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apocalypsehowooc2022-01-14 09:18 am
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Event OOC - Material Goods
Material Goods - 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! Two items of note, in addition:
1. You can catch a sneak preview of the event with Stephen Strange's network announcement.
2. The NPC Kahlil will be run by Mod Kathryn for this event. Due to vacation plans, there will be a pause, significant slowdown in responses at the end of January/start of February. They will pick up again upon her return for any lingering threads.
➥ By Hook or By Crook: 15-16 January
➥ Comfortably Numb: 16-31 January
➥ Feed Me, Kahlil: 18 January
➥ The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: 18-19 January
➥ By Hook or By Crook
(cw: potential for violence, criminal activity, bombs/bomb threats, injury, incarceration, police brutality)
Characters work to stop departure and delivery of all goods from the docks to Things of Beauty. And disrupt the store's operations. There will be opportunities to destroy boxes, delay them, and otherwise cause chaos for those trying to get these goods to market, whether by physically being there or causing bureaucratic snarls. ADI will be providing what materials they can to keep people hidden/safe, but if you get arrested… well, enjoy cooling your jets in lock-up for a night. They are none too gentle with anyone they catch, either. The police will let people out once they know they're with ADI, but there will be fines issued for being caught, and given they know ADI isn't likely to ever sue them if they want to keep their own secrets, anyone locked up might not be shown a particularly nice time, depending on the officer.
➥ Comfortably Numb
(cw: body horror, injury (hands/arms), bleeding, mouths where there should not be mouths, supernatural drugging/apathy)
A few products have made it to market, but not many. The combined efforts have put a real crunch on supply and that's driving up prices and demand, as a result. People are angry and willing to pay outrageous sums for… what appears to be a disturbingly flesh-like phone case. People with the cases are seemingly obsessed with them, guarding them closely from people even as the things seem to be visibly growing mouths and biting at them. The people either don't notice or don't care. ADI will be asking people to steal the cases and dispose of them. You can spot a victim by the blood coating their hands. Unfortunately, the cases have a numbing effect on those who come into contact with them. Maybe that explains the indifference. You can't feel any physical pain with these, and even emotional pain seems to be dulled. Just relax and let yourself be taken. Cleaning up the mess caused by these phone cases and tracking every single one down is likely to take a week or two.
➥ Feed Me, Kahlil
(cw: severe emotional distress, emotional blackmail, internalized victim blaming, kidnapping, injury (hands/arms))
The proprietor of Things of Beauty, Kahlil Nassir, is an increasingly emotional wreck over the course of the days leading up to the product launch and after it. Possibly it's from the lack of supply, or maybe there's something else he's feeling bad about. Either way, it's time to question this man with his heavily bandaged fingers and arms on exactly what he knows.
➥ The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
(cw: body horror, uncanny valley, pregnancy imagery, loss of skin, implied animal death, implied human death, unsanitary conditions, self-doubt/body image issues)
Kahlil has revealed the location of a warehouse where characters will be able to confront the thing that's been creating the flesh phone cases, and destroy it. Characters will need to work together to destroy all parts of this thing or it will keep regrowing in different areas. Unfortunately, due to the warehouse's location, just bombing or burning it is not going to be an option. Characters will need to get a bit more creative in their monster-destruction schemes.
A Handy Plotting Form
1. You can catch a sneak preview of the event with Stephen Strange's network announcement.
2. The NPC Kahlil will be run by Mod Kathryn for this event. Due to vacation plans, there will be a pause, significant slowdown in responses at the end of January/start of February. They will pick up again upon her return for any lingering threads.
➥ By Hook or By Crook: 15-16 January
➥ Comfortably Numb: 16-31 January
➥ Feed Me, Kahlil: 18 January
➥ The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: 18-19 January
➥ By Hook or By Crook
(cw: potential for violence, criminal activity, bombs/bomb threats, injury, incarceration, police brutality)
Characters work to stop departure and delivery of all goods from the docks to Things of Beauty. And disrupt the store's operations. There will be opportunities to destroy boxes, delay them, and otherwise cause chaos for those trying to get these goods to market, whether by physically being there or causing bureaucratic snarls. ADI will be providing what materials they can to keep people hidden/safe, but if you get arrested… well, enjoy cooling your jets in lock-up for a night. They are none too gentle with anyone they catch, either. The police will let people out once they know they're with ADI, but there will be fines issued for being caught, and given they know ADI isn't likely to ever sue them if they want to keep their own secrets, anyone locked up might not be shown a particularly nice time, depending on the officer.
➥ Comfortably Numb
(cw: body horror, injury (hands/arms), bleeding, mouths where there should not be mouths, supernatural drugging/apathy)
A few products have made it to market, but not many. The combined efforts have put a real crunch on supply and that's driving up prices and demand, as a result. People are angry and willing to pay outrageous sums for… what appears to be a disturbingly flesh-like phone case. People with the cases are seemingly obsessed with them, guarding them closely from people even as the things seem to be visibly growing mouths and biting at them. The people either don't notice or don't care. ADI will be asking people to steal the cases and dispose of them. You can spot a victim by the blood coating their hands. Unfortunately, the cases have a numbing effect on those who come into contact with them. Maybe that explains the indifference. You can't feel any physical pain with these, and even emotional pain seems to be dulled. Just relax and let yourself be taken. Cleaning up the mess caused by these phone cases and tracking every single one down is likely to take a week or two.
➥ Feed Me, Kahlil
(cw: severe emotional distress, emotional blackmail, internalized victim blaming, kidnapping, injury (hands/arms))
The proprietor of Things of Beauty, Kahlil Nassir, is an increasingly emotional wreck over the course of the days leading up to the product launch and after it. Possibly it's from the lack of supply, or maybe there's something else he's feeling bad about. Either way, it's time to question this man with his heavily bandaged fingers and arms on exactly what he knows.
➥ The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
(cw: body horror, uncanny valley, pregnancy imagery, loss of skin, implied animal death, implied human death, unsanitary conditions, self-doubt/body image issues)
Kahlil has revealed the location of a warehouse where characters will be able to confront the thing that's been creating the flesh phone cases, and destroy it. Characters will need to work together to destroy all parts of this thing or it will keep regrowing in different areas. Unfortunately, due to the warehouse's location, just bombing or burning it is not going to be an option. Characters will need to get a bit more creative in their monster-destruction schemes.
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