Name(s) of Character(s) Involved: Stephen Strange (rehandle) & whoever wants to play? Summary of Plot: Okay so quick background:
- Rich family has big old house in Sunset Falls - House has fallen into disrepair and become the spot all the local kids go to start testing out their magic and wreaking havoc in a contained space. Instead of drinking and graffiti we've got blood pacts and summoning circles cast by magically talented under 21s, so it's kind of just heavily cursed - The owners have put out an ad locally for someone to clear the place out and de-curse it - None of the locals really care to get involved because the owners abandoned the area and while the kids are using that one house they're not out menacing the rest of the neighbourhood
Some of the PC kids have heard about this place through the grapevine and decide to go there to practice some cool (shady) magic stuff they found tucked away at the back of the school library, and end up causing an even bigger mess than any of the local kids have because they have 0 idea what they're messing with. (Possibility for establishing a bit of ongoing continuity here if the book they pick up is a plant by an as yet unspecified NPC.) -- it doesn't necessarily have to be PCs but I think it would be cooler to hold off until there are some PC kids interested in this role.
My thought for this is maybe the spell, fuelled by the aura of Sunset Hills and the Cursed Vibes of the house itself and the energy of meta kids and how broken dimensional magic is at the moment, turns the inside of the house into a House of Leaves style yawning, shifting, bad energy maze and the mission becomes to get everyone out so they can seal up the rift caused by the spell. Time sensitive on account of the magic being wildly out of control having been cast by inexperienced practitioners in a place imbued with too many years of chaotic power, and the spell therefore seemingly being on a trajectory of exponential growth.
The kids are trapped inside, Stephen who is headed to the house to magically decontaminate it for the rich owners and whoever he brought along to help him are then instead confronted with a Big Magical Mess they need to fix and some kids that need rescuing.
Could potentially be extended to a bigger plot depending on how many people want to play with it, ie the house could start dragging random metas from wherever they are into the maze and those outside would need to pile in to help retrieve them while magic folk work to contain the spell.
The plot would end once those trapped inside are rescued with Stephen (and any other magic folks?!) binding the spell to the house. OOC Goals: I want Stephen to have a big cursed spooky house in Sunset Falls... the dream would be for Stephen to move in as caretaker to maintain the safety of the binding spell keeping the house mostly in check and to stop people from blundering into or intentionally disrupting what is now an even more cursed, but at least contained, property. Intended Personal Outcome/Consequences for Characters: He might be putting a fairly significant dent in any anonymity he could've had with this one, which isn't ideal when he has no intentions of keeping separate identities. It's also going to be a pretty rough few days at the office trying to keep the spell from expanding while waiting for the rescuers to do their thing. also maybe? accidentally becoming a teacher when he goes to complain about the book after the whole fiasco's over? whoops Impact on the Setting or Mod NPCs: Depends on the scale really! At the very least our flying high school should probably hire a more attentive librarian
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Summary of Plot: Okay so quick background:
- Rich family has big old house in Sunset Falls
- House has fallen into disrepair and become the spot all the local kids go to start testing out their magic and wreaking havoc in a contained space. Instead of drinking and graffiti we've got blood pacts and summoning circles cast by magically talented under 21s, so it's kind of just heavily cursed
- The owners have put out an ad locally for someone to clear the place out and de-curse it
- None of the locals really care to get involved because the owners abandoned the area and while the kids are using that one house they're not out menacing the rest of the neighbourhood
Some of the PC kids have heard about this place through the grapevine and decide to go there to practice some cool (shady) magic stuff they found tucked away at the back of the school library, and end up causing an even bigger mess than any of the local kids have because they have 0 idea what they're messing with. (Possibility for establishing a bit of ongoing continuity here if the book they pick up is a plant by an as yet unspecified NPC.) -- it doesn't necessarily have to be PCs but I think it would be cooler to hold off until there are some PC kids interested in this role.
My thought for this is maybe the spell, fuelled by the aura of Sunset Hills and the Cursed Vibes of the house itself and the energy of meta kids and how broken dimensional magic is at the moment, turns the inside of the house into a House of Leaves style yawning, shifting, bad energy maze and the mission becomes to get everyone out so they can seal up the rift caused by the spell. Time sensitive on account of the magic being wildly out of control having been cast by inexperienced practitioners in a place imbued with too many years of chaotic power, and the spell therefore seemingly being on a trajectory of exponential growth.
The kids are trapped inside, Stephen who is headed to the house to magically decontaminate it for the rich owners and whoever he brought along to help him are then instead confronted with a Big Magical Mess they need to fix and some kids that need rescuing.
Could potentially be extended to a bigger plot depending on how many people want to play with it, ie the house could start dragging random metas from wherever they are into the maze and those outside would need to pile in to help retrieve them while magic folk work to contain the spell.
The plot would end once those trapped inside are rescued with Stephen (and any other magic folks?!) binding the spell to the house.
OOC Goals: I want Stephen to have a big cursed spooky house in Sunset Falls... the dream would be for Stephen to move in as caretaker to maintain the safety of the binding spell keeping the house mostly in check and to stop people from blundering into or intentionally disrupting what is now an even more cursed, but at least contained, property.
Intended Personal Outcome/Consequences for Characters: He might be putting a fairly significant dent in any anonymity he could've had with this one, which isn't ideal when he has no intentions of keeping separate identities. It's also going to be a pretty rough few days at the office trying to keep the spell from expanding while waiting for the rescuers to do their thing. also maybe? accidentally becoming a teacher when he goes to complain about the book after the whole fiasco's over? whoops
Impact on the Setting or Mod NPCs: Depends on the scale really! At the very least our flying high school should probably hire a more attentive librarian