#lunar cove plot drop tw

[dhruvxmehta]

Though he had told her to go and leave him, what stubbornness possessed her Dhruv wasn't sure when he heard her correction include him in the mix again, slowly and painful he gathered himself to breathe and speak, wanting to reason with her that it would be fine, that he could be left behind without ill feelings, "I don't—" words broke on their own accord with a hiss as sharp pain shot through his side, the smell of fresh blood coating his shirt filled his senses and caused vision to blur. Hands pressed to the wall for support, Dhruv, unable to protest on anything else, nodded as she set about doing whatever it was that she had planned to do.

Fear took grip and mixed in with helplessness to concoct a terrible sensation. Weeks of this torture took a far greater toll than he led himself to believe, to find an end would be bliss, if he was only allowed it. Such thoughts shouldn't be given space to bloom, he knew, it'd only worry his family more but this level of weakness, to be so reliant on others, it felt different, odd, like he shouldn't be warranted such a thing. To break out of his head grew difficult yet somehow with gaze on Gia, he managed to steer focus to what she was doing. Pictures, that was a smart move. He had to remember to ask her about it later. If they made it out of this.

A nod came slowly, "Makes sense to limit." Eyes shut tightly as a low groan echoed not long after at the mention of Council and hospital — that meant a double dose of Nico for him. But he didn't let that ruin his already abysmal mood. "I got it," he responded, very much not having it. Stairs were a beast at present, each step feeling like a herculean task, Dhruv barely managed to make it out before slumping against the wall and down to the floor, breathing absolutely ragged from the effort of it all. Thoughts, vision, the world itself, tilted and blurred abs through our all, there was one thing that struck; he was no longer captive. Despite his difficult attitude, Gia had been the one to ensure he made it out, and that, that was something to be grateful for. Signalling for her attention, Dhruv conveyed the feeling in a soft whisper, "Hey...thank you." All he could do was hope was that she heard it since his energy depleted into the negatives and it became a struggle to stay awake. "Thank you."

It was a strange feeling. One the vampire hadn't experienced in quite a long time. Fear festered in her throat, stealing her voice as she stared on in frozen horror, before moving into her chest. A physical pain splintered from her undead heart and settled into her stomach in a way that made Gia feel sick. She couldn't forget, as much as she might wish otherwise, what she bore witness to. Moments, she thought, that had been their reality for nearly a month.

Dhruv's haggard voice drew Gia's eyes from the lab equipment for the first time since the shock set in. It took the vampire a moment to understand what had been said. "We.." A stammered correction that slowly unfroze her. "We need to leave." Her statement sent her thoughts spiralling in a dozen directions at once. They, she noted. Dhruv said before they come back. She'd been right upon entering the closest from the tunnel. Gia had heard two sets of footsteps fleeing the basement. As her mind mulled over every detail she thought to take pictures. She documented the lab equipment and took a video of the basement. Content she would review later, as she began trying to piece the puzzle together.

Once in motion the vampire didn't stop. "He will take Meena, and I will accompany you to the hospital." It wasn't a question as she was already on the phone with emergency services, directing them to the lobby of the Slumber Motel. "I thought it best to limit who has to witness.." Her eyes searched for a word but came up empty, she she moved on. "The council is aware." Aaliyah had been made aware by text, which was enough due diligence as far as Gia was concerned. "I'll help you up the steps." Her eyes gave Dhruv a once over. Carry might've been the more accurate offer, but he seemed stubborn. As though he'd rather crawl up the steps, to his death, than be helped.

[lunarcovehq]

Oops, I did it again I played with your heart, got lost in the game Oh baby, baby

FRIDAY THE 13TH - PLOT DROP

tw amnesia, kidnapping, missing organ, organ harvesting

It's that time of year again and, as wise tales go, Friday the 13th is one of the few days a year known for being unlucky. But, what those outside of the Cove don’t know, is the reason as to why.  Friday the 13th just so happens to be a day when Pixies can not only temporarily give their luck to another through touch, but can take it. Throughout the day, regardless of the fae’s control over their abilities, if a pixie touches another, albeit it accidentally or intentionally, they will steal that individual’s luck. The pixie in question will be even more lucky than before, while the person they came into contact with will have horribly unlucky things begin to happen to them one after the other. Their electronics might short circuit, their beverages will spill over, their food will be spoiled etc. But, don’t worry. After 24 hours, their luck will be returned to them. Though an unlucky day isn't the only thing in store for the Lunar Covians.

