MONTHLY PLOT POST - FEBRUARY

[recollecters]

MONTHLY PLOT POST

PLOT POST - FEBRUARY Welcome to Recollé! By the time you are reading this, you should have responded everywhere your acceptance comment requested you respond, but if you have not please be certain to follow the acceptance comment instructions! Access for posting and joining the network/log/meme communities will not be permitted until all paperwork has been completed. We are excited to bring you our first monthly plotting post! These posts will give you all the important event dates for the month (though you can always check those against our calendar, which is updated several months in advance and added to as needed). As a note, we do not list office hours on these posts but they can be found on the calendar proper. The plotting posts will also note any changes that occurred - such as our stock horses-are-chocobos example. The other use for these posts will be OOC monthly plotting. Please feel free to comment to these posts with your character's plans for the month or with what you would like to do for the month, and feel free to discuss those plans with everyone else! Please be certain to allow the mods time to put up the mod question thread, however, where you can direct any questions you have about the information on this post so that we can easily find it. As a friendly reminder as well, please be sure to tag your characters in any and all IC posts they participate in! We have created character tags for you upon your acceptance so you should be ready to go. These tags have been formatted as canon: character name, using your character's canon name. You can view our network tag cloud here and our log tag cloud here. IMPORTANT DATES 1st Retrospec Post (please be sure to read all mod notes on this post.) 3rd Event Log 8th AU Workshop 15th Reserves Open, TDM 21st Reserves Close 22nd Applications Open 25th enablemeplz Post 28th Applications Close, AC Due see our calendar for a look at upcoming dates this month and further! WORLD CHANGES As of February 3rd (i.e. when the event log goes live), all horses are now Chocobos, in both popular media and actuality. Before game start, characters will have found this perfectly normal. At game start, they will realize that they do in fact remember horses being a thing. Any NPCs questioned about this will react as though your character is being crazy. EVENTS Our first event log will go up on Friday, February 3rd. Please feel free to use the log and network communities prior to this event, although we do ask that players try to use the network mingle that should be live currently as a what's-going-on intro sort of thing. Please remember that Retrospec network usernames are your character's full real AU name regardless of preference or aliases they might be going by. These usernames cannot be changed currently. There's a lot to do, however, as lots of preparation goes into... ► ► ► FOUNDER'S DAY Characters will have heard sprinklings of conversation and buzzes of excitement about the upcoming Founder's Day celebration, annually held on February 3rd in honor of the settlers who founded the city of Recollé centuries ago. Every year the city joins together for a day of food, fun and frivolous shopping to celebrate this wonderful city. Here's some of what you can expect to find in the event log for this particular occasion: ► An opening statement by Mayor Mayer about the city. ► Lots of food stands and merchant tables in Chata. ► Sales of all kinds in varying boutiques and establishments in Tisse including a movie marathon at Flix and a Founder's Day special at Expressive Coffee House. ► "Pony rides" in Tribunal Terrace. ► The showcasing of the true pride and treasure of Recollé, the largest red ball of string in the world. ► There will also be a parade featuring the Queen and King of Founder's day and their court; you can sign your character up for being rng'd into one of those slots over here. RNG signups will close and be rolled at 11:30PM EST February 2nd. So what does this mean for you? Well, as characters might start to notice, things aren't always what they seem in the city… ► The ponies, of course, are now Chocobos. Guess that explains all of the weird noises from the trailers during set-up. That might be a bit of a problem. ► In fact, Mayor Mayer's prized Chocobo, Seabiscuit, is the biggest problem of all as she misbehaves and knocks Recollé's pride and treasure off of its pedestal and sends the ball rolling through the city, tangling up residents in string that can only be disassembled if you find the person on the other end of your line. As this is the first event for the game, we highly encourage everyone to participate in any fashion they so choose! Would your character be hosting a sale at one of the shops or food stalls? Perhaps they would try to tame the Chocobos in Tribunal Terrace. Why, your character could calmly accept their fate with the red string…or maybe they would panic and tangle even more people up in their line creating an even bigger mess. Your options are pretty endless! Of note, this log will function like our TDM in which we will have prompts for you but you are free to create your own as you see fit. Participation on the Founders' Day event log, be it in a toplevel or a thread with someone else with at least five comments from you, can earn you one "free" memory regain. To redeem that simply hit up our Regains page and supply a link to the qualifying thread as your explanation. These memories do not require a specific trigger as they are an event freebie. We highly encourage our players' creativity in choosing these memories, but if we feel that a memory has too much of an impact on your character to be obtained as a freebie, we may request a different memory regain in order to maintain game balance. As mentioned above, please feel free to comment to this post (and to each other) with your character's plans for the event and for the rest of the month for some early plotting and CR building. We hope you're just as excited as we are, and once again, welcome to Recollé!

