Mod Post. 1/7/19

[awashmods]

Hello to all of our newcomers, and welcome to Awash! Thank you for your interest in the game, and we hope you have a good time here! This is just a quick mod post with two purposes: to help the new people get settled into the game, and to introduce tomorrow's mini-event!

AC

• New characters must submit half-AC.
  
• Those requirements, as well as the AC post, can be found here.
  
• Please be sure to also read the general AC guidelines, here! It is very important that you do, as we will not be granting AC exemptions due to the capped nature of the game.

Gameplay Mechanics

• Character housing, now that the application round is over, can be found here! This is where characters can find their laptops, though they are by no means required to stay there; they can move at will, and their laptop will function in whatever new home they pick. The spreadsheet is editable, so please feel free to move your characters around!
  
• Quests can be done by incoming players at any point once they have been introed. Quests can ICly be found here. OOCly, further information can be found here! Please be aware that only quests of the current month can be completed for a reward. Past quests can be done if you would like to, but will receive no reward.
  
• A list of current restored colors can be found here; please be aware that no colors have been restored for new characters yet. That means that their text color will be black, and their homes, unless shared with a current character, will have no color.
  
• The OOC meet and greet can be found here.
  
• The Calendar has also been updated with the current weather!

Event Log

• A mingle log will go up tomorrow, January 8th at 9 PM EST, to provide a general introduction to the game. Due to the sizes of the current app rounds in the game, the intro logs also serve as mini-events, with a bit more to play with.

Pity the Poor Step-Sister
[ 1/8 - 1/12 ]
There are a two major points of note here re: the intro log/event log -- what's happening with the newly arrived characters, and what's happening with the characters as a whole. So let's break it down!

Newly arrived characters will arrive in the well, as always! They'll end up in the bottom of the well, absolutely frigid water coming up to about knee-deep. It's far larger on the inside than it would seem, but either way, the only way up is the top of the well, the opening there. Thankfully, previous characters have long since installed ropes and ladders, and an alarm bell to ring -- it's a bit easier to get yourselves out of there than it used to be.

Also, they might notice that they're not exactly in the clothing they expected to end up in down there, either. It seems something strange is happening in the Town once again, and they're getting caught up in it. Because...

Everyone, for the remainder of the event is going to experience some...odd fairy tale trickery going on this next week or so. All characters, old and new, will find that every now and then, they are shoved into a fairy tale role. They might be a princess, or a peasant, or a wicked witch. They might be a prince, a soldier, an older brother, the beautiful third sister. They'll be shoved into clothes befitting those roles (or possibly very little clothing at all, in the case of creatures like the Beast from Beauty and the Beast), and while they'll continue to be themselves, they may find that their circumstances end up a little...strange.

For so long as they're stuck in a role, they will have situations happen to them as would happen to a fairy tale figure of that role. For example, a princess might find themselves being kidnapped constantly, despite being in the safety of the Town; one second they're peacefully minding their own business, the next they're trapped in some cellar dungeon somewhere in the Town. Because the Town itself will be morphing and molding to fit these tropes and roles -- and then snapping right back to normal when that "setting" is no longer needed. So if the princess is rescued from the dungeon, suddenly said dungeon will be gone, even though it was there just a moment ago, you swear it was.

Rapunzel may suddenly have their hair grow extremely long, but also plop a tower in the middle of the Town. An "elder brother" role may suddenly be facing near death experiences on the regular, out of nowhere (because, after all, only the youngest brother succeeds in these sorts of tales), whereas a "younger sister" role may be constantly dragged off to face endless stupid tasks, or to be married to someone. Who? We just don't know.

Because that's the odd thing about this situation. The other "characters" in these fairy tales? They're all nothing but faceless blank puppets, lacking in emotions or voices or eyes. They just mechanically go through their role (whether that be trying to cut off your hands or trying to marry you), and if they are cut down, eventually another will just take its place. Hm, spooky.

