PPSLs Plotty Personal Story Lines
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thegameHEY BROS I AM UP FOR PLAYING THIS SUMMER. I want to run some plots.
I AM OFFERING UP A FEW SCENARIOS.
Circle of the Sky
SETUP Some say the circus only passes through every hundred years and others have bragged they've had front row seats twice. It appears overnight, in some back lot, and everyone, somehow, knows where it is, as if they were born knowing it would be here today.
A wrought iron fence surrounds the place you know to find tonight. It is ominously twisted and barbed, and rises high above the field mud - a mix of fliers, cigarette butts and the general detritus of foot traffic and older events taking advantage of the cheap lot. Tattered, brilliantly-hued cloths are strung from the inside of the fence, shielding what is inside from easy view, while the signs promise wonders of the sky and the great circle built to touch it.
You are ushered, by jugglers and acrobats who smile and perform small tastes of their acts, towards a large double gate. You barely have time to notice that some of the people around you don't... quite... like anyone from the world you came from. Some are blue, some are diaphanous, some have horns...
The sweet music, the smell of fried confectionery, the pop and snare beats of fireworks above gather your attention like a sirens call to a tent that seems to go upwards for miles. Scaffolding and ladders strewn around it in unsafe patterns, reaching directly into the low hanging clouds of this otherwise sedate Thursday evening.
For a moment, you feel lighter than your body. You hear something whispering in your mind, tugging at you to simply put down the heavy burden of your life. Run away, it whispers, sounding comforting, oddly familiar. Let the world love you for who you are, what you can do. It calls you upward in the sweetest voice---
Broken into static by someone in the crowd bumping roughly into you---
SCENARIO 1 Outsiders visiting, jamjar based. Reactionary to setting and the caprices of it.
SCENARIO 2 In verse OCs, workers who react to something going very wrong and trying to find out what is going on.
THEME This will borrow heavily from themes of fairy tales, Cirque du Soliel, Persona 4 and Mirror Mask. Please expect occasional themes of surrealism, mindfuckery, and potential losses of agency/memories/changed memories/experiences, but overall lighter, and very malleable atmosphere. The main plot will be a sleuth style story.
A Clockwork Song
SETUP You're certain that you traveled here. Even though the great towering buildings of stone and copper are foreign to you. The great machines, turrets on mechanical legs, pass by you, looking like nothing you've ever seen before. But you know that they were something you'd heard of, if you'd only gotten this far. The soft looking airship drifts above the billows of black smoke and white steam from nearly every building around, almost soundlessly compared to the cacophony of metal and gearwork surrounding you... contributing to your headache.
No one usually gets here. It's outside for a reason... You must have come on one of those ships or maybe one of the metal horses... Something that could have brought you here from there. You really should have gotten a second bottle of whatever you had last night.
But you have a job to do. You have something important. Something that will change everything if you get it right. Blearily, you go to rub the sweat of this hot day in this steaming city from your brow, when the crinkle of a message in your hand catches your sudden attention.
SCENARIO ABOVE STARTER. Your character remembers who they are and what's important to them, but they are missing some of the things they desperately don't want to remember. They will pick up parts of the environment and integrate it into their identity. How and what are up to you. The main thrust of the story will be intrigue, action and finding answers in a decidedly unfriendly, if shiny world. Power are uncapped and a world specific set will be granted to people coming in without powers if you, the player, want it. They will be tailored to the person.
THEME This will borrow heavily from Bioshock, Dishonored and the Borderlands series. Please expect a grittier world where fantastical elements will be outlawed by the setting and consequences, and, occasionally doors opened, by the use of them. Steampunk themes will persist, with technological levels being both more advanced than modern world and behind in other respects. Victorian sensibilities and power structures exists, with several well entangled factions, both inside and out of the law.
Her Lovely Reach
SETUP The High Captain Mirya Culvara of 'Her Lovely Reach' was neither young nor inexperienced. She was before the great Schism and one of the first to gain rank in the Earth-Sol empire who were once enemies. She answered the call of the Great Curiosity, to find the other side of the great dark, and sought it like duty. It made her older than many of the humans who staffed her ship, with their strange flaps on their faces. She learned to get used to the vibrations they called 'communication,' and how to assuage that the odd acrid fear when they first heard a true voice - her voice. They would come and go, live in a rush, have more of them.
