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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[fika]

[ if it helps, maybe will will one day learn that five is actually 58 years old, old habit and experience shoved messy into a youth's body.

sometimes, the heavy-handed approach is effective. even he'll admit. ] Yeah well, tap dancing clearly wasn't doing the trick.

[ finally, five flicks his attention up at will, and leaves the knife upright in the floorboards. better than him holding onto it for conversation. ] You're new. [ a sigh and statement, both. ]

[this_ismydesign]

[ At least it came as a statement, rather than a question this time. Will sighed. ] So I've been told. Let's skip the rest of the 'how long have you been here?' 'It's been a month or two, etc'

[ Sometimes he really did not have the patience for the banals of social conversation. Instead he turned and leaned back against the window, looking at Five from foot to head. ]

Do you have any useful information? Aside from proving the universal truth that knives tend to shut people up.

[fika]

[ you're in luck, will, to have run into someone with about as much enthusiasm for social gymnastics as a dying cat. after the cookie cutter confusion of everyone else who gets dropped into the ass-crack of a dimensional sneeze, this was almost refreshing.

five stuffs his hands into the pockets of his slacks, and smirks, a dimpled, serrated thing that drops away just as fast. ] Depends on what you think is useful, wise-ass. [ maybe it wasn't coffee he was missing. maybe it was whiskey. ] This is Mathias Township. No one's figured out the year, or why we're here.

We all just - popped in. Different times, different places. A merry band of idiots stuck together in a town that's actively tried to put a wrench into figuring out anything remotely useful.

[ to be fair, you did ask, though you probably asked the best and worst person. ] Oh, and sometimes, the fog can kill you. [ : ) ]

[this_ismydesign]

[ For a moment Five gave Will a headache as his brain tried to reconcile the child his eyes saw before him, and the unsettling smile, the unchildlike sarcasm. ]

Stay out of the fog, got it. [ Will said in wry tones. ] Are we sure we're not in some manner of Purgatory, or Hell?

[fika]

If that's the shit that helps you sleep better at night? Sure. It's Purgatory. [ enjoy the headache. there's painkillers here, for once, so you might want to use them, because this pint-sized troublemaker is going nowhere! he shrugs. ] All I'll say is - hold on to whatever it is that'll help you rationalize what you'll be seeing here.

[this_ismydesign]

[ After briefly considering whether or not to rise to the bait about sleeping well, Will decided it wasn't worth it. The latter half of Five's statement was infinitely more concerning. ]

Rational thought and I have never been close companions. [ He admitted. ] Is it worth it to even attempt?

[fika]

[ if it helps, it wasn't meant to be bait, considering five's general lack of knowledge on will's sleeping proclivities. though, he could hazard a guess if he took into account all the other maladjusted people that this place seems to have a particular fondness for. ]

Irrational then, [ arms outspread as he shrugs. ] Whatever it is. [ punctuated by him ripping the knife out of the floorboards. ] You're gonna need it.

Name's Number Five, by the way.

[this_ismydesign]

Will. [ He offered in return.

He appreciated the young man's easy pivot from rational to irrational. It was almost as amusing as it was curious. Curious in that it exhibited a level of self-assured maturity and jaded acceptance that was rarely found in the young. ]

You appear remarkably well adjusted to this place. Been here awhile?

[fika]

[ all for nothing, will was going to need a whole lot of suspension of disbelief, especially considering that the teenager in front of him was 58 years old.

never mind all the other crazy shit this place will throw his way. but, he can say he's starting to appreciate will's attitude, in as much as five can appreciate anything. he's direct, it seems.

a huff. ] Yeah, I was part of the first wave. So - Over twenty days? Give or take.

Time's a pain in the ass to keep track of, here.