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July Event Plotting Post
JULY 2022 PLOTTING POST
CODING
Please use this post to plot with other players and keep track of your plans for this month's event! You can ask specific questions about the event down below. If you are ever waiting on a question, please feel free to reach out to Simcha directly.
This post will be updated with the Live Event once it is posted. Plotting posts are always made on the 5th and events always go live on the 8th.
For this event in particular, please remember that there are safe havens from corruption and darkness, both player run (The Sanctuary, Sakura's Mental Health Clinic, etc.) and in the locations map. These will function throughout the plot.
This post will be updated with the Live Event once it is posted. Plotting posts are always made on the 5th and events always go live on the 8th.
For this event in particular, please remember that there are safe havens from corruption and darkness, both player run (The Sanctuary, Sakura's Mental Health Clinic, etc.) and in the locations map. These will function throughout the plot.
[NAVIGATION]
Prompt 1 • Prompt 2 • Prompt 3
Plotting Form • Event Questions • Live Event • Monthly Newsletter
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GOOD AND EVIL
Prompt 1 • Prompt 2 • Prompt 3
Plotting Form • Event Questions • Live Event • Monthly Newsletter
CONTENT WARNINGS: Violence, revenge, possible torture, possible death, mental manipulation
An excerpt from the book Thus Comes the Reckoning:
Sleepers will also feel violently protective of those they love. They will want to make sure that the violent crimes happening to other people doesn't happen to their people and they might go to such extremes as locking their loved ones up so that nothing can get to them. It's an obsessive need to protect and not let go. Someone might even feel so inclined as to kill their friends just to make sure that no one else can hurt them.
On the flip side, those who manage to resist the violent urges will be more inclined to help those who are violent. Even if you are someone who has never wanted to help another person, you will be drawn to do good. It's not impossible to talk others down, to sway them to being better people and to remembering who they are. It's just a lot of work. But still, those who are impacted by the good will feel that same need to protect others; only for them, it doesn't have to necessarily be someone they know. They want to do the right thing, to protect people from themselves. Unlike the evil, they will know their are limits, and they will not hurt others in their attempt to protect them. But they may end up being willing to, possibly uncharacteristically, sacrifice themselves to do so.
QUICK FACTS: 1. You can only be impacted by The Good or The Evil at one time. Someone who is Good can be corrupted into becoming Evil. If someone is talked down from being Evil, they can either go back to being their normal selves, or they can become impacted by The Good instead. This can happen as many times in the month as possible, but they can only be Good or Evil at one time. You can not be both at once.
2. Characters who can usually heal demons/possessions/etc. can cure Evil in people. Their powers will work the same as they would in their canon/from their blood powers. Game based items that would normally cure corruption however will NOT work to cure Evil. They will still work to cure corruption/beasthood.
3. The Reckoning can still punish you. Just because you're being influenced by outside forces won't matter to her. If she catches you doing something bad and it isn't for revenge purposes, she will punish you as she sees fit. This is left up to player interpretation.
FORTUNE'S FOOL
An excerpt from the book Thus Comes the Reckoning:
Are we inherently good or evil? Are we hard-wired for empathy? Or is violent behavior our innate reaction when the world has done us wrong? This is something that has been debated for centuries, even in the times Before Sodder. Have we evolved since the Dreamless World? Since the Nightmare? Have the Pthumerians and their blessings made us more peaceful and understanding?Sleepers will find themselves encouraged towards violence. Many will be drawn to do evil. They will feel a pull to hurt others, particularly those who have hurt them first. Anger will seem like a natural state and many will find that they have lost all ability to reason when they become even minorly frustrated. Vigilante justice will seem like a great idea. Did someone hurt your loved one? Then tear them apart! Did a person borrow something from you and never return it? End them. Criminal activity will skyrocket, particularly violent criminal activity, throughout the month of July. People will feel more inclined to steal, to damage property, to kill, and to get revenge. Torturing others will seem like a perfectly reasonable idea. It is the month to do so and it might even feel good to hurt other people.
While it is true that our world is more generous and caring than the ones we have read about in the Dreamless World, where in spite of our shortages, we want for nothing that we truly need, the very existence of corruption and beasthood should speak of our true natures and of the true natures of Sleepers. There is no time that this is more prominent in our world than in the month of July, when the Reckoning holds sway.
