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 Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:12 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:49 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:04 pm
"Does my name burn your tongue?"META UPDATE
Week 4
April 5th, 1411 - April 12th, 1411Week 3
(Please update your previous posts with RPs and solos during
that week if you have any extra.)
The Black Death has been healed from you completely, and your body feels as if the entire experience has never happened, though the threat is seemingly lingering on-- the unmovable crows are still laying dead on the streets, now as hardened as rock and smelling of an even viler decay. Every Grimm has also been sent a letter, parallel to the one given to you at the start of all of this, wrapped now in red ribbon and delivered by a dove, glowing with white. The crinkled piece of parchment whispers to you, "You have a choice."
The dove flutters its wings and is seemingly choking, then in front of you is something reasonably strange, bundles of extremely heavy feathers tied around with crude string. It whispers onward, "To make a Plague human or to taunt the Grimms further of the Black Death, grind these feathers to dust and feed it to the object of your attention."
You've been given a choice-- not your Plague, nor your benefactor, no, simply you-- you can either use this strange gift to malevolently harm a Grimm and further their Black Death infestation or, on the other hand, you can use it to keep your Plague as a human for longer.
Just before the dove flutters away from your sight, it whispers, "Now you know how wretched it feels, to be human and feel human sickness. Pray, will you play God with me?"
UPDATE 2: "A Finer Ash," Fellowship of Mages, week 4
There are some remnants left of the cultists' presence in several of the Shyregoedian firms, but for now the cultists have left you be, and for some strange reason the crows manifested around major Mage areas have dissipated nearly entirely. That said, however, many of the Mages are now left Plagued or dead, dropping like flies, and what few of you are left healthy and standing have the job of disposing of the cultist remains-- the leftover crows, the Furvus Elixirs, the Plagued mages, the dead cultists, everything, despite your rank in the Fellowship or in the commonwealth. It's a lot of errands to go through to dispose of such things but, when you do have to, how do you fare and what do you make of it all?
UPDATE 3: "Dry Spine," Council of Sciences, week 4
Riots have been dying down at the foot of Imisus and, as a result, the Dean himself has (perhaps in worry) requested a reconvening of all scientists possible back to Gadu headquarters. Much is to be fixed in the area and the remaining scientists in the Council left there certainly don't have the power to do everything by themselves-- do you hazard the journey to Imisus to help your faction out?
UPDATE 4: "Leaking Sun," during daylight, for those who lack sleep, Panymium, week 4
There's been a mark of hallucinations across Panymium, and many have sent certain people into a certain daze. The earth is being marked by copious amounts of sand, a kind of thing that Panymium rarely sees outside of the scattered beach shores, and the people and objects around them seem to be melting and molting feathers. Not only this, but you see a bird's visage at the corner of your eye, a bird-headed man covered in feathers with a bare and tanned body standing aimlessly amidst the crowds, when you are alone, at any time-- but he does not speak to you. At some point in time this bird-headed man will tempt you to do something, a question that has lurked at the back of your mind, and that question will be the only thing he will say to you before he disappears, molting away until he's nothing but a scattered collection of dust.
What does he say, and what do you do in response?
UPDATE 5: "Followed by Chaos," House of Obscuvos, week 4
Attacks at Shyregoed were generally considered a major failure or success, it depends wholly on where you are in the spectrum of things. Hundreds, if not thousands, of cultists lay dead in Shyregoed after the massive attacks at the bases, not to mention the Fellowship temporarily reconvened and a small sector has taken out a considerable number at the Annex. The House of Obscuvos is not a haughty faith, though, and things have gone according to the Glutton God's wishes-- the cultists have gained a repertoire, and we have finally been recognized as a major factor in Panymese politics. Cultists are still prepared to take the reams in many of the provinces and, due to the Imperial Guard's shaky stance right now, many are still disguised as we speak.
To all and anyone who have kept their identity as an Obscuvos secret, the High Prophet begs you, rise! Cultist mongrels around the continent have gone around to every Grimm's doorstep to posit a simple request-- make your faith known to the world to the best of your ability. Do you publicly announce your faith in light of this request or, for your own well being, do you keep your religious identity a secret?
