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Well Mod ([personal profile] wellie) wrote in [community profile] wellcome2023-05-31 07:50 pm
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Event 2.2

2.2 Event


OOC announcements
Welcome to month 2 of cycle 2! The repeating beat of this month will be the coyote sheriff, who will be coming into town for the mini-event on the 15th.

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

Post any bulletins to the bulletin board.

Plotting/CR form


NEW THIS MONTH

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 diner’s special for the month: watermelon, fresh and cold, cut daily.

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

The pool seems to be 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.

You can find weapons in odd places: swords in a barrel behind the Cactus Pad, a gun in your nightstand, maces on sale in the General Store, bows and arrows by gravestones. The vast majority of these weapons, it turns out, are useless: the guns will shoot flags that say “bang” and the mace is foam; arrows explode into confetti when fired. Some of them are real, but not many!

Also of note: the jail is back exactly the way it was, although without its resident sheriff, for the time being.

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: “Remember: Alcohol dehydrates you.”

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 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). You’ll also find pellet guns in the back, marked down to 25% off, and labeled “just in case!”

You can also find an unobtrusive rack of climbing gear, including a lot of rope, at the back of the store. It's covered in dust, but you're pretty sure you've never seen it before.


THE DESCENT

Content warnings: extreme weather, heights

The heat kicks off strong, searing the morning into existence and making the center of town all but unbearable by midday. The night is broken by hot, dry winds blowing in from the desert, offering no relief. All over town, the ground bakes, hardens, and cracks. It begins as a baked-out mudplain, with shallow cracks spiderwebbing across the streets and out into the desert.

After a couple days, sharp bangs sound in the night, and characters will wake to find the town criss-crossed by rifts running all over town and deep into the desert. They range in size from a few inches across to a couple dozen feet across. It’s unclear how far any of them extend down, but they are explorable.

You’ll have to descend carefully. Rocks tumble in from the edges, and footholds may fall away as soon as they’re stepped on. It gets hotter the deeper you go, and you have to go deep. They may seem bottomless at the beginning, but eventually the bottom of the canyon appears, far enough down that the sky is a thin line of light far above.

Down here, it’s hot as hell and very dark. Rocks jut down and up from the ground like rotten teeth. The air is stale, hot, and smells like rotting flesh. Be careful where you walk: more cracks appear in the reddish rock, sometimes right where you’re stepping. The canyon echoes with awful, creaking groans. Not a pleasant place to be, but maybe it’s worth sticking it out, because winking here and there from between the sharp rocks are artifacts, and occasionally dry, old bones.

Scattered among the rocks are old stone tools and tool points, belt buckles, lead bullets and twisted metal pieces. Some of them look like they belong there. Many don’t. Their shapes are too rounded, too strangely modern, even futuristic. Plenty to investigate (and feel free to), but even more interesting is the occasional artifact that looks not just out of place but familiar.

That’s right: secreted in the rocks and dust are items from home. Nothing massive—no one’s going to be finding a car down here—but if it might conceivably have been on a character’s person or in their home at one time, it can be found down here. No matter what it is, it looks like it’s been down here for hundreds of years, buried in rock and dust. No technology will work, and no magic remains on anything magical.

Each character can find two or three small items, or one large, important from home down here. Touching the items can either give you a memory point, or trigger an immediate regain of a one-point memory associated with the item.

tl;dr:
  • It's hot as hell out there, during the day and the night
  • Fissures of all sizes open in the ground, the largest of which can be explored
  • In the fissures are artifacts and items from home
  • This is the memory-regain prompt for this month!

DRY BONES

Content warnings: Potential psychological and physical horror, body horror, rotting flesh, zombies, skeletons

Artifacts aren’t the only things that turn up in the fissures. They’re full of noises: rattling, groaning, rocks clattering, wind howling; they smell terrible, and more than that, they are terribly dangerous.

Why is that?

Well, because of the zombies, of course.

They crawl out of the rifts, and worse, spew out of every crack in the earth big enough for them: half-rotted, bone-filled undead things. Some of them are just human arms, crawling spider-like along the ground. Some are entire skeletons, human or otherwise. Decaying coyotes shake dust from their leathery skin; bone snakes slither and rattle in the shadows. They’re in various stages of decay, from freshly-dead to rattling skeletons, and every single one of them is fast, strong, and vicious. They’ll swarm with a vengeance after any living creature they can find, and they seem particularly bent on getting to the residents of Wellstone by any means necessary. If they do get their hands (or claws, or teeth) on anything living, they’ll release an unholy, awful howl, gathering as many other zombies as possible to help them tear their prey apart. It’s a bad way to go! Probably don’t get caught.

They’re killable on their own, but the more there are, the stronger they get, and they don’t stay dead for very long, especially since dismembering them just pisses them off.

