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Summer BDE details and sign up!
It's tiiiiii-iiiiime!
That's right, folks, this summer's BDE is coming up! And this time, we're taking a page from a cute little video game, Donut County! From June 27 to July 17, get ready for Fandom to be invaded . . . by holes!
You see, the raccoons running the brewery have done such a good job that they've drawn the attention of the Trash King, the self-appointed king of all raccoons. He'll be arriving onMonSunday, June 27, and opening a brand new donut delivery service to capitalize on all us Fandomites. Order a donut and one will be delivered right to you! A delicious, freshly baked tasty treat!
Or possibly a physics-breaking hole that swallows up you and all your worldly goods. Definitely one of those two things!
How the holes work
They appear as if from nowhere in the floor or ground. They move rapidly around, chasing after objects and people, always perfectly round and perfectly dark, the cartoon platonic ideal of a hole. When they move, they leave behind perfectly intact ground/floor behind them. Sand, carpets, flooring, evenly cut grass, none of this gets affected, but anything that stands out as a single unit is fair game to fall in, so long as the hole is large enough. The hole is initially small, about the circumference of a coffee mug, including the handle. Each item that falls in makes it grow a little bigger, until ultimately it can become large enough to take out boulders, cars, entire buildings! Nothing on the ground is safe!
So! Say Duke orders himself a donut. A hole may appear in the floor of his galley where he's hanging out and suck down a discarded bottle of bourbon. Slightly larger now, it takes out a porg. Then some dishes, his rugs, crates, eventually his table and chairs. Soon it's large enough that there's nowhere stable to stand without falling in the hole. Duke falls in. The hole gets his bed, too. His bathtub. The truck he keeps in the hold. It could get large enough to swallow the Rouge itself — except it fills up on ocean first, so the boat is safe. You see, water is the hole's weakness. Small puddles and creeks can get sucked right in, but larger bodies of water (or other liquids, like say, soup!) will fill the hole up, allowing objects not yet sucked in to float on top! (Somehow, this does not drown Duke or anyone else who may have already succumbed to a hole themselves.)
Those who get a hole are very very likely to end up falling in. The raccoons are stubborn! They are going to try to take out every object, animal, and person at the delivery address. The only way to escape the ever increasing hole for sure is to fly — at least for now.
*maniacal laaaaugh*
The holes can and will take out entire buildings, after all (if the people who run them OOCly decide they will)! If Travis gets a hole, the entire fire station could end up dropping through it. He may try to get away in the fire engine, only to have the hole chase him down the street, taking out pedestrians and street lamps as it goes. The holes aren't sentient, but the Trash King's raccoon minions controlling them (not to be confused with Fandom's local brewery raccoons!) are, and they're amoral assholes who have been ordered to take out everything and anything they can — so long as someone orders a delivery first.
That's right, this will not be limited to donuts! After all, "buy a donut, maybe get eaten by a hole" isn't a hard formula to work out, and the Trash King won't know about the squirrels at first. It'll start with donuts, but soon enough the Trash King will branch out, and no delivery will be entirely safe. . . .
The timeline
Everything kicks off, as I said, with the arrival of the Trash King on Sunday, June 27. He'll come in, put up some fliers around town to advertise his donut delivery service, and wait for the mountains of new trash to come rolling in!
Week One (June 27-July 3): Donuts!
Order a donut, maybe get a hole! For the first week, only donut orders will potentially lead to hole-y chaos. The Trash King's minions don't know about bribing squirrels yet, so holes can and will be reported on the radio. It won't take Fandom long to figure out the pattern and learn to avoid this new donut service, much to Mr. Trash King's chagrin.
But he's a clever critter, and he knows how to use a good bribe when he needs to. Soon enough, he'll learn how to keep his antics off the radio, and his raccoon minions will start to infiltrate the other services around town. . . .
Week Two (July 4-July 10): Diversification, investigation!
The squirrel bribing begins, and the raccoons infiltrate all the island's delivery services. Will EVERY delivery be replaced by a reality-breaking black hole? No! Sometimes you'll just get your usual extreme excess of shareable foodstuffs. But ANY delivery can be. Hoping for a pizza? Sorry, YOU GET A HOLE. Trying to use Shipt to get that cute lamp you saw on the IKEA website? OH HEY, DID YOU ORDER THE HYŌLÊ? People, places, and things start getting sucked in in earnest, and all much more on the Down Low. By now people will definitely start to think that Something is Happening, and that it maybe isn't going to go away on its own. (Those whose loved ones have already been sucked in may already be at this point, lbr. I am not expecting anyone to get hit with the idiot ball for plot purposes here, go nuts on trying to investigate, but the reveal that it's raccoons behind it all won't happen until the plot dictates!)
