Got the morbs.

[polymods]

✖ VICTORIA'S SECRET

Ⅰ. ARRIVAL & THE TEMPLE
You can read all about your character's arrival in the game lore.
The ferry pulls into port in the evening, when shadows are long and gas lamps burn through a veil of mist. Dozens of other ships are docked as well, with men unloading crates and boxes from their holds. Beyond the wet wood and lapping sound of the ocean, a city looms like a charcoal smudge on a purple sky. The air is smoggy and thick, and the river that flows from the sea into the city smells foul. Walk the cobbled streets and you will find that the city is crowded and filthy, but full of merchants, pubs, and theatres. Vast wealth and extreme poverty exist side by side.

In the center of the sprawling city is a temple with towering gothic spires and huge stained glass windows depicting all manner of beings that might be gods or angels or monsters. You could look for hours and still be finding new figures plucked straight from books of myth and religion. Inside, the main chamber has a grand vaulted ceiling, and dozens of pews line the aisle up to the altar, which is oddly anticlimactic compared to the lavish surroundings: just a plain stone table with a lit oil lamp in the centre. Two hallways branch off on either side of the room: one leads to private baths and a communal kitchen, the other to monastic style chambers with thin beds. Not the most comfortable place to stay, but it’ll do in a pinch!

Alternatively you can venture into the city and find yourself some other lodging - every Traveler has been supplied with some pocket money. Just be careful that it isn’t stolen by some street urchin. Travelers can also find an era-appropriate outfit that will fit them perfectly laid in the first sleeping chamber they visit.

Notes:
1. Unless this is your character’s first island, the High Temple and anything you may have stored there is off-limits this month.

2. Please remember to mark threads appropriately with Content Warnings when necessary.

3. The city greatly resembles Victorian London, and the technology and general way of life is all of that era. Feel free to explore the city! These prompts are a jumping off point - how they affect your character and their development is up to you.

4. Most food is safe to eat, and is consumable by non-human entities. Most. Some of it’s going to be pretty gross or cooked improperly, so be careful.

5. The people in the city are normal humans unless otherwise indicated. Killing them is possible and will affect the colour grading of your Scrywatch depending on the situation.

6. Have fun!

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Ⅱ. SEANCE
CW: grief, past trauma.
Perhaps you overhear talk of it at a pub, or maybe you’re handed a small card as you push your way through the crowded city streets. Maybe you just wander in by accident. However it happens, you find yourself being ushered into the parlour of one Miss Mary Price: Spiritualist.

You and several other people are instructed to sit at a round table in a very dark and musty room. The walls are covered in thick black curtains, and maybe you’re the type to suspect that there’s someone hiding behind them somewhere. Once everyone is seated, Mary Price herself enters the room. The lights are all extinguished save for a single candle.

Mary calls out to the spirits. They communicate through a series of knocks, or the movement of a Ouija board. Someone at the table is put in contact with a deceased aunt who reveals the location of a family heirloom. Someone else is able to say goodbye to a son.

Mary Price looks at you with eyes so dark they look black, and asks, “What haunts you?”

Maybe you answer honestly. Maybe you don’t answer at all, but that doesn’t matter because the spirit tapping around the room is more than happy to narc on you and tell the whole room what or who it is that you cannot forget.

You can deny it all you like, but the spirits don’t have a reason to lie. And if you try to mess up the seance, you will spend a month being hounded by an angry poltergeist.

Notes:
1. The spirit can communicate through knocks, the Ouija, actually vocalising through the medium, or via ectoplasm.

2. What haunts your character does not have to be the memory of a dead person. It can be an event - maybe they’ve never gotten over losing that science fair in grade three. It is the feeling of being haunted that is important.

3. If you choose to trash the seance, the spirit will follow you for the rest of the month. It can range from annoying to actually dangerous.

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Ⅲ. THE RIPPER
CW: murder, gore, violence.
You’re lost at night. Maybe you were in the pub too late, or maybe you were searching for more illicit fun - weren’t there opium dens around this time? - or maybe you just weren’t keeping an eye on the time. However it happened, you’re on the streets in the dark.

It’s very foggy; you can barely see a foot in front of you. The streetlamps look like dimly burning ghosts and when the odd person passes you they are felt more than seen, just a darker shadow in a world of shifting shades.

Very suddenly you hear a scream - short, and swallowed up quickly by the fog. Still, it’s enough to get you to turn and hurry down a narrow alleyway.

Sprawled on the ground amid a lake of blood is a body. It’s immediately apparent that this person is probably beyond help - their throat has been slashed ear to ear. Your appearance was not expected, however, and you can see that you’ve startled the killer: they’re running down the alley in the opposite direction.

You have a few choices: you can chase the killer and attempt to catch them, you can try to help the victim, you can get the authorities, or you can just walk away.

What will you do?

Notes:
1. The inspiration for this prompt is Jack the Ripper but you do not have to use that case as a basis for your killer.

