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Event OOC - For Sport

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Summaries and content warnings for each prompt in the event are provided below. Please pose questions to the designated mod comment, and plot away!

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Timeline

➥ Breaking It In: 21 July
➥ Move the Goalposts: 23-24 July
➥ Curveball: 23-24 July
➥ Below the Belt: 24 July (night)
➥ Sticky Wicket: 21 July - 5 August

➥ Breaking It In
cw: mentions of apparent mutilation of/violence against animals and animal death

Characters are given a briefing by Reyes Amador that the kelpie encountered in the TDM prompt has likely come from Essex Bay. They know this due to triangulating disappearances and apparent marine mammal deaths. Reyes invites people to ask them questions about this mission and about ADI. Bonnie is also present to give her opinions.

➥ Move the Goalposts
cw: kidnapping, violence, sadism

Kelpies appear and attempt to kidnap characters from Gloucester. The only safe haven from the creatures if you can't fight them is ADI HQ and ADI Housing.

➥ Curveball
cw: kidnapping, violence/violence and mutilation against apparent animals, sadism, body horror, transformation, potential for claustrophobia

Kidnapped characters awaken to find the kelpies tormenting what seems to be a seal. It is not a seal, though. The kelpies cut the animal open to reveal it's a woman who's been trapped inside the sealskin. Kidnapped characters find themselves subject to the same fate. They are wrapped in sealskin and become psychically-linked selkies, hunted by the kelpies through the dark waters of Essex Bay.

➥ Below the Belt
cw: violence/violence and mutilation against apparent animals, body horror, gore

Characters on the Essex Bay mission arrive to find clever seals in the water being chased by horrible crocodile horse monsters. The kelpies attempt to hunt, capture, and kill the selkies and their would-be rescuers.

➥ Sticky Wicket
cw: potential for severe burns/injury, pain

Characters are tasked with fetching artifacts from a rundown portion of the Docks. The artifacts, if touched, induce 3rd-degree burns and a burning sensation across one's entire body. Additionally, characters may find themselves having to deal with some of the young punks around town who have claimed this part of the Docks for themselves and want what's in that box.

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1. At the end of the event, are there any lingering consequences to those who're signed, sealed, delivered? Besides the obvious emotional trauma, ofc?

2. Will those with a physical disability normally be similarly disabled when sealed with a kiss?

I know the TDM/arrival listed guns, tasers, and knives as the immediately-available weapons in the training room (and I assume characters are able to draw from those for something like this?), but is there anywhere one could procure a sword? Either from ADI or from Lucky, or another source in town!

➥ Toji Fushiguro

→ Canon: jujutsu kaisen
→ Housing: bonnie's flophouse
→ Permissions: HERE

→ Breaking It In - i think toji is just going to tell whoever he's talking to that the kelpies are bad news but not impossible to kill; he's killed one himself and might even talk about going in and hunting them down himself anyway. deter him maybe?
→ Move the Goalposts - he'd absolutely fight them off before they got a chance to kidnap him and anyone else he's with. if you want your character to be rescued or whatever hmu!
→ Curveball - he wouldn't really be present as he simply wouldn't get kidnapped lol
→ Below the Belt - killing spree for toji, he'd go nuts on the selkies with his weapons! he's pretty reckless in a fight so he'd do pretty all right at cleaning up shop i think, but if you want to have someone in the middle of battle or be someone he can cut from the seal skin personally, i'm here for it!
→ Sticky Wicket - cursed artifacts are toji's gig but if something burns him that bad he'll get frustrated and probably try to muscle through the pain. might die if someone isn't with him

might be hilarious if toji helped gojou out because he's still trying to follow the rules and isn't used to fighting without his powers.

Edited 2021-07-22 00:12 (UTC)

➥ Satoru Gojou

→ Canon: Jujutsu Kaisen
→ Housing: ADI, apartment A2
→ Permissions: HERE

→ Breaking It In - Gojou is going to be way too excited about this entire thing for someone with good sense. He loves missions, okay. He probably won't have any actual useful question, but he's definitely going to be encouraging about the whole thing. What's danger?
→ Move the Goalposts - He's determined not to make use of his powers for now, but he does know how to defend himself. I can see him faltering at first because he's not used to fighting without them, but ultimately succeeding in evading. He'll probably stalk around for awhile and make sure nobody else is in danger.
→ Curveball - Not getting kidnapped, so.
→ Below the Belt - It's possible with a situation like this that he'd slip up like once with his powers, but generally keep in control. He'll definitely be trying to save people here, but while he's the saving type he's not the hero type. A good quote from him, albeit not canon, is "Why should I help if I don't get something out of it?" So him saving someone might be a good way to set up CR, because he'll definitely be sniffing around for payback later.
→ Sticky Wicket - Yeah, Gojou is totally touching it. Whoops. He might even touch it twice! But he'd try to stop anyone else from doing so.

