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Advent BDE Info Post!

Hello, Fandom!

Have you signed up for a team yet? You've got until Tuesday!

As you all might have guessed at this point, Fandom Advent has gone a bit off the rails. Someone has co-opted the season by launching a weather satellite into Fandom skies, and after a week of charging up, it's about to start UNLOADING on the island on Monday morning. Beginning with the clouds rolling in, so it's not easy to find...

Research team, your job will be to determine the satellite is there at all, figure out its position, and deactivate it. Some of you will be receiving hints about how to do this, but we're keeping things open enough for creative ways to blast the damn thing out of the sky. There will be a post on Saturday in which you can play out this blasting to your heart's content; clues will be deployed starting Wednesday, but Town Hall will be open for your researching needs (dive into those archives!) as of Tuesday and Jesse will be there to do any herding and guiding.

Strike team! Bears are cute, right? Especially advent bears! Well, not these bears. As the weather satellite spins completely out of control on Saturday, MASSIVE bears will attack. A giant one half the size of the school will lead the charge, and slightly smaller ones will defend it. Stop it, before it smashes the school entirely! ... watch out for those mind-controlling attack reindeer, too. There will be a preplay for 'this is everyone grouping up for their Avengers moment' and 'this is where we defeat the big bear' purposes, all fighty in the middle will be liveplay.

So what's this advent going to look like?
I'm glad you asked! Here, have your events list. All of these events stack - so by Saturday, you'll have sharkicanes and snow angels messing up your day on top of all the bears. Fun, right?

MONDAY THE 14TH
- Sharkicanes attack! No, it's not a hurricane of shark this time, it's candy canes that traverse the newly-laid snow on the island like shark fins and attempt to drag people into the snowbanks to drown them.
- Powdered sugar falls from the sky periodically, turning characters flighty and childlike for a minute or so when it touches them.

TUESDAY THE 15TH
- Rock-candy icicles: which are delicious, but about as dangerous as real icicles if they're falling from the sky. Which they are.
- Marzipan boulders rolling around the island, obstructing stairs and traffic.

WEDNESDAY THE 16TH
- Snow angels attack! These angels resemble the Weeping Angels in their looks and movement pattern - they can only sneak up on you if you're not looking at them. If they're in your face, however, they start to attack -- with their claws and their fangs. Ever been hit by really dense ice? Ow.
- Rivers of lava-heated chocolate spring up left and right, cutting through the snow.

THURSDAY THE 17TH
- Lights slither across Fandom's streets, trying to strangle you - or drag you to some really mean, pointy holly wreaths.
- The mistletoe is back! But instead of stalking you until you kiss anyone, it hollers abuse at you.

FRIDAY THE 18TH
- Attack of the inflatables! Inflatable decorations spawn on the island and/or come to life if you've got any, with flesh as solid as any creature despite their looks, and they won't stop until they devour you whole.
- Fruitcakes appear outside your door, but they're brick-like and can't be moved. Don't trip, guys.

SATURDAY THE 19TH
- FINALE DAY! An earthquake rocks the island... and reveals a massive bear, eyes glowing red and attacking everyone. He's brought friends. And a bottle of off-brand soda.
- Evil reindeer rush through the streets, using their red noses to turn people into their thralls! ... Mind you, they're reindeer, so they'll probably just use you to find them food. Or attack people attacking them.

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Your BDE! And Fandom Advent!

Hello, Fandom!

We're here to announce your Winter BDE 2020! It'll run from December 14th to December 19th. And we're not telling you what it is. Yet. Let's just say the island will be a moderately chaotic place losing its mind to holiday bliss in a slightly different way than usual. ... and last year.

What we are telling you is that we'll need a team of crack scientists and magicians to go camp out at Town Hall, or poke around their own workspaces to unveil, study and destroy a device causing havoc on the island. And we're also going to need a bunch of volunteers who are willing to fight something really big and fuzzy while they work on Saturday the 19th.

Everything else? Well, you'll find out next Saturday.

Now, here's your Fandom Advent for the week...

