EVENT INFO: WHEN THE NIGHT IS OVER

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EVENT INFO: WHEN THE NIGHT IS OVER

the basics

It's settled: the people of Beacon have decided they will make their stand by converting Weaver's bomb into something that can be fired from the missile silo, and will trust the green-eyed spirit who offered a tentative truce.

Time to see if they can fend off a World Eater and save the world from an endless night.

the details

As announced in the March Gameplan, the World Eater arrives on March 15, and with it, the final endgame log. Without spoiling too much, here's a rough idea of what will happen. Key locations that will have prompts associated with them are in bold.

• Weaver will relocate to the missile silo and take the lead on turning it into something usable, but she will need help. There is a lot to be done in very little time, and she's hoping most of you will offer to help. We're not going to take an official headcount on who is assisting and at the silo on the last date, but feel free to assume (if you like) that your character was in some way involved in reconstructing the silo and its launch system, and that they may have been working on it when the World Eater is first spotted, leaving little time to return to Bonfire Square without taking serious risks.



• The World Eater will make its approach from the lake. It is enormous, so although the darkness makes it hard to see, the skies are clear and the creature can be targeted at a distance by those at the silo thanks to the void in the night sky where the stars ought to have been visible.



• The many-eyed spirit and its small army of followers will take this opportunity to attack in the hopes they can take advantage of the chaos and the potential injured, disoriented, or sanity-affected people thanks to the World Eater's presence. While there are indeed green-eyed spirits who intend to ambush it right back, the people at the missile silo will still need to defend themselves when aggressive, violent spirits slip past their tentative allies. People at the missile silo will have to deal with all the difficulties these spirits pose - so expect ruthless violence, body horror, and hallucinations. Good thing Kuai and Pudding's potions give you some resistance against the mental effects!



• The Helix Station portal has been proposed as an escape route, and may now be the safest place to hide for those who feel they are better off if not on the front lines against a bunch of green-eyed and other aggressive spirits. Weaver has mounted several tablets on buoys above the station to keep eyes on the lake in the lighthouse's absence, and so characters at the station, with Clara's assistance, will be responsible for monitoring the World Eater's approach and reporting the success or failure of the bomb to the crew at the silo. But the station, it turns out, isn't completely safe either - those stationed here will have to deal with being in proximity to a World Eater and the difficulties that entails, from strange physical sensations and abrupt illness to mental horrors of all sorts, though if your character has taken a dose of a resistance potion, these effects will be blunted.

As mentioned before, we will have an injury roll header on the event log to help you find out what your character might suffer if that helps direct threads. If you prefer something more organic, there will also be a mod-controlled spirits header that characters around the missile silo or anywhere else above water can post toplevels under, and spirits (many violent, but some helpful) will tag into those threads. While multiple characters threading is encouraged, it is not required, so if you tag into the mod-controlled spirits header and no other characters join yours, you can still have a go at threading the defense.

The event resolution will be in the body of the log post as the final prompt. All the pieces have been assembled to determine the final outcome, thanks to everyone who has participated in the last several months of the game, and especially these last couple of endgame organization posts. This really has been an amazing collaborative effort!

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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

• March 15: the World Eater arrives, and with it, the endgame log and resolution is posted


• April 3: ooc epilogue post

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