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

Rin Tezuka (Ryslig CRAU)

[aphasiacartist]

Rin is a quiet, artistic girl from a visual novel called Katawa Shoujo. She's a double amputee, lacking both of her arms, so she has to hold her paintbrushes either between her toes or in her mouth. Also she often has trouble expressing herself with words, and vents this frustration with her paintings. Which is to say a lot of paintings around Willowhispers a are hers (and have a heavy emphasis on fusions and exaggerations of the human form (cw: body horror).

ALSO I'm taking Rin in from her time in Ryslig! Specifically from her time during the Mountain event, which means that Rin showed up in the form of a goblin. As a result, she's small (only about 3'9"), green and has a compulsive fondness for piercings and neckties. Fortunately, she's definitely wished away her need to feed off of human energy by this point, and probably lives fairly peaceful life as an artist, closer to the center of town where the mud isn't deep.

Rin's been in Willowhispers since the very beginning, so she's had plenty of chances to meet (and possibly subsequently weird out) her neighbors. Upon her initial arrival she was simultaneously relieved to no longer be in Ryslig and very upset to have been separated from her best friend Emi and her girlfriend Mahiru. Of course, it's been about five years (from her perspective) since then, so while she still feels quite guilty about leaving them behind, she's moving forward with her life in this new place.

Because of Ryslig's... everything, she was very intimidated/worried about Tyvn at first, but in time she's gotten used to them and has even grown to like the little godling. She probably even just tries to hang out with them, occasionally.

LASTLY, Rin is mostly self-sufficient but she still requires help with some small things (she has trouble buttoning shirts, for example) and some large things (she has absolutely gotten stuck neck-deep in the mud at some point and needed to be fished out by someone). So, while she'll be okay living on her own if she has to, Rin will possibly gravitate towards a friend who can help her out of a jam if necessary.

[birdinthehand]

Ankh's a huge jerk but he does sort of have a soft spot for the pitiful and defenseless. Do you think he might have fished Rin out of the mud at some point in the past? (He'd have then called her dumb and walked off as though it was nothing... and then probably made a point to keep an eye out for her in case it wound up happening again.)

[aphasiacartist]

I'm not sure if I'd call Rin pitiful and defenseless; she's self-sufficient and with her neat ryslig monster powers she's roughly 5 times the strength of a normal human. It's mostly the fact that she's so short that gives her so much trouble in the mud.

That being said, I'd love for Ankh to get that impression of her? She's appreciate it at first until she got the impression that he pitied her rather than actually liked her. Even then, she probably wouldn't say anything for like months. She'd just quietly be frustrated at him until her emotions come to a boil.

Would you be interested in a tiny goblin exploding at Ankh eventually?

[birdinthehand]

Capable as she might be, he's liable to think of her as less-than-capable the first time she gets herself in a jam of some sort. Because he's very quick to judge. I am super down with the idea of him being a kind of condescending jerk for the longest while and then getting exploded at! That is fantastic.

[aphasiacartist]

Lmao nice, I love giving Rin negative CR.

Would Ankh even realize he'd done anything wrong? Or does he think she's just some kind of unreasonable asshole, yelling at him for being so nice to her?

[birdinthehand]

Ankh is an expert at accumulating negative CR. It is great.

That is an excellent question. He can certainly recognize that she is mad, but people get mad at him for all kinds of things that he thinks are not worth getting mad over. Like, I don't think he'd even consciously admit that he was being 'nice' in the first place.

He will certainly spend less time passive-aggressively-tsundere-esque fussing in her direction, anyway. Or at least less time doing it really obviously.

[aphasiacartist]

I almost feel bad, honestly. Even if his intentions are shitty, at least he wasn't being overtly rude to her?

If he can chill out on the fussing she'll forgive him, for the record. She's a pretty easy-going person, and definitely isn't opposed to friendliness, but there's only so much pity she's willing take before it's too much to handle.