EVENT INFO: ENTER MR. SANDMAN (DEFENDERS)

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EVENT INFO: ENTER MR. SANDMAN
DEFENDERS

the basics

So the spirits decided to throw you a party; a feast, in fact. Cool! But then everyone who ate it suddenly collapsed, and now it's just you and a bunch of other confused (and probably still hungry) people with no idea what's happening. Are the feasters dead, or just unconscious? And what was in that food? Unfortunately, there's no time to stop and figure it out.

Almost immediately after the mass-fainting, a sharp rustling begins to echo from all around. Spirits, an army of them, creep purposefully out of the trees. And they aren't the friendly ones who made you all this dinner, either; instead it's those infamous green-eyed spirits, but more than just the one that plagued the last big feast in Beacon— (maybe you guys just shouldn't have parties? just saying)— this time there's more of them. A lot more.

Their exact intentions are unclear, but one thing's for sure: they do not come in peace. Over the next two weeks, these spirits will attack the town and everyone in it, using an arsenal of potent psychic abilities and the spirits' particularly unsettling flavor of physical violence. So grab that comatose body next to you and book it to the nearest safe space, or grab a weapon and get to fighting. It's time to defend the town!

the details

Starting on November 16th, the green-eyed spirits will launch an all-out assault on the citizens of Beacon. Their tactics will include not only their trademark induced hallucinations and general mind games, but physical violence as well. They seem to have recruited— or otherwise coerced— some of the forest's more dangerous inhabitants to their cause, and as a whole they will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal. Whatever that might be. Are they trying to kill you all? Just trying to scare you and going too far? Or is there something else sinister going on? Whatever the case may be, here are a few things you should know about the event itself:

• The attacking spirits will not be frightened away or otherwise diverted from their onslaught of their own free will. As a result, the attack will last the entire duration of the event. Get ready for the long haul, everybody!


• Characters may form groups to fight together (and, in practice, thread together against the spirits). These groups can consist of no more than 4 members, as any higher number would make threads unwieldy.


• Outside of the threads against spirits, characters are welcome to thread with those not in their chosen groups at their leisure.


• Characters can also go solo, naturally.


• Please report any formed groups in the appropriate place below. Your character won't have to spend every waking moment with these folks, but they will be fighting alongside them, so choose wisely!


• Mod responses (playing the attacking spirits) will come readily to threads that request it or that are obviously geared toward fighting the spirits, but beware: the attacking spirits may appear suddenly in any thread on the event log.


• Characters may alter the setting by building structures to better defend the town. Report any defenses constructed in the appropriate place below.


• Additional things to report include any property destruction, permanent injuries, or deaths.


• The reporting threads on this post will be used throughout the event! Anything not reported here will NOT count as game canon.

Additionally, players are welcome to use this post for OOC event plotting! In fact, please do, as not everyone in the game has access to each other's plurks! If you'd like, you can use the small form below to kickstart your plotting plans:

<b>player:</b> (feel free to put your contact info here if you like!) <b>character(s):</b> <b>plans:</b> (have any plans already? or do you have plans you'd like to make? let the world know! this includes any groups you've joined, if you're going solo, or if you'd like to be part of a group!) <b>notes:</b> (anything else worth mentioning, like permissions/opt-outs/hiatuses/etc.?)

the defenders

Rosinante	callada
Zihuan Cao Pi	pure_havoc
Xayah	featherknives
Vanitas	evulsed
Jason Todd	mind_blown
Akira Kurusu	survivaltricks
Masaomi Kida	mellowyellow
Bucky Barnes	worthallthis
Crowley	sauntered_downward
Javert	policier
Jason Grace	notthatjason
Misty Day	shadowsran
Riku	equinoctials
Ellever Brandt	antiwhat
Kuai Liang	paletteswap
Prompto Argentum	techtype
Eleven	savingthrows
Nancy Wheeler	keenely
Jon Snow	song_of_ice
Ambrose Spellman	necromantiae
Steve Harrington	fawcetted
Quentin Coldwater	moderatelymaladjusted
Hope Mikaelson	tribridfreakshow
Noob Saibot	saibot
Dana Scully	paraskeptic
Klaes Ashford	patriotnow
Rosalind Lutece	originallutece
Remington Swann	axegirlfriend
Allie Pressman	mayorly
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret	luxoraculi
M.K.	darkeyed
Nyx Ulric	nyxulric

the tl;dr

• November 16: the green-eyed spirit assault begins


• November 29: whether they succeed in their mysterious goals or are defeated, the spirits retreat

