September 2023 Event Plotting

[singmod]

SEPTEMBER 2023 EVENT

PROMPT ONE — THE AURORA: AFTERSHOCKS: The Aurora comes, bringing chaos to the town of Milton. Electronics go haywire, and the Interlopers learn of the original citizens of Milton.
THE AURORA: AFTERSHOCKS — CONTENT WARNINGS: supernatural horror; ‘ghost’ horror; hauntings; death of npcs in various ways including suicide, murder or exposure to elements.

PROMPT TWO — THE HOUR OF THE WOLF: Tainted by the Aurora and attracted to the noise of people inhabiting the town, several packs of wolves descend upon Milton.
THE HOUR OF THE WOLF — CONTENT WARNINGS: (wild) animal attacks, altered wildlife, possible character injury/death, possible (wild) animal injury/death.

PROMPT THREE — IT SPEAKS: A voice comes to the Interlopers, one that knows them and their darkest fears and deepest insecurities, persuading them to fade into the Long Dark by any means necessary.
IT SPEAKS — CONTENT WARNINGS: psychological horror; mental manipulation; themes of suicide; themes of depression; potential self-harm; potential feelings of isolation; potential attempted suicide.

THE AURORA: AFTERSHOCKS

After the feast, and making sure the newcomers to Milton are seen to, Methuselah packs up. He will explain to others that while he will return to check in, he is no resident of Milton and will not stay. He is a nomad, something he has been all his life. He lives in nature. That is where he belongs. But he does assure that people are welcome to remain sheltered in the Hall if they wish to. And sure enough, the old man leaves, wishing the newcomers well. He can still be found out in the wilderness, and will shelter and feed those out exploring should they come across him.

And so the days and nights of this world roll on. The initial time of those who have come to be stranded in this world is unsettled. The weather is always changing, even if it remains bitterly cold. On some nights throughout the next month, however, the snow clouds clear and Interlopers are given a rare, clear night. At first, it’s beautiful: without the light pollution, all the stars can be seen, the moon casts an eerie glow upon the snow in the dead silence of the night. One might even say there is a kind of peace that comes with it all. And for some of these evenings, they pass by: uneventful and silent — the long darkness of an endless winter’s night.

But on others, it isn’t so uneventful. The noise starts: faint at first, but then growing louder. Something in the heavens above. An ethereal, high-pitched chorus of sounds difficult to place. There’s a kind of electrical buzzing with it all, a low, endless hum punctuated with cracks and pops that echo. The sky is alive with sound, louder than anyone could ever expect it to. With it comes the swirling streaking of colour against the inky black of night, growing brighter and brighter as the night goes on: The Aurora has come.

And it isn’t the sky that comes to life too: the whole town does too. Streetlights, illuminating the town’s roads; lights in stores and homes will come alive, buzzing and flickering often. Previously abandoned cars will turn on, their headlights blaring but faltering. Electronics that had previously seemed broken flick on — and whilst there are no broadcasts available on televisions, and the radio waves only drone on in static, both only occasionally blaring standard emergency broadcasts. Any computers and phones will turn on, but will have no internet or reception. Instead, Interlopers may find texts and emails — many of them unsent. The everyday lives of their users stored within, now readable.

But there’s something else too. The Aurora doesn’t just awaken the electronics of the town. Dotted around, in the streets, in homes, in stores, the lights of the Aurora begin to take shape: spectral-like forms of people, their faces hard to make out, details difficult to define. They move in glitching patterns, they speak with voices distorted by static. Eagle-eyed Interlopers may recognise the forms of some, a body or an action:

These are the residents of Milton, in their last moments on this earth.

The forms act out short scenes on repeat: a desperate fight between two men over a vehicle, a murder in a store during a riot, a suicide alone in one of the many houses. An argument over the communication lines going down. A sobbing teen curled up on his bed. A child stares up at the skies, their hands over their ears, crying in fright. A woman begs for her father to leave his home and head to the coast with her, to try to make it to the mainland, but he refuses to leave. A man succumbs to the cold walking alone in the outskirts of town without proper clothing for the elements. Several of these ‘ghosts’ are people fleeing before they stop and simply gasp, staring off into the distance for a few seconds before they drop dead on the spot.

There is nothing that can be done to stop these endless loops. Nothing to help these poor souls. Each of these moments are captured by the Aurora: final, desperate and tragic moments in some unknown, chaotic time. Some of these ‘ghosts’ maybe stop after so many loops — flickering out into nothing, others will last all night. But all will be gone by the morning and the Aurora comes to an end. There are answers, and there are none.

THE HOUR OF THE WOLF

The growing presence of people within the town of Milton has meant more light, more warmth, more noise. The Aurora has created great change, but people are not the only thing the ethereal lights in the sky has brought down upon this old mining town.

When the sun slips below the horizon, and the clear skies of burnt embers and inky blues alight with stars, they come.

A lone howl, long and haunting. It is the first signal, which carries on the air. You can’t seem to place from which direction it comes from, it feels like it encompasses you. Then another voice joins it, and another, and another. A chorus of them. As the sound echoes off, another fills its place: a strange feral chittering, snarling and snapping — the drumming of feet upon the snow, heading right for you.

Wolves.

Unnatural, glowing green eyes in the dark — tendrils of light seeping from them as they rush in and encircle those they come across outside. They come in packs of three or more, and they are clever. They’re quicker than any wolf you’ve ever known, bigger and hardier too. They will try to strike fast by zipping in when you’re distracted, snapping and nipping at legs or trying to take quick bites out of arms before drawing back. They work together to bring their prey down, a solid unit of noise and teeth. They will hunt down those who hide inside, try to claw their way inside of homes and buildings — dead set on finding you and tearing you apart. There is no hiding from them. They will find you.

But breaking the pack can send them back. If they’re broken, their morale is depleted. Fire is your biggest friend: torches, campfires and flames will keep them mostly at bay and only the bravest of these packs may attack. Striking them with flares or flames will actually send them into brief retreats. Bullets and arrows are effective with both noise and injuring the wolves, and although hitting one will be difficult due their speed, it’s possible. Killing one of these wolves will dissolve the pack’s morale entirely, and the rest will flee off into the night.

Until next time. Maybe it’s best you don’t stick around. They do hold a relentless determination.

IT SPEAKS

There are whispers. Small, at first. Distracting. Perhaps it is only the wind you hear. Milton is so quiet, even with the new hustle and bustle of the new people to this place. Wood creaks and the trees rustle, there are plenty of sounds you could mistake it for.

‘Interloper.’ It is an old voice. Something deep and dark and ancient. Something impossible, older than the earth itself. It floats into your ears and nestles there, sending an ice-cold shiver down your spine. Even to the most stoic and unshakeable souls, it is a unnerving voice. It feels wrong. It feels like an ending. To hear the voice is deeply unsettling... and yet... you recognise it.

It comes to you, in the dead of night when sleep is far. In the long stretches of day as you go about your business, as you travel across the frigid landscape or gather firewood or try to pass the time within whatever home you’ve made for yourself. For some the voice will be clear as day, for others it may be some distant whisper — something gently murmuring in your ear. But the voice will be heard, no matter the person.

‘Interloper. Do you know what it means?’ It asks. ‘It means one that involves itself in a place it does not belong. You do not belong.’

That it isn’t the only thing it tells you. For everyone, it’s different. It knows you. It picks up on any weakness, any insecurity. It makes you feel small, insignificant. It tells you all the quiet, terrible things you hide down within yourself. For days, weeks, the voice is there. Speaking to you. It will wear you down, insist you are not wanted, that you do not belong here.

... And wouldn’t it be better if you weren’t here at all?

The voice seeks to break you. It will push you to your limit. Sleep will become hard to find, your spirits low and hollow. In time you might seem to believe it. Maybe it’s better if you weren’t here. You don’t belong in this place, why should you stay?

‘Disappear, Interloper. Go into the Long Dark.’

Perhaps you next find yourself atop the steep cliffs, looking down into the Milton Basin below. Perhaps you find yourself with a gun in your hand, or a rope. Perhaps you find your feet carrying you out into the snow. You’re going to disappear. You’re going to go into the Dark.

Or maybe the voice isn’t so loud. You can push it down, ignore it. Perhaps Faith is what keeps you steady, perhaps knowing who you are despite your faults stops the voice from taking over. Maybe you can help those who can’t block out the voice. Words of encouragement, affirmation, kindness, determination, even spite. The voice wants you dead, but you will not let it. You will not fall. You will not let anyone else fall, either.

