March Plotting & CR Post

[kaisoumods]

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. An event log will be posted on March 4th.
• If you haven't already, please remember to check in for activity! Activity is due by the end of the month!
• For anyone whose obtained a Vision through gacha goodwill, a guide on how to use them has been written up!
• 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

• The TM Thunderfang is now available for eligible pokemon!
• The Krusty Krab can be found in the bottom of Kaisou's harbor off the beach.
• Spirit Trees can now be found around Cathedral Hill

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

Side quests
Side quests for March are now available! February quests are now no longer available to sign up for, but you can redeem quest logs for gacha points.

POKEGO Update
POKEGO had a productive month, between helping the Black Order resolve the Love potion fiasco and also helping out with Cupid. For the month of March, they've been requested in assisting with the Fae and try to further research that.... special culture.

As always, you can check out updates to the PICHU facility here and information about Cygnus Academy here.

Black Order Update
Black Order has had an eventful month! After sealing a nefarious love potion maker, the potion maker met an unfortunate accident at the hands of Ardyn. Oh no. So sad. Meanwhile, the Zealot Teresa made her presence known in Kaisou... much to the joy of everyone.

This month, the Black Order will be tasked with doing what they can to make sure the Fae stay in their realm and resolving whatever new issue they have now. Not only that but sometime during this month, the dead body of Teresa will be making an appearance. Stay tune!

City Events
Spring time is here in Kaisou. To mark the arrival of spring, there will be celebrations for St. David's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and the Equinox. The Equinox in particular will have a festival in Blue Fish Lake Park where there will be various shrines to nature and spring deities set up. If you happen to know any, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to set one up...

Otherwise, March marks the month of Easter! To celebrate, there will be an easter egg hunt! Unfortunately someone's gotten a little too zealous and enchanted the eggs to have lil legs. Oops!

Free Monster Changes
March has become our monster month, and so the tradition continues! Starting now and ending March 31st, every character is eligible for 3 free monster changes*. There is no maximum point value on these changes, and you can also unlock a second monster type free of charge for the month. We have recently overhauled and added more monster changes to be purchased, so please check those out!

Any free monster changes should be redeemed through the regain post. Thanks!

* God-related regains are not eligible for free regains

Spirit Realm Event: Tír na nóg
Along with the free monster changes, comes our very favorite pains in the asses- that's right, the fae are back! This year, the Fae have decided to settle their differences by holding the Fae Olympics .... which basically means they'll be kidnapping/strongarming people into competing into various dangerous competitions for them.

Characters will be sorted into two teams: Characters who are Fire, Earth or Light element will be on Team Seelie and be given light colored cottagecore uniforms. Meanwhile characters who are Water, Wind or Shadow element will be Team Unseelie and dress like a bunch of goths. Characters who don't have an element will get their team chosen via coinflip.

These competitions include:

• A Dance competition (with ribbons)
• A marathon
• A duel between libra app users

Characters who partake in this plot will be expected to compete in at least ONE of these competitions (but are welcome to compete in all of them!). As for the duel, these will be 1v1 or 2v2 duels in which characters will face off against each other in fights where they will be allowed all their powers and weapons. There will be healers around (either fae or player-characters), but if you go so hard you kill each other... the death permission post is here.

Players are welcomed to decide amongst themselves which characters are dueling and can duel as many times as they like. For anyone who threads out a duel, they can turn in the thread to the regain post and gain a free regain that's worth 3 points or less from an element different from their own. Threads must contain at least 3 comments from your character, and you can only turn in one thread per character for a free regain.

The free regain offer is open to any character that participates in the duel, regardless of who wins or loses. There are no rewards to winning, so we ask that everyone please handle this part of the plot in a calm and mature manner. If you need help deciding who will win/lose your match, please comment below and the mods will happily do a coin toss.

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

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Time zone:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Type:</b> (Normal AU, Paranormal AU, OU) <b>About:</b> Tell us about the character! <b>Event Plans:</b> <b>Anything else?</b>

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Comments

QUESTIONS

[kaisoumods]

Got a question about the plot? Ask them here!