Soon, investigation will be going on in earnest. Troops will (hopefully) be checking out the usual sources and hotspots to look for clues — without finding anything. That's right, this is an event without on-island precedence. Never before has Fandom seen seemingly sentient portable holes trying to eat people around town when they order deliveries! (Players who try to investigate are welcome to find red herrings, and I am happy to help brainstorm what those might be if you like, but I won't be assigning them.) Anyone who goes investigating in the catacombs below the island won't find anything either — the holes go far deeper than even those.
Anyone trying to contact those who've fallen into a hole will find communication spotty at best — wherever the holes lead, it's outside easy cellphone/telepathy range. They won't be able to offer up any help in figuring out just what the hell is even happening.
Week Three (July 11-17): Escalation and finale!
Over the weekend of July 10-11th, one lucky raccoon working for the Trash King will have earned enough points by sending holes after Fandomites to earn the coveted catapult upgrade for their hole! And they start Wreaking Havoc.
The catapult upgrade is pretty much what it sounds like. It's a little device on the side of the hole that expands and contracts and moves with it, that can shoot whatever fell in last up into the air. Water! Frogs! People! Whatever it is can, at the raccoon's discretion, be launched back up into the air for maximum chaos! The goal here is to create as much trash as possible, after all, and not everything is On the Ground. Karolina may get away with hovering over a normal hole, but one with a catapult can, properly utilized, suck down a park bench and then send it shooting back up at her to knock her into the hole! Or, since it's controlled by a raccoon, it can shoot sprays of popcorn at the trooper's station. Either way.
The raccoon will use this to its best advantage to take out as many flying people as possible — but it'll get so caught up in the fun of making All the Trash that it'll forget all about stealth. The jig is up! The raccoon will be interrogated (possibly in preplay), and the raccoon hole-delivery syndicate will be revealed, including its leader: The Trash King. A posse will be rounded up to go hunt the Trash King down and make him stop the chaos and bring all the swallowed up people home!
More about this will be revealed as we get closer to it. Just know that if you want in on the Trash King posse, you can't get sucked into a hole.
But what about the people who do get sucked in?
The holes lead, as I said, far far below the surface of Fandom and even the catacombs and machinery that power the island. They lead all the way down to 999 feet below Fandom in fact, where an enormous cavern lies, empty but for the things and people who get sucked in.
Once one or more people get sucked in, posts will be put up for them to interact in, much like the ones for school trips and other plots of this type. Somehow, despite falling 999 feet, everything that goes into a hole lands more or less intact. Buildings that get swallowed might not land right side up, and may have some of their contents end up all catty-wampus or fallen off the shelves, but by the magic of Fandom, they won't be broken. The victims will land without physical injury, and be able to make use of the things that have fallen in with them. Just, you know, not to climb out or talk to anyone on the surface. As I mentioned in the timeline section, the cavern is out of cellphone/telepathy range, and the ceiling of the cavern is solid unless a hole is active. As the holes are unpredictable and generally have stuff already falling through them, they will not be available as methods of escape! The gathered victims may try to band together and rescue themselves, but much like those above attempting to research, they won't succeed. But they are absolutely welcome to get up to any other adventures they like down there in the meantime!
On the last day of the plot, the folks in the hole will be rescued with all their worldly goods mixed up and potentially misplaced, maybe, but largely intact. The invading raccoons will be rousted and run out of town, the brewery raccoons will be able to return to their brewery raccoon ways in peace, and the island's residents will be free to go about their Fandomly way, the world once again returned to what passes as normal in this wacky, wacky place.
Bar, you know, a potential leeriness towards delivery services.
Holes will be moddable, or played out throughtrashiestking by myself and/or a volunteer. Please let me know when signing up if you think you'd like to have the hole NPC'd — you can change your mind later either way, but it's nice to get a heads up!
ETA sign ups for the raccoon interrogation will close on Sunday, July 4. All other sign ups are open ended, as they're generally self-directed.
That's right, folks, this summer's BDE is coming up! And this time, we're taking a page from a cute little video game, Donut County! From June 27 to July 17, get ready for Fandom to be invaded . . . by holes!
You see, the raccoons running the brewery have done such a good job that they've drawn the attention of the Trash King, the self-appointed king of all raccoons. He'll be arriving on
Or possibly a physics-breaking hole that swallows up you and all your worldly goods. Definitely one of those two things!
