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Hey gang!

I apologize for the Etrigan-plot kinda dragging down to a standstill the last few days-- it's gone longer than I expected in Real Life Time (which always seems to be the case with Plots), but I think we're just about into the last leg/grand finale as it were and I hope it isn't leaving anyone feeling too left out-- there's still plenty of time to throw your characters into and at things.

Just to update as to what is going on/where things are: basically, several characters have now had interactions with Etrigan face to face, and their threads are proceeding to the point where they will (I presume) try and tell the city that SOMEONE'S here and dangerous.

Currently, those people are Glitch, Logan, Sherlock who is currently with Nuada, and also Johannes, but he's probably still pretty close-mouthed ~~because what is morality, Johannes?~~ Also, Emma is at Jason's house, poking around, and can also guess maybe that something is wrong in the land of stripey-haired men.

Any one of these characters is welcome to 'pull the alarm bell', so to speak, once their threads get there-- I was largely playing it by ear in terms of letting things develop, and I'll leave that open as it can be still. If, in the interests of moving things along, someone wants to 'claim' who gets to sound the official alarm, that's fine by me-- then we can post that that warning is given to the city, and resolve those threads towards those goals.

That said: BIG BRAWLY TIME.

Within the next day or so I'll hopefully put up a post setting up the Impressive Final Fight-- anyone who wants to get in some melee fun is welcome to. As a rough guideline for how I imagine things might go (though I'm TOTALLY OPEN to improvising and people coming up with their own ideas!), I imagine that the more physical fighters will wind up restraining Etrigan after a lot of punches and horrible injuries on both sides, at which point if a character can help get Sherlock the violin back, Sherlock can try the chant.

I am not locking this stuff in stone at all, these are merely brainstorming ideas for things I could see characters doing, so please don't feel like they are orders, just suggestions if you feel stuck:

-Metody using bones to either help restrain Etrigan or to create a shield around Sherlock for when Etrigan attempts to light him on fire?
-Maddy using her TK to create walls of force and dampen the flames and/or protect everyone else from them?
-Spike, Logan, Etrigan, Nuada, Horst, anyone else I'm forgetting that likes a good fight-- TRADIN' BLOWS AND WRESTLING DEMONS TO THE GROUND LIKE BOSSES?
-Johannes, contributing insight into the significance of the violin? (Other characters might also be able to realize what it signifies)
-Selina-- oh, you say you need something small and golden stolen?
-Paul-- triaging on injured people if needed
-Glitch-- super-badass fire extinguisher invention?

If I'm leaving out a character of yours it is not because they have nothing to contribute, merely because I am writing at two a.m. and my brain is fuzzy! Please feel free to make suggestions. <3

personaldemon

The time has come, the demon said
To talk of many things!
Of mutants-- heroes-- normal joes
Puppeted by strings!

...ahem coff. Uh, yes, so this is the planning post for Etrigan's debutante ball, as it were. Obviously no one has to participate in this, but there is gonna be a nasty, flame-breathing, extremely tough demon wandering around Taxon seeing what sort of trouble he can pick, and if you'd like your character to deal with him in any sort of way, then please, jump on in, the more the merrier!

As an overview of the plot: Sherlock Holmes has, through deduction and the fact that high-school!Jason wrote Bad Teenaged Goth Poetry which happened to include the chant for releasing Etrigan, managed to learn the incantation to release Etrigan, and is unwisely going to do so at some point in the near future. Etrigan will take some steps to make sure Sherlock can't simply say the chant and put him back, and then he'll sidle off like a stealthed ninja through Taxon, intent on having himself some fun. (He will not be visible upon the map.)

This 'fun' can take all sort of forms. Etrigan IS evil, and sadistic, but he's also an enormous troll and frequently prizes pure whimsy over actual destructive acts. He's also not stupid, so he's likely to try and stealthily troll for a bit, since he's all too aware that when demons are loose in cities with various heroes, the heroes tend to try and stop them, eventually. So there will be some time in which Etrigan is skulking around the city and playing tricks with the tablets although Sherlock may possibly be able to warn Taxon what's going on.