The only non-violent undead creatures are the bone horses. These rattly gentle giants can be found out near the edge of town, nibbling on tumbleweeds. They spook easy, and they look just awful, with their exposed bones and glowing red eyes, but they’re actually quite nice, and they can absolutely be tamed and ridden. This is much easier, you'll find, if you're actively wearing a cowboy hat. The hat seems to make you able to ride a horse even if you couldn't before. Weird!

tl;dr:
  • Skeletons and zombies of all kinds pour out of the cracks in the ground!
  • They're strong, fast, and work as a group to try to overwhelm characters and tear them apart.
  • There are also skeleton horses. They are friends and can be ridden, especially when you're in cowboy gear.

THE MONSTER INSIDE

Content warnings: Monster transformation, body horror

The heat really seems to be getting to everyone. It’s oppressive, even indoors. Without fans, even the thick stone walls of the Staywell don’t keep the heat out. It’s hard to sleep, it’s hard to focus, and something strange is happening.

Every time you catch a glimpse of yourself in a reflective surface, be it mirror, pool, glass, or really large belt buckle, you see something else.

You see a smug little smile, your own face looking back out at you with malice familiar to anyone who encountered their double during the storm. Your reflection grins at you, making a face you’re not making; they lean in close, and mouth something you can’t seem to understand, their breath fogging up whatever surface they’re in. Blink, and their face changes again: it becomes monstrous, twisted, with fur and fangs and strange ears and scales. An awful feeling washes over you, sick and cold and strange, but nothing noticeably changes. It’s still hot, the air is still thick, and there are still skeletons outside.

It’s just that, from that moment forward, it becomes incredibly easy to give in to your worse impulses, whatever they may be. Maybe retreating from society doesn’t seem like such a bad idea now; maybe it’s easier to just snap at everyone to leave you alone, and damn the consequences; maybe you’re just a whining, melting mess in this awful heat. Whatever it is, the more you give in, the more monstrous you become.

You’ll start to physically change into whatever monster you saw in that reflection, all the while becoming more impulsive, stronger, more prone to acting out the worse version of yourself.

Opening up about your feelings and why you’re acting the way that you are seems to slow and even reverse the transformation, after a while, although there is a bit of a delay on that, so you might be back to your normal self behaviorally for a while and still, you know, look like a monster. Eventually, with enough emotional honesty, you’ll change back.

Or you can just punch your reflection the next time you see it, shattering it. That’ll reverse everything very quickly!

Just be careful to avoid reflective surfaces after that. It can definitely happen again, and it seems to happen quicker after the first time.

tl;dr:
  • Looking in reflective surfaces shows you a monstrous version of yourself
  • Once you see yourself like that, you start to act like your worst self
  • The worse you are, the more monstrous you become until someone talks you down
  • You can fix it by talking about your feelings or just punching your reflection


guidemyway: (Are you who you seem?)

[personal profile] guidemyway 2023-06-01 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Think it would be fun for these two to go down on the descent thing. Ruby's built for a lot of exploration, but isn't really feeling it. She'll begrudgingly do it though.

She'll probably want to make up for the awkward dance so that'll be a good reason for her to do it.

Dragon could be fun too!
guidemyway: (I don't know how to breathe)

[personal profile] guidemyway 2023-06-01 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Exploring? Exploring sounds fun!

Ruby is built for it but she'll probably be kind of miserable about it because that's who she is right now.

What if she got back her most precious weapon in the entire world and Flynn could see the memory of her absolutely not wanting it.

Or maybe her actually talking about how important it was to her.

guidemyway: (Are you who you seem?)

[personal profile] guidemyway 2023-06-01 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Caring about things in the crevices sucks.

Let's pretend not to care. And then care a lot.

Ew.

Let's pretend the last one didn't happen.
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Shouta Aizawa -- Eraserhead | My Hero Academia

[personal profile] mediaphobic 2023-06-01 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Your name: Basil
Your pronouns: they/them
Contact: [plurk.com profile] woodrift
OOC limitations: None! I'm going slow, but I'm finally relocated on the other side of moving!

Character name: Shouta Aizawa
Permissions: here
General impressions of your character: This is the dustiest, most dour cowpoke that anyone has ever met. Aizawa is a mop of a man at the best of times, and the overwhelming heat will finally spur him to do the one thing he doesn't typically do: tie his hair back. He has an eyepatch, scruffy beard, and a permanent scowl underneath his absolutely ridiculous cowboy hat. Have fun.

CR you're interested in: Anything and everything. Aizawa is on Team Building Mode still, and is game to help people despite his unfortunate first impressions.

Just because he isn't good with people doesn't mean that he's unable to work as part of a group. He actually prefers it like this.
CR you're not interested in: Negative CR for the sake of it.