If you're a character without an element that needs a team sign up, comment here as well!

DUEL DECIDERS

[kaisoumods]

If you have found your duel partners and want the mods to decide the winners of the match via cointoss, please comment here!

DUEL PARTNER FINDERS

[kaisoumods]

Looking for someone to duel? Please fill out this form!

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Team:</b> Are they seelie or unseelie? Please note that characters will be allowed to fight people on the same team as them. <b>Character Fighting Abilities:</b> Give a rough overview of what your character can do. <b>How your character will approach the fight:</b> Will your character hold back or go all out? <b>Fight Difficulty:</b> Scale your character on a 1-10 scale of how difficult a fight they'd be. 1 means they are a small fry who can't throw a punch, while 10 means you're fighting a god. <b>Looking for 1v1 or 2v2?</b> Which fight style is your preference! <b>Anything else:</b> If there's anything else you feel is relevant, add it here!

[prunedworlds]

Player Name: AC
Contact: PM my character journals or message Altocumulus on discord!
Time zone: Central US

Character Name: Ritsuka Fujimaru
Canon: Fate/Grand Order
Type: OU
About: Cheerful, friendly, outgoing, and packed with way more trauma under the surface than anyone her age ought to. Apparently that's what happens when you spend 3+ years saving the world from various threats instead of going to high school. Is in the process of slowly working through some of her bigger issues.
Event Plans: Ritsuka, being Ritsuka, honestly needs very, very little encouragement to be talked into helping out, so she will almost certainly be taking part in at least some of the competitions! I'm definitely not opposed to her getting forced into a duel, either, regardless of power level of her opponent, but that would obviously need to be something to be discussed a bit! Other than that she's almost certainly gonna get stuck with more monster stuff because I'm mean, I just don't know WHAT yet.


Character Name: Beredvyn of Nal (aka Meredith Nelson)
Canon: original character
Type: Normal AU
About: Midwestern gal who likes sports and swordfighting and was working on getting her career off the ground when a weird app showed up on her phone. Things have only gotten weirder since, and she's distinctly less than thrilled about it. Has a 'pet' griffin and is currently living with her cousin Lucy, who she recently learned is possessed. Fun.
Event Plans: She really doesn't WANT to get involved with more magical bs, which means she's likely going to end up forced into it anyway. She would, if we're being honest, actually enjoy a duel, especially with someone on a similar or slightly stronger power level! Other than that she is very interested in learning more about how possessions work and how to free someone from them for the sake of helping her cousin, so that's a thing too.


Anything else?
I'm technically still on vacation for the next week so my tags and responses to things are more sporadic than usual but I'm very much down to plot stuff!

[poisontippedcure]

Player Name: Jade
Contact: Bronnichiwa @ Discord
Time zone: EST

[sunforging]

Player Name: Nao
Contact: seer0ftime @ discord
Time zone: EST

Mari and her ‘Idiots’

[senorita_perfecta]

Player Name: Mari
Contact: mariscorner, mariscorner on Discord
Time zone: PhST

Character Name: Isabela Madrigal
Canon: Encanto
Type: OU
About: Ex golden child turned unhinged plant lady who currently works at a flower shop and has the power of the ORTH!!!
Event Plans: Isa is so not looking forward to the Fae Olympics and she doesn’t trust either court on playing fair, but she has the Earth element and therefore she gets to be on Team Seelie. She will be perfect for 1v1 and 2v2 duels and dance competitions because you might as well have her vent out her frustrations being stuck on this mess so she might as well enjoy throwing down of the dancing and cacti kind. Just watch for the prickly needles.

Anything else? She is not too pleased to deal with the possibility of killing anyone.

Character Name: James Alexander ‘Jamie’ Carter (Harry Potter)
Canon: Harry Potter
Type: Paranormal AU
About: Third year journalism student who is currently having a life crisis with trying to hide his water magic and is stuck as a cursed flying selkie.
Event Plans: Jamie is probably more interested in the Saint Patrick’s celebrations as his family does have Irish lineage and the Equinox festivities too. May even throw in more trouble for him with free monster stuff of the selkie and the general avian type because why not traumatize him even further.

