July 2025 Event Plotting

[singmod]

JULY 2025 EVENT

PROMPT ONE: BURIED ECHOES: The green fog from fissures that had begun to appear last month takes on a new form of attack, and Interlopers find themselves forced to share their greatest betrayals and deepest shames.
BURIED ECHOES — CONTENT WARNINGS: atmospheric changes; mild mental manipulation; memory sharing.

PROMPT TWO: ADURERE: The Interlopers are not the only ones caught in the current machinations, and return to Milton House once more.
ADURERE — CONTENT WARNINGS: fire; house fire; death of a child/children; hauntings; illusions of burning/being burned; potential injuries via falling/unstable building collapsing; dead bodies; gore/blood/maimed bodies; body horror; eye-related trauma/horror.

PROMPT THREE — TERRITORY: Interlopers who venture out to the Last Resort Cannery come face to face with the Timberwolf packs who have claimed the place as their own — high risk, high reward.
TERRITORY — CONTENT WARNINGS: themes of survival; gore; human remains; (wild) animal attacks, altered wildlife, possible character injury/death, possible (wild) animal injury/death.

BURIED ECHOES

WHEN: The Month of July
WHERE: Everywhere.

In June, a green fog began to curl upwards from fissures dotted around the Northern Territories — warping Interlopers into frenzies of rage or fear. These afflictions have ended up easing as the month turns over into July but the vapours themselves don’t dissipate. At first, they begin the mingle in the air, like a drop of ink in water — causing a green hue to taint the atmosphere. When one looks around, it's almost like the faint sepia tone that obscures the lens of daylight at sunset some days. The skies feel darker, the days are dull, and green.

There’s a distinct tingle of fear in the air. Something low rumbling — a constant drone in the background.

The reach of these green vapours extend even further as the month goes on. The fogs will grow thicker in places and at times will extend to filling huge spaces of areas quickly and silently. You could be out in the wilds, travelling alone the tracks in Lakeside, or making your way down the Coastal Highway when the fog drifts in.

It doesn’t take long before it encompasses you entirely.

With it, the skies darken further. The world turns to night, lit by the eerie green, and everything feels empty and fraught. For plenty of Interlopers, this is a familiar experience, and a sensation of fear washes over you. Or most of you.

You hear whispers in the fog: a chorus of frightened voices chittering nervously. And then out of that chorus comes a voice that is old and terrible.

She binds me, but she cannot banish me. I am coming for you, Interloper. You cannot be rid of me. The Darkwalker, you realise. It is reaching out to you within the fog.

The Yawning Grave has been opened, and I am so very hungry. One way, or another — I am coming for you. I will break you, consume you. You will go into the Dark.

The Darkwalker has its ways of coming for Interlopers, that is well known by now. The fog shifts and swirls around you. As you watch it, familiar shapes begin to form — a room, a place. Somewhere familiar to you, but it doesn’t fill you with comfort. You remember this place, and you find yourself within a moment of your history. It is not a fond moment.

The memory that forms around you and begins to play out is a memory of your greatest betrayal, your deepest regret. The thing that brings you the most shame. You and your companion will witness this — and there's no escaping this.

The Darkwalker has ways of coming for Interlopers, yes. It has ways of trying to break you down. Your deepest fears and insecurities, showing you for what you truly are; isolating you from the world around you, finding ways to lead you into the Dark. You are the Interloper, after all. You are not part of nature’s design. One way or another, it will break you down and put an end to you. To pull you apart. Now it seeks to show who you truly are to others — a moment where you find yourself at your worst.

Bonds between Interlopers are strong, but are all secrets revealed to the ones you’ve come to know and trust? Do you still have skeletons in your closet? A moment you have tried so desperately to keep buried and hidden from those around you?

No more. The question is whether the people you’ve come to know and trust will be able to look at you the same way again.

ADURERE

WHEN: Late July.
WHERE: Milton House… ?

You wake up in a bed that is not yours. The air is still and cold, and for a moment everything is calm. It is night time. You are not the only one who wakes up with you, another Interloper has found themselves sharing the bed with you — maybe it’s someone you know, maybe it’s an Interloper you’ve yet to meet. But you’re in a strange home you don’t recognise, and you’re not sure what’s happened.

You have a little time to get your bearings, at least — to explore the room itself. The furniture is a little more refined from what you’ve come to know in Milton: well-made and old. The master bedroom is that of a husband and wife. There are family photos on one of the dressers: a wedding photo of a happy bride and groom in the late 1970s or early 1980s; a photo of two small boys stood in Milton Basin, holding up freshly-caught fish; a photo of a sad young girl on a tree swing.

Interlopers who have been in the Northern Territories for some time will come to realise that the family in these photos is the Barker family. The young girl is Enola. You have found yourselves within Milton House, before the fire.

If you had turned on a light to explore, power goes out. There is smoke in the air.

You hear the crackle of flames from beyond the bedroom door. Opening it into the corridor will reveal a fiery inferno, and the distant screams of children.

But there’s something different about this place, just as there has been last time. Even with the blaze, the home does not look at is should. While it looks like the burning, ruined insides of Milton House, it feels more like a maze than anything. The walls warp around you and at sudden moments, tree branches will break and jut out from the walls, burning and snapping and falling before you.

Together, you must work to escape the burning home. Getting out of this place will be far more difficult than those who found themselves in this place well over a year ago. Turning down the corridor in search of the stairs brings only more corridors, opening doors to bedrooms in search of a window will bring you to more corridors, too.

Persist, and you’ll find the stairs eventually. And like last time, the heat and smoke feel real and may even cause you pain but the flames won’t actually burn you. Whatever this is, as real as it feels, there’s some kind of illusion to all of this just as it had done before.

But what didn’t happen before is the sight that greets you as you finally head downstairs.

In the ruined mess of the blazing inferno that is the living room, bodies litter the floor. They pile on top of one another, covering every inch of floor, slumped against the walls. There must be some seventy or more bodies here. Some are harder to look at than others: some are coated in blood and wounds, some caused by animals, some by humans; some lie in crumpled, contorted messes; some are half-frozen; some are barely recognisable.

Looking at these bodies, as difficult as it may be, will bring the awful realisation: these are the bodies of Interlopers who have died within the Northern Territories. Some you recognise, people you knew only too well. Interlopers who have died at the hands of the Darkwalker, of Mother Nature itself, of other Interlopers; each of them appearing just as they had died in this place.

What’s more: scattered in amongst these bodies are the bodies of the Barker family: Thomas and his sons — half-charred and blackened by the smoke and flame.

In amongst this carnage, there’s a figure kneeling on the floor. A woman, dressed in furs, her hands covering her face. Some may recognise her as Enola, and you realise: this is Enola’s deepest regret. What brings her the most shame, her greatest betrayal.

Interlopers may choose to leave, if they wish. Making a break for a window or a door will bring them out into the snow and the world will snap to normal — you find yourselves outside Milton House, green fog swirling around you and fading with a low echo of laughter: the Darkwalker.

But others may choose to go to Enola, to try and help her, to try and end this memory of hers.

Enola feels real when you touch her. Managing to pull her hands away, you’ll realise something is very wrong. Even more wrong than all of this. Those who have seen her before in dreams, or when she appeared to Interlopers in June last year will note that she appears very different. Enola looks gaunt, exhausted — and more frightening: her left side of her face is black and withered, her eye absent from the socket.

It’s hard to say what’s happened to her, but Interlopers may draw their own conclusions and suspicions.

“It’s my fault.” she’ll whisper. “It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault. I caused it.”

Enola seems almost catatonic, and cannot seem to engage with Interlopers at first. She will rock slightly as she kneels, her one blue eye staring into nothing, her expression wounded.

“It’s my fault, it’s my fault— I couldn’t.. I couldn’t make it stop.” she continued. “I didn’t mean it, I— I tried, I tried so hard to stop it— I never meant for it, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

The house groans and shudders around you. Enola will look up, tears streaming down her face.

“I didn’t mean for this. I didn’t mean it.”

Speaking to Enola softly, offering words of encouragement or comfort will slowly begin to calm her down. It will take some time to calm her in this terrible place, but she will respond to it. She seems almost child-like: cowed and broken and small. She looks so tired.

“They were meant to be home.” she tells you. “And I ruined it.”

When Interlopers have calmed her down enough, she’ll finally look at you, like she finally sees you again. For the first time in this moment, she sees you in a way that’s hard to put into words. She reaches for your face, your chest, touches you gently — her expression is so sad, quietly crushed by the care from you.