General ideas or plans for the month: I'm planning on buckling down on catching up with the CR that I meant to do last month, and this scruffy looking nerf herder is going to continue his silent vigil in the lobby when he's not spelunking into the caverns.

He has one eye. Please go with him to make sure he doesn't lose the other.
Event ideas: I am DEFINITELY having Aizawa doing some spelunking, befriending a ghost horse, and finding his scarf weapon from canon. After months of training with ropes, he deserves this one thing that's familiar.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Maybe!
Edited 2023-06-01 02:42 (UTC)
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Ruby Rose | RWBY

[personal profile] guidemyway 2023-06-01 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Your name: Josh
Your pronouns: He/Him
Contact: [plurk.com profile] jjabarrett or PM
OOC limitations: N/A

Character name: Ruby Rose
General impressions of your character: Normally super cheery goth girl. Now brought down by the weight of the world into super depressing goth girl. Spends a lot of time moping around being kind of combative about nothing. Every once in awhile that brightness shines through over really dumb things.
CR you're interested in: Any and all
CR you're not interested in: None.

General ideas or plans for the month:

- Ruby is going to hang out by the pool! Rare moment of genuine joy. Yay!
- Ruby is going to get two guns. One fake gun with the bang flag. The other a real gun.
- She is going to be miserable out in the heat. Get her out of there. She is pale and fragile (Only one of these is true.)

Event ideas:

Descent.
- Ruby is going to begrudging go down there! She's actually good at the exploring and fight side of things. But she's not in the right headspace and certainly wont act like it.

- She is probably going to get back her sniper-rifle scythe, Crescent Rose. She will probably regain the memory of either wanting to be as far away from it as possible. Or might actually get a nice memory of liking it. We'll see what happens.

- She has her marksmanship skills and will shoot zombos with them.

Dry Bones.

- Ruby may think that the skeleton horses are cool.

- She may also want to kill them because they're cool.

- She is a monster hunter it is what she do.

Monster inside.

- Ruby will probably turn into a giant plant monster and mess some people up. Have fun getting vined into thorns people.

- She will be bad at talking people out of it. She's pretty down in the dumps but will do her best. A monster could beat her up but imagine the emotional toll?

- Her own negativity will probably be worse. See how she's been bullying Jaune? That could be everyone.

- Getting her to open up is actually not super difficult. She's pretty candid about how bad she thinks she's doing right now.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Y?
forgeabettertomorrow: (eyyyyyy this guuuuuy)

Darin Altway | Original Character

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-06-01 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Your name: Ant
Your pronouns: He/Him
Contact: [plurk.com profile] bitterbearface | Discord: Ant#0062 | PM
OOC limitations: I'm usually busy adulting during the day but try and pay attention to messages and I usually try and sit down to tag in the evenings.

Character name: Darin Altway
Permissions: Here!
General impressions of your character: Big beefy shounen/jrpg type protag. He's 6'3", loud, prone to stupidity but usually tries to boost morale and put a friendly foot forward. He's 24 years old and acts like he's 15 so good luck.
CR you're interested in: Give me anything and everything. Especially looking to start regaining memories and exploring his powers and the DARK SECRET about why he even has them in the first place.
CR you're not interested in: Honestly can't think of much

General ideas or plans for the month: Darin is going to hang out by the pool for sure because it's hot, he loves to swim, and he's going to spite these goddamn pool ghosts until it kills him. He has a massive, jagged scar on his back so feel free to ask him about it! He also has his ongoing investigations with Cecelia as well as his own concerns about why he can't remember anything when the last loop ended. If you need a handyman, Darin is also your guy!

Event ideas:
-THE DESCENT- Needless to say, Darin's going down there. Once he finds that there's salvage, he'll be making plenty of trips sometimes for a few days at a time and will routinely bring up what he finds. He'd happily enjoy going down with a partner or even a small group and if you want your character to find something of theirs in the salvage he brings up, I'm absolutely cool with it and would love to help people find something to regain. Anything he finds he's going to try and repurpose into usable tools and maybe weapons so if anyone has something they want him to look at, I'd love that too.
-DRY BONES- Honestly, this is gonna be some shounen battle fair. If you want Darin's help in dispatching zombies, he'll do it and probably complain about it the whole time. He is also going to try and wrangle himself a bone horse so if anyone wants to help and/or laugh at this actual bonehead, there will be opportunities.
-THE MONSTER INSIDE- So, this one has some crazy potential. The image Darin is going to see is going to be that of the Archfiend Diomuhr, the being that grants Darin his powers. When he starts to change, it's a crapshoot depending on the circumstances. Either he's going to start hulking out with horns and chitinous armor bulging out of his body like a crazy bug hulk, or he's going to take the much worse approach and start slipping into a type of 'true transformation.' Picture jetblack horns from his temples and beetle like wings that he wraps around himself like a cloak (remember Gargoyles? Think that.) Either one of these is INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS and if anyone wants to try and throwdown with either of them, it is entirely possible they will get killed. I'm game for all types of things. If you want bad times and full on horror, then this will be the prompt for you. I'll probably have one for each flavor of bad.

