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Get Your Towels Ready...
First things first: participants of the Nightmare Castle plot, please note that there have been some changes appearing around the castle lately — these alterations are reflected in the room descriptions of all plot posts, but you can see the full list of them here!
And with that out of the way, it's time to move on to...
NIGHTMARE CASTLE: THE FINAL RECKONING
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to what will (hopefully) be the final infopost of the Nightmare Castle plot! You've braved the nightmares, you've opened the doors, you've explored the premises, and that means it's time for...
THE FINAL BOSS FIGHT.
Please read this entire post carefully! There are very important details about how this is going to work inside!
THE BACKGROUND:
At 7:00 AM on Wednesday, October 30, another creaking groan will resound throughout the castle; as your characters may recall, the last time this castle made that noise, a new door leading to the upstairs had appeared. Well, if they decide to go check the stairwell, they'll discover that their intuition hasn't failed them; a door has appeared again, this time leading downstairs from the first floor. Because no horror movie is truly complete until our hapless heroes have explored the basement, right? Right.
However, they'll have to first get through the sigil locking the door. Unlike the upstairs doors, this one does not glow any particular color; as clever characters will probably quickly deduce, this door requires all three sigil colors pressed against it in order to unlock it, at which point it will look like this! Characters are welcome to handwave this (pun intended) if necessary; however, please try to find some CR to accompany you down there! You're going to want it, after all, because once you get down those winding stairs, you're going to discover that you're...well. Here.
DON'T YOU KNOW? YOU SHOULD NEVER GO IN THE BASEMENT.
KEY:
• RED areas are inaccessible regions! This time, characters have a little less discretion in what they perceive as the reason for the inaccessibility; it'll either be something like a broken or crumbling wall, a locked door, an archway overgrown with dangerous-looking vines, thick fog, or something else of that nature!
• The GREEN area is the set of stairs you used to get down here in the first place! Again, this is here so you know where your starting point is in relation to everything else.
THE LEADUP:
As you can see, the basement is structured such that there's really no place to go save for toward that purple X, which coincidentally happens to be residing directly below that Spooky Fountain people have been having strange encounters with all week. And as we're sure you've already guessed, that purple X is the Final Boss you've all been waiting for — and it's waiting for you in a room that looks something like this.
(The Goblin King called; he wants his labyrinth back.)
Like the other enemies your characters have been fighting thus far, the Final Boss is a massive formless creature whose attributes will be influenced by what your characters expect to see, or perceive as "monstrous"; though the Final Boss will not be moving from its position in the center of the circular chamber on the map, it will be sending out swarms of lesser monsters like the ones you've been fighting on the upper levels to harass anybody who might get too close. The actual layout of the circular chamber is basically a big doughnut: there's a wide platform that runs around the entire circumference, but a deep hole/pit in the center where the boss is standing. Or, well, "towering", really. Hence, you can't just walk up to the final boss; its feet aren't even visible from where it's standing in comparison to you.
When the Final Boss spots your characters entering the room, it will send out a wave of monsters to attack the intruders. But no problem, right? You've got your Pokemon back! Just throw out your Pokeball and order your faithful Pokemon to attack and—
...
...Watch as they shrink back and vehemently refuse.
None of your Pokemon, regardless of personality, will attack the Final Boss or its minions. Which means you're pretty much screwed, right?
Wrong.
See, as you might've guessed by now, everything that's taken place here is a dream (maybe), and that means all your characters have to do is...dream a little bigger.
THE PAYOUT:
Upon entering the boss chamber, characters who possessed supernatural powers in canon will discover those powers returning; characters who specialized in a particular weapon will have the ability to manifest one out of dream mojo. And characters who came from slice-of-life canons and/or had no particularly fantastic abilities of their own? Well, in your dreams, you too can be Spiderman, folks. Every participant in the final battle will have access to either their canon powers, their canon weapons, or a temporary burst of dream-granted powers (see below for details on this one) with which to fight the final boss.
Here's how it works.
Because this is a dream, your characters' abilities/weapons/etc are all being powered by an individualized source we're dubbing a "dream battery". Using your powers/abilities or keeping your weapon manifested uses up charge from the dream battery; as the battery drains, your character will become more and more fatigued until at last their battery runs out and they fall asleep. If your character falls asleep, they cannot be awakened again; they have KO'd from the fight for the duration of the final battle. Also, like in the encounters with monsters in the upper levels, if the Final Boss or its minions hits your character for damage, your character will experience fatigue along with pain, which will again put them closer towards passing out and falling asleep.
