Event Plotting Post: The Walls of Jericho

[thelostmods]

Greetings, residents of the Meadous and vistors! Our 4th Wall event is right around the corner. To help facilitate this, we’ve pulled together some world descriptions and FAQs that should help anyone coming to visit the Meadous and surrounding godling lands get situated. For this event, We the Lost will be allowing:

• Straight from Canon Characters
  
• CRAU Characters
  
• CRAU or Straight from Canon Characters that have been AU’d into a Godling Realm

TL;DR - We the Lost is having a 4th Wall Event. It will take place ICly over a two-week period and open up seven additional godling realms to explore. Any and all characters are welcome for this event, be they straight from canon, CRAU, or CRAU’d into a godling realm.

THE WALLS OF JERICHO

The Events Calendar post for the plot is HERE

First and foremost, what is this event? We the Lost is a CRAU Slice of Life game set in the realm of a young godling. Every young godling in the WtL-verse develops a world unique to them and pulls people in to populate it and help them grow. Each godling is influenced by their ‘flock,’ although they all have some basic personality traits that help them make their initial flock selection. The characters in WtL have so far given their godling a name: Zephyr, and a form that changes with the seasons.

Godling worlds are small to start and they expand as the power of the godling expands. There is also a barrier placed around each world, something that separates the godlings’ pocket universes from one another and protects the population from the dangers that run rampant between the worlds. Once a god is mature enough, their barrier will come down. Until that happens, though, the wall is kept in place, holding the inhabitants in and the rest of the world out.

On January 30th, an event on the plane of the gods will shatter the barriers between worlds, breaking down the walls and exposing nearby godling realms to one another as well as the spaces between.

This event will have three effects:

1. There will be an unexpected and unmanageable ‘pull’ out in the multi-verse that will drag in characters straight from canon or from other games and drop them into unsuspecting godling lands.
   
2. Characters already within godling realms will be ‘flung’ across their own plane and may wind up in a different godling world than the one they started in.
   
3. Travel between worlds will be possible.

This effect will last for two weeks (until February 13th) when the god plane will sort itself out, the barriers will be restored, everyone from the godling worlds will be put back in the right place, and anyone brought straight from canon or another game will be returned ‘home.’

The godlings will be frantically trying to sort out the situation on the god plane with the older gods and will be largely unavailable. However, they may check in now and again. More information on each of the gods and their worlds is provided below. the worlds open during this event will include:

• The Meadous - Realm of Zephyr - Flock Qualities: Lost
  
• Ajras - Realm of an Unnamed Godling - Flock Qualities: Musical, Upbeat, Adventurous
  
• Midnight - Realm of an Unnamed Godling - Flock Qualities: Nocturnal, Dual Natures, Hidden Sides
  
• The Sunset Circus - Realm of an Unnamed Godling - Flock Qualities: Fearful, Young, Misfits
  
• Samudra - Realm of an Unnamed Godling - Flock Qualities: Unique, Flashy, Prideful, Confident
  
• The Wild West - Realm of Ara - Flock Qualities: Inventors, Healers, Builders
  
• Aria - Realm of Lalilia - Flock Qualities: Caregivers, Parents, Builders
  
• Willowhispers - Realm of Tyvn - Flock Qualities: Artists, Misanthropes, Tech Savvy

WtL DOES NOT have a network comm. To facilitate communication for this event, a universal ‘Bulletin Board’ will be put up where people in different realms will be able to communicate.

Check the comments below for a brief FAQ!

Comments

Aria - Lalilia

[thelostmods]

Nicknames: Lala, Lal, Li Li
Selection Criteria: Caregivers, Parents, Builders
World Age: 4 Years
World Size: Four Square Miles, second layer of cloud cover for businesses.
Level of Technology: Mixed. Technology regularly fails thanks to rainstorms.
Weather: Cycles through sunny, stormy, and wind storms.

Dwellings: Houses are made of collected sticks, branches and cast off wood, but made tightly to withstand the occasional wind storms. Each house looks vastly different than the last, composed of odds & ends found around landscape. Furniture within is equally as varied. Flock members are more likely to make each other furniture opposed to trusting cloud made gifts. Mailboxes are shaped like colorful eggs, names painted on the front in small letters. Birds roost over houses with more elaborate decorations and perches. Newer buildings are made of cloud and metal. Pink and grey glitter together gently under the warm rays of the sun.

