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Hello Badficians, wondering what the Author has in store this week? Well, what with the chilly weather and all, she thought she might lend you all a hand at keeping warm.

Furry-style.

Yup, that's right. Characters effected by this are going to be granted animalistic appendages of the mun's choice, as is how much they're going to be affected. They could only have ears or just a tail, maybe just claws or a change in eyes, or they could be covered in fur or scales with a wet nose! There could also be a rogue tentacle or two.

Also, you never know what sort of instincts might bleed through with these changes! If someone is affected by some sort of cat-gene, they might find themselves casually shredding furniture or scrambling up a tree if they get startled!

So enjoy the plot Manorites! And be sure to close the lid in case anyone ends up part dog!

The Manor is itself; everyone is returned to normal size. The weather outside is chilly, but otherwise pleasant, with clear skies and only light breezes; there might be a light dusting of snow here and there. The creatures of the forest are sticking to the forest, and the squirrels have apparently gone into hibernation in the attic for a while.

However, you might not be waking up quite yourself.

This is a plot where it's MUN-option whether your character is affected or not; if you don't want to swap for an AU, you can bounce off other people who have just fine!

Anyone who is affected will be themselves from some alternate universe version. As mentioned in the spoiler post, there's a big range of valid possible AU's:
*Post-canon "What If" - any length of time after canon, how would things turn out for your character?

*Alternate Timelines: Something went differently in the character's past, whether a minor or major event, that changed how things went, which could be just about any "what if" sort of scenario.

*Genderswap/species swap: Your character was born a girl if a guy, or a guy if a girl; or, in world with more than one race, wasn't born human/whatever they are, etc.

*Alignment/role swaps: A "protagonist" character ends up on the other side, or vice versa; morality flops, someone without powers born with them, someone with powers born without, etc.

*Canon swaps: Pick another canon you're familiar with, what would the character be like if they were from that world instead?

*Genre Swaps: High fantasy AU, sci-fi AU, high school AU, etc.

Pretty much the only thing that'd be "off-limits" is de-aging within their existing timeline; just about anything else is valid!

Memories of the manor are optional within a range. They can be as if the AU self were brought in cold, have dim memories (enough to get around and not need the newbie lecture), or have full memories and possibly some confusion over their "other self". They won't remember anything outside of the Manor of their normal self, whichever option is taken.

Powers are meddled with freely as per the AU, with the usual limits - you can't completely nuke the Manor or get anything that takes you outside of it, etc.. - feel free to ask any questions here or on the spoiler post, or ping the Blast/one of us in AIM!

With apologies for the belated update; feel free to backdate to Christmas Day proper.

Christmas morning, everyone will have woken up in the Manor, with a large tree in the main hall - under the tree will be one gift for each character from the Author; it can be something from home that they didn't have here, or something with other meaning, completely at MUN option. While it can be a prank, it should at least be in "good spirits", not something that would break a character.

Until January 1, the Manor will be decked out with Christmas decorations still, and the traditional mistletoe will be appearing and disappearing randomly in doorways and other parts of rooms. If someone walks under it, they're trapped there until someone kisses them - whether a peck on the cheek or going all-out. In theory, if they're there long enough - 6-8 hours - the mistletoe will go away...

But who wants to be stuck standing in one place for that long?

And, for the mod announcements.

We're doing some further renovations, and would like to get people's opinions:

We are considering scrapping the static Activity Check in favor of something more typical - an OOC comm post, put up on the first of every month, that people can reply to with links to one or another thread from the month previous. The rules will be as stated and more enforced; unless we get contact from a player about a hiatus, emergency, or something where they can't be present, one month with no activity is a strike, two months with no activity is a drop.

Would everyone present currently prefer the check-in posts monthly, or staying with the static activity page?


There are also going to be a few setting adjustments. Around New Year's, some of these will be adapted IC'ly with small things as the realm the Manor exists in takes on more of a life of its own; for OOC adjustments, the two main ones are to app restrictions and character memory-loss.