Something wicked seems to be brewing in the air. Both Billie Fitz (@swimmingwiththefitzes) and Poppy Reed ( @moonglowmagic), woke up this morning in cold sweets having terrible nightmares the night before. They can barely keep their eyes open, haunted by an unsettling feeling festering in their chest as if they can't shake this ominous feeling of being drawn to something, but they can't quite put their finger as to why. Low and beyond, the nightmares have no end in day in sight, these two better get used to some restless nights.

Meanwhile, across town, there is someone else who seems to have had quite the night. One Todd Miller ( @xthetoddinatorx ) awakes in the middle of a field in Echo Acres. His head still feels foggy as though he had spent the previous night out partying, only he doesn't seems to have any memories of the past 48 hours. He is seen stumbling through town, muttering something about an 'alien abduction' and how he woke up in a crop circle with a suspicious looking glint of excitement in his eyes. Only that glint will quickly dwindle when he finally makes his way home to change to find fresh stitches across the lower right side of your abdomen right where his appendix should be...

What happened the night of the 12th? And what more is in store for the Cove with Friday the 13th?

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Plot drop alert! We couldn't let this day go bye without dropping anything, so we hope this plot drop acts as an intriguing tease as what is to come/will be revealed (in part) at our fall event later on.

The plot drop is completely optional for you to react to IC, so if you’d like your character to react to the above, you are more than welcome to, but please don’t feel obligated to.

Also, if you would like to volunteer your characters to be part of the chaos event posts (as some characters were mentioned above) and haven't yet, please reach out via a ticket or the main.

Last, but not least, we hope you have fun!

[nicocastillo]

Nico Castillo ·✥· Basics & Wanted Plots

·✥· BASICS ·✥·

FULL NAME · Nicolás Castillo Alders St. Claire -- goes by Nico Castillo BORN · Sept. 27, 1988 (currently 36) PRONOUNS · he/him GENDER · cis man ORIENTATION · biromantic demisexual SPECIES · werewolf

( parental death, kidnapping, torture, injury tw)

FAMILY · Aurelio Castillo Silva (d. 2002),  Saskia Alders (former Alpha, d. Feb. 2022) PACK POSITION · (born wolf) triggered to Beta May 2002, raised to Alpha Aug. 2022 OCCUPATION · Paramedic, out of Shadow Lake Hospital CURRENT RESIDENCE · His family home in Echo Acres, with Elif Karadas currently as of January 2024, a more secluded cottage near the Alders house, with Jas St. Claire POSITIVE TRAITS · adventurous, compassionate, idealistic, independent, easygoing NEGATIVE TRAITS · stubborn, irresponsible, bitter, indulgent, avoidant

·✥· QUICK NOTES ·✥·

Nico is the son of the former Alpha, Saskia Alders. He grew up in Lunar Cove with a lot of pressure on him to be tough and responsible so he could one day claim the title from his mother. 

Prone to disobedience and wandering as a kid.

His father was killed by a werewolf who was trying to get back at Saskia. She and Nico hunted that wolf down, and when Nico came back his curse had been triggered.

After that, he stopped giving into Saskia’s demands, and eventually moved out and became a paramedic instead, learning to treat various supernatural species around town. 

Had a big fight with her about ten years ago, and left completely. 

Returned in August 2022 to claim the Alpha title—which might be a surprise to anyone who knew how much he didn’t want it before. 

Was kidnapped on Valentine’s Day 2023 by hunters & tortured until he could be rescued by Jas St. Claire.

has a dog named Thunder (x) that he adopted with Jas in October 2023

when Silas Chamberlain came to town, he and Nico fought, leading to Nico biting him and stripping him of his witch abilities. he still won the fight, and left Nico bleeding as he wrote a menacing message in his blood and skipped town, no doubt set to return to settle the score one day

over the past year, moved from his parents house (where Elif lives now) to a nearby cottage with Jasmine. they were married at the town hall in secret with Elif as their witness, got tattoo rings with Poppy to witness afterwards.

took several several arrows and bullets leading the pack to hunt down the Catalyst recently, but largely that just made him grumpy about not being able to shift for a while