But at best, they were ... hurried. A strange species of speed and recklessness. Which is why, when her ship shuddered... she knew a decision had been made by one of them. When her form shuddered from the gravity engines grinding into a weightless fault, the magnetic backup systems gave a cascade of clicks, clacks and thunderous clangs, like the punchline to whatever joke had happened.
A human made a choice. She reached out, the tendrils of her mind and the resonance of her Voice cutting through the clutter of alarm and confusion in one clear order.
/Report./
SCENARIO 1 An anomaly engaged by the exploratory cruiser Her Lovely Reach causes a slow cascade of emergencies on board, starting with the QoL systems, and ending with the discovery of unenlisted stowaways... who seem to honestly not even know where or when they are. Jamjar option! Survival, integration and the quest to return home as themes. Do you pitch in, abandon ship at the first opportunity or hijack the ship? The choices are yours. Moderate power caps and some world rules in play.
SCENARIO 2 You are a crew member on Her Lovely Reach. Referred to as "Her Loveliness" or just "Love" familiarly, the crew is in for the long haul, finding the answers to the universe in a scientific expedition. Diplomats, engineers, scientists and even wealthy tourists originally started the venture, and four days ago, the ship made it's first uncharted leap, only to find a large anomaly in space. Crew members are often given partner bands, which link them to one other person emotionally and psychically. Depth of this link and even the ability to turn it on and off are built into each ring, meant to combat the sometimes claustrophobic, isolating and strange conditions that deep space groups have found in the past. This is the in world option. Alien species are welcome and you can bring in anything you can imagine.
THEME This will borrow heavily from Star Trek, Sliders, Star Gate and the Vorkosigan Saga. Expect an episodic story with an internal thread working throughout. Exploration, military command chains and alien cultures are the heavier themes of this.
OTHER
Is there something we never finished? CR you've always wanted to try with me? Would you like to just throw down and see what rattles out in a collaborative mess of ideas? Just want to revist old threads? LETS DO IT.
This will start Saturday! Expect pacing to be medium to slow from me, but consistent.
SO, comment below with
Plurk name WHO DO I KNOW YOU BY. I realize that I have lost track of people's characters and accounts. HELP ME OBI WAN.
Character: Who ya playing.
Canon: Do you want to play from an established canon, build your own OC, build a world specific OC.
Setting/Scenario: Pick two you'd like, in the order of interest.
Group or Solo: If group, feel free to get together and talk about BACKSTORIES or WORLD ELEMENTS or anything you want to put together.
And here's a handy box with C&P text:
I AM OFFERING UP A FEW SCENARIOS.
Circle of the Sky
SETUP Some say the circus only passes through every hundred years and others have bragged they've had front row seats twice. It appears overnight, in some back lot, and everyone, somehow, knows where it is, as if they were born knowing it would be here today.
A wrought iron fence surrounds the place you know to find tonight. It is ominously twisted and barbed, and rises high above the field mud - a mix of fliers, cigarette butts and the general detritus of foot traffic and older events taking advantage of the cheap lot. Tattered, brilliantly-hued cloths are strung from the inside of the fence, shielding what is inside from easy view, while the signs promise wonders of the sky and the great circle built to touch it.
You are ushered, by jugglers and acrobats who smile and perform small tastes of their acts, towards a large double gate. You barely have time to notice that some of the people around you don't... quite... like anyone from the world you came from. Some are blue, some are diaphanous, some have horns...
The sweet music, the smell of fried confectionery, the pop and snare beats of fireworks above gather your attention like a sirens call to a tent that seems to go upwards for miles. Scaffolding and ladders strewn around it in unsafe patterns, reaching directly into the low hanging clouds of this otherwise sedate Thursday evening.
For a moment, you feel lighter than your body. You hear something whispering in your mind, tugging at you to simply put down the heavy burden of your life. Run away, it whispers, sounding comforting, oddly familiar. Let the world love you for who you are, what you can do. It calls you upward in the sweetest voice---
Broken into static by someone in the crowd bumping roughly into you---
SCENARIO 1 Outsiders visiting, jamjar based. Reactionary to setting and the caprices of it.