Monday, December 7th - One single rickshaw is covered in Christmas lights and chugs slowly through the streets.
Tuesday, December 8th - You wake up and there's a cookie on your pillow.
Wednesday, December 9th - Someone has left discarded Santa hats in your closet. They disappear when you try to put them on.
Thursday, December 10th - A reindeer is squatting on your roof. It won't leave. (Until the next day, of course.)
Friday, December 11th - Nothing seems to be happening? Except when you listen very carefully, something in your kitchen seems to be gently humming 'Carol of the Bells'.
Saturday, December 12th - Today's weather report predicts a small sprinkling of chocolate in the early afternoon.
Sunday, December 13th - Is that mulled wine coming out of your tap, or just bad grape soda? It tastes like bad grape soda.

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BDE Brainstorming!

As requested, a post for all your brainstorming needs!

Let us know down here what you're looking for, or what you're thinking about doing. Need someone to join you in terrible memory swapping (that's one hell of a potential meet cute)? Need someone to fill your heart with liiiiiight? Have a few possible scenarios you want to play with but you're not sure who might be up for what with whom?

Well, that's what this post is for.

[[ have at! ]]

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BDE Reminder!

This is just your quick reminder that the BDE starts on Wednesday, August 19th!

No, there's still nothing to sign up for, but whatever, heads ups are cool.

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YES IT IS: YOUR SUMMER BDE!

Hello, Fandom!

It's time for your summer BDE! From August 19th through August 22nd, we are getting invaded by... *drumroll* NIGHT MARES.

... or, well, a radical offshoot of those Night Mares. They will sneak into Fandom early in the morning of Wednesday August 19th, taking up residence in the dark shadows of every home. They're here to feed on your deepest, darkest memories. They'll be weak, at first, coaxing nightmares from the denizens of Fandom in order to suck up that lovely terrible energy.

With time, they'll get stronger, drawing up bad memories even in the daytime hours - provided they can stay in the shadows, as they are allergic to light. And then come the weekend, the rain clouds come in...

( More details under the cut! )

And that's really all there is to it. Questions? Comments? Leave them under this post.

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Reminders and one more request!

Sign up over here by tonight for current characters to get kidnapped/NPCs to submit as newbies to get kidnapped for our lovely BDE that will start on Saturday.

Class sign-ups end on Friday night (over here) and it's super fine to have a head-canon using them for what your NPCs would be taking/teaching!

And in this post, please let us know if you're non-kidnapped student/teacher would be up for getting paired with an NPC that will not arrive for great "stuff to worry about at the picnic" justice!

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Winter BDE Announcement!

So there's good news and bad news. The good news is that the trainwreck of a shitstorm of a 2019 is over in two days. The bad news is that it has collectively sucked all of our brains so hard that we didn't have any new applications for the Spring 2020 session.

But we can work with that through our BDE! It turns out that we didn't just bring back an amazing collection of gluhwein mugs from our trip to Cologne: we also brought back a stowaway Krampus, the terrifying half-goat, half-demon coin flip of Jolly Ol' Saint Nick. He, if you aren't familiar with the legend, steals bad children (and townies and teachers) and takes them off to his lair to do various and vague nefarious things to them. He has also 'napped all of new students and teachers for the semester, so no one new will actually be showing up for the welcome picnic -- which is how will we kick off our BDE.

The timeline:
--The welcome picnic will continue as scheduled on Saturday, January 4th. We are looking for a few volunteers to be Big Siblings and Teaching Buddies whose siblings/buddies never arrive, as well as people who would like to invent and NPC a few new students/teachers for the event, kind of like you would for a Parents Weekend event (so please check in with people you'd be canon sharing with, however brief). The NPC students and teachers will finish the event, nope out hard from attending FH this semester, and disappear back into the multiverse. We also need a few PC volunteers to be kidnapped from the welcome picnic and join our NPC newbies and their extremely disgruntled bus driver. Krampus might also be spotted around town on that Saturday but would be written off as a new, extremely terrifying looking, teacher.

