August Plotting & CR Post

[kaisoumods]

August Plotting & CR Post

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

OOC Housekeeping

• The Zodiac Network Post will go up August 1st, with a midmonth post going up August 15th. The first half of the event log will be posted August 4th, with the second half going up August 11th.
• 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

• Trick Room TM are now available for pokemon to learn
• Deus Gem Quartz can be purchased for your ARCUS!

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

Side quests
Side quests have been given an overhaul! In the new side quest system, players will now be able to submit their own side quests to be posted, as well as earn regain points. Go ahead and check it out!

New side quests will be posted this weekend!

POKEGO Update
POKEGO has been vibing and will continue to vibe! Don't worry guys, I haven't forgotten about you. We're just dealing with one of the other factions being on fire for months. Please help put out the fire. Please.

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

Zodiac Update
The playable Zodiac characters are now on the app, and they are now have been given the job of assisting the Libra app users on top of their prior responsibilities. Do they get bonuses for this? No. But we'll give you a pizza party!

Starting now until the start of the second phase of the plot, the Zodiac characters will be tasked with getting Yggdrasil capable of traveling between the realms. This means they will need some type of bifrost/light magic tool that will tap into the tree. It is entirely up to you how the Zodiac crew manages to pull this off, rather they make a gadget or have a wild adventure into the Spirit Realm.

Black Order Update
So bad news, you guys won't be getting paid this month again. And your bosses are now coming after you personally.

But good news! Sympathetic members of the Order have noticed Kaisou's efforts, and they will be coming to help! Starting with the event log, Black Order ally NPCs will be around in kaisou! They will be on the Gemini app, and available to help with plot things.

The Allies that will be arriving are:

• Acheron (Effy)
• Ardbert (Saffy)
• Bayonetta (Kyah)
• Black Swan (Jay)
• Camilla (Amber)
• Childe/Tartaglia (Lum)
• Emet-Selch (Fae)
• Kamek (Lapi)
• Noel Vermillion (Bon)
• Randy Orlando (Jade)
• Ravio (Usagi)
• Risotto Nero (Amber)
• Velvet Crowe (Yuff)
• Vermouth (MK)

Feel free to plot with any of these guys about pre-established CR or thread possibilities while they're in Kaisou!

City Events
Since August is a fire month, expect the weather to be extremely hot! Luckily, it'll be a dry heat so it'll probably be more bearable than July's humidity.

And with August comes the Kaisou County Fair! Check out the fair in-between the revolution, there's lots of fun new foods to try!

Special Event: Asgard
This month's event will the big climax to the Black Order plot, and features the realm of Asgard! Characters will be facing off against the leaders of the Black Order, aka the Unyielding, and storming Asgard. The plot will mostly be focusing on the boss battles, but it will also provide a chance for characters to learn some of the Order's darkest secrets (YES, THERE'S MORE)

Speaking of the Unyielding, it's time to announce who you'll be facing off against! The Five unyielding are:

• Arianrhod (Yuff)
• Jun Wu (Ryuu)
• Kirei Kotomine (Nao)
• Kratos Aurion (Saffy)
• Tsuchigomori (Prince)

Each of these Unyielding will be their own boss fights with their own unique mechanics. Please read their plotting comments for more information! Also please note that these fights will be more difficult than the Zealot fights, so please make sure your characters are ready!

Due to the sheer amount of stuff going on, the event log will be broken down into two updates:

August 4th (aka August 3rd at 6pm EST): First half! This will contain town events, the arrival of the Black Order Allies. And the first two unyielding battles (Kratos and Arianrhod). Arianrhod's battle will take place in the fields of Hyrule and will feature a giant mech battle, while Kratos will be breaking into the Fortress of Meropide... for any of you unlucky souls who were hanging out there.

August 11th (aka August 10th at 6pm EST): Second half! This will be when the player characters will be heading into Asgard to face off with the final three members of the Unyielding (Kirei, Tsuchigomori and Jun Wu). They will all be taking place in different sectors of Asgard. Characters will also get a chance to explore Asgard and dig up more of the Order's secrets.

