024-027 » neither reward nor punishment

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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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[descendent]

[ after two very long days at the grey gull, elena had expected to pass out (for sleep this time) and be out for two days if not two weeks resting and healing. she's only gotten a few hours of sleep, but she knows that she needs to behave and take care of herself or a certain original vampire will ensure she's watched like a hawk twenty-four seven. that's hardly fun for her, let alone him.

with a blanket wrapped around her, she walks through the boarding house to simply keep her mind from straying and sinking into a deep pit of despair. she had been hoping that someone new would arrive, someone from home, someone with thick blonde hair or perhaps brown, but she finds that the woman standing at the window of the living room fits neither the descriptions of caroline or bonnie.

thinking of leaving her be, her feet stay where they are by the entrance. she keeps her hands tucked into her blanket near her throat, long hair a little matted from her not taking any care of it.

she looks at her kindly. ] Did it help? Saying that.

[ elena won't be the first to admit that she hasn't screamed her anger and grief and fright into mathias' sky. she hasn't so much as had an outburst. but she has to wonder if he helps. ]

[liliowy]

[ it isn't often that someone can catch yen by surprise - and yet its happened too many times within the last two days. her mind still feels as though in a fog - nothing but a ringing in her ears and a dull, rising headache behind her eyes as she tries, not for the first time, to see if she can hear anyone nearby.

she can't, much to her infuriation. her magic feels - wrong somehow, despite the chaos still licking at her fingertips, still felt all around them.

her attention snaps to the girl, a brow ticked up in subtly schooled surprise. for a moment, she wonders if that's a rhetorical question. ] Of course it changes shit-all. Still, [ she turns herself to face elena more fully, violet eyes narrowing but a fraction at her quiet appraisal. ] makes me feel a little better.

[descendent]

[ elena can't help but smile at that. it's not like she hasn't cursed out her own situation a few times, but elena's always tried to come across as though she's in control. unbowed, unbent, and definitely unbroken.

with a smile and no malice to her tone, ] This place is a fucking nightmare.

[ her heart skips a little at that; she feels a little better for it. ]

I'm Elena. I probably won't have any answers for you, but hopefully that makes things feel… well. It probably won't make you feel better.

[liliowy]

Eloquently put. [ yen's smile curls into something a touch more amused, despite herself.

was there ever a time when yennefer's composure was steel-cut? not really, for all the purported teachings. even now, she stands with all that bottled chaos - drained, confused, hurt - and given a chance to face the enemy, she would burn them down with whatever anger she had left.

but that was the danger of fire magic, wasn't it.

and as it stands, the culprit is nowhere in sight. just a young, pretty girl intent on clinging to kindness like armor.

not a luxury yen remembered. was that ever a choice she had? ] Yennefer.

[ a brow ticks up, tone a pinch of dry humour. ] Like I'm not the only one?

[descendent]

You're far from the only one.

[ she smiles, disliking the fact she has no answers. elena's spent much of the past two years in mystic falls without them. she's chased them as they dangled like carrots before her, and only sometimes had she been able to grasp them.

she draws in a breath, hands clasped before her. she doesn't remain in the far distance on the threshold of the room. she steps in, thinking she has an invitation to. ]

Do you have a room yet? There might be a few things in there that you can use if you wanted.

[liliowy]

[ yennefer is far more used to going at things on her own. though she can relate to a bulldog sort of tenacity in chasing answers, much like she's chased her own desires through the decades.

still, she's unused to being among the majority as it were. unwillingly relocated, without a goddamn reason and she still thinks about magic and price and balance.

she's fully angled towards elena by the time the distance between them grows conversational. ] I don't - this isn't the first time I woke up here, but everything's different. [ brows knit, and she battles with the confusion. ] There were others here. Do you know an Ellie?

[descendent]

[ she looks a little sheepish, wishing her answer was a more direct affirmation. ] We exchanged notes on the Bulletin Board.

[ so, no; she doesn't know her, although elena would like to. the town is so small, yet it's been so difficult to see exactly who makes up the new townspeople here.

her brows furrow. ]

Were you… here over the last two days? Locked inside?