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MOD QUESTIONS

[recollecters]

If you have any questions about any of the events or information on this post, please feel free to contact us about them here.

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[borntoolate]

Soo... the horse chocobo switch. Is that any different for characters who may have come from a world where chocobos are the norm? Do they remember horses?

FOUNDER'S DAY COURT

[recollecters]

There are no age limits or particular requirements as to the Founder's Day Court - however, those chosen are required to participate in the Founder's Day Parade. ICly, the Court is chosen via nominations from citizens and a vote by committee; nominated characters must have approved their own nominations and promised to participate - if they did not give their explicit permission, their nomination would have been removed.

OOCly, simply submit your character's name to this thread. Results will be RNG'd by the mods prior to the event log going up; sign-ups will be closed therefore at 11:30PM EST on February 2nd.

ARDYN IZUNIA

[daemonized]

because....how can i not...

[parodeity]

hi! this is lucy, with dave strider still. and i would be thrilled to make plans with anyone and everyone! dave will be attending the founder's day festivities with jade wolf for the most part, but will have slotted in time for a bunch of friends/family and they can for sure be found doing their own thing. if anyone wants to make plans with me please let me know! if you'd like to get tangled up w/ dave i can make it happen. otherwise he is 100% likely to hit up most events for the founder's day thing because you gotta go to every ridiculous aspect of your city's ridiculous special holiday? he works at mikorin's flower shop so maybe there will be a booth who knows??? and he'll help with play stuff. and watch movies. i'm easy.

if you'd like to plot things outside of that for the rest of the month, such as just hanging out or doing something specific, i'm also available for that kind of plotting! just lmk and i will make sure to slot you in. I'M THROWING THIS DOWN AND THEN DISAPPEARING INTO THE MOD ETHER probably. since i guess i may as well Example myself.

[catsudon]

okay now that i asked you guys questions: what say ye to dealing with a rogue chocobo and the flower shop booth if one exists

Izuku Midoriya

[heroforall]

I'M SO HYPE FOR THIS GUYS

So Izuku is going to be doing a bit of everything. Grabbing the Founder's Day special at Expressive Coffee House because it's a tried and true tradition he cannot skip. Hitting the movie theater for at least part of the marathon. And then he'll hit the vendor stands like a tornado, devouring loads of food like the teenage boy he is and grabbing up all the comics at the comic book vendor (which is totally a thing okay) that he can afford.

And of course he's going to get tangled up in the giant ball of string of doom and make things a hundred percent worse when he tries to help be untangle themselves. Spoilers: it doesn't go as planned.

General month things: I'd like for Izuku to start a club at school welcoming geeks of all forms and interests. If anyone would be interested in that let me know! Club members and other club leaders would be awesome.

Otherwise I'm focusing on getting him out there and talking to people.

So...WHO WANTS TO DO STUFF?

[constellates]

SLIDES IN HERE EXCITEDLY

this is adorable..... anya would be excited to run into him again! maybe she'll buy her first ever comic book with him at the vendor

[catsudon]

ngl Yuri will attend to the extent that he thinks he can get cheap to free food (and/or to check in on his friends, then promptly determine they're in good hands and check out again) but that said:

• if you want someone phone photo opping your red string entanglement fiasco, this kid will do it;
  
• if you're masochistic enough to want to end red stringed with him, let me know;
  
• but primarily i want to deal with being chased by and trying to wrangle at least one chocobo because who doesn't want that life?

overall I'll likely see what people have up and keep an eye on the retrospec community, but who knows, plans change, and i'm free this Friday so bring it all on!

[heroforall]

Izuku and Yuri caught together in red string hell.

Bring it.

Ryoga Hibiki | Ranma 1/2

[momentaryspring]

This is Tetra with Ryoga Hibiki, and this is a plotting post. Ryoga will be attending Founder's Day mostly by complete accident, where he may be roped into helping out at a food stall somehow because what is life.

I would also be interested in getting him tangled up with someone because he gets flustered really easily about anything involving romance and oh yeah, he's a loud awkward teenager of Japanese descent.

In the next month, Ryoga will be looking for part-time work, possibly trying to get some life/career advice, and getting into physical altercations with barn animals and/or people for no easily explainable reason. Being forced to do a group project would be fun, as would running into someone willing to patch up an angry teenage kid.

