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obsidianooc2020-07-29 09:45 am
thecommissary) wrote in obsidianooc2020-07-29 09:45 am
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august calendar of events;
 AUGUST CALENDARGreetings, inmates! The start of August marks two months since the game has opened and we hope you're all getting settled in. Things will remain mostly the same in the prison as a whole this month, but this event introduces an important concept that affects the inmates and will continue to appear throughout the game and have major impact on your character's story arc! Inmate/guard relations are somewhat tense. The risk of guard brutality is low. The risk of NPC inmate violence is moderate. There is an increasingly negative sentiment from both inmates and guards towards Warden Clark. MINOR EVENTSAugust 1st: Mingle Log - A mingle log with a few optional scenarios will go up. This log is not for the event, but is a good place for general open top levels and day-to-day interactions. We encourage you to make your own individual posts in the log community for the actual event-related dominion stuff. August 8th: Warden Announcement - The Warden has an announcement about some new rules meant to curb the increasing threat of inmate violence in the prison. August 22: IC Job Assignments - IC jobs will be shuffled around. Assignments will be drawn live in the Discord chat. MAJOR EVENTOur first major event, What Dreams May Come, starts on August 1st and continues until the end of the month. On the first of August, a low groan can be heard from deep below the ground, coming from the direction of the mountains. Anyone who is in the yard at the time will be able to feel the vibrations in the ground. This will last for a little over a minute. The anomaly has reached out to touch the minds of the inmates at Obsidian. As it is currently sleeping, it is reaching out from its own dreams to theirs. Even characters who usually have trouble sleeping will find that they easily fall into deep sleep for the remainder of this month, and may feel tired as soon as the sun sets. Once they fall asleep, the anomaly will interfere with their dreams and introduce them to their dominion instead! The dominion is an important concept to this game: it symbolizes their budding connection to the anomaly as well as being the center of a character's power. It is a place where they are meant to grow and explore their potential. Think of it more as a pocket dimension that exists within the anomaly than an actual dream. It may gradually change over time, but will mostly be the same from one visit to the next. Throughout the month of August, activity from the anomaly is high and characters will visit their dominion (or someone else's - see below) every night. What is a dominion? A dominion is a place of power that belongs to your character. It will manifest as a specific location: perhaps it is somewhere your character longs to be, somewhere they feel at home, or even a place that they are afraid of. For characters in the latter category, these dreams can seem more like nightmares at first, but you can't be hurt inside of your own dominion if you don't want to be. If they put in the effort they will be able to actively manipulate their dominion - think of a really vivid lucid dream. The dominion will be more inclined to respond to darker and selfish desires, but can be willed into good and selfless things with more effort. Does the dominion have to be a real place, or a place my character has been? Nope! It can come from their imagination, as well, or be something from the past or potential future. It doesn't even have to make sense or obey the laws of physics: houses can be floating above the ground, the whole world may appear to be painted, and so on. What can my character do inside of their dominion? Initially, not much. Manipulation of the dominion will mostly be unintended and caused by subconscious desires and fears. If they work at it over the course of the month, they will be able to consciously manifest objects, have powers they don't have in the real world, and even change their physical form into something they'd like better. It's your dominion, go wild! Will anything my character does in their dominion transfer over to reality? Can the powers they gain there become real powers? Not yet ;) Can my character talk to the anomaly? No, the anomaly cannot be seen or spoken with inside of the dream. Anyone who has been to SHU may feel a similar lingering presence, but no actual interaction with the anomaly is possible at this stage. Does my character choose their dominion? Not consciously. It should make sense for that character, but their dominion is a part of their subconscious and may not be what they would have chosen if someone asked them while they were awake. A character who found a place they really liked before coming to Obsidian my find themselves there again. A character whose greatest desire was riches may find themselves in the lavish mansion they always wanted. A character who was obsessed with technological advances may find themselves on a futuristic spaceship. A character who subconsciously desires to tame and conquer their fears may find themselves in the place they most feared, or somewhere they were victimized. ICly, there are reasons why a character's dominion would manifest in a certain way, so feel free to go with whatever you want to play with most! OOCly, the dominion should be a place that inspires your character to grow and push both their own limits and the limits of their dominion, so try not to pick something too cozy that your character would be content with from the start (eg. a childhood bedroom). Can Obsidian be my character's dominion? Nope. The anomaly wants Obsidian for itself. This is the only place that is off-limits as a character dominion. Is my character's dominion empty, or can there be other people in it? It can be as populated or sparse as you'd like! It may have people from your character's past, or just random people. Any NPC people in your character's dominion are just figments of their subconscious, so even if they see their parents in their dominion they won't have actually communicated with their real parents back home. NPC versions of PCs in game cannot be part of your character's dominion. What happens when my character wakes up? They wake up exactly as they normally do, but will feel a pang of longing to go back to their dominion that lasts about an hour and gets more intense as the month goes on. Can my character visit their dominion again after the month is over? Yes, but it will take a lot of concentration and meditation on their part. 