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sixthiteration

Take Two I

FEB 26 - MAR 4

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Ghost in the Machine II

MARCH 22-MAY 4

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Take Two II

March 7-17

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Game Calendar

MAR 22 - MAY 4 - NPC Siege
MAY 3 - Observer Message
MAY 26 - JUN 1 - All Over The Map
JUL 1 - Mystery Mingle
JUL 1 - AUG 31 - Staying Power
AUG 2 - Audio Message
AUG 31 - End of Iteration

[plot details]

Color Power Combos

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CR Lottery

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sixthiteration

WHERE: Anywhere in 6I
WHEN: Anytime prior to 10:00 AM July 1, 2019
OPEN TO: All
WARNINGS: Please warn in your subject line
NOTES: This post is for anyone who might want to thread out the lead up to the disappearances or who have anything they care to wrap up generally. New posts are now restricted, but you may comment as much as you like and time your thread for any point prior to the end. If you use the post, please make sure you are clear in your subject line or with a header in your top-levels if your thread is locked, as this is technically a mingle. Endgame details may be found here. Very best wishes to everyone, and thank you for joining us!

bloodbathing

WHO: Agent Maine
WHERE: all over
WHEN: June-ish
OPEN TO: various — see comment headers
WARNINGS: N/A

( Read more... )

sixthiteration

WHERE: Wooded area between the South Village inn & police station
WHEN: Afternoon on 30 May until daybreak 31 May
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Please warn in subject line
NOTES: Last party! Feel free to riff on the theme in whatever way you like.

Those who have been in the village since last New Year's Eve will likely not be entirely surprised by the appearance of a door: Cherry red, shimmering, and seemingly standing in space in the wooded area between the South Village inn and the police station. To look at it, it leads nowhere, but to push it open from either side reveals the impossible beyond.

Instead of a party this time, the door reveals a jubilant outdoor carnival. Lights and bright swaths of bunting are strung across the area with its rows of booths and entertainment, and the scent of food drifts on the sweet spring air. Anything you can imagine is at your fingertips and free, from cream-topped coffees to candy apples to neon-colored cocktails: Just step up to a cart and find it waiting.

Try your hand at a game of skill, ride the Ferris wheel, slide down the helter skelter — But do it soon, for this dream will not last, and disappears with the next rising sun.

killorder

WHO: Jake Jensen
WHERE: South Inn with network option
WHEN: 05/27
OPEN TO: All
WARNINGS: PG will update as needed

( Oops, he did it again )

dial6forhorror

WHO: Ben Hargreeves
WHERE: Both villages, as marked below
WHEN: Nebulously early to mid May, after the siege is over
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: Will be included as relevant

It takes nearly three days for Ben to emerge from the house and start exploring. That's how long
it takes him to get used to things like sensations, eating, sleeping, all the mundane things that make up being alive.

He explores the North Village carefully, going to the converted barn and nosing about the other communal buildings. He's nearly always within line of sight of one of his brothers, both for his comfort and theirs, after he forgot he wasn't intangible and tried to stick his hand in the fire.

When he goes to the South Village, it's with Diego and Klaus (it's with Diego and they make Klaus come because he can't be trusted unsupervised for more than five minutes). Ben's on the quest for hoodies from the storage in the South Inn and then he discovers there's a Library and moving him from there is going to be a task for the ages, because there's books. New books he has never read. And even if it's not fiction, Ben is happiest when he has a space to curl up in and a stack of books next to him.

tosavecocoon

WHO: Oerba Dia Vanille
WHERE: House 38, LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE
WHEN: May 5th through May 18th
OPEN TO: EVERYONE
WARNINGS: will update as needed
NOTES: MOOD MUSIC

House 38, for Phryne and Ashley, May 5th

Vanille wakes up today like any day on this world. It's a normal day as far as she knows, so she gets up, stretches, and heads out to get ready for the day. Once she's in her normal outfit - she's forever happy that she has her normal clothes and doesn't have to wear those scrubs anymore - she heads outside to check on the herd. All six of the larger ones are happy to see her as usual and she dotes on them as she ever does. After a while, she steps back to lean against the fence so she can watch them. She misses the wildlife of Gran Pulse sometimes, especially chocobos. It's been so long since she's seen a chocobo. They would get along great with the animals she already has and, even better, would be the best beasts of burden they have around.

