![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
6.2 Event Plotting
6.2 Event Plotting
OOC info
Ah, month two is upon us. The sun is hot, and the sand is hot. And the baths? The baths are also hot.
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 posted on the 15th.
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 on
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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 chili with cornbread for dinner.Throughout the month, new books appear on shelves in the hotel lounge:
Heart of the BeastAll of the books are terrible, as usual. Shadow of the Scorpionbear is particularly steamy, and has overly detailed descriptions of Scorpionbear genitalia. Definitely not suitable for kids.
Shadow of the Scorpionbear
Love Under Surveillance
Werewolf’s Wicked Whispers
Forbidden Fangs
The Detective and the Double Agent
The Perfect Alibi: Creating a New You
Beauty and the Beast Within: Finding Balance
Witness Protection for the Soul
The Zombie’s Handbook for Mindful Living
Also, the pool is back in operation! It's full of refreshing, cool water, stocked with pool chairs and towels and also fun pool floaties shaped like scorpions.
The General Store
The General Store's stocked up with cowboy-themed memorabilia. This month, the special is: water guns! They can shoot up to 8 feet and aren't very powerful.Around town
The diner’s special for the month: pecan pie! Again.The diner is somewhat operational again. There is food, more than just pecan pie. But no matter what you order, the waiter brings you either: sloppy joes, a big pile of fries covered in jam, or a single ketchup flavored popsicle. If you want the pecan pie, you'll need to serve yourself from the display on the counter.
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: "If you want to stay cool, why not take a dip in the pool?" He does not appear to notice that this rhymes.
Owner of the General Store: “Now don't you be testing those guns in here! Take 'em outside, eh?”
The bartender: Silently slides you a drink you did not ask for.
The waiter: "Well hi, honey, long time no see! Long time no— long time no see!" And he serves you a milkshake of... questionable flavor.
The gravedigger: Pointedly straightening up offerings on graves.
The sheriff: He's on high alert this month. Don't cross him.
The weather
It is hotter than hell this month, although, who really remembers how hot hell is? Only the very early morning hours are tolerable: the moment the sun rises, it bakes the desert through, sending heat shimmering up off the dirt, frying any plants to a crisp.Most normal desert animals are noticeably absent from the actual desert this month. Instead, in an effort to beat the heat, they seem to be trying to hang out indoors. Better check your boots carefully this month: there's a high chance of scorpions in your toes and rattlesnakes in your towels or your bed. Is that a jackrabbit in your closet?
The cistern
The cistern is no longer where it was initially found. If you try to break through the same walls folks have broken through in previous cycles to find the cistern, you will just find the escape rooms from the TDM.If you search below the graveyard, you'll find something that looks awfully familiar. The cistern is down there--if you dig deep, really deep.
WANTED: YOU!
Content warnings: criminal "justice" system, imprisonment
If you've been here in town for a while, you might recognize the flurry of posters that seem to have appeared more or less overnight:
Wanted posters.
Hundreds of them, each with a drawing of a character and a supposed crime they're wanted for. There can be as many wanted posters as you like, and as many crimes as you like. The crimes can be real, or made up. They can be serious, or not. The drawing of your character doesn’t even have to be very good.
Your wanted posters could have your given name, preferred name, or it might give you a new outlaw name, reminiscent of criminals in the Old West.
The lists of crimes are bad enough, but this time, whenever someone gets close enough to a poster—any poster at all—the little drawing starts talking. Your wanted posters will confess, mournfully or joyfully or angrily, to every single crime listed there. They'll lament about what terrible criminals they are, and list out the punishments they think they should receive. If your own poster is talking to you, expect a string of vicious pointed insults.
Given that these things are everywhere, you may be tempted to take them down, and you certainly can! There are consequences, but it's probably worth it, right? When you take a poster down, it comes away in strips and shreds that slowly form into a vicious sharp-edged little paper bird. Once it's formed, anywhere from five minutes to an hour later, it'll hunt you down and start divebombing you. The more posters you tear down, the more little paper birds will flock together to try and cut you to shreds.
Even worse: the sheriff seems to have resumed his old role this month. If you tear down a poster, expect a very disappointed bipedal coyote to place you under arrest. The other wanted posters will rat you out, shouting for the sheriff wherever you are. Tearing down a poster is definitely worse than all of the other crimes you've committed! Where do you get locked up? The bathhouse, of course! You'll get chained up in those rusty manacles chained to the walls in the locker rooms and the baths themselves until someone sets you free. If you're still locked up after 24 hours, the sheriff will let you out. If you've been kind to the sheriff in the past (if you've gotten tail wags from him), your sentence will be reduced to 12 hours.
You gain one memory point for each time you interact with this prompt, up to 3 points.
Feel free to mock up a wanted poster if you'd like to!
tl;dr:
If you've been here in town for a while, you might recognize the flurry of posters that seem to have appeared more or less overnight:
Wanted posters.
Hundreds of them, each with a drawing of a character and a supposed crime they're wanted for. There can be as many wanted posters as you like, and as many crimes as you like. The crimes can be real, or made up. They can be serious, or not. The drawing of your character doesn’t even have to be very good.
Your wanted posters could have your given name, preferred name, or it might give you a new outlaw name, reminiscent of criminals in the Old West.
The lists of crimes are bad enough, but this time, whenever someone gets close enough to a poster—any poster at all—the little drawing starts talking. Your wanted posters will confess, mournfully or joyfully or angrily, to every single crime listed there. They'll lament about what terrible criminals they are, and list out the punishments they think they should receive. If your own poster is talking to you, expect a string of vicious pointed insults.
