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CR & PLOTTING: AUGUST

While July might've been a little hectic on the real life side of things (show of hands for everyone who's grateful August is here now), in-game, it was a little bit more lowkey. With the weather reaching its peak in summer, a few Witches decided to bring it down a notch - or several, resulting in a fairly snowy month. A last minute snowstorm stirred up at the end, leaving the cold to roll into August's early weeks - mind yourselves, everyone!

The weather aside, the city and its people didn't take too much of a break. The Coven, deciding that a follow up on the cave was necessary, especially with the discovery of a ley-line beneath it, put out a request to help get Smugha Cave into more suitable base order. They were immensely grateful for the help they received, too; not everyone in the Coven is trained to handle what the Wilde can dish out. With the area better secured, they turn their eyes to the next part of their plan to establish a firm foothold in the Wilde: connecting directly to the ley-line, creating an anchor point for teleportation. Amidst this, Nerissa Bell - head of the Coven - called for a bit of a meeting for everyone who could attend, just for everyone to share any information, queries, and so on - if they'd like, or if they could. With those major points out of the way...

Quest: Special Training

As more than a few of you have already noticed, a quest log will be going up on August 9th for some training by the Wilders. While not exactly an event proper, this will be an opportunity for characters to head into the deeper part of the Wilde in a similar fashion to the last one in June for the exploration of Smugha Cave. We won't spoil too many details for all of you, but just like the last one, it might have some connection to a place in the last dream everyone got to have - that is, July's TDM. Sign-ups are on-going and open to everyone, so if it piques your interest now or when the log goes up, feel free to toss your character up there!

Event: The Black City

Speaking of shared dreams: no points for guessing what our next event log is. Like clockwork, characters will fall asleep on the night of the 16th regardless of if they can truly sleep or need to - and awaken in a dream. They'll find themselves within a city not unlike Aefenglom in structure, but with a major difference: there aren't any Monsters walking freely. Instead, they're leashed and collared, heads lowered in submission - and those who have Monster traits coming in will find they're under the same curse as these ones: they have to obey every order that comes from a Witch's mouth, whether it's a joke or not. Attempting to fight it will give them pain, nausea, and other adverse effects in increasing intensity until they give in, or until the Witch lifts their order.

And just like in the last shared dream, as well as the TDMs, a character's rate of transformation and the number of spells/how powerful they are can be played with - it is a dream, after all!

Forms

With all that out of the way, here is your CR/Plotting form!

Player Name: Your name, handle, whatever you'd like!
Pronouns: Your preferred pronouns.
Contact: Preferred method of contact - discord, plurk, twitter, PM, ye olde MSN messenger, etc.
Timezone: Where are you in the world?

Character Name: Name & username!
Canon: Exactly as it says.
Appearance: Link an image or describe your character; if there's anything notable about them at first meeting, put it here!
Brief: A few words to sum up your character, a couple of lines to tell what they're about, whatever you'd like. If you have an info post all ready to go, feel free to link it in addition to your summary!
Choice: Witch or Monster; and for the latter, which one?
Event Plans: Anything specific to this month's event!
General Plans: Any other plans you have for the month! Don't forget to check out the Quest Board, too.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Player Name: Sam
Pronouns: She/her
Contact:

blueraven, BeePuns#8410
Timezone: EST

Character Name: Kaede
Canon: Elfen Lied
Appearance: In addition to her natural pink hair and red eyes, a list of her current changes is here! tl;dr she's super obviously a Monster. This is more of a problem than usual this month.
Brief: The first of a mutant human subspecies, now an overtly inhuman looking Chimera, Kaede's a bit...volatile. She's calmed down from her murderous rage significantly to Tired status, but she still has her snappish and unfriendly moments. There's a soft center under the prickles, but it's easier to see when (she thinks) she's alone or when she's petting an animal.
Choice: Chimera
Event Plans:
Special Training - Kaede's finally leaving the quest hub for more than a few beginner quests this time! She's already going on the Surveillance quest and the Wilder Recruitment for this month, but I'm still open to her doing this as well!

The Black City - Thanks! Kaede hates it! The novelty of seeing people again in the dream will last about five seconds until Kaede resists the first order given to her, and the second and onwards until she physically can't stand anymore or lashes out, whichever comes first. Probably the violent option. Kaede will stubbornly resist orders she doesn't like or are actually malicious, and is fully capable of seriously injuring someone in the dream and will probably get herself stuck in a public shaming cage or similar. Otherwise she'll probably be one of the dictionary definitions of malicious noncompliance.

She has a 50/50 chance of following neutral or innocuous orders, though, and if she actually likes the Witch in question she'll also probably listen. I'm willing to play out more lighthearted things too! Kaede's just even crankier than usual.

General Plans: I don't have anything major planned for Lunasa or similar SoL things for this month! Kaede's regularly traveling between Bad Decisions Mansion and Ursula's apartment, and so is more likely to be out and about in the city for random encounters. I also want to get her one of the arachne silk garments for purely selfish irony reasons, haha.

I'm also open to her doing other out of the city things, especially now that she has a Bond and is less likely to go bonkers because of it.

CR & PLOTTING: AUGUST

Sam (a different one) | Kaede | Monster (Chimera)