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Entry tags:
- blue exorcist: yukio okumura,
- coco: héctor rivera,
- critical role: kiri,
- final fantasy xiv: castor westmoore,
- final fantasy xv: ignis scientia,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- hyper light drifter: the drifter,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- mushi-shi: ginko,
- npc: the storyteller,
- npc: water,
- osomatsu-san: jyushimatsu matsuno,
- red vs. blue: leonard church (alpha),
- the adventure zone: kravitz,
- the league: jules dagger samari,
- ✖ good omens: aziraphale,
- ✖ good omens: crowley
March Undercurrent: Lost Connections
MARCH UNDERCURRENT
Who: Everyone!
What: We remember those lost, and connect with one another
When: March 3rd to March 19th
Where: Everywhere!
Warnings: Please mark anything as it comes up!
What: We remember those lost, and connect with one another
When: March 3rd to March 19th
Where: Everywhere!
Warnings: Please mark anything as it comes up!
From Stardust to God
Those months since the Water's introduction to you all have been...tumultuous, haven't they? These two gods have more or less been trying to consistently undermine each other, and you all have been caught in the middle of it - whether or not you wanted to be! Kind of a miserable state of being to be stuck in, right?
All that is going to change.
For the duration of this particular month, both the Storyteller and the Water will be operating under a tentative ceasefire as they commit their efforts to one singular, joint goal:
They wish to remember those who have been lost. Those who have left the archipelago, those who have died, those who have come and gone, those who you lost in your homes...and these gods will be, also, commemorating those who they have lost.
The Storyteller will provide you with materials to craft paper lanterns that can be illuminated and sent sailing into the ocean waters. They can be decorated with colorful paper, cut designs, and so forth. The Water will guide the currents to allow the lanterns to drift to...wherever it is they need to go. You can send as many lanterns as you like, and as many nights as you like. The skies will always be clear, and the water will always guide them to the horizon, where they eventually fade from view...
Both the Storyteller and the Water will be available for discussion for the duration of this event.
Those months since the Water's introduction to you all have been...tumultuous, haven't they? These two gods have more or less been trying to consistently undermine each other, and you all have been caught in the middle of it - whether or not you wanted to be! Kind of a miserable state of being to be stuck in, right?
All that is going to change.
For the duration of this particular month, both the Storyteller and the Water will be operating under a tentative ceasefire as they commit their efforts to one singular, joint goal:
They wish to remember those who have been lost. Those who have left the archipelago, those who have died, those who have come and gone, those who you lost in your homes...and these gods will be, also, commemorating those who they have lost.
The Storyteller will provide you with materials to craft paper lanterns that can be illuminated and sent sailing into the ocean waters. They can be decorated with colorful paper, cut designs, and so forth. The Water will guide the currents to allow the lanterns to drift to...wherever it is they need to go. You can send as many lanterns as you like, and as many nights as you like. The skies will always be clear, and the water will always guide them to the horizon, where they eventually fade from view...
Both the Storyteller and the Water will be available for discussion for the duration of this event.
The Highs We Trade for the Lows
This month isn't only about remembering what's been past. To conjure Ai'tuoh back to the archipelago, it will also entail that all of you do some reflecting on what has been lost in your lives, and sharing in that pain together. This may be a somber month for some of you, or it may be an introspective one.
At any point during this event, your character may wake to discover that one or more thin threads of colorful light appears to be emanating from their chest and trailing through the empty air. These threads cannot be removed or influenced in any fashion; attempting to grab at them will simply cause one's hands to phase uselessly through them, as though they are ethereal constructs of some sort.
The purpose of these strands of light might not immediately be apparent, but if you spend enough time observing your fellow islanders, it might get a bit clearer. Each tether connects you to someone else - someone who has a pain similar to your own. Should you follow your tether to whoever it has linked you to, you may find yourself compelled to comfort or relate to the other party. This compulsion can honestly vary, from a gentle nudge to a sudden impulse and anything in between. There may or may not be a subtle pressure on your thoughts that may help you discern what you might have in common with this other person, whoever they might be.
Should you choose to reflect on that which you have endured, and the shared pain of others, what follows is fairly intuitive. The tether binding you together will fade, though hopefully a stronger bond will be forged, and ideally you'll all feel better afterward...but that's not necessarily a given, now, is it?