·✥· WANTED PLOTS ·✥· childhood friends: lots of potential for this one, as a kid he was truly out here to make friends at the drop of a hat. the teen years were where things got bumpier and traumatic, he was a bit closed off after his dad died. ( poppy, jamie )

former enemies & rivals: the pettier the disagreement, the better, imo. ( mason - not really tho lmao they’re good now )

teen cringe phase: his personality definitely became more rebellious from ages 14 onwards, so it’d be lovely to have a few people who remember being along for the ride ( poppy, jamie, altan )

omg they were former roommates: nico moved out of his parent’s place right after high school, but still lived in lunar cove until he was 24, so if you want to have co-habitated when he was at his low-maintenance best, i’m all ears! ( altan ) met on the road: nico was drifting through the north-eastern states with a friend ( elif ), and a bit of canada (montreal, toronto) for about ten years, ending up in oregon. if you were around that area, at that time, there’s a possibility you ran into them. ( jasmine )

exes etc.: they’d be few and far between (he’s bi and demi, he figured out gradually) so if you want a former romantic connection, or a failed one? hmu

current relationship: ( jasmine (married april 2024!) <3 )

saving grace(s): being on the council is a huge challenge for someone who doesn’t like to sit still or take notes that much, he’ll need a helping hand or two! ( poppy )

other: packmates! (jc, elif, kitty, skye ) neighbours in echo acres! surfing buddies! ( jonah ) coworkers at the hospital or fellow ems workers always welcome! ( rangi )

[lunarcovehq]

Turn around, every now and then, I get a little bit terrified And then I see the look in your eyes

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART- PLOT DROP

TW Physical Assault, Violence, Gore, Drugs/Drugged, Knife/Weapons Rohan Persaud, a Lunar Cove coven member, put all of the Coven witches in town's lives at risk to bring back Todd Miller. With the coven witches magic out for the next 24 hours, a Council meeting was immediately called by the Supreme, Poppy Reed. After briefing the other leaders as to what had transpired, the Alpha, Nico Castillo, wolfed out mid-meeting, leaving his advisor, J.C. Carvalho, to represent the wolves on his behalf. The Council then came to the agreement that on top of whatever punishment the Coven felt fit for Rohan, the necromancer would be kicked out of Coven and would be banned from joining any other organization, if they were to change species, as punishment for breaking the accords and as a show of good faith on behalf of the other leaders. The Clan will provide vampire blood to any current witches whose lives are at risk who would like to take it as a precaution, but it is not mandatory for any witch to take. The vampire blood is only an option presented to those who are willing and would want it. After the Council meeting was held, the leaders dispersed. The supreme called a coven meeting to deliberate on Rohan Persaud's fate, with the question as to whether the witch should or shouldn't be stripped of their magic being posed to the rest of the coven to vote on. Meanwhile across town, J.C. Carvalho headed over to the Ice Skating Rink to get out some pent up energy before he was needed back at the Wolf Den to prepare for the anticipated Eclipse. But, what J.C. was not aware of was how his protein shake had been spiked with wolfsbane. Midway through a coughing fit, a figure shielded behind a black ski mask came at him with a blade. J.C. fought back before the perpetrator could make a move towards his throat. The perpetrator slashed J.C's clavicle instead before running off with the blade still in hand. J.C. never made it to the pack meeting later that day. He was found an hour after the Eclipse, still in wolf form having passed out due to the severity of the injury. He was immediately rushed to the Hospital and it seems likely he will make a full recovery.

REMINDERS

In anticipation of our next event, we will be dropping plot drops like these every other week or every week. These plot drops are completely optional for your character to react to, but will be dropping crucial tidbits that will be building up to the event to come. We also hope this new series of plot drops will inspire starters and different threads to be had between your characters.

It's a Solar Eclipse!: With the moon covering the sun, werewolves, you will be required to shift. You will only be in wolf form for the hour timeframe the sun is blocked, but the pull of the moon will be far stronger and very few wolves will be able to maintain control in this state. All wolves are advised to head to the Wolf Den for the allotted time frame whether you are part of the pack or otherwise for your own safety and for the safety of others. Likewise, for sirens, you will also need to shift into your mermaid-esque form. You will struggle with control and have a desperate desire to sing and lure any unsuspecting individuals in the surrounding area into the water. All sirens, whether they are part of the Fae Court or otherwise, are advised to head to the Fae Ring so that they can safety sing within the Fae Ring's pools. Banshees will be prone to sleepwalking, so be careful not to dose off. Non-coven witches with water manipulation will feel the pull of the moon and will have an urge to use their water magic (also dark magic witches who want to perform blood bending, now is the time). While the sun is blocked out, vampires will be able to walk around outside without needing protection from the sun in the form of daylight rings or parasols, but the moment even a partial amount of sun is showing, the sun will be 10 times stronger and be able to burn a vampire's skin even with the use of a magic ring (daylight ring vampires will get sunburnt, none daylight ring wearing vampires will be at risk of catching fire). While humans, will be advised to stay inside or head over to the newly opened Interstellar Planetarium where they can safely watch the Eclipse without staring directly at the sun or risk being attacked.

