Wooo, this happened, and it was amazing, thank you players, monsters and refs! <3Breaking Worlds Player Event: Meanwhile in Kryviczy(I am calling it that until/unless the rest of the ref team for this decides to make me change it.) Saturday 29th October 2016, 17:00, Meeting at Orchard TearoomsThere is no official Breaking Worlds linear on this date, instead I and my wonderful team of people who actually know how to ref (Thank you, Pia, Ivan and Chris!) are running this. If you are playing this event we will give you a temporary character. This means you can enjoy your (perhaps quite probable ;) ) horrific death without having to worry about losing your normal character and having to create a new one! There should also be some cool monster roles, and we need monsters to make this happen, so we will be very grateful to people who come to monster this. :) The player brief is below: You are one of a group of childhood friends from an isolated village in Kryviczy. You are returning from a poorly planned journey to the valley over the hills from your own. You were tired. It was getting late. You were dehydrated. You needed to get back before nightfall. However you try to justify it, in hindsight, you can't really understand it, but the group decided to cut through the woods, *the* woods, to save trecking back over the hills. When you were children, your parents told you stories about these woods. You hope, but in your hearts doubt, that these were purely allegory. Can you work together to survive the horrors of the dark... or will the demons of your childhood come back to haunt you? And ... is it your imagination, or is something ... not quite ... as it seems? For anyone sufficiently interested, here is the linear plan (containing the character briefs) and a description of what happened IC:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bLo7MLKDm7CAJFdm42IDu73c12nasxgrADshpJE940o/edit?usp=sharing We started with a flashback to 20-ish years ago when the characters would have been around 7 years old with old Poznan telling the characters a story about the woods to make them behave and never go to the woods at night. About 8 years after the story, Miro, who was horribly bullied by the characters other than Mischa and Tamryn, ran away to these woods and got killed. Mischa loved Miro, and his death tore him apart. Apart from Tamryn, who was probably the least culpable really, the other characters didn't really care much or feel any guilt. Mischa didn't want the others to get away with what they did ... It was wrong that they got to live while Miro had to die. They should have to suffer like Miro suffered and die in this same forest. Tamryn's involvement was to encourage Miro to run away when he approached her floating the idea. She did feel a ton of guilt about this when Miro died, and seeing how badly Mischa had been affected couldn't bear to keep what she knew about what happened from him. Mischa never forgave Tamryn for this, and Tamryn never ceased to feel guilty about it all. In the present day: The characters cut back through this forest on the way back from a journey to the neighbouring village. That was Demi's idea, and he wanted to prove he could achieve things like Andy and be the hero and save the day. They thought they had got away with this decision and reached the edge of the forest just as the light had faded. Unfortunately, Mother Wood appeared and summoned a huge barrier of vines and thorns to stop them. They had disturbed her wood and she would not let them go without a sacrifice of 64SD. If the party had so much as laid a hand upon one of Mother Wood's children, she would have struck them down, but they could collect the tribute left for the other elemental creatures to sacrifice to Mother Wood. The party, aside from Tamryn, declined the offer of one of the Wood Children to show them their favourite tree and set off to gather tribute, splitting off into two groups to avoid angering the water and metal creatures. Water creatures taunted the party about Nikita's dog (which Vlad had killed and made Nikita watch, which Vlad enjoyed, and then no-one believed Nikita about this because Vlad was a kindly baker) and how strange it was that if Vlad didn't killed Nikita's dog, no-one knew how else it had died. Another water creature gathered Andy, Vlad and Jan together and said they thought they had something to discuss. Jan had been trying to undermine the gang's protection racket, and Vlad and Andy needed to put a stop to this, one way or another, before it became an issue. Vlad used his metal magic on Jan, and Jan was terrified and ran off into the woods, only to run into a fire spirit and eventually get picked off by Mischa. Meanwhile, Tamryn asked Mother Wood the value of a human life. (This was determined to be the measly sum of 32SD!) Mother Wood said she would have to think about it, and left Tamryn to entertain the Wood Children by playing tag. Vlad was used to being untouchable and had not thought to watch out for the person he killed the dog of while wandering around a dark forest. Nikita got the moment he had been waiting for, and stabbed Vlad in the baker before anyone got a chance to stop him. Andy knew what Vlad was like, so although they had been friends was more concerned about her own survival than avenging the death of her friend. Demi did nothing, his talk of heroism not having much substance in the end, and although Mischa tried to persuade Tamryn to kill Nikita, Tamryn was not sufficiently concerned about such worldly matters. Mischa told Vlad he would not let the person who killed him leave here alive (This led to much amusement when Vlad's player reported this to me as "Mischa said he would avenge my death". :) ) Eventually, after a devastating attack by the creatures, Mischa tried to take on the whole party at once, but they were too powerful and Mischa was killed. Due to the strange effects of the breaking, Mischa came back as a wight, this time screaming at the others "YOU KILLED MIRO, YOU ALL KILLED HIM.". Tamryn responded with "Don't you think I've felt guilty all this time!?". The others were characteristically unperturbed by the accusation and killed Mischa again. In a tragic turn of events, as the party approach Mother Wood, Tamryn declares that she can no longer live with the guilt, that she doesn't want anyone else to die and that she offers her life to Mother Wood so that the others can go free. Mother Wood is surprised by this, given the presence of Pyroclastic Vengeance on Tamryn (Mother Wood does not like fire spirits). Jan the merchant arrives, having come back as a wight, and the party leave, pursued by fire creatures, who kill Demi. Jan, Nikita and Andy return to their village, mostly alive, but not quite the same people they were that morning. (My interpretation of Tamryn's involvement is that Tamryn did encourage Miro to run away, but she didn't tell him to do it by going through the woods at night, and that at the point Miro ran away, he didn't really care whether he lived or died. Tamryn may have made a bad decision all those years ago, but what really killed her was being the only character kind enough to care, and so the ending was wonderfully unjust.) *Ivan would like to make just two corrections: It was Demi who was partly responsible for not having the party kill Nikkita, not Jan. It was also who Demi who died at the end. **Corrections implemented. Yes, of course, Jan was dead when Nikita killed Vlad so couldn't have played a part in the subsequent decision. I thought I heard you say something to Andy's player about how she would turn up to the village later as a very angry wight? |
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