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Apocalypse How Mods ([personal profile] apocalypsehowmods) wrote in [community profile] apocalypsehowooc2022-02-14 08:50 am
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Event OOC - Heavy

Heavy - 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!

➥ Deep: 16-20 February
➥ Chasm: 21-24 February
➥ Stuck: 21-28 February
➥ Sink: 24-28 February



➥ Deep
(cw: claustrophobia, existential dread, power loss, victim-blaming, time distortion, supernatural compulsion and hunger)

Characters are trapped in their homes as snowfall seems to build a specific wall around them for five straight days–it feels significantly longer than that, though. They receive periodic notices on the network that they should shelter in place and not come in, but that directive is undercut by additional notes indicating that characters are failing to act while something dire is happening. They will not have access to additional food or other supplies while trapped, so hope you stocked up ahead of time. In addition, characters connected to a supernatural patron will find themselves being sapped of their abilities and an intense hunger taking over. They will have few options to feed, save on those they're trapped with. While the internal network works… all other outside internet access seems to be gone.



➥ Chasm
(cw: warped perceptions, memory-loss, implied trauma, supernaturally-induced feelings of missing out)

Characters manage to finally break through the snow walls only to find there's nothing actually there. The city appears to be normal, but there's a pervasive sense that something massive happened and they weren't a part of it. The people on the streets seem to be stricken in some way, but can't provide any details of what might have been missed. There aren't any news stories or any indications on the internet about what's been missed, but there is something. Characters will feel that down to their bones.

If you'd like your character to be the first to pop out of the snow walls and break the illusion, please comment here (LINK) by 11:59 PM Pacific Time, 15 Feb. (You can find your own timezone by checking here (LINK). It's perfectly fine if your character is with someone else when they break through the wall. The winner of the RNG will just be the very first.)



➥ Stuck
(cw: flooding; natural disasters; damage to homes, workplaces, and possessions; references to burial, suffocation, crushing, and murder; supernaturally induced anxiety, responsibility fatigue, and feelings of inadequacy; illness)

Characters return to ADI Headquarters to find that the building was attacked in their absence, and rumor has it there's a prisoner now missing from the cells on floor B4. There's a lack of coherent response to the attack or whatever looming threat it promises from ADI, however, as NPCs and player characters alike find themselves overwhelmed by constant requests, problems, and crises far beyond their ability to keep up. These may include mundane problems related to the damaged headquarters building, apartments, and Flophouse; demands from their jobs; problems in their living situations; as well as miscellaneous supernatural phenomena. Those who would choose to eschew responsibilities at work or try to reprioritize will find that there is always something in need of doing that is important to them, to the point where new problems may seem to arise in impossibly, almost cartoonishly quick succession. Characters may find themselves feeling mentally foggy and struggling to focus on core issues in the face of this inundation of needs from the people and environment around them, and may fall sick from overwork. These effects will overlap with both the Chasm and Sink prompts.



➥ Sink
(cw: claustrophobia, suffocation or near-suffocation)

There are reports of supernatural activity, once more, at Coffins Beach. Concerned about more Kelpie Problems, investigative teams are sent out to watch the water and walk the dunes at the beach. It's not the water that seems to be the issue this time around, though. Instead, some of the dunes look… larger than usual. Not unnaturally so, but noticeably. Walking over them, larger or just a simple little mound, characters will find that at least one partner seems to fall suddenly into the dunes. Sinking down into a sort of tube made of sand. It goes down strangely deep, and once you hit the bottom, the walls of it become unstable. Better hope your partner can get you out before your fully buried alive.



A Handy Plotting Form

musicdied: (Default)

[personal profile] musicdied 2022-02-16 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Kate, dusting isn't supposed to mean turning things to dust.
bossyboiler: (jokes on you!)

[personal profile] bossyboiler 2022-02-16 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sure? Dust can't settle if there's nothing for it to settle on.
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[personal profile] musicdied 2022-02-16 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
It can settle on the thing that was below the thing that just got turned to dust. Or on the floor. Or...okay, if you manage to dust all the way through the floor into the apartment below, she'll honestly just be impressed and want to find a way to weaponize that.
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[personal profile] musicdied 2022-02-16 06:01 am (UTC)(link)

➥ Yelena Belova
Canon: MCU
Housing: ADI apartment C2, with Winter and Kate
What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: Investigations
Permissions: HERE

Deep: So, when it starts becoming obvious that something is Not Quite Right with all the friendly neighbourhood superpowered folks, Yelena is going to break into and commandeer an empty apartment to set up a safe place to hole up for unpowered folks who need to escape a hunger-crazed roommate, or who just don't want to pose a temptation to their superpowered besties. She is entirely willing to inflict violence on threats to her charges. I am entirely willing to have that get spectacularly messy.

