#brp.plotdrop

[bermudahq]

DON’T LOOK BEHIND THE WATERFALL...

Nautical twilight dawns on the island. The breeze is cooled and unassuming, carrying away with it all of the day’s emotional crests and valleys. It lifts up pieces of your hair as it passes. The organic and mild scent of running water along earth comes to you, but before you smell Pointe Falls you can hear Pointe Falls. All of Bermuda’s beautiful violence can be conceptualized here, as water cascades ninety feet down. Power and impermanence, even in this life, colliding with the rocks below. 

The Leader of the island told everyone not to go around Pointe Falls at night, convinced the CREATURE IN THE FOREST lives somewhere near it. But being stranded offers you very few opportunities for privacy and solitude, so just as everyone settles down for rations, you sneak off to go have a shower, alone.

Under the cover of lingering daylight, what could possibly go wrong?

OPEN PLOT DROP RAFFLE — ISLAND DISCOVERY

Simply put—the Plot Drop Raffle is an opportunity for your character, and your character only, to exclusively engage in a plot drop. Using this prompt, the Admin team will partner with you to give you the other half of the mystery, and then you write a self-para within one week about it. You’ll have complete creative freedom outside of the full prompt, so harness your imagination! Once you’re done with the self-para, you can interact with other characters and tell them what happened, hold a village meeting, or... if you want to, even keep it to yourself.

You decide.

This plot drop raffle will be selecting a character on TEMPORARILY POSTPONED. To enter your character, click the source link and send Bermuda Base a message.

[bermuda-base]

NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS. FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE.

EVENT 001 (REWIND): FLIGHT 927 CRASH LANDING OOC TIMEFRAME: 8/23/21 - 8/30/21 IC TIMEFRAME: 24 HOURS

The sun’s light has blanketed down on the villages yet again. Everyone still has all fingers and toes, and they live to see another day. A small line of parched people has congregated for a sip from the water reserves. Rubbing the grogginess from their eyes, the different civilizations assemble at their respective watering holes. Down on the shore, the SUITCASE OF TOILETRIES is propped open for anyone wishing to bathe. If you squint, you can see that up on the mountain Excelsior’s Civilization is already bathing in the lake, much to the dismay of the elder healers, who have been urging everyone to stay out of those waters. Somehow something as private and personal as getting clean has turned into a community activity, as all things do in Bermuda. The little RESOURCES you do have aren’t enough to go around, so prioritizing and sharing is key to keeping survival.

It seems to be a good morning. A usual morning, really. How good can things really get while you’re castaway with a bunch of strangers? A hand’s scoop of saltwater lifts to wash away suds on skin under the warm moonlight of a budding day. In the moment between the water leaving your hand and it hitting your skin, the deep indigo sky splits open and purges a full bodied airplane, at top speed, straight into a sea stack mounted in the ocean. It dismembers on impact, sending scraps of metal and stone scattering.

Everyone jumps back with a gasp, some people tripping and falling over the offset wave into the tide. Others drop what they’re holding, and a few simply keep bathing in the following seconds.

See—while startling in the moment, this isn’t an uncommon occurrence for Bermuda. Every so often another aircraft or ship will come plummeting down from the sky and crash into their world. The ones on a lucky trajectory will plummet straight into the ocean, and the water will take the brunt of the crash. Other times, as in this case, the passengers aren’t so lucky. The vessel will collide with something stagnant in their world, disjoint on impact, and send debris and scraps of metal everywhere. Now, the tide pulls what’s left of the mammoth of aviation up onto the shore, in shambles but all passengers miraculously survive.

Unbeknownst to everyone here, they are now living in an alternate universe within the multiverse. And the massive hole that just opened up in the sky? A portal vortex bridging various universes into this one, through a wormhole in the spacetime continuum.

If you’re one of the bewildered ones to have just survived a plane crash, you’ll step out of the passenger door trembling, possibly injured, and step into BERMUDA. A group of people will stare back at you, and a few minutes later, someone will take your suitcase and loot it for resources. When you finally do get greeted, they don’t even seem phased. “Welcome. Enjoy your flight?”

TASK: Write at least one starter, open or closed, with someone of the opposite tenure as your character. This means, if you are playing a Survivor, you should write at least one starter with a Settler. And vice versa.

SELF-PARA CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS (OPTIONAL)

Is your character one of the Survivors of the flight, a long term Settler, or one of the Exiled?

If a Survivor—was your character one of the ones who had to swim back to shore? Or one of the ones coming out of the passenger door?

How is your character coping with the crash?

What does your muse think Bermuda is? A simulation? Purgatory? A break in spacetime? Write their theories, if any.

What was your character heading to Brazil for?

What will they miss most from their normal life?

How does your character feel about being forced to give up all of their personal belongings as resources for the community?

What prognosis does your character have about getting out of Bermuda? Are they hopeful, skeptical, pessimistic or indifferent?

Will your character help clean up wreck pieces? Remember, wreck cleanup is voluntary for everyone except the strongest of the impacted village—in this case, all those who live on THE SHORE and have higher than 85% Strength Stat, are required to do wreck cleanup. 

What’s the first thing your character does after the wreck cleanup?

Does your character have any pets or children with them?

What are/were your character’s first impressions of the island?

ACHIEVEMENTS UNLOCKED

+SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY SURVIVAL GAIN +SHELTER GAINED IN THE TUNDRA FOR THE EXILED -PERSONAL ITEMS LOSS (ALL SURVIVORS) -ENERGY DEPLETION FROM WRECK CLEANUP (ALL WRECK CLEANUP PARTICIPANTS)

INVENTORY UNLOCKED

+SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY SURVIVAL GAIN  -PERSONAL ITEMS LOSS (ALL SURVIVORS) x12 TOILETRIES, 3.4 FL OZ EACH x10 EMERGENCY BLANKETS x9.5 BOTTLED WATER x7 PEANUT PACKAGES x6 AIRCRAFT SEATS,SALVAGED x5 CANNED FOOD x4 PRE-PACKAGED MEALS, WATERLOGGED x4 BABY FOOD x2 AIRCRAFT DOORS x2 BOTTLES OF WINE, SALVAGED x1 MED KIT x1 HANDHELD MIRROR, SHATTERED x1 GLUCOMETER x1 TOILET PAPER x1 EPI-PEN x1 FOOTBALL, DEFLATED x1 LOAF OF BREAD, WATERLOGGED x1 GUITAR (BROKEN) x1 AIR MATTRESS (BROKEN) x1 MANUAL AIR PUMP (BROKEN)

CRASH DIAGRAM

All areas outlined in BLACK have retained structure through the crash. 

All areas outlined in RED have been partially destroyed, with the walls of the body now separated from the row of seats.

All other seats and carry-on items have been stranded in the ocean.