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Monthly Rundown: Third Anniversary Edition!
You got the fragments, you've journeyed across the seas, and - oh hey, it's Hadriel's third anniversary. Happy 3rd birthday of Hadriel, everyone! We've got some interesting stuff in store for you this time, so get ready for a wild month.
As always, if you ever have any suggestions or feedback you'd like to offer us mods, remember you can always drop us a line here! Also, please remember to hit up the Current AC post if you have AC for the month! Characters accepted in September do not require AC proofs, but we do require a check-in on the post!
OCTOBER PART 1: WE'RE ALL MAD HERE
OCTOBER PART 2: GIFTS FROM THE DOOR
OCTOBER PART 3: OLD FRIENDS AND NEW
As always, if you ever have any suggestions or feedback you'd like to offer us mods, remember you can always drop us a line here! Also, please remember to hit up the Current AC post if you have AC for the month! Characters accepted in September do not require AC proofs, but we do require a check-in on the post!
OCTOBER PART 1: WE'RE ALL MAD HERE
Starting on October 2nd, when the fragments are united with the Door, shit gets weird. Remember those effects the fragments had on the people who found them? It's all that and more, as the residents of Hadriel are beset with erratic mood swings, tricks in their perception, and other eerie Door effects. This will last all month long as Sorrow and the other gods work on getting the Door under control. You didn't really think you could go home that easily, did you?
These effects won't be sustained throughout the entire month (unless that's what you want for your character) - they will come and go. So you might have four perfectly normal days, and then fly into a sudden rage one evening that ends in rivers of tears or declarations of love. You might spend a few hours wandering in complete confusion, not even sure where or who you are, before abruptly recovering and experiencing no other effects for the whole month. Or you might have near-endless ups and downs, severe mood swings that leave you and all your loved ones reeling.
As for perception tricks - well, this month it won't be uncommon to think you see something out of the corner of your eye. Maybe it's following you? Wait, was that window always there? Wasn't this shirt blue? These will be small things, mostly, but enough to make the whole world seem just a little off-balance. Things aren't always where you thought they were, and they aren't always what you thought they were. Your senses cannot quite be trusted, at least not all the time. So have fun with that, because these Door effects won't end until October 31st.
However, in one way the Door is still working as normal. On October 10th, the Door will open and a new crop of Hadrielites will arrive. However, instead of monsters, the colosseum will be littered with Echo Flowers from the video game Undertale.
Echo Flowers are bioluminescent blue plants that have the ability to repeat the last sound they were exposed to, echoing it for a time before descending into static. These flowers might echo the words of the new arrivals upon waking - or they could say something more familiar, something you remember and that they should never have heard. Or maybe that's just the Door acting up again?
OCTOBER PART 2: GIFTS FROM THE DOOR
'The Door acts up' is pretty much the story of this month. In addition to the ongoing mental and emotional effects, it seems to be entirely out of control - and that means a lot of strange stuff coming in.
First, on October 5th, items will begin appearing all across Hadriel, including possibly in your house. Some of these might be familiar, while others could be unlike anything you've ever seen - but somebody else might recognize them. Because, of course, all of these are being brought from other worlds.
They will be small or medium-sized common items, nothing valuable, powerful, rare, or particularly useful. Some examples would be: a book you read as a child, a pair of cheap earrings, a bottle of Coca-cola, a change purse full of chocolate coins. They don't have to have emotional significance, and we are leaving it up to you to decide what you might find. However, if you are unsure about whether something is allowed, please ask us! They'll appear here and there across the city until October 8th. Unlike many of the other things appearing this month, they will remain after the event is over.
Then, not too long after the new folks arrive, on October 12th, something else will begin to appear. This time it's monsters. That's right, the Door may not have brought terrifying monsters in with the new people, but maybe that means it was just saving up energy to bring in even more. Let's hope you're ready to fight - or lock your doors and hide for a few days.
Much like the items, there will be all different kinds of monsters appearing all across the city. Once again we're leaving this up to you, as the Door will be pulling from all different sorts of worlds and plopping its newfound... pets...? down in the middle of Hadriel. Anything small enough to fit through the 8x4 Door can appear, and power levels can be all over the place, though of course if you want an especially powerful creature to appear please talk to us first. The only thing all these monsters will share is danger: there's no cute, cuddly pets coming through, only sharp-toothed creatures with a taste for people. On October 17th, the Door will suck all those monsters back through it, leaving none remaining in Hadriel.
