PLOTTING POST: EVENT 003

[erkumods]

EVENT 003: INAUSPICIOUS TIDES

I. Swap til you drop With the abundance brought forth by the influx of Eros energy in the world, the Augur has blessed the world's new organic inhabitants - past and recent arrivals both - with personalized welcome packages. Overnight, these goody bags have been quietly delivered to the doorsteps (or dirty hovel floors, Gundams, tree branches, etc.) of each Island resident. Open them up to find a supply of basic hygiene necessities perfectly suited to your tastes, as well as a small selection of fun extras: good quality clothing, beachwear, fancy soaps, "necessities" to complete an Auspicious Act, and maybe even a surprise from home. Unfortunately, not every item is yours. In their haste to please their guests, the robots might have mixed a few items up, switching up favorite colors, smells, lingerie sizes, and preferred condom flavors - among other things - for someone else's. What’s more, a tiny glitch in the Augur has also beamed some inventory items directly from their owners' homes and placed them right in a stranger's welcome bag! The robots catch on quickly to the problem. By afternoon, they have hastily set up a swap meet on the beach for residents to trade, sell, or barter their unwanted items. "̷T̶r̷a̷d̴e̵ ̷a̴u̸s̷p̸i̶c̸e̴s̶ ̵a̴n̷d̴ ̶b̵e̶ ̷t̶w̸i̴c̵e̴-̴b̸l̷e̸s̷s̸e̸d̵!̴"̶ As a special event, the robots on site are also facilitating square swaps for consenting parties, and will upload the appropriate app to the devices of interested residents. Use your wrist device to project your A5 card for all to see and get swapping! Simply by tapping each other's card displays, you can easily switch squares between yourselves. The robots have authorized one square swap per person. II. Treasure Island i̶n̴o̶r̷g̷a̷n̷i̵c̷ ̸m̷a̶t̵t̴e̶r̴ ̶d̵e̵t̵e̶c̷t̵e̶d̶.̶.̷.̴ All of the activity on the beach has kicked up something beneath the sands, and as you make your wait through the festivities you may notice something glittering and gold on the sands. Mysterious treasure has begun to wash up from the seas - from large chests (ahem) to small statues, from ornate jewelry to faceless coins of indeterminate origin. You may not be the materialistic sort, but the treasure almost compels you to pick it up. Once you find something, you'll be hungry to unearth more. When questioned about the treasure's source, the robots appear stumped. Jewels and gold have no worth to them, they explain. h̶o̸l̷d̶ ̴o̵n̵ ̷t̶o̶ ̴w̶h̶a̶t̸'̸s̷ ̵p̸r̶e̶c̸i̶o̶u̴s̶.̴.̶.̴ Time will reveal that this is cursed treasure. The treasures on the beach inspire feelings of not only jealousy, but also the desire to flaunt what you do have. You find yourself craving what belongs to others - be it food, items... or even lovers. Those under the treasure’s spell are attracted to even more treasure; a flash of shiny new gemstones may be all it takes to entice even the most loyal to your side. Anyone who can sense magic will notice a faint green aura around a cursed item, but little else can be determined. Incorporating an item into your Auspicious Acts - be it coin to trade for the pleasure of their company, or if you'd prefer to be taken wearing nothing but decadent pearls - seems to lift the aura and alleviate those strange feelings of envy and vanity. Inauspicious Tides The lucky few who discover how to cleanse the treasure of its aura are not enough to stop the rightful owners from coming to claim what’s theirs. From the deep, they rise. A flash of lightning illuminates the dark sea. A horde of bodies begin to walk out from beneath the waves. They range from monstrous to humanoid, but a commonality they all have is decay. "Our treasure..." Some are completely inhuman, covered in bone and debris, flailing slimy limbs or tentacles at anything that moves. Others seem half-person, half-shipwreck, with bodies mutating around pieces of driftwood. While the largest of them threaten to wreak havoc on the beaches from the shallows, their long tentacles reaching for any buildings within their grasp with destructive intent, the smaller and more human-looking of the invaders march in droves towards land. The robots rally to defend the Island, but it soon becomes apparent that they are no match for this threat. "Give it back..." When the horde makes it ashore, they may attempt to fight the residents of the Island - but they seem far more agitated by the appearance of any native 'bots, attacking them maliciously. They are impervious to gunfire, they feel no pain, and their waterlogged bodies make them resistant to flame. They spill over all corners of the city as they make their way to the hospital. Should any of these creatures make it inside, they will head for the Augur first and foremost. And though the sun's rays will peek through the windows and turn them to ash come daybreak, their damage is done. The Augur will go offline for repairs; the robots will dedicate themselves to tending to it for the next month. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● N A V I G A T I O N

Comments

sandalphon, gbf.

[heirworthy]

SWAP TIL YOU DROP
- Sandy likes to brood and stew in loneliness so I'm having him receive a huge bag full of condoms and sex toys (because hey, why not). He has no idea or clue what they're for but he has a sinking feeling about them so pls educate him and take it off his hands. He won't even require you to pay at the bazaar thing, just take it pls.
- If you also want him to receive something questionable that belongs to your character and be judged eternally, by all means. I just want him to acquire more questionable CR and friendships too, because he's a sad little angel who needs more friends and happiness in his life.
- I may or may not have him receive the hugeass Grandcypher ship as his surprise from home ... Feel free to find it and stupidly curse it in the hangar. This is why we don't pine over danchou, Sandy.