Godling Demeanor: Lalila lets emotions rule her behavior more than logic, it doesn’t mean logic won’t appeal to her. Given a solid explanation she is quick to try and correct her behavior or some mistake. Lailia can’t quite grasp what the big picture is without some help. She is genuinely kind and empathetic, but lets that overrule a lot of thoughtful responses. Especially when an issue is pushed, Lailia is more likely to get frustrated and cry when things don’t work the way she wanted them to. She wants best for her flock, even if it means she picks up on their bad behavior as much as they pick up on her own. She is a people pleaser of a child and it’s clear she’s still learning how to focus on making herself happy opposed to making others happy first. She provides everything readily and meddles in arguments worried about her people’s well being.
Godling Appearance: A very pink fluffy chimera. Lalila looks like a mixture of bird and rat. They are the size of a human child but can shift sizes to rat or bird size on a whim.

Setting:
The landscape is soft and fluffy, those who live here walk with a light step. Even those who walk heavily find themselves unable to fall through the peach colored clouds. Pathways are lined with sticks tied together with mismatched yarn thread. Giant leaves, light weight wood and fabric act as cover for walkways.

In the main square of the town is a statue of the godling and plaques dedicated to long time/deceased residents. Arrival dates and death dates listed in clear carving. Nearby is what looks like a bulletin board composed of a wooden skeleton with clouds filling in the rest. Notes are pinned to it with tacks.

Following the right turn in the cloud walkway will lead them to the nest. A flock of birds have built a variety of nests, roosting comfortably, paying no mind to people. Walking past the birds leads to an overlook where residents can sit and watch the clouds roll by. Falling off of the overlook leads to bird rescue. Bird rescue deposits people safely in front of their homes.

Those who follow the left turn of the main cloud walkway will find themselves at the wishing tree. A large unruly tree that breaks past the cloud cover. Regardless of the season the tree is always covered in fruit. Those who want to make a wish have to shake the tree and grab a fruit. Taking a bite of fruit and thinking about their wish usually does the trick. The fruit always tastes like the flock members favorite sugary treat when they make a wish.

There are cloud openings to another level of the village. Rope ladders lead downwards on bigger openings. The secondary level consists of farming, plants and wild animals roaming freely across the soft cottony clouds. More technology can be found in the odd water mill at the very end. Next to the mill are genuine businesses. Fabric/seamstress, butcher, music shop, vet & doctor. Each shop has its own understated sign and glitters of metal & cloud.

Wildlife consists of the giant birds, weasels, elk, deer, bears.

Questions

[thelostmods]

[hoonter]

So I couldn't help but notice there are several really... Let's say nontraditional caregivers/parents/builders ending up in Aria (ie Eileen, Booker, possibly Stein if Hydok brings him in too).

Would that change Lalilia's development in any way?

[thelostmods]

Lalilia has taken a lot of cues from her flock in behavior. Whilst still emotionally driven/a bit flighty at times she's grown up in regards to morally gray issues. She's more willing to listen to the more macabre elements with fascination and prod the person for more information opposed to being grossed out. She's also more likely to let any of her villagers duke it out if there is a fight before doling out any kind of intervention.

Her punishments have also taken a different edge to them with time, opposed to her first punishment of 'burping pink bubbles'.

She personally has also grown a bit hardier with time, less likely to cry as much and more likely to stand her ground on arguments. Lalilia is becoming a bit more bullheaded/stubborn with time. She has probably gotten into a few fights at school because of this. She also has taken a more keen interest in play fighting as well, occasionally play wrestles with other children her age if they're willing.

Plotting

[thelostmods]

[inruins]

AGAIn, for those who haven't played Undertale, lemme give you the skinny about Toriel! Toriel is very much a motherly figure in game. She takes it upon herself to take care of any and all human children who fall into mount ebott. She genuinely and deeply cares for each child who comes her way, but never is able to save them from the rest of the underground.

She's genuinely kind, affectionate, patient and caring. If you're a kid character she'll likely make sure you eat your veggies. If your adult bothering a child, she'll punch you across the room or set you on fire. She's a powerful boss monster with a soft spot.

Toriel has been in Aria since the beginning. She's seen the small godling grow and is settles in this very pink and fluffy world. She's likely met most of the residents and offered them some pie given a chance.

[hoonter]

So since Eileen and Toriel have both been around since the very beginning of Aria, is it safe to say that they're fairly tight by now?