We will not be making OOC posts for either of these events, so please feel free to use this post to plot and ask questions!
OCTOBER PART 3: OLD FRIENDS AND NEW
Finally, as the month begins to draw to a close, the Door will fluctuate one more time. This time, instead of items or monsters, it'll bring in people. Yes, that's right - it's time for a Fourth Wall event.
From October 22nd-30th, the city will fill with, well, whoever you (and anyone else) want to bring. They'll appear suddenly and disappear just as suddenly, but in the intervening time you'll have plenty of opportunities to meet new people and old friends, find a familiar face or two, and let all that emotion coursing through the city take over. Logistically, this will work like our previous Fourth Wall event, in that we'll post a log and let people play whoever they like on it, but visitors will not have access to the network.
We'll put up an OOC post about this event later in the month, so please keep an eye out for that, and get all your extra character journals ready!
TO RECAP...
► October 2nd-31st: Emotional and mental effects across the city
► October 5th-8th: Item Event
► October 10th: Intro log!
► October 12th-17th: Monster Event
► October 22nd-30th: Fourth Wall Event
► October 24th-31st: Activity Check
As a final note, our schedule for the month is viewable on the calendar!
GIFTS FROM THE DOOR
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COFFEE. Roasted beans wrapped in paper packaging - or is that actually just very thin tanned hide? Yeah it's not paper. Writing on it will look absolutely alien and weird, but it smells like coffee, and it is. I think we all could use some.
Demonic pendants! As modeled by Caedra's nice and not at all evil son here (or see the icon used for this comment). Unlike hers, these have no inherent power, they're just an iron trinket in the shape of a bull's head over a double-armed cross that in her world indicate some form of allegiance to the demon lord Amamot.
Oca flowers. A foot-long spray of brillant orange blooms on a stalk as hard as metal and covered in inch-long thorns. Nice for a bouquet to give to someone you don't actually like. Or maybe you do, maybe thorns are your thing, I'm not gonna judge.
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Questionable Reading Material: You might find a couple of books with detailed illustrations of torture implements, just think of those old-timey wood-block prints. There'll also be historical books about rulers of old, with maybe more gruesome pictures.
Basically a lot of this
It's all written in Cephean, though, whoops! Maybe he can translate.
Thistle Tea: It has a mild flavor and a lovely light color when you brew it!
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Packs of cigarettes will be showing up! Partials, some crushed, and all of a brand that has a distinctive scent and flavor that's not really quite like other types of cigarettes.
Probably very cheap cigarettes.Nothing worth smoking unless you're particularly desperate.♥A doll
This one, specifically.
♠Books
6 Victorian era timeline appropriate books will show up. A couple will seem well worn and loved, mystery novels. The others include a bible, a story about dogs, and the other two textbooks.
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holyshidsf... yep this is a good way to start a cr
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Evil Energy Drinks - You may come across a can of SuperMax, an extremely effective energy drink that improves stamina and mental acuity. Nothing dramatic unless you're a zombie, you'll just be wired as hell and basically the energizer bunny at whatever task you're doing. The available flavors for SuperMax are "bubblegum with a hint of mint" and "yellow" which is reported to taste like urine but is still better than the bubblegum. So don't expect to enjoy it.
Designer Party Drugs - Much harder to notice lying around, have some tiny vials of utopium/lucky u, a drug that's essentially ecstasy. You twist the top off the vial like eyedrops and snort it, and the high is fun and harmless if you don't make a habit of it. (Though Drake will worry they could be tainted vials and thus destroying whatever he can find.)
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These relatively large coins are a gold alloy, with a skull and crossbones and the words Pro Deus Quod Licentia on one side, and a ship with the words Hodie Mecum In Paradiso on the other.
"History" Books
The occasional copy of A General History of the Pyrates: from Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence to the Present Time by Charles Johnson will be around for perusal. Take the "sources" with a grain of salt, however.
Cuban Cigars
Pretty self-explanatory.
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The Skyfire Cycle: A pile of books from an author named DC Parlov. They're brick sized epic fantasy novels that are pretty good even though there are only four female characters in the whole thing, one of whom is a dragon. Are you hard up for something to read? It ain't game of thrones but it'll keep you busy for a while.
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LEDs - Small metal objects that emit a dim glow of light; the light may be blue, yellow, or red, but whatever it is it stays solidly on that color. Some may be splattered with a thick cobalt blue liquid.