“I’m sorry.”

In a blink, everything snaps to normal. No bodies, no flames. No Enola. Just the rotted insides of a broken, ruined home — curls of green smoke drifting upwards, out through the cracks of the walls.

TERRITORY

WHEN: The Month of July.
WHERE: Last Resort Cannery, The Coast.

Moving towards the south east from the village of Silverpoint will bring Interlopers along the cracked and crumbling road that loads to Last Resort Cannery: a complex of several warehouses and workshops, and has long since fallen into disrepair. Most of its staff were employed by the village of Silverpoint, and with some even coming from Milton to work — but economic decline has seen the company fall into hard times.

Murmurings from around the village will have Interlopers discovering that there may be some leftover stock that is still usable, such as canned goods, but the villagers have found it incredibly difficult to scavenge there, due to the increase in hostile wildlife. Many villagers that have attempted to travel there have never returned, and those who have, have returned maimed, injured, often dying due to their injuries — and Silverpoint residents have often persuaded Interlopers not to go there.

Interlopers, however, are made of sturdier stuff these days, and maybe it’s worth checking the place out in hopes of finding some useful loot.

The Cannery itself sits right along the coastline, and incredibly bitter and open — much like most of the Coast’s area. As Interlopers head closer, they will soon discover exactly what the villagers spoke of: the frozen, grisly and often skeletal remains of those who have tried to venture forth scattered around the area, torn backpacks and clothing — as if the bodies have been consumed by animals.

Not even Jace has been out here to scavenge, either out of safety, or respect for the dead.

Most of the buildings are open to the elements, having been hit hard by the extreme weather — and provide little in the way of shelter. But not all of them are so open. There are some buildings that will provide ample shelter: warehouses and factory floors, even some small staff breakroom quarters. There are even spaces where it appears that some of the workers even lived on site, with bunk beds and shower facilities.

There will, indeed, be crates filled with canned goods that remain in relatively good condition: mostly canned sardines, tuna and salmon. Interlopers may find seafood soups, too. But there’s an overall theme: the Cannery is a processing place of fish and seafood, after all. However, that is not everything that is housed within the Cannery’s site. Explorers will be able to find heavy but durable work clothes and boots, along with survival tools and equipment that belonged to workers. There are workshops that could be used during the Aurora — which can be used to repair tools and… interestingly: craft ammunition.

A spray painted wall reads: THEY HATE THE LIGHT. Another reads: LOUD NOISES = GOOD FOR SCARES. Another, more ominously: THIS PLACE WANTS US ALL DEAD.

Why would such a plan require a workshop in order to craft ammunition? It might have something to do with the culprits behind the grisly finds Interlopers have come across in their approach to the Cannery itself: the packs of Timberwolves that have made their home here and often prowl the area. And soon enough, they will come running.

A lone howl on the wind, carried on the air. More joining the first. Then, the demonic chittering and growling as one of the packs descend upon the Interlopers. Fortunately, these timberwolves are not quite like the wolves faced by Interlopers right at the very start of their time in the Northern Territories — but they are still altered in terms of the Aurora: smarter, and far more aggressive that wolves have ever been known to be.

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

And at least then, for a while, you might be able to scavenge in peace — and make it out alive.

NPC INTERACTION: MARRA

This month, with the world opening up and access gained into Silverpoint, Interlopers will be able to meet one of the other NPCs of Singillatim! The Silverpoint Lighthouse is the home of Marra, who has previously been unreachable.

Unlike Young Bill, Marra is curious about the Interlopers and will specifically reach out to them. She will have told Molly to tell any Interlopers who stop by the Frozen Angler to send them to the Lighthouse to speak with them.

This opens up another NPC interaction mechanic! Interlopers will be free to question Marra about what's going on, the situation within the Northern Territories, etc. What's more is Marra will have questions for Interlopers, and want to find out as much information as she can from them.

This is a one-off interaction, but it is not to say that Marra won't be around in the future!

Up to five characters may speak with Marra, so feel to plot amongst yourselves and choose sign yourself up for the interaction. The interaction will come in the form of a seperarte post to the event, which will go up on July 10th.

Players can fill out the following form as a sign up for the meeting.

<b>Player Name:</b> Your name here! <b>Character Name:</b> Your character name here! <b>Topic/Questions:</b> If yes, what does your character plan to bring up with Marra?

FAQs

BURIED ECHOES


1. The memories cannot be interacted with in any way.

2. Interlopers with Darkwalker’s Revenge will feel slightly revitalised in general during the month of July and be extra revitalised during these heavy fog instances. They will feel fit, hale and alert — probably the best they’ve ever felt in a long time due to the polar sun.


ADURERE

1. All Interlopers who have died in game can be found within this prompt. This will also confirm the deaths of Interlopers who have been missing but never confirmed dead and also confirm Interlopers who have simply gone home. You can check out the Interloper Masterlist for further details.

2. Interacting with Enola is optional. Interlopers may choose to simply escape house and the memory.

3. Interlopers have limited interaction with the memory. They can look at things, or even touch the dead down in the living room, but not remove anything from the house.

4. Characters will not be physically burned in the fire, but only feel as if they have been. The effects of this illusion will last a short time after they're out the house before they will fade.

5. The only real injuries characters can sustain will be from fall damage, or if the floor gives way and their feet go through, etc. whilst in the house.

6. Please see the January 2024 Event Prompt ‘Adust’, or the Areas Page, or the October 2024 Mini Event under the February 1994 for further information/context.


TERRITORY

1. You do not have to kill a Timberwolf to scare off the pack, simply defeating the pack's morale with noise and flame is sufficient to scare them off for several hours.

2. Timberwolf packs typically range from three to seven wolves.

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

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QUESTIONS

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[shoving]

Hi mods, quick question: For Buried Echoes, is this limited to just what the characters have experienced up to the canon point they were pulled from or could it be a future event they haven't experienced yet?

[wingbound]

Doublechecking regarding the ADURERE prompt, since the location has a question mark. Is this prompt only available for characters in Milton, or can it reach everywhere?

...If the latter, upon the illusion dissipating, would the characters find themselves at any/unrelated abandoned house near where they were before it started, or would they end up back in Milton via DarkwalkUber...

Sign Up: NPC Interaction — Marra

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This interaction is limited to five characters. Characters will be able to have a short thread with Marra to speak with her.

Please sign up under this comment using the form provided.

Re: Sign Up: NPC Interaction — Marra

[lestercraft]

Player Name: Maniette
Character Name: Arthur Lester

Topic/Questions: Arthur is going to share all the notes the Interlopers have made in Milton, with the hopes she can answer any questions that have been raised/any gaps in their collective knowledge. And also check if there's anything they can do for Mara, since my boy has a complicated history with lighthouses.

Re: Sign Up: NPC Interaction — Marra

[shewhograspsthesky]

Player Name: Alex
Character Name: Maelle

Topic/Questions: I'm not sure if this counts as taking up one of the slots. I can bow out if others want the slot instead! Maelle doesn't want to really ask Marra any questions. She just wants to see the lighthouse. But she'd be happy to answer Marra's questions...

Re: Sign Up: NPC Interaction — Marra

[meadqueen]

Player Name: Tess
Character Name: Randvi

Topic/Questions: The general “what happened during the aurora/when Milton residents arrived/Darkwalker” question as well as if she's seen anything notable from the lighthouse and if she's got any intel on the Milton/Lakeside locals that might be useful.

Put me down as reserve too, please! I'd like to do this but I do recognize that Randvi got to do the Old Bear fight so I don't want to take the place of someone else who might be interested.

NPC DEATHS

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Interloper Masterlist is Here.

Maelle | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

[shewhograspsthesky]

Player Name: Alex
Player Contact: PM or Discord @ alexceptionally is fastest! Plurk is fine too~
Pacing: July is a busy month for me. But I can probably tag every other day, more on weekends.
OOC Limits: Just check if you think it might be problematic?

Character Name: Maelle
Canon: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Aurora Feat: N/A

Wanted CR: She needs a babysitter, let's be honest. Please adopt the childe. She's also never had a friend her age? So that'd be nice to have...
Unwanted CR: I live for salt as much as I live for sweet. Gimme what'cha got.

Event Ideas:
BURIED ECHOES

BURIED ECHOES - Spoilers Here

Her memory will be of the housefire that killed Verso and left her scarred. So expect descriptions of fire and burning and death. Hooray. Totally down to trade bad experiences.

ADURERE
Not gonna lie. I laughed at this prompt and I know that's wrong and I should feel bad but I do not.