SCENARIO 2 In verse OCs, workers who react to something going very wrong and trying to find out what is going on.
THEME This will borrow heavily from themes of fairy tales, Cirque du Soliel, Persona 4 and Mirror Mask. Please expect occasional themes of surrealism, mindfuckery, and potential losses of agency/memories/changed memories/experiences, but overall lighter, and very malleable atmosphere. The main plot will be a sleuth style story.
A Clockwork Song
SETUP You're certain that you traveled here. Even though the great towering buildings of stone and copper are foreign to you. The great machines, turrets on mechanical legs, pass by you, looking like nothing you've ever seen before. But you know that they were something you'd heard of, if you'd only gotten this far. The soft looking airship drifts above the billows of black smoke and white steam from nearly every building around, almost soundlessly compared to the cacophony of metal and gearwork surrounding you... contributing to your headache.
No one usually gets here. It's outside for a reason... You must have come on one of those ships or maybe one of the metal horses... Something that could have brought you here from there. You really should have gotten a second bottle of whatever you had last night.
But you have a job to do. You have something important. Something that will change everything if you get it right. Blearily, you go to rub the sweat of this hot day in this steaming city from your brow, when the crinkle of a message in your hand catches your sudden attention.
SCENARIO ABOVE STARTER. Your character remembers who they are and what's important to them, but they are missing some of the things they desperately don't want to remember. They will pick up parts of the environment and integrate it into their identity. How and what are up to you. The main thrust of the story will be intrigue, action and finding answers in a decidedly unfriendly, if shiny world. Power are uncapped and a world specific set will be granted to people coming in without powers if you, the player, want it. They will be tailored to the person.
THEME This will borrow heavily from Bioshock, Dishonored and the Borderlands series. Please expect a grittier world where fantastical elements will be outlawed by the setting and consequences, and, occasionally doors opened, by the use of them. Steampunk themes will persist, with technological levels being both more advanced than modern world and behind in other respects. Victorian sensibilities and power structures exists, with several well entangled factions, both inside and out of the law.
Her Lovely Reach
SETUP The High Captain Mirya Culvara of 'Her Lovely Reach' was neither young nor inexperienced. She was before the great Schism and one of the first to gain rank in the Earth-Sol empire who were once enemies. She answered the call of the Great Curiosity, to find the other side of the great dark, and sought it like duty. It made her older than many of the humans who staffed her ship, with their strange flaps on their faces. She learned to get used to the vibrations they called 'communication,' and how to assuage that the odd acrid fear when they first heard a true voice - her voice. They would come and go, live in a rush, have more of them.
But at best, they were ... hurried. A strange species of speed and recklessness. Which is why, when her ship shuddered... she knew a decision had been made by one of them. When her form shuddered from the gravity engines grinding into a weightless fault, the magnetic backup systems gave a cascade of clicks, clacks and thunderous clangs, like the punchline to whatever joke had happened.
A human made a choice. She reached out, the tendrils of her mind and the resonance of her Voice cutting through the clutter of alarm and confusion in one clear order.
/Report./
SCENARIO 1 An anomaly engaged by the exploratory cruiser Her Lovely Reach causes a slow cascade of emergencies on board, starting with the QoL systems, and ending with the discovery of unenlisted stowaways... who seem to honestly not even know where or when they are. Jamjar option! Survival, integration and the quest to return home as themes. Do you pitch in, abandon ship at the first opportunity or hijack the ship? The choices are yours. Moderate power caps and some world rules in play.
SCENARIO 2 You are a crew member on Her Lovely Reach. Referred to as "Her Loveliness" or just "Love" familiarly, the crew is in for the long haul, finding the answers to the universe in a scientific expedition. Diplomats, engineers, scientists and even wealthy tourists originally started the venture, and four days ago, the ship made it's first uncharted leap, only to find a large anomaly in space. Crew members are often given partner bands, which link them to one other person emotionally and psychically. Depth of this link and even the ability to turn it on and off are built into each ring, meant to combat the sometimes claustrophobic, isolating and strange conditions that deep space groups have found in the past. This is the in world option. Alien species are welcome and you can bring in anything you can imagine.
THEME This will borrow heavily from Star Trek, Sliders, Star Gate and the Vorkosigan Saga. Expect an episodic story with an internal thread working throughout. Exploration, military command chains and alien cultures are the heavier themes of this.
