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Newcomb Mod ([personal profile] newcomod) wrote in [community profile] newcombers2024-06-14 10:27 am
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Event 1 Plotting Post


Plotting Post
Welcome to our newest event! Feel free to use this post to plan for this month's event.
This is an optional post to engage with.

We apologize for the delay due to mod moving locations. You can anticipate the event to be up by the 16-17th. Regular scheduled events will resume in July!

Plotting Forum
Prompt One
Content Warnings.
Body horror, violent clones, memory theft, parasitic horror, reanimation of potential dead characters, monsters.
Summary.
The black goo from the TDM has soaked up character DNA and memories alike, transforming itself into violent versions of characters present in-game or characters from various canon. These copies are violent and may deal in body horror per player choice. Fire and ice are equally effective in destroying these copies.

The black goo is sentient and seems to have been able to replicate any organic being from your character's world or past. The only thing it cannot replicate is abilities. So, for example, if your character remembers Superman, the goo could replicate his appearance, voice, and general personality, but it could not replicate his abilities. The goo is otherwise impervious against damage that is not ice or fire, and will either take violence with simply a grimace or have to restructure itself into a new form.

The black goo can use personal information against characters, but only whatever the character may already know from their own canon. For example, just because the goo transformed into Superman doesn't mean he has Superman's memories, just whatever memories someone else had of Superman.

This may also make the copies more or less violent depending on a character's relationship to them or memory of them. After all, if someone sees Superman as evil, then the goo will take that and run with it.
Prompt Two
Content Warnings.
Forced memory sharing, probable spoilers for certain canons, found footage style horror.
Summary.
The black goo has also impacted some nonorganic items but only items that may serve as primary sources to past events: pictures, videos, phone calls, recordings, journals, etc. The black goo has taken whatever memories characters have (whether they currently remember them or not) and manifested them across campus in the form of primary sources.

Of course, these aren't ordinary pictures or recordings. The moment multiple characters interact with the same primary source, they will be "pulled" into the memory, and essentially have to live through it. This functions similarly to games like Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Your character will take the role of whoever is experiencing the memory, and other characters can participate in the memory as secondary characters.

You can "die" or get "injured" in these memories and it will feel real, but you will not maintain these deaths or injuries in the real world of Newcomb. Instead, when you die, you may be ejected from the memory and have to start all over again (if you even want to). The memories must be of specific incidents that stand out in your character's mind as formative experiences.

If you do not want to use a character's memory, you're welcome to use the "plot" or "memories" from any published found footage genre movies or games.

These memories can be accidentally broadcast through the network. Once a memory has been "completed" then you can leave the memory and keep the primary source as an interactive relic. The memory can be experienced again, but only if another person is with you to interact with it. Otherwise, these relics will just remain as photos, videos, etc.

"Interaction" can be up to player decision: touching pictures, talking about the picture, etc. Whatever it is must include at least two or more characters. This can be as accidental and simple as someone picking up a picture and asking if it belongs to someone else or if they recognize it.
Prompt Three
Content Warnings.
Forced bonding and bondage - but not the kinky kind. Black outs.
Summary.
Characters will experience brief blackouts and when they wake up, they will be chained to another character (or more) that they may or may not know. The characters will only be able to be freed from their chains after solving a few campus riddles.

This serves as a scavenger hunt for characters to familiarize themselves with the campus and each other. Characters will get to learn about certain qualities of the campus such as the crocodiles and basilisk statue. This will be done through characters having to solve riddles presented to them by Cassandra.

This can occur multiple times and if a character keeps getting the same riddles, you can feel free to mix it up a bit to increase the difficulty.
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Steve Rogers | MCU | ota

[personal profile] pursuitofcappiness 2024-06-14 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Xy
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: [plurk.com profile] assemble
Permissions: here

Character Name: Steve Rogers
Character Pronouns: he/him
Interest in these prompts: Riddles! Maybe clones of people from the characters' pasts?
Uninterested in these prompts: There's currently a memshare event in another game I'm in so I'm not particularly interested in that one for the momment.
General Limits: N/A
Desired Outcomes: Well I don't want him to fail just yet.