ADURERE - Aha. Spoilers Strikes Again

So. House fires. Not her favorite. This is............ terrifyingly relatable. She's not scared of fire, but the bodies on the lower floor are going to trouble her significantly. That said, she would be one to try very, very hard to convince Enola to get out of there. I laughed because it'll be like she's talking to a mirror. Even physically so hahahaaaa this is fine. Since she just got here, these people mean nothing to her so she won't think anything of Enola except that she's also in this burning house. So who wants to buddy up?

TERRITORY
Her physical state is trash, but she is likely going on a (failed) adventure with Randvi..? Now accepting piggy back rides to see the rest of this island. Probably not literally.

Anything Else?:

[fidior]

Hello there! I think Edward here could be really fun to toss at Maelle! He's a sad Victorian naval officer with a heart as big as his muttonchops... who falls into a very guard dog / nanny-type role with looking after others, especially the young folk around Milton. One of the feats this place gave him also lets him turn into a wolf and he uses that to help him keep an eye on people, so he's literally become Nana off Peter Pan... just call him Nana Ned... and I know as soon as he sees the state of Maelle he'd be Very Concerned no matter what and want to keep an eye on her!

Coincidentally, he also comes with heaping doses of fire-related trauma, so the first two prompts could offer fun cr introduction potential :'D

For Buried Echoes, he'll probably be extremely affected by that horrible memory of hers, so that could be interesting (potentially Maelle having to help calm this grown man down as he inevitably panics a bit through her memory??) For Adurere, he's experienced a burning Milton House once before so he's going to TRY to make it through as best he can, and will likely see many dead Interlopers he knows, since he's been in game for a long time. He also knows all about Enola, so he could answer any questions Maelle might have about any of that / etc.

So if either of those experiences sound like more fun for you, I'd totally be down for either!

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
OOC Limits: No death, no smut. maybe warn for suicide

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

Wanted CR: Any and all
Unwanted CR: Nothing i can think of

Event Ideas:
Buried Echos
Levi's Content Warnings will apply here. This Levi is the one who jumped ship instead of taking the suicide mission so at least y'all don't get that. he still had loses though.
He's done his best to say NOTHING about all of this and rarely even mentions he was in the army so I would love people who know him and think he's maybe just a shy kid get to see past his walls.

Adurere
I...don't know here. Let me know if anyone wants Levi as a thread partner for this one and we can figure something out

he won't be in Silverpoint this month but if someone comes back and mentions the ammo press he may make the journey later not that he knows how to make bullets

Anything Else?: sorry, lazy

Jhey's Horror Guys (a spaceman & a boatman)

[sputnik]

Player Name: Jhey
Player Contact: horreur, hagfishs @ discord, or pming either of my guys' accounts are all fine!
Pacing: I'm gently trying to come off a hiatus and while I'm not going to claim that I'm running much faster these days, I'm still hoping to re-establish my footing a bit here. I know I've fallen behind on things and am happy to keep backtagging, but I'm also cool to let go of anything and shift to something new this month if you like!
OOC Limits: N/A

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Character Name: Konstantin Veshnyakov
Canon: Sputnik
Aurora Feat: Old Bear's Blessing — For a while, Kostya's been living his best life and indulging in the physical strength it gives him, but after experiencing heaping doses of the anger side-effect, is starting to be reminded of the ways it's changing him and how he thinks this place is continuing to turn him into a weapon the way he was being manipulated back home.

Wanted CR: Anyone with space, lab rat, or weird supernatural experience back in people's home worlds (Kostya is wanting to learn more about his own situation but also those of his equally-supernaturally-cursed close ones here), anyone who knows anything about ALIENS.... fellow parents, young folks to hit his Guilty Failed Dad Button, fellow extroverted folks to chat & hang with, people to do physical fitness / training with him... Folks with medical experience to offer any insight on his "condition" (or who might want to lowkey study him) are always a fun angle, too! Interactions with his alien parasite are also on the table, as although its capabilities are nerfed appropriately, it's still with him in game and definitely still causes problems :)

Event Ideas:

buried echoes. (warning: this prompt will come with parasitic / invasive body horror) The culmination of Kostya's worst regret, betrayal, & shame (it's #Complicated but all of this represents him abandoning his son / Running Away from people who need him / being "punished" for those things) came just as he was on his last mission to space before encountering an alien entity that broke into his shuttle, attacked his co-pilot, and then made Konstantin its unfortunate host body (via forcing itself down his throat). While several people in game know about his little alien problem and have even encountered the thing for themselves, this moment would be The One that he'd most be horrified to have anyone else witness & Perceive Him.

Funnily enough, he's recently been burned by the general public's reaction to Dorian Gray's murder confession (aka the public harsh judgment in the face of someone who can't control what dark thing is wrong with them!!) — Kostya's since been bitter and worried about people turning on him and his close ones here (many of whom are also various degrees of "cursed and dangerous") if he were to do the same. SO! Time to expose his Alien Problem in the worst way possible :) I'm wide open to any level of cr here, even brand-new!

I'm also down for Kostya to be the one witnessing someone else's memory and utilising that as some cr-development / new cr introduction!

territory. Kostya always needs A Mission and would absolutely jump on the chance to do something objectively dumb but brave. Team-ups, rescue opportunities, wolf battles, let's go 💪 He does come with some feat-given supernatural strength that could be useful here, but he also struggles with his "condition" making him ill very often, so there's a lot of ways this could go and fun stuff to play around with!

Anything Else?:

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Character Name: Edward Little
Canon: The Terror
Aurora Feat: Moon Touched & Darkwalker's Revenge, as I turn Ned into the werewolf he's always been meant to be — Following starving himself and losing control of his cursed hunger (and attacking / munching on Kate Marsh's life force), Ned has been banishing himself for the past few months and staying very lowkey. He's been suffering with the relentless sunlight, so the reprieve in July will be a blessing for him (which will of course give him very mixed feelings!)

Wanted CR: Other old-timey folks for his Extremely Victorian Ass to vibe with, modern folks to give him heart palpitations, people for him to watch over & nervously nanny with his big Middle Manager energy... He's a good guard dog (pathetic but unflinchingly loyal) and can literally turn into a wolf here, so people who might need An Escort to and from some location... People with a feat that will trigger his Cursed Hunger... He's also easily manipulated due to being someone who obstinately and hopefully believes in The Best in people (RIP Ned) so things like that could also be on the table at some point.

Event Ideas:

buried echoes. (warning: major / ending spoilers for Edward & The Terror) Ned's biggest betrayal/regret is definitely the moment when he left behind the remaining sick men & headed off with the remaining capable survivors instead of leading a rescue party for their captain & others. It's #Complicated and was very much a case of "how much was actually in his control" / the other men literally held a vote against his wishes to lead said rescue party / there wasn't much he could actually realistically do, but it's this event that haunts him the most and was the moment in which he finally "lost himself." It also signifies not only his biggest betrayal of others, but the biggest betrayal towards him from others as well, and he has a lot of suppressed hurt and anger about it that I would love to finally dig into after literal years in game swallowing it all down! :D For this, I would prefer well-established cr.

I'm also wide open Edward to witnessing someone else's memory and utilising that as some cr-development / new cr introduction!

adurere. Ned experienced the Milton House before, where he succumbed to so much fire-related trauma / PTSD Things and froze the fuck up, but thankfully, Wynonna Earp was there to save the day. He'd still struggle a lot, but I think it'd be pretty meaningful if he got to help someone else through it this time! Also down to play with the horrors of finding dead Interlopers; Ned will be recognising quite a few on his end, given he's been in game since the start.

Anything Else?:

[tedandroses]

(On my phone between things, sorry in advance if autocorrect kicks in lol)

Hey so, obviously Teddy is Not The CR You Are Looking For re: Ned’s trauma here, but their regret moment is …not unrelated (read: weirdly emotionally similar given how not at all alike their backgrounds are —- in both an “I feel like I abandoned someone to die” and “I feel super betrayed by the people I was with who encouraged that, and/but they were My Guys?” way).

If you wanted Ned to see Teddy’s that could be a thing to dropkick CR? Could be interesting to view someone else dealing with that kind of guilt, or be a good kick off for his own.

I feel like Teds fits into a lot of those CR slots in weird slightly oblique ways, though, so if you don’t want anything quite that close to home, we should totally find another in! lbr I need yet another reason to watch the Terror, which I still haven’t somehow

eren jaeger | attack on titan

[dreamsofwings]

Player Name: Lyn
Player Contact: boywonder, PM, ask for discord if you want
Pacing: I'm habitually slow bc real life just be real life-ing I guess but I'm backtag friendly.
OOC Limits: I can't imagine any of this would come up here but gender swaps, pregnancy stuff of any kind.

