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Someone has placed a bucket of glue above “Team Goopy”’s cabin door.

I demand to know who has done this immediately. If you do not reveal yourself, I will be undertaking a thorough investigation to find the culprit.

You have 24 hours. If you do not make the right decision, I will find you.

[You’re welcome to confess to the crime, or pretend to confess, or just generally fuck with Link! Go nuts!

He is covered in glue and Not Happy about this.]

outofsynth posting in

sticksandbones

[On the one hand, camp may not be the best place to start this. On the other, this has proven to be the safest they've been in months. It seems silly to wait when so many of them have new abilities they need to get a handle on before they find themselves in yet another life or death situation. Min-Gi uses arts and crafts to design a few posters advertising the magic study group by the lake. A cartoony wizard face with a macaroni beard is doodled beneath the text to try and help catch attention.

One the day itself, Min-Gi has set out blankets and a few chairs from the mess hall for anyone who wants a real seat instead of the blankets. There are pillows scattered around, so it shouldn't be too uncomfortable no matter where someone chooses to sit. There are paper and pens, and he's tried to set out helpful things for most of the branches of elemental magic. A pile of rocks for earth magic, a small campfire for pyromancy, and the lake is right there for water magic.

The other types of magic... that's where he's stalled a bit. He's created a space by the sign for conjurists, now armed with the understanding this itself is a summoned object. Maybe that can help them somehow? It's little further away from the main area, motivated mostly by knowing how destructive Ryan's summon can be. He's unsure if it's necessary, but there are some animal friendly treats here to encourage bonding. A first aid station has been set up too, along with a large sign warning people not to cause intentional harm for the sake of practicing healing magic.

Anyone else is going to have to improvise or come up with their own suggestions for Min to provide for future study groups. On the plus side, there are more than enough refreshments for everyone. The drinks are cold, and the snacks are plentiful. Ms. Bone-Jangles provided far more than Min-Gi had asked for, and there's enough variety there should be something to keep anyone who turns up happy. The bar has been set way too high and no one should expect this in future gatherings.]

sticksandbonesmods posting in

outofsticks

hi. uh.

we're gonna fix some stuff :)

GENERAL PLOT OVERVIEW

Largely this side chapter is going to be centered around the themes of love, self-appreciation, and self-searching. It will hopefully theoretically feel nice (???) but this depends largely on how you interact with it.
Goals include "fix the goddamn sky rift" which is how Ydalir will approach all of the sign-ups ICly. This will additionally give Ydalir a physical human body again like with Heimrquest back 2 years ago! Yay! I have decided what human Ydalir looks like over the last few weeks and I fear you will get to know that information when I start the quest :) Someone hold me to drawing her please.
I will largely save the actual plot for the unveiling of the story as I take you guys through it. Like my usual quests this will be structured a bit like how I run TTRPGs except there will be no fuckin combats because I don't wanna run them, and any "checks" I have you make will be standard skill checks with a die roll in the Discord. That said, quick overview:
- Ydalir's proposition for closing the rift is that you all must team up to use the setting's natural leylines to do it, since the rift was created by two gods warring with a fucking cosmic horror. That said, we're not just using the leylines - we are physically entering the Plane of Magic that sits within them. Said plane is influenced by what people imagine such a thing would look like, which could be literally anything. You will provide me with those words yourselves on your sign-up comments and I will do the work from there :)
- Within the Plane of Magic, Ydalir will take on her new appearance (yay). And SO WILL YOU! You will all temporarily gain new appearances based on a reflection of your soul. You can come up with these or I can. (This is partly inspired by Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (a good movie, canon lesbians btw) and Belle (a bad movie, don't get me fucking started or do in hyperfix when you're done here). I'm going to ask you to keep any transformations you take on able to interact with the environment, so things people would do like talking to others, opening doors, holding objects, etc. Don't be a worm.)
- Player abilities are shut off within the leylines. Instead you will gain new (mod-chosen) powers to play with. I will try to make them not useless but they will NOT be combat-oriented so keep that in mind.
- I will also be asking you to provide me with some additional keywords or short descriptions for other things :) That will influence the leylines. This is for flavour and fun so I can build the setting out more. And also because this sidestory is largely about "the self" at the end of the day.
Anything else is a spoiler, but I will note if I get a lot of sign-ups (they are UNCAPPED) I will split you guys into groups and we will do separate threads.