Sometimes she wonders what it would be like to be a chocobo.

It happens almost without her realizing it is. Her body starts growing, elongating her nose, her mouth turns hard and... her limbs look... yellow. She gasps and everything goes back to normal. But this has made her wonder.

In a few minutes, she's figured it out. Giggling to herself, she runs to the front door of the house, yelling out through the halls from outside. "Phryne! Ashley! You gotta come outside and see this!" When they do make it outside, together or separately, they'll find a large flightless yellow bird waiting out in the pen with the others. It keeps shifting its weight, fluttering its wings every so often. Maybe it's excited about something?

They clearly need to check out this new... bird...

EVERYWHERE - OTA, May 5th through May 18th

After surprising her roommates with her new ability, she immediately starts running around the entire south village to find everyone she can. Anyone she knows is automatically a target, finding the best places and ways to introduce her friends to one of her favorite animals. Chocobo!Vanille can be found literally anywhere in the south village. Particular places that might find a giant yellow bird outside are the Inn, the fountain park, and any of her friends' houses.

Hopefully, everyone is happy to see a chocobo because here one is.

Chocobo!Vanille is generally well-behaved. She likes being petted and might even preen a couple of people before revealing herself. If someone scratches her under her chin, she'll stretch her neck up and flutter her wings happily. Just don't bend any of her feathers backwards. That hurts.

If she's feeling particularly playful, she can be found running circles around people, dancing, even jumping over things to see just how high she can get. This sometimes has a rather comedic effect, given that chocobos can't... fly. Sometimes she trips over things, not quite adjusted to a chocobo's movements. Sometimes she just falls out of the air, claws over tail feathers, wings flapping frantically and getting her nowhere, before she faceplants on the ground.

Ow.

Anyone is welcome to help a poor bird out, play with the bird, pet the bird, or just laugh at her comedic attempts at getting anything done.

sixthiteration

WHERE: Island-wide
WHEN: 3 May 2019, 10:00 AM and onward
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Please warn in your subject line as needed
NOTES: Details are here.

Weeks now the villagers have endured kidnappings and attacks by an unknown, if eerily familiar-looking enemy who may have been just on their periphery for much, much longer than anyone realized. Now, with another uncertain day before them all, a message lights up every device on or off of a wrist:

ALL VILLAGERS HAVE 24 HOURS TO SECURE THEIR WRIST DEVICES.
DO NOT REMOVE YOUR DEVICES.
COUNTERMEASURES ARE FORTHCOMING.

For those unclear on its urgency, the message is repeated every hour, an unmissable countdown... But to what?

can_fight_ugly

WHO: Anne and OTA
WHERE: Around the South Village
WHEN: End of April/beginning of May
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: N/A - will add as necessary

After returning from the caves and rescuing the kidnapped villagers, and soon thereafter finding themselves besieged, Anne is putting her animal transformation powers to use; you may very well see, or be aided by, a large tawny tiger.

She does expend a lot of energy, however, so when she's not fighting or trying to secure the village, she's resting at home or trying to be excited about rationed meals at the Inn. Or, just catching a quick nap at the Inn.

As the month wears on and the ghosts visits become more frequent, Anne spends more and more time at and defending the Inn, but if you need to get to one of the other buildings, she will offer to run escort.

She's used to pushing herself under normal circumstances, doing so as a tiger isn't much different.

Private to Foggy - post-rescue

Anne was ready to be home. While the rescue missions had been a success, they had been stressful, full of fighting and biting the familiar ghost-like enemies, and not everyone had made it out alive. She finally finally - makes it through her front door and closes it behind her, dropping her pack on the floor.

"Foggy? I'm back!"

And she could really use a hug.

Private to Eddie - backdated to mid-April

She'd gotten a crash course in tigering in the caves, but now that she's back and still in possession of the ability, she's eager to see what else she can accomplish with it, and how else she can make it useful to the village as a whole. It's not exactly like her time with Venom, but she figures he more than anyone else has the kind of experience that might be useful in helping her push her skills further.

