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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] repeter2019-01-17 05:32 pm
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EVENT + TDM


I. - CURRENT PLAYERS + TDMERS
It's been days since the firewall took over the city of Recollé. The heat is still present even in mid-January and though the wall has consumed much of the outer edges of the city, the buildings and innerworkings of each district are unaffected and still standing tall. Firefighters are working endlessly to try and put out the flames and combat the issue, but the flames only begin to lessen as Retrospec users work together to curb the fire and stop it from spreadng.

This might be the time to jump in and help. Previously, you may have tried to help and found your efforts futile. Those new to the app may even have found themselves thinking the flames were best left to the professionals once the assessment was made that there would be minimal damage. However, there seems to be a power tied to that new app on your phone. Should you attempt to help put out the flames, your efforts shall be rewarded and a pathway will open into a tunnel of fire with a series of doors spread before you.

With many of you finding your way through the firewall and unlocking the doors within, progress is being made to wear down the security measures. Points in the wall will begin to crumble under touch alone and rows and rows of doors begin to appear. The flames are starting to die down outside, but it becomes clear that it's not just a few chambers you must explore. Several thousands of doors are scattered amongst the flames waiting for you to approach. Luckily you won't have to open all of them. The silver doors loom in the distance, but thanks to the efforts of the last two weeks, identifying the doors is much easier than before.

While several of the doors that have been opened are easy to navigate, users will come to find that as they approach a new door an error message will appear and block the path to the door. These messages will not appear on doors that do not contain keys, though this pattern may not be obvious at first. Sometimes the messages will appear just by walking in any of the cardinal directions inside the fire tunnel, popping up right in front of your face and forcing you to walk straight into them. These pop-ups can be dismantled via physical force or magic, though you may wish to be careful. Anyone who directly touches these messages will find themselves…multiplying? Oh dear. Two, three, or even four copies of yourself will appear and begin to wander off not only in the tunnels but back through the wall and out in the city of Recollé. Users who are split apart will have to round up all versions of themselves to become whole again, and the clones themselves will be more than happy to wander as they please, posing as you and attempting to deter others from progressing. Good luck getting them to stop.
II. - CURRENT PLAYERS + TDMERS
The pop-ups aren't the only issue users will begin to experience the longer they linger in the wall. As Retrospec users continue navigating these routes and clearing the paths needed to break down the firewall, things begin to grow a little more difficult to manage. Though the passages of the doors appear to be fine and users can enter new areas to obtain keys, it seems as though there's something bigger that wants to stop the progress occurring.

Users with Retrospec-given abilities will find difficulty in using their powers in ways they've never experienced before. Superstrength gives out after two seconds while shapeshifting will leave you stuck in that form for three days. Magic is on the fritz and spells will backfire, kicking back and damaging yourself for every spell you attempt to use. A small ball of light will escape your fingertips, draining you of your abilities and gifting them to someone else temporarily (though they won't know how to control them the way you do.) The trouble with it all is that no method is the same, and even if you experience a glitch once an outside force will change the consequences so they do not repeat.

You may think to check your phone for answers. Can you Google how to fix your own powers? While a search engine won't be of any use, users will find that the Retrospec app's logo has a new, upgraded appearance. Five of the eight inner petals have will appear gray in color while the remaining three are untouched. A sixth petal is colored halfway in. Should a user activate the app while in the city, they will find that everything around them will pause in a freezeframe. Birds will stop mid-flight, cars will be stopped in the middle of intersections, firehoses will have frozen arches of water aimed to the flames…everything is perfectly still save for other users.

As for those who activate the app inside the firewall, time will become fluid and change around you. Everything seems to move at hyperspeed, actions on fast-forward and time skipping ahead. Your actions will also be at the speed of light, and should you manage to accomplish your goals inside the wall and beyond the doors, a return to the city will show that much more time has passed than you anticipated. Hours or even days have escaped you even if it felt like no time at all.

With some trial and error, users can discover that a hard reset of their phone and re-opening the app will undo these effects. However, it may not be so easy seeing how the app will appear and disappear intermittently. Be quick; you may miss it if you blink.
III. - CURRENT PLAYERS ONLY
It seems a bit suspicious that Retrospec's gone quiet throughout all of this, doesn't it. There hasn't been word from the company since Joanne's last message about the firewall, and as usual any attempt to contact the company is futile. The message from delta#02018329 on the 13th was the last form of communication from anyone tied to Retrospec and since then all has been quiet. The animal guides from before are hard at work helping users discover new paths and find the keys, knowing they need to work quickly.

