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4.3 Event Plotting
4.3 Event Plotting
OOC announcements
Welcome to the end of cycle 4! Things look a little different this time around, and a lot the same.
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 end of the event (and end of year 1!) sum up posted toward the end of January.
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. Remember that this is now on the new
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wellcomms community. And remember that you can annoy everyone in town by using your walkie talkie! What will your character do with all this power?!
Fill out as much or as little of this form as you like:
New this month
At the Staywell
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.The fires are built up high, and there's a new hot chocolate bar in the parlor, complete with mini marshmallows. It always seems stocked up, and the chocolate is very good: rich and deep and just the right amount of sweet. Oddly, there's also a jar of cayenne pepper too, in case that's something you want in your chocolate.
Several new books appear in the parlor throughout the month:
Silent Night, Deadly Night: A Holiday Homicide
Sleigh Ride to Suspicion: A Snowy Crime Tale
Yeti's Yuletide Yarn: A Cold-Blooded Comedy Caper
Navigating the Winter Storm: A Self-Help Toolkit for Life's Challenges
Penguin Power: Embracing Confidence in Your Tuxedo
Snowga: Achieving Zen in Subzero Temperatures
The General Store
The General Store has its usual, new selection of renaissance knick-knacks, and a new stock of hand mirrors that have rhinestone encrusted backs.The walkie talkies for purchase are now all compatible with the network, and you can pick up some little charms that you can tie onto your walkie talkie, themed to renaissance faires and the old west (think cowboy boots, swords, fairies, etc).
Around town
The tavern’s special for the month: ice cream! Yeah, that's a great idea!The pub is offering various cocktails, most of which are a deep, dark red and come in fancy glassware.
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: "Having trouble keeping you all straight these days! The Manor is truly thriving."
Owner of the General Store: "I tried to argue with my mirror, but it just reflected my points!" He laughs heartily at his own joke.
The bartender: "In for a cold one."
The waiter: Looks very uncomfortable. His voice is oddly high and he looks around with fear in his eyes. However, he doesn't deviate from his script aside from this.
The gravedigger: Is very hard to track down this month. It's nearly impossible to find your way to the graveyard. If you happen to, she does not look happy to see you there.
The sheriff: Stares wistfully out of the window in the bath house reception with a towel draped over his arm.
Whiteout
Content warnings: natural disasters, avalanche, cabin fever, crushing to death, strong possibility of death by snow
The snow doesn't stop. In fact, it gets much worse, falling thick and fast, building up around the buildings. Travel is difficult outside of the beaten path between the main buildings in town. The wind is frigid, and stepping outside will make your eyelashes frost after only a few minutes.
If you do go off the beaten path, it's easy to get lost. It's snowing so hard that your path might seal up behind you. For the first week or so, going into the forest offers some reprieve--at least from the driving snow--but finding your way back to the town is nearly impossible without some sort of help.
Snow hammers the town. It piles up. And up. And up. By week two, it's difficult even to travel to the tavern. In the whiteout conditions—by week two, it's a near-constant blizzard—even trying to go get a drink might just be a death sentence.
By week three, the Staywell is snowed in completely, the snow five feet high. The doors are frozen shut. There's still food and warmth to be found inside, which is great, because the rest of Wellstone is completely inaccessible, buried in snow. Hope everyone gets along, because you're stuck together for two weeks.
Week four, naturally, takes a turn for the worse. You might pray for a break in the weather, but there is none in sight. A constant screaming blizzard whips outside the Staywell, driving heavy wet snow into high drifts against its walls and windows. The first day, you can't see out of the first floor windows. Then the second. Then the third. Thin daylight peeks through the windows on the fourth floor until the last day of the month, when it's completely shut in. The roof creaks and groans under the weight. There's no telling how high it's piled on top of the Staywell, how heavy it is, until the last day of the month: about an hour before midnight, the world goes quiet except for the distant, muffled snap of ice and the creaking protest of the Staywell. The quiet lasts all of five minutes, and is splintered by an awful tearing crash when the roof bursts and snow pours in, trapping anyone unlucky enough to be on the fourth floor.