General Prompt Plans: Stuck together and riddles are some of my favorite tropes. Also, Steve is still fuzzy on his memories from home, so please excuse him as he gets settled. He's very frustrated about it but he's trying not to let on how confused and disoriented he is.

As for current housing, he's living with his bff Bucky since due to the memory loss he's clinging onto the things that make sense to him the most.

I'm not sure what I want for longterm goals yet, except that I really love the idea of Steve pseudo-adopting (or real adopting!) a bunch of teens and young adults so let me know if your troubled younglings need some advice from Cap.
zemnianjoy: <user name=onerine site=twitter> (Caleb ♏︎ I remember when we were)

Nia | Caleb Widogast - Critical Role

[personal profile] zemnianjoy 2024-06-14 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Nia
Player Pronouns: She/They
Player Contact: [plurk.com profile] zauberdecke | discord = zauberdecke
Permissions: Permissions. (warning: kinks are accessed if you scroll down a little more)

Character Name: Caleb Widogast
Character Pronouns: He/Him
Interest in these prompts:

Prompt #1: Oh, so we're really going into traumatic memory engagement right off the bat? Cool, cool, cool-- famous last words to Iggy about not wanting to see his enemies here, eh? Well looks like certain key personages may make an appearance from his past, or at least how he remembers it. Trent Ikithon, Astrid, Eadwulf, for extreme angst purposes his parents. Wow, I love hurting my characters.

Prompt #2: You can be sure I'm going to be utilizing this, throwing a prompt up; but I think that it will also be fun for Caleb to engage with others in their nightmare/dreamscape sequence.

Prompt #3: Well, evidentially Caleb also has experience with the Goo bonding him to Iggy; but I am open to another forced ichor handfasting. But I'd like to keep it to one person for this prompt, so anyone want to hop on and be changed to Caleb while they solve puzzles in a weird sort of meet-cut icebreaker function? Let's go!
Edit: Caleb will be getting stuck to Steve!

Uninterested in these prompts: At this time, I'm really interested in them all!

General Limits: I have very few limits. My hard ones are cotton balls (please don't ask, I just don't like them) and also instances of of SA. Horror is all good however!

Desired Outcomes: Each event is Caleb engaging in the narrative, perhaps gaining CR with one or two people, and learning more about Newcomb; he may even keep a detailed journey where he just records everything; and then eventually he will graduate to the pepe sylvia yarn pinboard, where he makes connection and his brain threatens to explode with need to understand.

General Prompt Plans: Just gonna work on making connections for my Dirt Wizard, perhaps turning into an Orange Creature for Xy's Steve (as is tradition) AND JUST VIBING!

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Edited 2024-06-14 15:29 (UTC)
zemnianjoy: <user name=kurocyouART site=twitter> (Caleb ♏︎ And you want life without)

[personal profile] zemnianjoy 2024-06-14 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*eyes at me, eyes at you*
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[personal profile] pursuitofcappiness 2024-06-14 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
CALEB!! Please... let's get these boys stuck together they'll be so good at answering riddles
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[personal profile] zemnianjoy 2024-06-14 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD

Yes, they are getting stuck0rz-- and will give Caleb ideas of turning into an orange crocodile via polymorph? (which could come up potentially in the future)
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[personal profile] pursuitofcappiness 2024-06-14 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
CUTE.... I love this

Please I miss them so much
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[personal profile] zemnianjoy 2024-06-14 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I will make the prompt in Caleb's TL specifically for Steve! We ride at dawn! (or whenever)

Steve, the Caleb-Collector
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richard campbell gansey iii | raven cycle | ota

[personal profile] lamiaceae 2024-06-14 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: rui
Player Pronouns: she/they
Player Contact: meta.rui on discord
Permissions: bam

Character Name: Richard Campbell Gansey III Gansey
Character Pronouns: he/him
Interest in these prompts: memories and scavenger hunt
Uninterested in these prompts: goo-clones (at least as regards his own people/trauma)
General Limits: I'd prefer Gansey not get killed or maimed yet, or witness the death of other characters. (give him a few loops)
Desired Outcomes: Gansey learning things about people and/or Newcomb. Overcoming adversity on a level he can handle as he is and doing some trauma bonding.