It is unclear if it is the unbearable heat, the Pthumerian's influence, or perhaps just our true selves coming forth, but each July is the prelude to chaos. The pleasantries die off, the generosity wanes, and we forget the lessons of our more kind and gentle benefactors. Fist fights over minor disagreements, people attacking one another with weapons when they don't get their way or wait too long in line, and murders over the loss of a game. Does the summer make monsters of us all? Or does the Beast Moon simply encourage what is already inside of us?
Sleepers will also feel violently protective of those they love. They will want to make sure that the violent crimes happening to other people doesn't happen to their people and they might go to such extremes as locking their loved ones up so that nothing can get to them. It's an obsessive need to protect and not let go. Someone might even feel so inclined as to kill their friends just to make sure that no one else can hurt them.
On the flip side, those who manage to resist the violent urges will be more inclined to help those who are violent. Even if you are someone who has never wanted to help another person, you will be drawn to do good. It's not impossible to talk others down, to sway them to being better people and to remembering who they are. It's just a lot of work. But still, those who are impacted by the good will feel that same need to protect others; only for them, it doesn't have to necessarily be someone they know. They want to do the right thing, to protect people from themselves. Unlike the evil, they will know their are limits, and they will not hurt others in their attempt to protect them. But they may end up being willing to, possibly uncharacteristically, sacrifice themselves to do so.
QUICK FACTS: 1. You can only be impacted by The Good or The Evil at one time. Someone who is Good can be corrupted into becoming Evil. If someone is talked down from being Evil, they can either go back to being their normal selves, or they can become impacted by The Good instead. This can happen as many times in the month as possible, but they can only be Good or Evil at one time. You can not be both at once.
2. Characters who can usually heal demons/possessions/etc. can cure Evil in people. Their powers will work the same as they would in their canon/from their blood powers. Game based items that would normally cure corruption however will NOT work to cure Evil. They will still work to cure corruption/beasthood.
3. The Reckoning can still punish you. Just because you're being influenced by outside forces won't matter to her. If she catches you doing something bad and it isn't for revenge purposes, she will punish you as she sees fit. This is left up to player interpretation.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Star-Crossed lovers, encouraged suicidal ideation, possible death
Love. A complicated feeling that puts people into complicated circumstances. And yet, people will find themselves focused on this emotion more so than usual this month. For someone who is already in love, the emotions will become even stronger, almost overwhelming, wanting to burst out of them like a song. For those who were not in love before, they may find themselves suddenly easily falling for others. Maybe they will love multiple people or maybe just one, but love will be an all consuming emotion to those who fall victim to it.
The only problem is that love isn't always accepted. People who are deeply in love will suddenly start to feel persecuted and judged from those around them. They will feel as though their love is unallowed, that the person that means the most to them is being rejected by their family, their friends, by society itself. It doesn't matter if that's the truth: there's just something inside of people that makes them thoroughly convinced that their love is not meant to be. Star-Crossed. Unattainable.
There will be an increased urge to solidify that love as being real and unbreakable. Maybe this is done through fighting back against those who are saying no. Maybe it comes in the form of secretly saying vows and loved ones spiritually tying themselves together forever. Or maybe in the end, the only true way that lovers feel they can truly be together... is in death. All of these will seem like reasonable options— or maybe even the only option. Love is never ending, after all, even if life is.
QUICK FACTS: 1. Anyone can fall in love with anyone else. It doesn't have to be the character that you're already shipping with if all players agree! You can fall in love with someone you know, someone you've just met, or even a total stranger. Love is a gift to everyone, right??? Who needs pesky things like introductions.
2. You do not have to commit suicide. You can, of course, and many will definitely feel drawn to it with the basis of the prompt, but it is not required. Please make sure to mark all threads accordingly!
3. The persecution against your relationship does not have to be real. You can, however, tie this into the first prompt, and have even the smallest slights be reason to think that your love is persecuted. Similarly, people who are impacted by the first prompt may be more likely to actually shun those who are in love. Feel free to work with it however you see fit!
