January Event Plotting/Sign Up Post!

[wearethecrystalmods]

Hiya folks! If you've been looking at the calendar lately, you may have noticed by now that our very next event is coming up this Wednesday! We'd like to give you more details about this event so you may start plotting for it.

Next week, starting Wednesday the Temple will be completely sealed off, shutting out most gems while trapping a few others inside.

How and why this happens you will have to wait till Wednesday to find out. But the bulk of the event will be trying to find a way back into/out of the temple/dealing with the separation from your CR (should you be separated from them). For the trapped people this also means your food and supplies will be limited to what you already have inside the temple or what your powers are capable of creating. (Don't worry! This will only last a few days so no one will starve! But it is extra incentive to unseal the temple)

Because of the nature of this event, we're giving you time to plan accordingly. There are sign ups below for trapped inside/locked out and we encourage you all to use this post to talk about your plans. While sign ups for those locked out is not necessarily mandatory, we would like everyone who intends to be trapped inside to sign up, just so we can keep track. In addition, please remember that the majority of gems should be locked out. If we feel too many gems are opting to be trapped instead we will cut off sign ups. Please note that if you don't sign up you will be assumed to be on the outside.

Lastly, specifically for those trapped inside we would also like to advise you that violence is not very likely to work for the first half of this event (and if anything, may make things worse) so keep this in mind when deciding which of your characters will be trapped. But we would love to see a more creative usage of people's powers. (i.e. someone using water powers to make sure you can all still drink, etc)

And that's about it! There is a thread for questions below so feel free to ask any that you like!

Comments

[goodguygrifter]

Who's got two thumbs and is going to get ALL the sleeping bags/blankets from the thrift store to sell them at super jacked up prices? THIS GUY. He's probably going to be roaming around outside the temple where the most people looking for a place to stay will be. Feel free to try and steal one if you want to risk his wrath. Or, you know, buy one.

He'll be sleeping out there too, btw. It's not like he couldn't ask a certain someone to stay with them but he would probably rather poof back into his gem than even consider it.

He also may or may not try punching the temple's doors back open (probably, depending on the situaton). It'll go well.

[crabmunicator]

So these two have to run into each other again, possibly while attacking the door, y/n.

[goodguygrifter]

absolutely, they can bond over grumpily refusing to admit afterward that they may have made a mistake

[crabmunicator]

And maybe make up over being jackasses to each other, unless Stan still refuses to respect Karkat, in which case screw you old man.

[goodguygrifter]

stan is the most respectful at all times, and any certain demon troll kid who says otherwise can go suck a donut

[cyan_maid]

Oh my God Jane will flip a shit

How dare you extort this situation

Also hello would you like a 16yo girl flipping a shit

[goodguygrifter]

oh my god yes, yes so much. one teenage girl (susan, from the Dark Tower series) has already flipped her shit at him for stealing a pack of cards so he's going to be like, my god, is something in the water here, have teenage girls always been this terrifying?

Yes. Yes please.

[cyan_maid]

it'll be awful because she knew the Stan from before but she didn't know he was a crook so

yeah she will have WORDS

[goodguygrifter]

if he finds that out he might actually be relieved - so many people were actually happy to see him when he got there and it was freaky for him. finally, someone who reacts the right way.

[cyan_maid]

Yes by telling him he's being a massive asshole how dare you take advantage of innocent gem people with your thievery

[strawberry_roll]

I'd volunteer for Ichi to do some tag-teaming with her, but given how vocal Ichigo can get all by herself, I don't want her drowning out Jane.

[goodguygrifter]

Either way would work for me! Stan is going to be bewildered and offended in either case, what is it with you people and your rage at his honest business practices.

[strawberry_roll]

Ohmigosh Ichigo will FLIP. Stan's going to get such an earful -- and as others who've had to deal with her screeching would surely warn him, her Royal Voice Training has given her an impressive amount of volume control. Mainly in the turning it up department.

[goodguygrifter]

Oh man, Stan is NOT going to have a good day. I am looking forward to this. Please give me tiny loud anger, no promises Stan won't try to squish her with something.

[strawberry_roll]

Well, he can try. But squishing attempts will probably be met with even MORE fury.

I doubt she'll actually try to seriously injure him at all; however, her Gem Weapon happens to be a folding fan, and she HAS whapped people upside the head for being stupid before. If it comes to that, I'll be sure to get your permission before she actually tries that, alright? No unauthorized whapping.

She's also got the ability to generate harmless light ribbons which she could also potentially use to temporarily distract and/or humiliate him.

[goodguygrifter]

Yeah, I was thinking I might PM you and ask if it looked like he might try to squish her, too. He won't try to seriously hurt her, because she's tiny and also a girl, and I don't expect him to be quick enough to be successful in what he does try. And yeah, I'm totally up for him being distracted/embarrassed, that is kind of his life.

Eta but on the other hand she may seem obviously inhuman enough that he might seriously try to squish her, but all the same I don't expect him to be a success. XD

[strawberry_roll]

Right. He can try; I'm just not comfortable with the thought of him actually succeeding, for obvious reasons. Having them squabbling over this should be fun, though!

And then he finds out later part of the reason she's so upset is because she's worried about her cousin being trapped in the Temple, and whoops, nobody was expecting those sort of feels...