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cursedrp2022-09-08 03:47 pm
cursedmods) wrote in cursedrp2022-09-08 03:47 pm
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EVENT #1: SAY CHEESE
SAY CHEESE
The Rundown
Starting on September 8th, all characters will find themselves transported to White Pines Mall. During this time, the mall is closed to the public for renovations and no one suspects a thing! The power is on and everything is mysteriously functioning, but all the doors to the outside world are locked and no amount of pounding on them or trying to break windows will work. About an hour after arrival, an announcement will come over the PA system:Extra Information
"Attention shoppers! Thank you for visiting White Pines Mall. We're excited to announce a new line of very special cameras available at Cutting Edge Electronics. For one week only, we're offering them for the low, low price of FREE! Present your photo at the front door to exit the mall, and have a wonderful day."
At Cutting Edge electronics, a row of Polaroid cameras will be on display, one for each character. All you have to do to leave the mall is get someone to take your picture with one of these cameras! Easy, right? Well...
The only issue is when the photo develops, there's something wrong with it. And that's not all: whatever's in the photo starts to come true! Effects from the photo can come on as quickly or as slowly as you like, and will wear off within the week (again, player's choice as to when exactly they wear off). If multiple photos of a character are taken, you have two options: have them be normal photos with no effect until the character's current effect wears off, OR have a new effect that replaces the old one. Characters cannot have multiple effects at one time.
Every character in the mall will need to present a photo in order to leave (and they won't be allowed to sneak out or piggyback with someone else). They can leave right away, or they can stay and try to deal with their new problem away from prying eyes until the event is over. The food court is fully stocked and anything your character orders will appear on the counter in front of them even though there are no employees there, so don't worry about starving.
The opt-out options for this event are as follows: one, say that your character was overlooked and not transported to the mall at all. They can continue to hang out in the city as normal but will not be able to enter the mall until the event is over. Two, have them be transported to the mall and end up with a "dud" photo where nothing has changed. It happens sometimes, lucky them!
Everyone will be kicked out at the end of the day on the 12th regardless of whether they took a photo or not. Any damage done to the mall will be repaired when it re-opens for business the next day.
After this event, the cursed camera item will be permanently available to purchase from Cutting Edge Electronics and can be used at any time. Why would you want to buy that? Revenge, maybe. Or maybe some meddling employee accidentally mixed the cursed stock with the regular stock. TL;DR if you want to play with this effect again after the event is over, the item will be there.
The effects of the camera are highly flexible. The effects don't have to be tied in to any specific fear they have, but of course you can use that as inspiration if you would like to. Some examples of effects can include:
Characters appear wounded in their photo, and the wounds start to manifest on them. Even wounds that should be fatal won't actually kill them during this event, but they sure hurt like hell and it may feel like they're dying if they keep progressing.
A character appears faded in their photo, and they gradually become intangible, unable to move anything or even let themselves out without help.
Characters who took a group photo to try and cheat the system find themselves fused together, or that they've swapped bodies.
There's a shadowy figure in the background of the photo, and for the rest of the week the affected character keeps seeing someone - or something - moving in their peripheral vision that feels like it's getting closer and closer.
Any of these effects are fair game but they are just examples, so feel free to make your own! Try and keep with the tone of these prompts and not go too big, some degree of transformation is fine but don't turn your character into a kitten or a three-headed dragon.
Characters can choose to leave right away or stay for a while, but they won't actually be told they'll be let go/kicked out on the 12th regardless.
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Home's London, 1838. [She'd learned she really needs to specify when because her London was very different from the London of say, 2020.] Where's home for you, Sir?
[Always polite. Unless she had to be rude.]
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Hopper swallowed and took the picture. ]
Well that explains the accent. [ When the year caught up to his brain, however, he blinked in surprise. ]
1838? As in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight?
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Eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. There's a new Queen and everything. [Pre-Jack the Ripper by 50 years.]
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I suppose I knew people were coming from different places, but not from different years. America 1986, by the way.
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[She nods encouragingly.] I figured from your accent. You sound a bit like my friend Joyce. [They're going to share wine coolers. They just don't know it yet.] I've found someone from the next millenium! And there's a few men from different galaxies as well.
[It's all so exciting, things she'd have read about in a book. And yet, here she was, hearing all these things.] Ed and Captain Bonnet are from the 1700s.
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[ He took for granted the face that he’s probably seen dozens upon dozens of these things become pictures and wasn’t even really looking at it. Since she was from a time before Polaroids, Hopper offers her the picture. ]
Did you say you know Joyce? She has a last name of Byers.
[ It didn’t *have* to be *his* Joyce, but he did know that she was here. And if she sounded like him … ]
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Yes, Joyce Byers, [she says fondly] She introduced me to bourbon chicken, and pizza. Do you know her from Indiana?
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The looks were about where it ended, though. She didn’t sound like Jane. She had none of the same mannerisms, either. ]
Funny enough we are from the same town. We went to school together.
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Really! [She glances down at the polaroid, looking at the strange shapes and colors as it develops.] I never went to school. Almost wish I had.
Have you seen her? Since you've been here, I mean.
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[ Because, you know. He’s got a bad feeling about this place. ]
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I keep hoping one of my brothers, or my husband arrive. [That's what she's calling Bill. Her husband.] But I haven't seen hide or hair of 'em.
[She looks at the polaroid] this is the strangest thing I have ever seen, all these odd colors. Is it a liquid? [she touches the developing film.]
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[ Hopper glances down at the photo. ]
There are chemicals inside of the picture that makes it show up the way it does. Eventually they dry.
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How interesting! [she looks at the portrait again, how the images are coming through now. She can see herself on the bench, though the colors are off yet. She keeps shaking until the colors set, admiring the photograph.]
This is beautiful. [She tells him genuinely, and smiles.] Look, see? [But even as she shows him, she notices the figure lurking in the background. Perhaps the chemicals just aren't dry yet.
Yes, that was it.]
Thank you, Sir. I'm afraid I don't know your name.
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[ Hopper frowns as he looks at the figure in the background. There hadn’t been anyone there at the time … He removes a flashlight from his belt and shines it at the darkness. ]
Hellooooooo. If there’s anyone there, speak up.
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[And then he's moving oh! What is that? SHe leans forward to get a better look at the light coming from the object. A lantern, but shaped like a torch. Curious.
Soon, however, that curiosity is pushed aside as he calls to the shadows. She frowns. So he saw the figure, too. She looks at it, then back up to the empty space.] I don't think... You saw it, too? In the photograph?
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[ Sure he was trying to get her into the center of the viewfinder and making certain the photo was gonna look nice for her, but he would have noticed … that thing, whatever it is, if he was looking right at it. … Right? ]
I can’t tell what it is. [ He murmured. ] Have you seen that thing before?
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[She leans over, looking at it. Biting her lip, she almost immediately recognizes the shape. It doesn't matter how many years and miles away from him, she would recognize that shape anywhere. From the wide brimmed hat to the crooked posture, she can almost see him smiling with his rotting teeth and a gleam in his eye.]
That's... [God in heaven.] That's Fagin.
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Who’s that?
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[She always struggled to describe him. But she knew what he was to her, for all intents and purposes:]
He's my father.
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[ There’s a vague impression that he’s getting that she’s not very close with dad. ]
You haven’t seen him here? Before the picture, I mean.
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No, I haven't... [she keeps her eyes locked on the photo.] You haven't seen an old man, got to be in his 60s, scraggly, big nose? Awful teeth.
[She shivers] God, I pray he isn't here. He'll have me murdered again, mark my words. [There's a small note of fear in her voice, but she covers it with her confidence in her situation.]