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5.1 Event Plotting
5.1 Event Plotting
OOC announcements
Welcome to cycle 5! The snow is gone, the flowers are blooming, and the town is alive!
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 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. 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 burn low, and it can get a little chilly, but there are wool blankets strewn around the parlor and the dining room to warp up in. There are bouquets of red roses on the tables, and romantic candles lit each evening.
Several new books appear in the parlor throughout the month:
Hearts, Cupids, and Alien Abductions: A Galactic Love AffairThe door in the lobby has been closed, the wall is back to its original state, and there's a "Out of Order" sign hanging on it now.
The Werewolf's Mate: Howling at the Moon on Valentine's Night
Love in the Multiverse: Parallel Universes, Infinite Romance
Cupid's Conspiracy: A Romantic Thriller Under the Influence of Arrows
Valentine's Day at the Haunted Manor: Ghostly Love in the Moonlight
The General Store
The General Store has its usual, new selection of renaissance knick-knacks, and a new stock of Valentine's themed merchandise: boxes of chocolates shaped like hearts; plush toys of anatomically accurate human organs: hearts, lungs, livers, spleens; and boxes of candy hearts.The messages on the candy hearts are a little bit strange, including:
PLOT TWIST AMOURThe 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, shaped like hearts or little Cupids.
FOLLOW
SOCK BUDDIES
BUBBLE BLISS
SAUCY DEVOTION
I NEED
BANANA BOAT
PRICKLY PASSION
ROCKET RIDE
BEST WORM
HELP
WHY
IS YOU!
YOUR 1968 WIN
GGOD
DUMPLINGS
Around town
The tavern’s special for the month: chocolate lava cake! It's molten hot. You may burn yourself.The pub is offering the single's special: a pint of bitter beer.
When you visit the few other locations in town, you’ll find the employees friendly and welcoming. See the last prompt for the NPC's new phrases for the month.
Town gossips
Content warnings: potential creature death, gossip
There are strange creatures wandering around Wellstone. Unlike the lads in December, these creatures seem harmless. In fact, they seem helpful! Shaped like stars and roughly knee-height, and any color under the sun, paper stars wander the town. They may be familiar to our RWBY cast, if they remember the Paper Pleasers from back home.
The Paper Pleasers are literally smelling the flowers. They tend to the various plant-life that’s bloomed around Wellstone, and if you approach one, they may shyly offer you a flower they’ve just pruned. They don’t talk very much, but if addressed, they'll titter out a piece of gossip about someone in town. It could be about you, someone who’s with you, or just someone in town. The gossip can be anywhere from benign to life-shattering, from Wellstone or from home (remembered or not). It also doesn't have to be completely accurate--is gossip ever?
If asked about the gossip, they shriek and run away, only to settle on another bed of flowers where they continue to tend them like nothing happened.
Since they're paper, they also don't do that well in the rain. They get rather soggy and may completely collapse if outside for too long. You may find yourself walking over wet paper corpses this month.
Comment to share gossip that the Paper Pleasers can spread among the citizens of Wellstone. Specify if you only want gossip to be shared with specific people, or if it’s free and open for anyone to use.
tl;dr:
There are strange creatures wandering around Wellstone. Unlike the lads in December, these creatures seem harmless. In fact, they seem helpful! Shaped like stars and roughly knee-height, and any color under the sun, paper stars wander the town. They may be familiar to our RWBY cast, if they remember the Paper Pleasers from back home.
The Paper Pleasers are literally smelling the flowers. They tend to the various plant-life that’s bloomed around Wellstone, and if you approach one, they may shyly offer you a flower they’ve just pruned. They don’t talk very much, but if addressed, they'll titter out a piece of gossip about someone in town. It could be about you, someone who’s with you, or just someone in town. The gossip can be anywhere from benign to life-shattering, from Wellstone or from home (remembered or not). It also doesn't have to be completely accurate--is gossip ever?
If asked about the gossip, they shriek and run away, only to settle on another bed of flowers where they continue to tend them like nothing happened.
Since they're paper, they also don't do that well in the rain. They get rather soggy and may completely collapse if outside for too long. You may find yourself walking over wet paper corpses this month.
Comment to share gossip that the Paper Pleasers can spread among the citizens of Wellstone. Specify if you only want gossip to be shared with specific people, or if it’s free and open for anyone to use.
tl;dr:
- There are little knee-high paper stars running around tending to the flowers.