Fandom herself is doing a Random Event for the day of the welcome picnic, with presents appearing all over the place as a late gift for the new people who weren't there at Christmas. For non-kidnappees, the gifts just contain useful stuff like hair dryers, alarm clocks, bath products, desk lamps, etc, all things that students or teachers might need. For kidnappees that don't get grabbed by Krampus directly, they contain a creepy evil toy that drags them into the gift box, which contains a hellish portal straight to Krampus' sack. We'll contact the kidnappees to find out their preferences on getting 'napped.

--By the next day, people can definitely notice that we got smaller rather than larger following the welcome picnic and volunteers may assemble to try to figure out What's Wrong This Time, Dangit. The kidnappees and the NPCs will also get a chance to chat amongst themselves and try to come up with an escape plan from where Krampus has stuffed them: in the caldera of Ingvar's volcano. (Spoiler alert, their plan won't work.)

--By Monday, January 6th, researchers have found an ancient ritual of peace and hope at Yuletide that miiiight either banish Krampus or convince him the island's inhabitants have the Spirit of Christmas and carry it with them even though it's technically past December 25th. (We'll pick a Very Lucky Researcher to discover what this is.)

--On Tuesday, January 7th, we Attempt the Ritual. And that really ought to work, but not everybody is ever going to be wholehearted about it, and some people aren't Christian and could rightfully be annoyed by the whole Christmas is Not A Secular Holiday To People Of Other Religions Who Get It Shoved In Their Faces thing, and some people are aliens and Don't Get Christmas, and some people are disillusioned because life happens, blahblahblah. So Krampus is kranky and sends out his army of creepy evil toys to destroy us. Because Fandom is super excited to see evil toys again. Freaking 2019.

The good part of the fight: it's super obvious that the toys are coming from Ingvar, so we know where to go to rescue our friends! Plus Ingvar, who is now a toddler and was just trying to Get Into the Spirit of Christmas, Okay, is also annoyed by his new friend being not as nice as he'd thought and will help us (well, "help") with his own army of misfit creepy dolls and stuff. Thanks? Sorta? Ingvar? Together, Ingvar's toys and our fighters will free the NPCs and the kidnapped characters, and be Fully Done With Christmas, Thanks Ever So.

Questions? Comments? Really great ideas for NPCs to get kidnapped? Please sign up by Thursday, January 2nd!

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It's That Time Of Yeeeear! BDE Finale And You!

Well, the antics of Team Ill-Fated Computer Repair sure have stirred up the hive - enough that they have made a crucial error and informed the island when the group is getting brought to the Junkyard and that, friends? That gives the island enough time to plan.

Friday
As was mentioned in the previous writeup, Friday is for planning and preparation.

Bad guys!
You're all going to be on high-alert right now. There is proof of a vast conspiracy on the island and it came scarily close to causing some real damage. Now is not the time to be subtle! Loom. Intimidate. Make it as hard as possible for these rebels to get anywhere. They must be stopped!

Rebels!
This is time for you to go for broke. The island has been sabotaged and Kitty has the only clue, an empty nesting doll. Your friends are getting dragged off to the Junkyard on Saturday, so that only gives you about twenty-four hours to plan a daring escape for them. While the Daring Escape itself will take place on Saturday in the Junkyard, that doesn't mean that we don't have time for a few crackpot ideas on Friday, too. Stockpile weapons, make grandiose plans, plot ambushes - however your character would get ready for a guerrilla battle is a-okay. Maybe you wanna do a bit of counter-espionage on the bad guys. Check in with people, make plans, have fun with this.

Folks who have been given items to find, Friday is the day to do it! Make posts, you can either find them by fiat, or involve other people. Bad guys, show up and heckle, try to figure out what they're doing.

A (bad guy free) post will go up Friday afternoon for everyone to bring what they've collected and try to figure out what next.

Saturday
At high noon, the doors of the Toybox will open and the members of Team Ill-Fated Computer Repair will begin their walk down to the Junkyard. That gives your characters plenty of time to set up and make preparations for the storming of the ~~Bastille~~ Junkyard. Bad guys, you get to join on the walk, and fight in the big brawl once it's joined!

Here, pretty much anything goes. You know all those cool plans you came up with on Friday? Put them into action today! Tear down Car Crusher and Junk Biter! Fight the oppressive police state! Rescue your friends and show the Toymaker that you're not puppets! Even if some of you are, literally, puppets!

