buttrinthum | FEBRUARY 2025 OOC INTRO AND PLOTTING POST

• PLOTTING & CR MEME •

Welcome to our February CR meme! This post is our monthly CR meme for everyone, an OOC intro for our New Players and also serves as a place to make some plans for our next event which will go live on February 15th. Below you will see the Event planning form as well as an Event Outline for our upcoming event.
• Event Outline •

Expand to see our Event Summary
A Royal Audience
A Royal Forum is being held in Stellari where Seravo himself will appear - Dreamers are encouraged to attend
There is food and drink, mingling is encouraged
Seravo announces that he will be returning the powers that Dreamers sacrificed during the November event
Throughout the month, Dreamers who sacrificed their regained abilities will feel the powers slowly begin to return, and they will have returned fully by the New Moon
Seravo opens the forum to questions - one question will be allowed per character, with short Servo threads in response; please keep IC questions to IC knowledge
Flower Petal Affliction
cw: disease, blood, body horror
Dreamers who are withholding something important / hiding a secret will develop a cough and begin to feel sick
Locals are aware of the disease and warn that it will progress quickly unless the truth is told
The afflicted feel symptoms such as fever, headache, weakness, difficulty breathing, and a persistent cough which produces flower petals and blood, as roots grow in the lungs
The disease also causes increased feelings of mistrust for the people around you
The afflicted WILL die if the disease is not cured, and it can only be cured by confessing the afflicted's hidden truths
Crystal Corruption
Corrupted clusters of crystal begin appearing in the swamp, where local workers are stationed, tasked with destroying it - Dreamers are asked to help
Getting close to the corrupted crystal will cause feelings of mistrust to grow between the Dreamers working together, worsening the longer they are exposed
Dreamers must work in pairs of twos or threes to clear corrupted crystal
Dreamers will help remove corrupted crystal from the swamp by either crushing clusters, helping snakes who are afflicted with the crystal, skimming the waters for crystal clusters, or removing crystal clusters from trees
Crystal clusters are collected in small bags that are to be returned in exchange for a small amount of cords (up to three bags)
Crystal clusters are also appearing in Lumindeas, which Dreamers are also asked to help clear
Crystal rings (similar to fairy rings) can only be cleared by two Dreamers standing in the middle and telling a truth
Crystal in the woods can only be cleared without using magic
Domestic animals are infected with the crystal and must have it cleared, as well as wolves from the woods, which much be healed so they don't spread the parasite
Those who clear the crystal in town are asked to bring them to a purification dance, where they will be paired up and taught a dance similar to the tango; it increases trust between the partners
Truth & Trust
The Uweih religion is holding truth & trust exercises at the gold crystal to promote healing from the flower petal disease
The event has the atmosphere of a festival, with music, food, games, and other pageantry
Dreamers are encouraged to participate in activities such as trust falls, telephone, two truths & a lie, etc. (there will be a list of activities and directions for how they work)
Participating in these activities will help Dreamers start to feel better if they are afflicted with the disease, but only if they've addressed the hidden truth that is making them sick
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There will be a header comment for all questions aimed at Seravo on the event post. The NPC will be available for one question per player. In order to keep the tag load manageable, the threads may be kept fairly short. Seravo reserves the right to ignore or talk around any question he doesn't want to answer. Only those who attend the Audience can ask questions of Seravo.

All questions/thread starters should be posted before February 18th 11:59pm CST. After the end of February, any threads with the NPC will be considered wrapped.

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Player Name and Pronouns: Jaq | She/They
Contact: PM, Plurk, Discord - impuretale
Timezone: EST
Interests: Reading, writing, movies, video games, tv

Character Name: 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 will be the first to tell you that he 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 it is thanks to the charity of friends he even has power and water. Of late he has also been offering some assistance and services but more in the spirit of helping everyone help themselves.

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.
Permissions Post: Link

State Of: Gold remains rather staunch in pulling together with everyone else, uncertain of what turns the world is going to take, so doing what he can to help bolster things like food supply. He has offered his services as a tailor from home since losing his job. He is also presently without his Dark One immunity from death because he sacrificed it. That said, he is weirdly chill about that and mostly seeing that all corners are checked for people in his immediate vicinity. He is in a still blooming relationship with Stolas, feeling his way through that and using what freedom there is to be happy where he may, but so much focus is going into just...seeing that his home and son are safe and taken care of, whatever curveballs come up the pitch. He may have more than once disappeared into his projects of late, though.

CR Desires/RP Wishlist: Working relationships, friendships, whatever it is when well-meaning meddlers don't take "go away" as an answer. He has been more active in building the present community but willing to take part and actually opening up are two very different things.

Non-Event Plans: None presently but I do need to get rolling again.

Event Plans: In A Royal Audience he will attend to ask a question but also observe, gather what information he can and try to get the ground under his feet again. In Flower Petal Affliction, he is keeping no major secrets at present, but is fairly good at taking care where needed, esp with regard to close CR, especially kids. I would love to throw him in the woods to clear some crystal clusters in Crystal Corruption so that he will have to try to handle them without magic, but I could throw him in other locations, too.

Anything else:

FEBRUARY 2025 OOC INTRO AND PLOTTING POST

Jaq | Mister Gold