Hey everyone! Jade here.

In case no one else saw or knows, for the end game plot Naomi is now SECRETLY working for Nocturne in their research department! This means that for plot-related reasons any characters at this point should not have any hint or idea she is working for them just yet. She's investigating the various biological applications and effects dream energy has on living things, and right now a larger sample size is needed. Which means YOUR CHARACTERS ARE NEEDED by Nocturne to be their test subjects. The testing in this case would simply mean being administered a "vaccine".

So if opt-in and your character goes to the hospital to be administered this shot:

-->The effects begin a day or two after receiving the injection.
-->The effects are determined by the player. They can range from violent illness to gaining new abilities, to personality changes, and so forth.
-->The effects last a week at most.
--> Comment here if you give permission!

And if your character would want to get a shot because it seems like a good idea but you don't want them to be pulled into having any effects, simply say that they were seen by Jude instead of Naomi.

I will be putting a post up later, but sign-ups are here!

Hey guys, Laena here! Sorry for suddenly disappearing this past week. My husband came down with a bad cold and I caught it while trying to be the cute waifu nurse :| I was unable to post up the past moon cycle, but it works out since I had nothing really extensive planned for it except for it being a break period. Only downside was that I had planned to make an NPC post for characters to interact with but...yeah there was no way I’d be able to keep up with it. Apologies for that!

That said, I’m making up for this by going ahead and giving you guys the details for the upcoming AU so you can plot away. As you may recall, it’s going to be based off the RPG Fire Emblem: Awakening but there are some other RPG game elements being thrown in from the Tales of series. It’s mostly Fire Emblem, however, but enough about that that, time for the details!

dates and formatting
Start: Tuesday, April 22
End: Saturday, May 3

That gives us twelve (12) days for this event, which should more than enough time to enjoy it! Of course backdated posts/threads will be allowed after the event ends, but it’s highly encouraged that you at least start the activity during this timeframe.

Giant mingle log. To help make it more efficient, there will be a giant mingle log posted at the start that will span the entire event time. You can make any log threads in this post, OR you can make your own, entirely up to you. Please note, this is only for logging—all network posts should go to dreamnet and interactive dreams should be posted separately. Formatting guidelines will be provided in the post, but in the subject lines you’ll have to indicate whether the thread is "Open/Closed" and the "Date" to help keep some sense of a timeframe. You can forward date, backdate, current date—in other words, just because the latest thread is dated "4/24" it doesn’t mean that they have to stay in order. The next one can still be "4/22."


( alternate lives (or not) )

( setting )

( job/class sytem )

( social relationships/affection rankings )

( other things to note )

the end
And that’s it! It’s pretty robust and detailed, but it should hopefully give everyone a very good sense of how this AU will be like. If I had to give a bullet point summary of what you need to know, it would be this:

• Characters can be AU’ed
  
• It’s a traditional old fantasy-like setting
  
• There are jobs/classes
  
• RELATIONSHIP RANKS!!!!!
  
• HP/MP bars, status ailments, and leveling oh my

To put it even shorter, everyone is tossed into a traditional RPG game and interacting with someone a lot could eventually lead to marriage, have fun.

If you have any questions, concerns, or even other suggestions, ask them here. Feel free to use this for plotting, too. Or the mod plurk. Or your own plurks. Or whatever you use.

Alright, y'all, listen up -- for just a little while, we are going to make all you suckers pretend to be classy.

The situation is thus: Lacie is having a dream. Break has popped into it, being a sociable critter who has very few hobbies beyond sticking his nose into other peoples' business and all. Now, they are going to amuse themselves for the rest of the dream building fancy old-fashioned architecture and pretty clothes to play in, and in general making things dazzlingly awesome.

And, much the same way that characters were able to dream buildings from their home canons to life a few months ago, for a little while -- only a day or so -- what they dream up is going to bleed over into the rest of Somarium. Whoopsie.

Architecture: Think things like the Paris Opera House, with its grand sweeping staircases and sculptures, and grand hallways with chandeliers and gold accents everywhere and paintings on the ceiling. Your living rooms now have plush velvet furniture and fancy wallpaper and beautiful wood paneling and the like, and your bedrooms now look something like this or this. We have cobblestone streets! We have sprawling gardens that are just blooming! We have buildings like this and horse-drawn carriages!

Clothing: Guess what. Everything you find in your closet is now period appropriate, to some extent. As Break is from the Pandora Hearts equivalent of the 19th century, he'll be bringing in corsets and bustle gowns and relatively tame coats and waistcoats on the men's side -- think Phantom of the Opera, Moulin Rouge, Victorian wear. Lacie is from a century earlier, so her contributions are more along the lines of Marie Antoinette and Pirates of the Caribbean. You can totally have pirate coats if you want, y'all. Pirate coats. Don't worry, though; if your character can't handle all the steel undergarments, they can feel free to refuse to wear them, but that would be IMPROPER!!!
(Downton Abbey is technically a few decades ahead of Break's time, but those dresses are fancy and we like them, so feel free to squeak those in too.)