- They giggle and spill gossip. Comment below to offer up gossip for the stars to share!
Bring me a dream
Content warnings: N/A
When you sleep during this month, you may sleep fitfully. You may dream of a memory of your own, or someone else’s. No matter which it is, you’re not there alone. You’ll find one of your fellow Wellstonians in the dream as you watch a memory play out. The memories are short snippets of your life, and it may flow from one memory into another. Maybe they have narrative parallels, like watching yourself make a sacrifice for someone, and then watching your dream partner do the same, or contrasts: if one of you commits murder, the other may save a life.
You can’t wake up until you relate to your partner: either what you agree on, or what you don’t. The memories will continue to play again and again, one then the other, until you connect on some level.
Then you’ll wake up, like nothing ever happened.
You can earn up to three memory points with this prompt. You may earn one memory point per time you interact with this prompt.
tl;dr:
When you sleep during this month, you may sleep fitfully. You may dream of a memory of your own, or someone else’s. No matter which it is, you’re not there alone. You’ll find one of your fellow Wellstonians in the dream as you watch a memory play out. The memories are short snippets of your life, and it may flow from one memory into another. Maybe they have narrative parallels, like watching yourself make a sacrifice for someone, and then watching your dream partner do the same, or contrasts: if one of you commits murder, the other may save a life.
You can’t wake up until you relate to your partner: either what you agree on, or what you don’t. The memories will continue to play again and again, one then the other, until you connect on some level.
Then you’ll wake up, like nothing ever happened.
You can earn up to three memory points with this prompt. You may earn one memory point per time you interact with this prompt.
tl;dr:
- You find yourself in a dream with another character. You watch a memory of yours, or theirs, and then a memory of the other person's.
- The memories have something in common: either a theme or a contrast.
- You're trapped in the dream until you find the common thread. Then you wake up in your bed.
- You can earn up to three memory points through this prompt, one per time you interact with the prompt.
Quests a-plenty
Content warnings: game typical violence, potential to be injured or killed in acid, potential to disappoint a dog
This month, when you interact with the NPCs, it’s a little different. They all have new dialogue, and a lot more of it. They may speak without being spoken to and ask you for help. Their words are still clearly scripted, but they have a lot to say, and to ask.
The NPCs are giving out quests! Each character may complete each quest once. If two character complete it together, they may each reap the reward (and don’t have to share it. IE they receive two keys instead of one).
Comment with questions or ideas for how to complete the quests.
The lockets are old, tarnished silver. If you crack one open (which is difficult to do), on one side you see someone who looks very much like a younger receptionist. On the other side is an eye, bloodshot and staring at you. You feel an awful feeling of dread until you close the locket.
If you return the locket to the receptionist, he gives you his same placid smile and says:
The key unlocks the honeymoon suite. There is one honeymoon suite, so you may want to let others know if you're using it. It's a room much like the others, but the bed is massive, and there are mirrors on ceiling. There's a hot tub in the corner with jets and plenty of scents to choose from. On table is a bottle of champagne and a box of chocolates, as well as some condoms and dental dams. Have fun!
You may also choose to drink the scotch with no penalty (although then you can’t complete the quest). The scotch is very good. It’s smooth and delicious.
There are in fact mushrooms in the forest, growing on dead trees or out of the ground. You may or may not know if these are edible or not. Maybe bring him one of those?
If you bring him a normal mushroom, he'll gush a thank you and present you with, what else? A mushroom pie. How did he make it so quickly? Comment to roll for if you poisoned yourself!
Or, if you choose to answer the chorus of voices, you may think they're referring to under the Manor. There are glowing mushrooms in the cistern. There are several areas of them, all quite far from the base of the staircase.
You'll need to find a way to traverse the cistern without being eaten by the acid. You can comment with ideas for how to get through the cistern and the mods can let you know if you succeed.
Along the way, your characters may be attacked by strange, fleshy bugs. They aren't difficult to kill, but they are really gross and explode in blood when hit. Characters will also find skeletons at various degrees of decay. Several of them are wearing thick metal boots, where the parts of them that are sticking out of the water aren't corroded, but the rest of them are just rusted dust.
