MOD LOG #2

[bequiet]

MOD LOG #2
Now we're back to the beginning
Content Warnings: Death, apocalypse, a shit storm generally, pigeon death
Themes: Survival, plot

As noted on the ooc plotting post, this prompt is in the form of a Network Post via the native who runs the Bulletin Board. The post can be found here. Out of the five separate teams, all groups decided to share the footage they found. On the morning of the first, the footage will go live as a compilation in order of oldest to newest. Character's devices will update at the same time. The weather is overcast and sullen, befitting the news, and characters can talk to each other on the network post or play out their reactions on the log here.

Will you stay or will you go
Content Warnings: NONE
Themes: Survival, plot

On the morning of the second, the locals will call a meeting at town hall. All soundproofing and partnering rules apply - find a person and help soundproof the area. This is so that everyone can speak during the meeting. The found footage has unsettled the natives and after the community takes a seat, Constance will share some interesting backstory. As one of the oldest members of the community, Constance wasn't alive when the Sound Eaters first came but she heard stories from her great grandmother. The 'tales' have taken twists and turns over time, leaving the survivors with a watered down version of events that amounts to - they came and everyone had to be quiet.

An elderly native will come forward and admit that they arrived through the Reset Room when they were a teenager and have been living there ever since. They tried to get home and they could never find away. Most interestingly, to those that listen closely to his story, is that he came with a sibling who was killed by a Sound Eater and wasn't Reset. Yet, he's known people to come through the Reset Room, die, and come back. Piping up from the background, another local mentions that those born in the world they're in now (natives) aren't reset when they die. It's not something they have any real understanding of. Arrivals tend to disappear at random times, stay in the community, or leave; those that choose to depart and explore the world never make it very far. Whether this is from Sound Eaters alone or someone or something else, the natives don't know. It's obvious they are frightened and don't go beyond what they know is safe.

The natives will now ask the characters if they will stay as permanent members of the community. If they choose to, they will be given the option to take on an apartment that is completely soundproofed, furnished, and will be accepted completely by the natives. This can open up doors for characters to become important parts of the community. No character has to agree to become permanent members. If a character chooses not to, the arrangement they're in will stay the same until a few months from now when the natives ask again. Arrivals are given the chance to talk to one another so that they can decide and digest the new information. There is also a comment below to ask the natives questions 'in front of' the entire community.

ooc: Players have until apps close this upcoming round to comment to the housing page saying that their character chose to be permanent members and are taking an apartment. The apartment is located closer to the Reset Room and are either one or two bedrooms; please note which one your character is taking.

Therefore I lie with her
Content Warnings: NONE
Themes: Survival, plot

The native Constance, who hands out the devices, has decided to step back from a leadership role and has submitted the names of those that she believes could lead the group better than she has. Please vote responsibly. During dinner, a group meal prepared and served in the town hall, slips of paper will be passed around with a pencil for everyone to vote. They will be anonymous unless the person chooses to share out loud who they voted for. There won't be much time for campaigning, but candidates are allowed to do so if they'd like - either handwaved or through their own posts/top-levels.

THE CANDIDATES:

- Frank Castle
- Erik Lehnsherr
- Teddy Upsilon
- Richie Tozier
- Akira Kurusu
- Merlan O'Keefe

OOC
From your mods:

Please be mindful of content - if something triggery comes up or if it goes up a rating to say, something sexy, mark your threads in the subject line. We're very flexible and allow any material; we just want our players to be respectful of each other. If you have questions, pp the mod account, use the faq or comment to the appropriate post below. Have fun! The OOC Plotting Post.

NAVIGATION

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Comments

[cxivth]

( yeah, he knows... but still, you're crushing his dreams just a little here, emily! he breathes an airy chuckle in response, knowing he'd overdone it with the visual. )

I mean, it's got to be the most exciting part, right? Biggest I've ever caught was a Dread Grouper. ( mind you, seventy one inches of fish was nothing to scoff at. something about this subject matter just seemed to... light something inside the prince. )

[whists]

[That's Emily, a dreamcrusher. It's a good visual, though, funny.]

I've never caught one, but I imagine the thrill of the chase, the adrenaline of the catch... Yes, it would be exciting. [Now she wonders if she could. If she could somehow escape Dunwall Tower just long enough to smuggle aboard a ship and go in disguise, but that's going to be impossible.

Emily doesn't miss the way he lights up.] A Dread Grouper?

[cxivth]

Yeah! ( there's even a brightness to his eyes now that he's onto it. ) You should have seen it. Took all four of us to even get the thing out of the water in the end— ( he leans back, chuckling at the memory. )

Had to have been one of the best missions I've ever been on.

[whists]

That must have been quite the beast. [That really does sound amazing, and she's trying to picture - uh, honestly, being around enough people to say "four of us".]

So you go out regularly to do things like that?

[cxivth]

Whenever I got the chance. I mean— ( he reigns it in a little, considering who he's talking to, as he adds... ) Not like it was... you know, necessary like it sounds in your world but... Mostly a hobby, I guess.

[whists]

[That's going to earn him a long stare before a slow blink. It's nice that he's courteous, she supposes, but it's almost like he's apologizing for having a hobby.] People fish for fun. Whaling is just a different entity on its own.

[cxivth]

( mainly he just... didn't want to see like a jerk, really. but hearing that seemed to relax a tension in his shoulders. )

Ever tried it? ( the fishing, he means. )

[whists]

[At least he's polite. She's met too many people who aren't.

She shakes her head at the question, eyebrows raised. She knows a great many things but not really fishing.]

No, I guess there wasn't much need to know how growing up. [There's a beat.] I was assigned hunter here, but I'd never really hunted before either.

[cxivth]

( ah, another hunter? he's met more and more of those lately... )

Had a chance to... get your feet wet, yet? ( he means as far as hunting goes. this comment has nothing to do with fishing for once. honest. )