Given that these things are everywhere, you may be tempted to take them down, and you certainly can! There are consequences, but it's probably worth it, right? When you take a poster down, it comes away in strips and shreds that slowly form into a vicious sharp-edged little paper bird. Once it's formed, anywhere from five minutes to an hour later, it'll hunt you down and start divebombing you. The more posters you tear down, the more little paper birds will flock together to try and cut you to shreds.
Even worse: the sheriff seems to have resumed his old role this month. If you tear down a poster, expect a very disappointed bipedal coyote to place you under arrest. The other wanted posters will rat you out, shouting for the sheriff wherever you are. Tearing down a poster is definitely worse than all of the other crimes you've committed! Where do you get locked up? The bathhouse, of course! You'll get chained up in those rusty manacles chained to the walls in the locker rooms and the baths themselves until someone sets you free. If you're still locked up after 24 hours, the sheriff will let you out. If you've been kind to the sheriff in the past (if you've gotten tail wags from him), your sentence will be reduced to 12 hours.
You gain one memory point for each time you interact with this prompt, up to 3 points.
Feel free to mock up a wanted poster if you'd like to!
tl;dr:
- There are wanted posters of your character around town!
- They confess their crimes, and do so pointedly when the character their of is nearby.
- If you tear down a poster, they turn into paper birds that attack you with papercut-worthy beaks. The sheriff will also try to arrest you.
- If he succeeds, you'll be strung up in the bathhouse for up to 24 hours.
Under siege
Content warnings: monsters, killing monsters/animals
The desert is always a deadly place, but this month, that danger is more present than ever. It's teeming with far more than just life: the desert is full of monsters, and they aren't content staying out in that arid wasteland when there's so much food to be had in town.
This month, the town is under siege.
What at first looks like innocent plant life might suddenly lunge at you with spines sharp enough to kill: living cacti, with paralyzing tentacle-like roots and awful spines, determined to suck all the blood and moisture out of you. They're particularly active at night, and if they successfully catch someone, they'll bloom in a beautiful flush of red flowers.
Circling the sky are massive vultures. They look small until their shadows come sweeping over the town. With six-foot wingspans and serrated beaks, these vultures are just as happy to scavenge the dead as they are to create their own fresh food. They'll circle in groups, particularly during the day, and descend on anyone unlucky enough to be caught alone or in a small enough group. Watch out for flesh-rending beaks and talons.
Even the ground isn't safe. In a strange patchwork around town, the ground suddenly softens under your feet, bottoming out from under you. You're caught in something like a sand whirlpool with massive clamping jaws at its center: a gigantic antlion, ready to snap you in half.
Surrounding the town in packs of ten or more are strange, six-legged creatures. They're the size and general shape of little terriers, white-furred and pretty cute to look at until they open their jaws—far too big for those tiny bodies—and surround you. These things are the most vicious of all the monsters. They howl like coyotes, yap and bark to each other, and move as a single flowing unit to systematically take prey down and then tear them apart. Good luck if you get surrounded by these creatures.
The strangest thing about all of these monsters is that when you kill one, it drops stuff:
1. Semi-precious gems: amethyst, jade, garnet, opal, onyx
2. Rusted weapons: swords, halberds, maces, axes
3. Fidget spinners in funky colors
You'll find one item per monster slain.
There's also a slim chance they might drop something better, like good weapons, armor, or items from home. You can assume you get any of the above, or ask us in a comment to check if your character finds any better loot! You can kill as many monsters and find as much loot as you'd like.
tl;dr:
The desert is always a deadly place, but this month, that danger is more present than ever. It's teeming with far more than just life: the desert is full of monsters, and they aren't content staying out in that arid wasteland when there's so much food to be had in town.
This month, the town is under siege.
What at first looks like innocent plant life might suddenly lunge at you with spines sharp enough to kill: living cacti, with paralyzing tentacle-like roots and awful spines, determined to suck all the blood and moisture out of you. They're particularly active at night, and if they successfully catch someone, they'll bloom in a beautiful flush of red flowers.
Circling the sky are massive vultures. They look small until their shadows come sweeping over the town. With six-foot wingspans and serrated beaks, these vultures are just as happy to scavenge the dead as they are to create their own fresh food. They'll circle in groups, particularly during the day, and descend on anyone unlucky enough to be caught alone or in a small enough group. Watch out for flesh-rending beaks and talons.
Even the ground isn't safe. In a strange patchwork around town, the ground suddenly softens under your feet, bottoming out from under you. You're caught in something like a sand whirlpool with massive clamping jaws at its center: a gigantic antlion, ready to snap you in half.
Surrounding the town in packs of ten or more are strange, six-legged creatures. They're the size and general shape of little terriers, white-furred and pretty cute to look at until they open their jaws—far too big for those tiny bodies—and surround you. These things are the most vicious of all the monsters. They howl like coyotes, yap and bark to each other, and move as a single flowing unit to systematically take prey down and then tear them apart. Good luck if you get surrounded by these creatures.
The strangest thing about all of these monsters is that when you kill one, it drops stuff:
1. Semi-precious gems: amethyst, jade, garnet, opal, onyx
2. Rusted weapons: swords, halberds, maces, axes
3. Fidget spinners in funky colors
You'll find one item per monster slain.
There's also a slim chance they might drop something better, like good weapons, armor, or items from home. You can assume you get any of the above, or ask us in a comment to check if your character finds any better loot! You can kill as many monsters and find as much loot as you'd like.
tl;dr:
- Monsters attack! Living cacti, murderous vultures, antlions under the sand, and six-legged terriers that are cute until they're not will attack from the desert.
- They drop loot when defeated, either common loot listed in the prompt, or comment below to see if your characters gets anything good!
Page 1 of 7