Event OOC - Fan Service

[apocalypsehowmods]

Fan Service - 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!

➥ We're Live: 16 December
➥ In the Hive: 16 December
➥ Lights Out: 17-25 December
➥ It Sees You: 20-31 December

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➥ We're Live
(cw: Insects/centipedes, body horror, manipulation)

James Griffin's biggest fans have a gift for him! A real, live, supernatural happening in a spooky place captured on film. A should-be-dead VTuber, LovelyRen, is here to give people a taste of what magic really is. She'll be sending swarms of insects after the fans, and filming their suffering while she waits for someone to come to the rescue. Such as it is. Characters will have the chance to talk with Ren, if they'd like. She'll happily show them how she's tormenting the fans while they chat.

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➥ In the Hive
(cw: insects/swarms, bites, altered mental states/toxic relationship dynamics, body horror, potential for character death)

A rescue mission is on to get the fans out of a terrible situation. Characters will be armed with bug killer poison, gas masks, and any other equipment one might need to handle an infestation. There will be opportunities to save each other and survivors. Those who end up bitten by bugs have the option to experience a mixture of euphoria and terror, followed by an intense desire to backstab one of their companions. Whether that's just preventing them from rescuing someone else or actively trying to get them bitten/poisoned/killed. The effect will only last a few minutes at most, but additional bites may extend the effect.

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➥ Lights Out
(cw: voyeurism, scopophobia, mind-control/compulsion, potential for humiliation)

There have been a spate of injuries and deaths connected to holiday decorations: specifically, holiday lights. ADI is sending out groups to investigate this in a number of ways: talking to people who claim to have had experiences with them, talking to shopkeepers about the possible origin of the defective lights, or testing the lights themselves. Being caught in the glow of any of the cursed lights forces one to confess to something horrible or humiliating that they have done/had done to them.

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➥ It Sees You
(cw: voyeurism, scopophobia, living dolls)

Someone has decorated ADI headquarters with a bunch of those cute Elf on the Shelf dolls! Except Pam's out on medical leave and no one else is admitting to it... and there's an increasingly prickly feeling of being watched by dead plastic eyes wherever you go. The elves soon spread to characters' homes, though no one ever sees them move. There's only one thing to do: search every shelf and destroy every elf.

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A Handy Plotting Form

<p><table style="max-width:600px;width:100%"> <div align="left"><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold;font-size:18pt;">➥ CHARACTER NAME</span></div><div style="border: dashed 2px #572f86; width: 600px;"></div><tbody><tr><td width="600px" align="left"><div align=justify> → <b>Canon</b>: → <b>Housing</b>: → <b>What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?</b>: → <b>Permissions</b>: <a href="URL">HERE</a> → <b>We're Live</b>: → <b>In the Hive</b>: → <b>Lights Out</b>: → <b>It Sees You</b>: </center> </table></center>

Comments

QUESTIONS

[apocalypsehowmods]

[earthshine]

For It Sees You, are the elves doing anything in particular to characters? Other than causing the prickling feeling that they're being watched, I mean. Or is it just 'oh these creepy elves are popping up and causing bad feels, let's remove them'.

Also, is removing them easily done? Or will some ill-effect happen upon removing the elf ( or elves )? Will the elves continue to show up in characters homes until the end of December despite how much effort they do or don't put into removing them?

Re: QUESTIONS

[marmoron]

vHey mods, I have a question about the creepy elves! ​Are there any notable patterns to their movements? Like do they seem like they have a specific goal in mind, other than creepily sneaking into people's rooms? And do they seem drawn to anything in particular? Cursed objects, artifacts etc.

Does reviewing security footage of ADI ever show them moving around when nobody is physically present?

/sneaks in an edit for one more question!
Will Ren be present at the victim rescue mission?

[musicdied]

Is it possible to catch some of the bugs to bring back to ADI for the science/magic nerds to study? Or is that something people would be expressly told not to do?

What sort ofinjuries and deaths are related to the holiday lights? Is it all normal accidents, just in unusually high volumes, or are there outlandish cases? Also, is there any pattern to the brands of lights involved?

