august calendar of events;

[thecommissary]

AUGUST CALENDAR Greetings, 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 EVENTS August 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 EVENT Our 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. PLOTTING COMMENT Fill out the following form to plot for this event! <b>Player Name:</b> <b>Player Contact:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Describe your character's dominion:</b> (In as much or as little detail as you like!) <b>General Event Plotting:</b> (would you like visitors? What are some things that visitors might be able to do? What effects might visitors experience, from your character's will or from their subconscious?) <b>Other Plotting:</b> (If you have any plans unrelated to the event or just have some other CR you'd really like to get, talk about that here!)

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[lizardtrip]

Player Name: Giz
Player Contact: gizmatico

Character Name: Margo Hanson

Describe your character's dominion: A desert island, rugged and uninhabited at first. The shore is as much rock as it is sand, and while it's warm in the sun, the water is cold and rough. The rocky shore grows into large, damp caves at points, and a forest stretches upward behind the beach, too gnarly at first to navigate unequipped. If you manage to however, you might find some strange structures, like the bones to a castle that hasn't been build yet. It won't take someone familiar with astronomy to realize that this island isn't on Earth - come nightfall, there are two moons overhead. Margo's dominion is one of Fillory's Outer Islands, where she spent most of her childhood daydreams. In those daydreams though it looked a little more Sandals and a lot less Castaway. Maybe it's a metaphor for how cold and emotionally closed off Margo's grown up to be, or maybe her childhood dream world is actually just not very nice I-R-L. One of the two.

General Event Plotting: Visitors welcome! There's not much to do other than normal non-summery beach activities, though. Maybe throw some clumpy brown sand, climb a rock, find a cool stick. Knock yourself out (just not with the stick). At the start she'll probably be doing much of the same, or maybe just taking out her usually well-hidden rage on the landscape. I'm starting pretty bare bones with this for a lot of dorky character reasons, but I'm happy to plot whatever if you wanna come play marooned pirates with a very angry woman.

Other Plotting: Margo's just working in the library this month and absolutely not trying to get any illegal contraband businesses off the ground 👀. Also she's just been lightly stabbed by Michael in said library, which is probably public news, so feel free to know that happened.