If you return to the waiter with a mushroom from the cistern, he says,
What he’s asking for is a stick. Or something stick or bone shaped. If you return to him with a stick or a bone or something gnaw-able, his tail will wag profusely and he will lower his head for a pet. He will be more willing to let you pet him from now on, and will offer you the nicer towels when you come to the baths.
tl;dr:
This month, when you interact with the NPCs, it’s a little different. They all have new dialogue, and a lot more of it. They may speak without being spoken to and ask you for help. Their words are still clearly scripted, but they have a lot to say, and to ask.
The NPCs are giving out quests! Each character may complete each quest once. If two character complete it together, they may each reap the reward (and don’t have to share it. IE they receive two keys instead of one).
Comment with questions or ideas for how to complete the quests.
Owner of the General Store
While the General Store Owner doesn’t have a quest of his own, his rumors may help point your character to what needs doing!“Heard any rumors? Sure I have!”And he may add any of the following:
“You heard about the old willow tree in the woods? Heard that there’s something mighty nice under there."
“What’s a dog need? What any pup might want! Something to chew on, ain’t that right?”
“Heard that there’s a deal goin’ on, between some of the more shady folks around here. The gravedigger is a sightly woman, one of not many words but that don’t mean she doesn’t have her own wants, y’see.”
“Seen some mushrooms on the old oak in the forest. Nice lookin' bunch!”
The receptionist
“On your way out? If you happen to find yourself in the forest, something’s been stolen from me that I need returned. There will be something in it for you, too, of course. But only on delivery. Look for the willow tree. You may want to go armed.”If you decide to brave the forest, the willow tree is deep along the meandering paths in a clearing. It seems peaceful at first, and dangling from the willow tree’s branches are many shining objects. However, as you approach, the ground around you rumbles, and strange, elemental plants burst from it to attack. They may attack with fire, ice, or electricity. If you defeat all three, you’re able to approach the tree and take one of the lockets hanging there.
The lockets are old, tarnished silver. If you crack one open (which is difficult to do), on one side you see someone who looks very much like a younger receptionist. On the other side is an eye, bloodshot and staring at you. You feel an awful feeling of dread until you close the locket.
If you return the locket to the receptionist, he gives you his same placid smile and says:
“I knew I could count on an esteemed guest like you! Please, take this as a token of my thanks. Enjoy."He winks at you. It is a disturbing wink. As a reward, he hands you a heart-shaped room key.
The key unlocks the honeymoon suite. There is one honeymoon suite, so you may want to let others know if you're using it. It's a room much like the others, but the bed is massive, and there are mirrors on ceiling. There's a hot tub in the corner with jets and plenty of scents to choose from. On table is a bottle of champagne and a box of chocolates, as well as some condoms and dental dams. Have fun!
The bartender
“Hey, c’mere,” she’ll say this no matter how close or far you are from her. Her tone and volume doesn’t change. “Need you to do something for me. Take this to the gravedigger. She’ll know what it’s for.”She hands you a small bottle of what looks like an aged scotch. If you decide to take it to the gravedigger, you’ll need to traverse the maze and contend with its winding paths and aggressive plant-life (the same plants from the TDM). If you make it to the graveyard and find the gravedigger, she’ll take the bottle without a word. In return, she’ll lead you to your grave, in which you’ll find a small item from home. If the item is magical or technological, it won't work (but you can still get it).
You may also choose to drink the scotch with no penalty (although then you can’t complete the quest). The scotch is very good. It’s smooth and delicious.
The waiter
“Oh, I feel so awful asking you for this, but I need help. Please. I need some mushrooms to make a pie and I can't find any! You can find some around town BͥË͌ͧ҉̙̻͍NE̔ͥ͋͢Ả͖͠T̯̳̆̾H̙̉ or in the forest!”His voice is taken over by a chorus of voices ala the ghostly encounters we've had previously when he says "beneath".
There are in fact mushrooms in the forest, growing on dead trees or out of the ground. You may or may not know if these are edible or not. Maybe bring him one of those?
If you bring him a normal mushroom, he'll gush a thank you and present you with, what else? A mushroom pie. How did he make it so quickly? Comment to roll for if you poisoned yourself!
Or, if you choose to answer the chorus of voices, you may think they're referring to under the Manor. There are glowing mushrooms in the cistern. There are several areas of them, all quite far from the base of the staircase.
You'll need to find a way to traverse the cistern without being eaten by the acid. You can comment with ideas for how to get through the cistern and the mods can let you know if you succeed.
