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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.
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:
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:
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:
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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