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July 2024 Event Plotting

JULY 2024 EVENT

PROMPT ONE — THE AURORA: REDUX: A storm finally arrives, and with it — Enola extends her hand to help the Interlopers once more, granting them new abilities.
THE AURORA: REDUX — CONTENT WARNINGS: supernatural/extreme weather; lightning storms; potentially disturbing dreams; dreams of being trapped in ice; dreams of animal death; dreams of the death of loved ones.

PROMPT TWO — PENSIVE LOOKOUT: With the Forest Talker efforts focused on sabotaging hunting efforts, Interlopers can attempt to explore the Pensive Lookout Tower, where they can uncover secrets from the diary of Sam Bouchard — the former firewatch worker of the summer of 2014.
PENSIVE LOOKOUT — CONTENT WARNINGS: themes of terror; themes of diminished sanity; themes of starvation.

PROMPT THREE — A PEEK INSIDE: A group of Interlopers get their hands on one of the Forest Talkers in search of answers — and get a little more than they bargained for.
A PEEK INSIDE — CONTENT WARNINGS: themes of kidnapping; imprisonment; self-starvation; blood/minor injuries; psychological torment, supernatural abilities.

THE AURORA: REDUX

WHEN: Mid-month, for three days.
WHERE: Everywhere.

July brings warmer weather. The fog has lifted, and the daylight returned — but an odd kind of pressure lingers in the air, the kind that feels similar with oncoming storms but something still feels off about it all. Measurements and readings are erratic, with them often making little sense. It’s hard to predict just what might be coming, but sure enough something is coming.

Hold on a little longer, Enola told you. A storm is coming.

It comes quickly, the gathering of storm clouds. At first, it looks as if a kind of snowstorm is moving in, but there’s something else at play here. Within the grey, cloudy skies, there is a tell-tale sound of an Aurora mixed within those clouds.

And with it, in amongst the dark, the swirling colours. Greens, pinks and purples weaving through the clouds, almost mesmerising to watch. The air is alive with sound: static noise, cracks and pops: a storm and the Aurora mixed into one. For those who’ve been here long enough, it’s a worrying, unnerving sight. The storm rumbles with the low roar of distant thunder, growing ever closer. The electronics of the world begin to come alive, and in the static of it all — you begin to hear Enola’s voice even clearer than before.

After so much darkness, now there is so much light. A lightning storm — aurora colours mingling with the grey clouds, punctured with crackles of lightning. Something powerful and strange — flash forking across the skies, followed by booms of thunder.

The storm lasts three days, and even though her voice is soft — you hear it over all the noise, nestled gently in your ear.

“You're still here. It means something. This isn’t the end, I refuse to let it be the end. It can’t win. You won’t go into the Dark.” Enola tells you. ”I will make you more than what you are, more than what was stolen from you. This place will not be your end. I have to try. We have to try. Together. I showed some of you, once. I’ll show you again.”

She tells you to sleep. For some, they recognise this and realise what may end up happening. For others it feels like going out on a limb. But you sleep, and perhaps a dream may come to you.

COLD FUSION: The colours of the Aurora dance around you in your dreamscape. You dream of a great hall of ice: as if it had been carved into some great ridge of it. You walk through it, marvelling at the beauty of it — a blue gloom, echoing with each of your footsteps. But as you take one particular step, the ground cracks and collapses beneath you, sending you into dark, frozen waters. In seconds, the water freezes around you, encompassing you in thick ice, your entire body trapped within it. The coldness burns you, and you are stuck there — frozen in agony. The pain is immeasurable, your entire body crushed and searing from the ice. There is no escape, no reprieve.

A voice speaks to you, perhaps it is the voice of a stranger, perhaps it is the voice of someone you know: Do you know how you survive the cold?’ They ask you. You do not know, and you wait for the answer: ‘You become colder than it.

Your eyes close. You believe those words, you do. You must become colder than the cold itself. And so you will. Your breathing slows, your heart slows and the cold… it stops hurting, it doesn’t burn. The ice around you begins the crack.

When you awaken the first thing you realise is despite the temperature, you are completely cosy and warmed. You do not feel the slightest chill. It is perhaps only once you are around other than you truly notice the difference to you — you are cold to the touch, lacking the heat you once had. An understanding comes: you are at one with the cold, it will not beat you, it will not cause you agony. Winter is at peace within you: perfect Cold Fusion.

MOON TOUCHED: The colours of the Aurora dance around you in your dreamscape. You dream of running through the silent woods at night. The moon is full above you, the air is calm and still. Hunger draws you forward, everything is so sharp and vivid in your senses, even in this dreamscape. You hear the crispness of the snow beneath your feet, smell the scent of the pines on the air, feel how warm you are against the coldness around you.

The snuffling of a rabbit catches your attention, and you swiftly leap after it, jaws opening and closing around its neck as you capture it. You bite down hard, feeling the crunch of its bones as they break, the sweet coppery taste of blood filling your mouth and nose. You lift your head towards the stars, blood on your tongue. You realise you are not a person at all, but a beast on all fours: a wolf, content and filling your belly with meat.

You wonder, for a brief moment: were you ever a person at all?

You do not know the answer to the question. You do not seem to worry about such a thing but there’s a flash of warning on the air. Something you cannot quite place, but you know that you should not forget it.

When you awaken, you feel… different, somehow. Everything seems a little sharper, as if the world around you had been dull, or behind some pane of frosted glass. With it comes a strange balance of calmness and chaos, tameness and wildness, fear and bravery. You find yourself looking for the moon in the skies and when you finally find it, it hits you — this is what it means to be Moon Touched.

INTERLOPER’S SACRIFICE: The colours of the Aurora dance around you in your dreamscape and then fade into nothing. You dream of kneeling in a darkened, charred wood. You are not alone. In this dreamscape, you dream of a loss, or a time you have never felt more helpless in your life. Perhaps it is when someone you knew died before you, or you stood as someone was sick and injured and you were unable to do a thing. As you kneel, they are there with you: sick or dying or even dead in your arms. You cannot do anything but hold them, and the helplessness is overwhelming.

You look up and a woman in furs stands before you, her expression solemn. Enola herself. There are tears in her eyes, as if she shares the very pain you do: the loss, the grief, the hopelessness, the powerlessness. She approaches you and lowers herself to kneel in front of you and your companion, bracing your shoulders for a long, lingering moment. There are no words, none from neither of you.

Enola shifts slightly, leans forwards. She kisses your forehead, much like when a parent kisses their child: sweet and tender.

And then you feel it, as if you are set alight: an agonising pain that encompasses you whole — so painful you cannot even open your mouth to scream. You feel yourself growing weak, the corners of your vision blurring into black. It feels as if you might die from the pain, and you want for it to stop but it doesn’t.

Enola pulls away and you gasp, slumping in exhaustion, but still alive, somehow. You stare at her, sweating and clamouring for breath, and she offers you a sad smile. Never again. you feel the words inside of you. This time, it will be different. Better.

