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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.
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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)
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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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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 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] learnedfool 2024-06-15 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Stareyes
Player Pronouns: She/her
Player Contact: [plurk.com profile] beccastareyes
Permissions: Plotting

Character Name: Penric
Character Pronouns: He/him
Interest in these prompts: Any
General Limits: None that I can think of. I'm playing it by ear.
Desired Outcomes: Let's say CR with at least one new person. I wouldn't be adverse to negative/ambiguous CR.

General Prompt Plans:
Prompt One: Still trying to figure out what to do with this one. An amusing idea would be that the goo copies some of Desdemona's prior riders, just to confuse Penric.

Prompt Two: Possibly using Desdemona and Penric's meeting, from Pen's POV, or the attempt to exorcise Desdemona if only because if anyone wants to know what the gods of Pen's world are like, that.

The other formative memory I'd consider in terms of interesting reactions from Pen if it got out isn't covered on-screen in canon, but the thing that pushes him to NOT become a doctor. Problem is that wasn't one thing, but a bunch of things. I'd have to put a CW for suicidal ideation and self-harm for that one; active practice is not good for Penric's mental health, and he had no support beyond Desdemona.

Prompt Three: Anyone want to deal with a chipper man who talks to his invisible friend (and she talks back, but in his voice) and who probably likes solving puzzles?
Edited 2024-06-15 01:31 (UTC)
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Loki | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] abit_ofboth 2024-06-15 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Lex
Player Pronouns: She/her
Player Contact: DM, or [plurk.com profile] prettyapathetic Discord prettyapathetic

Permissions: here

Character Name: Loki
Character Pronouns: he/him (mostly, sometimes he’s female, then she/her is fine)
Interest in these prompts: All of them.
Uninterested in these prompts: None, though I should warn that I am actually terrible at riddles even though Loki would be great at them so I want to do this one and am unsure I can…
General Limits: N/A
Desired Outcomes: CR of any kind. Forcing Loki to deal with people. Maybe have him enjoy someone’s company. I’m pretty open.

General Prompt Plans:

For Prompt One I was going to have the too come in the form of a very angry Thor to hound Loki, try to make him feel guilty and honestly beat the shit out of him.

For Prompt Two the memory he would experience is of his final fight with Thor and his subsequent fall from the bifrost as he watches the disappointed face of his father. So much of this scene for me breaks Loki and it would still be fresh in his mind here so relieving it with others to see what happened I think would be a fun way for me to torture my boy.

For Prompt Three, if there is anyone who wishes to be chained to Loki, I am game. I like the idea, but if it doesn’t work out this will likely be the prompt I drop.
Edited 2024-06-15 04:35 (UTC)
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Eliza Owens | Pokemon OC | OTA

[personal profile] telecosmetic 2024-06-15 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Gray
Player Pronouns: he/they
Player Contact: [plurk.com profile] graygriffin
Permissions: Here!

Character Name: Eliza Owens
Character Pronouns: she/her
Interest in these prompts: More interested in the first and third, want more planning for second
Uninterested in these prompts: None
General Limits: No explicit sex for second prompt memories, if she's going into your character's
Desired Outcomes: Getting to know people more, having more people learn her backstory

General Prompt Plans:

I don't have specific plans for the first prompt yet, waiting on mod confirmation for some of my questions, but I plan on either having the clones be of Kaine Parker, who killed her in her first murdergame, some of the enemies she fought in her second CRAU game, or boss fight monsters from her home world that she fought to earn her HM tattoos.

For the second prompt, I'd like to talk it out more about what kind of memory you'd like to see. I can work with ones from both her CRAU or her homeworld.

The third prompt is the one that currently interests me most, Eliza will probably be very chipper and excited about solving the riddles despite being stuck together. Also expect her to try and pet some of the crocodiles once she learns they're friendly.
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todoroki shouto | my hero academia

[personal profile] swellter 2024-06-15 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name:
Blythe Pronouns: She/Her
Player Contact: PM or [plurk.com profile] Blythee
Permissions: Link

Character Name: Shouto Todoroki
Character Pronouns: He/Him
Interest in these prompts: Interested in all the prompts especially the scavenger hunt! I'm open for anything with that prompt! Let me know if you'd like to solve riddles together!

Uninterested in these prompts: None.

General Limits: None.

Desired Outcomes: Just looking for Shouto to meet more people. He’s quiet and generally doesn’t speak without prompting, so I’m hoping he at least speaks to some people on campus so they’re not just passing faces.

General Prompt Plans:
Prompt 1: Skipping this one!

