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pareidoliaooc2025-02-28 09:00 pm
march 2025 | event ii
The month ahead...
A new moon waxes, and characters are getting to know one another, whether they like it or not. Kaz has been stealing anything he can get his hands on. Ms. Casey discovered sleep. Mirnatius has been failing to learn new magic. So far, no one has died — though that might just be because Klonoa hasn't made a long enough rope to delve into the mist yet. It's going well.
Post any happenings on the appropriate header below. Letting everyone know what your character is doing gets you bonus points!
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Over your first few weeks here, you become more accustomed to your surroundings. Perhaps you develop routines, fumbling for some semblance of normalcy. Perhaps you don’t, drifting through town as your whims dictate, like a wisp of human fog. Either way, you adjust. What was once strange becomes almost familiar; you know the misty boundaries of your new home almost by heart.
Until they change.
Early one morning, as you begin your second month here, someone knocks on your cabin door. A familiar figure stands on your doorstep – someone you know, someone you trust, someone you miss terribly. They look exactly as you remember them, down to the last, heart-tugging detail. Before you can say anything, they beckon to you and whisper “Follow.” Then they walk away without looking back.
If you don’t follow them, they vanish into the mist, and you begin to wonder if they were truly there at all. But the next time you open your cabin door, there they are again, still smiling and beckoning you to come with them. They won’t let you touch them. They never answer your questions. Their script never changes at all. They simply return again and again, as many times as it takes, until you finally cave and follow their lead.
Once you do, the figure leads you to a narrow path into the eerie, fogbound woods – a path you’ve never seen, in a spot you would swear had been solid, impenetrable forest the day before. Step off the path at any point, and you find yourself walking back into town, dizzy and disoriented as if you’ve been lost for hours. Stay on the path, however, and you will come to a large, circular clearing full of wildflowers. The weather is warmer here, the sky more visible: dull blue by day, and ablaze with constellations by night. At the center of the glade, a well-worn ring of bare dirt surrounds what appears to be an unlit bonfire, the wood carefully arranged and stacked high. Sealed glass jars hang like fruit from the trees at the edges of the glade, their contents murky. If you get close enough to examine or touch them, a visceral wave of revulsion washes over you and drives you back.
The moment you set foot into the glade, the figure who guided you there steps into the trees and vanishes. A single crow swoops out of the woods and flies back toward town, leaving you alone with your new discovery – and with any other characters who may already be there, watching you and your seeming loved one arrive.
☠ If you don’t follow the figure, it will vanish for a while, but will keep coming back to entice you until you give in.
☠ Following the figure will lead you to a glade in the woods, at which point the figure vanishes for good.
☠ Any nearby characters will see the same figure that you see.
Aside from your trip to the newfound glade, going outside becomes far more risky. Every crow in town has turned against you this month, patrolling the cloudy skies in a dark, robotic mob. Buildings are safe, but set foot anywhere outdoors – except, mysteriously, the glade – and the swarm may descend on you without warning, enveloping you in a harsh cyclone of wings and noise. Look closely, and you will notice that every crow is missing its eyes. There are no sockets for them, even. Their faces are an unbroken mass of feathers, as if they had never had eyes at all.
The swarm moves in uncanny unison, as if guided by a single mind. The crows won't peck or claw you without provocation, but they'll happily chase you, block your way, or try to steal anything you happen to be carrying. Harm any of the crows, however, and the rest will immediately become ruthless, tearing at you with beak and claw until you either take refuge indoors or someone else steps in to drive them away. And if the mob does manage to steal from you, good luck getting those items back. The crows will immediately bank off into the forest, carrying their spoils out of your reach. Here’s hoping you didn’t need that for anything important…
Wherever the swarm appears, an astute observer may notice a single, normal crow perched quietly nearby. It never participates; it only watches, its dark eyes glinting as it does.
☠ The crows won’t go inside any of the buildings or into the newly discovered glade, but they can appear at random anywhere else.
☠ If any of the crows are hurt or killed, the rest of the flock will attack you violently until you take shelter indoors or someone else intervenes to help you.
☠ Any items the crows manage to steal are inaccessible for the rest of the month. This includes your cabin key.
Not all of the newfound dangers are so acute. By the start of this month, the food supplies in the gathering hall are nearly exhausted. Luckily, the herbalary offers a solution. Amid the dry, rotting foliage in the garden, wilted green shoots mark the location of ripe potatoes under the soil. The tubers are small and discolored, with a strangely sweetish taste, but they’re edible. You have no choice but to eat them. Not if you want to survive.