When you awaken, you can still feel the kiss upon your forehead — enough to make your fingers reach up to touch it, your entire body tingling a little. A small voice in the back of your mind whispers, reminding you as you find yourself looking down at your hands: never again. Never again, you tell yourself and the comprehension comes to you: you have chosen. This is what it means to be: this is your sacrifice. The Interloper’s Sacrifice.

NOTHING: The colours of the Aurora dance around you in your dreamscape, but only for a moment. The edges of your vision begin the blur with black, slowly closing in until everything goes dark and you fall into a deep, dreamless sleep. You awaken, and although you feel rested, as if the dreamless darkness has helped you feel a little more ready to take on the day — nothing else about you has changed.

PENSIVE LOOKOUT

WHEN: The month of July.
WHERE: Pensive Lookout Tower, Lakeside.

The Old Hunting Lodge is located in the southern-most area of Lakeside, and its surrounding area is generally considered no-go territory with the presence of the Forest Talkers. As June turned into July, the Forest Talker’s presence in the wilds of Lakeside has begun to grow again — but their efforts appear to be focused on sabotaging the efforts of Interlopers, Methuselah and Young Bill in hunting fresh game. If anything, it could mean that with attentions drawn away — perhaps the braver sorts of the Interlopers can explore the area a little more fully.

There’s little in terms of buildings of interest in this area. The wilderness is thick and deep here. Perhaps the odd ransacked cabin once belonging to a local may be stumbled across — its contents picked clean, presumably by the Forest Talkers. Many of these buildings will be completely inhabitable due to the damage done — with some cabins being razed to the ground.

However, on higher ground, with a good hike to access it, stands a watch tower.

These lookout towers could mean a number of things: a chance to access supplies that may have otherwise been forgotten about due to the hike to get up there, a better view of the surrounding area, and the possibility of a radio — given the sign of a radio transmitter that can be found blinking a feeble red on Aurora nights.

With the snow on the ground it’s a little more treacherous, but given the circumstances, anything’s worth a shot, right? Those who attempt the hike may fall foul to slips and trips along the steep slow to reach the tower, and should take care in the ascent. Even with the warmth of July, it’s difficult. One might hope this might make the place a decent outpost, if you think about it. Somewhere hard to reach, and with such a vantage point.

Reaching the tower and climbing it to its interior will it largely intact but a mess. Someone has lived here for some time. Interlopers will find no food here, but some useful tools that belonged to the lookout: binoculars, maps, a compass, an alidade. There is even a radio sat upon a desk, and with it — a journal.

The journal, Interlopers will find, belonged to a man named Sam Bouchard — the firewatcher for the season during the previous year, detailing the months of his arrival and ending in November last year. It is unknown what happened to Sam, but his journal will perhaps offer some insight and even some information.

A PEEK INSIDE

WHEN: The month of July.
WHERE: The Gas Station, Milton.

The Forest Talkers have a long history in the Northern Territories, long before Interlopers started arriving in Milton. Champions of nature, they have sought to put an end to the industries and tourism-related expansions in the Lakeside area, first peacefully and then… not-so-peacefully. But with the events known as the ‘The Flare’ last year, Forest Talkers have been… acting peculiarly, disturbingly, aggressively.

There are plenty of questions to be asked. But the Forest Talkers are difficult to communicate with. Previous attempts have ended up in aggression or being ignored entirely. And now, even with the events of the previous month coming to an end — game remains difficult to find, and Forest Talkers are keen on sabotaging any attempts of hunting made by Interlopers, Young Bill or Methuselah. And more importantly: what is the yawning grave?

It starts as mutterings between tired and disgruntled Interlopers. They need answers, and there’s got to be a way in trying to get some. They’re hungry and exhausted and so many of their numbers are now dead. Those mutterings grow, and soon enough a plan is put into place. A small group of Interlopers embark into Lakeside and wait.

Soon enough, it bears fruit. A man is captured, bound and blindfolded — quietly and secretly brought back to Milton to be held up in the unused Gas Station to be questioned. It is not the leader, but surely one of them is better than no one at all. He is injured, but not enough to kill him. It will prove challenging in trying to get answers out of him, but soon enough the Interlopers will get him to talk.

News of the Forest Talker in their midst will inevitably spread, as most things do in small communities. Secrets are hard to guard. It won’t be just those behind the kidnapping who might end up coming across the man being held in the Gas Station.

Anyone who goes to investigate will find the man sat on the floor in quiet contemplation. Attempts of conversation will be met with long, silent stares — holding your gaze for an uncomfortably long time. He will spurn any gestures of kindness: spit on the floor at Interloper’s feet, refuse any food offered — as if the man has chosen to starve himself in protest. He says nothing, at first.

But after some time, he will look into an Interloper’s eyes and utter something. A word. A phrase. It may be a name, or a place. It may be a specific thing an Interloper has read, or been spoken to by someone. Something that holds meaning to the Interloper. It may be the name of a loved one from home, or the last words ever spoken to you by a friend. Something the man shouldn’t know.

Whatever it is that he speaks to you, it is not something that will fill you with hope or fondness to remember — but quite the opposite. A reminder of something painful, of a loss, or some other thing that caused you misery. As if he had reached right inside your mind and plucked some painful part of your past from you and spoken it to the wind.

The Forest Talker smiles, and will say nothing else. The damage has already been done.

FAQs

THE AURORA: REDUX

1. The next three Aurora Feats are unlocked! Please see the following page for more information.

2. Aurora Feats are completely optional.

3. Interlopers will only receive ONE Aurora Feat. The only time this is available is this month. After July, players will have to wait for the next Feat round for another chance at an Aurora Feat.

4. This Aurora/storm will last a full three days, darkening the skies almost to night.

PENSIVE LOOKOUT

1. Interlopers who dwell in the lookout for the next Aurora will find the radio works, albeit poorly. They will be able to pick up the same broken morse code message.

2. There are no signs of blood/injury that befell Sam in the lookout. It appears he made good on what he wrote on in his journal and attempted to leave to get to Silverpoint.

A PEEK INSIDE

1. While only a small number was involved in the kidnapping itself, anyone can discover the fact there's a Forest Talker being held in Milton.

PLOTTING FORM

EVENT POST

Threaded | Flat

For players who expressed previous interest last month: Interlopers trying to interrogate the Forest Talker may do so under this top-level. Please fill out the following form, and replies will be written.

Open to any players who discover the captured Forest Talker. A vote of sorts. What should be done about the Forest Talker? Please pick from the following options, and comment to this toplevel.

— Release the Forest Talker
— Kill the Forest Talker
— Allow the Forest Talker to join the Interlopers
— Keep the Forest Talker prisoner until the Forest Talker dies, either by starvation or dehydration.

Planning on killing someone? List 'em here.

A link to the Interloper Masterlist can be found here.

Ask them here.