Prompt 2: Two memories for this one, and both come with a heavy dose of content warnings for domestic abuse (physical and emotional). The first will be a memory of his father training him at a young (5) age. Be ready to get punched in the stomach by an adult. The second memory will be of bb!Shouto and his mother are sleeping, followed by a violent outburst from his father. You/Shouto will try to defend his mother and get pushed aside.

Prompt 3:
100% here for the Scavenger Hunt! He might not talk all that much but he will participate without prompting. Honestly, it's the best way to meet him and actually get him talking! Let me know if you'd like to solve some riddles together! Maybe they can get lost in some random abandoned corridor and get themselves mowed down by a ghost!
Edited 2024-06-15 18:09 (UTC)
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Bucky Barnes | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] staringproblem 2024-06-15 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Nueva
Player Pronouns: She/her
Player Contact: [plurk.com profile] nuevayuimaxwell
Permissions: Here

Character Name: James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes
Character Pronouns: He/him
Interest in these prompts: Mostly the black goo and the forced bonding, but can do the mem share too if people are interested
Uninterested in these prompts: Nothing that I can think of
General Limits: Not interested in having Bucky die
Desired Outcomes: New friends for Bucky?

General Prompt Plans:
Prompt 1: Bucky has a very violent past, so there's a multitude of people he knows/used to know that the black goo could turn into. I think it would also be interesting to have the goo turned into the Winter Soldier itself to torment Bucky lolol Alternatively, if any character needs help dealing with their violent goo, Bucky is pretty strong and has a deep-rooted need to help people so he'll definitely come to the rescue.

Prompt 2: I don't really have a specific memory I want to explore, but if you want your character to get sucked into the MCU universe, let me know and we can find something.

Prompt 3: I love forced bonding events, so please, get stuck with the grumpiest grandpa ever. Don't get scared by his staring, he's pretty smart so he'll definitely be a great partner to have to solve riddles.
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Tom Zane | Alan Wake 2 | OTA!

[personal profile] johtaja 2024-06-17 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
/shows up to plotting fifteen minutes late with a coffee

Player Name: Vin
Player Pronouns: He/They
Player Contact: Here, PM, or Discord @ Vincira
Permissions: HERE!

Character Name: Tom Zane
Character Pronouns: He/Him
Interest in these prompts: All!
Uninterested in these prompts: N/A
General Limits: None for the moment, tbh.
Desired Outcomes: For now - CR! I wanna get Tom more in the mix. Positive or negative, but I would love for Tom to make some friends. Let him tell your character that they are beautiful and interesting.

General Prompt Plans: 1 - This is so on-the-nose for canon that I might have screamed a little. The doubles appearing for Tom are going to be varying levels of distressing, from Alan Wake, to his young assistant (??? it's complicated) Emil Hartman, to former co-star Alexsi Kesa, to The-Thing-Wearing-the-Skin-Of-Barbara-Jagger. Barbara is probably going to be the main one, but she comes with some heavy body horror, so I have lighter fare in the stable if that's not your bag.

2 - I would really like to do something with the memory/ending of his film/accidentally overwritten reality, Tom the Poet. If you are into Tragic Lovers and came-back-wrong tropes, hit me up! (Body horror/gore warning for this one.)

I would also be interested in Tom getting dumped into someone ELSE'S memory, for a change.

3 - I am so very down for this and also so so so very sorry for the train wreck that will ensue if you are chained to this man and told to solve riddles. He's very smart and very eager! He is just also, regrettably, getting used to logic that isn't dream logic again after five decades.
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Velma Dinkley | Scooby Doo | ota

[personal profile] thevelmster 2024-06-20 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name:Player Pronouns: they/them/she/her
Player Contact: Schist @ plurk
Permissions: here

Character Name: Velma
Character Pronouns: she/her
Interest in these prompts: I'm interested in the black goo and riddle solving! Open to the memory sharing too, but it's not the priority I'm feeling.
Uninterested in these prompts: n/a
General Limits: Not interested in having Velma die, but injury is okay if planned.
Desired Outcomes: More friends for her.

General Prompt Plans: With memories of all sorts of weirdos dressing up as monsters, it'd be a downright shame if the black goo made horrific replicas of all of them? Spoiler alert, that's exactly what's going to happen. That and I'm toying with the idea of having a monster variant of her.

Forcing her to interact with others with no escape AND solve riddles? Absolutely right up her alley. The riddles, specifically.

Mostly she's trying to settle in and learn as much about this place as possible, and I'm trying not to bite off more than I can chew. It'll be good for her to make friends too.
Edited 2024-06-20 02:58 (UTC)