General Prompt Plans: I am very much up for riddles and scavenger hunting! That's where I'd like to have Gansey for the majority of the event. Memorysharing is great and so are friendships forged in trauma so I'm open to that with people Gansey's established some CR with.

He's likely to seek out people like Claudia, Caleb, Steve and possibly Eddie and Iggy for riddles, but give me all the delicious CR! If anyone is interested in witnessing formative events in Gansey's life I'd love to know ooc so that I can put up prompts that others are interested in. There are options such as: incredibly beautiful magical forest; incredibly beautiful magical forest Nightmare Corruption edition; Gansey also enjoys fire; bees are the Actual Worst; and what happens when your friend is a ghost that resists passing on.
Edited 2024-06-14 16:45 (UTC)
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[personal profile] lamiaceae 2024-06-14 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello I would like an excuse to interact with one (1) hobo wizard in pretty much any circumstances for riddles or memories! Volstrucker need not apply for this soft treeboi but pretty much everything else is awesome. If you want a second riddle partner or to exchange some traumatic (or non-traumatic but still formative) memories that would be aces.
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[personal profile] lamiaceae 2024-06-14 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
/waves around this young adult wearing a t-shirt that says free to a good influence
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[personal profile] zemnianjoy 2024-06-14 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
So now I'm just thinking of like Scholastic Three-legged Race where their ankles are tied together and they have to run around the campus like that, which admittedly is pretty hilarious!

I am down for either to be honest! And also I am almost tempted to give Caleb the memory of his mother and father because I feel like that would do more emotional damage to him (maybe)?-- Like his mother, dropping off lunch to him in his office DURING OFFICE HOURS? HOLY CRAP.. that's not just a little bit messed up.

Do you have anything you are feeling? I am 100 percent go-with-the-flow!
Edited 2024-06-14 16:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] lamiaceae 2024-06-14 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
They are both all limbs and would look like a three-legged spider I am not against it.

Having Caleb see the sort of magic that is part of Gansey's life would be aces! Cabeswater can be either a wonderful place that exudes zen or a nightmare manifest, like any good fey-thing. You know you wanna meet Gansey's magical forest buddy, and/or see his friends who are jerks with insane powers who he loves dearly.

The idea of Caleb's mom bringing him lunch destroys me, thankyouverymuch.
zemnianjoy: <user name=noxarcanaart site=twitter> (Caleb ♏︎ This feeling emblazed)

[personal profile] zemnianjoy 2024-06-14 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I would like both please! Both is good!

-cues up the Road to Eldorado meme, at least in spirit, if not actual application-

His goal is to explore, this is gonna be amazing-- teach him things, Gansey! You can teach an old nerd new tricks it appears.
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holland vosijk | shades of magic

[personal profile] summersaint 2024-06-14 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Cosmo
Player Pronouns: they/she/he/any
Player Contact: [plurk.com profile] cosmonautdelta or PM
Permissions: here!

