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Welcome to month 3! The end of the cycle, and October, and you know what that means!

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
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New this month

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. But after the first week everything starts to taste sort of off and raw.

The pool is still out of order and empty, and at the bottom of the pool is a strange, rusty metallic build 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 nearly impossible. Time for a sponge bath!

The General Store

The General Store is still full of fun outer space paraphernalia. 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.

Around town

The diner’s special for the month: cherry pie! Delicious.

The jail is still around... for now.

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: “The town's been nice lately, hasn't it?”

Owner of the General Store: “Still got some jam! Livens up just about anything.”

The bartender: "Least we still got plenty of bottles."

The waiter: “I'm trying out a new cold brew to help with the heat!" And he serves you a cold brew—that's pretty weird. Maybe don't drink that.

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

The sheriff: Silently sits at his desk during the day and drinks at the bar at night.

Let the water hold me down

Content warnings: blood. Lots of blood. Floods of blood. Drinking blood. Risk of drowning. Storms, drought, flash floods.
The weather this month is quiet.

Baked by the heat of months, the desert is parched. Fine sand whirls up in small eddies, but…

that’s all.

There are no clouds on the horizon. What few animals are left are not running for the hills. There are no dust devils, and there is very little wind. The only change, really, seems to be the increasing drought: Water is nearly impossible to come by, the faucets barely a trickle.

Until the second week of the month, when they start to flow again. At first the water is pink and flowing freely. Over the course of a few days, it becomes deeper: magenta, then crimson, and then deep, bloody red. It smells increasingly metallic, and an awful lot like blood, actually.

Which, of course, it is! Might not want to drink that, unless B- is to your taste.

To find a drink this month, stop by the saloon or the diner, and drink something that doesn’t require water: alcohol, juice, milk. Those are still in supply. Coffee and tea are too, but the waiter is still using the “water” to make them, so they’re simply steeped in blood.

By the third week of the month, thick storm clouds gather, blotting out the sun. It’s a reprieve from the heat, but the clouds are strange, too. They’re a dark angry red, so deep it’s nearly black. For days they just squat over the town, blocking out the sun and casting everything into reddish gloom.

Then, as the fourh week begins, thunder cracks at dawn, sharp and loud enough to rattle even the sturdy Staywell. Lightning flashes. The heavy air splits. The clouds drop everything they’re holding all at once, torrential and fierce.

Naturally, the rain is red, and thick: blood, just like the rest of the water.

All this blood has nowhere to go. It rages over the parched surface of the desert in foaming torrents and slams hard into the town. By mid-morning on the first day of the storm, several buildings are gone, washed into debris, and the blood has formed standing pools in the town where they used to be. The jail is gone, and the General Store with it. The ground floors of the buildings that remain are uninhabitable, filled with feet of blood, and the rain just keeps coming.

Over the course of the week, more flooding and increased rain take out the whole desert. It begins to rise in the Staywell, taking each floor as it goes.

There’s nowhere to go. Nowhere is safe.

Except the graveyard, of course.

The graveyard is dry as a bone.

tl;dr:

Nothing happens for weeks and weeks. It's quiet, too quiet. The water becomes less and less available, and around week two turns to blood. It starts pinkish, and starts flowing deep, deep red by week three. It isn’t potable anymore, unless you happen to like the taste of blood.
The only potable drinks are found at the diner and the saloon, which are open (almost) all month. You can drink just about anything that isn’t mixed with water at the establishment (no coffee or tea, but yes juice, milk, or alcohol).
The last week of the month, thick, reddish storm clouds blot out the sun and hover for days.
They rain blood. And with the ground so dry, the blood soaks it immediately, and then has nowhere to go. It floods the town, floods the ground floors, and fills up the buildings in the town. There’s nowhere to go. Nowhere is safe.
Except the graveyard, of course.

How did I get here?

Content warnings: body horror, abduction, torture, surgical-like procedures without anesthetic, being buried alive. To avoid descriptions, skip over the blockquote below.
You wake up in the graveyard. You’re in your own grave: sealed underground in a casket, or in freshly dug earth, your faded gravestone marking the spot. You might want to get out of there, stat.

It's a while after your last memory of Wellstone: you’ve been gone for days, maybe a week. You disappeared, it seems, in the blink of an eye. You may not remember where you were, or what happened to you. You seem fine. Right?

You wake up strapped to a cold stone table. It’s roughly cut, scraping against your bare skin, jutting in places and dipping in others. The ceiling above you, if it can be called that, is red-black and moving obscenely. In your nose the air is hot and foul.

Holding you to the table are straps, or… something like them. They’re warm. Very warm, and tacky against your skin, almost like flesh. They wrap around your limbs and your hips and your throat, keeping you pinned firmly.

