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apocalypsehowooc2022-07-14 07:51 pm
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Entry tags:
Event OOC - Aftermath
Aftermath - OOC
Summaries and content warnings for each prompt in the event are provided below. Please pose questions to the designated mod comment, and plot away!
➥ Handle With Care: 16-20 July
➥ Shipping and Handling: 28-31 July
➥ Say, Say, O Playmate: 16-25 July
➥ Let's Have a Tea Party: 16-31 July
➥ Handle With Care
(cw: arachnophobia, entomophobia, chirophobia, elafiphobia)
Some creatures of Dogtown have made their escape while ADI's focus has been in Appalachia. While most have been hunted down and disposed of, a few remain to be cleaned up. Butterflies and spiders with too many hands pose more psychological threat than physical, but still need to be taken care of. There's also word of a deer with far too many hands wandering the streets at night that has turned aggressive towards onlookers and obvious threats.
➥ Shipping and Handling
(cw: underwater threats, drowning, refuse/filth, squirmy things, human-caused environmental damage)
ADI has received reports of the sound of sobbing under Blynman Bridge, a busy but deteriorating drawbridge over a treacherous canal, at sunset each night. There's something in the too-deep water that strikes itself against the hulls of boats in the daytime and cries in wretched despair at night. Visit the canal as the sky grows dark and you might see something that could be a face under the water. Enter the water, though, and the floating garbage that has been blamed for the damage to boats will ensnare you and drag you down. Best have a backup plan for rescue.
➥ Say, Say, O Playmate
(cw: hallucination, disorientation, synesthesia, altered mental states, breaking and entering)
Characters will begin seeing a 'playmate' in reflective surfaces around Gloucester. These interlopers appear to be friendly and are tailor made to appeal to your character. Maybe they're a small child seeking help from the mirror world they're trapped in. Maybe they're a sly young woman who wants to show you something interesting. In any case, all of the playmates want you to follow them. There is some supernatural compulsion for those who need it, fueling their desire to go along. The playmates will direct characters all over Gloucester, even into places that might get them arrested, like private residences or even the police station. Wherever characters go, the playmates will be encouraging them, cheering them on from the mirrors and reflections. They are hunting for something that does actually exist! Characters who persist and aren't just arrested or otherwise stopped in their hunt will be rewarded with a tiny mirror fragment. Touching it induces disorientation and synesthesia. Also, your playmate has now disappeared. Tragedy!
Characters will not be able to see or interact with each other's playmates. Not even if two people look in the same surface. The playmates whisper into character's minds and they might tell different characters entirely different things.
➥ Let's Have a Tea Party
(cw: death; drowning; choking; claustrophobia; nausea; emetophobia/vomiting; disorientation/vertigo; body horror)
Creepy dolls have been washing up on Gloucester's beaches, and volunteers doing summer beach clean-ups have been finding them. It's not every doll that's a problem, but some seem to have a strange effect. ADI's closing down a part of the beach to try to find and dispose of the things, and they need assistance. Manipulating the dolls (even with gloves) leads to a sensation of being rocked, first gently, and then more violently, like you're being tossed about in the ocean. Those who visit the stretches of beach where the dolls are at all, even without touching them, will begin to experience nightmares of being lost at sea, dragged beneath the waves, and drowned. You might wake up nauseated with the floor still lurching beneath you or coughing up seawater, if you're especially unlucky.
A Handy Plotting Form
➥ Handle With Care: 16-20 July
➥ Shipping and Handling: 28-31 July
➥ Say, Say, O Playmate: 16-25 July
➥ Let's Have a Tea Party: 16-31 July
➥ Handle With Care
(cw: arachnophobia, entomophobia, chirophobia, elafiphobia)
Some creatures of Dogtown have made their escape while ADI's focus has been in Appalachia. While most have been hunted down and disposed of, a few remain to be cleaned up. Butterflies and spiders with too many hands pose more psychological threat than physical, but still need to be taken care of. There's also word of a deer with far too many hands wandering the streets at night that has turned aggressive towards onlookers and obvious threats.
