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Deer Country Mod ([personal profile] reddosmod) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-12-08 08:09 pm

now your tearin through the pages and the ink

DECEMBER 2022 EVENT
Due to the cyclical nature of Trench, LAST YEARS EVENT PROMPTS are also open to players. Please be sure to mark if you are using this years prompts or last years prompts to avoid confusion for players.

IMAGE DESCRIPTORS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Prompt One
[Image One: Animal paw print in the snow. ]
[Image Two: A close up of a hissing cat's mouth. ]

Prompt Two
[Image One: Hands underneath cracking ice. ]
[Image Two: A dark, snowy river bed in the woods at night under the moon and clouds. ]

Prompt Three
[Image One: A woman lying in the snow, her face covered by her hair. ]
[Image Two: Bloody handprints in the snow. ]

FIGHT OR FLIGHT
WHEN: December
WHERE: Throughout Trench, particularly near the woods.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Paranoia, fear, violence, possible murder, reality questioning


Dorothea seems to be off. She's more skittish than usual, even to those she may have formed even the slightest of connections to. Her own patrons will notice that she still acts like a cornered animal whenever someone gets too close. Her hair might puff up, she shrinks back from touch, and she's quick to bite if she feels she has to defend herself. People can put two and two together pretty easily: whatever illness that has made the Tower so odd has spread out to others.

The fear she's feeling will slowly start to spread out through the month. Those who have Dorothea as their patron Pthumerian will start to feel the impacts earlier than others, but soon it's going out into the general Sleeper population. It starts off with a tiny voice in the back of the mind, one that alerts danger, even if there isn't anything immediately threatening in the area. It's quiet at first, but becomes louder and louder, until the fear becomes overwhelming.

People will start to respond to it with their natural instincts of fight, flight, or freeze. Some people might try to blend into the background and keep away from strong social settings. Others might start to lash out, fighting with anyone who crosses their path because they could be the threat. People can even go so far as to try to kill those they're close to simply because they don't trust them to be safe.

But that rational side might still try to break through. The constant tug of war can leave people questioning what's real, where the danger really is coming from, or if there was any danger to begin with. It's hard to get the answers or to calm down enough to look for concrete proof when the heart is racing as fast as it is, clouding the mind from being able to handle reason.

If a Sleeper fights their natural instinct and tries to trust others, the effects seem to lessen, but they never fully go away. The small underlying feeling of fear will be there throughout the month, no matter how hard someone tries to fight it.

Note: Not everyone will be hit by this curse. You may opt-out by simply having your character not be effected. For those who are already dealing by paranoia or distrust from their blood impacts, the effects will be that much stronger and more difficult to fight, and more likely to escalate to violence.

COLD AS ICE
WHEN: December
WHERE: ???
CONTENT WARNINGS: Possible drowning, being trapped under ice, claustrophobia


It feels like a dream, but the world around is so solid and real, it's hard to tell if that's true. Everything is pitch black at first and the Sleeper stuck in this new place will feel a heavy weight on their chest. What's most noticeable right off the bat is how cold it is. Colder than it was back in Trench, an almost stabbing pain all over the skin, and it wouldn't be over the top to worry about frost bite. The pressure that's pushing onto the Sleeper's chest will become more noticeable all around them, like there's some sort of vice grip on their entire body.

A beam of moonlight breaks through the darkness and it's then that they are able to tell where they are: under water. Trapped under the ice of a large lake, one where shore seems completely out of reach. Swimming to the top will make it clear that while the ice has cracks on the very surface of it, they're superficial, and it may feel difficult to break through. Trying to use powers to break through the ice will make it clear very quickly that powers don' work in this water.

Is this it? Is that the end? Continuing to swim to try and find a hole may feel pointless, but those who choose to will eventually find that they run into another Sleeper or two. It's hard to communicate underwater, likely, especially when it seems like the omnis don't work to project thoughts to one another the way they usually do. But if the Sleepers can figure out how to communicate, they might find that coordinating their movements to push up against the ice will start to make a loud, rumbling noise fill the water.

The ice is starting to crack. It just takes team work.

Fighting one another or resisting will bring about the very obvious feeling of drowning. Even those who can breathe under water will find that they are unable to in these moments. The only option to get out is to work as a team. So long as they cooperate, Sleepers can break a hole through the ice, escaping the frozen water.

Crawling through the hole in the ice will bring them out of a manhole in a random street of Trench. The lake will be gone and the water too. Those who don't crawl out fast enough behind their teammates will find that the hole disappears entirely and they're forced to start all over.