The nice thing about this situation is that these roles don't last forever; a character could be stuck in the same role all week, or they could end up in multiple for brief periods of time. It's entirely up to you! All fairy tale roles are fair game so long as the character in question is humanoid. For instance, the Beast, the dwarves, and the like would be fine, but nobody's going to be shuffled into the role of a random horse this time.

When the event is over and done, characters will find that the clothing they were wearing for whatever role they got stuck in sticks around...and so do the "corpses" of those weird creepy puppets that were taken down over the course of the event.

Please feel free to be creative, and to use any roles that pop out at you or appeal to you from any fairy tales at all; the Town will shift to accommodate the story, and the bit character dolls will do everything they can to make that story play out properly. If you're looking for ideas, a good resource can be found here or here to poke around fairy tales!

For newbies, please don't feel restrained to just the rescue for your intro log toplevels! You can assume that your character got out in some way or another in order to work in multiple prompts for the event if you would like to do so.

• After this log, new characters will be welcome to create logs and posts as you please! Please be sure to read over the FAQ once more before you begin playing.

As ever, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here. Thank you, and welcome again to the game!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

[illequipped]

so pcs will only be humanoid roles but will the puppets be animal shaped if there's, like, a talking animal character in a given fairy tale??

also can two pcs star in the same fairy tale at once, like 2/7 dwarves or something like that...

[awashmods]

The puppets can be animal-shaped, yep! They will be completely blank and white puppets, just animal-shaped instead of human-shaped.

And it is totally fine to have multiple characters be part of the same story! They might really just be that unlucky, ending up sharing a tale together.

[withwisdom]

so to be clear, we can't shift our character's personality to fit in with the fairytale role -- they'll be slotted into a role but not compelled to act out the role, correct?

[awashmods]

That's correct! They will 100% be their normal selves -- it's just that everything around them will be doing its absolute best to shove them into the role they're meant to be playing in their story. Of course, absolutely nothing is stopping them from making things go off the rails whenever they're capable!

Re: QUESTIONS

[espritdecorpse]

Are the corpse puppets, I mean puppet corpses just ordinary puppets once they’re cut down?

[awashmods]

They are, yes! Just plain, blank, totally lifeless puppets. You can do whatever you want with them after that, like draw funny faces on them or something.

[withwisdom]

hi it's me again, ANOTHER QUESTION

Can we make the puppets look like people our characters know, facelessly playing out the role without their personality traits, or will they just be generic looking to match the role?

[awashmods]

For the most part, the puppets are generic -- but it's fine to make them resemble characters your character knows. So it won't happen every single time, but it's absolutely something that can happen, if that makes sense!

[queenofminiskirts]

So...I know Rapunzel = long hair but how far do the physical changes go? If it was Day Boy Night Girl, would a character's eyes and hair change colour? Will they gain the light sensitivity/night vision of the character?

Or, if say, someone were to become Thumbelina would they shrink or will the puppet coming for them be a to scale giant frog?

[awashmods]

All of the roles that are specific characters like that will come with their own physical changes, but the extent to which that happens is ultimately up to you. For example, a character who's Thumbelina will ultimately have to shrink, because it's part of Thumbelina's character -- but if you'd like your characters' hair and eye color to also change to match, that's up to you.

If the fairy tale character in question has some sort of ability, power or characteristic, they will be gaining that as well for the duration that they are stuck in that role, yes!

[good_ideas]

Another question about the extent of the physical changes! Will it just be clothes, or for instance, if I chose to use a character from Diamonds and Toads then would Shiho be able to have diamonds come out of her mouth every time she speaks? Or would it be a puppet throwing diamonds at her every time she speaks?

[yuzanagi]

Hello mods! Would Puss in Boots be considered 'humanoid' enough if the Beast counts? (I'm sorry just a perfect excuse for Yu to be a cat creature I can't pass this up without asking)

[crowsigliere]

Hey mods!! I just had a few quick questions.