Masqueraaaade: Once they figure out what is happening, obviously there's going to have to be a proper costumed ball while the opportunity is there, eh? Break will be making an announcement over the network to tip everyone off to a party straight out of Phantom. You can wear anything from a standard gown and a half mask to some straight up Venice Carnivale shenanigans. There will be music and dancing and a whole lot of alcohol. Perhaps some of the stuff from last month is still hanging around, so be careful!

A note about the masks: There's a bit of magic to be had here. A mask is meant to hide your face, and these are going to take it a little overboard. The side of yourself that is usually exposed for all the world to see is now hidden and surpressed, allowing the deeper parts of you that usually remain private to come to light. Is your character stern and serious? Perhaps their silly, fun-loving side is about to emerge. Do they hide their inner thoughts and feelings? They are suddenly feeling very chatty about them. Are they the biggest tsundere who doesn't actually like you or anything? Now, they are openly affectionate.

Likewise, the ones with secret murderous urges are probably now very dangerous to be around. Ahaha. Ha.



This post will go up in the form of a mingle log, and I'll probably make subthreads for people -- right now thinking "passing the day on the town", "strolling through the gardens where let's face it Break is probably having a magical tea party", and "the masked ball". I'm putting it up midnight-ish on the 8th, so the actual date for this will be Wednesday the 9th. Fortunately, it takes a whole lot of oomph to keep up this much fanciness, so everything will be fading back to normal Thursday. But if a pretty building or a dress or a mask is still hanging around here or there later on, well...

Hello Som,

Since the rules were a little unclear, I'm asking this here, just to be safe.

Soon (tonight/tomorrow - if I can get my act together - otherwise later this week), Sherlock is going to start having dreams where specific characters he's interacted with in Som will make appearances in his dreams... but it's not really them - it's Sherlock's dream representation of them.

For now, it's going to be characters he's interacted with a lot/he trusts. I haven't written it up yet, so I don't know the specific details yet, but those included are: Luna, Break, Subaru, Mukuro, Kazuya, Mycroft (I think that's it for now, possibly guest appearances from some no longer in Som.).

Basically, as far as the dream goes, I'm asking for God-modding privileges for these characters during the dream itself. It won't be an interactive dream, so the reactions these different characters have to the dream are obviously completely up to you. Just for the purpose of Sherlock's dream, I need to be able to control/manipulate them.

This is part of a development from something that happened to Sherlock when he was a hostage. I'm trying to be cryptic to maintain the element of surprise for the vast majority of players, but if you're one of the characters mentioned and you want specific details before granting/declining privileges, please PM/Private Plurk me.

Please comment below with granting/declining privileges so I can know which characters I can use in this dream.

Thanks everyone!

So there was a reason why I didn't put nay pre-plotting plans before the actual post went up—mostly because if I tried to explain it beforehand I'd basically be spoiling everything and look! It's more of a fun surprise to see Ryan, Tom, and Aisling back, right? Right? Their call for help is here for those who missed it! Kid's particular call out for volunteers is here.

Okay, anyway, this post is to help serve as a quick "Who's going/Who's staying" plot post. ICly this sort of stuff needs to be done posthaste, but eh. What is speed anymore, right?

Rescue Team
So first of all who will go out to help our three favorite NPCS? There's been a few IC responses, but for those who may have missed it you still have a chance as it probably would take the group sometime to actually find them. We don't want a huge group for both threading and IC practical reasons, but a few more couldn't hurt.

Those who go out should expect some fighting and having to help the three get back. I've spoken with Kat and those being sent out will be given the Skyrunners (think flying motorcycles) that will help them cross the desert at faster speeds. Once I know who all will be helping, I'll set up a log for everyone to come in and help.


City Defense Team
The greater portion of defense should stay within the city, and they won't be there just twiddling their thumbs. As Tom warned, "they" are coming. Who? That won't be revealed until later. But a large force looking for something will also be making themselves known around the time the rescue team is heading out.

Was it planned? Probably.

Now, Tom hinted that this group is after "something" but no one knows for sure what, not even Tom and the gang. This other group also isn't sure where it is, so they're also hunting. Whether the characters find it before Tom and co. are rescued doesn't matter—at this point it's more likely that the remaining characters will be trying to intercept and just fighting against the group to drive them off.

Finding the item will come later, though attempts to try to find it at the same time is of course doable. At this point it's more of what is actually feasible for both characters and players and I can see it going either way. But rather than bombard everyone with "STUFF!!!" let's take it a step at a time.


