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

[bitch4bitch]

[Fuck. For a moment, surprise passes over her face, her free hand going to her throat at the sudden pull of air from her lungs - but then the monsters are almost on her, and she doesn't have time to hesitate, air or none.

She clenches her jaw and, the moment the closest beast is near enough, brings her knife down on it before jerking the blade out and slamming the hilt into another of the monsters. She finds herself going for the handgun in her jacket after all; if Chip is going to be keeping her from breathing during all this, whether consistently or just on and off, she'd like to have some way to defend herself with minimal motion on her part.]

[demonpuppy]

[They're hardier than normal animals--it takes more than one strike to bring each down, but a knife through the skull is certainly enough to stun one for a moment. As the monsters swarm and lash out Chip remains lurking in their hiding spot, glowering at Erika with that empty stare, but even in this state their curses can't hold for long--moment by moment, the tightness in Erika's throat will begin to let up, but in the frantic heat of a fight it's not nearly fast enough.]

[One of the beasts manages to get around behind Erika and strike out at a leg, aiming to hinder her movement.]

[bitch4bitch]

[Her teeth grit at the flare of pain in her leg, but she does keep from crying out – waste of breath, even if she’s recovering a bit at a time. Instead, she grabs her gun and fires a shot at the thing behind her, hoping that her aim is close enough to do some damage.

She can’t put as much focus on that one as she’d like, of course, and once that shot is fired off it’s time for another stab at the one she got through the skull before, fucking hell she can’t believe it’s still moving.]