EVENT INFO: GHOST TOWNS

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EVENT INFO: GHOST TOWNS

the basics

As fall begins to transition to winter, and as the residents of Beacon deal with recent information about the creature in the mines and the World Eater lurking just across the lake, perhaps it's time to take a breath and remember the good things in life both before and after their arrival in Beacon. The majority of the forest spirits are now fully on the side of the people in town, and wish to help - and as they've learned over time about what's actually good versus chaotic and kind of horrifying, they've put together a way for all of you to reflect on some of the fond memories and experiences you've had. These are things worth protecting, worth remembering, as the dark and cold of winter begins to close in.

They have also created a way for you to infuse torches with messages, to further encourage beating back the darkness and spreading the light far and wide throughout Beacon. Tell your friends how much you care, warn your fellow Beaconites about a treacherous unstable bridge or the last known sighting of something dangerous, and help make the town safer, brighter, and a little more pleasant for the many long nights still to come.

the details

This event has two main parts, so read through to see all the possibilities!

Part 1: Where did all of the root vegetables and winter squash go that had just been piled up in the supplies?

The answer comes quickly. Boy, those spirits must have worked hard! The veggies go missing on November 4, but on November 5 they reappear, scattered all around Beacon square, now carved and decorated. Okay, some are still a little grotesque because the spirits might have a different sense of aesthetics than most of you, but others might not be so bad, just a little crude. They do even have a faint glow to make the faces and designs light up, though of course the light doesn't extend anywhere beyond said rutabaga or potato.

Each vegetable corresponds to a character currently in town, but it may not be obvious at first which belongs to who, and there may be multiple vegetables per person. Anyone who picks up a carved vegetable, whether it's theirs or not, will feel calm and relaxed, and they will see a vision of a cherished moment, hear a familiar melody or a loved one's voice, smell their mother's perfume, or any similar pleasant brief snippet of memory from either before or within Beacon. There is no real limit on how many vegetables are carved per character, so if there's one special important memory or five or ten is all up to you. Hopefully someone who finds your pumpkin or jicama will reunite it with you - they might have to ask around to find the owner, and maybe you can offer some suggestions to the town at large on what yours might contain! The spirits will continue carving and adding veggies to the pile until November 16 when they slip back off into the woods, but carved parsnips and zucchini and etc. remain as they are, retain their attached memory, and fortunately, they never do seem to rot.

In the comments below, you might want to note down what sorts of memories are attached to your character's veggies to help people plan which they might find. Also feel free to specify design elements if you want a hand in customizing what the spirits might have carved for you!

Part 2: Custom torches? Custom torches. Light up that night, folks!

Clara is a bit distressed. When she goes to inventory the torches, she finds them all scattered out of their usual pile. Some are even still being chewed on by spirits, or swung around making scribbled trails in the darkness like sparklers. Help her, she's not fast enough to collect them all!

But while playing a little game of keep-away, a spirit passes you a torch, and you realize that it comes with a message. Maybe words appear floating above it in the smoke, or maybe it's just words you hear in your head. But focusing on a torch allows you to understand the message attached. As the spirits mime staring at torches and meditating with torches and shaping words and sounds, it becomes clear - you can now imbue torches with your own messages. These messages are permanent until changed, so feel free to give them out to your friends with a few words of encouragement, or add notes to the ones around town, or to troll your friends with "Solis wuz here!!!11!!" deep in the forest.

With so many torches not in use, feel free to go wild! We'll add an optional column on the torch spreadsheet for any attached messages for any time you place a torch somewhere, or change a message on an existing torch.

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As always, 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!) <b>notes:</b> (anything else worth mentioning, like permissions/opt-outs/hiatuses/etc.?)

the tl;dr

• November 5 carved vegetables appear, and spirits finish modifying torches for your use


• November 16: event formally ends, new vegetables stop appearing, but torches remain customizable, and existing veg remain as they are

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