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December 2022 Plotting Post
DECEMBER 2022 PLOTTING POST
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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.
Due to the cyclical nature of Trench, LAST YEARS EVENT PROMPTS are also open for playing with. Please mark last years events from this years events to avoid confusion for players.
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.
Due to the cyclical nature of Trench, LAST YEARS EVENT PROMPTS are also open for playing with. Please mark last years events from this years events to avoid confusion for players.
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PROMPT 1: FIGHT OR FLIGHT
Prompt 1 • Prompt 2 • Prompt 3
Plotting Form • Event Questions • Live Event • Monthly Newsletter
CONTENT WARNINGS: Paranoia, fear, violence, possible murder, reality questioning.
Dorothea seems to be off. She's more skittish than usual, even to those she may have formed even the slightest of connections to. Her own patrons will notice that she still acts like a cornered animal whenever someone gets too close. Her hair might puff up, she shrinks back from touch, and she's quick to bite if she feels she has to defend herself. People can put two and two together pretty easily: whatever illness that has made the Tower so odd has spread out to others.
The fear she's feeling will slowly start to spread out through the month. Those who have Dorothea as their patron Pthumerian will start to feel the impacts earlier than others, but soon it's going out into the general Sleeper population. It starts off with a tiny voice in the back of the mind, one that alerts danger, even if there isn't anything immediately threatening in the area. It's quiet at first, but becomes louder and louder, until the fear becomes overwhelming.
People will start to respond to it with their natural instincts of fight, flight, or freeze. Some people might try to blend into the background and keep away from strong social settings. Others might start to lash out, fighting with anyone who crosses their path because they could be the threat. People can even go so far as to try to kill those they're close to simply because they don't trust them to be safe.
But that rational side might still try to break through. The constant tug of war can leave people questioning what's real, where the danger really is coming from, or if there was any danger to begin with. It's hard to get the answers or to calm down enough to look for concrete proof when the heart is racing as fast as it is, clouding the mind from being able to handle reason.
If a Sleeper fights their natural instinct and tries to trust others, the effects seem to lessen, but they never fully go away. The small underlying feeling of fear will be there throughout the month, no matter how hard someone tries to fight it.
Note: Not everyone will be hit by this curse. You may opt-out by simply having your character not be effected. For those who are already dealing by paranoia or distrust from their blood impacts, the effects will be that much stronger and more difficult to fight, and more likely to escalate to violence.
PROMPT 2: COLD AS ICE
Dorothea seems to be off. She's more skittish than usual, even to those she may have formed even the slightest of connections to. Her own patrons will notice that she still acts like a cornered animal whenever someone gets too close. Her hair might puff up, she shrinks back from touch, and she's quick to bite if she feels she has to defend herself. People can put two and two together pretty easily: whatever illness that has made the Tower so odd has spread out to others.
The fear she's feeling will slowly start to spread out through the month. Those who have Dorothea as their patron Pthumerian will start to feel the impacts earlier than others, but soon it's going out into the general Sleeper population. It starts off with a tiny voice in the back of the mind, one that alerts danger, even if there isn't anything immediately threatening in the area. It's quiet at first, but becomes louder and louder, until the fear becomes overwhelming.
People will start to respond to it with their natural instincts of fight, flight, or freeze. Some people might try to blend into the background and keep away from strong social settings. Others might start to lash out, fighting with anyone who crosses their path because they could be the threat. People can even go so far as to try to kill those they're close to simply because they don't trust them to be safe.
But that rational side might still try to break through. The constant tug of war can leave people questioning what's real, where the danger really is coming from, or if there was any danger to begin with. It's hard to get the answers or to calm down enough to look for concrete proof when the heart is racing as fast as it is, clouding the mind from being able to handle reason.
If a Sleeper fights their natural instinct and tries to trust others, the effects seem to lessen, but they never fully go away. The small underlying feeling of fear will be there throughout the month, no matter how hard someone tries to fight it.
Note: Not everyone will be hit by this curse. You may opt-out by simply having your character not be effected. For those who are already dealing by paranoia or distrust from their blood impacts, the effects will be that much stronger and more difficult to fight, and more likely to escalate to violence.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Possible drowning, being trapped under ice
It feels like a dream, but the world around is so solid and real, it's hard to tell if that's true. Everything is pitch black at first and the Sleeper stuck in this new place will feel a heavy weight on their chest. What's most noticeable right off the bat is how cold it is. Colder than it was back in Trench, an almost stabbing pain all over the skin, and it wouldn't be over the top to worry about frost bite. The pressure that's pushing onto the Sleeper's chest will become more noticeable all around them, like there's some sort of vice grip on their entire body.
A beam of moonlight breaks through the darkness and it's then that they are able to tell where they are: under water. Trapped under the ice of a large lake, one where shore seems completely out of reach. Swimming to the top will make it clear that while the ice has cracks on the very surface of it, they're superficial, and it may feel difficult to break through. Trying to use powers to break through the ice will make it clear very quickly that powers don' work in this water.
