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END GAME: SACRIFICES MEME
SACRIFICES
Endgame is fast approaching, and this meme will be used as an official reference with NPC mods to steer the course of your experience. Please be honest and decisive!
» RESPONSES: Post your forms here! We all want to know how you plan on creatively torturing your characters.
» PLOTTING: Please make a comment here after you fill out your form so you can plot with your friends.
» OOC - Discussion
HOW THIS WORKS
- During endgame, characters will periodically be faced with a choice: sacrifice something dear to them in order to get closer to saving their friends, or refuse and remain where they are.
- These sacrifices will vary from character to character, and can range from the conceptual to the material. What happens will also depend on the NPC mod running the encounter. We want players to have some input on the course their adventure will take, so please make sure to fill this out for all characters that will be participating. Prioritize filling this out for characters you think you want to make rescuers first.
- There will be a section for forms. Don't reply to the forms directly for plotting so that people can edit them. Instead...
- Make a plotting comment to the section below with a link to your form so you can talk things out with your fellow players.
- This is important because certain decisions you make will dramatically impact other players. Please be respectful and cooperate with them. If someone indicates that killing off your character would make theirs unplayable, try to compromise.
- Re: character death: You are limited to 2 character deaths, but you can have more than two opt-in for death if you're not sure which of your characters you want to kill off. You can let RNG decide, and the rest of your characters will be immune once you've hit two character deaths.
TYPES OF SACRIFICES: IDEAS, DO'S AND DO NOTS
Eye: Your character must sacrifice something mental/emotional. Hand: Your character must give up a physical possession. DO choose things that will challenge or even upset your characters! If you want to go hard, then go hard. If you want to play it more action-adventure, then do that! Have fun.
DON'T choose anything that would make your character unplayable, unless you want to remove them from play. If you remove their ability to walk, this will seriously hinder their progression. Likewise, if you choose to make them feel depressed, you might find you've written them into a corner.
DO plot with your friends! Seeing other characters suffering will have a big impact on the cast, so talk with people, build the story together.
DON'T make other people play things they don't want to. If your friend wants a lighter, less violent adventure, try to meet them halfway, or send your character into a different group that's interested in a darker tone.
- Heart: Your character must sacrifice something from your physical body.
- Loss of a sense/physical ability, e.g. sight, hearing, speech, use of right hand, colourblindness, the ability to say anyone’s name.
- Loss of actual body part, e.g. remove or damage an eye, ear, finger.
- Loss of years. They give up a certain amount of their lifespan, and age up by x years. (Only age up, do not age down.)
- Permanent change to physical appearance.
- Anything that affects the physical body.
- Loss of a sense/physical ability, e.g. sight, hearing, speech, use of right hand, colourblindness, the ability to say anyone’s name.
- Memories. It could be a specific memory (e.g. your favorite childhood memory, your first kiss, your best day ever spent with your best friends) or general (e.g. all memories of someone important to you, memories of your entire senior year, memories of every Quidditch game you’ve ever played).
- Knowledge/skills. Such as their ability to read and write, what they know about the mimics or the research they've done on the metaplot, how to duel, important spells, etc.
- Emotional effects, like being unable to hide their feelings, being cursed with despair, or losing the ability to lie.
- Anything that affects the mind or emotions.
- Their wand.
- Their journal. (If a journal is lost, then it can be used by a mimic!)
- Prized possessions, especially objects with sentimental value.
- Things that aren’t literal objects but still a prized achievement. For instance, a Quidditch player’s contract to play for a certain team after school, a high achiever’s entire record of excellent grades, etc.
Character Name:
Opt-in for Death: Yes/No. You can have as many as two of your characters "permanently" die. If you answer yes, your character may be killed in a random encounter or by a mimic. If you'd like to plan it in a particular way ("I really want Suzy to die at the hand of Amber's mimic." or "I want it to happen unexpectedly to shock their group") say so here. If you don't have plans, then it may come up in RNG.
Random Journal Loss: Yes/No/Ask me when it comes up. Would you be alright with your character possibly losing their journal? If so, you can play on the journal network as their mimic, but your character will no longer be able to participate in journal conversations.
HEART - PHYSICAL (Answer as many of these as you want.)
Which of their senses would they struggle most with losing?: Sight, hearing, speech, smell/taste, touch, etc.
How important is their appearance to them?:
What would be the worst place to injure them?:
Other suggestions for this category?:
EYE - MENTAL (Answer as many of these as you want.)
Describe their most treasured memory: You can list multiple, if you want.
