
Permissions: Here
General impressions of your character: Min-Gi's hair will be less.... styled this month. These three minute showers are a slight to him specifically. Aside from that he dresses pretty smartly even with the cowboy attire. Sometimes he can be fun! But mostly he dresses like a dad. A cowboy dad.
CR you're interested in: Basically anything! Friends? Enemies? Vague Acquaintances? I'm here for it.
CR you're not interested in: Just romance. He only has eyes for one man.

General ideas or plans for the month: Nothing specific generally yet!
Event ideas: I think Min's crimes are going to be more specifically things that point away from the normal, boring life he thought he had until recently this time around though I'm not sure specifically what they'll be yet. If someone wants to end up in jail with him I think he'll be confessing a few of them!

Definitely wanna do some body swapping too. Who wants to drive this uptight nerd around for a bit? I kind of want to do this a few times just to really mess with him.

Min-Gi's less likely to want to be exploring the ships, but that may change as the month goes on depending on what other characters fine. He's also going to end up doing an involuntary exploration via body swaps, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y
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Dax | Star Trek

[personal profile] d9x 2023-09-01 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Your name: Nat
Your pronouns: they/them
Contact: [plurk.com profile] crow47
OOC limitations: N/a

Character name: Dax
Permissions: worm permissions
General impressions of your character: Dax always gives off an approachable vibe, but she hates the heat and loves water, so she'll be less energetic about spending time in the sun as the month goes on, and she definitely started wearing less pants and more beat-the-heat protective clothing somewhat like this.
CR you're interested in: All of it!! She's got "weird impending throuple of doom energy" and "adopted children" covered (though she'll ALWAYS adopt more), so I'd love her to get to befriend more people! She's social and can approach your character. I'm hoping to have her interact with more people she didn't get to last month, too!
CR you're not interested in: N/a.

General ideas or plans for the month: Dax died at the party, and did not return until the first few days after these events began (she isolated for a short time to process, so you can also find her earlier than that if you seek her out). She'll be putting a 'didn't die, sorry for the scare' type note up on the bulletin board. She doesn't (think) she needs any comfort about it, but she'll be happy to comfort your character should they approach her about it! I'll have an open about this when I get a TL up.

Event ideas:
WANTED. I... am so excited for Dax crime posters. I can offer confessions in many forms. Ezri's crimes could include stealing a Starfleet shuttle to rescue her ex-husband; shooting someone (in self-defense); almost stabbing someone for ??? reasons. If you want to catch her looking at a less familiar face in a poster (...or a drawing of a worm???), Daxes' crimes include treason on a global level; reassociation (tldr: if you want her to confess to making out with an ex, basically, infodump about it on request); murders both in the homicidal and government-sanctioned military officer categories; and of course lighter things like breaking-and-entering/trespassing to pull pranks.

INVASION. I. am. obsessed with this prompt. Dax will extraordinarily discomforted by the idea of swapping into someone's body like this because of the perceived disconnect from Dax. Who wants to be an two-part alien and have super cold hands and spots!!

UNEARTHED. Mmmaybe Dax finding a starship of the same class as the one she's a captain of. Or, a space shuttle similar to the one she died in. Or the little rowboat she had a date in once!

Are you planning to create a log this month? Y
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Re: Dax | Star Trek

[personal profile] go_loud 2023-09-01 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
OMG A THOUGHT: while I am definitely planning Cam and Pal swap, how funny would it be to musical chairs them. SHENANIGANS. (And also I'm more seriously pondering the logistics of suddenly being in a body with a symbiote. HUH. Would whoever jumps into her body end up having all the hosts in their head/taking a back seat to the Dax consciousness? IT'S ALL VERY LYCTORAL. Also, spots!)

Don't think I don't see that (think) there. *steeples fingers, raises eyebrow*

Omg a worm wanted poster. This is really funny to me for some reason.
I really enjoy the idea of reassociation being one of her crimes just because I can imagine it going (with ANYONE) like: "what the fuck is reassociation" "Um, I made out with my ex." "....that's a CRIME? I mean, not just emotionally?"

OOH STARFLEET VESSELS. Cam is totally up for hearing about various spacecraft she recognizes. (Or doesn't? Not sure where the memories come in here.)


