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Entry tags:
- *event,
- alucard: timmy,
- anakin skywalker: michele,
- anakin solo: ellie,
- battler ushiromiya: chrono,
- chizuru yukimura: jelle,
- daniel larusso: jelle,
- goro akechi: kei,
- hector: laura,
- hotaru tomoe: xae,
- lance: charley,
- luz noceda: pedro,
- makoto kino: mesi,
- manabu yuuki: elle,
- maria thorpe: jaina,
- mercymorn the first: beth,
- murderbot: silyara,
- nico di angelo: xae,
- palamedes sextus: laura,
- pyrrha dve: silyara,
- scorpia: gore,
- sharon da silva: lunare,
- silco: prox,
- vi: aeri
he ate my heart
AUGUST 2022 EVENT
WE GLOW SO DIM
MONSTER WITHIN
LAVISH DESIRES
CODING
EXTRA WARNING:
IMAGE DESCRIPTORS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Prompt One
[Image One: The shore line lit up by some sort of bioluminescent organism. ]
[Image Two: A sunken pirate ship covered in algae, seaweed, and suffering from wood rot. ]
Prompt Two
[Image One: A tentacle wrapping around a persons hand. ]
[Image Two: A close up of someone's shoulder which is turning black and cracked and dripping water. ]
Prompt Three
[Image One: A statue of a human face, split in half, with a golden devil mask between the two halves. ]
[Image Two: A number of golden hands reaching up for a white sphere. ]
Prompt One
[Image One: The shore line lit up by some sort of bioluminescent organism. ]
[Image Two: A sunken pirate ship covered in algae, seaweed, and suffering from wood rot. ]
Prompt Two
[Image One: A tentacle wrapping around a persons hand. ]
[Image Two: A close up of someone's shoulder which is turning black and cracked and dripping water. ]
Prompt Three
[Image One: A statue of a human face, split in half, with a golden devil mask between the two halves. ]
[Image Two: A number of golden hands reaching up for a white sphere. ]
WHEN: August
WHERE: The Ocean
CONTENT WARNINGS: Deep diving, possible drowning, possible death
WHERE: The Ocean
CONTENT WARNINGS: Deep diving, possible drowning, possible death
Early on in the month, the waves start to have a strange look to them. They seem a little brighter, even at night, and it's then that it hits you: the waves are glowing. It's easy to at first to brush it off as the bioluminescence of certain types of plankton, but the way it moves and sparkles has an other-worldly quality to it that can't be explained by science. Those who look even closer at the glow will notice that it seems to be forming some sort of path into the watery depths.
Those who choose to follow the path despite the angry waves and awful storms that plague the seas this month will find that the ocean seems to be at its calmest along these illuminated, watery roads. Diving down to follow them won't require any equipment, as Sleepers will find that staying within the glowing path allows them to breathe under water when they might normally not have been able to. The pressure changes don't seem to be impacting anyone who follows the light either, allowing them access to deeper depths of the ocean than may have previously been explored.
Continuing to follow the path will lead Sleepers to a series of ship wrecks under the water. These ancient vessels are rotted and covered in seaweed, but anyone who is familiar with the cultures of Earth will notice that they seem to come from all over the world and their styles vary by multiple centuries. But all the ships seem to be covered in this same, strange glow that has brought people here.
Exploring the ships will lead to multiple different discoveries. There are chests filled with ancient artifacts: carvings of squids, statues of various sea creatures that feel a little off somehow, and stones carved with a strange text that is almost impossible to decipher. The artifacts are covered in strange, rust-looking stains that penetrate deep into the materials they're made of. These artifacts can be brought back to shore, and if someone were to try and ask the Trenchies what the writing said, they would only be able to say that these are clearly texts of the Old Ones from long before any recorded history that Trench has in its Archives. When asked about the sea creatures, they'll think it's obvious: these are Mariana's various forms from over the years. The off qualities are her unique takes as a Pthumerian on the creatures of the ocean.
