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063-064 » no matter how much / part ii (group B)
WHO: Group B members only.
WHERE: Mathias Township proper
WHEN: Days 063-064
WHAT: Matthias becomes a little larger and a little smaller at the same time.
WARNINGS: (PM this account to have a warning added!)
NOTES: Plotting post over here!
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WHERE: Mathias Township proper
WHEN: Days 063-064
WHAT: Matthias becomes a little larger and a little smaller at the same time.
WARNINGS: (PM this account to have a warning added!)
NOTES: Plotting post over here!
RECOMMENDED ♫ DEADLY AVENGER "Raiju"
DAY 063-064
NO MATTER HOW MUCH“No matter how much suffering you went through,
you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
— Haruki Murakami
At first, in the calm following the storm, nothing seems amiss. When the residents awake, it is to another glorious morning dawning in the unsettling paradise that is Mathias Township. Indeed, it does seem rather glorious that morning, for there is sunshine in a blue sky that has been cleared of any remnant of the angry storm clouds from the day before. But before long, residents will start to notice signs of something being not quite right.
It should be a familiar sensation to most by now.
It begins as just a feeling, a strange hint of something in the air, a nagging voice at the back of the mind. They can't quite put their finger on it but there is something. Something wrong, something that shouldn't be — which is quite a statement in a town where everything shouldn't be. But then the pieces will begin to come together.
A person has gone who ought to be there. This in itself is not a strange occurrence, for many have vanished and then returned, or not. This time, though, it is one person, and then two and three... A dozen people or more have gone, with no trace of their whereabouts to be found.
No resident is alone, thankfully. There are others who also remain: friends, acquaintances, strangers. Others who are just as trapped in this nightmarish place.
As the hours stretch on and residents begin to venture beyond their self-claimed shelters and move about the town, they will find that their fellow captives are not the only things that have vanished. The Chasm is gone as well, the crack in the earth that once stretched across and cut off the western part of town. There is not even the smallest mark to show where it had once been; it has gone so completely that some might wonder if they had merely imagined it.THE NEW ARRIVALS
The newest arrivals to Mathias will wake up on the lawn of Town Hall, at the center of the little town square. There are shops all around them, with houses just beyond, and at first glance, everything seems almost picturesque. Except for the silence that is at times so complete as to be maddening... Welcome to Mathias.
ABOUT THE NEW LOCATIONS
POPPY COTTAGE This bed and breakfast has a sense of casual elegance with the elusive quality of being both sophisticated and comfortable at the same time. Aside from being covered in dust and grime, of course.
PENHEW HOUSE Perhaps familiar to some in Mathias, this grand house is different from any of the others the residents have entered. It looks... new. Fresh. Clean. The usual thick layers of dust and grime that would be caked onto every visible surface are nowhere in sight; this absence may be a relief for some and unsettling to others. There are certainly other unsettling things to be found in this location.
THE OLD CHURCH Barely more than ruins, the property is marked by a crumbled stone outline that has no roof and only partial walls, nothing left inside besides a broken cobblestone floor.
BANEBERRY HALL From the outside, Baneberry Hall seems like your average rich person's house, but one would be mistaken to assume anything of the sort. Even the baneberries that cover the back lawn leading to the forest treeline are deceptive, for they appear harmless but are fatal to any human foolish enough to eat them.
The building is decaying from within. The rooms have begun to rot, from the parlors and libraries still done up in grand and expensive style to the bedrooms that have locks on the doors and bars on the windows. There are restraints in some of those bedrooms, while others are bereft of sharp objects. In the hall closets, there are identical sets of white pajamas of all sizes, and the offices have locked cabinets (that may be picked) full of a rainbow of sedatives (that will not replenish). The names on doors and in logbook lists are all smudged beyond legibility, and all paperwork has been water-damaged and weathered, leaving no indication of who may have been kept in those bedrooms or why. But within each room, there is an item that may be familiar to one of the residents now wandering its halls. As caked in dust and grime as anything else, each item is placed as if it belongs there, as if it might have been there for years. But it couldn't have been... could it?ABOUT THE ITEMS FROM HOME
Within the unsettling walls of Baneberry Hall, residents may find OBJECTS that are uncomfortably familiar to them. Each item has one singular memory attached to it that, when touched in any way, will be experienced first hand, as if the person receiving it had lived it themselves. This person will endure all of the associated emotions and psychological reactions to the memory that the memory's owner experienced.— Items may only be found within Baneberry Hall. These items from home are not all in one room or a specific location but instead are scattered throughout the bedrooms. (Only the items on this list are available to this group.)
— Ownership and possession of the item are important elements to this event. While the item is in possession of someone who is not its owner, it will continue to infect all who touch it with the memory that belonged to its owner. The item will also, before long, begin to make the possessor ill, both physically and emotionally uncomfortable and upset. This only occurs until the item is reunited with its owner, or until it is no longer in someone else's possession. (For example, if Person A finds Person B's teddy bear and carries it with them, they will continue to experience the bear's associated memory until they no longer have it in their possession, whether this means they have left it somewhere or it has been returned to Person B.)