Academic Papers - Very wordy but well-written academic papers on various psychological subjects. I imagine just random pages would be found here and there, and Lance's name isn't on any of them, but maybe they'll entertain someone with an interest in psychology for about three minutes.
Chocolate Bars - Just a few small ones, with a Wonka-esque logo and design, made by 'Ambrosia Chocolate Company.' Nothing strange about them, and they're actually pretty good.
Touch Screen Magazines - Basically a cross between a tablet and transparent pieces of paper, there are a few copies of an issue of Detroit Today article about Red Ice. These tablets are made to be disposable and are utterly useless other than to read the article they display; they can't be modified or otherwise used for something else.
Quarters - Just some completely normal USA quarters, with varying years up to 2038.
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Strawberry Pop-Tarts. They're pretty self-explanatory but they're dry pastries filled with (maybe probably flavored) strawberry filling with icing on top. Some of the packs are crumbly and stale.
Robbie the Rabbit dolls that come in two different sizes, still wrapped in their plastic wrap. Everyone needs a stuffed animal to hug sometimes, right?
A rune covered box filled with a variety of books and papers containing theories on demons, the meaning of runes, and some old newspaper articles about some stupid dead town called Silent Hill. It'd all be a great read!
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A pale green thermos full of Bliss, a fun nonaddictive drug that is not only a total joyride if you've got the right driver but can bring you back up from the brink of death. On the outside of the thermos, the name Faith Seed will be sharpied on the side.
A framed family photo. It doesn't look like the greatest of family photos out there. Maybe even a little religiously militant looking. Yikes.
It's the American flag! Or, wait, that's... That's not really the American flag but since they're showing up you might as well take advantage of all the extra cloth.
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A can of pringles and some fruit leather, which is self explanatory, and
A paperback copy of Caleb Cleveland: Kid Cop! The Mystery of the Missing Mansion, the next book in Angus's favourite YA mystery series. Think Nancy Drew meets Encyclopedia Brown, but starring a tiny boy policeman. If he finds out that some of his stuff has shown up here, Angus will be attempting to track down his book, and as much silverware as he can find!
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As I asked before the stuff from Atem's world would basically be:
Canned coffee. The type that you'd typically find in Japanese vending machines. Doesn't have to be good or bad, it just is. Expresso, latte, whatever floats your boat.
Japanese candy! Nothing super special, nothing seizure inducing, just candy. Weird flavors like wasabi kitkats or just your melon flavored stuff, whatever you want. Want to play the Pocky game? YOU'RE ON!
Duel Monster Cards. Just what it says, trading cards from this nerd's world, not even syncro summon shit, noooo... just your normal, good old fashioned trading cards, regular monsters, regular traps and magic cards, maybe a shiny or two out there if you're lucky. No Blue Eyes White Dragons or Black Magicians, not even your classic Kuriboh, and definitely, no Egyptian God Cards, that's for sure. Those are already around ;) Here is a handy dandy link if you wanna get nerdy. Beware of the too popular or important ones, maybe you won't find those.
On that note, to avoid 4th walling stuff, the YGO cards will not have any kind of logo that says Yu-Gi-Oh! of course.... Maybe just Duel Monsters © Industrial Illusions if we wanna get super technical... (ﾉ･ω･)ﾉﾞ
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Ancient Babylonian tablets, though they seem "fresher" than the crumbled clay dug up by modern archeologists and the like. While they might look neat, they're actually just a bunch of cook books of old Akkadian recipes.
Barley, mostly found as seeds. On their own they're pretty unremarkable and bland in flavor, but one with a green thumb who can make use of magical growing techniques could make an impressive stock for a variety of other purposes like tea and bread and beer. (Some CR might be familiar with the scent of barley from Ravine.)
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Several MRE packs, best suited for you survival hoarder types. Each come in a wide variety of ingredients while others might be on the more suspicious side as they're written in other languages. Namely Russian, German, Dutch, and Spanish.
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However, the map markers are flat, slate-like pieces of stone that have been painted blue with white markings (that image is desaturated; they're washed-out aqua blue), and those can be all over town. They're not especially useful or interesting to anyone, they're just rocks.
Backstory note, though: Show viewers may remember map markers from previous seasons: they look like substantial chess pieces in the shapes of the sigils of different noble houses (wolf heads for Starks, lion heads for Lannisters, etc). Well, somebody's brother lost the war and lost his head, and along with that, he lost the Stark map markers. So stones are all they have now. These were painted by someone at Castle Black at some point in the absence of money to use for fancy carved map markers.
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