Along the way, your characters may be attacked by strange, fleshy bugs. They aren't difficult to kill, but they are really gross and explode in blood when hit. Characters will also find skeletons at various degrees of decay. Several of them are wearing thick metal boots, where the parts of them that are sticking out of the water aren't corroded, but the rest of them are just rusted dust.
If you return to the waiter with a mushroom from the cistern, he says,
“Thank you! You're awfully brave aren't you. Please, come closer.”If you come closer, he places two fingers on your brow, and a shot of pain runs through your head. You gain a memory point that you can use now, or save for later.
The sheriff
Whines at you and his tail wags behind him. His ears perks up and he gives a bark, then another one. He wants something, but he lacks the ability to communicate it in a way that translates to words.What he’s asking for is a stick. Or something stick or bone shaped. If you return to him with a stick or a bone or something gnaw-able, his tail will wag profusely and he will lower his head for a pet. He will be more willing to let you pet him from now on, and will offer you the nicer towels when you come to the baths.
tl;dr:
- The NPCs are offering up quests with various rewards!
- The receptionist wants a locket from a willow tree in the forest. The willow tree is guarded by elemental plants. The reward is a key to the honeymoon suite.
- The bartender wants you to deliver a bottle of fine scotch to the gravedigger. You need to traverse the maze which is still infested with the plants from the TDM. The reward is an item from home.
- The waiter wants some mushrooms. You need to find mushrooms either in the forest or in the cistern. The reward for forest mushrooms is a slice of mushroom pie. The reward for cistern mushrooms is a memory point.
- The sheriff wants a stick to chew on. You need to find a stick. The reward is better towels.
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Quests
The receptionist
The bartender
The waiter
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Re: The waiter
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The sheriff
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PLOTTING/CR
Your pronouns: He/Him
Contact:
Character name: Darin Altway
General ideas or plans for the month: So Darin's going to be busting open the cistern again and trying to get his magic to a point where he can fashion something out of the walls that will allow him and potentially a few others to wander around down there without. You know. Melting. He and Cecelia are also going to have a DRAMATIC semi-breakup because of things that will be revealed and he is going to need someone to drink with and help him realize that "hell no, he's not giving up on the love of his life." Also, general drinking buddy please? Aside from that, Darin's been practicing his transmutation magic and would love it if people asked him to make things, no matter how banal. The more practice the better! He's got a lot on his mind about the nature of the cistern and his Knight double that he'd love to unpack!
Event ideas: Darin will definitely be tackling the Receptionist quest and the Waiter quest. Anyone want to collaborate?
Are you planning to create a log this month? Probably!
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astarion & yuri
Your pronouns: they/them
Contact:
astarion
General ideas or plans for the month: He's new here! I'd like him to meet people, maybe find someone to bite? Or someone to find him gnawing down on animals in the forest. Just vampire things.Event ideas:
Gossip is here! I'd love to put him on blast, and let him hear your guy getting put on blast too. He will be huffy about all his gossip.
Memories! A couple up for grabs:
- Becoming a vampire (somewhat traumatic)
- Getting a worm put in his brain (equally traumatic??)
- The first time he walks in the sun (not traumatic, very nice actually)
Quests. He will act like he doesn't want to do quests. Then he will attempt to do the quests on his own.
- Receptionist: find him in the forest getting his ass handed to him by the whopperflowers
- Bartender: find him lost in the maze
He'll probably skip the other two unless someone goads him into doing them.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Most likely
yuri lowell
General ideas or plans for the month: Yuri is deep in domestic bliss this month. Catch him being sickeningly cute with Flynn (they learned that they are each other's people from home recently).Event ideas:
Goss! Would love goss threads. Put your characters on blast with Yuri. He's good to make fun of things with.
Dreams! Share a dream with Yuri:
- Deciding to form a guild with a kid, a Hot Girl, and a dog
- Teaching Estelle how to "cook" (they make a sandwich and she's very impressed)
- Yuri and Flynn as kids being brought back to their surrogate father together after getting in trouble
Quests: Yuri will do all the quests, of course he will. Let's fight some flowers, or traverse the cistern, or throw a stick for a pup together. Most keenly would love him to do the cistern, but he doesn't really have ideas for how to do it. He's a good second if you need a pal!
Are you planning to create a log this month? Most likely
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Flynn Scifo | Tales of Vesperia
Your pronouns: he/they
Contact:
Character name: Flynn Scifo
General ideas or plans for the month: I'm gonna be a little scarce this month bc of the big professional conference I've got going, so keeping things lighter!
