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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
APPLICATIONS
Applications are currently closed and will open at 12:01 AM PST on February 22nd.
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APPLICATION TEMPLATE:
Please note that apps are processed in batches at the end of the application period!
IMPORTANT: Be sure to post your app with the journal you intend to use for the game!
Post your applications to this entry in the following format: First comment should contain the OOC information section only. Successive comments should be posted in reply to that comment, as many as you need. Moderator responses will be appended to the last comment of the application.
A reserve is not required to app! Please note that while the total cap for characters per player is four, you can apply a maximum of two characters per application cycle.
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REVISIONS REQUEST
-> We'd like to see more information specifically pertaining to the CRAU, such as a timeline or summary of events.
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And now, longer than the original app, Camp bullshit
The camp was anything but the idyllic advertisement, however. The true purpose of Camp Petoskey was to complete an annual ritual to contain SCP-6219. Centuries ago the being that the SCP Foundation now identifies as 6219 was Asin Modo, a god to the native peoples. It was consciousness held within stone. Not stone but Petoskey fossilized coral. Contact with the main body of 6219 would cause an individual to be turned completely to stone in seconds and absorbed into the larger mass.
6219 addressed the researchers of the Foundation in the 1950s and, at that time, agreed that it would not hunt, would not seek out others to eat so long as a sufficient number of bodies were offered up to it every year. And thus the camp was born. Each year 30 individuals would be chosen to be infected, to allow a piece of 6219 to be placed inside their bodies where it would spend the next 2 months growing, slowly taking more and more of their freedom of will.
In the aftermath of Y2K SCP-6350 was found and used to create bodies with seemingly artificial souls. The SCPs produced by 6350 were all of fictional people within the world as the Foundation understood it and therefore they became implemented as the preferred source of lower class agents and sacrifices for rituals like 6219's. It was far preferrable to using "real" people.
It's unclear how the ritual became what it was when Talcott and the others from his group arrived.
6219 affected children more reliably so all sacrifices were to be between ages 11-18. Amnesiac drugs were used to ensure the children would remember nothing of their arrival in this world. They woke in assigned cabins and, to begin with, there was little explanation. 3 Counselors were on site. Pastor Dan, who was creepy and seemed very disconnected from reality, placid and serene, speaking of The Lord and the tragic understanding that Sacrifices must be made for the greater good. Red, herself an SCP, mysterious and secretive. And Stan who seemed to be very confused about what exactly was happening.
As it turned out what was happening with Stan would be what began happening to most of them. Through a combination of amnesiac drugs, 6219's own influences, and careful misguidance the fear and violence encouraged by the setting was quietly rationalized. Murder and discussions there of were simply "pranks", the punishment was nothing more than "time out", any claims of wanting to go back to their own world was merely a case of "homesickness". Nothing was bad, everything was normal. A regular Summer Camp experience with nothing out of the ordinary.
As time went on, a voice like grinding stone in their minds telling them they would all die if one person was not murdered by the end of the week, murder became the norm. First the unsettling Pastor Dan, poisoned by a terrified little girl and the rest of the kids were left to try to figure out why nearly his entire body was made of stone and execute his murderer.
On Monday morning Lillith was there, in the chapel, humming and happy, just as convinced of the normalcy of camp as Stan was. Ignorant of the fact that she was dead, all her wounds filled in with patches of petoskey stone, animated by 6219.
The second week the voice in their heads insisted that they could have the answer to any one question if they commited a murder by the end of the week. For Talcott, whose life has been defined for so long by the search for one answer, it was impossible to ignore. He asked Ichigo to protect the others, to do whatever was necessary to keep him from hurting someone. Ichigo fell asleep, Talcott stepped away for one innocent moment. And that's when he was shot in the back.
The armored vest he wore kept him from being killed and he responded swift and efficient. What would have, at best, broken the nose of any of the people he sparred with on a regular basis shattered this small, delicate French girl's face. She was dead before she hit the ground.
He was even prepared to let Ichigo take the fall for him, accepting that one more death would be justified if it meant he could save his King. Ichigo's hollow would not allow it, though. He tried to take responsibility for his execution, he tried to slit his own throat, ensure it was quick instead of the drawn out horror Lillith had gone through. The kittens of the guardian lake spirit decided to take that choice from him.
