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GAME HISTORY
Just joined the game and have no idea what's going on? Just got back from a hiatus and feel like you missed something? Need a general refresher on the plot? Don't worry, that's what this page is for!

In the comments below, you'll find brief summaries of all major developments that have taken place in the game so far, in chronological order. This will include both game plot developments and major player plot developments, and it will be kept up to date as new events occur.

This information is available ICly, though not in these exact words. It can currently be found in the records room of town hall, in the form of journals, quick notes, books, etc.. Who wrote this material? That's up to you. Maybe it was a past resident of the town, their name lost to time. Perhaps it was one of the NPCs roaming about. It could've even been another character. As there are likely multiple accounts floating about, they really could've been written by anyone.

Elden and Wanda have also taken it upon themselves to supply the town hall and Invincible with a set of log books for everyone in town to transcribe recent events! Contact Margot for more information.

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JULY 2019

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Major Events

• The first group of characters arrives on the ferry at a mostly-abandoned town called Beacon. There is no day, fire won't catch, and there are very few sources of true light. Oh, and also, everyone's dead.


• The characters meet Winters, Rastus, and Will, three people who have been in Beacon for a long time, and are apparently the only ones left.


• Will makes some updates to the tablets.


• The Graves event occurs, and characters see each others' deaths (including those of the NPCs) via offerings at their graves.


• Winters announces his plan to reconnect the Lighthouse Keeper to the network.

Discoveries

• Eventually, the characters begin to explore. Locations unlocked this month include: the Post Office, the village, and the Museum.


• The characters also meet several forest spirits, and learn that everything that isn't a person with a lantern is a forest spirit. Notable forest spirits the characters meet include: the Postmaster General, the Librarian, the Ice Cream Crab, and... something under the church.


• Several people attempt to open the hatch in the church, only to be met with another, metal hatch underneath. This one proves impossible to open.


• The characters build bridges over the river to the village section of town.

Lore

• From Winters and Will, the new arrivals learn about the Lighthouse Keeper, a woman whose role it is to "protect and control the town". She cannot leave the lighthouse, and if certain (currently unknown) conditions are not met, she will reset the town.


• The previous group of people, which Winters and Will were a part of, was lost in one of these "resets" after they apparently turned on one another. This may have had something to do with the church.


• The Lighthouse Keeper is currently disconnected from the network. She will have to be reconnected manually.


• This world is dead. It is believed that the goal is to "fix the world" somehow.


• Apparently, there have been many groups before this one, and many resets.


• Winters was chosen by the Lighthouse Keeper to serve as a guide to new arrivals, and Rastus is in charge of tending the all-important Bonfire. Will's survival is a mystery.


• There is something important that Will and Winters are holding back, but they promise to reveal it in due time. It involves "something out there" and the Keeper's role as protector of the town.


• According to Rastus, there is only one person left who was alive before the world went dark. Their identity is still unknown.


• The characters learn that the church is where those who die in Beacon are brought back, but not everyone is. Some come back wrong, and those whose lanterns are too damaged don't come back at all.


• A mysterious package is received.

AUGUST 2019

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Major Events

• A new batch of characters arrives on the ferry, but this time they've brought company. A horde of rat-spirits briefly invades the town.


• A flood drives out the remaining vermin and temporarily makes travel very dangerous.


• Several groups devise a plan to reconnect the Lighthouse Keeper. A large party will be held to help distract the forest spirits while lookouts, guards, and one small team led by Winters set out to reach the lighthouse.


• The plan is enacted. Things seem to be going well...


• Until they suddenly aren't. Though the groups manage to connect the lighthouse successfully, the forest spirits realize what's happening and attack the expedition. The foghorn sounds and causes the spirits at the party to behave strangely. Many are killed in the resulting chaos, including Winters.


• Winters does not return.


• The Lighthouse Keeper makes her first appearance on the network to answer some questions.

Discoveries

• Someone figured out what happens when you try to take a candle from the church.


• A sign was added to the church. Possibly related to the above.


• A forest spirit was adopted.


• A rat was dissected. So the spirits do bleed.


• A strange machine became available.

Lore

• Many things were learned from the Lighthouse Keeper, Robin, including why she won't answer certain questions.


• Robin has been the Keeper for about 20 years. She became the Keeper when the previous Keeper no longer wished to continue.


• The lighthouse is Robin's lantern.


• Bad things would happen if the lighthouse ever went dark.


• The forest spirits are protective of the lighthouse, both to keep Robin in and to keep others out.