Of course, all good things come to an end: eventually Etrigan's presence will be found out, and Ettie can't resist his urge for good ol' fashioned violence forever, so at some point the fighting starts! I already have one volunteer in the form of Nuada to engage in Tussling with Ettie, but seriously, the more the merrier.

What'd I'd like in an ideal world is for people to eventually have to team up to deal with the threat Etrigan poses, and for there to be an epic big brawly brawl for the funny pages. :D Partly because WHEE FUN, and partly because Etrigan needs to realize the heroes (or even the anti-heroes) will band together to defeat him, so that next time he's out he has to be on better behavior, heh.

The only real caveat here is that ultimately, Gabe and I would like it if Sherlock can be the one to say the chant and turn Etrigan back into Jason (probably at a nice dramatic moment, like the big super-brawl!), thus getting to clean up his own mess at least a little bit. Sherlock may need some serious magical assistance, as well as diversions, to be able to pull this off, especially since Etrigan is going to steal his voice!

So in short: no one-shotting Etrigan with your character, but I'm up for almost anything else if you want to run it by me. Of course, I'll be refraining from one-shotting in turn, because that's no fun for the good guys.

Jemi in particular: if you're still recovering and aren't sure if you'll feel up to an involved plot like this, that's fine and I totally understand <3 Let me know if you want to give it a shot or if you need to sit this one out.

Everyone else: COME AT ME BRO!

I probably won't start throwing up threads for this until, say, the 17th? Plot at me for a week! Comments or PMs or chat all work.

Current Mood: excited

aintnoconvict

This song is now in my head ANYWAY: at present Taxon's population is separated between people who are somewhere very oceanic and somewhere very empty and creepy. What's actually going on is the aliens are beta-testing a new environment, housed in an entirely different hollowed-out section of the same moon the city is in. It's a big-ass moon, okay.

As part of beta-testing they've isolated communication between the tablets in one environment and the other, making each believe that the other is gone.

Glitch for one is calling shenanigans and will be poking at the tablets until they give up some secrets, however he will need help! So: electrical and/or tech-savvy folks, this will be a chance to do fake science and get your Professor on with building things out of coconuts. If there's anyone left in the city who'd be working to a similar end, that's awesome too, we can meet in the middle!

aintnoconvict

First off: OMG GUYS TAG. YOUR. POSTS. That's the post originator and everyone who tags in, how can we stalk you if we don't know where your peeps are?

Secondly: SUP I was thinking of donig a Glitch post but got terrified of all the stuff he needs to be doing, so here's a post to plan. For my post.

Basically: the headcase has a number of house calls to make, so what I need is for folks to tell me what's workable for them now and what can be handwaved/pushed back.
Westchester mansion - Glitch owes Madelyne an apology (and maybe a parcel of her stuff she may have left at the palace?), Scott some crystal to test, and he should just meet Charles and/or Xavier. EDIT: oh right and he may need a telepath or two to help in communicating with his brain. Because that'll go well >.>

Arthur & Ariadne's Place - He wants to discuss this thing you guys want him to make. Also maybe try and sort out exactly wtf you kids are up to. This is a mission of peace.

Bagoas, sob (and maybe by extension Lupin idk) - He's really sorry about being the exact worst benefactor ever can there be forgiving and maybe that dancing thing.

Other People - I'm...forgetting stuff. Any loose ends that need tying or wrapped ends that need fraying for purposes of plot, let me know. All the CR prodding, all of it.

tothelightshown

Once upon a time, a long time ago, Emma and Keri were feeling particularly evil and decided that what Taxon really needed was a glitch where the evil witch possessing DG's sister in canon ended up in DG's head instead. Horrors, from brain sucking through to flying monkeys, followed.

History really does repeat itself.

Starting soonish - early April - and lasting for about a fortnight, the witch will be back. DG will be evil - right down to the cleavage monkeys - and largely focused on the domination of Taxon.

