June Plotting & CR OOC Post

[kaisoumods]

June Plotting & CR Post

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

OOC Housekeeping

• The Zodiac Network Post will go up June 1st, with a midmonth post going up June 15th. The event log will be posted June 4th.
• If you haven't already, please remember to check in for activity! Activity is due by the end of the month!
• Interested in playing a Black Order Zealot NPC? We're still taking volunteers for July and August!
• The June AU & CR Workshop is up! On there is information about the upcoming Zodiac Employee AU option.
• Item Transfers are now available if you want to pass an item to another character!
• 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

• Recuria Quartz and the Raiden Element Gem are now available for purchase!
• Big Donut is now open on the outskirts of town.

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

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

POKEGO Update
POKEGO had a rather quiet month overall, so not too much to report there! Congrats on recruiting two new members of the team.

This month, POKEGO will be tasked with investigating the Spirit Realm. Just how exactly does a doll spirit realm work, and how does it effect the real world? Also for Azalea specifically, he'll be tasked with making sure the new app runs smoothly.

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

Black Order Update
Welp. You guys sure did kill two more zealots. With the Zealots going MIA, it won't take too long for the Order to piece together what happened.

Expect absolute radio silence from the Order this month. No mission message, no pay. Maybe you'd find it a relief not to hear from the bosses, but for some reason you can't help but feel like this is the eye of the hurricane.

New App: Gemini
Starting June 1st, the Libra App users will have their own private network to post on! It's called Gemini (unless the vote changes in the last couple hours anyway), and it'll be a network that neither Zodiac or the Black Order (outside the player characters) can see. For now, it'll just allow for network posts and private messages to other people on the app. The Libra app will still be available for all it's other features (side quests, games, child leash, etc).

City Events
With June comes Pride month! Like previous years, the city will be full of Pride celebrations and rainbows abound. The Vogue will also be holding it's annual drag show competition, with a 5k prize. Flyers for this event are already being posted around town. Weather wise, the weather will be pleasant summer weather, with the Spirit Vein appearing in rainbow colors with the Light Element at full strength.

Spirit Realm Event: Barbie Land
This month's Spirit Realm event will be based on the Barbie Movie! Characters will be asked to go to Barbie Land, a world full of Barbie dolls, to help the Barbies and Kens deal with a new wave of existential crisis that the dolls have been having. Enjoy a world made entirely of plastic!

While there, the characters will be expected to pretend to either be a Barbie or a Ken. The differences are:

• Barbies: Are amazing, talented and beautiful. You can be ANYTHING you want to be! Literally any job ever. Astronaut? Doctor? President? The world is your oyster! Everyone LOVES you! You live in a Dreamhouse- which you understand is some kind of mansion. It's like the world revolves around you- because it does. You have a fabulous wardrobe at all times. Your feet are permanently on tip-toes, ready for your glamorous high-heels. Your hair is always perfect.
• Kens: Basically exist only to simp for Barbies. You get weird, pointless, nonsensical jobs like "beach" or "sword" or "ice cream". These seem more like hobbies than actual jobs, but everyone in Barbie Land act as if "beach" is a legitimate career choice. People tend to forget about you after you've spoken, and if a Barbie is around? Forget about it. You do not live in a Dreamhouse. You live outside. Like a stray animal. You still have a great wardrobe though.

Players can choose whether their characters are a Barbie or a Ken, as well as their assigned occupation. For the Kaisou version of the plot, Gender is not a factor in if someone is a Barbie or Ken. Males can be Barbies, Females can be Ken, and Non-Binaries can also do what they want.

If you rather not decide yourself and want to leave things up to chance, you can comment below and the mods will RNG your Barbie land assignment.

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>

code bases by tricklet

Comments

QUESTIONS

[kaisoumods]

Got a question about the event? Ask them here!

Re: QUESTIONS

[illucesco]

two questions!

1. if we bring any Pokémon to Barbie Land will they also not need food or water as long as they’re there?
2. sighs. if Noctis were to try and fish in the plastic ocean what would he get?

[ampersand_me]

.... so is it possible for characters to bring back their outfit(s) from barbie land at all or is that a no go?

Also slightly belated questions related to item transfers and such:

Since sidequests occasionally give out neat items should those now go through the item transfer form or are those just not tracked at all?

