EVENT INFO: ENTER MR. SANDMAN (DREAMERS)

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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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Comments

[webshoots]

ALRIIIIGHT.

lmao we're all uk time zones, marzi says, commenting at 3:30 iN THE GODDAMN MORNING. i'm mostly around to tag in the AM before work, but i can swing some evenings fwiw.

anyway — here, plurk or discord works for me. between plurk and discord, discord is maybe slightly easier just thanks to like, no character limits and not having to scroll back to find plurks or whathaveyou. as an aside: i'm basically always invisible on discord, so just send a message at any time. i'll see it.

OH, I GUESS if anyone's unfamiliar with peter's abilities, here. his ~detective abilities are kind of questionable but he tries and he's got that Patented Spider-Sense for all ur danger-sensing needs. and, you know he's a giant fucking nerd who talks too much.

[pearlstrings]

I knew you were going to drag me for that I just knew it

As an aside we should probably decide fairly early on if we want this to be a short dream sequence or have them feel like it's taken the full 2 weeks

cr opportunities would be great for the latter, but I know that's also a big commitment and might not work best for ever character



also do you two think Villanelle would set off Peter's spider senses? :>

[webshoots]

i mean u only have urself to blame

i’m cool with whatever re: time. entirely personally, i think it’d be interesting to have it take longer ICly for the CR opportunities, however it doesn’t have to be the full two weeks if that’s easier - could be one week, could be 10 days.


LMAO okay it would completely depend on whether or not villanelle means peter any harm - if yes, then yes BUT pete probably wouldn’t register villanelle as the threat tbh. depending on their exact circumstances, he might just be like ???? and ignore it - or out it down to whatever fuckery has led to them being in sunny ol’ beacon

[pinkdress]

What time in the AM suits you? I am a terrible late riser but I've been trying to shift my routine back to early mornings again, so yay incentive.

I don't really like plurk, so my vote is for discord.

I'm up for the whole 2 weeks. Re actual threading, we can take it as it comes, right? We're going to be doing the mod-lead investigation first. And then depending on our enthusiasm/time we can add threads/handwave bits to cover the full 2 weeks?

So mostly I've been having Villanelle act totally nonthreatening because she's ~incognito~ right now, but occasionally she'll have murdery thoughts. Like: Oh he's super strong? How would I kill him if I had to? Or: This person is annoying, I'd like to strangle them with their own tie.

So maybe he'd get occasional flashes of danger? But not a sustained threat unless she actually resolved to kill him, which, unless shit gets real (which it could!) She's not going to be doing.

However, her disguise occasionally fails whenever real threats turn up, because she has the body language and instincts of a killer, so both of them are certainly welcome to pick up on that, consciously or subconsciously.