Gentiana Illyria

[glacian]

Greetings, this is Jan and I'm bringing Gentiana to the plotting table. Expect to see Ms. Illyria enjoying the Founder's Day fesitives. She'll be interested in checking out the local vendors and enjoying a few hearty snacks. I also picture her looking for a flower vendor or two since she'll want a bouquet to commemorate this historical holiday.

Also expect dear Gentiana here to be quite eager to pet the chocobos. They're just so cute! She's quite fond of these yellow feathered birds. Eventually she might get entangled in the red string fiasco, so she might need some aid getting free.

SOUJI SETA (AU ➟ SOUJI NARUKAMI)

[tarotcards]

SLAMS INTO HERE

souji only just arrived here in recolle during late dec/early jan so he's pretty new to the city (though he did come here once as a kid like... over ten years ago, laughs) so he's going to be pretty much everywhere to explore and learn about the place. some things he'd be doing!

• checking out the food stands and probably eating anything questionable and that he probably shouldn't, like candwiches and whatever the hell this thing is... someone stop him
  
• he is definitely going to be around the chocobos. possibly riding them or questioning whether or not they lay eggs like normal birds or are they like big mammals like what's their deal
  
• getting tangled up with someone and wacky hijinks??
  
• probably playing with stray cats around the festival and paying attention to them instead of the other stuff because cats are Important

but i'm totally free for any plans! souji is a loner at this point so he needs some outgoing people to hang around with. also since i got to the ooc intro kind of lately, feel free to add me on plurk at northpaws for any plotting or whatnot! just give me a head's up first so i know who's adding, laughs

[appraiser]

what, you mean souji doesn't get tangled up with a cat? i can't believe


i hope ryoji gets to take pictures of all this questionable foodstuff before souji devours them all

Yosuke Hanamura

[youraffection]

HEY FRIENDS!

Yosuke will be working a few hours at the Freshens stand! So if you want to visit a booth by your favorite grocery/department store thingy then please stop by! When he has some time off he'd like to explore the rest of the celebration. Though this one isn't his first, it's still fun! Also, he will definitely end up in a trash can at some point as per custom.

He thinks the chocobos are a little creepy so he'll try to stay away from them. (Someone help him get too close.)

He also thinks the ball of string is kind of silly (but he'll take pictures of it on his phone to be cool and artsy).

SHOPPING will be more fun. Get in the car!

[korekara]

get dunked on, hanamura

ok but: please these two dumbasses egging each other on to touch a chocobo and getting completely owned when they piss off the wrong one

Jade Harley / Jade Wolf

[rhapsodeity]

its finally time 2 die

my month is pretty open at the moment, and i'm up for just about anything. jade will be going to founder's day with dave, as lucy said above, but she's pretty social so she'll be out and about, too. if you'd like to do something with jade, let me know! she'll be everywhere, so if you'd like to get tangled up with her, go chocobo inspecting (who knows, maybe she'll try to ride one......can we ride them, can jade ride a chocobo im gonna find out) or just hang out and shop or something that's something i can do for sure! FAM: if you wanna do anything together lmk. on the other hand, her inbox is there and you can spam it as you please.

for the rest of the month, please talk to me - jade will be around her usual haunts like the animal shelter, probably a bookstore or two and making a nuisance of herself in the evening, so we can definitely fit something in. just hit me up!

[chiseler]

marks this real quick whoops

hello everyone!! luke will finally have cabin eleven open for both the underage crowd and the night crowd with specialized drinks, discounted prices and generally a rebranding party of the bar previously known as milligan's!

on the other hand he'll be out and about in the city on occasions too checking out different stands, probably being unsure as hell about the chocobos and poooossibly red string shenanigans.

I do have a log planned for him mid-month as well for something else entirely, and his IC inbox is always open. I'm really excited to play with everybody!

[okitactless]

I don't know what I want but I want something... points at eyes points at luke

Maya Aimoto [Mana Aida] | Dokidoki! Precure

[strongestheart]

HELLO! At this point in time, not-quite-magical-yet girl Maya is sort of coasting trying to figure out WTF is going on, and while I'm shuffling around a bit trying to also figure out where several pieces fall for future wacky stuff and seeing just how badly she's going to collide with her canonmates, Maya's fairly open.

On Founder's Day she's probably going to be running around trying to pick up on odd jobs where help is needed, which means she'll probably be... all over the place. Though maybe not as close to the Chocobos, because... that bit of knowledge is probably going to heavily freak her out, even if not half as much as the memories she's going to soon have knocking at her door. After that, who knows? Maya's an excitable sort and doesn't quite know HERSELF where she's going, that means I can point her in whatever direction I so choose. :D

[clear_eyes]

Rachel is going to try and get at the mystery of the chocobos because she'd not only be freaked out but feel tricked, so that could lead to her trying to chase Seabiscuit. Maybe she could run afoul of Maya there?