Still, it'd be polite to ask Eddie first, and so she makes a point to arrive early enough to catch him first, knocking on the door as a warmly-dressed human to start.

Seifer's House, shortly post-rescue

Anne had returned to find the attacks from the ghost-residents increased, and the actual residents ... waning. She was lucky that the two most important people in her life were still here, but not everyone was so lucky.

She makes a point to gather up a small skein of yarn she'd worked up before heading off to the caves, and heads out to see Seifer. Making her way across the village, she's alert and ready to transform into a tiger at the first sign of trouble, but fortunately it's a quick, quiet trek from her house to his.

She knocks onn the door, looking over her shoulder as she waits for him to answer.

dial6forhorror

WHO: Ben Hargreeves
WHERE: The Bunker
WHEN: Sunday 21st
OPEN TO: Closed to Diego (and probably Klaus pretty quickly)
WARNINGS: Abusive upbringing and past death discussed

The blessing was that he was unconscious at the time.

Had he become conscious in water, there was every chance he would have inhaled on reflex, old, forgotten reflex that he hasn't needed in a long time. He may easily have not remembered how to swim, how to make a body do what he wants when he hasn't had one for a very long time.

But he's not conscious. He's pushed into the tube and it closes behind him and he floats there, peaceful and pale. There's no marks even suggesting his horrific end and nothing roiling unpleasantly under the scrubs top, like it's trying to squirm free.

The readout flares up with his vital statistics (alive, healthy, things he shouldn't be) and his name underneath.

Ben Hargreeves.

bloodbathing

WHO: Agent Maine
WHERE: House 80, North Village
WHEN: post-rescue
OPEN TO: Agent Washington
WARNINGS: binge drinking

( don't leave me behind )

fooloftheking

WHO: Bobo Del Rey
WHERE: North Village, house and barn
WHEN: During the attacks, April
OPEN TO: ota, both in messages returned or being in the north village
WARNINGS: will update as needed

( Trapped inside this cage I never knew )

vidal

WHO: Reyes Vidal
WHERE: Finnick & Annie's place (House 57)
WHEN: ~handwavey general siege times~
OPEN TO: Hawke, Finnick, Annie
WARNINGS: Violent geese!! Probably some violence to NPCs.

Since Reyes had been attacked, the two hunters had taken to walking the village armed. Hawke had more of a tendency to look in on her loved ones, and so today they were doing the rounds together, checking in on their famously reclusive married friends out at the outskirts, like performing a neighbourly check-in. Except instead of spare a cuppa sugar or want to come in for some coffee?, it's so how about those mysterious attackers, huh? Reyes still has a blossoming bruise darkening one eye from his own altercation, and he's leaning his weight on a crude spear as they stand outside in the pleasant sunshine, chatting and watching as Finnick and Annie fuss with booby traps that pique his interest. For all intents and purposes, it all looks like a nice and normal spring day out in the garden -- except that they're battening down the hatches, readying for something potentially awful.

The yard has the visitors surrounded by birds, too, and Reyes has to keep sidling further and further to the left as a particularly large goose keeps stalking closer. He's not quite sure if it approves of him or not.

"You know, I'm lamenting the fact that no one ever taught me how to build booby traps," he says. "I'm starting to think my life skills are sorely ill-fitted for this planet."

(Understatement. He's been thinking that since the day he got here.)

skyward_eyes

WHO: Nida
WHERE: Around the Village
WHEN: Month of April (Includes Backdated)
OPEN TO: OTA, Closed threads for some
WARNINGS: Discussions of death and violence, possible discussions of suicide

( Gifts From Home - Closed )

( Playing with Power - OTA (Pre-Siege) )

( Grief Overwhelms )

[OOC: Want to see Nida somewhere specific? Let me know.]

enterprisingheart

WHO: Jean-Luc Picard
WHERE: The Inn, the villages, and anywhere in between
WHEN: NPC siege!
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Warnings in subject lines as needed
Note: Plot details over here!

Things are none too settled in the villages, of late, between kidnappings and any of the other various attack of the interlopers (for lack of anything better). And with the latter coming more and more frequently over recent days, it's only really a matter of time before something needs to be done.

