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expiationlogs2024-04-09 10:54 pm
quizpersona) wrote in expiationlogs2024-04-09 10:54 pm
{ Player Event } What's true of all the evils in the world is true of the plague as well
Who: You. (Open to all)
Where: All over Aldrip.
What: This is the log for what we’ve been affectionately dubbing The Organ Player Plot. Various places around Aldrip are facing dangerous supernatural occurrences. It’s a scavenger hunt in some way.
Warnings: MANY SNAKES, Body Horror, Organ Trafficking, Horror Themes, Violence, and we will be updating this as we go along.
A waking scream in the darkness is the first unheard omen.
Snakes, hundreds if not thousands, slither forth from the depths of Lorentia Cave and swiftly invade Aldrip. They are the heralds of the terrible things to come, and there are no corners safe from their encroachment. The serpents come in all shape and sizes, venomous or not, and are quick to become agitated if approached. Their readiness to strike and unwillingness to back off once provoked indicates the lack of survival instinct to flee. They are on the search for what's missing, and they will put up a fight.
An invisible haze sets upon the city , filled with anguish and fury, afflicting residents as it washes through the air and buildings. Children, the elderly, and the sickly are the first to complain of ailment. Within the next few days, patients begin to flood the doors of any hospital or clinic with more serious conditions-- fevers burning from them inside out and excruciating phantom pains that make them writhe in bed.
The longer what's stolen is not returned, the worse things get. Who knows how many bodies will pile high from these plagues if nothing gets done...
ooc//
[ Dara is currently locked behind a barrier in Lorentia Cave to stave off the further spread of deadly miasma. Please retrieve a protection talisman from Seimei and retrieve what she’s lost (and hopefully return it…) !
How This Works–
To begin the search for the supernatural sources a participant can select a number that corresponds to one of the squares on the map (seen below). To go on a route head on down to the numbered top levels in the comments and reply to it. This is your character kicking off their investigation. Some routes will lead to nowhere, some to something, and others to ;)? You’ll find out.
During exploration you will receive responses from eitherquizpersona or cursegod. This is not an interaction with that particular character unless indicated otherwise.
This event will handwave wrap up by the 20th if no conclusion is reached before then because Dara needs her poor organs back. ]
The Map
Happy Belated Easter lol
Where: All over Aldrip.
What: This is the log for what we’ve been affectionately dubbing The Organ Player Plot. Various places around Aldrip are facing dangerous supernatural occurrences. It’s a scavenger hunt in some way.
Warnings: MANY SNAKES, Body Horror, Organ Trafficking, Horror Themes, Violence, and we will be updating this as we go along.
Snakes, hundreds if not thousands, slither forth from the depths of Lorentia Cave and swiftly invade Aldrip. They are the heralds of the terrible things to come, and there are no corners safe from their encroachment. The serpents come in all shape and sizes, venomous or not, and are quick to become agitated if approached. Their readiness to strike and unwillingness to back off once provoked indicates the lack of survival instinct to flee. They are on the search for what's missing, and they will put up a fight.
An invisible haze sets upon the city , filled with anguish and fury, afflicting residents as it washes through the air and buildings. Children, the elderly, and the sickly are the first to complain of ailment. Within the next few days, patients begin to flood the doors of any hospital or clinic with more serious conditions-- fevers burning from them inside out and excruciating phantom pains that make them writhe in bed.
The longer what's stolen is not returned, the worse things get. Who knows how many bodies will pile high from these plagues if nothing gets done...
[ Dara is currently locked behind a barrier in Lorentia Cave to stave off the further spread of deadly miasma. Please retrieve a protection talisman from Seimei and retrieve what she’s lost (and hopefully return it…) !
How This Works–
To begin the search for the supernatural sources a participant can select a number that corresponds to one of the squares on the map (seen below). To go on a route head on down to the numbered top levels in the comments and reply to it. This is your character kicking off their investigation. Some routes will lead to nowhere, some to something, and others to ;)? You’ll find out.