His gossip is right here and open to everyone to hear.
Flynn likes to check in on literally everyone at the beginning of a new cycle; feel free to handwave that he came to check up on your character / make sure they're okay after the end of the world! A very serious duty. He's also going to be quite freely offering funny candy hearts to people. Up for specific reunion threads if anyone wants them!! I'll write us starters
Event ideas:
Gossip: would LOVE for him to hear other folks' gossip and for some threads about their fallout!! Flynn can also be found desperately herding Paper Pleasers in out of the rain or trying to shelter them, would love a thread of this??
Memories: link me ur memories let's shaaaare. I'd like some lighter stuff for Flynn this month, so it'll be mostly good things
-Tavern: Flynn, embarrassed and confused, surrounded by women flirting aggressively with him. He is drinking juice. They are teasing him about this
-Hometown: Flynn and his father-figure, getting chastised for not eating enough when he's a little baby knight
Quests: OF COURSE Flynn is going on every quest. This is his job. He has to. He's around to help fend off flowers for folks and will absolutely be looking for stick-shaped things to give to the sheriff, and he will be taking this VERY seriously
Are you planning to create a log this month? Yes, probably mostly custom starters!
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John Gaius
Your pronouns: she/her
Contact:
Character name: John Gaius
General ideas or plans for the month:
- Last month, John fought and killed some dangerous doubles. Then he put down some non-dangerous doubles in cold blood. Then he tried to kill Dax's double and almost caught real-Dax in the crossfire. Many people are now angry with him.
- If your character has strong feelings about the killing of doubles, he's available to be confronted! Or just to talk angstily about it over drinks or tea.
- He will be on best behavior for a while: no violence, sharing his lore notes, offering help with quests and exploration, offering healing magic.
- Gideon Nav can generally be found at his heel as his sworn knight. Let Nat and I know if you'd like any given thread to be a three-way with Gideon or John in the background!
- He is so charmed by the anatomically correct organ plushies.
Event ideas:- He's available to tag into your dream memshare!
- He's available for quests or setting exploration upon request!
- Hang out with him at the bathhouse or get a drink with him at the bar!
- Protect Paper Pleasers from the rain with him and learn gossip along the way! Please enjoy any and all John-related gossip oh god there's a lot of it. Let me know if you'd like to hear it in John's presence or bring it up with him later.
Are you planning to create a log this month? hereLoki plotting
Your pronouns: she/her
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Character name: Loki
General ideas or plans for the month: Participating in the player plot whenever that happens! Gonna be a hero damnit!
Also I think he's legally required to read "Love in the Multiverse: Parallel Universes, Infinite Romance" so he'll probably talk to folks on the bulletin board/walkies about it.
Event ideas: 1. Initially Loki is going to be very suspicious of the paper dudes and won't get too close because he's not getting humiliated by having something else stolen. But then he realizes they have INFORMATION and given he's not 100% sure everyone here is worth trusting he's going to be checking up on any rumors that indicate someone is potentially dangerous. (OR maybe just things that seem funny to tease people about.)
He'll do this by finding excuses to talk to folks and see if he can casually tease out anything that might support what the gossip said. So far, people he'd be interested in are: Blythe, Darin, Emerald, Diluc, Ryouma, Ariane, Noelle
2. Oh we are definitely doing dreamsharing memories!!!!! Let me know if anyone has something they'd like to see, but here are some ideas (no spoilers past s1 of Loki):
-Loki sitting on the throne and lording it over the warriors three and Sif.
-Loki discovering he's a frost giant in Odin's vault.
-The Germany speech.
-Loki throwing Tony Stark out a window.
-Loki getting his shit rocked by the Hulk but somehow surviving it.
-Loki holding Sylvie's hand and awaiting certain death on Lamentis.
-Loki trapped in a time loop getting tortured by Sif.
-Loki witnessing Mobius' pruning.
-Loki meeting several variants of himself.
Please reach out if you wanna have your folks witness any of these and I will go snooping for memories for Loki to gatecrash too.
3. Loki's going to fulfill the bartender's quest first, mostly out of spite. When he gets something he sees as valuable (TBD) he'll go on the receptionist's quest and wonder if he's being mocked about ruining his room last cycle and making poor choices in his sex life.
He'll want a buddy for heading into the maze so if anyone's already headed that way already he'll join them. He's bringing the sword this time. :T And I'm open to suggestions for items for him to get from home. (A useless blue cube???)
