May 2025 Event Plotting

[singmod]

MAY 2025 EVENT

PROMPT ONE: THE SHUDDERING EARTH: Quake activity in the area, paired with decaying infrastructure, reveals a way for Interlopers to make their way to the coast.
THE SHUDDERING EARTH — CONTENT WARNINGS: themes of natural disasters; earthquakes; potential avalanches; themes of exploration/survival; potential injuries, potential cold injuries/hyperthermia risk.


PROMPT TWO: THE LONG ROAD: Interlopers can now embark on the long and dangerous journey to Silverpoint, and make some grim discoveries on the way.
THE LONG ROAD — CONTENT WARNINGS: themes of exploration/survival; potential injuries, potential cold injuries/hyperthermia risk; corpses; dead npcs.

PROMPT THREE — TRY HONESTY: A dream leads to Interlopers being a little more honest with one another, in different kinds of ways.
TRY HONESTY — CONTENT WARNINGS: themes of honesty/forced honesty; potential body horror.

THE SHUDDERING EARTH

WHEN: Early May, onwards.
WHERE: Everywhere, Carter Hydrodam.

Seismic activity is well known within the Northern Territories. Both last year, and over the last month or so, Interlopers have felt intermittent tremors — the ground quaking beneath their feet, enough to upset some objects around homes but never quite enough to cause some serious damage. Interlopers have been fortunate, but the damage caused by these quakes have long left their scars over the years in this world: railroads and roads buckled and crumbled, bridges destroyed and tunnels and pathways caved in, cutting off access. The quakes can cause some serious damage.

Interlopers will find that out in the late evening of one otherwise calm day in May.

Animals will notice the signs of the impending quake before humans do, growing restless and agitated in the hour or so before the shaking starts.

A low tremor that makes items in homes quiver, the ground vibrating beneath your feet. It quickly grows more violent — items can be sent flying if they’re not secured. Light fixtures sway overhead, furniture will shake and topple over, dust and debris could rain down from above — some places worse than others, depending on the building.

Diving for shelter is the best thing to do, out of the way of windows and objects that can fall over. Finding something sturdy to take cover under. The shaking grows intense, especially in the Lakeside area. There is a strange and terrible churning of metal and stone, a crash, something giving way. Roars and crackles of noise.

In Lakeside, where the quake is far more intense, the sound reverberates around the area, but the sound can even be heard so far as in Milton — distant but noticeable. It comes from the direction of the Hydrodam.

The quake is fortunately short-lived and finally dies down. Interlopers will be able to come out of hiding and assess the damage and check on one another for injuries. Within Milton and Lakeside, some buildings that have never been inhabited by Interlopers and remained empty for a long time (and thus in states of disrepair) will be found severely damaged. Water pipes may burst, causing flooding in some unused buildings — ultimately rendering them now useless and uninhabitable.

Generally, it looks like large swathes of the area have come out unscathed — but there is a risk of avalanches in some of the more remote locations near to the mountains. It might take several days for Interlopers to take stock and assess properly, even check further afield.

Interlopers who choose to investigate the Hydrodam will come to find that sections of the dam itself have given way, the metal burst open and water spilling outwards and down the river towards the coast. The huge gorge which separates Lakeside and The Coast is a raging torrent. In time, these waters will eventually calm but it looks like the previously flooded sections of the dam that had meant it was completely inaccessible might be now free to explore with the fact the water had .

The Hydrodam has been in a state of disrepair for some time. Before The Flare, it barely had a skeleton crew running things. Now, with no one to maintain the dam itself following previous quake activity — it looks like this quake has been the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Traversing through the dam will reveal that the lower levels are now accessible and can be entered. But Interlopers should take caution: while the lower dam is now free to explore, this section of the dam still contains freezing cold water that can reach knee deep on the average person. What’s worse is these sections are filled with debris: equipment, furniture and even random junk and industrial supplies that had been once stored there. Some are broken, and can can injury to the unsuspecting traveller.

Travelling through the dam through an Aurora would be incredibly dangerous due to damage in the building, with exposed wiring and partially flooded areas not mixing great companions. The utmost care should be taken when exploring and finding the way through, or it may spell trouble.

But what it will lead to is a way out. On the other side of the dam.

And a way out to the coast.

THE LONG ROAD

WHEN: Early May, onwards.
WHERE: Carter Hydrodam, The Coast

Coming out and down from the other side of the Hydrodam will bring Interlopers to the destroyed Connector Bridge and onto Coastal Highway — the main road that leads to Silverpoint. There are a few extra outbuildings on this side of the dam which are dry but not particularly comfortable — but it’ll make do in the face of recovering from getting through the dam itself.

But after that? The world is far more open compared to Lakeside and certainly less sheltered than Milton, meaning winds are incredibly biting and difficult to contend with whilst travelling. There is little in terms of cover, and thus Interlopers may need to really plan well in order to keep themselves alive. Hopefully Interlopers have come well prepared for the journey ahead of them.

A great deal of the landscape has been damaged by quakes, making the terrain difficult to navigate: with huge, icy ridges and gorges in the earth and roads — providing ample danger to travellers. But sticking roughly to the road means a straight-forward way down but it will take several days to walk down, given the difficulty.

There is nowhere indoors to shelter on this journey save for a single garage and gas station about half-way through the trek south. Interlopers will need to brave the outdoors, even sleeping out doors or in the shallow, sheltered caves that may be seen just off the road. Interlopers will need to huddle for warmth, keeping an eye on one another to make sure they make it through the night. The gas station will provide decent shelter and warmth, however, and even boasts a few supplies left of food, water and fuel. Some one has definitely been here, but with it being so remote, it’s no wonder it’s generally been left alone.

The reasons why will soon come to light.

On the road down, Interlopers will make grim discoveries: frozen, partially mummified remains of people, half-hidden in the snow and ice. Many of them appear poorly dressed for the journey, and look to have died from hypothermia or some other kind of cold-induced injury. Some may be found as if they had simply collapsed in the snow and died. Others may be found in small groups, huddled and slumped together — having succumbed to the cold. Suitcases and bags will be littered around with them — sometimes luggage will be left abandoned alone, as if someone just gave up carrying it.

Some Interlopers will realise: these are the remains of Milton’s original residents. The ones that made it out of Milton and Lakeside, only to die on the way to the coast. Dozens upon dozens of bodies, making you wonder if anyone ever made it out alive at all.

One long road, a graveyard.


And then, in the distance, where the ocean stretches out before your eyes: the outline of a village can be seen before the land meets the water. Civilisation? People?

As twilight falls, more curiously, a light blinks slowly on the landscape. It may be easier or hard to spot, depending on the time of day. What… is that?

Silverpoint.

TRY HONESTY

WHEN: May and into June.
WHERE: Everywhere.

It begins with a dream. You stand in the atrium of a large cave, lit by a large campfire — the smoke drifting out an opening in the cave’s roof above. Someone sits by the fire with their hands covering their face and as you draw closer and closer to the flames, you realise it is a woman who sits on the opposite side of the flames. For some, they will not know who this woman is but some will recognise her: Enola.

She does not speak, does not look at you. She keeps her face hidden behind her hands, almost-childlike as she sits. The light is low but it’s a pleasant, peaceful kind of ambiance — even if Enola’s actions are a little strange, almost troubling. If you listen carefully, you’re almost sure you can quietly hear crying.

Across the campfire, on your own side of it, there are three stones laid out on the floor, each of them carved with a rune of sorts. It’s hard to tell what the runes mean, exactly. They don’t appear to be in any symbolic or runic language you’ve seen before. Even if you don’t understand them, you find yourself drawn to one of these runes.