Calling All Coven Witches: On top of the eclipse, your magic is still temporarily out and you have now learned that, your life may be at risk and one of you, because of Rohan's actions, may die soon. It is up to you how you want to proceed or who you'd like to inform. You will also need to all vote to deliberate on Rohan's fate.

You can have your characters react to any aspect of the below IC. There is the fate of the coven witches, the fate of Rohan Persaud, Todd Miller coming back from the dead, the chaos of a solar eclipse, and the mystery of who attacked JC. The perpetrator seemed to follow JC from the Council Meeting. But, was JC the original target? Could this attack be the Catalyst's doing? Silas? Or someone else entirely? and, as always, big plots should be discussed with the admins before playing them out on the dash, so if you have any big plots you want to do, please let us know.

If you have any questions on the above please feel free to reach out.

Last by not least, we hope you have fun!

[lunarcovehq]

Down, down, down the road Down the witches' road Blood and tears and bone Maiden, Mother, Crone

Have a Frightful Weekend - Plot Drop

Kidnapping, Blood, Gore, Violence, Organ Harvesting, Torture, Burns tw

It's finally here! But, this year, the Lunar Covians aren't only celebrating All's Hollow Eve. Sure, there is even more trick or treating and mischief, but there is also a celebration of light in honor of Diwali, derived from the word "Deepavali" meaning "a row of lights". Over five days, residents can take part in festive gatherings, firework displays and feasts. There are many different ways to celebrate. Some of which being cleaning one's home to help bring in good fortune, decorating one's home with clay lamps and/or creating design patterns called rangoli on the floor using colored powders or sand etc. The Emerald Hotel will be hosting a mouth-watering feast for all residents and all are encouraged to head down to the docks for celebratory fireworks. Friends and family might even offer each other gifts and best wishes for the season, particularly exchanging sweets and snacks like laddus, barfis and chaklis. Don't miss Tatli's re-opening! The bakery will be selling these sweets and snacks throughout the five days for those to who would like to participate. Diwali is also a time to give back, either through donations or acts of kindness. It is with great pleasure that the Rec Center can announce that the skate park project in honor of Mason Mahir is in development to hopefully be available for all residents by the top of next year.

But, Diwali isn't the only other holiday happening this weekend. Lunar Cove will also be celebrating el Día de los Muertos (not to be mistaken with Halloween). In honor of the Day of the Dead, there will be a parade held throughout Downtown Lunar Cove. Residents are encouraged to attend and take in the papel picado, elaborately designed sheets of tissue paper throughout the streets of Celestial Hills. Pick up some candles from the Poison Room, some flowers from Just in Bloom, and some pan de muerto from Tatli to create your ofrenda. There will be candles lighting the way throughout the cemetery in the evening and, for those who do celebrate, this is a night where the veil between the astral plane dissolves. During this brief period, certain souls of the dead will awaken and return to the living to feast, drink, dance and play music with their loved ones. So, whether you are a resurrected or a spirit raiser or not, for one night only, you may be able to be reunited with those who have passed on. But, amongst allthe celebrations are occurring around town, two Lunar Covians remained searching for the missing residents.

Gia Ortiz made her way back down into the sewers once more. She was ready to turn around and resurface after her yellow rain boots had become covered in some unspeakably substances. But, as she was wandered through the dark tunnels alone she found what looked to be a hidden door she hadn't seen before. It took nearly all of her strength to pry it open, but once inside, she found herself in a pitch dark tunnel and, with the heavy door slamming shut behind her, there was nowhere left for the archeologist to go but through. Authorities would later reveal that the tunnel Gia stumbled upon was one of the old passage ways the original founders of the town had designed as escape routes in case hunters ever discovered Lunar Cove's location. They had been sealed up years ago, but these tunnels ran for miles under just about every location in town that was built prior to the 1940s. If it wasn't for the smell of blood, Gia might have been lost down there for quite sometime. But, emerging from behind the storage shelf in the janitor's closet in the basement of the Slumber Motel, she found herself staring face to face with one Dhruv Mehta. The wolf was strapped to the wall with silver chains. His wrists were badly burnt from his restraints. His body had been injected with so much wolfsbane over the past few weeks that he could barely keep his eyes open, let alone had any strength left in him. Though, that didn't stop his captor from trapping him in a circle of mountain ash. His clothes were tattered and torn revealing damp bandages along where his kidney should have been. The wound was fresh and he apparently pulled his stitches, but how was the question...

