OOC Intro & Intense Event Plotting November 2024

[labyrinevents]

• OOC INTRO + EVENT PLANNING •

Welcome to the game, newbies! To our current dreamer crew, welcome to our next event! This post will act as an OOC intro for new players, a CR meme for everyone, and a place to make some plans for our next event which will go live on November 17th and end November 30th. Below you will see the CR meme form as well as a Event Outline for our upcoming event. As this month also contains a 4th wall element, I have also included a section to explain this element.

• 4th Wall •

Welcome to our 4th wall styled event! This event will be open to anyone on dreamwidth to participate in, though mods will have the final say. 4th wall characters, or "visitors" will appear throughout the city of Somnius upon the start of the event. Upon the conclusion, all Visitors will be gone. Perhaps temporarily should our 4th wall friends decide to apply in January or another time! 4TH Wall Participation Rules and Requirements

• No Doubles. If a character is already in game, another version cannot be played as a 4th wall "Visitor".
• CRAU & AU are both allowed (with the exception of doubles)
• Our One Month rule stands for playable content. A canon/chapter/episode/etc must have been released for one month as of the beginning of the event to be eligible for play.
• Players intending to 4th wall MUST post a plotting comment and link it in our Visitor directory.
• Players who do not want to post a top level simply need to fill out a comment under the Visitor directory with their Name and Contact Information. Their header should be the character they intend to play and the canon.
• Current players may also play 4th wall characters. There is no limit to how many characters one can play in the event.

• Event Outline •

Expand to see our Event Outline

Visitors Arrive

• Cracks and tears in Vaeros’ barrier appear and mysterious Visitors appear all over the city of Somnius
• Other than the mysterious arrival of these Visitors nothing really seems awry, though Visitors that arrive in this manner are easily identified by a gold cuff bracelet around their left wrist that cannot be removed by any means.
• Prompts included will facilitate interacting with the setting and locale while giving new players a chance to explore the setting as it is normally
• Visitors do not remember a contract with Vaeros or a wish being made. Curious.

Control Slips

• Over time, the setting starts to break and things stop working as they normally have
• Strange weather effects occur all over and at the same time. Blizzards, heavy rains, heatwaves.
• Night and Day begin to swap over and over again. Somtiemes it’s day for a few hours, then twilight and day again. There’s no rhyme or reason to it
• The chaos will bring visits from creatures previously fought by the dreamers including the shadow wolves, the fireys and the IRS.

  OOC Note: Linked TDM plotting posts are for reference of these mentioned creatures only.

• Cracks in the island form, spreading and causing ravines that seem to drop clear to inferna... These cracks will appear all over, including in Somnius but will not disturb places marked as homes.

Returning Magic

• Vaeros appears as an image in the sky, his face painted across the sunset sky and starry nights. He demands repayment if Dreamers wish to survive.
• Dreamers are given the option to go to the crystal and pray, returning rewards they have been given with earned shards to repower Vaeros.

  OOC NOTE: The rewards that can be sacrificed can ONLY be powers or high stakes items that facilitate character abilities. Regains to housing, mundane items and similar are not valid. Anything that is voluntarily sacrificed during this event will be returned at a later time via another event and cannot be regained with shards in the meantime.

• Dreamers that sacrifice these regain will temporarily be granted an extra potion power during the event that can be utilized at full power to help others in their efforts to save Visium.

Working Together

• Natives are the key to relieving the issues throughout Visium in the meantime. They are highly keen to encourage interaction between Dreamers and Visitors
• Interacting and working together in groups mixed with Visitors and Dreamers will soothe issues and heal ravines/cracks in the ground.
• Natives have set up tasks to facilitate this, sending visitors and dreamers across Visium to complete quests.
• By the time the event is scheduled to close and enough magic is returned to Vaeros to control his land, visitors begin to flicker and disappear. They leave behind their gold bracelets.

