oh no, do i see something crawling up the creek bed ? hi, everyone! i'm still hard at work on finishing up the skeletons, but it's getting a bit late for me, so you probably won't see the next one until tomorrow. in the meantime, who's ready for some new species lore to sink your teeth into? i'm so excited to introduce banshees and ghosts into the world of magnolia creek! i'm fairly certain that these are the last species i'll be adding ( knock on wood ), so i hope you enjoy reading about them as much as i enjoyed coming up with them! as for what skeletons i'll be releasing next, get ready to see the crow and the hollow, and i'm sure you can guess what species they'll be!
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there's something different about magnolia creek. you can feel it in the air.
the fog doesn't burn off by noon anymore. it just sits there, low over the mill road, thick enough that headlights turn to smudges and the tree line disappears an hour before the sun actually goes down.
the birds left early this year. nobody talks about that out loud but everyone's noticed the quiet where they used to be. the animals that are still around are acting strange. dogs won't cross certain streets, no matter how hard their owners pull the leash. deer stand in the middle of the highway at dusk and just watch the cars come, patient, like they're waiting to see what happens. ms. prescott's cat clawed through a screen door trying to get out of a house it had lived in for eleven years, and nobody's seen it since.
the well water tastes like pennies past the county line. the radio cuts out on cedar street for no reason anyone can find, three seconds of static and then nothing. kids are having the same dream, all of them, though none of them will describe it the same way twice. a few have stopped sleeping instead, lying awake in the dark, staring at their closet doors like they expect a monster to jump out.
and underneath all of it, the thing nobody is willing to say aloud: the town remembers 1990. they remember the all-consuming dark, the way it swallowed the stadium lights whole. the blood-stained grass. the feral screams that didn't sound like any of the six kids everyone knew. the older people cross the street rather than walk past the football field after dark. they don't explain why. they don't have to. they just watch the fog roll in a little lower every night, and wait to see who it takes first.
a month ago, mr. hanlon went down to the water at four in the morning because his dog wouldn't stop barking at the treeline. he found something crawling up out of the bank on its hands and knees, soaked through, moving wrong, like its joints had forgotten which way they were supposed to bend. he didn't call it a person. not at first. he called the sheriff and said there was an animal in the creek, and then he stood there in the dark and watched it drag itself onto the grass, lift its head, and look at him with alistair pryde's face.
he's not the same. that much is easy to see even for people who didn't really know him. he laughs at the wrong moments. some nights his eyes catch the light strange, pupils swallowing the color until there's nothing left but black. he'll go quiet mid-sentence, tilt his head like he's listening to something nobody else can hear. after a routine medical evaluation, the sheriff's department called it "post-traumatic stress disorder," gave him a clean bill of health, and let him walk right back into town. the five slayers who felt the tether for the first time in six years know better. they've spent the last month circling him, circling each other, trying to figure out what to do about the boy who crawled out of the water wrong. the fog just keeps getting lower, waiting for them to decide.
a team has been assembled, for better or for worse. it's been three weeks of plans and arguments that have gone nowhere, of fourteen people trying to agree on anything. it's been so long that the slayers have properly interacted with each other that nobody's really in charge, which is kind of the problem. they've tried voting. they've tried whoever talks loudest. they've tried just waiting for someone else to decide so no one has to be the one who's wrong. so in the end, lily decides to leave notes to the other thirteen. four words, the same four words, over and over. midnight. maroon peak. come.
maroon peak. the slayers and their friends know the way there with their eyes closed. past the creek, up the switchbacks, the forest just stops and gives way to a wound of red earth that shouldn't exist. bare rock that hums faintly if you know to listen for it. scorched circles still scarring the ground where they trained. stones still standing in careful, deliberate patterns. to anyone else, it's just a clearing. a strange one, maybe, if they noticed the dirt at all. but to the six who bled here once, it's the place they stopped being ordinary. the place the mountain has been waiting for them to come back to ever since.
tonight, they finally do.
ADMIN NOTES
happy opening, everyone! thank you all so much for your patience! i'm so excited to get started, and i hope you are too! for this timestamp, we'll be doing a faster-paced group thread for their meeting at maroon peak, along with paired threads to encourage new interactions. you are, of course, more than welcome to write with each other beyond that. i just thought some starting points would help! i will post the details of the group thread later today.
all characters are expected to be present at the meeting, but if you're especially busy this timestamp, please let me know and we can either come up with a reason why they didn't show or briefly plot out what they were up to at the meeting for other muns' reference. i'm happy to accommodate you however i can!
this timestamp is set from june 28th to july 12th, 1996. the meeting will take place on july 12th. you are more than welcome ( and encouraged! ) to explore the earlier portions of the timestamp before the meeting, but i ask that you not go ahead of the timestamp. some vital information will be revealed at the meeting, and i don't want anyone to miss out on the opportunity to react to it! i'm going to say that this timestamp will last for two weeks, but we'll play it by ear, and if we need a bit longer, that's completely fine!
you are welcome to do flashback threads as well. i do ask that you make sure that the characters are at least 21 years old in any flashback threads as we're a 21+ group. you may flash back earlier than that in self paras and drabbles as long as you're mindful of the content you write.
if anyone forgot to opt in for the paired threads and would like to be involved, please let me know and i'll get you set up as soon as possible! and if any of these prompts aren't working out for whatever reason, please feel free to reach out as well!
