#bhs: plot.

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The authorities make quick work of blocking off the roads surrounding the church, firefighters spending the morning combing through the debris. The city holds its breath as the red-blue sirens spin in silence, reflecting against broken stained glass that crack underfoot as survivors are found throughout the afternoon.

Curious, how those missing are only orphans; nuns kneeling in prayer, begging for salvation or avoiding the watching eyes of those gathered.

Curiouser, how only weeks ago, the church received a rather generous donation from an anonymous figure. There is no name attached to the cheque, but the insignia of the company is unmissable: VELVET HOLDINGS CORP.

Come nightfall, what remains of the orphaned children have begun singing new melodies; gospel turned child’s game.

I LOOK FORWARD TO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD / DON’T YOU?

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Hello dear players and welcome to our second event! HOUNDSTITCH CHURCH & HOME FOR WAYWARD YOUTH (previous alignment: NEUTRAL) has been compromised in what the authorities are claiming is a horrible accident. Police investigations of the scene are brief, but what is most odd is that while no corpses are found, there seems to be one too many children missing from the total head count...

For this event, we will need several volunteers - message the main if you are interested in having your character take part in one of these roles! Please note that roles will be filled as first-come-first-serve.

HOUR OF OUR DEATH - Perhaps you see the smoke first, or you sought the church for atonement before you started your day - regardless of the reason, you are one of the first responders on the scene, quick to aid in whatever way you can. Those you have bandaged or pulled out of the fire itself consider you a hero, but there are some who question why you appear at just the right place at such a strange hour… - CLEMENTINE | HENRIK | PAX

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY - You catch a moment of the burning, or arrive just as the police do, watching the firefighters pull bodies out of the rubble. Unfortunately - or fortunately - you are behind the police tapes, merely a spectator to the show. Stay put, for you are a witness to the authorities, and there will be inquiries once the building is done going up in smoke. - IVORY | MINA | THEO | WILLIE | UNLIMITED - OPEN TO ALL.

FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES - You are hardly deterred by the caution tape that surrounds the building, or the creak of unsteady debris echoing under broken statues - courageous or an idiot, you venture into the ruins of the church the following night. The shadows are especially restless in unholy places and whispers caution you against finding what fires tried to burn down. - AKARA | ODESSA | RUBY

Please set your threads to the appropriate date & time - otherwise, your character is free to interact with any aspect of the fire, investigation, and gossip that follows it. The timeline of this event is as follows:

9/12 | THE BURNING.

5:00AM - 6:00AM: The church begins to burn & first responder volunteers arrive on the scene.

6:00AM: Police, EMS, and firefighters reach the church & firefighters begin to extinguish the fire.

8:30AM: The fire is successfully extinguished.

9:00AM: Police begin investigations & interviewing any witnesses to the scene while EMS takes victims to The Vale to be treated. Firefighters start to clear debris to look for any survivors.

11:30AM: Police close investigations on the accident on the Houndstitch fire. Officers still remain on scene to keep citizens away from the church.

6:00PM: Firefighters finish their excavation of the church. Survivors have been rescued all afternoon and brought to The Vale for hospitalization.

10:00PM - 5:00AM: Trespassers begin to explore the ruins of the church.

9/15 | THE AFTERMATH.

4:00AM: The church’s financial records have been mysteriously leaked to the public. It becomes evidently clear that VELVET HOLDINGS CORP. has made a large donation a few weeks prior to the burning,

10:00AM: There is a count done, and it is found that some 20 orphans have disappeared; nowhere to be found after the fire.

6:30PM: City Hall releases an official statement in regards to the fire, confirming that the incident was an accident and that no further investigations will be conducted.

Hello, dear players! As a little treat, we have a small subplot drop for you! These will appear every now and then in between events, and all characters will be aware of them in-game. Whether or not you choose to have your character react or interact with these subplots is up to you. Keep in mind that these subplots happen for a reason and can potentially connect to the main story in one way or another.

For this particular subplot, it is discovered that a popular door to Underland, located in one of the backrooms of THE SILVER VEIL HOTEL, used by many foreigners to access the under-city, has been PERMANENTLY CLOSED. No one is sure who did this, or why, but it has made accessibility to businesses in the under-city all the more difficult. The date of this discovery is 08/27. 

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THE WISHBONE is in disarray when its prized fighter does not show up for their scheduled match for the third time - unusual, given the giant’s proclivity for violence in the ring and love for the money it gives them outside of it. The ring is deathly empty on a Saturday evening, and by dawn the following Sunday, the city begins to whisper.

I saw him with the moondusted trapeze boy at the edge of the circus, the docks tell you. Enraptured or terrified.

He followed the magician backstage after the show after he volunteered, the remaining orphan children sing-song in between their nursery rhymes. Do you think he conjures only hacksaws or bone-knives too?

THE WHITE QUEEN’s henchmen scour the city, unforgiving in their questioning. Watch what you answer, for the shadows are surely listening, silently laughing.

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One week after the circus’ departure from Wonderland, a drunkard bets the last of his life savings on the number 4 on the roulette table. It is after he sees his bet be the jackpot for the round does he realize that the ball landing on his choice number was not a ball, but rather, a single brown eye cleanly scooped from the socket it belonged to.

The dealer of that particular game vanished shortly after the discovery. It was found that the individual was not a worker of THE HEART’S PALACE, but nothing else is known of them other than eyewitness accounts of the person wearing an eyepatch over their left eye, their exposed gaze a brilliant bright blue.

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Hello dear players and welcome to our third event! The circus is in town and any strange, wondrous, and weird act can be found in the three days that they stay - but stranger still is what happens when they leave. Amidst all the lights and magic of the circus, one of the White Queen’s prized fighters go missing, and the city is left with questions as to whether the big-top flourishes were merely a ruse - after all, there are no coincidences in Wonderland.

