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magic, madness, heaven, sin
JULY 2022 EVENT
IMAGE DESCRIPTORS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Prompt One
[Image One: A statue of Lady Justice with her sword against a man's throat. ]
[Image Two: A pair of hands covered in blood. ]
Prompt Two
[Image One: Two people trying to reach one another being pulled back by multiple, disembodied hands. ]
[Image Two: A feminine figure lying on a boardwalk above the ocean. ]
Prompt Three
[Image One: A pair of black scales held by a statue. ]
[Image Two: A single hand reaching up from the water, implying drowning. ]
GOOD AND EVIL
FORTUNE'S FOOL
OUR OWN PRISONS
CODINGPrompt One
[Image One: A statue of Lady Justice with her sword against a man's throat. ]
[Image Two: A pair of hands covered in blood. ]
Prompt Two
[Image One: Two people trying to reach one another being pulled back by multiple, disembodied hands. ]
[Image Two: A feminine figure lying on a boardwalk above the ocean. ]
Prompt Three
[Image One: A pair of black scales held by a statue. ]
[Image Two: A single hand reaching up from the water, implying drowning. ]
WHEN: July
WHERE: All over
CONTENT WARNINGS: Violence, revenge, possible torture, possible death, mental manipulation
WHERE: All over
CONTENT WARNINGS: Violence, revenge, possible torture, possible death, mental manipulation
An excerpt from the book Thus Comes the Reckoning:
Sleepers will also feel violently protective of those they love. They will want to make sure that the violent crimes happening to other people doesn't happen to their people and they might go to such extremes as locking their loved ones up so that nothing can get to them. It's an obsessive need to protect and not let go. Someone might even feel so inclined as to kill their friends just to make sure that no one else can hurt them.
On the flip side, those who manage to resist the violent urges will be more inclined to help those who are violent. Even if you are someone who has never wanted to help another person, you will be drawn to do good. It's not impossible to talk others down, to sway them to being better people and to remembering who they are. It's just a lot of work. But still, those who are impacted by the good will feel that same need to protect others; only for them, it doesn't have to necessarily be someone they know. They want to do the right thing, to protect people from themselves. Unlike the evil, they will know there are limits, and they will not hurt others in their attempt to protect them. But they may end up being willing to, possibly uncharacteristically, sacrifice themselves to do so.
QUICK FACTS: 1. You can only be impacted by The Good or The Evil at one time. Someone who is Good can be corrupted into becoming Evil. If someone is talked down from being Evil, they can either go back to being their normal selves, or they can become impacted by The Good instead. This can happen as many times in the month as possible, but they can only be Good or Evil at one time. You can not be both at once.
2. Characters who can usually heal demons/possessions/etc. can cure Evil in people. Their powers will work the same as they would in their canon/from their blood powers. Game based items that would normally cure corruption however will NOT work to cure Evil. They will still work to cure corruption/beasthood.
3. The Reckoning can still punish you. Just because you're being influenced by outside forces won't matter to her. If she catches you doing something bad and it isn't for revenge purposes, she will punish you as she sees fit. This is left up to player interpretation.
Are we inherently good or evil? Are we hard-wired for empathy? Or is violent behavior our innate reaction when the world has done us wrong? This is something that has been debated for centuries, even in the times Before Sodder. Have we evolved since the Dreamless World? Since the Nightmare? Have the Pthumerians and their blessings made us more peaceful and understanding?Sleepers will find themselves encouraged towards violence. Many will be drawn to do evil. They will feel a pull to hurt others, particularly those who have hurt them first. Anger will seem like a natural state and many will find that they have lost all ability to reason when they become even minorly frustrated. Vigilante justice will seem like a great idea. Did someone hurt your loved one? Then tear them apart! Did a person borrow something from you and never return it? End them. Criminal activity will skyrocket, particularly violent criminal activity, throughout the month of July. People will feel more inclined to steal, to damage property, to kill, and to get revenge. Torturing others will seem like a perfectly reasonable idea. It is the month to do so and it might even feel good to hurt other people.