On the 24th, the firewall begins coming down in large chunks, falling away and shattering into embers when destroyed by an established user. The wall reveals the lines of doors surrounding the city and as of this date the temperature begins to drop again. Good job, users. You've almost fully dismantled the blockade. However, the wall isn't finished yet.

Beginning on this day as well, established users will become public enemy number one for the operator of the wall. A string of bad luck begins to follow you in an attempt to deter you from finishing your task of destroying this wall. Ranging from small feats such as misplacing your phone to larger feats such as removing all doors and windows from a building you're in, these attempts can be easily broken with enough willpower or simply waiting it out. For the truly unlucky, even NPCs will grow suspicious of you and begin to question you, asking you what's changed about you and why you and only you are the one who can put out the flames when the fire department has been working so hard.

Most importantly, however, are the small showers of green sparks that will appear over the city, sprinkling on you from overhead and dousing you in an invisible sheen. An equally invisible force feels as though it's pulling you down quickly despite standing in one place, and when the feeling passes…well. You may wonder what this strange app is on your phone and why you have it. It's new, isn't it? Wonder what it could be. You've never heard of Retrospec before, you think, but it can't be that interesting.

Perhaps you haven't slipped that far. You may be one of those who finds yourself with gaps in your memory, or items on-hand you don't quite recall having before. Images will flash through your mind even if you can't pinpoint where you've experienced these things before. And, of course, there's the fact that you may even literally slip between layers in the city, entering a door in the firewall and falling down into a plain white room. This washed-out castle-esque hall will make navigation difficult as the doorway to return blends into the walls. It only takes a trick of jogging your memory and recalling your true purpose to outline the door. What does it mean to jog your memory? This can be anything from sharing a memory you don't understand to showing off an item or ability and brainstorming its purpose. You will only understand the truth and remember everything upon leaving this castle, but until then? Time to brainstorm.
IV. - TDMERS ONLY
It's a little alarming to suddenly wake up and have a brand new app on your phone that connects you to a special group of people, isn't it? This may not be what you were expecting, but the Retrospec app seems harmless even if it's a bit unusual. With the power necessary to help combat the flames, perhaps you're the type who isn't even worried about what's happening. There's a job to do, after all.

Upon opening the app for the first time though you'll receive a message from a user named Z.C.

You're probably confused right now and I get it, this is really confusing. I was confused, too. But you have to be on-guard. Looks like you're a fresh target.

That's an ominous warning, and yet nothing comes from it for several days. In fact, it isn't until the 25th that those words hold some weight. It seems that there's someone out there who doesn't feel like you belong. No matter where you stand or what's happening for you at that given moment, at the stroke of midnight a large crater will open beneath you and swallow you whole, sending you straight down. The fall feels endless but as you land you'll find yourself standing on barren, gray ground surrounded by a black night sky, spiderweb cracks spreading from the center and moving outward. The world around you is dark and above you you can hear the sounds of the city and the people in it. The sounds of your fellow app-users combatting the wall of fire and even some of the ongoings of what's happening to them beyond the doors echo in this dark chamber.

The space around you is dead. There isn't a single sign of life sans what looks like a large, 80-foot whale skeleton. Even that appears abandoned, though there are footprints in the dirt near the creature's mouth. You aren't the first to arrive, but getting back will be the trick of it all. Someone wants you hidden away, but finding a clever way to reach out to those in the layer beyond will grant you an exit. Shouting, throwing items on hand, anything you can think of to create a diversion and draw attention to yourself may help. The louder you are, the thicker the cracks in the sky grow. It'll take a combination of people working below and people working above to break this barrier. Don't be afraid to reach out. It may be your only way back home.
BONUS.
The firewall gave a good effort, but in the end the power behind the Retrospec users was too much to sustain it for long…or was it? On the 31st the rest of the firewall seems to crumble and turn into smoke and ash as though the force holding it up cut its losses and quit. Several wolf-shaped figures appear from the smoke and surround the city, spreading ash as far as the eye can see before running off in the direction of Magatus. A sharp crackling noise like glass shattering rings through your ears and the wall and the layer below disappear for good. Congratulations, users. It seems as though you've broken down the barriers standing in your way.

However…there's still the matter of all of this ash and dust to take care of. Grab a broom, a dustbuster or a friend. It's time to do some major clean-up on the city and get it back to normal.

For those who venture to Tisse though, looking up to the very top of the towers will show a set of windows that have been dark and dimmed for several months. As the night wears on, however, the lights begin to flicker on until the entire floor is lit. There isn't any way up to the top of the building just yet, but for every light that comes on it seems that the amount of ash lessens. Is there a correlation? Or is it just someone from above helping you out? Only time will tell.
NOTES.
Welcome to [community profile] recolle's January event part two!

