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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[this_ismydesign]

[ Poor Neal.

Or you know any other relatively rational individual. For Will this was almost the perfect set of circumstances. He didn't have to navigate the whole eye contact situation while he had an opportunity to talk with Neal.

A man with people reading skills like Neal, might be able to pick up on the fact that Will as perfectly comfortable here in the dark. Almost too comfortable. As if this were some sort of warm cozy blanket that he had drawn around himself, never mind disembodied voices, stale air and weird echos. ]

Am I used to the supernatural? No. That sort of thing lives only in the fertile imagination where I come from. [ He briefly thought of John Constantine and his experience with the man.

Were they in the light, Will might have left his response there. But in the comfort of the dark, ] I am used to living in the minds of the all too human monsters that lurk in the shadows.

I was a criminal profiler and Instructor of forensic psychology for the FBI. Before I retired.

[conning]

[ Yeah, Neal has definitely picked up on Will's... relaxation. Will can probably pick up on Neal's total lack thereof with equal ease. He's getting more tense the longer they stay down here, waiting for something to go horribly wrong.

Sorry Will, as far as criminal profilers who no longer work with the FBI are concerned, Neal likes Malcolm best. ]

I have to ask: how infertile is your imagination that this isn't bothering you? [ He waves his hand at their surroundings, regardless of Will's ability to see it. ]

[this_ismydesign]

[ Wise choice Neal. There is still hope for Malcolm. ]

Wrong question. [ Will said in those quiet and measured tones. ] My imagination is very fertile.

There is beauty in the dark. Draw it close, around your shoulders like a blanket against the coldness of mediocrity, and you can become quiet comfortable within its depths.

Listen closely and it will whisper secrets in your ears.

[conning]

[ The silence after Will finishes speaking could be Neal listening to the dark. Or it could be Neal thinking What the fuck very loudly in the universe's general direction. ]

You're a very strange man.

[this_ismydesign]

[ Will chuckled and perhaps oddly enough it was a very normal, amused in a friendly way, sort of chuckle. ]

I get that, a lot.

[conning]

[ Somehow, that statement actually made Neal relax. At least Will wasn't the kind of unbalanced that lost touch with the fact that there was some teeter-tottering going on. ] So... is this darkness telling you anything?

[this_ismydesign]

[ Will was pretty good about owning his crazy. ] Nothing of any significant importance. [ He admitted with a small sigh. ] Though I am left wondering, if the lights we carried chased away the voices, or if the voices took the light, and then left.

[conning]

Neither one of those scenarios is particularly comforting.

[ The fact that Neal believed either one of those scenarios was literally possible made him wonder if he could really judge Will for being a little out there.

Neal lifted his dead lantern, like that would somehow bring the light back. ]

I wonder what would happen if we re-lit them and tried to come down again?

[ A pause. ] ...That's a terrible idea.