You move to kneel on the cave floor and you reach forwards. Your hand hovers over it — a strange thrum in the air, like you can feel some kind of energy of vibration coming from it. You reach for the stone, Enola doesn’t move. As you move to pick up the stone, you feel the sharp burning sting of pain—

The dream ends.

You awaken. Not the sharp snapping of sleep to waking. Just the simple, natural waking that comes when one wakes up. But you feel… different somehow.

Honest. But honest, how exactly?

It all depends which rune you picked in your dream.

HEART RUNE: Interlopers who chose this rune will find themselves more emotionally honest. How this manifests is an aura of colour that surrounds the Interloper which will reflect their current emotional state — ie. golden for happy, shades of grey for exhaustion/tiredness, pinks for romantic feelings. The aura is dynamic and can shift with colours and even have multiple colours in play, depending on the complexities of the emotions.

MIND RUNE: Interlopers who chose this rune will find themselves with an honest mind, and will feel compelled to speak it. They are honest with their words: blunt and to the point, avoiding lies or bending truths. They may even feel compelled to reveal things that have been playing on their mind for some time — choosing to clear the air, and potential dirty laundry.

FORM RUNE: Interlopers who chose this rune will find themselves physically honest. Their previous hurts and injuries will become visible on their skin. This can be previous injuries or sicknesses the Interloper has sustained over the course of their life — even if they are now long since healed. It could be a physical manifestation of emotional or mental pain in some way. Your body no longer holds it secrets, they’re now plain and open for the world to see.

FAQs

THE SHUDDERING EARTH


1. Players are free to destroy their own homes/make them uninhabitable if they wish. Please amend the Housing Spreadsheet to reflect this. Commercial/Public buildings are off limits for destruction but players can handwave any other random buildings/empty homes in Milton that have been destroyed in the quake.


THE LONG ROAD

1. The Coast is now accessible to all players. Please see this page for further information.

2. Beach.....................

3. As a reminder. It takes about 24 hours to get from Milton to the Carter Hydrodam. Once out of the Dam, travel down to Silverpoint will take a number of days.

4. Three minor NPCs have been introduced! Molly, the owner of The Frozen Angler; her teenage son Jace; and Father Thomas of St Christopher's Church. There will be an opportunity to ask them questions, a top level of which can be found below!

5. Marra will not be open for interactions just yet.


TRY HONESTY

1. The durations of the effects are down to player choice, but will last at a minimum of three days or can last up to a full month or so and even continue into June.

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>Aurora Feat:</b> Does your character have an Aurora feat? List it here, and any other information on how they're doing with it! <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.

[solitarysoul]

Do Free Runners get a shortened travel time (assuming they travel alone or only with other runners)? If so, what is it?

[wingbound]

- Does the hot water still work in the hydrodam?

- The new location page mentions island and mainland -- does this suggest the currently explorable areas are on an island? Is this information available ICly (for example, do any maps of the larger region exist in shops or boat yards)?

- What is the number of days that it takes to get from the Hydrodam to Silverpoint? I understand there's some variation depending on walking speed etc, but are we talking more 3-5 or more 10-15, etc?

- What does the area surrounding the town look like -- are there forests, just snowy tundra, something else? Is it possible to still forage food in this part of the map?

- Do Silverpointers make their own booze... asking for a friend

NPC DEATHS

[singmod]

Killing off an NPC this event? Let me know by responding to this comment.

Interloper Masterlist is Here.

Re: NPC DEATHS

[brushoff]

I'd like Dorian to kill off Paula Hoffman, Darkwalker's Revenge style, plz! This time his ass is going to get caught so sucks to be you, buddy, try harder next time. What happens to the body is tbd.

I'd also like Paula's feat to be Efficient Machine because it will be very funny if Dorian can't get drunk for a few days.

NPC Q&A

[singmod]

Players are free to ask the following minor NPCs some questions. It is limited to three questions, to prevent a potential overload of questions.

NPCs available to speak to:

— Molly: the owner of The Frozen Angler.
— Jace: the teenage son of Molly.
— Father Thomas: the clergyman of St Nicholas' Church.

Please reply to this comment with your questions and put the name of the NPC in the subject line. Players are allowed to speak to multiple NPCs.

molly + jace + father thomas

[nohero]

to Molly: Does she know of any other coastal towns that survived?

to Jace: Does he know of any maps of the area, even one he may have created himself?

to Father Thomas: What do the people here worship?

reiner braun | attack on titan

[nohero]

Player Name: kas
Player Contact: pm, bicepsbrigade (feel free to add), or @ me in the game discord
Pacing: medium to fast! returned from a long hiatus and raring to go
OOC Limits: no eye/nail trauma, no pet death

Character Name: reiner braun
Canon: attack on titan
Aurora Feat: efficient machine. he's doing well with it, though he has yet to experiment and figure out the breadth of what he can eat

Wanted CR: friends! hunting buddies! sparring partners! reiner is a lifelong military man with a caring personality (often like a big brother). he is devoted, determined, and adaptable, but also violent, self-destructive, and mentally fragile
Unwanted CR: not looking for negative cr. not looking for romance (he's busy being Obsessed with one eren jaeger dreamsofwings), but am open to fwb (he's gay, so m/m only)

Event Ideas: COAST TIME!!! reiner has been looking for a way to travel to the coast for months; he will be all over this. he will have no compunctions about looting bodies for supplies on the way. he's used to keeping watch at night, so is a good person to huddle with for warmth, etc. while he has no supernatural advantages when it comes to carrying heavy loads, he is a big, strong guy who is more than willing to carry supplies

later, reiner will take the form rune, leaving him with with a plethora of scars which should have killed a regular human. the permanent markings on his face will deepen and expand, leaving him looking more titan-like than before. he will also have deep bloodstains on both hands and possibly around his mouth

Anything Else?: character info & permissions

[desperate_times_right]

No concrete plans yet, but Randvi and Ulfrùn will be heading to the coast as well so this might be a chance for them to interact again!

Tim Drake | DC Comics

[ployboy]

Player Name: Tim Drake
Player Contact: plurk! Find me @ fourboars
Pacing: NEW schedules mean I should be available for boomeranging and getting back to a thread within a day. Yes, I know, it's wild to me too. I'll try to keep tags waiting no longer than 48hrs just to keep things fresh and moving from now on!
OOC Limits: No gore images but anything written is fine.

Character Name: Tim Drake
Canon: DC Comics (2009)
Aurora Feat: Darkwalker's Revenge: he managed to keep it under wraps until he couldn't but would overall consider himself successful with controlling the impulses that come with the curse. (He's got a problem with his ego with these sorts of things.)

Wanted CR: Do you play a someone who is in need of sloppily making out with a very desperate teen

Please

Yes I'm serious lmfao

Hunting buddies are the go-to CR of the month for this kid, as well as anyone who can help him train his wolfdog.

Unwanted CR: pfffft there is no such thing

Event Ideas: Tim will keep his sorry ass in Milton. With a fear of repeating themes, he will be spending the entire month trapping and hunting game to deliver to the Community Center. Tim will know something about butchering and little about preserving meats- but he will be serious and diligent in adding to the stores. There seem to be Hungry interlopers around, and that's always been a point of stress for him. So expect him to obsess even as he fights against the Darkwalker's Revenge and the daylight hours. He has one of the pups of the Dief/Scout litter- he'll need help in training her now that she is closer to maturity. (And so is he.) A month of keeping his head low and his mouth shut! That's good, right? Tim will be afflicted by the Heart Rune.