The question is then: what? And how?

morphogenia

WHO: Kamala Khan
WHERE: path between Bunker exit and House 6
WHEN: during the battles so tentatively end of March
OPEN TO: Jessica Jones
WARNINGS: Violence, mentions of horror settings, the standard Jessica Jones warning!!!

In a lot of ways Kamala is still a kid who wants her dad to pay attention to her. Her dad figure right now just happens to be a woman who probably drinks too much. The teenager still isn’t sure if she’ll leave any day now to go back to her old shack. The threat that brought them to her, freezing alone, seems to have passed. (Really, who knows with this place?!) That is what makes Kamala for lack of a better word a little clingy. She does not need to show up to the bunker with a snack and a not-so-subtle series of questions about what meal would tempt her to come home for dinner. Kamala does it because she doesn’t know how much time they have left together.

She realizes more with every day how much she is going to miss sharing space with Jessica even with all her quirks. They are in some ways like a little family. Losing a piece of their unit is a scary thought. Kamala can’t be sure if it’s chatting about food nonstop or peer pressure that gets her to come home for dinner with her. They’re exiting the pod soon after and making the walk home to House Six when things get weird. Kamala has had some creepy stare downs. She once lived with a guy who could see her soul. It doesn’t get creepier than that. The guy making eyes at them is different… And weirdly familiar. Kamala stares back before it hits her. She points at him carelessly.

“Is that Hipster Viking?! He looks so old in regular lighting!” Long story as always.

notyourrookie

WHO: Agent Washington
WHERE: A bit outside the South village
WHEN: April 5th
OPEN TO: Natasha Romanoff
WARNINGS: Violence and injuries

He's been keeping to himself since the fight. Well, even more than usual. Hasn't visited the South village in a few days. He wouldn't call it embarrassment exactly; it's hardly a grappling hook to the balls, but he hates the thought of having been vulnerable, that people might know more about him than he wants them to. He really hates that North had seen him like that. Strangers weren't as bad, but people he knew? What if they thought he was crazy?

But there's only so much time he can remain scarce for before he really needs to go to the South Village to pick some things up and remind the few people who care that isn't dead.

The weather is warming up a little, and he slows down as he approaches the village, dropping to a slow jog rather than a pace that makes it seem like he's got a drill sergeant after him, and taking time to pause and stretch out.

He sees it then - someone just approaching along the road from the other direction. Their clothes look torn and they're dirty, like they've been in a fight. He knows that look well. He thinks he recognises them. Not personally, but from spending time in the village - there's few enough people there that you become familiar with the sight of most of them.

"Are you okay?"

whipshots

WHERE: The southern village, a cave system about 5 miles southwest, and in-between
WHEN: April 6
OPEN TO: Kidnappees (Agent Washington, Tim Drake-Wayne, Cissie King-Jones) & their rescuers (Agent Maine/Brigitte Lindholm; Jason Todd/Stephanie Brown; Diego Hargreeves/Seifer Almasy/Anne Weying)
WARNINGS: Violence & NPC death. Will update further as needed!

OOC details:

All 3 kidnapped villagers wake deep in a system of caves, firmly bound by rope at their ankles and wrists, with their hands in front of their bodies. It will be extremely dark. They will be able to speak to each other, however, and may notice that their wrist devices have been removed. There will be two canteens of water and two plates of berries and rice. They may begin to loosen or cut through their ropes, but it will be slow-going.

When Nat returns to the village and tells everyone about the kidnapping, it seems a fairly safe presumption that there will be folks wanting to go after the kidnapped villagers, locate them, and bring them safely back to the village. These characters may encounter NPCs along the way as they locate the kidnapped villagers and help them escape.

The odd hit-and-run assaults by the strange doppelgangers had finally escalated: three of their own had been taken. And so of course, others would go after them. Three ragtag groups eventually assembled within the southern village, setting out into the wilderness and trying to trace the path back to the origin of these inexplicable attackers, or at least where they’ve been holding their captives. It’s five miles away, so perhaps about two hours’ walk with all the stopping to check for footprints, broken branches, trampled bushes.