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Beth's Boys

[personal profile] anglophone 2023-09-01 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Your name: Beth
Your pronouns: She/her
Contact: [plurk.com profile] terriblepurpose or PM
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Alec | Worm

[personal profile] anglophone 2023-09-01 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Character name: Alec
Permissions: Here.

General impressions of your character: Alec is so hot. He's so hot and he's dying and he's going to complain about this as piteously as possible. Expect to see him in ye olde Western style crop tops and handmade black cut offs, layered under a poncho solely to prevent sunburn. He will still get sunburned. His new daring approach to fashion will also show off some of his many scars, especially the long, deep, fairly fresh one running from the left side of his neck to his left elbow, and some older abdominal wounds including something that looks suspiciously like a glancing gunshot.

CR you're interested in: Anything! Alec is accumulating a surprising amount of positive CR so far, including fellow teenage dirtbags, prospective 'reiner-inners', and weird art pals (all categories that overlap). Given his likely upcoming moves this month, I expect some people might have cause to be less than thrilled with him.
CR you're not interested in: None! Throw all the negative you want my way - while Alec will be sullen about it, I the player will be delighted.

General ideas or plans for the month: Alec is starting to settle into life in Wellstone, which means he's more comfortable committing casual acts of vandalism. This month he's going to put up graffiti of a grinning horned mask on the side of the hotel unless physically stopped, and if physically stopped, he's just going to come back and continue later on.

More majorly, after experiencing the event of Wanted: Dead or Alive, Alec is going to act on possessing the town NPCs. I'm interested in plotting out him being interrupted on the gravedigger or waiter possessions, as per mod answers from here and here.

Event ideas:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Alec is going to be briefly bodyswapped with Olympia early in the month, which will be a fun time for him and perhaps less fun for others. He will be extremely responsible about her potentially maiming or lethal touch-based powers, by which I mean he's going to forget about them a good half of the time.

Wanted: Dead or Alive will be the event that sets off Alec's villainous instincts. His handful of Wanted posters are hard to find, and use the name Regent instead of Alec to refer to him. The crimes listed are participation in activities of criminal organization, aggravated assault, kidnapping, forcible imprisonment, and Alec's confession will reveal a memory of his involvement in a violent conflict with another supervillain group. This memory includes
content warningsmind control, threats of forced suicide (prevented), severe eye trauma, insects, and discussion of effective methods of terrorizing a city into compliance
and so I want to make sure anyone who's interested in this prompt has a clear heads up on it. We can keep the description as bare bones and functional as is comfortable for everyone involved.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Yes

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yuri lowell | tales of vesperia

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Your name: Mads
Your pronouns: they/them
Contact: [plurk.com profile] spudbud or huckl on disco
OOC limitations: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Character name: Yuri Lowell
Permissions: here
General impressions of your character: Chill guy with long black hair, wearing almost exclusively black clothes with an allergy to doing up his shirt.
CR you're interested in: Deeper relationships! I want people that Yuri can care deeply about, and who care deeply about him
CR you're not interested in: Romance

General ideas or plans for the month: Yuri is getting stuck as Flynn while Flynn is hiatused. So he'll have some fun staring at his own statue in the lobby, and probably will stick a note on it saying its not him. So if you want a surly Flynn-looking guy around, we can make that happen!
Event ideas:
Wanted posters - Yuri has quite a few crimes under his belt, and to really kick him while he's down, I'll have him remember one of the other times he's killed someone in canon, when he stabbed a guy.

A few more fun ones:
- Jailbreak by starting a brawl
- Sedition by leaving the Empire and starting a guild
- Kidnapping a princess (she wanted to leave so it's okay)

Bodysnatchers - Yuri will swap with Flynn and then get stuck as Flynn while Flynn is hiatused, so a statue of Yuri will be in the lobby of the hotel while Yuri is out there piloting Flynn's body (with Jordan's permission of course). So: if you want to have body shenanigans where you end up in Flynn's body, and Yuri ends up in yours, we can do that! After Flynn is back, open to Yuri just more normally swapping one for one with others.