Player Name: Laus.
Player Contact:

blackspire or hit me up via the game Discord.
Pacing: Slow, but consistent.
OOC Limits: Please do not kill my mans, otherwise I'm whatever~

Character Name: Scratch.
Canon: Remedy Connected Universe.
Aurora Feat: N/A (yet...)

Wanted CR: As usual, everything. Obviously coming off that sham of a trial, he has a reasonable idea of where he's standing with everyone, and truthfully he's not upset about it. But he's not against playing to the General Public's idea of everyone getting along. He's also not against starting to sow chaos. So I'd like CR that falls into both categories. Give me positive CR, give me negative CR, give me tentatively-working-together-for-a-common-goal CR.
Unwanted CR: Don't be an asshole just to be an asshole. I like negative CR but not if it's just tagging a brick wall.

Event Ideas: Pretty chill plans, but! I do have some desires for some people to go along with him in certain parts

Redux: I'm leaning towards cold fusion. I think it plays more into the narrative I'd like to keep moving towards. I'm looking for continuous ways to gently set him away from the group and cause vague alienation, and I think the other two feats offered this month will give him too much opportunity to find ~connection~ and that's not what he's about. He doesn't give a damn about any of you enough to want to heal you :(

Pensive Lookout: I would enjoy doing something with this. That said, Scratch is based in Milton so would need a reason to wander to Lakeside to get on this.

**Seeking** someone to invite him along for the trip for whatever reason OR someone to give him a reason to go to Lakeside. It's just a long trip is all!

A Peek Inside: I want Scratch to get his hands on the forest talker. I'm not talking about grievous bodily harm, but I would like him to get a bit not nice towards the hostage. Just some light bodily harm. But he's very aware that it's going to be difficult to get time alone with said forest walker. But I want him to get unsettled by the guy.

**Seeking** people who will let him just do it. Someone else has to feel pretty indifferent towards the forest walkers and like a little violence in this town. OR someone who will keep watch outside to let him do his thing.

Alternatively if he can't get on his own to do questionable things, then I'd like to have him at least be in there with others and just be Really Weirdly Good at being sort of intimidating. He doesn't have any questions himself but he can be good backup for others if they need someone who isn't afraid to push boundaries. The Forest Talker will say Scratch's real name to him (not Scratch, but a name that's so old and ancient that to human ears it just sounds like radio static/a record scratching), so if anyone wants to be around to hear-not-hear that and go ?? then that's also great.

Anything Else?:

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Player Name: Cirape (or Maddin)
Player Contact: discord @ nvrknwsbst or

ConnectiveTrick
Pacing: usually fast, i try to get back to tags within a day but sometimes i cant. can boomerang and will backtag into infinity. day job est
OOC Limits: No death, no smut. maybe warn for suicide

Character Name: Levi Jořdán
Canon: Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
Aurora Feat: Free Runner; will be getting Interlopers Sacrifice this month

Wanted CR: Yes
Unwanted CR: Nothing, really

Event Ideas:
Pensive Lookout
Levi will readily volunteer as security for any expedition headed to check out the tower. He spends most of his time in Milton, but no reason the idea of a trip couldn't coincide with the week he's over there. ~~Or after he starts building defenses on that side of the mine.~~
He knows of morse code from his time in the army, so he'll be able to recognize that's what the message is in. He doesn't really know any of it though (except SOS maybe), so thats not all that helpful. I figured we've got to have someone who actually knows morse, but if anyone needs hints on trying to figure it out he can at least point them in the right direction.
Since the hike to the tower is dangerous, if anyone wants to get hurt and let Levi heal them let me know! I kinda want to get him injured and forced to rest so him taking on someone's injuries and then pushing himself too hard sounds like a good way to do that.

A Peek Inside
Since they voted down the kidnapping idea Levi's not gonna be happy that someone's been taken anyway. He didn't like the idea in the first place anyway. Instead of confronting the talker or anyone about it, though, he'll step back up his defense building efforts. They slowed down a lot during the events of last month, but he'll be getting back to it once he's done grave digging. After learning of the talker he'll be looking for people to help him build a barricade/guard post by the Lakeside mine entrance, and probably some smaller posts inside the mine. Maybe traps? I dunno, feel free to give him ideas.
Bringing supplies through the mine is too much trouble, so the Lakeside entrance's barricade will likely be mostly made of scrap and rocks from over there.

Anything Else?:

Player Name: Cheryl
Player Contact:

heolstor or

_heolstor @ discord.
Pacing: Slow. I'm pretty much taking it easy this month and just working on getting through my inbox. The last two months have been a whole lot for me IRL.
OOC Limits: Character death.

Character Name: Kate Marsh
Canon: Life Is Strange
Aurora Feat: Aurora Call. She's starting to get a better handle on it and use the ability to talk to others, particularly others with Aurora Call. But... if you've heard prayers/bible readings/hymns in your head since January, 100% chance that's been Kate. Sorry, guys. Also new addition: Interloper's Sacrifice.

Event Ideas:

— general Kate is.... not doing so hot, fam. June was a rough time for her. She was punched in the face by Chloe, which gave her an absolute shiner of a black eye. She was then later almost strangled to death by an NPC Interloper, with Edward Little shooting the NPC dead before he could succeed. Her physical wounds are healing, but she's still pretty fucked up from it all and still dealing with the fallout with that.

In addition, Heartman died — who was a kind of father-shaped figure in her life. While his death was probably as kind as it could be, she's absolutely devastated and was even left a letter from him, along with a photograph of Heartman with his family.

— the aurora: redux Kate's getting the Interloper's Sacrifice trait. In the dream she has about it, she's going to be dreaming about Heartman being the loved one who's dead in her arms. That will... also gently fuck her up a bit. I would also like to have her try this new Feat out too on something small. Maybe a small cut, or something along those lines. Just for her to get a taste of her new Feat and also... have her potentially spiral a little bit since she's getting this Feat after Heartman's death.

— a peek inside While I have nothing solid about this one, and it's really just an idea of something more than anything — as Kate does go about foraging, it's possible she might accidentally stumble across the whole kidnapping situation and see that someone's been held in there by Interlopers. And yes. Yes, she would absolutely narc.

Anything Else?:

Player Name: Dem
Player Contact: ping @ game discord,

jigglyballs or PM
Pacing: Probably medium to slow. I usually respond at least once in 2-3 days, and my timezone doesn't lend itself well to boomeranging. If I'm feeling a thread I might reply several times on the same day, and if life is kicking my ass I might be scarce until the weekend.
OOC Limits: Not interested in character death at this time. Please warn for detailed/violent eye/tooth gore and hospice/advanced terminal illness mentions.

Character Name: Levi (Ackerman, but I don't think he gave anyone his last name yet)
Canon: Attack On Titan
Aurora Feat: None so far! Still thinking about what (if anything) to get for him this month; so far leaning toward Interloper's Sacrifice.