While it is true that our world is more generous and caring than the ones we have read about in the Dreamless World, where in spite of our shortages, we want for nothing that we truly need, the very existence of corruption and beasthood should speak of our true natures and of the true natures of Sleepers. There is no time that this is more prominent in our world than in the month of July, when the Reckoning holds sway.
It is unclear if it is the unbearable heat, the Pthumerian's influence, or perhaps just our true selves coming forth, but each July is the prelude to chaos. The pleasantries die off, the generosity wanes, and we forget the lessons of our more kind and gentle benefactors. Fist fights over minor disagreements, people attacking one another with weapons when they don't get their way or wait too long in line, and murders over the loss of a game. Does the summer make monsters of us all? Or does the Beast Moon simply encourage what is already inside of us?
Sleepers will also feel violently protective of those they love. They will want to make sure that the violent crimes happening to other people doesn't happen to their people and they might go to such extremes as locking their loved ones up so that nothing can get to them. It's an obsessive need to protect and not let go. Someone might even feel so inclined as to kill their friends just to make sure that no one else can hurt them.
On the flip side, those who manage to resist the violent urges will be more inclined to help those who are violent. Even if you are someone who has never wanted to help another person, you will be drawn to do good. It's not impossible to talk others down, to sway them to being better people and to remembering who they are. It's just a lot of work. But still, those who are impacted by the good will feel that same need to protect others; only for them, it doesn't have to necessarily be someone they know. They want to do the right thing, to protect people from themselves. Unlike the evil, they will know there are limits, and they will not hurt others in their attempt to protect them. But they may end up being willing to, possibly uncharacteristically, sacrifice themselves to do so.
QUICK FACTS: 1. You can only be impacted by The Good or The Evil at one time. Someone who is Good can be corrupted into becoming Evil. If someone is talked down from being Evil, they can either go back to being their normal selves, or they can become impacted by The Good instead. This can happen as many times in the month as possible, but they can only be Good or Evil at one time. You can not be both at once.
2. Characters who can usually heal demons/possessions/etc. can cure Evil in people. Their powers will work the same as they would in their canon/from their blood powers. Game based items that would normally cure corruption however will NOT work to cure Evil. They will still work to cure corruption/beasthood.
3. The Reckoning can still punish you. Just because you're being influenced by outside forces won't matter to her. If she catches you doing something bad and it isn't for revenge purposes, she will punish you as she sees fit. This is left up to player interpretation.
WHEN: July
WHERE: All over
CONTENT WARNINGS: Star-Crossed lovers, encouraged suicidal ideation, possible death
WHERE: All over
CONTENT WARNINGS: Star-Crossed lovers, encouraged suicidal ideation, possible death
Love. A complicated feeling that puts people into complicated circumstances. And yet, people will find themselves focused on this emotion more so than usual this month. For someone who is already in love, the emotions will become even stronger, almost overwhelming, wanting to burst out of them like a song. For those who were not in love before, they may find themselves suddenly easily falling for others. Maybe they will love multiple people or maybe just one, but love will be an all consuming emotion to those who fall victim to it.
The only problem is that love isn't always accepted. People who are deeply in love will suddenly start to feel persecuted and judged from those around them. They will feel as though their love is unallowed, that the person that means the most to them is being rejected by their family, their friends, by society itself. It doesn't matter if that's the truth: there's just something inside of people that makes them thoroughly convinced that their love is not meant to be. Star-Crossed. Unattainable.
There will be an increased urge to solidify that love as being real and unbreakable. Maybe this is done through fighting back against those who are saying no. Maybe it comes in the form of secretly saying vows and loved ones spiritually tying themselves together forever. Or maybe in the end, the only true way that lovers feel they can truly be together... is in death. All of these will seem like reasonable options— or maybe even the only option. Love is never ending, after all, even if life is.
QUICK FACTS: 1. Anyone can fall in love with anyone else. It doesn't have to be the character that you're already shipping with if all players agree! You can fall in love with someone you know, someone you've just met, or even a total stranger. Love is a gift to everyone, right??? Who needs pesky things like introductions.
