kaisouooc | March Plotting & CR Post

March Plotting & CR Post

March Plotting & CR Post

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

OOC Housekeeping

The Zodiac Network Post will go up March 1st, with a midmonth post going up March 15th. The game wide event log will go up March 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!
If you're interested in having your character potentially get a Persona-style dungeon in the April plot, there's still time to sign up! Sign up will be open until March 1st.

World Changes

The Camp Half-blood Climbing Wall can be found outside of Kaisou High. Watch out for lava!

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

Town Events
Winter is almost over with the season slowly turning into spring throughout the month of March. Characters can look forward to warmer weather as they begin to move into spring activities either at school or around the city.

In honor of St. Patricks Day's, leprechaun rainbows will be appearing all over the city. Should you follow one of these rainbows, there will be a pot full of golden salmon. Consuming or spending a good amount of time around these salmon will cause characters to be able to unlock memories of an AU life (or in the AU cases, another AU) of the player's choosing. These AUs can be canonical AUs, in-depth AUs that you've developed, or honestly just weird gags like an AU where everyone is a rock with googly eyes. They can either gain snippets of these memories or more details. The only limitation we ask is that for OU characters you don't use an AU that'd spoil major plot plots past your current canon point. Otherwise, it's all fair game.

Gate Event: Tír na nóg
This month's spirit realm will be based on Celtic mythology! The Fae who visited last March has returned, but with a whole new set of problems. Since last year, the Fae Court has experienced a rift between Seelie and Unseelie Fae, which has culminated in the Seelie Fae deciding to move into Kaisou and take over Blue Fish Lake Park. Characters will have to deal with these new, very unwelcomed guests and either attempt to befriend them to get information - or do something to cross them and get cursed.

On top of that, characters will have the ability to visit Tír na nóg to deal with the Unseelie Court as well as a whole host of other dangers that are now running free from within that realm.

Thanks to the Fae's presence and penchant for cursing people, players can get up to 3 monster transformation regains for free during the course of the month with the IC explanation that they crossed the fae. These free regains do not count towards your monthly cap of monster transformations, so characters can potentially buy 5-6 monster regains this month. In addition, this is the only month where you have the option to double up on monster type. So if you were hoping to get a chance to play as a dragon-demon or a winged-unicorn types- now is your chance!

To redeem any monster changes, free or otherwise, please be sure to comment to the regain post so mods can keep track of it.

As for the two factions. POKEGO will receive orders requesting they try to get to know the Fae and learn more about them, while the Black Order will be given an order requesting that they find a way to get the Fae to go back to their realm. As always, what characters decide to do with these orders are up to you!

ETA: Just a couple quick notes since these questions have come up a few times.

Monster types that are behind an element lock still require characters of that element in order to be it. Only shadow characters can be shade, only water characters can be selkies, etc.

If you get a second monster type this month, you can still purchase regains for it later on after this event! You just can't sign up for a second monster type after this event.

Since many monsters have countless variations to them, if there is a monster trait you want your character to have that is not on the Obtainable Trait list, please comment to the regain post with linked evidence that it's a trait associated with said monster and the mod team will figure out if it's obtainable in Kaisou and it's point value. For example if you want your vampire to turn into mist, you'd need to link evidence of it being used in a vampire story such as Dracula.

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

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Character Name: Will Solace
Canon: Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Type: OU
About: He's just a good boy combat medic / healer son of Apollo. Will doesn't have trauma and issues, nope. He's fine.
Event Plans: I may be tagging out with Will and take it easy on him this month! He's also lowkey (or highkey, depending) worried about his friends, so he's leaning more into his skill at being support for March. Will is also pretty sure that interacting with the fae will be... a poor decision on his part.

Character Name: Yuri Leclerc
Canon: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Type: Paranormal AU
About: The Kaisou High drama teacher and former Broadway actor! Also werewolf.
Event Plans: It's so tempting to have him cursed by an Unseelie fae and have him be a lil bit of a vampire. Vampire-werewolf, wondering if he has to fight himself or if this is like those people who like both cats and dogs.

Character Name: Jusis Albarea
Canon: Trails of Cold Steel
Type: Black Order AU
About: Prosecuting attorney attached to the Kaisou police department, and son of a major corporation's CEO headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Event Plans: Yeaaaah, gonna make this man run afoul of the Unseelie and get him cursed with Bird. So that he can be an alicorn later. He'll hate it. He'll hate it so much.

Character Name: Sorey
Canon: Tales of Zestiria
Type: POKEGO AU
About: Psychologist, Kaisou's newest resident therapist
Event Plans: Definitely going to have Sorey get cursed on accident and double-down on the dragon because damn. Gacha really came at me and I'm fully committed to it.

Anything else? FOR THOSE WHO WANT SOREY AS THEIR CHARACTER'S THERAPIST - just let me know if there are any sessions you want/need to thread out with him! The majority will 100% be handwaved. I'm more than happy to hash out what the session looks like and figure out how much progress is made or if the character had a backslide, since it's definitely not a linear thing.