— Recipients of memories will retain those memories even after the event has ended.
— When the owner of an item finds their item or has it returned to them, they will also experience the memory once themselves, having it returned to them as if they had just lived those moments again. The memory is only replayed once in their minds and then the memory effect of the object is gone. After this point, the item can be held by the owner or any others without consequence.
— If a person removes an item from its room in Baneberry Hall but does not remove the item from the property entirely, the item will be mysteriously returned to its original location when no one is looking. This is so that people do not have to keep close track of where items are going in the possible changing of hands, so the original owners can still easily locate the item without having to plan in great detail. Once an item is removed from the property, it will not return to its original location even if it is discarded by the possessor before reaching its original owner. Instances such as this should be planned among all involved parties, including the owner of the item.
— Once an item is removed from the property, please comment below so that information may be updated. Items that are not removed by the end of the event may reappear at a later time, so accurate records are essential.
— Before an item's memory is viewed by someone other than the owner, permission must be granted or requested for that memory to be viewed by another character. Because the experience is an uncomfortable one for the other characters, the viewing of memories not their own should ideally be kept to a small number.
— THE WEATHER conditions remain fairly typical for early fall: warm days and cool nights. It feels almost like spring arriving except that there fewer red and orange leaves on the ground and more of them oddly returning to the trees and slowly fading to green. It's like watching one of those nature documentaries that have a timelapse of the seasons, only it's going in reverse.
— THE FOG has new boundaries.— Residents may now wander the southern stretch of the forest surrounding Mathias Township — it is possible to leave the paths but potentially unwise to do so.
— The fog has also retreated from the western section of town entirely.
— Access to the northern section of the forest is still blocked beginning a few dozen yards past the treeline; this section of fog will urge residents to stay huddled within the town proper by inducing a physical reaction of panic and fear.
— DISAPPEARANCES AND DEATHS continue! Yennefer, Number Five, and Tony Stark have vanished and Ellie is still missing, though this may be difficult to tell with half the town also seemingly having vanished. Will Graham's body may be found within the ruins of the Old Church; he appears to have been frightened to death. (If someone decides to take care of the body, please report it below. For in-game reasons, this does not need to be coordinated across groups.)
— ALCOHOL supplies have run dry, save for any dregs that have been squirreled away by individual residents. Moonshine can still be acquired by those in desperate need.
— NEW MAP Thanks so much to Scy for yet another amazing new map of Mathias!
— UPDATES Don't forget to report updates as they come up! Changes to locations (like toppling a few bookshelves in the library), big plots you have coming up that will affect the game (parties, major property destruction, etc), or exciting discoveries that may tie into the game's mythology (even the things provided by the mod) are very helpful to have in one place so relevant page updates can be made. IC events are also helpful to know about in advance so they can be included in the log write-ups.
— MOD STATUS For those who don't know, I run a summer program that is set to start in just 2 weeks. We've only recently been given the green light to go ahead in person, so it's a scramble to get everything pulled together in time. My non-RP life is going to be busy and chaotic for the next while and I am thus asking for your forgiveness and understanding as things continue to be slow, as I cannot guarantee timely mod responses beyond weekends, and even that is not guaranteed.
— NEXT LOG Because of the aforementioned real-life chaos, the next log will be more relaxed and free form with everyone coming back together again and having a few chill days. It would be very much appreciated if some of the more intense investigations could be saved to take place in future logs, as the new locations that are opening up in this log will remain open in the next few at least and there will be plenty of time to explore all their mysteries.
— ITEMS FROM HOME The items from home remaining in Baneberry Hall will not be available past this log, at least not in this form, so if you would like to play with these elements, you should not sleep on this opportunity. More things may show up in the future but, for now, this is the main event.
— DW NOTIFS Back at the beginning of the year, the issue of missing email notifs was discussed in a code push plurk by Mark of the DW admin team. For those who missed it, the gist is that the issue with missing notifs is not going to be fixed anytime soon. The issue is so sporadic that the dev team has concluded the only way to possibly fix it is to redo the notification system entirely. This issue does not extend to DW's internal inbox, so short of checking every thread you're involved in, the DW inbox is the best way to make sure you're not missing things.
— ACTIVITY CHECK Beginning with June's AC (posted at the start of July), all tags that consist of only dialogue will count as 0.5 comments, not just those that occur in an inbox thread. This applies to both AC and AP totals.
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Sheer spite with a side dish of stubbornness.
[ and there being nothing else to do here but search. if mathias had its own mystic grill, she'd be a piece of the furniture by now.
instead, she's in a hall closet, standing on the tips of her toes as she searches a shelf of white pyjamas. when she unwraps one and finds it to be too small even for her, she drops it on the floor. ]
Like how I am determined to get you pyjamas you didn't ask for in your size.