2. You do not have to commit suicide. You can, of course, and many will definitely feel drawn to it with the basis of the prompt, but it is not required. Please make sure to mark all threads accordingly!
3. The persecution against your relationship does not have to be real. You can, however, tie this into the first prompt, and have even the smallest slights be reason to think that your love is persecuted. Similarly, people who are impacted by the first prompt may be more likely to actually shun those who are in love. Feel free to work with it however you see fit!
The only problem is that love isn't always accepted. People who are deeply in love will suddenly start to feel persecuted and judged from those around them. They will feel as though their love is unallowed, that the person that means the most to them is being rejected by their family, their friends, by society itself. It doesn't matter if that's the truth: there's just something inside of people that makes them thoroughly convinced that their love is not meant to be. Star-Crossed. Unattainable.
There will be an increased urge to solidify that love as being real and unbreakable. Maybe this is done through fighting back against those who are saying no. Maybe it comes in the form of secretly saying vows and loved ones spiritually tying themselves together forever. Or maybe in the end, the only true way that lovers feel they can truly be together... is in death. All of these will seem like reasonable options— or maybe even the only option. Love is never ending, after all, even if life is.
QUICK FACTS: 1. Anyone can fall in love with anyone else. It doesn't have to be the character that you're already shipping with if all players agree! You can fall in love with someone you know, someone you've just met, or even a total stranger. Love is a gift to everyone, right??? Who needs pesky things like introductions.
2. You do not have to commit suicide. You can, of course, and many will definitely feel drawn to it with the basis of the prompt, but it is not required. Please make sure to mark all threads accordingly!
3. The persecution against your relationship does not have to be real. You can, however, tie this into the first prompt, and have even the smallest slights be reason to think that your love is persecuted. Similarly, people who are impacted by the first prompt may be more likely to actually shun those who are in love. Feel free to work with it however you see fit!
WHEN: July
WHERE: All over, but particularly by the ocean.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Self-hatred, judgement, suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, possible drowning.
WHERE: All over, but particularly by the ocean.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Self-hatred, judgement, suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, possible drowning.
Everyone has personal flaws. Things about themselves they don't like, reactions they wish they didn't have, habits that they want to break. Sometimes the awareness of flaws can outweigh the awareness of our strengths as well. It's easy to get caught up in the feeling that we're less then perfect, that we'll never be able to fix ourselves no matter what we do.
This month, those feelings seem to be amplified. Sleepers will see flaws everywhere; in the people they love, in the Trenchies, and most heavily in themselves. Feelings of self-hatred and judgement will be amplified and even those who are usually confident in themselves will find that they're suffering from it. Sometimes these feelings may manifest as a simple bout of anger and depression; but for others, it can become more severe quickly.
Those who find themselves suffering heaviest from these feelings will feel called to the ocean. Maybe it's a desire to go back to a squid form, a place that's simpler and more straight forward. Or maybe it's the unbearable heat that's putting these thoughts in someone's head and they'll feel like going for a swim would cure it. But there's something inside everyone that knows that if they go into the ocean, they might not come back out again.
Sleepers will feel like the ultimate judgement is waiting for them out there. If they are seeing flaws more in themselves, being by the ocean will amplify feelings of suicide. If they're seeing flaws in everyone else, they might feel compelled to bring those people down to the ocean to drown them. The ocean, associated so heavily with rebirth, could be the very thing to cleanse people of their imperfections, after all. Maybe it would be a favor to everyone if someone just gave in and tried to fix themselves and others. For the good of Trench.
QUICK FACTS: 1. These feelings can cause people to become more corrupt. The longer they are exposed to these feelings, the closer they will get to high levels of corruption, and eventual beasthood.
2. Because these feelings can cause corruption, they can also be relieved through the same methods as corruption. Talking, touching, Moon Drops, get some therapy, whatever the player chooses.