And then they start to move.

They squeeze you tight, tight enough, maybe, to break your ribs. They slice you open with tines as sharp as cactus spikes, like they’re looking for something inside you. They probe down your throat, into your chest, your lungs.

They aren’t kind. They aren’t careful. They don’t seem particularly concerned with keeping you alive, even.

They press into your ears and your nose. They worm their way into your head: worse, into your mind with a pain so searing it seems death would be kinder. It’s possible you’ve felt an echo of it before: it’s the same pain you feel when a memory flares, only with the volume turned unbearably higher. Blood drips from everywhere it can, pooling warm and sticky around you, dripping unseen onto a stone floor. All this may trigger a memory of something deeply held, something that you believe in so strongly that you’ll find it impossible that you forgot it in the first place.

You can’t escape. You may try, but you’re prone, your body barely under your own control, even if you had much strength left.

Eventually, somehow, it ends: you black out, from pain or blood loss or something worse. It must end, anyway, because you wake again in the graveyard days after you last remember being free.

Your character has been abducted! They disappeared from wherever they were in the blink of an eye, and are gone for up to a week.

For this prompt, you can decide what exactly happens to your character during their abduction, and you can decide how much or little your character remembers of their abduction: the whole thing in awful detail, or hazy painful impressions, or nothing at all. If you choose to obfuscate the experience now, you can have them remember it later on through a memory regain that doesn’t require points. The intent of this prompt is that your character disappears for up to a week, and undergoes a terrible experience during that time. The actual abduction isn’t intended to be heavily interacted with, but the aftermath is. This can only happen once per character.

Characters who were abducted can earn 3 memory points. You can choose to use them on the memory indicated in the prompt, another memory now, or save them for later.

tl;dr:

You’ve been abducted!
During the abduction, you’re strapped down, and some pretty nasty stuff happens to you. Player choice what and how much. You can die there, or simply be pretty messed up.
You’re gone for 4-7 days.
Your character can remember as much or as little as you want them to.
You wake up in your grave. You can be sealed in, or not.
Characters who were abducted earn 3 memory points.
A character can only be abducted once using this prompt.

Same as it ever was

Content warnings: Impersonation, manipulation, body horror
If the quiet and the blood and the disappearances weren’t bad enough, well: it gets worse. You knew it would.

Familiar faces begin to crop up again, through crowds in the diner, wandering in from the edge of town. They are, of course, your own.

The doubles are back.

Like before, each character has a double of themself running around town. They are everything that you are and more: they are your strongest self, your worst self, full of your worst and darkest impulses and all the skills and knowledge that you’ve forgotten. Their goal is to become you, and if you’ve been abducted, they’ll try particularly hard to convince people that they’re you and undermine your relationships and your reputation while they’re at it.

Something seems to be wrong with all of these other versions of you, though. Try to convince your friends that everything is okay. They're you, they're safe and normal and Wellstone is a safe and normal town. Everything’s okay here and maybe we shouldn’t worry after all and just let it happen?

However, occasionally, something weird will happen, either:

Their voices will be taken over with static, fritzing out across frequencies. They’ll clutch at anyone nearby, trying desperately to communicate with your friends in a chorus of voices that can’t be made out.
Their voices will be taken over by a low, unearthly groan. It’s bodily and visceral and makes anyone within earshot feel like they need to run and hide. When this takes over the doubles, their eyes go lifeless and their bodies limp, like marionettes.

When any double touches you, from the point of contact outward, searing pain rolls under your skin as it begins to rot. Your thoughts, memories, and sense of self warp and turn to hazy static. The longer they hold on, the worse these effects will be, and the stronger the doppelgänger will get. If they hold on long enough, you’ll simply die.

When your actual self returns (if you do), you may need to convince your friends that you are indeed the real one. Are you?

tl;dr:

The doubles are back! Each character has a doppelganger who embodies their worst self.
The doubles are intent on replacing characters, and will particularly try to do this when a character has been abducted.
Sometimes, the doubles might act a little strange. They will either sound like radio static, or an unearthly horrible groan.
If any double (not just your own) touches you, you hurt, and the world twists and warps. The longer they hold on, the worse it gets, and if they don’t let go eventually you will die.

Threaded | Flat

Eh?

Your name: Joey
Your pronouns: He/Him
Contact:

thlayli or fourthling (discord) or PM
OOC limitations: Nope

Character name: Min-Gi Park
Permissions: Just here!
General impressions of your character: Idk man. I'm too lazy to type much up today. He comes off as a bit of a stick in the mud unless you get to know him or hit it off just the right way with him, but he does know how to have fun. He just... largely doesn't remember how he does that now.
CR you're interested in: I am open!
CR you're not interested in: I think romance is the only definite no.

