villagelogs | 024-027 » neither reward nor punishment

WHO: Everyone.
WHERE: Eastern/Central/Western Mathias + ???
WHEN: Days 024-027
WHAT: The consequences of their actions.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary. PM this account to have a warning added!
NOTES: Plotting post over here! The next log will be posted January 23rd.

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DAYS 024-025
CONSEQUENCES
“There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments —
there are consequences.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
When the unwilling residents of Mathias Township wake on the morning of the 24th day, they will find themselves in yet another set of frustratingly unnerving circumstances. None of them are where they last remember being, and some of them have strange marks on the palms of their left hands. It's all incredibly unsettling, but truthfully they should be used to it by now. No one will remember traveling to their new location.

Residents can wake up anywhere within their new location and in any position. Curled up in a bed, sprawled on a couch, huddled beneath a coffee table, propped against a wall... Wherever they are, they will themselves to be in quite an unusual state. While they are wearing whatever clothing items they went to sleep in, plus their shoes and a coat. The newest arrivals to Mathias Township will perhaps stand out for being slightly more appropriately dressed than their new neighbors. They are all a bit damp, physically worn out, and half-frozen from their apparent walk through a blizzard.

Each of the four locations is inescapable — residents are trapped, with exterior doors and windows being shut tight and a blizzard raging outside. The locations are stocked with fresh food and water and a large pile of firewood for the fireplaces in each building. The circumstances residents will face, however, may vary wildly between locations as the forces at work in Mathias respond to the recent actions of certain individuals.

BOARDING HOUSE | GREY GULL
NEW HOUSE | MYSTERY MANSION

These residents will wake with a mark on their left hand palms, a spiraling black symbol similar to those some may have seen around town. All marks are identical and cannot be removed, but will have seemingly vanished from their skin on the morning of the 26th day.

Castiel, Daisy Johnson, Dean Winchester
Elena Gilbert, Elijah Mikaelson, Helen Magnus
Phil Coulson, Quentin Coldwater, Sherlock Holmes

DAYS 026-027
IN THE AFTERMATH
After their ordeals of the past two days, the unfortunate residents of Mathias Township will be grateful to find that they were back where they are supposed to be, a chill still clinging to their clothes in whatever place they went to sleep the night of the 23rd day. New arrivals will wake in the living room of the boarding house. None of the residents will wake with anything in their possession from the locations in which they were previously trapped, including any notes or documentation they may have made during their time there.

CONDITIONS UPDATE
— SNOW continues to fall heavily on Days 024-025, resulting in white out conditions from the wind that blows in gusts of over 35 mph; the temperature also drops drastically, making conditions extremely dangerous for residents. The blizzard clears on Day 26 and residents are left with a cold, calm world covered in white.

— THE FOG remains blocking the paths in the forest, urging residents to stay huddled within the town proper, and it also now blocks the northern section of town, beginning just before where residents know the chasm in the earth to be. Venturing into the fog is... ill-advised.

— DISAPPEARANCES continue to plague the town. Kylo Ren and Thomas Richardson have vanished without a trace.

— NO NEW DEATHS have occurred in town, but there is a new "grave" in the small makeshift graveyard near the schoolhouse. Rey's corpse has been moved and covered with stones to wait for the ground to thaw enough for a proper burial.

— THE LANTERNS will be gone from the morning of Day 024. No trace of them remains.

OOC UPDATES
— A GIFT for everyone! As a thank you for being part of this spooky little game, every character in the game is being gifted 2 Activity Points. These may be banked over here — instead of linking to an AC post, you may put "New Year gift" in that field. Happy 2021, friends!

— NEW LAYOUTS have been installed for our communities! Huge thanks to our Eldritch Librarian Stars for putting in the time to get this place looking shiny. (You may have also noticed some new page layouts being installed — these are also our Librarian's handiwork!)

— 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.)

— 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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[Klaus has taken to a 'vacation state of mind', so-to-speak. Real liquor means it's easy to fall into the safe bubble of ignorance, and he's not one of the more hardcore answer-searching ones anyway. He's spent his days lazily wandering through the house, keeping an eye out for anything that his brother might want to arbitrarily make a note about, but otherwise just... floating. Hanging out with people whenever he comes across them.

He's got a lifetime worth of experience as ignoring things unwanted. Sure, a lot of his ignoring meant he was blitzed out of his mind, but still. There's an art to not hearing the call of the dead, and the scratching and banging in this house? Well. He's blissfully ignoring it all, too.