Meanwhile I might consider putting up him on Team Unseelie much to his horror but on the 2v2 duel matches since he has water magic and he really needs a fighting partner too. He is typical wizard squishy thus a need for a fighting partner. If anyone wants to join him, feel free to plot with him. Cue impending memories of the Dueling Club

Anything else? Please send him to a reputable therapist after this please.

Bon | Takame, Eunie, Diarmuid, Ragna

[twofoldfury]

Player Name: Bon
Contact: EST
Time zone: bonpuns @ everywhere

Character Name: Takame Kesi
Canon: FFXIV OC
Type: OU
About: Every aspect of the looks like a cinnamon roll and is and looks like he can kill you and can chart rolled up into one dragon man.
Event Plans: Takame is on Team Seelie and will be dueling someone but I also might put him on dancing so that he can remember that he has a budding love of performance in his heart.

Character Name: Eunie
Canon: Xenoblade 3
Type: Paranormal POKEGO AU
About: British Shitposter healer bird who really should not be the responsible one among us but here we are look what you fucking make her do.
Event Plans: She might be a healer on standby for you fucking idiots but she's gonna be in the marathon because she has super fast flight and she loves winning. :)

Character Name: Diarmuid ua Duibhne
Canon: Fate/ (servantswap AU)
Type: OU
About: Recently upgraded Saber-Class Servant who only has hinges if you're looking on a surface level because otherwise he is still very much a Fate/ Lancer.
Event Plans: Dia is also Team Seelie and is going to be dueling, most likely will be by Waver's side during any 2V2 fights but please by all fucking means fight him he's so thrilled rn the fae came through for him this time.

Until Teresa's body is found he'll still be staying on the side of caution. He's lowkey been poking his nose into TBO's affairs too, so. He's worried about you guys ok.

Character Name: Ragna the Bloodedge
Canon: BlazBlue
Type: Paranormal AU
About: Angry grumpy pissed off vengeance seeker who is pulling his head out of his ass and realizing that maybe letting people in isn't the worst thing in the world.
Event Plans: I won't lie I'm at a bit of a loss for him here since I'm bad at fight threads and he's slightly less likely to PVP unless outright challenged so maybe I'll put him in the marathon for lols.
Anything else?

effy and the hot mess gang

[illucesco]

Player Name: Effy
Contact: mollymauktealeaf, Discord: foggytealeafs, PM character journals
Time zone: UTC+8
gonna be a lazy bitch and c/p the about bits from the previous plotting post hi I'm very tired.

Character Name: Edward Kenway
Canon: Assassin's Creed
Type: OU
About: local pirate stumbles right into his series' big myth arc by complete accident and undergoes the most painful character development arc in that series by far. has been taken right after breaking out of prison and having to carry a good friend's corpse out with him, and on top of that he learned recently about his wife's death, so he's a little fucked up about that, and is slowly thinking about hey maybe the Assassins were not, in fact, wrong.
Event Plans: Edward is also sitting out March's big event for the most part, but not bc he's taking a break, he's been selected to Do A Murder this month so haha that's gonna. be happening soon. he'll only inform like two people it was him outright and keep his trap shut for the most part, and the method of assassination is a lot more subtle than "descend from on high to kill someone," but his CR is free to guess it was him since he has a lot of motive. he just won't be confirming it!

also he'll be mourning his poor chunky rum and trying to fight a crab for it.

Character Name: Lucy Westenra
Canon: Dracula
Type: Paranormal Modern AU
About: your resident friendly and slightly possessed radio host! she currently lives with her cousin Meredith and her friend and crush Persephone.

her past life is Lucy Westenra, aka the sweet ingenue in Dracula who has THREE suitors (fuck yeah) and a bad case of turning-into-vampire-itis (less yay). she has not said shit about that yet but I'm waiting for it to drop with great anticipation.
Event Plans: I'm gonna lean harder into her radio station job and have her show up to cover the celebrations in the park, and run around collecting Easter eggs that have LEGS why do they have LEGS good LORD. otherwise she's just gonna vibe this month and I'm planning to focus mostly on low-key threads with her.

