January Event: Rejection Rooms

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JANUARY EVENT: REJECTION ROOMS

Who: Anyone and everyone!
What: Rejecting your Light comes with dire consequences
When: January 25th - 28th
Where: All over Monsun
Warnings: Violence and possible character death; please note any specific content warnings if they come up!

You're Ruled by the Things You Feel

This log is primarily for the Rejection Room portion of the event, for ease and convenience. To quote our event post:

Characters intent on rejecting their Light will find themselves irrevocably drawn to Monsun's shores. They might not even be aware of it - driven by their rage, their paranoia, their fear, or all of the above, and more. Monsun, for its part, is happy to receive them. Its landscape has become so warped over time...and those parts of Monsun consumed by shadow will start to distort, molding into structures that such characters are only too happy to hide within: Rejection Rooms.

Those who challenge the Rejection Rooms need not worry about death for themselves - damage taken within the rooms will simply translate to exhaustion outside of it, with seemingly mortal wounds leading to expulsion from the room itself, and an inability to re-enter.

The same holds true for the boss of each Room. Failure to beat them into expulsion means that the Room will continue to feed from their wildly catastrophizing mind, until there's nothing left to save at all.

So, simply top-level below with your character if they've signed up for a Rejection Room and prepare for whoever wants to gamble a confrontation. We recommend linking to the comment that details your character's Room, for the benefit of others. Remember to communicate; if your character is still trapped in their Room by the event's end, they will suffer a character death, though characters who merely try and fail to free them will not.

If your Rejection Room opt-in comment did not receive any response or additional discussion from the mod team, consider your Room and moveset approved; we want to allow for retroactive edits to your comments and plans, if those become necessary!

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Some useful links, for reference:

[ ♆ ] OOC Event Post
[ ♆ ] Rejection Room Sign-Ups, for information on what Rejection Rooms look like
[ ♆ ] Deaths Page; death penalties have been reduced for the duration of this event, but remember to let us know if your character is still stuck in their Room by the event's end!

Event Timeline

[ ♆ ] January 20th: The monthly Storytelling occurs.
[ ♆ ] January 21st: Shadows of both initial variants appear.
[ ♆ ] January 23rd: Shadows of both initial variants disappear.
[ ♆ ] January 25th Lights and Rejection Rooms appear.
[ ♆ ] January 28th: Lights and Rejection Rooms dissipate. Those still trapped in their Rejection Rooms by the event's end will suffer a character death.

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Comments

[ideismo]

[The calling of the arte is the first thing that manages to register.

He assumes there was some span of time inbetween, but hell if he knows what happens during it - Brilliant Cataclysm tends to come with some nasty kickback that teds to hurt like hell, he can't focus through whatever's going on in his head, and then there's Yeager and whatever inane thing he's yelling before he sets his Mystic Arte off, and then there's a lot of pain and the...very vague awareness that he's been shot before there isn't much of anything anymore outside of the ground against his back.

It's weird and incoherent and incredibly hazy, and it's probably better that way. For a brief few moments he still seems at least vaguely conscious, though his breathing isn't doing much of anything and he doesn't seem inclined to move at all; it isn't long, however, before that drops off as well and Yeager will find himself quite suddenly back outside on Monsun.

...At least any injuries you may have sustained will be gone, though you'll likely want to sleep for pretty much forever, um.]

[scythegun]

[So that's it. He won. He killed Alexei.

It would be a lie to say he feels nothing, although his emotions are just as muted as always. He's pleasantly surprised that he managed it, but mostly he just feels a dark sense of satisfaction. It's almost like he's finally done something he really needed to do for a very long time and just hadn't realized it.

That feeling won't last long, but his priority right now is to find a safe spot and rest. Probably for the next ever, since this whole thing was a pain and he'd very much like to never move again.

He has no idea what will happen next, and at the moment, he really couldn't care less. Whatever happens will happen, but he'll count today as a victory.]