You'll have to take down the Toymaker and maybe, if you're really, really lucky, you'll rescue more than you bargained for, too.

At the same time, the strike team will be down trying to fix the mechanism below. They already have their instructions, except for one last thing...

Because, you see, even when the Toymaker's control is broken, the island has gotten so turned around all summer that she's not going to know quite how to get home. So once the strike team finishes draining the Toymaker's power away, some of the equipment is going to punch up through to the surface - conveniently, right in the middle of the Junkyard, where everyone else is going to be fighting.

There, everybody needs to help calibrate the island by reaching out to the sensors and focusing on a memory they have of the island. A good memory, clear and pure, where they were happy. With everybody inputting their memories and good feelings (don't worry, you don't lose them!), the island will be able to break out of that AU pocketverse and finally find her way home.

Once Fandom breaks out of the pocketverse, indoctrinated characters can come back to their right minds and dropped characters will vanish from the island. You'll all arrive home, where Causeways and portals work again and the island will think really hard and really long before taking another vacation ever again.

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Last Minute BDE Reminders!

Signups for groups and items end tomorrow morning at 10am EST (the best time zone)/2pm GMT.

Signups for ending indoctrination close tomorrow morning at 6 am EST/10 am GMT. If you haven't gotten your characters signed up by then, they wake up on Wednesday!

Signups Here

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BDE Signups Reminder

Hey all, please don't forget to sign up for the BDE over yonder!

We still have plenty of room for people on Team Ill-Fated Computer Repair, the Strike Team, and finding items! Most importantly, people should still sign up for the days they want to throw up the indoctrination and become themselves again!

Thanks!

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...Did Somebody Say BDE?

It will probably come as a terrific shock to you, but there's a reason the island hasn't been able to make it home. You see, once upon a time, long, long ago, in a galaxy very much like this one, there was once an entity named...The Celestial Toymaker, aka "The Way Ingvar Gets All His Creepy, Evil Toys." Fandom Island has tangled with him before - back when he kidnapped people from the island and made them wander through his creepy living dungeon full rooms stolen from alternate realities.

Looks like he's still up to his old tricks. Only this time, rather than kidnapping people, he's kidnapped the whole damn island.

Welcome, dear friends, to ( Babes In Toyland )

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BDE! VAMPIRES INVADE... Baltimore?!

Hello, Fandom!

On April 29th, it’s time again for our Spring BDE! Yep, everyone is going to wake up on Tuesday morning to find out that a shield has appeared around Fandom, blocking off the Causeway. OH NO! What danger awaits us?

… nothing is going to happen. In fact, portals off the island will work just fine. Two intrepid Fandomites will examine the barrier and find out it’s a protective spell meant to keep bad things out, not good people in. Once that spell is broken, the shield will give way to reveal…

( ...that vampires have overrun Baltimore. )

And now: sign-ups! Please make sure to get yours in by Friday, April 27th!

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Winter BDE: Snow Monsters Redux!

Greetings and salutations! The end of the semester is nigh, bringing with it thoughts of holiday treats, strange polar bears handing out sodas, and the BDE! This year we're bringing back a foe we haven't faced since the ~~dawn of time~~ Winter of 2006: SNOW MONSTERS!

They're bigger, they're badder, they are really unhappy about global warming!

...and they still bear an uncanny resemblance to Calvin and Hobbes' snowmen.

Here's how it'll play out:

