[PLOT IS UNDERWAY]

[directrice]

As of Day 56, night, Reverie's village has given away to the INNER PRISON, another part of the world that has only been seen in glimpses and pieces thus far! Please refer to this document for the new setting information. This setting will remain until September 11, after which the plot will end and characters will be returned to the village.

The new setting does not have a suggestion box, and thus cannot be changed in the same way the village could. However, the new setting will allow for something the village did not: EXPLORATION. Here is how exploration of the new setting will work!

1. Players who are interested in touching something in the setting will fill out this form. Please describe which characters are involved, and also what they intend to do in as much detail as they can! Within a few days I will reply with a tiny little write up of what happens, and you can thread out the scenario at your leisure. This method makes things waaaay easier on me, since I don't have time to run exploradors for 90+ characters r-rofl.

2. Each character can go on two explorations. This is so I am not inundated with exploration requests and die trying to write things up for you, cries. This is also an OOC limit, not an IC one. And to make it clear, this is a character limit, not a player one. So if you have two characters you can do four explorations total, as an example!

3. Characters can do explorations alone; however, I OOCly encourage you to group up with other people, both to lower the amount of requests I get and also because things are more fun in a group! Group requests will likely get more involved responses b/c I'll want to give you all things to thread with, though single requests will still get pertinent things that they can share with the group at large!

4. You will be able to submit exploration requests all the way up until September 5 at mutter mumble time. You have a month to do things, so pace yourselves for sure!

5. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comment below! However, as a note, questions that are "what happens if my character does X" may be best saved for exploration threads, depending on what it is. NOT ALL THINGS WILL COUNT AS EXPLORATIONS; if your character ties to punch a barbed wire fence I can answer that as a mod without it counting as one of your explorations lol. But if your character tries to fix a CCTV, that would be better answered as an exploration. IF THOSE EXAMPLES HELP.

6. Please note that some explorations are going to be dangerous, and characters may be hurt in the midst of same! But no one will die, I can promise you that as a mod. Unless you want to die?? Then you can die. THAT ONE IS UP TO YOU AS A PLAYER.

That's all for explorations, and the last thing I want to say is: all players chosen for Palace Games have been contacted and instructed to keep their participation a secret! Don't worry; they will reveal themselves at least a week or so in advance of Palace Games for sign ups c: Please also note that I am changing the dates of Palace Games due to not realizing I had personal things going on the weekend of September 3 and 4 lol. Palace Games will be running the entire week of September 5 - 11, with each runner scheduling their own time slots during that period. Stay tuned for more information to come!

OKAY. THAT'S ALL FOR NOW. PLEASE HAVE FUN ;w;/ And let me know if there is anything you need from me or if I was really bad at explaining something (I am bad at explaining things), otherwise I'm going to die in my bed now b/c I was up WAY TOO EARLY FOR LIFE.

Thank you as always for being a part of my cute game, and I hope you enjoy some August plotty things!! C:

OH PS: PLACEMENTS WILL BE HAPPENING SOON, and will continue throughout August. New characters will be introduced into the new setting. Give me a bit and I'll get this weekend's placements done asap <3

Comments

[directrice]

OKOK, please assume that if I didn't respond to an action directly, it produced nothing of note!

Malleus burns the flowers, and they go a little. . . crazy?? At being attacked?? They will start to lash out at the group and try to take big bites out of anyone within reach! They are super weak though and can be beaten back into submission. RUDE, MALLEUS.

Rex knocks on the morgue doors as a joke, but-- something knocks back?? Mirroring his knocks precisely. If anyone else tries knocking on the door, the same echoes occur, like whatever is inside is trying to communicate with the group outside. There are no electronic panels or keys that would open the morgue doors, and Rex won't be able to pry open the doors, no matter how hard he tries. Even after Rex stops knocking, whatever is inside the locker starts pounding against the door, the sound growing louder and louder with each passing moment. Zenkichi, as the detective on the lookout for morgue locker clues, will notice a symbol suddenly light up the morgue locker door: it's the same symbol used to mark the Basilisk dorm.