If you know anything about agriculture – or can convince someone who knows to teach you how – you can dig up your meals for yourself. If not, you'll need to barter or get creative. Perhaps you can offer to cook or stand guard against the crows while others harvest. Perhaps you can make useful tools to speed the process. Perhaps you do nothing but hope someone else will take pity on you, or you wait to steal from others once they've done all the work. Will you work together, or hoard your own resources? Whatever you do, be sure to do it carefully. Lean times bring out the worst in everyone, and your fellow characters may not be the only ones feeling hunger.
☠ The main food source is now the herbalary garden, which has a bumper crop of potatoes ready to harvest.
☠ You will need to gather potatoes to survive, but how you get them is up to you.
QUESTIONS
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In a similar vein, how long has the fire pit been there?
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MARCH HAPPENINGS
Everyone is stuck together on a tiny mountain town, so everyone knows everything... If something happened publicly, or if your character is being weird enough someone could notice, let everyone know about it here.
Kaz Brekker | Six of Crows
When: halfway through the month
What: Kaz goes missing :( he vanishes, absolutely no sign of him. He’ll he missing for 3 days and then show back up again as though nothing happened with a faint, suspiciously hand shaped burn on his cheek.
Riot | OC
When: Post-exorcism attempt, the night of Kaz's return
What: Riot is inconsolable, touchy, and going steadily off his rocker for the next three days. He's a little lost and deeply worried about something he won't acknowledge on the first day, angry and actively going after crows the second day specifically to interrogate the one with eyes, and on the third day in addition to crow-hunting he will be threatening to burn down the sanctuary, the glade, and the entire surrounding forest down if he doesn't get what he wants back or receive the confrontation he is instigating with the air. He will in fact set a few trees on fire to prove his point.
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Tsar Mirnatius | Spinning Silver
When: The night of Kaz's return
What: Mirnatius has been subjected to a very loud, unsuccessful exorcism! Anyone within earshot may have heard inhuman yelling and smashing, and anyone who approached the cabin to investigate the noise would have heard enough details to figure out what's going on. You might also notice that Mirnatius is conspicuously absent from the gathering hall for the next day and a half, until hunger forces him to venture out in public again.
ms. casey | severance
When: Late March
What: Throughout March, Ms. Casey will stick to an extremely regimented routine of checking the food stores and updating an inventory and ration tracker. Later in the month, after Mirnatius's public demon confession in the community center, she'll abruptly stop doing this, and will instead spend as much time as possible in the glade.
Kaz Brekker | Six of Crows
When: early/mid month
What: Kaz returns to the library when Palamedes and Camilla are not around, attempts to remove the sign-up sheet, gets thrown back by an electric shock twice. The sign-up sheet remains up.
Palamedes Sextus | The Locked Tomb
When: Early in the month
What: Pal put a message on the door of the Common Room asking people to sign up to help with various gardening and food gathering tasks.
Where: Garden/herbalry
When: mid-month, following his conversation with Ademnet
What: Pal has made a couple of spades of solid human bone available to anyone doing gardening. Don't ask where the bone came from unless you're sure you want to know.
Ademnet | OC
Pronouns:she/her
Contact:tzviaariella on Plurk and Discord
Character Name: Ademnet
CR Preferences: I'm here for whatever!
Permissions: Here
General Plans: This is his month to shine, baybee! Ademnet’s been feeling pretty useless this far, but his background as a serf child laborer means he can absolutely harvest potatoes. He’ll be spending nearly all of this month in the herbalary garden working to replenish the communal food stores (though he’ll pocket a few potatoes to stash in his cabin, too) and teaching anyone who wants to learn how.
Outside of that, he's been recruited into Kaz's gang and will attend any meetings they might have. He has also developed
a crush onan interest in Xingchen, so Ademnet will definitely be looking for opportunities to spend time with him this month. You know, for team-building and community service reasons.Event Plans: Ademnet will be violent to the crows at some point, especially if they come after the potatoes. It’s inevitable. If you want your character to rescue him from the consequences of his actions, you’ll get your chance.
The figure who appears to him will be his little sister Elestra; he’ll follow her immediately and without question. I think it would be fun for him to get to spend some time with Ms. Casey in the glade, considering what told her about playing in a clearing in the woods with his siblings back home, but anybody is welcome to interact with him there!
Anything Else: Due to IRL events, I have no idea how much bandwidth for RP I will have between March 7-14. I may die that week. Sorry in advance.
mild severance spoilers
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Tsar Mirnatius | Spinning Silver
Pronouns:she/her
Contact:tzviaariella on Plurk and Discord
Character Name: Mirnatius
CR Preferences: Go wild. Fuck him up.