Anything Else?:

"What if I stop my dad from dying again?"
Love. Hope.
he's gonna light up like a goddamnChristmas tree

Re: Tim Drake | DC Comics

[shoving]

Bruce will check on Dick after the earthquake since he said he's in Lakeside uwu

gabbie | john irving (the terror)

[extramuralise]

Player Name: gabbie
Player Contact: PM or plurk @ reggiemantle
Pacing: I can often be slow, but will backtag eternally + can average more of a medium pace when I'm caught up.
OOC Limits: Nothing comes to mind atm that wouldn't necessitate some prior plotting / discussion anyway; I'm pretty easy. Please avoid infomodding/4th-walling, however.

Character Name: John Irving
Canon: The Terror
Aurora Feat: Efficient Machine; he's still sort of figuring it out!

Wanted CR: Anything, really!! My default setting is usually to see how a dynamic develops organically and then go from there, but I'm also totally fine with planning out encounters/CR goals more specifically. Bible study buddies would be a delight, and I'm always a fan of awkward yet surprising friendships and/or tense frenemy/acquaintanceships — because lbr, Irving is prone to those — especially if they can lead to interesting character beats and development on either side! I'm also not opposed to developing romantic CR, but know in advance that it would be very complicated. ❤️
Unwanted CR: I'm pretty open to anything! the only thing I'm not too keen on is one-note CR that's just going to hit repeated dead-ends rather than develop or evolve.

Event Ideas:

THE SHUDDERING EARTH | Not sure yet how much I'll really be interacting with this one but Irving will at least go out and try to Help + also make sure the stores of supplies at the community center are safe and intact. He's otherwise not very strong or brave or particularly handy but he will do his best...!

THE LONG ROAD | Well, obviously he has to journey to the coast. The frozen bodies will be absolutely horrible to witness since they will remind him of a team of crewmates who perished in almost exactly that manner trying to go for help, but he'll persist since 1) he has a good Aurora Feat for doing so, and 2) he has some hope of what may be at the coast for them to find... and also he just misses the water, he misses beauty and feeling like there is a bigger world out there!!

TRY HONESTY | I haven't yet decided between the Heart or Mind Rune but Irving is definitely choosing one because being emotionally honest or speaking his mind plainly are things he will otherwise never ever do. And he really should, says I, so!! IF ANYONE WOULD PREFER TO INTERACT WITH ONE OR THE OTHER please let me know, the CR potential will likely help to make up my mind!!

Anything Else?:

[desperate_times_right]

Randvi is heading out on the expedition and will want to lay the bodies they find on the trek to rest, so that might be a good way to get these 2 to interact.

lyn | eren jaeger | attack on titan

[dreamsofwings]

Player Name: Lyn
Player Contact: boywonder, DM. I am on discord pretty much all the time so if that's more your speed, ask me for my un.
Pacing: honestly idk, I'm on hiatus for another 10 days, my long distance partner is arriving at the end of the month, the world is on fire. So let's just call it "slow" I guess.
OOC Limits: Can't imagine this would ever happen here but pregnancy stuff, gender swaps.

Character Name: Eren Jaeger
Canon: Attack on Titan
Aurora Feat: He does! He has Old Bear's Blessing. I'm not sure if he will be using it again soon; I think I like it happening on accident more than on purpose bc that annoys him more. He is so used to having power that he can totally control, so I prefer if he can't control this yet ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Wanted CR: Honestly anything! He could use friends who make him better OR friends who make him worse. Because of his canon point, he can't exactly get…worse…but his state of mind and current actions can. This is more likely than him suddenly deciding to actually care about people as a whole. ALSO, Eren caring about someone isn't always a net positive since he can and will just make decisions about what is best for others if he sees it as keeping them safe. So that's something we can play around with too. But otherwise, anything! I don't mind negative CR if we're doing something with it. Eren is pretty terrible (he's not always openly hostile and doesn't talk much about his world but he is still the endgame boss and his mindset about that has not improved), and ready to throw down about most things, so you know. Romance isn't off the table but it's ultra hardmode (and he's super involved with Reiner). He's fine with something physical (his age and up only, dudes only).
Unwanted CR: Negative CR that has no point other than being negative. We love a relationship arc in this house!

Event Ideas:

SHUDDERING EARTH: Eren's first reaction to the earth rumbling shaking is probably massive dissociation/confusion. He associates the shaking with his own actions at home and since his grip on reality and chronological time is tenuous anyway, this will freak him out :DDD So if you want to deal with that, idk, I'll figure out a TL with a hook. His house will remain mostly in tact, just some busted up furniture and stuff like that.

He'll sort that out, more or less, and will be interested in the dam. I'm not really up for playing out severe injury or anything this time around, but open to explore with others (on accident or on purpose).

LONG ROAD: Eren and Reiner have been stocking up as much as they can because they wanted to get to the ocean so all in on Silverpoint. He does have enough supplies, though whether he'd share them with someone who doesn't is…questionable. Depends on the circumstances. (OOCly I'm down to make him share.) If you want to huddle down for warmth and awkward conversation, though, he's ya boy for that, probably. He doesn't know much about the original residents here, but he's not entirely unobservant. He can put two and two together about people fleeing and then freezing. Sucks for them! He won't have any empathy available for the dead. He will steal their shit, though. Hey, they're not using it!

TRY HONESTY: Going with mind rune because that's the most interesting for Eren. He tends to tell half-truths and deflect things about his own world, and taking that away from him is JUICY so that's what I'll do. Have an actual honest conversation with a terrible boy!

Anything Else?:
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[nohero]

you know i'm here for everything but let me make a List

• reiner thinking "rumbling" and thinking eren caused it OR helping drag him back to reality
  
• looting bodies together while they travel, as a treat. also huddling for warmth as they do
  
• DRAMATIC OCEAN MOMENTS!!!! THEY MADE IT, let them stare at it and space out

kates & her nasty lie boys

[brushoff]

Player Name: Kates
Player Contact: plurk or discord @ allikateor
Pacing: I try to clear out my inbox at least once a day/once every other day.
OOC Limits: n/a

Dorian Gray | The Confessions of Dorian Gray

[brushoff]

Character Name: Dorian Gray
Canon: The Confessions of Dorian Gray
Aurora Feat: Darkwalker's Revenge. Does Dorian know how to keep it under control? Kind of. Has he figured out that murdering someone staves off the munchies for a while? Absolutely. Is he going to have to learn a better coping mechanism than murder? Yep

Wanted CR: friends, gossip buddies, fellow members of Team Vampire, anyone who will help keep his useless ass alive. Dorian is going to be coasting very hard on the goodwill of strangers as he doesn't have much in the way of 'survival skills.' As a note, he's bisexual as hell and will happily sleep around for food/clothing/body heat/getting people to like him/etc. If you want your character to live their best smut life (if they're like, under 35 and not actively stinky), then hmu!
Unwanted CR: I'm up for people calling Dorian out on some of his more scumbag attributes, but please don't kill him.

Event Ideas:
LONG ROAD: Dorian is not going on that expedition because he doesn't do super hot in the sun and also that looks dumb as hell, have fun dying in the snow like a bunch of idiots. Bring him back a souvenir, please.

TRY HONESTY: Dorian is around two hundred years old and the medium of audio drama likes to exploit his healing factor and use him as a chew toy. I am absolutely slapping him with the form rune. Ideally, I'd love a few threads where I can indulge in some really nasty body horror, as him taking on the form rune would show all the times he was set on fire, shot, stabbed, hurt, choked, almost drowned, poisoned, etc. If anybody wants to play around with the honesty aspect but doesn't want to go full tilt body horror, there are a few wounds that could be great for a thread (vampiric bite marks manifesting on the side of his neck, permanently bloody hands Lady Macbeth style, bruises akin to being throttled around his neck).

