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event. | 3/24/18
[ 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!
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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?
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