buttrinthum | OOC Intro & Intense Event Plotting November 2024

• 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 Player Name and Pronouns: Contact: Your best contact. Be sure to let others know if they can add you! About Me: Your hobbies, timezone, where you're from, whatever else you want to go here. Character Name: Canon: Character Age: General Info: Their personality, role in the story, what they do etc Housing Plans: 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. Desired CR: 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? Initial Plans: Will they get a job? Teach at the school? Cause mischief? Event Plans: 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? RP Wishlist: List out some scenarios you really want to RP, or a character arc you'd like to work on! Anything else: 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 Player Name and Pronouns: Contact: Your best contact for plotting Character Name: Canon: Character Age: General Info: Their personality, role in the story, what they do etc Are you planning on applying in the future? Apping? Re-apping? Or are you just here for a fun temporary time? Setting Interests: What are you interested in interacting with within the setting itself beyond the current event situation? Event Plans: What things happening during the event are you interested interacting with? Anything else: Put up a funny gif or do whatever you want here. You can link your permissions post and a recent top level too.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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:

Edited 2024-11-11 00:04 (UTC)

Character Name: James Sunderland
Canon: Silent Hill 2 (remake continuity)
Character Age: unclear; appears to be early 30s
General Info: James on first appearance is a very quiet and unassuming man. However, any discussion with him that goes on long enough shows the frays in his personality. He has trouble remembering things he shouldn’t actually have trouble remembering, and seems to coast through life with a strange, dreamlike haze. It makes him come across as incredibly awkward, and as though he has a heavy burden on his shoulder he’s entirely unaware of.

At his heart, he’s a compassionate man, but James doesn’t understand people enough to actually be able to truly understand distress when he can’t even recognize his own.

Are you planning on applying in the future? Planning on bringing him in in January!

Setting Interests: Honestly the idea of James interacting with a world that he doesn’t understand (or want) interests me.
Event Plans: Fighting monsters (maybe), trying to figure out where he is… you know, the standard things. He’s not going to understand how he went from Silent Hill to someplace entirely different, though the sheer amount of chaos going on will mean that he’s actually going to be of some use; he knows how to get out of dodge against enemies you can’t easily fight, and would be willing to help people get out of trouble.

Anything else: I don’t have a permissions set up in his journal yet, but be mindful of the major content warnings he comes with, including suicidal ideation, mental illness, and themes of domestic violence.

OOC Intro & Intense Event Plotting November 2024

Harry Du Bois | Disco Elysium

James Sunderland | Silent Hill 2