If someone were to specifically set up cameras to record an elf, what would they catch? What about putting something easily-transferrable like chalk or charcoal on an elf's hands and feet - would there be tracks, or markings like someone's moved it?

Anything weird if we dissect an elf, or just the expected stuffing and plastic?

[sorser]

For characters who are able to sense ambient magic, what is the magical “read” on the elf dolls?

Re: QUESTIONS

[worthallthis]

For the confessions under the lights, does someone have to consciously remember the thing they're forced to confess, or can it be a lost memory?

I ask, as the player of an amnesiac :)

Also, does the security department have any kind of tracking devices Winter can, uh, borrow? And attach to an elf or three?

[ployboy]

Oh hi how you doin

Jimothy has a small lineup of good people waiting to kick his tush. After his quick admission of guilt is he getting a stern talking to, getting put in timeout, getting put in the corner with a Dunce hat, or is he free to squirm away to the rescue mission?

Re: QUESTIONS

[ployboy]

Got a new one:

Has Sable encountered anything manufactured by Illumination Rite before? Or the creepy elf dolls, has she seen anything like them before/does she have any tips for dealing with things like them?

HEADLINE NEWS tie in
New Horizons and Zyrian Steel: is there any tie between him and the making of Illumination Rite lights?
(bonus: how about them and ADI tech, like phone parts, computer chips, the like?)

Re: QUESTIONS

[musicdied]

Dropping this here because it's related, if, uh, a little belated. If Yelena dug into Ren's sponsors and any production team for her show, would she turn anything interesting up? She's mostly looking for tech or telecom connections, but would flag anything else that turns up, because gosh, after Donna asked about technological sources for October's nightmares, the fact that Ava stole one of the ADI phones and all of a month later Hermy showed up as a prelude to Bugfest '21 seems like one hell of a coincidence.

[graveyounglady]

➥ Mercy Graves

→ Canon: Original Character → Housing: ADI → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Medical → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Mercy will not be interacting with Ren, but she's here to talk about what's going on and generally be horrified with others. → In the Hive: Mercy will be coming along to help with the medical side of things. If your character gets injured, I'd love to have her treating them, asking about what's going on inside of the warehouse. → Lights Out: Mercy has a few things she could potentially confess to that range from the mundane to the actually horrific: - She likes looking at naughty pin-ups. - Every boy she's ever fancied has either flatly turned her down or died. - She's missing a few back teeth because she got pistol-whipped by someone for mouthing off. - She didn't believe someone that they were being chased and that person died as a result. - She is responsible (she certainly thinks so) for permanently crippling a childhood friend. - She is responsible (she certainly thinks so) for a friend taking their own life after learning a Terrible Truth (TM). → It Sees You: Mercy will help with the round-up of the creepy dolls, and I'm happy to do any sort of roommate shenanigans with these things. Or potentially have her comment on one when she's visiting someone else.

[stations]

Hey buddy! Down for a little more CR building with some of Mercy's confessional prompts? Any or all of the stuff on the list, whatever jives for u, mixing comedy and tragedy is always a good time.

alex- martin & beau

[lowficharm]

➥ MARTIN BLACKWOOD

→ Canon: The Magnus Archives → Housing: ADI, B4 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Primarily Research, but splits his time to Administration as well → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Martin's going to have a big scream about this. For those not in the canon know, he had a hella bad run-in with a Corruption avatar that caused him to have to blockade in his apartment for 2 weeks, so he absolutely will hate this. He may also be found with fire extinguishers. It worked last time, it might work this time. → In the Hive: Martin will go if Jon does, pretty much full stop, but he will hate every second of it. If he doesn't go in, he'll still be fluttering around trying to help, and maybe a little too enthusiastic to help try and drill bugs out of your skin. → Lights Out: Oh, he has too many of these. Martin's life was... not great, but the biggest thing he's hiding is that he knows way more about the Entities than he's letting on, that he may be responsible for them being in this world in the first place, and also that he hasn't been trying as hard as he thinks he should to shake the influence of the Lonely on him. I don't think I want to do the full reveal yet for having such a heavy hand in this, but I'd love to get people on the trail of realizing Martin is not exactly just a nice boy who knows nothing. → It Sees You: Well now it just feels like home. He'll be helping but I'll probably be focusing less on this prompt.