Prolonged exposure to these statues of Mariana will cause people to become more bluntly honest, more open with their emotions, and often much more prone to large outbursts from said emotions, both good and bad. However, Sleepers who keep these statues near them will also find that they are able to keep more control of their blood powers. It's up to each individual if it's a worthy trade off.
If you leave the path, two things can happen: Sleepers will either turn into their squid selves and can continue to swim or they will drown. There will be nothing of interest outside of these paths, just typical ocean creatures, and maybe some of those monsters that have been crawling out of the watery depths as of late.
Those who choose to follow the path despite the angry waves and awful storms that plague the seas this month will find that the ocean seems to be at its calmest along these illuminated, watery roads. Diving down to follow them won't require any equipment, as Sleepers will find that staying within the glowing path allows them to breathe under water when they might normally not have been able to. The pressure changes don't seem to be impacting anyone who follows the light either, allowing them access to deeper depths of the ocean than may have previously been explored.
Continuing to follow the path will lead Sleepers to a series of ship wrecks under the water. These ancient vessels are rotted and covered in seaweed, but anyone who is familiar with the cultures of Earth will notice that they seem to come from all over the world and their styles vary by multiple centuries. But all the ships seem to be covered in this same, strange glow that has brought people here.
Exploring the ships will lead to multiple different discoveries. There are chests filled with ancient artifacts: carvings of squids, statues of various sea creatures that feel a little off somehow, and stones carved with a strange text that is almost impossible to decipher. The artifacts are covered in strange, rust-looking stains that penetrate deep into the materials they're made of. These artifacts can be brought back to shore, and if someone were to try and ask the Trenchies what the writing said, they would only be able to say that these are clearly texts of the Old Ones from long before any recorded history that Trench has in its Archives. When asked about the sea creatures, they'll think it's obvious: these are Mariana's various forms from over the years. The off qualities are her unique takes as a Pthumerian on the creatures of the ocean.
Prolonged exposure to these statues of Mariana will cause people to become more bluntly honest, more open with their emotions, and often much more prone to large outbursts from said emotions, both good and bad. However, Sleepers who keep these statues near them will also find that they are able to keep more control of their blood powers. It's up to each individual if it's a worthy trade off.
If you leave the path, two things can happen: Sleepers will either turn into their squid selves and can continue to swim or they will drown. There will be nothing of interest outside of these paths, just typical ocean creatures, and maybe some of those monsters that have been crawling out of the watery depths as of late.
WHEN: August
WHERE: All over
CONTENT WARNINGS: Body horror, mentions of potential cannibalism/vore, possible death, contagious curse
WHERE: All over
CONTENT WARNINGS: Body horror, mentions of potential cannibalism/vore, possible death, contagious curse
Soon after people start to explore the ships, a strange occurrence will start to sweep through the city. Locals start to mutter something about a curse, one that seems to only be impacting Sleepers. The early signs that there's something off is an increase in strength and stamina. For example, Sleepers will find that they might go to pick up a chair or a mug and it shatters in their hands. Some people may find that they are incapable of sleeping. Others might find they're able to move quicker and for longer periods than normal.
If they look themselves over, they will start to find small patches of skin that have started to gray and blacken. These patches will be cracked, almost scaley, and will be consistently damp no matter how hard you try to dry them off. As time passes, this odd rash will start to spread, taking over more and more of the body. The torso might start to swell and distort, making Sleepers feel particularly top heavy. And eventually, suckers will start to form on the arms and legs.
This curse isn't beasthood in its usual forms; instead, it seems to be some sort of malady in of the magical blood that Sleepers have been granted. If the blood of an infected Sleeper is looked at under a microscope, there will be black patches clinging to the cells, similar to the patches that people see on their skin. If it isn't stopped, the person suffering from the curse will ultimately turn into a monstrous form of their squid-selves: these monster forms are large, aggressive, and able to move on land. They will feel a hunger for destruction and some Sleepers may find in these forms that they are only satisfied if they feed on other, uncursed Sleepers.