For this event, we will need several volunteers - message the main if you are interested in having your character take part in one of these roles! Please note that there will be priority to those who have not been event volunteers before, but otherwise roles will be based on a first-come-first-serve basis.

SEE NO EVIL - Perhaps you wander into a tent you shouldn’t have during the circus’ stay at Wonderland, or maybe you see the flash of the telltale red flags out of the corner of your eye days after the circus leaves - regardless, you catch sight of something odd, even for Wonderland. To you, the minute detail may be trivial, but others in the city may not think so. - GUS | INEZ | RUBY

HEAR NO EVIL - You know better than the rest - overheard a hushed conversation at the circus between the owner and a too-familiar figure, or perhaps the shadows told you otherwise - but how does not matter. What you know makes you both a target and prize for the city run on gossip and asking for answers, and time will only tell what Wonderland will uncover. - AKARA.

SPEAK NO EVIL - There might have been something in the cider, or maybe the private show with the snake charmer did more to you than the reptile - whatever it is, your account of what you saw spreads fast, wildfire gossip upon passing lips. Whether it is intentional, or even if what you saw is true - though you may believe otherwise - can hardly be verified. The only fact: Wonderland listens when you speak. Tread carefully. - CLEM | ONE LEFT | OPEN TO ALL

Please set your threads to the appropriate date & time - otherwise, your character is free to interact with any aspect of the circus and the aftermath that follows it. The timeline of this event is as follows:

10/09 - 10/11 | THE ARRIVAL.

8:00PM - 5:00AM DAILY: The circus has appeared in the middle of Wonderland, and its doors open only at night. During this time, all the open tents are bustling with acts and shows, and those closed are to be explored - if you are brave enough to do so.

10/12 | THE DISAPPEARANCE.

11:30PM: THE WISHBONE realizes that its prized fighter has gone missing, and unease is palpable across the city. The imbalance of the ring’s closed doors throws residents off - and without the outlet THE WISHBONE brings, most are restless in some form or way.

10/13 - 10/20 | THE QUESTIONING.

6:00PM - 4:00AM DAILY: THE WHITE QUEEN’s henchmen are sent to scour the city in search of answers and are hardly notorious for being kind. No soul caught is spared, and questioning will only be painless depending on your response.

10/20 | THE GAME.

10:00PM: The unknown dealer begins working at their table at THE HEART’S PALACE. .

10:45PM: The drunkard wins their game of roulette.

10:47PM: The drunkard realizes that the ball used in the game is a human eye. The dealer is no longer at the table.

11:00PM: Casino security arrive on scene.

11:10PM: The unknown dealer is last seen on security footage by one of the casino’s private doors. They are looking straight at the camera before the tape glitches, flickering back to footage without the dealer.

11:20PM: The entire casino is on full lockdown. No one can enter or exit the building as police begin to investigate.

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Hello, hello! We hope you like our second little subplot drop - there was a sighting of patients of THE VALE being moved to RUTLEDGE ASYLUM for reasons unknown, with THE VALE putting out a rather suspicious call to these patients’ families shortly afterwards… 

For this subplot drop, it can be assumed that all characters have heard of this through the whispers that travel through Wonderland. However, there is no official statement from either institution, nor has the police opened up any investigations. 

A search is conducted, but no body turns up for the severed arm found at the docks. Even so, identification is telltale in the freshly bloodied knuckles and scarred design on its wrist. All fighters at THE WISHBONE sport such brandings. Her fingerprints have been burnt off, but a quick count of the fighters indicate who the deceased is.

The body at the Silver Veil Hotel is soon identified as none other than an overseas investor of VELVET HOLDINGS CORP, meant to leave for Wonderland the following morning. A tearful note is propped by the bedside, and how bodies were found hanging from coarse ropes would have made the case open-and-shut - save for how chairs that should have been kicked away from bodies were neatly pushed to the corners instead.

Strange, Wonderland whispers. How timely. How unfortunate.

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Hello dear players!! Welcome to our FIRST EVENT of the RP! We’re so excited to have you all here, and what better what to celebrate opening than with some mYStery and MURDER? Stakeholders of VELVET HOLDINGS CORP. & THE WISHBONE - affiliated with the RED QUEEN and WHITE QUEEN respectively - have been mysteriously targeted, perhaps in warning. With how the three Queens have been struggling for reign, and how two Queens bear a significant loss with sightings of some of the QUEEN OF HEART’s cronies in both crime scenes earlier that day, it is no question that tensions have risen.

Please set your threads to the appropriate date & time - otherwise, your character is free to interact with any of the findings of the murders & the repercussions that follow them. The timeline of this event is as follows:

08/16 | THE DISCOVERY.

1:00AM: The severed arm is found in the Black Hallows slums. Police are notified shortly afterwards.

3:30AM: The hanging body is found at the Silver Veil Hotel after a mysterious tip is given to the front desk. Police arrive on scene for investigations shortly afterwards.

8:30AM: The RED QUEEN is notified of the investor’s death.

1:00PM: The police arrive at The Wishbone with the severed arm as soon as the club’s doors are unlocked for the day. The WHITE QUEEN identifies the owner of the limb almost immediately.

6:30PM: The newscast reporting on the two deaths suddenly cuts out. In its place, a video of a dog chasing its own tail plays on loop until it is time for the weather forecast.

11:30PM: The QUEEN OF HEARTS holds a new record for the most number of guests in the casino in one night.

08/16 - 08/31 | THE INVESTIGATION - During this time, no new leads are found to either cases. Any funerals held are very much private, and an unrest settles across the city.