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Basement Bonanza OOC Plotting!
Hello Aefers! Susan here, and I'm coming to you live with a Player Plot That will be going up This Friday, August 14th! This post will serve as both a run-down on it, an invitation for suggestions/questions, and as a plotting post for anyone who wants to get involved!
So, here's the tidbits!
HEY-EY-EY. I SAID HEY. WHAT'S GOING ON?
For a full year (and likely even before then), the basement of Animal House (Shinjiro, Louis, Fie, Minato, and their myriad of animals) has been sealed up and locked and they haven't bothered to deal with it. The rest of the house has been Weird enough. (This may or may not be one of the reasons Louis publically burned half the furniture back in January.) They've cleared all the hemlock and other varied poisonous plants from the garden and made things liveable.... but that basement, tho.
And so, finally cracking it open, they will be soliciting help from fellow mirrorbound to please come help clean out this basement.
....which wouldn't be a player plot if said basement wasn't cram-packed full of weird, enchanted things.
WHERE DO I STEP IN?
Mirrorbound will be asked in a network post to offer their aid to come out to help clear out the basement and be fed (there will be tons of free food, it's the only way Shinjiro knows how to bribe people). It will be a "show up when you feel like, do as much as you want, and please for the love of god keep whatever you want." FREE STUFF! WHO COULD HATE IT!
However, basically everything in the basement is cursed or enchanted in some way, ranging from the relatively benign to the "you better get a witch to work on that hex asap."
WOW GREAT I'M GONNA DO SOMETHING GAMEBREAKING
ABSOLUTELY NO, FRIENDO! The limits for these magic items are:
-No Mind Control Bullshit
-No Dreamwalking Bullshit
-No Memory Alteration Bullshit
I've also been told that there won't be any hot deets on any main NPCS, so finding a pinup calender of Nessie is a no-go, but there can totally be scandalous details on minor or unnamed NPCs.
SO WHAT CAN I DO?
Really, this will mostly be sandbox style! However, for anyone stymied by indecision, or even just wanting to get something completely random, I will have the top thread in the log set aside for anyone who wants to be randomly assigned a find. This can go many ways! An example that came up while I was running the idea by people:
Yuff: i want elliot to find something musical instrument related. make it funny.
Me: A handcrafted Hurdygurdy, beautiful stained wood, but no matter how the user tries, the only tune that comes out is David Hasselhoff's Hooked on a Feeling (or the Aef equivilent thereof). Also it's a little sticky.
I'll also have a collection of possible finds/interactables noted in the exposition of the log, as well as the ability for people to just make up whatever they want. Do you want something to transmute you painfully and dramatically? That's cool, enjoy your body horror. Like any other transmutation in game it will gradually wear off, OR can be reversed by a skilled witch. Do you want something to make your character horny? Great. You can grow some (temporary) antlers. (Or go get fresh with someone in the corner, just please mark/warn any explicit content and don't make too much of a mess. people live here after all.)
Generally whatever is possible for a witch to learn or cast with magic is possible for an effect. Go crazy go nuts.
Just please don't kill anyone because then I gotta do paperwork for the mods. or like work it out with the mods yourself just DONT MAKE ME DO YOUR PAPERWORK FOR YOU!!!!
THIS IS TOO MUCH TO READ, I'M GONNA ASK A QUESTION IN THE COMMENTS
Go for it. I'll spontaneously make up an answer.
IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU DID (X, Y, Z)
I didn't even think of that! Let me know in the comments, so I can make this mini-event even better for the people who want to play in it!!
ALRIGHT, I'MMA PLOT WITH PEOPLE HERE!
Go ahead! Here's a nifty little form in case you wanna use it!
So, here's the tidbits!
HEY-EY-EY. I SAID HEY. WHAT'S GOING ON?
For a full year (and likely even before then), the basement of Animal House (Shinjiro, Louis, Fie, Minato, and their myriad of animals) has been sealed up and locked and they haven't bothered to deal with it. The rest of the house has been Weird enough. (This may or may not be one of the reasons Louis publically burned half the furniture back in January.) They've cleared all the hemlock and other varied poisonous plants from the garden and made things liveable.... but that basement, tho.
And so, finally cracking it open, they will be soliciting help from fellow mirrorbound to please come help clean out this basement.
....which wouldn't be a player plot if said basement wasn't cram-packed full of weird, enchanted things.
WHERE DO I STEP IN?
Mirrorbound will be asked in a network post to offer their aid to come out to help clear out the basement and be fed (there will be tons of free food, it's the only way Shinjiro knows how to bribe people). It will be a "show up when you feel like, do as much as you want, and please for the love of god keep whatever you want." FREE STUFF! WHO COULD HATE IT!
However, basically everything in the basement is cursed or enchanted in some way, ranging from the relatively benign to the "you better get a witch to work on that hex asap."
WOW GREAT I'M GONNA DO SOMETHING GAMEBREAKING
ABSOLUTELY NO, FRIENDO! The limits for these magic items are:
-No Mind Control Bullshit
-No Dreamwalking Bullshit
-No Memory Alteration Bullshit
I've also been told that there won't be any hot deets on any main NPCS, so finding a pinup calender of Nessie is a no-go, but there can totally be scandalous details on minor or unnamed NPCs.
SO WHAT CAN I DO?
Really, this will mostly be sandbox style! However, for anyone stymied by indecision, or even just wanting to get something completely random, I will have the top thread in the log set aside for anyone who wants to be randomly assigned a find. This can go many ways! An example that came up while I was running the idea by people:
Yuff: i want elliot to find something musical instrument related. make it funny.
Me: A handcrafted Hurdygurdy, beautiful stained wood, but no matter how the user tries, the only tune that comes out is David Hasselhoff's Hooked on a Feeling (or the Aef equivilent thereof). Also it's a little sticky.
I'll also have a collection of possible finds/interactables noted in the exposition of the log, as well as the ability for people to just make up whatever they want. Do you want something to transmute you painfully and dramatically? That's cool, enjoy your body horror. Like any other transmutation in game it will gradually wear off, OR can be reversed by a skilled witch. Do you want something to make your character horny? Great. You can grow some (temporary) antlers. (Or go get fresh with someone in the corner, just please mark/warn any explicit content and don't make too much of a mess. people live here after all.)
Generally whatever is possible for a witch to learn or cast with magic is possible for an effect. Go crazy go nuts.
Just please don't kill anyone because then I gotta do paperwork for the mods. or like work it out with the mods yourself just DONT MAKE ME DO YOUR PAPERWORK FOR YOU!!!!
THIS IS TOO MUCH TO READ, I'M GONNA ASK A QUESTION IN THE COMMENTS
Go for it. I'll spontaneously make up an answer.
IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU DID (X, Y, Z)
I didn't even think of that! Let me know in the comments, so I can make this mini-event even better for the people who want to play in it!!
ALRIGHT, I'MMA PLOT WITH PEOPLE HERE!
Go ahead! Here's a nifty little form in case you wanna use it!