OTHER THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING: At some point during the month, Dorian's going to do a little Darkwalker's Revenge killing...but won't be as stealthy as the first one and is absolutely going to get caught by Jopson. What happens next and how public knowledge the murder is will be tbd, but I'm pretty sure at the least Dorian is getting a black eye and a broken nose for being a cocksure idiot.

Anything Else?:

Bri | Zoey Westen | Original Character

[pythianwoman]

Player Name: Bri
Player Contact: ThriceWiddershins or PM me!
Pacing: I am definitely on the slow side anymore thanks, health, 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 and finesse 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.) And now Moon Touched; she’s been practicing her wolfy nature when she can. FIRE WOLF FOR THE WIN!

Wanted CR: FRIENDS! Definitely friends. Found family. 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. Not opposed to lovers/romance but it’s probably not something she’s going to be seeking out purposefully. If it happens, though… And an event gets involved… /looking at you, red string event Also, platonic cuddling is the BEST. It’s cold, let’s snuggle. Roomies in the future might be fun, too. She’s going to have to know someone a little bit first before she moves them in, though. Wolf friend times, both for shifting shenanigans and for puppy times. (I still need to name Zoey’s puppy that’s the only reason she hasn’t shown up yet in any threads.)
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:

PRE-EVENT POSSIBILITIES: Zoey got aerial silks from the Holiday Boar, so I really want her to go find a solid, tall tree, tie them up in it and just hang in them for a while like a hammock, because she has MISSED being able to do that. Probably while drinking, because why not. Also possibly some hot springs action if the hot springs are undamaged enough to use because that’s always fun. She’s also going to be making some pine soda. (Because a short came across my youtube dashboard and I went “YES I CAN USE THIS!”) And eventually I’ll get around to doing something with her still and mead-making. EVENTUALLY.

THE SHUDDERING EARTH: I'm not destroying Zoey's house in an earthquake, but I might have her get caught in an unoccupied building that gets wrecked. Because I'm mean. Or she might be in Lakeside when it happens, I’m not sure just yet. She’s going to pick up on the animals noticing the signs of the impending quake, probably, though.

THE LONG ROAD: I don't think Zoey is going to Silverpoint right away. (EVEN THOUGH BEACH.) She's going to at some point, for mapping purposes, but I don't want to send her a long journey away just yet. I might keep that for seeing if other folks want to do a little group expedition later or something. She’ll go to Lakeside and the Hydrodam, though. Go see what damage was done and see what’s changed.

TRY HONESTY: Not sure which rune I’m giving Zoey just yet. I have narrowed it down to either the mind rune or the form rune.

Form would be fun because BOY has she been through Some Shit. Granted, a lot of her old injuries are hidden beneath her clothes and no one's gotten her naked yet but if they came back would be very noticeable very quickly. And she has a scar across her throat from a death in a previous game (she got better, but it still fucking SUCKED) that could also become REALLY noticeable. (In a possibly disturbing way.) Plus the broken ribs and all the emotional and mental pain.

Mind rune because making her a mood ring with no ability to hide what she's feeling would be fun. Everything laced through with whatever colour irritation is because she hates broadcasting what she’s feeling for all and sundry.

ODDS AND ENDS/WILDCARD: Honestly I’m here for other shenanigans, too. Have an idea? Come at me and let’s do a thing!

Anything Else?: Did I copy paste some of this from the last plotting post? Yes, yes I did. Do I feel like I'm forgetting something? Also yes.

[solitarysoul]

Levi can offer to try and map on his initial scouting trip but I honestly don't know if he should be good or bad at it. i feel like he wouldnt do a very good job, but he'd offer and try anyway

[shoving]

Player Name: Kia
Player Contact: Plurk @ tapsters, PMs work. Discord available on request.
Pacing: I can be kinda slow, but try not to go more than a couple of days without a tag. Can boomerang when I'm really in a groove.
OOC Limits: None that I can think of. But if something comes up I'll mention it.

Character Name: Bruce Wayne
Canon: DCEU (Batman v Superman specifically)
Aurora Feat: Darkwalker's revenge. Bruce has so far resisted killing anyone with his feat. I am looking to change that :)

Wanted CR: hunting partners, friends, drinking buddies (he's kind of an alcoholic), enemies. Let this goblin man into your life and into your heart.

Unwanted CR: None! Though I would like to avoid killing him for now.

Event Ideas:

THE SHUDDERING EARTH: Bruce will be staying behind in Milton since his feat would disagree with the travel time. But will likely kill an NPC in the chaos. Iiii might be okay with him getting caught? At least getting stumbled upon in the aftermath. He'd likely blame it on the quake. Let's plot.

TRY HONESTY: Likely giving him the form rune. The trauma of his parents' murders will manifest as gunshot wounds and Robin's death will be unexplained bruising on his face and possibly smelling like smoke.

Anything Else?:

[desperate_times_right]

Chloe is a fellow Darkwalker’s Revenger who doesn't know they can kill people yet if that's something you'd be interested in in a catching him killing someone thread. She’d help him cover it up but she might later try to blackmail him a little lol.

Tess’s Ladies

[desperate_times_right]

Player Name: Tess
Player Contact: nonhoration or discord @ nonhoration
Pacing: I try and fully empty my inbox once per day.
OOC Limits: Please don't kill my characters, but other than that nothing that's allowed here.

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Character Name: Chloe Frazer
Canon: Uncharted
Aurora Feat: Free Runner, Moon Touched, Darkwalker’s Revenge. She’s not doing great!

Wanted CR: Always looking for greenhouse buddies, especially now that she can't go outside during the day. Anyone who is willing to look past how gross she is this month in any capacity.
Unwanted CR: Chloe is always down for casual flings (though, as mentioned: this month she’s gross) but I'm not looking for a long-term “endgame” romance for her. I don't mind negative cr but I'm not interested in a nemesis who is going to dedicate their life to taking her down.

Event Ideas:

The Shuddering Earth: Chloe is going to need a bit of help repairing her setup at the farm after the earthquake. I'm not going to damage it too catastrophically but they're definitely going to be reconnecting some pipes and might need some new glass.

The Long Road: Chloe is going to be intensely jealous but also she knows that in her current condition making the journey past the hydro dam (especially when they really don't know what’s out there yet) is a bad idea. Instead she's going to stay home and have different bad ideas.

Try Honesty: To really lean into the horror aspects of what’s going on with her I'm going to give Chloe the form rune. In addition to the bumps, bruises, scrapes and split knuckles that she gets on every job, she’ll have a minor gunshot wound on her arm that just sort of perpetually bleeds (she can offset this by eating a lot, thanks Free Runner) and the broken ribs are back. I might also just have her constantly covered in mud for no reason.

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Character Name: Randvi
Canon: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
Aurora Feat: Lightbringer and Old Bear’s Blessing. She also currently has Armoured from the bear claw.

Wanted CR: I would love another mentor type figure for her. Otherwise looking for pretty much anything!
Unwanted CR: I’m really open for anything for her this month!

Event Ideas:

The Shuddering Earth: Randvi will want to check on public buildings in Milton (all fine) and then the mine, the train bridge and the hydro dam in Lakeside. Once it's determined that the way through the dam is passable, she and Ulfrùn will join the expedition leaving.