OTHER
Is there something we never finished? CR you've always wanted to try with me? Would you like to just throw down and see what rattles out in a collaborative mess of ideas? Just want to revist old threads? LETS DO IT.
This will start Saturday! Expect pacing to be medium to slow from me, but consistent.
SO, comment below with
Plurk name WHO DO I KNOW YOU BY. I realize that I have lost track of people's characters and accounts. HELP ME OBI WAN.
Character: Who ya playing.
Canon: Do you want to play from an established canon, build your own OC, build a world specific OC.
Setting/Scenario: Pick two you'd like, in the order of interest.
Group or Solo: If group, feel free to get together and talk about BACKSTORIES or WORLD ELEMENTS or anything you want to put together.
And here's a handy box with C&P text:
RULES
Date: 2018-07-09 11:22 pm (UTC)1. Don't pick characters that wouldn't work with a group or wouldn't work with other people at all without SUPER SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES unless you have already ARRANGED AND ENACT THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES FROM DAY ONE. Get a leash on your villain or hot mess. It's not your group's job to rehab them/put them down. You gotta be willing to bend to work with other people if you want to play with other people. There'll be enough outside strife, I promise. If you DO want to play those characters to just burn it down, we can do it solo.
2. If you want to do some NPCing that is super important to the story, I am down with that, but I have the absolute right to pick up that character at any point to keep something moving along in the case you can't tag for a while or during a real important event. RIGHT UP FRONT, THAT'S THE DEAL.
3. Don't strive to break the setting. Problems should not have easy, magical answers. Half the fun is the struggle and no one wants to SKIP the struggle. The spotlight will come, don't worry. Taking it at the moment of introduction of a problem is cheap.
4. Don't strive to break the group. See also, rule 1. It's worth repeating. I MAY DO A ROGUES RUN LATER, but right now, none of the scenarios are built for inside antagonism.
5. No sex threads. Just take em off journal or put them in your own. Similarly: Themes of rape, sexual violence, non consent, dubious consent and all sort of other in line things I'd rather not do or deal with. Please don't.
6. If any action tag ever says any variant of [My character looks at/senses/examines everything in the room] I will drop them into a pit of piranhas no matter if it makes any narrative sense or not.
SIGN UPS
Date: 2018-07-09 11:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-10 12:27 am (UTC)Canon: MCU
Scenario: SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (scenario 1), steampunk
Group or Solo: GROUP ME
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-10 11:51 pm (UTC)ALSO. HOW FAST DO YOU THINK TONY STARK COULD GET A MAGICAL TECH BASED ALIEN TRANSLATOR GOING. JUST ASKING. FOR REASONS.
Third what is your favorite alien trope.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 01:00 am (UTC)2.
Give him like half a day and a lot of coffee and he'll figure it out
3. A FAVE ALIEN TROPE, ONE OF MANY: species of inquisitive aliens is fascinated by humans but, ironically, is woefully bad at dealing with them/communicating with them. Hijinx and misunderstandings ensue.
Re: SIGN UPS
Date: 2018-07-10 12:32 am (UTC)Character: Either Shiki or Chise (The Ancient Magus' Bride), other considerations are Ange from Umineko or Arturia from Fate/Clusterfuck... depending on what seems more fitting.
Canon: The Garden of Sinners
Scenario: I'm most interested in mindfuck circus and space antics, in that order, but I'm also all for ~surprises~
Group or Solo: I'M GONNA BE THE SLOWEST THING TO EVER SLOW, like, honestly. So solo might be the best choice unless there's a group of turtles where we can all be sloooow??
Re: SIGN UPS
Date: 2018-07-10 11:53 pm (UTC)One from adulthood.
One reoccuring nightmare, and the last time they tried to go back to bed to CONTINUE a dream post alarm wakeup.
Re: SIGN UPS
Date: 2018-07-14 04:45 am (UTC)ONE DREAM SHE REMEMBERS FROM CHILDHOOD: She's around 4 or 5 and holding her father's hand as they walk across the many corridors and gardens of the Ryougi house. In the dream, the house is much larger than in reality and there's places that don't even exist in real life.