[okitactless]

Hello! This is Pixi with Yamatonokami Yasusada a.k.a. Yasusada Yamato because I'm not creative enough for a new name apparently...

Anyway I'm open to anything! Yams will most likely be getting dragged out to founder's day stuff, which is fine because it's a good chance to tell people to go to his mom's bistro in Emerald Ridge instead of these food stalls? Hello it's 10x better?? (Sorry food stall workers.)

He's also gonna be around the university and at the library most of the time after that (assuming the world doesn't explode) but I'm more than happy to toss anywhere else if needed! You can hit me up here or at pixisticks if you like and I can't wait to dive in!

[constellates]

oh my goodness can yams take anya to his mom's bistro that sounds so cute I'm so here for it

[threnodeity]

yo yo yo!!! if we threaded at the tdm i definitely wanna thread with you again \o/ rose is a high school senior who runs a horror tumblr blog, is on the student council, and volunteers at the animal shelter so if you wanna get pre-established cr with her or if you wanna run into her hmu!! i can set something up for both of us :3c

but yeah i'm pretty open to anything! rose is going to be taking advantage of those sweet cafe deals and will be shopping around for food but also weird stuff. i'm down for red thread shenanigans & she probably will be very suspicious about the whole horse-chocobo thing. squints

[parodeity]

I WANT AT LEAST ONE TWINS SHENANIGANS THREAD AT THE EVENT.

Kashuu Kiyomitsu

[sharplydressed]

HEY ALL here for any and all founder's day plotting!! Kashuu will be spending most of the day working at his cafe (which we still need to come up with a name for sweats) and probably lending a hand at the parade to do emergency fixes on costumes, etc. he'll probably also be getting tangled in string hell because Of Course, and he'll be ignoring the chocobo conundrum because he has a long history of ignoring concerning things. good work, kashmoney

that said, i don't have any super concrete plans for him so far! my ic inbox is always open for shenans and i'm here for any plotty things you may want to do, so hit me up!

[okitactless]

name it A Good Bean

I was literally waiting for you to post this so I could suggest that

[voideity]

slides in here, realizes I haven't replied to people on the ooc post, screams into the night

hello yes! roxy will be around, particularly on the network bc she's a social media ho. expect a cat photo at some point mid-month, but in particular she'll be at the founder's day stuff doing. things. yes I'm the best plotter.

also she'll be ??? at the chocobos in particular since she rode horses as a child and now her horse pictures are. chocobo pictures. she might post about that instead of cats actually we'll see?? maybe both. ANYWAY EXCITE

[caelestialis]

eeeeeey founder's day is on my birthday surely that's a sign of things to come

Hey everybody! I'm Melly and, as I said before countless times, I'm playing this little lady here. She's known in this world as Ainsley Menodora and she's an elementary school teacher. Feel free to check out her app for more details on her.

Ainsley will be doing several activities for the log:

- Enjoying the festivities mainly in the form of eating and hanging out with loved ones. Mainly found in Chata shopping for knick knacks to give loved ones and resting at Expressive.
- Getting tangled in red string because her life.
- Helping people getting out of red string after clawing her way out of it.
- Asking for impromptu selfies with people she may not even know to show how excited she is for the festivities!

My inbox is always open along with any plans or activities you'll like her to join so feel free to hit me up! I'm so excited for this game you guys you don't even know.

[burningblossoms]

Hey there, so!

Yukiko for this log!


I'm going to keep things pretty vague since I tend to roll with stuff on the fly but somet stuff I want to do...

-Eating and hanging out. Maybe actually cooking for friends at one of the school's stalls.
-Getting lost in a bundle of red string because reasons.
-Riding a CHOCOBO
-Maybe some shopping. Or rather, hanging out in bookshops and the like.

Other things open, feel free to hit me up with ideas!

[constellates]

man i can't wait for anya to literally die since this is way too much excitement for her

NO JUST KIDDING anya's going to have a grand old time, probably. if your character needs a reason to be dragged out to founder's day, then just assume that anya invited them and kept pouting until they eventually agreed to come along.that's it, that's friendship

she'll be excited to do anything and everything and she will probably end up tangled in the red string of fate because I personally find the idea hilarious

and otherwise she's going to try to pet the chocobos. what did curiosity do to the cat again

her social media presence will mostly be reactionary for the moment so she won't top-level at the network post but you sure can bet that I'll be hitting up everyone else. she'll probably has a top-level at the event itself tho!! HIT ME UP OR I'LL COME FLYING AT YOU SCREAMING both are good

[doublesmall]

anya don't pet the chocobos

do drag your uncle out for a while though they'll have a great time

Kurt Wagner

[digthefuzz]

Okay, it's plotting time! First, for those who haven't seen it, I have his basic AU info and various tidbits here, including info about the tv show he was on!

