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Mods ([personal profile] modblob) wrote in [community profile] redshiftlogs2020-03-20 08:44 pm

march 2020. welcome to the void.

Who: Everyone in Anchor.
What: Seventh Introductory Mingle
When: The Month of March 2020
Where: Around and outside the city.
Warnings: Please add any warnings in the subject lines.

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Click here to read what characters will experience when arriving in Anchor.


a. escape the dome.

It seems the mysterious, massive plant with its giant bud is not going anywhere. In fact, the bud is starting to bloom, which presents a problem - it's starting to press against the dome that protects Anchor. So far, no harm done, but is this really the best way to test the kind of pressure that the dome can withstand? There's got to be some way to bring the plant down without destroying chunks of Anchor in the process...

And uh, you might want to get on that. The plant has been growing, sending out thorny vines into the various levels, and the flowers growing from those vines are, shall we say, aggressive. In fact, they're liable to bite if you get too close, and these things have razor-sharp petals. More eerily, they can mimic the voices they hear, usually using those borrowed voices to beg for help at the end of long corridors or in the back rooms of abandoned shops and restaurants.


b. planetary fly traps.

Following the voices can get a body in all kinds of trouble, because, well. They want to eat you.

In those dark areas where the voices call out there are larger buds, too, ones that look similar to the one now pressing up against Anchor's dome. They're about twice the size of an average human, and they've just barely opened. The colors inside are brilliant, gorgeous, mesmerizing, kind of exhausting... Get too close, and you could find yourself being slowly dragged in through the mouth of the plant into a bath of liquid that saps your energy while also slowly (very slowly, don't worry) consuming your flesh.

Better hope you snap out of it quickly, or have some backup to get you out of there.


c. misfire mayhem.

In case that wasn't enough, there's something funny going on with the comm system again. Texts being sent to the wrong people. Simple things, small things, yes, but also some things that you might have wanted to keep private or off the network. The misfires start on the morning of the 20th with just a few texts going to the wrong recipients, but slowly amps up throughout the day until voice and video calls are connecting to the wrong people. Recordings of conversations, including the audio and video ones, getting sent to completely unrelated residents, regardless of how private the conversation was.

The reason for the malfunctions becomes... well, clear-ish when Creepy Joe appears on the network. He’s in the agricultural sector, petting a reindire and very much not in that secure quarantine where Qubit et all left him. The angle is odd--not from a communicator, but from one of the security cameras overhead. It blinks from one shot of Joe to another angle. Almost like someone is trying to keep an eye on him.


mod notes.

Misfire texts, voice, and video conversations are on an opt-in basis, it is up to each player if they want their characters tormented with their messages being sent to others or receiving misfires. Misfires can be played on this log, on the network, or in IC inboxes.

The NPC network entry will explain some details on why, but characters who were kind to Creepy Joe or who have put in a lot of effort to contribute to the community will find that their messages are getting misfired much less often and the contents are nowhere near as sensitive. Characters who were cruel to Creepy Joe or who have hurt/stolen from others will find their messages going astray more often, and with more sensitive material.

Messages received by characters can include any message posted in [community profile] redshiftrp or in IC inboxes, including messages from dropped characters. Have fun with that!

Important but Unrelated: March and April have been designated as check in only for AC. If you have not yet posted your AC, feel free to just put a check-in notice under your character's AC thread. April check-ins can be posted any time on or after April 1st.


birdical: (💋 (the fires are burning))

A!

[personal profile] birdical 2020-04-08 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Arthur's question is met with another vine swinging toward his leg, trying to get him by the thigh this time around; however, before it can reach him, someone tall and colorful and very irritated at this mess stomps right on the offending tendril, its thorns digging into her heel.]

I said no!

[She's apparently been at this a bit, if the way her bare feet are bleeding and the razor-sharp petals attached to her hair and clothes are any indication. She lets out an animalistic hiss as she pulls the vine back, scraping it along the ground with her foot; it splits and tears it apart, though just how when she doesn't seem to have anything sharp down there is anyone's guess. Someone with a keen eye may see there are definite clawmarks in the grass, gashes where her toes had just been.

Another vine heads their way, and she's just going to try to pick Arthur right up off his feet to keep them from reaching him. He might want to be quick if he doesn't want to get hoisted into the air by a lady with a real hatred for these aggressive plants.]
towhatmatters: (→12)

[personal profile] towhatmatters 2020-04-08 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He might have seen the claw marks, if he weren't so caught up in everything else going on. Plants acting like this is strange enough by itself, never mind women with bird feet.

It's also the reason he's not quick enough to react when she moves to pick him up. ]


H-hey!

[ ????? What is happening. ]
birdical: (💋 (you ain't making any money))

[personal profile] birdical 2020-04-09 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
[She tries to toss him over her shoulder, but it's too late as several more vines come reaching toward them, one managing to wrap around her leg. It pulls just as she goes to step away, tripping her — down Elleru goes, taking Arthur with her. Hissing again upon impact, she lets go of the fellow she tried to rescue, now apparently in need of rescuing herself.]

They are all over the park! [She rips one vine on her leg apart with her bare hands, but more are coming.] Coming from the ground, vile things!
Edited 2020-04-09 07:37 (UTC)
towhatmatters: (→13)

[personal profile] towhatmatters 2020-04-10 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There aren't too many people who have tossed him over their shoulders, least of all someone who sounds decidedly female. It's baffling enough to him that she has the strength to lift him with such ease - he knows how heavy men are, all right - that perhaps it's just as well she doesn't get that far.

He's confused for a moment, but that's over quickly when he feels himself hit the floor hard, and gives a grunt of pain at the same time as instinct has him stumbling back onto his feet. He pulls his arm free from a vine, and then reaches out to take hold of Elleru's arm to try to haul her onto her feet. ]


Where else would plants be coming from?

[ Never mind that they shouldn't be doing this in the first place, in his opinion. ]