MISSION [ the voice in the dark ] + plotting post

Welcome to Forsythe Heights, a small, sleepy town where nothing ever really happens. But the people who live there like it that way. It isn’t perfect, as no town really is, but it’s been commonly touted in the past as a wonderful place for children to grow up and families to thrive, away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis.
With all of the amenities that a town needs: plenty of park space, a proper school district, small mom-and-pop shops, a library, and modest but robust emergency services (police and fire), it’s almost hard to argue with such a sentiment. Much of the infrastructure has aged with time, and some of the up-and-coming venues of the past have fallen to disuse and disrepair but the main core of the town remains.
There have been rumours circulating that the town is not exactly what it seems, hasn’t really been since the Cooper family moved away. Of course, ‘crazy talk’ such as that is left to conspiracy theorists and spooky campside stories, and with All Hallow’s Eve quickly approaching, the hype around these stories seems to be growing stronger.
The team’s objective is to find the orb. Viveca has traced it to Forsythe Heights, but the team must find where it is.
Forsythe Heights Elementary School is your typical K-8 building where the children of Forsythe Heights attend their classes. Most who pass through these doors go on to the nearby Forsythe Heights High School before graduating onto bigger and better things. Rumour has it that Forsythe Elementary has seen the occasional strange occurrence during the late night hours but no concrete evidence of the claims have been justified thus far.
Wright Central Mall is located just on the outskirts of Forsythe Heights, an ambitious project that has fallen into disrepair in more recent years. Once a hustling and bustling shopping epicenter, it now sits empty with all businesses closed, the structure itself a retail graveyard. It is surrounded by tall fencing and has been slated for demolition for years, but no one has since bought up the property and the site remains abandoned.
Forsythe Pleasantview Cemetery is a leisurely walk past the town hall and library, towards the church. Peaceful and almost beautiful, the cemetery truly does provide a pleasant overlooking view of Forsythe Heights. However, the cemetery’s caretakers have a very strict schedule of closing the gates to all visitors after 6:30PM with no exceptions.
DEBBIE MARTINEZ
Happily married and a new mother to a bouncing baby girl, Debbie would never admit that her life is imperfect … and yet she seems to see things. Strange things.
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THOM HARRIS
An alumnus through Forsythe Height’s very own educational system, Thom has never had any desire to leave this town. He can now be found teaching at Forsythe Heights Elementary School. This would be his first year teaching.
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MRS. RENEE MORGAN
Renee has been teaching at Forsythe Heights Elementary School for over thirty years now, seeing class after class come and leave through the doors with brighter minds, some with a thirst for more knowledge, more than she felt she could provide. She teaches the Language Arts (or English) and is also in charge of the A/V club. While she would not consider herself a believer of the supernatural, some things have disturbed her a little lately…
The mission spans the month of October, and characters will return to the station at the end of October.
The team’s main objective is to find the orb and retrieve it. To do that, they have to find out where exactly it is in the town, whether it is being used, and if it is, somehow get the current owner to hand it over to them.
To help the team blend into the town without arousing suspicion, Viveca and Degar were able to alter the memories of the townsfolk, making them think that some of the orbers have been there for far longer than the others. It's up to you to decide whether you'd like for your character(s) to have been there longer or newly arrived.
Alongside the log, there is the possibility for your character to experience jumpscares. We ask that those who want to opt in fill in the form HERE with your characters’ fears. Please don’t feel the need to limit your characters’ fears to one. List as many physical, psychological, literal, metaphorical fears as possible. If you would rather opt out of the jumpscare option, you simply do not need to reply to the comment.
As always, characters are encouraged to share their findings and information through the network, and a mod-provided voting post will be posted later on in the mission to plan for conclusion.
The personal goals have been assigned and can be found here. If you have any questions about your goal, please ask us here! In the same comment, there are instructions for what to do if you are unhappy with the task your character has received.