FAQs

THE AURORA: AFTERSHOCKS

1. While examples are given, players are encouraged to come up with their own ghostly loops of similar loops. The key thing to remember is that the people of Milton have descended into public disorder. Fights, arguments and murders have occurred, as have suicides or other unexplained deaths. People are frightened. They want to leave the town.

2. Ghostly loops cannot be interacted with, only witnessed.

3. There is no way of putting these 'ghosts' to rest. These loops are more like residual memories, as if the energy of the townsfolk remained, and have been reconstructed by the Aurora.

THE HOUR OF THE WOLF

1. Due to the Aurora's influence, these wolves are harder, better, faster, stronger, than typical wild wolves. They do not die as easily, and are much more difficult to wound and kill. But not impossible. Scaring the wolves will be far easier to accomplish than killing them.

2. Wolves will return, sometimes more than once on the same night, or on other nights during the month. The only sure-fire way to have them stop coming back is to kill the pack or beat them back enough until they finally learn to leave the Interlopers alone.

3. Wolf meat is technically edible. But not advised due to parasites. Characters are still welcome to harvest the wolves they kill, however. Who would say no to a cool ass wolf cape.

IT SPEAKS

1. Characters can be talked down and broken from the voice's influence by others. Genuine connection and empathy will work massively, but even encouragement and affirmations to keep surviving will be powerful enough to break the voice's hold.

2. Players are welcome to play with the length of time the voice can be heard with characters. Some may want to have it over a short space of time, others can have this progress over a longer time period.

PLOTTING FORM

<b>Player Name:</b> Your name here. <b>Player Contact:</b> What’s the best way to reach you? <b>Pacing:</b> What's your monthly speed looking like? Explain it here. <b>OOC Limits:</b> Any hard limits for RP go here. <b>Character Name:</b> Your character name here. <b>Canon:</b> Your character canon here. <b>Wanted CR:</b> Friends? Mentors? Hunting buddies? Lovers? State preferences here. <b>Unwanted CR:</b> Not keen on romance? Mortal enemies? State preferences here. <b>Event Ideas:</b> Your event plotting here! <b>Anything Else?:</b> You know what to do.

EVENT POST

Comments

QUESTIONS

[singmod]

Ask them here.

[thephix]

Sort of a random question but! Since there's at least one farm in the area and the wolves may have preexisted whatever tragedy struck: would it be possible for Max to find a wolf collar if she went looking for one around the farm?

She'll just MacGyver one if she can't find one, but I figure it couldn't hurt to ask!

cheryl | zombie boy + angel girl

[burying]

Player Name: Cheryl
Player Contact: heolstor or _heolstor on discord.
Pacing: Wildly, I have been managing to keep on top of things, for the most part. I'm usually less active on the weekends due to work.
OOC Limits: Character death. I'm also trying to avoid maiming Kieren since he can't actually heal...

kieren walker | in the flesh

[burying]

Character Name: Kieren Walker.
Canon: In The Flesh.

Wanted CR: Anything and everything. Friends would be great. Kieren's a sarcastic little shit when he wants to be and is still just a teen, but also just having people to hang with. Anyone who's Not Quite Human would be dope. People to maybe teach him some survival skills? I'd love to build up some good CR with folks before it (inevitably) comes out that Kieren is in fact the undead. In that same breath, people who would actively freak out/be wary of Kieren when the truth comes out and building on that would be A++
Unwanted CR: I'm not actively looking for romance, just yet. Kieren's not really in the right head-space for it, considering he's not long after losing the love of his life.

Event Ideas:

— general Kieren has been keeping a very low profile since arrival. As a medicated Partially Deceased Syndrome Sufferer, Kieren requires a daily dose of a drug to stop him from going feral. However, due to the Aurora freezing this need in him, he doesn't need it. But Kieren doesn't know that. So he's been existing in a state of teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown about when he's going to turn rabid and attack people. He's been mostly keeping to himself, and trying to keep himself busy with doing menial tasks like gathering firewood and the like. So I'm down with him doing some general threads of him meeting people, still!

— the hour of the wolf Close calls? Attempted rescues of anyone else out in the streets when the wolves hit? Kieren isn't a fighter, nor can he do much to defend against the wolves — but he'd actively try to help people in need. Maybe if it's pulling people into buildings or trying to help defend buildings against the wolves. Or maybe if you just need someone to try and talk you down from a freak out (whilst he is also freaking out).

— it speaks Oh, boy. It's gonna be so easy for the voice to get at Kieren. It's worth mentioning Kieren's death in his canon is that of a successful suicide attempt. He's depressed and holds a lot of guilt for the things he's done in his untreated state. He killed and ate people, and he's not okay about that. He doesn't believe in getting a get out jail free card just because he wasn't medicated and didn't know any better. He's also already been considering the idea of being killed/put down in case he goes rabid here in game, because he's horrified of the idea of hurting people. He's going to need talk down. It's possible he might talk a little more about his condition (through half-truths) with others and his fears concerning that, so there's room for a lot of Feels, here.

Anything Else?:

grace marks | alias grace

[patchwork]

Player Name: bobby
Player Contact: crowders or PM
Pacing: i will be fairly slow this month – i'm submitting my thesis on the 30th so i'm crunching, but i'm hoping to fit in RP to give my brain a rest in between!
OOC Limits: none in particular for grace!

Character Name: grace marks
Canon: alias grace (book and adaptation)

Wanted CR: friends! people who can protect her from big scary monsters! folks who can teach her about the future! folks who are from similar timeframes to hers (1850s)!
Unwanted CR: no romance (at least nothing sudden) and no negative CR just for the sake of it – i am happy to play out negative stuff if it goes that way (grace is very judgemental on her part, and can be a little mean sometimes), but only if there's an angle/some idea of development.

Event Ideas:

pre-event — i'd like to throw up a prompt or two for before the event; grace has been helping to move the bodies, and otherwise would be seen sewing a patchwork blanket, so if anyone wants to jumpstart some CR or handwave a meeting so we can have pre-established things for when the event rolls around, that would be cool with me! another option would maybe be if someone found her neckerchief. she'd be very, very determined to get that back at all costs.
the aurora — grace will definitely have some spooky and ominous things to say about this. would love to throw her up against some more science-minded types, since she has Opinions about ghosts/spirits that i think would make a fun debate.
the hour of the wolf — grace will definitely be Running Away With Haste, but i would love to put her in a situation where she has to kill to defend herself and/or someone else and maybe goes a little wild about it, so if your character coaching a schrodinger's-innocent-convicted-murderess into killing a wolf is intriguing... hmu.
it speaks — grace will be extremely susceptible to this voice, and i think she might dramatically walk herself to a cliff and need to be talked out of throwing herself off it – it might be a good way to get some deeper CR going for a character to have to talk her down! and then once she's been talked down herself, she'll be able to help others.

Anything Else?:

[forasecond]

So here's a fun one: He's both a science type AND has a brother who can speak to the dead. I bet they could have some super fun convos about the weird ghost-y loops!

laus | just ken

[blondfragility]

Player Name: Laus.
Player Contact: blackspire or hit me on the Discord server.
Pacing: Listen ... Slow, mostly because I'm out of the country for 11 days, but I'm bringing my lil ipad with me so I can hopefully do a round of tags every day/every other day.
OOC Limits: Ken's too beautiful to die just yet, but otherwise I think I'm good with most other things.

Character Name: Ken.
Canon: Barbie (2023).

Wanted CR: All of it! Ken needs friends for sure, but most importantly Ken needs people who are able to keep him alive and maybe teach him how to keep himself alive?? He wants to learn the ways of soup.
Unwanted CR: Romance is off the table, he only has heart eyes for one person, sorry everyone. Also nothing aggressively negative. Ken can be a Lot for a person so a gentle negative CR or annoyance is fine, but I'm not interested in threads where he'll just be antagonized constantly.