Thus, regardless of how powerful your character's abilities are in canon, they're running on a finite power source. Sure, Goku may be able to unleash the Kamehameha...once. But once he does, he's out of power and thusly out of the fight. So choose your world-ending attacks wisely!
For characters without canon abilities, we urge you to visit our Powers Request Subthread below and ask us for some superpowers! This can be just about anything you want — from the traditional "I want to shoot fireballs from my hands" to the character-specific "I want a hope beam that will let me inspire other people to fight better just from listening to the melodious sound of my voice." Be creative, be true to your characters, and have fun with it! However, note that this option is only for characters with no canon abilities/special weapons; Luke Skywalker is restricted to gaining back The Force for the duration of the bossfight, and cannot request the ability to shoot lasers from his eyes as well or instead.
HOW TO WIN THE BOSSFIGHT:
No man is an island, and this particular nightmare is such that no one person is powerful enough to defeat it! Therefore, the way to beat the boss is not the product of how hard you hit it, but by how many people are hitting it. If enough people join in, the boss will be vanquished, and your characters will achieve the Win condition for the plot! Here's how that will work:
On the plot masterpost, we have created a Bossfight Participation Subthread. Between the time when the log for the Final Bossfight goes up and 7:00 AM EST on October 31, participating characters must tag into the log with either one top-level comment or one response to a top-level comment and then link us to it in that thread. We will be using that proof of participation to determine whether or not the participating characters have achieved the win condition for the plot.
☆ THE NUMBER TO MEET OR BEAT IS 55 PARTICIPANTS ☆.
If FIFTY-FIVE or more characters tag into the bossfight log before the 7:00 AM EST deadline on Halloween, everyone wins the plot! If not, everyone loses the plot.
NOTE THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FIGHT THE BOSS IN ORDER TO HAVE "PARTICIPATED". As we mentioned on an earlier post, so long as your character is there in some capacity for at least one tag, they get credit for showing up and will be counted toward the final total.
Some suggestions of things you could do to participate in the log are:
• Fight the boss
• Assist people who are fighting the boss
• Give an inspiring speech to increase morale among the people who are fighting the boss
• Fight the lesser monsters while other people fight the boss
• Flee from the lesser monsters while other people fight the boss
• Become imperiled and require assistance from someone else who is fighting the boss
• Rescue someone who has become imperiled while you're fighting the boss
• Scream in abject terror at the sight of the boss
• Run away from the boss
• Throw a Pokeball at the boss
• Throw a shoe at the boss
• Throw everyone's shoes at the boss
The possibilities are endless.
IT IS HIGHLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU GET YOUR CHARACTER'S ONE COMMENT IN AND LINK US TO IT DURING THE PROVIDED TIME WINDOW. Obviously, you're not limited to one comment and we highly encourage people to play out their encounters with the boss to their heart's content. However, for the purposes of adjudicating whether or not the plot has been won, participating characters must tag the log and show us proof of it on the participation thread. That is the thread we will be using to do the final count; we will NOT be checking the log post itself for the tally. IF YOU FAIL TO LINK US TO YOUR PARTICIPATION COMMENT, YOU WILL NOT BE COUNTED. So make sure to get it in to us in a timely manner!
Win or lose, the plot will ICly conclude at 11:59:59 PM EST on October 30, and all participating characters will be returned to their bodies at 12:00:01 on Halloween, after which they'll probably sleep through the night and wake up properly at around 7:00 AM EST. Whether or not they wake up with a goody bag filled with Fabulous Prizes sitting next to them is entirely dependent on whether or not they won the plot!
NOTE: Though the plot is ICly concluding at 11:59:59 PM EST, we will be extending the window of opportunity for your characters to get their participation comments in to us until 7:00 AM EST on Halloween! This is to give people a reasonably equal chance at getting their tags in without being penalized for being in a non-EST time zone. However, that window extension is OOC only! For your characters, their time in Nightmare Castle ends at the stroke of midnight leading into Halloween.
THE SUMMATION:
SO. To sum up, here's what you need to do sometime between now and 7:00 AM EST on Thursday, October 31st:
• Make cool plans for how you're going to participate in this boss fight!
• Ask us questions if need be!
• Head over to the Final Boss Log once it's posted!
• Tag into it in some capacity with your participating characters!
• Link us to those tags here!
• Encourage all your friends to do the same!
• Have fun threading around in the log and wait for the announcement from us as to whether or not you've won the plot!