In Game Characters <b>Player Name and Pronouns:</b> <b>Contact:</b> Your best contact. Be sure to let others know if they can add you! <b>About Me:</b> Your hobbies, timezone, where you're from, whatever else you want to go here. <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>General Info:</b> Their personality, role in the story, what they do etc <b>Housing Plans:</b> Where are they going to live? Who are they living with? This can help everyone plot out housing/neighbourhood CR! There will also be a top level for characters looking for roommates. <b>Desired CR:</b> What it says on the tin. What sorts of relationships are you looking for? What personalities go best/worst with your character? Who would attract them and who would repulse them? <b>Initial Plans:</b> Will they get a job? Teach at the school? Cause mischief? <b>Event Plans:</b> What are you looking to do in the event? Are you open to 4th wall characters? What seems the most interesting and fun to you in this event? <b>RP Wishlist:</b> List out some scenarios you really want to RP, or a character arc you'd like to work on! <b>Anything else:</b> Put up a funny gif or do whatever you want here. You can link your permissions post and a recent top level too. 4th Wall Characters <b>Player Name and Pronouns:</b> <b>Contact:</b> Your best contact for plotting <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>General Info:</b> Their personality, role in the story, what they do etc <b>Are you planning on applying in the future?</b> Apping? Re-apping? Or are you just here for a fun temporary time? <b>Setting Interests:</b> What are you interested in interacting with within the setting itself beyond the current event situation? <b>Event Plans:</b> What things happening during the event are you interested interacting with? <b>Anything else:</b> Put up a funny gif or do whatever you want here. You can link your permissions post and a recent top level too.

Comments

[placation]

hey best friend ♥

oh you know they're gonna be talking about those sacrifices lmao

Oda Sakunosuke | Bungou Stray Dogs

[savetheweak]

Character Name: Oda Sakunosuke
Canon: Bungou Stray Dogs
Character Age: 24
General Info: Oda is a "haunt the narrative" character, purpose being to play the role of a large influence in another character's life. He is an easygoing dude, though he doesn't look very friendly. He's patient, nice enough. He's described as someone who "has no ulterior motives", and it's true. He's very genuine, doesn't often lie, and takes things very literally. He's also a fantastic sharp shooter and has future sight, which makes him decent as hell in a battle. Another character who FEELS EVERYTHING, SHOWS NOTHING.

Housing Plans: he lives in a cottage with his husband Osamu Dazai

Desired CR: I don't have a ton of CR with Oda, mostly due to him being newer to my roster, and a reserved dude - so, really, I'm open to anything. He has basically no negative CR, but honestly, he's hard to get negative CR with. He's such a patient, easygoing dude. LMAO. Dazai is on a mission to get Odasaku friends, so...let's get him some friends! He has about three right now. He also makes a GREAT protector character - will "adopt" if you're interested

Initial Plans: Dazai just returned from a canon update, and it fucked Oda up really bad, but he's feeling better now. He is...pretty content to stay in Somnius, so he's not like itching to battle against the metaplot or whatever, but he's there to help if people need it - more focused on the people than the overall goal?

Event Plans: Once again interested in repairing fissures/other weird phenomenon happening. He has his ability, Flawless, back now, so I really want to be able to use it (please check permissions post and opt-in/out, etc.). Could have him shoot a few wolves out of the way or something - idk! There's lots we could do. I'm pretty open to most things. He's the type to save people though, so he'll probably largely be running around making sure people don't fall into inferna.

RP Wishlist: FRIENDS FOR ODA! And I wanna use Flawless. I wanna use Flawless in a way that the other RP partner gives hints in their brackets for things to look out for. IT'S FUN!!!

Anything else:

(note the username - this post is originally about odasaku - isn't that great)

basil | omori

[photographists]

Here.

[abandonhumanity]

sighs
I knew I could count on you

Sunny / Omori | OMORI

[sadpoem]

here

historia reiss | attack on titan

[meliorated]

Here.

Oda Sakunosuke | Bungou Stray Dogs

[savetheweak]

here

[photographists]

This is actually perfect timing! ICly, Basil is just starting to do his own research on different herbs. I'd love for them to meet!