Wednesday, December 19: A blizzard comes into Fandom, knocking out regular power supplies due to the heavy snow and winds. Smartypants with generators feel smug, the community center and school spontaneously generate fireplaces for coziness/not freezing to death for those without generators to slumber party it up. In the heavy snow of the blizzard, the arrival of a Giant Glacier of Doom, snapped off from the Arctic due to climate change and floating over by Ingvar, goes relatively unnoticed.
Thursday, December 20: It is still blizzarding. This is clearly not an Advent calendar shenanigan, and also it's flipping cold outside. The generators owned by the smartypants start being destroyed by *dun-dun-dun* snoooooow monsters, brought to Fandom via the Giant Glacier of Doom. The monsters are only appearing in singles/pairs for now, and can be modded for your fighty needs. You can also ask a friendly neighborhood mod to play a fight sequence out with you. The Glacier of Doom can also be seen through the snow, along with the snow monsters on it practicing their dance moves, carrying placards protesting global warming, and plotting to kill us all.
Friday, December 21: The blizzard has finally stopped but there is now a good two feet of snow on the ground, with drifts that can completely cover doorways. It's really tough to get around unless you are a snow monster. The snow monsters are tooootally ready to get you if you pop out of the few places that are warm, and are now running around in larger gangs of five-to-ten. Clearly they've got to go. Plotting to get rid of them commences!
Saturday, December 22: Big fighty/protest/dance scenes in town and outside the school walls. Research teams get together to combine their amazing/ridiculous ideas and send what monsters remain--but more importantly, the glacier--away. And then there's hot cocoa.

How can snow monsters hurt my character?

They're made of snow and ice, so think concussions, broken bones, and puncture wounds from icicles. If your character gets knocked out and left in the snow, exposure could also be a problem.

How do we beat them?!

Well, they're made of snow, so they melt. Coffee, hot water, lightsabers, battery-powered hair dryer, peeing on them (WE REMEMBER YOU, OLD SHEP), are all effective, but the monsters can re-form a few minutes later as long as there's still snow around. Making sure they're all gone means getting rid of the glacier itself, but we can't melt it down completely because that would raise the level of the ocean too much.

To mix this up, we've decided to try out two research groups--one centered in town and one in the school since getting between the two areas is going to be tough--to brainstorm solutions. We have a few ideas as back-ups, but we wanted to see what you crazy people came up with on your own. We'll limit the research groups to four characters each for ease of conversation/coding and will RNG it on Sunday, December 16 if we get more volunteers than we need. We've also added a brainstorming OOC thread down here for those who have amazing ideas but not necessarily a character who could pull them off.

Since we're close to Christmas and the New Year, this is going to be a pretty light, fun event where you can get as involved as your RL lets you. We will be preplaying the glacier removal, but everything else will be live!

Questions, comments, funny stories?

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BDE Reminder & More Sign-Ups!

Hey folks! This is both a quick reminder that you can still sign up for the BDE over yonder until tomorrow evening, and a little bit of extra OCD for you all.

Specifically, for the wood-dwellers: happy to have you aboard! We just want to know exactly when you're planning to be abducted - among the first wave on Friday afternoon, the second on Saturday morning, or the final one on Sunday. Not only are we trying to make sure the spread is right, but we're also going to RNG one character from Sunday for a task in the finale. So if you post to that - please let us know if you don't want to take part in the RNG.

OCD below!

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BDE: Into The Woods

Hello, Fandom!

Time goes fast, doesn't it? It definitely feels that way, because your summer BDE will be happening from Friday, August 10th through Sunday, August 12th! Specifically, the afternoon of Friday, August 10th, when the unexplored wooded area will be cloaked in shadow, impenetrable, and draw to it unwitting Fandomites...

Yep, some of you are getting lost in the woods! On Friday Afternoon, Saturday Morning and Sunday Morning, a spell will come over various Fandomites that will drive them to walk into the woods. There, they'll become trapped, sapped of powers, with the ghosts of sins past that roam in the dark. OooooOOOooooooh...

Well... ghosts of sins past...

Specifically, they'll come face to face with the ghostly reenactments of terrible things seen by inanimate objects (anything that can be reasonably anthropomorphised) in their lives before Fandom: that whale-headed coatrack in the hall of your childhood home, perhaps, or that one plush toy you had when you were ten that just didn't seem right... ... effigies of which are also roaming the woods, attacking people left and right. ETA: Or as I put it later today, "... basically objects are taking your characters to account through ghostly apparitions/replays and attacks by giant versions of those objects, and what crimes they're upset about and how they do that is otherwise up to you."

In order to save their friends, the rest of Fandom must band together, find their way into the forest, and defeat the evil that lies within the woods.

Check out the descriptions in the OCD below, and tell us if you have any questions!

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BDE sign ups reminder!