Why should you swap with Yuri? Honestly, he's a normal ass guy. He has pretty hair--which is greasy from the short showers--and he's very agile and flexible. Good for climbing, jumping, running, doing flips, fun things like that. He has a huge sweet tooth, so you'll really enjoy that slice of pie in his body. He wakes up late and stays up late, and has a mild case of insomnia. He's also depressed, which can stick around with his body. So: enjoy!

Exploration - Yuri is a great pal to go exploring with! He will act like he doesn't want to go, but he does want to go, and he's interested in what's out there, even if he's not interested in anything in particular.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Y
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Palamedes Sextus | The Locked Tomb

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Your name: Becca
Your pronouns: she/her
Contact: [plurk.com profile] historein or PM
OOC limitations: Nothing much!

Character name: Palamedes Sextus
Permissions: Here
General impressions of your character: 20-year-old, scrawny, tall, bespectacled friendly neighborhood nerd! Pal tends to be kind and approachable, if awkward, sometimes bad at noticing social cues, and inclined to monologue about whatever is on his mind. These days he is often attached at the hip to Camilla Hect.
CR you're interested in: Gimme it all! Mystery-solving collaborators, friends who want to talk about the complicated feelings they have about who they might have once been, people who have complicated feelings about what it means to be trapped in Wellstone. I’d also LOVE for him to interact with people who have some knee-jerk suspicion of his powers.
CR you're not interested in: NA

General ideas or plans for the month: After Jane’s transformation and Dax’s death, Pal is going to finally return to an idea he vaguely thought about early on in his stay in Well. Basically, he’s asking your character to come get a necromancy physical! He wants to make note of the general age, health status, and physiology of anyone who is willing, with the thought that this information could both help the individuals learn about themselves, and could help navigate future changes or crises. ICly, there will be a bulletin board post! OOCly, I will probably put together a li’l form.
Event ideas:
Yes. Yes to…everything.

WANTED

YEAH THE POSTERS ARE BACK, NOW WITH BONUS TRAUMA. Pal will be getting a “stole a space station” one again, and this time it will trigger the memory of convincing the Sixth House to secede from the Empire. Surprise, your friendly neighborhood nerd committed treason!

Other crimes that could be fun memory regains include: Trespassing and/or Sabotage (leading to a memory of Pal and Cam breaking in to military facilities to gather information); Harboring a Fugitive (with the memory of finding Nona); or Necromancy (with a memory of learning about necromancers getting tortured by their kinda sorta allies). HELP ME PICK. Or give me other ideas.

INVASION

WELP, Palamedes Sextus will be wearing the body of Camilla Hect for most of the month (and vice-versa). He will be very, very careful with said body and, given his history with inhabiting Cam’s body, will have very complicated feelings about it! Also, he won’t have necromancy! So that will be a fascinating experience.

UNEARTHED

Poor Pal, a ship graveyard shows up, and he has NO PSYCHOMETRY FOR EXPLORING. That said, he will be going exploring and will just have to do some old school detecting. I have no particular plans, but I’d love to piggyback on anyone else’s explorations.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Probably not an open one, but I’m happy to write up some private prompts as needed!
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[personal profile] d9x 2023-09-01 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
i am just sliding in my official paperwork. taps card on table for complicated feelings discussions ft. camilla.

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Your name: Joysweeper
Your pronouns: she/her
Contact: [plurk.com profile] joysweeper or PM
OOC limitations: whether I have time to tag on a given day depends

Sorry I went dark, everyone. Couple things just sort of happened and I completely lost all motivation for this game for a while and then was ashamed to show my face. Let me know if you want to resume one of the threads I petered out on?

Character name: Need
Permissions: Here!
General impressions of your character: 6'3 old lady built like a fighter. She's clearly reserved and alert, with a tendency to be faintly annoyed or faintly amused, or both, by most things.
CR you're interested in: pretty much anything, but I most love when she has affection for someone - people who are struggling but still have a sense of compassion and want to help others are like catnip to her.
CR you're not interested in: needless (hah) hostility

General ideas or plans for the month: guh I love Need and find her easy to thread but feel like I should have her more involved than I can generally manage even without Vanishing. I'll try her for September, anyway.