Caitlin

[placation]

Player Name and Pronouns: Caitlin, she/they
Contact: I'm at mackleberry and the game discord under paragonish! Game players, please feel free to add me on plurk. Visitors, please use this thread only to plot! ♥
About Me: I'm PST, tag whenever I'm around, and my jobs are currently freelance situations so I'm usually around in some capacity! I like just about everything under the sun and have terminal enthusiasm disease. Come talk to me. :3c

I only have Maruki ingame but making an umbrella comment just in case I decide to bring in a visitor..... oooooh spooky

[kogalstyle]

Hi! Quick question. Since the 4th wall characters are arriving without a contract to Vaeros from the sound of it, do they have their powers?

reiner braun | attack on titan ( new character )

[nohero]

here

Webby Vanderquack | Ducktales 2017

[woo_oo]

Character Name: Webby Vanderquack
Canon: Ducktales 2017
Character Age: 13-ish in canon, 14-ish in game
General Info: Was raised all her life by a Super Spy Granny, and as a result has expert-level knowledge on weaponry, espionage, languages, combat, etc.
- Unfortunately Super Spy Granny did NOT let her leave the mansion (except for training) and as such her social skills really suck.
- But once she bonded with the world's richest duck and his nephews, she was allowed to join them on dangerous adventures around the world!
- She's super cheerful, friendly, and wants to learn all about you and everything! She wants to be friends with absolutely everyone!
- But she can also get SUPER INTENSE about mundane things and is aware she's not normal
- Serious abandonment/clingy issues, desperate to have/keep friends
- Loves action/adventure, can kick duck-tails and take duck-names

Housing Plans: Lives in Shitling Manor with Vil, Lyney, Idia, and Cater. Can be spotted around the manor helping with the garden or training in combat/weaponry.

Desired CR: Open for anything and everything!

Initial Plans: Webby has returned from Canon Update and is now back to her cheerful, adventure-loving self again! While she's decided she's no longer a Knight of Somnius, she'll still go on patrols with her armor and sword. She's got a lot of catching up to do with the game's plot, and with everyone in general, since she missed out due running away/knocked out/shutting herself off from the world.

Event Plans: I don't think I'll bring anyone to 4th wall, but I'd be happy to toss her at folks if they want her.

She'll be hesitant at first to give up all she's earned, since who can really trust Vaeros? But she can be talked into giving EVERYTHING up to save her loved ones.

Anything else: She recently made a network post about her return from canon!

[labyrinmods]

Absolutely! Your shards, your choice.

[placation]

show me flawless i need it for normal not horny reasons

🦋 Petra Ral 🪽 Attack On Titan (new arrival)

[scoutingangel]

Character Name: Petra Ral
Canon: Attack On Titan
Character Age: 19 (headcanon estimate as it's canonly unknown but it makes sense with the age difference for the main teens' between pre-timeskip and post-timeskip ages these days... I started playing her LONG before that skip even happened and if she'd be older than that, she's not older than in her early 20s but let's just go with 19 here!)

General Info: Petra is an extremely social, friendly, cheerful, gentle, soft sweetheart, who loves chatting with people. Shows her emotions and emotional side pretty easily, she's very empathetic and sympathetic, not even a little ashamed of crying in front of people or at least in front of people, that she knows already. Though on the flip side she's also sassy, feisty, bossy and she has a pretty fierce temper too.

She's one of Levi's soldiers in the Scouts / Survey Corps and gets handpicked by Levi as the only girl to his Special Operation Squad. So besides her amazing teamworking skills, she's pretty badass. Her and her three friends' mission is to protect Eren Jaeger when the Scouts go to the 57th expedition outside the walls -- though secretly even to them their mission is also to lure the Female Titan into a trap. It succeeds at first, then everything goes to hell, two of them get killed before Petra and she arrives here from second(s) before dying herself in a horrible way, while they were trying to protect Eren / keep him safe / save him.

So you know, she'll have some of her worst nightmares for a while because of all of her last moments from home. It's fiiiiiiiine, she's been a Scout for four-ish years, she's seen a lot of friends, comrades and people dying, and lost them in general even if she hasn't always seen their last moments and surely she's had some close calls herself too... She's used to those nightmares even if they possibly haven't been as bad as these new ones.