Gia would have, likely, found Meena eventually too. But, alas, while she was stuck in a closet with a werewolf, Saleem Das beat her to it. Rather than rummage through the sewers, he simply walked his way into the motel and bribed the owner with a hefty sum to let him look around. As far as the Motel owner and the blueprints they had on hand were concerned, there had never been a basement to the Slumber Motel. But, thanks to one screeching and newly trapped vampire downstairs, Saleem was quick to discover that the blueprints that had been handed down to the owner had been doctored and the stairwell that had been originally built with the motel to lead to the basement had been bricked off and sealed away. Whoever had taken Meena and Dhruv had done so through the old passage ways. They could have taken Meena down through an entrance under the Moore Manor and Dhruv from the entrance under the King's Cross Hospital. But, whoever they were, they wanted to ensure that no one from the surface could easily make their way down into the basement of the motel.

But, once in the underbelly of one of the seedier establishments in town, Saleem quickly realized that Meena and Dhruv's captor had turned the motel basement into their own makeshift laboratory. There was a room filled with beakers and lab equipment. Nearly all of the contents were disposed of and drained except for three peculiar and unmarked vials. There was a room with claw marks across the floor and the walls where it seemed a wolf had been let loose in and then there was a wooden lab table where the Clan Leader was strapped to.

Saleem found Meena Surya-Raja restrained with vervain soaked ropes that burned the skin around her wrists and ankles. Her body was injected with so much vervain that she too could barely keep her eyes open. The only blood she had been given over the past few weeks had been tainted. A few other burns littered her skin that appeared as though they were from rashes from sunlight exposure. Not to mention, there were three werewolf bites that marked her skin. Two were fresh, while the third seemed to be from a few weeks ago, the bites preventing her from healing. For those who need a werewolf bite refresher, the bite is poisonous and, if from an omega, will make them ill for a few weeks, experiencing fever, chills, delusions, blood lust and hallucinations. They will feel severe pain as if they are dying. Though, it's better than being from a beta or alpha which would actually kill them. But, if that wasn't enough, Meena also had the start of a small incision across her chest, suspiciously close to her heart, as if a makeshift surgery had just begun. It appears that whoever captured Meena and Dhruv fled back through the tunnels the moment they heard Gia approaching and, if Saleem and Gia hadn't shown up when they did, who knows what state they would have found the others in.

Now that the missing residents have been safety returned/rushed to the hospital, authorities have commenced a thorough investigation of the old passageways, roping off all entry points that are known of at this point in time as part of a crime scene. It could take weeks of searching, but they are hoping to find more evidence to tie all of the mysterious disappearances together.

With the Mayor being found, the future election has also been called off. Though, strange enough there was one submission, though there is no record of a supernatural by this name having ever lived in Lunar Cove. Only outside of it. There name is Damien Blake and while their nomination has been tossed out, who knows what might be coming...

REMINDERS

And with that, this event is now over!

Feel free to continue any event threads you would like, but you are also welcome to start non-event related threads at this time or write threads reacting to any of the above.

For everyone: please feel free to have your characters react to any of the above in threads and starters on the dash. Though, you also can feel free to return to regular non-event related starters if you so choose!

For the Council, with the missing residents having been found, you know what that means! Another Council meeting will be held shortly.

For Dhruv & Meena, we welcome you back. You will now return to regularly scheduled activity checks, though interestingly enough, neither of you have any memory of your time being held captive. Similar to the others who have been taken so far, it is as though your memory has been wiped clean. The only memories you can recall are from the initial struggles that happened within/outside of your home and from the night of the Full Moon. While neither of you have memory of your captor's voice or face, Meena remembers intentionally dropping her ring as her captors gained the upperhand, while Dhruv remembers blacking out in the back of the van. They both remember waking up weeks later, missing time and being trapped in a room. Meena was strapped to the wall with vervain while Dhruv had full reign of the space, though the exterior of the room was lined in mountain ash so Dhruv wouldn't be able to escape. Dhruv was forced to turn (which is how he reopened his stitches), though whatever he had been given caused him to lose control. His screams were heard through the pack bond as she tried to reach out to her vampires telepathically. He charged at Meena. Both of their memories fading to black as his teeth sunk into her leg. They can't recall anything else outside of those two quick instances.