Character Name: Leon Scott Kennedy
Canon: Resident Evil
Type: Black Order AU
About: rookie cop's first week on the job goes completely to hell, and in the aftermath, to save his friend, he ends up signing up for the Black Order. incidentally, in his past life, his first day on the job ALSO went to hell, but that was bc of zombies and this time around it was bc of demons. came to Kaisou in December and simply decided to join in on the revolution fun bc he's sick of the Order's shit and believes in changing it for the better.
Event Plans: besides the inevitable fallout from Teresa's death (all the more reason for him to want to punt Edward through a window), Leon will also be whisked away to join the Fae Olympics! the Faelympics. he'll be very careful with his words, and as a Light-element guy he'll be whisked into Team Seelie, pls save him from the cottagecore vibes he will Melt. he's good with marathons and if they unleash monsters he will protect both Seelie and Unseelie team members. I'm also gonna sign him up for a duel if people want a Normal/Hard mode fight—challenging, but not unbeatable.

Character Name: Noctis Lucis Caelum
Canon: Final Fantasy XV
Type: Normal Modern AU
About: local game developer is Going Through It, from having been fired last year to his dad dying in November to finding out that it was demons that killed him to dealing with Ardyn to going through the Crystal Tower to standing watch over the gate during the whole thing with Blade to finding out his close friend had a near-death experience. so he's been having a rough time, in between fishing and putting a game together and putting a gaming company together. but at least he has an Oshawott named Fluvius!

his past life, not that he knows much about it, is that of a prince who went on a road trip to go get married to his childhood crush and then his home got wrecked in a surprise attack while he was away, and now he and his friends are on the run from the Empire, and on top of that there's this whole prophecy thing? and also he is kind of another fantasy Jesus figure? yeah, two fantasy Jesus figures in one game, thanks, FF.

he's still working on the fishing game.
Event Plans: ALSO getting into Faelympics! unlike Leon, who will be having a pretty okay time all things considered, Noctis is going to have to deal with a memory dump and is gonna be.......uh, well, A Teeny Bit Shaky about it. also his cousin and his old babysitter are coming in soon so he's going to have a very weird March re-adjusting to All Of That.

Anything else?

me on my way to stab ur npc

[scholarlywarden]

Player Name: Bookie
Contact: Discord @ bookworm1208
Time zone: EST

Character Name: Opal Rivera
Canon: FFXIV
Type: Normal AU
About: Newly on the network, a doctor who is definitely dealing Well with this whole change in worldview. Very tempted to go live in the woods
Event Plans: Probably going to compete in the marathon, might do the dancing competition (to remember a bit about the DNC job) or maybe a 2v2 duel with them as the healer; been assigned Team Unseelie
Anything else? Happy for any CR and Things!

TFs emotionally damaged weirdos

[bebest]

Player Name: TF
Contact: teff or teefflady
Time zone:

Character Name: Varian
Canon: Tangled
Type: OU
About: Alchemist, teenager, former Disney villain. He's an awkward bean who's not great at socialising- he's currently a member of POKEGO! Has a poor relationship with lab safety.
Event Plans: He'll be mostly chilling around this month! Doing what he needs for POKEGO, but he doesn't trust the fae after they kidnapped his bestie LAST year so he'll be avoiding them mostly. He turns 18 in March though!! ADULTHOOD!!

Character Name: Zulius
Canon: Centaurworld
Type: Paranomal AU
About: A fabulous zebrataur with an ego the size of a galaxy. He owns the Vogue theatre in town and is always looking for more people to bring in. He WILL be your friend!
Event Plans: He'll be going to the dance competition and he will be a NIGHTMARE about it because he's ridiculously competitive when it comes to pageantry. If anyone wants to stand off against him and suffer the consequences, let's do it!

