#mi:event

As the night gets under way, champagne sipped gingerly from tall glasses, Hydrus lingers below ground, coordinating via a sophisticated, impenetrable communication system, in-ears invisible to anyone not directly looking for them. They’re in position, waiting for the clock to strike nine. Lee takes the ‘stage’ just before the hour, clinking his spoon gently against his glass to gather the attention of his star studded guests. Celebrities from the mainland, local heroes, CEOs, even known gang members— anyone who’s anyone on Myeongcho is stood together in a crowd before him. Lee smiles at all the people he will sometime soon use for his own benefit and begins his speech. 

“Thank you all for coming tonight.” He draws in a deep breath. “Welcome to my annual Winter Ball, which the Daengom is kindly hosting for us tonight.” His audience claps quietly. “Thank you, thank you. Now, I’m sure you all know this has been a long, difficult year for our dear island. Riots, public executions, growing crime rates across the board, attacks to our very own...” He offers a sympathetic smile to MPD Lieutenant Yoo Sihyun who dips his head in return. “In the coming year, we will work together to—” As he raises his glass to propose a toast with his magnificent act of selflessness, the lights cut out. Plunged into the darkness, feet rushing across the floor— some to protect Lee, some in an attempt to restore power, some knowing what is coming next— no one feels the rumble of the floor until it’s too late. 

First, the exits fill with rubble. Then, the ceiling cracks. Smoke fills the room. It’s a bomb! They shout. No! It’s more! Two, three, four, maybe. It’s hard to tell amongst the screams of pain, agony, fear. Will you make it out alive? 

WELCOME TO MI’S NEWEST EVENT, MI:BLACKOUT !

This post marks the beginning of our newest event — we hope you’re as excited as we are! 

IC, Lee’s Annual Winter Ball begins at 8 PM on Saturday, December 21st, 2019. The power cuts out just before 9 PM, and a minute or so later, the first bomb of five goes off below the venue. Due to the power cut, Hydrus members coordinating the attack under the event could not communicate and the bomb was set off with Hydrus members still above ground and in the tunnels. 

OOC, this event lasts until midnight at the end of Saturday, January 18th, 2020.

HYDRUS, consider this a mission at the very least derailed. Your own members are caught in the crossfire and whilst the serpents don’t usually concern themselves over friendly fire, this complication runs much deeper than a few lost teammates. Your attempt to kill the shopping tycoon and various other high profile names in a continued effort to rebuild your reputation has been turned on its head. Your targets are trapped as you wanted, but can you finish the job? 

LYNX, congratulations on unknowingly making life that little bit harder for Hydrus. You’ve successfully cut out all communications and power across the island — at least for a little while. Unlike Hydrus, however, your targets aren’t living. How much easier is it to steal something with no security alarms? In teams, members of Lynx will advance on various goldmines for valuables — the temporarily closed Museum of Myeongcho, Sunrise Star Hotel, the MPD’s various armouries, confidential files in Myeongcho’s largest organisations. Take what you can, but don’t forget to stay alive. Security officers don’t go home just because the power is out! If you’re on the inside, however… Bad luck on missing out on all the fun! Or are you? 

Those on the inside from COLUMBA, PHOENIX and CORVUS, what’s more important: your loyalty or your life? Do you save your fellow members? Or all citizens to keep your allegiance hidden? Do you try to find a way out and leave everyone behind? Can you get to the bottom of this? Or do you take advantage of this opportunity? There’s so much wealth in this room, after all…

MPD, how fast can you really react to something you don’t know about? No calls can come in or out, you’re scrambling to find the source of the island-wide blackout… Unless you’re at the event, it’s likely your attention is elsewhere. Those guests will be fine by themselves, anyway… Right?

To summarise, Lynx and Hydrus have unknowingly planned separate attacks on the same night. Lynx just slightly beating out Hydrus has derailed the latter’s bombing of shopping business tycoon Lee Yeonseok’s Annual Winter Ball, leaving many wealthy names, as well as many of our beloved muses, trapped inside fighting for their lives. The blackout took out all power across the island, including phone reception towers and internet access, meaning there’ll be no way to contact one another for at least twenty minutes whilst teams work to restore power to, at the very least, phone towers. After forty minutes, power will come back on. The Daengom will remain in darkness thanks to the destruction caused by the bombs but mobile phones will regain signal when phone towers are restored regardless. 

The above descriptions for each gang are just guidelines! Whether or not your muse is at the Winter Ball or working on the outside in some way is completely up to you! 

Muses may have gained access to the Winter Ball through invite, being someone’s plus one, hacking the guest list, etc. If you can’t think of a realistic reason for your muse to be present but would like one, feel free to message us!

To earn +5 points, write a four-post thread or 200+ solo about any part of the event. Any thread about the ball, blackout, bombings, actions elsewhere as a result of the attacks or any aftermath will count! 

To earn +5 points, write a four-post thread with a muse you have never written with before about any part of the event. If you’re not sure where to start with ideas for plots, keep reading below this OOC information…!

As always, for threads and solos to count for points, they must be posted before the deadline. You can write as many threads and solos as you’d like, but you can only claim points for one thread/solo for each set of points. 

