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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] perfectdevil 2023-09-18 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
lestat would love to meet another vampire but i totally feel you about being overwhelmed and needing to just. put things on the list for next month. so i am totally up for that too, i am just leaving a comment here to.... yknow... set intentions

points at my eyes, points at yours
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-09-18 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
POINTS AT MY EYES, POINTS AT YOURS

hello fellow vampire! i'm actually putting myself to bed atm but for hilarity and drama purposes i would love for midnight to meet another vampire. long story short, most elder vampires in midnight's world are actual sociopathic monsters, and older vampire men specifically have been horrible to him, so much so that he'd actually book it midsentence if he realized he was talking to one. however, for reasons i will explain when i wake up, midnight will probably not realize lestat is a vampire right off the bat, and he's friendly and flirtatious to a fault, so i've been very interested in easing him into meeting nice(ish(?)) fellow vampires by tricking him, basically!

i actually don't know much about lestat, but midnight is a huge clown... very silly... aggressively flirtatious....i know lestat is kind of a chaos being, so i hope that midnight secretly having a ridiculously stubborn moral compass won't throw off the dynamic? idk i'm eepy, i'll get back to you with real thoughts in the morning 👍 exciting stuff

edit: okay, after some sleep, i think i left one very important thing out: midnight's blood!

1. long story short, vampires are alive human beings where midnight's from, so he is warm-blooded and has a pulse!

2. lestat absolutely needs be kept from nibbling on midnight. while normally Terran vampire blood is okay to drink, midnight has a form of magical blood leukemia that is extremely toxic and will infect lestat and cause him a lot of suffering as long as the blood stays in his body. at the very worst, since the magic radiation stabilizes by consuming dead organic matter, midnight's blood will eat through lestat's flesh and make him explode. it is BAD and i do feel like we should have that out on the table so we both know it's there LOL...
Edited 2023-09-18 18:07 (UTC)
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[personal profile] perfectdevil 2023-09-20 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
ohhhh OOOH THIS IS EXCITING.
okay, re midnight being spooked if he found out lestat is a vampire, lestat has a terrible habit of pretending to be a human pretending to be a vampire for rock star reasons (he's... in a band...) so i love the idea of lestat being like pshh a real vampire.... wow.... if he were to find out about midnight.
idk how midnight is about that kind of thing but i also love the idea of them Both pretending to be human at each other. very funny.

lestat is also very stupid and capable of clown behavior. he's got a weird complex about trying to convince himself he's terrible because he should be to be so cursed with being a vampire, but he's actually just a bit of a goofball.

BUT ALSO lestat is cold and is definitely a dead guy but also has a pulse, so their similarities/lack of them is VERY interesting to me. especially his icky blood LOL lestat is very uh... well, he has some trauma about taking the blood of other vampires he doesn't know into himself, especially if they have weird powers. so i think midnight is safe from The Nibbles 8')
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-09-21 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
LMAO oh my god... Well, first of all, it's not actually necessary, ish, for Midnight to go incognito back in his world, but Midnight doesn't talk about it because he doesn't think it's important! Like, long story short, he considers himself completely human with, like, a fun and quirky thirst for blood (well, not fun and quirky, but you know what i mean). I swear it makes sense in context LMAO

So honestly, Midnight will just tell people that he's a vampire if it's actually relevant to the conversation. If Lestat asks, it's going to be like, oh yeah, I am :> any questions? No? Cool, let's go get funnel cakes. It's a conversation that is very possible in Midnight's world, so he honestly wouldn't bat an eye if that's how it went down LOL... Lestat also being a vampire can be a problem for later Midnight HAHAHA

which is all to say that i'm going to tag you tonight, god speed to both our asses 🫡

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[personal profile] perfectdevil 2023-09-22 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
dlfgsdfgnksd i think vampirisim can be fun and quirky with the right attitude, even if your blood is toxic acid, mr midnight 8')

but yes i am super excited to see how it plays out!! as for the post you tagged me in, are you cool with louis jumping in on it too, for extra CR?? free extra vampire... he's like the toy in a happy meal 8')
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[personal profile] unrequite 2023-09-22 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
it's all about attitude!!! c:

yes! put in as many vampires as you like my guy. pile em in, lock em up, shake the box and call it the vampire wiggler... or, uh, let them have a good time crawling all over the playground like babies 🥹