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EVENT INFO: ENTER MR. SANDMAN (DREAMERS)
EVENT INFO: ENTER MR. SANDMAN
DREAMERS
the basics
Hello hello, dreamers! You hungry little hippos have munched on one thing or another from the feast, and now you're unconscious and tromping around in what appears to be Beacon of the past. Great! Let's skip the preamble, since you've already sat through the November gameplan and the event sign-up sheet, and maybe you even read the big ol' explanation of dreamer stuff that came in response to a question. Point is, check out those links for a refresher if you need it!
the details
On November 16, the forest spirits will set up a massive harvest feast in town, and your characters will be partaking, falling into a food coma, and Nancy-Drewing around in past-Beacon dreamland. Characters have been sorted into groups of three and assigned to a single location in past Beacon, which is where they will spend the entire event. See the tables in the next section for your group assignments, as well as which mod your group will be working with! Once you're done being impatient and skipping ahead to peep the groups, come back and check out this bullet list for details on how exactly this side of the event is going to work:
- Each group will embark on a mod-led investigation thread where they will be able to explore their location. If anyone's familiar with how murdergame investigations are typically run, this will follow the same format, although the threads will be longer, designed to last a number of days (oocly) instead of wrapping up quickly. Here's a couple examples of a murdergame investigation just so y'all can see the format in action. Ignore the content! The structure is what's important! See how the characters are checking out the area ICly while also receiving mod responses as part of the tag order? That's what you can expect from our investigative threads. They're a lot like explores, but it's an actual IC thread as opposed to an OOC discussion between players and mods.
- These investigative threads may run for the entire duration of the event, although some groups may finish early. This should give all the groups ample time to complete their investigation without needing to rush. Each group is limited to their assigned location in the dream, which allows each group to set their own pace without having to worry about keeping pace with other players.
- Time is not to be trusted in dreamland... Meaning, yes, your characters will be trapped in their assigned dream location for the duration of the event. That's, like, two whole weeks! But, how long it feels to your characters is totally up to you. Though threading out the investigations may take the full duration of the event, ICly, it may just take a couple of hours. Maybe you and your group would like to then play with the idea of your characters having to just deal with being in their location for two weeks after they're done exploring, or maybe you want to skip that nonsense and say they wake up immediately after completing the investigation. Maybe you want to do something in between? Up to you!
- On that note, you're welcome to do your own threads outside of the mod-led investigation! It's not required, but say you want to play out your group being stuck for the full duration of the event? Have at it. Just keep in mind they will not be allowed to travel to different locations within the dream, nor will they be able to wake up. They can't communicate with anyone outside of their dreamer group!
- To keep investigation threads moving, we'll be pushing for one round of tags per day, meaning that everyone in the thread will be asked to tag at least once per day. If you aren't able to meet that bar for any reason, please let your group know so that we can either skip you or adjust the tag order! If a player falls out of contact for more than 24 hours, their character will be skipped in the tag order until they resurface. We do ask that everyone do their best to remain active during the event, especially in terms of OOC communication, but we fully expect to have to shuffle things here and there. It happens, and it's not a huge deal! Just let us know what's up. 👍
- OOC group organization/communication will all happen through this page in the comments below! That said, if an entire group agrees to coordinate in a private plurk or in a group DM on discord, we're happy to move to one of those venues instead. Not everyone has or prefers those forms of communication though, so the default is OOC comments on this page.
- The key to uncovering plot info is to just engage with the thread! Don't worry if you/your character isn't a super sleuth, or if you've never done this before, or if you get stumped and aren't sure what to try next, or if your character gets injured/rattled and isn't on their top detectiving game... All you need to worry about is staying IC and having your character explore and react accordingly. We won't let you miss any huge details, and while we will let you miss smaller stuff, the key to finding everything in an area isn't necessarily just to win at puzzles. Roll with the punches, and you'll do just fine.