Return
Of course, once the rescue team returns with our intrepid NPCs, a lot of questions will be asked, answered, and probably created. What I hope is that all of this can be resolved over the next week or so. Again, I'm calculating our actual game speed for this, but it works out ICly as well. (They were really far out there) The sooner the better, of course, but no pressure if it takes a few days.


Sign...up?
Less of a "Sign-up" process and more of a "Tell me where you'll be at" kind of thing. Just find the subthread and slot yourselves in. Remember, the rescue team can't be too big and we can't have EVERYONE going out there. There will be action in town, too. So think of what would be best for the character and the event. In addition, any of those who want to help rescue will need to hit up Kid in that post just to make it more IC.


If you have any questions, ask away!

Continuing this lovely tradition of those pesky mistletoe that doesn't let you walk away until you kiss, heeeereeee's this plot!

Seiga's doing the same thing she did last year. That is, being a butt and hanging up enchanted mistletoe pretty much anywhere and everywhere you want to catch your character. So that could mean anything from just outside where you work to it floating in the middle of a street to it being in your bathroom.

In case you don't know how these mistletoe typically work:
Somehow there is a mistletoe above your character, either tied to the ceiling or magically floating there. Where it is and what color ribbon (see below) is up to the mun's choice. Now your character can't move from 3ft away until you break the enchantment of the mistletoe! The mistletoe itself is just out of the reach of this barrier, so that's just too bad. Obviously your character needs some help breaking it. Good thing there's someone nearby that can help, right? Well, if they get within three feet of underneath the mistletoe, they'll be stuck there, too. The only way out is to fulfill the mistletoe's criteria.

This will be held on Wed December 11 to Thursday December 12th. I'll put up log then for any participants, and people would be free to tag around with who they like.

The Ribbons: Depending on what color the bough of mistletoe is tied with, different things will alleviate the enchantment. On the end of the ribbons are little picture silhouettes of what each mean. Here are the options:

( Ribbon Options )

Questions and/or plotting can be here!

Hey guys! I swear I will not spam the comm with so many mod/event posts all the time. But as promised, here is the list of people who have signed up to help with Part Two of this event chain: the maybe heroes who search for the cure. To those who missed it, you can find the information here and we actually have a few open slots left. So if you'd like to join in, here's your chance!

Current Volunteers
Rolo Lamperouge
Nico di Angelo
Suberu Sumeragi
Vanessa Nightray
Naomi Kimishima
Leo Valdez
Dick Grayson
Alvin


The cap for the group is eight (8) so technically we have 5 at the moment. We are happy to take at least three more! Just comment here.

I will be gathering everyone to help coordinate things once it comes closer to time.

I just posted this backdated log because Allen and Naru just started talking about going to get the gate in the Announcement post. I also just got the okay from Laena to go get the thing and bring it to SPR. Not really, it was more like what am I lugging back, pal? So for those that were interested in the dream gate, not the dream energy study, investigation, you might be interested in this log. Naru sent "messages" to people he felt he could trust to not endanger the investigation or the gate's location. He plans on moving it from the rumble of Stark Tower to a closed off, isolated section of SPR. This is supposed to be more hush hush. He wants to act as if the gate was lost in the decay to limit any struggle over it to minimum. If you think your character would be interested, come on over.

So while I was brainstorming for a great Halloween event for you guys, I wound up having so many ideas that I thought, "What the heck. LET'S THROW IT ALL IN." This resulted in an event chain that will also progress the underlying "plot" of Somarium and help kickstart a few things for the rest of the year.

Summary: There are three parts, the third of which as optional good or bad end to be decided by the players. It includes a reference to the Blair Witch Project, Slenderman coming down from the floating mountain, and people turning into Nightwalkers. Each chain spans the entirety of the moon cycle and need a number of player volunteers to help pull it off. Dates are somewhat flexible.

And now for the details!

( Taking the Boogie Man to a whole new level. )

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That should be all! If you have any questions, comment to the thread here. Please use this plotting post!

Hello Hello, everyone! Jade here, and first of all I apologize for the lateness to get this post up. I've got the pairings matched up from those who signed up on this post! Please let me know if I've overlooked anything or if I've paired a character up to another of your characters accidentally.

( Pairings behind the cut )

Also! I've you've just joined Somarium, it's no to late to get in on the fun-- so long as there is at least another participant to which your character can be tied. Drop a message on this post up if you want that possibility.

To facilitate this mini-plot, I'll put up on open log tomorrow so that pairings are free to interact, but feel free to use this post for plotting things, too. The instructions as to how these strings work is on the original post, here. Have a wonderful day, Somarium!