General ideas or plans for the month: No specifics just yet. He doesn't remember how to cook for the most part, but he does know he used to work in a diner so with the hotel food being iffy this month maybe he will try and push himself more in that department.
Event ideas: Definitely wanting to get his double out more this time around! Yes, that does mean he's getting abducted though I've yet to decide whether that will be bad or bad for him. What has been decided is both Min-Gi and Ryan will be abducted at the same time. Their doubles will be using each other to lend credibility to them being the real versions of them.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Probably?

Edited 2023-10-01 15:56 (UTC)

Your name: floral
Your pronouns: she/they
Contact:

moonlanding or PM or the game discord
OOC limitations: none!

Character name: Ariane Yeong
Permissions: here, note that the listed content warnings will be particularly applicable this month
General impressions of your character: Ariane is small and frail-looking, but with a generally cheerful personality and a geeky, theater kid-esque energy when you get to know her. She tends to dress in red and black. Underneath all this, there's often something a little bit off about her.
CR you're interested in: Pretty much anything!
CR you're not interested in: She's spoken for, romance-wise.

General ideas or plans for the month: Going to mostly focus on event stuff this month, particularly the doubles and abduction prompt, and the resulting memory regain.

Event ideas: During the first week of the month, Ariane will be acting like her usual self. She's a bit weirded out by the blood, but she'll try to take it in stride, and will offer to help others do the same. Ariane likes the graveyard, so she'll generally try to direct people there, and might set up a little space to do some sketching to help people take their minds off things, similar to the art therapy session she hosted back in August.

During the remainder of the month, Ariane will not be doing well. Ariane will get abducted, and vanish for six days. While she's gone, Ariane's double will return! This time, Ariane's double will be much, much nicer to be around. She'll be working hard to convince everyone that she is the real Ariane. She's strong, capable, and helpful in all the ways that Ariane could never be! She's a born leader, and an excellent comrade! Ariane's double will try to be just as helpful as Ariane was, but with an air of manipulation throughout the whole thing.

Meanwhile, Ariane herself will return from her abduction experience remarkably unwell. She'll remember that she has spent the last several hundred years imprisoned in a cryogenic pod in a painful, semi-conscious state. To reach Ariane, characters will have to cut through a maze of rotted, decaying, body-horror flavor hallucinations. Ariane's double will encourage characters not to do that. Isn't Ariane terrible to be around? Wouldn't you rather hang out with the double instead?

Overall, I'm interested in characters genuinely mistaking Ariane's double for Ariane, or alternatively, reaching Ariane herself through either the power of friendship, the power of incredible violence and determination, or both!

Are you planning to create a log this month? yes!

Your name: Ant
Your pronouns: He/Him
Contact:

bitterbearface or PM
OOC limitations: None but I've been busy lately but I will backtag into oblivion if you want

Character name: Darin Altway
Permissions: Here!
General impressions of your character: Big, beefy, extra good at hugs. Loud and kind of an obnoxious hot-blooded shounen/JRPG hero type
CR you're interested in: Anything really except romantic, he's taken
CR you're not interested in: Hit me with what you've got

General ideas or plans for the month: HAHAHA oh man okay

So, Darin's going to be in a very bad way for like half of this month. Cece is going to be getting killed and Darin is not going to take it well. He's not going to go full apocalypse monster, but he is going to be focusing on trying to get the Staywell shored up...

When the floods happen, Darin is going to be the last one out. He's going to be using his strength to keep the building from collapsing (with a little help from his transmutation magic!) but this won't be the end for him.

Event ideas:
Darin is going to be abducted from the vanishing Staywell, which means he's going to be exploding out of his own grave when everything else is gone. He is going to be in a bad, desperate state having lost everything he's worked on, lost Cecelia, and also have a very bittersweet memory of his childhood that's going to make him feel worse.

When his double rolls up in the last few days, Darin is having none of it. They killed each other last loop but he's done. To anyone who wants to see a truly terrifying version of Darin, one who is cold, vicious, and impossibly strong, this is your chance because he's going to take out his own double (and anyone else's) in especially brutal fashion.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Yes!

Your name: Becca
Your pronouns: she/her
Contact:

historein or PM
OOC limitations: For the sake of continuing to keep on top of things, I’ve started to drop some older threads that aren’t plotty, but please hmu if you have questions about any of them in particular!