But that makes it particularly striking when he hears the specific sound of angry stamping on the floor from a room down the hall. Soon, it's followed by the very specific, very familiar accented tones of their resident information keeper. Klaus meanders his way down the hall and into the doorway of the bedroom, lazy smile resting on his lips, bottle in his hand tilted out almost in offering.]

I find tequila helps me ignore it all quite well.

Always been a fan of whiskey and gin myself. When the bloody hell did you show up here?

[ Asks the man who has decided to drink the little adventure away.

Hello, Klaus. Good to see you mate. That's buried somewhere in his greeting. ]

Makes sense. Your brother is stormin' around the place all perked up.

Eugh. Gin. [His nose scrunches and he sticks his tongue out.] Same time as you, I guess. [He shrugs.

The lack of immediately kicking him out means Klaus pushes beyond the doorway further into the room. He practically glides across the room and drapes himself across a chair nearby.]

I think he found the good pain killers. And he's not sharing, which is rude. [Klaus hadn't popped pills in ages, but it's the principle of the thing, here.]

I'm guessin' you didn't wake up half on the floor and half on the couch.

[ John gives a shrug. Ah well.

Get cozy, Klaus. ]

The high dose ones? Not saying I'm in need of them. I'm only interested in something that could knock me out for a few days right now. If you get my meaning.

[ Sour and sick of Mathias's shit? Yes. ]

No, but I did wake up on the dining room table. [He tips his bottle and takes a drink on that note.]

I'm mostly just guessing, but I'm thinking maybe. [A smirk.] You should track him down and make him share.

...Now that's bloody uncomfortable. Don't tell me you broke the fine china.

[ Not that he really cares if Klaus did break the china. He'd figure that Mathias has it coming after all this shit. ]

That'd require me to care enough to leave this nice cozy bed. And, not much is doing that for me right now, mate.

[He snorts at that comment.] I don't think so.

Mmm, can't blame you. I'm just taking a vacation for however long we're stuck in this house.

Ah, well. To Hell if you did. I don't think any of us give a shit about eating off it.

[ John chuckles at his own remark. ] I'm glad someone else sees it that way. A nice bottle of alcohol, why not take a bit of a nap?

Exactly! [He grins and caps John's point off with a swig from the tequila he's been drinking.] Not often this place gives us something half-assed decent. May as well enjoy it while it lasts.

Your brother doesn't seem to agree. Raised a bit of noise about finding secrets in a big scary mansion. I'm guessin' you see it a bit differently?

[ Call him curious. It seems the two have a very different way about tackling the whole situation. Must be the fact that Dear Old Five is an old man deep down. Stubbornness and the push forward and all that. John? He just wants to take a few days to forget the whole world at this rate. Too much at once and he hasn't much processed it all. ]

My brother is a grandpa in a child's body, he doesn't know what things like 'fun' and 'breaks' even are. You can't judge anything by him.

[John's definitely not wrong on that score; of all of the siblings, he and Five probably are the most polar-opposite of all of them on the surface. Except maybe Klaus and Luther. But actually? There are more similarities between him and his cranky oldman brother than most people would ever notice. Not that Klaus will get into those right now. Or maybe ever. Who knows.]

Nah, I mean-- [He waves one hand dismissively.] okay, he's probably right, there's probably shit hidden out here and we don't know how long we'll be here, and blah-blah-blah. But what good has finding anything out even done us so far? Everything just goes in circles, I don't think there's shit here. I mean. I think it's just fucking bullshit, all the way across the board. God's bored or some shit, I don't know. But--

[He presses a hand to his chest.] I am not going to sit here and look a gift-horse in the mouth, okay? We have cushy living for however long we're here, and I'm gonna live it to the fullest before I go back to the boarding house.

[ That's a fair statement. Then again, usually, old men are all about breaks and stopping because they've been going all their lives. Five seems to be a bit of an opposite to that statement. ]

Oh, there's plenty to find here! Might be some documents, hidden rooms, maybe even a bunch of skeletons in the closet. Thing is, mate? I don't much care right now. Let someone else look at the mystery for a bit. Me? I'm tired of banging my head on the metaphoric wall.

Cheers to that. [He leans over from his chair and reaches with his tequila bottle in effort to clink with John's own. He's just glad he's finally not t he only one on that particular train.]

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