At the end of it all they reach a room where her very old grandfather is waiting. She's the only one who speaks with him. What he tells her is: "You can kill a person only once. The ones who killed someone else and used it up can never kill themselves. They can't die as humans."
Shiki asks her grandpa if he is okay over and over, but he never replies.
ONE FROM ADULTHOOD: Running a work errand for Touko. The dream involves skulking around shady areas of the city while it rains and she chases after some large beast, around the size of a lion. She kills it with her knife by tracing its death lines, but more of the same kind of beast start regenerating from every bit she cuts. These ones have no death lines and soon she's surrounded, slashing blindly at them as they also try to kill her.
ONE REOCURRING NIGHTMARE: It's the night she (they) decided to kill Mikiya. The events happen as they did in real life, she tries to stab him and chases after him under the rain across a dark bamboo forest. In this dream, she does catch up to him and she murders him gruesomely by cutting all of his death lines, one by one. An important detail is that Shiki is the one doing it, not SHIKI.
A DREAM SHE TRIED TO CONTINUE: It's a comfy, peaceful dream. SHIKI and Mikiya go out on a date, they walk around parks, malls, eat together... at the end of the night they both go back to Shiki's apartment... Mikiya takes his usual spot sitting on the floor by Shiki's bed, reading, and SHIKI peers over his shoulder to also read his magazine. He teases Mikiya a lot and flirts with him, Mikiya flirts back... and that's when her alarm goes off. Also important to note: neither Shiki is dead in this dream.
I'm having trouble deciding
Date: 2018-07-10 12:46 am (UTC)Canon: Yona
Scenario: Steampunk or Space(scenario 1)
Group or Solo: Goup
Re: I'm having trouble deciding
Date: 2018-07-10 01:02 am (UTC)Re: I'm having trouble deciding
Date: 2018-07-10 01:32 am (UTC)Just a newer muse.
Re: I'm having trouble deciding
Date: 2018-07-10 11:55 pm (UTC)Also, what kind of threads do you like to play the most. Found family, emotionally deep, relationship, action, long continuity, big damn hero, humor, slice of life, horror. Where's your good place, what threads do you love to go back and reread because they just HIT THE SPOT AND YOU FELT ON. Also, how are you with consequences and freeform plots?
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-10 01:19 am (UTC)Character: Peter Parker
Canon: MCU
Scenario: SPAAAAAAACE (scenario 1)
Group or Solo: group!
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-10 11:56 pm (UTC)SECOND OF ALL, want to deal with a Loki in space, because honestly.
Third, what's your favorite space/alien trope?
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 02:32 am (UTC)2. I MEAN YES??????? peter's going to annoy the hell out of him i'm sure be prepared for incessant question-asking
3. oh my god hOW DO I CHOOSE???? ONE????? NISHI???
twists involving the setting? like, reminders that they're in a spaceship, aka a big complex totally fallible machine out in space...strange gravity, hydroponic food supplies shenanigans, maybe places that look normal or planet-y but are still actually a spacecraft (ie: in the doctor falls of dw, there's a plot point around where they SEEM to be on a sunlit farm, but of course are actually on a spacecraft, and so are able to blow up certain fuses etc and disrupt the mirage)
idk if this makes any sense i'm sorry
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 02:36 am (UTC)2. SO YOU KNOW I CONSIDER THIS TO BE A CANON SCENE IN SPIRIT. CLEARLY GOOD WITH KIDS.
3. IT MAKES SENSE AND I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU'VE SAID.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 02:39 am (UTC)3. by dw i meant docTOR WHO, I MEANT TO TYPE THAT OUT. but ok yes fantastic
Re: SIGN UPS
Date: 2018-07-10 01:22 am (UTC)Character: Callum
Canon: OC
Scenario: Circus!!
Group or Solo: group is ok if needed but solo would be best depending on other peoples' speeds/etc since i tend to tag back quickish? but its whatever
Re: SIGN UPS
Date: 2018-07-10 01:31 am (UTC)Plurk name katoptron
Character: Miles Vorkosigan
Canon: Vorkosigan Saga
Scenario: SPACE!! tho I will play any of the options
Group or Solo: Group is good!
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-10 01:41 am (UTC)Plurk name bechamel
Character: probably Thor, but maybe Mantis or The Dr Who???