Character Name: Eren Jaeger
Canon: Attack on Titan
Aurora Feat: Old Bear's Blessing

Wanted CR: Eren doesn't have a lot of CR that has developed deeply and I'm really looking to have him have relationships, situationships, frenemies, idk. He needs more connections, he's just on hard mode bc his ability to actually connect to other people is uhhhh shaky bc he is literally the worst version of himself :')))
Looking at this even especially, that worst shame thing is like the Big Reveal (or one of several) so it would be pretty easy to tip someone into do not trust this boy territory.
Unwanted CR: Negative CR that goes nowhere. Negative stuff is totally fine, but let's do something with it ykwim

Event Ideas:

• Buried Echoes: Eren has this idea in his head that if they actually just try, they can kill the Darkwalker. He also has absolutely zero fear of death bc he experienced too much omniscience at once and knows how he dies at home, therefore truly believes he can't die here. So he'll probably yell back at it lmao he is so stupid about things like this.
  
  I'm bouncing around which exact moment in a whole slew of them is his biggest shame. He's repressed his actual emotions for so long that he wouldn't recognise it himself, really? It's probably the way he treated Armin and Mikasa before he actually started the end of the world. I think he feels worse about that than actually being the final boss. Anyway, if you want to see a terrible boy behave terribly, here you go.
  
  
• Adurere: Open to team ups getting out of the house/illusion. Eren isn't afraid of fire or pain so he's an okay bet in this situation. He will not have any time for Enola and will just seek to leave, though, unless whoever he's with convinces him to stay. So he's good for escape and terrible for actually calming anyone else down.
  

Anything Else?: watching Eren memory recall be like:

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… 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. (Her wolf dog finally has a name. Her name is Chani Because Zoey has a theme when it comes to pet names, and that theme is Dune.)
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: Leaving this from the last plotting post just because. It mostly still applies. 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. 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.

BURIED ECHOES: I’m not 100% sure about her greatest regrets/betrayals/greatest shame just yet. I suspect it’s going to be a CRAU thing? Possibly abandoning Nemo, trapped inside the fortune teller’s booth at the Carnival of Rust. Plus the fact that her dad went missing and she was dragged off by the multiverse before she could find him. (He was, in fact, disappeared to GET her dragged off by the multiverse.)

Another possible CRAU option is the time she had a vision of people being dragged into a trap, only to get killed for her efforts to try and warn them and not be able to stop it from happening. So uh… who wants to see Zoey get killed by a demon I guess? Might keep that option for closer, or at least prior CR.

ADURERE: Look, Zoey’s already had an adventure in Milton House, and fallen through some stairs/a floor so of COURSE I’m going to toss her in again. She won’t try to leave, because she has to try and help, try and reach out to Enola. More so when she sees the state she’s in. She’s going to have her suspicions as to why, but will want to find out for sure.

TERRITORY: Not 100% sure if Zoey’s going to be out on the coast still/headed out there again, but if she IS she’s absolutely going to be running into Timberwolves. And exploring the cannery. Not necessarily in that order.

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?:

[powersuited]

I keep meaning to get Snow and Zoey CR (because of the obvious shared Bigby connection), but she also has the Moon Touched feat and I love shoving her at fellow wolves! if you want a slightly less horror-filled intro, maybe a meet over a batch of pine soda?

Tess’s Ladies

[meadqueen]

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.

Wanted CR: Always looking for greenhouse buddies, especially now that she can't always go outside during the day. Allies and people she can put her trust in: she is really freaked out about the way some people reacted at Dorian’s little murder confession event and knowing there are people who will stand up for her will keep her way closer to normal. Anyone with a feat that isn't one of hers who would be willing to do weird vampire feeding stuff.
Unwanted CR: Chloe is always down for casual flings 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:

Buried Echoes

Chloe is going to be psyched about the evil weather giving her an energy boost (girl… the implications…) and will be out and about way more than she has been in recent months.

I'm not sure if her big betrayal will be very interesting - she's already told a few people about it because her item from “painful reminders” was a reminder of the same event and it's a bit hard to set up visually who everyone involved is - but if anyone wants to see a guy explode into a fine mist because Chloe fucked him over that’s on the table.

Adurere

Chloe has been in this house before but might not be super helpful because last time she didn't go upstairs. She has no interest in trying to calm Enola and her demands might actually make things worse. Not sure I'm going to do anything with this one.

Territory

Chloe’s sticking to Milton (and maybe Lakeside) for the moment so she won't be doing the Silverpoint prompts.

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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:

Buried Echoes

Randvi’s biggest shame is being in love with her sister-in-law but there isn't really a ton to see because (she thinks) it's one-sided so it's a lot of silent pining… I have a few ideas but nothing that’s super exciting.

Adurere

Randvi will be leaving Milton early in the month so I'm not really interested in this prompt for her.

Territory

Randvi will be leaving Milton to head back to Silverpoint in early July, accompanied by Teddy and Maelle. I'm down for them meeting up with anyone heading there or back who might pass them by. The trip will take them just over a week.

I'm also interested in having her investigate the Cannery (though she won’t know what the ammo press is, unfortunately!). She's got her Lightbringer and Old Bear’s Blessing feats, enchanted bear spear, and the Armored status from her bear claw, as well as experience fending off wolves from her settlement back home so I think she should do pretty well.

[sputnik]

Kostya feels like he's living in Crazy Town after some of the reactions to Dorian's meeting and is becoming more and more upset and bitter about it actually lol so if Chloe needs someone to talk to about it sometime, he's always down! He's definitely coming out of that event feeling even more fiercely protective over his group of Cursed Close Friends here, and would absolutely take a stand for Chloe if anyone ever gives her shit.

Levi Ackerman // Attack On Titan

[wingbound]

Player Name: Dem
Player Contact: Game discord, PM or 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 dying at this time! please warn for terminal illness/hospice lore.

Character Name: Levi Ackerman
Canon: Attack On Titan
Aurora Feat: Interloper's Sacrifice, Old Bear's Blessing. He's used IS a few times for non-lethal injuries and is mostly aware of the effects it has on the user so tries to do it sparingly. I have not played out him discovering his bear feat yet, but he's been feeling more short tempered and realistically he should have noticed something by now, probably hasn't had a full bearing out yet though which I'd be interested in exploring!

Wanted CR: Give me all of it. Would especially love for him to make some (more) close friends. Always happy to throw him at fellow military or working class people, (former) criminals, cop/authority haters, nerds who need brawns for their schemes or wilderness survival lessons, kids in need of wrangling or mentoring, old-timers who have not seen "electricity" before, sparring/hunting/fishing/gathering buddies, etc.

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: I'm good with romance if it happens naturally, but I'm also not specifically looking for it. It's not on Levi's list of priorities at the moment and his interest is usually low at the best of times.

Event Ideas:
BURIED ECHOES - this is ironically difficult since his lowest points and his biggest regrets don't really overlap. There's a couple things I could stretch to this, though. Let me know if you're interested in meeting some Titans... (deff cw: gore for that.)

ADURERE - not yet sure where he will be this month, but he would most likely attempt to talk to/comfort Enola. He might also (internally) freak out seeing the Interloper he killed during the Solstice last year in the house, so there is that.

TERRITORY - again, not sure if he will be in Silverpoint for this, but I think I'll aim for it since he's fairly well suited to this situation! He's a fighter, he has two Feats, the Armored effect from the bear claw, an enchanted spear, a knife, and plenty of pent up rage. He unfortunately does not have the skills to use the crafting station, but he'd offer to guard and/or escort someone who does!

Anything Else?:

[tedandroses]

It has been forever since I watched AoT but I think Teddy checks half those boxes (including “ACAB” which is clearly the one that matters, or something) so perhaps we should find a way to toss these two in the same room or, yknow. Woods.

…aaand I just saw your comment about him joining up with Randvi in Silverpoint, who Teddy’s already gonna be with so, that could be a pretty easy in…

kates (& hickey & dorian)

[friendsfordinner]

Player Name: Kates
Player Contact: allikateor @ plurk or discord
Pacing: normally I'm pretty good, clear out the inbox once a day. However! I'll be going on vacation for the next week and a bit. I'll be able to toss out a phone tag every now and then, but don't expect consistent tagging. This also means that I will not be putting up top levels just for my own sanity—I'm more than happy to tag in, tho, so hmu if you want my guys!
OOC Limits: none comes to mind

Character Name: Cornelius Hickey
Canon: The Terror
Aurora Feat: Free Runner, Moon Touched, Old Bear's Blessing. Unfortunately for everybody, he's thriving with his feats.

