MOD NOTE: As mentioned this way, here is the prominence info a few days early for you all, for reasons outlined in that post. Prominence is still starting on the appropriate IC day, however, so it is not in IC play as of this post and this post shouldn't be used as a timestamp for the start of it as it usually is. Apologies for the confusion it might cause, but posting dates will be back to normal by next Prominence.

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WEEK 88 : Antagonistic ( showing or feeling active opposition or hostility toward someone or something. )
DECEMBER 11th—20th

(Players will decide how and to what degree their characters are affected by this and all of the prominence shifts to come. This will last for one in-game week, with a reminder that we are on a 3:1 day ratio!)

State of the City At Large:

The Weather
Ah, cold snaps. Temperatures are still not higher than 30F/-1C, so bundle up. While most of the roads have been cleared of their ice and snow, there are still issues with it elsewhere.

Crime
Shantytown is hoppin'. Maybe don't go there if you care about safety.

Rumors
The Sun still hasn't made a public appearance or statement after adding another District to her purview. Huh.

Questions? Like to arrange a meeting with an NPC? Fire away! If you wish to arrange a meeting with an NPC, please give the mods details on what you’d like to achieve so that we’re capable of providing.

Additionally, feel free to use this as a plotting post for the upcoming week!

Happy almost (IC) Halloween, players!
🎃💀☠️

Courtesy of these shenanigans are thanks to Team Connor, for being bold, brave, and accidentally poking at things under the sea. Here’s a follow up post by The High Priestess on the matter.

Starting late on the IC date of NOVEMBER 1st and lasting until the early hours of NOVEMBER 3rd (be sure to check the game calendar for corresponding OOC dates), the City will be, um, “treated” to a presence breaking out of the ocean depths -- Cthulhu is going to come say hi to the Chosen -- and wreaking havoc on the City with some of its friends.

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These friends will not be nearly as big as Cthulhu, nor quite as formidable, but will resemble versions of things found in the deep sea -- gnarly teeth, worm-like bodies, bioluminescent attachments, et cetera. Players may be as free as they want in their imaginations of these minions, but, as always: if you have any questions, please ask in the mod question thread of this entry.

I will be posting an event log for this when the event starts, so please wait for that to go up before doing any IC threading -- this is your plotting post, for all your plans, questions, and getting ducks in rows.

*drumrolls*...

OTHER BITS OF INFORMATION:
➤ Players on hiatus or who want to opt out of this event can have their characters take relative shelter on one of the other planets, or the Magistrates left will be securing some underground shelters for natives and Chosen who don’t want to or can’t deliver asskickings to cosmic gods.

➤ Cthulhu will do most of its damage mentally (see below point), but also because of its sheer size (yes, we're using the scale size in the linked picture of it above wHOOPS), will also fuck up some structures. Cthulhu's minions, however, will be doing most of the physical damage, especially if they get a person surrounded and overwhelmed.

➤ Prolonged contact or direct near presence with Cthulhu induces insanity. You won't go from 0 to 100 in a half-second, but it'll definitely be a steady medium-to-slow climb, depending on one's mental fortitude. The only people who are 100% immune to the insanity effects are Magistrates, however.

➤ By November 3rd (IC date), the combined efforts to beat back Cthulhu And Friends will have them driven back to the sea to hopefully stay there this time.

➤ If you have plans to kill your character off during this event, run it by the plot post before the event post goes up so we can keep a headcount.

Note from the mod: I'm trying to see how posting this one OOC day before the IC date when it starts just to give everyone a bit of a head start on plotting works out. If it's too confusing this way, let me know and it can be changed back to being posted the IC and OOC day when it starts. :D
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WEEK 81 : Kefi ( The spirit of joy, enthusiasm, high spirits and frenzy, in which good times and passion for life are expressed with an abundance of excitement, happiness, and fun. )
OCTOBER 7TH — 15TH


(Players will decide how and to what degree their characters are affected by this and all of the prominence shifts to come. This will last for one in-game week, with a reminder that we are on a 3:1 day ratio!)

State of the City At Large:

The Weather
The flora of the City are in vibrant fall colors, leaves sprinkling the sidewalks and streets. The temperature requires a light jacket at most, but you won't be uncomfortable if you forgo one.

Crime
Holding steady at its current rates.