Housing Plans: She'll get a cottage... Or she could move into a cottage if any living in a cottage are looking for a roommate. But as I said she'll be having some of her worst nightmares ever for a while... So until they'll calm down? It's not exactly the best timing to be roommates for her -- or maybe it is because she could really use the company.

Desired CR: She's new so anything and everything? But I'm always open to anything and everything... Some ideas;

• FRIENDS!
• She knows martial arts, thanks to her military training, so sparring partners?
• Do you want a (big) sister figure to your character? Here's one option...
• My headcanon says she can bake at least a little but she could get a lot better at that here, please help?
• Same with getting better at cooking though apparently she can canonly cook, so she's better at that than she's at baking, for now.
• More headcanons say she knows how to both knit and crochet, will happily teach either or both of those to others too.
• She loves teamworking / doing things together with people, come be a dream team at anything with her.
• Maybe she'll get a romance someday and that'll be 18+ OTA but me and her are in no rush to it, we'll see whatever if anything ever happens with that.

Initial Plans: Settling in, giving Eren spaaaaace while he's avoiding her (totally understandable but also we already have a plan for their reunion)... She'll get a job sooner or later!

Event Plans: I'm open to any fourth wall characters, who would like to interact with her! Besides that, well, there's the working together part and she's a teamworker, who gets a long with people easily and is all for teamworking, so come work together with her?? Petra literally just got here on this app round, she doesn't have any regains or whatever to share to Vaeros. May or may not run into monsters, oooops.

RP Wishlist: I want fun experiences for her! So come and do things together with her; baking, cooking, dancing, horse back riding, shopping, tasting different foods and drinks and whatever else, please?! Also let her come cuddle you as a golden retriever once she'll use that power from her golden potion sooner or later.

Anything else: Her TDM toplevel from her which you can still tag or maybe I'll make an open post / catch-all soon, who knows! May ask a lot of "what's a ____" questions because aot sure doesn't have many things. Once upon a time one of my tags with her was "What's a bus?" no seriously, it was a real tag in Route 29 though I've played her at least at genessia too! :D Me trying to remember my RP history with her because it's been forever since I had her in a game. Same with it being a long time since I even properly played this adorable and cute girl at all, wow.

Harry Du Bois | Disco Elysium

[miseriainfernum]

Player Name and Pronouns: Nin she/her
Contact: kamex / kamextoise @ discord. Add away!
About Me: EST, usually most active in the evenings. I yell a lot about Final Fantasy XIV on plurk, sometimes talk about my job as an art instructor, pets, horror movies, and occasionally video games that aren’t FFXIV (this is a joke. mostly). Lately I’ve also returned to an old love, Silent Hill 2.

Character Name: Harry Du Bois
Canon: Disco Elysium
Character Age: 43
General Info: Harry is a drunk (though currently trying to stay sober), self-destructive mess who loves people but hates himself. He’s extremely empathetic for the downtrodden, and very, very driven. When he gets an idea in his head, he’s incapable of stopping. Even deliberately wiping all of his memories didn’t make him stop; all it did was show the only thing Harry knows what to do is work.

He’s also the protagonist of his canon, and a good 85% of the dialogue in the game is Harry’s shattered and disconnected thoughts talking to each other. In game, he’s a pseudo-customizable protagonist in that you can choose how he interacts with the world and exactly how much of a hot mess he is for the duration of the game. It’s all Harry, though. Especially the horrifically embarrassing intrusive thoughts you can have him say/do if he fails a skill check. For anyone canon familiar, here are his endgame stats, more or less. For anyone not familiar, the tl;dr is that he spends much of his time lost in his own thoughts, and is as prone to dream logic as he is concrete thinking. He’s also so empathetic he’s liable to burst into tears over your tragic backstory.

He's managed to keep his self-destructive tendencies in check as a result of the previous game he’s in, and also all the weird shit constantly happening here.
Housing Plans: He lives in a hill house. He could always have a roommate, though!