We will be allowing canon AU's; OC's aren't really something that would work within the way the setting functions, but the author's a fangirl, and there's enough AU plots for her to drag people from those. AU applications will require a bit more information, as we'll want to know what deviations there are and how the character's different from canon; we would prefer it be noticeable differences, and will have a full set of rules for it on the Apps page just before this goes into effect, likely around the new year.

The other change, effective immediately, is to memory and memory loss; how much characters remember on returning home for canon updates, or if a character is dropped and picked up, is completely to MUN option - they can not remember anything, have hazy memories, or full recall. If you opt for full recall during a canon-update in a way that would change how canon events go - for example, character development here changing their behavior, or something they learned here being put into use there - the canon update will need to be cleared with the mods, and what changed from canon events will need to be in the OOC post for the canon update. Future castmates will have the option of either rolling with it, depending on their canon point, or for their character to be from an unaltered version of the timeline with normal canon events.

The site layout is also being worked on as I type this, and should be finished soon! There may still be tweaks going on for the next few days, so things might be a little off here and there as they're being fixed.

There's a small variance (with much apologies due to mod illness) - after the relatively peaceful week with autumn chill, the Manorites will wake up on Tuesday morning, outside, curled up somewhere in a jungle - a jungle that doesn't look quite right, thanks to towering trees and plants and animals that just don't exist on Earth. There's a small backpack nearby with a change of clothes and a couple personal effects - but not much more than what a character would carry on them normally.

For the next two weeks, you're all on Endor, without access to the normal Manor and amenities. It's balmy and hot, with light rains in the afternoons until Wednesday of next week; the Fourth Wall is several miles out in any given direction, encircling an area of jungle that happens to include a treetop village.

Unfortunately, the Ewoks don't speak your language. They're a little bit brighter than typical background crossing NPC's, and range over most of the available forest; somewhere within the first day or so, you'll probably get tripped over by a few. They're pretty busy with hunting and gathering fruit and other things, but will be a bit curious, and unfortunately that curiosity will mean a lot of getting jabbered at and poked with sticks, depending on the character. The scouts that're finding people won't stand and fight if threatened or harassed - but they will start setting traps and snares, ranging from "catch it and take it back home as a possible sacrifice" to "yeah no you done pissed them off", and they're damn good at traps. If they're handled with a bit more caution and attempts at friendly overtures, there'll be a lot of charades and chattering as an offer to lead characters back to the village as guests.

The village is in the process of being decked out with simple colored lanterns and painted decorations, which they'll be done with sometime Wednesday, along with a lot of cooking and other assorted busy going on; while guests will be fed, they'll shoo away from some of the larger or more unusual things they're working on. Come Thursday the reasons will be clearer - there's a big festival starting around midday Thursday, going into the night and on through part of Friday, with music (albeit simple), dancing, bonfires, food, and a lot of excited tiny fuzzy things. People who've been friendly and were patient with the stick-poking get to be guests of honor...

People that picked fights are probably going to need to slip out before Friday night, since there's every intention of adding them to the feast. It's not that hard to get away, and it is possible to communicate "they're with us"if someone makes a good enough impression on them and decides to help the people that're trapped.

Powers are hostility nerfed - they work, but will just inexplicably fail if aimed at another player or the Ewoks with intent to harm. The Author's trying for a peaceful holiday here, although she probably really hasn't thought this through very well.

With some apologies for plotmod getting whacked by stomach flu and being late and fail.

Silent Hill is going to be going back to, well, normal/week 1 levels; on Thursday morning, everyone will find themselves waking up back in their rooms in the Manor! The Manor and Grounds will be normal and quiet for the remainder of the week.

Late Sunday night, the ominous fog outside thickened, enough that anyone looking out probably wouldn't see anything; if anyone was outside, visibility dropped to maybe a couple feet, at most, and there would've been a thick, oppressive feeling to the strange mist.

Edit/note: As per most of the "field trip" type plots, the "Manor" proper is "gone" for the week; people will find themselves in random locations across the town, at MUN preference - apologies for any confusion!