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.
CR you're interested in: Pretty much same as before: 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:
I’m going to be focusing on abductions, Doublemedes (aka, evil!Pal), and the related fallout, but in terms of general vibes:
- folks might start to notice that Pal is just a little more careful with his words and less likely to tell you everything that’s on his mind these days. It won’t be dramatic, but he is remembering enough about his past for his canon instinct to play his cards close to his chest to kick in. And hey, he chose a good month to get suspicious, right?
- I think Pal will be gaining the memory of the necromancy religion he grew up with. This would be absolutely boring and unremarkable…except that it means he will remember seeing religious icons with John Gaius’ face on them and wonder what the hell is up with that. Probably a coincidence, right?
- Because all this blood = more thanergy, both Doublemedes and Pal, original flavor, will have much stronger powers than usual.
- While he’s going to end up getting distracted by the Bad Times, Pal is also thinking about 1) doubles and NPCs “glitching out” and what it means, as well as 2) the significance of the graveyard (maybe it’s always unaffected because it’s where their captors live, NOT because it’s a place of safety for the rest of them!)
Event ideas:

ABDUCTION:

Pal will be getting abducted relatively close to the start of the month! He’ll be returning with the memory that Cytherea killed and impersonated Dulcinea, and then proceeded to kill a bunch of other people in order to get revenge on God. Good times! Back on dry land (so to speak), he’ll be obsessively searching the town for where the abducted people have gone, pretending (badly) not to freak out about the missing people, and using the whole experience to bolster his theory that they’re all part of some awful experiment.

Additionally, Pal will immediately remember the full experience of his torture, but he is keeping that memory all to himself. He won’t lie directly if someone asks, but he will be extremely vague.

DOUBLES:

Doublemedes is back! Come for his animal-torturing serial killer vibes, stay for his ability to creatively insult your intelligence. Doublemedes thinks he is smarter, more powerful, and way more interesting than his original version with his silly ethics and belief in the power of love, and is more than happy to sow discord and chaos among the locals. He will also be hanging around with evil!Cam and evil!Dax and treating them like his shitty (sexy) henchmen.

Oh, and then he’s gonna kill Cecelia, and Darin is gonna take his revenge and tear that asshole in two! If anyone else is interested in fighting with him, getting insulted by him along the way hmu!

BLOOD:

Speaking of Doublemedes causing trouble: this asshole will be leaving a note on the bulletin board saying that he tested the water and it’s fine!

Otherwise, I don’t have a ton of specific thoughts. Pal will definitely notice that his powers work better and feel some kind of way about it. Also, as water levels (blood levels?) start to rise, Pal will do his best to help everyone stay safe, board up doors and windows, carry stuff to dry ground, etc. Open to other ideas if you have ‘em!

Are you planning to create a log this month? Yep!

(Am I missing anything? I feel like I'm missing something, so plz tell me if I am)

Your name: Nat
Your pronouns: they/them
Contact:

crow47
OOC limitations: n/a

Character name: Dax
Permissions: here
General impressions of your character: She's not having a good time.
CR you're interested in: any
CR you're not interested in: n/a

General ideas or plans for the month: She's going to be quiet and stressed this month and doing a lot of hovering around the Games Club members / trying to make sure the kids are okay. She'll also be trying to set up tents/get things moved to the graveyard when the blood rain starts.
Event ideas:

ABDUCTION. Dax will be abducted the second week of the month. She'll end up attached to Pal's hip for the second half of the month in the searching for where people have been taken. She won't talk about what happened while she was gone and she'll shut down anyone who tries to bring it up with her, with the exception of her Games Club boys. She miiight put up an anonymous warning on the bulletin board.

DOUBLES. Dax's double is going to Evil!Pal's hot henchman and at the hip of Evil!Pal or Evil!Cam just about every time she's seen. Opt-in for a murder attempt if you're looking for drama or a character death; Dax's worst self includes her sixth host's fun time murder tendencies being at the forefront. This can include Dax's double trying it herself; or, Evil!Dax works for Evil!Pal, but doesn't have strict loyalty, so she'd help another double set a character up to be cornered and attacked by their own double.

Her double will be trying to infiltrate her CR while she's abducted to plant seeds of doubt about their CR and to report on her own research about the town as 'well, this all seems fine, we're perfectly safe'. It'll all just be a liiittle off until she tries to hold your hand comfortingly. Come closer.

She'll also try to undo any hard work Dax has done or been involved with. Her notebooks will be shredded when she returns from abduction time. She has all the engineering/comms knowledge and may try to undo the hard work they've put into the walkies. She may ruin the Games Club headquarters.

Dax herself will barely be sleeping while the doubles are around.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Yes, likely just closed prompts as determined here though!

Your name: Cass
Your pronouns: She/Her
Contact:

ectoplasmfear or PM
OOC limitations: N/A really.

