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June 2022 Trial Plotting Post

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Welcome to our plotting post for this month's event! This plotting page will not include any generic mingle introductions found on the live event. If you have questions about the trial, let us know down below!

Feel free to use the following form for your plotting!



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THE PARADE
Content Warnings: Themes regarding sexuality and gender identity and coming out. Optional mild themes of homophobia/transphobia (non-explicit in prompt - but history of queerness is an option to explore).

Follow the rainbow. No, really. This month is filled with an abundance of clear rainbows in the sky that lead directly to the hearts of Epiphany and Willow. There you will find that the streets are lined with rainbow decorations. Multicolored confetti falls throughout the streets, dissolving after 24 hours. There seems to be good cheer from various NPCs. Golems stand about holding pride flags to hand out to anyone who wishes to hold them. Unfortunately, golems can't really talk so they can't explain what the various flags mean, but maybe someone around you can?

Agrona has taken to the streets with glimmering outfits and a jubilant personality. She's readily available to teach people what exactly pride is, what the various flags are, and why it's so important to celebrate the month. "You really want to be the best version of yourself? First you gotta understand yourself or maybe you just need to be a good friend to the people in your life."

Anyone being a bit of a jerk about the pride might get Agrona shoving her way into their face. Anyone violent will be met with Agrona's one-punch finale. Ain't got no time for discrimination in these parts!

Colorful parades float through the streets from time to time celebrating various aspects of queer life. A parade filled with lavender flowers, parades where men in leather are decked out, drag queens strolling about and offering to do people's make-up. If you're shy, you'll be welcomed here! People might help dress you up to fit the themes or at the very least invite you to a good time.

It's a wonderful way to meet new people. There are plenty of food trucks giving out treats at all hours of the parade - some are themed colorfully while others are just yummy like fried dough and poutine. There are some more somber floats to honor victims of various hate crimes throughout the universes, embellishing on the harder history of queerness throughout time and space. Sometimes it can be a bit sad to see, but for those with an interest in history, it may serve as a valuable lesson.

There are float stations where you can join a float or make your own and pilot it between Epiphany and Willow. A rainbow track seems to be temporarily laid between the two towns throughout June and it radiates light throughout the night. In the evening, expect fireworks to fill the skies and sparklers to be handed out.

Characters will be encouraged to participate in the parades or generally contribute to the atmosphere of June. They will be implored to share their own stories or experiences through Foxi or on temporary public stages where they can talk to audiences about what they have gone through. For those uninterested in coming out, you can also use this time to just showcase some talents like playing some music on the stage or performing elaborate dance routines! Pride is a celebration of life and love and perseverance! So celebrate it!

One of the most notable features for the parade is the Love Tree. This is a unique tree that has sprouted out of the earth between Epiphany and Willow, massive, white, with rainbow-colored leaves. Thirteen sits in her fox form beside the tree and tells those that come by it: "If you carve the name of your loved one on this tree, I will bless them with temporary protection. If you carve your initials together, I will enhance the chemistry between you two for a short time."

You may see your own initals carved by others on this tree or be completely oblivious. Carvings can be for platonic, romantic, or familial connections. This tree will go back into the earth at the end of June.
DESERT DESSERTS
Content Warnings: Alcohol/substance use, altered personalities and physical bodies including possible gender swaps, magical drinks, optional NSFW prompts, forced costume changes.

In the evening you can follow some of these light rainbow paths into Cruel Summer where you will discover a vibrant nightlife partying it up in the desert. Of course, if you're uninterested in following that path, Thirteen might just figure you need a tiny little push! This means you might be minding your own business when a small golden portal opens up under you and sends you right into the heart of Cruel Summer. During this teleportation, you might go through a bit of a Cinderella effect and have your clothes altered into a flamboyant, expressive, revealing, and/or campy outfit you might not typically pick for yourself! Including some fun modifications to your hair and make-up!