➥ BEAUREGARD "BEAU" LIONETT

→ Canon: Critical Role (Campaign 2) → Housing: Bonnie's, Floor 2 Room 8 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Split between Investigations and Research → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Beau's reaction is going to be a lot like when she's seen other Corruption activity thus far, which is "dude, what the actual fuck". She's going to ask questions because She's Like That but will be less horrified and mostly wondering how the hell people come up with this shit. → In the Hive: Oh yeah, she's going in there. Would love to get her into a scuffle with someone here, so let me know if you want some pit wrestling with an angry monk! → Lights Out: Beau's had a lot of fuckups in her life, and even as she's addressed a lot of it in her canon, there's still a bunch she doesn't like to talk about. Notable topics include: Her dad wanted a boy, and that's why her name is masculine. Her father never liked her and literally got her kidnapped by the monks she now works for at 16 to get rid of her. She's constantly scared she's reached her peak, and if she doesn't mess up her own path something else will; she's very prone to self-sabotage. She's very nervous about being here on her own and misses her crew terribly. Also, had never had friends before them, and still kind of doesn't. Yeesh. So you know, she's got some fun stuff that can be played with. She doesn't like talking about her bullshit so this can always be a good opportunity to open up on that a little bit more. → It Sees You: Yeah, she's gonna be sprinting down halls and spiking these on the ground like footballs. This will be one she's very interested in though, and will probably actively be asking (read: threatening) ADI employees into finding a guilty party.

[thatsreallygreat]

kicks in here bc I have been wildly remiss in tagging Beau and that stops right now :|

Something with Lights Out?? Mutual confessions?

Also down for less-plotty-things. I meant to get a catch all with some open prompts up last month, but with the semester ending...... that did not happen.

[murderology]

➥ JERRY

→ Canon: Tales from the Gas Station → Housing: Bonnie's, FL1 RM1 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: n/a → Permissions: boop → We're Live: Be really, really, mad about this with him. He literally is incapable of standing by while shit like this happens so devise a rediculous plan with him to stop it even if it doesn't go anywhere (or leads into all the rescue mission stuff) → In the Hive: Yeah Jerry will 100% be up for rescue missions. Like, he'll be all over this in typical Jerry fashion which is probably not the best but hey he's good at rescuing people...? Bonus points if someone's first meeting him is either having this moron on your rescue team or having said moron rescue you. → Lights Out: Up for people confessing around Jerry. He's a no-judgment zone ok. Unless you're totally awful then he'll judge the shit out of you. I would say that Jerry will probably confess dumb mundane things but he's entirely shameless. He might confess some underlying fears he has that he absolutely refuses to talk about because he's like that. → It Sees You: ELF ON A SHELF HUNT. He's used to taking care of garden gnomes that randomly pop up in strange places so this isn't really much of anything for him. Notes: I said this on plurk but I'll say it here too! Due to some health related issues I haven't been very active, but 1) I am still hitting back old things, not dropping them and 2) I am making a serious attempt at getting into a groove. (Granted I am also traveling the 22 up to the 29th). Thanks everyone for your patience!

[stations]

give me... the deep underlying fears... bro bonding... bronding...

[myfavoritemurder]

➥ Callisto

→ Canon: Xena: Warrior Princess → Housing: ADI Housing, C4 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Investigations, security → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Will probably be a little too into Ren, tbh. → In the Hive: ... But will still be on board with doing the job ADI is paying her to do. Callisto is enough of an emotional mess that she won't immediately tie the capricious mood swings to the bugs, but once she does make the connection, she might low-key try to get bitten in order to chase that euphoria high. I'm very up for her being both the victim and perpetrator of backstabbing attempts! → Lights Out: Callisto already freely confesses to horrible things that she's done and that have been done to her, so she'll be all too willing to agree to test the lights by walking into their glow herself. Some things she could talk about include: When she was a young child, she lost her entire family and village to a warlord attack She is obsessively dedicated to having her revenge against the warlord responsible for the above incident; this revenge quest has taken a few different forms over the years, but it's often involved collateral damage She's extremely loud and performative about her trauma, up to and including acting it out onto others: she hurts, she wants people to know she hurts, and she wants people to hurt with her She'll also be very into hearing other people's confessions, so light-testing could also take the form of shoving someone else under them. → It Sees You: She won't be particularly bothered by the scopophobia, but she'll default to helping clean the elves up, as her loyalties are (currently) (but not necessarily permanently) (seriously, there is a high high chance of one of the Entities eventually winning her over) with ADI.