Monday morning, everyone is waking up scattered in Silent Hill; as this is a survival-type field trip, they could be just about anywhere, and will only have with them what they'd usually carry on them. Power nerfs are somewhat optional with some rules; if a character's powers would be something where they'd be able to breeze through monsters or obstacles, they'll get nerfed town to "normal" or "near-normal", but if their powers can make things more complicated, then feel free to leave them intact! For anyone with control issues, the Town will be trying to get them to lose it, for one example of a reason to leave powers intact, and psychics or those with sensing abilities will be aware of the morass they're walking through.

There is, however, one small gift from the previous plot; everyone will wake up with a little, bright colored, pumpkin-shaped basket next to them. Inside will be a couple handfuls of candy from the previous plot, a note reading "Yours to keep, no expiration - use wisely", and one of two items, at MUN option:

1) A small bottle of some kind of blue liquid, labelled "Healing Potion - One Dose". If drunk (or poured down someone's throat, depending), all injuries that person currently has heal; if there's chronic injuries or illnesses, or other negative lasting physical effects, the character will be free of them for one month's time.

2) A box with a single carved figurine of a ruby slipper. The inside lid reads: "Instructions: Rub the slipper and recite 'There's no place like home' - One Use". If used, the character and anyone within a five foot radius around them are transported to a replica of the character's living space in their home world, with everything there as they last left it. It will last for two days or until they attempt to leave the "home", at which point it will vanish, although clothes, books, or small mementos carried on someone's person will stay with them.

The gifts are permanent, or at least until used - as the "no expiration" note implies, they won't vanish at the end of this plot.

As always, feel free to pester mods with questions in chat, PM, IM, or wherever - due to "who's more familiar with the setting", most questions about how the place works should go to Birdy (Shirhanblade on AIM)!


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On that note about weapons, it's not that hard to find improved weapons. Somewhere within a range of wherever a given character wakes up there'll be something vaguely useful, whether it's a board with a nail through it, crowbar, a piece of pipe, or some other similar melee object. Firearms and more effective weapons won't be found this week. If a character had a weapon they were carrying with them, it will remain, although special powers will be limited the same as other powers getting nerfed down.

Why yes, this plot will be longer than one week. Also, things like a character-specific monster can be introduced during the plot and not necessarily show up stalking the character immediately!

The clouds outside have thickened, leaving things dark even in the daytime; a thick fog blankets the grounds outside, there's a spotty drizzle, and occasional peals of thunder that never quite seem to materialize into a storm.

If you manage to make it outside, the fog seems pervaded with a sense of menace, as if something is watching and stalking; there's shadows moving in the fog, and the longer you stay out in it, the closer they get, and more they come into focus. They'll take the form of whatever a character would fear most that has a shape; if there's nothing that'd fit that, they'll find something else - maybe the face of a friend or loved one. They'll harry anyone in the fog, making hit and run attacks designed to herd people back inside.

Inside, waking up this morning will find a layer of dust on everything; the lights are dim and flickering, many of them out. The room doors don't lock, but the nurses have gone even more forgettably faceless, to the point of being Stepford-esque automatons, and this time they are paying attention - there's a handful that are patrolling the halls. There are schedules posted by the doors inside and outside for mealtimes, windows spread out for using the bathroom and scheduled showers; if you're not in your room or somewhere expected by that schedule and they see you in the hallway, they will be out to catch you. They will check hiding places in a room if you've made noise or they've seen you duck into somewhere, although you can occasionally avoid them by getting out of sight before they spot you; they move slightly faster than a normal person, and are definitely much stronger than they should be. They aren't moving to harm - but they are armed with tranquilizers that are effective enough that any given altercation with them will probably be short. The nurses and other "human" NPC's, if wounded, don't bleed; limbs can be broken or hampered, but they will continue to move like jerky puppets around the injury.

If you're caught, you will wake up back in your room; unfortunately, the drugs have some lasting aftereffects. For a few hours to the rest of the day after waking up, everything around you will be distorted; walls and doors bent and warped, the fog from outside taking on a greenish cast and filling the halls so visibility drops to a few feet away. While drugged, the nurses are literally faceless, sterile automatons with fake hair and a blank, featureless shape instead of a face. The shadows from outside will occasionally be seen lurking in the halls, helping the nurses enforce their order.

On the bright side, the nurses basically have normal human senses for sight/hearing, so it can be possible to sneak past them if someone's careful, clever, and good. Of course, they're also quiet and move fast...

