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griefseeded2016-01-05 07:52 pm
soulmods) wrote in griefseeded2016-01-05 07:52 pm
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January Event Details / CR Plotting
It's time. Nyoi-cho is a world full of hope. The people bustle about their day in peace. Children laugh, business people work, and this timeless little town smiles cheerily as dawn turns to dusk. However, when night falls, something sinister takes hold. All of the worries locked deep inside begin to fester, tainting peaceful dreams into something dark and twisted. People die in their sleep sometimes. Others simply never wake. And sometimes, people simply go missing... but why worry when you can't hope to change it? The town is ravaged by strangeness, warped by repression, and locked in a never-ending cycle of day and night. At least, they are until tonight. The Birth of a Miracle. Welcome to Nyoi-cho! Your characters will arrive from that world between worlds and enter directly into a nightmare. I hope they're ready to hit the ground running, this will be their first true test as magi. But not to fear, little fighters; this is the dream of a sick child. Their soul is not yet corrupted enough to pose much of a threat, so as long as you keep your wits about you survival will not be hard! The nightmarescape is primarily composed of bright colors, toys, and fragments of games - but there's a sinister, malformed look to them. Familiars appear as shadows or corrupted toys. The First Night. You'll find yourself in a completely unfamiliar place. The world looks like a child's playroom, all bright colors and simple shapes. Skyscrapers made of building blocks and stagnant, stiff clouds against a too-blue sky dot the oddly sparse landscape. At first, you might feel at ease. Perhaps you're accustomed to strange settings, or perhaps this is merely more peaceful than what you were in before. But before long, you hear voices. They babble to one another in incomprehensible voices, chattering in the shadows and following you as you slowly pick your way across this bizarre city. Just when you think you're safe, the creatures make themselves known. Surrealist impressions of toys and children's fairytales come from the woodwork, and while they were once keen to follow and watch, they know want to play with you. It's just a shame their games are lethal. The goal is to survive. Get accustomed to your abilities, learn how to fight, transform and test your new limitations. It won't be easy - the only word you have is the word of Kyubey, and it seems that he could not follow you into this place. The Second Night. As the nights wear on, you'll find that survival is becoming harder. The labyrinthine nature of the nightmare might begin to take its toll as you struggle to find a way out, and characters will find that it will become easier to start giving in to doubt and fear. Part of the reason for this will be the second group of familiars that show up. These are 'bogeymen' like familiars, creatures that appear to be floating pairs of eyes draped under carpets or around dark corners. Unlike the other familiars, the bogeymen aren't there to actively attack characters: rather, their presence helps dredge up feelings of fear and terror in those who see them, whether it be by making the characters think of frightening events in their lives or just downright heightening the terror or doubt they may already feel. They can be destroyed/cleansed like any other familiar, though as long as characters are in their presence, they'll feel more put off and frightened than usually. The Third Night. What sort of sight awaits the characters when they finally make it to the center of the nightmarescape? You'll have to wait and see! |
Now that the event details are out of the way, it's time for our first and ever CR plotting post! Please fill out the form below. Name: Your name here! Contact: Some way of getting in touch with you if need be. Character: Your character's name! Wish/Powers: A link to your character's info post. Info: Tell us about your character. What are they like? What are they most likely to be getting up to in Nyoi-cho? Seeking: What kind of CR are you looking for? Anything else: Tagging schedule, special notes, gifs? Anything! |
James
Contact: You can contact me through messaging my character journal or on my plurk at nathander
Character: Pokey Minch
Wish/Powers: His wish and power information can be found here.
Info: Pokey Minch is a mean, shitty little asshole who really only cares about himself and is in it for his own personal gain. Or at least, that's more or less who he was before he went through five years of hopping between worlds and games, usually getting to suffer the pain and malice he usually wished on other people. That kind of experience, and meeting people who seemed to want to care about him, has changed him greatly. If you're really interested in seeing all he's gone through and how it's changed him, you can check out his history from his app here. In short though, while Pokey is still often selfish and interested in self-gain and keeping himself safe, he's learned humanity and empathy thanks to his travels. He can be standoffish and self-aggrandizing, though the last part is more or less a mask he puts on now to try and keep others from getting too close to him. While he still doesn't immediately like people a lot of the time, he's gotten to a point where he understands there's an inherent value to life, and that it's worth protecting whether he knows the person or not. While he usually isn't too interested in getting to know many people deeply due to the fact he's sure that he'll end up letting them down or they will (rightfully, in his mind) just hate him in the end, he is willing to try and help protect people and keep them from getting hurt by places like this.
During the event itself, Pokey will start off by wandering like a lost asshole, trying his best to avoid outright conflict with the familiars. So if anyone would like to run into a fat sixteen year old while he's trying to defend himself with the newly found shield he has or would even just like to point and laugh at him during his ass whooping, feel free to do that. Otherwise, when he finds other people he'll do what he can with the powers he has, as he figures them out, to protect them.
In general, Pokey will want to help set people up with information as fast as he can. He'll try to open a discussion about places like this and give what he knows about previous worlds he's been in, as well as attempt to help make suggestions on getting shit organized among the people who've been drawn in. Pokey may not be a friendly person, but he's big on solidarity when it comes to people forced into these situations thanks to Mayfield. Considering he was pals with him in Cosmos, Pokey will also probably often be found hanging around Dave Strider a lot
and Gary, I guess.Seeking: Pretty much anything. People that can try and get under the dude's defenses, people that he can get pissy and angry at. Other people he can whine about feelings of self-loathing and regret about. Just give me anything. Gimme it all.
Anything else: Tagging schedule is going to be balls to the wall all over the place a bit since my work thinks it's fun to fuck me about by putting me wherever sometimes. Usually I'll be tagging in the late evenings in the Central timezone.
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Alternately, guess whose power is literally being an informational network.
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Considering most of the people he knew in Mayfield behaved like Rui's being described in how they handled Pokey in trying to get through to him, so he very well might end up warming up to Rui.