Open Player Plot: "Head Month"

[warmare]

Hello, Aion Teleos players of both sect affiliations! This is Rizu (Hayame/warmare) and Vee (Makoto/affal) here, bringing you a plot opportunity we are officially opening up to other players who are interested in getting involved! Content Warning for this plot include, but are not limited to: beheadings, abuse, severed heads, eye trauma, potential torture, etc.


Vee's art is amazing!!! (Warning: not super gory but there's a head in the full click-thru, y'all)

PLOT OVERVIEW:

After the violent and chaotic raid on Achamoth, Hayame managed to narrowly avoid corruption by kenoma and escape from the city -1 eyeball but +1 head of a sworn enemy named Makoto (known more commonly as just "M"). Though she thought it would be a sick trophy that would soon dissipate and leave only a shard she could bring back for experimentation on de-Kenoma-ing, the demon's special anatomy means that his head can be safely separated from his body without killing him, leaving him... very alive and very pissed off.

With Makoto's head in hand, she initially fled Achamoth into the wilderness, attempting to avoid endangering others or risking exposure of secret base locations by bringing the head to rebel territory until sure it was safe. She posted a Pleroma sect Communion post about this, asking for assistance with things such as supplies, asking magic-capable characters for warding/defensive/hiding spells, and trying to get someone to ask Tehri about the chances of Kenoma LoJack or if she knows a safe place to hide such a thing from the Regent/enemy eyes. Thankfully, she did! So Hayame is on the way to the forests of Lohkimareen near the Valley of the Innocent.

Makoto will be... along for the ride, oops, and having a very bad no good terrible month full of abyss nightmares, dealing with an angry centaur jailer in heat, getting aggressively washed so he doesn't get dirty, and whatever awful attempts at torture or shonen speeches that Pleroma want to inflict on him. Also, he'll maybe be looking a bit like a bondage victim, because you can't carry your enemy's head around and just let him overhear you and spy on you or yell at you the whole time??? Someone get Hayame a bit and blinders and ear plugs.

PLOTTING OPTIONS:

↣ Hayame will be making Makoto('s head) available to Pleroma sect members who wish to interrogate/examine/torture him, under her supervision. There are some things she will try and prevent (killing him, messing overly with his shard) for fear it might trigger some sort of Kenoma GPS or etc., but feel free to pitch ideas in the comments below or ICly in her Communion post. She is staying in a remote part of Lohkimareen far from Greentruth, however, and moving frequently, so you'll need to travel or portal. [OPEN TO PLEROMA]

↣ For a week or so in the beginning of his bodyless adventures, Makoto will be affected by the abyss after using the power granted to him by the Regent in the last rounds versus the Sanctifier. During this period, the nightmares of others may leak into his dreams, so if you would like to submit a nightmare for Vee to select from please use the comment below! [OPEN TO PLEROMA AND KENOMA]

↣ Because of her lost eye, remote forest location, and commiting time to moving between safehouses (safecaves & safetreehollows) instead of hunting or visiting villages with an animated head tied to her withers, Hayame will need medical assistance, food, and supplies delivered throughout the plot period. [OPEN TO PLEROMA]

↣ Once Makoto's absence is noted in Achamoth, Kenoma players are more than welcome to start pitching plot attempts to locate him. This notice could likely happen very quickly, as his headless body was left behind by Hayame in the streets of Achamoth. Feel free to use the comment below to organize group efforts! If you do the organizing for them elsewhere (Plurk, Discord, etc.), please still post them here once you've decided on a course of action. [OPEN TO KENOMA]

↣ UPDATE: According to current Kenoma player plotting happening below, it looks like we can expect some magical location/scrying/future seeing attempts, as well as a posse physically invading Lohkimareen looking for Makoto's head. Are there any characters who frequent the forest who might notice their presence and say something, either to Pleroma sect in general or Hayame herself? Are there any magic users who might notice attempts to scry or be able to tell Hayame "that's not a cold, bitch, that's a curse on u"? Though Hayame herself is hardly an endearing figure, are there any Pleroma who feel strongly about Sticking Together for Pleroma's Sake who might try and insist on helping or guarding or assisting in the case of a Kenoma posse attack? Feel free to use the comment below to organize efforts! [OPEN TO PLEROMA]

DECIDED OUTCOME:

The only decided plot point we for sure are working towards is that Makoto's head be returned to Kenoma custody before [Redacted] Month. ICly we're looking to have him either rescued, exchanged, or stolen back at the end of September, so there will be enough time to run some fun plots-within-plots and get some threads done. At this time, we would like to leave how he returns up to what developments are undertaken by both sects to either keep him or get him back. We will likely want to pick a solution OOCly by mid-September.

OOC NOTES:

↣ Because this plot deals with very dubious content, please be mindful of tagging for Content Warnings if you participate or thread about it.

↣ For obvious OOC outcome confirmation reasons we are posting this after the second part of the raid event, but please keep in mind that that this plot is considered to have ICly begun back on the day of the Achamoth raid (8/18). That means posts, threads, and actions undertaken in the first part of this player plot are backdated.