Character name: Satoko Hojo
Permissions: Here~
General impressions of your character: She's about fifteen, she's reaonably tall, and she's adorable. If she were a small animal, a normal girl would put her in a cage. She has a lisp, a fang, and she speaks in broken keigo. She will loudly proclaim her love for traps and tricks and pranks.
CR you're interested in: Friends! Found Family! People to try and rescue her even when she doesn't want to be rescued. Satoko's not going to have a good time this month so it's a good chance to see a more vulnerable and volatile side of her. In addition, I'd love to have characters engage with her double and see some of her more... extreme flaws.
CR you're not interested in: Not interested in anything overtly shippy atm.

General ideas or plans for the month: Satoko will be dealing with the blistering heat and the dehydration by mostly staying indoors. She'll be less energetic than normal, but otherwise her spirits will remain about the same. As the month passes though, there will be something sickeningly familiar about the nature of this all to her, and she'll start to be a bit more withdrawn and moody.

However, if anyone wants to recognize her as the victor of the Wellstone Card Tournament (through cheating), they can.

Event ideas: Satoko will go missing for about a week. Fortunately, during that time, there will be a duplicate that will take her place. She will be almost entirely indistinguishable from Satoko, only a little more confident, a little less genuine, a little meaner, a little more... certain. Never enough that you'd notice beyond thinking she might be in a bad mood (or maybe she's let her victory go to her head a bit...), but there's a slight sharpness to her where before there was barely any.

When the real Satoko returns, then it will change it's goal. The Duplicate will consider itself the "true" Satoko Hojo, and will endeavor to dispatch the "fractured remnants of old irrelevant fragments" posthaste by hunting it down and murdering it. It, of course, being Satoko. The outcome of that is undecided for now, but I'd lean toward the duplicate succeeding.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Yep!

Edited 2023-10-02 00:52 (UTC)

Your name: Basil
Your pronouns: they/then
Contact:

woodrift
OOC limitations: Myyyy pace is slow-ish and variable. Please be patient

Character name: Shouta Aizawa
Permissions: here
General impressions of your character: Depressed and somewhat nihilistic millennial teacher who vacillates wildly between brutal practicality and not caring one bit. He's been going around in Crocs, bright pink pants, and star charms dangling from his reading glasses and lives on coffee and spite at this point.

He's not gonna be having fun this month.

CR you're interested in: Any and all.
CR you're not interested in: I can't think of anything in this crowd.

General ideas or plans for the month: I have some dangling plots I need to follow through on in regards to retrofitting the walkie talkies, and Aizawa is not going to be happy that he wasn't able to rig one up by the end of the month. Otherwise, he's supporting CR and being a Sane Adult In The Room.
Event ideas: oh, he's getting abducted for sure. Otherwise, it's free game.
Are you planning to create a log this month? yes.

Edited 2023-10-02 02:36 (UTC)

Your name: Elle
Your pronouns: she/her
Contact:

whyellewhy (it's public so u can pp me without having to add me if u don't want to)
OOC limitations: N

Character name: Cecelia Ardenbury
Permissions: Here
General impressions of your character: Due to the lack of water, regularly regal Cecelia is looking a bit rough in the hair department, but by gods is she going to try to keep herself as tidy as she can amidst this all!!! This month there will be very apparent airs of barely-contained panic, a shorter fuse, and a want to control and regulate things for want of safety.

CR you're interested in:
-Let her boss you around/fuss at you/use Mending/healing magic
-Force her to sit still and check in with her feelings
-Help organize her 4th-floor library (her old bedroom), share some lore
-Drag her to some diversion/activity beyond just handwringing

CR you're not interested in: No smoochies unless it's platonic cheek/forehead kisses

General ideas or plans for the month: See above for "CR interested in"
Event ideas:
-W1 will be the 'batton down the hatches' kind of vibes, prepping for storms
-As blood starts to trickle in the faucets during w2, Cece will be more frequent in the diner to check on the store of ice water she had been stockpiling in the freezer - she can share!
-She will be abducted for 4 days - like the tail-end of w2 into w3, but around all of w1 and early w2
-She will die at the hands of Palamedes' double in week 4 and not turn up until November
-Her double will be in her stead for w4 and will be a bitch and talk down at u, available to do magical killings if provoked
-The double will get killed by Diluc by the end
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y

Your name: Mads
Your pronouns: they/them
Contact:

spudbud or huckl on disco
OOC limitations: What's in my permissions--some relevant for this month include flaying, so pls cw that (pls cw that anyways no one wants an untagged flaying)

Character name: Yuri Lowell
Permissions: here

General ideas or plans for the month:
Week 1: Abducted! Yuri will be gone most of the first week.

His double will be around making trouble for him--only not really. His double is very sad, and will mostly be found at the saloon drinking too much. He'll make a token attempt to impersonate Yuri, but his heart just isn't in it. Happy for sad vibes, and being overtaken with static or groans. He's not really intent to hurt anyone either, but he can do it a lil bit. For fun, y'know.

