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Event OOC - Lullaby
Lullaby - 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!
➥ For You Never Shut Your Eye: 15-24 October
➥ Till the Sun Is In the Sky: 25-28 October
➥ When the Blazing Sun Is Gone: 28-31 October
➥ When He Nothing Shines Upon: 31 October
➥ For You Never Shut Your Eye
(cw: supernaturally-induced sleep/fatigue, supernaturally-induced sleep disorders/somniloquy, needles/injections)
The mysterious music and its somnolent effects are growing more prevalent and persistent throughout Gloucester, with people sleeping far too much while never feeling like it's enough. ADI staff are increasingly intent on finding the source of the music as well as inventing methods to block the effects. Characters will find themselves conscripted (between Halloween Party preparations) into assisting with building and testing anti-music and sleep devices, and/or helping to try to track down the sources of the music, which seem to be on the move...and converging on ADI Headquarters. As the month goes on, characters will find that the line between waking and sleeping begins to blur, and even those not formerly prone to sleepwalking or talking may find themselves doing both. Sleep-talking may lead to unexpected bouts of honesty with those who may not realize others are fully asleep on their feet.
➥ Till the Sun Is In the Sky
(cw: supernaturally-induced sleep/fatigue, thanatophobia, character death, death by poisoning, blood, choking, emetophobia, death by crushing)
Starting on October 25th, some characters will fail to wake up at all, becoming trapped in a series of shared nightmares in which they die again and again. Each time they die they will 'wake up' only to discover too late that they're still trapped in another nightmare when death comes for them yet again. Characters may share in one another's nightmares and witness one another's deaths. And, of course, you might actually wake up for a brief period - but it's so hard to tell whether it's real this time.
➥ When the Blazing Sun Is Gone
(cw: supernaturally-induced sleep/fatigue, thanatophobia, character death, body horror, detailed description of painful physical transformation, description of the loss and regrowth of teeth, violence, mental status alterations, temporary power-loss, spiders)
Even with people dropping left and right, ADI staff are hellbent on having and enjoying their Halloween Party - they've earned this! And on the 28th, in plenty of time for the holiday, the music stops and everyone finally wakes up. Investigations, party preparations, and the general hubbub of ADI life go on in the days leading up to Halloween itself.
Except, of course, the music never really stopped and the affected characters never really woke up. The party of their dreams is interrupted by the Lullaby Girl and all hell breaks loose as characters in monstrous costumes find themselves transforming painfully into real monsters that want nothing more than to hunt down and kill anyone they can get their claws and teeth on. Unchanged characters will find that their powers are gone, and that everything, even the decorations, is out to kill them.
➥ When He Nothing Shines Upon
(cw: supernaturally-induced fatigue/malaise, thanatophobia)
On Halloween itself, characters finally wake up and find that the Lullaby Girl has departed and taken her music away with her for real. Characters who died in the dreams will be physically unharmed, but will be very weak and ill for hours to days afterwards. But hey! All those decorations are still up, and those who want to brave a redo of the party in the waking world can do so.
A Handy Plotting Form
➥ For You Never Shut Your Eye: 15-24 October
➥ Till the Sun Is In the Sky: 25-28 October
➥ When the Blazing Sun Is Gone: 28-31 October
➥ When He Nothing Shines Upon: 31 October
➥ For You Never Shut Your Eye
(cw: supernaturally-induced sleep/fatigue, supernaturally-induced sleep disorders/somniloquy, needles/injections)
The mysterious music and its somnolent effects are growing more prevalent and persistent throughout Gloucester, with people sleeping far too much while never feeling like it's enough. ADI staff are increasingly intent on finding the source of the music as well as inventing methods to block the effects. Characters will find themselves conscripted (between Halloween Party preparations) into assisting with building and testing anti-music and sleep devices, and/or helping to try to track down the sources of the music, which seem to be on the move...and converging on ADI Headquarters. As the month goes on, characters will find that the line between waking and sleeping begins to blur, and even those not formerly prone to sleepwalking or talking may find themselves doing both. Sleep-talking may lead to unexpected bouts of honesty with those who may not realize others are fully asleep on their feet.