So, do any of you want to get your characters in on this? Try and reason with the witch! Get thrown in prison! Get into a fight with a platoon of minions! Any and all shenanigans are welcome. Plot with meeeeeeeee!

rereremembered.livejournal.com

As mentioend a few times as a vague plot point, Fitz tends to keep tabs on the citizens of Taxon via entires in a little black book. Comings, goings, skill sets, anything which might be useful to a renegade Time Lord looking to assemble a ragtag team of misfits to overthrow their alien oppressors. Also he's hella bored and this makes him feel like he's contributing. I got the idea that maybe I should do an actual write-up of the book's contents, mostly for the lulz but also for possible plot shenanigans...such as the book falling into the wrong hands and dirty laundry getting aired. Which is also lulz.

ANYWAY: I realized I was going to need help with this, and so did up a handy and tl;dr-tacular permissions post. Fill out the associated form, I'll Fitzify it, and someday there will be a post on his journal dedicated to all the nifty, juicy details.

This post is for questions, hashing out how Fitz would learn stuff, ideas for using the book's powers for good/evil, and general horrified reaction gifs and icons. HAVE AT.

ownlittleprison

Hey everyone! Sofie here with a quick update on things to do with Mick's imminent breakdown.

Late Wednesday evening, the first Extra is stumbled upon by Fitz, stirring up suspicion and worry in the population at large. This post also contains a placeholder tag by yours truly, describing a bit of the actual crime scene. Just in case someone wants to go ahead and have their characters snoop around. They'll find all the usual signs of a struggle (if a VERY violent struggle), with the addition of what will at first seem like a silver chain with cross pendant. It's actually white gold, and one that Mick never takes off. DUN DUN DUUUUUN.

Thursday morning, Doctor Jones is sad to inform everyone that Wednesday's assault was not an isolated incident.

And on that same day, sweet, innocent teenage girl with a mean streak that she is, Katherine asks what everyone else is thinking: If there's a vampire among us, shouldn't we try to do something about it.

Yes. Yes we should.

I am loooooving reading everyone's tags, guilty rp stalker that I am, and I will be posting a (probably very teal deer) little something for Mick late tonight (GMT+1).

If you have questions or suggestions for things you want to see, either leave them here, or at the initial ooc post, here.

Hugs and kisses from Sofie <3

ownlittleprison

First off, I'll be going on a brief but bodacious field trip with the old Mothership tomorrow morning (going to IKEA which is a damn heck of a distance away), and won't be home until tomorrow evening at the earliest. So this is me calling a tiny slowaitus.

Second and most important of all: Guess who has a new pup? I DO! :D

Okay, so, this is Mick St. John of Moonlight, which is yet another somewhat low key but delightful series that sadly was cancelled due to the writer's strike a few years ago.

However! You can find Mick's app oh gawd I'm horrible with html, here, and I'll be filling out his permissions meme shortly.

I do have some ideas for a teeny plot line to introduce him into the city proper and such. As I have stated very clearly in the application, Moonlight vamps can't survive on anything but human blood, emphasis on human - hence, hatched blood/Extra blood won't quite do the trick. It will stave off hunger, which is a Good Thing, but won't actually lend much in way of nutrition and healing capabilities and so on and so forth. In Moonlight, the need for blood is sometimes likened to a drug addiction - and I'll take that point of reference and run with it. In addition to that, the Taxon sun will be just as harmful as the sun of his own world.

One important note: Mick does only very rarely feed off living humans. 95% of his blood, he gets from a friend at the Los Angeles morgue.

So, while Mick will at first seem like a perfectly regular human being (if a touch sun sensitive), the lack of blood will take its toll. In a matter of weeks, he will get to a point where the hunger gets to be too much - the hatched blood isn't working, and Extra blood is just as worthless. He'll realize he's heading for disaster, hole himself up somewhere and issue a city wide red alert.

