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♥ November Event Log

a gloved hand places a brick in place on a wall
November (Malom) Plotting Post

Hello all! Thank you for your patience. Apps are now processed and the next event will be starting in a few days! Feel free to use this entry for plotting purposes as you please, and use the Mod Question thread below for any questions.

A log will be posted on the day the event begins, but characters are welcome to create their own entries as well.



PROMPT I: Rebuilding Effort
a stone wall with a large collapsed hole in the center

The magic barrier over the hole that unknown monster punched through Havenwell's wall is repaired, stopping the onslaught and encouraging any other nightmares that lurk outside to move on and away, but the hole itself remains. Throughout the month of Malom, robot natives are working tirelessly to gather bricks and stone and patch the breach, but they could use some help. Work together with other offworlders and natives alike to repair the wall and be rewarded with a handsome bump to the Dora in your bank account. They need all sorts of help, from clearing away the dead bodies of the spider-like creatures for cremation, to retrieving and hauling stone for the wall, to actually slotting the heavy blocks into place to cement them back together.

Outside the barrier, now clearly visible through the hole, a storm rages on, obscuring the view of the world beyond it. Gray and black clouds whip against the invisible barrier, and occasional debris slams into it, causing the impact site to light up with silver, pink, blue, or white hues before it fades away again. It seems even without monsters, the world outside is as inhospitable as was rumored.

Work together or take a break along the base of the wall and get to know your fellow offworlders a little better. It's going to take a while before this mess is cleaned up.


PROMPT II: Air Sickness
Those who worked at or were near the breach in the wall for any extended period of time will notice that, over time, it gets harder to breathe. Then they begin to feel feverish, even if they don't have flesh bodies or are immune to disease. Their bodies ache and groan and it gets harder to move about without help. Once the natives notice, they set up a recovery area away from where the breach occurred: a giant tent with cots and pillows, thick rugs and blankets to keep the chill away. Unfortunately, they don't have medicines available to treat flesh bodied people, so they're at a loss of what to do otherwise. The priests gather anyone who is ill and brings them here...which is when a curious thing occurs.

While conventional medicines and healing spells seem to have no effect on the illness, staying in contact with another person alleviates the symptoms. After a period of contact with another person or persons, the fever breaks and it's like you were never sick at all.

Return to the wall, however, and you'll notice your symptoms coming back with a vengeance after a few days. It seems that making regular trips between the wall and this recovery tent is the only way to keep working. At least it's an easy fix so long as you're not a germaphobe.


PROMPT III: A Tasty(?) Reward
a collage of different foods on display: salads, meats, and pasta

Toward the end of the month as the hole in the wall is completely repaired and the risk of illness declines, a message is sent to all the offworlders' communication devices. Those who choose to open it will find a very official looking message from The Havenwell Council that reads:

Greetings, Saviours of Havenwell!
We of the Havenwell Council greet you and wish to express our eternal gratitude for your valiant efforts to keep our wonderful home safe. Without you, we would not have survived this terrible onslaught. As such, we wish to express our gratitude in a more concrete form. Your emissary, Magolor, has been in contact with this venerable Council and has brought to our attention that your greatest concern is for the food available. We apologize that due to our inability to taste we have been unable to supply you with satisfactory meals.

To that end, we invite you to work with our scientists to improve upon the taste of currently available offerings from our replicators. Please come to the Northern Research Tower (map included) at any time this month to sample what our replicators can produce and give us feedback on their flavour and textures. We ask that you be as specific as possible in your criticisms so we may improve upon your general quality of life. Please feel free to bring as many friends as you wish.
May the Gods Protect You,
Havenwell Council, Community Liaisons


Those who take the invitation will arrive at the Northern Research Tower and be taken directly to the 40th floor, where a large banquet hall has been laid out. Five rectangular tables, over 5 meters long each, stretch down the room, creating aisles for people to walk down. At the far end are several high round tables, covered in white cloth, and high round stools for those who wish them. The tables are overflowing with food, much like the welcome dinner, but at each table and scattered throughout the room are scientist robots with arm bands that read "Experiment 73" in that peculiar Aellyn script you saw during your time at the Archives. They invite you to taste the foods - both raw and cooked - and to give your very honest opinions.

Enjoy the food, help them improve the flavours, and walk the room to talk with the others who have come. Those who participate will receive a small synthetic fruit basket to take home with them on their first visit. Feel free to come back as often as you like, however! Each time, they'll be changing and adjusting the food available so your first and last visit may be very different. Perhaps that strawberry actually even tastes sweet, finally.


