buttrinthum | April Intense Event Plotting Meme

• INTENSE EVENT PLOTTING MEME •

Welcome to our April Intense Event Plotting meme! This post is our monthly CR meme for everyone, and serves as a place to make some plans for our next event which will go live on April 12th. 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
Reflecting Back
Peering into reflective surfaces (mirrors, windows, water, etc.) causes Dreamers to see a past version of themselves.
They are unable to resist in engaging in conversation with their reflections.
Engaging with a reflection for too long will cause the Dreamer to begin to embody that version of themselves, eventually forgetting who they are and losing touch with reality.
This trance can only be broken by shattering the reflective surface which caused it.
Dreamers are hesitant to destroy reflective surfaces, and doing so will cause them to temporarily lose memories about the time in their life that was being reflected.
Doppelgangers
Doppelgangers are appearing in Visium and Lumindeas, impersonating anyone who is significant to the Dreamer they're following.
They obsessively follow Dreamers and insist on being close with them at all times.
They are extremely temperamental, prone to aggression or despair.
If accused of being a doppelganger, attacked, or otherwise confronted or displeased, they will viciously attack the Dreamer. They can use any ability that the person they are copying can use (please use your best judgment and nerf appropriately).
The only way to rid oneself of a doppelganger is to kill them, or viciously rebuke them, insulting them and demanding they leave, no matter how much they cry and protest.
Changelings
Creatures called changelings are replacing all living things in Lumindeas and Visium - locals, animals, plants. The originals are incapacitated and hidden, replaced by the changelings.
They are extremely violent, and will only tolerate Dreamers for a few minutes before attacking with the intent to kill.
They can only be gotten rid of by being killed.
Even plants may come to life and attack (use your imagination!)
The Locals' Response
Dreamers may be detained for long periods of time at the Light & Whole clinic if they are suspected of being doppelgangers, though conditions are very good, and they are allowed to use their devices.
At one point, doppelgangers and changelings make their way into the clinic, threatening the genuine Dreamers and locals being detained or seeking refuge there.
Meanwhile, locals are encouraging Dreamers to come up with plans for how to differentiate each other from doppelgangers.
Dreamers are also offered golden bracelets to wear, which will allow them to identify any doppelganger, and will prevent themselves from being copied.
Wearing the bracelet will lead to temporary memory loss, confusion, etc., which locals are aware of.
Wearing the bracelet will also cause each Dreamer who does so to lose one significant memory until it is returned during a future event.
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Welcome to our Intense event plotting! This is the first month that we are focusing on an Intense event that is not taking into account new players due to our new app cycle schedule. We will have a feedback comment for the plotting form, in case you think I should add or remove different elements from the form that may work better for these months.

Also regarding the event: Please use your best judgment when writing your doppelganger-related threads. Remember that threads should primarily be between characters that are actually in-game; playing the doppelgang version of your character for certain threads is also an option.

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Character Name: James Sunderland
Canon: Silent Hill 2 (2024)
Character Age: mid 30s
General Info: James acts like he’s trapped inside of a dream. He has a stilted way of talking, and generally just comes across as very, very off. He’s plagued with a number of issues, most of them self-inflicted. He’s taken from one of the new endings in the remake, specifically Stillness, which if you’re familiar with the original but aren’t familiar with what Bloober has added to it, asks the question “how do we make In Water more depressing?”

Massive SH2R spoilers, cw for discussions of suicide and abuse

Stillness is the only NG+ ending that is itself locked behind a specific ending. In the context of the story the remake is trying to tell, the implications are that James took his own life in In Water, before things "reset" on him. James himself doesn't really remember this, at least not clearly.

Stillness opens similarly to Bloober's take on In Water, with James talking to someone unseen in the back seat. It's revealed to be Mary, who isn't alive so much as she's a vivid hallucination. He expresses profound remorse for her murder, and cries over it, which is a huge change from the complete dead inside behavior he shows in In Water. Mary then talks to him from the back seat and comforts him. While they're talking, the letter that called James to the town of Silent Hill in the first place reappears in the passenger seat, and James realizes he's never going to escape from Silent Hill and opts to drive into Toluca Lake for a second time.

For the most part, James is even tempered and doesn’t get angry much, unless he’s given information that seems to be an attempt to snap him out of the delusions he’s trapped himself in. On the plus side, he’s unlikely to be asking complete strangers if they’ve seen his wife, at least for the time being. That’ll probably change once he starts thinking about what him being around in this place means, but for now he’s going to be that bizarre, barely functioning guy who doesn’t fear danger whatsoever.

Permissions Post: here

Event Plans: Unlike Harry, James is going to suffer. He’ll be entranced by the mirrors, showing him the life he used to have before his wife became ill. He’s not much of a fighter, but in an attempt to do something positive, he’ll be wearing the golden bracelet, but this will come at the expense of him forgetting the big plot point in SH2, since I want this to be a surprise for his canonblind CR, I’m being vague. IYKYK.

I might play with the doppelganger thing a bit; Silent Hill 2 is a game that is pretty light on characters who could be considered significant to James, the two being Mary and Maria. As a result, I think it would be more interesting to have him by haunted by himself from another loop. My current thoughts would be from Rebirth specifically, though if that doesn’t work out he is at the very least empathetic enough to rebuke nasty thing other doppelgangers will say to people he’s met before. He doesn’t even need to know them particularly well to offer this, fortunately.

Also his and Maria’s cat is probably getting kidnapped by a changeling. Please help him and Maria find their cat Jimmy. (James did not name the cat).

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