Is this it? Is that the end? Continuing to swim to try and find a hole may feel pointless, but those who choose to will eventually find that they run into another Sleeper or two. It's hard to communicate underwater, likely, especially when it seems like the omnis don't work to project thoughts to one another the way they usually do. But if the Sleepers can figure out how to communicate, they might find that coordinating their movements to push up against the ice will start to make a loud, rumbling noise fill the water.
The ice is starting to crack. It just takes team work.
Fighting one another or resisting will bring about the very obvious feeling of drowning. Even those who can breathe under water will find that they are unable to in these moments. The only option to get out is to work as a team. So long as they cooperate, Sleepers can break a hole through the ice, escaping the frozen water.
Crawling through the hole in the ice will bring them out of a manhole in a random street of Trench. The lake will be gone and the water too. Those who don't crawl out fast enough behind their teammates will find that the hole disappears entirely and they're forced to start all over.
PROMPT 3: NOW YOU SEE ME
It feels like a dream, but the world around is so solid and real, it's hard to tell if that's true. Everything is pitch black at first and the Sleeper stuck in this new place will feel a heavy weight on their chest. What's most noticeable right off the bat is how cold it is. Colder than it was back in Trench, an almost stabbing pain all over the skin, and it wouldn't be over the top to worry about frost bite. The pressure that's pushing onto the Sleeper's chest will become more noticeable all around them, like there's some sort of vice grip on their entire body.
A beam of moonlight breaks through the darkness and it's then that they are able to tell where they are: under water. Trapped under the ice of a large lake, one where shore seems completely out of reach. Swimming to the top will make it clear that while the ice has cracks on the very surface of it, they're superficial, and it may feel difficult to break through. Trying to use powers to break through the ice will make it clear very quickly that powers don' work in this water.
Is this it? Is that the end? Continuing to swim to try and find a hole may feel pointless, but those who choose to will eventually find that they run into another Sleeper or two. It's hard to communicate underwater, likely, especially when it seems like the omnis don't work to project thoughts to one another the way they usually do. But if the Sleepers can figure out how to communicate, they might find that coordinating their movements to push up against the ice will start to make a loud, rumbling noise fill the water.
The ice is starting to crack. It just takes team work.
Fighting one another or resisting will bring about the very obvious feeling of drowning. Even those who can breathe under water will find that they are unable to in these moments. The only option to get out is to work as a team. So long as they cooperate, Sleepers can break a hole through the ice, escaping the frozen water.
Crawling through the hole in the ice will bring them out of a manhole in a random street of Trench. The lake will be gone and the water too. Those who don't crawl out fast enough behind their teammates will find that the hole disappears entirely and they're forced to start all over.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Murder, demons, supernatural, violence, abuse, other awful fairy tale themes, descriptions of stabbing and dismemberment in the prompt.
There's one thing that's always nice about the holiday seasons lining up across so many worlds: people get to share the stories of their homelands with one another. Traditions are passed down, legendary figures are explained. People will find that they're even more compelled to share stories from their home, whether it's about a winter holiday they deeply enjoy, or even fairy tales that they were told as children. Th urge to share will feel completely natural, even if it's just to one person rather than a whole group.
But there's always a catch in Trench. As stories are shared, the figures that they're focused on will start to manifest throughout the city as actual, real beings. Santa Claus, shoemaking elves, Snow Queens... Anything is up for grabs, but they won't be exactly like the figures that people spoke of. Their eyes will glow a deep red and their skin will be covered in bleeding wounds, dripping red paths across the snow. These strange versions of these legendary beings will haunt the streets of Trench, attacking anyone they see who doesn't look like them.
It will become clear that there's violent demons about as Trenchies (or even Sleepers) start to show up dead in the snow. Their deaths never seem to be gentle, but instead a clear product of a frenzied blood lust. People may have been brutally stabbed, or ripped to pieces and scattered. Even if the characters in a Sleeper's story were good people, even heroes, their Trench counterparts only want to destroy.
Killing these demons at least seems to be extremely easy. Luring them in with a blood sacrifice is probably the simplest, but people can try to find them and corner them throughout the city as well. Destroy their eyes and the demons will vanish. This can be done by attacking the face directly or by cutting off the head and destroying it. This information is not readily available however, so it will have to be done by trial and error until Sleepers can start to share the information with one another as the month goes on.
PLOTTING FORM
There's one thing that's always nice about the holiday seasons lining up across so many worlds: people get to share the stories of their homelands with one another. Traditions are passed down, legendary figures are explained. People will find that they're even more compelled to share stories from their home, whether it's about a winter holiday they deeply enjoy, or even fairy tales that they were told as children. Th urge to share will feel completely natural, even if it's just to one person rather than a whole group.
But there's always a catch in Trench. As stories are shared, the figures that they're focused on will start to manifest throughout the city as actual, real beings. Santa Claus, shoemaking elves, Snow Queens... Anything is up for grabs, but they won't be exactly like the figures that people spoke of. Their eyes will glow a deep red and their skin will be covered in bleeding wounds, dripping red paths across the snow. These strange versions of these legendary beings will haunt the streets of Trench, attacking anyone they see who doesn't look like them.
