EVENT #2

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EVENT #2

AUGUST 15TH - AUGUST 17TH

During the course of last month the mall has been through many changes.. Mostly, physical: windows have been smashed, food destroyed, stores vandalized, with corpses left behind to rot and fester wherever they’ve been laid to rest.

And while things may seem bleak, there’s hope on the horizon. Characters will be able to notice some of the things the doubles destroyed last month is slowly being restored come every day, every morning, in August. It won’t be immediate - some days characters with keen eyes will find a whole storefront restored to the way it originally looked during everyone’s arrival. Other days, it might be a door on the opposite side of the mall back on its hinges. Maybe it’s worth asking your fellow residents if they’ve done it!

Characters were given a cryptic clue on the network by an unknown user, and come the morning of the 15th, the reason why becomes apparent. The playground is a hot spot for strange activity.

A chill that fully encompasses the area surrounding the playground will begin to spread to the other parts of the mall, almost like it’s beckoning for people to come visit. If investigated, nothing will seem immediately out of the ordinary - it’ll just remain as its been: a wood themed, critter filled, mall playground. Only slightly more ominous than usual!

AUGUST 17TH - AUGUST 21ST

Throughout the rest of the week, the playground will begin to grow more active as each hour passes. While not entirely unbearable, the difference in temperature from the rest of the mall to the playground is like night and day. It’s icy, cold to the touch, with temperatures lowering to abysmal levels in the early hours of the morning.

Noticeably enough, come visiting the playground multiple times the layout will begin to change. And these changes aren’t limited by the time of day. Whether it’s noon, morning, or afternoon, if you happen to stroll by - everything will be rearranged, with the forest animals and other play structures having moved to different locations of the pen by an unseen force. While characters could have freely inspected the mall playground's changes before, starting on the 17th, they won't get away scot-free when they enter the playground's walls.

» Should your character enter the playground after the 17th, doing so will cause side effects for indeterminable amounts of time (could be an hour, could be the rest of the week). Side effects include:

» Phasing in and out of tangibility.

» Leaving behind trails of ectoplasm.

» Complete invisibility.

» Flight or floating.

» These side effects are completely involuntary and cannot be controlled by characters. As a result, these side effects may happen at extremely inopportune and dangerous moments - such as phasing through the mall’s floor to the disgusting waters below, or beginning to float to a high height before dropping suddenly. Feel free to mix and match their effects!

» If you're lucky, you may also experience something otherworldly after coming into contact with this haunted playground! For more information on that, skip on over to our NOTES section of this post!

AUGUST 22ND

Come the morning of August 22nd, nothing strange, or mysterious, will continue to happen as a result of the playground’s presence. It’ll simply return back to normal! Feel free to use the slides and sit on the froggy seat, just to prove their innocence. Any side effects characters were ailed from will wear off, and the chill plaguing the playground will slowly stabilize back into a habitable temperature.

NOTES

We’re going to provide some additional notes about the “something otherworldly” portion of the event here:

» During the 17th to the 21st, characters will experience supernatural side effects by coming in contact with the mall's playground. However, some of them will be (un)lucky enough to additionally witness a ghostly apparition that will give them a glimpse into life inside the mall before whatever happened to this world. What that character sees from these spirits of the mall may reveal helpful information about the world and the mall, or the apparition may even lead characters to extremely rare and useful items that have yet to be found.

» As of this log going up, sign ups for these visions are currently closed, but feel free to exchange different memories or information to piece things together! While the ghostly apparitions are only visible to that character, the information isn’t.

For any remaining questions you have about the event - feel free to ask them HERE in the Questions comment.


NAVIGATION

Comments

[globs]

[ she looks noticeably different from most of the other humans here, but not enough for Cinnabar to assume she's anything else - the humans as a race seemed to be far more diverse in appearance than gems, coloration aside, so they leave it aside. They're more interested in what she has to say, anyway. As always, they keep a very healthy distance between themself and her, the outer wall of the play area providing a short barrier between them in addition to the distance; they can't really make out any what it says in her journal, but the way she talks about the situation alone makes it obvious she's been taking notes. ]

... That's in-depth. [ a cool observation. ] If those details mean anything.

[ is there any worth in knowing the frog rotated a certain amount rather than just knowing it moved? They find no obvious meaning behind the numbers, or any link between them. But if she knows that much, maybe she can explain the area itself to them. ]

What is this place supposed to be in the first place...?