Character Name: Holland Vosijk
Character Pronouns: he/him
Interest in these prompts: All of them!
Uninterested in these prompts: n/a
General Limits: Would prefer to avoid graphic depictions of suicide
Desired Outcomes: Holland is probably going to end this event even more annoyed at this whole situation than usual, but maybe he... will have found a friend or two?? Maybe?? This is a difficult achievement but it might be possible

General Prompt Plans:

OH BOY WE'RE STARTING OFF IN THE THICK OF IT HUH

🏰 ⸻ For the first prompt, I might have the goo take the form of Osaron, a magic entity that tried to take over the connected worlds of Holland's home. He largely looks like an onyx statue with a crown, and luckily it can't replicate his abilities, which were reality manipulation on a grand scale, and possession. Osaron is very good at sounding polite and reasonable until he starts whispering in your ear like are you tired of being nice, don't you just want to go apeshit

🏰 ⸻ For the second prompt, I might offer up a couple of different memories for people to experience, largely because... Holland just has an absolute wealth of bad memories to pick from lmao. I don't know what they'll be yet, but at least one will be extensive torture at the hands of sadistic twins. He was forced to murder a bunch of people, so having other Newcombers experience that would be interesting. Having his girlfriend try to murder him for money? Accidentally turning his brother to stone after his brother tried to kill him? Sacrificing his magic for the greater good and dying? The options here are ripe for possibility!

ALTERNATIVELY after I think of it I think I'll go with this option: one shitty memory, and one more pleasant memory that will be relatively benign but will offer viewers a look into Holland's dying world??

🏰 ⸻ And of course, having Holland chained to someone would be hysterical, because he'd just be immediately fed up with it and very :| face about it, and I don't think he's ever had to solve a riddle in his life. He is relatively smart, but he's used to a life of fighting, not scavenger hunting with a buddy, so he'd be very out of his depth lmao. Anybody being chained to Holland can reasonably expect: an experience like being chained to a wary feral (but mostly polite) dog, use of magic, probably some blood (who knows whose), and a generous amount of grumpy sighing

additionally: I'll be doing a toplevel, and I might also include a general prompt for being wanting to be healed at the med bay?? Because there's probably going to be a lot of injuries from evil goo and Holland is Here To Help 🫡 I'm also happy to write more specific starter for people under the toplevel!
Edited 2024-06-14 19:58 (UTC)
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[personal profile] beingawesome 2024-06-14 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought of it as a three-legged race of discovery and exploration, too!
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[personal profile] pursuitofcappiness 2024-06-14 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
ADOPTS IMMEDIATELY...!!
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[personal profile] beingawesome 2024-06-14 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Bugly
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: here, [plurk.com profile] Bugly42 or ask for discord
Permissions: here

Character Name: Claudia Donovan
Character Pronouns: she/her
Interest in these prompts: Most interested in Riddles! Then memsharing, and only with a good plan for people
Uninterested in these prompts: No objections
General Limits: I'd like to avoid deaths for now, but injuries are on the table
Desired Outcomes: I'd like to focus on CR building and uncovering things about the campus

General Prompt Plans: I'm not really sure about what I'll do about top-leveling, so feel free to help me decide on things. For memsharing I can offer up odd things like chasing down a guy with a knife that transfers illnesses and injuries or getting trapped in a video game that makes fears real. She has a very strange canon.
Edited 2024-06-14 22:25 (UTC)
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[personal profile] beingawesome 2024-06-14 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You rang?
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[personal profile] beingawesome 2024-06-14 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Claudia would argue that she isn't troubled. However, if he can get her closer to that sweet arm of his besties, she'll do just about anything.
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[personal profile] pursuitofcappiness 2024-06-14 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmmaybe not if she phrases it like that
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[personal profile] beingawesome 2024-06-14 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
If it helps, she already has a Steve of her own. She doesn't want a replacement.
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[personal profile] swellter 2024-06-15 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Do the characters have their powers back yet? If so, are there any limitations aside from the regular no-game-breaking powers?
Edited 2024-06-15 00:21 (UTC)
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[personal profile] lamiaceae 2024-06-15 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
he's a handful but he means well!!
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[personal profile] lamiaceae 2024-06-15 12:26 am (UTC)(link)


A very dangerous cycle of knowledge sharing begins here! nothing about teaching gansey how to wizard while he teaches caleb about dreaming could ever go wrong.

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