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:32 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:48 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:53 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:01 pm
Sloane & Sage EstratusWeek 3
March 29th - Hesitate [Grimm Challenge]
March 30th - Fleeting [Plague Challenge]
March 31st - Shackles
April 2nd - Cunning Foxes [Faction Challenge/ORP]
April 3rd - Ball and Chain
Week 4
April 5th - Asymptomatic [Panymium Challenge] (part 1)
April 5th - Release [Panymium Challenge] (part 2)
April 6th - Questions [Panymium Challenge] (part 3)
April 8th - Choice [Grimm Challenge] (Your Thin Frame)
April 10th - Cleanse [Faction Challenge] (A Finer Ash)
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:05 am
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kuku bear rolled 1 6-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-6)
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:05 am
Basil Darling and the Icicle
Week Two
March 25th, 1411 || Festina Lente || Personal Challenge "Tricks"
Week Three
April 4th, 1411 || Mater Memento Mori || Personal Challenge "Hesitate"
Week Four
April 5th, 1411 || Ubi Re Vera || Personal Challenge "Leaking Sun"
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 12:59 am
[ OOC ]
Week 3 & 4 WRAP UP, April 8th, 2011March 29, 1411 - April 12, 1411
Read the area updates
Read the faction updates
Week 3 - Week 4
Remaining Participants: Bear-Garden, Rabid Ice Weasel, Indubitably, pistolsys, fairie lore, chenabby, kotaline, FallenSiren, Anyong Kim, kuku bear, Hedjrebl, NeonMace, ex o ex Snoof, Storei, Zanaroo, Arana Kamina ((please PM Zanaroo directly if you think you are missing from this list!))  Week1&2/March 29 (cont'd)[Solo] Memory Fades - Chauhn, Clurie (March 23) [Solo] Hesitate - Chauhn [Solo] Under Different Circumstances - Lulu [Solo] Husks - Ellison [Solo] a bizarre reaction - Rabid Ice Weasel [Solo] Unwelcome Repetition - Danylrein, Nella (March 25) [Solo] [ Credence - IV ] - Seymour, Clance (March 24) [Solo] [ Credence - V ] - Seymour, Clance (March 25) [Solo] Caw. - Beatrix, Cassandra (March 23) [Solo] The doctor is in. - Beatrix, Cassandra (March 24) [Solo] A Strange Present - Dragomir, Chayele (March 24) [Solo] An Alarming Occurrence - Dragomir, Chayele [Solo] Hesitate - Sage [Solo] hesitate pt. I - Wickwright [Solo] fleeting | hesitate pt. II - Hopkin [PRP] a terrible, terrible tide - Wickwright, Hopkin, Coyotl [Solo] Festina Lente - Basil [Solo] An Ecstacy - Adal March 30[Solo] Fleeting - Clurie [PRP] Fleeting Fears - Chauhn, Clurie, Georgie, Adal [PRP] an unusual circumstance - Shati, Fillin, Yizhaq, Hayat [Solo] Rise and Fall - Danylrein, Nella [Solo] Fleeting - Sage, Sloane [Solo] The Null Hypothesis - Georgie [Solo] The Alternative Hypothesis - Adal March 31[Solo] A Life-Changing Event - Dragomir, Chayele [Solo] Shackles - Sage, Sloane April 1[Solo] Cunning - Chauhn, Clurie [Solo] Only I Know - Lulu [Solo] Science - Ellison [Solo] Pestilence - Beatrix, Cassandra April 2[PRP] Open Your Eyes - Clurie, Hayat April 3[ORP] Cunning Foxes - started by Sage [Solo] [ Credence - VI ] - Seymour, Clance [Solo] Ball and Chain - Sloane [Solo] Leaves on Trees - Georgie, Adal April 4[Solo] Leaking Sunlight - Chauhn, Clurie [Solo] Mater Memento Mori - Basil April 5[Solo] Your Thin Frame - Chauhn, Clurie [Solo] Sleep Deprived - Lulu [Solo] Her - Ellison [Solo] [ Credence - VII ] - Seymour, Clance [Solo] Stay with me - Beatrix, Cassandra [Solo] Asymptomatic - Sage, Sloane [Solo] Release - Sage, Sloane [Solo] Ubi Re Vera - Basil April 6[Solo] Questions - Sage, Sloane April 7[Solo] Different Skin - Dragomir, Chayele April 8[Solo] Feathers Like Lead - Danylrein, Nella [Solo] Choice - Sage, Sloane April 10[Solo] A Finer Ash - Chauhn, Clurie, Hayat [Solo] Cleanse - Sage, Sloane [Solo] A Boy Like You - Adal April 11[Solo] Dwindling Luck - Danylrein, Nella
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:15 am
"He'd rather give up the ghost than take flight."