Are you planning to create a log this month? Yes, I am really gonna get on it this month for sure.
forgeabettertomorrow: (I'm about to do something awesome)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-06-01 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
OKAY I HAVE A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS SO HERE WE GO:

- If someone heads down into THE DESCENT do they have to come back the same day or can they spend a few days down there if they bring gear?
- Would any of the artifacts have any sort of identifiers on them? Writing, images, symbols, anything that can have rubbings taken or anything of that nature?
- How long do the things that are taken out of the depths last? Do they rust and rot away quickly or would they stick around?
- How widespread are these crevasses and, specifically, do they run through the cemetery?

And a few other odds and ends:
- Are there any rooms in the Staywell that are unoccupied that Darin could use as storage or a meeting room? Darin wants to set up a sort of central command center for people to meet and share their findings!
- Darin and Cecelia managed to sneak into the gravedigger's shack and Darin carved an eye in a very hard to find place on the wall. If he went back when the gravedigger wasn't around, would it still be there? He'd be looking for changes.
forgeabettertomorrow: (I'm about to do something awesome)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-06-01 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Okay do you want serious or goofy?

Because goofy, the two of them trying to wrangle a horse comes to mind but I also would not mind him being wolf-stalked. Unless you want Yuri to get messed up fighting Demon Darin.
forgeabettertomorrow: (We can fly if you believe)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-06-01 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh there's so much I want to do and I can't I know Darin still has a special present to give her.
forgeabettertomorrow: (nope nope nope nope nope)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-06-01 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
HEY WANNA DEAL WITH MORE MONSTER DARIN? OR DO YOU WANT TO EXPLORE WITH HIM and maybe ask him what the hell happened at the end of the last loop?
forgeabettertomorrow: (That's amazing!)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-06-01 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
So, pool shenanigans could be fun because I feel like these two always meet up when things are rough and I think they have enough energy to have fun hanging out. BUT ALSO, Darin is on the lookout for people willing to explore so if you want a giant meathead to go down into the depths with, then he's your guy.

Also, Darin would literally love to take a look at Crescent Rose so if you wanted to do some zombie poppin' or even just have him run maintenance on it since it's well-known that he's a blacksmith, I'd be down too. I'm literally open for anything you want to do if you had other ideas too.
guidemyway: (You were born to)

[personal profile] guidemyway 2023-06-01 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
They can definitely hang out at the pool. Ruby is more crabby than her normal appearances due to canon point and memory. But I think they are definitely capable of having some fun together.

She might actually completely hand it off to him. She might not remember off the bat that she built it herself and is going to feel a weird sort of aversion to it. (She's got image issues here at the moment.) This is definitely something to keep in the back pocket for some future stuff too.

Darin is such a good boy and I'm looking forward to when she gets into a better mindset.

TLDR. I kind of dig all of this. I'll probably have a pool starter, I can hit you up for something in the depths.
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[personal profile] vibing 2023-06-01 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah nothing happened don't even worry about it lets just look in separate directions and not acknowledge any feelings ever
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[personal profile] vibing 2023-06-01 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
ohhhh so many good options. getting messed up sounds pretty fun. would you want yuri to talk him down too, or just a driveby fuck up this guy and leave?
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[personal profile] mediaphobic 2023-06-01 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
DARIN PLEASE.

I'm down for anything and everything. Let's do it.
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[personal profile] guidemyway 2023-06-01 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
SPELUNKING SPELUNKING!
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-06-01 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
im down for exploration!
dragon ok too if ur fine with injury bc she got that DRAGON BREATH baybee
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-06-01 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
CAN'T??? coward
guidemyway: (I don't know how to breathe)

[personal profile] guidemyway 2023-06-01 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think we know my track record with character injuries!

Ruby has some vague dragon god lineage so bring on the breath!!!
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[personal profile] masculinitea 2023-06-01 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
you sure bro? ow.

I'd love that too!
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[personal profile] masculinitea 2023-06-01 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool! If it's one bigger more important item is that one memory point? Two? Three?
forgeabettertomorrow: (I'm about to do something awesome)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-06-01 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a plan! I've got my log up and ready whenever you want!
forgeabettertomorrow: (eyyyyyy this guuuuuy)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-06-01 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I got a log up already so feel free to jump on anything there if you want!

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