PLOT - SNOWSTORM - Phoenix Valley

[Jefferson Soul]

Hi everyone! As a boardwide plot, there will be a snowstorm blowing through Nova Scotia starting February 5th through the 7th or 8th. It's gonna be a really bad one, and considering how north Phoenix Valley is, we're going to get hit. Hard. The damage will be excessive, driving the Valley in a slightly new direction--figuratively AND literally. There may be a slight shift in territory (we are overdue for an extension anyway), since a lot of the territory's going to collapse in.

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• FEB 5: Three Moons' Ranch: Roof flies off, half the building damaged. Innards are filled with snow with extensive water damage, stuff is strewn everywhere, all the windows are broken. All books in the library are destroyed; the stone hearth is fine, though the chimney breaks; all items from the kitchen are strewn everywhere. The ranch was the base of operations, Jefferson/Geneva/Pripyat's home, and in the center of the territory.
   Plot & Thread Opportunities:


• Anyone in/around the ranch house can be in the middle of it. There is nothing collapsing inside, as the roof flies elsewhere.
• Aftermath: Repairing the roof (spring through summer 2011) -- A non-mandatory pack thread will be made; private threads between members/Jefferson also available
• Aftermath: Jefferson, Geneva, Pripyat move to a new location
   Plots happening here:


• Jefferson digs out Xeris from barn collapse rubble




• FEB 5: Three Moons' Ranch barn demolished, livestock killed. The barn connected to the ranch house is completely destroyed by the ranch's roof that flies off; half of all livestock is lost, as well as all but one or two horses.
   Plot & Thread Opportunities:


• Anyone inside the barn at the time will be crushed. Injuries vary depending on player preference; characters can be killed, trapped, minorly injured, completely uninjured, or in need of rescue here.
• Aftermath: Extensive trading with other packs will be necessary to get back horses and livestock. Good for ambassadors!
• Aftermath: Need to find a location for the animals until the barn is rebuilt. (Hint: There might be one in the territory extension!)




• FEB 6: Eagle Tower collapses. The old tower topples over and crumbles completely. It stays partially intact until it hits the ground, at which point its structure loosens completely and bricks are strewn everywhere.
   Plot & Thread Opportunities:


• The tower would provide good shelter from the storm, until it falls over...
• Anyone in the tower or directly beneath where it falls over would be seriously injured or killed. A serious search party would be needed to dig out any trapped beneath the stones, dead or alive.
• Aftermath: None. Will be listed as a territory of debris.




• FEB 6: Red Vine Hollow's roof breaks open. A tree falls through, breaks a wide hole open in the roof. Bricks crumble down into the dusty rooms. No inside damage other than minor snow/water damage; all walls remain intact, as the building is built like a small fortress.
   Plot & Thread Opportunities:


• Considering how tough the building is, it's an excellent shelter from the storm. The roof breaks open from the tree, but the tree remains there in the roof and lets in light and snow; other than from falling bricks, there is little risk for injury.
• Red Vine Hollow is very hard to get into, so a thread with characters mid-storm desperate for shelter would be excellent here, trying to fight their way into the building. After the roof collapses, it becomes a permanent entrance, the tree climbable from the ground in order to get in.
• Aftermath: None. Territory will remain the same with damaged roof.




• Saunder's Mill (FEB 7) and Estrelas Praias (FEB 8) are completely demolished. The gale-force winds crumble the mill into the river, and the nightclub's roof completely collapses in on itself, heavy from snow.
   Plot & Thread Opportunities:


• Anyone inside the Saunder's Mill would be killed or drowned.
• Anyone inside the Estrelas Praias nightclub could wait out the entire storm safely; the roof breaks from the weight of the snow at the tail-end of the storm; any still inside could be crushed, trapped, minorly injured, etc.
• Aftermath: None. Both the mill and nightclub are listed as debris territories.