This seems to trigger an avalanche, which comes thundering in from all sides, breaking through the floors, pouring down the stairs. Avoid it as you might, it makes quick work of the Staywell and those inside it. There are few places to hide, if any, and it just keeps coming, burying the entire building in a frozen grave.
tl;dr:
The snow doesn't stop. In fact, it gets much worse, falling thick and fast, building up around the buildings. Travel is difficult outside of the beaten path between the main buildings in town. The wind is frigid, and stepping outside will make your eyelashes frost after only a few minutes.
If you do go off the beaten path, it's easy to get lost. It's snowing so hard that your path might seal up behind you. For the first week or so, going into the forest offers some reprieve--at least from the driving snow--but finding your way back to the town is nearly impossible without some sort of help.
Snow hammers the town. It piles up. And up. And up. By week two, it's difficult even to travel to the tavern. In the whiteout conditions—by week two, it's a near-constant blizzard—even trying to go get a drink might just be a death sentence.
By week three, the Staywell is snowed in completely, the snow five feet high. The doors are frozen shut. There's still food and warmth to be found inside, which is great, because the rest of Wellstone is completely inaccessible, buried in snow. Hope everyone gets along, because you're stuck together for two weeks.
Week four, naturally, takes a turn for the worse. You might pray for a break in the weather, but there is none in sight. A constant screaming blizzard whips outside the Staywell, driving heavy wet snow into high drifts against its walls and windows. The first day, you can't see out of the first floor windows. Then the second. Then the third. Thin daylight peeks through the windows on the fourth floor until the last day of the month, when it's completely shut in. The roof creaks and groans under the weight. There's no telling how high it's piled on top of the Staywell, how heavy it is, until the last day of the month: about an hour before midnight, the world goes quiet except for the distant, muffled snap of ice and the creaking protest of the Staywell. The quiet lasts all of five minutes, and is splintered by an awful tearing crash when the roof bursts and snow pours in, trapping anyone unlucky enough to be on the fourth floor.
This seems to trigger an avalanche, which comes thundering in from all sides, breaking through the floors, pouring down the stairs. Avoid it as you might, it makes quick work of the Staywell and those inside it. There are few places to hide, if any, and it just keeps coming, burying the entire building in a frozen grave.
tl;dr:
- The snow gets worse and worse over the month. Week one, it's hard to leave the center of town. By week two, it's impossible to go anywhere that's not one of the main buildings.
- Week three everyone is snowed in at the Staywell.
- Week four, the snow is burying the Staywell.
- The last day of the month, the snow creates an avalanche through the Staywell, effectively crushing everyone to death.
- As usual, you don't have to play out a character's death, and if it happens because of the storm, it does not have to count as a death per the memory mechanics.
Another Path
Content warnings: headaches, potential bleeding from the face, brain stuff that could lead to death
Coming out of the snow, you see a familiar face: someone who looks an awful lot like you. Only, a different you. A you who is who you could have been, if you'd made different choices, been born under different circumstances, in a different world.
Meet your alternate universe self.
You can choose any type of AU you want, including simply bringing the doubles from previous cycles back. The AUs know their whole history, and aren't missing any memories. They can know as much or as little about your character's time in Wellstone as you'd like. These AUs are like you, but also not like you.
The AUs try to integrate themselves into the ever-shrinking footprint of Wellstone. The one thing that unites them is that they feel second to you, the canon versions of them, and they hate you for that. They feel that they might be erased from this world at any second. Depending on they type of AU they are, they might want different things: they might want to replace you, like the doubles did, or they might want to sabotage you and ruin your reputation. They might want to make different choices than you did. They might want to be liked better by your friends than you are. If they want to replace you, they may try to capture or kill you, and they may pursue this doggedly to achieve their goal.
Your AUs will find themselves trapped in the Staywell with you the last two weeks of the month. This does make it pretty cramped in there. They seem to have their own rooms, but are difficult to follow when they don't want to be. They come and go as they please, and you never seem to know when one might appear, or where. If a character does find themself in a AU's room, it looks identical to the character's room in the Staywell, only the opposite orientation.