It will become clear that there's violent demons about as Trenchies (or even Sleepers) start to show up dead in the snow. Their deaths never seem to be gentle, but instead a clear product of a frenzied blood lust. People may have been brutally stabbed, or ripped to pieces and scattered. Even if the characters in a Sleeper's story were good people, even heroes, their Trench counterparts only want to destroy.
Killing these demons at least seems to be extremely easy. Luring them in with a blood sacrifice is probably the simplest, but people can try to find them and corner them throughout the city as well. Destroy their eyes and the demons will vanish. This can be done by attacking the face directly or by cutting off the head and destroying it. This information is not readily available however, so it will have to be done by trial and error until Sleepers can start to share the information with one another as the month goes on.
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.
Beth's Buffoons
Player's Pronouns: She/her
Preferred Player Contact:
Monthly Pacing: Aiming for a tag back every 1-3 days, boomeranging where possible - seasonal mood is kicking my teeth in a bit
OOC Limits: None
Opting-Out Prompts: None
Paul Atreides | Dune (2021)
Character Blood Type: Paleblood
Character Role: Civilian (treasure hunter)
What CR you would like to develop for this event: Nothing specific in mind!
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Open
What CR you want to avoid this event: Paul is romantically taken, so no serious flirting or romance, please.
Timeline/Event Ideas:
⁍ Winter Mournings (2021): I will be doing a few of these with a focus on lowkey, gentler memories from Paul's past, with the option to do something more intense if desired. Some of these memories may include:
‣ Getting reprimanded for being a fool by his father, Duke Leto Atreides
‣ Spending time with his father on a balcony on Arrakis (cut scene from film)
‣ Palling around with his father and one of his teachers, Duncan Idaho
Run, Rabbit, Run (2021): Paul did not enjoy this last year and is coming into this one prepared. I am offering him up to tagging out to other people in peril attempting to help them, whether they are the hunters or the hunted, using his Paleblood mediation skills to their fullest. Who knows! He might not even blow it.
Now You See Me: With a player plot Paul is involved in coming up shortly, this prompt will influence how that player plot unfolds, so I am marking it here for further expansion once that OOC plotting post goes up.
Cold As Ice: This resembles Paul's first entrance to Trench, so I am considering throwing him into it for some cooperative CR building.
Fight or Flight: As a Paleblood, Paul is going to be hit with this, and it will be pervasive throughout the above prompts despite him trying to continue trusting other people as best as he can. He will lean towards 'fight' over 'flight', but try not to act on either impulse.
Otherwise, I am taking it fairly easy with Paul this month, aiming for some less fraught and more emotionally grounded interactions. My primary aim is to help spur some growth for him in terms of coping with loss and missing his family at the holidays.
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Ortus Nigenad | The Locked Tomb
Character Blood Type: Darkblood
Character Role: Night Walker
What CR you would like to develop for this event: Nothing in particular leaps to mind except more friends!
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Open
What CR you want to avoid this event: None
Timeline/Event Ideas:
Winter Mourning (2021): I will be doing two prompts for Ortus' Winter Mourning, one light and one dealing with heavy themes of child death, child abuse, grief, and trauma. Both will feature the baby Gideon Nav, his canonmate and fellow Ninth House alumnus, and take place in their House creche.
‣ Memory one will be of Ortus and his teenage friends playing with and caring for baby Gideon, and will be light-hearted and pleasant.
‣ Memory two will be of Ortus and Gideon alone, with a walk on appearance from Ortus' father, Mortus, and will be heavily content warned for spoilers and canon typical heavy themes. I am leaving this vague here because it is a prompt that I would like to discuss with anyone interested one on one before you jump in, for the sake of everyone being comfortable and well-warned.
Run, Rabbit, Run (2021): Ortus is not in a position to chase anyone, knowing approximately negative amounts about traps or hunting, so this could potentially lead to Home Alone style shenanigans wherein Ortus plays the role of a Wet Bandit being pratfalled to oblivion.
Fight or Flight: The above especially so when Ortus' instincts will be to choose 'flight' from any conflict, fretting over how others feel about him. Given that cowardice comes naturally to him, it will take a while for Ortus to catch on that there's anything amiss - but it also may mean he's better at managing the feelings already.
Now You See Me: I think this calls for making up whatever kind of spooky deep winter stories little necromancer children tell to each other. The Tale of The Guy Who Wasn't A Ghost When He Died, The Skeleton That Just Sat There Instead of Walking Around, The Unhaunted House, and other tales of this nature.
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Yeah the...the layers of resonance...
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It would be very important to him to keep in Connection with this helpful and wise person and get to know him more....
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Mercymorn the First | The Locked Tomb
Character Blood Type: Vileblood
Character Role: None (unemployed)
What CR you would like to develop for this event: A few targeted relationships
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Closed
What CR you want to avoid this event: None
Timeline/Event Ideas:
I am attempting to get back on the Mercymorn horse this month by engaging with a few memory shares, but overall including her here for completeness' sake and to note that tagging with her may continue to be slower than my other two as I canon review.