Don’t forget to tag all your event-related posts with this event’s tag mi:blackout and most importantly, have fun! If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to message the main or Admins Gyu & Woo directly. We hope you enjoy this event! 

CLAIMABLE PLOTS

The following are set plots and roles within the event for you to claim for your muses should you choose! These are all optional; you do not need to claim any of these to participate in the event. These plots and positions are for helping guide the event’s progression and offer ideas for development and plots if needed. To claim a plot, simply message us with the letter code and the muse you’d like to have that role within the event and we’ll update the post as soon as we see it! We hope this will connect you to new muns you may not have otherwise gotten the chance to plot with, and give you unique development for your muses! Please let us know if you like this idea for events. Your feedback will help us plot and structure future events! 

You, SONG SEOAH, have been assisting with first aiders such as LEE HYUNWOO since the explosions stopped. Paramedics are on their way, but for many present, that may be too late. Your bravery and intuition hasn’t gone unnoticed by others and following the release of all those trapped inside, you’re recruited for Columba by KIM TAEHYUNG for your tenacity. They won’t be the only ones watching, though, local hero. NOTE: This is an opportunity to get your muse recruited by Columba and requires no further point cost or reward solo to change your muse’s affiliation. 

Hydrus member Muse D had been mingling amongst the guests listening to Lee’s speech when the power went out. Alarmed, they’d tried desperately to get in touch with other members but with no signal and no power, it’s impossible. You connect eyes with Muse E ( Hydrus ) across the crowd and gravitate to one another for safety. After all, you were only supposed to keep an eye out and give the signal before making your escape. You weren’t supposed to get caught in the crossfire. 

JEON JEONGGUK is fascinated by this power outage and the moment you regain signal, you begin to delve into finding the source. Along the way, you find SON HYEJOO a fellow hacker who may or may not be part of the team that took the island down… 

Muse H ( Lynx ) is one of the coordinators or seniors on the attack against the Museum of Myeongcho. Muse I ( Lynx ) is one of the most inexperienced on the job. Eager to impress as they may be, this is a rather large first step. Can you work together to get the job done? 

KIM MINJI and PARK SUNGKI are trapped inside the Daengom with no power, no first aid kits and PARK SUNGKI unable to walk on their injured ankle. They won’t die from the injury, of course, but it’s not like they can get out by themselves before the rest of the building collapses. Will KIM MINJI help them, or does their loyalty not extend to outside of their gang? 

THE TAG FOR THIS EVENT IS mi:summer!

OOC and IC, this event lasts the duration of summer. This is set up to allow us to run mini events over the course of the summer months under this umbrella tag. 

Each of these mini events may or may not have their own full story line attached like full events like mi:valentine/mi:valentine18! You’ll have to wait and see~! 

Each of these mini events also have the potential to contain hidden surprises and rewards... We’re still discussing how best to reward you all and your muses for your continued dedication and love for MI, but rest assured that anything you do now will be honoured when we’re ready to implement new features to give MI a refresher! For now, you’ll just have to participate to see what awaits... 😏

Alike last year’s summer event, members are welcome to submit their own events! The only difference is you must fill in this incredibly short form HERE so we can make a full mibulletin post about it for you! 

As always, this event and all its mini events are 100% optional. 

“Thank you, Jihyo. Less than an hour ago, two bodies were discovered in Seoul Forest, just two days after a first pair were found beside Han River.” His lips are pressed into a thin line as clips begin to show of SPD officers pushing back reporters and curious passers by from the scene. “Tonight’s events were called into the SPD anonymously from a public phone at around 9:05 PM, the victims believed to have been on an early Valentine’s date. Authorities are still in the process of contacting families of tonight’s victims. However, details of the first couple and their murders have been released by their families and the SPD.” 

There’s a short pause before pictures of the happy couple pop up on screen, the names ‘Shin Nahee’ and ‘Lee Kwangmin’ beside each smiling face. “Shin Nahee, a 32-year old teacher, and Lee Kwangmin, a 35-year old dentist, had been dating for three years and frequently walked a route along Han River late at night to de-stress. The couple were, as described in an interview with 54-year old Lee Sanghoon, who discovered the couple and contacted police, huddled together on a bench, seemingly positioned postmortem.” 

Footage then returns to focus on the night’s events, a closed sign on one of Seoul Forest’s many building doors as Minho continues. “The SPD have released a written statement following these two events. Chief Choi Jiwoo wishes to reassure citizens that these killings are ‘of utmost importance’ to the SPD, and their best detectives are ‘working tirelessly to control the threat’. Shortly, she addresses the similarities to last year’s Valentine Killer, stating that she does not believe the two are connected in any way beside having drawn inspiration.” Minho doesn’t appear convinced, but holds his tongue. “We spoke briefly to the parents of one of the first victims of last year, Goo Minsoo, for their thoughts.”