Wanted CR: Friends, hunting buddies, people who will tolerate his weird wolf beliefs and his conspiracy theories, people who will point out that his conspiracy theories make no sense, people who can overlook the "if you ask around, it's easy to learn that Hickey ate a guy" of it all, people who will confront him on the "if you ask around, it's easy to learn that Hickey ate a guy" of it all, anyone who can serve as impulse control.
Unwanted CR: No romance, as Hickey's married.

Event Ideas:
BURIED ECHOS: Hickey's greatest shame is pretty dang intense! It's when he was "punished as a boy," which for the non canon familiar means that he was stripped naked and lashed on his rear. It's pretty intense and absolutely the sort of thing that I'm not going to throw on people without prior plotting! At the same time, it would definitely be interesting for CR purposes, simply because it's not the lashing that Hickey's ashamed of, but the fact that he misread a situation so badly and so poorly that he ended up getting lashed. I'm up for threading this out with someone (or having Hickey stumble into your character's memory as well), but we'll definitely need some prior plotting because yeah. It sucks.

TERRITORY: lord help us, Hickey wants to fight a wolf. He was interested in the cannery during his first Silverpoint visit and now that he's heard there are wolves, he's double interested. As someone who's on Team Wolf and is certain that his Team Wolf is like, 100% better than these punkass wolves, Hickey will happily try to prove his mettle by killing some dogs. He will be exceedingly weird and protective of any close CR for this prompt, please try to convince him that buddy, you don't have to kill the wolves, you can just try to scare them away. Old Bear's Blessing gonna be out for blood, babes.

Anything Else?:


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Character Name: Dorian Gray
Canon: Confessions of Dorian Gray
Aurora Feat: Darkwalker's Revenge. This is his month, baby! First time in months he doesn't feel like complete dogshit!

Wanted CR: Friends, enemies, people who he can happily have a one-night stand with, people who he can happily gaslight/manipulate into thinking he's just such a good guy, fellow weird Darkwalker vampires, people willing to call him out on some bullshit/talk to him about the murder confession. Though he won't admit it to the general public, Dorian is very annoyed at how the reception went, but he'll still answer questions about it (he will happily bitch about it to close CR though, don't people realize he's done nothing wrong in his life???)
Unwanted CR: Dorian is still keeping mum about the fact that he's a weird immortal and also THAT Dorian Gray! He's only directly told three people 'surprise, I'm an immortal' (and only one person knows about the fact that the cursed portrait is real), though he's told bits and pieces of his backstory to everybody else. While I don't mind people making painting in the attic jokes or calling him out on the fact that he's a callous murdering asshole, please drop me a line if you've got an inquisitive sort who'd be poking into his bullshit. now that he's publicly outed himself as a murderer, I'm more than happy to work with people if they want to figure out the entirety of what this guy's problem is, I just want to do it in a way that stays clear of infomodding.

also, not looking for monogamy/endgame romance. Dorian is a skank. And when you're stuck in the Arctic with nothing to do, time to skank it up baby.

Event Ideas:
BURIED ECHOS: why do I play people who's greatest shame involves so many content warnings. Dorian's greatest shame & regret is not stopping his boyfriend from committing suicide (said boyfriend is a vampire named Tobias, who committed suicide via sunlight). Though Dorian will try to seem calm and collected if anyone sees this memory, it's obvious that it fucked him up real good (in canon, he spiraled into a decade long depression after Toby's death, healthy coping is for suckers). I'm up for people seeing this memory! But again, it's something I'd want to plot out ahead of time due to the nature of it.

ADURERE: Dorian is going to be weirdly jazzed about being in the creepy burned house. Haunted houses are his bread and butter and he was talking about exploring the creepy house with other people! He will also take the basement full of corpses weirdly calmly, hey buddy you really are doing such a good job of poking holes in your "I'm just a normal guy!!" story. If anybody wants someone to help forcibly drag them through all this nonsense, Dorian's your guy. If other people want to help Enola, he'll follow them to her, though Dorian's attitude when dealing with Enola will be very much "stop your bitching and do something." Somebody else needs to fill that 'speak softly' prompt.

Anything Else?:

[meadqueen]

Chloe had talked to Dorian one time about exploring the house, hadn't she? It would be funny if they shared the dream, she’d be like I'm never offering you anything out loud again.

James Fitzjames | The Terror

[gildedlife]

Player Name: Ami
Player Contact: PM, plurk at amiasha, or discord at amiasha
Pacing: ...Eh. Trying to get back to things every other day or so but I work at a museum that does summer camp programming and it's been insane.
OOC Limits: Usually nothing as long as it's warned for and/or plotted! If something comes up unexpectedly in a thread I'll just message you about it.

Character Name: James Fitzjames
Canon: The Terror (2018)
Aurora Feat: Efficient Machine; he's sort of got the idea now, and although it's not as flashy as he might like, it's incredibly useful and he's glad he has it even though he could really use being able to get drunk.

Wanted CR: More close relationships! More weird complicated messes! Outright enemies! Honestly I'm here for any dynamic and he's a disaster so there's potential for all kinds of interesting CR
Unwanted CR: Nothing at the moment, really

Event Ideas: What a great month for someone with fire-related PTSD... Hurray...

Buried Echoes - Fitzjames has lots of things he's not super proud of but only one really qualifies for this sort of event so it's Carnivale time~ For those not canon-familiar, Fitzjames was in charge of the Expedition for a short period while Crozier was sick, and as it became increasingly obvious their situation was dire, Fitzjames began plans for the crews to abandon ships and walk eight-hundred miles to the nearest outpost for rescue; but before that, with too many supplies to carry and everyone's moods low, why not have a party???

And so they did and it was great. Genuinely. And then one of the crew's doctors trapped everyone inside and lit the place on fire and several people died. It was totally fine and not traumatic and Fitzjames certainly doesn't feel terribly guilty about this. If anyone wants to see the Terror crew drunk and in stupid outfits and then CHAOS, this is an opportunity for exactly that.

Adurere - Oh look at that, more fire.

Although Fitzjames certainly won't be useless in figuring out an escape, he will occasionally freeze up for a few moments and need to be jolted back to reality--or whatever this is--so for those who have only seen his more capable and daring side this might be a bit of a change. But outside of those moments he'll be helpful in trying to find a way out.

The living room will be a whole thing, both in bringing up memories of both Carnivale and the attack on Terror Camp (so many occasions to have to line up loads of dead bodies) and because of course he'll recognize some of the dead Interlopers. :c He's not hugely fond of Enola but also wouldn't be willing to just leave her there like that, especially having been in a similar state before himself. For bonus trauma and parallels, his own left eye got really messed up from scurvy, and although it's healed (for the most part) now the sight of Enola's face will be a bit of a shock.

Territory - After these awful experiences, Fitzjames is definitely returning to Silverpoint for a bit, and what better way to distract oneself from The Horrors than to do something dangerous? He'll most likely be with Irving for much of the time, but there could be opportunity for plotting here still c:

And of course they have to use fire to drive off the timberwolves... He's so over this place it sucks

Anything Else?: Speaking of Carnivale:

[meadqueen]

Randvi will also be doing the cannery adventure if they want to meet up there/on the road/around Silverpoint!

She has the fire aurora feat, which I'm sure is fine.

cheryl | team blonde babies

[burying]

Player Name: Cheryl
Player Contact: heolstor / _heolstor @ disco
Pacing: Pacing: SLOW AS BALLS. Modly duties + full time job + RP can make me real slow at times. Weekends tend to end up being the times where I am free to take the most tbh. 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: 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:

— BURIED ECHOES In all honesty, Kieren's greatest shame/betrayal would likely be his suicide — although not specifically for the act itself but purely for the harm he caused to his family members when he returned from the dead. I don't think having a memory of his suicide itself would something that'd be fun nor appropriate to play. However, probably a moment that hurt Kieren deeply would be either meeting his parents for the first time since returning from the dead or probably finally confronting his father (who's been supressing shit hard) about his suicide and the very cathartic scene of his dad being honest about it all.

— ADURERE Not this again... he already did the whole burning house thing.... Kieren isn't particularly bothered about Enola, so while he might be sympathetic and try to encourage her to leave he'd likely just want to get out of the house/memory/illusion and pull out whoever's with him, too. He would end up seeing the NPC Interloper he killed last year, which will absolutely fuck with him, and because he's been in game from the very beginning, he'll recognise a lot of the bodies.