• Robin has the ability to translate to the forest spirits.


• There is someone left from before the world died. The world died approximately a hundred years ago.


• Robin also writes the weekly bulletin. The information is gathered for her by spirits and Rastus.


• The previous group devolved into a murder spree, and was therefore getting no closer to a solution to Beacon's problems. This is one of the reasons Robin has to perform the resets.


• Robin won't reveal the entire town's layout, but she has her reasons.


• People are pulled into Beacon through some sort of portal, though Robin does not understand how it works.

SEPTEMBER 2019

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Major Events

• The new arrivals come in as usual, but this time, the ferry also bears gifts courtesy of Robin, the Lighthouse Keeper. Characters now have a way to attempt communication with the forest spirits.


• Those gifts become useful when, in the aftermath of last month's disastrous party/expedition, Rastus holds a vigil of remembrance for those lost— Beaconite and forest spirit alike.


• Will revealed the existence of the World Eaters to the town at last.


• A group of Beacon residents led by Jason Grace attempts to start a new tradition: capture the flag! This first game seems to go well, with some fun twists for everyone.


• Robin hosts a scavenger hunt for prizes, to help everyone work together and mend fences after last month.


• Eliot Waugh throws a big ol party at the Invincible. Booze for all!


• Insects (or rather insect-shaped forest spirits) have returned to the woods. Just what everyone wanted!

Discoveries

• Turns out the creature under the church will show up if you wreck the place. Who knew?


• (Thankfully, a kind group of volunteers has started to fix things up.)


• Davina Claire discovered that it's a bad idea to go in the river.


• A large expedition group discovered a new location: The Armory!


• Rosinante found out what happens when you fish in the lake.

Lore

• The reason for the resets is that there are beings known as World Eaters who are attracted to light. They will come and make the town uninhabitable in roughly two years' time, so to prevent this, Robin resets any groups who do not make progress toward a solution.


• Winters and Will did not release this information earlier in the fear that it might cause another reset.


• Robin waits until the situation is "hopeless"; she does not reset the town lightly.


• Will and Winters' group was convinced that the entity under the church was the key to their situation, and they killed one another to provoke it.


• There is no known way to fight the World Eaters, and no one is known to have seen one, but there are pictures.


• It is believed by Will and Robin that the World Eaters are responsible for the state of perpetual darkness in Beacon.


• There are other people somewhere nearby. Not much is known about them, but they exist.


• The mysterious person who's been around since before the darkness can be referred to as "Mom". According to Robin, at least.


• Will survived his reset by hacking into the lighthouse computer.


• There seems to be some evidence pointing to the members of previous groups.


• Daylight found an interesting conversation on Winters' tablet.


• Aziraphale had an interesting conversation of his own with the creature under the church.


• Jason Todd found even more interesting conversations by hacking into Will's tablet.


• Finally not a conversation, it seems flight is somewhat difficult in Beacon.


• There are now some markers to indicate trees that are inhabited by forest spirits.

OCTOBER 2019

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Major Events

• The new arrivals came as usual, along with the prizes from last month's scavenger hunt, but things didn't end there. Crowley, Aziraphale, and Bucky Barnes hijacked the ferry, causing it to crash. And sink. Goodbye, ferry.


• Luckily, the efforts of many townsfolk and newbies alike managed to salvage most of the supplies. Good job, everyone.


• Will made another update to the tablets. And publicly shamed the ferry-crashers.


• A certain two someones, who shall not be named, destroyed the boat house.


• Everyone experienced some highly unsettling hallucinations for a week. Much trauma was had by all, but it was worse for those who ventured into the forest.


• The forest spirits put on a cautionary play about the Fire Snatchers, and proceeded to demonstrate by stealing everyone's stuff.

Discoveries

• Hacking Will's tablet yielded some interesting findings, but didn't turn out so great for the perpetrator.


• There is now a bridge for easy access to the Armory.


• The gacha machine has been refurbished.


• The Armory's camouflage is due to a mixture of science and magic.


• A bike shop was discovered.


• Some railroad tracks were also discovered.


• Apparently, some spirits know Morse code.


• Some experiments with the lanterns revealed what happens when you try to hide them with magical Darkness.

Lore

• According to Will, there's no precedent for the ferry crash. Uh-oh.


• Looks like it's possible to find books about yourself in the library. How strange.


• The stars over Beacon are slowly disappearing. But there is a "north star" of sorts (two of them, technically), and the stars can be used for navigation.

