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Event OOC - All In Your Head
All In Your Head - 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!
➥ Night's Embrace: 16-18 March
➥ Illuminating: 19-23 March
➥ Walking Hell: 22-28 March
➥ Dunn With This: 29-31 March
➥ Night's Embrace
(cw: supernaturally-induced hysteria/intense emotion; violence; maiming; assault; burglary; murder; implied violence against children)
Serious criminal activity is on the rise around town as the shadow woman continues her campaign against the ordinary citizens of Gloucester. Her touch has induced vandalism, assault, and even murderous activities amongs the general populace. And then the lights go out. On the 16th, Jeff's fool-hardy assistance will result in a town-wide blackout that only magnifies the shadow woman's powers, granting her the ability to access ADI and wreak havoc within HQ and the Housing complex. No shadow is safe. Stay in the light... and have a good flashlight with you because it's the only thing that seems to stop the shadow woman coming.
➥ Illuminating
(cw: derogatory language; mention of long-term imprisonment and murder attempts)
Nia Lehrer, Warden of ADI, returns from a trip to refocus everyone and provide an explanation about who actually escaped from ADI's holding cells last month. It is Katie Dunn, a highly dangerous avatar for the Dark. Nia's here to provide whatever answers people are looking for and to get people working to thwart Katie's chaos throughout the town with her blackouts and her touch of madness. This means tapping Administration and Public Relations folks to requisition generators to stop the blackouts from actually causing serious problems and spinning up stories to provide rational explanations for the blackout. If your character is particularly creative, now is their time to shine! Players can provide their 'stories' for why the blackouts and increased crime are happening in the QUESTIONS section below, and we'll be incorporating those into our Headline News items next week. There will also be roles for anyone seeking to help with delivery of supplies and generally patrol the town setting up extra lights everywhere they can.
Characters staying in ADI Housing or ADI HQ may begin to notice that the direct attacks on these buildings have almost completely stopped following the all-hands meeting. Those at Bonnie's Flophouse will still be in danger from the shadow woman–Katie Dunn–running around town, though.
➥ Walking Hell
(cw: altered mental state, hallucinations)
In response to ADI's efforts to depower her, Katie lashes out by trapping all PCs, as well as non-native ADI NPCs (and a handful of native NPCs), in a landscape of waking nightmares that fall upon them intermittently whenever they are outside ADI headquarters or housing. They will be awake, although they might not realize they are awake, and characters can wander (or blunder) through more than one nightmare situation as they physically move through the town. The nightmares can last for any amount of time (including days). Anyone not experiencing the nightmare (including other PCs) will not be able to see what the character is reacting to or see any sort of wounds they suffer while stuck in the nightmare. Two characters in the same place who are both stuck in the nightmare will see the same thing (and there is a lot of player freedom to decide what the nightmare patches consist of.).
➥ Dunn With This
(cw: attempted capture and imprisonment; violence)
Characters with field or combat experience are requested to help as ADI goes on the offensive to attempt to recapture Katie Dunn in the absence of a known method of killing her. As Katie is capable of splitting herself into multiple shades, it will take a coordinated effort to catch all of the iterations of the shadow woman now wreaking havoc in the city. The standard plan handed down from above is for one or more characters to act as bait and lure her into a trap. However, as this is the method by which she was originally captured by ADI, fears abound that she may see through the traps. Characters are therefore welcome to engineer their own alternate methods for dealing with Katie. Alternate tactics that require NPC support may be submitted to the QUESTIONS section below for review. Encounters with Katie will be played out with NPC replies.
Please note that the outcome of all encounters with Katie must be decided by March 31, as the outcome of this event will impact the April TDM. If threads have not reached their natural conclusion by that date, players will be asked to decide OOCly on the outcome (and are welcome to continue to tag to reach that conclusion ICly).
A Handy Plotting Form
➥ Night's Embrace: 16-18 March
➥ Illuminating: 19-23 March
➥ Walking Hell: 22-28 March
➥ Dunn With This: 29-31 March
➥ Night's Embrace
(cw: supernaturally-induced hysteria/intense emotion; violence; maiming; assault; burglary; murder; implied violence against children)
Serious criminal activity is on the rise around town as the shadow woman continues her campaign against the ordinary citizens of Gloucester. Her touch has induced vandalism, assault, and even murderous activities amongs the general populace. And then the lights go out. On the 16th, Jeff's fool-hardy assistance will result in a town-wide blackout that only magnifies the shadow woman's powers, granting her the ability to access ADI and wreak havoc within HQ and the Housing complex. No shadow is safe. Stay in the light... and have a good flashlight with you because it's the only thing that seems to stop the shadow woman coming.
