MARCH PLOTTING POST

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Hello Drifters, and welcome to the March Plotting Post!


March marks a busy month for the game: we’ll be holding our main game event around the 5th or the 7th (depending on schedules!) an ATP/EMP timed for the 8th to go up alongside the EMP comm post, and our second Test Drive Meme on the 15th!

As a reminder, players may tag either the game event OR TDM posts as they wish! If you post a top level in the TDM, please mark in the subject line that you are Currently In-Game. Both for the ease of book keeping, and to help new players figure out who is who! With this said, onto the major stops this month:

With the forest behind them the Convoy makes its way onto the grasslands. Powerlines dot the landscape, decorated with paper scraps. These papers contain messages from home, and can help stabilize Drifters from the effects of last month’s Moon Warp.

While on the move Drifters will encounter the ruins of old homes and stores, with plenty of Husks scattered around these dwellings. While the ruins can provide supplies and shelters, getting too close to the Husks can prompt either monster spawns from the Husks, or behavior changes in Drifters. (Your character may feel restless, on edge, and/or showing a psychological monster trait.) The Convoy has a fix for this in the form of a song played from speakers, but this only works when the Convoy is close at hand.

In addition there will be encounters with a new monster called bull gorgons, which can be harvested for meat but not without a fight! At the end of the month, the terrain will also get more marshy, and will be the perfect spot for a zolom attack. That’s right, the Final Fantasy 7 snake kaiju is going to make an appearance, and they hunt in a pack!

We’re also pleased to announce this is our first event monster month. And this month will be centered around the Harpy and Naga species. A monster transforming storm is going to rage through the grasslands. It temporarily (ie, for one month) imparts traits from one of these monsters if any Drifter stumbles into the storm. This will occur in both the main comms, and the TDM, so feel free to play either way!

As a last house keeping note, we are currently short on mod staff, so feel free to take a look at the Mod Contact page if that is something that sounds interesting!

And that is our route planned for the month! We hope you enjoy this event, and feel free to plan in the comments below!

NAVIGATION

Comments

Faith Lehane | Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

[definitionofcrazy]

Faith is still not entirely processing the fact that her head came off during the last Moon Warp. She got better, but she's still reassessing this place and wondering if this is a "This is hell and she deserves to be here" situation. (She only knows one guy who's actually been to hell, and he's not around to ask)

As usual, the best therapy is violence, so she'll be throwing herself a little bit recklessly into the maiming of monsters. We have fun. Depending on the specifics of the notes from home, those also might do a number on her.

She might get a temporary touch of Harpy from the event, not sure yet. (It might be fun to give her false hope that she's got her slayer reflexes back only for them to go away again. Also her having nesting compulsions without realizing it would be hilarious.)

And finally: For her Dullahan template, I have her absorbing life force, and she's gonna start to experience The Hunger that goes with it as her first permanent/long-term behavior change. She won't know why. She's also gonna start feeling twitchy around anything made of gold, so if your character has any gold on their person, feel free to fuck up her day about it.

OTHER THAN THAT I AM UP FOR ANYTHING hit me up here, in DMs, or on my plurk at yonfellow

[taediosum]

i would love to get more faith cr this month since i fell off in feb, maybe arcade can spot her while she maims monsters for mental health?

[definitionofcrazy]

Totally down for more Arcade CR, and hey, now he gets to see those superpowers she was talking about in action. Also more of her hilarious relationship with advanced vocabulary and sophisticated references.

[taediosum]

yesss haha, more awkward misunderstandings because he can't not talk like someone whose social life is mostly books. and the superpowers. he will be suitably impressed.

[serialmurderbot]

violence is indeed a good form of therapy! honestly it'd be fun to continue the theme of these two only interacting when one or both of them are paranoid

[definitionofcrazy]

tbf "When one of them is paranoid" is MOST of the time with Faith, but that only reinforces how right you are.

[serialmurderbot]

LOL yeah now that I've said it I realize it's not much of a restriction, but still! At least watching someone's back is a good way to get some kind of trust going even if it's just 'watching them watch your back'

[guidemyway]

Ruby and Faith should do some violence together!

[definitionofcrazy]

She is always down for multiplayer violence, tbh

[bufudine]

Serph has plenty of experience with the Hunger (though he isn't open about it). That said, he's more accustomed to his hunger being satiated with meat, so he could end up giving Faith bad advice?

[definitionofcrazy]

Okay no this thread idea is hilarious and I need it

[thetatters]

John and Arthur spend all of canon carrying around a lighter, can Faith please teach him how to smoke a cigarette? She can feel less threatened when he spends five straight minutes coughing like a bitch

[definitionofcrazy]

This could be post-asskicking bonding maybe?

[thetatters]

100% I love this. a normal friendship