CR & PLOTTING: AUGUST

[moustre]

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.

SUBJECT: PLAYER NAME | CHARACTER NAME | WITCH/MONSTER <b>Player Name:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Timezone:</b> <b>Character Name:</B> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Appearance:</B> <B>Brief:</b> <B>Choice:</b> <B>Event Plans:</b> <B>General Plans:</b>

Comments

[tinyfood]

perfect, it can't go wrong

although i mean to be fair

entrapta is well aware that sometimes an experiment goes drastically wrong and you do have to blow up a robot, no matter how cute it is

[hallucinogem]

oh good, entrapta can help em rationalize her bad actions, and i'm not being glib i do actually like that very much

in return for this boon of healthy coping mechanisms, em can clean, except for the things that no doubt entrapta put there on purpose and are supposed to be there

[tinyfood]

the things entrapta put there on purpose and are supposed to be there ARE a bunch of creepy variously-functional automatons, just, so thats out there

[hallucinogem]

oh no trust me i did assume that was the case, there are multiple reasons she will not touch them

[tinyfood]

all of her previous roommate's shit is still around, also. there are several majestic wolf statuettes. entrapta has put little hats on them to make them more relatable

[hallucinogem]

how attached is she to the wolves with tiny hats, because i haven't decided whether em's into them or not and target practice is always a good use of her time

[tinyfood]

ldfkgh i mean. FAIRLY. she misses solas quite a bit

[hallucinogem]

okay, then as long as entrapta makes that clear, em will find other things to use her kusarigama on

if nothing else she understands sentimentality and definitely will not find, like, a lighter or something to get super attached to for similar reasons
(this is possibly an invitation to get entrapta to literally play with fire)

[tinyfood]

what's NOT to like about fire

[hallucinogem]

sometimes it gets snuffed out by the darkness, which in this case is a literal immortal witch, and that's not super great and might lead to some deep-seated terror knowing that you're as replaceable as any other flunky and if you take one step out of line it's curtains and not the gently wafting kind

God do you hate witches.

it's fine everything's fine em loves her evil boss and misses fire

[tinyfood]

i mean, hey,

in entrapta's experience it's possible to bypass flunkydom altogether by being an engaging conversationalist and making a sexy outfit for your sinister boss

just a thought! not sure if em has tried that

[hallucinogem]

she has not, no, and the idea of sexy walking corpse salem rwby actually pierced through the veil of fiction and caused damage to me, directly, so thank you

for that one

the haz.

[tinyfood]

youre welcome!!!!

[hallucinogem]

actually let me see if yak would be into that, she's my bellwether on these things

[tinyfood]

i mean, probably

[hallucinogem]

now that i think about it, i don't think that's what bellwether means

but either way what's the over/under on entrapta stealing em's weapons while she's sleeping and taking them apart piece by piece

[tinyfood]

i mean

i wouldn't rule it out