There are two ways to lift the curse. One is through a thorough blood transfusion with a blood type that is compatible with your own. This becomes more difficult to do the closer to the monstrous form people get, both due to aggression from the curse, and also due to the fact that the black patches of skin are highly difficult to puncture. Once the blood is completely replaced by fresh blood, the skin patches will disappear over 48 hours and the Sleeper will be left feeling thoroughly exhausted.
The second way to lift the curse is through death. While these monster squid forms are difficult to kill, it is not impossible, and they are particularly susceptible to magic over weapons. Once a Sleeper has died, they can be reborn, and their blood will be completely free of the curse.
The blood malady can be spread outside of those who come into contact with the ship wrecks. People who touch a cursed Sleeper, particularly the scaley patches of skin, will also run the risk of being cursed. It takes roughly a week for the signs of the curse to show, and can spread as slowly or as rapidly as players choose.
If they look themselves over, they will start to find small patches of skin that have started to gray and blacken. These patches will be cracked, almost scaley, and will be consistently damp no matter how hard you try to dry them off. As time passes, this odd rash will start to spread, taking over more and more of the body. The torso might start to swell and distort, making Sleepers feel particularly top heavy. And eventually, suckers will start to form on the arms and legs.
This curse isn't beasthood in its usual forms; instead, it seems to be some sort of malady in of the magical blood that Sleepers have been granted. If the blood of an infected Sleeper is looked at under a microscope, there will be black patches clinging to the cells, similar to the patches that people see on their skin. If it isn't stopped, the person suffering from the curse will ultimately turn into a monstrous form of their squid-selves: these monster forms are large, aggressive, and able to move on land. They will feel a hunger for destruction and some Sleepers may find in these forms that they are only satisfied if they feed on other, uncursed Sleepers.
There are two ways to lift the curse. One is through a thorough blood transfusion with a blood type that is compatible with your own. This becomes more difficult to do the closer to the monstrous form people get, both due to aggression from the curse, and also due to the fact that the black patches of skin are highly difficult to puncture. Once the blood is completely replaced by fresh blood, the skin patches will disappear over 48 hours and the Sleeper will be left feeling thoroughly exhausted.
The second way to lift the curse is through death. While these monster squid forms are difficult to kill, it is not impossible, and they are particularly susceptible to magic over weapons. Once a Sleeper has died, they can be reborn, and their blood will be completely free of the curse.
The blood malady can be spread outside of those who come into contact with the ship wrecks. People who touch a cursed Sleeper, particularly the scaley patches of skin, will also run the risk of being cursed. It takes roughly a week for the signs of the curse to show, and can spread as slowly or as rapidly as players choose.
WHEN: August
WHERE: All over
CONTENT WARNINGS: Personality changes, mental manipulation, hoarding, obsessive anxiety, disassociation, depersonalization
WHERE: All over
CONTENT WARNINGS: Personality changes, mental manipulation, hoarding, obsessive anxiety, disassociation, depersonalization
The high waves seem to just be getting higher at the beginning of the month. Rougher and rougher seas start to cause something anyone who's lived around water will be familiar with: flash floods. These floods are large, powerful, and fill the streets of Trench. First-floors of buildings may get extreme damage, though they can be protected with physical and magical barriers if people are smart about it. The floods happen multiple times throughout the month without warning, so it may be good to get that protection built up sooner rather than later.
The after effects of these floods aren't just structural devastation though. People who get caught up in the water, particularly those who end up swallowing it, will have one word echoing in their mind on a regular basis: More.
More of what? That seems to be different for each individual. Maybe one person wants more and more food, anything from an extra slice of cake after dinner, to wanting to stuff themselves until they just might pop. Or maybe they want to hoard all of their favorite objects or pieces of clothing, filling more and more of the space in their homes until they're ready to burst at the seems. Some might find it's their emotions that come in excess, with over the top anger, or irregular excitement that leaves them unable to sleep for days. Anything and everything can come in excess and it certainly seems to be this month. Some people may get these obsessive needs to such a degree that they start to feel disconnected from themselves, fractured by the overabundance that has taken over their lives.