Wanted CR: He's still fairly new so everything honestly! Friends, peers, mentees, troublemakers to discipline or break up, kids to mother hen over, nerds to teach about survival (you can check his app for what he's capable of), buddies to hate cops with, malewives to obsess over cleaning with, fellow old timers that would join him in gawking at modern technology, sparring partners, you name it.

Enemies/rivals/negative CR/people who just don't stomach him well are good with me, too (he's not difficult to dislike!), though I'd prefer to keep it from escalating into serious levels where the characters would want to outright kill each other. Petty gripes, unflattering gossip and/or some thrown punches are all fine.

As a note; he has killed someone during last month's event under Darkwalker's influence, and he will be taking part in the kidnapping plot this month -- this might affect some characters' perception of him!

Unwanted CR: I'm not against shipping if the chemistry is right, but it can take a lot of work as he's preoccupied with survival and is somewhere on the ace spectrum. I'm more than fine with characters showing interest in him, this is just a blanket PSA that it may not lead anywhere.

Event Ideas:

THE AURORA: REDUX - I'm still thinking about it! Honestly I can make an argument for any (or even none) of the available abilities... I'm currently leaning the most toward Interloper's Sacrifice. I think it makes thematic sense considering his mindset and his character arc in canon. Plus it's funny to give the combat guy a supportive ability. (In the dream he would probably be seeing his dear friend/commander who died in his arms back home.) My second choice is probably Cold Fusion, and I might go for it to keep available Interloper abilities varied as it seems to be the less popular choice at the moment, but I'm still pondering if I might want Levi to get Lightbringer in the future, since the two can't coexist.

PENSIVE LOOKOUT - Levi is probably spending even more time at Lakeside this month as he's trying to have some distance between himself and other people (at least until someone tells him about the talismans), so he's absolutely checking out the tower! I'm up for our characters meeting there. He'll definitely be reading the journal, too.

A PEEK INSIDE - Levi's taking part in the kidnapping and interrogation! Oopsie. Look, it usually worked for him before. More details here and here. Regardless of who actually instigated it, he'll probably feel responsible if things go to shit. Other characters can absolutely confront him about it, but he probably won't bother explaining or defending himself other than stating that it was the best course of action to him with the information available at the time. He has that problem where he doesn't care if he comes off as likable, despite being an actually decent person, so this might result in him making some unfavorable first (second?) impressions and everything that comes with that... Or hey, maybe your character also thought it's nigh time somebody did something.

Anything Else?:

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Player Name: Tea | Contact Post
Pacing: Slow, as I'm backtagging and am slated for aftermath things already.
OOC Limits: No spider pics

Character Name: Louis de Pointe du Lac
Canon: Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
Aurora Feat: Free Runner. He's very good at it, but he gets vampire hangry.

Wanted CR: Positive and negative CR are fine with me.
Unwanted CR: I'm not looking to publicly out him or drive him underground this month. Louis's heart belongs to someone already. Louis won't volunteer for actiony stuff in general since he got stabbed last month, though that doesn't prevent him from accidentally getting into Situations.

Event Ideas:

Aurora Feat: Not sure, but Sacrifice seems to be the pick if I go for it. Other vampires are always making fun of him for being too empathetic. How much does he want to give? How much does his caring human nature war with the cold vampire killer? Louis desperately wants to have regard for human life ~~because he wants to feel good about himself~~, but he also sees strangers as less important and he just sucks!

A Peek Inside: Holland March will witness the Forest Talker prisoner say something to upset Louis, who punches him and leaves. Good job Louis!! This will not stay secret. Feel free to have your character know

Anything Else?: Louis is also doing an aftermath/apology tour per his CR Meme post. I'll have an open prompt at the General Store for that, but feel free to suggest they meet elsewhere or just tag in with a different location.

Player Name: Bri
Player Contact: PM,

ThriceWiddershins or thricewiddershins on discord
Pacing: I am definitely on the slow side, but I’ll backtag until the heat death of the universe.
OOC Limits: Character death and non-con

Character Name: Zoey Westen
Canon: original character
Aurora Feat: Lightbringer; she’s been working on fine control since the moment she realised she had a new power, and has been experimenting on what she can do with it. (She’s probably set up, or WILL set up, some targets for practice.) She will be getting Moon Touched this event.

Wanted CR: FRIENDS! Definitely friends. Found family (or the starts of it, of course XD). Hunting/exploring/patrol buddies. Information gatherers/research partners, because she 1000% has an information wall started in her home (and she’s been using another wall for a map). Sparring buddies. Absolutely not opposed to lovers/romance (let her SMOOCH PEOPLE) but that’s probably going to be a slower burn sort of thing that she’s not going to be consciously seeking out or thinking about at all, at least at first. But ~~if it fits I ship~~ if there’s chemistry and things go that way I’m so here for it. Maybe roommates in the future? She’s going to have to know someone a little first though. Also she will be building a still, MASH-style.
Unwanted CR: Negative CR for the sake of negative CR. Negative CR for a reason is fine! Although I’d like the chance to slow burn that to something a little less negative if possible. No mortal enemies, please.

Event Ideas:

The Aurora - Redux: WOLF TIMES! She is going to be absolutely fucking delighted (while it doesn’t replace the whole seer thing, it’s still IMMENSELY fucking great), and set off immediately to try and figure out the ins and outs of wolfhood. Also will probably be going to Bigby because he’s the only wolf she knows, and she trusts him implicitly. (Also he’s the BEST wolf. XD) Both to get help with her newfound wolfiness, and to go LOOKIT I’M A WOLF ^_^ ^_^

Pensive Lookout: 100% count Zoey in for going to the lookout tower. She’ll probably make a copy of the journal and add it to her information wall. (Also adding the area to her map.)

A Peek Inside: I don’t know if Zoey’s going to learn about the Forest Walker, but if she DOES I’d be here for her getting unsettled as fuck. Still trying to decide. Leaning towards no for the moment, though.

Anything Else?:

Player Name: Karin
Player Contact: Discord
Pacing: Slow; trying to get back on the RP horse after a couple months of ... stuff.
OOC Limits: None really.

Character Name: Harry Goodsir
Canon: The Terror
Aurora Feat: Aurora Call

Wanted CR: All the things. Friends, not-friends, people who need help with things medical, fellow science nerds ... literally anything.
Unwanted CR: He already comes pre-packaged with a mortal enemy, but otherwise no preferences or dislikes.

Event Ideas:

State of the Harry: Harry spent the last month on autopilot, taking care of people and also kind of watching the assorted chaos and awfulness unfold. As a result he's kind of gone to ground—avoiding people except to offer his medical assistance. It doesn't help that he also saw Enola, and that—combined with everything else—really triggered all his guilt and trauma around Silna. So that's where he is when July hits.