Caduceus Clay | Critical Role

[thatsreallygreat]

➥ Caduceus Clay

→ Canon: Critical Role, Campaign 2 → Housing: Bonnie's, Room 7 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Between Counseling and Medical → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Caduceus might try interacting with Ren, but barring that, he'll be around to be generally concerned about all of this... And maybe he'll be avoiding invoking his spiritual guardians (beetles) throughout this. → In the Hive: Caduceus is here to treat injuries/bites/bad mental states. I'm not sure if he'll be going in himself, but he can certainly be talked into it if anyone wants a cleric along on the front lines. → Lights Out: He's good at talking to people, he's happy to help with this particular mission and he's willing to be there as other people test the lights (or end up testing them himself). Some confessions one might hear: + He started questioning his faith with his family gone and the Savalierwood's corruption closing in. + Ate a certain kind of flowering hoping for a vision from his patron. + Has been feeding the End in subtle ways (sometimes not as subtle) to maintain some of his power. He also sees death roots. + He doesn't think the End is like the other fears. + He and his siblings have tormented each other in creative and sometimes awful ways. Particularly at odds with his brother, Colton. + Completely ready to kill a guy for a friend. Some people just need to be put down. + And there's more~ → It Sees You: Ha... being watched. Bring it on. He might destroy some dolls, but more likely he'll just tell other people if he's seen them. Creepy little things.

[inutilis]

➥ Abel Nightroad

→ Canon: Trinity Blood → Housing: ADI (A-3) → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Canteen! → Permissions: here! → We're Live: Abel's that bleeding heart, can't avert his eyes from the pain of others type which means he'll definitely be looking to help anyone under attack (how, you ask? ...he didn't think that far ahead), and also doing his best to implore Ren to Stop?? Pretty please with sugar on top?? Probably won't go well, but he's obligated to give it the ol' college try, right? Perhaps someone could assist him in Imploring Endeavors?! (Or get him out of there when they inevitably fail.) → In the Hive: Piggybacking off the above, there's one dumb priest who'll want to help rescue folks...!! Not sure whether he'll get nibbled on at all, but game for any shenanigans during rescue attempts or planning! He's a professional at making kicked puppy faces upon being betrayed/backstabbed, if that's... important, → Lights Out: What is a man but a miserable pile of secrets, so sayeth Castlevania... I'm up for some investigations that might get a little Personal out here! Ah, nothing like basking in the glow of soft, twinkling lights that make you confess something from the deep recesses of your soul. If someone would like to blurt out something awkwardly sensitive to this fool during investigations, I'm here for it-- he's not one for judgment and knows how to keep a secret despite appearances. If you'd like something to slip from him instead, we could definitely work it out depending on how deep/dark you'd like to go! → It Sees You: This is the prompt where Abel breaks down in snotty tears and desperately begs someone to get the elf out of his room. This is the one.

[myfavoritemurder]

Shoves into some holiday lights so that she can find out all your juicy secrets!!!!

[cacophonish]

