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

Will | Metaphor: ReFantazio

[eldanring]

Character Name: Will
Canon: Metaphor: ReFantazio
Character Age: 18
General Info: Will is our beloved main character, the metaphor himself. Will himself is an elda (which look the most like normal humans), a heavily discriminated against group within the fantasy setting. He's on a quest to kill the charismatic Louis Guiabern to save his best friend, the Prince of the kingdom, from a horrible wasting curse. Generally he's well-meaning, if a little empty-headed sometimes! He will make friends with anyone. That is a threat.

You can find his info and permissiosnhere! Since the canon is so new, I have a spoiler opt-out if necessary! His canon point is early September, if that helps, but I can hold off on mentioning stuff from even earlier if needed

Housing Plans: As long as Fidelio doesn't kill him first, he's squeezing into a house with the Magnus brothers and C4-621

Desired CR: Anything!!! Everything!! Will is brand new and really hurting for a lack of friends. Or enemies. He's trying to figure out this place and how it relates back to what he's used to, and find a way to get back his magic, and just general... adjust. Would love to meet some more modern characters for the dissonance, villains to kick him around a little bit while he's still de-powered, or anything. He's also a decent cook.

Initial Plans: Actually have a house, make Kazuya stop being an asshole, get his goddamn book back.

Event Plans: 4th wall characters a-okay! He's going to be bouncing around trying to help out, but he has no powers yet to sacrifice. So open to anything. He's not really keen on there being another giant face in the sky after coming from a canon with one :/

RP Wishlist:
- Characters who are deep into magic! His world has some neat and complicated magic systems that might be interesting to discuss
- Modern characters. Will was obsessed with a "fantasy" book that descibes a fictional world... that looks and sounds just like a modern one! How funny. Meeting characters who seem to come from that kind of world would be soo interesting
- Will got smacked with the transformation potion and has a dormant dragon transformation just ready to pop out, but nothing has pushed him into figuring that out yet. Maybe you can!
- More friends but also more enemies! Bring me your villains

Anything else:

[relicofdata]

PROTAGONIST!!!

Hi, I only watched a little bit of Metaphor gameplay, so I don't know a whole lot but it seems to be a really fun and interesting game and I love Will from what I seen so far!! FUNNY LITTLE GUY!!

Will you be interested in a person that is literally a stereotypical model of human beings? No literally, look at her. She's literally just a bland NPC.

I'm also in a similar boat as Will, Hakuno doesn't have any powers returned to her yet so she's kind of useless~

[eldanring]

he's just a little guy. just a lil guy

Oh that's super interesting though, since Metaphor does get into some stuff about identity and stuff... He'll be friends with her No Matter What anyway!!

[relicofdata]

They both seen some shit! I think it'll be interesting since Hakuno's whole character development is gaining a strong sense of "self" because she had no memories and was forced to kill people for survival! So I think it'll be interesting!

Hakuno will tell you about her ordinary days on the Moon. Yes, Moon. Not Earth.

[eldanring]

Will doesn't even know you can GO to the moon!

But Will knows a few people who have been forced to do bad stuff by circumstances.. and really is determined to help them and make things better so he's gonna stick to her like glue <3

[relicofdata]

The year 2030 bby--

OH WILL, YOU ARE SUCH A GOOD BOY!!! I can sense a wonderful friendship. *holds Will*

[eldanring]

*is held*

BUT HONESTLY looking forward to it!! We can always do event stuff or plan a log/whatever

[relicofdata]

I'm debating if I really want to do 4th wall stuff on Hakuno since she doesn't really have any powers to defend herself with or combat skills, so she's basically useless lol

I plan on opening a basic log soon, so you can always throw Will into that once I finally write it sometime today or tomorrow

[eldanring]

I can toss him at your log for sure!! Sounds excellent

[relicofdata]

Here it is!

I just kind of have basics down since it's just a basic log just to meet with people, so if you have any specific plans, go ahead and wildcard it up, or we can yolo it!

[eldanring]

awesome!! i will put it on my to-do list...

[reresurrected]

I OFFER U ONE MOM FRIEND since I'm apparently just coming for the entire Metaphor cast here! Baldr himself is the retainer to his childhood best friend who also happens to be the crown prince of an empire, so he very much gets the whole "will do anything for your Prince/best friend" thing on a personal level...

[eldanring]

You. You get it.

But pleaaase he could use a mom friend. Especially if he's gonna be hanging out with the rest of the cast!! Though Will is a bit. How do I put it. Easier to approach than the brothers

[reresurrected]

Look this man literally accidentally caused the destruction of the world in one timeline because he's so devoted to his prince-- (it's fine, they fixed it!)

But yes, Baldr is very friendly and easy-going and gets along with pretty much everyone so it likely won't take much to initiate a social link on his end! He also loves to cook so they've got that much in common, too, plus he likes to TEACH people how to cook, so: profit?

[eldanring]

Kind of a mood

Oh my god perfect... Will looooves learning new recipes!! cant believe Baldr is gonna win over the metaphor cast with the power of cooking