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The Village Mod ([personal profile] villagemod) wrote in [community profile] villagelogs2020-12-16 11:27 pm

021-023 » the ghosts of fallen leaves

WHO: Everyone.
WHERE: Eastern/Central/Western Mathias.
WHEN: Days 021-023
WHAT: A cold storm approaches.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary. PM this account to have a warning added!
NOTES: Plotting post over here!

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DAYS 021-023
THE WORLD TURNS WHITE

“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow,
For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”

— John Banister Tabb

The howling wind is what wakes the residents of Mathias each day now as the world turns slowly into a bleak stretch of white. Snow continues to fall in thick curtains of flakes that accumulate on trees and rooftops, swirling sideways in the gusts of wind that bow trees and whistle through any crack they can find. The drifts of snow grow taller against the buildings and the wind makes the already freezing temperatures feel bitterly cold.

By day 022, the far ends of streets begin to resemble the hazardous fog with how little becomes visible as the winds pick up. Buildings can still be discerned as dark shapes but the weather's warning becomes clear — a storm is coming. And by day 023, the storm arrives properly, the wind still screaming through the streets like a winter banshee announcing so many deaths to come. These conditions are far from hospitable and only the truly mad would be foolish enough to venture outside in weather such as this.


THE NEWLY ARRIVED

With an embrace of wintery white, Mathias offers a chilly welcome to its newest residents. They awake along the southern treeline bordering Mathias, near the small makeshift cemetery containing a handful of wooden markers erected without names or signifiers of those buried within. And not far from them is the schoolhouse, where in a snowdrift they will the frozen corpse of a young woman named Rey.




LIGHTS IN THE DARKNESS

“A lantern can give you light only when you light it”
— Munia Khan

When residents wake on the morning of day 021, they will find outside in the snow the abandoned lanterns of those shadowy spectres who have moved so silently through Mathias. Each nestled in a patch of frozen white outside their door, the lanterns are now cold to the touch, the half-burned candle within each one seeming to have been lit so very long ago. Inside the glass encasement is a small rolled piece of paper, upon which is written:

keep it lit

There is nothing more, and the prior owners of these lanterns will not return within these days.

There is one lantern waiting outside the building for each resident wherever they are sleeping — the exception for this is those who may have already claimed a lantern as their own. Removing a lantern from its resting place results in no apparent reaction, nor does lighting or not lighting it. However, whatever residents ultimately choose to do with these lanterns should be reported.











CONDITIONS UPDATE
SNOW continues to fall, resulting over the three days in upwards of a foot of accumulation. The winds blow in gusts over 35 mph.

VOICES are not openly haunting our residents, though they may still be occasionally encountered in the more heavily decayed buildings where some rooms seem to almost swallow whatever light tries to enter them.

THE FOG has still receded from the town proper and much of the eastern and northern beach, with the path through the northern forest to the lighthouse still clear on day 021. On day 022, however, as the storm worsens, the fog returns to the paths in the forest, urging residents to stay huddled within the town proper or else.

DISAPPEARANCES continue to plague the town. While Zed Martin has returned, Rey's corpse will be found in a snowdrift near the Schoolhouse; she disappeared on day 018.

THE STRANGER is gone.

THE SPECTRES are gone.


OOC UPDATES
DISCOVERIES have been collected and collated for your review. Please note that this is OOC information only, put together for the purpose of helping you as players see connections and possibilities for CR and your own character's potential avenues of exploration and investigation. (If we are missing something, please report it so we can add it to the list.)

AP REWARDS have a new option now — Ideas may be requested if you find yourself stuck. You may now claim up to 2 rewards per log: (1) idea and (1) other reward.

SANITY may be regained in two ways: self-medication and treatment. In Mathias, this means such coping mechanisms as drinking or drugging oneself into a stupor that allows them to face their fears and issues, or talking to someone about those fears and issues. Since both of these will take some time, best get started. (A form will be added to the Sanity page.)

REMINDERS — Don't forget about the bulletin board. Please continue reporting your updates to locations, plots, and discoveries. The map of Mathias has been added to the locations page for ease of reference. Make sure your character's sanity level is kept updated. Prospective players are still joining the TDM, so it's recommended to track new top-levels so you don't miss them.



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[personal profile] chicartista 2020-12-30 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Zed wasn't about to miss this meeting, if that's what this was. After the shock that she had been missing for days had finally worn off she was even more determined to find out the answers to this place. Knowing she had been missing was unnerving especially since she had no memory of it. She knew she wasn't the only one who had gone through it and then there were those like John that had come back from the dead. There more questions than answers and it was honestly getting exhausting. So she wasn't going to miss a chance to learn more or share information.

She approached the man at the bulliten board, she recognized him from John's description. It was time she really got to know the others who were in the same situation.

"Are you Coulson?"
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[personal profile] 40seconds 2021-01-01 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
It's sort of a meeting but not really, because it's open to whoever stops by as opposed to an organized gathering. But it's still a gathering, whether there's one or two people, or even three. Coulson looks away from the bulletin board when Zed approaches, and he smiles and nods, not immediately making the connection between her and John, because it hasn't come up in their conversations. So from where he's standing, she's just another new face he hasn't yet officially met until now.

"That's me. I'm not sure we've met before, but either way, it's nice to meet you." He accompanies his statement with an outstretched hand, if she feels like shaking it. "Have you learned anything interesting since you've been here?" He's not sure just how long it's been for her, since a lot of them arrived at different times, but that's one reason why this information sharing endeavor feels important and necessary.
Edited 2021-01-02 20:38 (UTC)
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[personal profile] chicartista 2021-01-18 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
"We haven't, I'm Zed. I'm friends with John." She pretended not to see his oustretched hand, it was nothing personal more of a reflex than anything else. She was still so used to avoiding all physical contact due to her powers. Not that it was likely for her to get a vision here even if she and John were working towards getting them kick started again.

"I wish. The longer I'm here the more questions I have than answers." If only her visions did work maybe then she would be able to figure something out. Maybe even just get a better idea of the people who had been here before them.