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1.2 Event Plotting & Monthly Happenings

1.2 Plotting & Happenings

OOC announcements
Welcome to month two! Things are heating up in Wellstone. A couple reminders to get us started:

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 damage report form if your character damages or makes permanent changes to anything. Damage and change is permanent for the foreseeable future.

Post any bulletins to the bulletin board.

We now have a game Discord server! Mostly we want this server so that folks can keep up to date on new bulletins or prompts added to logs.

This post encompasses the month 1.2's events and effects. Use this post to plot with each other, using the form provided if you so choose.

Plotting/CR form


New this month

It’s hot out there! This month, Wellstone is sweltering during the day, like high summer. It cools off at night, but is still warm except the wee hours of the morning. In the distance, sandstorms darken the horizon occasionally, but they don’t get too close to town.

The diner’s special for the month: spicy bean chili, a thick, hearty stew that’ll really knock your socks off! When it says spicy, it means spicy. Milk is also available for post-chili chugging.

When you first leave the hotel this month, the receptionist will give you a canteen, on the house, to stay hydrated.

The pool is working again! The water’s cool, and little lounges line the edges. Floaties are available in a variety of novel shapes. Swimsuits appear in everyone’s wardrobe.

There's a new NPC in town! A coyote standing on its hind legs, wearing a sheriff badge and a stetson hat can be seen around town. During the heat of the day, he's at the jail, sitting behind the desk. At night, he can be found at the saloon. The old jail has been fixed up, seemingly overnight. It’s on the edge of the inhabitable town, and consists of two rooms: a front room with a big desk, and a backroom divided into cells with bars separating them.

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: “It’s beautiful when it’s hot, around here. You can see the heat haze on the sand.”

Owner of the General Store: “Running a special on cactus juice! It’ll really quench ya.”

The bartender: “We serve all kinds here.”

The waiter: “Boy, it’s a steamy one! How about a nice sweet tea to cool you off?” And he serves you a sweet tea, whether you want one or not.

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

The sheriff: He looks at you mournfully, like he's already disappointed in you.
The General Store is running a special on bottled cactus juice (two for one! It’ll let you explore the desert for just a little longer. It might also make you mildly hallucinate. You're fine). You’ll also find pellet guns in the back, marked down to 25% off, and labeled “just in case!”

Wanted dead or alive
Content warnings: N/A
The sheriff puts up wanted posters around town, 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.

When you look at one, you’ll feel a very strong urge to confess to whatever is on the poster to the first person you see. You may even feel the urge to turn yourself in. If you turn yourself in to the sheriff, you'll be locked in the jail for 24 hours before he releases you.

tl;dr:
  • There are wanted posters of characters around the town. They show real or fake crimes that your character committed.
  • When you see one of your own posters, you feel the urge to confess to the crime, and maybe even to turn yourself in to the sheriff.

This town ain’t big enough
Content warnings: Guns, potential violence, both comedic and serious
The hotter it is outside, the more irritated you seem to get, and at every little thing. Somebody jostles you, or snorts right in your ear. Was that an elbow in your side? Did your friend really just say that? Even if you don’t usually have a temper, you sure do now: you’ll be more and more prone to snapping. You don’t have to put up with this!

The heat of high noon is the worst. If you find yourself outside on the main street at noon, it’s nearly impossible not to give in to the heat. You find yourself with your thumbs in your beltloops, your hat pulled low over your eyes, confronting the next person (or persons) you see. This town ain’t big enough for the two of you.

In your hand is a weapon–or is it? It might be something useful like a sword or a gun, or it might be a pie, or a rubber chicken. You can choose your own weapon, or comment to be assigned one, with the random chance of it being a silly one.

You want to fight like a cowboy, have a standoff, make this town yours.

The effects will fade if you cool off, literally or figuratively, or your standoff ends.

If you die in this prompt, follow the death mechanics.

tl;dr:
  • On the main street at noon, you’ll transform into a cowboy having a showdown.
  • A weapon appears in your hand, either dangerous or funny, or both.
  • The effect fades when you cool off, or one of your wins, or surrenders.

Oasis of memories
Content warnings: N/A
You look out into the desert, and you see something you recognize. Or you think you do. It’s something so familiar, that you may be drawn to seek it, like seeing an oasis when you’re dying of thirst. You can fight it–but why would you?