Aurora Redux: Kind of leaning toward the Interloper's Sacrifice, as I think it mikght be a way to get him back on track. God knows he has no shortage of helpless losses to choose from, but given everything, I kind of like the idea of his dream being of Silna walking away. That moment is kind of a nodal point for him—the moment he realises there's no healing the damage they've done to her and her people, and that there is nothing he can do to stop the doom that's coming. "This time it will be different." That's an enormously powerful message for him at this point.
Pensive Lookout: If someone is hiking out there, he will gladly go along; otherwise, it'd be great for him to hear somehow about the findings.
A Peek Inside: Oh look, some poor bastard has been kidnapped and is being kept as a prisoner. Harry will absolutely go to talk to this guy and try to be nice to him, much as he was with Silna. There is no way this is not a good idea.'

Anything Else?:

Player Name: Gels
Player Contact: gelise or funkygelise on discord
Pacing: Gonna have a few more weeks of robust tagging, and then come the end of July I'll be slow as all get out.
OOC Limits: None, so long as there's communication!

Character Name: Francis Crozier
Canon: The Terror
Aurora Feat: Nope, plain Jane through and through. ~~I think it's very funny that he gets nothing~~

Event Ideas:

• Crozier is still recovering from his injuries, and also he's very disillusioned about the town hall and trying to cope with Hickey getting to just keep on keepin' on. He's reassessing his role in town and if a community is possible, past and present failures, how to reconcile what people expect of him versus what's reasonable, etc. etc. He's having trouble completely washing his hands of people, but he's frustrated and feels like he's letting people walk headfirst into disaster again.

This means all of his normal deliveries to the community center of firewood, foraged herbs and roots, fish, and any game he's caught has completely stopped since mid-June. He's also stopped bringing items in for trade to the stores, and just visiting Milton or Lakeside and seeing people in general. Things miiiiiiight have gotten even worse for people in his absence, sorry folks. :c

However, his cabin on the outskirts of Milton is still very much open. He'll want to keep supplying his Terrors and the handful of people he's not angry at with food, and he'll receive visitors if people want to come find him.

• With the thaw he and Raju are going to be constructing a fish weir in the nearest river. Anyone's free to come across them building it and harvesting from it. If people take from it that's fine too; Crozier's not about to guard anything he's built in the wilderness.

• He won't know about the kidnapping, but if he does find out boy howdy, is he just gonna keep living and loving that hermit lifestyle.

Anything Else?:

Player Name: Josh
Player Contact: jjabarrett on plurk and discord
Pacing: Abysmal so far! But looking to swing things around starting today!
OOC Limits: N/A

Character Name: Ruby Rose
Canon: RWBY
Aurora Feat: Free Runner! + INTERLOPER’S SACRIFICE!

Wanted CR: Friends! Mentors! Hunting buddies! Ruby's a young but capable monster hunter back in her world. She's goofy and put all her stats into her job and little else so she tends to fumble around when it comes to more simple tasks. Come be friends with her!
Unwanted CR: Not super interested in negative for the sake of negative, but we can always talk!

Event Ideas: Your event plotting here!

THE AURORA: REDUX: Ruby being the self sacrificing shonen hero she is will be getting Interlopers Sacrifice. She is pretty used to throwing herself into danger to protect other people but now she can do it after the fact too!

PENSIVE LOOKOUT: On one hand! Ruby's been shot for getting close to the forest talkers area so she'll be a little cautious at that. On the other, if it's a chance to learn a little more about the area she'd be willing to at least give it a look if the people going with her were aware and accepted the risks!

She'll be really curious about the notebook and the way the skies changed after the first event here. Because she's also not exactly from Earth she might wonder if the whole planet was shifted into another world.

A PEEK INSIDE

So Ruby will not be thrilled to find out that the Forest Talker was kidnapped, and will be more adamant that he be released. She'll also probably be more focused on helping to fortify the town after this to better defend themselves.

Undecided if she's going to meet the captive yet! But if she does she's got a handful of deaths that she feels personally responsible for that'll probably come up cryptically!

Anything Else?:

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Player Name: Lorna
Player Contact:

repeatandfade, blueofthebay on disco
Pacing: I've been slower than usual lately but try to hit everything once a week if not a few times, with occasional bouts of boomeranging.
OOC Limits: I'm pretty easy. Just don't murder them, please.

Character Name: Benton Fraser
Canon: Due South
Aurora Feat: Ben is likely getting Interloper's Sacrifice this time around.

Event Ideas:

—THE AURORA: REDUX
Ben, already prone to self-sacrifice, will likely be turning it up to eleven with Interloper's Sacrifice. This dovetails nicely with Heartman's worry about him putting himself and his own health last. I look forward to the ghost of his father commenting about this where only Ben can hear and see him.

—PENSIVE LOOKOUT
This is the kind of trip he can get behind! Fraser will go to the lookout and enjoy learning what he can about Sam and his experience. He's also an excellent candidate to accompany someone on this trip who might not be as experienced in the wild.

—A PEEK INSIDE
If Fraser learns about the Forest Talker, he's going to strongly argue to set the man free. He's deeply against taking this step, and it's one more argument for them to begin building some sort of structure to this community. He's also going to be very disappointed in/upset with those who took part in the kidnapping/questioning. It's going to shake his trust in those who could have stopped this but didn't.

—IN GENERAL
Fraser is spending July mourning his good friend Heartman, considering what to do about the lawlessness of this community, offering assistance with dog training, hunting for moose and deer to pick up where Crozier left off, whittling and playing guitar, and being bashful at Sveta. He has a non-event catchall up here, so feel free to hit me up if you want to do something with him outside the event!

Anything Else?: Fraser @ this whole mess:

Character Name: Wynonna Earp
Canon: Syfy's Wynonna Earp
Aurora Feat: Wynonna will likely be getting Moon Touched this time around!

Event Ideas:

—THE AURORA: REDUX
I think Wynonna will get her very first Aurora Feat with Moon Touched. She'll love being a creature of pure wild instinct and will find brand new ways to get into trouble. Definitely looking to play with her tendency to run and her reluctance to come back to being human. Would also love some wolf times with her CR who are similarly wolfing out!

—IN GENERAL
Wynonna's had a rough couple of months and has been wearing herself out going back and forth between Milton and Lakeside to keep an eye on her CR. July will likely be some downtime for her as she wrestles with the aftermath of everything that happened in June (aka as she absolutely doesn't deal with having killed a man and gotten off without even a slap on the wrist for it) and her newfound powers. She'll be helping out around town, but potentially drifting back into her old self-isolating tendencies while she convinces herself her friends are better off without her.

Anything Else?:

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Player Name: Arma
Player Contact: Plurk or Discord @ figmented
Pacing: I try to touch things nightly, slower during the week, Monday's off.
OOC Limits: Blatant descriptions of child abuse, sexual abuse.

Character Name: Raylan Givens
Canon: Justified
Aurora Feat: TODAYS THE DAY! Moon Touched

Wanted CR: Anything and mostly everything! We're here for situational organics.
Unwanted CR: Nothing in the serious romance catagory or negitive cr for the sake of it, please.