All characters who are TDMing will be begin in-game AU'd as Recollé residents. You may use any of the above prompts for ideas or make up your own depicting your Recollé AU! Prompts do not have to be set in the districts listed above. You can review our list of locations for what's available. Please note that TDM threads can be used as samples, can be kept as game canon, and can also be used for bonus points for future item regains. Share a few minor details of your AU, tag around, and have fun!

If you are TDMing this round, please indicate this by including TDM in your subject line! This will help the playerbase know who is who.

As indicated in the link above for prompt 2, if you would like us to generate a key-tracking scenario for you please sign up at the comment on the first event log!

-For current players, you may claim multiple freebies from this log! These include:
-One freebie memory for threading with a character that is test-driving.
-One freebie memory for combatting the issues occurring in prompts 2+3
-One freebie memory for helping someone else combat the issues occurring in prompts 2+3
All of these threads must have at least five comments from you to be eligible. To submit for your freebie memories, please link us the appropriate thread with the trigger explanation of "freebie."

TDM characters who app in and are accepted before February are also eligible to claim this log's memory freebies! Like current players, please be sure to submit your freebie regain threads before the end of the AC period.

As a special note, we will also allow current players to use a thread from this event/TDM for their AC proofs! As this ties into a game-event, we are making an exception. However, your other proof(s) (at least ten comments) must come from sources outside of this log. Likewise, as this is an event log instead of just a standard TDM, you may use this log to trigger regains as normal.

Finally, be sure to check out January's AU workshop if you haven't yet! Any questions you have regarding this event may be directed to the mod comment here. Be sure to review the mods' question thread on the plotting post for additional information as well!
armati: (15.)

[personal profile] armati 2019-01-22 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
[...Ah, good, an idiot.]

If I were trying to get you arrested, I would actually be doing something to bring that about. Don't you think?

[His voice is actually pretty placid despite the confrontation; either he doesn't rile easily or his self-control is unreal, it's kind of hard to say.]
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-22 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, like waiting for me to get tired before you pounce on your prey?

It wouldn't be the first time this month some people went fucking bat shit crazy on me.

But anyway, the question remains, what's your deal?
armati: (42.)

[personal profile] armati 2019-01-22 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
I think I'm within my rights to ask you something similar, really... Outside of "magic" and "pointless belligerence," that is.
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-22 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
I believe I asked first.

If you want to keep this pissing contest going on, I should warn you that you're playing with fire and you could get burned.

But that should be self-evident.
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[personal profile] armati 2019-01-22 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
I believe you're the only one attempting to escalate things...?

[like, what pissing contest are you even talking about

you're the only one acting like a goddamn lunatic]
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-22 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
....

...

Just answer the damn question already, it's been a rough month for me and I'm on a shorter fuse than usual okay?
armati: (34.)

[personal profile] armati 2019-01-24 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
So you're dealing with it by threatening strangers who have nothing to do with you. Quite the charming individual, aren't you.
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rewrite, sorry

[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-24 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, common when you haven't slept in a week and police yell at you all day for no reason, hence why I tried to move here to work in peace and not deal with people's bullshit.

YET HERE YOU ARE MAKING ME DEAL WITH YOUR BULLSHIT!

SO SORRY IF I'M A LITTLE AGGRESSIVE AND ON EDGE!
armati: (38.)

if it's any consolation i just cycled through four journals trying to figure out which one i need

[personal profile] armati 2019-01-25 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't say I'm making you deal with anything, though it sounds as though you're doing an acceptable job of causing your own problems... Lack of sleep will prove fatal after a while, you know. Between eight and ten days. And if you know it's causing problems with your attitude, imagine what it's doing to the quality of your work.

I can't say they're wrong to yell at you, if you're acting like this to everyone.
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-25 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Al just takes a deep breath...this guy, is annoying the ever living shit out of him. Irrationally so. But he does have a point so he just sighs]

Look, me trying to get sleep is actually a problem.

Police have chased me on sight before I became this charming for no reason and are super aggressive to me about it, so I need to be in this form to evade them.

Yet as long as I am in this form, I need to drain fire for magic, otherwise I turn back into good old regular me and chances are, since it's been a week...I will pass out and be unable to defend myself.

Magic is keeping my body up and going, but the second I am out of this form, I'm almost certain my body will collapse and need sleep and I will be unable to defend myself.

Which as if I didn't have enough to deal with, I am not sure how to get out of this form reliably, since this is new and...I haven't been able to practice getting out of it.