First, in regards to the clothing: I understand the characters are forced into their corresponding outfit initially, but is there anything stopping them from removing it once it's on? If so, then are they stuck in that outfit until their role changes, or until the town decides to snap itself back the way it's meant to be? And if they can take the outfits off freely, will they reappear whenever their role "starts up" again, or can the character go about in their own clothing from then on? (I hope that all made sense??) (Also, importantly, do they get to keep the outfits?)

And second, in regards to the puppets: if a role played by a puppet happens to be invisible in the original fairy tale, would the puppet be invisible too? And if so, would they become visible if slain/at the end of the event, or would there just be invisible corpses on the floor until they're taken care of elseways?

[esperimental]

Hi mods! What happens if a character does their best to avoid finishing their role? i.e. I'm planning on giving Ritsu Little Mermaid, where obviously he would not be fond of the idea of stabbing himself or any people stuffed in Prince roles. I'm sure other fairy tale roles are also going to suffer some horrible deaths or something. Since going off the rails was already discussed, I'm assuming alternate endings are how they finish? Bypassing the days until event's end probably works too, but that's boring hehe. And edit with an addendum, aside from clothes, will props that would have been on their person disappear? Such as, in the same example, the Little Mermaid's knife.

[noholdsbard]

Will they gain powers/items associated with their fairy tales? Like will Tom Thumb actually shrink or will a shapeshifter actually shapeshift or will they just be stuck with a single appearance, etc.?

[regrede]

so the characters have to be humanoid, but what about in the case of humans cursed to shapeshift/turn into animals/etc? i’m thinking specifically of swan lake here, where theoretically a character might have to be a swan for half the day?

Re: QUESTIONS

[bakedapple]

What's this month's weather like? I'm assuming it's still cold, but is there any snow on the ground or fresh snow falling?

And if not, would a character playing the role of Elsa/Ice Queen, who's having trouble controlling their powers, be able to bring snow to Chroma? :>

[organfarm]

If a character is given a fairytale role that's physically small (I'm thinking the Mouse King from the Nutcracker), will the clothes they're left with at the end of the event remain in that tiny size, or will they be regular wearable clothes after it's all over?

[ilves]

sooooooooo after the whole princess and the pea thing plays out, is there any way that all forty mattresses could just... stick around with the puppets? or would they poof away

[spiria]

so like, if characters are only going to have qualities of certain fairy tales ... could we have certain aspects of the fairytale happen in a different way?

Like, for example, if I were planning on having aspects of Sleeping Beauty happen, could just getting a splinter or something be something that happens instead of poking a finger on a spinning wheel and have the same effect?

Also, for the sake of not being totally comatose for the entire week, could it just make it so that she gets sleepier over the course of the week?

[reapen]

What would happen if a character just trashed the above ground exterior of the well in their desperation to get out? For example, if someone with magnetic powers just ripped all the metal pieces out from a distance?

[pyrafect]

Do characters gain some sort of awareness/knowledge of the fairytale they're supposed to be in? Like, say the story of Rapunzel isn't part of someone's canon-- if they get shoved into Rapunzel's roll, can they gain awareness of the story itself to know what to do to fulfill that roll?

[hypertoxic]

Can props themselves have magical properties? One of the most common items associated with the Evil Queen is the magic mirror, which can do a whole variety of things like spy on innocent maidens and provide bad advice. If Vriska had a magic mirror, would it actually be magic and able to have powers of its own?

[noholdsbard]

ANOTHER QUESTION also please ignore the fact that I used the wrong journal for this sdfkhf if a character dies in consequence to the dangerous fairytale shit thrown at them, will the normal death mechanics apply or will something else happen? Especially if the death is canon to the fairytale in question (death by turning into seafoam for The Little Mermaid, for example, or getting burned alive like the witch in Hansel and Gretel, or wasting away from disease like any fairytale parent).