OUR OWN PRISONS
Love. A complicated feeling that puts people into complicated circumstances. And yet, people will find themselves focused on this emotion more so than usual this month. For someone who is already in love, the emotions will become even stronger, almost overwhelming, wanting to burst out of them like a song. For those who were not in love before, they may find themselves suddenly easily falling for others. Maybe they will love multiple people or maybe just one, but love will be an all consuming emotion to those who fall victim to it.
The only problem is that love isn't always accepted. People who are deeply in love will suddenly start to feel persecuted and judged from those around them. They will feel as though their love is unallowed, that the person that means the most to them is being rejected by their family, their friends, by society itself. It doesn't matter if that's the truth: there's just something inside of people that makes them thoroughly convinced that their love is not meant to be. Star-Crossed. Unattainable.
There will be an increased urge to solidify that love as being real and unbreakable. Maybe this is done through fighting back against those who are saying no. Maybe it comes in the form of secretly saying vows and loved ones spiritually tying themselves together forever. Or maybe in the end, the only true way that lovers feel they can truly be together... is in death. All of these will seem like reasonable options— or maybe even the only option. Love is never ending, after all, even if life is.
QUICK FACTS: 1. Anyone can fall in love with anyone else. It doesn't have to be the character that you're already shipping with if all players agree! You can fall in love with someone you know, someone you've just met, or even a total stranger. Love is a gift to everyone, right??? Who needs pesky things like introductions.
2. You do not have to commit suicide. You can, of course, and many will definitely feel drawn to it with the basis of the prompt, but it is not required. Please make sure to mark all threads accordingly!
3. The persecution against your relationship does not have to be real. You can, however, tie this into the first prompt, and have even the smallest slights be reason to think that your love is persecuted. Similarly, people who are impacted by the first prompt may be more likely to actually shun those who are in love. Feel free to work with it however you see fit!
CONTENT WARNINGS: Self-hatred, judgement, suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, possible drowning.
Everyone has personal flaws. Things about themselves they don't like, reactions they wish they didn't have, habits that they want to break. Sometimes the awareness of flaws can outweigh the awareness of our strengths as well. It's easy to get caught up in the feeling that we're less then perfect, that we'll never be able to fix ourselves no matter what we do.
This month, those feelings seem to be amplified. Sleepers will see flaws everywhere; in the people they love, in the Trenchies, and most heavily in themselves. Feelings of self-hatred and judgement will be amplified and even those who are usually confident in themselves will find that they're suffering from it. Sometimes these feelings may manifest as a simple bout of anger and depression; but for others, it can become more severe quickly.
Those who find themselves suffering heaviest from these feelings will feel called to the ocean. Maybe it's a desire to go back to a squid form, a place that's simpler and more straight forward. Or maybe it's the unbearable heat that's putting these thoughts in someone's head and they'll feel like going for a swim would cure it. But there's something inside everyone that knows that if they go into the ocean, they might not come back out again.
Sleepers will feel like the ultimate judgement is waiting for them out there. If they are seeing flaws more in themselves, being by the ocean will amplify feelings of suicide. If they're seeing flaws in everyone else, they might feel compelled to bring those people down to the ocean to drown them. The ocean, associated so heavily with rebirth, could be the very thing to cleanse people of their imperfections, after all. Maybe it would be a favor to everyone if someone just gave in and tried to fix themselves and others. For the good of Trench.
QUICK FACTS: 1. These feelings can cause people to become more corrupt. The longer they are exposed to these feelings, the closer they will get to high levels of corruption, and eventual beasthood.
2. Because these feelings can cause corruption, they can also be relieved through the same methods as corruption. Talking, touching, Moon Drops, get some therapy, whatever the player chooses.
3. People who do not address their feelings and/or who spend too much time by the ocean will inevitably deal with feelings of suicide and/or homicide. Please be sure to handle these topics appropriately and content warn your threads.
PLOTTING FORM
Everyone has personal flaws. Things about themselves they don't like, reactions they wish they didn't have, habits that they want to break. Sometimes the awareness of flaws can outweigh the awareness of our strengths as well. It's easy to get caught up in the feeling that we're less then perfect, that we'll never be able to fix ourselves no matter what we do.