➥ Caduceus Clay

→ Canon: Critical Role
→ Housing: Bonnie's
→ Permissions: HERE

→ Breaking It In - Caduceus will likely be in the back with Bonnie, if only because he's rather tall and there's no need to block anyone else's view. And, maybe, he's watching people. He will be volunteering to help. He's got experience working with groups on missions and is content to play a support role rather than a leadership role. He's here to keep the group together.

→ Move the Goalposts - Open to having Caduceus defend someone that's running away or otherwise rescuing those who need it and want to avoid kidnapping. He can deal some decent damage, hopefully enough to make the kelpies think twice.

→ Below the Belt - He will definitely try to talk to the seals if he's in this group. Whether or not they can communicate back won't actually stop him. The kelpies, meanwhile, look like some kind of aberration and he's down to fight them if they engage.

→ Sticky Wicket - Caduceus will need a partner that can remember the combination if it isn't written down. That being said, he has absolutely no interest in touching the Thing In The Box and is unlikely to be tempted. If he's with someone who is, he'll attempt to heal the burns, possibly with a mild lecture about not touching things. He's got some little tricks that might intimidate the hell out of some punks, too, as he'd rather scare them than fight them.

Edited 2021-07-22 00:34 (UTC)

➥ Goro Akechi

→ Canon: Persona 5 Royal
→ Housing: ADI - apartment A1
→ Permissions: HERE

→ Breaking It In - Akechi will be there! He won't be shy about asking questions, but he'll mostly be watching the rest of the new arrivals, trying to gauge who might actually be helpful, and who might be hinderances. He'll be somewhat reassuring if anyone looks frightened, but more in the vein of "you're not required to go," and not, "you'll be fine."

→ Move the Goalposts -

a - I'm not planning to have Akechi be kidnapped himself, but he'll be able/willing to defend anyone running or try to rescue anyone being chased! He is not above trying to shoot and kill the kelpies once he realizes they are actually monsters and not just people.

b - Also, we're planning on having Ren Amamiya be one of the people kidnapped, which means Akechi will be extremely inclined to go out on his own to gather information and try to find the only person he actually cares about. People are welcome to join him or talk him down from a suicide mission! His pleasant mask will have slipped quite a bit by then, so expect a somewhat-less-fake/polite boy.

→ Curveball - N/A

→ Below the Belt - Akechi will absolutely be part of the recon mission, especially in the wake of the kidnappings. It won't occur to him to literally slice the seals open, but if directed to, he'll do it without complaining (too much). He'll be eager and willing to help track down the kelpies themselves and has no qualms about killing them, especially once it becomes clear that the seals are actually transformed people. It might be a little disturbing to the people he's spoken with already just how much joy he'll take in being able to (attempt to) fight.

→ Sticky Wicket - "Are you cruel enough to let them have it?" yes. Yes he is. Akechi's had enough experience with the supernatural not to want to bother opening the box when it's more beneficial to him not to open it, and he'll discourage PCs from doing the same, but if the box is knocked out of his hands and whomever assaulted him goes to grab it, well. Instant punishment on their part and Akechi gets to see what happens, so. Win/win!

please lecture gojou, he absolutely needs it.

gojou would definitely join in on going to gather information. suicide mission means nothing to him, either

➥ Meredith Idlewild

→ Canon: Original
→ Housing: ADI
→ Permissions: HERE

→ Breaking It In - No big plans here, may tag in on other peoples' posts for this.
→ Move the Goalposts - Meredith's definitely getting kidnapped--while I'd love other people to run away with her, there's an opportunity for her to, like sacrifice herself for someone to get away. She knows she can't run away, so if she can make it possible for someone else to get out, she will.
→ Curveball - Meredith's going to be caught in some real horror here. She's been kidnapped before, and hasn't exactly processed that--plus body horror shenanigans is going to be a lot of 'fun' for her. I may have her try to get out of the ropes by dislocating her thumb to try to slip out; there will be a self-injury warning on this prompt.
→ Below the Belt - Here's your chance to do me a rescue. Meredith is going to be seeking out anyone who can/would help, because she's pretty useless as a seal or otherwise.
→ Sticky Wicket - No plans for this prompt.

gently going to hit him with a rolled up newspaper. verbally.

he's the kind of person that does something like 'touch the object and get hurt' many times just to make sure it's the same result each time, so he could use it

cad is almost sure this isn't how you do science. but he could be wrong.

Cad will do a rescue, Miss Idlewild

want to! save this seal!

Excellent, Meredith will be mortified and miserable and completely beside herself.

Save! This! Seal! Quickly!

➥ Thackery Binx

→ Canon: Hocus Pocus
→ Housing: ADI Apartment A4
→ Permissions: HERE

→ Breaking It In - Binx will be listening attentively, ready to help!! This is a chance to meet him in cat form since they'll be inside ADI HQ.
→ Move the Goalposts - I'd love to play something with the kelpies trying to kidnap Binx and failing because they keep grabbing for his illusion instead of his real body, and it looks like he's just extremely good at dodging. Come witness? Get rescued(ish) as he provides a distraction so you can get away?
→ Curveball - n/a
→ Below the Belt - Binx could be moderately helpful on a recon mission. He will not be the slightest bit helpful in water-based combat, but here he is. Come have a crisis with him.
→ Sticky Wicket - Binx can't carry a package, but if you'd like him to come along and play Jiminy Cricket, he's always up for nagging people not to touch anything magical!