Eileen definitely showed up to Aria with multiple serious injuries, and then a few weeks in she probably goes through some sort of blood withdrawl. She'd be really hesitant to accept help from a monster at first, but if Toriel helped her through those things, Eileen would begin to truly trust her.

Add another four years of friendship after that and it's hard to imagine them not being friends.

[milliondollarpipes]

Yo wanna form a dead kids club

[lookprofessor]

Luke would really like some pie, but you're mostly a stranger and you don't take food from strangers so...

Much like with Eileen, Luke has probably avoided Toriel. Her mothering will remind him of his own mum, who he misses terribly. She's also not human, and he's positively terrified of that aspect of her--while also being rather curious. He can't quite reconcile the two, so he probably pokes around nearby and then scurries off. If she approaches him, he's nothing but polite...but very nervous.

If she continues to approach and mom at him, though, he'll start to warm up to her. He's had a pretty rough go of things in Discedo, so he's unfortunately not the most immediately trusting anymore. It takes him time.

[hoonter]

Hi everyone, I'm Gwiggs and I'll be bringing in Eileen the Crow from the game Bloodborne for this event!

Eileen falls under the category of Caregivers, but only technically. Her job in her home canon is to put down monster hunters who have themselves started to lose their minds/change into monsters. A lot of these people were her friends for years (and also are very good at fighting), so it isn't an easy job for her to do. But it's a necessary one.

Which is to say, she doesn't really fit in well with the spirit of this godling's world, but that's sort of the fun of it.

She's pretty dang old in her home canon, and I plan on AUing her into Aria from the very start of it, which means that she'll be almost 70 by the time this event happens! She's (warily) watched Lalilia grow into the being she is today, and tries to act as something of a stern grandmother figure. She chooses her words wisely when speaking directly to the godling (although she is fond of her), but is a lot more informal around her fellow citizens of Aria (Arianders?).

She'll be civil, even somewhat friendly, although she silently keeps an eye on them and takes notes of any outbursts they might have. She's also particularly wary of non-human residents of Aria, although she'll warm up to them too with time.

Oh, lastly she'll be viewing this event as one last adventure, and be picking up her blades for (what she assumes will be) the final time. Living in Aria was a nice enough vacation and all but she's always been fairly certain that shit was going to hit the fan at some point and now she's had those suspicions confirmed.

tl;dr fatalistic bird grandma. Have fun with that.

[inruins]

Eileen and Toriel clearly need to be neighbors in this world. Along with friendly after Eileen got used to being in Aria. Awkward friendship with a monster COMMENCE.

[despiteeverything]

If there's some opportunity these two should totally run into each other if Eileen is going to be close CR with Toriel.

[lookprofessor]

Please bird grandma at this small child who is scared of all of these strange non-human creatures and would rather hide in his fluffy glitter cloud house than interact with most people here.

Luke in actual canon is quite outgoing and friendly, but after his time in Discedo he's withdrawn quite a bit, particularly where I'm pulling him from. He wants to help, but he's all of like...twelve. And small. He can't build things, because he can't reach stuff to build. And he can't heal, because he doesn't have any magical abilities. He just wants to help people feel better but ninety percent of the time he'd really rather just hide from you all

So please bird grandma. In Discedo he had a Zombie dad who took very good care of him

Booker DeWitt | Bioshock Infinite

[soldthegirl]

Lalilia are you sure you shouldn't have tightened up your standards because you've just picked up the World's #∞ Dad.

More than likely Booker's sort of the black sheep of the Aria flock - which is saying something because we've got a plague doctor avenging angel in here as well (no offense, Eileen). To put it simply, Booker is a former Pinkerton Detective (or strikebreaker, responsible for getting those rowdy unionists back in line) and a veteran of the Battle of Wounded Knee (now much better known as the Wounded Knee Massacre, and for good reason). Also, mouse over for spoilers.

So he's kind of a bad person who's very much haunted by his mistakes, of which there are many. Probably the only reason he qualifies to be here is that be was tasked to retrieve a young girl from a rogue citystate in the sky and wound up getting much more attached to and protective of her than he intended. Also he's pretty competent at fabricating basic tools and structures, having been a soldier in the late 1800's, but, you know. Mostly he's a really shitty dad.