Once he died he discovered that nothing was what they thought. 6219 had no control over the bodies that they consumed, the Foundation had made sure of that, but the being he met was not a monster or god. It was a scared child, maybe 10 years old and terrified of what they were forced to do. Sol was the name they'd taken, more than simply a number. Sol was scared and desperate, all attempts to explain to the Foundation that they didn't want this any more had failed and resulted in even more death.
Talcott vowed to help them, to find a way to get through to the others.
While his corpse merrily wandered around camp, breaking the hearts of those closest to him, Talcott was left in a dreary, twilight world, watching distantly what his own body was doing. He could even feel some of what happened to his body, distant, phantom sensations. He could almost feel it when his newly acquired boyfriend held his hand or when one of the boys hugged him.
It was torture. And as the weeks went on it only got worse. For weeks the others that died came into the ghost camp and swiftly vanished into the "forest" ill-defined and barely existent. Still Tal talked to Sol, tried so hard to make things better, to reach out to the living and convince them their souls were still there. He even helped Sol to set up the weekly motive and speak to the living.
And then Stan and Red, misunderstanding so very much, promised the living campers they would find a way to kill the "god" and stop this ritual from continuing. All hell broke loose. Sol threw a tantrum, told them all they were liars and that they hated them. Sol retreated into the forest, stayed away for another 2 weeks while all the dead lost all hope. Talcott, who has no experience with children, took personal responsibility for all the failures of their attempts.
They ventured into some of Sol's memories, began to piece together the truth of what was happening. The living found video files of security cameras off site, more hints to the true nature of the Foundation as well as the implication that none of them were real, all merely fictional characters. But the deaths continued, week after week and the living grew more and more paranoid, hallucinations and insomnia became common place.
Stan was taken away by Red's superiors, the amnesiac drugs no longer working properly. Things got down to the wire where Red was convinced and open to supporting the living kids in their attempts to move on and possibly help free the souls of the dead. It came down to convincing the counselor that replaced Stan, something they had reason to believe was going to be impossible. Archer was cold, abrasive, and a future version of Shirou that hated him. It was a mess and as the Final Protocol (which would be the execution of every one left alive) came closer and closer they had one last ditch effort.
The bodies of the dead were gone, absorbed back into the stone and Sol gave them the opportunity to take control of some of the forest creatures that hadn't succumbed to stone yet. After a hilarious hour of trolling Archer (in which Talcott very happily pissed on him in bobcat form)and Shirou doing a lot of soul searching with a version of himself he hated... Archer allowed Red to continue with her plan.
A complicated series of powerswaps gave Ren the ability to transfer Ichigo's soul into an empty gigai. Then Ichigo was able to transfer all of the souls of the dead into gigai, at least those that wanted to stay. Those that were released by Sol and not attached to a gigai supposedly went home, back to their world, but it's impossible to say for sure.
The kids were transfered to a secure compound, an apartment complex where they could be monitored and learn some of the necessary protocols for their new life as SCP agents. Most of them eager to ensure drastic measures like what had happened with Sol were put to an end. That appropriate re-evaluations are conducted so no one, even if they might not be human, was forced to do something so traumatizing repeatedly. In the following two weeks they've all learned a little bit about mission protocols and a lot about how to live in this world. Talcott, one of the longest dead, has been trying to adjust to the trauma and it hasn't been going very smoothly.
He tried to sort out his feelings, agreed with Ren and Nine to try to sort things out and set aside his feelings for Lance... only to have Nine come to terms with the fact that he doesn't feel that way about Tal any more. They went to another facility to break Stan out so he could go home to his grand niece, which meant breaking him out just to turn around and kill him.
He's learning, slowly, and dealing, badly. But he's nothing if not resilient.
ACCEPTED
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Clip-on Bowtie: It's nice and fancy looking and good for when you don't have time to fuss with the real thing.
Expensive Cake: A square, triple-tier berry cake, covered with wine-red icing that's sweet and flavorful. The cake has berries dotted all the way through. This cake is enchanted to stay fresh and sweet no matter low long you take to eat it.