Edited 2023-02-25 16:57 (UTC)

SO AUGUST is defs going to be poking Sorey at some point, both because frankly his stress levels are spiking because of Things Will Got On To Him For and also because look his mom was trapped in the spirit realm for most of his life and she's back and this is fucking him up more than he thought it would???

omg, August... Sorey will be happy to help! He's made it public knowledge that he's doing sessions for Libra users for free, and he's got a flexible enough schedule to fit it around August's.

that's rough my guy dang

look if Sorey had shown up before they got his mom out of hell, August would be talking to him about maybe thinking his mom was in the spirit realm was just his way for handling the fact she left him when he was like

six months old to go and get his dad out of hell

HE IS WELL AWARE HE HAS SOME ISSUES OKAY

B R O...

at least August recognizes he has issues. that makes it easier. and harder in some ways, but!!! Sorey's here to help you, birdman!

Given that Will is gonna get Varian's Tragic Backstory very soon, to save you having to sit through that TWICE, I'm happy for us to handwave Sorey getting it at some point. Varian will probably edge around it for the first month or so before opening it up like a horrific pandora's box.

That works for me! Sorey's first session or two is mostly going to be a 'get to know you' thing so that they can make sure that he's compatible as a therapist for Varian. And so Sorey can do some Research into those science fields that Varian likes to use as potential metaphors or examples.

Heck yes, that would be perfect. Get to him by speaking his nerdy language!

They'll be Huge Nerds while also working on Varian's mental health! Win-win. :3

Definitely throwing Isa at Sorey for therapy sessions due to relatives disappearing from Kaisou and ho boy she is probably going to break down into tears from all that trauma.

He'll have tissues waiting for her, and he's got some soft things in his office to hug if she needs those as well!

Gee thanks. She will appreciate the understanding and the tissues and any plushies that he has in the office.

Not a therapy session per se but we can handwave more self defense training w/ Yuri and Amal if you still want it (I genuinely forgot, sorry), and also some wind magic training/studying with Amal and Sorey? Amal only has the one wind power to boost his speed though so I imagine he'll mostly be like... a personal cheerleader until he gets more magic to help out, lol. He can show Sorey the stuff he knows as a paladin though.

And you know Mikleo & Sorey are gonna be gay as fuck so I won't even bother elaborating.

If Jusis shows up on the network publicly Zero will jump him. Because I like to cause problems.

Edited (sry for edits) 2023-02-25 20:48 (UTC)

Oh hell yes! Yuri greatly appreciates the lessons and he's keeping up with Amal as best he can. Sorey's got Zeus Lightning, so he'll appreciate having someone in his corner as he learns to more finely control it! The more formal sword training will also be appreciated since he's kinda... had to use OU Sorey's style and hasn't really practiced it on his own too much.

god they're gonna be so gay it'll embarrass the entire city

YES I need to figure out a network post! Probably asking people to try their best to NOT provoke Black Order members since... uh... some of them do be Unstable.

blesssssss he is happy to help in both cases! though it's especially funny considering Amal trained his swordwork with Thancred-- HOPE THE BOY IS READY TO LEARN HOW TO FIGHT DIRTY. (and a little showboaty, owing to gladiator.)

Zero: *reads this*
Zero: fuck it we ball

IF IT KEEPS HIM ALIVE, SOREY'S HAPPY TO FIGHT DIRTY tho he'll probably cut all the showboating just bc it's Sorey

Jusis: Why do I hear boss music?

points at eyes

points at you

aside from me wanting to poke jusis again tho luc is still gonna be keeping an eye on sorey cause as comparatively nice as he was he meant what he said about the no trust but mostly I just want him to stare the option of therapy in the face since takame would be more like. Passively aggro.

speaking of takame though I do want to throw him more at any of your dudes even tho gestures at sorey pokego sorry dude

Sorey has already pegged Diluc as having general Trust Issues it's fine. Also HECK YES I encourage any and all poking of the Jusis

listen Sorey's fine with aggro given /gestures at Amal/ and I mean, how can you stay angy at this face? he has literally 7 or 8 sparkly icons

BUT for real they'll all welcome the big lizard man ;o;

HE'S GOT YOUR NUMBER JUSIS. ~~it was online from googling your office or something~~

wow sorey you didn't have to be capable of reading the basic trust issues vibe diluc has written all over his composure to anyone with empathy /sweats bullets

and to be fair takame will be considerably less aggro if he gets the "it's fine this dude is nice" vibe from someone like raha but even if not sorey i also wanna poke will some more takame worries about him even if they've only talked a lil

I MEAN YOU FUCKING BETTER IT'S ONLINE

gosh I know, right? it was so hard to peel back the layers to find that one LOL

Y E S pls, Takame, Will is happy to have more people to fuss over him even if he might grumble a tiny bit. and it's fine Sorey will gently sunshine at Takame no matter what because this bitch is Like That

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