event. | 3/24/18

[awashmods]

All-Endearing Cleanliness
[ 3/24/2018 - 3/31/2018 ]

Starting on 3/24, Saturday, at 9 PM EST, a Quest will be posted to the forum for all of the characters to see. It will read:

All-endearing cleanliness,
Virtue next to godliness,
Easiest, cheapest, needfull’st duty,
To the body health and beauty;
Who that’s human would refuse it,
When a little water does it?

Requirements: Everyone

They'll have all of a few hours to process that, to try to figure out what it means -- and then Things begin to happen.

The Town was never particularly sturdy, but now it’s almost as if it has it out for everyone; roofs cave in when they’d seemed perfectly stable the night before, bridges collapse, dumping their unaware cargo into the bone-chilling colorless water below, and floors dump innocents into the dank, dark cellars lurking beneath them.

Opening closets will reveal actual, legitimate skeletons in them (and yes, they are quite real), and dipping into any cellar reveals that they can’t be lit up by normal means no matter what you do -- candles go out all of a sudden, and flashlights cease working (though magical powers will somehow be fine). Similar situations happen all over the Town, persisting throughout the week.

And if, even despite all of that, characters don’t try to obediently complete the quest and clean up the Town over the next few days? Well...then the furniture begins to talk. It starts innocently enough -- the chairs might demand cleaning, the dusty drapes might ask why your character is so lazy. But as the week progresses, things get... a bit nastier. The walls start to poke at your character’s past, at things that bother them still or haunt them. The floors might point out your character’s failings, things they’re not proud of or personality traits they worry about.

And it seems like everyone can hear it. Your neighbor, your roommate, that person passing by on the street? Yep. They can all hear every last thing that chair is saying about you. Maybe now would be a good time to clean.

Event Breakdown

• The event quest would like for the characters to clean up the town -- this can involve literal cleaning, but also tasks such as mending and repairing old sections of the Town, rebuilding furniture, and the like. The quest is vague along those lines, so feel free to be creative!
  
• So long as characters continue to clean, their surroundings won't reveal anything around them. Still, they have to sleep or rest sometime...
  
• And if characters do not clean, the sorts of things the furniture, walls, floors, etc reveal about them will get worse and worse the longer they stubbornly refuse to complete the quest.
  
• This event will continue for a week, until 3/31, at which point the characters will receive their quest reward... if they deserve one!

Quests

• With the start of this event, the Quest Forum post will officially be up, but there won't be any additional quests added until the beginning of April, with the monthly mod post!
  
• Characters are still welcome to respond, tag around or threadjack that quest toplevel and any future quest toplevels, though for the sake of readability (as more quests will be added later), we have to ask that characters do not post additional toplevels on the Quest post. ICly, they will be unable to post new toplevels to that post.
  
• All quests will be broken down in the same manner as the above quest: they will all have the quest description (some clearer than others, some more obscure or riddle-like), and a "requirements" section. This requirements section will describe the required make-up of any party that wants to take on a quest.
  
• More information will come at the beginning of April, as well as more quests for everyone to sign up for, so keep an eye out for that!

A mingle log will be posted for the event, though you are more than welcome to have your characters make their own posts or logs for the event as well as soon as it begins on 3/24. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them below. You're more than welcome to use the rest of this post for plotting amongst yourselves. Thank you, everyone!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

[swordfucker]

I’m sorry for this question or if it’s answered in this already and I missed it, but does anything happen extra if characters stab the trash talking furniture?? Or destroy it... Like if Guren stabs a couch to shut it up will the room erupt in taunts about his dead gf?

[awashmods]

Yes, extra taunts for Guren --

But the furniture will just keep on offering up ruder and ruder comments. If it's broken down to say...toothpicks, or burned to ash or is destroyed to the point that it's something wholly unrecognizable as furniture, at that point it'll stop talking for good. It'll be pretty properly dead then.

[swordfucker]

See kids, having a temper works out and Guren is a great role model,

BUT THANK YOU this works great!

[ifionlyhadthecourage]

How long will it be until the furniture start shifting from "clean me" to the insults? And do they stop arguing at night or is that like "rest time" for them, too?

[awashmods]

The first day or two will likely be pretty innocent as far as event happenings are concerned, with a greater focus on the Town itself dropping roofs on peoples' heads, for instance, with the furniture as a secondary thing with their "clean me" requests.

After that, though, all bets are off and the houses and furniture can start spitting out insults and the characters' deepest, darkest fears at a whim! And they don't stop at night, unfortunately; it might be a little rough for characters to get some sleep this week.