The AUs' touch will still hurt you, and anyone else they touch (except for other AUs). Their touch makes your head hurt, like the kind of hurt of trying to remember something you forgot. If they hold on too long, your head will feel like it's going to explode. If they hold on even longer, you may start bleeding from the face, and this may cause death.
tl;dr:
Coming out of the snow, you see a familiar face: someone who looks an awful lot like you. Only, a different you. A you who is who you could have been, if you'd made different choices, been born under different circumstances, in a different world.
Meet your alternate universe self.
You can choose any type of AU you want, including simply bringing the doubles from previous cycles back. The AUs know their whole history, and aren't missing any memories. They can know as much or as little about your character's time in Wellstone as you'd like. These AUs are like you, but also not like you.
The AUs try to integrate themselves into the ever-shrinking footprint of Wellstone. The one thing that unites them is that they feel second to you, the canon versions of them, and they hate you for that. They feel that they might be erased from this world at any second. Depending on they type of AU they are, they might want different things: they might want to replace you, like the doubles did, or they might want to sabotage you and ruin your reputation. They might want to make different choices than you did. They might want to be liked better by your friends than you are. If they want to replace you, they may try to capture or kill you, and they may pursue this doggedly to achieve their goal.
Your AUs will find themselves trapped in the Staywell with you the last two weeks of the month. This does make it pretty cramped in there. They seem to have their own rooms, but are difficult to follow when they don't want to be. They come and go as they please, and you never seem to know when one might appear, or where. If a character does find themself in a AU's room, it looks identical to the character's room in the Staywell, only the opposite orientation.
The AUs' touch will still hurt you, and anyone else they touch (except for other AUs). Their touch makes your head hurt, like the kind of hurt of trying to remember something you forgot. If they hold on too long, your head will feel like it's going to explode. If they hold on even longer, you may start bleeding from the face, and this may cause death.
tl;dr:
- Your character now has an AU self wandering around! This AU can be anything: their double from a previous cycle, a canon AU, a crossover AU, a completely new AU.
- The AUs feel inferior to their canon selves and want to replace them. This may mean they want to kill their canon selves, or that they want to ruin their reputation, or take their place socially.
- If you touch an AU, your head hurts terribly. If they hold on too long, this could cause death.
Seeing red
Content warnings: death, murder, hallucinations, paranoia, hauntings, blood, compulsion to confess
The first time you and your AU touch, you gain a memory. However, this memory isn't yours. It isn't a canon memory, but one from the AU: a memory of a time for which you feel a great, heavy guilt. This will be a memory of time they killed someone, either directly or through the repercussions of their actions. This is not a canon memory and should be something completely made up. When you see this memory in your head for the first time, you then see blood on your hands, on your skin. No one else can see the blood but you.
If you have killed your double in a previous cycle, you may gain an additional fake memory, similarly of a time when you hurt or killed someone.
Your character will not be able to tell that these are not canon memories. The only way to discern that they are fake is through seeing blood on your hands afterwards, although your character will most likely have no reason to think that this makes the memory fake.
As the month progresses, you'll feel more and more intense guilt about this memory. You'll start seeing blood seeping out of the walls, bloody steps in the snow, blood on your hands.
This sense of guilt becomes more and more acute, and you may find yourself more prone to lashing out, physically or emotionally, particularly if you are in an enclosed space. You feel like others are staring at you, like they know your secret. Confessing it only makes the sense of guilt and hallucinations of blood go away for a short period of time.
If your character looks into a mirror, or a reflective surface, you see the reflection of the person, or people, who you supposedly killed looking back at you. They may talk or scream, but you can't hear them. They may even beat on the inside of the mirror glass, but can't get out.
You may also feel more likely to confess other things, too. Anything weighing on you might slip out as an attempt to assuage the sense of guilt.
The only way to make the guilt go away permanently is to kill your AU self, or for someone else to kill them. If your AU self is killed, the guilt brought on by the fake memory washes away and you feel lighter, and the world less harsh and judgemental.