And then Rex shoots the door, and it pops open with a loud BANG, and BURST OF FIERY SMOKE. A sense of death and mourning flows out of the morgue locker, along with a flailing creature who is. . . on fire. And a little berserk. The creature will attack the group instantly due to its berserked state, and it is extremely powerful! Lvl 80 compared to everyone else being lvl 20. It will not be able to be defeated by normal means, and injuries will be moderate, at the least!

FOLLOW UP: what does the group do next in response to the berserked flaming basilisk!

FOLLOW UP!

[lemiserable]

ALL HECK BREAKING LOOSE also hello thank you for the great stuff!

FOLLOW UP:
Please note that in this reply we made a list of things that they will try in the order they will attempt. The top one is what they will try first, second is if the first doesn't work, etc going down. If one of them is successful, assume they won't be doing the ones after it.

We decided to list them all so that you wouldn't need to keep going back and forth with us as we try a bunch of things (also assume they would happen in rapid succession, so no time to call for help either since that would mean more people and more complications for you so we attempted to keep it as simple as possible).

Also as they try more things, they will get more hurt / damaged from the creature and will for the most part attempt to avoid its gaze.

Upon the appearance of the Basilisk, the team will attempt to (along with strong swearing at the TEENS CAUSING TROUBLE);

ATTEMPT #1: THE CHICKEN LINE
Zenkichi will don his Wolf Phantom Thief outfit right as he senses death and mourning when the locker door is opened. The buffs he can do are going on the entire team, along with a Debilitate on the creature. However, because these are feelings he knows all too well, he will attempt to PACIFY the creature, dodging from its attacks and then drawing a line on the ground/ice, either with his sword or the dust if it is really dusty down there. ( This is why he is trying this, it's the type of dumb knowledge he probably filed away "I will never use this in my life but neat AF" hacks). He will be aid by the others trying to knock it down so it can see the line on the floor.

ATTEMPT #2: GET BACK, YOU MONSTER
Rex will attempt to stuff it back to its locker, and probably try shooting it (teenagers)

ATTEMPT #3: REVERIE: BREATH OF THE WILDFLOWERS
Gaius will attempt to lead it to the flowers (with the help of others) to see if flowers vs basilisk will cause a Zelda: Breath of the Wild situation where they just attack each other as the group watches

ATTEMPT #4: ICE ICE BABY
If that doesn't work, there would be a desperate attempt to push it with Malleus' gale force winds / everyone's attacks into the ice throne to see if that doesn't cool it off / calm it down somehow (Chicken king?)

ATTEMPT #4.5: JUST SET IT MORE ON FIRE (HOW BAD COULD IT BE??)
Malleus might try to set it even more on fire, that would work right?

ATTEMPT #5: RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
If all else fails, they will all attempt to run. By that time they are all pretty hurt, and Wolf will leave his sword into the morgue's door to keep the creature inside as they make a run for it and warn others.

[directrice]

Zenkichi's buffs + debilitated do a little bit to put the group on even footing with the monster, which means they may not get quite as injured as they would otherwise! The line trick doesn't seem to work on this monster either-- is it too berserk to be pacified, or perhaps it being only half-chicken prevents the use of such mental tricks? WHO KNOWS. Either way, it doesn't matter. . . because after a good fight, Rex will succeed in shoving the monster back in the locker. It will tumble back into the depths of the locker with a pained shriek, the door slamming shut behind it. . . the basilisk symbol will reappear on the door, which will also glow red hot for a few moments before it just kind of. . .

Falls off.

But fortunately!! The fiery basilisk seems to be done, leaving nothing but the smoldering locker door behind. Before the team can do anything about it, the door glows gold and disintegrates into tiny little sparkles. . . leaving behind an iron shied with the basilisk team symbol on the front.

The shield seems like a normal shield, but it's a pretty cool memento, right??