Character Name: Persephone
Canon: Stray Gods
Type: OU
About: Goddess of Spring, Queen of the Dead- murdered Hades because she got sick of the whole captivity thing. Trusts almost no one. Anger issues
Event Plans: The fae are NOT stupid enough to mess with the Greek pantheon, so she'll be left alone. She'll be too busy preparing for the Spring Equinox - she'll be getting Vash to set up a shrine for her so actually giving her offerings might make her look favourably on you. She might actually smile this month!

Character Name: Husk
Canon: Hazbin Hotel
Type: Black Order AU
About: Demonic cat-bird who gets forced into being a bartender in a rehab hotel in Hell. In this life, he's been a TBO Guardian for 40 years. Grumpy, tired alcoholic gambler. The oldest old man.
Event Plans: He'll be voluntold to go into the Olympics. He'll be in the marathon and will probably end up in the PVP too. He will bitch about it the entire time.
Anything else?

chai time | rosie

[hasitsthorns]

Player Name: Chai
Contact: tentameance, tentamenace @ discord, or PM this journal!
Time zone: EST

Character Name: Rosie-dear
Canon: Original Character
Type: OU
About: Rosie is a hypersexual nightmare dressed up like a daydream; despite being all sunshine and smiles, she's hiding the fact that she's literally a monster who is supposed to eat people. Emphasis on the supposed to though because, well, she doesn't want to! That's kind of the whole issue. Rosie just wants to be a normal everyday person and live a boring albeit musical life.

She tends to be very friendly and personable but people will realize after a short while she's not very forthcoming about herself and tends to deflect on difficult topics more than she doesn't. Surface-level casual knowledge is fine, thanks. Do not perceive her beyond that.

Event Plans:

❥ I'm brand new, so I'm interested specifically in side quests and more generic world stuff to start! She's a bit of a drifter/couch surfer so rather than give her an apartment right off, I'd like for her to bum off other people as a CR hook. (She's also not above casual hook-ups/sleeping with someone to sleep somewhere scenarios if people want to say that's happening too). Besides, getting an apartment of her own will make all this feel real and that's scary so no thanks.

❥ To do with March more specifically, Rosie will be checking out all the stuff during the Equinox since religion/worship and music tend to go hand-in-hand and she'll want to see what tunes she might be able to learn or pen herself. Spring is her favorite season, actually, and the symbolism of 'new beginnings' after a long winter hit home for her especially now.

❥ Rosie's competitive so will absolutely be about crushing competition in the Fae Olympics. She'll probably land on Team Seelie but also will cheerlead people and likely cause problems on purpose by fraternizing with the enemy. Of most interest for her will be the dance competition and she can heal as well if anyone gets hurt!

Anything else? :)

[ornamentals]

Player Name: Lassie
Contact: experiments @ discord or PM works!
Time zone: EST

Character Name: Kni
Canon: Trigun Stampede
Type: OU
About:

Kni is Vash's (kid) twin brother, physically aged two (2) years old, but looks between 10-11 years old. He's been around in game for about 8 months now and can usually be found either trailing after Vash, forced into attending school, or happily at home at the cottage! Kni is a Plant, like Vash, and is not human, thus his visible age discrepancy. He's incredibly book smart and absolutely loves playing the piano. He's also extremely sassy and does not share Vash's love for social interaction. It's a work in progress.

Event Plans:

So, I have (finally) put in for Kni's gradual monster, and I'm looking to play around with it this month!

Kni will (accidentally) find out that he can teleport, probably by sneezing too hard or something, and end up in various places he's visited previously throughout the month as he tries to wrangle this newfound ability. The time of day (or night, any time before midnight) is negotiable depending on comedic value.

A list of places Kni has been to before that he may accidentally end up at:
- The Middle / High School (his nightmare)
- The Eaglewing Library
- The Church
- Seven Star Mall
- Kami State Park
- The Vogue Theatre
- The Auguries
- I'm probably forgetting something, I'll remember eventually.

But yes! I figured I would post this here and see if anyone would be interested in having a very troubled plant fumbling along in learning how to not accidentally teleport in their business!

Another note, as Kni gets the hang of this new power, he'll also be dealing with his normally dormant plant markings starting to faintly glow after each teleporting incident.

Anything else?