EVENT INFO: SHIVERS (I'VE GOT 'EM)

[nextnightmods]

EVENT INFO: SHIVERS (I'VE GOT 'EM)

the basics

The weather has been getting steadily colder and snow has begun to fall, but you didn't expect the temperature to drop as suddenly as it just has. Winds and blinding snow whip around you, completely obscuring your vision and leaving you disoriented.

When the blizzard clears, you are no longer where you were a moment ago. There are footprints in the snow a few feet away and they aren't yours. Are you alone? How do you get back home?

the details

From December 12-17, the weather turns strange as it sometimes does in Beacon, and snowy, icy whirlwinds are prone to kidnapping you and depositing you somewhere else. It's possible to end up in a place you recognize, but given the expanse of dark forest within and around Beacon, it's far more likely you'll find yourself in the middle of the woods, or at the edge of the lake with no lights in sight.

If you're an excellent navigator, if you have a compass or at least one familiar landmark, getting back might be simple. But the forest is as full of hazards as it ever has been, for some spirits still remain "wild" and therefore dangerous; the Parade is still, well, parading; and most concerning is that the green-eyed spirits remain a persistent threat, especially with the one large seven-eyed creature lurking and waiting just out of sight. Stuck in an awkward spot, or injured, or just want to make sure everyone knows you're on your own and in need of help? This might be a good time to run that SAFE OR NOT app.

For the most part, this event will be open for you all to use however you like - feel free to drop your characters in whichever horrible spot you want to drop them on the map, and NPC your own threatening spirits and green-eye-induced hallucinations as you wish. Characters may get stranded together in pairs - so if you want to have two people bumble their way back together rather than someone trying to find the other, feel free!

Below in the comments you'll see an RNG OPT-IN header. Drop your character's name under the header, and you will receive a comment that describes something unique about where your character ends up being transported to, or what they find when the snow settles. Only one or two of these will be potentially deadly or near-deadly but if you absolutely do not want to risk death just let us know in your comment!

While ICly this event runs from Dec. 12-17, there is no real deadline on opting in for a mod comment so long as you do so in December. This is intentionally a plot-light event given we know how busy December can be. Questions? Let us know in the comments!

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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

• December 12: The weather mysteriously starts taking people on some unwanted adventures.


• December 18: Snow falls normally again.

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[nextnightmods]

Kuai might love the ice, but the ice clearly does not love him (or maybe this is how ice expresses affection??). Thousands of long shards remain embedded in his exposed flesh as the blizzard's violent swirl dissipates, and frost coats his lantern. Anyone could easily mistake him for something inhuman - a crystalline, frozen creature of the forest. They remain even when he tries to brush them off, and the sharp pain as they tug on his skin makes him quickly forget about trying to do that anymore. Hopefully they'll start to melt soon on their own.

Sluggishly, he raises his lantern to have a look around, and finds himself in front of the black, yawning opening of a cave. As he approaches it, he slips on something metal and just manages to recover his balance before he can fall. Scraping snow away with a foot, he sees the remnants of an old rail system are to blame.

Black stains remain on the ground just inside the mouth of the cave, and a few more shards of metal and glass protruding from the snow and dirt are familiar, though it takes a moment to place them given their fragmentary state. The last time he saw this lantern in one piece, it was carried by Matt Murdock, who never emerged from the mines.

Far out in the forest, there's a low rumble. It echoes through the trees, rippling like a shockwave before the ground beneath his feet shakes with the sound. It vibrates in his chest, and some of the ice shards stuck to his back and arms shatter. So, pro: less ice stuck to him now, but con: yikes.

[paletteswap]

Well none of that is good. At least he looks incredibly thematic so there's that.

He goes to grab the lantern bits, maybe if he gets them all they can piece it together like some jigsaw puzzle and bring Matt back. But he only gets a few of the bigger pieces before there's some horrible rumbly sound and the wonderfully pleasant sensation of dozens of shards of ice shattering and falling out of his skin.

Hopefully no one is around because the sound he makes is some sort of cross between a grunt and animal caught in steel leg trap.

After that fun experience, he'll gather up the pieces of Matt's lantern that he can and make sure he is well off the tracks in case that rumbling is the train that runs on them. He doesn't remember the train actually working but he also hasn't been out this far before. Time to follow the tracks away from the mine in the hopes it goes to the train station and from there he can find his way back to town.