— TERRITORY I'm undecided if I want to have Kieren in Silverpoint or not. But he could possibly head out if his CR is there. Kieren's got Free Runner, which would likely be very useful for evading timberwolves. But yeah, no solid plans here.

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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 so romance is off the table for her!

Event Ideas:

— BURIED ECHOES Kate doesn't really has a biggest regret or moment that brings her the most shame, per se. She sure does regret going to the Vortex Party and does still feel a lot of shame for the fall out due to her own internalised victim-blaming. Although punching Tim in the face last month does count as one in terms of game canon, lmao. I don't think I'm going to play anything out for her in regards to this, but I'm absolutely down for Kate being support to other characters. She's forgiving almost to a fault, generally, and would be really good at comforting others.

— ADURERE VERY INTERESTED IN THIS ONE. Kate cares a lot about Enola and be wanting to comfort her and try and get her to leave so there's that, for one. In addition to this, Kate's been around since the start so she'll be recognising a lot of the bodies in this place. Three of the most notable ones she'll be drawn to and very upset about will be the bodies of Heartman (nerd dad...), the charred remains of Crozier (peepaw...) and NPC Interloper Mikel (attempted murderer...) and those will absolutely fuck her up a whole lot. So there's room for a lot of pain in all of this tbqh.

Anything Else?:

event plans (dnr)

[burying]

Kate
— buried echoes prompt with Tim
— adurere prompt with Bruce

Kieren
— adurere prompt with Matt

Raye | Tim Gutterson - Justified

[comfortablyerect]

Player Name: Raye
Player Contact: raye_nbow or falonlea @ discord
Pacing: Mid leaning towards slow.
OOC Limits: None!

Character Name: Tim Gutterson
Canon: Justified
Aurora Feat: None

Wanted CR: Always down for him trying to make friends, just be prepared for never knowing anything personal about him and a wild amount of inappropriately timed jokes. He does a lot of hunting and fishing, so people to do that with would be fun! Organic negative CR is good, he's not hard to make enemies with because he's a) ornery and b) easily annoyed. I'm open to basically everything!
Unwanted CR: As far as romance goes, you can try, but you're better off moving onto the next emotionally unavailable dude.

Event Ideas: I'm not entirely sure yet where he's going to be for this, Silverpoint or Milton, but I'll update as I figure it out lmao.

BURIED ECHOES:

CW for war and child murder.

Tim was with the military for eight years, he has a kill count into the hundreds, and a grand majority of it he feels zero guilt for. However a non-insignificant percentage of that kill count includes child soldiers, and he absolutely harbors guilt over that.

SO, he'll be having a memory of killing a child during the war. I would love for someone to experience it with him (pre-established CR or brand new!) and with that said, it's going to trigger some nightmares and low-key episodes with flashbacks and minor hallucinations. He'll be isolating a lot, but can definitely be caught out in the woods or away from town.

TERRITORY: Tim has no sense of self-preservation (or it's at least very damaged and he doesn't have much concern for his own well-being) so he will absolutely be taking a trip to the cannery to see what he can scavenge. Anyone who wants to join him on this crazy venture is more than welcome. He may more may not get minorly injured, I haven't decided yet.

Anything Else?:

[bigbaddy]

i would definitely be up for doing something with these two, if you're too!! maybe the buried echoes prompt would be interesting, considering bigby has also committed child murder (technically... little red riding hood and all...) so it could lead to a meaningful conversation about stuff like that for sure!

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

[flambeaux]

Player Name: Tea
Player Contact
Pacing: Slow. RP has been really hard for me lately but I would be remiss if I didn't give the gift(?) of Louis mclosing it.
OOC Limits: no spiders

Character Name: Louis de Pointe du Lac
Canon: Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
Aurora Feat: Free Runner (good at), Old Bear (have not tried)

??? CR: Spoilers for season 2. I think Louis is mixing his NPC murder with cheating on the husband he divorced via a murder attempt in canon, so unless you want Louis to attempt to murder your man, possibly while hallucinating said ex, don't hit on him until the dust has settled? Or do and see Louis at his worst.

Event Ideas: Do any of the event prompts strike your fancy for catching Louis at a vulnerable moment? Maybe Louis will have the vapors and it will stir memories. Maybe Louis will see the bodies of NPCs he's killed in Milton House. Here's how the "upstanding" charming Southern gentleman who runs the General Store is doing in general:

Season 2 Spoilers, Grief, Repression, and Vampire Schizophrenia(??)

Lestat has disappeared and loss is difficult for me to write, but canon provides a handy blueprint of how Louis handles it in his trademark messy style. Hallucinating(?) "Lestat" will ramp up this month, escalating into having extended conversations with Dreamstat. Louis knows deep down it's not him, but he misses him, and if there's one thing Louis de Pointe du Lac is good at, it's handling poor mental health in the unhealthiest way. It usually becomes someone else's problem.

Louis hides things and lies his ass off, he even lies to himself and represses his violent urges until they explode. He will try to deny ever having been caught talking to thin air, gives non-answers to questions about his mental health, because he just doesn't know. It's inconclusive what's going on with him, all he knows is he's been in the same cycles of repression, depression, and violence since he was turned in the 1910s.

For less high octane hallucination fare, listen to Louis trash talk Lestat then break down crying, that's a Tuesday for him.

The Above Cont.: Oh Boy Here I Go Killing Again

Part of Louis's interactions with Dreamstat include projecting him onto strangers and killing them. I'm not entirely sure how the town would handle an all-out witch hunt for a very real vampire serial killer with a drinking problem, and I'm not looking to kill Louis at this time, but... perhaps a glimpse of some blood munching?

Maybe your character has to remind Louis that the poor NPC he's yelling at isn't actually Lestat? Maybe they can have a fight? Louis has fangs and Free Runner super speed and Old Bear strength which I haven't tried out yet, we can cook up something. And of course he's weak to sunlight and blood loss and depression, as likely to break down crying as murder. There are a lot of characters who would take issue with Louis's drinking problem, but I want to look for a way to keep the game playable for us both too.

Anything Else?:

[shewhograspsthesky]

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii there.

This is probably really bad timing, but Chloe had recommended this kiddo go see Louis about working at his store. She obviously knows nothing of what he's going through but would you like to coordinate if she stopped by? She'll be away for an adventure most of July but should be back near the end of it.

teddy roberts | oc

[tedandroses]

Player Name: Faye
Player Contact: over on plurk (wingedvoices) or PM is fine!
Pacing: All over the place? Trying to catch up to the pace I was at last week. From the 15-22nd I'm visiting my family (which could mean either more or less tag availability, depending on things?) -- but I've been loving the tags, so just bear with me a little bit <33
OOC Limits: Uh. Yeah, I'm gonna go with the popular answer of "death"? Graphic animal torture? Nothing that's likely to come up tbh; if you're worried, ask me, but most of my limits have flown out the window at this state in RP.

Character Name: Teddy Roberts
Canon: OC!
Aurora Feat: THEY DO NOT (have one), and they're probably going to slowly start realizing they're one of only a few and get just a little unsettled. Although they also know from Chloe what Darkwalker's Revenge does so hey, maybe it's a plus.

Wanted CR: Yes, yes, a thousand times yes to all of these examples. Wanted: everyone! Teddy's new! People she can help with things (general labor/extra hands, survival or just practical skills, anything that being from the 2020s OR from the mountains/a rural area could be beneficial for); fellow writers/readers, musicians, and/or people who need to know more about stuff; hiking/hunting/adventure buddies; other people who have doggos; political conversation-havers, snarky assholes, nerds...
... people who want to cuddle because IT'S SNOWY AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SUMMER?? [*pours one out for the loss of West Virginia's seasons*]
Unwanted CR: I mean. Really the only unwanted CR is "negative for no reason"? (If there's a reason, that's okay.)

Event Ideas:
So I'm thinking Buried Echoes, and also the Cannery for Teds on this one, since I've got general plans to have him head to Silverpoint with Randvi and Maelle. Doesn't make a ton of sense to me to do Adurere since he wouldn't know any of the bodies OR recognize Enola, so it'd just be...very sad and really weird. Which is normally fine, but I want to make sure I give myself time and that's the least crucial. So.

BURIED ECHOES
(tw: mention of recreational drug use, witness of overdose)
As mentioned to Jhey up...there ^^^ somewhere, Teddy's worst memory in this general arena has to do with both feeling like they betrayed someone and feeling betrayed.

