desum | May Plotting

OOC UPDATES

Game status

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The player cap has been removed. We will no longer max out at 30 players. Applications will remain open at all times.

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AC has been lowered from 20 comments to 10 comments or a top level and 5 comments.

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If you have made any major changes to the setting, please let a mod know. If your character has contributed to any changes in setting that would be noticed by other characters, please reply to this comment to let us know. Please note that minor changes are reset at the end of every school day.

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May will be a no murder mystery month. This hold may continue past the current month. Character death may still occur, and we encourage players to explore other options for player plots. When murders resume, we they will be evaluated on a case by case basis to see how to best run it.

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A new series of missions is planned for May 13th. In order to progress the plot and allow characters to engage with the setting, we will be hosting a series of IC "missions", similar to the series of events that took place in August 2021. These will be a collection of mod-guided threads that lead to wide-scale changes in the game setting. There will be a total of three groups with three people per group. Please see below for sign ups.

Game updates

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Our game pages have undergone an overhaul. However, the taken, bonus activity and locations pages have received a full revamp. Please let me know if there are any errors.

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We have added a game lore page to the navigation. As we move away from an NPC focus, the NPC contact page has been retooled as a summary of game lore up to the current month for ease of review for players new and old alike. Moving forward, new NPCs can be contacted through this page.

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The student store has been overhauled. We have removed redundant items and maintained those which we believe will be most useful to characters going forward. Items that have been removed may be kept or exchanged for the updated equivalent.

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Plot clues no longer need to be bought through bonus activity. We are currently focusing on both tying up loose ends with existing plots, and making engagement with the plot more accessible. Please contact a mod if there's a plot point or player plot that you wish to pursue.

IC UPDATES

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Weather update. April showers bring may flowers! May will see warm and sunny days with scattered showers. The plant life is in full bloom, and the first signs of summer are here.

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The void has expanded. It now encompasses the encompass the entire right wing of all floors, including the locker area including the rooftop. Throughout the month it will continue to expand, beginning to encompass pieces of the left wing.

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The school is cold. As mentioned in the April update, the chill is more obvious in some areas than others, and the mirror room is frigid.

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All mirrors are cold to the touch. The larger the mirror, the colder it is, and those in the mirror room are cold enough to cause frostbite. Characters may also occasionally see handprints or fog on the mirror, as though something were pushing against it; or perhaps they'll see a flash of the other school, or even their home world - whatever the mirror may offer them, it's gone the moment they blink. It's probably just their imagination.

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The shadow students remain in the school. The whispers seem to have quieted down, but they may still latch onto characters who are left isolated and slowly drain them. Those who have the ability to see spirits will notice that they've increased in volume. The largest concentration appears to be in the mirror room, bathrooms, library, and auditorium.

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The sound of gears turning can be heard in the clock tower. It seems to be coming from somewhere under the floorboards, and it is loudest where they've been pulled up.

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The cabinets in the music room are now unlocked. Various instruments can be found inside of them.

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The anatomical model has returned to the science lab. It is impossibly heavy and cannot be moved by any means. If one is quiet, they might think that they can hear it laugh or weep, sigh or whistle, though that should be impossible. Those who visit the lab regularly will now find it oddly to be more inviting, almost as though they're being welcomed.

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There will be additional updates in the event post. Please stay tuned.

PLAYER UPDATES

Reminders

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If you have plot points or clues of particular interest to you, or that your character is currently pursuing on an IC level, please let us know so that we can include these pieces as we map out the endgame direction.

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Please ensure that you are not utilizing other players' characters without permission. This includes spreading personal details and issuing "warnings" to characters. This is a collaborative hobby, and we ask that everyone be considerate of each other and their character development and relationship opportunities. When in doubt, assume that permission is needed.

Player feedback

Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to ask players for their OOC feedback on where they would like the game to go from here. One major topic of interest is how you wish for the game to proceed, including the pacing (i.e. a quick wrap up versus steadily working through the plot,) and plot points that your character is following up on or that you wish to see resolved. We hope to move forward considering what players hope to see from the game and its ending in mind.

If you would feel more comfortable sharing your feedback in a private setting, feel free to post a screened comment to our mod contact page or reach out to Bunny (

pfle) directly.

OOC PLOTTING

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CR: Tell us a little about your character, how they're faring, and what sort of cr you want to establish or expand upon
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Player: Lavvy
Character: ~~Add~~ Dynamo!!!!
Canon: Elsword

CR: Add (

subtract) is dead until mid-June so u all get Dynamo until then.

Dynamo is an array of (currently 4/6) shoe-sized, diamond-shaped drones that look like this. They can do fun stuff like zip around and carry people like a cool hoverchair/hovershoes and make holoscreens and shock people do ???? vague sci-fi things that i make up as i go along tbh. but! also!!! they are shaped like a friend.

