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etrayalogs2024-06-06 11:43 pm
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Entry tags:
- !mission log,
- a certain magical index: accelerator,
- baldurs gate: shadowheart,
- detroit become human: connor,
- mcu: peter parker,
- my hero academia: izuku midoriya,
- my hero academia: katsuki bakugo,
- the untamed: xue yang,
- the walking dead: brandon carver,
- xmcu: laura,
- ✘ avatar the last airbender | aang,
- ✘ avatar the last airbender | sokka,
- ✘ blue eye samurai | mizu,
- ✘ dceu | clark kent,
- ✘ dctv | dick grayson,
- ✘ final fantasy vii | aerith gainsboroug,
- ✘ final fantasy vii | vincent valentine,
- ✘ hazbin hotel | angel dust,
- ✘ marvel comics | sharon carter,
- ✘ mcu | natasha romanoff,
- ✘ mcu | steve rogers,
- ✘ scream | sam carpenter,
- ✘ star wars | padmé amidala,
- ✘ the 100 | clarke griffin,
- ✘ worm: francis krouse
MISSION 003
WHO: Everyone and their plushies!
WHEN: June 7th to 25th
WHERE: Everywhere
WHAT: The third Mission
NOTES\WARNINGS: Violence against cute inanimate objects, nightmares, psychological horror, potential death and injury. Please add additional warnings as needed within threads.
WHEN: June 7th to 25th
WHERE: Everywhere
WHAT: The third Mission
NOTES\WARNINGS: Violence against cute inanimate objects, nightmares, psychological horror, potential death and injury. Please add additional warnings as needed within threads.
 ⏵ care bear delivery⏴ Last week all characters received one of two possible messages informing them about this month’s mission; some people received a message informing them about the plushie delivery and letting them know they are to protect it. While others were informed that the plushies must be destroyed starting on June 14th, as any ones remaining after June 20th will cause untold destruction upon the city and its inhabitants. Those who received the second message will find themselves unable to share it with other people. As promised, on the morning of June 7th, all characters receive a delivery from the companion bots: one stuffed animal plushie handed directly to them. The shape of the plushie differs between characters, but their size is somewhat consistent; they’re all bigger than a fist and small enough to be carried around. The plushies are magical in nature. Those who fall asleep with their plushies in the same room will find that they will not experience any nightmares and awaken feeling refreshed, even if they only sleep a few hours, or sleep in twenty-minute intervals (looking at you, Bats) rather than go for a full night's sleep. If they lock the plushies away, they will still experience some relief, but it won't nearly as much. Those experiencing intense feelings of guilt, sorrow, homesickness, fear, or pain will find that they still feel those emotions, but with significantly less intensity than they may usually have. Stressors are less stressful, and overall, it seems like the plushies and their magical properties are trying to help. It's as if something else is helping to carry the weight of that suffering. However, characters will also become more attached and protective of their plushies the longer they have them.  ⏵ teddy tailor⏴ After receiving their plushies, citizens of Etraya will find a new, colorful addition to the first level of the hospital, where one might expect to see a gift store, decorated with various tiny outfits. Those who wander inside will find that the place is not a store, but a tailor’s workshop. The companion bots manning it will happily guide people through the steps to make an outfit for their plushie. All kinds of fabrics and patterns can be found throughout the workshop, and a few sewing machines are set up for their use. The companion bots will not physically help, but perhaps other citizens coming in can assist. After all, all those new plushie friends deserve a special outfit.  ⏵ tea party⏴ Before the end of the week, citizens will receive an invitation to a Tea Party taking place at Ramsey Farms. Attendance is not mandatory, but the last several days have been nice, haven't they? Surely everyone is feeling like having some tea and scones. The farm is set up with various tables and tea sets. All tables have exactly four seats and are meant to be occupied by two citizens and their respective plushies. Once seated, citizens may feel compelled to share how their plushie has been helping them these past few days, perhaps they might even get specific about their fears and traumas.  ⏵ seek & destroy⏴ As the first week wraps up, citizens receive one more invitation, this one to participate in a game of Hide & Seek with their plushies. Those who received the message to protect their plushies will be told to hide, while those tasked with destroying the plushies will be the seekers. The game will take place over the morning of June 16th; by then, people may feel fairly protective of their plushies. No information is provided regarding prizes or winning parameters and Aurora will not answer questions pertaining to the game. But hey, the tea party went so well; surely, this will be fun too. Once a plushie is destroyed, all of those negative feelings that had been suppressed will return to characters. For those who only had their plushie for a week, they'll feel those emotions more intensely, but it won't be as terrible to lose it. The longer they have had the plushie, the more emotions it absorbs, and the more backlash they'll receive when it's destroyed. Characters with intense night terrors may immediately fall asleep once the plushie is destroyed, throwing them into one of the worst night terrors they have experienced. Characters cannot destroy their own plushies. Those who receive the message to destroy them are welcome to ask other people to destroy it for them, but if they attempt to explain their reasoning, they'll find themselves losing their train of thought or otherwise unable to explain Aurora's mission. As stated in Aurora's second mission, any plushies that have not been destroyed by the 20th will become a problem all of its own. The exception to this is if Wade Wilson dresses a plushie in the outfit he had received for it. This outfit will both lower the amount of emotions the plushie absorbs, and slow down its transformation.  ⏵ cadaver consolations ⏴ And they do transform. After thirteen days of absorbing negative emotions and taking on nightmares for others, the plushies become something so much more than just plushies. Instead of being soft, huggable items meant to assist in lowering stressors, they take on aspects of those stressors. Perhaps your worst nightmare involves watching your loved ones burn to death - your plushie is no longer a cute little teddy bear but is instead the shape of what had once been your mother, burned and singed almost beyond recognizable if it wasn't for her voice calling out to you, telling you that you did this to her as she chases you down. Perhaps you've been feeling guilty for how things went down in the Labyrinth, and the plushie takes on the shape of a friend who had fallen to save you, whispering into your ear about how it is your fault, you did this to them. From the 20th through the 25th, these plushies remain corporeal. While they may not look soft and fluffy, it's possible to find threads hanging off their bodies. Yanking on these threads will cause them to fall apart, thus destroying the nightmarish creature intent on following its owner to their death. After the twenty-fifth, they will no longer be corporeal and cannot be destroyed through traditional methods. Instead, player characters will need to pull aspects of their fear out of the mangled creature. Perhaps the creature is carrying a replica of a treasured necklace that needs to be yanked off it, or its chest has been torn open, its heart hanging loose for those around it to grab hold of. The character responsible for the plushie will need to devour their fears, which will cause the creature to unravel piece by piece. How this looks is wholly up to you, as is how far your character's nightmarish creature gets. Whether it's devour in a literal sense, or if it's overcoming their fear by destroying it or overcoming it - the extent of how messy this gets is up to each player, as is how messy their plushie gets. The soothing nature of the plushies is magical. They are magically charmed to absorb negative energies and contain them. Characters who can sense magic of this nature are free to notice this. Those warded from being affected by others' magic may also find that their plushies are not effective for them. This can be played to players' preference; maybe the plushies can work around the wards, but maybe they cannot. When a character’s plushie is destroyed, the character will feel the full hit of all the emotions it had been holding for them, if a character's plushie survives past June 20th it will transform into a monster, if it survives past the 25th it becomes much harder (and traumatizing) to destroy. They will need to be destroyed, as the plushies will not disappear on their own regardless of how long they're around. Any questions can be directed to the mod queries thread in the plotting post |
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Hey, Cas. You okay?
[ 'Okay' is subjective right now, but he's tired and low on fucks to give. ]
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[Having to slaughter countless stuffed animals wasn't something he'd ever expected he'd do but here he was, covered in seams and stuffing staring at Dean like he was a beacon of light.
There's no mistaking the look of anguish that hangs heavy on him like a cloak, but he disregards it instead by closing thee distance between them so that he can bring Dean into his arms for a solid hug.]
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[ Dean is pale, stuffing on his clothes, possibly from his own soft plush, his hair mussed. The weight the little stuffed toy had lifted came crashing back down, shoving him back into the pits of hell, all of his failures and mistakes and regrets haunting every waking though them following him into his dreams.
Even this hellscspe mission is his fault
He’s barely functioning and the only reason he’s really standing is a dead giveaway by the liquor on his breath.
Dean isn’t expecting the hug but there’s no pushing the angel away. He needs it, despite how it pains him to admit it (even to himself). But he does, desperately, and he leans into the embrace, locking his arms around Cas’ sturdy form. ]
It’s gonna be okay. [ Ever the mother hen, he’s more worried about Cas. ]
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Seeing Dean worn down like this, pale and harrowed, strikes a cord within him. That, combined with the blade in his hand and the willingness of his body to receive consolation are all cause for concern.]
If you say so.
[Castiel knows Dean well enough to know that even though those four words are directed at him, they're also directed inward at himself. So, he nods, and pulls away from the hug to get a good look at the hunter in his charge.]
I wasn't aware you had the blade.
[Not until he chose to brandish it, that sent out a pulse too loud to ignore. An omen from heaven that made clear what it was and who was wielding it.]
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Dean leans harder into Cas briefly, taking a moment before he too pulls away, claps a hand on Cas' shoulder with a shaky smile. It's fine. He's not traumatized, this to shall pass. ]
Oh, uh - found it in the bunker. Weird, right? Ton of weapons but most of them are plastic, like cosplay stuff. But I'd say about...ten percent is real.
[ And lucky them, the Blade is one.
Maybe.
He's out of his ✨ demon era ✨ now, so everyone should be safe from that, at the very least. There's no Mark on his arm, no bloodlust in his eyes. Just sadness and regret and exhaustion, but that's nothing new. ]
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Based on what he's already been through he's willing to bet it'll be the former before the latter. He's learned to roll with these kinds of things working alongside Dean. After rebelling, the security and normalcy the host provided to him was something he lost during the fall.
It's not something he's ever mentioned, but finding refuge in the chaos and disorder of Dean Winchester's life was not a simple task. It was made easier to endure by his presence alone.
Dean's willingness to embrace is something Castiel languishes in, not often on the receiving end of it, and when their bodies part he feels impossibly cold. Their harsh reality and the weight of it once again felt poignant.]
You'll have to take me through the bunker when you have time. What about the files? And your dungeon? How much if it is merely a replica and how much is true to memory?
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Surprised you haven't been there yet. You got a room there, you know - if you want it. [ He hopes Cas does, the place is kinda lonely without him or Sam. ] It's pretty true to form, but the files are mostly blank and I'd say about 90% of the weapons are like pool noodles.
[ Boring. ]
But the other 10% work. [ HE holds up the blade. ] Like this bad boy.
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His look of scrutiny disappears and is replaced by a prominent frown and a knit brow.]
I apologize. I was looking for a way back home, and when that failed doing my best to find resources that could lead to such a resolution. Unremarkably, I failed.
[Castiel regards the first blade with the same amount of contempt he had originally shown the mark when Dean had made the deal to inherit it.] Thank you for the invitation. I think I will.
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[ He pats Cas’ shoulder and smiles, slipping the blade into a sheath on his hip, hiding it from Cas’ line of sight. There’s a lot of bad memories associated with it, but it’s a very good weapon to have on hand. ]
Lets go. I’ll give you a ride.