Basically, at a party after a show with the band they were in as a teenager, a girl overdosed in front of Teddy. Teddy was persuaded to go along with their (freaked out) friends in not only not calling for help themselves but just, leaving. The girl died -- which made the local news -- and Teddy has felt more or less like a secret murderer ever since; over a decade now. (Since the party takes place in a house, I'm probably going to rig things a little so that whoever sees the memory can catch a glimpse of Teddy's reflection, just so there's a sense of and they were 16 to it.)

Despite being fully aware of other kinds of coercion, they only really view their actions here in terms of having agreed to leave; having failed to stick to their instincts and values and push back. They've never really talked about the encouragement to leave itself, and the sort of realization that friends that were a family to them, that had this group loyalty -- had, especially certain ones, deeply different priorities and values and maybe a different level of trust in Teddy than Teddy did in them.

So yeah, that'll be a fun one for new friends or not-even to see!

I'm more than happy to play typical RP timeline shenanigans with this one and have anyone who it might resonate with (or totally alienate, lol) see it, since Teddy doesn't have any super close CR yet. And of course feel free to riff on what exactly it is they take away, since just seeing this go down doesn't guarantee they're going to get the emotional beats that I'm highlighting.

TERRITORY
This one is way less emotional and more throwing Teddy into scary video game territory, which is fun :P He will, likely, recognize the ammo press, or at least after a little bit of inspection be able to figure it out, and that that could be useful. Teddy's also likely to put together that the graffiti could be about the wolves. He won't want to kill the wolves, if he can help it, but Scout will be along and Teddy's not going to let his dog get snacked on or mauled, either.

This does work pretty well to take advantage of an item, too, since fire scares the wolves away, and Teddy's SAK/multitool/~thing has a ferro rod, so they can actually start a fire (or use flares, or whatever).

She's heading out there with Randvi, but again with RP timesplit shenanigans: I'm happy to have threads where Teddy gets separated and runs into other people.

Anything Else?: IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND GOOD TEXT POSTS OF MUSICIANS (that aren't literally about their personal life/lyrics) so uh, not...yet... >_>

Re: teddy roberts | oc

[shewhograspsthesky]

Woooouuuld you like to trade Buried Echoes? c: She won't understand the specifics, but she'll understand the context of Teddy's.

Honestly, I just think it would be "fun" if it smacked them in the face on their little adventure, too. Fresh air, evergreen trees, and nightmares~

Bruce Wayne | DCEU

[shoving]

Player Name: Kia
Player Contact: tapsters or PM. I'm also in the game server on discord, so you can ping me there.
Pacing: I do try to hit back every few days, but sometimes I drop the ball. But I am super backtag friendly and will backtag for forever.
OOC Limits: None that I can think of.

Character Name: Bruce Wayne
Canon: DCEU (Batman v Superman specifically)
Aurora Feat: Darkwalker's Revenge | It's not been good to him. He killed a guy during the quakes and he has been fighting the urge to do so again lately. How successful he'll be depends on how much I want him to suffer.

Wanted CR: Ideally, Bruce would need some connections because he'd be content to be a hermit. He can be friendly and personable and easy to get along with when it's necessary but since he doesn't trust anyone, befriending him in any real sense will be difficult. But not impossible. He's just old and tired and jaded. Give him time and don't try to screw him over and he'll warm up eventually. Seeing him at a vulnerable moment would open up the door a crack, even if he's ultimately unwilling to discuss it.

Unwanted CR: None that I can think of. I'd like to avoid killing him if possible.

Event Ideas:
BURIED ECHOES

I will likely toplevel for this one. Since he's feeling great for the first time in months, he'll be out and about to resupply and possibly avoid his children (definitely avoiding his children).

His memory will be of Superman's death during the fight with Doomsday, including Clark's funeral. He's gonna have an immense feeling of guilt and not fully understand why because this hasn't happened for him yet. But it will make him Question himself and make him feel like he's failed somewhere along the way. No he will not want to talk about it.

ADURERE + TERRITORY

I'm cool to tag into someone else's top level for adurere. Bruce will likely opt into trying to comfort Enola than simply escaping the house. Whomever he's with he'll tell to get out while they can though.

He's feeling well enough to travel so he might go look into the Coast, but since he doesn't know how long this'll last, he won't want to linger. At least not without setting up a place to hunker down in should the sun make its unwanted return. If anyone wants to tag along with him and possibly fight some wolves I'm down.

Anything Else?:

[castitas]

I reeeally need to stress Tim out throw Kate at Bruce again. She's the 'good at comforting' sort for the Buried Echoes prompt (and also seeing 'Batman' in a thread with Tim, although I've yet to hash out the details with Fox, and also has strong Enola feels so will also want to comfort her (and also freak out at the bodies of Interlopers she knows).

yasmine's guys!

[m1895]

Player Name: Yasmine
Player Contact: discord - redmaresociety; PP bluehellgazette
Pacing: All over the place! I work FT and have a horse I go look after every day, but I almost always am around to tag Saturday mornings and sometimes am able to boomerang. I'm on vacation until the 16th so my activity is very sporadic right now!
OOC Limits: Dog/horse death or severe distress, eye/nail/dental trauma, underage, relationships with large age gaps.

frédéric "freddie" lavoie | original character

[faa]

Character Name: Frédéric "Freddie" Lavoie
Canon: Original character, modern realistic universe set Spring 2025.
Aurora Feat: None!

Info:

NOTE: Please read content warnings and don't hesitate to opt out if you'd rather not engage with this character! CWs for this blurb include mentions of bulimia, internalized fatphobia and diabetes stigma, and participation in US action in the Middle East. Quick additional ooc notes below —

what to expect/notes on ic/ooc divide —

My CW page goes into depth on what each potential triggering topic might look like, but I’d like to make a quick accompanying note here that although this character has an ED at this point ingame, his mental illness very much is not the entirety of who he is and he’s not like, in every single tag harping on how much he hates himself or being graphically sick onscreen or something/I’m not just looking for threads “about” his ED in the absence of very, very close CR/ooc discussion. He's actually very secretive about it and very talented at concealing signs of purging/mental illness, so the warnings are mostly for things like passing dysfunctional thoughts or mentions of some of the physical effects it's had on him (ex: discomfort when drinking alcohol because of sore throat). It's unlikely to come up in-character unless he gets caught (with ooc discussion only) and would require close deeply trusting CR.

OOC/IC divide is really important with this character given the themes that he touches on. Especially given that he’s an OC, which can cause some discomfort, I want to emphasize that I am not Freddie and he is not me; our opinions/beliefs/actions aren't equivalent and I’m not using him as a chance to write about any trauma/experiences I've personally had or anything like that. The listed CWs are things that can come up, but they’re not like, the summation of who the whole character is. I more warn very assertively and gratuitously because there’s the possibility that disordered thought patterns or some of the physical effects he’s currently dealing with may come up in passing if something a character does sends him on that train of thought and I want to be considerate of players who find even those passing mentions disturbing.

If that sounds like you but you’re not comfortable sending an opt out, rest assured, I don’t tag out with this character without privately asking first because of the subject matter and always warn even for minor mentions in the subject lines of his tags in case someone else is reading!

Freddie's a 33-year-old, lapsed Catholic commercial pilot in modern NYC who just got out of his ten years of service in the Air Force last year. Personality-wise, he's friendly, genuinely kind, witty, and can be fun to be around, but he has some serious commitment/intimacy issues stemming from the parental divorce that made him a devout atheist at age 7 and getting cheated on during his first deployment ten years ago which have left him chronically incapable of attaining the intimacy he craves. Instead he just chases it with a life full of hookups, which he consistently self-sabotages by ghosting or calling it off after two or three meetings before he actually gets the kind of affection he's seeking. Despite his poor body image and the repressed feelings of inadequacy further fueled by a childhood in which he knew he wasn't particularly wanted, he gives the impression of someone confident and in-control - when in reality he spends each day feeling like he's holding on by his fingernails.