After the plot is over, September is planned to be a chiller month and that'll also be the time when players can start to figure out what the future of the Order will look like.

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

[prunedworlds]

Alright Ritsuka's curiosity is 100% getting the better of her and she's gonna have a peek at Douman's room if she finds it! yes she's wearing the bracelet Yasuho made her with one of his bells too

She also would pause take a look at Cu's stuff if she spots it.

[ridiculecat]

The door to Limbo's room has been modified to be a sliding paper door. Upon entering, there's a small sound of bells as the door itself knocks into an old wind chime that's hung just inside the door. Inside, it smells like fresh bamboo, as the floor itself has been replaced with green tatami mats.

To the side of the room there's a futon on the floor. Immaculately made, with a takamakura propped up against the wall.
In the middle of the room there is the beginnings of a half-made shikigami. The beast looks as if it was meant to be some sort of a mix between a bear and a bird, long, swallow-like wings folded up on the back of a compact, wide body. But there is notably no head, and the thing is hollow. There's a potted planter in the window with odd flowers in it, trumpet-like in shape and of several different colors. They haven't been watered in a while and have seen a better day.

There is a small personal library, a number of old books stored in it, as well as a number of trinkets that one can only guess that they are used for exorcisms, or perhaps trophies from past exorcisms. Among the books are journals, recording every single demon he'd ever exorcised and every single mission he'd successfully completed for the order. He keeps copies of his reports, apparently.

There's also a number of well-recorded itinerary of his travels around the world and...
...a number of journals with photographs in them, recording the different restaurants or tourist locations he'd gone to.

Honestly it's all pretty boring and written a bit arduously, with way too many descriptive words that super do not need to be there.

Along the wall there are a few weapons, mostly staves and staffs of some sort, some adorned with holy symbols, rings, or crystals; as well as a number of outfits hung up on bamboo poles to keep them neat and clean.
Alongside these are are also little boxes containing more white and black bells that he would attach into his hair. Nailcare. Hair care. There's so much fucking hairproduct in one of the drawers of his dresser. You could probably steal some and noone would care. Or notice.

There's a ton of his little paper curse slips. There's a desk where he clearly spent a lot of time crafting them, as well as other exorcism tools.

Somewhere in the room there's also a book about Abe no Seimei that's filled with rude notes about all the wrong information and several footnotes that just say petty things like 'this man sucks, he just sucks', etc.

[deathtusk]

What Ritsuka will find is that Cú doesn't have a room so much as a spot in one of the training rooms that he's exclusively made into his own little nest of sorts. And it's very distinctly his, considering there's the clawed in remnants of runes on the walls and floor. These runes are essentially all just drawings in the ground and sides now, since Cú is dead.

Though there isn't a lot, she will find a few things in his space that talk more of Kieran than Cú himself. There's a framed small photo of a red-haired boy sitting in the lap of a very patient and elderly grandmother, and he looks delighted as she reads a book to him. She wears a trinity knot necklace, one that Ritsuka will find buried in a little wooden box left under a loose floorboard. In said box she'll also find the names of his parents in this life, with his father's name being circled several times- and the other, his mother's name, scratched out horrendously and repeatedly in pen. Tucked in under that is a folded newspaper clipping about a club incident that happened nearly twenty-five years prior, and attached to that is the obituary of his mother. The way the word LIAR is written in bold under her image speaks volumes on his feelings towards her overall.

Besides this, Cú didn't keep very much else in his space that was large or annoying. There are little trinkets of knives or sharp objects that look like Kieran used them as ways to test his own armor of Curruid, to see what would hurt him and what wouldn't. A few sheets and a pillow are tucked in a corner, but these were more for appearance than normal use.

All in all, his spot was very much his own spot, and while he didn't keep much here, the things that he did have were important to him all the same.