Event: Tower of Fatorum; Part Three

[animusmods]

And now the games begin. All information on gameplay will be in this post, although some sections will not be updated until the appropriate time.

Little Finger Information
Anyone participating in this game will be compelled to travel to the dorm rooms, where they will fall asleep. No one will be able to wake them up, and they will begin to dream. There will be six rounds; the first one involving six fingers, the second five, the third four, the fourth three, the fifth two, and the final round only one to be found. Each time the setting will change slightly. Twenty-one characters may survive this event.

There will be a mingle and search subthread for each round. The mingle round will be for interaction with other characters in a way that does not involve a moderator response. Characters who post to the search subthread must state where their character is looking; a moderator will inform them what they find, if anything. Your character may find things other than fingers. Normally these things will not be dangerous unless the character is careless or provokes attack needlessly. More detailed information on each round will be found in the log here. Information on each round will be added as the different rounds begin.

If your character finds a finger and is turning it in to the old woman, please reply to this thread. A moderator will reply informing you when your character wakes up.

Ghost Watching Information
At 10PM on the 18th, anyone participating in the ghost watching game will be gathered by a red-collared retrieval unit. Anyone who resists will be knocked unconscious and dragged along by force; anyone not participating in the game who resists on behalf of another character will be knocked unconscious and left where they are. All participants will be gathered in the elevator, upon which they will travel down to a floor that appears to be the lawn of a small house. A retrieval unit will explain the game to them: that they must go into the house and walk through the house clockwise, opening every window one by one. They must then turn around and close every window one by one counter-clockwise before leaving the house. They are told not to disturb anything else. They will travel through the house in the following groups:

Group One idolizer altitonant_emperor neverbeamemory detecting fish_or_die	Group Two unlimited_shipping_works tohko_amano morituramfides 2ciion seasidecherry	Group Three atlasia warriorscribe otakuro itsfromtheshow earthshards	Group Four notayoungkitten bondsofsuffering friendlyfiend primordial xanthous
Group Five yamaxanadu indevilsclaws autopsic idkworldruler unteachableapprentice	Group Six fiesta_de_los_muertos doesasordered taintedwhite proteusmoon helenchanted	Group Seven maybe_a_king greatergone egotrigger blitzkriegzwei celebrity_commentator	Group Eight destinedwaters mask_of_suffering foreatnoctem bladedskies pistolsakimbo

There will be a general mingle thread and a thread for each group; the mingle thread will be used for interaction between anyone participating who is waiting on the lawn before, during, and after various groups' turns, while the other threads will be group-only, as each group goes in one at a time, starting with group one. Each group member must be involved in a thread in at least three locations in the house (provided they don't get dragged off earlier, of course), but they may reply to more locations if they wish. While characters are encouraged to stay with their group, there is nothing keeping them from separating and looking around the house by themselves. The log will take place here.

If your character is taken away by spirits, please reply to the thread here and a moderator will reply explaining what they may remember of their captivity. They are not required to remember--if you wish, they may forget all of their time in captivity.


Bath Game Information
At 8PM on the 19th, anyone participating in the bath game will be gathered by a red-collared retrieval unit. Anyone who resists will be knocked unconscious and dragged along by force; anyone not participating in the game who resists on behalf of another character will be knocked unconscious and left where they are. They will be taken into the elevator, which will descend and open up into a large washroom with a series of shower stalls. A retrieval unit will present or read the note that explains the ritual.

The character must complete the ritual, after which they will be allowed to return to the Tower and go about their business as normal. Their ghost will now be following them. A moderator will inform the players how close the ghost is to their characters; players may NPC their own ghosts.

Good luck!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[animusmods]

[scorchedchivalry]

Where do we post if our characters have questions for the old woman?

[fish_or_die]

For Little Finger, if someone has an item on their person at all times, will it be on their person in the dream?

[attheclocktower]

Will effects in the dream "stay" from dream to dream, or even to the real world? i.e. Xion just lost half of her hand in the first round. If she does not make it out in that round, will half of her hand still be missing in the second (or if she makes it out, will half of her hand still be missing when she wakes up)?

