PARADISA OOC

THE FINALE

PART i
The children wake to find Slenderman is watching them... and then they flee.

PART I
As many of the adults discover a place to enter the Slenderman's upside-down world underneath, the children are racing for their lives. It's time for a well-timed rescue!

PART II
Children safe and Slenderman's power hindered, the exorcists and supernatural experts exorcise the blood tree, and Slenderman with it.

PART III
Victorious, there is reuniting and possibly drinking.

THE FINALE

So this is what we put together from the plotting post.


TONIGHT

( tonight tonight )

SUNDAY

( sunday sunday )

ANY COMMENTS? SUGGESTIONS? QUESTIONS?

PLOTTING: let's put together how this ends.

So far, a few things have been discovered IC that are especially noteworthy:

1.) Cameras capture his image.
2.) Holy power does very minor damage to the Blood Tree.
3.) The saplings in the woods are tied to getting rid of him.

There's also a noteworthy post I wanted to bring up that ties in to a lot of the evidence about Slenderman:

"If enough people believe something is true, if enough people will something to be true, it is."
http://community.livejournal.com/paradisa/12792428.html

One of the things I wanted to ground this plot on was the power of story; in the blurb about the plot/intro, it specifically talks about stories told to scare children (and adults, who were children, once) into line. One of the hallmarks of all of these child-snatching characters is that people tell these stories with such vivacity and honesty and intent-to-scare that people believe in them. Slenderman himself is a product of this –– he was first created by a bunch of goons on the SomethingAwful forums, and stories about him have travelled so fast that people often confuse him for a "real" mythological creature, or are even scared of something that doesn't tangibly exist! Characters have been reading stories this week, about Slenderman, about how others have coped in the past, and how to get rid of him.

Now, that isn't to say that the Slenderman in Paradisa isn't real and is just a "figment of their imaginations", but some power is given. It's been shown in revealed evidence already that Slenderman is a part of a mythos of child-snatchers, and that he seeks identity, one he gains from attention and from stealing others –– he can certainly draw on this fear and turn it into his own power.

How does belief and attitude make things happen? Characters are adamant about getting their kids back in one piece, and if they want that, so it'll be done, some way, somehow! It might not be without heartache, but these characters are some of the most badass people in the universe: they get through a lot of stuff that most people would just roll over and suffer under. They're resilient as all hell. They'll get those damn kids back regardless of what any selfish creature has to think about it.

So, with that in mind, we now have the task of building the end of Slenderman's story together. I have some ideas (obviously) and I can guarantee you it will end with the children being pulled into the loving, safe arms of their friends and family, but the area between point A and B is flexible. I want characters to be able to move between those points without being completely guided by the plot.

Since characters seem to be moving away from sacrifice, what kind of exorcism could be performed, either ritually or spiritually?

What ideas do characters have right now? Could they be expanded on and run with, and turned into a final-showdown for Sunday?


Confirmed feasible ideas so far:

• Blessed flamethrowers. Some way, somehow, this will happen.
  
• Getting the kids back before doing any exorcism. This would weaken Slenderman (less fear for something you just one-up'd) and give them an opening to do the exorcism:
  
  
  
  • SUB POINT: There will be evidence tomorrow to suggest "breaking in" is possible.
    
  
  
• Using camcorders to see where Slenderman is. Vain dude likes being immortalized on film!
  
• Age-Up potions for remaining kids -- could "hide" them from Slenderman
  
• Age-Down potions for some adults -- could possibly get taken and help somehow that way.
  
  
  
  • SUB POINT: Not unrealistic to try, but risky: Slendy may not fall for it, might end up mentally-a-child, which isn't useful.
    
  
  
• Sending information with Dave (age 13), who is going to try to get kidnapped.
  

Absolutely without a doubt has to happen:

• "We Fucked The Fucker" Party, Part II. For those who weren't here with us, last time we had a taxing plot involving like... over a dozen people getting murdered (!Mass Murder Plot, if you care), two weeks of stress was ended with Travis Touchdown throwing a crazy party at his bar. Optional, obviously, but a lot of characters found getting drunk and just celebrating a good way to get over the horror. If you want to see what it looked like, there's post one and post two.

this one doesn't move. seriously.

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