Downtime Actions

[imepro]

Sometimes, your characters have long-term projects that might end up being plot relevant, or maybe your characters are hosting something that would be long-term community relevant. Maybe your character's on a campaign to read every book in the library in an effort to research everything there is to know about demons, or maybe they're grinding off-screen CR and skills through first aid classes, military training, regular lockpicking/jailbreaking practice, etc! Or maybe you're just looking to do a lowkey plot thing and have an idea of when you want to start playing with the results.

Whatever it is, this is the post for it! Here, we're looking for players to post plot/community efforts that aren't a single adventure, but an extended effort/off-screen grind.

Here's how it works:

1. Fill out the copypasta at the bottom of this post.
   
2. Mods will respond with the results of those efforts, along with a timeline (e.g. your character is doing this for 5 OOC months, results start showing in 3)
   
3. You can start playing with those results once the time has passed for that to happen! (If something takes an OOC month and you posted in May, then you can start playing with the results in June!) If a specific adventure follow-up is necessary, we'll let you know!
   
4. Profit!

Some guidelines:

• This post is for both mods and players! We encourage tracking the toplevel comments on this post if you want to be current with what's going on. Feel free to comment on community actions or otherwise get in touch with the player to get in on the fun/use as a springboard for CR! (EX: If someone's character has been burying themself in the library for Demon Research and your character regularly visits, maybe they can hit them up while they're in the library.)


• Downtime actions do not have to be anything big or plotty necessarily, but they must involve some sort of community effort if the character is not pursuing something plot-related. If your character is learning how to do medicine, cool, but that's for yourself. If your character is teaching other people how to do medicine, comment here so future characters/players know this is a service you're doing!


• Downtime actions are always things that can be accomplished entirely within the boundaries of the places the character has regular access to (Tokyo-F and limited parts of Heaven by default). You can't handwave someone running around in Liar Hell to recruit the Damned.

OK, here's the form:

[IN THE SUBJECT, PUT: PLOT, PLOT/COMMUNITY, OR COMMUNITY, PLEASE THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR MODS]

• Plot: This is something to do with plot, and requires mod approval. Example: Looking for plot information.
  
• Plot/Community: This is something to do with the community but also may be plot related. Example: Building an army.
  
• Community: This is something to do with the community, and does not require mod approval. Mods may give these efforts plot-related stuff but do not expect it. Example: Medicinal Herb Garden Club.
  
  Title: A simple name for what the character is doing.
  Type: Pick one of these three categories:
  
  1. Change: Change something in the setting or otherwise create something new
     
  2. Defend: Defend or reinforce something that already exists
     
  3. Gather Information: Gathering specialized information
  
  If what you have in mind doesn’t fall into one of these categories, it’s probably a standard plot request rather than a downtime action.
  
  Assets: What skills or materials is the character using?
  Time: How long does the character spend working on this? Saying the project continues for as long as needed or continues indefinitely is fine too.
  Description: Describe what the character wants to achieve! Be sure to include all characters involved in the effort, if there are multiple. If your character started a plot action before this post went up, please provide us a thread or OOC discussion screencap discussing/doing that action in order to get the results immediately. Otherwise, we'll assume that the date started is the comment's post date.
  
  IN THE SUBJECT PUT PLOT, PLOT/COMMUNITY, OR COMMUNITY <b>Title:</b> <b>Type:</b> Change, Defend, or Gather Information <b>Assets:</b> <b>Time:</b> <b>Description:</b>

Comments

MOD RESPONSE

[idolma]

A couple IC days (~1 OOC week) after Yvette started exploring Heaven, she'd start to notice that there's something that's still in Heaven . . . or otherwise, something else besides her that's disturbing it.

She won't be able to tell what exactly is disturbing Heaven for a while—a lot of the time it seems like it's just other idols—but here are some things she'd have noticed:

• Sometimes there are tiny pieces of what looks to be broken technology around. It looks a little like recording equipment, but it's hard to tell. There's never enough to fully repair it, even with a member of future is now helping, but eventually she'll be able to tell they look like recording devices.


• Somewhere around the Days 370-380, the broken pieces started also having what looks like broken camouflage as well. The camouflage is mundane: paint the same color as the walls, crude cloth or cardboard imitations of things that exist in the Courtyard, etc.


• Sentinels seem to be in a pattern when "undisturbed": every other hour, the ground rumbles in the Fountains (for mortals), and a sentinel appears from what seems to be one of the fountain spigots. In the off hours, the ground rumbles in the Courtyard (for mortals), seemingly phasing out of the walls (or maybe they're part of the walls themselves?). Several appear at once, making clockwise rotations in their respective rooms, before disappearing from whence they came. They don't patrol hallways.


• Sentinels will appear like antibodies when "disturbed": that is, there will just be a lot of sentinels all at once, honing in on the intruder. They go through hallways during this time.


• It's difficult to tell what sets a Sentinel off. It seems that existing too hard or for too long might just be what ends up doing it.


• Whatever is visiting Heaven besides her has set off the sentinels on several occasions, and seems to set them off frequently.


• On occasion, she'll see the sentinels activating for seemingly no reason at all, only for them to attack a random wall or item or something before retreating. Upon investigation, she'll see the spot is where more of that broken technology is.


• On Day 407 she'll catch a lion tail going through a portal in the area that has [plot item], before it disappears.