[friendlyfiend]

Are you guys going to be pausing between rounds, or will this be continuing through the night?

[fish_or_die]

About the finger and note—when you say it will always return to the room, does that mean they can never leave the room? If Jungo took them out to do something other than destroy them (like show off his mad game skills or something) and held onto them, would they stay with him? Or would they just return to the room as soon as he stepped out?

[angramaintsu]

if you die in the dream
DOES IT COUNT AS A REAL DEATH? wondering if I need to keep track of these

[friendlyfiend]

Hey, I'm running a little short on time for the moment- is it alright to go ahead and post to the hand-in thread now even if I don't actually thread things out until I return from class?

[tohko_amano]

Pardon me, but do the retrieval units tell the characters participating in the Ghost Watching event what groups they're in?

Re: QUESTIONS

[warriorscribe]

I assume the groups will be getting their own subthreads in the location threads as their turn arrives? Or is sorting this out all up to the players?

[seasidecherry]

In ghost watching, is the only teddy bear the one in the crib, or are there others in the other children's bedrooms?

Ghost Watching

[neverbeamemory]

Hello!

Do Group 1 have to wait for any sort of signal to start or can they just crack on with it?

[maybe_a_king]

For ghost hunting: does each character need to open and close windows or is it just the group?

[warriorscribe]

For ghost watching, are you going to be providing the ghosts' actions, or are we? If it's us, could you give us some examples and possible (or generic) triggers for them to maybe give us some ideas to start with?

[relinquishing]

For the bath game: I know the ghosts post-bath will be a mod thing, but how much of the bath ritual itself (the vision + the ghost rising up and leaning over the shoulder) will the mods/summoned ghosts respond to? Do we handwave it unless our character would open their eyes?

[angramaintsu]

Sorry for another question, but how long are characters out cold for this? For little finger.

LITTLE FINGER: HAND IN FINGERS

[animusmods]

To hand in a finger, please fill out the following form:

<b>Character:</b> [OU/AU#] CHARACTER NAME <user name="CHARACTERJOURNAL"> <b>ROUND NUMBER:</b> <b>LOCATION OF FINGER:</b>

[scorchedchivalry]

Character: [OU] Saber(Alter) scorchedchivalry
ROUND NUMBER: Round 1
LOCATION OF FINGER: Inside the old woman's pocket

[koncubine]

Character: [OU] Caster (Tamamo) koncubine
ROUND NUMBER: Round 1
LOCATION OF FINGER: Past the gate, the far side of the fence, at the end of a string.

[fish_or_die]

Character: [OU] Jungo Torii fish_or_die
ROUND NUMBER: 1
LOCATION OF FINGER: In the river, hidden by mud

[beknightedheroine]

Character: [OU] Sayaka Miki beknightedheroine
ROUND NUMBER: Round 1
LOCATION OF FINGER: Inside the torn stomach of a mysterious, rotting animal.

[sageprincess]

Character: [OU] Zelda sageprincess
ROUND NUMBER: Round 1
LOCATION OF FINGER: GODDAMN TREES On the ground after shaking a creature out of one tree and then shaking the finger itself out of another.

[attheclocktower]

Character: [OU] Xion attheclocktower
ROUND NUMBER: Round 1
LOCATION OF FINGER: Under a tree among the stash of a rodent/creature along with several other body parts including her own (given to Xion by Sheba)

GHOST WATCHING: TAKEN BY GHOSTS

[animusmods]

If your character has been taken away by spirits, please reply to this thread with the following form:

<b>Character:</b> [OU/AU#] CHARACTER NAME <user name="CHARACTERJOURNAL"> <b>Game:</b> Destiny Strings or Tower of Animus <b>Taken Link:</b> <a href="link to the comment where they were taken by ghosts">here</a> <b>Amount Remembered:</b> everything/vague/nothing

since I think it's gonna happen anyway and I'm swamped with event stuff, handwave?

[seasidecherry]

Character: [OU] Nagisa Motomiya seasidecherry
Game: Destiny Strings
Taken Link: p sure it was heading this way here
Amount Remembered: vague

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[animusmods]

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