~
☆ REMEMBER: IF YOUR CHARACTER DOES NOT POST TO THE BOSSFIGHT LOG AT LEAST ONCE (AS A TOP-LEVEL COMMENT OR IN RESPONSE TO SOMEONE ELSE'S TOP-LEVEL COMMENT) BEFORE THE CUTOFF, THEY WILL NOT COUNT TOWARD THE 55-PARTICIPANT GOAL! ☆
~
QUICK LINKS
QUESTIONS FOR MODS | BADASS NORMAL REQUEST THREAD | BOSSFIGHT PARTICIPATION CHECK-IN
And with that out of the way, it's time to move on to...
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to what will (hopefully) be the final infopost of the Nightmare Castle plot! You've braved the nightmares, you've opened the doors, you've explored the premises, and that means it's time for...
THE FINAL BOSS FIGHT.
Please read this entire post carefully! There are very important details about how this is going to work inside!
THE BACKGROUND:
At 7:00 AM on Wednesday, October 30, another creaking groan will resound throughout the castle; as your characters may recall, the last time this castle made that noise, a new door leading to the upstairs had appeared. Well, if they decide to go check the stairwell, they'll discover that their intuition hasn't failed them; a door has appeared again, this time leading downstairs from the first floor. Because no horror movie is truly complete until our hapless heroes have explored the basement, right? Right.
However, they'll have to first get through the sigil locking the door. Unlike the upstairs doors, this one does not glow any particular color; as clever characters will probably quickly deduce, this door requires all three sigil colors pressed against it in order to unlock it, at which point it will look like this! Characters are welcome to handwave this (pun intended) if necessary; however, please try to find some CR to accompany you down there! You're going to want it, after all, because once you get down those winding stairs, you're going to discover that you're...well. Here.
DON'T YOU KNOW? YOU SHOULD NEVER GO IN THE BASEMENT.
KEY:
• The GREEN area is the set of stairs you used to get down here in the first place! Again, this is here so you know where your starting point is in relation to everything else.
THE LEADUP:
As you can see, the basement is structured such that there's really no place to go save for toward that purple X, which coincidentally happens to be residing directly below that Spooky Fountain people have been having strange encounters with all week. And as we're sure you've already guessed, that purple X is the Final Boss you've all been waiting for — and it's waiting for you in a room that looks something like this.
(The Goblin King called; he wants his labyrinth back.)
Like the other enemies your characters have been fighting thus far, the Final Boss is a massive formless creature whose attributes will be influenced by what your characters expect to see, or perceive as "monstrous"; though the Final Boss will not be moving from its position in the center of the circular chamber on the map, it will be sending out swarms of lesser monsters like the ones you've been fighting on the upper levels to harass anybody who might get too close. The actual layout of the circular chamber is basically a big doughnut: there's a wide platform that runs around the entire circumference, but a deep hole/pit in the center where the boss is standing. Or, well, "towering", really. Hence, you can't just walk up to the final boss; its feet aren't even visible from where it's standing in comparison to you.
When the Final Boss spots your characters entering the room, it will send out a wave of monsters to attack the intruders. But no problem, right? You've got your Pokemon back! Just throw out your Pokeball and order your faithful Pokemon to attack and—
...
...Watch as they shrink back and vehemently refuse.
None of your Pokemon, regardless of personality, will attack the Final Boss or its minions. Which means you're pretty much screwed, right?
Wrong.
See, as you might've guessed by now, everything that's taken place here is a dream (maybe), and that means all your characters have to do is...dream a little bigger.
THE PAYOUT:
Upon entering the boss chamber, characters who possessed supernatural powers in canon will discover those powers returning; characters who specialized in a particular weapon will have the ability to manifest one out of dream mojo. And characters who came from slice-of-life canons and/or had no particularly fantastic abilities of their own? Well, in your dreams, you too can be Spiderman, folks. Every participant in the final battle will have access to either their canon powers, their canon weapons, or a temporary burst of dream-granted powers (see below for details on this one) with which to fight the final boss.
Here's how it works.
Because this is a dream, your characters' abilities/weapons/etc are all being powered by an individualized source we're dubbing a "dream battery". Using your powers/abilities or keeping your weapon manifested uses up charge from the dream battery; as the battery drains, your character will become more and more fatigued until at last their battery runs out and they fall asleep. If your character falls asleep, they cannot be awakened again; they have KO'd from the fight for the duration of the final battle. Also, like in the encounters with monsters in the upper levels, if the Final Boss or its minions hits your character for damage, your character will experience fatigue along with pain, which will again put them closer towards passing out and falling asleep.
Thus, regardless of how powerful your character's abilities are in canon, they're running on a finite power source. Sure, Goku may be able to unleash the Kamehameha...once. But once he does, he's out of power and thusly out of the fight. So choose your world-ending attacks wisely!