During exploration you will receive responses from either
quizpersona or cursegod. This is not an interaction with that particular character unless indicated otherwise.This event will handwave wrap up by the 20th if no conclusion is reached before then because Dara needs her poor organs back. ]
Happy Belated Easter lol
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They're ready for anything—are they ready for what awaits them? As they travel along the path set by those footprints they stumble upon a very nice candle lit dinner out in the middle of nowhere. All of the candles were either blown out a long time ago or they have melted down to the point that it’s obvious this table has been there a while.
From where they stand they'll be able to squint and see that it's a nice steak dinner. Will they approach? ]
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Oh yeah, because I'm totally going to eat a steak in the middle of the woods.
[he goes to rummage for a long enough stick that he can poke at the steak at a pretty safe distance away...]
Chie would've been caught here in a heartbeat, though.
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...
But-- okay, when he said they should be ready for anything, he wasn't exactly thinking of... this.]
It's pretty suspicious, [he agrees, giving a small, fond smile at the mention of Chie. She would have been caught, for sure, but with her legs of fury, he imagines it'd be more unfortunate for whatever caught her.
Anyway, he examines the scene, cautiously chancing a few steps closer, looking for any visible traps, counting the number of chairs at the table, the number of place settings.]
It looks like it's been here a while, but no animals have come to eat it or anything.
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It was like something out of a book she'd read. And considering the books she'd read...A dinner table, a carefree culprit who was willing to cut people up and hide their organs?
She grimly surveyed the scene. Looking at the steak for any obvious signs of tampering. Though she didn't touch anything and winced when Yosuke picked up a stick to poke it.]
That'd be a good indicator that it's been poisoned. [What with their sense of smell.]
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The snake curves upwards to look at them with just a little too much intelligence in its eyes to be an unthinking creature. There's a couple of more thumps as a couple more fall from the table to the ground. One of the candlesticks topples over with the heightened commotion on the once still dinner set up.
But the more pressing development is when that first snake takes the opportunity to slither along the stick Yosuke is holding out to get at him. Press x to react. ]
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there's a moment of brief pause as he looks at the snake slithering. and then he screams, flinging the stick away and moving to back his ass up.]
W-Where the hell did that come from??
[because he's so extremely Brave and all that...]
Yu!! Naoto!! Get away from that thing!!
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This feels important. He can't figure out how, though, not just yet.]
That sound, [he says to his companions, but he's making eye contact with the spookily-lucid snake as he speaks. This noise, the bells, also seems important.] You guys hear it, too, right?
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Had they been clinging to the underside of the table? She hoped so, but it seemed unlikely with the amount.]
A ceremonial bell? [She was looking around, but she couldn't pinpoint it. Her hand going to her holster.]
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That sound indeed is very reminiscent of a ceremonial bell. One that is drawing closer from the pathway towards south. Smooth movement very low to the ground can be just barely seen approaching. The snake that Yu had been maintaining eye contact with is the first to break it. The little creature turns to look in that direction as if having expected it. Some of the other snakes follow suit second later. Others do what can only be described as cowering in fear.
Will they wait to discover the thing that approaches them with intent? ]
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Yosuke goes ahead and summons Susano-o as the snakes start to run. as the sound gets louder.]
Yu, get your ass over here! [he says, as he moves closer to Naoto.] We need to stick together!
[a beat.]
If something is scaring those assholes, that means there's no good coming...
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Still. Better safe than sorry.
He backs up only by a few steps, remaining in front of his friends, but close enough that they have a solid group. At the same time, he brings Barong to the front of his mind, summoning the creature's card in order to cast Marakukaja on the three of them. It'll give them a boost in their defense if anything tries to sneak up on them.]
Stay on guard. Whatever's coming, we've got this.
[They always do.]
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Yu got a small nod. After Izanami, she didn't doubt they'd be alright.
Just reaching into her coat to grab her revolver and summoning Yamato...Sumeragi?]
If the snakes are connected to this Dara person, then whatever is scaring them...
[Was it connected to what had attacked Dara? She'd put that aside for now though.]