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Comments

[moderatelymaladjusted]

player: Ireth, PM or discord?
character(s): Quentin Coldwater
plans: Quentin is going to be in Grand Portal #5 with a sleeping Eliot when all this starts. He’s also going to try search the nearest cabins, maybe venturing out a little to see if anyone needs help / sleepers stuck in cabins without guardians. He has a bow and arrows, a torch and his magic. Depending on how maybe sleepers he manages to round up, that would mean if he stays put or if it’s just Eliot, try to get to bonfire square while also carrying a huge person around.

Open for help, cooperation and as the days drag on, food. Supplies. Reinforcements. Company.

notes: I’d like for Quentin not to just get stuck in the cabins on his own? Small groups or help getting to either the armoury or the invincible would be lovely. Quentin knows a shitton of battlemagic and he’s pretty good with a bow and arrow.

[necromantiae]

player: tc | spoonishly
character(s): ambrose spellman
plans: no real, solid plans. i'd love for him to get into a group though since i do love fighty banter. i'd also like him to get knocked around since he's been relatively okay since he got here and it's time i changed that.

he's a magical dude so he'll be throwing up wards and shields while using offensive spells to make sure he doesn't get dead.
notes: let's do stuff!

[mind_blown]

player: raina
character(s): jason todd
plans: he is definitely going to be protecting bruce, and he'll be with vanitas most of the time, but lets work something out! i do plan on him getting wicked injured, but definitely towards the end of the event so he should be in commission most of it.
notes: no notes specifically, i'm just real excited c:

[song_of_ice]

player: Rachel
character(s): Jon Snow
plans: No set plans. Jon will be keeping an eye on the dreamers, but he'll get thrown into the battle and start forgetting things as the adrenaline starts pumping. I don't have any set plans about groups or team ups, I'm very much hoping to expand Jon's cr and find more combat buddies.
notes: I'm a little slow because of health, but I'll make these threads a priority.

Who wants some spine-ripping?

[paletteswap]

player: Sydney filledwithstraw
character(s): Kuai Liang
plans: He's part of the very exclusive Will protection squad so he'll bounce over to the Invincible every so often to check on him and Rosinante. He's a fan of the forest spirits, but not these ones. So expect no mercy.
notes: It's time for Sub-Zero to use some of those fatalities he's been holding back on. Expect lots of ice walls to be used as shields and to block spirits from those who are sleeping. And some very, very bloody fight sequences. Not to mention his signature move.

[mellowyellow]

player: Wind shogunsensual
character(s): Masaomi Kida
plans: Masaomi doesn't have close enough CR to be bound and determined to one sleeping body. He will be jumping all over, trying to help everywhere he can. But he's also a powerless human teenager who gets in over his head at every turn and has never fought an actual monster before. If you're looking for a defender for your character to rescue, either dutifully or begrudgingly, I offer Masaomi up for the chopping block. Masaomi could also charge in and take a hit for your character who could handle it just fine because he's an idiot. So that's always an option too.
notes: Aziraphale gave Masaomi some gel pens, so he might use them to make signs pointing people in certain directions if anyone wants to play with that.

ATTENTION DEFENDERS

[mind_blown]

Please use this sheet to put where you and your respective Dreamers will be, that way we can identify which dreamers aren't being defended!

[sauntered_downward]

MJ 🍎CrowleyToday at 8:07 PM
What happens if the Dreamers die in the real world? Has this been answered yet, I apologize if it has.

mippins 🐚 robin & rastus 👾 newtToday at 9:56 PM
mj 🍎Crowley dreamers won't die during the event! the green-eyed spirits will leave them alone

MJ 🍎CrowleyToday at 10:07 PM
I mean if someone, say Crowley, were actively trying to wake up the Dreamers and killed one.
To make them "wake up" by dying and coming back.

mippins 🐚 robin & rastus 👾 newtToday at 10:11 PM
in that case they'd die and come back after the event! for time's sake, it wouldn't affect the dream thread since time functions weirdly in the dream anyhow, but that'd be something for the dying dreamer player to talk to their group's mod about