➥ Jeff

→ Canon: Original → Housing: Bonnie's → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Occasionally admin, occasionally investigations, but he's terribly unreliable and effectively unemployed → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Jeff MAY??? chat with Ren, since he's a messy bitch who's way too curious about avatars. But he'll be suitably horrified, since he's also a pacifist and this is CLEAR AND OBVIOUS HARM, unlike Fenix's circus, which he was able to write off as... harmless pranks. He'll be available for commiserating with other characters. → In the Hive: UNLIKELY TO GET INVOLVED HERE unless convinced or dragged to help. Jeff's generally dead useless in rescue missions. Although... his magic could potentially come in handy here (FIRE and telekinesis vs bugs). But again, he'd likely need convincing from others. → Lights Out: Oh yes Jeff has so many things he could confess. Likely confessions: - He was possessed by a demon for the better part of a year before arriving here - Oh and he liked it and misses it. It's in fact the longest and most intimate relationship he's ever had - PS He's been feeding the Spiral regularly and deliberately - He lured some tourists out into Dogtown for drugs, booze, and sex, and then terrorized them with magic and ditched them there There's also a slew of sillier and embarrassing things he could confess to, though I'm sleepy and can't think of specifics right now! BUT THERE ARE MANY I'M SURE. → It Sees You: Jeff will happily set these things on fire, try to stuff them down the garbage disposal (RIP garbage disposal), or throw them into traffic. HE IS SO OVER FEELING LIKE THINGS ARE WATCHING HIM. note: I'm currently recovering from surgery so I don't actually know how active and available I'll be during this event! Happy to handwave/assume interactions as needed

[ployboy]

tim will convince him to use his magic to help the rescue mission WITH HIS TEARS

em → jack townsend

[stations]

➥ Jack Townsend

→ Canon: Tales from the Gas Station → Housing: Bonnie's, 1st floor, room 1 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Staff Development (doing the menial work, not teaching anything) & Investigations (mostly reading lore, less hands on) → Permissions: HERE I plan on mostly tagging out this event, so if you're going to have your character do any confessing, you want someone to rescue, you need someone to springboard some character development, I'm there for it! Jack makes for an excellent facilitator for even the weirdest shit, he doesn't blink at the sketchy. To give you an example, his former best friend (a guy he talked to maybe 30 minutes a week in passing) showed up with a dead body in his trunk, said "it was an accident," and Jack was like, "Okay. Well. Guess I'll get some tarps. Tony's not a bad guy, it was an accident, and his parole officer might not be okay with it." Kanye shrug. Thanks to the resident magical neurosurgeon, he has recently learned that he doesn't have insomnia, he isn't dying, and he's actually asleep like 50% of the time it's just that he barely hits REM, he's aware of his surroundings, and he acts out his dreams so people around him usually don't even notice. That might be a thing that he's still freaking out about that may come up. → We're Live: He's super not a social media guy, so he won't stumble on this himself. If someone flashes him the stream, he'll have a super underwhelming response like, "Huh. Well that sucks." → In the Hive: He's incredibly easy to guilt into getting involved in stuff like this. One little nudge about people needing help generally has him sighing and stepping up, so if dragging him along's your jam, no prob. He's also incredibly unlucky and there's a nonzero chance he could just stupidly wander into some shit popping off. → Lights Out: Confess to him! He's startlingly, insanely not judgmental. He doesn't tend to bat an eye about stuff like... murder... He's also got enough crazy af stories that he can probably commiserate — or even things out by offering up some deeply personal fucked up shit in turn. → It Sees You: It's the lawn gnomes all over again... he has the same problem at the gas station. Ya boi just gonna accept their presence with 0 qualms tbh, but he can easily be recruited into an elf hunt. Basically this round I'm gonna focus on tagging into other people and letting Jack play some support! Comfort some hurt! Focus on furthering established CR, that kind of thing.

maru // keith // voltron: legendary defender

[marmoron]