Canon: MCU probably
Scenario: SPAAAAACE (scenario 1), steampunk
Group or Solo: group me baby
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 12:00 am (UTC)THOSE OTHERS ARE PRETTY FUCKING GREAT TOO THOUGH. I. Can work marvels with any of them, I think. LET ME KNOW WHICH AND I WILL HAVE MORE STORY/PLAYER BASED QUESTIONS.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 01:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 02:23 am (UTC)So MCUs all together in a Star Trek meets Fifth Element episode go.
CANON POINT, WEAPON, AND ALLSPEAK Y/N
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 02:51 am (UTC)good, perfect, beautiful, nothing could possibly go wrong
I'M THINKING... the end of Ragnarok?, NO HAMMERS, yes Allspeak
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-12 12:59 am (UTC)SURELY NOTHING WILL GO WRONG AT ALL AND EVERYTHING WILL BE COMPLETELY FINE. :D MCUs ARE GREAT AT WORKING TOGETHER.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-12 08:55 pm (UTC)IT'S THEIR GREATEST SKILL next to punching each other in the face and failing to communicate effectively. don't worry, Thor can reassure them that Loki's probably-actually-sort-of-definitely-kinda-maybe-in-the-process-of becoming less of a shitheel.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-12 10:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-13 12:51 am (UTC)I'm HYPE
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-10 01:56 am (UTC)Character: Rosa Torres
Canon: OC! There's a lot of info in her journal if you wanna poke around.
Scenario: A Clockwork Song, Circle of the Sky (Scenario 1)
Group or Solo: I WANT TO DO A 2-PERSON GROUP RUN WITH
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 12:03 am (UTC)Do you want to work with any world adaption elements or would you like to play it straight as a fish out of water (totally a cool way to go, and easy to tailor)?
What are her feelings towards authority? Towards religion?
What would be the worst thing to happen, not necessarily here, but in her canon or any other. The best?
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 01:49 am (UTC)- Fish out of water would be my pref!
- She's neutral towards authority but is sort of . . . not super used to dealing with it, since she's been isolated for so long. It's sort of a mix of, she doesn't want to make trouble/make waves so she'd be likely to go along with authority requests that seem reasonable, but due to memloss she has no inherent sense of real world authorities being natural authorities over her, so the more unreasonable the things they'd want to enforce, the more she'd go ???? or simply NOPE.
- She and Jan have a friendo who's a priest in training and they've had some talks, so she feels a mix of pretty okay about religion, and a bit weird/mildly alienated, since she's also seen some wild shit wrt ghosts, revenants and her own resurrection that are definitely Otherworldly but don't seem to match existing religious text much. She's also done enough Googling to figure out that she was probably religious when she was previously alive, but she remembers literally none of that. WHOOPS!
- Worst thing would be all the new memories and experiences she's built up with Jan and other friends evaporating, plus generally losing herself and turning into a genuine inhuman monster on the inside as well as the outside.
- Best thing would be a chance to speak to and make amends with her direct family, without actually having to pass on to the afterlife to do it.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-12 10:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-13 12:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-10 02:00 am (UTC)Plurk name estrapade
Character: Jan Douglas (this asshole)
Canon: FEAST YER DAMN EYES (original)
Scenario: STEAMPUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Group or Solo: Forming a pair with Seth/brightwinged on plurk!
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 12:20 am (UTC)What are exorcisms like in her world?
How is she under tension, what kind of pressures does she work best under?
(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-11 02:59 am (UTC)- Ghosts in Jan's world are usually very locked to place -- for example, Rosa couldn't leave the former hospital room where she'd died at all until Jan offered her pig's blood as a sacrifice, and even once she could move around more she needed a brick from the old hospital building to cling to. The tie to place, or the feelings remembered in that context, is what binds them there! By reaching out with her own spirit to touch the binding, Jan can feel what's holding ghosts there and pull up the root -- either by syncing with the ghost's spirit and interacting with their memories and feelings to relieve whatever pain or pressure has crystallized into the tie, or by just "outwardly" interacting with it and ripping it away with her own energy. Obviously one of these respects the ghost's agency more than the other.