Event Ideas:

the aurora: Ken will be so excited about the return of LIGHTS. Then less excited about GHOSTS. I'm leaning towards having the house he moved into have a couple spectres glitching on repeat that may force him out of his "home" in confusion and also probably a sadness he can't quite comprehend. Would love for him to stumble/run into someone as he tries to hastily escape, maybe find another place to spend the night with another person or persons, maybe talk about what the hell is going on with people who can put the clues together more than he can. Someone explain!

the hour of the wolf: Real talk I'm the least interested in this prompt but this seems moderately unavoidable, so! Someone will 100% have to rescue Ken if he has a wolf run-in because he is not at all equipped to do it himself. He has never wielded a weapon in his life and you can't beach off a pack of wolves probably. If someone is interested in playing hero, let me know, otherwise I'll be ~gently handwaving~ some very close calls.

it speaks: Given that Ken doesn't really know who he is beyond "I am Ken, I am a doll, I am Barbie's boyfriend", along with the way he was already feeling some deep set insecurities and mild existential feelings, this one will hit him good. He will genuinely believe that, yes, it is better if he wasn't here, because no one's ever really cared about him being there in the first place. He knows (to a degree) that he's largely superfluous and uncared about. May as well just wander out of the town and towards the woods ... The fact alone that someone might even care to stop him would honestly go a long way to him feeling wanted or validated.

Conversely, once he's over his own shit, he is an excellent hype man. If you need someone to talk some positive vibes into your character, Ken is your guy. He doesn't even need to know them to find some good and heartwarming stuff to say about them to chase away the voice.

Anything Else?:

Re: laus | just ken

[worthallthis]

Okay, one, Bucky here can absolutely rescue Ken from some wolves. And two, I feel like it might be a little hilarious to throw the two people who don't know how to people but in drastically different ways together. They will confuse each other so much.

[jackdawvision]

Player Name: Effy
Player Contact: mollymauktealeaf or foggytealeafs on Discord
Pacing: I tend to vary pacing-wise! most of the time I settle on a medium pace, though on occasion I may slow down.
OOC Limits: no eye trauma pls!

Character Name: Edward Kenway
Canon: Assassin's Creed

Wanted CR: while I'm satisfied with pretty much anyone, I'm also deeply keen on having Edward maybe teach people how to do stealth and parkour, and for Edward to learn new things in return, like how to use a semi-automatic handgun that he looted off a corpse. pls, he's used to flintlock pistols. I also want him to hang out with fellow old-timey people so they can boggle at electronics when the Aurora turns them all on somehow like what the FUCK.
Unwanted CR: no negative CR just yet! unless we can talk something out about that? I'm easy to persuade.

Event Ideas:

THE AURORA: after he gets over the shock of seeing a computer turn on in the room he's taken in some random abandoned house, he'll be quick to start investigating what's going on there for hints as to What The Fuck Happened Here. and then he'll come out and see the ghosts running around. mostly he's just going to watch the ghosts once it's clear they can't be interacted with, trying to figure out the mystery of what drove these people to such chaos and confusion.
THE HOUR OF THE WOLF: Edward's a skilled hunter who's fought off and killed crocodiles and jaguars in the past, if not exactly experienced in fighting wolves. once the wolves start coming he'll go around trying to pull people out of trouble with them, and I do want him to kill a wolf one time so he can skin that and just wear the pelt around as an extra coat. and, yanno, grab a couple of bones from the wolf body on the off-chance he can find ropes to craft rope darts with. that being said these are much hardier wolves than he's used to and he's only got one flintlock pistol and a semi-automatic handgun he's still new to, as well as his hidden blade, so he is also available for needing rescues!
IT SPEAKS: Edward will be hearing the voice...a lot. it won't be great. it'll bring up his years of being a pirate who thought of nothing but himself and how well that worked out for him (not well at all), and how he died and left his children behind, possibly even in the care of a man who he shouldn't have trusted at all. Edward's a stubborn guy, though, so he'll push back against the voice as hard as he can—probably loudly, whoops. he's available for talking people down!

Anything Else?:

[metaldad]

Din would be more than happy to help Edward kill a wolf! He'll even help him haul it back to Edward's place so he can skin it, if he likes, because Din is feeling very community-minded right now (and also thinks it's in everyone's best interests to keep the people skilled in combat like Edward happy and warm).

Bonus: Din has several weapons that would probably Blow Edward's Mind, like a laser blaster and a lightsaber lmao

justine | max briest

[thephix]

Player Name: justine
Player Contact: batsecretary
Pacing: I try to hit tags daily but there might be the occasional lag, and I'm down to boomerang if schedules align
OOC Limits: No character death, no major injury for the doggo

Character Name: Max (and Maurice)
Canon: Original

Wanted CR: People for her to get protective over, people who'll see through her bullshit, friends in general
Unwanted CR: Neg CR is fine but nothing too crazy off the bat, it's still early days

Event Ideas:
↼ pre-event: if anyone wants to handwave some interactions from the first few days in town let me know! max would've been in the community hall fairly often and would have been doing a lot of patrolling and searching for supplies. maurice makes her fairly easy to pick out of a crowd, since he would've been with her most of the time

↼ aurora: despite the risk max will be out trying to catalogue all the ghosts, so if anyone else is investigating that's an easy way to meet! she's going to be compartmentalizing like a pro so she'll likely come across as somewhat callous despite the horrific scenes

↼ wolves: who wants to be rescued by the goodest boy? as soon as the wolves start attacking, max will be out with maurice (reluctantly but she found him a wolf collar so at least there's that!) to help get people to safety. i'm down for team ups or rescues, she'll be running herself to the point of exhaustion to make sure everyone is safe

↼ it speaks: hoo boy this one's gonna be rough. max is kinda passively suicidal on a good day so having whispering little voices reinforcing all her shitty beliefs is going to be A Bad Time. the fact maurice is here will help, but she'll still probably need some help, which she's going to absolutely hate. people she's met before would probably the better option (even if that's handwave) but it could also be a very uncomfortable first meeting

maurice is also available for hugs if anyone needs them. he's good at picking up on humans being sad, so if you want an easy cr starting point, he's your boy!

Anything Else?: gifs are hard in mobile. remember when google image search actually had gifs and jpgs and not weird other formats. those were the days

[forasecond]

Maurice as an in for CR would be v. good, just sayin' 👀

Edward Little | The Terror

[fidior]

Player Name: Jhey (also I'm completely dumb and failed to include on my ooc introduction that I'm a Helper Mod here, doing Activity Check Business and proudly supporting our Captain Cheryl! Feel free to reach out to me any time if you have an AC question or concern.)
Player Contact: horreur / hagfishs @ discord / pm
Pacing: I run a little more slowly through the week, but have more availability on weekends.
OOC Limits: N/A

Character Name: Edward Little
Canon: The Terror

Wanted CR: I'm wide open to anything, whether it's exploring cr and seeing what grows organically, or trying to find An Angle to play around with! Some specific beats that I'd enjoy: others from around his time (1840's) he can vibe with, those from modern times to teach him new things (he'll be very anxious and no fun at all), perhaps those with modern medical experience to take a look at him... others with military training, people he can nanny in his nervous but resilient way...

Unwanted CR: N/A

Event Ideas:

general — Lieutenant Little has been spending his days keeping busy and trying to be useful (inbetween bouts of debilitating dissociation and horror that he has to just kind of Take Time to get Through). He'll have been doing patrols, checking corpses to see if any are his men (and subsequently helping with corpse disposal), checking in on people he's met here so far, and trying to locate a man named Cornelius Hickey, have you see him As the days go on, he's going to be defaulting to trying to keep some kind of order, which may or may not fail miserably! I'm down to thread out some first meetings or cr-building things, whether inbetween event shenanigans or as a part of.

the aurora: aftershocks — I would deeply enjoy (potentially lighter-hearted) opportunities for the sensible Victorian naval officer to be exposed to electricity and other such modern inventions.... please help him learn what an email is. I'm also very much here for doing things with the "ghosts" — Edward is carrying heaps and heaps of guilt with him, and already halfway thinks this may be some Hell he deserves to be in. Witnessing people's final moments playing on loop will be Impacting to him for sure; it could be an interesting point of conversation / potential for some heavier or thoughtful talks with other characters.

the hour of the wolf — While Edward is hardly A Fighter, he'll be doing whatever he can to help keep people safe against the wolves. He does have his shotgun with him here, but it's very low on ammo. I think it'd be very fun to play out some holing up against wolves, finding ways to scare them off, etc.

it speaks — Ned will be extremely susceptible to this, due to that aforementioned "heaps and heaps of guilt" he is carrying around with him, as well as plenty of self-loathing and shame! I can very much see him reaching a point where he's at his limit, and probably will intend to use his shotgun to do the job with. If anyone is interested in stopping him, that could be a meaningful thread. Alternatively, I'd also love for him to help others down from their own ledges (whether literal in this case or metaphorical) — probably after he's experienced and survived his own.

Anything Else?:

[castitas]

I am Looking Politely 👀 at this soggy wet dog of a man.

[bestsir]

(Now with correct account!)