➥ Keith

→ Canon: Voltron: Legendary Defender → Housing: ADI A3 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Research → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Keith will be disgusted by what’s going on and will likely be yelling at Ren because it’s apparently the season to be raging. → In the Hive: Keith will be in attendance on the mission to help the victims, and also wants very much to punch the corruption avatar if she is there. I’m down for throwing Keith into a team with others to aid in the actual rescue, as well as him getting lil bites and either getting really high and loopy or do some low key backstabbing … or literal back stabbing, if anyone wants a knife wound for some reason. → Lights Out: Down for having Keith go on a look see investigation of the lights with others to either listen to or spill some secrets. Keith doesn’t have a lot that he’d consider secret about his life, but he’s definitely not proud of the circumstances that led to him getting kicked out of the space program in his reality (headcanon involes him punching out a senior officer), nor is he particularly keen on talking about his stealing a car. He could also talk about the time he suggested not rescuing a friend for pragmatic reasons and immediately got shouted down. On the whole Keith tends to be supremely awkward when it comes to emotional overshare so I anticipate this being potentially funny more than anything else as he attempts to be a good ear to those who strike some kind of empathetic cord with him….. OR he’ll give your characters a goddamn talking to if he thinks your character was being despicable and is not going to be shy about saying so? So this could be a good jump off point for both positive and negative cr! → It Sees You: Keith is already a touch paranoid lol, so honestly I’m thinking this is a perfect opportunity for Keith to debut his makeshift hairspray + lighter flaemthrower that he’s been working on to have an elf bonfire outside. He will help anyone who needs help with elf extractions. → Other: Hello, I’ve generally been spotty here due to a combination of having been sick, frantically trying to catch up with grad school and wrapping up the end of the semester. With all that going on, I've had to drop quite a few old threads just because I needed a clean slate. I’m hoping to get back into the swing of things. If anyone would like to do anything more general with holiday themed beats, I’m also game for those.

[aelwyn_aberration]

I'd be up for either holiday stuff or going in the hive with Keith, potentially! Whichever you're more interested in.

[bloodalwaystells]

➥ Andrew Jaeger

→ Canon: Original → Housing: ADI Housing, A2 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Investigations, Security → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Man. Jaeger will have thoughts about dealing with Ren, but he will do his best to try and find out as much as he can about both LovelyRen and James Griffin, to get a better understanding of where this mess came from before taking any action. He's meticulous by nature and will gather as much as he can on the situation. → In the Hive: Jaeger isn't one to shy away from dirty work, so he'll suit up and head in to help with the rescue and destruction of things that crawl, skitter, and buzz. He will be Tyvexing it up, thank you very much, so probably no bites, but I'm happy to have him deal with/restrain/rescue someone else who's under the influence. → Lights Out: Oh man. Jaeger will be investigating these complaints, and there is a Lot that Jaeger could conceivably confess to. He's a blood mage on the run from the cult that he was a part of for his entire life, and he has some incredibly nasty and disturbing magical abilities. He's killed more people than anyone sane would admit to. He left his wife and daughter to keep them from being used as leverage against him. He's horribly scarred from torture at the hands of someone who really enjoyed their work. He's been living the Hunt life for several years now, hunting and often killing other blood mages (and he fully expects that this is how he's going to die). The list goes on... → It Sees You: Kill them all with FIRE. Jaeger has some experience with poppets and they are bad news in his world, so if they are mysteriously appearing and spreading to places where he *lives*? TIME TO FIRE-MURDER.

[aelwyn_aberration]

➥ Aelwyn Abernant

→ Canon: Fantasy High → Housing: B3 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Research and Investigation → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Aelwyn will talk to Ren. She'll be polite but beneath the surface she's seething at having her autonomy messed with by the worm game, and very much will be trying to trace this woman digitally if anyone wants to help go on a witch hunt. So like, I said this, but she accidentally stumbled on a nerve and kept pushing it because she's a bully and ultimately making her cry is more important than answers. → In the Hive: Aelwyn will come along but probably stick to the outskirts and with protecting the medics rather than diving headfirst to do a heroic rescue. She doesn't care about civilians but she DOES care about some of the friends she's made here! Instrumental progress. → Lights Out: OH BOY OKAY. So this is a complicated one and I'd prefer to do it pre-plotted because it WILL have consequences and could speed up her spiralling by a lot. Her big secrets are as follows: (cw for abuse, murder, terrorism, war crimes) -She has killed a non specific amount of people by causing a shipwreck in the middle of the sea and murdering her sister's predecessor so her sister could ascend and become the elven oracle. She estimates about fifty people were on board, and there were no survivors. -She is (or was) a servant of a monster called The Shadowcat, who made her do a whole lot of horrible things. Aelwyn is terrified of her. -Aelwyn watched and did nothing (and sometimes even participated, out of fear) as her parents emotionally abused her sister by demeaning her and belittling her every chance they could get. -Aelwyn intentionally started a war. -She has been actively feeding to keep her powers. Acts of mild vandalism and contained arson have tided her over for now but soon they Won't Be Enough and she knows that. -She thinks she's a disgusting person at her core and is desperately trying to figure out a way to do better despite believing she herself can't be better. OR MORE MILD THAN THAT. This one doesn't have to be plotted because it won't cause her to spiral if people know it, she'll just get really flustered. -She has a BIG crush on Mercy. → It Sees You: YEAH SHE'S TEARING THESE MOTHERFUCKERS DOWN. She will keep one and dissect it in Research, though, if anyone wants to help. The only elves on shelves allowed around here are her and maybe Romelle! → Misc: If anyone wants to introduce her to the concept of christmas she will panic and try to pick out gifts and decorate her apartment.