FEBRUARY 2020

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February began with our very first CAT HERD post, which included a big write-up of the plot thus far: CAT HERD #1: THE PLOT

Most of the plot this month happened by way of THE NIGHT WE MET, a memory-sharing event where opals dropped down from the aurora overhead and each opal contained a pre-death memory belonging to a character in town. Meanwhile, the forest spirits engaged in a "dogsled race" where many of them chose to rocket themselves into the aurora, killing themselves instantly. The forest spirits seem to revere this event as a holiday.

EVENTS

• BULLETINS: FEB 2 • FEB 9 • FEB 16 • FEB 23
  
• INTRO LOG: GRAVEYARD WHISTLING
  
• VISIT: THE NIGHT MARKET
  
• PLAYER PLOT: SPIRIT VALENTINE'S DAY OOC INFO
  
• PLAYER PLOT: SPIRIT VALENTINE'S DAY LOG
  
• EVENT INFO: THE NIGHT WE MET
  
• EVENT LOG: THE NIGHT WE MET
  
• THE NIGHT WE MET RANDOM ENCOUNTERS

NOTABLE EXPLORATIONS

• JAN 28 - Midge, Sarissa, and Akechi find a walking excavator.


• FEB 1 - Rosalind and Javert explore the courthouse, but the hostile forest spirits inside will need to be dealt with before the location becomes fully available.


• FEB 3 - Prompto, Lunafreya, Somnus, Ravus, Noctis witness some strange figures and lights at the inland lake.


• FEB 3 - Kol delivers a gift from the Librarian to the Postmaster General.


• FEB 7 - Misty asks the Postmaster General about the Fire Snatchers.


• FEB 8 - Kal-El who is definitely not Clark Kent discovered 25 torches in the elevator shaft of the Landmark Inn.


• FEB 8 (cw face trauma) - Maes, Cao Pi, and Will encounter a hostile spirit while searching for the medical center. Cao Pi and Will are killed.


• FEB 10 - Fjord, Mollymauk, Alisaie, Kal-El, and Sora experiment with the river. Fjord is killed.


• FEB 12 - Misty and Bucky find... the stump... uvu


• FEB 23 - Fjord attempts to get past the crocodile spirits in the shopping center. He learns they want their own territory!


• FEB 23 - Carmilla consumes a forest spirit and suffers some strange, green-eyed side effects.


• FEB 24 - Link attempts to communicate with the hostile forest spirits inside the courthouse. He learns they want to consume!


• FEB 24 - Vanitas attempts to portal across the lake. He encounters some strange noises and sensations in the portal, as well as some hostile forest spirits.


• FEB 25 - Ignis asks the forest spirits why they wear masks. The masks are a part of them and their culture, it seems.

LOCATION DISCOVERIES

• THE PAWN SHOP - discovered by Coraline
  
• THE SCULPTURE PARK - discovered by Mollymauk, Jason G., Kol, Duster, and Ambrose
  
• THE GREENHOUSE - discovered by Xayah
  
• THE WEATHER STATION - discovered by Castiel, Stone, and Rosinante
  
• DOWNTOWN: THE DELFT THEATER - discovered by Peter P., Jason T., Bruce, Riku
  
• DOWNTOWN: THE FALLOUT SHELTER - discovered by Duster and Tadashi

NOTABLE NPC THREADS

• RASTUS - Link asks Rastus if he's Javert about the bonfire, lanterns, and World Eaters.


• DR. SOLIS - Daylight and Cao Pi meet with the elusive Dr. Solis.


• ROBIN - Vanitas messages Robin to ask about the World Eaters. They discuss how Robin became the Lighthouse Keeper.


• ROBIN - Minimus messages Robin to ask about the Fire Snatchers, which Robin reveals to be more officially called "The Wild Hunt". They discuss the world and the position of Lighthouse Keeper.


• PLUTO - Pluto reveals to Rosinante that the Night Market was affected by the lantern malfunctions during a recent event. One crew member died and another was critically wounded.


• PLUTO - Minimus asks Pluto for details on the Night Market faction.


• PLUTO - Jason G. gets the same story as Rosinante with regard to the lantern malfunction event.


• LETTERS SENT BY DR. SOLIS: Daylight, Mollymauk, Maes, Aziraphale, Rosinante

OOC

• GAMEPLAN: FEBRUARY
  
• CAT HERD #1
  
• MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: GAME UPDATES
  
• MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: DOWNTOWN UNLOCKS
  
• MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: APP CYCLE SCHEDULE
  
• ACTIVITY CHECK