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Event OOC - Untimely
Untimely - 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!
NOTE: Characters who do not experience sleep/dreams ordinarily will still be affected by Ava and her abilities. These are supernaturally-induced sleep/dreams.
➥ Reality Check: 16-25 October
➥ Knead Help: 18-25 October
➥ Never Sleep Again: 20-25 October
➥ Reality Check
(cw: hypersomnia, coma, supernaturally induced metaphysical hunger; psychosomatic pain)
Characters will be given a crash course in lucid dreaming via a seminar put on by Luna, an employee for Copernicus. It seems Zyrian Steel (head of Copernicus, a company that characters have been hearing about more and more as one of ADI's clients and also someone who keeps helping them out) heard about the problem and wants to help. She comes bearing Lucidio Eye Masks that can help characters to get to lucid dreams… provided they also use some of the other techniques she outlines in her seminar on the process. The lucid dreaming practice is intended to take the fight to ADI's enemy, an avatar named Ava, the Lullaby Girl who tormented characters last Halloween with horrific nightmares or dying repeatedly. This year, the dreams have a new twist. They seem to be personalized hellscapes based around the Entity (or Entities if your character dreams different 'domains' over the course of several nights) that would most call to a character or one that would make them most afraid. In either case, characters in these nightmares will feel drawn to that Entity, experience the intense hunger and need for fear that an avatar would. Lucky them, there are others in their new hell domain to terrorize. Will you use your lucid dreaming powers for good to try to dismantle the nightmares and protect others you find? Or will you use the excuse to terrorize others with impunity? ADI higher ups aren't here to see what you're doing, after all, and if you die in a dream… surely you won't die in real life. (Spoilers: You will not die in real life, but characters killed in dreams will wake with severe fatigue and pain and the scars of any injuries they might have sustained in the nightmares.)
➥ Knead Help
(cw: blood, unsanitary food, supernaturally-induced existential dread, supernaturally-induced suicidal thoughts, isolation, dissociation)
The good news: Better Loaf than Never Bakery has been closed to the public, and agents of ADI have managed to break the supernatural seal keeping everyone out of the kitchen. The bad news: the kitchen has been transformed into a vast, bigger-on-the-inside graveyard made of bread. Stepping inside, characters will find themselves separated from their companions as they walk among gravestones that feature the names of the recently dead, as well as their own names and the names of those they love (players are free to have their characters discover gravestones for basically any character, as the appearance of a gravestone in this prompt is not a reliable indicator of whether that person is actually dead or going to die). Characters who are alone will feel supernaturally-imposed existential dread and may find themselves losing the will to do anything other than lay down on their own grave and die. Characters may find one another and snap each other back to reality by sharing any strong emotion other than fear and sadness, such as love, anger, joy, or disgust.
Only one team of three characters will be able to interact directly with Bryn. Please respond to the RNG signup comment below if you would like your character to be part of the Bryn encounter. The actions of those three characters will dictate the outcome of this prompt with potential benefits or consequences in future months. We ask that players who sign up commit to prioritizing this NPC thread to allow events to conclude in a timely fashion, and that players with multiple characters choose one character to enter into the RNG lottery. ICly, the team may enter together, or they may come across each other in the graveyard, so characters do not need to have previously established CR with other members of the team. All entries must be submitted by October 15 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.
➥ Never Sleep Again
(cw: child death, body horror, violence, potential injury or character death, nightmare dream logic)
Through lucid dreaming, Characters will be able to finally confront Ava in their nightmares, and fight her either through the dream or in the real world. Ava is fractured, she will need to be killed across several arenas for the effect to take and the most effective way is through pulling the pieces into the waking world. Fights can be played out as an NPC thread on the event post itself with injuries likely and death possible. With enough pieces successfully killed, Ava will be killed as well. Characters are welcome to attempt to reason with Ava, as well, but with pieces of her being killed by others at ADI, her ultimate fate is sealed.