Player Name: Karin
Player Contact: Plurk finalprogramme or discord
Pacing: Usually most active during the week, pokey on weekends.
OOC Limits: None really.

Character Name: Harry Goodsir
Canon: The Terror

Wanted CR: Literally anything. Someone to teach this boy about germ theory, vitamins, and about almost any modern medicine and technology. Friends who can help him with his guilt feelings and general misery.
Unwanted CR: No preferences or dislikes.

Event Ideas:

• Aurora: Harry is a science guy, but at the same time he's seen some wild shit, and ghosts may actually not be the worst thing he's experienced. He will be studying what he sees, however, and trying to make sense of it all, and to deduce what he can of what happened here before.
• Wolves: He can patch up anyone who gets hurt but he probably won't be good in a fight. May also experience flashbacks to monster bears.
• Voices: hahaha oh this one will be the worst. Because wow, does he ever have a lot of guilt and misery to poke. He may need some help.

[rescapee]

I'd love for La'an to meet Cinnamon Roll Goodsir, either for some Aurora sciencing or patching up post-Wolves, if you'd be up for either!

kates | cornelius hickey

[friendsfordinner]

Player Name: Kates
Player Contact: either plurk or discord @ allikateor!
Pacing: I'm a pretty consistent back-tagger, so even though I've got a work conference smack dab in the middle of the month (yay.......), I don't see it affecting my speed.
OOC Limits: none really!

Character Name: Cornelius Hickey
Canon: The Terror

Wanted CR: friends, people he can get into fights with, people who he can impress with his Arctic survival knowledge (it is mid at best), anyone remotely from his time period (1840s), anyone not from his time period who would be willing to deal with so many invasive questions about what the fuck an airplane is.
Unwanted CR: unless your name is Edward Little or Harry Goodsir (or you've spent a lot of time having a heart to heart with Edward Little or Harry Goodsir), I don't want anybody calling Hickey out on the full extent of his shit. like yeah, he's a sketchy little creep, but at the moment, in-game, he hasn't really progressed beyond 'sketchy little creep.'

Event Ideas:
The Aurora: guys what the hell's a computer.

The Hour of the Wolf: Let's! Kill! Dogs! Hickey will definitely try to fight back against the wolves and also definitely eat some of that wolf meat. If anybody wants to find him vomiting or shitting his brains out behind one of the houses, I'm up for the world's worst thread.

It Speaks: Hickey has a good long history of horribly misinterpreting "get the fuck away from here" as "whatever this is, it thinks you're special." That is only going to get worse with 'It Speaks.' Of course the voice wants him to disappear. It recognizes him! It sees just how powerful he is! It thinks that he's a threat. He's going to block out the voice by the power of sheer delusional ego so.....a win, I guess? If you need any of your characters talked down, he can happily do that because gosh, isn't he just a nice guy, helping people out, being a good dude, you should trust that Mr. Hickey fellow.

Anything Else?:

[fidior]

These two definitely need A Talk soon, as Edward is (kind of) finally going to be giving up on the idea that Crozier could be coming around..... I'm still sorting out exactly where his mind'll be at with that, but I think he'll probably come to the conclusion that Crozier and everyone else are just.... dead...

In any case, he can't keep Trying to Find & Subdue (lmao as if) Hickey.... so maybe they could bump into each other / be forced into a situation where they're in the same place again / etc. and have a little chat that doesn't involve Little pointing his gun at him!

ALSO, no worries about the extent of Hickey's Crimes being spoiled by Nedward, he hasn't told anyone any details about Hickey and atm definitely doesn't know all of it himself. In chats with Goodsir, some things (read: The Cannibalism) might get exposed at some point, but even then, Edward realises he is so far out of his realm here and I think is going to be extremely careful who he tells things to... If anything, he'll mainly just be fretfully keeping an eye on Hickey to make sure he doesn't hurt anyone.

(I'm also laughing thinking that some part of Ned might not even be able to fully believe the cannibalism stuff 100% since he didn't personally get to see any evidence of it for himself....)

balsam | alyson ronan

[acraftygoblin]

Player Name: Balsam
Player Contact: balsamandash or PM. I'm on Discord as balsamandash, but may take longer to respond there.
Pacing: Uncertain! Some stuff's come up, but I do think I'll be around regularly.
OOC Limits: No character death right now, but anything else, including damage, goes.

Character Name: Alyson Ronan
Canon: Tell Me Why

Wanted CR: I am wide open at the moment. Friends are great; she's not great at the hunting or fighting, but she'd be happy to learn if someone wanted to teach her, and she can offer help with some more practical stuff (sewing, cooking, making a fire, fixing small things). She's going to try not to make enemies, so negative CR would probably be limited to quietly avoiding somebody, but I'm still open to it if you have ideas.
Unwanted CR: She's not a good option if you want an enemy who will physically fight back, but anything else goes.

Event Ideas:

general/pre-event -- Alyson's staying in the hall for now, so anyone else who is or who's there regularly might have seen her around or said hello. One of the things she has from home is a sewing kit, so she's been scavenging for clothes that can get fixed up, and will have left some of them out in the hall with a note that they're free to take. If anyone's been looking for some patching up, they might have noticed her sitting around doing that.

the aurora: aftershocks -- She's gonna be freaked out by the ghosts and curious about them in equal measure, so you can find her standing around just watching some loops if you want someone to discuss them with or freak out more viscerally at. Aly's also gonna go exploring when the tech comes to life, and she's from 2014, so if any characters from another time want someone modern-day to go poking around with, that could be some fun.

the hour of the wolf -- She's not a fighter, so she's much more likely to end up cornered by wolves, or huddling indoors hoping they don't get in. I'm very down to have her saved by someone, or otherwise huddle and freak out with somebody else -- she could also maybe patch someone up a little? Saving others isn't likely.

it speaks -- Speaking of needing rescue. Alyson has a whole bunch of guilt; it's not going to be hard for the voice to get under her skin. A lot of that's going to have to do with her brother and her mother, so she might open up about some of that after being talked down, though she probably won't tell anyone everything. Cliffs or walking out to freeze are the most likely way for this to go. After she comes down, she'll also be available to help other people! She's a good listener and generally pretty accepting, so I'd love to have this one go both ways.
Something to note is that Aly canonically has panic attacks related to the issues that are likely to be involved here. There will be a few early on, and even after she's talked out of it there might be some residual episodes while trying to help others, so if that's a problem for you, please either skip this one or let me know so I can tone down any descriptors.

Anything Else?: me @ all of the interlopers:

[forasecond]

Handwave-y/intro things... Five doesn't live there, but he DOES go into the community hall and leave notes when he's going off on some random exploration venture for the day that's outside of the immediate surrounding town areas. Could have come across each other this way so we can handwave the very first intro-y meeting, if you like :3

Hannah | Eddie Munson

[satanicpanics]

Player Name: Hannah
Player Contact: muttonchops, poultrylegs @ discord
Pacing: Should be relatively steady!
OOC Limits: N/A

Character Name: Eddie Munson
Canon: Stranger Things

Wanted CR: Pretty much whatever, but especially friends! The only guy here who should know him doesn’t really remember him and it is very upsetting. It would absolutely help him to learn a bit more survivalism too.
Unwanted CR: Shrugs

Event Ideas:
The Aurora oh thank god the electricity is back, excuse him while he either tracks down an amp to play his guitar (however briefly) or rigs something up. So get ready for the concert of your lives, Terror crew. He’s also a master at hot-wiring vehicles so if you have any desire to drive but can’t find keys, he’s your guy. THE GHOSTS? Less exciting, those will definitely freak him out.

Wolves he’s definitely having a wolf run in, and he is not particularly brave when it comes to that kind of shit so someone saaaave him. He can swing a stick around, but he’s also already injured so he would like to avoid being more injured for the time being.

Voices THIS ONE is really going to get him, because as loudly as Eddie is willing to admit any of his own weaknesses and flaws, it’s a little different when you’re outright berated for them. The voice will definitely bring up the fact that he’s a failure, and he couldn’t even succeed at dying, the fact that he’s still always running and always scared, and it will definitely dredge up some still-lingering guilt. The fact that Eddie knows who he is and ready accepts his faults will help him not need talked off of any cliffs, but he’ll definitely be pulling a lot of “LALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU”

Anything Else?:

[forasecond]

Want an old man to grump at you for being so LOUD at this UNGODLY HOUR while you're doing a quick jam sesh, Eddie?