Tangentially related, with regards to goodwill donations and refunds, if an item was ICly used up/destroyed/whatever by a character, should it still go into a donation/refund? Like for example, Meredith got a haunted tamagotchi the other month, which Lucy then decided to take care of, and then forgot it at the radio station so it died and haunted the station. And then got exorcised or so on, so presumably the item no longer exists (or, well, it's just a normal tamagotchi). Should that still get dumped into a refund anyway? BASICALLY it almost feels like double-dipping to me since I track what items my characters have used up in my own records, so I wasn't sure how best to handle that kind of thing!


Aaaand one more thing that just came up (and reminded me I had other questions to ask, oops) but I was curious, if a character gets the friendship power bracelet item, is it always its own separate item or can it be played as empowering an existing bracelet a character already has?

BARBIE LAND ROLES

[kaisoumods]

Players are free to choose if they want to be a Barbie or Ken and their occupation. However, if you'd like to leave it up to the fates, you can comment here and the mods will RNG a result for you!

If you know you want your character to be a Barbie/Ken but want to randomize the job, just specify that in your comment and we can RNG that result too!

KEN JOB TIME -!

[standless]

Jonathan is 100% a Ken, but what his job is, who knows...

I leave it to fate-

[anyprice]

Local Mrs. Doubtfire has 0% a
Ken energy and would thrive in Barbie role, sadly.

Let's spin the wheel for which Barbie :3c

shuffles in for barbie job

[crisantemo]

i know lapis will be a barbie

so lets see what job fate will assign her

this will be fine

[lowestclass]

Jinwoo is missing braincells and common sense which makes him perfect for the Ken role tbh let's do it.

barbie job

[throwmoreswords]

he's already capitalism barbie irl so here's hoping the randomizer can humble him some

[wiseoldbartender]

Husk is gonna be a Ken so let's see what horrors this world gives him.

[droptheious]

Varian is a coinflip either way as he is a genius but also has 0 common sense at all times- so let's let fate decide if he gets Barbie or Ken - then we can RNG his job.

[lapislazily]

Zhongli for Barbie job, please.

I can't not make him wear heels. Please understand.

[conseqweinces]

rngesus take the wheel for wei wuxian

[illucesco]

need a Barbie job for Noctis so he can't just lie down and nap all day like he dearly wishes he could thanks

[medicines]

thera has pink hair so barbie

but which job will the wheel assign her

[sg09r]

need a Barbie job for Leon also! unlike Noctis he'll be doing his best at it

Barbie Job

[venti_late]

I have decided it's funnier if Venti is a Barbie and gets swallowed up by the crowds due to being short

pls help he's just a lil guy

[whiteshroud]

Jun must wear heels, so a Barbie job for him please!

barbie

[poisontippedcure]

after the horrors of May, i feel rose should get to be a Barbie as a treat

pls rnjesus take the wheel

barbie

[beyondtheend]

frieren spent all of her canon being Barbie to Himmel’s ken; let’s spin this wheel

[scholarlywarden]

Def a Barbie, but doctor Barbie is too obvious so hit me

[mehjin]

Viv'll be a Ken, lay the pointless nonsense on me

[connecteur]

Alex is defo a Barbie, so let's roll the dice on a job!

[scourgingstars]

yeah fuck it give me a barbie job it'll be funny

[ampersand_me]

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


Character Name: Knuckles the Echidna
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog (movie-verse)
Type: OU
About: A teenager red echidna alien who's far too serious and far too naive for his own good. Likes grapes and punching things. Still has almost no clue what's actually going on around here, and is probably living in a hut in the park because that's just how Knuckles rolls.
Event Plans: I'm probably gonna throw him at the event but I haven't quite decided how yet. Very open to plotting! Especially dumb shenanigans, please give me all the dumb shenanigans.


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. Has issues, some of which might even actually be getting worked through. Slowly.
Event Plans: Unless something changes Ritsuka's mostly taking a backseat this month to recover from... everything last month. She is looking for a new place to stay/new roommate(s) however, so if any characters might be interested in this lmk!


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 her possessed cousin and an actual goddess. She still wants a normal life again, please help.
Event Plans: Meredith is very Ken-coded so she'll be in the event as a Ken! With terrible taste in shirts, apparently. No big plans yet otherwise, so I'm down for plotting!


Anything else?