HOW DO QUESTS EVEN WORK

it's been a long time since we did one lmao and we have new players SO:
This is going to be one big group thread that (possibly) splits into X amount of groups. I'm sort of aiming for 3 but we'll see what happens. You will want to be able to track the thread with the bell. Considering the notification situation, using Rubie's threadtracker (which is pinned in a thread in General 1 called "If you need tech support and I need tech support then who programmed the plane?") will probably help with tags falling through. Given that the notification situation is ongoing I would ask that all involved players decide on a tag order and stick to it. This also just makes it easier to use Rubie's tracker to know when you should tag next.
Communication with your peers in the Discord will be required because it's the easiest way to reach the players since everyone is in there. We will make a thread for each group if we have groups. I will be pinging a lot. Make sure you have pings enabled in your notifications.
Mod tags will come after each involved player has either tagged into the thread, or said OOCly to skip them, or after 24 hours has passed and we need to move the thread along. This may mean if you don't tag it at least once a day you get skipped in the order. I would therefore ask that all players who sign up a) plan to be involved heavily, b) play on a very active muse, and c) don't have anything going on right now that may take away from continuing the quest (obviously situations that happen later that no one can account for are not a strike against you).
I aim to finish this within the month of May, meaning this will kick off May 1st the same day the event goes up. If that doesn't happen it doesn't happen (I sort of wrote? a lot, oops) but this is the goal. We will see.

DO WE GET ANYTHING FROM DOING THIS

Who do you take me for? You get the satisfaction that I wrote a really cool narrative obviously.
Anyway rewards can either be:
- You can submit Ydalirquest as a whole for your entire May AC for your signed-up character (just link the thread and be like I did Ydalirquest or something), OR
- Count this as 2 proof of progress threads for your next magic tier up (but please link me and remind me that I said this on the regain) (this thread will only count for proof of progress and NOT! the other 10 threads) since you're physically entering the plane of magic. It's kind of practice.
Also the entire game will feel like magic comes to them more easily, forever, which is something we will all forget about in a couple months and is just flavour. But it's good flavour okay. It's fancy ramen noodle packet flavour.

CAN I SIGN UP ALREADY

Fill this out ty. The only limit is you can only play ONE of your blorbos in here so pick carefully, but signups aren't capped.
Also I need this before May 1st please! Thank you kindly :)

Character:
What they think a plane of magic would look like: Briefly describe a place, no more than 1-2 sentences. Is it a city, is it the ocean, does it contain extraordinary things? Tell me.
Soul appearance: Do you grow cat ears? Did you become an anthro fox? If you need Wolfie to come up with this say "Wolfie help" for this line.
Something your character loves about either themself or the world around them:
Something your character fears/dislikes about either themself or the world around them:

denise posting in

dw_maintenance

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

unheiring posting in

sticksandbones

[One morning, a handful of flyers appear all around the campground. Each of them seems to have been handmade in the craft hall, and as such each has one macaroni attached to it. Look at him, he's following the rules. He's following the rules as he slaps up posters that, well.

They read as such.]

WET T-SHIRT CONTEST
ADULTS ONLY
Lakeside + After Curfew
Come If You Are Not A Coward

[Luca knows his audience, see. He knows that the braggadocious, if modest, men will not be able to resist the challenge. Everyone else is enough of a whore (or at least whore-curious) to show up just because. Surely that appeals to all parties? And if not, he'll wrangle the rest by force.

Which, speaking of force: Vildred, Wolfwood, Varka, River, and Jing Yuan are all recruited to help prepare the area. Large floodlights are dragged in. Chairs are set up. There's even a sturdy table in case anyone wants to get wild and dance on it. Sure, it's also for holding holding a number of white t-shirts (you can wear them without them poofing away, just this once) pitchers of water (yeah, the lake is right there, but if you want to put on a show) and glowsticks (you can break them and paint them on yourself if you want), but like. Look. Luca doesn't care. He's not your dad, he's just here to stare at men.

A fire is also built nearby. It isn't nearly as big, bright, or hot as the ones that Mr. Bone-Jangles prefers, but if you need to warm up, you can head over there without feeling like you're drying out (he's looking out for his aquatic inclined friends).

As the sun starts to set and as the horns chime for curfew, Luca sits upon a nearby chair and. Waits with a devious grin.

Let the fun begin!]

charlastan posting in

sticksandbones

ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT! WE GET IT! THIS PLACE IS WHOLESOME AND NICE, BUT IT'S GETTING A LITTLE TOO NICE IF YOU ASK ME. IT'S ABOUT TIME SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

(ME! I'M DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT! RIGHT NOW!)

AHEM--

[Stan, you're writing, you don't need to clear your throat--]

ON BEHALF OF TEAM STICKY

I'M DECLARING AN ALL OUT PRANK WAR AGAINST THE OTHER CABINS!!!

IT'S PRANK OR GET PRANKED, SUCKERS!!!!!

[He absolutely did not run this by the rest of his cabin, except maybe Dipper. You're welcome to join in, ignore him, or yell at him as much as you'd like--]

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