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The City ([personal profile] citycenter) wrote in [community profile] cityooc2023-09-17 09:00 pm
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OOC EVENT PLOTTING: The Nights Were Humid, Still. (September 2023)





OOC EVENT PLOTTING: SEPTEMBER 2023

GUIDELINES.
This is the OOC plotting post for the September 2023 event! Here you can find brief summaries of the various event prompts which may help you engage in plotting with other players. To participate, utilize the code at the bottom of the page. This is not mandatory! Feel free to plot here or in private with other players, or simply wait to be part of the event.

NOTE: This is NOT the event log! The event log will go up on the 19th of this month.
WE WERE DREAMING, WAITING FOR NIGHT.
The new park is a permanent location that is open to residents 24/7 as there are no fences nor gates. It's larger than the one near City Hall and has more potential for exploring as well as different features from its cousin. For those that are familiar, it will evoke thoughts of New York's Central Park with its mixture of open areas contrasting with thick woods. Paved walkways, freshwater ponds, picnic areas, and a couple of playgrounds can all be found throughout the park. Along with these, residents may stumble upon other natural and man-made areas such as rocky outcrops, unmarked trails, bicycle paths, fountains, and other things typically found in large urban parks—minus the wildlife. It can be a romantic setting as easily as it can be a horrific one depending on the time of day as well as the company that you keep.
THEN THE HEAT BROKE, THE NIGHT WAS CLEAR.
Located in the southern half of the large park is a small fun fair that will open to the public the evening of September 19 with operating hours from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM City time. Before opening, none of the rides or games will be operational; however, there will be fliers advertising its opening all around the city on billboards and telephone poles, and adventurous characters are able to hop the fence and explore if they so desire. However, they will not be able to turn on any of the rides or games, and will not be able to break into the rides or booths under any circumstances.

Upon opening, there will be a number of rides running themselves on a schedule that allows people time to get on, have some fun, and then get back off again. Among those named are a merry-go-round, mirror fun house, bumper cars, a tunnel of love, and knock-off Gravitron. Though there's something unsettling about the music they play, or maybe how shaky they feel, there's no apparent danger anywhere. Residents are encouraged to enjoy themselves with a group of friends, or maybe a date, and experience all that the fun fair has to offer! The fair will not be open forever, though; its gates will close permanently at 11:00 PM on September 30 and all traces will disappear that night to leave a large, open field behind in the park.

This is a good, ol' fashioned carnival designed to bring together groups of people for thrills and fun. Though there are no overt game mechanics at play, we encourage everyone to get creative and add their own flair to this month's event. If you have any questions about player plots you'd like to run, please revisit the Events & Interactions section of the F.A.Q. and drop us a comment on the mod contact for any additional questions.
IT SEEMED AN HONOR TO HAVE A MOUTH.
As quintessential as the rides, no fun fair is complete without rigged games or greasy food. Some of the notable mentions are a shooting gallery, dart throwing, and the ubiquitous ring toss. You may think that it's easier to cheat at a game when there are no attendants telling you made-up rules, but you'll still find it difficult to win yourself one of the many prizes hanging from the ceilings. There's a plethora of food to enjoy with all the classics: corn dogs, fries, funnel cake, pizza, shaved ice, and fried junk food.

Despite the potential for danger from the shooting gallery and balloon dart games, both are designed to be as harmless as possible—the bullets are rubber, and the darts are made of plastic. While they will still leave a bruise, there shouldn't be risk of blood loss. The shooting gallery guns are chained in place, unable to be stolen. Removing the darts from their stall will result in thiefs walking in a tight circle that always brings them back in hopes the darts will be restored to their rightful place.

Though the food and games are free, the prizes are not—anyone who attempts to steal prizes without winning the games first will find themselves misplacing their items before leaving the carnival. If residents become aware of this phenomenon and try extra hard to focus on not losing their stolen prize, it will nevertheless slip from their hands and be lost—though a keen eye might see it back in its rightful place at the game stall. If you have the right temperament, this could become a game in and of itself!

Additionally, if there are any fair games or foods that have not been explicitly mentioned above, players are welcome to assume they can be found. Nothing as extravagant as a theme park or amusement park will be present as all of the stalls are designed to be mobile—this is a traveling carnival, after all. Similarly, players are welcome to design their own brand of unsettling game prizes as long as none of them can be used as an actual weapon or to otherwise harm fellow fair-goers.
CODES.
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-09-18 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
YES HELLO YOU hi!! i will probably unfortunately drop their party thread BUT please feel free to assume that midnight did in fact continue drinking and making a fool of himself during their entire conversation. (shocking: midnight doesn't have a drinking problem! the problems are Everything Else)

with regards to future plans, i'm definitely keeping an eye out for yesod's top levels! i personally don't know shit about projmoon anything so i can't offer more than midnight being completely enthusiastic about wanting to know more about this grumpy little man while, like, he slowly falls apart as a human being LMAO... sorry yesod, at least he has an amazingly good attitude to balance out the grump
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[personal profile] wordchain 2023-09-18 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
No worries! I was slow for a bit as well when work exploded and I had to resist doing as much as I would have liked at the time, so I understand that, and handwaving the rest of the party thread works. I'll absolutely welcome anything that sounds fun to you in future encounters. AS MIDNIGHT GRADUALLY FALLS APART...
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-09-18 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
midnight: so, who's cute here in the city?
yesod: midnight, your skin is falling off
midnight: okay?? this isn't about me
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[personal profile] wordchain 2023-09-18 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
I hope this will become canon. MIDNIGHT???
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-09-18 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
yessir that's him he LOVES the sound of his own name while he, uh, decays ig

look no further, all of his conversations are like this in spirit! all joking aside he's very much the type to be like (spitting up blood bc he's just been stabbed) oh, you're gorgeous. you're stunning. are you single? so you won't have to wait very long. he's an idiot. i'm sorry.
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[personal profile] wordchain 2023-09-18 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Never be sorry, all of this should be unleashed freely. I WILL LOOK FORWARD TO IT...