If you've decided your character should have an appointment this week, they'll be herded to the office door; the room inside is dark, blank, and featureless, with walls, floor, and ceiling made of flat black material; the "doctor" is there, although even to someone un-drugged he's now one of the faceless, fake puppets, with the nurses similarly changing on entry; they will attempt to drug and restrain anyone herded into the room. Whether or not they succeed is MUN option; escape isn't easy, and if they do manage, the character will black out much like any other bad encounter with them -

And then have nightmares reliving one of their worst memories or worst fears, with that memory or nightmare broadcast over the network. Afterwards, they will wake up in their rooms with the same after-effects as anyone else drugged.

Food in the kitchen is bland hospital fare - nothing dangerous, but nothing special, and there's no access to alcohol or any other kind of chemical vice.

Weapons will have vanished, although you might be able to improvise something from the furniture and decor; in addition, powers are nerfed - sensory abilities and passive powers still function, but anything active won't function if turned against the Manor or the NPC's, including supernatural means to hide or avoid notice.

Also, if someone manages to be drugged repeatedly, the distortion-hallucinations get worse; colors shifting, walls and doors twisting further out of any kind of normal geometry, while balance and coordination might get difficult.

On the outside, the Manor looks the same as always.

On the inside, the decor has changed; brighter lighting, more white, and ... well...

It's kind of hospital-ish, if not decked out with medical decor, and there's a few typical placeholder NPC's that're roaming around cleaning and keeping things up. Most of them seem to be the usual sort of vacant NPC's without much to them, although the fact that they do seem to be keeping track of people will probably end up being more than a little accidentally creepy. The art is fairly neutral and bright colors, there's soothing music...

And with this group it'll probably drive some of the characters up the wall.

There are also a few more cognizant NPCs - the poor, overworked therapists; they'll flit around trying to be helpful! In fact, there's even scheduled appointments for any character involved in this plot to talk to them, with an NPC log going up on Tuesday to thread these out.

Powers will function this week, but only so long as they aren't aimed destructively - no blowing up the "hospital", no nuking the NPC's, and no attacking the therapists. If such is attempted, the powers will simply not work; repeated attempts may get the powers nerfed to not work actively for the rest of the week. Characters with weapons will find those weapons missing until further notice.

This will be a three week plot, with things ... a little different as the plot progresses.

You get to wake up on Monday back snug in your rooms in the Manor; the sun is shining, there's puffy clouds, birds are singing, and all is right with the world!

For some of you.

For those listed here, well...

You won't be waking up in your rooms, or in your bodies.

In fact, you may not even know the person whose body you wake up in.

If your new body isn't human or has powers you didn't have, you don't get any special control or skill; you have all of your own memories, knowledge, and experience - but powers, curses, health problems, and other physical effects stay with the body. If you now have powers you don't normally have, well... good luck getting the hang of using them. And our two shortest straws go to Reborn and Badou!

Other than the scramble, the Manor is basically normal, with the grounds also normal; the puffy clouds are going to be gathering more as the week goes on, so by Thursday there'll be a light drizzle, and by Saturday it's going to be raining pretty hard, with thunder and lightning.

This week, it's raining, wet, and miserable outside...

And may not be much better inside. There's noises of skittering and movement in the walls, and sharp-eyed characters may catch glimpses of small furry shapes darting around the Manor trying to avoid being seen while they go about their nefarious business.

Or their attempts at nefarious business; the squirrels are acting up, and are basically little furry gremlins for the week. They'll steal various objects and move them around the Manor, shuffling belongings so they turn up God Knows Where, booby-trap doors and various other things with pranks, spike food and drink with anything from alcohol to black pepper, and generally be as annoying as possible.

No, they're not above pranking people in their sleep, and yes, their sense of humor is about that of an annoying college frat boy. (And how did they even learn to use a Sharpie or a whipped cream container, anyway?)

It's wide open to anything you can come up with happening to your character here; they basically won't go for anything outright DANGEROUS, but they will be annoying as all HELL.

Of course, them getting restless after a relative lull can only mean something else is coming soon...