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Deer Country Mod ([personal profile] reddosmod) wrote in [community profile] countryclub2022-07-05 11:41 pm
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July Event Plotting Post

JULY 2022 PLOTTING POST
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.

GOOD AND EVIL
CONTENT WARNINGS: Violence, revenge, possible torture, possible death, mental manipulation

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?

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 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.

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
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
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
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.

CODING
grice: (pic#14266532)

owlie and the bird boys (falco grice & shoyo hinata)

[personal profile] grice 2022-07-06 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: owlie!
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact: [plurk.com profile] liberos or owlie#3609 or pm!
Monthly Pacing: i'll be pretty on top of things since this will be my vacation month and i'll be at home alone a lot more than not. i'd like to take advantage of the opportunity to tag back and forth at a conveniently quick pace!
OOC Limits: i'm not looking for romance at the moment! falco is a bit too young and still a big huge lovebird at his crush from back home (in my hopes to one day summon a gabi app with my prayers and tears), while shoyo has a boyfriend!
Opting-Out Prompts: i'll put this down in the individual character comments, but in summary: i am not going to be playing with suicide ideation with any of my birds directly, but i'd be cool if i were to tag a character under that spell!
grice: (pic#15776416)

falco grice | aot + craus

[personal profile] grice 2022-07-06 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Character Name: falco grice
Character Blood Type: vileblood
Character Role: blood ministry; he has an interest to enroll in the school of mutter soon! just not this month. continue for reasoning—

What CR you would like to develop for this event: h/c with those involved in boatgate, new cr that wouldn't mind being around an actual bird giant (he'll be pretty lonely in that cave!), negative cr??? new cr is an extra plus. i'm here for it.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: yes! definitely yes!
What CR you want to avoid this event: n/a that is blasphemy

Timeline/Event Ideas: so, rough timeline:
• falco is available as a normal boy until the 5th!
• falco goes after beast!anna after being mildly aware of boatgate plot through her group threat. he dies trying to talk her out of it on the 6th.
• i'm flexible with dates so possibly anywhere between the 7th-8th falco will reincarnate wrong; he will be stuck in the last vessel he was in for the rest of july, being: his winged flesh mecha!
• falco will not be available around his usual hangouts in trench for the rest of july! he is nearly ten meters tall! doubled with trenchie violence being high esp toward vilebloods, that he can't fly safely and he looks suspiciously lethal, he will try his best to stay away. ultimately, this leaves him without means of communication, so cr that may notice he's actually missing is free to ask, look around or even find him in their efforts! he's really hungry and probably needs to be fed trucks of food to feel a pound satisfied :'(
• as mentioned above, he can be found cooped up in the rocks/farthest shore caves and passing the time digging up rocks and fossils. characters can grab what they find, and make up awesome dead creature parts to be found in the fossils!
• also sometime mid-july, he will be approached by illarion to help fly a group out to sea to soothe mariana. interest check for that here!
• depending on how his own appeasement to the sky pthumerians work out, falco can probably be seen flying more closer to the end of july! i don't know what to do with this but if there's.... interest??? in flying??? idk it's here, you can birdsight too.
• as for event effects i'll be implementing the good and evil prompt into interactions with falco this month, mainly good! hilariously....... i've already done it without meaning to.......... lol
• nnnnnow this is more a mental note for end of july/beginning of august, but how things will go after the power warp ceases: either falco will have to die again to be returned to his normal body or he will need to be cut out of his titan. options involve mercy killing for the latter (the quick, no pain option), major body horror for the former (the painful, ugly but no-death option) since human bodies end up fused with the titan vessel if they're in there for too long, so he's just gonna be melted meat all over the place until he regenerates properly. just sticking my feelers out there for interest since he's going to need help with it one way or another, but i have all month so there's no rush! preference for established cr, but if it fits dang well with new cr, why not!


i have a catch-all for him this month, where i will gladly update with tdm prompts if anything strikes me + personalized tls for any plotting that strays from the starters i already have!
Edited 2022-07-06 19:52 (UTC)
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[personal profile] terriblepurpose 2022-07-06 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Paul is extremely pro Falco not dying again, due to his fear of Falco not returning from the sea. We already have the first remeeting planned, and there's the ferrying out to the sea, but if it suits your fancy I'm wondering about:

Hawk House bonding exercise - we carve up a real big chicken
grice: (pic#14266581)

[personal profile] grice 2022-07-07 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
i just made the most inhuman sound, at this moment.

i’m sold. hawk house gets to have thanksgiving early. further into the future i will bring this up again, once our Other Things are out of the way! paul and co are going to need protective gear and a lot of heat proof knives. the chicken is toxic.
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[personal profile] terriblepurpose 2022-07-07 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Paul happens to have a lot of protective gear and can surely source some heatproof knives

Happy No-Thanksgiving, Hawk House, everyone Paul gets on board with this is going to feel so normal about it, I'm sure
grice: (pic#14266573)

[personal profile] grice 2022-07-07 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
it's just carving out a mutilated child from the biggest burning acid turkey bowl alive. totally..... normal!!!
martyrofduty: (Default)

Re: falco grice | aot + craus

[personal profile] martyrofduty 2022-07-08 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hello! I'm going to be throwing up some new arrival beach looking for possessions catch-all. And whether on mine or yours, she could totally come across him near the beach and such. Not scared off by large bird thing.