2. You can get as involved with this as you would like. You can have your character catch the killer in a chase, or form your very own detective squad and hunt them down that way.

3. Naturally, walking away from a potential serial killer might not be great for your Scrywatch grading!

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Ⅳ. RESURRECTION MEN
CW: dead bodies, grave robbing.
You’re not entirely clear on how you agreed to this. Maybe it was a barroom bet gone wrong. Maybe you’re broke enough that you need money fast. Or maybe you want to help some wannabe medical students. However it happened, you’re in the cemetery.

And you’ve got a shovel.

Time to rob some graves! You’ve convinced yourself somehow that this isn’t morally reprehensible, and so you and your partner are just going to get down to business! What corpse should you unearth? You feel like a kid in a candy store!

The problem comes once you’ve unearthed the body because it seems terribly familiar. Which is… creepy. Creepier still when it starts talking.

Maybe it’s a family member, or an old friend. Maybe an ex partner. Whoever it is, they immediately start telling your fellow grave robber about some incident from your past that you just. Can’t. Let. Go. Of. And even if you whack it with a shovel it won’t stop. Bad corpse! BAD Corpse!

Which of course is exactly what you have to try and do if you want this chatty Cathy of a corpse to shut the hell up.

Notes:
1. If you do NOT let go of this past event, the corpse will follow you the rest of the night singing Henry the Eighth I am, I am.

Sometimes I can still hear his voice...

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Comments

[dothelokimotion]

[ the titan continues to grin, grotesque and warped. loki seems to stare, his attention caught on thanos and nothing else. ]

Time is running out, god of lies. What will you spin next?

[ loki grits his teeth, finally kicking thanos' hand off. ]

I don't need to spin a web for your benefit or mine. I know who I am.

[unkindled_madness]

[If his ghost won't let him draw his blade, then Sephiroth picks up Loki's abandoned shovel, preparing to knock the corpse back.

But then Loki finally kicks off the hand, and Sephiroth pauses, looking to him.]

Do you have this?

[Maybe Loki would rather deal with this on his own. If this is who he chose to burn that day... Sephiroth doesn't know.]

cw:

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki scoffs, pretending not to care. ]

It's some facsimile of the Mad Titan, spouting nonsense.

[ but thanos swivels to look at sephiroth. ]

Don't you want to know?

[unkindled_madness]

[Sephiroth may not be the most perceptive, but he isn't buying that. This isn't the Titan's first appearance.]

...still, it must be irritating. Having to listen to that nonsense.

[He looks at the corpse, but doesn't directly respond. Why believe anything it says?]

[dothelokimotion]

He seems determined to haunt me.

[ and loki knows why. thanos was the monster he feared for so long. who had him under his thumb. thanos suddenly falls quiet as loki shoots him a quelling look. he will not be driven to violence by this . . . thing. ]

[unkindled_madness]

Perhaps burning this thing would feel more satisfying than that illusion of yours.

[He didn't burn anything real at the arson club meeting.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ he hesitates briefly before nodding. ]

Go ahead.

[unkindled_madness]

[Oh, Loki wants him to do the honors? It is nice now that he can.]

...all right.

[Have a fireball to the face, Titan corpse.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ it is satisfying to watch thanos burn, even if the hideous skull-like figure keeps looking at loki as if he's won. and perhaps he has. he killed loki effectively, even though loki still stands.

no more resurrections, he had promised.

loki had the last laugh though. ]

How annoying.

[unkindled_madness]

[Sephiroth watches Loki as much as the corpse.]

...I think he was more than an annoyance to you.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki exhales quietly. ]

He is. Or was. I rather not give him any more quarter all the same.

[unkindled_madness]

I would never suggest it. He was your enemy.

And he would have more than one were he ever to come here.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki glances at sephiroth, surprised. ]

It's not worth your life.

[unkindled_madness]

Did I say something about dying?

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki shakes his head. ]

His power is far greater than you realize.

[unkindled_madness]

[Sephiroth looks back at the burning corpse. He understands what Loki is saying, but...]

A challenge, then.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki gives him a long look before letting out a huff. ]

Yes. I suppose he would be challenging.

[unkindled_madness]

[That's right. A challenge, not an impossibility. He gives Loki a nod.]

...so, is "god of outcasts" really one of your titles?

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki gives a low snort. ]

I have many titles given to me. That doesn't mean I recognize them or legitimatise them.

[unkindled_madness]

So you don't care for that one?

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki frowns minutely, though it's more contemplative than annoyance. ]

I have nothing against outcasts but I am not a welcoming god. I wouldn't know what they would want from me.

[unkindled_madness]

I suppose I don't really understand what people want from gods, in general. But if they've given you the title, then they must already see what they need.

[dothelokimotion]

I highly doubt that. But I can't imagine there is a lot of Gods in supply for such things.

[unkindled_madness]

What, as though no one else would want them?

[Wouldn't that make Loki the appropriate choice?]

[dothelokimotion]

Gods tend to prefer more . . . important titles.