↣ Hayame will be taking her custody of Makoto's head intensely seriously-- it is unlikely anyone will be able to ICly convince her to let them have it, take him out of her sight, or even speak to him without her present. She will also be wary of who she allows close, and also warn people that he may still be dangerous. However, when it comes to threading with Makoto('s head), unless you plan to have your character do something that violates one of her "rules", you can just assume Hayame is there glaring and watching silently in the background. (Threads with both Makoto and Hayame are potentially available, just ask!)

↣ For the duration of the plot, Makoto's headless body will be in the care of J (tohell) in Achamoth. If you have something you'd like to use the body for (!?) please run it by the player and drop a note here.

↣ As needed, Rizu and Vee will field questions in the comments below. If we ask the mods a question about something we will provide the answers here also, if they're relevant for plotting in general. Likewise, if you ask a question of the mods about something, please drop the answer there. Sharing is caring!

↣ Though we will do our best to try and allow interested parties a chance to do things, please keep in mind we are just two people and may not be able to thread everything out. Likewise, we want people to have fun with plotting and trying to get Makoto's head back in as sensible/smart a way as it can go ICly, but please be mindful of metagaming, etcetera.

↣ Thank you for your interest, and we hope we can all have a fun time with this! ❤️

IC COMMUNION POST • SEMI-OPEN LOG • THREAD REQUESTS • PLEROMA PLOTTING • KENOMA PLOTTING • NIGHTMARE SUBMISSIONS • QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Comments

NIGHTMARE SUBMISSIONS

[warmare]

Submit nightmare ideas for poor Makoto (affected by abyss power) here- ! Either summaries of the nightmare contents or narrative-scene-style is welcome!

sighs... cw: gore, vore, implied sexual activity

[sterngaze]

Liem’s nightmare takes place in a dingy, high-ceilinged room, dim light filtering in through a pair of round, dirty windows located high up on the wall. Heavy iron meat hooks hang from the ceiling, and although none of them are currently occupied, the space is filled with the charnel smell of old blood.

In this nightmare, Liem is in the room with a loved one—a dear friend, a past lover, maybe even a family member. Regardless of who the person is, the dream always goes the same: They come to him with an embrace, and then a kiss, and then more, heedless of the unsettling surround. In this state of unthinking, carnal intimacy, Liem dips his head to throat, shoulder, breast, wrist, first with his lips and then with his teeth.

He doesn’t even drink, but tears away mouthfuls of hot flesh to gulp down wholesale as gore coats both him and his ill-fated lover, who doesn’t even have the decency to pull away. The dream continues in a haze of bloody ecstasy until he finally wakes up with the ruin of that beloved person branded fresh against the back of his eyelids.

cw: amputation, forced breeding

[warmare]

Hayame's nightmare is based in a stable, specifically a single large stall. The stall is filled with hay, and there is the scent of something hot and urgent in the air as she hazily comes to consciousness. Her legs do not move when she tries to lift them, they are hobbled with ropes to prevent kicking. No actual words leave her mouth, because there is a bit biting in to the corners of her lips, her tongue sliding uselessly on the metal that keeps her mouth open and saliva dripping down her chin. When she tries to move her hands to remove it, to untie the bindings keeping her close to a slanted, table-like post, nothing happens... because there are no hands. No hands, no nothing, only the scarred, rounded shoulders of a jinba that has had their arms flensed off at the joint to render them incapable of caring for themselves without human masters.

But the most horrifying thing that she notices, as she struggles against her bounds and begins to work up a lathering sweat on her flanks desperately trying to escape... is that her tail has been trussed up to bare where she burns with seasonal heat. She becomes increasingly desperate, time blurs, but eventually... the stable door creaks open. The heavy clatter of antsy hooves shuffle across the ground, human voices mutter platitudes like thatta girl as hands pat her rump regardless of how she tries to kick or scream, as fingers check her readiness and discuss amongst themselves if she'll do better being bound tighter or if the stud they've chosen for her this month is strong enough to manage her as is.

Even the voices eventually fade into unintelligible background murmurs, though, as she realizes that she's caught the scent of the stallion behind her even though she's unable to turn her head to even see the face of the partner the stable master has chosen for her, beyond a hint of shadow and heavy, panting breath. Her teeth crack and grind against the bit, she struggles as she feels a groom tug her tail aside, panics when she hears another slap against the stallion's side to encourage him forward to mount-

Hayame does not usually wake from her nightmares until it's done and she's left shamed and broken on the breeding post, forced into the fate her own dam had lived, the one she had been trying to avoid all of her life. The fate of an Armless broodmare.

[cutlery]

I'll write something a bit more custom as well, but for now, some of the instances in canon of Sebastian just being the nightmare itself, since it happens consistently enough that I'm fairly sure he's able to influence and infiltrate peoples' dreams, but not concretely said enough that I would call it a powerset in an app, ya feel

Chapter 95 has spoilers if you're totally unfamiliar with the manga, but they're all about events that happen quite early on. Otherwise spoiler-free!

• Chapter 95, "Why is it that you made such a great sacrifice with even that soul of yours at stake to make a contract with me?"
  
• Chapter 101.5 (selection), "Professor, you should have no time to be writing this tale."
  
• Chapter 189, "Should you not train some more before you serve your dishes to your family?"

[vapour]

I was suggested to link this here as a nightmare idea for Makoto, it starts about 1/3rd the way in. cws at top of thread.