3. People who do not address their feelings and/or who spend too much time by the ocean will inevitably deal with feelings of suicide and/or homicide. Please be sure to handle these topics appropriately and content warn your threads.
This month, those feelings seem to be amplified. Sleepers will see flaws everywhere; in the people they love, in the Trenchies, and most heavily in themselves. Feelings of self-hatred and judgement will be amplified and even those who are usually confident in themselves will find that they're suffering from it. Sometimes these feelings may manifest as a simple bout of anger and depression; but for others, it can become more severe quickly.
Those who find themselves suffering heaviest from these feelings will feel called to the ocean. Maybe it's a desire to go back to a squid form, a place that's simpler and more straight forward. Or maybe it's the unbearable heat that's putting these thoughts in someone's head and they'll feel like going for a swim would cure it. But there's something inside everyone that knows that if they go into the ocean, they might not come back out again.
Sleepers will feel like the ultimate judgement is waiting for them out there. If they are seeing flaws more in themselves, being by the ocean will amplify feelings of suicide. If they're seeing flaws in everyone else, they might feel compelled to bring those people down to the ocean to drown them. The ocean, associated so heavily with rebirth, could be the very thing to cleanse people of their imperfections, after all. Maybe it would be a favor to everyone if someone just gave in and tried to fix themselves and others. For the good of Trench.
QUICK FACTS: 1. These feelings can cause people to become more corrupt. The longer they are exposed to these feelings, the closer they will get to high levels of corruption, and eventual beasthood.
2. Because these feelings can cause corruption, they can also be relieved through the same methods as corruption. Talking, touching, Moon Drops, get some therapy, whatever the player chooses.
3. People who do not address their feelings and/or who spend too much time by the ocean will inevitably deal with feelings of suicide and/or homicide. Please be sure to handle these topics appropriately and content warn your threads.
2/2; cw: gun threats, satoko being the literal worst
the girl appears young enough, that's certainly true. fifteen - maybe sixteen, on a good day. her figure's not quite as petite as it once was, but the telltale signs are all there: cheeks that haven't quite lost their baby fat, a sense of style that looks more fitting for a young teen than a young woman. a slight flush across warm skin, vibrant and alive.
things proceed differently this go. she reaches down, casually pulling her skirt up before pulling out a weapon. a handgun - a tokarev tt-33, at that. old soviet manufacture, if it's the sort of thing the bachelor knows to look for. she cocks it and pushes the safety off with a single quick motion, raising to aim directly at the axeman's head before anyone's had time to react.
the crowd falls silent; one woman holds her breath. and then she speaks once more, and the illusion might as well have crumbled into dust... assuming he hadn't already seen past it, of course. ]
Let's try this again, shall we?
[ the tone of her voice barely changes. calm, cool, precise. like someone narrating a court document instead of threatening murder. ]
By my count, there are five of you. Yes? [ she taps the side of the handgun. ] Just so you're aware, there are eight bullets currently chambered in this gun. Normally, I'd be firmly against the idea of "shooting nonlethally." I'm far too frugal-minded for such wasteful behavior, you know. However-
[ there's no variation to her voice's tempo, no speeding up as her heart races. she looks, for all the world, like she might be having a normal conversation with a friend. ]
-at the moment, I'd really quite like to make my point clear. Clear enough for even imbeciles like you to understand. [ her gun stays level, stable and easy. ] If any of you try to lay a finger on me, the first four bullets will go to your friends. Of the remaining four, two should be enough to shatter both your kneecaps. At that point, I still have two bullets left to use at my own discretion while you bleed out. Have I made myself clear?