There are no memory points to be gained during this event. The fake memories do not cost memory points, however it might be prudent to record them on the memory mechanics page.
tl;dr:
The first time you and your AU touch, you gain a memory. However, this memory isn't yours. It isn't a canon memory, but one from the AU: a memory of a time for which you feel a great, heavy guilt. This will be a memory of time they killed someone, either directly or through the repercussions of their actions. This is not a canon memory and should be something completely made up. When you see this memory in your head for the first time, you then see blood on your hands, on your skin. No one else can see the blood but you.
If you have killed your double in a previous cycle, you may gain an additional fake memory, similarly of a time when you hurt or killed someone.
Your character will not be able to tell that these are not canon memories. The only way to discern that they are fake is through seeing blood on your hands afterwards, although your character will most likely have no reason to think that this makes the memory fake.
As the month progresses, you'll feel more and more intense guilt about this memory. You'll start seeing blood seeping out of the walls, bloody steps in the snow, blood on your hands.
This sense of guilt becomes more and more acute, and you may find yourself more prone to lashing out, physically or emotionally, particularly if you are in an enclosed space. You feel like others are staring at you, like they know your secret. Confessing it only makes the sense of guilt and hallucinations of blood go away for a short period of time.
If your character looks into a mirror, or a reflective surface, you see the reflection of the person, or people, who you supposedly killed looking back at you. They may talk or scream, but you can't hear them. They may even beat on the inside of the mirror glass, but can't get out.
You may also feel more likely to confess other things, too. Anything weighing on you might slip out as an attempt to assuage the sense of guilt.
The only way to make the guilt go away permanently is to kill your AU self, or for someone else to kill them. If your AU self is killed, the guilt brought on by the fake memory washes away and you feel lighter, and the world less harsh and judgemental.
There are no memory points to be gained during this event. The fake memories do not cost memory points, however it might be prudent to record them on the memory mechanics page.
tl;dr:
- When you first touch your AU self, you gain a false memory of a time when your AU self killed someone or caused someone to be killed.
- You feel a great, terrible guilt around this death, and see blood on your hands, in the snow, on other people.
- You feel paranoid and are prone to lash out at others, particularly once everyone is trapped in the Staywell for the last two weeks of the month.
- If you look into a mirror, you see the person or people you killed reflected back at you, screaming or begging for mercy.
- Confessing your guilt relieves the guilt and the hallucinations of blood for a short time.
- Killing your AU self relieves the guilt and hallucinations permanently.
- The false memories do not cost memory points.
- The guilt and hallucinations will be gone at the beginning of cycle 5, no matter if you kill your AU or not.
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Your pronouns: She/her
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Alec | Worm
General ideas or plans for the month:
This is going to be a very bad month for Alec. The events will hit him hard on a lot of vulnerable points, and having come to terms with the certainty they’ll die at the end of the cycle isn’t making him as resigned about it as he thinks he could be.
Alec will be dressing down considerably for the month, swapping his lace and ruffles for practical white tunics, black leggings, and knee high boots. People might notice that he seems slightly more tuned in than usual. Early in the month, he’ll be showing up with a pair of black eyes, which he’ll blame on slipping on ice. After how he busted his face in the swooning contest, he thinks this is pretty plausible.
My general intent is to turn up the stress on Alec's emotional state this event. I'm opening inviting heavy threads, although I will, as always, leave space for lighter and happier moments.
AU ideas:
Alec’s AU is a version of himself that never managed to leave home. Hijack 2.0 has none of the awful whimsy of Alec’s original double, replacing it with desensitized violence. Jean-Paul ‘Hijack’ Vasil is quiet, methodical, and hollowed out. Physically, he’s slightly more sickly looking than Alec, has shorter hair, and a fresh, shiny facial scar from a sharp object running from his jawline up to below his left eye instead of Alec’s neck to elbow scar on his left side.