Who is the most important person to them?: You can list multiple.
What skill/talent are they most proud of?:
Other suggestions for this category?:
HAND - MATERIAL (Answer as many of these as you want.)
How would they cope without their wand?:
What is their most prized possession?: You can list multiple.
What personal achievement are they most proud of?: You can list multiple.
Other suggestions for this category?:
Requests: Parties will sometimes be faced with other kinds of bad luck, i.e. mod-run random events. If you'd like to see something in particular happen to your character, ask here. Would you like them to be separated from the party? Break their arm or otherwise be injured? Face some particular obstacle important to their personal arc? It's much more likely to happen if you tell us here.
HARD NO'S: If there is anything you do not want your character to endure or see, say so here.
Anything else?:
Plotting Link: Link your comment from the plotting section, so you can still edit your meme.
An angsty gif: Optional! Slice of life is over bring on the tears.
» RESPONSES: Post your forms here! We all want to know how you plan on creatively torturing your characters.
» PLOTTING: Please make a comment here after you fill out your form so you can plot with your friends.
» OOC - Discussion
Rosy
Death: Yes. I have a very tentative idea right now, but I'm willing to see how things play out because I don't know how things will look when I'm ready to pull the trigger. I want it to be a little later in the game so I can get plenty of play time with her, and I want it to :))) destroy :))) everyone :)))
Random Journal Loss: Ask me
HEART - PHYSICAL
Which of their senses would they struggle most with losing?: Sight. She would feel very vulnerable without her sight. Her speech wouldn't be debilitating, but it would be incredibly frustrating for her, while she can probably compensate hearing loss, and the others are more or less nbd.
How important is their appearance to them?: More important than she would like to admit. She's hard pressed to face this, but she has some body image issues and still has this embarrassing idea that her mother will love her if she's beautiful.
What would be the worst place to injure them?: Legs, I think. An injured leg would be a kind of building frustration for her, because she's a runner and she's pretty fast. It would start out as something that she was annoyed with, but just fucking grins and bears it anyways. The longer the night goes on and the more she has to deal with this though it would build into something that turns into an explosion.
Other suggestions for this category?: If one of her hands gets injured, she's reasonably proficient in fucking shit up with both her right and left hands, so taking out both would be more effective. THAT SAID, I would rather she keep at least one hand in play for the bulk of her endgame time.
EYE - MENTAL
Describe their most treasured memory: Holding Freddy for the first time. Anything involving her brothers.
Who is the most important person to them?: i have an actual list i made once and i'll leave freddy off because he's a baby freshman but
1. Sy
2. Ferdie
3. Reid
4. Ursula
5. Roxie
6. danny can go here i guess
7. The rest of the Big Fish who she would kill and die for
What skill/talent are they most proud of?: I think her overall intelligence? If there was a way to lower her IQ or just take away her memory of, like, pi, that would fuck her up. She's proud of her athletic accomplishments and them color coding skills, but she can live without them and she's kind of cocky re: her brains.
HAND - MATERIAL
How would they cope without their wand?: Punches a tree into logs to use as weapons.
She'll survive. Her instincts are 100% those of a girl who's been using magic for everyday things her entire life, but she's strong and violent and has a killer left hook. AND now that I've thought about it some, I would like her to lose her wand at some point. She has some sentimental attachment to it, but mostly she'd feel like she needs to compensate for not being able to cast a patronus in the hopes of it being a mimic deterrent. At least she's not the only one in her group who can cast one this year.
What is their most prized possession?: The locket Sy gave her for Christmas and the half a coin they share.
What personal achievement are they most proud of?: nnnnnn becoming prefect, probably just surviving last endgame, getting to pet Bluebell. Her grades and getting into her dream school in New York. Getting salutatorian despite having a full on downward spiral this year. Rebelling just a little bit to cut off her hair.
Requests: I would love for her to get buried at some point, or trapped in a small space.
HARD NO'S: Please don't have her lose her memories of Sy. I'm okay with individual memories that involve Sy, but no wholesale clean-slating of the twin. I think it would remove too much of her character motivation? And I honestly don't know how I would play her with that. I'm currently willing to allow the wiping of memories of Freddy, though, but that would be a hardcore sacrifice.
Anything else?: please dear god in heaven let her kill at least one Mimic Big Fish, including Ferdie. It would, alternatively, be some level of comic relief if she had to kill Danny.
Plotting Link: LINK
An angsty gif: i honestly think she has "crying" listed under special skills on her resume