This feeling is largely because he has spent the past 4 months skating under the radar with severe undiagnosed bulimia, which he developed within a week of being told at his biannual FAA medical examination that the recent weight gain that had come with landing the dream job at an international airport was "concerning" and that the gene-environment interaction of the dramatic dietary change had led to pronounced, symptomatic insulin resistance and prediabetes bordering on Type 2. A diabetic pilot who requires insulin loses their pilot's license—and with it Freddie's all-consuming purpose and greatest joy in life—so when the medical examiner adopted a scare tactic, faintly moralizing approach, Freddie panicked, attempted extremely restrictive dieting for a week, and fell into bulimia when that wasn't possible for him. The disorder took over his life like wildfire, becoming extremely unsustainable within weeks. Now, four months into it, he’s at a point of purging in secrecy about 3-4 times a day and has malnutrition, fatigue, some serious dental issues, and a slew of other uncomfortable physical symptoms coming from his body buckling under the strain he’s put it under.

Coming into Milton is going to be a turning point for him, and he's going to have to enter his slow recovery arc pretty soon into his time ingame. As it stands right now, he's dealing with a lot of fatigue, weakness, and shortness of breath because he's just not getting adequate nutrition. One of his orthorexic compulsions is checking his blood sugar numerous times a day to soothe his anxiety and to use as a meterstick for how harsh to be to himself, and he's arrived with a coin battery operated glucose meter - while he's smart enough to take it out when it's not in use, and batteries for these go a long way, what won't go a long way are the consumable strips needed to test one's blood glucose. Every time you test your blood sugar, you have to put a drop of blood into the channel on a paper/plastic strip and feed it into the meter. He's going to be able to scrounge and find a container or two based on the prevalence of diabetes in the general population, but he's going to have to start seriously tempering the compulsive behavior now or he will run out fast. His dental issues have stabilized because of the Aurora, and his insulin resistance isn't getting any worse - but he's still symptomatic, so he has fatigue, insatiable hunger, etc. Which, of course, is a problem, as is the bingeing/purging, because food is a finite resource here.

All of this said, Freddie hides his mental health issues very well, and is quite practiced at it. It's extremely unlikely that a character would be able to flag him as bulimic or even lacking in confidence (and would require OOC plotting). He's going to be on his usual flirty antics, because he's going to have to learn that there are consequences to sleeping around when there's no way for you to just vanish into the ether as soon as things start getting a little too close for comfort!!

Also: Freddie is mildly hard-of-hearing—he's lost about 20% of his hearing across the board—and can't distinguish individual words when characters mumble/will need to ask characters with quiet/soft voices to speak up. Please lmk if your character is quieter/mumbles!

Wanted CR: Friends - superficial to gradually deeper bonds, people to flirt on (any gender within his (a href link with anchor) preferences, hookups, fellow military types to bond with over their common background.

Unwanted CR: People immediately finding out about his bulimia without ooc coordination, characters "fixing him" (while close CR can certainly offer support, this arc needs to be self-driven!), instant romance, characters immediately seeing right through him and recognizing him as insecure or mentally ill. A key part of his backstory is that he's masterful at hiding his issues - he will seem normal to a character who isn't a psychiatrist, someone with a past ED, or a dentist.

Event Ideas:

In general, Freddie will be doing a lot of scrounging around town for ammo, medical supplies, dental supplies, things to set himself/his cabin up for the cold etc. He will welcome any help renovating his cabin, as he's picked one of the more run-down ones, which is why it wasn't taken, and has limited handyman-type knowledge.

What knowledge Freddie does have, though, is formal Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training and Water Survival Class, which features things like bushcraft, combat tactics, hunting for food, and all kinds of things that are highly relevant to survival here in Milton. He's going to be teaching SERE classes to anyone interested at the Milton Church Irving is in the process of rebooting. Freddie's not instructor-level—that's a separate, even more rigorous certification process—but he's happy to share everything he knows. Please drop a line here if you'd be interested in your character attending! I plan on putting up a potential mingle log for it in the logcomm.

Buried Echoes: The memory Freddie has on offer will have the viewer sitting in the backseat of a parked car after his girlfriend gets home from picking him up at the airport and tells him she cheated on him while he was deployed. They'll have a chance to feel the pain and devastation that influenced his current issues with forming deeper, more permanent relationships, and may set the stage for understanding his feelings of inadequacy - though, again, this discovery would need to be slowburn. I'd be particularly interested in him experiencing this with a character who HAS cheated or been cheated on, as long as the player oocly knows positive CR with someone who's cheated isn't possible for him.

In terms of receiving memshares, I'm only interested in ones that would ping something about his character/story and give him something to relate to - I try to avoid threads that are just Character A reacting to Character B's memory that doesn't really impact them.

Territory: Very interested in this one too! Freddie will want to help, but the expedition will be difficult for him because of his malnutrition causing reduced stamina. Being that he knows a lot about botulism, survival, etc, though, he'll feel a moral imperative to go. He's a good shot and has been taught to ward animals off with fire, so I'd love for him to get stranded with someone for some forced getting-to-know-you.

Anything Else?:

Please have this literal photo of Freddie in his natural habitat with adequate enrichment:

matt murdock | mcu (rolling in so, so late gomen ne)

[avo]

Player Name: zelly
Player Contact: thwip is best! you can also feel free to PM me as well
Pacing: medium to slow-ish! i aim to clear my inbox every 3-4 days if possible.
OOC Limits: non-con, viscerally described eye stuff, death of infants?? — but honestly if you're unsure, just ask. i'm generally pretty okay with anything so long as i know what to expect.

Character Name: matt murdock
Canon: mcu
Aurora Feat: too new for this

Wanted CR: all of the above tbh! team-ups would be great, friends, allies, flirtation targets, kiddos to adopt, or older folks to adopt him??? people who might challenge his way of thinking, people who Get him, yeah ... just throw down what you've got, i'm sure we can work something out c:
Unwanted CR: i'd prefer no negative cr just for the sake of negative cr or any gratuitous 'gotcha' moments

Event Ideas: i'm playing this pretty loosey-goosey just because this is going to be matt's first event so i want to lessen the restrictions. but! i think i'm going to have matt probably (?) stick around the main town and not venture too far this time around, just to get him settled and develop some roots before picking up and exploring further.

as such! general plans may include:

some memory share stuff in the midst of doing some mundane, daily activity — because he's new i'm probably going to keep those memories a little chill, more recent memories than anything related to his childhood to avoid any trauma dumping

more than happy to hop into your character's memory share and have a peek around; particularly interesting for someone who can't see so he'll be getting a lot of his cues from the sounds and smells around him, but he's working at half capacity so your secrets might very well be kept intact!

he'll probably wind up inside the milton house so there's a fair amount of stuff in there to play with 👀 vets who have lived here for a while can point out any previous now-dead interlopers to share some context and get this newbie more acquainted with The Horrors™, there are opportunities to try and 'escape' the fire in the house, etc. i'm open to anything!

Anything Else?: i'll probably write an open top-level with some of the above ideas and i'm more than willing to just plot something out as we go along, or if inspiration strikes, i'm happy to write a more tailored starter. again, just reach out and we can chat!

[castitas]

yes hi hello

both Kieren and Kate are vets who've been here from the start and who've both been in Milton House before for the Jan 2024 event so they've known this fuckery before, along with knowing the now dead Interlopers! i'm down for either of them meeting Matt!

Senshi | Delicious in Dungeon

[makebread]

Player Name: Devi
Player Contact: By plurk or PM!
Pacing: The fact I’m posting this nearly two weeks after should tell you how slow I am! But I’m aiming for a tag every two days sort of thing.
OOC Limits: I prefer a head’s up if there is hospice-related talk.

Character Name: Senshi
Canon: Delicious in Dungeon
Aurora Feat: None!

Wanted CR: Senshi a dwarf who has a hard time telling ages on what he calls tall-men, which are actually humans in any other canon. (In his canon dwarves, half-foots, elves and tall-men all fall under the human category.) As a result he pretty much treats anyone visibly in their 20s and below as very young since dwarves have a long life span. He will get along well to those who are visibly middle aged as he’s entering the Dwarvish middle age as well.
Unwanted CR: No romance! He’s not a dwarf interested in that sort of thing.

Event Ideas: Sleep Echoes - Senshi’s worst memories will be when he was a young lad starving with his mining group. How each member is killed off by a mysterious monster, culminating in the leader fighting with the other survivor who was also killed by the monster.

Or did he? The circumstances were dodgy, and it looked more like the leader killed the other member to protect Senshi. Not only that, he claimed he killed the monster and harvest its meat and cooked it in a bare soup.

…or did he?

The possibility of a different kind of meat lingers in the air like a bad smell.

Territory - Senshi will help out with fighting the wolves. He’s not familiar with guns at all (and might find them distasteful) and lacks any weapons training that isn’t an ax, so he will be stuck with using fire and the occasional rock.

Anything Else?: I’m so lazy to it this time ;;