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Travis Li Montgomery ([personal profile] designateddadfriend) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh_ooc2021-06-15 03:16 pm
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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 on MonSunday, 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 through [personal profile] 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.
knife_bender: easystreet (pos: being cute)

Re: Questions

[personal profile] knife_bender 2021-06-15 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Once you’re stuck in the cavern and you quickly realize there ain’t no getting out — are people going to be just chilling down there or is there anything else in the cavern they can mess with?

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?
throughaphase: (from the side)

Re: Questions

[personal profile] throughaphase 2021-06-16 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
If the ceiling of the cavern is solid, does that mean the holes close up, or will people be able to notice how many holes there are around the town?
betterthanaplan: (two thumbs!)

Re: Questions

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-06-16 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The holes close up! They appear when someone makes a delivery order, swallow up everything they can at the delivery location along with the person who placed said order, then vanish mysteriously.
defenderofdesmoines: (starlight - this is serious)

Re: Questions

[personal profile] defenderofdesmoines 2021-06-19 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually just thought of this this morning! If our character who gets trapped in the hooooole is a radio broadcaster, are we broadcasting from down there? Or should we plan for an alternate who's above-ground? And are the cavern posts otherwise making the radio broadcasts?
Edited 2021-06-19 19:36 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (doing the yoga)

Re: Questions

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-06-19 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Cavern posts will not be making the radio broadcasts (unless, like, the radio station goes in a hole? I guess?). The broadcaster's mun should make alternate plans for their broadcast day.
stykera: (scream)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] stykera 2021-06-18 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Stark has to fall down a hole. Being trapped in a cave is on brand. He'll hate it. Has to happen.

I am leaning towards week 1 but I reserve the right to change my answer OMG.
defenderofdesmoines: (annie - horrified)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] defenderofdesmoines 2021-06-18 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Annie will be falling in a hole in week 3!

And Faye, I think, will fall in a hole in week 2.
long_memory: (perfect curls boy)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] long_memory 2021-06-19 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
Go ahead and put Silver in week one, but if it works better for your numbers week 2 is good as well.
desertwolfcub: (behind blue eyes)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] desertwolfcub 2021-06-24 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to shift him to week two then, as we're getting pretty front-loaded here!
betterthanaplan: (two thumbs!)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-06-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
We got loads of new week two folks yesterday, so feel free to hole Silver either week!
knife_bender: (spec: not what it looks like)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] knife_bender 2021-06-25 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Got it! Will go with week one then!

I never get to use this icon thanks for giving me the opportunity even if it has no bearing on the post.
hatesparadise: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] hatesparadise 2021-06-22 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Put Danny in that hole week one.
scarlet_chaos: ([spec] superhero landing)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] scarlet_chaos 2021-06-22 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Put Wanda in week 3!
lovethatjourney: (UMMMM)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] lovethatjourney 2021-06-23 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Alexis, naturally, is in the hole week one.

Rey will go in week two!
x_discospider_x: (let me explain....)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] x_discospider_x 2021-06-24 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm gonna be super lazy and put all my kidlets in a hole in one post.

Troy and Astrid in the mooo~rning week two, Sakaki in week three, I think!
Edited 2021-06-24 17:31 (UTC)
desertwolfcub: (up to no good)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] desertwolfcub 2021-06-24 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
For a moment I thought you meant you would have all, what, ten? Of your characters fall in a hole in one post and I admit, I was unreasonably amused by the idea. . . .
lilac_eyed_lieutenant: (HEARTS)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] lilac_eyed_lieutenant 2021-06-24 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't tempt me! I'm gonna put Tisarwat and Amaya in the hole for week two, as well!

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!)
Edited 2021-06-24 17:41 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (;P)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-06-24 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I THOUGHT I WAS EXAGGERATING! (I mean, not by MUCH but still!)

I may well hit you up for that, but I think we're getting pretty good numbers now.
lilac_eyed_lieutenant: (;P)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] lilac_eyed_lieutenant 2021-06-24 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Just let me know, because I will throw Iggy and Prompto into a hole so fast...

....I still might, idk, I haven't decided XD
betterthanaplan: (two thumbs!)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-06-24 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JIB.
chef_chocobro: (recoil)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] chef_chocobro 2021-06-25 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
SLIGHT ALTERATION.

I would like to switch Tisarwat and Iggy. So Tisarwat will no longer be hole'd, but Ignis will during week two!
alwaysonguard: (thinking man)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] alwaysonguard 2021-06-24 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Dwight can do some investigating until he goes down a hole- week 2 or 3 is fine, whichever works best for you with the numbers.
so_hawkward: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] so_hawkward 2021-06-24 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Clint's going to fall in during week 2!
thedadalorian: made by <user name=lylith-st> (my the force with you too???)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] thedadalorian 2021-06-24 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Din will end up in a hole week 2
heroic_jawline: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I'm gonna go in a hole!

[personal profile] heroic_jawline 2021-07-11 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Because I apparently failed at OCD. Steve's here for week 3.
alwaysonguard: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I wanna BE a hole!

[personal profile] alwaysonguard 2021-06-16 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I can NPC something for you... not sure Dwight is ready for the full madness quite yet....LOL
noonedecidesmyfate: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I want to investigate!

[personal profile] noonedecidesmyfate 2021-06-17 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Belle goes here I think
alwaysonguard: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I want to investigate!

[personal profile] alwaysonguard 2021-06-18 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Dwight can also help out here if needed
canlendanear: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I want to investigate!

[personal profile] canlendanear 2021-06-19 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
Alara can help investigate.
grenadesandohana: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I want to investigate!

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2021-06-22 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
McGarrett for sure goes here.
imafuturist: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I want to investigate!

[personal profile] imafuturist 2021-06-22 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Tony, sure!
died8yearsago: (binoculars)

Re: Sign ups! - I want to investigate!

[personal profile] died8yearsago 2021-06-24 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Rosa is definitely in on the investigation (it's what she does), and probably Summer and Sidon (the latter of whom I have broadly decided is somehow immune thanks to the whole water thing), too!
Edited 2021-06-24 18:23 (UTC)
knife_bender: easystreet (neu: here's how this goes)

Re: Sign ups! - I wanna catch/interrogate a raccoon!

[personal profile] knife_bender 2021-06-19 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, throw this idiot in the RNG. Interrogating a raccoon won't be the dumbest thing he's ever done in his life.
grenadesandohana: (Default)

Re: Sign ups! - I wanna catch/interrogate a raccoon!

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2021-06-22 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Mwahaha I love the idea of a Diego-McGarrett team up here. Put Steve into the RNG too.
throughaphase: (excited)

Re: Sign ups! - I wanna catch/interrogate a raccoon!

[personal profile] throughaphase 2021-06-23 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Kitty will want to be here as long as the numbers work.
firstofitskind: (frowny)

Re: Sign ups! - I wanna catch/interrogate a raccoon!

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2021-06-24 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, he’s the sheriff, liam should probably go here.
what_the_shock: (uhhh)

Re: Sign ups! - I wanna catch/interrogate a raccoon!

[personal profile] what_the_shock 2021-07-05 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Miguel if it's not too late, but I get it if it is, because I am a dork.