Event Ideas:

► General Stuff: Raylan is still settling in and finding his place - He's started canvasing for a Poker Night and will be over in Lakeside when this storm hits. The aftermath of the Aurora will determine how the rest of his month goes but he's going to be in an interesting spot that I'd like to play with. Hunting in the Milton woods will be on his list.

► REDUX: Raylan is going to be getting Moon Touched(whoa) and get all that deep rooted confidence in logic and the 'reasonable things' shaken a little looser. Which means he's gonna end up stark naked in stranger woods than Milton and little bit freaked the hell out and that's not gonna go over too well. Someone is welcome to find/help him, but he'll be heading back to Milton once he's sure the storm has passed and he can take the pup with him. Open to any and all ThereWolf things.

Due to the addition of an Aurora feat, Raylan will not be exploring a lot in Lakeside and will miss the Gas Station entirely.

Anything Else?:

Player Name: Kota
Player Contact: waningsunflower at plurk or discord
Pacing: Pretty good for the next couple of weeks, and then I might hit a slowdown at the end of July
OOC Limits: Nothing really!

Character Name: Thomas Jopson
Canon: The Terror (AMC)
Aurora Feat: Aurora Call + Cold Fusion

Wanted CR: Thomas is on and off looking for a rebound from getting his heart ABSOLUTELY BROKEN AND SMASHED, but of course that's never at the top of his list. It is there, though. Just - somewhere. Mostly, he the sort of guy to stick to his normal people. It makes it hard for him to branch out, but that's my job.
Unwanted CR: I'm up for anything!

Event Ideas:

Redux - I'm going to have him get cold fusion this round so he can actually be a cold boy and stick to it. It's also a nice bit of "FUCK YOU" to the arctic. He died cold, he doesn't have to be cold any longer. Which means he's going to be spending a lot of time healing and getting ready to go out.

Pensive Lookout - And what better way to use this newfound power than to go hiking up to that lookout tower. He'll bring his rifle, his supplies, but he's not looking for a fight. Once he's healed, Jopson is still slow going, and wouldn't be good company for someone who was looking to make this in a hurry, but he is still a good companion to have along for the walk.

A Peek Inside - I'm not looking for him to get into this mess. He will know about it, hear about it, and will go to verify, but will try and protest this. I think he might try and interact, but I'm debating! Otherwise, he's full of nonsense.

Character Name: Svetlana Nazarova
Canon: Night Watch
Aurora Feat: Interloper's Sacrifice!

Wanted CR: Nothing really on the top of my head! I love how she interacts with people and want to throw her at them a lot.
Unwanted CR: I'm open to anything!

Event Ideas:

General - Sveta is disgruntled at the Community. She's going to be as helpful as possible, but the people who spoke out at the Community meeting against any sort of punishment for Hickey are going to get, well, not a grumpy Svetlana, but a hurt one.

Redux - She's getting Interloper's Sacrifice, but what else do you give the doctor who sacrifices herself for everyone else?

Pensive Lookout - She will be waiting back in Lakeside for anyone to come back shot, broken, or hurt. Occasionally, she will trek out to the bottom of the mountain to see if anyone there needs a hand. She doesn't have much faith in you people!

A Peek Inside - She is going to be SO MAD about this kidnapping and probably shouldn't do anything about it.

Anything Else?:

Player Name: Jhey
Player Contact: pm or

horreur | I'm also hagfishs @ discord, but am rarely signed in. I will get back to things there, just more slowly!
Pacing: Running slow atm! I fell out of things pretty hard through June and am still working to get my traction creatively, so I plan to keep taking it pretty easy for the rest of the month and play catch-up with my ongoing threads / get some things wrapped. That said, I'd definitely be happy to pick up a couple new things for cr development & whatnot!

Character Name: Edward Little
Canon: The Terror
Aurora Feat: I'm still Undecided whether I want to give him something or leave him as Normal Nedward for life, and will probably wait to see what his close cr does before making any Final Decisions, buuuut I do find myself leaning towards Moon Touched so that he can become the sad dog he's always been at heart...

Event Ideas:

general — June was a huge month for Ned (derogatory), so my main focus is on the aftermath of those events! He shot and killed an NPC Interloper who was attacking Kate Marsh, attended the town meeting for judgement, and was horrified to find that the majority found him Not Guilty. He'll therefore be inflicting upon himself a variety-pack of punishments: doing physical labour around town, repairing buildings, doing any other kind of work needed, isolating himself, and taking less rations / actively keeping himself hungry. However, none of that is really going to be enough for him to feel adequately punished (which is where I'm thinking of utilising the Moon Touched feat... more deets on that below.)

— While Ned is going to be keeping up a distance, I'd still love any opportunities for follow-ups / aftermath potential. Anyone who might want to chat with him, who might be upset about the voting results or simply want to reach out, any talks about Being A Killer / all the ethical complexities / potential for him to open up a bit more about what he's so guilty about from back in his canon world / I'm down for it all. Canonically, this is a huge huge theme for him and is definitely going to have a permanent effect on his development for the rest of the game. He absolutely will not be able to forgive himself and couldn't be more miserable and heart-broken about all of it, so... fun times!

moon touched — So what I'm thinking here is that if I do give him a wolf form, Ned would absolutely see it as a punishment, not some sort of gift at all. He's been dreading being Touched by The Supernatural... since before game, and certainly after others here began to develop spooky powers, so this finally happening to him would definitely be a huge source of horror. Plus the fact that he would consider this wolf form "a beast within him" and a very literal representation of how he's no longer A Good Man... ya boy has so much baggage under all those layers of wool. Needless to say, he wouldn't be embracing it at all, but would accept it as the punishment he truly deserves.

Character Name: Konstantin Veshnyakov
Canon: Sputnik
Aurora Feat: N/A but he does come with a parasitic alien worm so that's at least, something

Event Ideas:

general — Like with Ned, June was a huge month for Kostya (derogatory!!) and he's definitely still reeling from all of that. His main thing was the fact that wildlife was becoming so scarce, and considering he's been able to avoid having to feed his parasitic alien its preferred diet (humans) by giving it animal blood / brains instead.... it was a pretty intense time for him. He also witnessed Kieren Walker kill & feed on someone in a manner that reminded him fully of how the alien eats and it definitely Got To Him. It's all been a reminder that His Time is coming, that he can't pretend to be the normal, charming, Hero Cosmonaut Commander forever... and that he's lost his identity completely. So you know, he's doing great!

— Inbetween all that, he's dealing with a budding Bisexual Awakening about his housemate, and realising feelings he has no idea how to deal with or properly identify, and might start freaking out about a little bit soon, but on the plus side... Vasiliy's extremely cute

— I'd love to explore June aftermath with him — Kostya kept pretty distant from most folks through it, so he definitely needs to check in with some of his cr, and maybe it could pave the way for some honest talks about some things? He's still being extremely cautious about what he reveals, but I think he's realising more and more that it's going to be necessary to tell more people the truth about his alien situation. Or just general chats / opportunities for him to slot into plans / fun beats for your character!

pensive lookout — Kostya won't be heading out to Lakeside, but his housemate Vasiliy Ardankin is — and Kostya's going to be pretty upset by it. This could also be a good opportunity for some of that cr catchup!

a peek inside — Kostya won't be participating in any of this directly, but Vasiliy (who is, unbeknownst to Kostya, a former NKVD interrogator) is going to be part of the Forest Talker interrogation, so I am down for any kind of fallout / aftermath of that, once it plays out!