Permissions: Here
General Plans: This month I would love to throw Mirnatius at the people he hasn't interacted with yet, like Pal and Xingchen. I would also love see his feud with Kaz continue to escalate. Now that he knows Kaz has been skulking around his cabin at night and isn’t afraid to fully break in, Mirnatius would be all too happy to deliberately lure Kaz inside, let the demon devour him, and then pretend to have had no involvement in Kaz's mysterious disappearance. It would make both Mirnatius and the demon a lot happier...until Kaz reappears, at least.
Event Plans: Mirnatius will absolutely not be digging up potatoes. Not a chance. Even if he wanted to help in the herbalary (he does not), Ademnet would immediately find some excuse to send him away. Mirnatius could be persuaded to help in some other way, especially if either Rownan or Ms. Casey is the one to suggest it to him, but he'll do the bare minimum amount of work he can get away with and complain the whole time.
The figure who appears to lead him to the glade will be his late older brother, Karolis. Mirnatius won’t give in and follow until he hears about the glade and the mysterious figures from other people; then he’ll do it at the next opportunity to get it over with quickly, in hopes nobody else will see and ask him about Karolis.
Anything Else: As I said on Ademnet's post, I may be dead the week of March 7-14. Other than that, I have really enjoyed Mirnatius's fucking around so far. What a pity that he’s doomed to find out.
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Re: Tsar Mirnatius | Spinning Silver
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ms. casey | severance
Pronouns: she/they
Contact: catch me in the game discord or moonlanding @ plurk
Character Name: Ms. Casey
CR Preferences: Here for all of it!
Permissions: here
General Plans: Last month, Ms. Casey learned about all sorts of scary new things like "sleeping" and "stale bread" and "getting in the middle of a fight between Tsar Mirnatius and Kaz Brekker." She's going to do her best to finagle her way into both of their good graces, but we'll see how that goes. Other than that, she's continuing to really enjoy being able to do fun new things like going outside and meeting new people, and so I'd love for her to spend some more time with characters she hasn't gotten to know quite as well yet!
Event Plans: Since we saw a decent amount of Mark last month, Ms. Casey will be following Helly, one of her favorite coworkers, into the glade! They'll be going on a mental health walk and Ms. Casey will attempt to introduce Helly to other characters during the walk for as long as Helly's ghost sticks around. In the glade, Ms. Casey will love watching the stars, and will probably ask other people how the stars make them feel. For wellness. She'll also try and fail to bargain with the crows, and they'll eventually take her Lumon pin. Finally, I'm very interested in having her help with the harvest - Ms. Casey will enjoy the work of gardening for reasons she does not understand, and she'll also really like being helpful to others.
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Kaz Brekker | Six of Crows
Pronouns: she/they
Contact: memegod420 on discord
Character Name: Kaz Brekker!
CR Preferences: down to CLOWN!
Permissions: here
General Plans: Kaz is reaping and Kaz is sowing, but only metaphorically. He will be calling a meeting this month for all of his allies-- if he has recruited you to his gang at any point, a team meeting will be happening. He will be continuing to plot vengeance against Mirnatius, continuing to try and recruit new allies (AKA make friends). He'll be looking for creating some kind of system for potato sharing amongst the gang, as well as warning everyone against harming the crows. The gang is available for new membership, if anyone wants to belong somewhere :) (Mirnatius DNI)(but actually do)
Event Plans: The figure who appears for him will be Inej, but considering what he saw in the sanctuary he believes she's not real and will not follow her. Eventually, though, he'll be broken down if only just to make it stop. I mentioned calling a meeting for the gang to discuss some of the event stuff, totally should have said that here instead but what's done cannot be undone. He will be attempting to steal potatoes, but not from anyone he considers an ally. He's miffed that the crows are stealing from him because it's like they don't know they're supposed to be his favorite animal-- very hurtful.
Anything Else: Actually have to work at work again these days. Sad.
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Pronouns: they/them
Contact: mangobot on discord
Character Name: Xingchen
CR Preferences: Anything goes!
Permissions: here.
General Plans: He's living his life as well as he can. He might even be thriving, all things considered. He mostly stays in his own area but comes down to town from time to time for food and company. Wanting to make himself useful, there will always be a pot of his spruce mint tea at the gathering hall whenever he comes to town, or for whoever comes to visit him in his cabin. He's so deeply lonely. Everything is fine. (It would be great for him to get to know more people that he hasn't really interacted with much yet!)
Event Plans: Xingchen will happily try to help with the potatoes, if not with the actual farming, at least by standing guard. The crows will constantly target his blindfold. And probably get it at some point.
Song Lan (Zichen), Xingchen's former cultivation partner, will be the one he follows to the glade. The first time he makes it there will be at night, and he'll only usually go at night from then on.
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Palamedes Sextus | The Locked Tomb
Pronouns: she/her
Contact: historein on plurk!
