024-027 » neither reward nor punishment

[villagemod]

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.

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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.

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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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Comments

[liliowy]

Whatever his fashions of choice, it's a far cry from what she's used to.

She isn't skittish, but tense and battle-weary. As though there's still remnants of expectations of a fight. Her palm pressed flat against the cold glass, the other flattening against her injured side as she listens.

"Mmm," she hums. Relief. Lucky him. Missing all the bullshit of a war. "By what means? Have you met the orchestrators?"

"Portal magic isn't easy," she muses, even if means little to him. "Let alone pulling enough of it for something like this."

[abrightboy]

"I... bet it's not," he agrees. He gestures to her injury. "I have basic first aid," he tells her, though his knowledge of medicine and anatomy is better than your average first-aider's. "If you need someone to clean and dress the wound."

[liliowy]

"Is there alcohol?" She ventures. "There was little chance to look" And she had little desire to find a way of shedding the elaborate dress. It implied a lowered guard, or the greater possibility of being caught off-guard in a place she didn't know. Was just shoved into without having a damned say.

This was an annoying pain - a sting and pull of an arrow jabbed into her belly. The betrayal surprised her more than the wound. "Otherwise, it can wait. I rather be sure there is nothing else here that can harm any of us."

[abrightboy]

“Not to drink. Maybe surgical spirits. We’ll have to look for a first aid kit. But a lot of the closets here will have clothes. You could change into something a little more... two piece. So we could treat the wound without you.... disrobing,” he offered.

i'm sorry all of my characters are Like This

[liliowy]

"Is it my virtue you're worried about?" She asks, in the most deadpan of tones, because she is nothing if not an inconvenient asshole. "As I said. It can wait."

she's perfect; i don't know what you mean

[abrightboy]

"Um, not per se. I don't have any..." He made an awkward gesture towards her. "Intentions towards it. Most people are just.... more comfortable with clothes on. Being naked is synonymous with being vulnerable. And if you're wounded you... probably want to avoid an infection or... the loss of too much blood."

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[liliowy]

"Oh, do go on. Tell me about being vulnerable," said in a tone that really, truly, implies that you shouldn't. "Look, point me to the supplies, and I'll do the rest myself," Yennefer doesn't exactly know how to accept help, gracefully or otherwise, and is stubborn in her self-reliance, perhaps to a fault. It's been too long since she's put that faith in anyone else. "It's a surface wound, the bleeding has stopped and I just need to clean it. It'll be healed completely soon enough." As soon as her magic regains its footing, so to speak.

[abrightboy]

"I don't... live here," Malcolm reminded her gamely, "but... I would check the cupboards in the bathroom. For first aid supplies," he told her. "And... shout if you need any help."