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

Questions

[labyrinevents]

[doctor_uhh]

Hi! Could a canon power be sacrificed that the character ICly did not request for himself (because his friends wished for him to have it back) but that I OOCly provided the points for?

[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?

[fallendragon]

Are characters from the same canon as a player's current character allowed for the 4th wall? What about the same canon but a different timeline?

[13thcommander]

I apologize if this is a dumb question, but are characters allowed to interact on the fourth wall post without doing any planning? I have no intention of top leveling but would like to tag out to things that strike my fancy; do I need to make a plotting post to do this?

keeping bracelets

[neighsaying]

can characters keep any bracelets from visitors (for sentimental reasons I'm thinking)

[hexer]

hiya, former player here with a quick question! so hina's a bit of a weird case power-wise, mostly that she's a curse goddess who's literally a walking taboo/curse magnet who collects them like pokemon and tries not to get too close to humans for fear of cursing them--i was wondering mostly if there was a way to facilitate having her powers turned at some point in the event? o:

(mostly because. she will pretty much explicitly hide away if she realizes they're back on orz)

and i figure this is a no but i'll make sure to ask anyway, for anyone who's been here before, they explicitly have no memories of coming here right?

[naturalgreed]

Hi!

Regarding the bracelets, they can't be removed by any means, but do they have any sort of reaction when someone does attempt to do something with it - either with like, a sharp weapon or magic?

visitors + shards

[giftedburnout]

hello hello - would visiting players who app later be able to trade their 4th wall threads for shards after being accepted into the game? just as we would with a tdm?

can visitors use IC inboxes?

[o_hohohohoho]

hello again - can visiting characters RP in established characters' IC inboxes, or will it all need to be kept on the 4th wall post?

Characters with "Immortality"

[thisclockworkheart]

Geppetto's Puppet's one of those immortal characters — the gift of the blue fairy reverses his time if he is killed, restoring him to the state he was in when last whole while retaining memories of everything that happened — isn't meant to trivialize challenges or give him an unfair edge over anyone else, but ICly he is used to it working. As a contract-less Visitor, this could possibly result in sitting out on the 4th wall should something happen. Do you think this power should be removed or altered?

[devilishkouhai]

Sorry was still reading through it did not see questions go here yet! hi I have a question the visitors prompt and into the labyrinth, it says at first dreamers can't ever but the prompt sounds like they can 🤔🤔 will dreamers be able to go in at all? or they just can't go in unless they are with a visitor?

Re: Questions

[blue_ice]

Hi, just wanted to request clarification after reading the full event post:

The event post seems to suggest that only powers/magical items from the characters' canons/worlds can be sacrificed, and that extra potion powers that shards were spent on don't count. Is that right?

[seeinside]

Hello! Just making sure since the event post says Dreamers are allowed to work at the Healer's Conclave, are Visitors allowed to help out too?

Question now that the event is up

[whose_son_am_i]

Would simply giving 'magic' energy to the crystal work at all to help stabilize things, or is that not an option--it has to be 'regained' abilities.

[devilishkouhai]

when vaeros asks for powers back is there any means of communication to him :O or even @ the crystal

BB trying 2 dm vaeros like: WHY DO U NEED MORE POWER THIS IS WAHT U GET!! FOR BEING TOO COCKY!!!! STUPID!

Re: The Fierys!

[whose_son_am_i]

Please point me to it if this is somewhere else, but I don't see anything in the information about putting a person's limbs back after a Fiery has detached them. Is it as simple as "hold arm up to shoulder. Arm reattaches."? is it something only a fiery can do?

Thank you!

Duel disks

[theheartofthecards]

Mods, I have a question for you! Before I continue with said question, gotta explain something with a summary:

In places like Domino City and some other location in another country, duel disks were used to create holographic monsters in a card game known as Duel Monsters. For the most part, it takes KaibaCorp’s technology to make it possible to feel something if your life points were taken away.

In certain places(like the inside of a virtual reality video game), the one who hold a certain card can bring forth a monster, ability, or whatever shown without the aid of a duel disk. Said monster/spell effect/etc is all real and not holographic. You’ll feel pain from their attacks and everything. Anyway, hope that’s enough tl;dr info to ask this question:

Yugi currently has a duel disk and a deck in his arsenal. Will the monsters he summon with his card or activated on his duel disk become holographic or real in the 4th wall event?

The reason I ask is cause if the monster and spells are real, then Yugi can actually be helpful and fight. If not allowed, it’s all good cause I’m having fun regardless.

Thank you!

[babel_hacker]

Hello! Since Visitors can keep their canon powers, does that apply to devices/tools that let them use said power?

Atsuro have a modded COMP (totally not 3DS). Its main feature are demon summoning and a harmonising feature. The harmoniser "harmonise" the energy waves within a limited range, letting the user receive less damage from enemies and deal more damage to them (they can still die, tho).

I can work with demon summoning limitations, I just need to know if Atsuro can keep his COMP for self-defence.

[placation]

hi mods for no reason at all if a visitor dies do they go to inferna or just respawn or die die or what

cannot stress enough: no reason

cw: severe injury question

[nterwebz]

Would the Healer's Conclave be able to reattach/heal anything up to and including a severed limb from a fight? If yes, would/could it leave a scar? Asking for a friend.

[capillatus]

hello! i have left open the possibility for kurogiri to be convinced not to give up his quirk. however, i don't know whether anyone will succeed in convincing him. is there a deadline for responding to the donated regains comment with his decision? thanks!

[requiemofanightmare]

I'm sorry if I missed this somewhere, but it came up in a thread:

Is there a way to know in the dreams and fears bonding threads if their connection is "working"? Or will the world only show signs of recovery (if any) after the visitors are gone.

[justdontgiveame]

Hey mods, a question here: As I understand it, characters building connections via the quest board messages, helping [other characters or game NPCS] get to the clinic, fighting the antagonist NPCS and helping calm down [nature/the lake] also helps restore Somnius. Does this also count towards the "Yes/No" ending possibilities for the event itself?

Like if neither of my characters actively give up their powers but do [events mentioned above there re- town/npcs/nature], is that just for like flavor text or does it have an effect itself on the event outcome?

edit: Another few questions, ty mods! If the "Power isn't returned" is the bad ending that causes [Somnius/the game setting] to collapse, what can we expect if that's met? I know the IG actions have consequences, aside from just knowing there are consequences for each (for lack of a term here) route, I'm left curious. Is there a threshold for "yes powers were returned" to "no, powers were kept" that causes either ending condition to be met? Thanks for any info you guys can provide, the event has been entertaining so far!

[placation]

hello it's me again

is it possible to give up one power under a larger umbrella of powers? or is it all or nothing..... (please say it's possible i wanna do something funny)