Yes. I am planning to put him in a rather sticky situation. >:3

Thoughts? Suggestions? Gifs?

((Edited for html fail, btw.))

aintnoconvict

OKAY SO. As of this post Glitch has his brain back. Sort of. Basically it's the closest the hamsters could come up with, so like...if one were to hatch the other half of his brain and could only guess at how it would work, that's it. He's still missing distressingly huge swathes of his memory (namely just about everything pre-canon and thus pre-Taxon), but all the stuff he sort-of remembered will now be readily available.

Because of the nature of item petitions, at no point will he be able to explain how this happened. He's going to try and pass it off as a glitch the aliens just forgot to end, basically.

Things Which Will Be Exactly The Same: He'll still be 100% cloudcuckoolander, he'll still have optimism out the wazoo, he'll still fluster, and he'll definitely still be cheerful, outgoing Glitch. Nothing will change about his base personality. Also: the zipper stays.

Things Which Will Be Noticeably Different: The stammer? More or less gone. He'll remember that conversation from a few days ago, he'll remember your name if he hasn't seen you in a few weeks, he'll remember the major Taxon events (and a few of the preseries headcanon horrors that I've in-game hinted at him knowing about), and everything that happens from here on out will be remembered all normal-like.

Questions? Concerns? Demands for deets? Give them to me SINCE THEY PROBABLY REFLECT MY OWN, SOB.

tothelibrary.livejournal.com

SO. It's been an awesome glitch-- and it's still going!-- but it's about that ending/backdating time.

As such: this evening or tomorrow, Dawn will be un-glitched and duly horrified with herself. We can all still backdate and/or handwave to our hearts' content, but in order to help myself (and everyone else) out, this post will have a rough timeline of events so we can all be un-trapped and up to speed.

If you have any additions or corrections or requests, comment here and I'll edit to reflect!

Without further ado, a rough timeline.

- Dawn is glitched.

- Dawn attacks Mattie; Dan spots them and she runs.

- Dawn attacks Smecker and is revealed as a vampire; she goes into Taxon's version of hiding and chills with Katherine.

- She fights Rorschach, and when it becomes clear she can't win she bails.

- Same as above, but with Adrian.

- Buffy broaches the tomb idea with the Watchmen. (If you guys want to work out the details here, that's totally cool.)

- The Watchmen mount up and take Dawn down together; she gets shoved in the tomb.

- UNGLITCH YAAAAAAAAY.

Somewhere in there, someone should be bringing Dawn blood; anyone not have an in and want one, or one of the usual suspects down? Either way.

THAT IS IT UNTIL SOMEONE REMINDS ME OF OBVIOUS STUFF I FORGOT AND I EDIT IT IN.

iminmynightie.livejournal.com

Hey guys! So sometime soon-ish, namely when I stop being lazy and write it up, Amy will be making a tablet post asking if anybody would be interested in putting together a sort of intramural sports team. If enough people join, then they can split into two or multiple teams to play all sorts of sports with each other.

I'm assuming the gym in the Sanctuary has balls, bats, whatever they need, and if not, they could just hatch equipment. For most things, they can play outside at a nondescript field or something, and I would think the Sanctuary gym has a basketball court, maybe a big pool? Would this be accurate, mods, or would there be a reason you guys wouldn't specifically want the Sanctuary to contain these places?

So anyway, since Amy is declaring herself the head of this little project, she'd contact people, maybe ask them to vote on what game they would want to play, get them to practice for a few weeks, then have a game.

This is where you guys come in. I wasn't sure if you'd prefer to do this sort of thing in the background like, "Oh yeah, Character A is a mechanic and in his free time he plays team sports," or if I should set up a free-for-all party post type of situation where those involved actually play a game and spectators come watch. I'm gonna say right now that, unlike Amy, I'm not much of a leader so I'm open to ideas on how to organize such a thing and if the winners should be picked beforehand and we play it out or what.