The Long Road: Randvi’s Lightbringer ability can help others with some of the challenges of navigating obstacles on the trip (eg the cold water in the dam) and with both making a fire and warming people at camp. She will want to lay the discovered bodies to rest before leaving, and while exasperated by the looting, considering the situation she will allow it.

I’m not sure yet if she will put down roots in Silverpoint - Randvi does have a home and household in Milton but she's also had a lot of pain and heartache there (the bear injury, the deaths of Heartman, Ragnar, Crozier and the 3 young Forest Talkers, Sveta’s impending marriage) so she will probably at least be tempted to start fresh in a new place.

Try Honesty: I will probably do the heart rune for her, but I don't have a ton of ideas for this yet.

Re: Tess’s Ladies

[ployboy]

When Tim learns Randvi is heading out he'll ask her to keep an eye out for cause of death of any unfortunates she passes by. In his mind, maybe he's thinking he'll get answers about pirate!Ed, but with the previous murmurs of Silverpoint I bet he's assuming the expedition will find a corpse or 2 along the way...

For Chloe, Tim is going to make sure to check on the farm along with his other real estate immediately after the quake- he would absolutely love to take the broken glass off her hands if he can, because of course he's always Up To Something. With his own fears of a future food shortage next in line, I think it'll be a good hook to get them working together for a bit!

Tim Gutterson | Justified

[comfortablyerect]

Player Name: Raye
Player Contact: raye_nbow or falonlea on discord!
Pacing: I'm typically around to tag four days a week or so, but it varies depending on my schedule!
OOC Limits: None!

Character Name: Tim Gutterson
Canon: Justified
Aurora Feat: N/A he's brand spanking new

Wanted CR: Anything! Ok realistically 'lovers' isn't going to happen and he's Bad at making friends, BUT. Friendships, hunting/fishing buddies, adversaries, I'm here for it all!
Unwanted CR: None, see above lmao.

Event Ideas: I think Tim's house that he just moved into will be destroyed in the earthquake, so he will be staying in Milton. He'll spend a lot of time hunting/fishing/scavenging and gathering wood and supplies. Keeping himself busy so he doesn't go crazy, basically.

As for honesty, Tim will be picking up the heart rune. Because this man is never more secretive than when it comes to what he's feeling. He's really missing his war-themed PTSD nightmares right about now. He'll probably be trying to avoid people throughout the duration of this for the most part, but I'd love for folks to catch him out and about with his aura.

Anything Else?: permissions here! I'm also looking at handwaving the rest of his TDM threads, but if anyone wants to keep going with it, I'm happy to do so!

[ployboy]

Hey... hey, let Tim tell Tim all about Baghdad... somehow, because apparently they're both ornery and would very much rather Not Talk. But that's where the fun with Runes comes in lol

cheryl | team blonde babies

[castitas]

Player Name: Cheryl
Player Contact: heolstor / _heolstor @ disco
Pacing: SLOW AS BALLS. Modly duties + full time job + RP can make me real slow at times. I might have odd days where I can sit and boomerang but backtags are our friendo.
OOC Limits: Any serious maiming/injury to Kieren is a strong no, due to his inability to heal. Character death is also off the table, ty.

Character Name: Kate Marsh
Canon: Life is Strange
Aurora Feat: Aurora Call (Radio Kate) + Interloper's Sacrifice (Jesus Power). Broadcasting her thoughts and healing your booboos.

Wanted CR: Pretty much everything! Friends!!! People around her own age to befriend!!! Fellow nerds!!! Religious sorts!!! She's kind of fitting into a kind of Support Role route with things after she did her rosehip stuff, via foraging, cooking, medical/first aid, etc.

Unwanted CR: I prefer not to have negative CR for the sake of it. I like my negative CR to be interesting, or to develop eventually. She has a Thing with Tim Drake which involves having weird, complicated feelings, occasional smooching and then the whole Easter Fuckery™ with Tim so she's a bit of a mess where romance is concerned.

Event Ideas:

— the long road Kate is going to Silverpoint! Basically I'm down for all sorts on this one: survival-style threads of the journey there — getting through the dam or the Coastal Highway bodies, maybe some chiller threads at the Quonset.

She's on hand to help others who might be suffering from frostbite with her Intertloper's Sacrifice ability but also knows how to deal with early-frostbite the old fashioned way. She also has Aurora Call so she can report back to Interlopers staying put in Milton.

Also down for threads in Silverpoint itself, exploring/hanging out/going to the church, etc.

— try honesty I think I'm going to give Kate the Heart Rune and make her a living Mood Ring. She's got a lot going on for her emotionally right now following last month where Edward Little attacked her with Darkwalker's Revenge and then Tim attacked Ned and basically it was a whole mess. She's having very complicated feelings now relating to Ned and Tim — being hurt by her Nanny/dad-figure — and then Tim jumping in to fight Ned — romance mess involve, lord her help. SO YEAH. CALLING HER TF OUT.

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Character Name: Kieren Walker
Canon: In The Flesh
Aurora Feat: Free Runner (Zoomies) + Cold Fusion (Zombcicle). Gotta go fast and can be outside forever.

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, given Kieren's... whole deal. Kieren's also one of the Modern Kids (he's from 2013) so he's pretty good at explaining modern living, tbh.

Unwanted CR: I prefer not to have negative CR for the sake of it, that being said — people now knowing Kieren's a zombie and initially not being okay with it is 100% something I'm down for. I'm also not actively looking for romance, but it's not off the table. If something happens, it'll likely be a massive slowburn. Kieren's not really in the right head-space for it, and he comes with a lot of baggage and identity issues with his zombie status.

Event Ideas:

— the shuddering earth Kieren is going to be staying behind in Milton and won't be going on the Expedition to Silverpoint. He may end up going another time, maybe in a couple of months? So yeah, he'll be around in town! I don't have any plans for him other than he can be around to help others with dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake.

— try honesty I'm torn on this one, either leaning towards the Heart Rune or the Mind Rune since Kieren's pretty much someone who's body shows itself for exactly what it is. I think the Mind Rune would mean Kieren might be a bit more honest with people about his whole deal which would prove interesting to play with since... y'know. Zombie.

Anything Else?:

[desperate_times_right]

Randvi is heading to the coast and Chloe is staying in Milton so they each have potential with one of yours…

Frodo Baggins // Lord of the Rings

[nicehobbit]

Player Name: Tossino
Player Contact: Tossino or Discord @ tossino
Pacing: Not... great the past month lmao. I want to try to be quicker this month! At least weekly, and hopefully every other day or so.
OOC Limits: N/A

Character Name: Frodo Baggins
Canon: Lord of the Rings
Aurora Feat: Old Bear's Blessing

Wanted CR: Friends, primarily!
Unwanted CR: Nothing in particular.

Event Ideas: So Frodo actually has yet to discover his feat, so this seems like a potentially good time for it haha.

Other than that, he'll be heading out towards Silverpoint for sure! And as much as he'd like to try to go at it alone, he figures it's a bad idea and will look for people to ask if they're going and if he can come along. He's used to travel at this point, but not really in this weather.

As for the dream, I'm going to give him the form rune. Who wants to see him be as exhausted as while he was carrying the Ring back home? It won't be as bad as the last leg of the journey, since he's from the second movie, but it'll still be pretty significant. And there's the stab wound from the Witch King and some good ol' bruising from the cave troll. This will be a rough trip!

