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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[chuju]

[ Ah, an answer Daisy knows all too well. In her experience, I'm fine tends to translate to I'm actually not fine but no way am I admitting it — at least, that's what it means when she says it herself. ]

Yeah, I spent a few days here when I first arrived. [ Arrived. It's a nicer way of saying woke up after being kidnapped by who knows what to who knows where. ] The food's fine. And honestly, you look like you need it.

[ She's probably not much better herself, with her expression clouded by discomfort, but she definitely doesn't look like she's about to fall over. The same can't be said for her fellow trapped soul here. ]

[descendent]

[ you know what fills her like food? knowledge. her brows lift and any desire to tuck into the food is gone. ]

You were one of the first people who arrived here?

[ that means she would've been with john, wouldn't it? he has a "i have been here so long and don't know how to shower" vibe. at least her kitchen acquaintance looks like she showers.

with a twist of her body, she gestures with a point of her hand towards the kitchen's guts. ]

Do you know how this food got here?

[ she doubts the answer is a "no", but she's hopeful. ]

[chuju]

[ Daisy nods at the first question, then shrugs at the second. Do any of them really know anything about this place? Every time they seem to learn something, there's something else that comes along to contradict that knowledge. Forming theories about any of it seems a wasted effort at this point. ]

Nope, but I know someone who should be eating it.

[ There's a pointed look with that one, that instinct to look after others rising up to the surface. The girl looks like she might half of Daisy's age — just let her big sister at you, kid. ]

[descendent]

[ elena sees you, daisy. it's a good thing she's a little practiced in sidestepping out of doing the responsible thing. mystic falls had a lot more going on inside of its little bubble than mathias does, so her usual plan of trying to throw rocks at the window and seeing which one smashes it open won't do the trick.

she inhales deeply and lets it out, her only acknowledgement that she knows she's right. then she smiles. ]

I don't like eating alone. I'm Elena.

[chuju]

Daisy.

[ Internally sighing, the older but possibly not wiser woman finds a plate and adds her own helping of food to it. It's a smaller portion than she'd normally eat, but splitting headaches don't make for a hearty appetite. ]

So what happened that you're completely 'fine' after? Anything to do with that bandage on your neck?

[ Scooping up a forkful of food, she stuffs it in her mouth. Chews, swallows, then gives Elena another very pointed look. Your turn. ]

[descendent]

[ her neck wound would definitely be a big part of it.

continuing to push her food around on her plate, elena thinks over her answer—quickly, but still noticeable that she's had to mull it over. ]

Partly. [ so, not exactly a lie. she looks up at her and brushes her fallen hair behind her ear. she sighs deeply. ] This whole town is just… It's hard to figure out. Who locked us in here? Why are we in here? It's not like we all slept walked to the same place.

[chuju]

[ Partly. Yeah, okay. She's got a pretty good guess at what the ratio of that part is. But they can get back to that in a minute. ]

We don't know that we didn't. Drugs, tech, there are plenty of methods that could have been used to get us to this building without our remembering. The who is still pretty up in the air, but the why... Pretty sure this is some sort of torture. [ She shrugs and takes another bite of her food.

It occurs to her that maybe Elena is too young to hear this sort of thing, but a second later, she squashes that idea. It might be true on the outside, but here in this town, no one can be sheltered from the truth. They're trapped here and there's no softening that blow. ]

[descendent]

[ elena's brows furrow. it's on the tip of her tongue to mention magic, but she doesn't want to throw a crazy and weird spanner into the works. maybe it is as simple as daisy says: it'd just been drugs.

she tries to recall how the tuna and bread she'd had last night tasted. it seemed normal to her. ]

Do you think the General Store's food could've been drugged? That would've been a lot of food.

[ yet, no one knows who and how it's restocked every day. ]