[earthshine]

➥ TAKASHI SHIROGANE

→ Canon: Voltron: Legendary Defender → Housing: ADI - A3 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Haven’t… officially said. But he does a lot of field investigations. → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: So this is terrible? Shiro might talk to Ren. He’ll generally be in a bad/angry/distressed mood about what’s going on here. → In the Hive: Of course Shiro will be involved in the rescue mission. Of course he’s going to be bitten. So I think it’d be interesting for him to get into a scuffle with someone. He can inflict a lot of damage ( cybernetic, alien tech arm, check ) if you want to have your character destroyed hurt. Shiro will feel pretty bad about it ok, so your character would be guaranteed having hot chocolate and Christmas cookies brought to them for at least a week. OR having him high and loopy could also be fun/funny. I am, forever, a fan of the shitpost, so… we can go the ridiculous route. → Lights Out: Shiro loves to investigate horrible happenings, so he’ll be in one of these groups. Who wants to team up to go look at some murderous, Christmas lights?? Possible confessions on Shiro’s part: He was a ( champion ) gladiator for the Galra Empire and has murdered countless people/aliens, both good and bad. He has been marked by The Flesh. There’s been some unintentional feedings and activation of power ( selective intangibility ) but he’s still leaning heavy in denial. Of course this has nothing to do with an entity, just the usual general weirdness of this reality, yup. As for your character doing the confessing, prepare for a lecture that is a weird combination of stern and encouraging. → It Sees You: Time to go a-hunting. Shiro’s really tall so he can reach the little fkers who hide on high selves??

[fightinginfinity]

Look this has nothing to do with the event or anything at all really, but can Tony please nerd out about Shiro’s arm at some point...

Respectfully of course.

Tony would even be ok with Shiro using it to reach a high shelf for him! He’s vertically challenged but in denial.

[sorser]

➥ STEPHEN STRANGE

→ Canon: MCU → Housing: Bonnie’s → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Medical → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Stephen will definitely try to communicate with Ren; no doubt this conversation will mostly be from an investigative standpoint, as Stephen will believe there’s little negotiating with someone who’s already this far-gone, but who knows! Either way, the focus will be on wringing out as much information/clues as he can, before taking some kind of action to help the victims. (See below.) → In the Hive: Stephen will participate in the rescue, just so there will be someone on-hand to assist with medical emergencies (of which he’s certain there will be). He could be convinced or forced to use some of his magic he’s been storing if he finds himself with no other choice, or if he has to save someone else on the fly! Or, alternately, to protect himself if someone starts feeling a little backstabby. → Lights Out: He has a few things he could spill! Not all of them are secrets, per se, but they are all things not necessarily fun to talk about. —How terribly he treated people when he was still a surgeon; turning away patients he deemed as lost causes, patients who weren’t guaranteed to recover to make certain he kept his perfect record, how he just generally put his reputation above everything else, how he liked to make his co-workers feel stupid, etc. —He could admit to how he’s been feeding his entity through the power of the internet and conspiratorial, end of the world theorizing —That one time he was tortured by aliens, that sure was a thing Otherwise, I’m up for Stephen stumbling upon other people’s secrets. Or just focusing on the investigative part of this prompt and questioning local shopkeepers! → It Sees You: Creepy dolls in his room at the flophouse? NO THANKS. Who is down for a communal cleansing of them at Bonnie’s? GRAB YOUR TRASHBAGS.