She's never actually done this though! Annabel Williams, the near-revenant that Jan exorcised in the past, was a bit of a special case. Annabel was eating other spirits, which many people find kind of bad, as instead of just a regretful ghost contemplating your own lost life you become a huge hideous ball of everyone else. By the time she found Rosa again, she'd eaten so many other spirits that she'd extended the area of her influence to include most of Santa Rosa. In the meantime, her personality, humanity, and own memories were starting to disintegrate under the weight, because it turns out the weight of other peoples' death and disaster is bad. Annabel did not stay in the hospital (where she'd died) and instead deliberately anchored herself throughout Santa Rosa by obsessing in a really concerning way over three different locations that had meant something to her alive, and represented things she wanted to make foundational to whatever was left of her personality after she completed her revival -- if what came out the other end was unrecognizeable as her, so be it, as long as it still had these elements.
Instead of a "normal" exorcism, for Annabel, Jan had to tear away at all three of those strong ties before they could even face her. She did this by going physically to those locations and having one hell of a showdown with Annabel's spirit -- she tried to "enter" the ties to interact with them like she normally would, but Annabel was cognizant of the process and locked her in deliberately created nightmare landscapes; settings made of pieces of Annabel's past, plus things she'd folded into herself and already forgotten weren't really "her" due to being so fucked up. This is not usually how it works!! Think "mini heart game" versus "mini outwardly sadistic and malleable Judge-run symbolic dungeon run."
As a ghost, Rosa could help with these because she was also operating on a spiritual level, though she had to be fucking careful not to get eaten. (This may or may not still be true now that she's all incarnated?) Once those ties were broken Jan and Rosa were able to face down with Annabel at the hospital, Annabel's last remaining and strongest connection point. It was much more normal at this point though and Jan was able to uproot the tie via the "just grab it" method while Rosa used the high level "screaming tackle" method to assist. All done!
(Then [REDACTED] showed up and OH SHIT IT'S ALL METAPHYSICAL NOW, see Rosa's notes on religion -- but it's not likely you'll see them twice. With some messengers you only get one message per lifetime.)
That was a lot but hopefully explaining both the standard and the abnormal metaphysical cases will give you a better grip on things!
- Jan reacts to tension by... uhh honestly let me just link a thread. She can adjust to most things. She does worst with waiting and helplessness (she just can't and won't believe in helplessness, fundamentally, which can miscalibrate her reactions in situations where she is helpless) and does best with situations that will allow her any kind of forward momentum and, at the very least, the ability to swear at how fucking stupid whatever is happening has managed to be.
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Date: 2018-07-12 10:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-13 12:27 am (UTC)Re: SIGN UPS
Date: 2018-07-10 02:19 am (UTC)Character: Jacob Cross
Canon: OC
Scenario: A Clockwork Song
Group or Solo: Group, please (two-person as we discussed... thak you again! <3)
Re: SIGN UPS
Date: 2018-07-10 02:33 pm (UTC)Character: Leonardo Watch
Canon: Kekkai Sensen
AND/OR
Character: Kaito Takahashi
Canon: that persona OC
Scenario: Circus and/or steampunk
Group or Solo: Group me!
note: i might freak out and make a new journal for a new character and switch out an option today between cramps
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Date: 2018-07-12 10:42 pm (UTC)Character: Yona OR since there is already someone signed up for Yona, if that's too funky to figure out groups I can do an OC, Lily
Canon: Akatsuki no Yona helpful link to app for summary of canon or OC! I don't have OC info fully written up but I can throw something together if need be
Scenario: Circle of the Sky (Circus, Scenario 1) or A Clockwork Song (steampunk)
Group or Solo: a group would be swell! I am also ok with going solo if it's easier for numbers though
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Date: 2018-07-12 10:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-07-12 10:47 pm (UTC)because typing up the OC info sounds like workRe: SIGN UPS
Date: 2018-07-12 11:12 pm (UTC)Character: Celena
Canon: OC - have a gander at a very barebones rundown over yonder
Scenario: SPACE?! or the circus i suppose. first scenario for both, i don't quite have the brainpower on hand to finagle a significant backstory rewrite to something i can only halfway pretend i'm not already making up roughly as i go along
Group or Solo: solo unless something changes between now and tomorrow!
Discussion
Date: 2018-07-09 11:23 pm (UTC)