➥ Illuminating
(cw: derogatory language; mention of long-term imprisonment and murder attempts)
Nia Lehrer, Warden of ADI, returns from a trip to refocus everyone and provide an explanation about who actually escaped from ADI's holding cells last month. It is Katie Dunn, a highly dangerous avatar for the Dark. Nia's here to provide whatever answers people are looking for and to get people working to thwart Katie's chaos throughout the town with her blackouts and her touch of madness. This means tapping Administration and Public Relations folks to requisition generators to stop the blackouts from actually causing serious problems and spinning up stories to provide rational explanations for the blackout. If your character is particularly creative, now is their time to shine! Players can provide their 'stories' for why the blackouts and increased crime are happening in the QUESTIONS section below, and we'll be incorporating those into our Headline News items next week. There will also be roles for anyone seeking to help with delivery of supplies and generally patrol the town setting up extra lights everywhere they can.
Characters staying in ADI Housing or ADI HQ may begin to notice that the direct attacks on these buildings have almost completely stopped following the all-hands meeting. Those at Bonnie's Flophouse will still be in danger from the shadow woman–Katie Dunn–running around town, though.
➥ Walking Hell
(cw: altered mental state, hallucinations)
In response to ADI's efforts to depower her, Katie lashes out by trapping all PCs, as well as non-native ADI NPCs (and a handful of native NPCs), in a landscape of waking nightmares that fall upon them intermittently whenever they are outside ADI headquarters or housing. They will be awake, although they might not realize they are awake, and characters can wander (or blunder) through more than one nightmare situation as they physically move through the town. The nightmares can last for any amount of time (including days). Anyone not experiencing the nightmare (including other PCs) will not be able to see what the character is reacting to or see any sort of wounds they suffer while stuck in the nightmare. Two characters in the same place who are both stuck in the nightmare will see the same thing (and there is a lot of player freedom to decide what the nightmare patches consist of.).
➥ Dunn With This
(cw: attempted capture and imprisonment; violence)
Characters with field or combat experience are requested to help as ADI goes on the offensive to attempt to recapture Katie Dunn in the absence of a known method of killing her. As Katie is capable of splitting herself into multiple shades, it will take a coordinated effort to catch all of the iterations of the shadow woman now wreaking havoc in the city. The standard plan handed down from above is for one or more characters to act as bait and lure her into a trap. However, as this is the method by which she was originally captured by ADI, fears abound that she may see through the traps. Characters are therefore welcome to engineer their own alternate methods for dealing with Katie. Alternate tactics that require NPC support may be submitted to the QUESTIONS section below for review. Encounters with Katie will be played out with NPC replies.
Please note that the outcome of all encounters with Katie must be decided by March 31, as the outcome of this event will impact the April TDM. If threads have not reached their natural conclusion by that date, players will be asked to decide OOCly on the outcome (and are welcome to continue to tag to reach that conclusion ICly).
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→ Housing: Bonnie's, sometimes
→ What ADI Department(s) Does the Character Work In?: None! He finally wandered away from the ADI fully after last month's event.
→ Permissions: HERE
→ NIGHT'S EMBRACE: Oops, Jeff caused a blackout. MY BAD, GUYS. He's super sorry. I do have a prompt of him being suspicious and luring people out to dark places in his latest log, so while the actual blackout is set in stone for event purposes, characters are absolutely welcome to connect the dots and realize he played a role in this chaos. (Or, if they want to participate in the chaos, they're welcome to get suckered by him and attacked by the shadow woman.)
Unfortunately, though, he'll be otherwise indisposed after triggering the blackout, due to dying.
→ ILLUMINATING: n/a i don't think avatars are invited to this party :(
→ WALKING HELL: I need to see if embracing the power of delusion and becoming an avatar of the Spiral would have any effect on the waking nightmares, where Jeff's concerned. IF SO: he will be out and about and alternatively helpful or making things worse, depending on... idk how much he likes you, I guess.
→ DUNN WITH THIS: Good news: dying and being reborn has given him a change in perspective, and he's not eager to help Katie anymore! Bad news: he still hates the ADI. But as an avatar, Jeff's got some shiny new powers that might help, and he could be convinced to assist in taking her out, because he's at a crossroads of "do I use my eldritch horror powers to wreak havoc on the world, or do I use them
to take out the competitionfor some nominal good?" Living that chaotic neutral life.ANYWAY tldr i have no firm ideas beyond "Jeff caused a blackout and died lmao" but i'm open to anything
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THESE ARE GOOD QUESTIONS THAT I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER TO YET gotta brainstorm
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He won't look different (though he is going to have a scar) but his reflection will be warped in that it will always have a different expression than the one he's currently wearing. The same goes for pictures (I think with video, though, he'll look normal most of the time, but it can occasionally glitch with the wrong expression)
Nobody will be around for his death, BUT he will have a new scar from it (and it may bleed through in the nightmares), and his total change in demeanor will also help people put two and two together.