So I don't have much in the way of specific plans for Kurt, and I'm pretty open! He'll mostly be looking to socialize and party, and as time goes on (and he keeps spending money), he'll eventually be looking for ways to make/save money.

But for Founder's Day, he'll likely end up being part of the parade and check out the celebrations in general, possibly even including the movie marathon. And of course he'll definitely be available for string-tangling shenanigans!

My plans will probably solidify for more once the log's actual time comes, but if anyone has any preliminary plotting in the meantime either for the event or the month in general, come at me!

[openhanded]

HOORAY GAME IS FINALLY OPEN /screams incoherently for five minutes

Sorey will be at the Founder's Day stuff obviously!! I'm gonna have him get caught up in the red string and make a mess. He is also going to make friends with birds because he looks like one, it's kind of a thing.

It's not too late to be one of his students at the high school or tutoring, college, sword classmates or otherwise. If you want to get to know a dumb 20 year old archaeology hipster, just drop me a line. My inbox is always open (and so is Sorey's, if someone is having a midnight crisis).

I'm excited to play with all of you!!!!♥♥

[potentite]

HEY THERE EVERYONE sup so let's get this show on. jake's going to be all over founder's day.

- he's going to really be into the chocobos because he's into zoology
- someone come with him to sample all the food stalls?
- and buy useless junk from the shopping stalls
- hitting up ALL the movies

as for the rest of the month! i'm pretty open? i have an IC inbox that is free to use to anyone! he'll probably be stuck on the chocobo mystery for a while but he'll still be going to school and running his movie youtube channel and stuff!

[constellates]

kisha don't ask me how i missed for a straight week that we're in the same game oh my god i'VE MISSED YOU

all of this sounds so cute tho!! I'm so here for more Jake and Anya friendship, they can get food together and buy silly accessories

grell sutcliffe

[erythristic]

finally, it's time to descend on Recolle.

This month, Grell will be attending Founder's Day, excited to actually spend the day out and see what's happening, since she's had to work through Founder's Day before. For the most part, she's happy to take in the sights and sounds and will be open for friends and new CR alike to meet her - be that by running across them or by getting tangled up in the string! Which she won't be too upset about, because it's red and it could be much worse.

The rest of her month is rather open, and she'll be around as she usually is: at her work, at the library, at the coffee shop taking in something with far too much caffeine, or whatever else! Any ideas, be they concrete or characters spending time together, just throw them at me, and her IC inbox is open for texts, calls, or whatever else might come her way.

[true_noir]

Coffee House you say? Un cafe au lait est tres bonne, n'est ce pas?

[gemgineer]

LET THE PLOTTENING COMMENCE

SO for Founder's Day, Peridot will absolutely have a booth! It's...going to be kind of a mess, because she wants to do like ten different things with it, but if your character can make out her novel-length booth name that covers all that (or stumbles upon it by accident) she will be doing the following:

"psychiatric advice" a la Lucy in The Peanuts

selling fireworks...homemade fireworks

live "Will it Blend?" demonstration every hour on the hour

caricatures??

other demonstrations of her gadgets that may possibly result in property damage

tying balloon animals because she watched a Youtube video on how to do it literally the night before

telling knock-knock jokes

And probably more. When she's not at her booth (or when it's been taken down by the police or something) she'll be browsing other booths, examining chocobos, catching a movie or two, setting off more fireworks, and nominating herself for the Founder's Day Court. Oh, and she'll definitely be getting caught in that red ball of string, whoops.

Month-wide, I don't have too much specific planned! College classes and pizza delivery as usual, and Peridot may start repairing some of the broken arcade machines at Pizza Port. If anyone has any ideas for something specific you want to do with Peri, hit me up!

[true_noir]

Will it blend? That sounds so absolutely unhealthy... and hilarious.

Saber (Arturia) | Alice Drake

[onceandfuturemascot]

I WANT ALICE TO RIDE A BIRD and yeah definitely figure out there's something going on here.

Side note: someone please bring up the whole Berenstein Bears thing. Because this is exactly the comparison we should be making.

Rest of the month is probably going to be a mix of writing papers off-camera and figuring out whatever memories she regains during the festival. I don't know I'm tired I just want to get something up or I'll ignore it in the morning. Point is, birb riding.

[longwei2go]

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN RIDE THIS CHOCOBO?