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y
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sakamoto ryouma | fate/grand order
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Character name: Sakamoto Ryouma
General ideas or plans for the month:Event ideas:
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y
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Alec & Jaune Arc
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Alec | Worm
Character name: Alec
General ideas or plans for the month: My big plan for Alec this month involves the player plot I have lined up, which will feature Alec unlocking the limits of his power with Distressing Consequences. I'll be putting up a plotting post for that specifically later, but IC it'll be happening on February 28th, so that'll be some time after the mini-event goes live mid-month.
Until then, Alec is mostly up to his usual routine: being a little bastard and defacing public property.
Event ideas:
Alec's gossip is here. Feel free to pick it up for general knowledge without having to thread it out. He'll be bugging the Paper Pleasers for fresh goss semi-regularly, so if there's anything in particular you'd like Alec to hear let me know!
For quests, I'd really like to have him retrieve a glowing mushroom for the waiter to collect the memory point there, so looking for a buddy on that one who actually has skills that might help. Otherwise, Alec will pretty much be ignoring the quests, because he barely does errands for himself.
For memories, I have two slots open for memory point recoveries, with some options for the shared memories including:
- Alec crashing a car by using his power from inside the trunk on the driver (imprisonment, freedom, determination)
- Alec crashing a van from the outside and passing out during a supervillain fight (self-sacrifice, conflict, powers)
- Alec tripping his friend Brian and getting into a mock fight with him (playfulness, friendship, Brian)
- Alec ordering a kid's meal with a toy at a fast food place, visibly bruised, and going off into the night to eat it on a play structure (relief, satisfaction, calm)
- others to match memories you might be interested in for your characters
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y, it's here.
Jaune Arc | RWBY
Character name: Jaune Arc
General ideas or plans for the month: Jaune is spending all month in extraordinary distress over protecting the Paper Pleasers from the rain, general hazards, and retaliation for their (totally innocent, he swears) gossip. Besides that, he's having a pretty rough month romantically, having remembered that the recently departed Pyrrha Nikos was his first crush and first kiss.
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Jaune's gossip is here. As with Alec, feel free to pick it up as general knowledge. Ruby sure did, and that's how we learned Jaune is a baby dodger. He will try not to hear anything untoward the Paper Pleasers tell him, but good luck with that, Jaune.
Normally, Jaune would be all over the quests, but with things as they are with the Paper Pleasers trying to make tiny attachable umbrellas is much higher up his list. Since it is Jaune, he's still available to help with quests for other people if they'd ask him for help.
Dream memories Jaune has available by request (two slots) include:
- Getting a pep talk from Pyrrha on a roof, admitting he faked his way into Beacon Academy (support, deception, inadequacy)
- Helping a little girl and her brother through a fairytale wonderland (wonder, protectiveness, bravery)
- Talking with Ruby Rose about leadership (friendship, leadership, high expectations)
- Jaune and a group of three others, including Pyrrha, in a school combat tournament (silliness, cooperation, exasperation)
- others to match memories you might be interested in for your characters
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y, see above (no opens for Jaune yet)
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Character name: suletta mercury
General ideas or plans for the month: i am simply working on getting suletta out there!! i will take any and all CR tbh.
Event ideas: here's what i'd like to do this month:
-getting glowing mushrooms from cistern
-desperately trying to protect paper pleasers from the rain
-choosing between two equally ugly walkie talkie charms at the general store
in regards to the mushrooms, suletta is going to hit up the network to see if anyone has a spare pair of boots they're willing to sacrifice for the cause and/or see if anyone else wants to go into Spooky Scary Hole for mushrooms.
Are you planning to create a log this month? 100%!
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Character name: Palamedes Sextus
General ideas or plans for the month: Pal is feeling the strain and exhaustion of everything that happened last cycle and could probably do with a nap. Unfortunately, he doesn’t get a nap. Along with dealing with the fallout of the double murders, he is doubling down (hah) on his search to understand what is going on with the NPCs and the ghosts, with the hopes of getting their help.
In order to do so, he is going to be possessing the receptionist and the waiter in order to communicate with their souls. This is mostly going to be a self-contained plot that will play out in a one-shot post, but there are a couple of ways characters can get involved!
- When Pal is possessing the npcs, his body will be an empty shell, and he wants to make sure it remains protected. Therefore, he will be asking around to learn various methods for creating wards, sigils, and other kinds of magical barriers to stop angry ghosts/spirits/what have you from invading his body. If your character would have any ideas, hmu! We can either handwave or play out an interaction.