Desired CR: Everything! I’m bad at specifics. Give him friends, frienemes (probably hard to do with him, but hey I’m game!). And more bothering of the friends he’s made in game already, of course.

Initial Plans: He’s kinda listless, and needs something to do. Are there any groups currently going around and looking into the mysteries since they came back from the different timelines? He'd investigate that.

Event Plans: I don’t have any hard plans at the moment, beyond him being curious about the sudden influx of visitors. I’m also considering bringing in a character for fourth wall, but I don’t know if I’ll keep that a secret for the moment since I’m not sure if I’ll have time. It’s not a canon anyone plays from here, though!

RP Wishlist: Harry used to be a gym teacher. I don’t know anything about sports, but he needs to talk to all the sporty characters. Even if it’s a sport from a specific canon, like idk… blitzball.

Anything else:

[bakegarasu]

Otoha is one of those "looks scary, is a cinnamon roll unless you threaten something he cares about :)" types

I know you have a November open log, should I poke that?

[labyrinmods]

Yes! 4th wall characters will have their powers. HOWEVER, as a caveat, if they attempt to sacrifice their powers to help Vaeros, it will not work.

Asterios / Berserker - Fate : Grand Order

[beefaroni]

Character Name: Asterios
Canon: Fate Grand Order
Character Age: Unknown, but a full grown adult.
General Info: The Minotaur from Greek Mythology!

Half bull, half human, fully broken. He was never given any education/love, his only source of food was humans trapped in with him, and he died without knowing freedom. As such, his speech is very stilted and he often seems to have the mind of a child and his emotions are usually either "nothing" or "angry". Watch out for Angry, he's a Berserker for a reason.

That said, he's actually a very kind person who likes animals and nature. While he enjoys a good fight, he doesn't actually want to go out and slaughter anyone - the deaths of the folks he ate still haunts him, as he feels he should have starved to death instead of killing them. He's a gentle giant, who will defend you with his life if you're kind to him.

Housing Plans: Homeless currently! Still living in the woods until someone convinces him otherwise. Unfortunately, it's going to need a LOT of convincing.

Desired CR: Open for anything and everything! He does need friends, but he's reluctant to make them, as he feels he's just a bomb waiting to go off.

Initial Plans: At the moment, he's telling everyone his "name" is Berserker. While the actual name of the Minotaur isn't too widely known, he doesn't want to risk it and become instantly hated/feared, as he assumes would be the case. But one day, it's all gotta come out.

Misa

[waterfawn]

Player name and pronouns: Misa, she/her
Contact: "@" me on the discord server, comment here, DM my character journals, or if we have CR add me at styxbutterfly
About me: US based in the eastern timezone. Former caregiver, full time relaxer. Fandoms of note are Asian dramas in general (I'm currently watching "Mysterious Lotus Casebook" and "The Princess Royal", but I've watched too many shows to list out here), anime (almost any genre, all time favorites are "Sailor Moon" and that was the gateway for younger! Misa into anime as a whole, and "Vampire Hunter D" (both the 80s movie and "Bloodlust"). I also like reading romance novels, thrillers, and working on fan translating novels! (For my own reading though, I'm not confident enough to share my adaptations and tbh I don't want to risk hurting the LN novel market/general novel market, soo). Anime wise in general, I like the Pretty Cure franchise, older shoujo manga from the 70s ("Swan/Ballet Beat" and "From Eroica with Love" are high on the list, "Rose of Versailles" and "The Poe Clan" along with "The Glass Mask").

Newer show wise, I loved "My Dress Up Darling" and "Delicious in Dungeon" has been on my to-read list along with "Requiem of the Rose King" (had to stop after volume 1 because wow it did not stray from the source material in a good way). I also like horror manga, specifically some of Junji Ito's works, and the Vampire Hunter D novels! I've been trying to get myself back into studying Japanese so I can just read books without needing to translate but it's a slow process and that's fine.


