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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
peripheries: (arael why you do me dirty like that)

[personal profile] peripheries 2023-01-01 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

[And he's surprised that his voice is melancholy. He remembers the tears he shed that day but he didn't expect the feelings to come flooding back so vividly. He didn't expect to care.]

The First Child... a pilot like myself, self-destructed the core of the Evangelion she piloted in order to defeat her enemy a few days ago. The explosion took out most of city. There's nothing but rubble. Everyone has left.
strongroots: (hoping)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-01 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Shit, is what Robby first thinks; for the result of whatever fight took place, and one that could do this much damage. This much-- if he had been taking steps, Robby stops then to look at Kaworu. ]

Sorry. [ It's sympathetic, in the weight of his voice and brow, the expression he wears. A beat before he asks- ] This is the last time you got to see it? Your home, [ he adds. ] Before Trench.
peripheries: (lilith knows i'm a bitch and proud)

[personal profile] peripheries 2023-01-02 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
...My home?

[He blinks and then his mouth twists into a smile. At one point, it would have twisted into a sneer at the very thought. Now it's rueful and a little bitter. All the bite has gone.]

No. I was sent here just a few weeks before this happened. I was raised in Germany. This was my first time to Tokyo-3.
strongroots: (mully mully scully)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-03 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Calling a world home had been weird to Robby at the start, and he's kind of feeling it now with the bumble. But it happens, and he considers what Kaworu says briefly. ]

You got around more than I did. [ Remarked like a joke, light. ] What got the transfer? They just needed the pilots over here?

[ Maybe this was a Tokyo problem, or Germany wasn't currently suffering one. Hopefully, but who knows -- things aren't usually so bright and fortunate. ]
peripheries: (im not saying that mlk jr was a gamer.)

[personal profile] peripheries 2023-01-06 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
I was SEELE's finale trump card to carry out their will. I was to end humanity's reign on earth and herald in the true successors, the angels. Another tool needed to carry out their plans was in Japan so that is where I went.

[So... technically yes as only Tokyo has the Kaiju problem but prospects in general are not looking so great for everyone it seems!

Though from his tone... he almost seems to think it's a bit funny.]
strongroots: (cash)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-06 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Uhhh, end humanity and bring in the next successors? There's a scoff, a bewildered one, and Robby doesn't know exactly what to think about all that, but: ]

What, there's no 'everyone getting along' option? Everyone's got to be dramatic.

[ Humans, whoever replaces humans. Shit. Every place is so damn weird. ]
peripheries: (jail isn't real i assure myself)

[personal profile] peripheries 2023-01-09 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hah. Dramatic indeed. But no. Humans and angels cannot get along. Only one can inherit the earth. We are so similar and yet we cannot co-exist.

Perhaps that tragedy is also part of the drama of it all.

[All things considered... Robby isn't really wrong.]
strongroots: (never go home again)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-09 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Huh. Typical -- or so is the feeling, despite Robby never living through anything like this. He's quiet a second or so, before asking with a kind of casual curiosity: ]

What would've you liked? Sounds like everything was going to be shit anyway. [ And look at it now -- this wasn't the last of what Kaworu knows, Robby thinks. ]

--but you ever get to think about that? What you wanted?
peripheries: (get wrecked shinji-kun)

[personal profile] peripheries 2023-01-12 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
No. In the end I only knew that no matter if I ended humanity or not, I would not continue to exist. So in the end, it didn't really matter. Still, I got to choose.

[He scuffs his foot in the rubble dust on the rock. It cakes onto his white sneakers.]

Your world... Isn't like this, is it?
strongroots: (and forehead crease)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-12 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, shitty deal, huh. It sounded bad, and that just confirms it further. The state of Kaworu's world matches this city. Even their aimless wandering. ]

Nope, [ Robby answers. ] If there's angels or something coming to end us, it didn't show up last I was there. Everyone talked about us ending the world before anything else got to. This city-- [ or what remains of it, Robby gesturing to it- ] the buildings kinda look like what our cities look like too.

It could suck, [ he says with a shrug, ] but it didn't have monsters or a fight between humans and angels, so.

[ So. Probably better? ]
peripheries: (chairitable)

[personal profile] peripheries 2023-01-19 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
That's good.

Even though I rejected my purpose and humanity will live on... I'm not sure there's much hope for the children of this world.

[Their entire lives were steered by the committee trying to execute their plans. Even if they weren't children who would ever be Evangelion pilots, their future had been planned for them by forces greater than they know.]
strongroots: (ribs)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-19 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ So, more shit, huh, and for everyone. It's hard to know what to say about that, for a possibly doomed world. Robby isn't so optimistic to think things will be alright just because he or anyone wants them to be.

He ends up sighing, slowly shaking his head. ]


It doesn't really matter what happens where any of us come from anymore, does it? We're here, we're some kind of squid people -- even if we go back to the sea, I don't see us going back where we come from. This is what we've got.

You've got your boyfriends, your new life, and there's no weird statue bosses - [ gesturing back the way they came ] - to hang around the place.

You can find a music teacher and learn about music. Make a really awful tune on the piano that's yours. Make the most of where we are 'til that blows up.
peripheries: (the way that we'll both reach the light)

[personal profile] peripheries 2023-01-22 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Robby's words make him laugh. He couldn't stop it even if he'd tried. Humans tell people things they don't mean but sometimes they give words of kindness and he spent so much of his life longing for it that even now it still fills holes in his heart.]

You're right. This place is what we have. It lasts until it's gone. [He hates to think about that.] You're insightful, Robby. Not like most.
strongroots: (but omg im in love with you)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-22 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Insightful, huh. Robby doesn't mind the laugh, but being called insightful--it sits weirdly in him. Kind of funny, in its own right. ]

I think about us being squid people more than I like. [ It's tinged with humour, but true. He has a lot of half-baked thoughts. ] It doesn't make anything that what happened before you showed up any less bad. And I hate that we're stuck in Trench, even if I don't think there's anything else we can do.

[ They can't go back to their old lives, anyway. ]

...but I think it's good for the people who wouldn't have anything to go back to. [ A look at Kaworu. ] Better here than nowhere.

[ And the rest of them? They need to come up with something else to make them feel better. ]