NOW YOU SEE ME
WHEN: December
WHERE: Trenchwood
CONTENT WARNINGS: Murder, demons, supernatural, violence, abuse, other awful fairy tale themes


There's one thing that's always nice about the holiday seasons lining up across so many worlds: people get to share the stories of their homelands with one another. Traditions are passed down, legendary figures are explained. People will find that they're even more compelled to share stories from their home, whether it's about a winter holiday they deeply enjoy, or even fairy tales that they were told as children. Th urge to share will feel completely natural, even if it's just to one person rather than a whole group.

But there's always a catch in Trench. As stories are shared, the figures that they're focused on will start to manifest throughout the city as actual, real beings. Santa Claus, shoemaking elves, Snow Queens... Anything is up for grabs, but they won't be exactly like the figures that people spoke of. Their eyes will glow a deep red and their skin will be covered in bleeding wounds, dripping red paths across the snow. These strange versions of these legendary beings will haunt the streets of Trench, attacking anyone they see who doesn't look like them.

It will become clear that there's violent demons about as Trenchies (or even Sleepers) start to show up dead in the snow. Their deaths never seem to be gentle, but instead a clear product of a frenzied blood lust. People may have been brutally stabbed, or ripped to pieces and scattered. Even if the characters in a Sleeper's story were good people, even heroes, their Trench counterparts only want to destroy.

Killing these demons at least seems to be extremely easy. Luring them in with a blood sacrifice is probably the simplest, but people can try to find them and corner them throughout the city as well. Destroy their eyes and the demons will vanish. This can be done by attacking the face directly or by cutting off the head and destroying it. This information is not readily available however, so it will have to be done by trial and error until Sleepers can start to share the information with one another as the month goes on.

CODING
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Re: winter mourning ★ closed to jaina solo

[personal profile] forcechanic 2022-12-18 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Even if she hadn't seen that, she would have felt Anakin's distress through the Force.

But she did see it. She can hardly believe it, but she saw it. How could this happen?

But right now her little brother clearly needs a hug so she wraps her arms around him. "Anakin?"
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[personal profile] hopesparks 2022-12-18 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Having his worst memory replayed so vividly is like being punched in the chest. Anakin feels so numb that it takes a moment to realize that his sister is hugging him. He hugs her back, a mix of grief and guilt hanging around him.

Shakily: "You saw it?"
forcechanic: (The bad feeling was right)

[personal profile] forcechanic 2022-12-19 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
She nods. "You lived it."

She wishes that was a question. She wants to take care of him, even if he's older than her here. That part she may have decided doesn't matter, but the fact that she doesn't know what he's been through.

ANd it's things like that?
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[personal profile] hopesparks 2022-12-20 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
He's lived and relived it over and over. Being able to use the Force to sharpen one's recollection is a curse, sometimes, when you're a grieving kid wondering if your dad was right to blame you.

Jaina hadn't blamed him then, and he doesn't expect that she would now.

Still.

"I didn't... want you to know."

There's nothing she could do to stop it. Why would he put her through that?
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[personal profile] forcechanic 2022-12-20 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Anakin. Just because you're further along than everyone else doesn't mean that you have to carry everything by yourself."

Is it slightly hypocritical given how much information they're absolutely continuing to withhold from anyone who predates the Battle of Yavin? Probably.

"We stick together." And maybe he forgot because the person who made that so clear when they were small was the one who forgot first.
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[personal profile] hopesparks 2023-01-15 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
He takes a shaky breath, blinking back tears. The memory lingers and it hurts, clinging to his bones and twining with his tissue.

"I know, I just... I thought I was protecting you. Or maybe I was protecting myself."

How do you talk about these big, ugly wounds that hurt to explain?
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[personal profile] forcechanic 2023-01-17 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Protecting everyone is supposed to be her job.

"That's the whole point of family. If you're hurting, we all help carry it." Chewie knew that. She still doesn't know what to make of her father's reaction. He should know that too. He'd always been there for the family.
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[personal profile] hopesparks 2023-02-01 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Sometimes, having someone else carry it with you just makes it feel worse."

He wipes away stray tears, feeling a curl of guilt and shame. He knows he can lean on people, but it's become hard. 'Deal with it later' has become his go-to method of dealing with everything. His father's response to it all just made Anakin retreat into himself even more.

"There's nothing you can do about it here. It would only hurt you to know."