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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Don't. It's load bearing. [ Hey John, remember your drinking buddy? Those quiet, fairly neutral tones come from the doorway.

In the time between the initial meeting and now Will has managed to find himself new clothes and a shower. He is dressed in flannel, plaid, dull and uninspiring. The shirt tails hang out over dark slacks and there is a hint of a henley peeking at the open neck.

At least the blood is gone? ]

[ John turns his head to look at the familiar voice. Well, someone cleaned up nicely. He gives a grin, now at least properly dressed in his typical get up: work shirt, loose hanging tie, black pants, and his trenchcoat near by. ]

Here I was hoping of opening the wall up for my mate. Easier to get from office to office without a wall in the way.

[ Most people look better when not soaked in blood. ]

Have you considered putting in doors? [ Will asked the question with a shade of snark in his tone, though he walked on into the room shoving his hands in his pockets. ] Open concept is a nice aesthetic but are impractical in reality.

[ At least that was Will's opinion. Everybody being privy to your business all the time? ew ]

Still means you need to break the wall. [ A hand raised and gestured to the aforementioned offensive barrier in his way. Honestly, destroying bits and pieces of Mathias was rather cathartic at this rate. ] Nothing about this bloody town is practical.

Coulson and I are getting information together from people in the city. It'd be easier than having to strut out into the hall, take a turn, and talk the next room over.

[ Of course, he just presumed that Coulson would be taking up an "office" like he had. If they were going to be here so much then why the hell not? ]

[ Will looked at the wall under discussion. Leaned out the doorway and looked slightly down the hall, and yep that looked like an adjoining room.

Then back to the wall John wanted to target, and finally to John himself. ]

You're out of luck. [ He announced with direct simplicity. ] Put in an intercom.

[ The correct noise would have involved asking who Coulson was and about the gathering of information from people in the city. Will had exhausted his tolerance for people being around the crowd for the Town Hall. Part of him, the investigator, was urging him to ask but it was still in mental combat with his completely accepting that any of this was real.

'Fear makes you rude, Will.' Jack Crawford had been right about that. ]

Ah, bollocks. That? That isn't nearly as fun.

[ John clicked the tongue to his teeth. He threw his hands up before leaning against the desk that he had shoved all the papers off of. Shit. Well, he'd find something else to do and something else to break. Eventually, Mathias would either murder him again or throw him a bone. ]

Is it as load bearing as you think? What if there were tunnels underneath the building?

[ Will looked around, looked down at his feet, arms crossed over his chest as he stepped further into the office and eventually shrugged. ]

Take out a load bearing wall, destabilize the entire structure, building this size ... I expect you'd find out very quickly if there were tunnels underneath. [ There is no real sarcasm in his tone. If John wants to get his destructive on, risk bringing down the entire building? Hey maybe it will be interesting to unearth underground tunnels? ] Probably risk collapsing some of them.

Oh, I know there is a tunnel underneath, mate.

[ John looked up at him with his eyebrows raised. Is he going to share where the tunnel entrance is? Maybe. That all depends on how much he feels like introducing someone who feels like Mathias is Purgatory to a bunch of crazy symbols down below. ]

Sounds like a way to go out. I might just keep that in mind for the future.

[ Aw John. Share the toys! It's possible they won't impact Will's sense of reality in any negative way; anymore than his sense of reality is regularly impacted. ]

You know the existence of a tunnel as a fact? Or is this wishful thinking?

[ Once he has a better idea of where that tunnel leads? Oh, sure, definitely. But, he's not much about sending people down into their potential deaths for no gain whatsoever! ]

"Know" does give the implication that it exists. [ He raises his eyebrows. ] Might be time we start looking under all the floorboards in Mathias. At least for the big buildings.

024-027 » neither reward nor punishment

Step away from the wall John

It has it coming! He wants OPEN OFFICES

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