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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[cholesterol]

"Noted," he says. Doesn't mean he'll stop making his references.

Now Dean's staring right where the shadow was, right into the empty space.

"Bloody Mary," he says, approaching where the shadow was. "Drop it again," he asks Doc, ready to -- he doesn't even know. "She was a whole spirit, though. Angry dead girl. Clawed people's eyes out that had secrets. Someone died because of them, even accidentally, she knew. You said it three times into the mirror, she -- clawed."

[thering]

He's ready to pull the cloth down again but the more Dean talks the more Doc sort of does a squinty triple take, unable to completely take his eyes off the covering but also unable to completely take his eyes off Dean.

"So I pull this off and say... my secrets three times? And she will climb out of the mirror and claw my eyes out. While you dispatch of her." Is that the plan? "Any... secret in particular? Are you sure you don't need a weapon?"

[cholesterol]

"No," he starts, waving a hand. "No, no. There's no -- That isn't this. That probably isn't this. People who had a secret death in their past, accident they were a part of... assisted suicide, then they said her name, Bloody Mary -- that, three times, then they got their eyes clawed out. If we really wanted to get her, we'd have to find the original mirror, show her her own reflection."

Still not easy to follow, though, right?

"I'm just testing a theory. See if the shadow ... does anything."

[thering]

Yeah okay Dean but don't tell a man about getting his eyes clawed out by some hysterical woman in the mirror as he's about to remove the covering of said mirror.

Not that he's afraid of such a fate, but he figures if he doesn't say 'Bloody Mary' he is at least not taunting the poor lady. If she decides to climb out of the mirror anyway and attack him then they will deal with it at that juncture.

"How do you know which is the original mirror?" He asks, tearing his gaze off of Dean as he starts to pull the mirror cover away again.

Doc is honestly bracing for losing his eyes so he takes a couple of steps backwards, but nothing happens. Only the figure seems to have moved, but. Is currently not moving.

He checks over his shoulder again, just to be sure.

"I don't think she was impressed with your 'Bloody Mary' talk."

[cholesterol]

"We did research. Tracked it down. This was fifteen years ago, man. One example," he makes clear, letting his gaze fall back on the mirror. Like Doc, he sees the figure is in a different place altogether. He was where Dean was standing, but not he is further away.

Watching the mirror, Dean backs away, one foot behind the other as he keeps his eye on the mirror and lines up with where the shadow would be.

"Whoever it is," he figures, looking beside him. "They're not here, then. They're in there." Or, they can only be seen inside the mirror. He doesn't actually know. Doc should realize Dean is not the be all and end all of what should happen or be done. "It. Her."

Him?

"Maybe, if we check all the mirrors, they'll all have writing." And maybe that writing will lead them to the original.

[thering]

Well. Dean talks like he knows everything so forgive him for assuming he ought to trust that authoritative tone. He expects Dean to trust him if this were something more in his realm of expertise, after all.

"I'm- not sure if we should be antagonising our friend. But we should at least find a few more mirrors." And if a few more mirrors are the same then they can decide on their next course of action. Doc leaves the sheet piled on the floor.

"There were a few upstairs. One in each bedroom, and the bathroom of course."

[cholesterol]

Dean would. Except, Dean's not convinced his world's rules hold up here. He just doesn't know. He knows nothing. He's freaking Jon Snow.

Of course, the bathroom.

"We're taking mirror inventory now," he replies, nodding to himself. It's a plan. "What was the mirror like in the cave? Was there a shadow, too?" Hadn't Doc said the cave he'd woken up in had a mirror?

sorry I lost track of this :<

[thering]

"No. It looked... ritualistic. It was on the ground leaning against the cavern wall, but the placement of it and the surrounding rocks made it feel like an altar. One could have sacrificed a rodent in front of it or attempted some kind of occult business." Business he is unfamiliar with, so Dean can consider these mere conjectures. "It looked like an ordinary mirror otherwise. No friends or foes within, nor did it warp your image. The lady I was with, Jill Valentine, had picked up the mirror and attempted to bring it with us. No paranormal occurrence came rushing out or screaming after it."

He should have inspected it more closely, but he was too busy shitting himself in a cool, dark, enclosed space. Figures it might have been important.

"We cannot return to that mirror either way. Let's take a look upstairs, try to make sense of what we can look at."