FORGE

[livestage]

[The Showmaster leads you through the dark stage and you find yourself entering something that looks like a very nice and expensive classroom.

Each desk is spacious with drawers that you will conveniently find any important item that had been on your person or that you feel like you would need here. Each chair is cushy and swivels.

Sitting on top of the teacher's desk is a young girl, older teen / younger adult in age at most, hair that looks like mint cotton candy that probably reaches down to her ankles. She has a knee drawn up to her body, resting her chin on top as she scours the room of who arrived . . .

And then she looks at you all with disdain and slight fear in her face. You'll notice that her purple eyes shifts when she makes the scowl, it goes from a solid purple to a purple mixed in with this symbol in green also.]

I thought you guys might have been the exception, but oh no, no, no. Absolutely NOT.

Comments

round 2

[livestage]

DISCUSSION

[livestage]

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

[well. that was a thing]

How's everyone feelin'? Sound off.

Re: DISCUSSION

[throughbamboo]

[watches with some bemusement as a finger melts, but then turns to metal.

Then looks at him]

'M blamin' you for this.

[he is 100000% joking]

Re: DISCUSSION

[friend_request]

[ pulls a carrot out of their pocket ]

. . . I feel as though the spectrum cannot be clearly defined even with the wide range of data we gathered.

Re: DISCUSSION

[alanhearted]

[ stands up straight at a cute little flower!!!

and then another appears


and more and more and more and she's busy plucking at them: ]

Gardens aren't as cute if they're not well-tended.

CW: removed flesh spider implications etc etc

[sweetdreamsandivorysmoke]

[Today, Rose is learning that OF ALL THINGS......... their bones are kind of messed up by memory regains! Wow! Interesting self-anatomy lesson! And by "messed up" we mean some of the bones look bone-like but a lot of this skeleton looks like it is made out of something that is suspiciously close in texture to wood if one looks closely enough past the uhhh blood and stuff.

Not that much of Rose's body is ever exposed, so it's probably impossible for everyone else to see the extent of the damage, but it's pretty apparent how they start wincing and then cringing and then worse. They reflexively try to brush off the "spiders" at first but when that doesn't help at all and the pain gets rolling they're putting their hand to better use muffling what noises might have come out of their mouth otherwise.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[throughbamboo]

[watching his fingers melt ig, though when he glances over to the Storyteller he pauses, just utterly confused-looking]

DECISION

[livestage]

FORGE R2 SORRY CELI

[takeyoutochurch]

Patina: Character - 2, 3, 4
Ore: Cost - 1, 2 & 4
Kaolin: Creation - 3, 4, 5
Lea: Destruction - 1, 4, & 5

Re: DECISION

[sweetdreamsandivorysmoke]

ADD ON EVENT 2 & 4 FOR ROSE FOR GOOD MEASURE GIVE US THE BLACKOUT

CHARACTER 2 - ELIVIA

[livestage]

A sad Forge who had enjoyed Leilan's company, but did not wish to leave Forge. They enjoyed it here. You often wrote letters.

[You feel compelled to write down anything that's a lie.]

CHARACTER 3 - ARDUM

[livestage]

An engineer with the worst luck. They somehow got involved with a lover's triangle that they did not ask for.

You are unconvinced that the people around you don't have some kind of feelings for you, whether it's romantic or super friendship, and tbh, they're weird. You want to inch away if they get too close.

CHARACTER 4 - FULGA

[livestage]

Someone who enjoyed living an honest life until they stopped wanting to live that honest life. They used to be able to settle with what's given to them like their brother, Elysium.

But they can't accept it now.

They're going to break through the cave.

[All inhibitions are gone. You'll do as you please regardless of the feelings of others.

DESTRUCTION 1

[livestage]

Sometimes you feel the urge to DESTROY.

Or like. Blocks are very popular for young Forge Children. So is jenga.

You now have a stack of blocks that you feel compelled to play with.

DESTRUCTION 4

[livestage]

There was a crime where it was said that Forge destroyed a good chunk of Cirrus's information network through the use of The System.

Cirrus denied it and Forge denied it.

So nothing stops you from feeling compelled to keep doing as you do.

[Complete lack of inhibitions. Good luck, no one can stop you once you're determined to do something.]

EVENT 2

[livestage]

Forge seems like fuddy duddies to a lot of people, but hilariously, they host a lot of conventions for others.

It's product selling at it's finest. They love to help indie entrepreneurs.

[Become obsessive in some sort of fandom and compelled to share with others.]

cost 1

[livestage]

Forge likes to give discounts. It makes people happy.

It's one way they show they care.

You feel compelled to show your care to others.

COST 2

[livestage]

The invoices are Forge's ... thing. They might not be Cirrus, but they store so much information on Invoices. It's their way of tracking history. It's odd, but it's how they like doing it.

Everything will become an invoice. Everything needs an invoice. ALL INVOICES ALL THE TIME.

COST 4 cw blood draining

[livestage]

Blood is expensive.

Kidneys are expensive.

Hearts are expensive.

Hell, even hair can be valuable.

So despite the deaths that you have caused, you feel worse that you managed to ruin a lot of good money that could have helped others. Honestly, you feel real bad about that. Can't do much with flat body parts.

[Your blood constantly drains but you feel compelled to keep it from going to waste so you must find a container to contain it.]

EVENT 4

[livestage]

CANDLE LIGHTING.

It's a tradition that happens every time before a ritual. It is said for every candle that is lit, the more bounty that one will harvest.

The Legend believes in a good yield to those who work hard and to those that feed those who are always hungry.

And so they're helping to fulfill this.

Together.

You are compelled to sacrifice others for your own benefit.

CREATION 3

[livestage]

The first robot was perhaps the desire of one of the Forges who got tired of Acidia's life and death obsession.

Is this little buddy not also alive in its own way? Can people not care for it? Can this robot learn to care also?

But even still Acidia would deny it is alive... tch...

You feel compelled to follow orders by anyone who gives them to you.

CREATION 4, injuries

[livestage]

You know.

Has anyone ever realized?

No one talks about it ever, but it's not a secret.

Someone had to have created those weapons. The inhumane ones too.

Why?

Fulga looked up at you. "Easy. It's because of money."

[You'll soon find your body covered in injuries, bleeding from gashes and other wounds that can only come from weapons. What's wild is you know each and every single weapon that caused them and you wish to share that with others.]

CREATION 5

[livestage]

The System.

No one knows what the System is. No one knows who made it or where it comes from (Cirrus denies any involvement), but there is one thing that you should know.

"Don't worry about it."

Somehow, it can find certain people who might have blessings. And that's how some Forge members have been found and recruited.

"Don't worry about it."

They say Forge never feels threatened because they know that whatever happens, the System will take care of it. And they certainly have.

Don't worry about it.

[You'll find that your blessings cannot be controlled. Alternatively if you don't have them, you'll find anyone who is near you will either have their blessings amplified and also not controllable or completely cease to work.]

DESTRUCTION 5 - BONE TRAUMA, BODY TRAUMA

[livestage]

Bones, bones, bones, bones you're always flattening bones, you hum to yourself.

They take out the bones from the cave.

And the bones are carried to the fields.

They throw it in the dirt and you flatten the bones. You flatten the tales.

Bones, bones, bones, bones you're always flattening bones, you hum to yourself.

Flatten them, grind them, turn them to dust and add nutrients to the field to make them grow. But nothing normal grows here anymore.

Wonder why.

You'll feel and experience part of your body being flattened, especially bones that just seem to disintegrate. Even as it looks like the limb starts to reform, it just flattens again.