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polymods ([personal profile] polymods) wrote in [community profile] polylogs2022-01-02 12:44 pm

Got the morbs.

POLYMYTHOS: VICTORIA'S SECRET

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!



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.



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!



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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helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

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[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-01-11 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spells. There is actual spell work going on. Sephiroth had spoken of magical orbs that he could use to harness the elements, but as David approached, he couldn't help but watch. It was captivating.

When Sephiroth paused David offered polite applause.]


Never seen anything like that.
unkindled_madness: (skeptical)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-01-11 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sephiroth turns with a faint frown at the applause. He was aware of someone else's presence but he wasn't doing this for an audience.]

...what, none of your mutant friends can summon the elements?
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-01-12 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I know people that control the elements. Storm can control the weather and call lightning and rain and water. Bobby can control ice of course, and Pyro does fire. But nothing quite like you're doing right now.

So I'm intrigued.
unkindled_madness: (skeptical)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-01-12 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Sephiroth considers that.]

You mean to say they have specializations.

...did they choose those names?
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-01-12 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, of course they do. That's how mutants work. And not always. Sometimes names are given to mutants, based on what they do.
unkindled_madness: (skeptical)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-01-12 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That's hardly common sense. Your mutations are extremely varied.

The creativity in names, less so.
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-01-13 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god yes, there's a ton of variations. So far as I know, for instance, my gift back home is wholly unique.

And that was without considering different power levels even among similar gifts.]

Listen, names can totally suck. Mine makes me sound conceited.
unkindled_madness: (are you sure about this?)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-01-13 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
There's nothing unique about basic elemental spells.

[Even if casting them without materia is... weird. But he's not dwelling on that because it's normal for Anders so it's clearly a perfectly normal and human thing to do.]

..."David" is conceited? [It could be he's missing some Earth context here.]
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-01-14 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
There is back home. The one who can control ice, Bobby? He could trigger a global ice age if he wanted to.

[And that's really all it would take. Anger and desire. He was Omega level, and that was scary.]

David is my birth name. It's not the name I have a a mutant.
unkindled_madness: (are you sure about this?)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-01-14 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...one might consider that power god-like.

[He's not sure people would say that even of Shiva.]

And, what is your second name?
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

wow talk about a notification I never got

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-02-02 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
We call them Omega-Level mutants when they get to that level. And yeah, they are pretty god like.

[He would make Shiva look like a cool breeze on a summer's day, and yet Bobby didn't tap into that depth often. Still, he didn't think he should linger on that question, and instead continued forward, with a sigh.]

Prodigy. I didn't choose it.
unkindled_madness: (skeptical)

ffff thanks dreamwidth!

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-02-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
They're mortal, though? [Unclear how this works.]

...yet you chose it for the network.
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-02-02 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
That's... debatable in some situations.

[He wasn't sure if Bobby could die at this point. Josh definitely couldn't.]

Yeah, It's an identity of mine.
unkindled_madness: (confused)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-02-02 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
...I see.

[More mutants whose powers include being unkillable, apparently.]

I'm not certain why you would perpetuate it when you don't seem to care for it.
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-02-03 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, sorry about that Sephiroth. Logan and Wade were some of the lower end examples really.]

It's who I am. I don't care for how conceited it makes me sound when I say it was my name as a hero and mutant.
unkindled_madness: (confused)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-02-03 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
How is it different now?

[He's still a mutant, after all, even if he isn't currently doing whatever heroes do.]
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-02-03 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Because I wasn't a mutant for a while. I had to fight to DESERVE my name, my place. And I accepted that it spoke to a potential I didn't even know I had.
unkindled_madness: (confused)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-02-03 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[David what is your life.]

...what do you mean you weren't a mutant for a while?
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Not So Sure Here (Nervous))

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-02-03 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[IT's a mess upon a mess, and a horrible thing to have experienced.]

There was an incident back home called M-Day. It stripped the powers from most mutants. We just... we were changed.
unkindled_madness: (curiosity)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-02-03 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Did you become human?
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-02-03 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. But I became whole again, with time.

[Yeah, it's awkward. So he looks slightly uncomfortable. Talking about how he got it back probably upsets people.]
unkindled_madness: (reading)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-02-03 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Sephiroth is quiet for a moment. He considers this whole, to be inhuman.]

...was there nothing to recommend the experience?
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-02-03 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[He isn't inhuman. He's just differently human]

To me, it was like being blind. I could adapt, I could live. But I was born with sight, and lost it, and even when you learn to live with it, when you make your life wonderful as it was, you still remember the look of a tree in the fall, or waves washing over the beach. And it's something you long for.
unkindled_madness: (reading)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2022-02-03 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

[Not relatable, but sure. Okay.]

I suppose it does make some sense then, to use the name.
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-02-03 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Prodigy and David. Two names. Two sides of the same coin.

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