[forasecond]

Player Name: Kayla
Player Contact: loyalwolf | HMD
Pacing: My main tag days are Tues-Thurs, my schedule is overnights from 8pm-6:30am Fri-Mon. I'm a little random & sporadic, but if you'd like to set up boomerang time with me, just lmk and I'll try my best to be available!
OOC Limits: Warnings for eye trauma, kid/animal harm/death, no killing Five at this point in time thx~ otherwise, open for p. much anything!

Character Name: Number Five
Canon: The Umbrella Academy

Wanted CR: Exploration buddies. A cartographer he can pester. People to network w/ about what you've found in whatever places you've searched/investigated/etc. Fellow paranoid assholes & conspiracy theorists. In general, I'm down to clown for any/all kind of CR across every positive/negative spectrum you might want and I anticipate some folks to not get along with him. I welcome it! Hit me with whatever.
Unwanted CR: No shipping for the 58yr old in the 13yr old body, thx. Otherwise, pretty open to anything at this point.

Event Ideas:

pre-event: Five has set up something of a lil message board in the community hall with the idea that if you're running off to explore something somewhere, you give ppl a heads-up & sign the note you leave. People know the general direction you've gone and to go searching for you if you don't come back by (arbitrarily chosen time, or whatever here). Maybe your dude saw him setting it up, or has taken note of all the notes he's left on it since he started his own personal exploration lmfao

Also: if anything over here strikes your fancy, hmu. Or if you want to use "child stands on chair & makes demands" bit from the "organizing" prompt from his TDM post as a jumping-off point, feel free!

aurora: Definitely gonna play with the weird ghost-loops, here. He'll wanna compare notes on this with what other people see played out in other loops and try to pull some clues together somehow!

wolves: If someone wants him in on their wolf times, hmu? I'm not gonna write a prompt for it, myself!

voices: OH BOY! This is right up my alley and Five will Not Be Okay, while also insisting Everything Is Fine, Why Do You Ask so... have fun with that. I'll have to decide what things the voice digs at... the "you do not belong" is actually a good button-press for him anyway b/c hoo boy he is out of place in so many ways and not just here in Milton. Other possibilities are not being Enough to save his family/the world from ruin. Def gonna find himself in some dangerous situation or other, if someone wants to do the savior thing with him, use spite, it's fueled him for decades tbh

Anything Else?:

[moralabsolutism]

Two paranoid assholes comparing notes could be a possible thing? Rorschach is pretty observant and has already started writing down his findings in his journal.

Tim Gutterson | Justified

[walkingtrigger]

Player Name: Lae
Player Contact: Plurk or DM to this journal
Pacing: I have periods where I can sit for and boomerang for hours, but then I have days when I can't get back to my computer at all. Usually Sundays and the weekday mornings are my boomerang periods.
OOC Limits: Death, maiming, mind control

Character Name: Tim Gutterson
Canon: Justified

Wanted CR: Friends, hunting buddies, people who need protection, other military types.
Unwanted CR: No romance at this time

Event Ideas: I kinda wait to see the event log and let TLs hit me as they come.

But off the top of my head I know Tim will want to be involved in either encouraging people to set up fires to keep the wolves at bay, or he is happy to follow the directions of anyone who is working towards that goal. Town and group security will be his main focus.

To that end I offer him up to help stop any characters who might find themselves in the thrall of the "It Speaks". So if anyone needs talked away from a cliff or any other self-destructive path, Tim is here to help save you from yourself.

[solitarysoul]

levi is a fellow military type and he will definitely need help when the voices start

amy | la'an noonien-singh

[rescapee]

Player Name: Amy
Player Contact: taintedcrimson or "taintedcrimson" on discord
Pacing: This month should be pretty active for me! I really want to establish La'an solidly in the game, so I'll be doing my best to stay on top of things. Work is a bit stressful this time of year, but I have evenings and weekends mostly free.
OOC Limits: None at the moment!

Character Name: La'an Noonien-Singh
Canon: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Wanted CR: People she can trust! Whether that's friends or simply others who are serious about protecting this freaky little town they're all trapped in. (Especially wanting to work toward her trusting someone enough to tell them she's from the future.) Possibly also something in the romance department, though she just lost someone right before her arrival here, so it'll be something we'd need to work up to.
Unwanted CR: No mortal enemies just yet! La'an can rub people the wrong way and be blunt as hell, but not looking for anything extremely negative.

Event Ideas:

PRE-EVENT — I've got an open post for these days, if anyone would like a quick thread with La'an to establish something before everything goes to hell. Since I really hate handwaving first encounters, that's off the table, but you can feel free to have your character recognize her from her patrols around the town multiple times a day.

THE AURORA — La'an is going to be documenting and investigating everything she possibly can. Without a tricorder to take readings of the phenomena, she'll have to rely on good ol' observation skills, which is much less efficient, but it is what it is. Expect her to get frustrated with the ancient computers and useless radio, specifically search for the "ghosts" that match some of the bodies she's buried, and get into debates about the potential science behind all of it. (She's not a scientist (and neither am I), but Starfleet Academy requires a lot of high-level science for graduation, so she knows some stuff.)

HOUR OF THE WOLF — Since day one, La'an has been waiting for those wolves to make their way into town. Frozen landscape, fresh warm prey within reach, it was bound to happen sometime! (She does find it very unfair that they have to be Aurora-ified wolves, though.) As such, she will absolutely be out trying to fight/scare them off while getting civilians to safety. She'll help out people who need it and/or go full Chief of Security mode and start issuing orders — if you'd like your character to be on the receiving end of either, happy to accommodate!

Some additional context for La'an and this Wolf Situation: By this point in her canon, she has survived multiple encounters with vicious alien lizards called the Gorn who are extremely intelligent, relentless hunters from birth. (See this video for context!) She first encountered them when she was 12 years old and her family and the rest of their colony ship was massacred by the Gorn, which has shaped her driving need to Protect Others. So, if your character needs protecting... She's your woman. (Of course, I play the fighty action lady when I am terrible at writing action scene...)

IT SPEAKS — La'an is going to be one of the people who can push aside the voice and immediately work to help others through this experience. She has spent two decades working through survivor's guilt, PTSD, and feeling like an outsider, including recently speaking with a therapist about these issues, so her stubbornness and sense of self is going to allow her to push through, assess the situation, and try to assist others in getting through it. Who wants an untrained therapist with terrible people skills who genuinely cares about the wellbeing of others?

Anything Else?: I'm totally willing to have La'an be injured during these events, just nothing that can't eventually heal with what they've got access to.

[thephix]

wanna fuck up some wolves, new friend?

Bucky/The Asset

[worthallthis]

Player Name: Gail
Player Contact: cacopheny @ plurk or PM this journal
Pacing: I tend to manage a round of tags once a day, unless it's close week at work which means I am more busy and more braindead than usual so I might miss a couple days there.
OOC Limits: I have a mind control squick, so any events with direct mind control or mental manipulation, Bucky will be the unaffected straight man to everyone else's problems.

Character Name: Bucky, currently going by the Asset because names are hard
Canon: MCU

Wanted CR: Anything and everything please. He needs people to look out for and start to care for. Also he needs someone to help him come up with a name :B
Unwanted CR: No romance for the time being, as he is unable to really even understand it right now. Also I'd prefer no overt manipulation right now, if possible. He needs to build some trust in people as a whole.

Event Ideas: The asset is extremely good at shooting things. And also being large and dangerous. And has a metal arm that attacking animals can't damage. He is gonna be great for the wolves prompt. Also, ironically, it turns out having literally no self-esteem or even sense of self will make the voice... not very persuasive. So he's here for all your rescue-from-suicide needs.

Anything Else?: Nah

[moralabsolutism]

Hello quiet asset person, can you be a pal and shoot a few wolves for the guy who gave you socks? He can only set so many of them on fire himself.

din djarin | the mandalorian

[metaldad]

Player Name: Cosmo
Player Contact: cosmonautdelta or PM
Pacing: I generally try to do a reply every couple of days or so!
OOC Limits: Graphic depictions of self-harm or suicide

Character Name: Din Djarin (though everybody in town only knows him as 'the Mandalorian')
Canon: The Mandalorian

Wanted CR: Din is slow to any kind of relationship, but he is pretty much instantly respectful and polite toward most people (unless you're a bad guy, or you've stolen his stuff). That said, he could definitely use some friends, even if he's prone to long silences and not offering much information about himself. He pairs especially well with talkative people, and people who don't mind his tendency toward not saying much. For the right person, he can be quite chatty! Basically, wanted CR is: friends, other people who want to patrol the town with him to watch the perimeter, hunting buddies, people who will muse endlessly about the mystery of this town so he can interject occasional theories, and people who have need of the meat he's going to be catching here and there.

