Plotting

[neonmods]

This page is your one-stop shop to pitch ideas to the mods, propose an event, or ask questions about things you’d like to do in the game. Every plot post will also have a Q&A section for this same purpose, but this one’s more for your general ideas and permission.

NPCs and factions, monsters, and locations can be suggested on their respective pages. Feel free to ask questions here, but we may send you to the page proper to officially submit it.

As a refresher, we’d like to be consulted for the following types of plots:

✧ Giving your character a prestigious, influential, or extremely privileged job

✧ Working for City Hall in any capacity

✧ Plots that would impact other players/large portions of the setting

✧ Plots that would damage or destroy public locations

✧ Interactions with major mod NPCs

✧ Killing any NPCs

✧ Plots that attempt to bend setting mechanics (taming a monster, leaving the boundaries of the map, experimenting magically with Shadows, etc - these are not forbidden but we’d like to know what you’re doing so we can give you some results)

If you’re unsure or just want to hash something out with us, go ahead and drop us a line!

So, what can we do for you?

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[neonmods]

So pleased you asked.

The botanic gardens have been run down and abandoned for a long time, well over a hundred years if not more. What plants are not dead are overgrown and out of control, including familiar sorts of plants from Earth as well as some Aerith and other off-Earth characters will recognize. There are a few little sheds and outbuildings, and one brick cottage that's intact but falling apart. It appears to be some sort of small residence.

Won't be much time to look at it closely. It's not long before their presence at the gardens stirs the notice of this little fella, roughly the size of a polar bear. It barks like crazy, its howl causes horrible chills and it obviously wants you the hell away from the gardens- though it will only directly attack if attacked first.

What do they do about Big Pupper?

[floresco]

Befriend it.

Slowly, carefully. Aerith will encourage Jack to maintain a respectful distance as well, but she's going to try to gently make friends with the sweet baby angel.

[neonmods]

Big Pupper (better name forthcoming) keeps his distance, but stops growling. Backs off a ways and watches the pair like a hawk as they remain in the gardens. So long as neither show any intention of harming the gardens, it will stay docile. But always watching.

When it spots Aerith doing any kind of maintenance in the garden it will come closer and try to get her to follow it.

[floresco]

I mean, what is she supposed to do? Not follow a mystical untitled frost doggo? She'll be following!

Also what's up with the remains of the house? Can it be entered? Anything in there about the gardens or the people who ran them/used to live in the house?

[neonmods]

Mystical Untitled Frost Doggo leads her across the gardens to an unremarkable area near a stone outcropping. It whines and digs in a spot in the dirt, where there's a rusty key buried a few inches down. It's the master key to the shed and the buildings in the garden, including the house. It also opens a locked door in the back of the house that leads to a run-down bedroom.

Searching the room reveals a very old, worn diary. The Soul who lived here was the groundskeeper for the gardens long ago. He was injured in a fall and left unable to care for the gardens. With no anima to recover, he eventually lost his body and became a ghost, where he was too weak to do anything but write in his diary and watch the gardens fall deeper and deeper into disrepair.

Big Pupper stares meaningfully once she's finished reading the diary.

[floresco]

Obviously, she will be making every reassurance she can to the pupper that she will be working hard to make this place right again.

Anything useful in the sheds? old tools? i love a good sturdy vintage wheelbarrow ngl

[neonmods]

Fully stocked! Some of the tools are old and brittle but most of them are usable and there is indeed a sturdy vintage wheelbarrow.

Big Pupper (whose name is not mentioned in the diary, alas) will remain in the gardens to guard them and help out where he can. Digging is a specialty of his.

[floresco]

This is all awesome mods, thank you so much! I'm going to treat this like a long-term project for Aerith and maybe even come back asking about housing once the place is more sorted.

[neonmods]

You're most welcome! Let us know if you need/want any further details down the line!