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route_0062014-06-24 08:24 pm
quickattackjack) wrote in route_0062014-06-24 08:24 pm
Interest Gathering!
Howdy, Route! It's Wolfy the oldtimer here. You know what goes great with summer fun in the sun?
HORROR
Jack has been in the land of pokemon for nearly four long years now and he hasn't frightened much of anyone! While he had a good time putting on his haunted house (which he'll be doing again this Halloween) it wasn't really the same. It wasn't like the old days of stalking the living in the dead of night and sending them shrieking for the hills.
So that is what he is going to do.
THE LEGEND OF TALLFELLOW
Jack is going to put on a scarecrow costume and with the help of the illusions created by his pokemon, start up an urban legend of his very own.
Depending on how interested people are, I'm going to start putting up 'encounter logs' so that people who are traveling between cities can have run-ins with the mysterious Tallfellow, a dark, towering figure dressed in tattered clothes with a Murkrow on its shoulder. It stands, unmoving, between the trees until noticed. This mysterious creature cannot be caught. It disappears into fog when approached and sometimes never shows itself at all.
Spooky things Jack will do to campers include but are not limited to:
- lingering at the edge of their vision
- screaming in the middle of the night
- standing there unresponsive and menacing and then disappearing
- drawing circles in the dirt around campers once they have fallen asleep
- leaving odd gifts in their camps such as bundles of twigs and leaves or scraps of clothing/fur/wire
- littering the campisite with creepy symbols
- Leaving messages or odd pictures on the gears of campers who leave them where he can get to them.
[!] Jack will never steal from anyone or harm them or their pokemon on purpose.
Who knows what he will do next?
I thought this would kick up a little spooky fun because the best thing about urban legends is that everyone has a different take on them. Rumors start and spread and change and suddenly something new and terrifying is created.
THE MYSTERY
The thing is, this all hinges on people not finding out the identity of the Tallfellow right away.
I understand that the first thing most route travelers would do when faced with a mysterious figure in the middle of the night is call out their pokemon to attack. This can happen, however that will simply drive Tallfellow away. His pokemon will only return fire if they feel Jack is in actual danger. Sometimes his image will be an illusion cast by his Noctowl or one of his many ghost friends.
The rumor needs time to grow and change. Tallfellow is something that would be spread across months with increasing and decreasing activity. The closer to Halloween it gets, Jack will become careless and start leaving clues behind. But by then the legend may have taken on a life of its very own! Who knows!
ENCOUNTER LOGS
So what's going to go down in these things anyway?
Once or twice a month (it depends on player interest) I will put up a log in the regular network comm as an [Action]. I will lay the setting and detail which general area the haunting will take place in. Jack's hauntings will primarily take place between towns but he may enter parks or regional forests as well.
Within will be a HANDWAVE thread where you can simply post OOC and I will detail an interaction for you. This is for folks who might not have the time to thread things out but still want their character to have a story to tell!
The ENCOUNTER threads will be normal action threads where you can describe your character's camp and give old Jack a chance to show up. Multi-character threads are welcome too! Every encounter thread is guaranteed to go to the 10 comment A/C requirement!
What do you say, Route? Ready to get spooped?
HORROR
Jack has been in the land of pokemon for nearly four long years now and he hasn't frightened much of anyone! While he had a good time putting on his haunted house (which he'll be doing again this Halloween) it wasn't really the same. It wasn't like the old days of stalking the living in the dead of night and sending them shrieking for the hills.
So that is what he is going to do.
THE LEGEND OF TALLFELLOW
Jack is going to put on a scarecrow costume and with the help of the illusions created by his pokemon, start up an urban legend of his very own.
Depending on how interested people are, I'm going to start putting up 'encounter logs' so that people who are traveling between cities can have run-ins with the mysterious Tallfellow, a dark, towering figure dressed in tattered clothes with a Murkrow on its shoulder. It stands, unmoving, between the trees until noticed. This mysterious creature cannot be caught. It disappears into fog when approached and sometimes never shows itself at all.
Spooky things Jack will do to campers include but are not limited to:
- lingering at the edge of their vision
- screaming in the middle of the night
- standing there unresponsive and menacing and then disappearing
- drawing circles in the dirt around campers once they have fallen asleep
- leaving odd gifts in their camps such as bundles of twigs and leaves or scraps of clothing/fur/wire
- littering the campisite with creepy symbols
- Leaving messages or odd pictures on the gears of campers who leave them where he can get to them.
[!] Jack will never steal from anyone or harm them or their pokemon on purpose.
Who knows what he will do next?
I thought this would kick up a little spooky fun because the best thing about urban legends is that everyone has a different take on them. Rumors start and spread and change and suddenly something new and terrifying is created.
THE MYSTERY
The thing is, this all hinges on people not finding out the identity of the Tallfellow right away.
I understand that the first thing most route travelers would do when faced with a mysterious figure in the middle of the night is call out their pokemon to attack. This can happen, however that will simply drive Tallfellow away. His pokemon will only return fire if they feel Jack is in actual danger. Sometimes his image will be an illusion cast by his Noctowl or one of his many ghost friends.
The rumor needs time to grow and change. Tallfellow is something that would be spread across months with increasing and decreasing activity. The closer to Halloween it gets, Jack will become careless and start leaving clues behind. But by then the legend may have taken on a life of its very own! Who knows!
ENCOUNTER LOGS
So what's going to go down in these things anyway?
Once or twice a month (it depends on player interest) I will put up a log in the regular network comm as an [Action]. I will lay the setting and detail which general area the haunting will take place in. Jack's hauntings will primarily take place between towns but he may enter parks or regional forests as well.
Within will be a HANDWAVE thread where you can simply post OOC and I will detail an interaction for you. This is for folks who might not have the time to thread things out but still want their character to have a story to tell!
The ENCOUNTER threads will be normal action threads where you can describe your character's camp and give old Jack a chance to show up. Multi-character threads are welcome too! Every encounter thread is guaranteed to go to the 10 comment A/C requirement!
What do you say, Route? Ready to get spooped?
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I'm super interested in an encounter log, and don't worry about rumors not spreading in her case because when Saionji opens her mouth the entirety of Johto groans in unison.
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though you may know that's Snake's first reaction to scary things is to try and punch them
but I'm sure TALLFELLOW will not be anywhere close to Snake, just in the distance
(i keep misreading tallfellow as tailfeather)
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Especially since Flynn is known to have zero emotional response to these things. Maybe he'll end up scaring Jack instead?
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