With the end of the event, we will be restarting the starter rule shortly!

We would also love to see someone take the Deputy Sheriff wanted connection that you can find here and we have a brand new connection being the Slumber Motel Owner that you can find here.

We really hope you had as much fun with this event as we did writing it for you and we wish you all a Happy Halloween, Diwali, el Día de los Muertos and whatever other holiday you may chose to celebrate this weekend!

[lunarcovehq]

So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street Crash the party like a record scratch as I scream "Who's afraid of little old me?" You should be.

THE CATALYST REVEALED - PLOT DROP

As the night continues on, the ball seems to be going off without a hitch. There is no sign of suspicious activity about, despite the ball seeming to be the perfect trap to lure the Catalyst in. The music is raging, the dance floor booming and it's nearly time for the fireworks to go off. An announcement is made for everyone to convene back in the ballroom for the unveiling of the masks and to watch the firework illusions go off. Only as everyone begins to make their way to the center of the dance floor, a suspicious figure is spotted, bobbing through the crowd. They are hunched over, clutching their shoulder as they limp towards the center of the dance floor. The Council begin to push and shove to the crowd to get to Ben, but it's impossible to tell which one is Ben or Remmy amongst the crowd when they're in nearly identical glamours.

The mysterious figure make a move to grab onto what is believed to be Ben, but before they can reach him, they're tackled to the ground. Remmy removes their mask in the heat of confusion, shocked as they watch someone tackle another onto the ground right in front of them. The two wrestle it out on the floor. A circle forms around them as the partygoers shove their way backwards to avoid ending up in the thick of it. The party crasher manages to shove the Council member off of them right as Ben Anak Bandi pushes his way to the front of the crowd, removing their mask as well in realization of the mix-up. The party crasher now free, reaches out to grip onto Ben's ankle for dear life. Despite being covered in dirt and blood, the human desperately meets the Coalition Leader's gaze. Their face is recognizable as an old resident who had been long thought to have skipped town.

Some of you may recognize the figure as Song Seo-Joon, a human who resided in Lunar Cove for the past twelve years, only to have 'taken off' over eight months ago. Friends who had reached out during that time would receive few and far between texts about how he needed a change of pace and to get away for a while. But, in reality, Song had never left out of his own free will. The only human in the prominent witch family had been kidnapped tw and dragged over the town border where he had been tortured tw all of this time for information. He shouldn't have even been alive, but he hadn't found the silver of opportunity to escape and ran as fast as his feet could muster with his wrists still cuffed together back over the town border. The hunter who had been watching over him at the time could have likely taken him down, but by some sheer grace of luck, they hesitated, shooting him in the shoulder instead. He broke one of his own wrist getting the restraints off and now is laying face down on the floor of the ballroom. His wound across his shoulder still tore open as his blurry eyes blink up at Ben. He managed to make it to the Coalition Leader before the Catalyst had realized he had escaped. Collapsing at his leader's feet, he manages to mutter out, "It's the Sheriff. The Catalyst is the fucking Sheriff", before his vision begins to cloud.

REMINDERS

This plot drop is part of the IC discord event, but for those who can't make the discord event, you can always react to the above on the dash. The Catalyst's identity has now been revealed.

The tag for the event is lunarcoveevent11. Everything from pictures, outfits & threads etc. should be under this tag. Starters should have both the start tag and the event tag.

FOLLOW

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Song Seo-Joon || @cantfightmoonlight

[lunarcovehq]

I DON’T FEEL LIKE DANCIN’ - PLOT DROP #5

You'd think that I could muster up a little soft-shoe gentle sway But I don't feel like dancin', no sir, no dancin' today

The Dance-A-Thon might not have gone as planned, but its not all bad news. As some may remember, after the unfortunate hunter attacks back on Valentine’s Day, your Council was able to restore Lunar Cove to safety and captured a hunter to be held for questioning. Now, after a tiring few months, your Council has some long sought after answers to provide for you. 

Your leaders have discovered that the Catalyst, whoever they may be, is not a hunter, but a supernatural. Even more surprisingly is that they were once a prominent figure in Lunar Cove. They only recently began working with the hunters, promising them a list of names of supernaturals and their locations all around the world if they helped them enact the Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt. The Council is currently looking into how the Catalyst collected such a lengthy list of supernaturals, but rumor has it the number one theory is that the list was stolen from the Town archives themselves. 