PROMPT IV: A Virtual Spa
a spa/water park with large open pools, an enclosed building, a bridge, and a water slide in the background

The VR cafes are uncharacteristically quiet while the rebuilding effort goes on, but there are still those who come to plug in to unwind after a day of intensive labor. And what better way to unwind than with a hot bath, right? Since the people of Havenwell can't actually submerge themselves in water, they're doing the next best thing: going to a virtual hot spring. There are several types to choose from and despite being digital, their calming and soothing effects on the body seem very real. Choose from:
  • The Classic Outdoors: a rock lined hot spring with natural rock floors and steamy mineral infused waters nestled in the mountains. All around you is beautiful greenery like a sweeping pine and low fragrant bushes. The serene air and the calm forest is only occasionally broken by the sound of a wooden pipe thudding hollowly against a rock at a steady interval or the sound of birdsong off in the trees. The relaxing atmosphere is enough to set even the tightest wound nerves at ease.

  • The Marbled Columns: white and painted marble columns lead to a series of different shaped baths with statues of the gods pouring water into them. Each bath has a different healing property, which is clearly marked with a plaque at the rim of each: good for your circulation, your bones, your aches and pains, even acne and metabolic rate. The columns support a beautiful open ceiling that shows the perfectly blue sky overhead dotted with the occasional cloud.

  • The Steamy Sauna: though seemingly austere in their white tile and deep blue bath basins, the air here is thick and steamy and the baths are deep with hand-rails leading down steps to help you enter. All around the basins are stone or wooden benches with towels laid down for those who wish to simply sit and let the warm air open their lungs. If you get too hot? Grab a bucketful of cold water from one of the freestanding tubs and douse yourself to get a shock and cool off.

  • The Milk-and-Honey: a beautifully tiled bath with a large shallow rectangular basin. The surrounding walls and ceilings have blue, white, and gold geometric designs laid out with loving care in pleasant designs that ease the mind. The bath water here is filled with a concoction of milk and honey to soothe and smooth the skin, filling the air with a pleasing sweet scent. The effects of these baths on a person's skin is said to make them glow from the inside out for at least a day after bathing.

  • The Theme Park: the first thing to greet you is the comically oversized bottle of red wine tipped to pour a continuous stream of red liquid into the large crystalline bath basin. The smell of wine is heavy but pleasant in the air and the crystalline basin is round and shaped like a wine glass. Climb up the glass steps and give yourself a good old soak in the red water. You might even find that taking a dip here gives you a heady happiness that lasts all day. And if it feels like you're a little drunk while there? That has to be your imagination! ...Maybe.

Hot springs are great to experience with friends to deepen that feeling of skinship you have with each other, and several Havenwell natives are doing just that. But what about those who don't have a friend to log in with? Don't worry! The game will randomly select another player from this or another facility and match you together. Isn't that nice? We're sure it is! Who doesn't want to talk to someone else while naked, right?



This event will run from November 14th to the 31st. Click on each prompt's title to see the text. If you have any questions, feel free to direct them to the FAQ or to the Mod Question thread below.
begguiling: (delusion is the solution)

~*~your emissary Magolor~*~

[personal profile] begguiling 2019-11-13 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
boy is he going to be insufferable about that

Anyway heck yeah come at me! Magolor will probably be around doing the following:
  • Helping with the wall efforts, mostly by clearing spider corpses, since he can do that effortlessly and so it's a much better deal for the money than hauling bricks. Look how tiny and sad he is :( don't make him do that :(
  • Absolutely getting ill, because he spent some time holding up the barrier during the event, so he was near the breach long enough between that and these rebuilding efforts to fall victim; COME CUDDLE HIM BETTER
  • Of course he's going to go to the banquet, since he was mentioned by name, and will be pompous about it but also there to gather more information from people about what he should take to the city officials next month; he'll probably also be doing a network post about this sometime soon!


As for the hot springs, Magolor is Not About nudity, and doesn't like to advertise what he looks like under all that clothing, but I might do it to him anyway, I'm undecided. He is in the business of theme parks and checking out that wine could . . . happen.
kingkingcxiii: Flame (Flame)

[personal profile] kingkingcxiii 2019-11-13 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Prompt I: Will our robotic friends need assistance with the actual cremation of the spider bodies or just the moving of them? Since he has fire magic, Regis would naturally offer assistance if it is needed.