Once the rescuers start working through the dark caves, they start running into aggressive NPCs, and it seems likely a fight will break out.

A list of NPC clones they might encounter:

Anne Weying, Ashley Magnus, Aqua, Bobo del Rey, Brigitte Lindholm, Bruce Banner, Cissie King-Jones, Cougar Alvarez, Foggy Nelson, Frank Castle, Jacob Frye, Jason Todd, Jessica Jones, Joe Miller, John Druitt, John Wick, Kalen, Marian Hawke, Natasha Romanoff, Niska Elster, Oerba Dia Vanille, Peggy Carter, Reyes Vidal, Rinoa Heartilly, Rosa Diaz, Samantha Moon, Seifer Almasy, Thor Odinson, Tim Drake-Wayne

tothefly

WHO: Natasha Romanoff
WHERE: South Village outskirts
WHEN: April 5th, spam from 5th-8th
OPEN TO: all (Network first response goes to Reyes)
WARNINGS: Injuries

[network, video, OTA (first response goes to Reyes)]

[It looks like there's something smeared over the screen; it's just a jumble of color, blacks and browns and the faintest hint of sky peeking through here and there, a blur that implies faint motion. The voice is recognizable as Natasha's, but the words are slightly slurred and it sounds like she's having a hard time putting them together.]

They took...him. I think--

[A small sound of pain, and another brief pause of labored breathing.]

Don't...know his name. Tall. Blonde. Fighter. Teal wristband. More of those people--not us--

Think I--know which way they went. Someone needs to...

[And then there's the sound of someone falling, and the video ends.]

[action, south village inn, OTA]

A concussion means Natasha isn't going to sleep any time soon. She should still be resting, shouldn't be sitting up given the state of her injuries, but judging by the look on her face anyone who tells her that has a good chance of going through the window she's sitting by. The map she and Loki had found is unfurled on the table in front of her, and she's bent over it, marking distances and looking pretty intent, despite her pale, clammy skin and the rapidly purpling bruise emanating outward from her temple, a cut at its center.

She doesn't even bother looking up as she hears someone enter the room, instead holding out a hand towards them and motioning. "Come here. I need another pair of hands."

mrsarcastic003

WHO: Tim Drake-Wayne
WHERE: Just outside of town
WHEN: April 2
OPEN TO: Cissie King-Jones
WARNINGS: Violence, potentially strong language.

Tim and Cissie are both basically city kids from the twenty first century, who live in a time and place where grocery stores and restaurants and school cafeterias are readily available. They don't have much experience foraging for and hunting for their own food. Fortunately--they're both really fast learners.

They've been living in their house together for a few weeks, and they're starting to fall into a rhythm for their days and weeks. Today is a "let's go out in the woods and find food" kind of day. They each have a backpack and the weather is nice enough to put both of them in a fairly good mood. They're not far from the village when there's a noise ahead of them that makes them pause. Some of the creatures around here are friendly and/or delicious, and some of them are Decidedly Not.

Tim glances over at Cissie. "That sounded bigger than a squirrel."

connatural

WHO: Ashley Magnus
WHERE: Fountain, Inn, Around
WHEN: End of March
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: Violence, brainwashing, experimentation fallout

( They are the force between when the sunlight is arising )

Sixth Iteration

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Take Two I

FEB 26 - MAR 4

Ghost in the Machine II

MARCH 22-MAY 4

Take Two II

March 7-17

Game Calendar

Color Power Combos

CR Lottery

Admin Post: [MINGLE] Endgame

the end is the beginning is the end (closed)

[MINGLE] (Early) Anniversary Fun Fair

(no subject)

01.02: where only your thoughts have been

WARK ( OTA!!!!! )

[MINGLE | PLOT] Ghost in the Machine Ends

OTA

01.01: Impending horror

chasin' down the shots they bought for me

Empty pictures frames up on the wall

but if you're worried about the weather, then you picked the wrong place to stay.

(no subject)

(no subject)

maybe by next summer we'll have changed our tune

Ghost Stories

ghost in the machine, pt. two | rescue mingle

No Longer Ghosts [network+log]

you and i are a gang of losers

Distant stars come in black and red