Week 2: He's going to wake up buried alive in his own grave with far too many memories of torture. Would love someone to rescue him from his grave. He'll be pretty messed up from this, but will still be noteably different from his double in the way he deals with it--ie he won't be drinking and instead will mostly be staring into space.

Week 3: He's Unhappy about the blood, especially the blood in the coffee. If anyone can make him a drinkable cup he'll be grateful.

He will also be patrolling the graveyard in case anyone else is trapped in their grave. He's down to help rescue anyone from their graves or doubles.

Flynn will be abducted, and Yuri will be tricked by his double to the point that he lets the double touch him, and he'll get killed that way. He'll be back in November.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Y, mostly for the things happening to him, will tag into others for week 2-3 stuff.

Your name: Samuel
Your pronouns: He/him
Contact:

skyheron, PM, or discord - technicolorskies
OOC limitations: It's all on the table within my permission's limits.

Character name: Diluc Ragnvindr
Permissions: Here
General impressions of your character: Calm, polite man who is brooding and serious. He doesn't smile much but generally tries to be helpful. His voice comes off matter of fact. There is an air of nobility about him.
CR you're interested in: Everything right now.
CR you're not interested in: N/a

General ideas or plans for the month: This month will see a different side of Diluc. It is a gap between who he was and who he is in his own world. It will bridge the gap in his memories. In short, he will become very focused and focused entirely on eliminating threats to the populace. Disconnected from all of his emotions but wrath. Think of him as a wild fire or a volcano that has erupted and the way lava burns everything. This is Diluc this month.
Event ideas:
- He will be abducted.
- He will return and find tragedy struck while he was gone.
- His double will be around and pretending to be him, but he will come off too flat and try to actively kill the powerful of the town.
- Darin will kill his double in time for the real diluc to return like some deadly specter (he will be very solid but caring about himself will be out the window).
- Diluc will murder cecelia's double with some really troubling magic.
- then he will go pass out somewhere for two days.

He will be very disconnected from himself in a way. His focus will be on downing enemies. While he will be kind to the obviously distressed, it will be very clear he is shut up somewhere inside his own head. It will be very different from those present for when doubles first appeared.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y

Your name: Jelle
Your pronouns: she/her
Contact:

queeningsquare
OOC limitations: see my permissions!

Character name: Olympia
Permissions: here!
General impressions of your character: olympia has both a "way too good for this world" and "pathetic kicked puppy" vibe about her without her memories. she's quick to help others and dish out compliments, perhaps a little bit too quickly, but also wouldn't hesitate to call out something truly bad if she saw it.
CR you're interested in: anything! would love more friends, would love people who want to keep her out of trouble. also wouldn't mind shipping if the dynamic was ever there!
CR you're not interested in: cr that's negative without any good reason. let's talk about it first!

General ideas or plans for the month: olympia is mostly very Nervous about this month, considering what everyone has told her during her last two here, and she's never seen the final month of a cycle.. so nervous yet helpful is definitely the mood. olympia just wants to try and help everyone make it through somehow, even if she's not sure how to do that. :( all the blood will only make her more nervous!!!

Event ideas: this is the main reason i'm putting up this comment! olympia's double is the very much enraged goddess that olympia's body is a vessel for. she will claim to be olympia, since conveniently 'olympia' is a title both she and the actual in-game girl share. (in-game olympia is not aware her actual personal name is byakuya, hence why she lets everyone call her olympia..)

and though she does want to usurp that title just for herself, she's mostly busy with being really pissed off at how horrible humanity is, wanting to eliminate them. she's not very good at impersonating the actual in-game olympia though considering how wildly different their personalities are, which means you can find out pretty easily that it's her double instead. but, you know, by that time she might already be trying to kill you anyway...

so if anyone wants an encounter with olympia's double and get hurt or killed by her, i'm down for that! what i'd mostly love to play out though is the actual olympia saving someone from her double, both killing her double and getting killed by her double in the process (this is the problem when both you and your double have a power that's touch-activated.. it turns into mutual murder...) so if anyone would like to volunteer to get protected from the olympia double and watch olympia die (or even multiple people as a little group if more people want in on it!), i'd love that!! don't worry, she'd be back next month...

Are you planning to create a log this month? i'm willing to put up closed prompts for people who are interested in doing something, so please let me know!

Your name: Faye
Your pronouns: they/them
Contact:

wingedvoices or PM (or email at winged.voices at gmail!)
OOC limitations: I'm always slower than I want to be??