'Dominion Visit' has been added to the once-per-month rewards characters can receive from the anomaly. The longer they go between visits, the stronger their feeling of longing will be upon awakening. Perhaps if the Anomaly weren't sleeping so deeply, it would be easier to connect with it... Can other characters visit my character's dominion? Yes! It wouldn't be much fun if your character had to hang out by themselves. Any number of characters may be pulled into your character's dominion instead of their own on any given night. Only the owner of the dominion has any control over it. Any visitors will be subjected to the will of the owner (or if they haven't started to control it yet, the owner's subconscious). Visitors may be harmed, transformed, or brainwashed while in the dominion of another. They may not even be entirely themselves when they arrive (for example: if one character's dominion is an animal sanctuary with no people, visitors may arrive as animals)! No matter what happens there they will wake up in the same condition they were in when they fell asleep (with some emotional scars, perhaps, if things went poorly). Will our characters remember the visits to their dominions? All characters will remember their own dominion vividly. Visitors to other dominions might not - players can choose how much or little they recall.
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BILLY
Describe your character's dominion: Billy's dominion is his favorite beach back in California. There aren't any other people there; he has the beach all to himself. There is a bit of an unpleasant storm brewing in the distance, and if you get too close to it you might find ashes raining down on you. Billy will just be trying to ignore the storm and focus on getting to have fun at the beach again. But, he can't ignore the things that frighten him forever, so he'll have to confront that part of himself sooner or later.
Everyone who shows up on the beach will be dressed appropriately for a day in the hot sun. Walk into the storm and you'll get to meet Flayed Billy, physically identical to Billy in every way but he'll talk ominously about ending the world and might try to attack you. Go towards the sun and regular old "not nice but not actively murderous" Billy will be there instead.
General Event Plotting: I would LOVE visitors, whether they want to chill out and come surfing with regular Billy or come have a chat with the horrible monster that took over his body for a while. Billy will be trying to manipulate his dominion but isn't going to have any luck just yet. I want him to work towards accepting what happened to him and facing his fear of the Mind Flayer before he's able to do anything cool.
Other Plotting: He's on yard duty so anything with that. I'd also like to have him start building relationships here, especially with anyone in Block A. He is young and dumb and naive so please come take advantage of him!
Re: BILLY
FLAGG
Describe your character's dominion: Flagg's dominion is the commune of Discordia as described in his info post. There are a few differences from the real Discordia, though: this Discordia is a lush oasis surrounded by endless desert on all sides, and the sun never seems to rise all the way. It's always either night or sunset. There will be people around, who will unanimously tell any visitors that Randall Flagg is their leader and savior. They heap praise upon him like nothing else and it seems to be genuine, though some are a little afraid of him, too.
Visitors will be welcomed with open arms and treated like a member of this big old fucked up cult family. You do want the love and protection of their revered leader, don't you? If you don't - well, there are a few corpses in various stages of decay crucified on the outskirts of the commune. Just as a friendly little warning...
General Event Plotting: PLEASE come and meet Flagg here and see him at what he considered to be the peak of his power before he got to Obsidian. As the month goes on he'll start to gain power and will be able to levitate, cloak himself in shadow, read thoughts, and ominously watch over the whole town. The general vibe will be that you should definitely love him and want to follow him and when he learns to manipulate the setting he may try and mindfuck any visitors a little so they think they're part of his cult...but if that doesn't work on your character they are free to find it VERY creepy and anger the locals by talking trash about their leader.
If you're someone he trusts enough to not try and mindfuck (or someone who is unaffected but who he doesn't dislike) he'll honestly just want to give you the VIP tour.
Other Plotting: Flagg is on library duty which he is THRILLED about. He will hang out there all day and tell you what books you should read. He also wants to know what any of you newcomers are doing.
Re: FLAGG
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Secondly, I'm super interested in his domain, and would love to get in there when Flagg is more at power. There just seems to be a lot of potential for it to go a whole bunch of different ways and seems like good fun.
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