Anything Else?:

Re: Frodo Baggins // Lord of the Rings

[pitofguilt]

So we have the possibility of Natalie seeing this little dude and being like "why does he look a lot like Misty's weird guy friend" - but this is not at all necessary, because Natalie can easily happen upon him after the earthquake and help him out somehow

[gildedlife]

Player Name: Ami
Player Contact: On plurk at amiasha, Discord at amiasha, or PM!
Pacing: Depends if I can manage to not be sick for more than like two weeks at a time; I prefer to get to tags at least once every two days and faster if possible, though I certainly have times where it (unfortunately) goes longer.
OOC Limits: Nothing really; if something comes up I'll let you know.

Character Name: James Fitzjames
Canon: The Terror (2018)
Aurora Feat: Efficient Machine; he's soooort of figuring it out at this point but doesn't totally have it down.

Wanted CR: He's had A Time recently and lost the person he was closest to, but for a long time has felt disconnected and directionless here, so he really needs to form closer bonds with people! Whether those bonds are good, bad, or weird are all possibilities I'm here for.
Unwanted CR: Nothing in particular! Romantic stuff would be complicated but certainly not ruling it out.


Event Ideas:

Shuddering Earth - I don't have any particular plans except that he'll definitely be out exploring and will end up going to the Hydrodam. I'm open to plotting any misadventures with that, particularly on an Aurora night someone here still only understands the basics of electricity, or also just anything else around Lakeside or Milton.

The Long Road - Hey finally his expertise in walking horrible distances in poor conditions might come in handy!!! Also he's been wanting to try pushing the boundaries of their explorable surroundings for a long while now, so he'll be very enthusiastic about making the trip. As mentioned he does have experience in long trips over hazardous/inhospitable terrain, including cold environments, so he might actually be helpful here, and he's also got the Efficient Machine feat.

Once at Silverpoint he'll be exploring everywhere, and will be most interested in the lighthouse and ocean. It's been awhile since he's seen the ocean, and he'll be curious about the frozen ship wreckages; he's also pretty fearless about the ice and water, so should anyone explore too far out and end up in a difficult situation with thin ice, he could be around for plotting.

Try Honesty - I want to do something with this but I'm not sure which to go with yet! Since he's someone who likes to carefully control his image I'm definitely tempted to go with the mind rune, but the other two have a lot of potential also, so I'm still on the fence but happy to plot anything.

Anything Else?:

[desperate_times_right]

Randvi is also heading out to Silverpoint if you'd like these two to interact again!

Jhey's Horror Guys

[sputnik]

Player Name: Jhey

Player Contact: horreur / hagfishs @ discord / pm
→ Feel free to add / readd / remove anywhere you like! My plurk is majorly used for rp purposes and I tend to keep it trimmed to those I share games with, so folks are free to come and go as we cross paths again :)

Pacing: My pacing fluctuates a lot depending on my work schedule / etc. Generally I run on the slower side, but have more availability on the weekends for boomeranging / making some movement on threads. (However, I just got hit with a gnarly long-lasting sickness that's going around, so I might be chugging along more slowly this month 🙃)

OOC Limits: N/A

— spaceman 🚀

[sputnik]

Character Name: Konstantin "Kostya" Veshnyakov
Canon: Sputnik (as a heads up, this character comes with a gnarly alien parasite that is with him here in game, though nerfed down — details here!)
Aurora Feat: Old Bear's Blessing, which is both an enormous blessing for Kostya, who is very glad to have regained some Inhuman Levels of Strength and a bit of a curse, because it's a little too similar to how he was being turned into a weapon of war back in the experimental facility holding him and his alien as lab rats prior to being brought to Milton.... uh oh sisters, what am I becoming!

Wanted CR: I'm always down to see what develops organically, but general things: those with space / alien / other such spooky experience, fellow lab rats, those with ~hero type roles, friends, people to work out / do Physical Activities with, young people to press on his Guilty Dad Feelings, fellow parents, harmless flirt buddies (see deets below).... Alien Shenanigans are also always on the table, as his horrible little problem can be directly interacted with in a variety of ways. As a note, I'm a huge fan of horror / gore / etc. and he comes with heaping doses of it, so I'm wide open for any awful stuff at any time ✨

Unwanted CR: He's spoken for romantically, but that said, Kostya can be an enormous flirt. He's a Hero / celebrity in his country whose identity and sense of self-worth is very much interwoven with how much he's Adored and how Physically Attractive he is to others, lmao. Lately he's been Feeling Himself again so I'm always down for him turning the Cosmonaut Charm TM on your character and seeing how they react (whether positively or not!)

Event Ideas:

the long road. Kostya's been itching for adventure ever since folks started journeying to Lakeside, and while his "condition" still keeps him inhibited in ways, his newfound strength means he's able to carry on a bit more safely than before. I'd love to finally send him on An Expedition, so he'll be volunteering his services to accompany & assist if anyone might be interested in going as a group (or just encounters with others traveling along the way)! He's an experienced leader up under all his alien fuckery going on, and lately he's been coming out of some funkiness, putting his Commander Pants back on, and getting ready to roll. Give me all that good teamwork 💪 I'd be happy to play out things both on the road or in Silverpoint — Kostya will be looking to explore everywhere available, and will probably be staying at the inn, but I'm down for him to bunk with someone in a house too.

try honesty. At some point (I'll probably play around with this later in the month or into June), Kostya will pick the form rune, and bear evidence of the fatal gunshot wound to the belly that happened just before he arrived here. A heads up that this comes with a suicide warning, as Kostya delivered the shot to himself with every intention to end his / the alien's lives, and while I'd love to touch on that in threads if anyone wants to Get Into It (especially his angsts of the fact that he very much wanted it to be successful and waking up here still alive was its own horror), it does not have to be a factor played into! Please let me know what you're comfortable with. Overall, he'll just be trying to keep it from bleeding all over the place. I'd love to dig into any other emotional / psychological chats, or have some more light-hearted / general times with the runes inflicting effects on your character. I'm down for anything!

Alexis here with Natalie

[pitofguilt]

Player Name: Alexis
Player Contact: here or on plurk (punnyinpink)
Pacing: ???? Idk. I'm moving, I'm having visitors, i have new staff to help train at work, I'm dealing with NEW health bs as opposed to the usual stuff... but i am used to doing everything in mobile, so i should be able to hit threads regularly.
OOC Limits: medical torture, gore for anything above the neck

Character Name: Natalie "i wanted her to be like a cat" Scatorccio (actual quote from the actor who played her)
Canon: Yellowjackets
Aurora Feat: no but I'm very game

Wanted CR: Anything everything tbh. She can be shitty, but she's less so lately. She's new! Let's try stuff and see what happens!
Unwanted CR: negative cr that doesn't go anywhere ig. I enjoy it, just like, with some kind of goal.

Event Ideas: I want at least post earthquake stuff and honesty stuff. I'm thinking either aura or physical honesty. I'm not sure she'll leave Milton rn, since she's so new, but who knows! She's a good hunter btw, and an old hand at survival

Anything Else?: I'm on mobile so I'm v sorry but I've got no memes atm I'm very gomen

[tinstar]

Raylan is also staying in Milton and is running around doing handyman shit, woodstocking, making sure the Community Hall is good - I'd love to have them run into each other!

Levi | Fear & Hunger 2: Termina

[solitarysoul]

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 sometimes and will backtag into infinity. day job est.
i AM moving early early june, so i may slow down later in the moth
OOC Limits: No death, no smut. maybe warn for suicide

Character Name: Levi Jořdán
Canon: Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
Aurora Feat: Free Runner and Interlopers Sacrifice

Wanted CR: Yes
Unwanted CR: No.