➥ Till the Sun Is In the Sky
(cw: supernaturally-induced sleep/fatigue, thanatophobia, character death, death by poisoning, blood, choking, emetophobia, death by crushing)
Starting on October 25th, some characters will fail to wake up at all, becoming trapped in a series of shared nightmares in which they die again and again. Each time they die they will 'wake up' only to discover too late that they're still trapped in another nightmare when death comes for them yet again. Characters may share in one another's nightmares and witness one another's deaths. And, of course, you might actually wake up for a brief period - but it's so hard to tell whether it's real this time.
➥ When the Blazing Sun Is Gone
(cw: supernaturally-induced sleep/fatigue, thanatophobia, character death, body horror, detailed description of painful physical transformation, description of the loss and regrowth of teeth, violence, mental status alterations, temporary power-loss, spiders)
Even with people dropping left and right, ADI staff are hellbent on having and enjoying their Halloween Party - they've earned this! And on the 28th, in plenty of time for the holiday, the music stops and everyone finally wakes up. Investigations, party preparations, and the general hubbub of ADI life go on in the days leading up to Halloween itself.
Except, of course, the music never really stopped and the affected characters never really woke up. The party of their dreams is interrupted by the Lullaby Girl and all hell breaks loose as characters in monstrous costumes find themselves transforming painfully into real monsters that want nothing more than to hunt down and kill anyone they can get their claws and teeth on. Unchanged characters will find that their powers are gone, and that everything, even the decorations, is out to kill them.
➥ When He Nothing Shines Upon
(cw: supernaturally-induced fatigue/malaise, thanatophobia)
On Halloween itself, characters finally wake up and find that the Lullaby Girl has departed and taken her music away with her for real. Characters who died in the dreams will be physically unharmed, but will be very weak and ill for hours to days afterwards. But hey! All those decorations are still up, and those who want to brave a redo of the party in the waking world can do so.
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→ Housing: ADI C3
→ What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Security, also hangs around Counselling but does anyone even know if she actually works there,
→ Permissions: HERE
→ For You Never Shut Your Eye:
Not much planned, investigating this is tricky and all she can do is try staying awake and poke others she finds dozing off. Bouts of honesty could be interesting, as much as she's not looking to share the fact that she's basically part of SWAT but Christian back home and used to all sorts of weird and gruesome things.
→ Till the Sun Is In the Sky:
(cw: graphic physical torture)
Ciel herself will mostly be fine, but this would be Not Pretty to anyone with the misfortune of stumbling into how her nightmares would process dying. She's canonically been killed over several hundred if not thousand different ways as a literal lab rat strapped to a table, death hurts and dying isn't amazing, would not recommend/10, but it absolutely no longer phases her. Examples include having eyes, brain, and all organs in the body removed while conscious, forced decay/rotting, having your blood boiled, etc - if it can be imagined and feasible, it can happen. Whether someone is witnessing her blank face going through it or want to take part in really creative ways of dying, we can work something out! Just. She'd appreciate no questions after of why her brain can come up with stuff like that please and thanks, nightmares aren't real after all, h-haha...
→ When the Blazing Sun Is Gone:
Because of pure dumb luck, Ciel is just going to put on the habit she arrived to Gloucester with (and stashed away since) and "pretend" to be a nun, that's her costume, it's recycling genius. Given that her job back home is hunt and kill superhuman monsters that threaten humanity, this will again just be Average Tuesday. Even stripped of powers, she has competent martial arts knowledge and is at ease with modern firearms, so she will very much be fighting. Open to teamups, rescue, maybe try chasing after the Lullaby Girl to put an end to this if a party can be assembled/she finds out that's the cause?
→ When He Nothing Shines Upon:
Will try to offer small talk and canteen party food, do whatever in her power to lift spirits exhausted as she may be. She'll still go to the party, she's an extrovert that doesn't stay down easy, but she'll probably end up falling asleep somewhere because she is prone to overdoing things. Nothing supernatural about this sleep at least, she's just Tired...