But it’s not quite right, it’s not exactly as you remember it (or don’t), because someone else is there too, running toward the thing, or away from it. Your memory is merged with theirs, forming something new. The more you engage with the memory you see, out in the desert in the heat of the day, the more you remember of it. Talk about what you see, what you remember, and more of it will appear. Share your experiences with your partner, and you’ll see theirs too. Get through this experience together, and the memory sticks in your mind. The mirage will fade eventually, when the memories come to their conclusions.

If you don’t engage with the memory, or ignore it entirely, your part of the memory will fade, and you won’t be able to recall what you saw.

If you engage with the mirage, regain one memory point. You may regain up to three memory points from this prompt.

tl;dr:
  • You see a mirage of memories in the desert: a strange combination of your memory, and the memory of your thread partner.
  • The more you engage with the memory, by talking about it, or believing in it, the more physical it becomes.
  • The memories will fade when they draw to a conclusion, or the sun sets.
  • Gain a memory point if you engage with the memories.

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yuri lowell | tales of vesperia

[personal profile] vibing 2023-03-01 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Your name: Mads
Your pronouns: they/them
Contact: [plurk.com profile] spudbud
OOC limitations: we're here we're ready. Going to be out of town from the 8th-12th, but I'm hoping to be more available around that than I was last month.

Character name: Yuri Lowell
Permissions: here
General impressions of your character: Yuri has long black hair, wears almost exclusively black, never buttons up his shirt, and walks with a general sense of confidence
CR you're interested in: Everything! Friends, mostly. People to tease. People to spar against. People who need a helping hand (let him be useful, he needs to be useful). People who will push him outside of his comfort zone.
CR you're not interested in: Romance, I ship with my spouse ok

General ideas or plans for the month: Thinking about having him start a fight club, for the discerning person who needs to get physically beat up to stop feeling antsy. Lmk if anyone is interested! We don't necessarily have to write out the fights, but this is a Thing he's interested in doing
Event ideas: When I think about what will actually challenge and change Yuri, it's not talking about what a bad person he is or the bad things he's done. That's sort of his whole thing. He loves to self-flagellate. Instead, we're going to show Yuri what a sweet and good boy he is, and it will make him horribly uncomfortable, so:
Wanted dead or alive: Crimes: Rejecting affection, inability to connect with his emotions, putting others' needs ahead of his own, inability to express his needs

Name on the posters: True Knight, Hope of the Town, Aloha Boy

He'll try to confess these crimes, and he'll get very embarrassed about it. He won't turn himself in, since he doesn't respect any authority.

Showdown: Yuri will have a watergun. Let him cool you off. I'd love to have some real drama before ensuing chaos.

Oasis: Yuri's going to have pleasant memories to explore:
- Meeting Estelle for the first time. He teaches her how to high-five, it's very wholesome.
- Baking cookies for the kids in an orphanage. He's a teenager with a cute up do. The kids love him.
- Estelle and Repede finding him after he nearly dies, being very concerned and healing him. He's very apologetic for almost dying.
- Seeing the ocean for the first time, thinking about Flynn (he won't remember Flynn).

I'd love to combine these memories with anything! It would be pretty fun to combine them with more intense, biting, or painful memories, just to really hammer it home for him that he's not doing so bad.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Y, probably later on this week
Edited 2023-03-01 18:39 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-03-01 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
ok im thinking
blending the memory of yuri being found/healed with something from cecelia's own memory
just to blur the estelle line MORE
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[personal profile] vibing 2023-03-01 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
yes yes good, i love this. cece becomes the princess he wants to protect, mind all muddled up
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-03-01 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
and she's compelled to save him because she's had to do exactly this more than once before it's all coming up millhouse
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Re: yuri lowell | tales of vesperia

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-03-04 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
As we talked about on plurk, I definitely want Pal and Yuri to discuss their knee-jerk dislike of Mr. Sheriff and how to stop getting their friends to turn themselves in to the authorities!
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[personal profile] vibing 2023-03-08 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesss lets do it! I have a log up, happy to write up a starter or tag into anything of yours if you prefer.
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[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-03-09 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm happy to tag your post! :D