EVENT INFO: WILD HEART

[inthenightmods]

EVENT INFO: WILD HEART

the basics

Part I

On March 20, the green-eyed spirits attack! Characters will be taken at random out to a location in East Beacon, where the spirits have a few surprises planned for them. Meanwhile, the rest of the town bands together to rescue them, aided by the Wild Hunt, a faction who's finally decided to officially reveal themselves.

Part II

The Wild Hunt is here! For the next few days, they'll be helping out around town in a variety of ways, from field medicine to general lessons on how to survive when one finds themselves in a small community. Their leader also has a few pieces of advice to offer . . .

the details

Part I: March 20-22

On March 20, characters will be kidnapped! These characters will be taken to the medical center and spend three days being experimented upon by the green-eyed spirits for purposes unknown. There seems to be some kind of reasoning behind it, though, and characters will have plenty of time to discuss their theories between experiments.

Luckily, on March 21, someone is here to help! The mysterious faction a few people encountered last month are finally here in the open. The Wild Hunt are a large group of reset survivors from days past who now live out in the mines. Though they normally keep to themselves, they're eager to help now, spurred on by both their leader and the large-scale efforts of the spirits.

The Hunt has numbers on their side, as well as tactics and information, and will eagerly help the characters enact a successful rescue plan. By March 22, they'll lead characters to the medical center over in East Beacon, helping them storm the place and rescue their friends.

• Much like our Sandman event, characters can be part of one of two roles: either kidnapped or rescuer.


• Kidnapped characters can expect a great of pain and torture: they'll be subjected to nearly three full days of experiments. These experiments will be player-run, meaning you guys can play them out as you see fit! Experiments will include things like blood and gore, being force-fed certain unpleasant things, or being subjected to hallucinations. Players are free to pick and choose what they'd like to play with.


• More information about where the kidnapped characters will be taken will be revealed when the event log goes up. We'll be doing a location discovery post after the event.


• Kidnapped characters will be held together and have plenty of "downtime", so to speak, in order to thread out interactions. Although kidnapped characters and rescuers will obviously be separated, there's no need for a limitation on who can thread with whom.


• Rescuer characters, on the other hand, get to play hero! Working with the Wild Hunt, they'll spend half a day learning how to successfully mount an attack before storming the medical center. They'll be trained in short-term tactics and armed, so they'll have everything they need in order to fight well.


• Rescuers' success is an inevitability. How nice! Aided by the Wild Hunt, the town absolutely gets their kidnapped friends back. That said, it takes them three days to do so. We'll be giving you guys prompts that take place over the first part of the event to give you a rough sense of time scale.


• Please sign up below for whichever role you'd like by Wednesday, March 18, at 11:59 PM EST! Kidnapped characters must sign up or will default to rescuer, but we'd also like a headcount of active participants on the rescuing side!

Part II: March 23-26

The Wild Hunt is sticking around! For a bit, anyway. For the next four days, they'll be helping players out on any number of handy projects. They're friendly, if not a little rough and tumble, but they seem to have a particular message they want to pass on to the Beaconites while they help them out. In addition, their leader will be around, ready to both answer any questions and discuss a few things with characters.

• The Wild Hunt will be explained more fully in the event log, but OOCly, this is not your only chance to interact with them! They'll be around in the mines after the event, able to be contacted.


• Much like the Night Market, the Wild Hunt's general interactions can be handwaved! They offer a great deal of practical help, and are willing to pitch in and teach skills for the greater good.


• A lot of their lore and backstory will be revealed in the event log, so stay tuned!


• We will be putting up two separate logs for parts I and II. That said, characters are free to interact regardless of part and role, given how short the kidnapping is.

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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

• March 20: Characters are kidnapped by the green-eyed spirits.
  
• March 21: The Wild Hunt shows up and helps characters organize so they can lead a rescue mission
  
• March 22: The rescue effort succeeds, and characters are returned to town, where the Wild Hunt helps them recover
  
• March 23: Robin puts up a post addressing both the kidnappings and the Wild Hunt's appearance
  
• March 23-26: The Wild Hunt sticks around for three days to help out and explain themselves

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Comments

[arsarcanum]

player: i'm mawi / dm me / i got plurk lmk if u want it
character(s): Sora
plans: He's a rescuer! Definitely one of those shitheads who will go charging into the darkness on his own. There's no need to actually stop him since he's got one of his minders on that (thanks Misty), but I'm open to interaction on that front.

Once he can get some sense knocked into him he'll probably try to reach out to closer/distant CR to see who's still around and and check in to keep himself busy. He wants to be very very busy!

His lantern will briefly turn grande green for the first part of the event, so his other will be available to speak to! More details on Skyler are on Sora's cr meme post, but if necessary, here's an opt out post. I don't see myself tagging out with him too much, but if I do, I'll definitely give a heads up if I feel like it's necessary!

