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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!

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.)

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Teddy Pennyburrow

Dreams

- A university in Victoria's Crossing, on the Emerald Isles, that potentially expands across the campus enough to see some of the city. A high-stress but very productive-feeling place
- A little cottage in rural Cahoots, where he's absolutely thrilled to be receiving guests

Nightmares

- House fires - especially, that of the Dormitory House burning down
- Being pursued by a countless number of hunting dogs

Esmeray of Paradesium

- A sphinx village built into the sheer side of a mountain, connected by rope bridges; it's a fairly standard day, and is mostly just very calm, comfortable, and bright
- A festival in the stenholm of Paradesium, celebrating the Vernal Equinox
- A quieter day in the temple within Paradesium

- Cave-ins and crushing, collapsing buildings, and earthquakes - generally, senses of claustrophobia and isolation
- Inaccessible loved ones in peril
- Mutilation, especially sorts that leave one trapped or immobilized, heavily leaning on broken wings

Jonathan Sims

- A dream given to him by Erin Peters, a library, come alive with quiet but palpable magic
- His flat from his life before Pumpkin Hollow, set to be a quiet gathering of friends for dinner
- A normal day at work in the Research Department of the Magnus Institute, structured and mundane

- The Unknowing (featuring a nightmare version of Nikola Orsinov!)
- The tunnels beneath the Magnus Institute
- Scenarios where he isn't able to stop himself from hurting people (often featuring a full loss of his humanity, at least visually)
- Being trapped somewhere, especially with being physically restrained

Laios Touden

- A monstrous jungle, with himself as a three-headed chimera
- A cold forest, with himself as part of a pack of dire wolves

- The bitter childhood wish of his for his village to be overrun by monsters becoming true
- One of his monstrous forms being hunted by humans
- Crowds of people scrutinizing every move he and the other person he's with take

Basira Hussain

- A flat by a riverside, where there's just the quiet daily measures to go through
- Sitting in a police car in an empty lot neighboring a field at night, listening to the radio and watching the stars

- The Fears Apocalypse, containing any number of nightmares relating to one of the 14 within

Hector Monaque

- God Grove, where he's a more "perfect" version of himself, without all the worries that led him to causing the problems that he did

- Apocalypse, the Rift tearing the world apart and harming people in the process
- Drain flooding, having to escape it by climbing up and past other people desperately trying to escape the same

Edited 2025-01-12 22:25 (UTC)

Monthly Plotting Post | January

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