TREASURE ISLAND
- Jealous!Sandy? is going to be batshit, let me warn you. He ripped off fellow angels' wings, held a little girl hostage and threatened to maim a little dragon to get his senpai to look at him. There's more context to that, but he's more than willing to wreck the world for someone and he's probably just as willing if he's jealous. If you want that, let's plot. Otherwise:
- He can be the object of your character's obsession because he hasn't suffered enough. He has Cage/Confinement in his card, as well as Discipline. Since he's also an archangel, he should count for Xenophilia if you need that cleared.

INAUSPICIOUS TIDES
- He's used to grinding for stupid mats fighting abominations and crazy creatures so he'll be spamming magic on these little buggers at the beach. Anyone living on the beach may see an archangel fly around (and eventually get sick from flying around, because what is airsickness) the horrible tentacle monster. Feel free to join him on that front too.

OTHERS
I've gotten pretty slow lately due to work but that should improve in the next few days/weeks. I'll probably put a catch-all for both of my characters so if you want to plot, feel free to send me a PM or ping me on discord athanasia#1050.

[stripsearch]

Holy shit please get the GCyph, that'd be amazing.

Sandalphon has traumatic flashbacks to all the Guild Wars farming he has to do

[heirworthy]

lmao it's so huge tho. he'll honestly be like wtf i didn't ask for this when he sees it.

he'll treat the huge tentacle monster as the final raid where my crew at.

[stripsearch]

"I better get a fucking sunstone out of this"

Everyone just "okay there is a giant flying ship here o.o"

and no rackam in sight

[heirworthy]

"would be better if it's a gold bar but lbr that's not gonna happen in gw ever"

yeah no one will fly that thing. sandy doesn't want rackam's wrath on him ok.

[stripsearch]

my crewmate just got a bar off their daily PBHL host and i'm jelly af

i mean it's probably best that it's the gcyph and not like

Pandemonium or something

[lapses]

more vincent and sandy cr pls

i'm open to exploring the cursed treasure prompt for them because it seems prime for disaster

[heirworthy]

omg yes

and i agree, they're just going to be a mess of superpowered non-humans

[lapses]

i'm sure vincent can handle sandy's special brand of jealousy
nothing can possibly go wrong

[heirworthy]

vincent's mastered handling petty children. he'll do great handling sandy at his pettiest.

[lapses]

he will be such an expert at it
everyone will be so impressed

vv just ends up thinking this is how sandy is
a petulant clingy child

[vanguarda]

how about i bother your other character too?

give me fighting scenes! it'd be dope

[heirworthy]

as long as zack doesn't mind a rain of light magic

[vanguarda]

what's a boss fight if there's not some magic raining down on him? i'm down for that and potential shenanigans that may stem from that

[heirworthy]

pls break him free from the tentacles, zack. he's counting on your ground support.

[vanguarda]

sighs... it's always the support pulling the weight of the operation!! but he'll slice up some tentacles, no worries (now i'm wondering if they can be harvested for food? hm.) nvm they're gross and decayed LMAO

[apodictic]

re. inauspicious tides .... offering a mobile suit to cradle him gently once he's tired of flying so he can raise him up like simba

also he's gonna be annoyed at that ship, it looks hella impractical

[heirworthy]

lmao omg, he'll appreciate the respite but not the raising him up like a lion cub? and it'll be hilarious if the sun starts shining when angelo does that to him.

the size makes sense bec there's like over a hundred characters living/traveling on that ship. but feel free to judge it, it takes up so much space ...

[apodictic]

it is a Blimp, he will judge it, but only because angelo is from The Future

if he didn't have feathers he'd offer the cockpit, but no. simba express it is

[heirworthy]

their blimp has gone to hell and back, pls angelo

:( he can fold his wings ok. but it's fine, he just needs to rest and then take off again

[apodictic]

https://lusi.dreamwidth.org/23086.html?thread=3619118#cmt3619118 here's a top-level!

[hildahilda]

hello i'm omo and i play hilda from fremblem! i love... sanchan granblue fantasy... what if hilda ended up with ancient coffee beans... or a teacup set from a certain garden (actually she would probably keep that set so best not)... or a big white feather which can also be used to uncap fledgling supreme primarchs to 5*...

anyway. i'd love to do an item swap, or bickering over treasure, or fighting zombies!!

[heirworthy]

hilda's one of the reasons why i don't want to branch out to other routes and just recruit everybody into gd. anyway!! he would very much appreciate it if hilda could give him back his coffee beans since she's into tea anyway???

he's happy to swap it out for her brother's siscon letters? possibly even reading it out loud for everyone to hear if she doesn't give him the coffee?

if you have other ideas, i'd love to hear them. sandy has gullible moments and i'm more than open for hilda to take advantage of his dere when he's not being a tsun.

[hildahilda]

SHE!!! and yes she much prefers tea to—

—HEY DON'T READ THOSE OUT LOUD! how embarrassing... she'll fork over the coffee, she doesn't need these old beans! though she will wonder why they're so important to him... hmmmmmmmm...

and omg yes please, i'm here to bully boys!! i think hilda would notice he's a softie underneath all that tsun... 8J also if you want to add some mutual hilarity she probably doesn't recognize what some of the modern sex toys look like. they can take guesses? (hilda wouldn't try anything super spicy with a complete stranger, but she'll flirt casually and poke fun at the very least!!)

[heirworthy]

pls don't be suspicious and take the coffee from him out of curiosity, hilda. or else he'll continue reading holst's cute letters about his sister.

lmao he's been the bully for the past month or two already; sandy deserves to be bullied this time around. besides he can't exactly hassle and badger a girl ... and hi5 coming from weird medieval worlds and know nothing about modern sex toys. hilda can take one off of his hands since he doesn't know how to use them.