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oocinthenight2020-07-03 07:41 pm
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EVENT INFO: BEYOND THE SEA
EVENT INFO: BEYOND THE SEA
the basics
As mentioned on our July Gameplan, we are kicking off a pretty intense event on July 8th. To give players time to prepare and plot, we wanted to present you with a plot write-up in advance, and allow you time to sign your character up for a particular role. Note that once characters have gone down to the Helix Station, they will not be able to return to Beacon until July 15th when the submarines have recharged and can take people back.
Characters exploring the Helix Base will split into three groups. Each will have a specific focus during their time in the station, in which they will learn more about the Helix Station, the threat they are facing, and what happened to the members of the Night Market. The three groups are as follows: Power Restoration, Resource Extraction, and Key Retrieval.
We are going to be trying something a little different with this event and seeing how it works for us as mods and for you as players. The basic idea is a combination of the back-and-forth of Enter the Sandman (a past event in In The Night) and the collaborative write-up format of an Explore, in which each team will submit a single reply as a group rather than individual tags. We believe this will help us move through the event a little more quickly and allow progress to happen without requiring rapid-fire responses from all members.
In addition to this, there will be prompts for a more traditional roleplay format so characters can interact and explore a central hub area without the restrictions of an entire group. In other words, it won't all be a whole group collaborative explore, though that will be a large part of the event. In fact, it is character-determined how this event will resolve itself — and a part of the event will be information sharing and characters collectively deciding how they want to deal with the threat they find below the waters of Lake Red Jacket.
Please keep in mind the result of this event is dependent on the information gained by completing the group objective. We will be aiming for at least one mod response to group exploration a day, if not more. Please do what you can to be timely about your contributions. Please keep in mind that danger and injury are relevant threats in this event, though players will be able to list opt-outs and preferences in their sign up comment.
Characters can be signed up for a particular group. We request that all characters sign up before the event starts on July 8, so we can have a better idea of our numbers and so that groups can arrange to coordinate their responses. To make it easier for groups to collaborate, we suggest trying to split characters as evenly as possible. You can find a bit more about what to expect for each group in the subsections below.
power restoration.
As a part of emergency protocols, the entire Helix Station is running on limited power. That means much of the station isn't functioning properly, or at all. It also means it's especially dark down there, though, we knew that one was coming. Power will need to be restored to access the entirety of the station, and most importantly, the portal responsible for the greater problem.
- Lauren will be running the show for this group, and will draw largely from science fiction and cosmic horror influences including SOMA, Prey, and OSR folks like Scrap Princess and Goblin Punch. Expect psychological horror, monsters, and SF that bridges realism and surrealism.
- CWs include: descriptive gore, body horror, mention of suicide and psychological trauma, death/serious injury.
- Characters in this route will be exploring the Mechanical Wing of the Helix Station. Characters are likely to learn more about the Helix Station itself, gain insight on its capabilities, and gain access to technical and mechanical resources. They will not be the first to have tried to restore power to the station, and their success will take not just physical persistence but also mental resilience.
To sign your character up to be a part of the Power Restoration Group, please see this comment!
resource extraction.
As characters are well aware, the Night Market was full of incredibly capable experts in a plethora of fields. While it bodes extremely badly that even as prepared and capable as they were, the attack mostly overwhelmed them, there has to be usable weapons and resources to be extracted. The second group of characters will focus on this and trying to collect anything that can help them kill an adolescent World Eater.
- Kitty with her love of atmospheric horror like Hereditary, Fallout, and Silent Hill, characters should expect a bit of anxious exploration with a side of monstrosities. As a note, she has also been on vacation near an ocean, so...
- CWs include: Water horror, drowning, character injury, blood, and descriptive imagery, claustrophobia
- Characters in this route will be exploring the R&D Wing of the Helix Station. This is the place all the many residents honed their various crafts, it is like to be ripe with all sorts of useful things. Though, having those around can be a double edged sword, depending on who finds them first... This area is also notably crawling with Green Eyes, so characters that are willing and ready to fight would be a good choice here.
To sign your character up to be a part of the resource extraction team, please see this comment!
key retrieval.