If people ignore these desires, they'll start to find they're plagued by hallucinations. Strong, life-like visions that riddle them with anxiety and leave them petrified of what might happen if they don't partake in this gluttonous behavior. They'll feel shaken to the core and slowly go mad with need and desire for whatever it is they've been craving. This feeling of madness can make them become violent, lashing out at those around them, even killing those who try and help them out of belief that they're trying to force them to give in to their vices.
The impact of the water will wear off either after one week without re-exposure, or by using a Moon Drop to help to cleanse the mind.
The after effects of these floods aren't just structural devastation though. People who get caught up in the water, particularly those who end up swallowing it, will have one word echoing in their mind on a regular basis: More.
More of what? That seems to be different for each individual. Maybe one person wants more and more food, anything from an extra slice of cake after dinner, to wanting to stuff themselves until they just might pop. Or maybe they want to hoard all of their favorite objects or pieces of clothing, filling more and more of the space in their homes until they're ready to burst at the seems. Some might find it's their emotions that come in excess, with over the top anger, or irregular excitement that leaves them unable to sleep for days. Anything and everything can come in excess and it certainly seems to be this month. Some people may get these obsessive needs to such a degree that they start to feel disconnected from themselves, fractured by the overabundance that has taken over their lives.
If people ignore these desires, they'll start to find they're plagued by hallucinations. Strong, life-like visions that riddle them with anxiety and leave them petrified of what might happen if they don't partake in this gluttonous behavior. They'll feel shaken to the core and slowly go mad with need and desire for whatever it is they've been craving. This feeling of madness can make them become violent, lashing out at those around them, even killing those who try and help them out of belief that they're trying to force them to give in to their vices.
The impact of the water will wear off either after one week without re-exposure, or by using a Moon Drop to help to cleanse the mind.
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Well, earned or not, a reputation doesn't always tell the whole story.
[vi is amenable to this, as is her omen, which actually looks pleased (a feat!) and fang slows pace to walk next to her sleeper.]
Learning to be less fair than I used to be. [but she gets what's being asked and holds up her gloved fists and vander's battle-worn iron gauntlets.]
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But I've been trying to turn over a new leaf one way or another.
It's what my wife would want me to be doing.
[As they were walking, she looked over at the gauntlets and nodded quickly and approvingly. Look, those reminded her of Yang and Yang was one of the most powerful fighters she knew.]
You should install shotguns in those to give your fists punch.
[...god damnit, Remnant.]
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it's hers too.]
Guns, really? [there's a small laugh there - more sad than bitter, but bitter, too.] That's my sister. She's the gunslinger, not me. And not these. These were my old man's. But I've ...got something in the works.
What about you? Wait, lemme guess? Guns?
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She smirked while the other described the weapons of her family and the old story behind those. Apparently she came from another world where they didn't merge weapons. Probably for the best, though she loved her own tricks.
Oh, hers? She gestured with her umbrella, winking and opening it, twirling it on her shoulders and running one hand down its length to indicate that her weapon was apparently... an anti-rain tool. One press of her thumb, though, made the reason why obvious. A blade snaked out of the top of it, easily long enough to make it a wicked short spear with a shield function.]
My Hush and I have been together for years.
I wouldn't sully my hands with a gun unless I was truly desperate.
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back home? there had been a time when she might have never thought of it - but the atlas gauntlets had - at the last - demonstrated their usefulness as a defensive tool, a means of protection instead of pummeling. so. she's definitely into the idea now, though she does not yet mention it's ruby making the gear she's waiting on.
vi nods, a fraction reluctantly - but appreciative of the design - it's deceptively harmless looking until it isn't. not unlike jinx herself. here's a weapon that doesn't announce itself at the door. (high five to the shield function, seriously)]
Did you name it? [wait.] ...you make that?
[she laughs - and it's another sad, bitter thing - because that thing that jinx had made - the one that launched a bright streak of death straight into piltover - had been a gun, more than a gun, a weapon that was fearsome and intricate and somehow cheerfully silly. it had a name, too, she thinks? she can't remember.]