Event Ideas:
The Shuddering Earth
Levi'll be experiencing the earthquake in Milton, possibly tipped off by his cat that i swear i don't keep forgetting i gave him and then helping clean up around there. He won't really be interested in the dam or exploring it

The Long Road
However once it becomes known that they can go beyond the dam he'll feel a sense of duty to scout as a free runner so will be going on whatever expedition people are planning. probably acting as security detail too cause boy can't not be a solider. he will have no real reaction to the dead bodies along the way and will have no issue with looting (he won't start looting, but if other people do he'll probably join in. mostly he just wants bullets though)
After a quick visit around town he'll head back to Milton, probably once at least one other person is heading back cause its fucking cold

Try Honesty
Not 100% sure on this one, thinking of either mind or form. Levi doesn't really outright lie a lot but he does leave a lot of things (especially about him and his past) out for one reason or another so it might be neat to force him to open up about that.
But form would also be interesting because due to his heavily content warned past he's probably completely covered in bruises and wounds. He won't want to talk about it, but it might be interesting to let people see.

Anything Else?: Ignore that the image on this is for funger1 i still love it

[desperate_times_right]

If he's heading right back Chloe would love to hear what it was like there.

Raylan Givens | Justified

[tinstar]

Player Name: Arma
Player Contact: Plurk & Discord (figmented), or Journal PM
Pacing: Slow to Mid - I tag on weeknights and weekends; Mondays off. I'm on EST time so mostly after the 'dinner' hours.
OOC Limits: Blatant descriptions of child or animal abuse.

Character Name: Raylan
Canon: Justified
Aurora Feat: Raylan has Moon Touched and Old Bear's Blessings. He's comfortable with Moon Touched for the most part, has established he's part of a pack and can be found hunting on four paws regularly. OBB is a different beast (badumtish) and Raylan is struggling in not feeling like a monster for how quickly his temper rises and the damage that he's aware he can do. But he will be hanging closer to his own supplies and whatever common supplies Milton has, adding to it and protecting it.

Wanted CR: Raylan continues to look for friends, people to hang out with, people to hunt as a wolf with - People to play Poker with. He's hungry for conversation and folk's opinions on everything that's happened/happening just as much as regular God, Fate, Faith, baseball, ect.
Unwanted CR: Negative CR for the sake of it - we love organic negative CR

Event Ideas:
Shuddering Earth While Raylan's house isn't going to get destroyed, a few houses on Greene Street will go down from the movement. Raylan will be out and about, will be available to pull anyone out of rubble that needs it with his newfound strength as he picks the corpses of houses as clean as he can! He will also be checking out the Community Hall for damage and the mine again to see if any of the primary tunnels collapsed. He's open to hard labor or conversation!

The Long Road Raylan will NOT be going to Silverpoint at this time, too concerned with his partner Tim Gutterson (who will be losing his house) and general Milton Security but WILL ask that people bring news of what's happened back. (Folks leaving for a long trip is exactly the kind of situation people take advantage of!)

Try Honesty Raylan is going to be picking the Mind rune, leaving him more honest and blunt than normal. While Raylan is generally pretty truthful, he uses a LOT of truth bending and redirection to avoid real questions, so those tools won't be in his toolbox for this event. We're open to repercussions of this! Unfiltered Raylan is a rare creature!


Anything Else?:

[desperate_times_right]

I'd love to give Chloe the chance to give Raylan a hard time about Tim lol.

Levi Ackerman // Attack On Titan

[wingbound]

Player Name: Dem
Player Contact: game discord, PM, jigglyballs.
Pacing: Medium to slow? Sometimes I've got the bandwidth to reply every day, sometimes I blink and a week has passed, it's a process.
OOC Limits: No killing my guy just yet. No cat abuse. Warn for terminal illness please.

Character Name: Levi Ackerman (I don't think most people know his last name yet)
Canon: Attack On Titan
Aurora Feat: Interloper's Sacrifice, Old Bear's Blessing. He may or may not have discovered he has the second one yet.

Wanted CR: Everything honestly! Would love him to make some friends, but also always happy to have peers, mentees, troublemakers to discipline or break up, kids to mother hen over or wrangle, nerds to teach about survival, 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, hunting buddies, fishing friends, 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.

Unwanted CR: Not unwanted exactly, but shipping can be tricky with him. Romance takes time and he's not really interested in sex or hooking up, though he may consider it as something to trade. He's really preoccupied with survival and sadness atm but if you love pain and have an older big titty guy we can talk.

Event Ideas:

THE SHUDDERING EARTH: "His" house will be spared, but he'll probably be among the earliest discoverers for the situation in the hydrodam, as he frequents it for the hot showers (they'd better still be working!) He will NOT enjoy the navigation in the water and will probably work on setting up a place to dry on the other side. He's also available to help others who might have lost shelter or supplies in the earthquakes.

THE LONG ROAD: HE'S A SCOUT of course he will go on the expedition, unless somebody physically stops him. He'll probably be spending some time in Silverpoint once he gets there, though I expect him to eventually return to Lakeside. Would love for him to team up with someone for the journey! (He could use some semi-forced cuddling, let's be real.)

TRY HONESTY: He's already pretty blunt and he's just been mauled a couple months back, all the scars still very clearly on display. So if I'm doing any runes it will probably be the heart one. Watch his aura light up when he talks to a friend or someone he's fond of despite his face not giving anything away!

Anything Else?:

[desperate_times_right]

Randvi is heading to the coast and considering staying either there or at the quonset full time, so I'm sure they'll have something to chat about.

Root | Person of Interest

[computation]

Player Name: Liv
Player Contact: chirality @ plurk and whiskeyqueer @ discord
Pacing: I'm a bit slow for the next week but hoping to spring back into things after that. I generally tag 3 times a week.
OOC Limits: None.

Character Name: Root
Canon: Person of Interest
Aurora Feat: Brand new, so none!

Wanted CR: Root is kind of a wildcard in the sense that she's fun to bounce off of almost anyone. She's brand new so I'm primarily just looking to get her out there in general, but she'll be particularly interested in anyone who knows Shaw already. Aside from that, I love her with wholesome genuine people, innocent defenseless types so she can get protective, and anyone she can manipulate because it's funny and bound to lead to chaos. She also likes to flirt with dangerous women but isn't totally averse to men, either -- just pickier there.
Unwanted CR: Nothing comes to mind. From complicated fuck buddies to mortal enemies, bring it on.

Event Ideas: Root is going to be immediately busy and poking her nose into everything she can. She can be equally the one rescuing someone or the one being rescued -- prone to getting in over her head, and prone to helping others. She's smart, but not used to this environment. She's going to go exploring the dam for sure and trying to get past that. She will absolutely be looting the corpses she finds with no compunctions whatsoever, and particularly looking for electrical equipment and batteries. I love the Long Dark and survival stories so I'm super down to get into detail on that angle!

The funniest honesty option for her by far is the emotional aura one, so count this as your chance to see what Root is actually feeling at any given moment, because it is likely to be wildly disparate from what she's putting across in demeanor and what she's saying.

Anything Else?:

[desperate_times_right]

If she's heading to the coast, Randvi is going to be out there too and painfully earnest about wanting to lay the corpses to rest lol.