Unwanted CR: The only kind of CR I don't need is romantic, because he's already got one hell of a slowburn going! Other than that, I'm open to anything. Want to be scared of the guy because he's imposing looking? Go for it. Want to hate him because he's a bounty hunter who's taken lots of lives? Go for it!

Event Ideas: Ever practical, Din has no time for ghosts, so he will largely be engaging with subsections two and three:

⸻ Hour of the Wolf: Din is going to be a massive asset for the town's protection here. He has a variety of weapons, and though the power won't work too well for his lightsaber it'll still cut a wolf down if he's lucky! Once he gets wind of the attacks, Din will be making town protection priority number one, and will be standing guard at the town's most obvious entrances ready to fend off attacks. I'd love combat threads with other characters, or threads where he rescues someone from being chased and/or swarmed!

⸻ It Speaks: Due to having a huge crisis of faith at the moment, Din will be susceptible to the voices, and might even get convinced by the voices to go wander into the endless snow to be one with the Long Dark again. If anybody wants to rescue a guy who's feeling real unhappy about breaking his creed, I reckon that'd be fun!

Anything Else?:

[rescapee]

We've discussed it before, but these two 1000% need to meet. Do some patrols, go hunting, protect people... Basically, would Din like a bestie?

And for actually event-relevant content, they should do... something. I'm terrible at writing combat but my fighty girl demands I struggle through for this event. Not sure how well she'd do at talking someone down from a crisis of faith, but she could check on him in the aftermath.

Beth | Thomas Richardson

[missionem]

Player Name: Beth
Player Contact: Discord or Plurk at terriblepurpose on both.
Pacing: I aim to tag my threads once a day, sometimes slightly slower or faster.
OOC Limits: I'd like to keep him alive for at least one month (unless it's really, really entertaining not to), and otherwise my permissions and opt out are here.

Character Name: Thomas Richardson
Canon: Apostle (2018)

Wanted CR: I'd like to have him meet a person who knows how antibiotics work so he can have some of those. Beyond that, would love to keep developing his TDM acquaintances: tentative allies, early friction, and more. He's a difficult person, generally speaking, but thanks to survival pressures is at least attempting to be civil. Civil-ish. Civil for certain allowances of the word civil.
Unwanted CR: None!

Event Ideas:

➤ General Thomas is, medically speaking, 'mangled to fuck'. With the power of jamjar magic, the deepest parts of the injuries he received from being stabbed are closed up and his insides are in the process of healing, but his hand is still just as mangled as it started, he's picked up an infection in his side wounds (maybe from being dunked in a lake, who knows?), he has mild frostbite from his trek into town, and he's in withdrawal from opiate use. He can survive, but he's going to need help, which he will not love. Preventing him from dying will mostly involve treating his infected wounds, keeping him fed, and making him rest.

➤ The Aurora Thomas took over a dead man's house and stuck his body in a shed out back. He'll be witnessing the events of this man's death (a quiet suicide) in his feverish deliriums. Not necessarily something that will get threaded out unless someone wants to do a 'caretaking Thomas in his house' thread, but it'll be referenced throughout the month as he thinks about that.

➤ The Hour of the Wolf This man cannot fight wolves right now. He should not be allowed to try. What he can do is offer a refuge in his stolen house, or hole up with other characters elsewhere as they wait out the pack or strategize escape. He's good at staying relatively functional under pressure, while also being willing to do very stupidly dangerous things at the drop of a hat - so if you need a distraction, you can have one. Maybe he'll still manage to get lightly mauled after all!

➤ It Speaks Thomas will be convinced he's largely immune to the voice until he isn't. He's grappled with the question of refusing to go on before, but has clung to life out of motives that are partially obscure even to him. If death wants him so badly, it's free to come and take him - and he knows he has no place in the world as it is.

This will last until the voice begins to suggest that there's a way for him to find a place he does belong. All he has to do is go out into the wilds and lie down on the earth so it can take him back.

I'm up for him to provide the worst pep talks in the world to people he comes across on the verge of succumbing to the voice, and interested in threading out someone coaxing him out of the dirt. I think the 'out of the dirt' one would be a great chance for someone to get some info on some of the buckwild canon times Thomas had right before showing up in Milton.

Anything Else?:

[castitas]

Points to all of this.

YES.

I am soft for caretaking threads (even with bonus suicide ghostly things, which would absolutely throw in some extra pain/drama for Kate), but also I'm lowkey snorting at Kate just very wearily trying to coax this grown ass man out of the dirt..........

Levi | Fear & Hunger 2: Termina

[solitarysoul]

Player Name: Cirape
Player Contact: ConnectiveTrick discord @ nvrknwsbst (feel free to ping when im in DnD status, it usually means im on mobile and may or may not be available, if im not ill get back to you)
Pacing: Evenings and weekends I can get up to boomerang speed sometimes. work a day job, but if work is slow i can often tag in the afternoons. mondays and tuesdays are sometimes bad
OOC Limits: No death, or injury that'd need significant hospitalization.

Character Name: Levi Jořdán
Canon: Fear & Hunger 2: Termina

Wanted CR: Any and all. The boy needs friends but I would also be amused at how confused he'd get with parenting/big siblinging of him. Negative CR is also good but ive got no wishlist there
Unwanted CR: Nothing really, but any shipping will be slow burn

Event Ideas:
General/Pre-event: Levi's been "scouting" (read: aimlessly wandering) around town since shortly after he's arrived, so people may have seen him. He stands out somewhat because he has a rifle but looks too young to use it. He's also yet to claim a house, just napping in random houses or stores when he needs to. If your house is not obviously claimed he might try to sleep there too <<;
I have a pre-event log here

The Aurora: Aftershocks: Levi is essentially from 1942 (au'd so some tech differences here and there) so he's good with electricity but more advanced tech will confuse him. Back in his day TVs were huge boxes that only had black and white, and computers were virtually unheard of.
The ghosts will be a problem, though. He'll be convinced they're monsters and will hurt them. Fun fact, in funger PCs are all assigned a phobia. My first Levi run, which is history is mostly based off, he got fear of ghosts. Oh boy 8D

The Hour of the Wolf: The last canines Levi fought were headless dogs and a huge wolf with swords sticking out of it, so these guys're nothing. Do to limited ammo he'll only be shooting them if it will directly save someone, but he's handy with a kitchen knife in fights too. He'll start out hiding, but that won't sit well with him so he'll go outside to scare off or hunt wolves as needed.
He is also available to be saved cause thats fun too.

It Speaks: Okay I'm gonna need help here. Levi carries around much more trauma and guilt than any 18 year old should, so the voice will be particularly effective. And since his self-confidence is near 0 at normal times he's gonna need someone to talk him down.
Also there will be a LOT of crying. That might go for all prompts though.


Anything Else?:

[missionem]

I'd be interested in tossing these two together! I'm not canon familiar outside of 'very bad things happen in Fear and Loathing', but very bad things happen in Apostle too, so hey, point of similarity?

nikolai lantsov — grishaverse

[ravkas]

Player Name: eden
Player Contact: pm or add me on plurk (eloquents) if you want super cr
Pacing: i'm slow but i prefer longer meatier tags because of the slowness
OOC Limits: my only ooc limit is i can only write brackets, otherwise gimme all your trash

Character Name: nikolai lantsov
Canon: grishaverse (books)

Wanted CR: everyone. friends, enemies, people he can sniff and want to eat, ANGSTTTTTTT etc. i would prefer any romance to develop slowly and organically, so who knows! he's a bitchless slut with no game.
Unwanted CR: light fluffy things that aren't going to lead into something deeper/darker/angstier, i might limit this to like one thread maybe depending on the mood but generally i don't do well with this

Event Ideas:

— THE AURORA — i'm going to have a little think about what nikolai will see the auroras doing, but i'm very down for him and your character seeing something horrific together! a character being triggered into violence or some other Bad Reaction would be fun (heh) to play. nikolai would try to help them.

— HOUR OF THE WOLF — nikolai is absolutely going to be fighting the wolves, he is very much the Reckless and Heroic Leader Type (tm). i would be interested in playing out the later days of the wolf attacks after they've figured out that fire scares them. also very interested in nikolai protecting people, so if you have a character that can't fight, he's here for you! also love hurt/comfort so please come to me for wolf injuries, bonus points if they're both injured because nikolai will act like it's a flesh wound anyway.