Regular flavor Sora is available to talk and for cool-down human interaction after the event as well!

notes: my dudes, all is well

[legalcy]

player: Nara
character(s): Duster and Minimus Ambus
plans: Duster is being kidnapped and Minimus will be a rescuer. Duster would be subjected to hallucinations, so he's talk a lot about his past to fellow inmates. Minimus will want to make this an organized attack while trying not to panic once he knows they're being tortured due to his guilt from the Transformers War.
notes: I'm working from home now so I'll be more available this week!

[worthallthis]

player: Gail, cacopheny @ plurk
character(s): Bucky/Soldat and Stone
plans:
Soldat is getting their dumb self kidnapped and tortured! This is actually really familiar territory for them, so while it will be awful, they're at least... kinda... used to it??? I imagine the green-eyes are interested in him given he's killed one of them before (think he's the only one who has?), and helped Daylight try to communicate with them, only to then cut them up in their escape. Available for protecting of others, commiseration, and patching up in a first-aid kind of manner.

Stone is rescuing. Because clearly they need a big winged guy to carry kidnapees out, right? Hit me up for team-ups or if you want him in particular stomping a spirit to get your character out.

notes: No hard plans for Stone, I am game for anything. Soldat is getting rescued by at the VERY least Misty and Sora. If you wanna get involved in that with those two, talk to them <3

Re: PLAYER SIGN-UPS: KIDNAPPED

[mind_blown]

Player name: Raina
Character name: Jason Todd
Character username: mind_blown

[fjorgedinfire]

Player name: Maniette
Character name: Fjord
Character username: fjorgedinfire

[policier]

player: rachel
character: javert
plans: he's a rescuer! i don't have any solid plans for him yet, so if you'd like your character to be carried out of the medical center by him or rescued, hit me up! he still might be a bit injured himself but he's quite stubborn, he'll be fine.

in general, be pretty level-headed about the whole thing. panicking isn't going to do anyone any good, so he'll probably be spending a lot of time yelling at everyone to get a grip and not do anything foolish.

[pearlstrings]

Player name: marzi
Character name: bruce
Character username: pearlstrings

[webshoots]

Player name: laura
Character name: peter parker
Character username: webshoots

[mellowyellow]

player: Wind
character(s): Masaomi Kida
plans: Masaomi is being kidnapped! He has seen some shit, sure, but he is still a dumb teenage brat with no formal training in any discipline whatsoever. He is super not prepared for experimentation or torture at all. He will be trying his damnedest to put on a brave face, but it's going to crack like two seconds in. Oh gosh, come at me guys, he's toast. Help him, and get the grand prize of a completely honest and vulnerable Masaomi.

He's definitely going to be hallucinating his ex-girlfriend Saki as the one torturing him (and potentially others). Because he's the reason she was tortured back in Ikebukuro, and karma's a bitch. This is going to be super cathartic for him after the fact, but while the event's going on, it means Masaomi is not going to fight back against the green-eyed spirits. I really, really want to play with this, so if your character wouldn't stand for this shit, hit me up.

I have no plans for physical torture methods/effects just yet, so I'm down to tie them in with other people's plans if anyone is looking for something specific.

notes: My schedule's pretty up in the air right now. As far as I know, I do still have to go into work this week, but I work at a glorified food court, so. Who knows.

[dadandgone]

Player name: Erica
Character name: Maes Hughes
Character username: dadandgone

[fjorgedinfire]

player: Maniette
character(s): Fjord
plans: Fjord is gonna get kidnaaaaaaapped~~ because having it happen once in canon wasn't enough! Given how he keeps getting fucking injured like a dumbass I'm gonna focus primarily on hallucination-style torture! He has a Wisdom charm that should theoretically help? But currently it's on Soldat's lantern. BC these two idiots were likely out hunting for Green Eyes when they got captured.

notes: Opt out of Fjord's bullshit if you can't handle Drowning, Explicit Torture and Slavery bc i take great joy in going hard on my descriptions

[dadandgone]

Maes's power is teleportation -- I would like to work with the mods to figure out a way to prevent that obviously besides just knocking him out. Would it be okay if part of the hallucinations/whatever they are feeding them maybe makes Maes super dizzy or sick and so the only teleporting he can manage might be like...five feet or something? Or like he keeps teleporting in circles or something? Wasn't sure how much power the green-eyed spirits had vs. how much flexibility we had here.

[dadandgone]

Decided to put Maes in as a kidnap victim. At least he and Rosi can distract themselves in the "down time" and plot together? Also, depending on info I get from mods, Maes is probably going to be kind of sick during the whole time to prevent him from teleporting.

Rosi take care of your friend?

[dadandgone]

Hey so you know how we keep talking about Jason and Sora yeeting into the forest...is this what you had in MIND. Actually this might be more the occasion for Jason to yell at Sora that they should get a plan first and not rush in like idiots.

and fyi Maes is getting kidnapped

[dadandgone]

Wanna support Maes? Cause he is getting kidnapped and will likely be getting some war trauma flashbacks on top of being made sick so he can't use his teleport powers.

