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apocalypsehowooc2021-12-14 08:51 am
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Entry tags:
Event OOC - Fan Service
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
➥ 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.
➥ 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.
➥ 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.
➥ 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.
A Handy Plotting Form
➥ We're Live: 16 December
➥ In the Hive: 16 December
➥ Lights Out: 17-25 December
➥ It Sees You: 20-31 December
➥ 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.
➥ 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.
➥ 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.
➥ 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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It's a combination of both volume and oddity. Injuries seem to be a suspicious level of mouth injuries, like people might be hurting themselves in an effort to stay quiet. But there are other things like falling off ladders because it felt like saw something at the corner of their vision that was looking at them. Additional accidents seem not to make sense. People claim they were electrocuted, but show no signs of electrocution. If questioned, they will insist that they know they were electrocuted because they know exactly what that feels like. There are other claims in this vein where people were injured in various ways, but they claim they sustained more serious injuries because they know what it feels like. And they couldn't have just imagined that happening. The only brand involved in these more unusual claims is called Illumination Rite. A Google search would turn up various companies with some variation on that name, but nothing that seems to be a lights company. Stores don't know how they got the lights. They just turned up in their inventory.
Video recordings do not show the elves in full motion. When an elf that's on camera moves, footage may show the elf moving a tiny bit (little enough that there's always plausible deniability that the cause could have been mundane) before the feed seems to glitch out for a moment and then the elf has simply disappeared or appeared. Cameras set up specifically to catch elves in the act are favored targets for elf jump scares, with the elf's face appearing close up to the camera lens before the video glitches out again and the elf disappears somewhere else.
Despite the fact that elves are never observed to get up and walk, putting chalk or coal on an elf's hands and feet will result in little footprints and handprints appearing to show that it walked or climbed to its latest location. The trail sometimes leads all the way back to its previous location, but sometimes the trail fades in and out, particularly when the elf would have had to get through a locked door or another seemingly insurmountable obstacle.
A dissected elf is made of nothing but plastic, felt, and stuffing. The feeling of being watched (and the elf's ability to move to another location and continue its spying once left unobserved) will not go away unless the elf's eyes are destroyed.
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