➥ MONIKA

→ Canon: Doki Doki Literature Club
→ Housing: ADI; Apartment A1
→ Permissions: HERE

→ Breaking It In - Monika is going to be listening very carefully to anyone who has tips and suggestions. She does want to help but she is not exactly ready to go out and beat up a kelpie or anything so she'll want to take more of a support/investigative role.
→ Move the Goalposts - Monika is going to be subject to an attempted kidnapping, but I don't want her actually kidnapped (her Switch is not exactly waterproof). She will be using a bit of Bucky's self-defense training to initially get away and start running, but if someone would like to help her out as far as rescuing her that would be good. (Her current plan is to just run for the apartments.)
→ Curveball - Monika will not be taking part in this, as she can't go in the water with her Switch.
→ Below the Belt - Monika will mostly not taking part in this, as she can't go in the water with her Switch. She also cannot fight a crocodile horse. If there are any selkies who would like to get close to shore and try to communicate with Monika from there, that's possible, but she is not going to be able to do much to protect anyone from the kelpies.
→ Sticky Wicket - Monika will be participating here! She will manage to resist opening the box, though given her association with The Eye not without temptation. For now, though, her sense of responsibility will win out. She'll need help with dealing with the punks, though--she'll want to talk her way out of it if possible, and she'll have a taser with her, but the taser hurts her to use. Monika can also try to be the voice of reason to anyone trying to open the box, though she won't be willing to physically stop anyone and may back down if someone is very angrily insistent about it.

gojou can be there to be like "damn, maybe you did need swimming lessons"

Are there any consequences if a character lets the gang members touch the artifact thus letting them get third degree burns/poss dying?

1. What happens to the seal skins once characters are freed from them? Are they reusable at all?

2. If a character isn't rescued by a PC at the end of the event, will an NPC free them from the seal skin?

➥ Jacob Stone

→ Canon: The Librarians
→ Housing: ADI, A3
→ Permissions: HERE

→ Breaking It In - Jake was attacked in the TDM and his arm is very angry with him right now, he will likely be asking salty questions to the NPCs. He might have a bit of an Eye influence going on here trying to pry knowledge out of them.
→ Move the Goalposts - Jake will try to fight them and manage to see who attacked him, and recognize that it looks like the Kelpie that attacked him on the beach. Since he's getting captured I'm handwaving this prompt. *sitcom chimes indicating scene change here*
→ Curveball - Part A. Jake is getting selkified SO MUCH. He's also knowledgeable on legends so he'll be talking to anyone who wants to listen about selkies and kelpies whether they want to actually listen to him or not. Inb4 someone smushes a seal skin in his face to shut him up.

Part B. Under the sea - sort of. Jake will be trying to figure out what's going on and how this works and complaining about how much magic sucks would you like to commiserate with him y/n.

→ Below the Belt - Jake will be trying to get the attention of the people on the boats or work with any of the other selkies to try to get them out of this predicament. He'll try to use morse code to communicate so if anyone knows morse code pls halp

→ Sticky Wicket - This is a very Librarians-esque mission so he'll definitely be up for this as well! Should be simple and easy, he's done this so many times, right? Right?

Etc- Also interested in having Jake start to learn about feeding the Eye and what the cost of using magic here is. He is absolutely adamant about not using magic except sometimes he does it accidentally or finds it necessary to do it in dire situations, so this would be fun to play out.

➥ Archie Jensen

→ Canon: Zombies, Run!
→ Housing: ADI, C-1
→ Permissions: HERE

→ Breaking It In - Archie's mostly going to sit and listen here, but I'm open for having her have discussions with other characters about everything and what they think they should do.
→ Move the Goalposts - I think for now I'm going to keep Archie from actually getting kidnapped, but I'd love for her to be part of an attempt. She's a runner, so she's used to getting away from danger and helping others do that. I'm definitely interested in her helping someone to get away...I'm not sure about having her attempt to save someone and fail, just because I'm almost positive she wouldn't just let someone be kidnapped without like, going along with them. But maybe!! I wouldn't mind making her feel...not great.
→ Curveball - N/A, I think.
→ Below the Belt - Boats are not Archie's favored terrain (she's better on her feet) but I think she'd go along to help out because that's what she does. I have no concrete plans in mind for this though I would love seal...shenanigans?
→ Sticky Wicket - Retrieval mission, you say? ABSOLUTELY up Archie's alley. She...might be tempted to look at/touch the thing though, so it'd be nice if she had a partner who would at least....try to stop her from doing that. I also really want her to try to reason with the gangsters and/or tell them off.

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toji fushiguro | jujutsu kaisen.

wow it auto filled the subject weirdly... editing

satoru gojou | jujutsu kaisen

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goro akechi | persona 5

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Meredith Idlewild

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Monika | Doki Doki Literature Club

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Archie Jensen | Zombies, Run!