As of late April, their original AI was reconnected after x years of being offline, so they are both very excited to be Awake and Conscious and also extremely distressed about Add being dead :') please be kind to them while they figure out their identity and how to deal w\ not being attached to Add.

Plans: tbh I was planning to just drop properly and either bring in a temp char or take a break entirely while Add was waiting to respawn but everyone got so attached to Dynamo I was like oh. well okay. so now they are here and i'm gonna ponder their issues while they expose all of Add's deepest, darkest secrets, like the fact that he cares about other people and wants to make friends. please ask Dynamo about all the lifehacks to calming Add down and placating him this is valuable data right here.

Dynamo also wants to be helpful!!! since Add isn't around to tell them what to do and they don't like Not having a task... they want to help... let them help and also protect their friends that are nice to them, they'll be very sad if anyone gets hurt : (

sidenote that I'm probably gonna sit out of the mission stuff unless there's still an open spot when the deadline comes around, Add has done enough insane shit so Dynamo can sit back and be supportive of everyone when they return. please be safe or they will be sad : ((

May event/TDM toplevel

Edited 2022-05-13 05:43 (UTC)

holds your hands give me the Shin and Dynamo CR... maybe they can help him out with some of his projects while Add's unable to scoff at them (Dynamo scoffing allowed)

Dynamo would just politely explain everything and give encouragement, crying, maybe Shin will learn about Nasod tech for realsies..... he's the club 2nd in command so he SHOULD know all of this stuff!! they gotta work hard to catch him up so Add will be proud of them both!!!!

yessss i love this so much! i'm very down for shin to learn some Nasod tech, the sky's your oyster on what you'd like Dynamo to teach, i'm sure nothing will get accidentally teleported into a wall or smth

Shin's gonna work hard!! i'm crying this'll be nice and cute i think, good dynamo

chinhands... tbh since he did get into magic too it'd also be a fine excuse for me to ramble about how they're the same fucking thing just dressed differently sighs. Add hates this but Shin gets the REAL lore, science is just magic for nerds.

i'm crying Dynamo's going to give him the ammunition needed to be : ] back at Add like 'same thing'... betrayal of the highest order
he's def the sort to try combine all the things he's learnt... the true magitech is now within his grasp i'm looking forward immensely to this rambling

:] I need to do things with dynamochan like let it know we have some add blood maybe you can help make a cure... pleading

also I have to attack you on komaeda make no mistake

: ) there's no cure for void cancer am sorry... u can have the meds to make it less shit to deal with tho. sighs a lot.

grabby hands at komaeda except dynamo has no hands so its just some flying diamonds attacking him

:) SIGHS ITS A PROJECT WE CAN WORK ON TOGETHER DYNAMOCHAN it beeps and say there's no cure but oh honey!! hiyori will try his damndest to make one or fall asleep trying

I'll have something up tomorrow I HAVE TO WORK IN THE MORN BUT IM CHEATING THE SYSTEM!!! dynamo can knock him unconscious

looks at add........ please i think he's past the point of there being a cure he is made of GLITTER

give him to me

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antitoxin - 2022-05-02 11:35 (UTC) - Expand

please let me have bonding with the newest member of the asunaro fam, ranger's been having a rough time so he could use it

also please teach him all of the everything. they're fellow databases so he can teach dynamo ~~the classics~~ everything he knows in return, i think that's cute for them maybe.

I second what u said and the cross out

NOT the cross out

okay but ranger would help him with both, including the cross out. i think that'd be really cute for them actually.

PLEASE sighs, theyre both going through it... ranger helped dynamo so dynamo wants to help too : (((

knowledge bonding....

i want to interact w him i need to have a word w him abt his dito code ALSO i think it'd be funny if dito tried to talk abt add to him or smth since add is his bestie now (dead) (real)

LOOKS UP please.... how i want them to interact just because, despite having and using a code made specifically to attacked Dito, they don't actually hate Dito at most there is some dislike for how he rudely gnawed on Add's arm for a day

they won't turn off the dito code tho sorry this is a very important job Add gave to them!!!!!

STOP HE WAS HIGH... not his fault! wish you'd top level at speed dating i think he'd be so popular ngl. but ill find a way otherwise!!

CRYING i did say i would but then i died, maybe ill do it anyway sighs

necrophily - 2022-05-02 06:02 (UTC) - Expand

i want the baby

I think since Dynamo isn't on the mission that's a prime time for maybe Helena and them to connect and maybe talk about identity, since it'll be calmer then. She's very good at listening and puzzling out things so at the least they could bounce ideas off each other while Dynamo has to handle being "awake" for now.

everyone doing insane mission things and dying in the bg meanwhile dynamo @ lena like if add & i share all our thoughts and feelings does that make us one person or seven

helena like hmm i think it depends on how often you have conversations with your separate parts and if you'd be happier being seven people at once

ethics but like. the good ethics club

ethics club......... 2!!