For characters without canon abilities, we urge you to visit our Powers Request Subthread below and ask us for some superpowers! This can be just about anything you want — from the traditional "I want to shoot fireballs from my hands" to the character-specific "I want a hope beam that will let me inspire other people to fight better just from listening to the melodious sound of my voice." Be creative, be true to your characters, and have fun with it! However, note that this option is only for characters with no canon abilities/special weapons; Luke Skywalker is restricted to gaining back The Force for the duration of the bossfight, and cannot request the ability to shoot lasers from his eyes as well or instead.
HOW TO WIN THE BOSSFIGHT:
No man is an island, and this particular nightmare is such that no one person is powerful enough to defeat it! Therefore, the way to beat the boss is not the product of how hard you hit it, but by how many people are hitting it. If enough people join in, the boss will be vanquished, and your characters will achieve the Win condition for the plot! Here's how that will work:
On the plot masterpost, we have created a Bossfight Participation Subthread. Between the time when the log for the Final Bossfight goes up and 7:00 AM EST on October 31, participating characters must tag into the log with either one top-level comment or one response to a top-level comment and then link us to it in that thread. We will be using that proof of participation to determine whether or not the participating characters have achieved the win condition for the plot.
If FIFTY-FIVE or more characters tag into the bossfight log before the 7:00 AM EST deadline on Halloween, everyone wins the plot! If not, everyone loses the plot.
NOTE THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FIGHT THE BOSS IN ORDER TO HAVE "PARTICIPATED". As we mentioned on an earlier post, so long as your character is there in some capacity for at least one tag, they get credit for showing up and will be counted toward the final total.
Some suggestions of things you could do to participate in the log are:
• Assist people who are fighting the boss
• Give an inspiring speech to increase morale among the people who are fighting the boss
• Fight the lesser monsters while other people fight the boss
• Flee from the lesser monsters while other people fight the boss
• Become imperiled and require assistance from someone else who is fighting the boss
• Rescue someone who has become imperiled while you're fighting the boss
• Scream in abject terror at the sight of the boss
• Run away from the boss
• Throw a Pokeball at the boss
• Throw a shoe at the boss
• Throw everyone's shoes at the boss
The possibilities are endless.
IT IS HIGHLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU GET YOUR CHARACTER'S ONE COMMENT IN AND LINK US TO IT DURING THE PROVIDED TIME WINDOW. Obviously, you're not limited to one comment and we highly encourage people to play out their encounters with the boss to their heart's content. However, for the purposes of adjudicating whether or not the plot has been won, participating characters must tag the log and show us proof of it on the participation thread. That is the thread we will be using to do the final count; we will NOT be checking the log post itself for the tally. IF YOU FAIL TO LINK US TO YOUR PARTICIPATION COMMENT, YOU WILL NOT BE COUNTED. So make sure to get it in to us in a timely manner!
Win or lose, the plot will ICly conclude at 11:59:59 PM EST on October 30, and all participating characters will be returned to their bodies at 12:00:01 on Halloween, after which they'll probably sleep through the night and wake up properly at around 7:00 AM EST. Whether or not they wake up with a goody bag filled with Fabulous Prizes sitting next to them is entirely dependent on whether or not they won the plot!
NOTE: Though the plot is ICly concluding at 11:59:59 PM EST, we will be extending the window of opportunity for your characters to get their participation comments in to us until 7:00 AM EST on Halloween! This is to give people a reasonably equal chance at getting their tags in without being penalized for being in a non-EST time zone. However, that window extension is OOC only! For your characters, their time in Nightmare Castle ends at the stroke of midnight leading into Halloween.
THE SUMMATION:
SO. To sum up, here's what you need to do sometime between now and 7:00 AM EST on Thursday, October 31st:
• Ask us questions if need be!
• Head over to the Final Boss Log once it's posted!
• Tag into it in some capacity with your participating characters!
• Link us to those tags here!
• Encourage all your friends to do the same!
• Have fun threading around in the log and wait for the announcement from us as to whether or not you've won the plot!
☆ REMEMBER: IF YOUR CHARACTER DOES NOT POST TO THE BOSSFIGHT LOG AT LEAST ONCE (AS A TOP-LEVEL COMMENT OR IN RESPONSE TO SOMEONE ELSE'S TOP-LEVEL COMMENT) BEFORE THE CUTOFF, THEY WILL NOT COUNT TOWARD THE 55-PARTICIPANT GOAL! ☆
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QUESTIONS FOR MODS | BADASS NORMAL REQUEST THREAD | BOSSFIGHT PARTICIPATION CHECK-IN
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