Player Name: Kates
Player Contact: allikateor @ plurk and @ discord
Pacing: I'll be slow for this week + some of the next (vacation, all I ever wanted) but I'll still try to keep tags relatively quick. Usually, I tag back within a day or so.
OOC Limits: don't kill my dude!

Character Name: Cornelius Hickey
Canon: The Terror
Aurora Feat: Free Runner. Hickey has adapted marvelously. He's gotten used to it, uses it on a regular basis, tromps around the woods, pushing his traps and his snares as far out as possible, and chowing down on raw rabbit whenever his hunger gets too much.

Wanted CR: Weirdos unite! A few VERY SUSPICIOUS things were revealed about Hickey during the town hall meeting. If anybody wants to call him out on that (actual cannibal, what tf did Crozier mean about killing Cornelius Hickey, big fat liar), please do! Hickey will absolutely justify his actions, but I love any sort of meaty back and forth. Likewise, anybody who's a bit morally gray? Hell yeah, hit me up.
Unwanted CR: Hickey's married so no romance plz!

Event Ideas:
THE AURORA: REDUX. Hickey's Aurora feat plan is "emphasis on hunger + emphasis on monster = this won't be pretty." So what better way to be more monster than to be a wolf. Hickey's getting Moon Touched, which is going to be a DANGEROUS combination. It's now super easier to rip out an animal's throat when he's going all the way out in the woods and the Free Runner hits! No cute doggies here, this is going to be rough (or ruff).

He is absolutely not going to tell anyone about this except for people in his cult (Billy, Chloe, Kieren when he stops being a loser and comes back to the city) and is absolutely not going to wolf out anywhere near town. So if anybody out in the wilds wants to find a small gray wolf staring at them like a person, hmu and lets do this.

A PEEK INSIDE. Hickey's going to run into the captive Forest Talker with Scratch who uhhhh whoops, that Forest Talker's gonna reveal a few things Hickey doesn't want him to! However, if one or two more people want this option, Hickey's a big ol'dummy who definitely would return to the Forest Talker to try and get more information out of him / "hey how'd you do that."

Anything Else?:

Player Name: Tess
Player Contact: On plurk at

nonhoration or discord at nonhoration
Pacing: This is our busy season at work so I'm not around as much as usual, but typically I try and empty my inbox once per day during the week and then have more availability on the weekends.
OOC Limits: No killing please, but other than that I'm down to clown with the horror themes!

Character Name: Chloe Frazer
Canon: Uncharted
Aurora Feat: Free Runner, and to add to her fucked up cryptid energy, she's picking up Moon Touched this month.

Wanted CR: She's trying to be responsible, which isn't something she's used to, so people to en/discourage that. Fellow "monsters" with various opinions on what it means. People who will be chill with her being associated with Hickey, though I understand that might be very few people if any lol.
Unwanted CR: Not opposed to negative CR (this woman loves crashing and burning) but I'm not really interested in anyone getting really invested in punishing her.

Event Ideas:
General things: The greenhouse project continues this month - most of the building is completed so now we are on the taking care of plants part. There is a manual that came with the seeds, but Chloe will take any help she can get on this. As game starts returning she'll take breaks to hunt more - she's still spooked about both the possibility of being cut off from food again and being punished. She did a lot of stuff people would clearly be calling for her head over if they knew about it, and one thing she knows about small communities you can't leave is that people will find out about it.

The Aurora: Redux: It turns out that it is possible for Chloe to get more feral, and it's going to happen: I'm planning to take Moon Touched for her. She'll probably hide it from anyone she's not already super close with but you might see a weird grey-eyed wolf out there.

Pensive Lookout: Chloe was a good climber even before she was a Free Runner, and has some experience working in the Himalayas, so she'd love to get involved in this. No idea what kind of plans I would have for her there, though.

A Peek Inside: Chloe is not getting involved in this or the discourse around it, but if the people who did the torture's names get out she's definitely avoiding them. She has very little interest in the Forest Talker (if he's smart he won't talk) but doing this is too cop-adjacent for her, especially after this trial farce.

Character Name: Randvi
Canon: Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
Aurora Feat: Lightbringer. She's got a decent handle on the fire unless she's feeling an unexpectedly strong emotion, so this month should be interesting.

Wanted CR: I'm open to pretty much anything with her this month - let's talk.
Unwanted CR: Still avoiding full-on physical fights with her if possible.

Event Ideas:
General things: Randvi is physically doing a lot better this month, but it's going to be tough on her mentally. She's deeply upset by what she sees as people constantly holding votes and not respecting the results. Yes, voting is a modern tradition and she's trying to respect it, but why are they even voting if it isn't binding? People who were asking for mercy toward the Forest Talkers are playing into the Darkwalker's hands by trying to deny it to their own people, and watching people she respects deny support to the community over the results has her disappointed. Finding out that people broke the vote over what to do with the Forest Talkers too will really have her reeling - what kind of society are they building here? She'll be trying to prepare for war on all fronts and trying to cover shortages at the hall while not being at full capacity herself, so that'll be interesting.

The Aurora: Redux: No new feat for Randvi this month, so nothing to report here except a nice night's sleep.

Pensive Lookout: Not doing the climb but she'll be interested in the journal if she hears about it.

A Peek Inside: Randvi will find the Forest Talker accidentally while scavenging and be furious at both ignoring the vote and the danger a few people decided to put them all in. The Talker will also spook her by quoting a letter from her sister.

Player Name: gabbie
Player Contact: PM or plurk (

reggiemantle) works best!
Pacing: I run a bit slow at the moment, but am trying to at least be better about consistency!
OOC Limits: N/A

Character Name: John Irving
Canon: The Terror
Aurora Feat: N/A at least for the moment...!

Wanted CR: Honestly, any and all!! I'm still working on building up CR here and generally love it in all varieties, be it friendship / familial / fraternal / Fellow Associate™ / and/or anywhere on the spectrum of complicated, as will probably be a given regardless of what kind of CR it is... but that's the fun of it!
Unwanted CR: I'm generally pretty open to negative CR, but I still prefer something that can be developed further in some (any!) kind of interesting direction, rather than your basic "one or both will probably avoid interacting with the other"-brand hostility that isn't likely to go anywhere else.

Event Ideas:

PENSIVE LOOKOUT— Irving definitely would find the lookout towers worth investigating, particularly to see if any other towns or landmarks can be viewed from there, as well as signalling their position to potential rescue parties if things become dire enough to necessitate doing so. Plus, he's got his spyglass!! He won't know much about using a radio, but certainly a compass.