How the holes work
They appear as if from nowhere in the floor or ground. They move rapidly around, chasing after objects and people, always perfectly round and perfectly dark, the cartoon platonic ideal of a hole. When they move, they leave behind perfectly intact ground/floor behind them. Sand, carpets, flooring, evenly cut grass, none of this gets affected, but anything that stands out as a single unit is fair game to fall in, so long as the hole is large enough. The hole is initially small, about the circumference of a coffee mug, including the handle. Each item that falls in makes it grow a little bigger, until ultimately it can become large enough to take out boulders, cars, entire buildings! Nothing on the ground is safe!
So! Say Duke orders himself a donut. A hole may appear in the floor of his galley where he's hanging out and suck down a discarded bottle of bourbon. Slightly larger now, it takes out a porg. Then some dishes, his rugs, crates, eventually his table and chairs. Soon it's large enough that there's nowhere stable to stand without falling in the hole. Duke falls in. The hole gets his bed, too. His bathtub. The truck he keeps in the hold. It could get large enough to swallow the Rouge itself — except it fills up on ocean first, so the boat is safe. You see, water is the hole's weakness. Small puddles and creeks can get sucked right in, but larger bodies of water (or other liquids, like say, soup!) will fill the hole up, allowing objects not yet sucked in to float on top! (Somehow, this does not drown Duke or anyone else who may have already succumbed to a hole themselves.)
Those who get a hole are very very likely to end up falling in. The raccoons are stubborn! They are going to try to take out every object, animal, and person at the delivery address. The only way to escape the ever increasing hole for sure is to fly — at least for now.
*maniacal laaaaugh*
The holes can and will take out entire buildings, after all (if the people who run them OOCly decide they will)! If Travis gets a hole, the entire fire station could end up dropping through it. He may try to get away in the fire engine, only to have the hole chase him down the street, taking out pedestrians and street lamps as it goes. The holes aren't sentient, but the Trash King's raccoon minions controlling them (not to be confused with Fandom's local brewery raccoons!) are, and they're amoral assholes who have been ordered to take out everything and anything they can — so long as someone orders a delivery first.
That's right, this will not be limited to donuts! After all, "buy a donut, maybe get eaten by a hole" isn't a hard formula to work out, and the Trash King won't know about the squirrels at first. It'll start with donuts, but soon enough the Trash King will branch out, and no delivery will be entirely safe. . . .
The timeline
Everything kicks off, as I said, with the arrival of the Trash King on Sunday, June 27. He'll come in, put up some fliers around town to advertise his donut delivery service, and wait for the mountains of new trash to come rolling in!
Week One (June 27-July 3): Donuts!
Order a donut, maybe get a hole! For the first week, only donut orders will potentially lead to hole-y chaos. The Trash King's minions don't know about bribing squirrels yet, so holes can and will be reported on the radio. It won't take Fandom long to figure out the pattern and learn to avoid this new donut service, much to Mr. Trash King's chagrin.
But he's a clever critter, and he knows how to use a good bribe when he needs to. Soon enough, he'll learn how to keep his antics off the radio, and his raccoon minions will start to infiltrate the other services around town. . . .
Week Two (July 4-July 10): Diversification, investigation!
The squirrel bribing begins, and the raccoons infiltrate all the island's delivery services. Will EVERY delivery be replaced by a reality-breaking black hole? No! Sometimes you'll just get your usual extreme excess of shareable foodstuffs. But ANY delivery can be. Hoping for a pizza? Sorry, YOU GET A HOLE. Trying to use Shipt to get that cute lamp you saw on the IKEA website? OH HEY, DID YOU ORDER THE HYŌLÊ? People, places, and things start getting sucked in in earnest, and all much more on the Down Low. By now people will definitely start to think that Something is Happening, and that it maybe isn't going to go away on its own. (Those whose loved ones have already been sucked in may already be at this point, lbr. I am not expecting anyone to get hit with the idiot ball for plot purposes here, go nuts on trying to investigate, but the reveal that it's raccoons behind it all won't happen until the plot dictates!)
Soon, investigation will be going on in earnest. Troops will (hopefully) be checking out the usual sources and hotspots to look for clues — without finding anything. That's right, this is an event without on-island precedence. Never before has Fandom seen seemingly sentient portable holes trying to eat people around town when they order deliveries! (Players who try to investigate are welcome to find red herrings, and I am happy to help brainstorm what those might be if you like, but I won't be assigning them.) Anyone who goes investigating in the catacombs below the island won't find anything either — the holes go far deeper than even those.
Anyone trying to contact those who've fallen into a hole will find communication spotty at best — wherever the holes lead, it's outside easy cellphone/telepathy range. They won't be able to offer up any help in figuring out just what the hell is even happening.