Booker mostly keeps to himself - he doesn't want any trouble and is well aware that he tends to attract it - but he's been around for a good couple of years or so and in worlds this small it's hard not to get familiar with a few people. Mostly he comes across as awkward and kind of gruff.

[hoonter]

RUDE TBH.

Anyway Eileen is almost certainly pretty fond of Booker. As someone who has spent their life killing, she can recognize him as a kindred spirit in that regard. Granted, she can justify (at least to herself) most of the lives she's taken, whereas he probably can't, but I imagine after some time together they've formed a bond over having lived lives of violence. He's the sort of friend that's nice to sit at a bar and drink with.

Also depending on whether or not there's actually a bar in Aria at all, they might need to take turns making their own varieties of homemade liquor in their twighouses. That could be fun too.

Donna Noble (Doctor Who) | My Little Jamjar CRAU

[thedoctorsmate]

Donna is a sassy red-headed traveling companion to a somewhat mad and mostly immortal alien called the Doctor. In a way, she plays the role of the Doctor's caregiver and conscience, making sure he doesn't go too far to fulfill his goals, or yelling at him when he does. She has more than a few self-confidence issues, but she hides them behind a veneer of temper and sharp-tongued wit. She's an incredibly empathetic person, though, and cares more than she probably should about everyone and everything.

She's also coming off about a year and a half of being a pony in My Little Jamjar, though she'll have worked out wishing herself human again by this point. She's spent a year in Aria and is working on developing a full spa for people to relax in. She was sort of hoping to actually go home and continue her adventures with the Doctor, but she's also aware of the fact that she is canonically going to lose her memory of him not too much further down her personal timeline. They worked out a way to possibly prevent this in MLJ, but they don't have any actual guarantees it will work. Thus, she's not too put off by being stuck somewhere else, just missing her friends.

Patrick "Rick" Dawn | OC

[bashfulshifter]

AND THE LAST ONE (that's being AUed anyway, whoops). This is Rick, one of several characters I'm going to be dragging here from Elementverse; the simple world description is a modern semi-utopia and also there are superpowers, naturally there's more comprehensive worldbuilding info on Rick's journal if anyone's curious. Rick is being brought to Aria straight from his spot in very late-canon after the superhero organization that his wife started has begun picking up new recruits for training.

Rick has never been the dominant force within his circle of friends or this business--he's meek, easily manipulated and frequently crumbles under pressure--but he still works in the background as a vigilant supporter whose primary goal has always been to make people happy and help them the best he can. This extends to his abilities as well: Rick is a nontraditional shapeshifter who takes in the souls of dying animals and harbors them in his own mind, letting them live through him by taking on their form. When he was brought to Aria he could turn into a housecat, Rusty; a collie, Toby; a horse, Laurence; a tiger, Mittens; and a juvenile tyrannosaurus, simply known as "the Dinosaur." Since he arrived four years ago, maybe he's picked up other forms? That might be neat to consider.

As in life, Rick mostly sticks to the background here and does otherwise menial tasks to keep the world neat and tidy and a pleasant place to live, such as tending to the birds or repairing structures damaged by wind and whatnot. His animal forms sometimes get into more trouble; Rusty in particular has probably attempted to terrorize the flock and the Dinosaur is...the Dinosaur. Generally well-behaved but kind of restless and hard to miss when he's out. Rick likely spends most of his time playing with and caring for Lalila honestly--like the little chimera rat baby he never had. So sweet.

Bigby Wolf - AU

[ladysheriff]

Another grumpy bad influence appears! Fem!Bigby wolf from 'The Wolf Among Us' games by TellTale. In canon she's actually the Big Bad wolf in human form. A 'Fable' stuck in 80's era New York city. She's the local detective, wrangling of badly behaved fables. Generally gets 0 respect from the public or outright dismissal because she is the big bad wolf. She worked closely with a male version of Snow White. AU pretty much consists of just swapping Bigby and Snow's genders and leaving the rest of canon alone.

She's been in Aria since the start and genuinely is kind of used to the low paced life style going on. Genuinely relieved that she isn't being shit on constantly for helping people. Whilst she missed the other Fable's she gets on well enough with the other residents. Very likely to be relieved she isn't the only quick on the draw person around.

Dr. Franken Stein | Soul Eater

[circumsutus]

Stein's the local mad scientist/doctor/hand-to-hand combat expert/ghost hunter/necromancer/schoolteacher. He's been in Aria about three years now, and his office/lab is as much of a patchwork mess as his clothes and face are. He's a very "world's best dad" type, complete with dad jokes, and is protective of the local child-gos while also being very aware of Lalilia's status as the local god.