Rumors
There are some issues in Shantytown and The Gardens of Pleasure, especially for the Chosen who are tied to those Districts. For starters, there's no word on the presence or other whereabouts of The Moon or The Lovers. With the new prominence, the Chosen in those respective Districts may find themselves feeling restless, more lost. Detached. For Chosen who have been here a while, they likely know to take this as a sign that shenanigans are afoot regarding those Magistrates.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Questions? Like to arrange a meeting with an NPC? Fire away! If you wish to arrange a meeting with an NPC, please give the mods details on what you’d like to achieve so that we’re capable of providing.

Additionally, feel free to use this as a plotting post for the upcoming week!

The OOC plotting post for these shenanigans should anyone need or want it.

As stated in the linked post, characters can steal weapons and/or intel from this. If your character is inclined to want to do either — or both! — of these things, PM the mod account (sinfulmods) stating if you want weapons/intel/both, and the mod will tell you what your character can find. This is so you can get things that your character would find interesting to them (or not if you wanna make a special request for them to get something stupid) to poke at for plot, and to keep track of who has what.

Any questions regarding can be brought up in the first top level to this entry.

Event: This is Halloween



There comes a time once every year when the veil is thinner between the realms, and in a place like the City of Sin - already vexed by the ability to draw people in from every place imaginable - that isn’t always a good thing.

Though the City has been seeming very even of late - the sun’s been shining and nothing’s come to visit since the Darkness - there’s always a hint that maybe it’s all luring the City’s populace into a false sense of security. Few seem truly worried about the coming holiday, but there have been things that give people pause. The shadows, for example, creeping around just outside of one’s vision.

But no one can quite prove that those are actually the City’s doing. Still, it doesn’t seem to stop things from happening.

Regardless of everything that’s been going on - or perhaps because of it - the City goes on as normal, just as it always has. In fact, the Emperor seems to have something special under wraps. Word has it there’s a party being planned for the holiday, and that’s exactly what’s going to happen. Instead of setting it up at the Tower, though, it’s a much more down to earth bash, set up at OHM with the help of a few Chosen.

Sometime on October 27 (OOC: August 1 - 3), every citizen and Chosen in the City will receive a rather modern-looking invitation outlining the details of said event.



As with any Halloween party, costumes are highly encouraged. On the lower level of the club, there will be a more raucous party for those who care to take part in club-style partying, while the VIP area is reserved for those who’d rather celebrate the party with class.

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Starting on the 27th as well, unbeknownst to the City, the shadows lurking around everyone’s peripheral vision will begin to solidify. Creatures rather like Dementors seem to creep out of the shadows, looming ever closer. Perhaps they even get close enough to touch; in that event, the air will feel cold and full of dread, though the shadowy creatures don’t attack any more than that. Yet.

As of the 31st, things will shift around a little more. Instead of appearing as Dementors, the shadows will start to appear as nightmares from characters’ own worlds: dead lovers, family, friends; some kind of thing that goes bump in the night; you name it. It’s as though all those fears from the past suddenly came back to say hello, just for a night.

As of November 1st, things will start to ease back to normal. The shadows will return to simply being shadows, though the paranoia that comes along with them may not fade so easily.

This is a mod-run event spanning from August 1 - 15 OOCly (October 27 - 31 in-game). There will be a log for the main event as well as reminders in the coming State of the Game.

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Have a question that isn’t answered here? Feel free to ask us below! Additionally, please use this as a plotting post!

TIME FOR MARCH MADNESS!

Greetings Sinners, we come bearing an event. On September 12th (OOC March 19th), around 1 AM, a heavy fog will roll over the City. It will bring with it a magic madness that is going to manifest as a Mindscape. ENJOY THAT.

mindscape

noun
A mental or psychological scene or area of the imagination: "mindscapes, in which memories from an American childhood mingle with those from the fantasy world of the films" (Grace Glueck).

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Event: Is That an Island?

Of late, things have been relatively quiet for the Chosen and the citizens of the City. (Somewhere, there’s a sign reading 3 Days since last accident!.) The Magistrates have been keeping things going steady, there has been no additional news in regards to Justice’s latest mental break, and generally, things are all right.

With any luck, things will continue to be all right in the City. Outside the City, however - and there is an outside of the City - might be a different story.