He'll also be extremely interested in the journal, and would likely volunteer to read it through and summarize/transcribe any especially pertinent information for ease of later reference.

Anything Else?:

Player Name: Yasmine
Player Contact: PP

bluehellgazette or shoot a DM to redmaresociety on discord. PM also works! Note: I keep my plurklist very small and generally don’t add people unless we already have ongoing CR and chat with each other, but PPs are open!
Pacing: I’m mostly a weekend tagger, especially weekend mornings, but I’m around to boomerang then. Erratic tags throughout the week.
OOC Limits: Eye/nail/dental injury, dog/horse death/torture. I’m not looking to have anyone be like ‘Oh! He’s obviously a professional cop/interrogator!’ because it’s a) not super obvious because of the specific way that he interrogates and also because part of the fun is the slow drip release of his secret.

Character Name: Vasiliy Yegorovich Ardankin.
Canon: Original character - Russian 1930s historical.

Vasiliy is a Soviet ex-interrogator, fervent communist, and revenant. Born in 1910, he served in Nikolai Yezhov’s NKVD from 1936-1940 as a ‘good cop’ interrogator responsible for emotional manipulation in the distinctly Soviet split style interrogation system: instead of beating confessions out of prisoners, Vasiliy approached them casually and with kindness, expressing sympathy and emphasizing that it was in their best interest (and their family’s) for them to sign the falsified confessions that would ultimately get them jailed or shot outright, justifying it to himself with the belief they’d be tortured until that happened anyway. When Yezhov fell from Stalin’s favor and was jailed and executed, the NKVD was purged just as it had been during Vasiliy’s time, and he was arrested, interrogated, and executed as an enemy of the state.

But his story didn’t end there–for reasons that aren’t clear to him, Vasiliy woke up lying on his back in the snow in the middle of nowhere in 2015, unharmed, carrying the documents of a man by the same name born in 1985. He’s spent the past three years unlearning Stalinism and coming to grips with the sheer magnitude of what he did, racked with overwhelming guilt and deep paranoia over being discovered and executed for what he did a second time. He trained as an EMT and immigrated to the US on a work visa two years after his return to the world of the living, and spent the year before his arrival in Milton working with Chicago municipal EMS in an unconscious effort to balance some of the cosmic harm he did while processing how he was summarily disposed of and living in fear of rediscovery, still a true believer in communism but now living in an environment in which traits that helped him survive in a police state are seen as deeply unusual and offputting - he is, more or less, a creature perfectly adapted to a high-pressure deep sea environment abruptly brought to the surface and regarded as ugly by fishermen from a very different environment for those same adaptations.

Aurora Feat: Nope. Aside from remaining unaging, he’s a normie.

Wanted CR:

Friends - it’ll take a lot of time because he’s very wary and guarded with new people due to the political atmosphere of the Stalin era, but he’s a good, loyal friend once the friendship is made. Vasiliy is a deeply lonely person, and has been since coming back—this has improved a lot since meeting Konstantin, but he still lacks a social circle and struggles to make attachments.

Fellow Russians - he’s awkward about this because there’s always a fear that they’ll recognize him as dated in a way specific to the 1930s and come one step closer to finding out what he did, so he continues to speak in English and only English, in which he doesn’t have any era-specific patterns of inflection because the language is entirely new to him. It raises questions, though, in scenarios with autotranslate like Milton - he could just speak Russian and be heard as fluent in whatever language the listener speaks, so why speak a language he isn’t fluent in and has periodic difficulties communicating in?

This pairs with a deep, deep homesickness and desperation to interact with people from his own culture, who share most cultural/societal norms and traditions with himself, to create a situation in which he’s torn between really wanting to interact and being afraid to interact, which is interesting to play out.

People with knowledge about dogs, farm-y type people, folks with construction skills - The Mukhtar Situation™ (described below) is presently a shitshow gearing up to be an even worse shitshow, and he definitely needs help from people who understand or has been around or even trained dogs to help him. Fraser has joined in on the effort, but the more the better. Vasiliy also is very very very new to farming and this is the first time in his life he's ever even stayed the night outside of a major city. Konstantin is also a city boy. Vasiliy's been figuring things out by trial and error, but it would be great if he could get help from some people with actual farm experience, especially if they can teach him basic construction so he can attempt to build a caribou shelter and a better ptarmigan pen. As of 7/24 - Help with creating a proper fence around the farm and a caribou paddock would be very appreciated, and he’d be willing to repay characters for their contributions with ptarmigan poults for them to raise.

Other Working Class People: Having grown up in a tenement as the child of a seamstress and a factory laborer in the 1910s, as well as being a fervent communist acutely aware of social class and origin in every relationship, Vasiliy seeks out people who share his class background because he's much more at ease around them and doesn't struggle nearly as much to relate to them.

Unwanted CR: Romance — he is in love w/ Kostya — and found family/adoptive parenthood (he’s not that type of character).
Event Ideas:

The Tower Expedition: Vasiliy will be coming along on this to provide emergency medical assistance if anything comes up and to scrounge for medical supplies, but for the first time since his arrival in Milton, he’ll seem a little preoccupied on a venture out into the wild - since the arrival of Lyudmila, his and Konstantin’s pet caribou calf, he has, for the first time in his life, started to think about what effect his risk-taking might have on the people back home.

The Forest Talker: Vasiliy is going to step in and interrogate the Forest Talker more professionally, intervening on Levi’s rougher, more violent interrogation and posing as a sympathetic figure, as he was trained to do. Characters are welcome to be irritated with/disgusted with/side-eyeing him for the fact that he’s not nearly as harsh towards the FT as most others are, but my hard OOC limit is any characters figuring out that he’s a professional at this/figuring out that he was a cop because I’m not ready to have that information leak out yet/have a specific way I plan on doing it.

He’s going to be emphatic about letting the FT go, or at least join them—and advocating to execute him, or even worse, starve him out (which he will openly call torture) will create negative CR with Vasiliy. I’d love to write out an argument or two between him and any characters who are arguing for either of these things. It’ll also be noticeable to characters who have been around him for a while that he’s much more opinionated here than he’s ever been in terms of town/group affairs, as he almost always keeps any strong or polarizing thoughts to himself and sits on the fence to avoid aligning himself with someone who might go down in a power struggle.

Anything Else?: Also down for threading out general non-event happenings in July!

Threaded | Flat

Interrogation

How Do You Solve A Problem Like A Forest Talker?

NPC Deaths

Questions??

scratch :)

Levi | Fear & Hunger 2: Termina

cheryl | angel girl, just this month

Levi // Attack On Titan

Louis de Pointe du Lac | Interview with the Vampire (AMC)

Zoey Westen | Original Character

no subject

no subject

Ruby Rose | RWBY

Lorna's Canadians

Raylan Givens | freshly minted therewolf

Kota's Two - Thomas Jopson + Svetlana Nazarova