Event ideas:
Whiteout
Alec won’t really mind being confined to one place for the last half of the month. Compared to everything else happening, this is relatively fine! He may be defacing the walls with various forms of art to pass the time.
Another Path
Hijack will start his existence by tracking Alec down and attacking him somewhere in the hotel, and after that will be hiding out in the hotel until being killed by John Gaius early in the double death spree. I'm planning to keep threads involving Hijack limited to closed starters just because I want to make sure we discuss limits and potential content warnings in advance.
Hijack will also be puppeting the receptionist for a period of time, then getting into a fight with him that will end in the receptionist’s gory death. I’ll have a Happenings post up for this when it’s relevant. Hijack’s wet and creepy skeleton will be found in the vicinity of the receptionist’s blood explosion.
Alec will lie about having seen his double as much as he can get away with, as per his double's instructions.
Seeing Red
Alec will receive two false memories from contact with his double. The first will be of murdering a stranger, and the second will be of dragging his older sister back home after she tried to run away.
This event is especially bad for Alec due to the attendant guilt. His normal muted emotional state being disrupted by an external intrusive feeling like this hits right on his fundamental childhood trauma, although he won't be displaying this on the surface much. It’s unlikely he’ll be driven to confess anything unless someone pushes him to, since he’s striving to pretend that none of this is happening to him at all.
However, Alec is potentially a great person to confess to, since he keeps people’s secrets and is a nonjudgmental listener when it comes to terrible things people may or may not have done.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y (closed and open starters)
Jaune Arc | RWBY
General ideas or plans for the month:
I'm hoping to keep Jaune on the (relatively) lighter side this month, as far as that goes with the end of the cycle. He'll be sticking to his usual brand of busybody caretaking as both regular Jaune and AU Jaune, so in a way you can think of them as flavour options for the tragedy smoothie.
AU ideas:
Jaune’s AU double chose to leave Beacon Academy and follow General James Ironwood after the attack on the school, believing it was Ozpin’s lax policies that caused the disaster. This alternate version of Jaune believes fervently in doing whatever it takes to support the greater good, no matter how ‘immoral’ it might be, and has taken it upon himself to look after the dirty work his General doesn’t need to know about. He sees the doubles’ situation as deeply unfair, and wants to support his fellows and friends in claiming lives for themselves here in Wellstone.
J-AU-ne is not that obviously different from Jaune in behaviour and nearly identical in looks, barring a slight variation of iris pattern in his right eye. It'll only become obvious he's not the original when either his original self shows up, someone touches him, or his shady actions come to life.
Event ideas:
Whiteout
Both Jaunes will make an effort to keep the confinement from being too dreary. Original Flavour Jaune will produce stacks of coloured paper and craft supplies he’s been keeping for his own small craft projects and set them out for the benefit of the community, while AU Jaune will tend more towards distracting people with offers of sparring and motivational speeches.
Another Path
AU Jaune will attempt to take Original Flavour Jaune out of the running by imprisoning him in his evil AU flipped bathroom, AKA Jaune Jail, with death being an option of last resort. He will opt to lie about having definitely offed his other self to his pals AU Ruby and Emerald, though, with potentially disastrous results.
AU Jaune is firmly on the side of the other doubles, and will be looking for opportunities to help them achieve their dreams of taking over the originals’ lives. I'm flexible on what this looks like, but generally, think of him as a sinister personal assistant/life coach.
Seeing Red
Jaune will receive two false memories: one of killing a girl with aqua eyes, short orange-red hair, and a huge hammer, and another of, somehow, killing the red haired girl he already remembers killing a second time. Both of these memories take place in a city he doesn’t remember having ever visited, using a sword enhanced with advanced technology he doesn’t recognize.
His default state already involves a great deal of guilt, and these 'new' memories will contribute to that. He's semi-confessed some of his past already, and I can go either way on whether or not he tells anyone about the false memories. Most of Jaune's focus will be on dealing with practical issues, like 'being kidnapped' and 'we're all going to die again'.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y (joint Alec and Jaune log)
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"DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT!!!"
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flynn has learned about artistic self-expression from alec tbh
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