This month, those feelings seem to be amplified. Sleepers will see flaws everywhere; in the people they love, in the Trenchies, and most heavily in themselves. Feelings of self-hatred and judgement will be amplified and even those who are usually confident in themselves will find that they're suffering from it. Sometimes these feelings may manifest as a simple bout of anger and depression; but for others, it can become more severe quickly.
Those who find themselves suffering heaviest from these feelings will feel called to the ocean. Maybe it's a desire to go back to a squid form, a place that's simpler and more straight forward. Or maybe it's the unbearable heat that's putting these thoughts in someone's head and they'll feel like going for a swim would cure it. But there's something inside everyone that knows that if they go into the ocean, they might not come back out again.
Sleepers will feel like the ultimate judgement is waiting for them out there. If they are seeing flaws more in themselves, being by the ocean will amplify feelings of suicide. If they're seeing flaws in everyone else, they might feel compelled to bring those people down to the ocean to drown them. The ocean, associated so heavily with rebirth, could be the very thing to cleanse people of their imperfections, after all. Maybe it would be a favor to everyone if someone just gave in and tried to fix themselves and others. For the good of Trench.
QUICK FACTS: 1. These feelings can cause people to become more corrupt. The longer they are exposed to these feelings, the closer they will get to high levels of corruption, and eventual beasthood.
2. Because these feelings can cause corruption, they can also be relieved through the same methods as corruption. Talking, touching, Moon Drops, get some therapy, whatever the player chooses.
3. People who do not address their feelings and/or who spend too much time by the ocean will inevitably deal with feelings of suicide and/or homicide. Please be sure to handle these topics appropriately and content warn your threads.
Feel free to use the following form as a general guidance for your ideas for this month's event. Tag around for new CR, build off old CR, or use this as a way of organizing your thoughts and plans.
kari (himiko toga, satoko hojo)
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact:
Monthly Pacing: I might be a little slow this month - I'm still catching up with some stuff, and I'm dealing with interviewing a *lot* of people for work. Still excited to tag though!
OOC Limits: Dental trauma is one of my only hard limits. Noooo thank you.
Opting-Out Prompts: I'll actually be playing with all of the prompts!
HIMIKO TOGA
Character Blood Type: Paleblood
Character Role: Still unemployed, but leaning towards blood ministration ICly! OOCly, I'm going to be driving her towards becoming a Night Walker, and this event is going to be a huge factor in that!
What CR you would like to develop for this event: Oh, boy. I'd love for Himiko to have a way to play hero for a few people - especially in a way that doesn't completely backfire on her! As stupid as it sounds, she's had an absolutely miserable few months (with a few notable exceptions), and being able to tangibly help would do a lot to keep her moving forward.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Absolutely open!
What CR you want to avoid this event: I'd rather Himiko not die unless she saves someone else in the process. Past that... She's already on the bad side of a decent few people, so while I'm not entirely against it I'd rather her make fewer enemies throughout the event if possible!
Timeline/Event Ideas: Himiko is going to be possessed by the Good as soon as the event hits! (Well, technically, she's going to be hit by the Evil on event onset, but she's so used to those thoughts and how to redirect them productively that she'll just be shifting pretty much immediately.) As a result, she's going to be trying to act like a hero the whole time, even more than usual - making rounds around the city, checking the beach to make sure people aren't being drawn in, and trying to interfere with situations that might lead to people being hurt.
She'll also being trying to connect with people that are giving in to the Evil, since she's someone who understands the urges and feelings way too well already. If you want a hero with a knife and creepy eyes to try and reason your character down - or to fight to a standstill and then try, shounen manga style - Himiko's your gal!
Himiko's Love is also going to be present and accounted for. She's going to be feeling a lot more affectionate than usual, which is... really saying something. Castmates, roommates, and anyone who's remotely her type are probably going to be on her radar. And as anyone canon-familiar can attest, Himiko's entirely too familiar with her love being seen as something disgusting. Given her possession by The Good, that's going to make her imposing on people fairly difficult.
