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December 2022 Plotting Post
DECEMBER 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.
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.
Red's Boys
Player's Pronouns: They/Them
Preferred Player Contact:
Monthly Pacing: I'll be a bit slow this month for RL things.
OOC Limits: Not super up for my characters dying this month, but that's about it. Also can't do loss/grief.
Opting-Out Prompts: okay this sounds REALLY WEIRD but if possible I think I need to opt-out of things like Evil Santa, or like, "evil classic Christmas characters". Snow queens or generic snowmen, snow monsters, that's fine. It's weird, I know.
Shiro | Warmblood
Character Blood Type: Warmblood
Character Role: Koz' Orphanage Volunteer
What CR you would like to develop for this event: Shiro is always down to help other people out. Be it throwing down with a scary monster, trying to talk them out of a fight/freeze, or just offering some general Deerington Lore. He has a habit of adopting wayward teens as someone to Protect too, though.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: YES always!!
What CR you want to avoid this event: Nothing other than the opt-outs listed up above.
Timeline/Event Ideas:
Think I'm mostly going to throw him into the SILENT HILL player plot! I super love Silent Hill and I have some fun (or un-fun, if you're Shiro) ideas already. It will probably involve a lot of:
- Hospital Imagery (gurneys, doctors)
- Allusions to long-term illness (somehow, not sure yet)
- Past Deerington Trauma (TM)
- probably some scary space aliens
- BOSS FIGHT
FIGHT/FLIGHT/FREEZE
Shiro, at this point, has a lot of experience in talking people out of panics. He's had Deerington and Trench experience by now, and is more than willing to just sit down and try to calm someone down. If they try to fight him, he'll be defensive, but won't do anything to lash out back, even if you stab him.... he doesn't have a high self-preservation stat.
MONSTERS
Okay I know it's weird but barring my opt-outs, I am down for generic killer snowmen fights. It just seems funny to me, and a nice balance of the Silent Hill trauma he's gonna be going through.
Also let me know if you'd like him to tag in anywhere as well!!
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A-ange.... are you okay...? it's probably fine it's just the ghost of chronic illness chasing him down in silent hill please don't corrupt yourself
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she can't help it when he's such a trouble magnet okay!!
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fine
probably
Melius Senyan | Coldblood
Character Blood Type: Coldblood
Character Role: Potion Shop Owner
What CR you would like to develop for this event: Do you want to get some enemies in the works? Find a lover? A best friend? A mentor? Let people know here!
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Open!!
What CR you want to avoid this event: Not much except the opt-outs above.
Timeline/Event Ideas:
WINTER MOURNING
Stealing the memory share prompt from last year, because Melius is normally very closed-mouthed about his experiences. You know, when you can get him to chat about it at all. They are not fond memories. Unless someone wants to meet the one chill dragon Melius knows, thinking about going with these:
- Helgen
Start of his Skyrim adventure, involves a dragon attack, beheading, buildings on fire and general chaos.
- Frostflow Lighthouse
A really bad day for some lighthouse keepers, and the lizard who stumbled into the building. Involves caves, giant insects, attacks by these things, death, and a lot of lizard panic.
FIGHT/FLIGHT/FREEZE
... honestly, Melius' responses are Flight or Freeze. Literally freeze. He's a coldblood. Lizard popsicle anyone? Honestly something could just sneeze and he'd turn into a lump of frozen scales. Comedy...! Right?
ICE ICE BABY
So Argonians can breathe underwater.
Except now he can't.
So that's horrifying and scary, please help him. Not super up for any drowning, but absolutely up for him working together with people!
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REALLy.........
Hakkai | Paleblood
Character Blood Type: Paleblood
Character Role: "Jack of all trades, master of none"
What CR you would like to develop for this event: Honestly, Hakkai's a little difficult to get to know, because the guy small-talks like crazy. And actively avoids any kind of deep conversation about himself. But I would love to see someone eventually dig it out.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Yes! For sure!
What CR you want to avoid this event: N/A
Timeline/Event Ideas:
Hakkai has healing abilities, so he would be up for helping anyone injured by the monsters this month. However, given the Paleblood effects and the Fight/Flight/Freeze option, it might be more difficult to get him to want to heal anyone this month, in contrary to his usual "let me burn myself out putting you back together again" attitude.
He's good in combat, too, and may be down to fight monsters, or just blow them apart for interrupting him, depending on the day.
And then there's the Winter Mournings...
Hakkai's past is a walking CW for mass murder, suicide/death seeking behavior, eye scream and literal twincest. (Yeah his GF was his sister or twin sister depending). We're not going to be touching on that last one in memories though, woof. Thinking about mostly touching on the murder parts, and the aftermath.
Which also involves a super not romantic moment with his new roommate, yep. Maybe a few flashes of said Super Hetero Moments. For spice.