Voted most likely to make joking(?) offers to dissect everyone except Lala. Most likely to set up torii gates on the path to the wishing tree.

Greg Universe | Steven Universe (Cosmographia CRAU)

[cometkin]

SO! For the last two months or so, Aria's had a guitar dad. A guitar dad who's also sort of a gem dad (thanks to climbing through a hole built for him and ending up in a place call Waverly Bay for about half a year) and one that really misses his smol thirteen-year-old son.

Greg Universe is a washed-up rock musician turned car wash owner, whose late common-law wife was an eight foot tall alien space rock named Rose Quartz. She was very smart, very brave, and very beautiful. Greg himself is a nice, sensible guy with a couple... quirks. He likes most people, however, with very few exceptions. (Those would be his ex-manager, Marty, and this asshole from Waverly Bay, Bill.)

The fluffy pink clouds really remind him of Rose's bedroom.

Garnet - Steven Universe

[twicethegem]

Originally I was going to plop Garnet with Ara's wild west, but I figured she probably should be here. In this awful parent pile. Someone has to help Greg out, ok, ok.

For anyone not in the know, Garnet is literally a pair of living rocks that is also a space alien. She's pretty quiet, but confident and generally content to observe problems opposed to directly meddle without Steven being present. She's very chill, stern and usually a voice of reason to a point.

She's been in Aria for three years and pretty comfortable. Usually breaks up fights and keep some semblance of peace. Garnet is pretty fond of Lailia by this point.

Luke Triton Professor Layton (Discedo CRAU)

[lookprofessor]

Luke hasn't been in Aria for that long. A few months, at the most. He's still getting the hang of what's going on around him. It's a marked improvement from the wasteland that was Discedo and the surrounding cities, the constant scrounging for food, and the frequent injuries. When Luke arrived, he was pretty beaten up and rather sickly, not to mention ridiculously paranoid about a particular vampire finding out that he'd "told" on her. He still hasn't elaborated. Whatever happened between them, he still isn't keen on talking.

Most of the time, it's pretty obvious that this small child would like to be friends with you. However, he's shy--he tends to hang back when interacting with new people, even those who have been in Aria the longest.

Anyone who asks him about that puzzle book that he brought with him from Discedo, though? They will become instant best friends--provided they don't go on to make fun of it.

What qualifies him to be here of all the worlds? He wants to help, more than anything. It's the most he interacts with others in Aria, above and beyond simple greetings. Did you fall and skins your knee? Luke will stop what he's doing to try and help. Are you moving boxes around in your shop? Luke can't reach that shelf but it's not going to stop him from trying. Posting about how you need a good chicken soup recipe because you've been sick lately? Not much of a cook, but this little apprentice will bring you the best root remedy tea to help you feel better and nurse you back to health.

[milliondollarpipes]

Harvey's a lounge singer who occasionally brushes elbows with magic bullshit, alien bullshit, and several other flavors of absolute bullshit. He had a son who is now dead, and he continues to compulsively adopt any children he encounters.

He's been in Aria about two years, having come there straight from having spent nearly three years as a pony in MLJ. He's long since wished himself back to human shape, though people who have been around a while will probably remember that he was an extremely grumpy blue horse at one point. Since then, he's mellowed out quite a bit; while he's obviously still weary of dimension-hopping, he burned all his anger out a while ago and is now mostly resigned to being jerked about the cosmos.

For lack of anyone else, he's probably taken over command of the music shop. He still performs sometimes, though it's not as fun when your audience is so small and stagnant. He may have started regular Karaoke Nights, so feel free to have encountered him there. He spends the rest of his time trying to parent the godling, because of course he does.

[hoonter]

Eileen comes from a world where invisible eldrich gods are climbing all over the buildings - she feels you on the "absolute bullshit" bit, Harvey.

Honestly, though, she'll be amused to have another former horse around the realm - and you can bet your ass she'll occasionally bring it up and have a good chuckle at his expense.

Sadly, Eileen isn't one for music so she won't be a regular at his performances, but by now she's got him pegged as a pretty decent guy who has Lalilia's best interests at heart.

[bluesuit_hoofy]

It's almost like you people didn't like being horses ponies.