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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, C-4
→ What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Medical
→ Permissions: Info + Permissions
→ For You Never Shut Your Eye:
I'm very interested in the sleepwalking and forced honesty part of this, though for sanity's sake will likely be limiting how many people hear Emily's genuine answers to things. That said, she'll also be very intent on keeping anyone's secrets that she ends up hearing, and try to get any sleepwalkers to actually lay down and rest so they don't end up hurting themselves too bad.
→ Till the Sun Is In the Sky:
For the nightmares, I plan to have Emily involved, and the horrors within will be a mix of ones she actually lived as well as imagined. Given how much I love dream events, I'll actually be writing custom encounters for anyone that wants to engage her on this, and I'll be tailoring the prompts to accommodate how much horror someone wants to experience, as well as avoiding any subjects they'd rather not touch on. That said, her dreams are fair game for graphic injury, body horror, gore, stalking, capture, supernatural terror and other options - she'll be quite tightlipped about this after the fact, and be very quick to blame things on the Entities in the world for her disturbed dreams.
→ When the Blazing Sun Is Gone:
I'm not certain what counts as "monstrous" for transformations, but should Emily be non-transformed, she's actually quite versed in getting out of places where everything wants to kill you, and will be taking on a rescue and field medic role at this time to go try and get others to safety! She'll be free to take the heat as well as help in more stealth oriented approaches, and would insist on getting absolutely everyone she could out.
→ When He Nothing Shines Upon:
While post the event she'll be very far from a party mood, she'll also be pushing herself extremely working at headquarters to aid and treat the dream illness and pain, as well as putting in extra hours to finetune and work on the anti-nightmare drug she's been researching for her own sake, and by November should have a decent prototype to start actually running trials on. Anyone that needs a checkup, or anyone in R&D who'd see her pulling later hours, is absolutely welcome.
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