[sakaya]

Slides in here

They can definitely bond more in Lights Out, Shuten just greedily eating up the Strange Deets

[fightinginfinity]

➥ TONY STARK

→ Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe → Housing: ADI Apartments A2 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Technology Development → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: Bugs is my NOPE so skipping this one! EDIT: Nevermind responded. Lol. Tony is trying to hack this little clown, god help him. → In the Hive: This one too! Why Bugs! WHY → Lights Out: If it's broke, Tony will fix it! Or try to, anyway. He'll likely want to mess around with the lights and try to find what makes them tick, which, of course, will probably lead to disaster. Boy oh boy does Tony have some sins to confess... If your character wants to be treated to a veritable War-&-Peace length account of Tony's bad decisions or horrible experiences, including but not limited to - running a weapons manufacturing company for years that he didn't realize was getting into the hands of terrorists & killing innocent people - building a murder robot that yeeted an entire city to the ground - the various acts of torture he has endured - flying into a wormhole & nearly getting swallowed by space then getting PTSD from it, being forced to watch his friends die, discovering that his BFF's BFF murdered his parents and BFF knew about it and lied, getting KO'd by a genocidal purple alien, losing a boy he considers a son after said genocidal purple alien wipes out half the universe then getting stranded in space JUST SO MUCH OK? SO MUCH then just wait til one of these bad boys shines on Tony. → It Sees You: Yeah Tony will repulsor blast every single one of those dead-eyed little motherfuckers, even with his suit currently in disrepair. Don't think he won't.

[medicative]

➥ emily dyer

→ Canon: Identity V → Housing: ADI, C4 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Medical → Permissions: Info + permissions. → We're Live: Emily won't be directly responding to Ren, but she will be immediately trying to figure out if ADI can figure out where this is happening. → In the Hive: I could go either way on this - if Emily decides to join the rescue team, then she'll go out with a very firm determination to save as many people as possible, getting rid of the bugs with something like a vengeance. She'll have no patience for them at all but will deny that she's venting her stress on them. If she does not, she'll be prepped at Medical to distribute supplies to the rescuers and get any victims treated and cared for in their facilities. → Lights Out: hoo boy there are a number of things Emily can confess to, be it any of her repeated deaths, her accidental murder, her guilt complex, her asylum work that went all wrong, or just that she's lied to almost everyone in ADI. Really there's a whole laundry list of things going on, but once she clues into it not being her that's choosing to share, she'll avoid the lights like wildfire - it doesn't mean she can't fall into them or have accidental encounters too! → It Sees You: After about two days, Emily is going to take matters into her own hands, and if she sees one, she's taking it and crushing it under her heel. No great fuss, just a careful disposal and then throwing the bodies away. No negotiations, and if anyone needs help handling one or another, she's glad to intervene. Beyond the event prompts, though, I'm happy to do anything else with anyone! Emily and Steven have a joint post from the beginning of the month that we're still absolutely replying to, and Emily will be checking in with anyone who chooses to take her up on her offer. As well as that, anything else that someone wants for December is open - adjusting to modern traditions, snow days, all of it.

Tim Drake | DC Comics

[ployboy]

➥ Jimothy Drake

→ Canon: DC Comics (2009) → Housing: ADI B1 → What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: IT department :V → Permissions: HERE → We're Live: IT DEPARTMENT, what's up he will end up having to confess to being the utter dingus who created this monster. That's it, that's his contribution to this disaster. He'll be APPROPRIATELY ROUGHED UP from a previous scuffle with Keith, and all around a neurotic, apologetic, panicked mess of a boy. Kick his ass. → In the Hive: Other than clamoring for more responsible persons to go help the poor people stuck in the swamp, I'm thinking Tim will (intelligent...ly) sit this one out. Expect him to stick to ADI HQ until we figure out what to do with him. → Lights Out: I DON'T HAVE IDEAS BUT I WANT TO DO THIS? my entire write up is a mess, it's been A MONTH i'm so sorry → It Sees You: He wants...... to figure these dolls out.... so watch him try (and fail??) to contain his due diligence as a vigilante and also get him into therapy jesus christ

[aelwyn_aberration]

(if you would like someone who will be less critical of tim's intentions, aelwyn can chime in with her thoughts while he's beating himself up)