So basically what I'm saying is I have a nifty idea, and no idea about the proper way to execute it! HALP?

rereremembered.livejournal.com

That should grab at least some attention. ALL RIGHT for the month of April ~~to cover up for my fail~~ Fitz was half-assedly setting up a pub in Shelley. Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Dodgy Jammer, because clearly Taxon needs more establishments serving alcoholic beverages*. The catch with this one is that it came with a karaoke machine...which Fitz was too lazy to remove. He will regret this.

On Wednesday, May 11, a post will go up for the ~grand opening~, and because of special guest

taxshakey people's inhibitions re: public singing will be lowered. This means karaoke will seem like a really good idea, and ~inspiration~ will flow freely. Any song ever will be available! For characters who wouldn't know any songs...suddenly they will know the perfect song. This of course does not mean it will be performed well but there shall be gusto!

tl;dr - if you've ever desired a flimsy excuse for your character to sing anything, this is your chance. THERE IS ALSO NO LIMIT TO HOW MANY SONGS CAN BE PERFORMED. Duets or more are welcome and encouraged so get to coordinating in this post!

* non-alcoholic beverages are of course available upon request.

whoneedsrules.livejournal.com

Hi Taxon! Ebs here, bringing you some glitchy goodness.

This Saturday happens to be Katherine's 536th birthday. Because I'm awful, I'm giving her a special present; she will be glitched that day to revert from her delightful vampiric self into a regular human with absolutely no nifty supernatural abilities she's gotten so used to having and using. Oh yeah, she will love it. (No, no she won't.)

This glitch will run from April 9th to April 23rd, so that's two full weeks. As Katherine being a vampire is still a secret to most of Taxon, this will not really affect anyone but the castmates and limited CR that are in on said secret.

As being human back in late 1400's presented a lot of issues for Katherine, such as the oldest vampire in the history of ever coming after her to break an ancient curse, Katherine will likely spend the first few days of the glitch in complete shock. She'll try to hide this for as long as possible, but I'll make it so that the post I'll put up on Saturday should make it fairly obvious that something's up to those who know what to look for. I'm sort of playing this by the ear, so no solid plans other than the fact that Katherine will become steadily more and more anxious and frustrated about being human and everything related to it as the glitch goes on. She may be driven into doing some possibly stupid things during week two. :|

Feel free to treat this as a planning post, ask questions/clarifications, etc. Castmates/CR: if there is something specific you'd like to see happen with this glitch, I'm more than happy to plot and make it happen! I welcome all horrors. I'm completely down with anyone taking advantage of the fact that Katherine can't really do so much to fend for herself during this. As always, you're welcome to use Katherine's phone post for trolling her at anytime during the glitch (applies also for when she isn't glitched).

Looking forward to the shenanigans!

tamitha

Just a quick update to say that as of any posts today (03/18) and onward, Angel has been re-ensouled. Those of us working on wrapping up the plot are just backtagging champs and still working on those threads, but ICly, he's back to being Angel. Thank you to everyone who participated in making this bit of metaplot go so smoothly! Y'all rock. ♥

aintnoconvict

Sometime soon Glitch is going to be approached by the aliens and they will make him an offer he can't refuse: the other half of his brain, in his head, for all his thinking and remembering stuff needs.

There is, of course, a catch. Before granting him this boon the aliens will have a task for him: invent three things for three people. Now, when he had all his marbles he was able to invent stuff ranging from a projector which produced a flawlessly realistic animated hologram continuously for close to a decade (...sorry Cain) to a doohicky which could ~~slow~~ stop the suns. So with only half his brain he can probably still come up with ridiculously complicated things powered by clockworks and magic-conducting metals and popsicle sticks.

