April Intense Event Plotting Meme

[labyrinevents]

• 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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Nicholaj | Arrakis Faylare (OC)

[fallendragon]

Player Name and Pronouns: Nicholaj (she/her)
Contact: Nicholaj, Discord@25thNicholaj, or PM, feel free to add me on both plurk and discord!
Timezone: PST, but I'm a bit of a snail and my schedule is inconsistent.

Character Name: Arrakis Faylare
Canon: Original
Character Age: 23ish, due to his magic slowing his aging, and a personal choice, his age is a bit complicated.
General Info: Arrakis was the unwanted sixth son of the noble Faylare house. He was gifted dangerous magic by a nameless goddess and transformed into a being of magic tied to his human soul. Now he's a shadow of his human past wrapped inside a dangerous magical energy that tied to his soul. He still looks human, aside from glowing eyes that look like there is a piece of wind trapped inside them, but his form is an echo of his humanity crafted from his memories. He clings to his human side and pretends to be a normal person who simply uses magic, instead of revealing how deeply his magic is tied to his entire being. His dangerous magic is indirectly responsible from the destruction of his world and he hides his sins and many insecurities behind a friendly smile and love for life.
Permissions Post: link


Event Plans:

Reflecting Back - Arrakis will reflect his younger, seventeen year old self when he was a noble and before he was chosen as a mage. He was desperate for his family's acceptance and he did anything his family asked of him, becoming the Faylare's attack dog for everything that they didn't want to lead back to one of the more influential members of the family. He will play the dutiful son and be polite and friendly to everyone but there's a rebellious sharpness to his act, hinting at his true bitterness underneath. Arrakis was very jaded at this time and believed that any form of affection for him was a lie or only because he was useful. He still longed for others to love him though, and since this is before he learns about his early death, he's more selfish, even if he doesn't expect anything to last.

He will protect the surface his past self is reflected on, he may even try to hide it if he can. When his reflection is destroyed, Arrakis will lose his resentful side for a bit. It's an integral part of his character so I don't want him to lose his memory for too long but I will have a prompt for when Arrakis's memory loss where his friendly mask is much less polished as he desperately tries to hide the ugly person he is.

Doppelgangers - I'm bringing in Arrakis's secret lover Sheliak for this. Arrakis will be able to tell he's not real from the way his magic feels slightly off but he doesn't care. He's just glad to have even an echo of him here and the two of them fought all the time. He will even look like he's enjoying himself while the water mage attacks him. It's fine. Arrakis will be fiercely protective of Sheliak and will not easily forgive anyone who harms him.

Changelings - At this point Arrakis is used to everything here trying to kill him so he won't be phased by the changelings. The fact that they are taking over the locals as well is annoying and he will incapacitate them instead of killing them, incase they are the real thing. He doesn't need to add accidental murder to the list of reasons for the locals not to trust them.

The Locals' Response - Arrakis will not like being detained, no matter how nice the conditions are. He will go along with it though, that way he can protect his fellow dreamers if they decide it would be easier to just get rid of them. He will refuse the golden bracelets. Memories are precious to him.

Non Event Plans: I've been struggling with this game lately so I'm thinking of saying that Arrakis's recovery from losing his magic took longer than he expected and starting fresh with the event. If anyone wants to keep any old threads please let me know and I can hold onto them. I'm also still interested in Arrakis's recovery log if anyone still wants to tag into that. If you're interested, here's the link.

In general, Arrakis is thrilled to have his magic back and he's going to lean more towards his magic side for awhile. His consciousness is constantly in a tug of war between his magical side, and his human side that his crafted from his memories of when he was human. Normally Arrakis clings to his human side more and pretends he's a normal human. Afraid that he might lose his magic again, Arrakis is less willing to rein in his magic and there will be subtle signs in his mannerisms that he's not as human as he seems.

Anything else: I'm going on a trip next month and I plan on going on hiatus, so if there is anything you want to do with Arrakis before that, just let me know.

[morganknight]

Morgan could be the one to deal with the doppelganger and the resulting fallout from it. It's the sort of thing his philosophy is pretty prepared for, so could potentially not be a total disaster in the end.

[fallendragon]

Ooh yes that sounds great! It may create some tense CR between Arrakis and Morgan for a bit but the fallout could be fun to play with if you are alright with that.

Also, sorry I crashed last event orz. Let me know if there are any details you want handwaved from our last thread.

[morganknight]

Morgan isn't doing any of this to make friends! It's the Right Thing to Do (tm) is all.

I figure they did well on the last event! And that's all I had thought about!

[fallendragon]

Saying it's the right thing to do will be interesting with Arrakis. He has some deep reservations with that concept. Whether or not a dangerous magical being like him has the right to exist is an eternal dilemma for the mages and Morgan going after Sheliak will trigger those buried feelings.

That sounds good to me!