[ the crowd stays silent. after a moment, satoko sighs, pursing her lips and asking more firmly: ]
Go on, then. Speak up. Have I made myself clear?
cw gore and death, the satoko special
the world shifts with a sickening lurch.
or perhaps the lurch is in his head, the image of the dead girl staying firmly in place despite the rest of his mind thrown relentlessly back to the mounting dread he felt in the alley. it takes several beats to right himself, to ease the rapidly whirling confusion that tries to make sense of what he knows and what he knows, memories that now couldn't be and yet-
he storms out of the alley, sees further proof of madness in how the girl is alive and well. for a moment he swears he can superimpose it all, how her skull looked caved in, grey matter leaking against shards of her devastated skull. no, she is here, she pulls out a gun and the group before her suddenly go very still.
she is here, and she is rerouting the whole scene without batting an eye. she just speaks to the growling mob like wasting the bullets would be the only true inconvenience, as though she's walked in line with death too often to waste breath on sympathy, or faltering.
one man near the back flees, followed by another soon after, animal panic that suit the violence daniil swear he saw before. the last three are more stubborn, the man in the axe more so, teeth bared in a snarl. there's something too his tension that looks cornered, a big fish sensing a bigger fish maybe, which would be comical if not for every aspect of the gory situation.
his friends begin to back off, knives lowered. the man, slowly, lowers his axe. even still he bites out 'you're beasts. all of you.'
daniil steps closer to the scene, his own revolver in one hand, unnerved but with impossible to hide fascination. not at the crowd, not the gun, but the girl before him who seemingly denied death in a way his mind is still wrapping around.]
no subject
[ it's only when the two at the front start to back away that she allows herself to unwind. she sighs, more exasperated than relieved; she dusts her skirt with her left hand, making sure her presentation is acceptable for the outside world. it'd be an almost human gesture if it weren't for the present circumstances. the man's grip tightens on the axe's handle; he hisses something out-
"foul creatures, laying waste to our city-"
without hesitation, satoko's aim shifts to the left, squarely and surely pointing at one of his little henchlings' heads. her finger curls at the trigger, stopping just a hair shy of pulling, and she says- ]
I've made myself clear already, and I don't intend to repeat myself.
[ the man draws back- wavers in his convictions, for a moment- and finally spits at the ground in front of her. and then he turns, leaving with the others.
satoko doesn't turn away from them. her aim stays fixed and true. and when the bachelor begins to draw nearer, she speaks clearly and cruelly without even bothering to look at him- ]
And you? Are you here to clean the city up as well? [ an easy enough assumption, especially with how these weeks have been going. her jaw clenches. ] I'm really, truly not in the mood to play games. If you're here to pick a fight, just say it now so we can get this over with.
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it takes him beat to realize he's being spoken to, a glance back and still he swears he can see where the axe split her skull. he puts his gun away, a pointed gesture. frankly he has no interest in testing her, not in the slightest.]
I saw you die. [just blunt. he needs to chase this, whatever it is. maybe a hallucination, maybe not.] That man and his axe- and yet here you stand.
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and then he says those words-
"i saw you die."
-and for the first time tonight, for the first time in a good few weeks, satoko hojo's eyes light up. ]
My, did you now? [ even her voice has shifted, an almost predatory interest laden in each word. she turns on her feet, facing daniil head on - giving him her full attention. ] And you've even remembered the method. I must say, I'm quite impressed, sir.
[ in any other situation, it might pass as sarcasm. but here, the unfortunate truth is clear: she's being entirely genuine. for better or for worse, daniil dankovsky has made himself an Interesting Person to the young woman death forgot.
she holsters her own gun - a mutual courtesy. and then she gathers the ends of her skirt in her hand and curtsies, like some antiquated young socialite. ]
Satoko Hojo. A pleasure to meet you, sir. [ a beat, as she waits for him to return the favor. ] You're new around here, I take it?
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and as if to prove that the girl- Satoko Hojo apparently- confirms it. more so she says it like she's done this before. death, an old companion.]
Daniil Dankovsky. [he offers a little bow in turn, the sort of formal flair of the capitol, perhaps a touch tongue in cheek but for once not at the expense of his companion.] I am. I washed on shore this month to a most unpleasant welcome. Not quite the level you jus experienced.
[which turns him back around on that, fascination (obsession) clear in his tone.] I have never seen such a clear denial of death itself. It was as though you simply willed yourself beyond its reach. How?