If the return to his usual self doesn't happen with established CR, Pyrrha would be willing to help him. Neither option would gross her out. She's also walking around in a different form herself (the one she's been... hanging out in forever instead of her own), so she definitely gets that. (Some day I'll plot out her own death at a time that makes her return as herself).
grice: (pic#14266547)

[personal profile] grice 2022-07-08 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
oh, by all means! my catch all is open, so whoever gets to who first!

it looks like I have very rough draft set up for The Great Carving, but that is not set in stone! i have one more who has shown interest so maybe closer to august I can head count and figure out something plausible for everyone!
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[personal profile] martyrofduty 2022-07-08 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds good.

Ooooh do do dooo. Gotta be amused when living is the messier option. Sounds good!

(also I have only vague confused understanding of aot due to a TFLN interaction XDDD but it amuses me)
grice: (pic#14266573)

[personal profile] grice 2022-07-08 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
awesome. i am going to revamp my info pages soon so i hope that can help some! or just going in canon blind is a great way to be too ;) hope to tag with you soon!
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[personal profile] martyrofduty 2022-07-09 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent! I'm still building mine it feels like (the work is never done). And yes, canon blind can be fantastic. Looking forward to it!
asas: (pic#15163366)

shoyo hinata | haikyuu!!

[personal profile] asas 2022-07-06 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Character Name: shoyo hinata
Character Blood Type: warmblood
Character Role: nightwalker (offers work outs & sports) + volleyball coach for all @ koz orphanage!

What CR you would like to develop for this event: this looks like a good time and place to build negative cr, but i'm all for people who can also save shoyo's ass when/if he needs it and can become support! he might be a little rocky this month, but he's a great support character!
Open/Closed to New CR this event: always open!
What CR you want to avoid this event: he's not going to be falling in love with anyone but if you want ur character to fall for him, by all means!

Timeline/Event Ideas:
• due to the violence playing around trench, shoyo is possibly a very easy target for trenchies to push around, especially for being both a warmblood and a sports entertainment nightwalker! does your character want to just throw down for the brightest human tangerine that doesn't deserve this? come forth! he'll be forever grateful! • on more serious notes, john the god is killing shoyo's boyfriend in his sleep so he's going to be a couple days mourning/freaking out/taking care of a squid in his bathtub mid-julyish! he may contact friends for h/c, or in his panic to help!
• spurred by the reckoning's influence for justice and the good and evil prompt's evil, shoyo is going to be one of the many to go after john, with his bond-breaking sword! he's going to lose a hand. don't worry! they're gonna glue it back on. good as new. mending this with what i have considered event-wise, he'll just be all around. really combative because of the above. want a really bothered, angry shoyo? want some negative cr that we could later mend? pick me!
floatsaway: (173.)

[personal profile] floatsaway 2022-07-06 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I AM AVAILABLE FOR H/C AND TO OFFER MANY HUGS WHILE OCHAKO IS POSSESED BY THE GOOD!!! She's mostly gonna be Good this event so might as well give her that chance to DO good and help her friendo out.

Or maybe stop him from getting bullied?? the "Love" prompt doesn't have to be strictly romantic. :|a she could go REEEEE over friendship bonds and do a protecc
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[personal profile] asas 2022-07-07 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
this is a horrible (read: good) set up. and potentially hilarious if ochako tries to protect their budding platonic love and evil shoyo is there like FINISH HIM. we can possibly bunch these two possibilities together, given that shoyo may be bad feeling because of what happened! what do you think!
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[personal profile] floatsaway 2022-07-07 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
DHHSHFTR YES THIS IS AMAZING I LOVE THIS. "Someone is going to die..." "OF FUN! 8D" sob i need this yes yes yes. I cannot wait for Ochako to flip a man over her shoulder for Shoyo and he's just like:

asas: (pic#15159795)

[personal profile] asas 2022-07-08 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
just gonna helmo gif from beginning to end for the hardcore dismantling……

from the number of interested dudes I think I will be doing a top level for this! I’ll ping you when it’s up!
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[personal profile] floatsaway 2022-07-08 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
PERFECTOOO~

I am excited for this so much aaaaa
tealeafs: (as you bloom again)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-07-07 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
hello.... even if you drop characters you clearly can't get rid of me, i'll just be here to get new cr instead!!!!!

that being said, i'd be totally up for starting some cr with maybe him and chizuru this month? chizuru knows what it's like to get picked on for being different in some way, so even without being influenced by good or evil, she'd 100% stand up for him!! not that she has.. any notable combat skills... but half of the fun is in seeing her not have those skills and try anyway, right. clearly making sure shoyo doesn't get bullied is that important.
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[personal profile] asas 2022-07-07 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
me when i saw you sneaking into my inbox HELL YES do i want this now! not only that, if chizuru really does that—?! shoyo is going to drop everything to protect her back! us normies gotta stick together!!

i can totally make us a starter for this, what do you think! it's a great way to kick things off!
tealeafs: (making the raging waves)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-07-08 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
NORMIE CLUB!!!!!! who cares that you're a mystical demon if it doesn't even give you cool pew pew demon powers, right!!!!!!

but yes, please! i'd love a starter, feel free to make up any sort of harassment you would find interesting for shoyo to stand up to, so much is possible with the violence in the air.. thanks, reckoning...