— IT SPEAKS — for this prompt i love the idea of having this progress over a longer period of time. nikolai has a lot of fortitude and no self-esteem despite being the most arrogant man on earth, so he's used to faking being okay. he contains multitudes and i want him to suffer. i actually don't want too much of a positivity/affirmation vibe because honestly no one here really knows him, but i would like someone to save him from a suicide attempt, i do realize this makes little sense but it be like that sometimes. on the other hand, nikolai is very much a positive puppy of a person when it comes to others and will absolutely attempt to convince your character to live, so i'm here for that too!

Anything Else?: nikolai does get cravings of bloodlust and bouts of animalistic behaviors due to being host to a shadow demon, however i don't think he will actually eat any humans or animals this month. maybe next event, as a treat. permissions are linked on his journal.

[thephix]

hello hello!

i know that offering multiple options is the least helpful but honestly i could vibe with a wolf heroics team up (with bonus injuries), since max is going to be doing a lot of that and i think they're both pretty strategically minded. they could try to work on some longer term deterrents together

OR

something with the it speaks prompt. max might be good for helping snap nikolai out of it because she wouldn't go the positive route, she'd go for the "we need to help each other survive out here and killing yourself isn't going to solve any problems". especially if you wanted to handwave that they've seen each other out and about being productive and helping people

rei ayanami | neon genesis evangelion

[alef]

Player Name: floral
Player Contact: moonlanding or discord DM! you can find me in the game discord.
Pacing: Medium-slow; I usually aim to tag back threads around 2-3 times per week but I'm very reachable for OOC plotting.
OOC Limits: None for me!

Character Name: Rei Ayanami
Canon: Neon Genesis Evangelion

Wanted CR: Pretty much everything! Rei isn't close to too many people back in canon, so pretty much all CR will cover some unfamiliar terrain with her, which I'm excited about. I enjoy postive and negative CR - Rei can be blunt and eerie, so if our characters don't get along, that's fun for me too! Rei would find things in common with people who are introverted, who feel like they don't belong, or feel weird about their sense of self. I'm also very down for mentors and extroverts to take Rei under their wing, because she can be pretty quiet!
Unwanted CR: Not super interested in romance at the moment.

Event Ideas:

general: Rei has taken up residence by herself in one of the abandoned Milton houses. Since then, she's been going about her own business and mostly scavenging while keeping to herself. I'd love to handwave some first meetings in which Rei sees your character, possibly observes your character for some time, but does not approach your character. Rei is fairly shy, so that's pretty IC for her, but not always the most riveting to play out, hence the handwaving.

the aurora: Rei's house was formerly occupied by a father and son, and their last moments will be gentle and sad. There will probably be hugging. Rei will watch it on loop, and it will make her feel weird. (Read: sad.) I'm down for conversations about this, and Rei is also of course able to watch ghosts with other character and offer her own strange take on these events. Note that watching the father-son vision with Rei could bring up some discussion of child abuse and child endangerment.

the hour of the wolf: Rei is not particularly strong or fast for someone her size, but she is pretty damn fearless, and used to fighting threatening monsters from her giant robot. Waving a torch at a wolf? Peace of cake. I'd love to have Rei rescue some folks as a way to kickstart some CR, and this can also be a good way for characters who might already know her to learn more about what it's like to pilot an Evangelion!

it speaks: Massive content warnings for suicide, suicidal ideation, depression, and child death on this one. Rei will hear the whispers, which will lead to her spending dangerous amounts of time outside. Rei's coming into this game already feeling like she doesn't belong, and she has a history of depression and suicidal thoughts, so it will be difficult for her to realize anything is amiss. She can be convinced to go inside and warm up though, and characters who reach out and try to help will mean a lot to her, even if she doesn't really understand why they're doing it. Alternatively, given Rei's experience with these sorts of feelings, she's available to give the same help, although her delivery of it will definitely be a little unconventional.

Anything Else?:

[solitarysoul]

i am interested in cr with another traumatized solider-type :3

Anna | Mohinder Suresh

[strongnarrativevoice]

Player Name: Anna
Player Contact: layonmacduff, annalizabeth @ discord
Pacing: Can be a little slower, but steady.
OOC Limits: please don't kill my dude

Character Name: Mohinder Suresh
Canon: Heroes

Wanted CR: All kinds! Mohinder could desperately use some friends, though he's not the best at making or keeping them. I'm especially interested in getting him set up with subjects to study, so if your character had Awesome Powers back home and would be willing to talk about those Awesome Powers, Mohinder is here to listen and take eager notes.

If your character is a Science Type who is accustomed to doing Science without the benefit of electricity, I'd love a sort of reciprocal info exchange! I'd also like to have him help out the doctors with whatever they might need.

Unwanted CR: I think the only kind I'd really prefer to avoid is negative CR that doesn't have the chance of someday becoming more positive. Mohinder's a prickly sort who's likely to rub some people the wrong way initially, but he does eventually warm up and try to do better.

Event Ideas:

Aurora: I haven't figured out where Mohinder is living yet, but I have the thought that he might be moving out of wherever he is because of a ghostly loop that might particularly disturb him or hit close to home, maybe brings up some daddy issues to prime him for It Speaks.

Whatever it is, he'll be searching for a new place and could possibly become someone's new neighbor or even roommate, depending on who's looking for what.

Wolves: Mohinder has a gun and will absolutely be trying to shoot these things. He may even hit one, because as the guy he recently killed back home can attest, his aim is pretty good.

If someone else starts a wolf-hunting party, he'll join it, though he's unlikely to take initiative to start one himself and will otherwise probably be trying to help tend people's wolf-related wounds. And if someone else kills a wolf, he'll really want to study it, so that could be a possible thread!

It Speaks: This is the prompt that completely validates my canon-point decision, because boy howdy would he be a mess if I took him from the spot I usually do.

ANYWAY, he's not going to be suicidal and will therefore be in a better position to try and help talk people down, which he will do to the very best of his ability whenever he encounters someone in bad shape, and may take it upon himself to search for people in crisis to make sure they don't hurt themselves.

Unfortunately for everyone who is not in that situation, Mohinder is never more needlessly rude and short-tempered than when plagued by the kind of self-doubt the voice will be prompting, so just...sorry, in advance.

Anything Else?:

[thephix]

hey. touches ur face.

does mohinder wanna help max thru dealing with The Voices so that he can learn a little more about who/what she is without having to spend months building up trust

this prompt was truly a cr cheat code and i love the mods for it

[babysitters]

Player Name: katy
Player Contact: pm / ~stalfos on plurk or you can disco me if you like!
Pacing: i am back to school, so i am still getting back into the swing of things. i might be a little bit slower until i get back into the routine of being up at 6am. my plan is to not top level but tag out/maybe do some closed starters for people to get things moving cr wise.
OOC Limits: i'm game to talk about most things, ngl! i'm not really looking for steve to die his very first event though.

Character Name: steve harrington
Canon: stranger things / dead by daylight

Wanted CR: steve mostly needs friends rn. he is probably going to shack up in the hall for the time being, the most amount of people there and he doesn't like to be alone if he can help it. I MEAN IT WHO WANTS TO CUDDLE PILE he is game for a CUDDLE PILE??? a cute thread with all our depression. so yea friends, and then people to help temper his recklessness. because he is very, very reckless!!
Unwanted CR: i'm game for most things i think!

Event Ideas:
THE AURORA: AFTERSHOCKS
because of his upside down experiences, the whole messed up technology/flickering lights will REALLY set him on edge. he sucks with computers as he is an 80s boy, but going through a computer of unsent emails has fallout teas that i love, so if anyone wanted to team up for that? or he is here to be Very Freaked Out and witness some ghosts, he'd def love that. (no)

THE HOUR OF THE WOLF while not everyone is canon familiar with dead by daylight, the long story short is the guy was trapped for months/years in a place where he died many, many, many, many, MANY TIMES. he was revived after. death starts to feel like less of a deal when it never sticks. steve learned to be very reckless and self sacrificing, like, even worse than usual. this sort of behavior could 100% prove fatal around here if left unchecked!!! but he's also a lot more battle hardened than he used to be. he's run leatherface around a small shack for sport, ok?? the culmination of this being: i think he'd def try and help fight the wolves, IF someone is in trouble and needs help, OR he'd join someone who looks like they already know what they are doing. this could lead to him getting carelessly injured or not, or surprisingly vicious for an 18 yo hoosier. game for either!!