[murdery]

What would happen if certain individuals of the magic persuasion tried to magic things into cleaning themselves?

[awashmods]

That'd probably work just fine! So long as things are getting cleaned, and some sort of effort is being put forth from Henry's end of things, nothing will be yelling at him, anyway.

[murdery]

Awesome! House Henry gets to be the only one that can get any shut-eye, apparently.

Another one: can the furniture be communicated with in any way? Like if Henry tried to strike up a conversation with one because how cool is this shit. Would they respond or just keep up with the insults?

[awashmods]

They cannot be! They don't really seem to have any proper comprehension or... listening capabilities at all, really; they just keep up the insults and poking at their secrets and vulnerabilities.

[murdery]

wow rude!!!

[crowsigliere]

For clarification's sake--if one person isn't cleaning, but others are cleaning around them, will the furniture still taunt that individual?

This goes for if someone is sleeping as well, if one person is asleep while the others in the house clean, or if the area has already been straightened up. Will it be relatively silent, or will the town demand that everyone does something pretty much 24/7?

[awashmods]

That's correct, yes! If everyone else is cleaning and one is not, the furniture will all direct its attention at that one person. Unfortunate.

If the area is completely and totally clean -- spotless, with fixed up walls and furniture, etc -- then the furniture will be a little more merciful. There will be quiet portions of time, at least, where its not all being a complete pain in the ass. But it'll start up again eventually so long as there's more of the Town to clean, and will point that out to the characters!

Still, it might be a good few hours to catch some good shut-eye with, at least.

[crowsigliere]

Unfortunate indeed.

But, noted all the same! Thank you!

[passio]

is the furniture aware of housing arrangements in any way?

if character A is at character B's house (and neither of them are cleaning), will character B's furniture insult both of them or only character B?

[awashmods]

The furniture insults whoever's around, regardless of housing arrangements! So if character A is at character B's house, and character B is the only one cleaning, character A is gonna be the one getting that smack talk. If neither of them are cleaning, character B and character A can both enjoy the furniture poking at their insecurities.

We hope that helps!

[passio]

it does! thank you so much!

[ifionlyhadthecourage]

Is there going to be anything interesting in the cellars if they manage to see down there?? Anything important enough to note, anyway?

[awashmods]

Mostly just the usual things you'd find in a cellar -- old firewood, supplies, some root vegetables and foods that have been stored down there and well-kept because of the dark and cool state of the cellars, and a bunch of tools! Nothing super exciting as of yet, but at least there's more food.

[ifionlyhadthecourage]

"Yet". I see you there. Still, I'm sure they'll all be thrilled to eat more ash. Thank you, mods!

[parodeity]

are the skeletons all people skeletons or do we have skeleton variety? :O

[awashmods]

They are all of the people variety, no monster skeletons here today, sorry!

[parodeity]

I WAS THINKING ANIMALS monsters did not occur to me - would anyone be able to tell how old they are if they examined them? (i'm sorry dave's into weird dead shit so i went "oh i guess i need to ask" as i started my toplevel...)

[awashmods]

Oh, yeah, no animals either!

The best anyone would be able to tell is that they are pretty damn old! They're dusty and pretty decayed, if nothing else.

[parodeity]

is there anything other than other people to keep people from cleaning the bones and doing whatever with them :|a

[awashmods]

Nope! Do as you please with them.

[dreidels]

are the voices of the furniture/etc ones that characters can recognize (ie someone they hate) or is just a random voice?

[awashmods]

They're not voices they'll be able to recognize, they're just voices! That said, each piece of furniture definitely has a distinct voice, just as if they were all different people.

They're still totally unfamiliar voices, though!

[ifionlyhadthecourage]

Is there anything weird about the skeletons? Any way for someone to examine how they died, maybe?

[awashmods]

There aren't any markings or anything implying any sorts of violent deaths, if that's what you mean! They all seem to entirely intact, normal skeletons, just ones that have been there a long, long time.

No signs of animals or wildlife getting at them either!

[totheno1]

Would a mute spell work on the furniture?
Just for not overdoing it, the mute would only last 20 minutes at a time and he'd get tired after doing it so constantly if it does work + it only has a 20% chance or working so he'll have to cast it a lot in the dark

[awashmods]

That would work, yep! The restrictions you've specified seem entirely fair, so go shut up that furniture, Nanjo.

[totheno1]

Excellent time to run out of MP telling furniture to put a lid in it. Thank you mods!