Hi folks! Just a reminder, sign ups for this spring's BDE close tomorrow night! So head on over here if you want to help research, close a portal, or get eaten by a monster!

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Raise a glass, it's time for the spring BDE

Hello! We interrupt your regularly scheduled Wednesday to bring you important news: this spring's BDE!

Have you ever gone out with some friends for a night on the town, looked at your beverage for the evening, and thought to yourself "this would be way more fun if this drink gave me superpowers"? Well you're in luck. On Fandom, from April 19-22, that's just what those fun social cocktails are going to do. Which is good, because cocktail superpowers will be the only things that can get rid of the evil, soul-eating monsters.

( The basic rundown )

( Cocktails )

( Tremens )

( But my character can't have alcohol/drink liquids at all )

( Coffee )

tl;dr

From the night of Thursday, April 19 through the evening of Sunday, April 22, cocktails in Fandom will give you superpowers. Which you can use to fight off evil monsters. Coffee will heal you up afterwards.

There are a few headcounts/sign ups below, and of course, ask me all of your questions! Sign ups will be open until 11:59 pm PST Wednesday, April 18th.

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BDE Sign-Up Reminder!

Hey all!

Sign-ups for the BDE close tomorrow night, so get yours in now! And please don't forget to tell us if your evil AU character is available to fight in the preplay. We can use a few more baddies!

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BDE Brainstorming Post

Hey, Fandom! Signed up for the BDE yet? If not - or if you already have but you're looking for ideas - this post is for you. Or if you already HAVE signed up AND you have ideas (we're jealous), let us know your plans down below and maybe someone'll be inspired!

[[ ocd up! ]]

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It's BDE Time Again - Beware The Coming Of The AU

Hey, Fandom! It's that time of the season again! From Thursday, the 14 of December to Sunday, the 17th, last year's End of the World AU is coming back - in reverse!

Sure, Monster Zoe's been destroyed, and the future island reattached to the rest of the world - but as it turns out, the rest of the world also lies in ashes. (Albeit a little less full of giant crazy monster-bosses). A tough sell for a people already beaten down and broken - and some of them have snapped. Certain of the world's inevitable doom, they construct a cobbled-together time-machine to return to Fandom and bring the world to a quicker, more merciful end.

A day later, fellow AU-ites with a more optimistic view of the world will find out about their plans and follow them to Fandom, in an effort to stop them from summoning a nameless horror from the depths. But by then, AU-folk-gone-cult will have unleashed a sickness onto the island that can turn the locals into gibbering, cultish accomplices - and started the ritual to unleash the beast from the sea.

So what kind of AU characters can I app for this?

Whether you go for Camp Cult or Camp Save The World, you can app an AU counterpart for any character you play or have played in the past. Yes, even if you didn't play in this AU before. Yes, even if you're not an active player at the moment. Everyone is welcome.

All of the AU characters are still hollowing, slowly losing their memories over time, but that's a gradual process. They can be as far along in it as you want, provided they still have enough consciousness to make decisions. Like jumping into a portal across time and space.

Evil AU people are encouraged to try to fly under the radar as long as possible, to avoid their plan being found out - even if their good islandmates are spilling the beans on day two.

And what about our regular characters?

They can stay regular, or they can be affected by the plague the eeeeevil AU-ites bring with them. That'll cause a slow process of being susceptible to suggestion on day 1, to being fully crazy and all-in on the summoning-the-Eldritch-from-the-deep on day 4. They can start changing on any day of the BDE, and will be cured by the end.

What else do you need?

We'll need a research team to start research on Friday into a way to disrupt the ritual, and a strike team to take out the summoners on Sunday. That will be preplayed, unless everyone who signs up prefers liveplay.

ETA: What if my character is dead in the AU?

The cultists got some practice in before ascending to Eldritch-summoning - and they brought some of the dead back with them.

Those restored dead function mostly the same as the living do, but they can be controlled by evil AU cultists because of the ritual (ie, they can be commanded to do things). So any formerly dead person who comes back will either have to avoid the cultists, or wind up doing their bidding.

The deadline for sign-ups is Monday, December 11th. OCD up!