Please use this post to plot for the mission and make your own plotting comments. You can use the form below:
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Character: Daisy Johnson
Fear(s):
1. Seeing her mother dead.
2. Daisy strapped down to a table while experimented on and unable to move or use her powers.
3. Crawling/dragging herself towards a door in a cellar while bleeding out from a gunshot wound and fearing she is about to die alone.
4. Hurting/killing people with her powers and not being able to control what she’s doing, due to mind control.
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Character: Lan Xichen
Fear(s):
1. Seeing Nie Mingjue (missing his head or just with cut around his neck)
2. Meng Yao following him around asking why he didn't stay and die with them.
3. Wangji dying from the injuries from his punishment for defending Wei Wuxian after the events of Nightless City.
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Character: Minimus Ambus
Fear(s):
1. "Domestication" aka rewiring a beastformer's brain so that they are more animal-like (either his brother or himself as the victim)
2. Unstoppable killing machines/monsters gruesomely murdering his loved ones
3. His Spark getting torn out and crushed
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Character: Dean Winchester
Fear(s):
1. Dogs -- he was a hellhounds chew toy not all that long ago
2. Heights/flying - absolutely terrified of planes and heights
3. Reliving the fire in his home, his mother on the ceiling, burning
4. Returning to hell & going back to torturing
5. His father; there are hints of physical abuse, canonical instances of verbal/mental abuse. He was also afraid of disappointing him for years
6. Losing Sam - which has happened to him and is the whole reason he's here
7. snakes and spiders and bodily fluids
8. Death - not dying, but actual Death (who has arguably the best character entrance of all time )
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Character: Steve Harrington
Fear(s):
1. Getting torn apart by bats.
2. Witnessing Robin get tortured by the Russians.
3. Barb following him around, blaming him for her death.
4. Being forced to watch as Vecna kills all of his friends.
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Character: Rosinante
Fear(s):
1. His father's death at his brother's hands
2. Anyone knowing where he was actually born, and memories of being hunted for it
3. Law dying, not being able to stop it - either when he was a kid, or now later knowing he survived
4. Doflamingo being here and ready to finish the job
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Character: marta cabrera
Fear(s):
1. witnessing harlan slit his throat in front of her again
2. the thrombey family (but especially harlan) still blaming her for his death
3. (ximi-specific) nearly blowing up to her own death on the train from the vrefesea mission
4. (ximi-specific) getting stabbed by the bandit elias back on badrock
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Character: Dante
Fear(s):
1. The mansion fire that killed his mother
2. His mother's dead body
3. Urizen hurting or killing Trish, Lady and Nero
4. Nelo Angelo's death and the realization that oh shit that was his twin brother Vergil
5. Mundus coming back after all
6. Vergil and Nero killing each other
7. The losses of his loved ones: his mom Eva, his merc friend Grue (and Grue's daughter Jessica who got turned into a demonic tree) and the gunsmith Nell Goldstein, his friends Trish and Lady and even Lucia, his nephew Nero, even having to kill his brother Vergil twice which he will not fucking talk about
8. this is not a real fear of his but he'll say it is to downplay it and will likely overdo the fear reaction to this jumpscare: no more pizza and strawberry-flavored things.
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Character: Goro Majima
Fear(s):
1. Restraints/losing bodily autonomy (he does not like to remember his time in The Hole)
2. For the same reason as above dark, dank and bloody basements make him mighty uneasy
3. Losing his sight (he got only one eye left)
4. Exploding cars, especially if you were just about to get in
5. His close ones dying/sustaining fatal injuries, where he's close enough to see it but far enough to not be able to protect them
6. Infection/visible corruption (thanks ximilia's first mission)
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Character: Klaasje
Fear(s):
1. Being killed by the Moralintern and never having her body found/reported on, or having it framed as suicide
2. Pale radiation sickness, i.e. being mentally trapped in memories not your own, unable to discern what is real and not
3. Falling in love
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Character: Suzaku Kururugi
Fear(s):
1. Killing his father.
2. Walking through the fields of dead bodies he saw during the invasion of Japan.
3. The SAZ massacre, including Euphemia's death.
4. Watching his friends die and being unable to stop it.
5. Hurting others or losing control of himself due to the 'Live' command.
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Character: mal oretsev
Fear(s):
1. alina wanting nothing to do with him
2. finding alina dying or dead
3. seeing his parents dead bodies in the fold
4. not being able to find his friends when they're in danger
5. dubrov and mikhail following him around and telling him it's his fault they died, that he lead them into danger and their untimely deaths.
