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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Comments

[notanemptymotto]

I am.

[ There is a nod as if to confirm what she had wondered. The smile on her face grows into one of pride, and her hands settling on her hips. ]

I take it that is something rare here?

[enduresurvive]

[ Ellie shrugs. ]

I don't know everyone here or whatever, but...I think so, yeah. Haven't met any doctors yet.

[ Though how many injuries or illnesses have even occurred? She's not sure. Mostly it seems like you either live or you die with no in between. ]

But I think if we run outta first aid supplies, we're gonna need someone like you.

[notanemptymotto]

Well, I gather there aren't too many of us here. Perhaps that is a good thing. There's no telling how long these supplies will keep being here.

[ She shakes her head at the thought. There is no point in attempting to garden with the state of the weather. Which means stockpiling may not be a bad idea. Something she'll certainly work on given the clinic project she's got in the works. ]

Hopefully we won't need that amount of first aid to be used. Although, medicine can get very creative if need be. Superglue, for example.

[enduresurvive]

No, mostly we got, like...cops and wizards or some shit.

[ She sort of laughs. What a weird thing to say, right? But she means it. Obviously she isn't either of those herself. She considers herself almost boringly regular, though her life has been anything but boring or regular. ]

Superglue?

[ She's never seen in-tact superglue, just old dried out tubes. She's seen regular glue and some heavy duty kind, but those little tubes didn't seem to last. If they did, people had already grabbed them and used them. ]

Huh, wonder if they have superglue here. I have no idea. But there's bandages and things in first aid kits, probably.

Seems to me, though, people here are either alive or dead and less prone to just being injured.

[ Five had broken some ribs somehow, but that doesn't seem to be a terribly common occurrence. Was everyone just too careful? Even Ellie doesn't have new injuries, just the mostly-healed old ones. That arrow she took to the shoulder had been the worst, and it didn't heal quickly, but that was a month ago now. There's nothing basic first aid could do and she's not worried. And it didn't get infected, thankfully, so there's no use dwelling anyway. ]

[notanemptymotto]

Yes. They often used it to seal wounds on the battlefield during the world wars.

[ Helen smirks at Ellie then, giving a quick wink. She has already a sense that many here don't know much of history - let alone maybe even share the same history her reality does. It seems medical knowledge stays the same. More or less. ]

Or, they have simply not done enough that would warrant an injury to show off. That or they may be internal ones that they're not even aware of.

[enduresurvive]

I didn't know that.

[ Sure, Ellie has used some pretty wild shit to clean wounds or dress them. Superglue just didn't survive long enough to be useful. ]

Yeah, fair enough. Could be some internal injuries. But this place isn't...I don't know. It's dangerous in a different way than I'm used to. Injuries seem harder to come by but fucking up your mind or whatever seems pretty normal.

[ Not that minds weren't fucked up in her time and world, but still. ]