Upcoming Event: Curses!

[applesaucemod]

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Whenever You're Reading This/Time Is An Illusion!

When your characters wake up on the morning of August 27th, 2013 (March 19th for those playing along at home), they will immediately notice something wrong. Or maybe they won't. Maybe something weird will happen when they bite into their breakfast, or attempt to speak, or wander into the woods park. But weird things are going to happen to rifties all over Manhattan, and the theme is going to be distinctly fairy tale. Everybody is going to find themselves cursed, Grimm-style.

Here are some ideas that we've brainstormed/researched, though you don't have to choose from the list if you have other mischief in mind. Also, feel free to use 'enchanted slumber' as an opt-out if you want to keep one or more of your characters out of the action.


- Lose your voice
- Can't speak without small animals, jewels, or other assorted objects falling from your mouth
- Can't stop dancing
- Hand stuck to a goose
- Small animal/object tells others your most shameful secrets or innermost thoughts
- Giant toad sits on face, demands to be fed or it will eat your face
- Turned into some kind of animal
- Turned into stone, a tree, or some other kind of inanimate object
- Forget your true love
- Entangled in brambles
- Lost in a forest
- Your tears turn into something else (diamonds, etc)
- Everything you touch turns to gold or some other thing/material
- You always tell the truth
- You aways lie
- Aged way up
- Aged way down
- Everything you eat tastes like one thing
- You become obsessed with eating just one thing
- Feels as if you're walking on broken glass all the time
- Sized up
- Sized down
- Trapped in a mirror/only visible in reflections
- Everything you say comes true
- Everything you draw comes to life
- Your body literally falls apart, but in a non-fatal kind of way (limbs can be reattached)
- FREE SPACE seriously just make something up

Can your character break whatever curse has been laid upon them? Maybe! It's really up to you. If they can't figure it out, at least they'll only have to deal with it until sunset. Which, on that particular date, should hit at 7:37 PM. At that point, any bizarre afflictions your character has been dealing with will vanish.

Feel free to use this post to brainstorm, or to ask any questions you might have.

Carrie OUT. *drops mic*

Comments

[biscuit_powered]

I'm bringing in this lying liar and she is only going to be able to tell the truth! I haven't decided yet what sort of curse her familiar might get. He might turn into a different animal, just for kicks.

ETA: I'm kind of still working on phasing Andrew out, so I don't know that I'm going to do anything in particular with him for this event unless I can get it to line up/double up with one of the other threads I need to do for him to prepare for his grand exit. Still haven't chosen for Rashad or Peter yet, either -- one of the big ideas for Peter was to have his hand stuck to a goose, but making it so he feels like he's walking on glass would result in a delightfully pissy Peter teleporting everywhere on his butt. Rashad...well, he's not going to be upset, so I might as well just turn him into something fun or trap him in a mirror or another object.

[lottawork]

Ooo I definitely have plans to trap Rush in a mirror because clearly that's something I should do to someone who's had awful experiences of being trapped behind glass, right? RIGHT

I don't know what we could do with that if Rashad shares that fate but boy it sure could be awful fun

[theoldgirl]

OH GOSH THAT'S AWFUL AND THE TARDIS OBJECTS

[lottawork]

I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE SUGGESTED THAT ONE SPECIFICALLY WITH RUSH IN MIND

[theoldgirl]

WHY WOULD YOU THO

I'm probably going to have the TARDIS "speak in tongues" / be unable to understand what anyone says or writes, so I probably shouldn't talk about awful

but he can definitely come hang out in a TARDIS mirror or screen and watch her and the Doctor play the worst game of charades ever

[lottawork]

BECAUSE I'M TERRIBLE AND CAUSE HE PROBABLY DESERVES IT

oh my sweet butts that's awful and wonderful he should totally chill and take a break from being disgruntled about glass to being disgruntled about the Doctor being the worst child

[theoldgirl]

BUT RUSH IS PRECIOUS AND DESERVES ONLY GOOD THINGS

yes perfect

it's especially terrible because the Doctor is more of a child than the actual child living with him.

[lottawork]

HE'S A PRECIOUS SPECTACULAR ASS THEREFORE HE MUST SUFFER

why are all the game's kids eons ahead in maturity than like 90% of the adults

not just the adults even. the kids in general deal with everything better than the time lords and elder gods do

[all_the_gifts]

[theoldgirl]

no but it makes perfect sense because all the supernatural beings aren't used to adjusting and being restricted

the universe is no longer their oyster and they're going to go subtly crazy and/or throw fits

in other words, they're going to be huge babies about it

[lottawork]

they are definitely being huge babies about it.

there's a hostile baby owl loose in the TARDIS it's going to ruin everything

[omnomnom_feels]

Trapped behind glass WITH THAT SOUL-SUCKING ASSHOLE.

Or Rashad might get turned into a book by Aziraphale? Idk, Idk.

[lottawork]

That sounds like PURE TERROR or AN OUTRAGEOUSLY FUN TIME either one is amazing

[omnomnom_feels]

As much as I love torturing Rush writing conflicts, we'd have to think about what would actually happen there -- if Rush has a way to get away from him or not, if anyone else could do anything about it, some vague idea of what kind of outcome we'd want....

[lottawork]

True true. Hmmmm not sure how one would break the mirror curse either cause it's not really like either of them have a true love to speak of and that's the general curse-breaker. Otherwise it'd just be a day of mirror-chasing, which could be interesting but wouldn't have a whole lot of variation

[omnomnom_feels]

Maybe every time Rashad touches an object it sticks to him and he gets stuck to Rush's mirror? Except then you'd think he'd just be stuck to the floor all day. Also he might get turned into a book by Aziraphale, which I suppose would at least stop the katamari in progress.

[lottawork]

or would he become a katamari of books. how would all the gathered mass respond to spontaneous bookage???? I have to work out the science of this. This is fascinating.

would emotional transferal work through a mirror??? because if so holy shit Rush would be having the worst day

[omnomnom_feels]

Oh man, that's right -- if Aziraphale touches any of the other stuff he'd just have a giant book-ball on his hands. Or it might transfer through Rashad's amazing katamari powers! But then would Rush's mirror turn into a book? This seems problematic.

[lottawork]

I agree. Oh gosh what would even happen there. what on earth would happen to bookmografied!mirror!Rush.

maybe we should save further torment for a non-curse-related time this is getting confusing