- While he won’t be getting the answers he’s looking for, Pal will find out that the npcs are creepy soul amalgamations. Goody! While he won’t be announcing this to everyone, he’s also not keeping the knowledge a secret. lmk if you’re interested in having him share his new knowledge with your character!
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Gossip
Heck yes! Spread all the Pal-gossip you desire. All of it is, technically, true.
Dreams
I can never resist a memshare and would love to do some dream-swapping. This time around, I’m mostly interested in pleasant, or at least low-trauma memories. Off the top of my head, possibilities include getting lost in the Swordsman’s Spire with five-year-old Pal, exploring Dr. Donald Sex’s study with 13-year-old Pal, or trying to teach Nona necromancy.
Quests
Pal won’t be going on any quests, but he’d love to psychometrically examine anything people win - the honeymoon suite key, the whiskey bottle, the gifts from home, etc. As usual, he is looking for clues about where the objects came from and how old they are. Let me know if your character is winning something and would be willing to take a look at it!
Are you planning to create a log this month? Mmmmmaybe
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Character name: Emerald Sustrai
General ideas or plans for the month: She's gonna kill the Gravedigger! Like, not alone, Ruby will be there too, but she's gonna do it. Because Darin told her that there might be something underneath the graveyard, and she wants to check that out. Also, she has both eyes back thanks to not!John, and that's giving her a lot of weird thoughts about the nature of doubles.
Event ideas: Em is a pretty helpful person and will be trying to complete as many of the sidequests as she can—except the Gravedigger one. For most of the month she'll be fitfully quiet about the Gravedigger. When it comes to the dreamshare, Em has a lot of conflicts to flip through. I'll be putting a couple options when I put up her TL, but they're gonna focus on Cinder and her discovering a little more about the kind of person Cinder actually was. (She also has an active rumor about a "secret woman in her memories" who she loved first, if anyone wants to go into the dream already knowing that.)
Are you planning to create a log this month? Here!
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Character name: Jessica Richter Blythe
General ideas or plans for the month: Since Blythe is new, I'm more concerned with her laying down roots and sort of incorporating herself among the town. She's already said that she might be mistaken for a ghost haunting the grounds, but that's probably what she'll be doing a lot of the time, sort of drifting from place to place as she gets used to the new place.
Event ideas: Blythe has no interest in helping the NPCs. They're just organs, extensions of the town without any inner monologues. Meat with lightning running through them. She won't be rude to them or try to challenge their opinions, but she's going to be visibly dismissive. For dreams, there's a whole host of messed up stuff, but if you feel like having a fight with Blythe over whether her murders are justified then that will definitely be playing a major part.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Here!
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Character name: Daniel Arlington
General ideas for...going forward? something: This has been slowly building over the months (in large part because the idea's been coming to me in bits and pieces, but whatever works, right?), but I would really love to do more with the theory about himself and Well that Darlington's been putting together--and getting just slightly wrong.
So far, he knows things here move in cycles; people come and go, and possibly even return. Cecelia's told him he was here briefly before, when Well was a desert, and while he doesn't remember it he's not totally discarding it out of hand. In December, she even showed him a roster of the missing that included his own name, so that's just another point towards believing this to be true. Maybe he was here before--and if so, what happened to the previous him?
Prior to that, at John's party in November, he witnessed something come out of the woods and rip a man named Elliot Sandow to shreds. This is one of the memory scenes, but there was no indication at that point of whose memory it was. Before the torture began, the demon told Sandow none go free, which hits really different in a weird town where everyone is trapped. Not long afterwards, on his sword quest with Pal, the two of them ran into peril (TBD, the thread is still ongoing) and Darlington's demon side manifested itself--in horns, and glowing eyes, and long sharp claws. Just like the demon in the woods, but not as big or scary. Darlington's still mostly a man, just...a little more. Since then he's been sneaking off for what I keep calling 'demon practice' because it sounds good and is funny to me, trying to figure out how to trigger it, or control it, and learn exactly what it is he can do.
Putting these things together, Darlington's starting to think that whatever happened to Elliot Sandow happened here in Well, and that somehow, the previous version of himself lost control of that demonic side of himself. He became monstrous, eager for power (and the false memory his AU double gave him of killing Pamela Dawes hasn't helped quell this theory), and willing to kill and torture to get it. Obviously, this can't happen again.