Week Three (July 11-17): Escalation and finale!
Over the weekend of July 10-11th, one lucky raccoon working for the Trash King will have earned enough points by sending holes after Fandomites to earn the coveted catapult upgrade for their hole! And they start Wreaking Havoc.
The catapult upgrade is pretty much what it sounds like. It's a little device on the side of the hole that expands and contracts and moves with it, that can shoot whatever fell in last up into the air. Water! Frogs! People! Whatever it is can, at the raccoon's discretion, be launched back up into the air for maximum chaos! The goal here is to create as much trash as possible, after all, and not everything is On the Ground. Karolina may get away with hovering over a normal hole, but one with a catapult can, properly utilized, suck down a park bench and then send it shooting back up at her to knock her into the hole! Or, since it's controlled by a raccoon, it can shoot sprays of popcorn at the trooper's station. Either way.
The raccoon will use this to its best advantage to take out as many flying people as possible — but it'll get so caught up in the fun of making All the Trash that it'll forget all about stealth. The jig is up! The raccoon will be interrogated (possibly in preplay), and the raccoon hole-delivery syndicate will be revealed, including its leader: The Trash King. A posse will be rounded up to go hunt the Trash King down and make him stop the chaos and bring all the swallowed up people home!
More about this will be revealed as we get closer to it. Just know that if you want in on the Trash King posse, you can't get sucked into a hole.
But what about the people who do get sucked in?
The holes lead, as I said, far far below the surface of Fandom and even the catacombs and machinery that power the island. They lead all the way down to 999 feet below Fandom in fact, where an enormous cavern lies, empty but for the things and people who get sucked in.
Once one or more people get sucked in, posts will be put up for them to interact in, much like the ones for school trips and other plots of this type. Somehow, despite falling 999 feet, everything that goes into a hole lands more or less intact. Buildings that get swallowed might not land right side up, and may have some of their contents end up all catty-wampus or fallen off the shelves, but by the magic of Fandom, they won't be broken. The victims will land without physical injury, and be able to make use of the things that have fallen in with them. Just, you know, not to climb out or talk to anyone on the surface. As I mentioned in the timeline section, the cavern is out of cellphone/telepathy range, and the ceiling of the cavern is solid unless a hole is active. As the holes are unpredictable and generally have stuff already falling through them, they will not be available as methods of escape! The gathered victims may try to band together and rescue themselves, but much like those above attempting to research, they won't succeed. But they are absolutely welcome to get up to any other adventures they like down there in the meantime!
On the last day of the plot, the folks in the hole will be rescued with all their worldly goods mixed up and potentially misplaced, maybe, but largely intact. The invading raccoons will be rousted and run out of town, the brewery raccoons will be able to return to their brewery raccoon ways in peace, and the island's residents will be free to go about their Fandomly way, the world once again returned to what passes as normal in this wacky, wacky place.
Bar, you know, a potential leeriness towards delivery services.
Holes will be moddable, or played out through
trashiestking by myself and/or a volunteer. Please let me know when signing up if you think you'd like to have the hole NPC'd — you can change your mind later either way, but it's nice to get a heads up!ETA sign ups for the raccoon interrogation will close on Sunday, July 4. All other sign ups are open ended, as they're generally self-directed.
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I know it says other adventures but is it more exploration/resource gathering or is there like idk rabid zombie raccoons chained down there like Sloth from The Goonies?
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And, like, I mean there’s a lot in the Luke’s freezer. Who is to say if/when it falls in a hole, the polar bears and tentacle monsters can’t get out…
(Adventures in the hole will be player directed, basically. I am willing to assist in the planning and execution, but don’t have anything specific in mind.)
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I am leaning towards week 1 but I reserve the right to change my answer OMG.
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And Faye, I think, will fall in a hole in week 2.
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I figure he can be a good example for folks to OOCly follow for hole modding if the like.
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I never get to use this icon thanks for giving me the opportunity even if it has no bearing on the post.
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Rey will go in week two!
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Troy and Astrid in
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And let me know if you need anyone else to throw in any one for more balance, I have a few!
(Eleven, to be precise, not a mere measley ten!)
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I may well hit you up for that, but I think we're getting pretty good numbers now.
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....I still might, idk, I haven't decided XD
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I would like to switch Tisarwat and Iggy. So Tisarwat will no longer be hole'd, but Ignis will during week two!
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I gotcha! No worries!
Sign ups! - I wanna BE a hole!
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Sign ups! - I want to investigate!
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Sign ups! - I wanna catch/interrogate a raccoon!
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