The teleportation will also make you feel more open to unusual experiences and the desert sure...is an experience! What looks like a carnival made out of candy has sprouted up in the middle of the desert, complete with frothy-looking rollercoasters, a Ferris wheel that looks like a giant lollypop, a tunnel of love made out of hot chocolate, and marshmallow boats. There are booths where you can win extremely cute stuffed animals of surprisingly high quality. One of Thirteen's friends is at the helm of the project: a feline-like entity who seems to enjoy putting people in cute outfits and decorating her immediate surroundings in food-themes. Meet Six! You can see
Six and Thirteen prancing around the carnival and having fun on rides. If you're feeling shy, the two entities might smooch your cheeks and give you a boost of confidence that will make you feel more open and charismatic.

There is a glowing booth that sells various rainbow-colored drinks - provided by a suspiciously handsome feline humanoid merchant. He gives you a wide grin and tells you to have fun and bottoms up! Your night will change after taking one of these rainbow shots. But each color provides a different transformative experience:
RED: A cherry-flavored drink will make you instantly intoxicated even if you typically can resist the feelings of intoxication/highness. More of this drink can cause a deeper sense of intoxication. However, one cannot be poisoned to death by this drink. You might just do a lot of really wild things.

ORANGE: An orange-flavored drink that will grant you a temporary ability to pick up on secrets of other characters you interact with whether through a natural realization or reading their minds or picking up on certain vibes. Please make sure to use player permission!

YELLOW: A lemonade-flavored drink that will enhance your natural cravings and desires. If you're a sweet tooth, you might have the insatiable urge to eat all the sweets you can get your hands on. If you're kinda crushing on someone, you might become obsessed with their attention. Everything you want is impossible to ignore now!

GREEN: A lime-apple flavored drink will give you a massive energy boost and throw you into a bit of a frenzied, excitable state where you're willing to do anything and everything! You also will feel like you could take on the world...But you won't exactly be immortal or anything so you might want to take it easy.

BLUE: A blueberry-flavored drink will make you agonizingly lonely and clingy and you will feel a gut-wrenching need to be with someone. While this can be platonic or familial, most people tend to experience an intense urge to have sexual experiences with other people or at the very least - romantic attention.

PURPLE: A grape-flavored drink will make you feel an odd bursting-sensation before your gender is swapped for another and your outfit will immediately correlate with that new identity. Alternatively, this drink may swap your species and transform you into other species fictional and otherwise!

PINK: A hyper-sour lemonade flavored-drink that will instantly make you feel like all your senses got punched at the same time. This drink will make you hyper-sensitive to sensory experiences, giving you something of an ectasy-like experience. This makes touching feel amazing, all food tastes amazing, and music makes you see colors and feel warm - it's just a great time. Until it isn't probably.

All drink effects last 6-24 hours. If you know where to look, you may also find some traditional alcohol and drugs being passed around at different booths. There don't seem to be any real laws that uphold the public sale of these, so you won't get busted if you decide to do some drinking or pop an ecstasy tablet.

There is a dance floor where Six and Thirteen gather together to put on some exciting performances. When they aren't performing, there is a DJ booth set up that plays itself to fit the mood of the crowd and alternatively, characters can step up and DJ for a while! Just make sure you're halfway decent or you might get some annoyed dancers on your hand!

Have some fun! And make sure you stop by the greasy burger booth towards the front of the carnival for Hangover Hamburgers that guarantee you won't feel shitty in the morning! This place really is magical. There is also an abundance of ice cream that won't melt no matter how long you hold it. It's a delight that will instantly make you feel energized and refreshed!
WILDEST DREAMS
Content Warnings: Survival adventure themes, possible car crashes, chaotic/destructive surroundings. Forced reincarnation, increasingly painful deaths, possible memory loss, natural disasters.

"We're going on an adventure. I hope you're prepared," Amrita says to you. She appeared out of seemingly nowhere, standing next to you at the market or quite possibly sitting on the edge of your bed. She doesn't seem ruffled by your potential shock.