Character name: Camilla Hect
Permissions: here!
General impressions of your character: She's tall, very dark hair cut to a bob if she can at all help it, medium-brown skin, dark brown-grey eyes. Athletic, quiet (though she's been more outgoing in Well, but will be quieter this month, and a little simmeringly angry/energetic if you're good at reading that). Slightly subdued affect. Usually in some kind of movement: rocks on the balls of her feet when she's thinking, shifts her weight, taps her fingers against her thighs, etc. Wry sense of humor. Tends to be found with Palamedes (and these days, Dax!) and their conversations often trail into expression trades. Dresses practically for movement and the desert and many of her clothes in Well look as desert-nomad as they do cowboy.
CR you're interested in: Any/all!
CR you're not interested in: Gimme anything! I guess she probably doesn't need more "confusingly close friends she wants to be around all the time" but ...honestly I'll take those too.

General ideas or plans for the month: It's all going to be event stuff: see below.

Event ideas:
WEEK ONE: Cam is going to be abducted, approximately, *checks watch* uh, yesterday. She'll return from that experience with memories of Dulcinea (similar to what Pal gets back, actually; I'm giving her the core and some trappings of her relationship with Dulcie, which includes Cytherea replacing her.)

During this time Double-Cam -- let's call her CaMirror -- will wander in. She's just as intelligent and just as lethal as Cam (if not more, since she has never forgotten any of her skills or knowledge), but with absolutely none of the loyalty or desire to take things on herself. She wants to have fun. Might be messing with Real!Cam's relationships; might be making people think everything is fine. Might be murder. Look, she gets bored--ooh, look at that sword the other Cam found! Mine now.

WEEK ONE -> WEEK TWO:
- Camirror (I'm sorry guys, I had to) will be trying to blend in at least a little so as not to tip off the nearest and dearest. She might suffer from 90s Mirrorverse Syndrome a bit (ie, she dresses sexier than Real!Cam) because I think that's funny, but she'll tone it down. Besides, the girl was in a different body for ALL OF LAST MONTH. Does anyone remember what she wears?

- She will definitely be trying to imply to Dax that maaaybe she's not all that necessary to their lives, and teaming up with Doublemedes to help.

- If anyone wants havoc, she's down for havoc! She's also not above helping kill other doubles or assist with things Cam would normally assist with to help keep the illusion up. HMU with ideas!

- When Real!Cam comes back, she'll be a little stealthier (but still hanging out with Doublemedes and DD (Double Dax), unless he does something stupid, or she finds something entertaining to fuck up that doesn't require two-three people, like Cam and Pal's attempts to search the town.)

WEEK TWO - WEEK THREE:
- Cam and Pal are both back, so they'll be searching the town (per Pal's plotting).

- Cam is NOT going to remember ALL of what happened, but she is going to remember parts (filtering in as I decide). She's not going to want to talk about it, and will do her best (?) to act like she's fine. She'll be quiet and stoic for most of the month but she is going to want to get that energy out in a variety of ways that are probably mostly fighting.
- NOTE: She also isn't going to want to be touched and will likely react badly and possibly violently to that, depending on the circumstance (with some exceptions, but this is quite likely trauma that will have to be worked back through).

None of which things will help with CaMirror and Cam's general resemblance to each other. It can be figured out if you know them, talk to them for especially long, or watch carefully: Cam herself is going to be drawn to things that would hurt her, and Mirror!Cam doesn't love that so much.

- Dax will be abducted around now and during that time DoubleDax is going to be pulling a "we don't need YOU" on regular Cam, so that's...fun! And will not at all sting or remind her of being ignored by who she thought was Dulcie. (But may help her figure it out.)

- The Evil Trio may, separately, go ahead and just be all up on each other in public to start rumors (and, y'know, have fun) since the not evil trio are nonsexually sharing a room and the rumors are ripe for the picking.

WEEK THREE -> WEEK FOUR : More of the same, this is a great time to throw plots at me!
- Double!milla (votes? CaMirror better?) is going to try to convince you that it's really dangerous to be dehydrated and drunk, guys, and drinking blood is actually fine *this is in fact sooorta true and she will try to Blind You With Science, although the mods are YET TO SAY whether THIS blood is dangerous/supernatural/just gross. Also although it does have water and electrolytes and in a very large pinch it will do, you can in fact get bloodborne diseases by drinking...blood. Please don't! :D.

- Cam will be disavowing that, trying to mend things with Dax/Pal/anyone else her double has offended or injured, protecting people, and ...still with the PTSD, shockingly. Plots welcome!

WEEK FOUR (END):
- CaMirror may or may not be part of killing Cece but will be the FUCK out of dodge by the time Diluc or Darin get wind of it.

- The Real Camilla will be getting messed up by DoubleJohn, who does not forgive them for stealing Mercury, and will grit her teeth and keep him talking to try to not die until the world ends.

- Between those things...uh. You're welcome on the sixth floor?

Are you planning to create a log this month? Yes, probably more than one.