The Council also were able to get information from the captive hunter about an attack that was supposed to take place in Lunar Cove during the start of the Blossom Festival. With this tip, the Council searched the buses of displaced supernaturals heading into town and were able to stop three disguised hunters from getting in, preventing an attack from happening before it began.

Unfortunately, it seems that the Council wasn’t able to completely stop the hunters plans. For during the Dance-A-Thon, with everyone distracted from the ghost on the loose and the curse coming to fruition, it seems as though someone broke into the interrogation room and freed the captive. The camera feed was tampered with so the authorities have not yet been unable to identify who exactly broke in and freed the hunter in the midst of the Dance-A-Thon. But, your advisors, @kadiraksoy , @icexpackxjc , and @conjvred (nesrim), stepped up to the plate, tracking down the hunter and eliminating the threat before they were able to make it past the mirage. Nesrim used her magic to hold the hunter into place while J.C. used their claws and Kadir (violence tw) snapped the Hunter’s neck.

With the Dance-A-Thon and the Blossom Festival coming to an end, Town Hall has held a press event where they’ve acknowledge that the festivities may not have gone as smoothly as they would have liked, but thankfully, Julian Chandler has officially completed their transition as a newly turned vampire and the Council will continue to do everything in their power to keep not only this town safe, but provide you, the Lunar Covians, with the answers on the Catalyst.

REMINDERS

The event is now officially over! Please feel free to continue to react to event starters and write out any event-related threads. But, you also may now post non-event related starters if you so choose or post any threads reacting to any of the above.

As we begin to wrap up this event we also ask that you please make sure you’ve filled out the Wishing Tree survey (https://forms.gle/59PQtKG78FiuUxa66) if you haven’t already. We’re going to be sending out wishes shortly and the Wishing Tree may or may not be tied to a future plot drop, so we highly recommend filling it out if you have the time to (it is not mandatory).

Likewise, if you haven’t filled out the Dance-A-Thon partner survey (https://forms.gle/57k4bGexPcKXyjSg9) you have until Saturday at Midnight EST to. We will be creating a poll where you can all vote for the winners of the Dance-A-Thon and the other event contests then.

For anyone looking to bring in new characters, we are going to go down to one acceptance per week for the rest of the month of May. We have a few plot drops happening in May & June that we’re trying to accommodate. Acceptances will now be on Mondays until the end of May where we will return back to our two acceptances a week.

As mentioned before, given that our Spring Blossom Festival Event is a character-building/character-driven event rather than a plot-driven event, we wanted to try something new and integrate players storylines into fun chaos themed plot drops. We are trying these character integrated style plot drops out and will be dropping an OOC survey in the new few days so that you can give us your feedback as to whether you like them and would like to see more of them or have your character participate themselves. So, please stay tuned for that.

Last, but not least, we hope you have fun!

[dhruvxmehta]

Useless as he was being right now, he was glad that she had determination and the energy to keep going. Vision, despite him desperately trying to cling on, began to mingle with darkness as lids drooped with exhaustion, or maybe death was imminent, it was hardly to tell, but whatever the case might be, he couldn't keep this up for much long before everything would go dark. Each thud at the door from her felt like one to his head with how loudly it seemed to echo, yet in a way, it was good, painful without a doubt, but it kept him from slipping.

Relief was palpable when the door gave way. The exclaim and the way she stood unmoving hadn't gone unnoticed, if what he thought was correct then breaking out from the place he was forced into and chained, it would lead to the main basement area, one where him and Meena had been trapped for the past month or so from what he counted. Phases of the moon were accurate enough but it lacked the precision that he craved, still, a big chunk of time was spent in here, drugged, chained, tortured - definition of hell if there ever was one. Staggering, Dhruv dragged himself away from the walls to see caused dread to pool in the pits of his stomach once again at what lay before. Was he responsible for that in some way too? Some of the wounds were his fault he knew, but not this. Surely not this. "Who are you people?" he called out making his way up a little past where Gia was. A sharp pain shot up through his side seeing the operation equipment, unable to place it just yet he chalked it up to all the shit that had happened. Panic never ceased even after finding Meena, her state did not look to be anywhere near good, but that was his fault. Guilt racked up tenfold as he forced himself to look away and back to Gia, "You have to go before they come back..."

While the vampire bit her tongue her thoughts were written plainly across her face. Idiot. She mentally chided his refusal of her blood. All this work to rescue an idiot. A sigh, heavy with the weight of her exhaustion both mental and physical, fell from Gia's lips as she approached the door. It didn't give way quickly. The handle broke from the door after several forceful rams. Whoever had locked Dhruv in the closest didn't want him escaping. Evident by the chains they'd bound him in, and the force in which they'd barricaded the door.