- And finally, any injuries/death that happens in dreamland will not be permanent! After the event, all dreamers will wake up in the same state they fell asleep in... Probably? It does, in part, depend on what the defenders get up to. Here's hoping they can protect the town!
the dreamers
MIPPINS THE LIGHTHOUSE THE RADIO TOWER THE OLD LAB Buffy Summers Sarissa Theron Ignis Scientia Wanda Maximoff Kol Mikaelson Scarlett Harker Armitage Hux Daylight vis Lornlit Castiel
DANIELLE THE CHURCH THE TOWN HALL THE HARBOR Bruce Wayne Maes Hughes Eliot Waugh Peter Parker Noctis Lucis Caelum Stone Villanelle Bodhi Rook Matt Murdock
KIT THE MINES THE MUSEUM THE LIBRARY Aziraphale Mary Elizabeth Goro Akechi Jo Harvelle Coraline Li Mollymauk Tealeaf Midge Maisel Elektra Natchios
OPT OUTS Rastus Will Ingram Newton Geiszler Elena Gilbert Davina Claire Jim Gordon
the tl;dr
- November 16: Naptime, suckers.
- November 29: And now the event's over! The conclusion will depend on character action during the event.
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THE RADIO TOWER
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I'll do my best to be around for one tag a day for this event since I'm GMT +8 and I'm open to wherever you guys want to communicate/hash out the most. Just let me know because if you guys want to do it on Discord, I'll need some time to quickly put together/refix a Discord roleplay account for this since the current one I have is strictly for real life + fandom activities.
So...! Daylight has a range of abilities he might be able to do - from jetpacking to communicating with technology and basically energy manipulation - in the dream world. My first impulse instinct for Daylight to do is to try to attempt to communicate with the radio tower then jetpack up to see the area for anything of interest.
From a scale of one to 'Daylight no' - How okay would Sarissa and Kol be with Daylight's attempts to communicate with the radio tower?
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I'm also
DAYLIGHT YES
Kol will +1 this. He may even get frustrated by the lack of success (if there's any). Please tell the radio tower to play some good music. He has super hearing so depending if Daylight needs to focus all his attention onto communicating with the tower, he can possibly see if he can hear anything abnormal around the tower.
I think Kol would work better being the muscle! Need to be yelled at? He's your man. Need him to break something? Also your man. Need someone to jump in front of an avalanche? Not your man.
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And oh my gosh yes to Kol being the one to listen for any happenings/changes to the radio tower while Day tries to chat the tower up in a friend way. That'll be such an important thing to do for this. Daylight kind of... zones out and only focuses on communicating with the technology, whenever he uses his powers. So things like that kind of escape him and Kol being there to pick it up and note it would be great.
Also wheeze - Kol being one of the strongs of the group is perfect. Also him being the yeller will be perfect. Because I have a feeling Shenanigans will be happening as they poke around the tower and Daylight certainly isn't going to let Eerie Omens and Strange Things stop him from shoving his head into the exposed copper wires...!
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I'm GMT+10 or 11, whichever one is Sydney. I can tag more than once a day, although if it's a week day I'm contending with work. I have a pref. for working things out in discord just because I will get the notifs quickly, but I can do DW comments or plurk. DW comments might just take some time because I'll be on my phone!
Kol is a vampire and an Original one (which means he was one of the first ever created, y'all walking with history here!!!) at that. He's super strong, fast, durable, has great hearing and generally has been in different realms before. He also has the ability to manipulate dreams, so he might suspect they're in someone's manipulation. Maybe he can try and manipulate this one??? I have no idea. He might burn in the sun if I feel like it might add something dynamic to our thread, but otherwise, he won't turn to ash!
He's sort of sensible but can be impulsive and reckless. He holds the spirits in high regard so he won't want to piss them off. If they're in danger please let him break off a branch and beat whatever it is into a pulp. He misses being aggressive!!!
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