Louis de Pointe du Lac | Interview with the Vampire

[flambeaux]

Player Name: Tea
Player Contact: Teamergency
Pacing: Slow
OOC Limits: spider pics

Character Name: Louis de Pointe du Lac
Canon: Interview with the Vampire
Aurora Feat: Free Runner, Old Bear's Blessing

Wanted CR: Louis engages in both polite charming CR and pissed off ornery CR. He tends to dad at young characters with mixed success, but he's not above verbal sniping. Mature. He keeps the vampirism and the homosexuality closeted, but half of Milton knows. He's bitten a number of people in town (with permission) and killed a bunch of NPCs that one time (without permission). He has a drinking problem. 🩸 You can easily find him some nights managing Marché du Lac (the General Store).
Unwanted CR: I want everything, just fyi Louis still thinks it's cheating if he is unfaithful to his ex that he is also living with. Vampire drama!

Event Ideas: I just hated being unavailable for most of the past months, so I'm throwing a plotting post here.

Not sure what to do with the expedition, but I may get something out of Try Honesty. Louis is a repressed closeted* gay vampire who sleeps with his ex. In his own opinion, he failed as a son, a dad, and a brother. Please look at his permissions for a laundry list of CWs and pick your poison.
Mind: Louis habitually lies, so it would be nice* to have some of his inner thoughts out.
Form: Vampire bite marks are a given. If you want something more high octane, there is that cw: domestic abuse option, which Louis still to this day lies and obfuscates about the severity of the situation and his own part in it.

Anything Else?: I would like to properly reveal Louis's newest ability, Old Bear's Blessing a.k.a. aggro berserker +100 carry weight. If this would be useful/entertaining for you, hit me up and lets get Louis into a Situation.

*citation needed

[desperate_times_right]

I think Randvi is going to be sticking around Silverpoint long term due to her romantic difficulties lol so she might be interested in trying to establish some trade on Louis’s behalf if that's something he would be interested in.

We already have a thread for Louis vs Chloe’s weird vampire problems lol so we will probably just continue that one.

vasiliy yegorovich ardankin | historical oc (russian 1930s)

[m1895]

Player Name: Yasmine
Player Contact: PM this journal or on discord @ redmaresociety !
Pacing: I had a really rough go of things (severe anemia, almost ended up in the hospital, etc) but I'm finally, finally starting to recover and getting back into game things. Thank you so much to all of the players behind his CR who have been so patient with me these past few months! As of right now, I'm tentatively saying I'm mostly a weekend morning tagger, and sometimes during the workday depending on what I'm doing.
OOC Limits: Horse or dog death or extreme distress, eye/nail/dental trauma

Character Name: Vasiliy Yegorovich Ardankin.
Canon: Original Character, historical. full info / warnings (these apply to synopsis below also).

[ Vasiliy is a revenant from 1930s Stalinist Russia, a devout communist, a 'true believer' for genuinely altruistic reasons, still unlearning Stalinism. He was born in 1910 in the industrial slums of St. Petersburg (then-Petrograd) and grew up a child laborer until the Russian Revolution and the start of the Soviet Union allowed him upwards mobility he never could have dreamed of. He climbed the party ranks, ended up in Orgraspred (human relations/staffing for the Party), and when the head of Orgraspred, Nikolai Yezhov, was moved to head the NKVD (secret police KGB-precursor) following a mass purge of his predecessor's people, Vasiliy and his cadre were moved with him to fill the gap.

From 1936-1940, including the duration of Russia's Great Purge, Vasiliy was one of the rare few 'good cop' interrogators in the Lubyanka classic to the Soviet split style of interrogation - he never laid a hand on prisoners or used intimidation, instead coming to them and leveraging his charisma, social intelligence, and gift for acting to appeal to them as someone genuinely concerned for their wellbeing, a friend, different and more casual than the other interrogators, willing to do favors like lighten sentences if they'd confess to the fabricated offenses and name names or sign their own death warrants — which he rationalized both through his own indoctrination and the very intensely cultlike atmosphere of the NKVD as well as a genuine belief that it was better for the condemned to sign and be immediately executed than to be tortured into signing and then executed.

When Yezhov fell from Stalin's favor, Vasiliy's days became numbered (it was typical to mass-execute anyone connected to an unfavored figure due to the cadre system of staffing), and one chilly April morning a few months after his thirtieth birthday, the banging on his door came in the middle of the night. He was arrested, interrogated, and executed with a single shot to the back of the head within a week.

But he came back. 75 years later, in 2015, Vasiliy awoke lying on his back in the snow in the middle of nowhere, the documents of a man of the same name and age in his pockets. He thought he was cold because he was losing blood, so he laid there for several minutes and waited to die—but he didn't. It was just the feeling of cold wet snow against a very much alive and intact body.

Vasiliy spent the next year adjusting to modern society and the way perceptions of his time and what he had done had shifted, learning things he didn't know about the regime—lots of them—and beginning to deprogram from Stalin and Yezhov's cults of personality very painfully. Within a year, the guilt was overwhelming - both over what he did, which he still sees as unforgivable, and also because he, the perpetrator, came back and none of the victims (as far as he knows) had the same luxury. Fearful of being discovered and executed a second time, Vasiliy trained as an EMT and fled to America on a work visa, knowing it'd be the last place anyone would look for him, and knowing that the US was unlikely to cooperate with any extradition requests.

For the two years until he arrived in Sing, he worked as an EMT, which never truly brought him a sense of peace but at least allowed him to feel like he was undoing some of the cosmic harm he did by saving lives. He arrived in Sing September 2023 and has been there ever since, and by now he runs a small grouse farm (with a yearling caribou and a dog as well) with his partner, Konstantin Veshnyakov (sputnik) while offering his EMS services on journeys, after disasters, and to anyone who needs to visit their home as a clinic. His secret is still tightly guarded; he's still racked with guilt and never really shed the traits that allowed him to survive as long as he did under Stalin's regime: paranoia, unwillingness to share any feelings or thoughts that might be damning at a later date, and exaggerated humbleness.

Aurora Feat: Nope! He's a total normie, with the exception of being unaging. His body is in a permanent state of stasis.

Wanted CR: Friends, people he can bond with over similar backgrounds (ie, industrialized poverty, growing up in an oppressive/monarchist government, etc).
Unwanted CR: Romance! Onsided attempts to flirt with him are welcome, but he's very much in love with his partner, Kostya sputnik.

Event Ideas:

THE SHUDDERING EARTH: Vasiliy will be scrambling around checking for injuries (and mending those that are presented to him) after the earthquake, as well as trying to help others rebuild where he can. He'll also be accepting any help offered for repairing things around the farm, which only just took a beating in massive storms.

THE LONG ROAD: Vasiliy is attending to look for supplies and provide first aid, and bringing Lyudmila, his and Konstantin's yearling caribou, along with him to carry additional things that are found. Ask him about his "reindeer", get medical help for any cuts or scratches, or scavenge with him! He'll also be doing the rounds checking in from person to person when they all stop to rest, and helping dispose of bodies when they reach their destination.

TRY HONESTY: This and The Long Road are where I'm looking to do the most threading, because this is going to be huge for him in terms of trauma and guilt. Vasiliy's gunshot wound at the base of his skull is going to reappear and start bleeding; he'll have a bandage on it once he knows, but it still bears some questioning. More importantly, though, his hands will be bloody, constantly, bleeding and tripping bright red blood from their very pores no matter how he tries to scrub it away, a very literal embodiment of his lasting feeling that he has blood on his hands in a way he can never, ever absolve.

Anything Else?: Excited to get back in the groove! I'll be backtagging as I catch up with things, but no pressure to tagback if the threads are too old.

plans (please do not reply to this comment!)

[m1895]

THE SHUDDERING EARTH:
— """helping"" chloe with the boiler
— breaking joel's fall with his body (lmao)

THE LONG ROAD:
— scavenging with reiner
— meeting fitzjames/introducing fitzjames to lyudmila