6. heartrenders messing with his mind or breathing
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Character: Castiel
Fear(s):
1. Lucifer (in Nick or Sam's bodies) and/or Michael (in Adam or Dean's bodies) 'cause big bros are scary powerful and he's been killed by archangels before :,)
2. Losing his grace and/or his powers not working, being human/useless
3. Any of the Novaks being injured and/or mistaking him for Jimmy
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Character: Newton Geiszler
Fear(s):
1. Precursors returning/stalking him, threatening to take him back.
2. Loss of control or lack of bodily autonomy, possession that could harm his friends.
3. Fear of dark spaces — of any situation. He's scared of the dark.
Content warnings: list any that might apply for the fears you will be listing
Character: Ziggy Berman
Fear(s):
1. The serial killers in her world reappearing, specifically Tommy and the Milkman; Tommy had killed friends and her sister, and the Milkman had temporarily killed her.
2. Being abandoned or scorned/mocked by people she cares for, being hated or unloved.
3. Being choked or stabbed similarly to the way she had in her own world.
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Character:
Fear(s):
1. Being turned into a sparkeater/cannibal again.
2. Dying alone with no one caring.
3. Others dying due to his own failures.
4. Being trapped in his alt-mode as a microscope forever.
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Character: Hermann Gottlieb
Fear(s):
1. That Hermann lands right where he was prior to arriving at the Ximilia: under the hand of Precursors, occupying Newt's body, slowly choking him out.
2. To see the world on the verge of the apocalypse and being helpless to do anything about it.
3. Being left alone and no one knows he's missing
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Character: Drift
Fear(s):
1. Being captured and tortured by the DJD
2. Being confronted by his old self, the butcher known as Deadlock
3. Ratchet in the final months of his terminal illness
Character: Geralt of Rivia
Fear(s):
1. Ciri rejecting him/being killed
2. Reliving being found and forced to ride with the Wild Hunt
3. Seeing his murdered Hansa again
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Character:
Fear(s):
1. Specifically falling to her death, waiting for impact.
2. Any kind of forced invasive medical procedures.
3. Being unable to control her body, or being controlled by someone else.
4. The visions Wanda showed her of the Red Room, in particular young girls without mouths.
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Character: Clayton Epps
Fear(s):
1. Watching someone else die and being helpless to stop it.
2. Having his own powers used against him; slow torture while someone tries to rip his soul from his mind, loss of bodily autonomy due to mind control, etc.
3. Being forced into crushing/grinding/chopping heavy machinery.
4. Total social alienation, especially if he doesn't know why it's happening.
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Character: genya safin
Fear(s):
1. gore
2. blemishes (pimples)
3. physical abuse
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Character:
Fear(s):
1. physical torture (esp re: wing violence)
2. silence
3. a monstrosity version of himself
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Character: Aleksander Morozova / The Darkling
Fear(s):
1. Isolation / dying alone - if the whole team vanished, or the whole town and he was the only one there. Welford's fate.
2. Losing hope / losing Alina - seeing her injured, seeing her die. Alternate, her rejecting him, laughing, her having powers while he loses his own and rubbing his face in it.
3. Drowning (the one time he came close to dying, at 13, and was almost murdered by his only friend.) Anything about being tied up and left helpless in cold water.
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Character: andromache the scythian
Fear(s):
1. the iron maiden: both quỳnh inside or herself inside
2. drowning via restraints - either herself or being unable to save someone who is
3. capture and restraint and endless torture
4. being alone with her immortality again
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Character: cassian andor
Fear(s):
1. beaches
2. eternal space fascism aka a never-ending empire
3. capture without a lullaby pill (aka the star wars cyanide equivalent)
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