META UPDATE
Week 5
April 12th, 1411 - April 19th, 1411
(Please post again for week 5 and 6, since the wrap-up
has already been posted!) UPDATE 1: "Leaves of the Clover," Grimms and Plagues alike, week 5
Things seem to have calmed down unfathomably well since the beginning of this fifth week. For those of you who used the feathers, the effects have finally worn off and you're free once again of the Black Death or, to those few unfortunate Plague souls, are relieved of the shackles of a human's image. To those who didn't use those feathers given to you by the dove, however, it seems that those feathers are here to stay with you as a haunting memorandum.
But, of course, there is consequence to playing God.
After the phenomena with heavy-as-lead crows dying on the streets and your run-in with death, it seems that you're attracting nothing but it for the next few days. People around you will die, and there is no way you will help it. You'll smell the Black Death, you'll smell Death linger around you and you'll have the scent of a Plague through and through for the next few days, as if your disease has transferred from your physical body to your six senses. There is something in the back of your mind that is telling you that, yes, nearly instantly, anyone around you that isn't a Grimm or a Plague will be inflicted with the Black Death as soon as they move away from you. To the Plagues, however, all is normal.
To those who answered to Obscuvos' heed, though, there is even better news-- if you've already taken action, he'll follow you without question and he'll never speak. What, exactly, do you think he's going to do to you, if you've had time to think at all?
UPDATE 2: "Thick as Thieves," The Fellowship of Mages, week 5
Things are starting to change around Shyregoed, and there's no changing it. Mages or not, the Fellowship bases are being cleared out by the Imperial Guard and by a few trickster and apparently more "higher-up" Mages for the past few days, though few reasons are being given. Rank or not, you're being personally asked to leave your quarters and head to a safer part of the province until the new Grand Magus is designated to his or her proper spot in Anica, and the coronation is starting in secret.
The bad part, though, is that they're asking you to leave many of your things behind, and the request was rather brash, if not a tad rude. As a Mage, you have one of two choices: You can either leave the Fellowship fortresses for the time being while things settle down for the faction or, optionally, go against the Guard and the Fellowship's will and stay put where you are. If you do stay where you are, expect trouble from corrupted mages near your area that will try to uproot your area and, worst of all, try to strip your rank from the Fellowship. How do you react, and what is the consequence?
UPDATE 3: "Not a Penny More," Commonwealth, week 5
Tax collectors and beggars, the lot of them, but due to the current state of disrepair many people are requesting for a general "forcible aid" and charity to every citizen they can to account for the amount of effort and resources it will take to rebuild the provinces again after the hectic dealings around Shyregoed and Imisus, especially. Not only are they requesting an insane amount of money from you, these supposed government officials are literally threatening you with arrest if you don't comply. On the other hand, however, you might encounter a fellow propagandist from the Panymese Press, who says that they're willing to help you out and give you information in the future if you give them your supposed donation to the government official to them instead. Which one do you give aid to, if either, and if you don't give the officiate your share, how do they react?
UPDATE 4: "A Job Well Done," Imisus, week 5
As a people, the Imisese are trying their best to recuperate after their massive riots across the towns, though how well they're faring is up to you to decide. Due to King Fang's relatively famous method for keeping record of his citizens, he has requested that his personal officiates hire officers to go around Panymium to request the aid of their native residents in their time of great need. Despite where you might be, King Fang himself will have sent you someone to tell you both the status of where your family is, if they're alive, and how your last area of residence in Imisus is. It's highly likely that your home was destroyed but, in light of this message, do you plan on going back to Imisus and fix things up in your home province, or must you stay put and deal with the things you've already been handed to you these past few hectic weeks?
UPDATE 5: "Wait for High Tide," Shyregoed, week 5
One thing is for sure-- none of you have any information about the Grand Magus, the state of the Fellowship, nor the state of your nation or the health of your family. Crows are infiltrating your area, you are being pushed into a state of complete disarray, and no one knows any more than you do, at this point. You hear announcement of a major rally in Anica on April the 19th, the day that the new Grand Magus will reveal his-self or herself after the official coronation. Nearly everyone in Shyregoed has gone to these coronations in the past and it's extremely unlikely that you'd be one to miss it, especially if you are a province native. But hear-say of these riots are plotting a murder and eventual destruction of the Anican castles-- how do you prepare for the post-coronation on the 19th? Do you plan to join the riots, or do you plan to stand before the Anican castle and heed to the new Grand Magus?