I also wouldn't mind forming a flying team between Stone and Jason 8Db

[dadandgone]

Jason and Javert might need to team up to strategize and keep the more wild people of Beacon from rampaging/rioting XDb

[reek]

player: Hannah
character(s): Theon Greyjoy
plans: Hello this will be the first event I actually participate in and I’m very excited. Theon will get kidnapped, because being kidnapped/held captive is sort of a common thread in his life. Torture is also a newly common thread, but he was spared that by way of his canon point. He’ll start off by literally laughing it all off, but he’ll crack pretty early in. He’ll definitely be subject to the hallucinations. I’d like to have him hallucinate his father, his bff Robb Stark, and his actual canonical torturer, Ramsay Bolton but we’ll see how I actually feel when I write the top level.

IDK SOUNDS FUN. Might not make him believe he's actually dead, though.

notes: Please hit my opt out post if you don't want to deal with any of Theon's canon bullshit!

[really_sketchy]

Player name: Ami
Character name: Naminé
Character username: really_sketchy

[evulsed]

👀

Re: QUESTIONS

[worthallthis]

So Bucky has been talking with Fjord about testing a couple things against green-eyes hallucinations. One, the wisdom charm from Pluto. Fjord is gonna be giving that to him to test, since Fjord has no baseline for what hallucinations SHOULD feel like, and Bucky has, y'know, extensive experience with it.

Second, there's a very angry presence in his head, due to his lantern crack. He's going to try and get the Asset-brain to try itself against the hallucinations, too, see if it can't power through them, the way swapping to Sergeant-brain during the original hallucination event helped deal with some of the worst of the fear since the Sergeant is less of a scaredy cat. Obviously this will not let him ESCAPE, but if it helps against hallucinations in particular, that's worth knowing. (Not like it'll help anyone ELSE, but like. In general.)

Would there be any luck/difference using either of these methods in how effective the hallucinations are?

Naminé

[really_sketchy]

player: Ami. Disco - PhantomStar#1289.
character(s): Naminé - Kingdom hearts.
plans: Kidnapped. I do not have many super specific plans except that I do plan to have Naminé reach out using her powers to her close CR. Right now, I only think this is Sora and the spirits (according to the mods) will likely retaliate against her.

I plan to have heavy body torture and things like that because Naminé hasn't had a body for very long and is kind of used to mental anguish. So there will likely be body horror or something to that nature. Like I said, no firm plans on the torture end so if anyone wants to find her curled up in a ball I am game. Naminé will be battered but likely still be a little ray of sunshine because that is what she is like.

I'd love for some after event hurt comfort so come at me with thoughts and desires!

notes: Naminé can alter memories and can honestly help with those tortured if they're having a hard time by blocking out bits and pieces of things if someone wants to explore that. Otherwise I don't plan to have her use her memory powers.

Maes Hughes & Jason Grace

[dadandgone]

player: Erica Link to Various OOC Contact Methods
character(s): Maes Hughes & Jason Grace
plans:
Maes Hughes is in the kidnapped group. I am waiting to hear from mods as to how to handle his ability to teleport, but most likely it will involve making him really sick somehow or just turned around. I will probably dip into a little of each torture, but focus primarily on hallucinations and blood/gore. I probably won't go TOO crazy -- but I feel like I said that last time and wound up going a little extreme anyway. I'll make sure to post warnings as necessary. Hallucinations will likely involve his wife or Envy or both -- since that's been a continued theme for Maes. If I'm feeling particularly terrible they might involve Elysia...but we'll see. Might also throw in some flashbacks/hallucination related to Ishval or some mild body-horror based on a space station Maes visited when he was with The Circle. It's really TBD.

However, when there is downtime PLEASE distract Maes with theories and plots. The man likes his puzzles and will need a distract something ELSE to focus his mind on that isn't THIS.

Obviously this means Jason Grace is being the hero everyone knows he is and is Rescuing. I have a feeling he might have to pull "rank" and try to bring people together in a kind of leadership role so that we can coordinate the rescue. Jason is used to that kind of thing, so if you are wanting someone to get your character to focus/not panic he would be a good person to interact with. I know he'll be very gung ho to save others and encouraging that we PLAN and not just RUSH IN. He's a powerhouse and if you want to see his cool powers now is the time :D He'll definitely want to check in on anyone who was kidnapped that he has close CR with for sure!

notes:

[mellowyellow]

Ohai.

Does this mean the real torture is going to be the friends we make along the way?

[policier]

honestly!! this is why javert likes jason so much, he's rational

he'll probably half-seriously suggest that they start throwing some of the overly emotional people in the jailhouse. it's for their own good.

Re: PLAYER SIGN-UPS: KIDNAPPED

[equinoctials]

Player name: Dubs
Character name: Riku
Character username: equinoctials