Prompto II: I'm assuming magical potions will do nothing to help with the illness if tried, correct? You know he's going to try... shakes head
iustaegis: (Default)

[personal profile] iustaegis 2019-11-13 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
eeeey yah im up for cuddling and cleaning up wall shit and all that jazz...

but then if he goes to the banquet and eats. SHE WILL GET TO SEE HIS MOUTH AND HOW HE EATS RIGHT??
whenyouneedme: (153)

[personal profile] whenyouneedme 2019-11-13 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Uh clearly just hop in a spring with someone that's already seen you nude, bro
whenyouneedme: (116)

KAITO + VIANCA

[personal profile] whenyouneedme 2019-11-13 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
REBUILDING
Kai will inevitably help a little bit, the breach was close enough to where he usually hangs out that it is uh Concerning. Vianca is absolutely helping! As much as she can help!! IT'S HER TIME TO BE HELPFUL. Yes she is very tiny but hot damn look at all these rocks and bricks she is hauling WOW. She wants very strongly to help. Will help.

AIR SICKNESS
Time to also absolutely get wrecked for trying to help so much. The flipside to being very small is that Vianca is also very easy to just pick up and take to bed so please pick her up and take her to bed before she sneaks her way out of the tent. Though it is also very likely that she'll just. Crawl up on to your cot with you once she finds out cuddles make people feel better cuz THAT IS ALSO HELPING!!!

Kai might get mildly sick but more likely he's going to just drag people to sick bay and sit their asses down.

WOW FOOD
Vianca... doesn't really need to eat so she won't. Really. Be here too much, probably. Kai's not gonna say no to free food though and gosh good job Magolor wow, pats on the head for you, wow.

SPA DAY FOR YOU AND YOUR PALS
This one's cute but I don't have any initial ideas for either kid. I might just poke around at these prompts/wild cards but if you. Want one of mine. Waggles eyebrows into the sky.
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Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[personal profile] iustaegis 2019-11-13 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Since the barrier is in place and whatnot--
--Is the wall itself significant in any way (like are its bricks/reinforcements made out of any special material, elements not found on earth, etc)?
--Does the barrier extend into the wall in a more condensed fashion (like, old windowpane glass where it's thicker at the bottom)... I'm sorry if this question is not relevant at all, i just really like describing things
--Does light pass OUT of the barrier from the inside? Like if a character were to point a laser, would one see its distal mark upon a debris outside the barrier? (provided that the piece of debris beyond the barrier were close enough, otherwise I'm assuming it vectors out and vanishes into the storm)
--The silver, pink, and white hues of the impact shockwave from debris: from the faq question, the barrier itself seems to have its own unified energy overall, but do these colors give off any unique signature energy that can be traced to anything more specific in the city? like, does the silver tracing feel more unique to what might be found in rawna's temple, pink for ainea, and so forth? or will this energy be indistinguishable from the overall feel of the barrier? again, sorry if this isn't relevant i just. i'm new.
--Where are the workers getting new material to rebuild the wall, like are there mines or something, do the characters just see new materials being carted up from somewhere, or is it all being reused from the debris?

Sickness
--When characters feel chills, will blankets/heating pads help at all, or will they only warm up when, like, touching another character?
astralera: (Default)

[personal profile] astralera 2019-11-13 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
she will absolutely thank the small creature who likes plants for getting all this free food A+++ job there much appreciated
begguiling: (you may receive the moon)

[personal profile] begguiling 2019-11-13 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
HE'S VERY GOOD AT HIDING HIS MOUTH. However, I as his player am also very good at letting it slip because it's fun hohoho

Also he is less concerned with it in Hugs than he is generally anyway. So in other words yes, excellent.
iustaegis: (Default)

[personal profile] iustaegis 2019-11-13 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
quickly before i sleep

rebuilding
yo she will be helping out with what she can but also! if anyone is interested in more barrier info, here u go from the faq. pyra/mythra are fab at analyzing structures and energies and repairing them, but obvs she won't be doing that here, but she will also gladly tell anyone who wishes to know more. or if you don't want to talk to pyra, feel free to oocly handwave that she gave this info to them. i'll be putting up a prompt specific to this tho just in case.

sickness
omg imma have so many cuddle and hand-holding prompts cuz she will gladly lend her body warmth. sorry to anyone shy to touch, because 1. gotta honor dem gods here and 2. ur sick. BUT ALSO she has never felt ~cold~ in her entire life so!! that will be... an interesting experience to her. she will be like "WHAT'S THIS FEELING, IT FEELS LIKE PARTICLES ARE MOVING MORE SLOWLY"... internally at least. externally, she will be visibly distressed. sickness?? what's that?? but also! wow wow sickness, what a human experience, this is the best shit ever guys, i'm totally human and sick along with you, too!

banquet
listen guys this will be her first time trying so much food, she will be happy... and also sad because so much food! she doesn't want it to go to waste!

also she will be criticizing the lack of actual yeast. like c'mon, make it special! make it an actual living organism!