Character Name: Palamedes Sextus
CR Preferences: Anything and everything! Pal is a weird nerd guy who will probably try to get into your business, and I welcome everyone to respond accordingly.
Permissions: yoink
General Plans: Pal has spent the last month trying to get the lay of the land! Your character probably saw him wandering around taking notes on everything he sees. By now he has pretty thoroughly mapped the town and gotten a sense of its age using his pyschometric powers. While he has been polite with anyone he comes across, he hasn't spent a lot of time seeking people out. He has almost always been in the company of a young woman who looks like she'll murder you if you look at him funny (spoilers: she will).
His surveying will definitely continue, but he will start to more actively branch out to meet people, especially as surviving gets gnarly.
Event Plans:
Will-o'-the-wisp - Woo, more exploring! Pal will follow Pyrrha into the fog, which I'm sure will delight Cam. He'll be very interested in exploring the meadow and will do his best to examine the jars and figure out what's in them.
Fruit of the soil - While Pal has no gardening skills, he is extremely good at putting together a chore sheet, because that's what happens when you've been running a small nation state since you were 13 years old. Thus, he will be posting a sign-up sheet in the community center, asking people to volunteer to collect potatoes, cook them, look for other food, etc. Unless your character is very good at hiding, he will almost definitely approach them and ask them to sign up for a task.
Anything Else: Real life is kicking my ass right now, but I'm hoping to devote more time to the game this month!
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big time severance spoilers from 3 days ago
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Fidelio Magnus | Metaphor: ReFantazio
Pronouns: he/they
Contact: specterthief on discord or specterthieving on plurk
Character Name: Fidelio Magnus
CR Preferences: down for whatever!
Permissions: here
General Plans: He's going to be spending a lot of time trying to keep on top of the food situation, which means he's probably going to be spending a good amount of time around anyone else who's in the herbalary, both to help with the potatoes and to try and pocket some to get by with himself. He'll also probably be on people's asses to try and stretch what few resources are left in the gathering hall as long as possible and find other food, so I think he might naturally end up coordinating with Pal on managing the chore sheet. He's going to be keeping an especially close eye on Klonoa, Ademnet and Kaz, who have all (in various ways), registered as "kids who need someone looking out for them", so I'm hoping to build some CR with the other characters who've been around them too.
Event Plans: Without an igniter, Fidelio isn't going to try and pick a fight with the crows unless it's in immediate defense of someone else who can't take care of themself (everyone is free to do with this information what they will.)
To shake things up a bit, the figure leading him into the glade will be Junah – he'll be a grouch about it the whole way but follow her immediately just in case, because running into dangerous situations on a whim and expecting him to run along and watch her back is too in-character for her to risk it. He is going to be extremely distrustful of the general vibes of the glade once he's been there and probably reluctant to return.
Anything Else: i've been a bit generally frazzled but hoping to get back on track!
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Rownan | OC
Pronouns: they/them
Contact: crow47
Character Name: Rownan Gloomstrider
Permissions: permissions
General Plans: Rownan gave herself a slight hemorrhage attempting to poke at Mirnatius's parasite last month. Part of her schtick is an inability to heal without dramatic intervention, but who knows how this place would react to that, so until Kaz turns up, she'll be getting progressively sicker and more exhausted all month. It's fine.
Part of Rownan's job back home is dealing with malicious spirits playing at possession, so she immediately took an interest in whatever the fuck is going on with Mirnatius. Now that his demon has eaten Kaz, she (and Riot) are going to feel emboldened to attempt an exorcism of sorts. Probably not going to go well.
Event Plans: Rownan's figure to be followed will be Trouble, the missing third of her team. She'll be spending every night meditating in the grove this month after she follows not-Trouble there.
Rownan doesn't eat, so she'll be out of the way of the food hoarding drama.
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Riot | OC
Pronouns: they/them
Contact: discord & plurk: mangobot
Character Name: Riot
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General Plans: Riot is affected by the Rownan's hemorrhage also, in a brain-stabby sensation sort of way, and it give him a headache. He'll be a little cranky because of this. He will generally just be hanging around town when he's not around her, not really being a menace but not being particularly helpful. Shows up to look pretty. He does as he pleases. This means nothing but getting his nose into other people's business for now.
Riot is going to do whatever Rownan says in regards to Mirnatius (and in general) because he's her attack dog. And it'll be the perfect excuse to finally let loose.
Event Plans: Similar to Rownan, his glade phantom will be Trouble. He's not likely to spend much time in the glade other than to find Rownan and talk to her there. Maybe he'll help with the potatoes sometimes, when the mood strikes. The crows are a minor nuisance to him but he doesn't try to provoke them, because he doesn't feel like getting pecked at.
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