IT SPEAKS steve is more suited to being a backup dancer on this one. he will have some stuff going on — survivors guilt, abandonment, insecurity, blah blah blah, but he's REALLY good at squishing his damage into a tiny box and doing his best not to worry about it. so he can worry about other people instead!!! let me know if you want an 80s himbo to try and pat ur chars back and tell them they are pretty cool actually.

Anything Else?:

[rescapee]

Steve... Steve, no. This is not the time to be self-sacrificing. Death is permanent, you don't get do-overs here!!

Translation: If you would like Lieutenant "Not believing you're gonna die is what gets you killed" to look after him at any point during this mess, I am very here for it.

barbie | barbie

[birkenstock]

Player Name: zelly
Player Contact: thwip or PM!
Pacing: i generally try to get a round of tags out every three or so days, but i will admit that i am mostly a weekend rper and i absolutely love boomerang sessions so if you're around on the weekend, hit me up!
OOC Limits: no deaths! and nothing especially gruesome. if you're ever unsure about something, please feel free to contact me so we can discuss. communication is key!

Character Name: barbie
Canon: barbie (2023)

Wanted CR: as this is the first event in the game, i don't want to close myself off from any kind of possible cr combinations. i would love friends, mentors, learning to even hunt, maybe some light flirtations, really — i am good for all of it.
Unwanted CR: the only thing i'm going to say no to is negative cr for negative's sake. i love a good complicated enemies-to-friends scenario, but the conflict and tension needs to have a point! i'm also going to say no to romance, though harmless flirtations are a-okay.

Event Ideas:

the aurora
— maybe some aftermath discussions of what they'd seen, how they might (or maybe can't) relate to the ghostly scenes of the residents in their last moments?
— maybe some mutual freakouts? decisions to Make A Plan for how to not repeat these visions in their own lives?

the hour of the wolf
— someone to save barbie? she needs a hero!
— maybe after a close call, someone to teach barbie how to protect herself? she's a very quick learner and also very capable once she gets over the nerves of 'OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING' and 'I CAN REALLY TRULY ACTUALLY DIE???' and she can also learn to be her own hero, and a hero for others!

it speaks
— someone to metaphorically (or literally) talk her off a ledge; this existentialism stuff isn't something that can be solved overnight, and she's freshly minted human so it's actually probably even more scary than it ever was because it's oh-so-very permanent!
— someone who needs her to talk them off a ledge; she's really warm and kind and very earnest and genuine and once she gets a feel for the kind of person you are, she's more than willing to help guide you to a much better place!

general
— i am also down for honestly anything else outside of the above! this is definitely barbie's first horror situation, so she's going to be pretty freaked out and anxious and trying to keep it together so catch her during a freakout, or maybe she can help your character out because now she can absolutely relate!

Anything Else?:

[thephix]

would barbie like to meet murder barbie bc that's honestly the kind of vibe that max has going on

max could definitely do a rescue from the wolves, or something with it speaks, she tends to be pretty gentle with other ladies so she could help talk barbie down from the ledge

Rorschach | Watchmen

[moralabsolutism]

Player Name: Shade
Player Contact: Light_shade or .lightshade on Discord
Pacing: I try to get to tags a few times a week, dependent on my work and homework load.
OOC Limits: No death or limb loss for the hobo superhero right now. I'll let you know if anything else comes up!

Character Name: Rorschach
Canon: Watchmen

Wanted CR: I'm up for it all! He definitely needs friends, socially awkward as he is, fellow fighting types he can team up with for patrols and situations that require murder, people who he doesn't get along with, people who wear strange masks too, and people he's determined to protect. Romance isn't a complete no (I'm open to both m/m and m/f) but even getting him to basic human interaction is gonna be a tough sell, so that would be the slowest of slowburns.

Unwanted CR: That type of CR where a character exists solely to antagonize and snipe the other without suffering any sort of consequences for it. Negative CR is fine but I'm not here to have my character just be a punching bag for others to whale on.

Event Ideas: The Aurora: Aftershocks: Rorschach will be fascinated by the ghosts in a detached fashion and be taking careful note of what's going on but that will change if he finds one that gets under his skin. Things which are likely to make him start feeling something for the ghosts are any child ghosts or violence towards women. Definitely a good moment if you want to get him to talk a bit more than his usual three-word answers.

The Hour of The Wolf: So Rorschach is very good at improvising weapons [points to icon], so anyone who needs him to fight off some wolves, he's got your back with a blowtorch made out of some hairspray or spray paint and matches. He's gonna be doing his utter best to turn these fuckers into crispy critters, so if you need someone to rescue you, he's your guy. He could also definitely use some help on this one since he's only one crazy vigilante and there are a lot of wolves and he'd preferred not to be turned into a chewtoy. If anyone kills one, he wants its carcass for a wolf pelt cape, thank you very much.

It Speaks: With all of the self-image issues Rorschach has and the way he tends to dwell on his failures, he's gonna need someone to talk him down off the ledge. Really, he secretly craves connections with people, so anyone who shows him just a little bit of sympathy will be able to snap out of it.

Alternatively, if you want him to try and be an actual person with feelings who can talk with yours and manage to help them out, that can be done too. Though I'm not gonna guarantee how successful this will end up being, he will still do his best and try.

Other Stuff: Right now, as far as general CR opportunities, he's been patrolling the town pretty regularly. He generally can be found up on the roofs of buildings or in trees observing people since he's apparently part-squirrel with how easy it is for him to get into high places. Occasionally, one can see him scribbling in a journal in a handwriting that is practically illegible with how messy it is. Since he's good at scrounging for supplies, he'll share whatever he finds with people if they're around. He's completely paranoid, so he's rotating between three different abandoned cabins that are scattered all throughout Milton. A good moment to catch him a little more vulnerable is burying any bodies he comes across.

Anything Else?:

[symptomatic]

i seem to recall that rorschach may or may not need a DOCTOR who is a WOMAN (even though she is technically not a licensed doctor as-of canon point, ahem). aurora aftershocks might be an interesting way to get these two chatting, unless he might need more immediate medical attention, if you have plans for him getting ever so lightly maimed?

roy kent | ted lasso

[finefurryfella]

Player Name: Cathy
Player Contact: DM or pp me at spied
Pacing: Not the fastest. My days off vary every week and I'm more inclined to tag on those days because I can be kinda tired after work. But I'm happy to boomerang to finish a thread quicker though, just let me know.
OOC Limits: No death for the moment.

Character Name: Roy Kent
Canon: Ted Lasso

Wanted CR: He needs friends (though whether he'll ever use that title on anyone is debatable). He tends to banter/make fun of the people he likes (and who he doesn't like come to think of it) if you like CR like that. I'm happy for him to clash with anyone but (reluctantly) grow to like them, since that's happened to him in canon many times. He can be a mentor/protector for others in the form of a grumpy uncle/grandad.
Unwanted CR: nothing really comes to mind but I'm not here for instalove.

Event Ideas:

THE AURORA: AFTERSHOCKS: Roy is gonna think he's lost his mind at first when he starts seeing ghosties but I do think he's open-minded to supernatural happenings because he believes one of the rooms at his football club is cursed by spirits. He's probably gonna be spooked because I think actually seeing people in their final moments is gonna bring up a lot of issues he has surrounding death (the person he was closest to, his granddad, died when he was young and I don't think he ever properly grieved over him in a healthy way, so he jokes about death to hide how uncomfortable it makes him).

THE HOUR OF THE WOLF: I think it would be cruel for Roy to be maimed by wolves when he's already got a knee injury - saying that, his injury definitely hinders him because he's not particularly fast when it comes to running, so he'll be an easy target for wolves. I'd love for him to have a narrow escape and be saved by someone. And I'm sure this could happen more than once.

IT SPEAKS: Oh boy... um, this voice kinda already exists in his head?? He's a lot better mentally these days, but there was a time when he just retired from playing football and he was in a pretty bad place. Football has been part of his life since he was nine years old. When you take that away, he feels like he's nothing. He's got a lot of insecurities, especially from the break-up of his last relationship (he was so in love he turned into a "clingy fucking fridge magnet", and now I don't think he'll get close to anyone without thinking he's being annoying). He's got some good people in his life back home to remind him that he's not worthless, so he's gonna need someone to talk him down here. Roy is weirdly obsessed with rope in his canon (a shibari kink perhaps???) so I think rope will be fitting in getting rid of himself.

Anything Else?:

[babysitters]

Roy the child you never wanted is here and he is determined to cause trouble 🥰❤️

if Roy needs saving from a wolf Steve is happy to. and he will also attempt to be like "bro you seem cool" if he needs some talking down!