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She giggled silently and pointed to the word 'Hush' still on display before gesturing at her umbrella and retracting the blade, resting the umbrella on her shoulder. She didn't add that part of the reason it could serve as a shield wasn't just that it was a reinforced steel combat umbrella specially designed from her, but that she extended her personal aura over it. That was why it could handle glancing lightsaber blows... once... maybe twice. She didn't like fighting Maul.]
My best friend had Hush commissioned at my request.
It's one of the only pieces I still have to remember him by, and she's my leading lady.
As for guns, they're popular enough where I come from.
I like to get close and personal.
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she does not have a lot to remember people by, either - that's not a commonality she likes to share, but it's one that - grimly - she's encountered before.]
Is she called Hush because it shuts 'em up real quick? Or does she have magic in there, too? A lot of magic here, not just the blood kind, either. There's just ...stuff from all over.
Mine are just iron, no fancy stuff unless you count poison blood. [she didn't do that, today. it's almost as if she wants to make any fight a little harder on herself.] I like to get close and personal, too.
Sounds like a good way to honor your friend, by using it well. Speaking of, where's ...something that isn't an omen or a bird.
I wanted a fight today.
[it would at least distract from the pain of losing her sister. again.]
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She's just really well engineered to work with my own powers, and I'm good at hushing.
Anything fancy I do with her is because my Aura gets invested in her.
[Which was, in its own way magical but not necessarily the same way that most thought of as magical anyway. She nodded over at the girl when she commented on the gloves. Yeah, that definitely made sense.
The question? Oh, that got a bit of a smirk from her and she paused for a moment before pointing at herself and cocking her head.]
Streets seem clear.
We could hit the Arena and go a round or two.
Loser buys drinks?
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[with regards to that name, she means it - it's a cool, ominous sort of name - and the meaning behind it's not bad either: vi appreciates a good shut the fuck up message - whether it's by mouth, fist, or bladed sun-shield, it's all good.
vi's brows raise at the gesture, a slow spread of a smirk mirroring neo's as she reads. she's nodding back immediately.]
Hell yes to that. Couple rounds at the arena, couple rounds at the bar.
Hope you've got a big tab.
[or lots of bloodstones. every bit of her smile, cocky as it is, says she's a hundred percent in on getting her own ass handed to her if that's how it plays out. she likes to assume it won't happen, but after a month's time here: there's a lot of leeway. plus, every loss is a learning experience, and it's fucking fun to let loose - to push herself - to see what crazy shit other people can do.
she does a full turn and gestures for neo to lead the way.]
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Taking the gesture, she practically skipped her way towards one of the lanterns. No point not taking the shortcut? Otherwise, who knew how long it'd take to get all the way back to Prufrock, right?]
(OOC: I'm entirely fine continuing on, playing out a fight, handwaving to drinks or fading to a fight. Whatever works for you.)
leaning toward h/w a fairly even (neo edging out vi tho) fight and cut to drinks?
she's never been to the arena, proper - should have, would have - well, she's doing it now. she's been training on the beach, at the outpost, launching herself into some things that perhaps she shouldn't, but she's had a reasonable run of luck, here, and she hasn't yet been tempted to truly learn new weapons.
and what she finds is a bit more impressive than she'd expected, in all senses. neo is like her sister in some ways - she's all in and focused - she's precise - and she seems to have a way of predicting more often than not where and how vi will strike next.
also: she's a hell of a blocker (take note vi!), and vi finds she has to get creative - think and move, which hasn't always been her strong suit. she does manage to land blows, but it's a long time before neo shows any sense of tiring - never really seems worn down. it spurs violet on, pushes her to leave her inhibitions in the dust, but she ends up in that dust at least an equal amount of times.
she's growling, clanging her gauntlets together as she gets up once again from that dust, but she's anything but mad about it. when all is done, she spits blood on the ground, split lip making a split smile - and she will huff a breath and hold out her hand for shaking.
if that's something neo wants to do - she's met a fair few that are not big on the handshake and eh, that's fine. it's a personal space thing, maybe.]
Guess drinks are on me.
[lmk if i need to change anything!]