"Oh, do stop fretting. It's not like you'll be alone. You must learn to endure. If you think you will be able to survive Folkmore without some basic survival instincts, well..." She adjusts her hair and gives you a look, nose crinkling. "No, I don't believe you're that stupid to believe you could. Away we go!"

With a clap of her hands, the world around you changes. You're put into a classic adventuring outfit of some sort vaguely reminiscent of Amrita's own outfit, some version of Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, or the like. Amrita is standing in front of you in a hat, shouting to you over what looks like immediate destruction, debris of some falling apart plane shooting through the air or an avalanche down a mountain or an incoming sandstorm: "We always must persist no matter how futile the situation seems! Look!"

She points ahead and you see another person or perhaps a group of fellow PCs. Everyone's as confused as you are to be here.

"Your first lesson: survive. Good luck!" And with that, Amrita shrinks into a black fox form and darts ahead. If you had been hoping for a leisurely camping trip, you're dead wrong. This is more of a hectic situation in which you need to get out of there or just die immediately. Teleportation won't work for you here, but flight might help as long as you can avoid falling beacons of fire. This destruction quest is a bit like what you would expect from a climactic moment in an adventure video game. A natural disaster of some sort or the destruction of a building. The atmosphere may change depending on your personal preferences from a mountain to a jungle to a desert - the quest remains the same. Your character needs to use immediate wit and incredible prowess to survive.

There will be hundreds of ways to die and when you do, you'll just wake up and have to start it over again, but each death will be increasingly more painful and will gradually begin to impact your memory. If it gets too difficult or if you feel too lost, fear not! Other characters are around to help - but if they are just as hopeless as you are, Amrita herself will stay with you to teach you how to navigate the intense terrain.

There will be quiet moments between the epic ones, moments where you can catch your breath and take a moment. Camp and tend to injuries with supplies in the pack you have been granted by Amrita. You're not sure how long you need to survive for but you do feel an insatiable draw pulling you forward. When in doubt of where you need to go, Amrita will appear to lead you further, and no matter how frustrated or scared you might become, you must follow.

And when you finally reach your destination...It may take your breath away. Buried inside of a mountain or in the middle of the desert or in the heart of the forest- wherever it may be...Is a tomb dedicated...To you. And your companions. Statues of you, of how you see yourself, of the crucial parts of your life. Ancient and worn by time. You may also find ancient artifacts scattered throughout the tomb that you can obtain by approaching them or solving tomb-centric puzzles to get to them. These artifacts can be canon items from your character's home world including powerful relics. Characters may also find canonical pets or other unique animals in the setting such as Pokemon or other mythical animals. All items obtained in the tomb will appear with your character once they have awoken from the dream.

Amrita is sitting in the middle, staring around her in quiet respect until finally, she speaks up: "This is why you must survive. You...You're so important to this universe. That energy you carried here? Carry that with you everywhere. Celebrate yourself even when no one else will. Survive for yourself. Then you can survive anything."

She gets up, dusts herself off, and smiles. "I hope you'll do well at Camp Camelot next month."

You can explore the tomb for a bit and once you're finished, once you feel a bit at peace with yourself, the image will fade to gold and you'll appear wherever Amrita took you from. You're going to be sore for a while, but hopefully you made some friends along the way and learned a lesson or two! Now...Just what the heck is this Camp Camelot thing she mentioned? Do you even want to know...
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Max — Ianthe + Asuka

[personal profile] hersillage 2022-06-12 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Max
Player Pronouns: They / Them
Player Contact: [plurk.com profile] wiisports
Preferred Tag Style: Action mainly, but prose is cool, too!
Monthly Pacing: I've got a vacation coming up along with a hunt for a new job, so I might be a bit spotty as we approach July. Nothing too terrible, hopefully! I'm also not used to writing more than one character, so there might be times where I favor one over the other while I get used to balancing multiple muses.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Asuka is a child; please don't boink her. I plan on writing some kind of full opt-in type thing for her soon, but the TL:DR; is that I don't plan on having her in any sexual scenarios.
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[personal profile] hersillage 2022-06-12 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Ianthe
Character Role: Myth
Current Mindset/Health:
Healthy physically, if not a bit ruffled mentally. She's coming from a point in her series where she's learned a lot about the world very, very quickly. Everything she knows is a lie? And she also rescued God from the jaws of a monster? There's a lot happening in her head — she might be a little out of sorts.