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He leans to one side of her and reaches a small pile on a shelf above her head, bringing it down to proper searching levels.]
I won't say no to comfort. [Even if these particular pyjamas remind him of the few times he had been on a psych hold through the years.]
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[ she smiles brightly at him. it helps to have that extra height, doesn't it? she tugs at some of the pyjamas and finds the none of them are suitable for him, but a pair is for her. pressing it up against herself, she turns to face him. ]
Do you think this is my size? I figure since we're here, we should take some things back.
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[He grins right back at her. At least she wasn't annoyed by it like some people might be, he'd found himself on that end of the 'tall-short' dynamic more times than he could count.]
Yeah, I think so. They should. [He declares with a nod.] I see no harm in that.
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[ since it seemed so stocked with things. pyjamas that weren't overly scratchy and could give the rest of her closet a break. there were a few other things she wanted to take back to the boarding house if she could find a box. while not everything would be useful, being a packrat kept her busy.
folding her pyjamas and dropping them onto a clear spot on the floor, she continues to look through the pile. ]
This place is a little… creepy, right? I've never seen this building before until now.
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He sighs out a soft breath.]
Yeah, I’ve never seen it either. I’m not so much a fan of the whole... new places to explore thing. Bad shit seems like it crops up twice as bad when that happens.
[He shakes his head.] Plus, like— half the town’s missing. No way did that many people do the disappearing act at once, right?
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[ elena sighs heavily, shaking her head. it makes her feel good to know someone who's been here a little longer than her is a little weirded out by this suddenly new and completely built place. ]
I didn't want to think too much about it, but it feels different to when someone randomly disappears or is found… [ she purses her lips, not liking this train of thought. just recently, she'd spotted claire's prone body at the bottom of the chasm. it makes her sad to think of the people she's met and will most likely never see again.
she shakes her head, pulling pyjamas from the shelf and letting them drop to the floor. ] Where did they go?
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[ how many times do people end up in buildings they can't get out of? she's hoping that that's what he's referring to, too, or else she might just give up on everything at this point.
she stops what she's doing, brows slightly furrowed. she nods. ]
I was in the Grey Gull. I was in my pyjamas and it was awful.
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[He shakes his head. He's getting off his point.] I'm thinking this might be like that. Since so many people seem to be missing at once, you know– maybe they're somewhere else for a bit, like we were then... and then we'll all come back together again properly eventually.
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But we can leave.
[ she holds the pyjamas in her hands, twisting them subconsciously between her fingers. ]
We couldn't leave before. I've been to the Boarding House, this new and really clean house, and here. And you're one of the only people I've seen that I know. It's like… [ she inhales deeply to only exhale, knowing that she's simply talking aloud now. ] Where's everyone else? In a different part of the town? In a different town?
[ that last one sounds fake. there's nowhere else outside of mathias. ]
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[ she sighs heavily, shaking her head. she looks at the pyjamas in her hands and balls them up, placing them back on the shelf. she's not this horrible at clothing stores. consider it her getting back at mathias for being so freaking confusing. ]
I wonder why it's separated us, though. What's the purpose? Other than to drive us insane asking so many unanswered questions.
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A soft lilt of a giggle escapes him.] Hand to God– [He stage whispers: ] She doesn't like me much. [And back to regular voice.] I am pretty sure that is the whole point of this entire fucking town, Elena.
[The whys, the hows? He has no idea. But the core of it? He's pretty sure she's hit the nail on the head.]
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[ she shakes her head, chuckling. no, that's not what he should say. he should say what he has said—that this town is completely fucked and that it won't have any answers. he's been here long enough to not lead her down the garden path.
with a purse of her lips, she flicks the white pyjamas on the shelf. ] At least it gives us free clothes.
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And food... It doesn’t seem to mind killing us other ways, but it doesn’t want us to starve to death, for whatever reason.
sorry for the delay, i ended up being a little sick last week!
[ she shakes her head, scrunching up her face. sorry, hermione, but elena's going to put that on the elves. considering how messed up mathias can be, elves are still on the table. ]
It's really weird how we never see things like that happen.
nooo worries, lovely. <3
[He nods his agreement. Truthfully, if he thinks about it too much, the way everything is done when they aren't looking somehow is pretty disturbing.]
Do you think it's magic, maybe? [He believes, to an extent, in the idea of magic. How can he not, when he and his siblings do so many amazing, impossible things? Even if Five would balk at him calling their powers 'magic'.]
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[ it feels good to know someone else thinks it could be magic. elijah's the only other person she's spoken to about it at length (and ad nauseam). to her, it seems like it's magic, magic and more magic.
she narrows her eyes thoughtfully. ]
But magic has to come from someone. And if it's coming from someone, then we'd have to have known who it is by now. All of this is so frustrating.
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Maybe they're just really good at hide and seek.