PARADISA OOC

Today is the day to end it all. The Gentlemen have been holed up in an old clock tower in the city. This is also where they have been keeping everyone's voices! Go get them! A post will go up in the evening hours setting up the final confrontation, which anyone is free to join!

Unless you're dead. Then you can't join.

If you'd rather not be at the final showdown to get your voices, characters are free to still hide out, run or face the Gentlemen who are still seeking for the last hearts. Same rules from the previous night apply, at least until the clock tower team finds a way to get your voices back.

The Death Count on this day and the showdown will all depend on how well characters work together. If you guys perform fantastically, there's a chance no more people will die and you'll get to destroy the Gentlemen! If you fail utterly, more people will die and the Gentleman will leave Paradisa undefeated.

Either way, by the end of the night the Gentlemen will be gone one way or another, and voices will return at the latest by 12:01am EST.


[PLOT LINKS: INFO POST | DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 | DAY 4 | DAY 5]

Got a good look at the Gentlemen? You psychic people remembering your dream? Good. It's time to hit the library. Since Paradisa carries a copy of every book in the world, residents should be able to find a red covered book of Fairy Tales that will cover the Gentlemen. Along with the nursery rhyme, will tell this general story now redone in bullet points:

► The Gentlemen feed on hearts. Every few years they require seven to survive.
► They traveled to a town and stole everyone's voices
► They then proceed to cut out the hearts of seven victims.
► No sword or weapon were able to kill the Gentlemen
► However there was a princess who screamed once with her real voice, and all the Gentlemen died.

Once the book is found, people are free to discuss (write) possible plans for stopping the Gentlemen and finding a way to get their voices back. Attempts to find their hideout via superpowers will still not work due to castle blockage. Residents can try, but attempts to play music, recordings or things mimicking human voices will not work against them.

And by the end of the night, the THIRD DEATH shall occur.

If you wish to have your character to be the one to find the book, please comment here to volunteer!

[PLOT LINKS: INFO POST | DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 | DAY 4 | DAY 5]

As of Midnight US Eastern Time, or whenever your character wakes- they will be completely without a voice. It's likes their voice box has just decided to shut down. No matter how hard they try, they cannot speak or even make a vocal sound. If anyone checks out the city, you'll find the townspeople are having the exact same problem and are incredibly upset by this. It's like the entire infrastructure of the city has shut down because they cannot figure out how to function without a voice.

Feel free to communicate by any creative means- writing, telepathy, computer automated voice, charades- but anything with a real voice is out.

After dark of this day, the FIRST DEATH will occur. There should be a post later with the first victim's death, so watch out for that!

[PLOT LINKS: INFO POST | DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 | DAY 4 | DAY 5]

We still have TWO spots available for death during the plot! If you'd like to sign your character up, you may do so here. We will extend sign-ups until midnight tonight.

Thanks!

Can't Even Scream, Can't Even Cry
The Gentlemen are Coming By

SEPTEMBER 23RD - SEPTEMBER 27TH

On the final week of September, Paradisa will be getting some visitors. As you see, every few years there are a group of demons called The Gentlemen that require hearts to sustain themselves. While in the past they've hit up towns on Earth, this time they have picked Cair Paradisa as their feeding ground.

Based on the episode "Hush" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (trailer), this is a horror plot that will result in deaths. As they are staying at the castle, all powers and everyone will remain the form they are, but with one exception:

As of September 24th, every character in the castle and city will lose their voice.

That's right, the Gentlemen have this nasty ability to take away the voices of an entire area so they can do what they want without anyone screaming for help. This means characters will have to use other means to communicate such as writing, sign language, Morse code, telepathy, Stephen Hawking's type computer synthesized voices, drawings, etc until they find a way to get their voices back.

In the meantime, each night the Gentlemen will be murdering people. Depending on characters' performance in the plot, anywhere from 5 to 7 people will die. Yes, that's right, it's completely possible for the characters to reduce the number of people who could get killed if they act diligently and work together well (as in getting people to safe zones, researching the gentlemen, organizing a take down, taking them down, etc). On the flip side, if characters don't work together then all 7 people will die and the Gentlemen will leave town victorious. Which you guys don't want that right?

If you are interested in killing your character, sign ups are HERE. There are six total slots for deaths and to remain fair if there are more than six volunteers they will be selected by a RNG lottery. A lottery in which the winner gets death. For the nature of the plot, victims MUST have a relatively healthy heart. Sign-ups will be open until Saturday, September 21st at 11:59pm EST

Feel free to use this post for any planning or questions! And a SUPER HUGE thank you to Yuff who put together the entire plot!

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