September Event Planning - "Freaky Flyaway"

[wearethecrystalmods]

Hello, Gems! We've got one week until this month's event begins, and before it does, we've got some information on what you can expect from it.

Like the July event, this event will have two parts. Unlike the July event, this event isn't divided up by character skills. Instead, one part will be an Excursion with a mix of exploration and combat for everyone, while the other part is a more standard curse-style event in Waverly Bay, for anyone who's staying home for this one.

Because of the nature of this event, we're going to spoil the premise so you can decide how you want it to affect your character beforehand. It's...a bodyswap event! The Gems of Waverley Bay will have their default forms swapped around, and will have to put up with being in an unfamiliar body long enough to deal with the source of the problem. If that's not enough to worry about, Tiger's Eye needs help tracking down the monster responsible - and fast.

Characters can "opt out" of the bodyswap effect by being in their rooms or not in Waverley Bay during the incident that sets the event off.

Sept 20th: A post from Tiger's Eye will go up that sets off the bodyswap effect and opens Tiger up for questioning/briefing. At the same time, an OOC post with full details on both sides of the event will be posted. In the setting, this post will take place on the morning of the 21st.

Sept 21st-24th, Waverley Bay side: The bodyswap effect will linger. But it's not all waiting around for the week to be over - some monstrous hangabouts are just aggravating the problem. Will fusion help with this...?

Sept 21st-24th, Excursion side: Characters interested in (and able to) help Tiger will pursue a monster to a new location. For reasons of OOC convenience, characters will split up into three groups to search the location; there's no difference in "mechanics" between the three, just in content that will be revealed when the event goes up. For now, just know that there will be groups, and things will go most smoothly for mods and players if characters get in a group and stay there. Bodyswapped characters can go on the excursion! Just...try not to trip. In the setting, the events of the excursion will all take place on the 21st.

Sept 25th: An ending will be posted, based on the results of the excursion. The bodyswap effect will begin to wear off naturally for those who haven't yet resolved it, but it may linger for individual characters at player discretion.

There will be an IC incentive for characters who have swapped bodies with one another to interact, but it is not necessary to do so.

For those who want a bit of randomness in this event, or who want to swap but don't have someone in mind to swap with, we're holding a bodyswap lottery! Simply post any characters you'd like to enter in the lottery thread below, at any time between now and the 20th. On the 20th, we'll roll the list, and pairs will be posted in the OOC post for the event start.

Got any questions? Ask 'em in the questions thread below! The rest of the comment space is open for y'all to plan swaps with each other.

Comments

QUESTIONS?

[wearethecrystalmods]

Ask 'em!

BODYSWAP LOTTERY

[wearethecrystalmods]

Post characters here if you want to get them involved in the bodyswap, but don't have any partners in mind or are looking for some spontaneity!

[onaroll]

Is it strictly a body swap or do powers get swapped as well?

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

Yes sign Anri up for the lottery her suffering please me.

[wearethecrystalmods]

Strictly bodies! Personalities and powers are tied to the gems; what this event will be doing is temporarily scrambling characters' default physical forms.

[therealrisette]

So if someone swapped with a character who has a default form, but regularly shapeshifts to look noticeably different, that person would be stuck with the default form? Or would they be able to assume the alternate form as well with minor shapeshifting?

An obvious example being Rise here, who is back to being a teenager by shapeshift but her default form is technically still the little girl form she arrived in...

[wearethecrystalmods]

Default form only! Shapeshifting ability is a power, so it's tied to the gem/person, not the physical form.

[lumpyspacegem]

It's like Russian roulette but with bodies! Let's roll those dice!

[therealrisette]

So, related tangent! If the gem/person in question has decent shapeshifting ability, they would be able to transform their new body in similar ways? Or would the swap interfere with that at all?

[wearethecrystalmods]

The swap doesn't inherently mess with a gem's shapeshifting power, but you can play with this however you want. Characters can shapeshift freely in their new body, or they might find that being in an unfamiliar default form throws them off a little! Just keep the standard shapeshifting restrictions in mind, like usual.