Now that the pieces are starting to fall into place, I would love for Darlington to take people he trusts into confidence about this--Pal, John, and Flynn, definitely, maybe Cecelia or even Olympia? He'll need research friends, and people to help him practice controlling the demon side of himself. I think there's a potential to connect this to actual Well lore, too, since he'll be digging into the history of the town, such as it is, in search of answers he's not actually going to find about himself.
Right now this all still feels like a nebulous idea, but one with potential, so I would love to get folks involved if they'd like to be!
General ideas for February specifically: Excited to get Darlington involved with both Alec's player plot and Pal's possession shenanigans!
I need to log it on the memory post, but thanks to the memory point gift from the mods, Darlington's getting back his knowledge of death words--in the Ninth House universe, ghosts can be banished through the use of any kind of memento mori: poems, songs, even a well-written mortuary ad. Basically, sometimes the best way to fight ghosts is to recite poetry at them. Don't knock it till you try it.
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Gossip: I have been thinking for days about good Darlington gossip, so there's plenty (good, bad, and honestly very mean) to mortify my boy with! I don't have specific ideas for this plot prompt, but please consider Darlington here and available to hear about all your secrets (and absolutely hate that you're hearing his in return).
Dreams: Would love to team up with people for this, so give me your ideas and we can find something that works! My main memory idea for this is pretty light and gentle, since it feels like we all need that after last cycle: just an afternoon with a younger Danny (anywhere from 10 to 15 years old, let's say) walking through the exhibits at the natural history museum. Come look at the dinosaur mural with him!
Quests: I am all about the bartender quest, both for the chance to get Darlington something small from home even if it's unusable, and because the choice between 'something from home' and 'really nice scotch' is actually going to be difficult for him for Reasons (the reason is that cask-strength scotch was his grandfather's go-to drink). He'll probably pick getting something from home. Maybe.
Please also consider Darlington available to help with the other quests, should anyone want!
Are you planning to create a log this month? Most likely yes!
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Character name: Camilla Hect
General ideas or plans for the month:
- Catching up on what happened last month while she was a statue
- Fighting Gideon over a misunderstanding,
- Mainly being a sidekick while I catch up with extremely old tags. This probably sort of applies to Pal's possession schemes but a little less so since she's going to be making sure he doesn't get possessed.
- I definitely am seeing things I want to get her involved in already so ...you know what that's probably it. Besides giving her significantly-other-shaped-people stupid candy hearts and ammassing herself anatomically correct plushies to put in a roughly-correct order.
- Long term, though, Cam really wants to dig further into the researchy stuff.
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Gossip: Finally posted it!
Quests: I'm not going to get her into the quests, I don't think, I'm trying to manage how much tagging I think I can handle. MAYBE the underground mushrooms, just bc ...gross and she should know about the giant stomach. But...probably not. Also I want to know if the clearly lesbian bartender and the gravedigger have/had a thing. Does anyone else ship the NPCs? lol.
Dreams: YES TO DREAMS. I am going to spend some points already (which I need to write down, crap) on giving her some Canaan House (winnowing chamber) back, and maaybe some of NTN, but I was thinking of a little selection --
- something with Kiana (I'm thinking maybe something with Kiki coming to get her from Swordsman's Spire and realizing just how committed she is even then to being Pal's cavalier, and how worried their dad and her other dad are going to be). Mostly I want Cam to get cool older sister and to remember her name; a little hint of that "they wouldn't get it" dynamic from before the Paul scene without revealing all of that, [which -- for the non-canon-familiar -- basically, Pal and Cam do something crazy, it's not entirely structured unlike a wedding and there's a brief moment of 'should your dads be there?' and Cam says 'just Kiana, they wouldn't understand'. and we are all very heartachy for her, except the thing is truly ridiculously terrifying and they're in their right to not get it; I do agree with fanon that they probably don't 100% approve of her ride-or-die-ness for Pal tho]
That, or something domestic-war-zone from Nona, trying to figure out who she is (possibly interviewing her about her dreams? for some good meta?) or otherwise in the middle of all that. I've been playing with some dream logic being involved here as well, like, the way that sometimes I dream about people online but they're still there? And I think that might be a weird interesting thing to work in with Cam and Pal sharing a body and leaving each other notes.
I'd like to tag into a couple, though.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Probably a short one, at least.