This month isn't only about remembering what's been past. To conjure Ai'tuoh back to the archipelago, it will also entail that all of you do some reflecting on what has been lost in your lives, and sharing in that pain together. This may be a somber month for some of you, or it may be an introspective one.
At any point during this event, your character may wake to discover that one or more thin threads of colorful light appears to be emanating from their chest and trailing through the empty air. These threads cannot be removed or influenced in any fashion; attempting to grab at them will simply cause one's hands to phase uselessly through them, as though they are ethereal constructs of some sort.
The purpose of these strands of light might not immediately be apparent, but if you spend enough time observing your fellow islanders, it might get a bit clearer. Each tether connects you to someone else - someone who has a pain similar to your own. Should you follow your tether to whoever it has linked you to, you may find yourself compelled to comfort or relate to the other party. This compulsion can honestly vary, from a gentle nudge to a sudden impulse and anything in between. There may or may not be a subtle pressure on your thoughts that may help you discern what you might have in common with this other person, whoever they might be.
Should you choose to reflect on that which you have endured, and the shared pain of others, what follows is fairly intuitive. The tether binding you together will fade, though hopefully a stronger bond will be forged, and ideally you'll all feel better afterward...but that's not necessarily a given, now, is it?
This is No Place Like Home
Of course, there's a lot going on in the background as well. You're free to use this log as a catch-all for the duration of February's Undercurrent Event, as well as any of the other minor events listed on our Monthly Rundown post. And, of course, you are always free to create your own individual logs and posts as needed.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them over on the Questions header on our Monthly Rundown post!
Of course, there's a lot going on in the background as well. You're free to use this log as a catch-all for the duration of February's Undercurrent Event, as well as any of the other minor events listed on our Monthly Rundown post. And, of course, you are always free to create your own individual logs and posts as needed.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them over on the Questions header on our Monthly Rundown post!
March TimelineLOGS ● OOC ● STORIES ●
MAIN NAVIGATION
[ ♆ ] March 1st: "The Return of Your Special Lifting Friend" begins and lasts until March 10th
[ ♆ ] March 3rd: "Lost Connections" begins and lasts until March 19th
[ ♆ ] March 12th: "Spring Forth" begins and lasts until March 21st
[ ♆ ] March 20th: Ai'tuoh returns to the archipelago
[ ♆ ] March 22nd: "The Happy Hang Glider Vacation Society" begins and lasts until March 31st
( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )
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[Not that that's worth much, they'd think. Considering that they don't think they'll be long for very much of this world, or any other.]
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...Hey. Do you have a name besides Drifter?
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only title
never had any other
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[Yikes, don't like that.]
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[A faint shrug. They...were not born. They were fabricated. They did not have, were not allotted, a childhood.]
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[Surely not literally! Right??] Never allowed to be?
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not born
[It's a difficult concept to put into words, in part because the Drifter isn't terribly good at them to begin with. But it is, at least, a concept they are finally willing to admit rather than deny, or simply fail to mention.]
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[Yeah, that pretty much says it all. He doesn't know shit.]
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[A clone? Certainly not a doll. But as for the others of their kind, the blue-skinned warriors...they were all functionally quite similar, weren't they? Perhaps they were meant to be clones.]
made to be a soldier
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[Young? Perhaps they were young. They were less worldly, had to learn the nature of the world through experience. Chronologically and technically speaking, they were young at a point, when they first became conscious.]
[But likely not in the way he's thinking.]
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[Yeah, his brain is flatlining, and he's being insensitive. Whoops. It's nowhere near as sweet a story as Rabbit's creation was.]
How old are you?
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don't know
[They've never known. There was never much point in wondering.]
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[Yeah. He's prying. He can't help himself. Well, they're connected for whatever reason and the Drifter seems to want to talk...]
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then wandering
then both
[Wandering, running. Shrugging off the purpose of their creation like so much dust, even if it turned out to be nigh impossible to escape. Certainly it wasn't easy to make it clear to others that they weren't a mindless soldier - hence the need to wander.]
[They're not very good at painting a narrative here.]
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[It's a pointless question. He'll get a name that means nothing to him, and it doesn't even matter who.] ...Nobody could make a person where I'm from, let alone enough for an army. I don't know what to say.
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[It's a complicated history. And it's one they did their best to distance themself from.]
apologies
nothing you can fix