Intro Log. 3/15/18

[awashmods]

Ding Dong Bell
[ 3/15/2018 ]

Hello everyone and welcome to Awash’s first intro! The mingle log can be found here, so feel free to jump right in and get playing! In the future, OOC posts like this one will be posted two days before event logs go up, to give everyone time to plot and prepare for events. However, since this is an intro log and this post is mostly just additional information for the very first log in Awash, we're posting this one at the same time. (We also promise we're done inundating you with OOC posts now!)

• All characters will find themselves at the bottom of the well in the middle of the Town, which is somehow a lot bigger on the inside than it first appears. They’ll have to drag themselves out of there before they can do anything else, unfortunately, and the only way out is through the shaft of the well -- it's a solid 30 feet deep or so, though.
  
  
• All characters powers are intact, but there’s not a lot of elbow room either with how many people are shoved into that space, so be careful!
  
  
• The well itself cannot be damaged at this time. It’s weird. It’s almost like there’s some strange sort of magical protection on it, or something. Oh well!
  
  
• Regardless, once characters manage to fight their way out of that well, they’ll find themselves in the direct center of the Town. There is no color whatsoever; all objects are shades of grey. There is nothing stopping them from exploring the Town or the Forest to their heart’s content.
  
  
• Living space can be claimed at will by the characters, though they will be naturally drawn to their color sector. It’s just a very slight inclination, though, and they can very easily claim a different home in a different area if they choose. Every single building in the Town is run-down and decrepit, falling to pieces, though some are in a greater state of disrepair than others. While there's furniture, a lot of it is old, rotted or unusable, so… have fun sleeping on the floor.
  
  
• In each house, there will be laptops waiting for them, though it may or may not be theirs. They will have to wander and poke their noses into houses until they find the one with their login information already plugged in. Creepy! It’s like it was waiting for them. More information on how the network works can be found on the FAQ.
  
  
• Characters will be able to scavenge for food in the Forest and the outskirts of the Town, and thankfully it seems as though some buildings amongst the residential houses are things such as old general stores and the like -- they have some non-perishable food stored away.

The rest is all up to you, though! You’re on your own now--good luck, friends!

Please feel free to ask any questions here, and also feel free to use this post for plotting. For meet-and-greeting, see this post. For a refresher, the locations page and Housing document can be found at those links.

Thank you, and have fun!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

[worlds]

Hello! The well has a bucket, right? How large is the bucket, would it reach the bottom of the well if lowered, and can it be seen from the bottom or no?

Thank you!

[awashmods]

The well does have a bucket! It's at the very top, but it could be seen if a character really squinted. And if lowered all the way, it would indeed reach the bottom!

[parodeity]

simple question: are we supposed to used character tags for posts and if so what format would those take? i trained myself to add them from other games immediately after tagging so i had a moment of "wait."

[awashmods]

Please do! Character tags have been added in the format of first name last name, but they won't show up until they have been used once. You're welcome to add tags yourself, and we'll also be adding them to the intro log so everyone's tags properly show up on the list.

[windeity]

HELLO...I might have missed this somewhere but with regards to the one additional personal item, would characters just immediately have that on their person, or is it waiting for them in their house, etc?

[awashmods]

Hello!

Characters' items and animal companions will be in the house that they were initially assigned, yes! ...Well, the animal companions might've been wandering around by now, but they were there initially.

[good_ideas]

Quick question! (Or maybe not so quick actually, I'm sorry...)
If Shiho touches the well, or any of the buildings in the town would she be able to read anything using her psychometry? Like for instance, memories of what may have happened, etc? (Or would it be blank instead?)

[awashmods]

Right now, everything will be completely blank, without any memories to be read. Things will start to change as soon as color starts to be returned to the Town, though, so please don't hesitate to ask again in the future!

[parodeity]

another question: as per the tdm, the characters themselves/their personal items still retain colors, right?

[awashmods]

That's correct! All characters, their clothing and all of their personal items retain colors. That goes for their animal companions as well.

Re: QUESTIONS

[queenofminiskirts]

Can people be flown out of the well? I mean, Kaoru probably isn't going to be making a huge show of her power, but I just wanted to ask just in case she tries to sneak herself out to better help people (though how she'd do that is anyone's guess...).

[awashmods]

Yes, of course! Characters are welcome to get out of the well in whatever ways they can come up with.

now in the right place

[inheritance]

Hi, mods! If the characters go looking for things like books or printed newspapers and magazines specifically, would they be able to find anything like that? And also would there be dates on any of these things, if they're lying around?

[awashmods]

Hello!

They'd be able to find books and what might be newspapers and magazines around, but unfortunately as things stand now in the town, the words and the paper are all the same shade!

So nothing can be read. That might change when more color is restored to the Town itself, though!

[windeity]

Hi mods, one more quick question!

If a character so happened to fly very, very high up to try and get to a vantage point to view the whole town from an aerial view how well would they be able to see the landscape? That is to say what would they see if they went high enough? Could they get an idea how large the town is/what the districts look like and how far apart they are from stuff/etc?

[awashmods]

Hello!

That would be very doable, yes! The Town isn't particularly huge, so it'd be a pretty simple task to fly up and get a proper glimpse of it. It's circular, with the Well in the center, and the districts dividing the town in three. The divisions between are pretty distinct in the difference in architecture and set up, despite the lack of color, so it should be pretty easy to tell that there are three districts.

If you can pardon the very rough "drawing", the layout is something like this, and would be easily discernible from that height. The forest and water both would seem to stretch on to the horizon on either side from there, though!

We hope that helps!

[ifionlyhadthecourage]

Is there anything else of use in the stores besides food?? (i.e. blankets? towels? kitchenware?)

[awashmods]

Characters would be able to find the sort of basics you'd expect in a relatively old-fashioned store, yes! So all of the above would be fine, but characters are unlikely to find fancier things, like radios, phones, fancy kitchen gadgets, etc. Feel free to assume that any of the basics can be scrounged up, though!

[brightlyshines]

So hey, is it possible that if Estelle looked hard enough, she could find a fishing rod somewhere?

Barring that, materials to make a makeshift one?

[awashmods]

There may be a few old, generally shoddy fishing rods left over in some of the boat houses, but she will definitely be able to find the materials around to make one if she scavenges a bit!

[brightlyshines]

Awesome! Good enough for Estelle, to be honest.

[brightlyshines]

Oh! Also, I assume there's fish in the water? Edible fish?

[tendershepherd]

1) What does the wall on the interior of the well look like? Is it abnormally smooth or is it rough/likely to have enough outcroppings that Sorey could, with some difficulty, climb his way out ye olde fashioned way?

2) I know I asked before, so pardon the repeat question, but at this time what, if anything, might Sorey be able to sense from being in the well? I remember you guys said the well would have the most concentration of malevolence around it, but will that be present at this time for Sorey to feel or will it only hit him when he finally makes it out of the well? Cuz whether or not he can sense it while he's IN the well will affect how efficient he can be at climbing OUT of the well.

[awashmods]

1. It's a pretty old-fashioned well, so it's not smooth at all really. There would definitely be outcroppings of brick and mortar that Sorey could grab onto.

2. That said, yes, the sense of malevolence exists! However, it isn't more concentrated inside the well than outside of it; it's just that the area around (and in) the well is where the malevolence exists in general, for whatever reason. Being inside or outside of the well won't make any difference for Sorey in that sense.

We hope that helps!