EVENT INFO: THE NIGHT WE MET

[inthenightmods]

EVENT INFO: THE NIGHT WE MET

the lore part

For most of the day on February 16, all of the town's forest spirits can be found along the stretch of road between downtown and the harbor, clearly setting up for, uh, something. They're piling snow onto the pathway, creating a miles long sled trail that starts outside the Landmark Inn and ends at the very end of the harbor's dock. Not only that, but the forest spirits are also not super willing to explain what they're up to! They're busy, you lantern-havers.

By the time evening rolls around, the spirits have set up wooden railings alongside the snowy path, as well as a warming tent, hot chocolate booth, and announcer stand outside of the Landmark. Oh, and a starting banner for the race! It's dogsled time!

Throughout the event, Beacon's downtown and harbor areas will be completely overrun with forest spirits, all there to bear witness to this holiday celebration—this holiday is for them, though, not you weirdos with your naked faces. Point is, none of the spirits will be hostile at this time! They're more interested in interacting with each other than with Beacon's residents, though if pressed, a kind spirit might be willing to explain what's going on:

The aurora arrives in Beacon for about a week each year, and the forest spirits believe it to be "friends in the sky". The lights are old friends of theirs, it seems! And each night while the aurora shines above the town, the forest spirits send off a handful of friends to join the aurora! The spirits ready to join the aurora build sleds of their own and assemble mighty sled teams, sometimes comprised of dog spirits and sometimes... other stuff. Then, when the aurora is at its peak in the wee hours of the night, the sled teams will ride off one by one, racing down the snow-covered path all the way down to the harbor, where they'll finally rocket off the dock and out over the lake, picking up more and more speed as each team gallops wildly over the water before arcing up into the sky. Once the spirits are barely a speck, they'll hit the aurora and burst into a shower of light. Beautiful stuff!

See, since the aurora is made of light, forest spirits launched into it are killed on impact! Isn't that wonderful! The forest spirits seem to think so! What is death to a dead thing!

All of this information can be learned through handwaved/played-led interactions with the forest spirits during the event. They'll all be focused on saying goodbye to their friends and cheering them on as they stream through the sky, but they're happy to welcome lantern-havers to join in the celebrations. The hot chocolate is free and only tastes a little bit like mud, so. Enjoy!

Even if you're not interested in the forest spirits' holiday, the arrival of the aurora will give you plenty to celebrate on your own. This is the most light Beacon has had since the game opened in July, as the green glow of the aurora is nearly as bright as an overcast day. Bask in the constant near-daylight for those six days, everyone!

...Oh, and it's a memory sharing event!

the memshare part

As the aurora dances over Beacon and forest spirits explode into shooting stars overhead, meteorites will rain down from the aurora. They're not technically meteorites, but you get the picture. They're opals! If a person closes their hand around one of these rocks, they'll experience the memory locked inside...

According to the forest spirits, the aurora is made up of their old friends, friends that have moved on to another stage in their existence and have had to leave them behind. The memories dropped by the aurora will focus on a person or people that each character has left behind by ending up in Beacon. You are free to interpret this stipulation however you like! The person left behind can be a friend or enemy, alive or dead, etc. The idea is that this event will remind characters of those they have left behind in death, in whatever way that most resonates with them.

Opals can look however you like, and they'll be turning up at random all over town! There's no way to determine the "owner" of the opal without peeking at the memory inside, unfortunately, and on top of that, while the aurora is active, the opals are bit tetchier than usual. During the event, touching an opal in any way might trigger the memory sharing. If your character wouldn't ICly partake in memories but you still want them to share stuff/see other people's stuff, there you go! There's your excuse!

When the event ends and the aurora fades, the opals will stick around, and they'll continue to be functional! Feel free to stock up on memory opals to do memory sharing stuff down the road. They're multi-use, and there aren't any drawbacks to using them.

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For those of you interested in plot stuff, we'll be doling out random events throughout the week, so sign up below if you'd like a chance to receive one! These random events will include things like forest spirit encounters and happening upon opals belonging to NPCs. There's nothing dangerous about it—we're just doing sign-ups so we know who's interested in having us bug them! These random events will be posted either to characters' inboxes or to their toplevels on the event page. You're welcome to sign up even if you aren't planning to toplevel at the event.

Check out the header below and fill out the form to sign up! We'll be prioritizing new players and players who haven't yet had a shot at neat plot stuff, but everyone is welcome to toss their hat in the ring.

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

the tl;dr

• February 16-21: The forest spirits send off their pals on dogsled journeys into the aurora! Memory opals rain down throughout Beacon.


• The town is super bright (by Beacon standards) throughout the event! It's like overcast levels of light.


• Each memory opal contains a memory belonging to someone in Beacon, and the memory is focused on a person they have left behind by dying.


• The opals will stick around after the event ends! They can be reused to your heart's content.

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Comments

peter parker

[webshoots]

player: laura, feel free to hmu at ruffians or disco at phonomancer#0144
character(s): peter parker
plans: fam, i've got nothing.

THAT IS TO SAY, i'm open to all things — i know there's going to be vague shenanigans with gwen stacy, but otherwise family and friends are super important to peter, so if anyone wants an excuse to explore that side of things, let me know! on the flip side of that, there are a couple of villains from peter's rogue gallery that i'd be happy to use as a memory, again if that's a route that anyone wants to explore (specifically: kraven the hunter, doc ock, and norman osborn).

notes: am totes open to new cr, this isn't limited to current cr!

[mindofathief]

Family............

Duster would love to hear about the friends Peter has and talk about how modern his world is! He's interested in learning was life was like before the events of his canon and talking about the people they were close with!