So, to manage that, she's going to be taking the L and assuming that all of her crushes, her love, and her obsessions are unrequited! In some cases, like with her actual partners, it'll probably be worked out pretty quickly, at which point she'll... Probably lavish them with lovebites, sob around them for a while, and maybe suggest bloodbonds because she likes moving fast. In most cases, it just means Himiko will be more obviously over the moon for your character. And if you're interested in having your character fall in love with Himiko... Well, she'll probably still harbor a flame for them even after the event. She's just. Kind of like that.
FINALLY, I'm mildly interested in the beach prompt for her - but only in the case of her stopping people from going in, and potentially someone stopping her as the month progresses. As debilitating as the feelings around it might be, it'd do her a lot of good to know that someone would rather not see her vanish!
Re: HIMIKO TOGA
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But to the former, let's go big crush! Luz has a girlfriend now, so this should be a pretty interesting situation!
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ALSO WHO IS LUZ DATING THIS IS EXCITING NEWS!!!
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It's Lexi Howard from Euphoria, the owner of the Satellite of Love Used books and comic books store! Last month the two of them just started talking a LOT and found out they were both dorks from their school who thought the other was super attractive and nice!
Of course, now begins their relationship IN Trench, which will be interesting.
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would D be interested in sharing some blood snacks as well? himiko's all for sharing!
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Also D is going to be bitey this month.
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maybe she can come upon Dito being... Dito (unlike Himiko, he's not gonna know that being possessed by the Evil isn't business as usual) and try to stop him or something. Bro needs to learn that there's a time and a place for wanton murder, and who better to teach him than a fellow murderer?
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maybe Dito can try to corrupt her back to her Evil side or something, he's good at that
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though honestly dito trying to corrupt her sounds like a lot of fun? it wouldn't work, exactly, but it'd lead to fun conversations at the very least!! he can learn more about the weirdo that insists on being a hero even when her defining character trait is "i like drinking blood and seeing people in pain" LMFDSHF
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LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY
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(do you have a toplevel i can throw her into)
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(not yet, but I'll probably toss one up this weekend!)
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(works for me! i'm trying to catch up on old tags and do tagouts so i'm still trying to decide if i want to throw my own toplevel up)
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"what about that boy"
"that's dito and we don't talk about him right now"
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SATOKO HOJO, cw: suicide, murder, looping
Character Blood Type: Darkblood
Character Role: Arcane Scholar, ironically enough
What CR you would like to develop for this event: Given the path Satoko's headed down in this event, it's probably best for any new CR to be negative or neutral. Most of what she's doing is going to be, uh. Pretty bad!
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Y, but only for the beach prompt. I mean, if you really want to be involved in the first two, you can?? I'm definitely around for helping people's characters suffer. It's just not gonna be a good time for anyone.
What CR you want to avoid this event: People successfully reasoning with Satoko or calming her down. That's for after things go to hell.
Timeline/Event Ideas: OHHHHH BOY, HERE WE GO
So basically, Satoko is being possessed by The Evil - and specifically the possessive, "hide your friends" type Evil. This is a very bad impulse to give to someone who can loop and rewind time at will! As a result, Satoko is going to be systematically tracking down her closest CR and, uh. Throwing them into a basement to make sure they don't get caught up in this nonsense. This is, as you might expect, going to go poorly for literally everyone involved! She's probably got less than twenty-four hours (Trench time, not looper time) from her first kidnapping to Chara kicking down her door and starting the murder-suicide loop. What murder-suicide loop, you ask? I'm glad you're wondering!
In Higurashi, there's an odd condition on Satoko's loops: the more she loops, dying and letting others die around her, the more those closest to her start to remember those loops. As her way of proving her love, and the love others have for her, she's going to rapid-fire kill the targets of her affection, then herself.
And then she'll do that over-
and over-
and over-
and over-
until her CR can start to remember parts of it. This is probably going to get intervened with in a number of chaotic ways, and I'm not even going to try and write down just how bad that clusterfuck's going to get!
Finally, when all that's worked out, Satoko's going to grab the gun in her room and head to the beach. If you want your character to get judged for the absolute pettiest of reasons before a blonde teen tries to shoot them, this is your golden opportunity! I'm fine with people escaping; even though she can rewind time, she's going to be corrupting pretty heavily and not thinking straight by this point.