WHERE YOU COME IN: if your character has ever been in need of a thingy, a doodad, or a wacthamacallit, this is your chance! While only three working creations are needed for brain-getting purposes, there is plenty of opportunity for failed expriments as well. This is going to be a long-term plot and results could take a few months, but the CR and shenanigans will last forever ♥

werealegend.livejournal.com

HELLO TAXON, I BRING YOU HORRORS. Of a slightly different variety. As those of you who were hanging around these parts this time last year will recall, I did something similar in glitching Angel into Angelus. There was lots of pre-plotting and during-plotting and post-plotting, etc. Not that complicated this time around, thank goodness. But, in the interest of getting down with some metaplot, I'm going to do a two week long replay of that to show that yes, sometimes the aliens do rinse, lather and repeat their glitches. No one is safe. Were a tiny once, don't think you'll be tiny!ified again? WRONG. They can do it to you again. If they wanted to.

Anyway, the gist. The glitch will run from March 4th to March 18th. Angel will wake up the morning of March 4th already soulless, but he's going to play up to still being Angel for a while. Until about, I'd say, the ~10th or so, depending on how IC shenanigans go and how much time my work schedule permits me, and so on. After that, he'll announce himself in his awesome, tactful (see: tactless) way and we'll go from there.

Right now, the only things we've got planned are Angelus kidnapping one Jason Stackhouse to mess with Sookie, and her using her ~fairy princess powers~ to get him back. So, I'm pretty much game for anything and everything y'all might want to do. Buffyverse Cast, if y'all would like to resoul him-- Stella, Ammmy, Sarah?-- then I'm all for that. If not, the glitch will just time out and he'll revert on his own.

PLAN AWAY. I am seriously open to anything and willing to accommodate as I can to make things possible. ♥

keepshopealive.livejournal.com

I know this is probably all explained somewhere that for some reason is eluding my dull mind, but I just have to ask-- Would it be ok for Rick to 'create' a police station, so to speak? Is that allowed? Is there already a station or building like this?

I've been looking for a page that says so, but please, feel free to point out my retarded. I'm not the best at finding things right under my nose.

slayersidekick

Okkaaaay, guys! The big day is tomorrow. I'll be putting up the post after I get home from class, around 12:30 US Eastern time. But in the meantime, we can use this post to coordinate!

( return of the tl;dr queen )

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slayersidekick

Okay! So! Here's the earth- /SHOT

( ...the tl;dr queen has struck. )

...wow that got long. So talk to me, Taxon, mods. How does this sound? Am I completely off my rocker |Da? OPINIONS: I AM ASKING FOR THEM. I will respond in the morning \o It is bedtime, but I just wanted to get that out there ♥!

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aintnoconvict

I was going to ask several people about deets re: the Glitch plot, but figured a post would be better for keeping-everyone-on-the-same-page purposes.

Behold me trying to wrap my brain around sorting the order of events from my post:

± initial reset, thread with DG
± DG's post goes here
± thread with Cain
± thread with Long, establish the church as "home"
± pop out in the evening, bump into Elisa, then run back to the church
± THE NEXT DAY: thread with Brennan, things sort of start coming back, vaguely adopt Ambrose as a moniker because Glitch is just silly
± thread with Dru that evening

In talking with Ammmy I floated the idea of him ending up at Tamper & Trick the third night, and then morning of the fourth day have a good chunk of his memories come back so he can go home. There's plenty of gaps to fill with shenanigans, so let me know WAT DO or if I can squeeze anything else in there, and if we're going to back-tag it or handwave so I can work on getting un-plotlocked.

/leaves a tray of [your preferred snacky thing HERE] for enticement purposes

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Etrigan Plot

Plotting and scheming and evil and THINGS.

another mini-plot: get yourself connected!

Gone parading

The Wicked Witch of Taxon: Mark II

I GET OUT MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK, MY MY MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK

Vamp revelations at hand!

Sofie here with two announcements!

this is your Glitch on brains. any questions?

( insert pithy, referential lyrics here )

And then we play Eye of the Tiger during the training montage...

COMPULSORY KARAOKE

got no direction just got my vamp

angelus glitch/metaplot wrap-up!

GET YOUR GADGETS!

"what can i say? i'm the world's best actor." / "second best."

Before I step on any toes..

LAST ONE FROM ME

GLITCH TIME

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