spa
if she's going to a spa, she will be actually covering herself up for this because phew gotta still pretend she's human, yeah, she's the best at that. while she is a bit on the shy side, she will absolutely do anything to help out providing touch for the gods so. even if she's in some slip or towel, she won't mind a cuddle or two!

plotting
hmu here or [plurk.com profile] drinksteapots! or if you don't want CR/plotting/anything (even if we have previously threaded or i tagged you), comment to my opt-out, no questions asked!
Edited 2019-11-13 05:00 (UTC)
begguiling: (worry about business)

[personal profile] begguiling 2019-11-13 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
uh HELL yeah. let's baste brother
begguiling: (a fucked up helicopter ride)

[personal profile] begguiling 2019-11-13 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's THE BEST KIND OF FOOD which is free food, though lbr free food barely beats out "actually good food" but

it's free.
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[personal profile] astralera 2019-11-13 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
if it's not dirt or rotten then it's better than things she's eaten in the past :')

the relatively recent memories of starving when combined with free = too amazing!!! so amazing!!

first time she'll end up stuffing herself to full it will be horrendous
whenyouneedme: toniii (108)

[personal profile] whenyouneedme 2019-11-13 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
only bubble crowns now
begguiling: (say wherefore)

[personal profile] begguiling 2019-11-13 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
No . . . that's really cute . . .
begguiling: (become suggestive)

[personal profile] begguiling 2019-11-13 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Horrendous or great

No probably the former. But I am ready. This is very cute
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[personal profile] wifeacle 2019-11-13 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Rebuilding;

Lunafreya probably won't be too involved with rebuilding the wall. Not because she doesn't wish to be of use or help, but because this is a girl who has unfortunately never done manual labor a single day in her life. She will, however, offer to heal anyone who may accidentally injure themselves at any point. It's what she can do - and do pretty well - to make herself useful!

Air Sickness;

Since her normal healing won't work, she will instead be giving out free affection! Need someone to hold your hand and make you soup? She's your girl. Would a hug make you feel better? Oracle hugs are the absolute best kind. She can also offer the goodest girl and bestest boy in the forms of Pryna and Umbra is anyone wants a doggo cuddle while they're waiting to feel better. She will probably get mildly sick from being close to the wall and also trying to take care of people but she'll be totally fine.

A Tasty And Not At All Suspicious Reward;

Luna will, of course, be more than willing to taste test whatever she can and give her thoughts.

Virtual Spa;

All of this sounds completely amazing and someone should absolutely drag her there and teach her what this word relaxation means because she currently does not know. Especially the theme park and milk and honey portions. Please. Someone. Anyone. Teach her how to take care of herself.

Other;

There will probably be a lot of cast stuff going down as well but Lunafreya is super easy to get along with and definitely needs friends. If you want anything specific feel free to hit me up at [plurk.com profile] valenwood
whenyouneedme: (017)

[personal profile] whenyouneedme 2019-11-13 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
right there on your little head, right between the ears
begguiling: (before everything comes the fire)

[personal profile] begguiling 2019-11-13 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
begins to cry
original_is_best: (Science is fun!)

[personal profile] original_is_best 2019-11-13 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Rebuilding
Verstael doing grunt work when there's plenty of other people capable of it? He has more important things to do.

Air sickness
He will offer aid to those in need. When it comes to hugging, though, he will be more reserved. So awkward. People are free to attempt hugging, though.

A Tasty Reward
This is Verstael's jam! Let him at those replicators! He can tell them all about making delicious meat. He will be demanding to work on the science side of things. There is no other better suited to lab grown food than him.

And be very suspicious of the Experiment Number.


He sees the VR cafes as an attempt to distract them from very important reality. He does not participate in them.
original_is_best: https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=73381846 (Cheese)

[personal profile] original_is_best 2019-11-13 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Verstael will attempt normal healing techniques. Though he's aware of how the city works, he's more hesitant to try other methods. Luna could always bring it up to him while giving aid?
original_is_best: (Hmm?)

[personal profile] original_is_best 2019-11-13 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
That feels like a waste of spider corpses somehow...
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[personal profile] morality_pet 2019-11-13 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Rin can help carry things!!! Or offer hugs to either
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[personal profile] morality_pet 2019-11-13 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Rin argues that Verstael needs more hug practice
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[personal profile] morality_pet 2019-11-13 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Rebuilding

Rin has... no concept of building beyond that it's a thing that involves... stacking bricks??? And .... wood??? But she isn't afraid of hard work and will be quite happy pottering around carrying stuff for people.

Air sickness

She is always down for hugs man

No other plans with her at this stage!

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