[webshoots]

COFFEE BEAN CREW

or, you know, daily bugle crew — which could actually also hit that 'modern world' aspect (in a ... sliding timescale kind of way... thanks comics....). i'd totally be down with duster finding a memory related to either of those!

coffee bean would obvs feature mj, gwen and harry; whilst the bugle would feature more jjj and betty brant and co.

depending on which you'd prefer, i can tailor it a little more!

[moderatelymaladjusted]

!!

Wanna share happiness for once?

[webshoots]

y e s

[moderatelymaladjusted]

I am SO there for this!

[webshoots]

WHAT KINDA HAPPY DO YOU WANT

we can do coffee bean crew if u want

i mean, i know that ends in death and sadness, but

coffee bean crew is cute.

or pete and mj. or peter and aunt may. or— TAKE UR PICK BASICALLY.

Re: peter parker

[mind_blown]

hello laura ouo

[webshoots]

hello raina





what u feelin

[endlessflask]

Hello, we should do something. You kno, since Peter's pals with Quentin, and I need to leech Q's CR from him. Also, you had me at Gwen Stacy.

[webshoots]

GWENDY BABY

i actually meant more that the only plans i have are with the gwen in game BUT IF YOU WANT A GWEN MEMORY, I CAN FOR SURE GIVE U ONE OF THOSE. peter didn't have much in the way of cr with the previous eliot that was here, but for quentin's sake he is — like, not thrilled that eliot's back, because beacon sucks, but also like

thank god eliot's back. btw. it would be a good way to (re)introduce them.

[endlessflask]

no you led me to believe Gwen memories were available so now you have to provide them to me, that's the rules

Eliot's rolling in giving his memories out so it'd be very nice for him to see someone else's t b h

[webshoots]

so you're saying you want to see whiplash in action huh

[pearlstrings]

can I

can I have a memory about Peter and his aunt, or Peter and MJ?

[webshoots]

you hit the jackpot, tiger

(aka yes, yes you absolutely can.)

my immediate response is to lean towards peter and mj*, tbh, but let me ..... see what i can hobble together. did you have any vague preference for what kind of memory, by the way? I GOT SIXTY YEARS OF THEM TO PULL FROM. it could be something stupid and sappy, it could be something less stupid and less sappy and more related to the Trials and Tribulations of being the partner of a superhero.

*mostly because some of my favourite peter and aunt may memories come from comics that aren't ... entirely canon anymore because of one more day and one moment in time, and peter and mj have more ~character defining moments unless you want like

the memory of the time that aunt may was going to marry doc ock

because that sure was A Thing

EDITS, BECAUSE OF COURSE: or you could just have like, aunt may and a young baby peter parker. UP TO YOU MY FRIEND.

[pearlstrings]

excellent!! i'm in the market for moments that felt especially significant to the character in question- so for peter, i suppose something that just felt really powerful or meaningful to him? be that a turning point in a relationship, or a shift in dynamics, a conversation, etc. wheeze i really don't know if this helps

[webshoots]

quietly laughs there's a fantastic issue from jms' run actually called "the conversation" that i would

love to be able to use for this, but THANKS TO ONE MORE DAY that no longer exists.

but yeah, no, this definitely helps! there are definitely a whole host of peter/mj moments that fit that bill, simply due to the fact that mj knows peter's spider-man. obviously one of the first for peter himself would be mj revealing that she knew he was spider-man and had for years, which definitely signified a turning point in their relationship; otherwise the proposal and (thanks to omd) failed attempt at actually getting married; the aftermath of that — as much as i personally detest one moment in time, it's probably a pretty good fit for this as it revolves around peter and mj discussing the way their engagement/marriage/relationship fell apart and how peter's dedication to being/obsession with being spider-man affected their relationship.

a third option would be back in black, which deals with the fallout from civil war and peter's decision to side with tony wrt the superhero registration act, and the way that may getting shot impacts peter, his relationship with mj, and his general approach towards being spider-man and what that means to him, but i'd actually have to re-read omd for this because some of it has been... retconned...

in theory, there are more ~~significant memories featuring the two that technically still took place despite omd, but they're a little harder to actualise given the way that omd affected the marriage.

given their cr, i think something revolving around OMD/OMIT could be interesting?

[webshoots]

also i guess rip any pretence of peter having a secret identity

[dadandgone]

This seems like a good chance to work on establishing some Peter cr 8D

Maes also finds family to be very important, so maybe one of those? He's checking out the rocks anyway as part of his usual curiosity/investigation BS -- so it wouldn't be hard to do.

[webshoots]

absolutely, peter's only going to hate it.

sounds good! if we're talking blood family, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S AUNT MAY, otherwise something like going to see the mets play at o'shea stadium with uncle ben? I DUNNO MAN. was there something specific you wanted to lean in to wrt family?

[dadandgone]

Not really. Maes seeing a baseball game could be fun. 8Db

[webshoots]

👍🏻 u got it

[unpredict]

/spider piles onto you

i was going to stomp my feet and demand family, but i'm going to punch you in the face for spidervillains pls. kol needs to make fun of their crazy names. doc ock? green goblin? who names these people???

[webshoots]

i was actually going to ping you and be like "so i think you deserve an honourary johnny storm memory"

but you've actually done me better than that

BUT LOOK DOCTOR OCTOPUS IS A VALID NAME. HE HAS A DOCTORATE, HE HAS EIGHT LIMBS, AND HIS NAME IS OTTO OCTAVIUS. it writes itself




even if it sounds like a terrible james bond villain

[unpredict]

ARE YOU TELLING ME I CAN HAVE A JOHNNY STORM MEMORY?????

how could you want to give kol a memory of johnny and make him feel bad for the fact that johnny will never live up to him? what kind of monster are you?


please give me the opportunity to go "wtf that's your arch nemesis?" peter, you really need to put some job apps out there for villains. this is just deplorable.