[gemasumi]

Since Typical Gems have their forms colour match their gems (see, Amethyst shifting into Jasper or Pearl), would someone a gem switches with be similarly colour matched? (Obviously the one who GOT the gem would also colour match that original gem since they could be any colour, but)

[wearethecrystalmods]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Can you give me a hypothetical example?

[gemasumi]

Let's say someone like Amethyst switches with Reira. Since Amethyst is an Actual Amethyst, all her forms and shapes end up...purple. Rather than normal colours, like anyone 'human' who shapeshifts.

So would the Reira default she's stuck with also be purple?

[wearethecrystalmods]

Oh! Okay.

No, the default forms being swapped are identical to what they were on their original...person. This event functions pretty much like your standard bodyswap curse-style event, except with gems and therefore powers being kept.

[gemasumi]

INTERESTING thank you!

[korekara]

SHIT LET'S BE IDOLS

[psywaves]

~nya~

[nomorechains]

So this is 100% appearances only nothing else is effected style of event? Just to be sure I have it right.

[wearethecrystalmods]

It's the physical default form, so appearances and, like, height and number of limbs and all that great stuff.

Powers are untouched, gem type is untouched, gems don't receive the powers of the person they're bodyswapped with. If you have powers that deal heavily with the physical form, like shapeshifting-related powers, it's up to the player how you want to play that out.

[gemasumi]

Hopping in on this with a thought-for those whose default forms reflect former human limits, such as the need to eat, or sensitivity to the cold, etc etc, would those things thus carry over to the default form since they are, in that respect, tied to the physical state of being?

[nomorechains]

Physical body is tied 100% to the mind and belief not their physical state before. :|a Think you need to eat/sleep/bleed and you do. I don't think that'd change since minds aren't changing just physical projected forms. If you become say ... Rin .. and believe you need to act like a cat that would likely be reflected though, cuz it's mind.

[wearethecrystalmods]

Yeah, it's like Ten said; those things aren't hardcoded into the form, they're mental.

If bodyswapping changes how a character feels in that regard - for example, if a human bodyswaps with, idk, Napstablook, and they think "oh hey this body is incorporeal, ghosts don't have to eat, I won't have to eat" - then they can definitely play that happening.

But the origin of the form (and the player of the character it originates from) doesn't dictate how the character who receives the form is affected by it (or how the player chooses to play it out). Each player goes "okay my character now looks like THIS" and decides how their character responds to that.

[polyturtle]

Signing Don up!

[velvet_mystique]

I'll toss Velvet here into the lottery as well.

Re: BODYSWAP LOTTERY

[keronardo]

Leonardo, Rarity and Apple are totally up for mixing it up unless someone wants them

[nailed_it]

Is it possible for more than 2 people to have switched bodies with each other?

Like, for example, you have person A, B, and C. Person A ends up with C's body, Person C ends up with B's body, and Person B ends up with A's body.

Or do you prefer people stick to Person A -> B and Person B -> A for swapping bodies?

[wearethecrystalmods]

If you have a group that wants to do this, go for it! The only thing it would affect is making some possible ways of reversing the bodyswap early a little harder to pull off.

[nailed_it]

I love making Yang's life difficult so making reversing the bodyswap even harder is a plus to me honestly. 8'D

I'll go run this by the other two muns then. Thanks a bunch!

[spookybloobloo]

Throwing Napstablook up on the lottery unless anyone wants them.

[nailed_it]

/yoinks Apple for shenanigans

[notgonnabite]

Putting Yukio and Carnelian up for lottery.

[fragmentedfusion]

Reira and Masumi here, though if the latter gets an actual gem I'm gonna gently grin

And then grin Really Big

[torya]

FUCK IT LET'S DO THIS

Re: BODYSWAP LOTTERY

[letsplayer]

yeah let's fuckin do this

[frozenmemories]

Tossing Cirno into the fray!