I also really like webtoons and games! I've finished and liked "Marry my Husband", and I usually stick to villainess reincarnation stories or revenge fantasies. I've also started reading the novel version of "The Villainess Lives Twice", I've also liked what I've read of "Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster", "Cheating Men Must Die/Phoenix Rising Above Evil", "Villains are Destined to Die" and "The Villainess is a Marionette".

Games wise, I'm getting back into visual novels and I've played "When the Seagulls Cry" and "Scars of the Doll", and a handful of others! I also like otome games, puzzle games like Tetris 99 and I've recently gotten back into fighting games and discovered the Famicom Detective Club and The Great Ace Attorney. (I've played like part of game 1 of the AA franchise, I know it more for the music and memes!).

I like to draw, post art on Plurk, and I like to knit, crochet, and do embroidery if that's also your thing!

Harry Du Bois | Disco Elysium

[miseriainfernum]

here

Han's dorks

[anxiouscat]

Player Name and Pronouns: Han (they/them)
Contact: hantale is always open for adds! Or message me on discord @ Hantale , account DM's are fine too!
About Me: GMT+8! Future-ian here. I work regular office hours and probably get half my tags done at work. Honestly RP is my major hobby so I'm almost always keen for more threads and tags. I love music, especially folk/alt and jazz. A little bit of gaming, from Hades to we fishing, a bit of FF14 (on pause). When it comes to games and media its really just anything I can watch/play with someone! The exception is phone games. I'm so deep in ensemble stars and Pokemon TCG pocket/sleep rn! 😅

Other hobbies include volleyball, music, silly YouTube stuff and collectables! Idk, I just like chatting to people and writing!

Eilonwy| The Black Cauldron

[waterfawn]

Character name: Princess Eilonwy of Llyr, going by "Eilonwy" most of the time
Canon: The Black Cauldron (movie)
Character age: 14
General info: A headstrong princess who was kidnapped by an undead king to find a MacGuffin item (The Black Cauldron). She escaped, made new friends and helped save her homeland. She comes from the Disney filtered version of "The Chronicles of Prydain", or the equivalent of 14th century Fantasy Disney Wales. Eilonwy is headstrong, brave, caring and always ready to help where she can.
Desired CR: Anything besides shipping. Want to be friends? She'd probably be up for it. Want to antagonize her? Let's talk that out OOCLY first so everyone's on the same page!
Initial plans: She's going to get back into swordsmanship because she's missed doing it.
Event plans: I'm OK with 4th wall characters interacting with her! I'm going to be tagging around on this event instead of doing a top level this time (same for Puck), but she'll be helping where she can and just ignore Vaeros's whole "you have to give back something" plea.
RP Wishlist:
- Defending against threats! I love writing fight scenes (Hand-waving them is also OK! Same with Puck!)
- Asking about swords, maybe seeing if she can get hers sharpened ahead of things going wild?
- IDK she's a princess who takes no shit, there's so much to work with here. Eilonwy is a nice mix of feisty when needed and kind always unless [threat here] is being a threat.
-Bring me ideas, the worst I can do is say "no"!
Anything else: Daylight savings time continues to mess with my head personally.

Sweetheart | OMORI (4th wall visitor)

[o_hohohohoho]

Character Name: Sweetheart
Canon: OMORI
Character Age: n/a
General Info: SWEETHEART IS A BOSS ASS BITCH. She has her own CASTLE she has her own GUARDS she has her own MOVIE. She is...insane. If you don't do what she says, she'll hit you with her mace and try to turn you into toast, and it will probably work. She may also lock you in the dungeon. She's PLAGUED by the TOILS of ROMANCE so you'll hear about that too. Or she might try to marry you.

Are you planning on applying in the future? I don't think she is appable. LMAO.

Setting Interests: I'm just here to troll.
Event Plans: Please just...thread with her. She's insane. She's hilarious. She is a 100% crack choice just for fun. Please meet her so you can tell the Omori kids later and bond. Trust me, it'll be fun. Let's just go.

Anything else:

Sweetheart | OMORI

[o_hohohohoho]

ohohoHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!!