Getting IN is apparently MUCH easier than getting out.
armati: (41.)

[personal profile] armati 2019-01-25 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Mm, that's. One thing at a time, shall we.]

Do you have nowhere to stay...? Somewhere that can actually accommodate sleep without the need to defend yourself immediately?

[...Like. Should he be calling CPS here, what in the world.]
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-25 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know where I could be safe. The family is acting all strange like they are after me for something, and I don't know if they would do something to me while I'm asleep.

The only one on the app is my brother but, screw him before I ask him for favours.

and I honestly don't know where I can go, without, well...people.

Your the first person that I've talked to without having a clone around, or powers suddenly being switched with mine and had to push myself in order to solve the problem...before the police would try to get at me while I tried to find a place to sleep afterward.
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[personal profile] armati 2019-01-25 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't have any powers, no clones, to my knowledge I have no troubles with the law, and I obviously do have the app now.

[...]

My name is Arthur Crowe. I live alone; should you need somewhere to pass out without there being anything too aggressively strange occurring, and if you do your best to not burn my apartment down, I can offer you somewhere for the night. It's the couch, but it's better than nothing. Just enough to get you back on your feet, so you don't die doing...whatever it is you're doing.
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-25 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Albert Matthews.

I was using magic to try to take the firewall and absorb it. I can only take so much before having to burn some energy then do it all over again.

Much more effective than the firemen...although they hate it when I'm around and yell at me about taking their jobs.

As for the clones thing, don't touch any floating error messages and you won't have to worry about clones.

Nothing will get burned, you have my word and thank you...your awfully kind considering I was hostile as hell, hopefully, after some sleep, I might be able to go back to my family and test the waters.

I am willing to pay to sleep at your place...if anything else...to say sorry about how I reacted.
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[personal profile] armati 2019-01-25 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
I'll admit I was being difficult; I'm stubborn like that. As it is, I'm new to the app, and unfamiliar with its effects; I didn't mean anything by it.

[He waves a bit, though, dismissively.]

And don't worry about money, or any other sort of payment - you're sleep-deprived and overworking yourself. As long as things end well enough, I see no reason to hold it over you, and if it's just for the night, it's not inconveniencing me any.
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-25 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I don't blame you, I've done the same.

Expect I tried to be a pain in the ass to someone who happened to be a demon and tried to kill me when I pissed her off.

Barley got out alive and strangely enough, I'm friends with her now. So, if I can do that, pretty sure this is nowhere near as bad.

I doubt I will be around for more than one day, most likely I will be sleeping like a rock...once I get out of this form anyway.
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[personal profile] armati 2019-01-25 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, right, you said you didn't quite know how to do that...

[There's been a lot to unpack here.]
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-25 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep.

Been in this form for a good while, since I can't really rest anywhere or stay in a public place for barely the amount of time it takes for me to get some fast food before the freaking police show up because someone freaking tipped them off.

Which seriously people, can't a guy get a cheeseburger in peace?
Edited 2019-01-25 22:14 (UTC)
armati: (34.)

[personal profile] armati 2019-01-26 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
...So why, exactly, do the police hate you?

[He somehow dowbts it's for literally no reason.]
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-26 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
It's a bit of a sensitive topic with me, but...

It's more about my dad than me.

Seems like this month everyone suddenly remembered who my birth dad was and they want to bring me in again.

[Kinda missing the part where your a thief, but, I suppose he wouldn't reveal that to someone that just offered to crash on the coach.]
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[personal profile] armati 2019-01-26 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
All right.

[He's aware that there's a lot he's likely not being told; it isn't particularly a hill he's going to die on, because he suspects it isn't his place and honestly he doesn't know what he'd do about it even if he knew everything - best to remain out of it for now.]

We can see about fixing the food situation as well. I can cook enough to survive on, at least - as long as you don't expect anything fantastic, I don't mind.
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-26 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, that is kind, but I don't want to munch on your food.

It's just a day, I survived worse.

[This was unlike Al, normally he would have taken advantage of the offer and eat as much as he wanted since, why care about this dude?

But he might need this guy's place as a safe house one of these days, so best not to exploit his kindness
]
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[personal profile] armati 2019-01-27 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[I mean. Fair.]

I'm not going to force the issue, as long as you're certain.
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[personal profile] flametheif40 2019-01-27 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, I have starved on the streets before, so one day is not going to be a problem.

[and there was a little nugget of the answer for his pervious question.]
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[personal profile] armati 2019-01-27 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
You're not doing a good job at convincing me that I shouldn't force the issue.

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