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Monthly Plotting Post | January
Monthly Plotting Post | January
Happy New Year, everybody!!
First off, I'd like to apologize for never getting up a plotting post in December. I'm still getting used to my new job and the holidays + financial stuff were absolutely kicking my butt. As a result, I wanted to get the plotting post up and running as early as possible! We've done some shuffling around of the order of events, but I think you'll like what we have in store!
In an effort to make the TDM for the next two months slightly less festive, I'm considering giving the event a Valentine's twist, such as morphing the gingerbread curse to chocolate and adjusting the Winter Market somewhat. If anyone has any thoughts on some tweaks that can be made to make a romance-y vibe, I'd love to hear them! The new TDM will launch next week.
unreality, varied nightmare content
In lieu of the originally-planned Efrain-takedown, we've decided to delay the death of the Prince of Sorrow's Song in order to give him a bit more screen-time, and instead we'll be offsetting all the Dahlia-centric events by giving our good friend Neil a turn to shine! While the specifics of the event are still taking shape and likely won't be set in stone until closer to, we have the basic skeleton and will be using people's plotting ideas to help add to the structure.
The idea is this: one night during sleep, the entire island will be trapped in a nightmare dimension--- one that has a physical structure. A constantly shifting structure comprised of the fears and traumas that plague its inhabitants, but a structure nonetheless. The vast majority will be a landscape of horrors that amalgamate from the nightmare of player characters, allowing for the potential for a bit of memshare and a bit a lot of creative freedom to get weird with it. The center will be an oasis of beautiful dreams designed to trap dreamers in a lotus-eater type haven. And the exits will be around the edges. It will only be by travelling through the nightmares.
Traverse your fears together! Learn more about each other's nightmares! Get an escort from the island's local dreamwalker, or wander into Mortanne's domain --- the beyond. Fall into a euphoric time sink at the nucleus of the dream or try to rescue your friends from their sinister bliss. There's plenty to do!
Starting next month, Efrain will be starting to stir things up in the lead-up to his downfall! We'll be seeing him and his minions show up to kill the vibe at Merrymeet. In order for me to not die of perpetual 15 threads in the demon inbox disease, I will need to seriously manage my thread load for Efrain and maybe try to sneak in some unrelated Efrain threads during January, as I got a little obliterated during casino time. And lastly, the herbs granted by Mortanne to Leon Kennedy have now been cultivated enough to harvest in Paradesium! Enjoy some dubious unnamed herbs! When you eat them... something happens! (It's a good something.)
TDM
All Month
Give it up for our first reprint of TDM #9!In an effort to make the TDM for the next two months slightly less festive, I'm considering giving the event a Valentine's twist, such as morphing the gingerbread curse to chocolate and adjusting the Winter Market somewhat. If anyone has any thoughts on some tweaks that can be made to make a romance-y vibe, I'd love to hear them! The new TDM will launch next week.
LOST IN DREAMLAND
Main Event - January 17th
Content Warnings:unreality, varied nightmare content
In lieu of the originally-planned Efrain-takedown, we've decided to delay the death of the Prince of Sorrow's Song in order to give him a bit more screen-time, and instead we'll be offsetting all the Dahlia-centric events by giving our good friend Neil a turn to shine! While the specifics of the event are still taking shape and likely won't be set in stone until closer to, we have the basic skeleton and will be using people's plotting ideas to help add to the structure.
The idea is this: one night during sleep, the entire island will be trapped in a nightmare dimension--- one that has a physical structure. A constantly shifting structure comprised of the fears and traumas that plague its inhabitants, but a structure nonetheless. The vast majority will be a landscape of horrors that amalgamate from the nightmare of player characters, allowing for the potential for a bit of memshare and a bit a lot of creative freedom to get weird with it. The center will be an oasis of beautiful dreams designed to trap dreamers in a lotus-eater type haven. And the exits will be around the edges. It will only be by travelling through the nightmares.
Traverse your fears together! Learn more about each other's nightmares! Get an escort from the island's local dreamwalker, or wander into Mortanne's domain --- the beyond. Fall into a euphoric time sink at the nucleus of the dream or try to rescue your friends from their sinister bliss. There's plenty to do!
CURRENT METAPLOT
Some handwaving of progress is currently being planned for CitrusQuest to expedite the resolution, so stay tuned for how the gang reaches the crack in the world!Starting next month, Efrain will be starting to stir things up in the lead-up to his downfall! We'll be seeing him and his minions show up to kill the vibe at Merrymeet. In order for me to not die of perpetual 15 threads in the demon inbox disease, I will need to seriously manage my thread load for Efrain and maybe try to sneak in some unrelated Efrain threads during January, as I got a little obliterated during casino time. And lastly, the herbs granted by Mortanne to Leon Kennedy have now been cultivated enough to harvest in Paradesium! Enjoy some dubious unnamed herbs! When you eat them... something happens! (It's a good something.)
potential dream scenes (do not reply):
good dream ideas:
- genuinely, hanging out at the M*A*S*H. Quiet nights in the Officer’s Club, reading in his tent while jeeps go by. he misses his friends and he was violently ripped from them, even if the war drove him and everyone half mad and scarred him for good. they’re his last memories of Earth.- in his garden in ph :-)
- talking theology shop with one or two vague figures (that perhaps look suspiciously like darcy and zivia) for endless dream hours
- playing poker with hawk :-) and more of the 4077th, but also with some ph vets at the table
- chilling in a quiet snow field (mortanne didn’t do that, he just likes it that much now)
- overall, well fed and hale and can eat without worry :(
nightmare ideas:
- memories to pick from include: everything about M*A*S*H and the war; shelling, Christ as a dead soldier, being in OR with guns pointed at him, etc etc
- For sure something to do with loneliness and isolation from the world, from even the people who like him very much, from God
- Hiding in his sister’s room or under the bed from his brothers
- Literally just trying to go about his day while the floor and everything and all is covered in bodies and gore, many of people he know, which is a scene he used to wake up to a lot in his Sail CRAU
- everything about being tortured in the Village, especially the medical abuse (including solitary confinement, drugged food, restraints, sedation, forced hallucinations, self-inflicted starvation, & being forcefully lobotomized and abusive shock treatment, even if the last 2 were mostly undone from the death reset)
- Fear of 2 showing up in PH
- getting kidnapped, home invasion
- Violent domestic abuse situation but both of them are him; expression of both his fear of being his parents as well as how he talks to himself
Phil
good dream ideas:
- domestic like you wouldnt BELIEEVEEEE. With Darcy as his kid specifically. in a setting that is mashed up between PH/Punxsutawney/Pittsburgh/Cleveland with all of his friends, many of whom are people he does not have contact with anymore, and probably his missing family, and his late-ish wife Rita- a lot, lot of dreams that are spins on him being in a situation where Darcy is his kid (aus, basically)
- being back in the Channel 5 station but his CRAU friends are also around, either in neighboring departments or somewhere in the city or in his phone contacts
nightmare ideas:
- Time loop shit (the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is)- Trying to win an unwinnable gambling game to keep Darcy safe and his loved ones alive/close to him against Luck, Death, and Fate (and possibly the bosses from his CRAU; Cordis, the Captain, and Celestine)
- The December trial, with Darcy beheaded and Skulduggery
- The Village also and being trapped in a bed with his wings amputated
- to that end & his accidental themes of bodily violation, Something Under His Skin Something Under His Skin
- returning to Earth but he can’t fit into his old life anymore, due to bird bits or has changed too much and no one likes him anymore or understands him even a little or all of the above