Once shit really starts hitting the fan, she'll be putting herself out as bait to lure people prowling for prey away from those who might be less equipped for dealing with horrible shit and then having to look the person who did it to them in the eye across a cafeteria table. This is absolutely a brilliant idea, and will not have horrible consequences at all.

Chasm: This is a whole big ball of Do Not Want, and she would like to know what she missed now.

Stuck: Yelena is definitely going to be throwing herself into trying to stamp out disasters and track down the root of them - but there are so many, so she's basically just going to be running on the disaster treadmill.

She's sharp enough to realize that all of this fuckery is the perfect way to divide, sow dissent, and keep everyone reacting so they can't stop and think, if anyone wants to have that conversation. Possibly semi-delirious at 3am, because that feels like the right kind of mood here.

Sink: Yelena is pretty athletic, but she's not the best equipped to haul people out of a collapsing hole without any equipment unless they're tiny. She is, however, a reasonable size to be hauled, so I'm offering her up to get rescued.

Or to spend a cold day watching for murderhorses at the beach. That's good too.

bossyboiler: (Default)

[personal profile] bossyboiler 2022-02-16 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Just tell her that the enemy needs a good cleaning and organizing. They won't know what hit them.
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[personal profile] worthallthis 2022-02-16 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
Do you wanna fight Winter, Tim? Do you really? XD

I mean I am totally game. Winter will test-fight with anybody and try to give them pointers...
thedoctorsmate: (silly | let's pause)

[personal profile] thedoctorsmate 2022-02-16 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, HECK YEAH! I'm gonna be doing a TL, and I can link you to that once I've got it sorted. Gotta save this weird Doctor look-a-like.
thedoctorsmate: (smile | grin)

[personal profile] thedoctorsmate 2022-02-16 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent! Planning to get a TL up for the event. I'll link you to that once it's finished.
demonicmiracle: (160)

[personal profile] demonicmiracle 2022-02-16 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
all Donna knows is save David Tennant's ass, eat hot chip, and lie

I shall keep my eyes peeled for your TL
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Re: QUESTIONS

[personal profile] myfavoritemurder 2022-02-16 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
so, uh

say someone does jump out a window
whisperedone: (8)

[personal profile] whisperedone 2022-02-16 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I’m absolutely down for making things difficult for them later, especially with breaking through the snow together as their first bonding experience:3
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[personal profile] myfavoritemurder 2022-02-16 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent, thank you!
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[personal profile] musicdied 2022-02-16 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Quick question about the housing complex - are the apartment blocks completely disconnected from each other? So, for the snowed in portion of the event, are people cut off from everyone who isn't in their specific apartment block?

The OOC notes on the event post have made me realize my mental image might have been incorrect.
canofmanji: (Time to do something STUPID)

[personal profile] canofmanji 2022-02-16 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Manij won the RNG! So they can be the first to dig out together! Bonding project!
bloodalwaystells: Hrm (Default)

[personal profile] bloodalwaystells 2022-02-17 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
He just wants to make sure they're *actually* sleeping and not trying to lure him into a sense of false security!

And that sounds like an excellent plan to me. Jaeger prowling around ADI, trying to fix everything that's going on, and still half in Hunt mode. We could definitely do that if you like? I'll be putting up starters a little later, and there will definitely be opportunity to run into Jaeger in the halls at ADI.
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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2022-02-17 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it for the LOLs.
bloodalwaystells: Hrm (Default)

[personal profile] bloodalwaystells 2022-02-17 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Huzzah. I'll let you know when I've got a top-level up, then!
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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2022-02-17 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Cool beans!
thedoctorsmate: (smile | fistpump)

[personal profile] thedoctorsmate 2022-02-17 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
A starter for you here!
thedoctorsmate: (smile | fistpump)

[personal profile] thedoctorsmate 2022-02-17 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Got a starter up here!
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[personal profile] musicdied 2022-02-17 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Want to rescue Yelena from a hungry sand dune? She will be incredibly embarrassed.
bloodalwaystells: Hrm (huh?)

[personal profile] bloodalwaystells 2022-02-17 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a good time to me! Poor Yelena, Jaeger will pick her up and dust her off as best he can.

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