A string of curses filled the air, the vampire's irritated voice growing in volume as each blow merely dented the door. Profanity turned to threats as she heard footsteps on the other side, promising a cruel death to whoever had trapped her inside. Encouragement not for their captors, rather for Gia's rage. With a final kick the vampire broke the door from its hinges and sent it flying into the room.

In a blur she left Dhruv behind. Not to abandon the werewolf but to make good on her threats, only to find Meena and another vampire freeing her from what appeared to be an operating table. Horror gripped the immortal in place, frozen by fear for what she saw. "What the fuck.." Two centuries and much exploration, and little had leveled her like what her eyes took in. Every detail examined, recorded in her near perfect memory. A piece of the puzzle in place, but still far from winning the game. "We have to go," Gia called to Dhruv but still couldn't bring herself to move. "We have to.."

[dhruvxmehta]

Prepared for more yelling, body remained tense, but alertness began to dip as natural adrenaline sputtered in its release, whatever had already been injected into him overpowered it. Wanting to hold ground, to not drop, to not be weak were fanciful wishes, and proven impossible when eyelids closed involuntarily, exhaustion turning everything heavy but one word cut through into his mind. "Safe?" Safe. That word echoed an awful sound in his ears, was anything ever truly safe anymore. And from the way she couldn't finish her sentence, even in this a barely conscious state, he could tell she didn't believe it either. It held no meaning. It couldn't undo things that had transpired, couldn't undo his actions or time, it wasn't even a mindset he could take respite in, meek and entirely in her control, safe is whatever she defined it.

"Gia." Face, name, nor appearance at the present moment held any clues as to whether they had crossed paths before, but given that she had not yet killed him and was looking for Meena, he didn't club her into the same box as his kidnappers. Or perhaps this was all a ruse to get information. He was hardly sound of mind to figure such things out. Actions did help though, and her emotions rising to a level of concern that he had not seen, he wanted to believe it, he did. "You...you're not here to kill me?"

That seemed to make sense; a closet. He remembered moments, of being pushed into an even more confided space. Opposite to what she said, Dhruv slowly rose to his feet. A move that was met with much swaying of body and gave away the reality of the situation. Despite the allure to fall away into the comforting blackness that danced in his peripheries, Dhruv knew he needed to muster some semblance of steadiness and balance so she could do what she said. "I'm fine... Save your blood." He didn't feel deserving of it, besides, in this current state of his, who could say what adverse effects vampire blood might have on him and were things to take a turn for the worse... human, to wolf, to vampire, is that what fate had in store? "If I die, I die." At least, he could met his cousin that way. "Door first."

Time moved slow. Too slow for the vampire who grew impatient waiting for an answer. So close to solving what had bewitched her for a month straight, yet stalled in the final moments by shreds of humanity she often thought lost. She couldn't bring herself to coerce a quick answer but heard herself attempting to soothe the maimed man she'd startled. "You're safe now. You're.." Okay, she'd started to say but changed her mind. The vampire needn't lie. Mutilated and mangled, Dhruv was difficult to look at. Fear festered in her belly that Meena was in a similar if not worse state.

Deeply, Georgiana inhaled. The wolf's blood was palpable in the air, even from within the tunnel, which made it difficult for her to discern if she could smell Meena or not. It was obvious to the vampire before Dhruv even answered that he'd be of little help. A man who danced with death. Her arrival, perhaps, in the nick of time.

"Gia." An answer as brief as the empathy she allowed herself to extended. She still needed to find her friend. "You don't know where she is now, but you two were together?" A reasonable suspicion confirmed. The vampire looked around, discerning they were in a closest a split second before she was at the door. She gave the handle several, hard tries before giving the door itself a kick. "Fuck!"

It shouldn't have come as a surprise to her they were locked inside. The vampire exhaled gruffly before she whipped back around. In another instant she stood at the werewolf's side. Her hand offered in support as she suggested, "You should sit down." Gia continued to explain. "We're locked in a closest, I believe. I'm going to have to break the door down." A difficult but not impossible task for the vampire. "I need you to live long enough for that, okay?" Blood sharing wasn't something she liked to do with strangers, but his situation seemed dire. She offered the crimson liquid from a slice she made in her thumb after a glide beneath a fang. "Just to be sure?"