APPENDIX
june 28.
the tome and the talisman both turn up at twice-sold tales pursuing the same lead, neither aware the other had been looking into it.
june 30.
the blade finds the scythe at the old sawmill. neither of them have a good reason to be there, and yet neither one moves to leave.
july 2.
the ring arrives at fryday's to find the pyre waiting there for her. it becomes clear that the pyre has deliberately sought her out. words are exchanged.
july 5.
the chain comes across the veil alone at the pinewood laundromat late at night. it's clear from the veil's eyes that something is wrong.
july 8.
at the rest of the group's insistence, the wound and the beacon are forced to patrol god's acre together, looking for a group of ferals.
july 12 — maroon peak.
all fourteen arrive. the meeting begins. there's an uneasiness in the air that everyone feels. even the supernatural creatures in presence look a bit rattled. what was the meeting called for?
hi, everyone ! i'm still deciding between applications for the compass, but i expect to have the acceptance post up within an hour's time, possibly sooner! i'd like to thank you all so much for applying again — all three of your applications are lovely, and this is quite possibly the hardest decision i've had to make yet. i really, truly wish i could welcome all three of you into the group. the good news is that i will be posting 2-4 new skeletons in about a week's time, so if you're not accepted this round, please feel free to apply again! ( this goes for anyone who didn't get in last round as well! ) i'll post more details on that tomorrow, but please just keep that in mind if you don't make it in this time. thanks again, everyone! i really appreciate your patience so much, and i'll try to make my decision as quickly as i can!
hi, everyone ! i may or may not have spent most of the day sleeping, but i'm so happy to see that most of our blogs are already in! while we're waiting on our last few ( including mine, oops ), feel free to hop into our ooc discord server here! it's a little under construction at the moment, but i should have it fully set up soon. we'll open up for plotting and introductions sometime tomorrow, once all of our blogs are in, but in the meantime, please feel free to chat amongst yourselves! i can't wait to get to know you all! [ important note: our discord server is for accepted muns only! please don't join if you're not a member. you will be kicked and blocked from re-entering. ]
that's all she wrote, folks ! our first acceptances are finally over, and once again, i'd like to apologize for the wait. i don't want to bore you with the details, but this was one of the hardest weeks of my life because my mom had to be committed to the psych ward. thankfully, she's finally home safe and sound, and i think things will run a lot more smoothly on the main from now on! i want to take a minute to thank each and every one of you for applying. i never expected to receive twenty-five applications for our first acceptance, and i was floored by the effort you all put into them. there were so many beautiful applications that i wasn't able to accept, and i really hope you'll consider applying again in the future because i'd love to have all of you here! for anyone who might be interested, the compass is still open, and i'd love to have them before we open this weekend. the submit has been reopened for new applications. last but not least, welcome to all of our new members! i'm so excited to have you here, and i can't wait to start writing with you all! i'm headed off to bed, but i'll be sure to update the pages tomorrow! good night, everyone!
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the submit is officially closed ! once again, i'd like to thank you all so much for your interest! i'm absolutely amazed by the number of applications and reservations we've received. i can already tell the effort you've all put into your muses, and i couldn't be more excited to finally start reading! there probably won't be any more posts on the main tonight, but i'll be sure to update you all tomorrow on how things are going. you can expect acceptances to be posted by monday afternoon at the latest! as a reminder to anyone who's sent in a reserve, you have twenty four hours ( until tomorrow at 9 pm pst ) to send in your application. once you're done writing, please im the main, and i'll reopen the submit for you! thanks again, everyone, and i look forward to updating you soon!
hello, everyone ! i'm so excited to announce that the submit will be closing for first acceptances next weekend! just to recap, we will initially close the submit on saturday, june 27th at 9 pm pst. however, if you need more time, you can send in a reservation for an additional 24 hours. all applications for reserved skeletons must be sent in by sunday, june 28th at 9 pm pst. acceptances will be posted on monday afternoon, and we'll open up for plotting shortly after. here's a timezone converter if anyone needs it. hopefully this all makes sense, but if anyone needs any clarification on anything, please don't hesitate to reach out! thank you so much, everyone! all of the applications look incredible from what i've gleaned so far, and i can't wait to read them all properly! good luck to you all!
without further ado, our application is officially live, and our submit has been opened! we are now accepting reservations and applications. remember, we are not first-come, first-serve, but if you want to, you can send in reservations to state your intention of applying. reservations typically hold skeletons for 48 hours, but for our first acceptances, you'll have a bit longer to apply. we don't plan on setting our first acceptance date until we have applications for at least 10 skeletons, so there should be more than enough time for everyone to finish up!
again, thank you all so much for your patience! i'm so excited to bring this story to life together! there are a few questions in the inbox, but i'm in desperate need of a nap, so i'll attend to them later today. very much looking forward to reading any questions or applications that come in the meantime!
