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: Jaq
Contact: ImpureTale on Plurk or impuretale on Discord
About Me: Writer, artist, lover of movies tv and games, EST time zone!

Character Name: Rumpelstiltskin/Mister Gold
Canon: Once Upon a Time
Character Age: 250+
General Info: Mister Gold is at least to some degree the cause of a lot of the plot in Once Upon a Time, or associated with the causes in some way. A magic user of considerable age and knowledge, he tends to be the authority on how magic works or does not, but that does not mean he welcomely shares said information. The Dark One is often regarded as a trickster, someone who is willing to make a deal with you and offer magic to fix something you need through magical means. But the caveat is that magic always has a price and you have to sit with that if it inevitably goes wrong. The thing is: He's not really a trickster. Magical dealmaker, yes. But in truth the only thing that tricked you was your inability to read fine print, and that is not his responsibility. Is his magic more drawn to desperate people liable to make desperate decisions? Yes. But he did warn you. That was more than what he got.

Gold is gruff and not terribly nice (but he is nicer than he thinks he is) -- and he assumes most people are not nice either and just very good at hiding it. So don't be too put off if he regards you with suspicion at first. But he is conversely drawn to people that show their best regardless. If you're kind to him he won't trust it but he hopes it's real. The trouble is that like most hurt people, he may test those boundaries because he can't trust it.

He's a homebody and seems most in his element when he has work to do, and even with magic he thinks some things should be done by hand and appreciated as such. He comes from a time where hunting, growing, and foraging were just ways of life, so his arrival went smoother than most and gave him an immediate outlet to dive into while ignoring people. His home is presently very well set up and thanks to the charity of acquaintances he even has power and water now.

He also tends to dive into work as a stim of sorts; it stops him thinking about things he should be working through (lots of mourning, trauma, etc), so he often looks very at ease and very focused but he's probably disassociating.

Housing Plans: Gold lives in a quaint little hill house with his son that he takes a lot of pride in keeping. Probably the best way to get on his bad side is to mess with his stuff, so the events always make him grumpy. You can probably see him preparing the home for winter.

Desired CR: Working relationships, friendships, whatever it is when well-meaning meddlers don't take "go away" as an answer. NOTE: Because of recent events, he's gone from being in a second-mourning himself to suddenly acknowledging he has a number of relationships where he is more needed, which makes him more competent and less likely to focus on his own problems.

Initial Plans: He works at the tailor's shop, but he might be giving serious thoughts to going into business for himself because he is tired of his workspace becoming less friendly every time the locals decide to be suspicious of them.

Event Plans: Open to fourth wall characters! But please let me know they are coming, and I would rather nothing that is going to completely derail current CR.

RP Wishlist: -Always on board to have him deal with his many issues. Whether that's mourning, PTSD, being homesick, etc etc etc
-At the last intense event several people saw him as the Dark One and I would love to see that come up again
-He is in a relationship! And very much uncertain in how to go about courtship in the more public-facing sense but at the very least interested in putting his best foot forward for that.

Anything else:

Eilowny should probably check in on him in general. But also if she learns that he's thinking about having his own business, she'd encourage him to keep considering it.

So far he has no definite ideas what he would even pursue if he did. What is needed in town?

:/a Eilonwy would just suggest stuff that was in season. Like gloves/coats, things like that.

OOC Intro & Intense Event Plotting November 2024

Jaq

Mister Gold | Once Upon a Time

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