A Handy Plotting Form
NOTE: Characters who do not experience sleep/dreams ordinarily will still be affected by Ava and her abilities. These are supernaturally-induced sleep/dreams.
➥ Reality Check: 16-25 October
➥ Knead Help: 18-25 October
➥ Never Sleep Again: 20-25 October
➥ Reality Check
(cw: hypersomnia, coma, supernaturally induced metaphysical hunger; psychosomatic pain)
Characters will be given a crash course in lucid dreaming via a seminar put on by Luna, an employee for Copernicus. It seems Zyrian Steel (head of Copernicus, a company that characters have been hearing about more and more as one of ADI's clients and also someone who keeps helping them out) heard about the problem and wants to help. She comes bearing Lucidio Eye Masks that can help characters to get to lucid dreams… provided they also use some of the other techniques she outlines in her seminar on the process. The lucid dreaming practice is intended to take the fight to ADI's enemy, an avatar named Ava, the Lullaby Girl who tormented characters last Halloween with horrific nightmares or dying repeatedly. This year, the dreams have a new twist. They seem to be personalized hellscapes based around the Entity (or Entities if your character dreams different 'domains' over the course of several nights) that would most call to a character or one that would make them most afraid. In either case, characters in these nightmares will feel drawn to that Entity, experience the intense hunger and need for fear that an avatar would. Lucky them, there are others in their new hell domain to terrorize. Will you use your lucid dreaming powers for good to try to dismantle the nightmares and protect others you find? Or will you use the excuse to terrorize others with impunity? ADI higher ups aren't here to see what you're doing, after all, and if you die in a dream… surely you won't die in real life. (Spoilers: You will not die in real life, but characters killed in dreams will wake with severe fatigue and pain and the scars of any injuries they might have sustained in the nightmares.)
➥ Knead Help
(cw: blood, unsanitary food, supernaturally-induced existential dread, supernaturally-induced suicidal thoughts, isolation, dissociation)
The good news: Better Loaf than Never Bakery has been closed to the public, and agents of ADI have managed to break the supernatural seal keeping everyone out of the kitchen. The bad news: the kitchen has been transformed into a vast, bigger-on-the-inside graveyard made of bread. Stepping inside, characters will find themselves separated from their companions as they walk among gravestones that feature the names of the recently dead, as well as their own names and the names of those they love (players are free to have their characters discover gravestones for basically any character, as the appearance of a gravestone in this prompt is not a reliable indicator of whether that person is actually dead or going to die). Characters who are alone will feel supernaturally-imposed existential dread and may find themselves losing the will to do anything other than lay down on their own grave and die. Characters may find one another and snap each other back to reality by sharing any strong emotion other than fear and sadness, such as love, anger, joy, or disgust.
Only one team of three characters will be able to interact directly with Bryn. Please respond to the RNG signup comment below if you would like your character to be part of the Bryn encounter. The actions of those three characters will dictate the outcome of this prompt with potential benefits or consequences in future months. We ask that players who sign up commit to prioritizing this NPC thread to allow events to conclude in a timely fashion, and that players with multiple characters choose one character to enter into the RNG lottery. ICly, the team may enter together, or they may come across each other in the graveyard, so characters do not need to have previously established CR with other members of the team. All entries must be submitted by October 15 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.
➥ Never Sleep Again
(cw: child death, body horror, violence, potential injury or character death, nightmare dream logic)
Through lucid dreaming, Characters will be able to finally confront Ava in their nightmares, and fight her either through the dream or in the real world. Ava is fractured, she will need to be killed across several arenas for the effect to take and the most effective way is through pulling the pieces into the waking world. Fights can be played out as an NPC thread on the event post itself with injuries likely and death possible. With enough pieces successfully killed, Ava will be killed as well. Characters are welcome to attempt to reason with Ava, as well, but with pieces of her being killed by others at ADI, her ultimate fate is sealed.