kaisouooc | February Plotting and CR Post

February Plotting & CR Post

Hello everyone! It's time for the announcement and plotting post for February!

OOC Housekeeping

The Zodiac Network Post will go up February 1st, with a midmonth post going up February 15th. The game wide event log will go up February 4th.
If you haven't already, please remember to check in for activity! Activity is due by the end of the month.
Just a reminder for anyone who hasn't joined yet, but we have a game discord for current players! It's completely optional to join, but come in and say hi!

World Changes

Bulbasaurs are now native to Kaisou!
Persephone's Cottage now resides in town.
Cthonic Companions can now be bought in stores
Spelldrive is now a popular sport!
Tanaka's Amazing Commodities now airs every Sunday morning.
Nyan Cat can be seen flying across the sky on the night of the new moon.

More details about world changes can be found on the World Changes page.

Side quests
New Side Quests have been added for the month of February! Go ahead and sign up! If you haven't turned in quests for January gacha points, you can still do so until the end of the month! However, signing up for any January quests is now closed.

Town Events
The coldest part of winter is over. While there's still another month left of the season, the fire element in the air will make the temperatures much more bearable. Still cold enough to cuddle up with your valentine under the blankets though.

Speaking of Valentine's, leading up to the holidays characters can get valentine's cards with written confessions of feelings from other characters in their mail, done in their handwriting despite them having know memory of ever writing such a card (thanks Cupid). These confessions can be truthful or fictitious, and share more feelings than just romantic ones! Of course, please make sure you have player permission before you plan out the arrival of a valentine day card.

Gate Event: The Constant
This month's spirit realm will be based on Don't Starve, the survival horror game. Participating characters will find themselves trapped in the Don't Starve world for an IC week (though for people within the realm it'll feel like 2 weeks), where they must fend for themselves and not try to get killed by the many many dangerous things that reside there. Should a character perish in this world, they will turn into a ghost and get resurrected the next day within the realm- with no long term penalties. You can even die multiple times if you want!

And if things weren't difficult enough, Fern's demonic patron the Grass Demon will be taking the chance to possess other people while they are stuck within the Don't Starve world, causing them to grow plant stuff on their body and also become much more violent! Because things just weren't bad enough!

Black Order Characters will be privately receiving orders to neutralize the Grass Demon threat. How they choose to go about this mission is up to them. Though anyone, Black Order or otherwise, who decide to resolve this by killing Fern should plot it out with Fern's player Pan beforehand! ETA: If you play a BO member and wish to opt out of the plot, that's okay! We'll just say your character is patrolling the city or something.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS HORROR IN NATURE. This means there's going to be a lot of horror-tropes present throughout the plot (like spiders) as well as a lot of violence and death. If that's not your cup of tea, feel free to sit this plot out. Also due to the very high mortality rate this plot potentially has, characters who are 13 and younger will not be allowed to participate in this Spirit Realm, while characters who are 14-15 years of age will still require a chaperone.

Plotting Comment
Feel free to use this form below to set up any plotting for the month!

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Player Name: TF
Contact:

teeff, teefflady#2361 or PM
Time zone: GMT

Character Name: Varian
Canon: Tangled
Type: OU
About: Reformed villain, alchemist, salty teenager. In Kaisou, he's also a werewolf and has earth elemental powers. Blew up his apartment in January and is currently going through the consequences of that.
Event Plans: I'm totally down for some Valentine's card shenanigans, hit me up and let me know what you wanna do and we can have some messages bouncing around! He'll end up being dragged into the spirt realm and probably have a really bad time trying to Not Die. There's a good chance he'll get possessed by the boyfriend's demon for a little while, too- though I'm still trying to decide how he'll get himself cured on that one.
Anything else? Following the apartment explosion, Varian will start working for (and working out how to internally sabotage) Zodiac in February. He'll not be speaking about this openly but he won't be around as often as he usually is after school this month. He'll be very evasive if anyone asks him about it, but his being around less is something his CR is welcome to notice! There'll be a post about that entire plotline at the end of March.

I think Varian getting one from Will is possible! Definitely not a romantic one, but it'll still be heartfelt. Even if he doesn't remember writing it.

I also think Will is going to most likely ask Varian about not seeing him around too often. :|a He trusts Varian. He just wants to make sure he's not getting into something too dangerous.

Heck yes, palentines are totally legit!! Will would definitely get a platonic one back from him.

That's totally fair! He'll end up looking even more sketch by being super evasive about where he's going. Will is welcome to find him sus as all hell for it.

PALENTINE'S omg I love that.

Will's gonna be like, "you're more sus than Nico trying to hide that something's bothering him. 8|"

Right!

And lo the similarities between Varian and Nico continue. Sorry Will, enjoy the increased stress levels.

Yeah, Danny's definitely going to notice and ask.

Also time to try and keep friends from dying. You guys don't make it easy.

Yes good! Even Danny will get weird evasive answers to all his questions - probably not what you wanna hear from a guy who blew his apartment up a few weeks ago.

Sorry, buddy, at least he didn't MEAN to go into the spirit realm this time!!!