➥ Shipping and Handling
(cw: underwater threats, drowning, refuse/filth, squirmy things, human-caused environmental damage)
ADI has received reports of the sound of sobbing under Blynman Bridge, a busy but deteriorating drawbridge over a treacherous canal, at sunset each night. There's something in the too-deep water that strikes itself against the hulls of boats in the daytime and cries in wretched despair at night. Visit the canal as the sky grows dark and you might see something that could be a face under the water. Enter the water, though, and the floating garbage that has been blamed for the damage to boats will ensnare you and drag you down. Best have a backup plan for rescue.
➥ Say, Say, O Playmate
(cw: hallucination, disorientation, synesthesia, altered mental states, breaking and entering)
Characters will begin seeing a 'playmate' in reflective surfaces around Gloucester. These interlopers appear to be friendly and are tailor made to appeal to your character. Maybe they're a small child seeking help from the mirror world they're trapped in. Maybe they're a sly young woman who wants to show you something interesting. In any case, all of the playmates want you to follow them. There is some supernatural compulsion for those who need it, fueling their desire to go along. The playmates will direct characters all over Gloucester, even into places that might get them arrested, like private residences or even the police station. Wherever characters go, the playmates will be encouraging them, cheering them on from the mirrors and reflections. They are hunting for something that does actually exist! Characters who persist and aren't just arrested or otherwise stopped in their hunt will be rewarded with a tiny mirror fragment. Touching it induces disorientation and synesthesia. Also, your playmate has now disappeared. Tragedy!
Characters will not be able to see or interact with each other's playmates. Not even if two people look in the same surface. The playmates whisper into character's minds and they might tell different characters entirely different things.
➥ Let's Have a Tea Party
(cw: death; drowning; choking; claustrophobia; nausea; emetophobia/vomiting; disorientation/vertigo; body horror)
Creepy dolls have been washing up on Gloucester's beaches, and volunteers doing summer beach clean-ups have been finding them. It's not every doll that's a problem, but some seem to have a strange effect. ADI's closing down a part of the beach to try to find and dispose of the things, and they need assistance. Manipulating the dolls (even with gloves) leads to a sensation of being rocked, first gently, and then more violently, like you're being tossed about in the ocean. Those who visit the stretches of beach where the dolls are at all, even without touching them, will begin to experience nightmares of being lost at sea, dragged beneath the waves, and drowned. You might wake up nauseated with the floor still lurching beneath you or coughing up seawater, if you're especially unlucky.
LP
→ Housing: Bonnie's
→ What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Equipment/Research
→ Permissions: HERE
→ Handle With Care: So Peter's last trip to Dogtown was a disaster and he got pecked up by the creepy birds. He kind of has a bone to pick with the place (heh) and will probably head out to help with the clean-up just to prove to himself that he can.
→ Shipping and Handling: Open to have him investigate with someone!
→ Say, Say, O Playmate: Yeah, he's... probably gonna see Gwen and will do absolutely everything to try and keep up with her. Which means he's gonna try everything in his power not to get stopped or arrested, so maybe there's room for some conflict there? Private property, what private property?
Will also probably be really upset after, so there's room for pain there too, sob.→ Let's Have a Tea Party: Also open for any investigation shenanigans you wanna do with this!
→ Housing: ADI
→ What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Medical
→ Permissions: HERE
→ Handle With Care: He's not a fighter so if anyone wants to save him from horrifying creatures, that'd be great actually?
→ Shipping and Handling: Maybe he can return the favor to the universe and save someone from drowning? Or maybe he mistakes the face for someone drowning and goes in and is in for a wet traumatizing surprise.
→ Say, Say, O Playmate: Might have him see someone from his world for the psychological impact (Benton or Abby maybe) or go with a random patient needing his help option. Could also see other characters doing the same and confronting them about what the hell they're doing? If he realizes they seem to be under some kind of influence he might want to examine them or try to convince them to let him take some readings and gather some data!
→ Let's Have a Tea Party: Open to have him play medic provide some aftercare, especially for the characters that got really sick!
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and investigation shenanigans with peter on the tea party???? or shipping and handling????? either????
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I MEAN they already got some experience looking through creepy stuff together, this time it's dolls then?
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