On July 26, the Moon will take to the network in a rare appearance and invite all those willing to hop on a ferry to a nearby island. The citizens of the City don’t seem terribly surprised by said island, though it may be a surprise to the Chosen, who have believed, until now, that the City is a very isolated entity. Apparently, though, this island is being overrun by low- and mid-level demons, and that’s making it a not very nice place.

Suffice to say, he wants a little help.

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This is a mod-run plot, taking place from July 26 to July 28 in game, and October 30 to November 7 OOCly. There will be a network post to announce the official invitation, and a log for characters to participate in.

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If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask below. Feel free to use this as a plotting post!

Mid-way through the week, shortly after the change in City influence, it becomes more and more apparent that there’s something just a touch off about things now. It’s perhaps not a major change to some, but to others, there is a definite change. In fact, as things get a little drier, it becomes readily obvious that something about the City has changed rather permanently.

Anyone who resides along the edges of the Coliseum district, just south of the Coliseum proper, or along the edges of the Red Lantern District and Shantytown, will realise that there are a few puddles that haven’t disappeared with the rest. In fact, it does appear that there’s a bit of a river running right through the City, heading downwards towards the ocean in the south. The Magistrates are working towards building bridges, however; they might be small, but they certainly do the trick. At least citizens will still be able to get over to that side of things.



Of course, with the presence of a river comes a new set of problems.

And on another note, the Magistrates ask that people do not attempt to swim in the river.

Isn't that nice? The Magistrates care. Awwwwww.

They care so much about the people who live in their Districts that each has contributed something to a gift that will arrive in the assigned housing for all characters at the end of the first day of their arrival. It has come to their attention that there is suddenly a significant handful of people out there who are covered as far as housing goes, but strangely don't have food, toiletries, or income. It's odd because the records that each one keeps in one form or another indicate that these residents have been in the City for some time, but it's probably not worth worrying about.

As well, each of the items from the Magistrates has a small note signed by the Magistrates themselves, just so there's no question who they're from! Be sure to thank them!

The care package contains one of each of the following:

Shampoos, soaps, self-care supplies and some basic food items, approximately enough to last a week or so.

One item from your character's home or previous location, whatever they wish they had with them the most. It needs to be small enough to fit in a 20"x20" box. In addition, we ask that it not be any sort of game-breaking object. For all intents and purposes, this is simply to make your character feel more at home.

From The High Priestess (Gardens of Pleasure) - Coupons to various restaurants and shops, a perfume or cologne sampler, and a variety of fruits and cheeses.

From The Sun (Finance Street) - A deposit slip to a bank account in your character's name. There is a starter balance of $50 in it.

From The Fool (Leisurebrook) - A comfortable pillow and towel.

From The Empress (The Coliseum District) - A pack of energy drinks and a trial membership in one of the many gymnasiums and training arenas in the district.

From The Star (Shantytown) - A small, concealable weapon of some kind (player's choice), for example a handgun or a knife.

From The Emperor (The Tower District) - A signed, framed picture of The Emperor. Yep. The frame appears to be silver, though, and can probably be sold for a little extra cash.

From The Magician (The Red Lantern District) - Flyers for a brothel called Desire and a club called Sin, entitling the bearer to get in without a cover charge one time, and a sturdy pair of handcuffs.

If your character happens to look carefully through their box, wedged into the bottom there is also a packet of some kind of red powder labeled "Lust". It should be noted that finding more Lust within the City is getting harder and harder nowadays.

This is a drug that can be eaten, smoked or injected, with progressively faster and stronger results respectively. If your character has abilities or powers, it will enhance them significantly for 24 hours. It also produces a euphoric feeling for roughly the same amount of time, loosening inhibitions, and it has something of an aphrodisiac effect. The character will have an intense need to touch and be touched while the drug is in effect. "Lust" induces chemical dependency very quickly, and someone who takes it will have progressively stronger cravings to take it again for it that last the next few days right at the start, this quickly progresses into withdrawal symptoms that include shaking, sweating and an inability to concentrate with repeated use. Also on the downside, it is a stimulant and sends a person's blood pressure through the roof. Prolonged use will wear out a person's heart, lungs, kidneys and liver, to the eventual point of said organs almost liquifying within the body itself. Overdose will bring on cardiac arrest and major organ failure. There is a phone number printed on the back of the packet, as if to indicate where more can be obtained. Those calling the number only hear a beep, and then they can leave a recorded message.

Questions? Ask them here!