• FEB 5-8: Several cabins are demolished. The countless cabins that dot around the territory are halved, whether by falling trees, collapsing roofs due to snow, blown over walls, etc.
   Plot & Thread Opportunities:


• Characters who own or reside inside a cabin can choose to keep it or lose it to the weather. Set up your own plot with that!
• Several unowned cabins also collapse; due to the convenience of so many cabins being around, it is likely they will be used as shelter from the storm, but can also be used plot-wise to fall on members, etc. Again, all that is up to you!
• Aftermath: A new map will be made, listing the remaining cabins still standing. All members with claimed cabins (and any who WANT one; see Policies) must PM the leaders the placement and status of their cabin. No cabins will be rebuilt, unless characters want to personally take on the job.




• FEB 5-8: Miscellaneous general destruction. Trees fall all over the territory. Crumbling rocks, avalanches, and anything else you can think of is liable to happen.
   Plot & Thread Opportunities:


• If you want something to happen to your character that can't be fit into any of these other scenarios, you can figure it out here somewhere.
• Frozen-over lakes are liable to have thin, breakable ice!
• Aftermath: A new map will be made, listing the remaining cabins still standing. All members with claimed cabins (and any who WANT one; see Policies) must PM the leaders the placement and status of their cabin. No cabins will be rebuilt, unless characters want to personally take on the job.




• FEB 5-8: Outside-territory damages. The snowstorm is board-wide, and thus all 'Souls packs and territories will be affected.
   Plot & Thread Opportunities:


• Your character can also be injured or otherwise affected by the blizzard outside of Phoenix Valley. As always, if plotting in other packs, normal rules apply. Neutral territories can also be plotted in, thus non-Valley members can also aid in rescue or vice versa.
• REMEMBER: If you choose to plot outside the pack, remember in-character traveling times! It is completely out-of-the-question to be in the AniWayan general area one day and back in the Valley for the rest of the storm the next day. Especially due to the storm, traveling is near-impossible. Your character might need to buckle down in another pack or shelter to wait it out before they can get home.
• If your character has family members in other packs you want to get involved with somehow, you can head this route. Let us know here if you do, and then please keep any plots not directly related to PV outside this thread.
• If you need/want PV to run a search party for your character outside the territory, that is plausible too--just know that we can't do something that for more than one character, tops.




• Other things we are considering to happen. If one of these interests you, let's talk about it!
• Sanctuary Island floods, mansion destroyed
• Members stranded at the Raven Beacon island; lighthouse is unharmed by the storm but boat sinks, etc.
• Mirror Lakes flood, causing damage to the Mirror Lakes Villa
• Large group thread of everyone taking shelter in any one place that is unharmed -- just a thread of everyone being paranoid, waiting out the storm

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There will be a non-mandatory pack thread held FEBRUARY 9th. It is non-mandatory because, obviously, there may be individuals who are missing, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to get there. This pack thread will be going over what happened to whom, and all members present will be required to post ONLY ONCE to report what they saw and any other information they have.

Please, work together! Post here some ideas you'd like to see happen, what you can do with your character! DATES HAVE BEEN SET to pre-date/post-date accordingly if/when needed and to generally keep everyone in order as to what has already happened or hasn't. REMEMBER, you CAN be involved in more than one plot! While we don't expect you to have a roof drop down on your character four times in the span of the few days' worth of snow, we are encouraging members to both be victims AND rescuers! Here's the place to chat about what you'd like to happen, how you want to be involved, and what you'd like to do in the aftermath of the storm!

I will be updating this post with what's going on and where, so we can keep track of it all.

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Jefferson will be losing an arm completely; I won't go into details how, but I do have a plan how! I would like this to be due to a rescue mission on one of the final days of the snowstorm, and it will need to involve one of his personal family members (Geneva, Pripyat, Addison, Miriette, Gael). This will be a private thread only between any from that family that want to be there. He will not require rescuing himself, and will be able to save whomever it is he was trying to rescue in the first place, as it is a life-or-death situation for that character.

JEFFERSON IS AVAILABLE FOR RESCUING ANY MEMBERS AT ANY TIME DURING THE STORM (pre-arm loss). He is not the type to stay in one place when his pack's in danger, so expect him to show up in a majority of threads available to him. I will also be available for private threads, just shoot me a PM or post here!