Crimes... man I'm not sure what memories I could give her that don't inform her of her entire Situation. She can always try to salvage something interesting from ships! And she's held on to a variety of real weapons from a couple events ago, as well as useful fake ones, so you may be able to hit her up for a sword or something if you can prove to her that you know how to use it.
Event ideas: I love bodyswap! But if you wanted to bodyswap with her... well the good news is she'd keep her psychic powers so that wouldn't be a problem. And you wouldn't have to sleep or eat or worry all that much about water. The bad news is you'd have her mage powers and uh. strong mage powers coming on a character without training or any ramp up on how to control them would put the character at the center of some craters of destruction? Good times.

Are you planning to create a log this month? N


Character name: Vic!
Permissions: I'm working on them.
General impressions of your character: He's a muscular 8'' Clydesdale centaur. Huge! Built! So much long fur and hair! You would guess from a look at him that he means well and is not that bright. You would be correct.
CR you're interested in: vague shrug!
CR you're not interested in: also shrug!

General ideas or plans for the month: what if he uses his tea magic to fill the pool with lemon water. surely no one will be suspicious. Maybe it's time for his great secret to become less secret.

Also he is a pirate and a murderer and was creepy at a girl at Dinny's so those might be Crimes for him
Event ideas: dude if you wanna bodyswap with a one-ton centaur and have tea and food appear at your character's beefy fingertips whenever they're upset I'm totally down. Let Vic think he's cured! and be dismayed!
Are you planning to create a log this month? probably n
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[personal profile] go_loud 2023-09-02 12:12 am (UTC)(link)

Oh dude. Just looking at her icon (and description) I can say Cam absolutely WOULD spar with her for a sword. (Also not for a sword but PARTICULARLY for a sword.)

Although she may look like Pal, so although her strategy, know how, etc is all intact her muscle memory, reflexes and stamina are not so she may get her ass kicked.

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ariane yeong | signalis

[personal profile] toteninsel 2023-09-03 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Your name: floral
Your pronouns: she/they
Contact: [plurk.com profile] moonlanding or PM or the game Discord
OOC limitations: none

Character name: Ariane Yeong
Permissions: here
General impressions of your character: Ariane is a short woman with long white hair, red eyes, and a generally sickly appearance. She tends to dress in dark colors, mostly red and black, with a fondness for wide-brimmed hats, vests, and flowing skirts. She can come across as a little eerie initially, although after spending three months in Wellstone, she tends to open up to others more than when she first arrived.
CR you're interested in: Everything! With one exception (see below)
CR you're not interested in: Romance - Ariane is spoken for. She is a big softie, though, and would love to hear about *your* character's romantic drama

General ideas or plans for the month: Have you seen Elster? Now you have! Ariane's crewmate from her deep-space exploration mission is now in town, and it's stirring up a lot of complicated feelings in Ariane. We have curiosity, anxiety, guilt over not being able to remember much about her, and so on. She'll want to talk about this very exciting development a lot, so if your character has had a thread with Ariane before, there's a good chance she'd bring this up to them in some way, shape or form.

Event ideas:
wanted: Ariane's posters will be for "Officer Yeong," and will display a younger Ariane all suited up in her military uniform. She'll be wanted for crimes that are in conjunction with her treatment of Elster aboard the Penrose - things like "showing the Replika movies," "failing to read the Replika's technical documentation," "treating the Replika like a person," etc. It'll be a good way to kick off a convo with Ariane about Elster, if that's of interest!

invasion: I'd love to do some body swapping, and I'm open to close or new CR for this one! When in Ariane's body, characters will feel physically weak and experience some chronic pain, but will also be able to use Ariane's psychic powers to create powerful hallucinations.

unearthed: Ariane will be exploring a generic version of a Penrose-class spaceship from her canon! TBD on what she'll find, but she'll probably get a lot of memloss nosebleeds while exploring this one, and I'd definitely love for her to have a few fellow explorers here.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Most likely Y but not 100% sure atm!
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[personal profile] d9x 2023-09-05 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
chinhands. i would love to get to do a real thread with ariane this go around! would you up be up for saying that they've been talking a bit after meeting at her art event? dax is a good listener and would be so down for lending ariane an ear

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