Trial Accomplishments:
I think it would be really cool for Ianthe to be placed in a situation where she needs to care for another. Not only is she capable of doing it, but she's sort of at her best when she's responsible for someone else. This could look like trip-sitting a stranger while they trip on desert desserts, or pairing up with someone to overcome the trials of her wildest dreams.

Pride won't really be her thing since she comes from a society that's pretty over the whole anti-queer thing, but since it can't really be avoided, she's going to come out to cause problems and kiss girls.

Trial Failures: Ianthe could stand a death or two.
Wanted CR: Everything? Everything! She's pretty easy to make an enemy of, for anyone wanting negative CR. But she could also use a friend, or whatever her version of friendship is. Or a hookup, or a plaything, or a new found family since her last found family quite literally imploded—
Unwanted CR: N/A
Open/Closed to New CR: New CR ahoy!
Timeline of Trials:
PARADE: Not really her thing, but she'll come to see what all the fuss is about. She might build a float dedicated to a few of her castmates getting fucked, because that's her sense of humor. She'd be willing to talk, but she'd be flippant at best about the whole thing.

DESERT: She's going to have a good time, whether it's through her own drinking, or in finding someone who's beside themselves and picking on them. She might also find someone in need of help and begrudgingly let herself be a trip-sitting hero to assure them that the ground is not lava, you dolt.

DREAMS: She's quick-witted and hearty, so chances are she won't die easily from something like falling debris. Encountering a boss of some kind might do her in, but only if they're on par with the gnarly soul of a dead planet.
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[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-06-13 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
So I think it'd be funny if Gideon runs into Ianthe before Harrow. And it's just like "Why are you the one who is here??!?!" Like their canonical snarky somewhat insulting banter. At the same time, Ianthe will be one of the familiar things here. So like, there's some comfort to the snark, and she will understand missing Corona (like literally, if anyone from TLT should be at Pride, so hot no one can help it unf Corona is the one, Gideon says).
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[personal profile] mychance 2022-06-12 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Asuka
Character Role: Myth
Current Mindset/Health:
Healthy physically, and doing surprising well mentally?? I chose a really, really bright canon point for her, so she's at Peak Asuka, which is nice.

Trial Failures:
I imagine that Asuka is going to have a bad time at Pride. It's kind of a lot going on at once, and she's a bit of an anxious person when it comes to things she isn't about to control, like hundreds of people and crowded streets and glitter and chaos— she might be too worried thinking that something bad is going to happen to actually enjoy herself, which might require intervention from a third party.

Also, dying in the dream world sounds like a possibility...

Wanted CR:
Everything, but mainly found family for her. Asuka really doesn't have any family to speak of and she unfortunately resents her current caretaker for pretty complicated reasons... so a support group for her is really my ultimate goal. Friends, parental figures, romantic partners, just normal things that normal kids have — none of which she's ever really been allowed to have before.

Unwanted CR: Sexual content, which is tricky because Asuka is canonically pretty curious about 'adult stuff' and sexuality, like revealing outfits and mature perfumes.
Open/Closed to New CR: New CR ahoy!
Timeline of Trials:
PARADE: She honestly might find the parade a little overwhelming? She's from a world where a good majority of the population is gone; there's a good chance she's never seen this many people gathered in one place in her life. Poor girl might have a panic attack at Pride, which is so not the vibe.

DREAMS: Asuka is physically fit and has been training as a child soldier robot pilot for a concerning amount of time. If anything, she's going to be the one taking charge here and making sure that everyone get out alive. If anyone dies while in her company, she's naturally going to freak out. Which could be great for bonding! Nothing like trauma to make the heart grow fonder!