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:52 am
"You know no one true."
The Grand Magus' inauguration.META UPDATE
Week 6
April 19th, 1411 - April 26th, 1411(Please post again for week 6 and 7, since the wrap-up
has already been posted!) UPDATE 1: Grimms and Plagues, week 6
All that's left of the cultists now are quiet and disappointment. Even those who are of Obsucvan faith feel an eerie level of silence, as if they're being shunned, and it seems like the cultists are nowhere near in sight. It seems as if they've never been there at all, as if the House of Obscuvos was never there to begin with. What's worse, though, is the dissonance between your senses and everything around you. After this series of events and the troubles with Obscuvos himself, you end your week with a final visitation by a single man, who is bespectacled and ghastly, impossible to touch but entirely there.
If you try to interact with him, he simply smiles, autonomously greeting you. He says, "It was a pleasure to get to know you these past six weeks, but I'm afraid it's my time to go. The Plague Doctor has a new competitor-- I am him, and it looks like you and your Plague might have to get used to more visits with your new ally."
He salutes you by taking off his hat and bowing and, whisking himself away in the wind, disintegrating like dust, the only thing that's left of him is one thing--
A dead crow, like the ones you've seen these past six weeks...
UPDATE 2: Panymium, week 6
...And even those are starting to fade away from existence, or, shall we say, be returning to normal.
As the week passes by each and every one of these crows, once heavy as lead when they were deceased, are becoming lighter and lighter by the hour. By the end of it streets are being flooded with floating crows, which are seemingly impossible to throw away, even if you try-- if you do, don't worry, they'll come alive and fly away the very instant you lay your finger on it. The strange thing, though, is that these armies of dead and now-floating crows are taking a strange leap into transformation as the days go by. These birds are now turning into robed husks, like the cultists that were following you only a few weeks ago, and threatened to attack you. While those cultists from earlier might have seemed completely sentient and human in thought process, these ones are shades of human beings, as black in aura as they were when they were crows.
If you are around these dead crows, they'll make on last chase after you, armies of them near you transforming instant by instant, one by one. They will chase you until they can't chase you anymore, until they've transformed back into a seeping black goop-- the familiar scent of Putescos and the Furvus Elixir-- but how well do you fare and how many chase you?
Most importantly, take care of not being harmed by the remaining goop...
UPDATE 3: those of wavering faith, week 6
...Or it will do a great many things to your health.
If Obscuvos was chasing you at any point in time the previous week, and has faded in and out of his appearance as of late, this is the time he'll become the most sentient. The black goop that's been appearing in masses across the streets have recollected and are seemingly immediately attracting to this god image that is following you around, real in mass or not. He is becoming a bulky and unavoidable thing, and what was once a stalker has now become murderous. He snares open his crow's beak and elongates his feathered neck, arched in an eerie fashion. Obscuvos can devour you.
This thing will murder you at any cost, and perhaps it will, but this instance of killing seems to be nothing but a delusion. Once he gets his final and imminent grip on you, you'll recognize your mode of death and you'll feel pain in the process, but after a strange dream you wake. When you wake, you're covered in a seeping black and you have complete memory of what just happened to you.
How do you get killed?
Did you really get killed at all?
UPDATE 4: Imisus week 6
People have been claiming murder ever since the disappearance of the crows from the streets, but Imisus has seemed to be getting the worst of it all. Not only are they suffering from a lack of interest in reconstruction, the Panymese Press is reconstructing their base off of the corner of some random street in Imisus, and they have a strong collection of followers that are willing to defend their area at any cost. The press makers are seemingly printing out articles of anything they've experienced these past few days, and are handing them out to any who are willing to vow for their Press. Do you take their paper or do you deny them?
If you do take their paper, you notice a few things. First things first, the Panymese Press has seemingly no articles on the crow phenomena nor the massive influence of the House of Obscuvos, even during these past hectic six weeks. Second of all, it's seemingly derailing the Grimms and an inevitable recurrence of madness in any Plague owner they've seen. How do you react to this offense?
Then again, they do have their reasons...
UPDATE 5: Commonwealth, week 6
...And those reasons are about to be proved once again.
You find a bottle of Furvus Elixir somewhere around you. A note is attached to it, but it's blank, and it whispers one thing--
"Keep this safe."
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:07 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:22 pm
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