I know I talked a LOT here and also lots of just...space taking up, but if anyone wants plots, has comments (compliments, complaints) etc, please please please let me know! I'm excited.

Edited 2023-10-03 14:37 (UTC)

Your name: Josh
Your pronouns: He/Him
Contact:

jjabarrett or PM

Character name: Ruby Rose
General impressions of your character: Goth cowgirl with a rose theme to it. Generally all around moody teenager but slowly starting to pull herself out of that.
CR you're interested in: Any and all!
CR you're not interested in: Give me all of it.

General ideas or plans for the month:

Okay! In general a few specific things happening here so I'll lay them out first.
Ruby is getting abducted for a full week. She's going to remember all the nitty gritty details and she's going to be totally fine about that. Really. Super great.

What's really going to get her is that while she's gone up until she gets back is that her double is going to take Emerald out on a fake date and end up seriously injuring her. Emerald's double is going to let her in on that after it's too late to help her.

Ruby is going to be pretty darn miserable after this for a bit. But also is really hitting home that she cares about people here and it's harder to ignore and brush that aside!

If anyone wants to deal with the aftermath of some of this or get involved a little feel free to let me know!

Event ideas:

Abductions: Ruby might not be available to be saved from her coffin, but she's around to help others out of there's if they want. Also down to have some trauma bonding over the experience.

Same as it ever was: As Ruby is already kind of in the aspects of her worse self, it is going to be a little hard to tell the difference between her and her doppelganger. Except it'll be obviously start glitching out. If anyone wants to deal with a doppelruby, I'm game to throw her out.

Blood: It's a good thing Ruby drinks milk. She's set for this. Anyone want to have fun splashing around in the blood? Maybe it's time to investigate the pool again.

Are you planning to create a log this month? MAYBE!?!?!?!?

Your name: Lucy
Your pronouns: she/her
Contact:

TroubledBlues or PM
OOC limitations: n/a

Your name: Orlando aka Orly
Your pronouns: they/she
Contact:

paperbacks or PM
OOC limitations: I am the slow tagger, it is me

Character name: Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Permissions: here!
General impressions of your character: tall, dark, and angular. he lucked into an old west priest outfit when he arrived and has only recently given up on the clerical collar in favor of half-buttoned shirts (at last, his true form). his general manner is fairly friendly and easygoing but he transforms into the irritated straight man half of a comedy duo at the slightest provocation.
CR you're interested in: anything! I had a rough time irl this summer so I'm looking to gear back up and get this man some RELATIONSHIPS. he can be an older brother figure, the obnoxiously loud voice of reason, the one deciding to take stupid risks to help people because it's fine if he does it, or the person who took the last cookie. jerk.
CR you're not interested in: n/a

General ideas or plans for the month:

-between the giant bugs last month three and the water into blood this month, Wolfwood will be putting a note on the bulletin board speculating about which of the plagues of Egypt is next (cue Prince of Egypt soundtrack)

-this man has absolutely no idea how to swim, let alone in blood. he may need some guidance.

Event ideas:

-Wolfwood will be getting abducted for a full week in the middle of the month! he will come back with only indistinct impressions of what happened. however, it will trigger his actual memory of being subjected to horrible medical experiments as a child, so that's fun!

-he will wake up in a shallow grave (good) and wrapped neatly in a shroud (bad). it may take him some time to get out of there.

-while he's gone, his doppelganger will take his place! doppelwood (wolfganger?) dresses exactly how Wolfwood does in canon, and...isn't very aggressive, actually. in fact, he's downright apathetic. come on, look at all this, isn't it time to just admit defeat and give up? he'll defend himself or murder others if he thinks he's being found out, but unless he's provoked he'll just kinda hang around observing things. even if he is provoked, he's likely to glitch out while being attacked. doppelwood will also smoke every one of the cigarettes Wolfwood brought back from the spaceships and stockpiled in his room. even if you ask him to stop. asshole.

-the exception to doppelwood's apathy is real self. once Wolfwood is back, he will attempt to kill him and take his place. ...after first trying to convince Wolfwood to give up as well, with a side of "I/you deserve hell anyway." I'm open to how this goes! current plan is for Wolfwood to kill his double, but if you'd like to intervene in, or contribute to, or have another idea relating to an idiot arguing with himself, let's do it!

Are you planning to create a log this month? I'm not sure - I got my September log up late so I may just add on to that one

Your name: Beth
Your pronouns: She/her
Contact:

terriblepurpose or terriblepurpose on Discord
OOC limitations: None!

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ariane yeong | signalis

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Dax | Star Trek

Satoko Hojo | Higurashi

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yuri lowell | tales of vesperia

Diluc Ragnvindr | Genshin Impact

olympia | olympia soiree