As a part of the safety protocols of the ship, after lockdown there are three keys required for entry to the portal room. Finding them is imperative to accessing the World Eater to deal with it properly.
- Carlee will be overseeing this group, drawing from Alien, Event Horizon, The Last of Us, and The Haunting of Hill House! Characters signing up for this group should expect atmospheric horror with a side of body horror and monsters.
- CWs include: Body horror, monsters, uncanny valley, violent imagery
- Characters in this route will be exploring the Crew Quarters of the Helix Station. There are a lot of small rooms, living areas, and tight spaces for characters to search. There is a good chance that characters will learn more about what life was like on the station, as well as get insight on what happened to much of the inhabitants before their arrival.
To sign your character up to be on the Key Retrieval team, please see this comment!
the world eater.
The people of the Night Market were correct in their emergency broadcast - the creature that found them is a world eater, but one that had not fully finished progressing to its adult phase. It is still within the Helix Station, and characters will have to come up with a plan to handle it.
- No individual group of the above three is expected to tackle this thing alone. The teams exploring the station will be able to learn about how it got here, where it is now, and some possible solutions to the problem.
- There will be a prompt open to all on the station where characters can meet before and after their team explores a route in order to come together and discuss what they've found, and try to put together a plan to handle the world eater.
- In order to determine the final outcome, we will create a poll during the event based on the options we see characters discussing. Once all have voted (or most, if there is a clear and obvious popular choice) we will write up the results in a new top-level comment to summarize what happens.
- On July 15 the Night Market's submarines will be fully recharged and able to bring people back to Beacon, where they can tell the rest of the town how things went.
above ground
Any character that is not going down to the station will, of course, be staying in Beacon. This is essentially an "opt-out" option, and your character will be able to do whatever they please on the surface, though there are some things to keep in mind.
- Explores will be closed during the event. If any character above water does any wandering, it will not be a proper explore. Our focus will be on the event instead!
- There will be limited contact with characters on the station until they return. As discovered in a recent explore, it is possible to use the radio tower to contact the Helix Station. However, it isn't a reliable way to contact, especially considering the dangers down there.
- Contact via inbox will be spotty at best. As Pluto proved, it is very difficult to communicate with the network from the Helix Station. Have fun playing with this as you like, with incomplete messages, fraught drops in connection, and terrifying stony silences!
- There will not be a prompt for surface characters. That doesn't mean they can't do anything or you cannot do anything. A player run post for above-ground shenanigans would be great! However, our focus will be on the event.
- Characters on the surface will not be able to provide input on the solution of the event. As communication is so limited, it would be impossible for them to be able to participate in the decision on how to resolve the event. If you want your character to participate in the results of this event, they will have to be on one team or another!
If your character is staying on the surface, please let us know here! Any character not signed up to a group when the event starts on July 8th will be presumed to be remaining on the surface.
the tl;dr
- No TL;DR for the signups process! Please read all of this information and make your decisions accordingly!
- Players/characters that don't sign up for this event will be automatically sorted into the surface group.
- Signups close on July 8th when the event goes up.
- On July 15 the characters at the station will be able to return to Beacon.
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Green-eyed spirits are a type of forest spirit that, in previous Beacon eras, were supposedly rarely encountered. It's now known that there are several around, usually in more remote areas, and that they are a cause of great concern. Although some seem able to be reasoned with, communication often quickly breaks down as their primary method of conversation is through violence. The other spirits often obey them out of fear. In the past they have done things like lead a semi-coordinated siege against the entire town when their attempts to put everyone to sleep and give them hallucinatory dreams were resisted by several who instead stayed awake - apparently this was offensive to them and so tons of people died. More recently, they kidnapped around half the town and held them hostage in the old hospital, where they tortured characters and force-fed them some pretty awful mystery-meat that led to intense feverish illness.
They're known to trigger vivid hallucinations, have a way of getting into characters' minds and making them see, hear, and even think things that aren't real. Their motives aren't clearly understood as communicating with them has proven to be so difficult, and most characters in town who have come across one know to take them very seriously or risk the consequences.
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And boy, they sound like a barrel of fun. I definitely put Reiju in the right place.