A sharp cut presents the older couple stood also in Seoul Forest, with a more pleasant, green background to contrast the yellow tape shown behind Minho before. The mother breathes in audibly. “It’s horrifying that anyone would want to recreate the traumatising events of last year. It’s been horrible living without Minsoo this past year, and to think that 9 other families lost their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters— that was painful enough. Now the number is growing. We hope the SPD can catch this disgusting human soon.” Her husband nods sadly by her side. “In the months following Minsoo’s passing, we set up a foundation, raising money to support other parents who have lost sons and daughters to Seoul’s shockingly high crime rate. If you’d like to donate to help those all over the city, including the parents of the four victims televised tonight, please visit our website. Thank you.” A link appears at the bottom of the screen as Minho reappears. 

“Our hearts go out to all those affected by these recent events. The SPD would like anyone who feels they may know anything about either murders to get in touch immediately, and for citizens to stay inside as much as possible. Thank you. Back to you, Jihyo.” 

The tag for this event is mi:valentine18!

The event starts now! The above information, and that revealed in posts on mibulletin, are confirmed public knowledge. 

This post also marks the first opportunity to sign up for work! Please bear with us, as this is the first time this will be running and we’ll likely need to iron out some kinks still, but we’re very excited to get everyone involved! You can absolutely participate in this event without requesting a submit, but these will be handcrafted by your admins and relate directly to the event, so if you’re interested, send ‘I’m ready for work’ to micollective! These submits are unique to the event, and your future jobs given using this system will likely differ greatly. Please also note that these will have deadlines, however, if you cannot meet them, do not fear! This will be explained in full in your submit, but your muse’s overall assigned job will still be taken into consideration. 

As last year, more details will be revealed as time goes on, so keep your eye on the main and mibulletin! If you have any questions, feel free to message the main or Admins Gyu & Woo directly.

Sometimes Doyoung wonders if he should pursued a more exciting career path. Like perhaps the army or police force. Or maybe a mortician. But he doubts he would’ve enjoyed either paths. The former is too rigid in structure (and not to mention, his conflicting morals) while he probably wasn’t smart enough to pursue a career in the latter industry.

Regardless of whatever path he might’ve pursued though, he reckons he would’ve ended up the same. Because excitement and adventure can only ever be sought after, and never obtained. Do something enough, and it becomes ordinary. Routine.

Watchman-work, too, would’ve gotten stale eventually if it weren’t for the continuous influx of objectives, challenges and secrets his little hobby offered. And this little hobby of his, or really just life in general, had a way of throwing him curve balls when he least expects it. Or sometimes, when he least desires it.

For example? Right now, the photograph of a somewhat aged male entering an ‘questionable’ establishment arm in arm with a dolled up young woman.

It’s nothing particularly exciting really, but evidence of affairs and the like on executives and whatnot are always useful tools when it comes to bargaining favours or payments when the situation calls for it. He’d planed to do what he always did with photographs such as those – clean, edit, tag, file.

That dark figure of an individual in the background? He was going to edit him out, because blackmail material or not, photography was art. And he didn’t need some random passerby detracting from his subject matter.

At least, that was what he was planning.

That was before he spied the newspaper article said mystery individual was clutching onto. The paper itself isn’t of much note, but the headline and date of issue certainly was. Everyone who had half a brain has heard of, and knew of the copy cat Valentine Killings going on as of late. And the fact that this man here, was holding onto a paper – an old, old paper – headlining last year’s killings was very suspicious indeed.

THIS was fucking juicy stuff; THIS was the kind of thing the Watchman chased after.

Or what he would chase after, if he had nothing else better to do. Because in the end, Watchman-ing was a hobby, albeit an extreme one. And he had other hobbies too – like video gaming. And what can he say? He’s kind of busy since it’s Seollal and all, with all the Lunar New Year festivities and events the games are churning out.

He has lootboxes to grind, online currency to farm and community challenges to complete before the season’s over. And whether one might believe it or not, he’s torn between chasing after that exclusive in-game skin, and diving into the secrets and intrigue behind what seems like a budding series of serial murders.

Tapping a fingernail on his mouse, he ponders a thought with furrowed eyebrows before deciding to further blow up the photograph. This time, with the mystery figure being the focal point. It easy enough – having done countless of times – for him to de-noise and sharpen the photograph, lightening the shadows where needed to get him a decent close up of said individual in almost no time at all.

Leaning back, he lolls his head and relishing in the crackling sounds that the motion makes, sighing as he feels the muscles around his neck loosen up.

“What do you think Felix?”

He cocks his head to the side, directing the question to the feline lazing by his desktop.

“I shouldn’t bother right? It’s my holiday. And Feng Min’s skin is waiting for me,” he muses to himself. Eyes wandering over to this other (gaming) monitor which had a streamer’s steam open. “The event is waiting for me…”

Next to Felix, his phone buzzes, signalling the arrival of a new message from the ‘KIM CLAN🤘🤘🤘’ – titled by his younger sister, obviously; these damned youngins – group chat.

Somebody(s) was spamming all the photos from their family reunion.

God, that had been an awkward affair.

How does one act around family they’re partially estranged from? They’re estranged enough that meet-ups feel awkward, but not estranged enough that snubbing them wouldn’t feel awkward. He has no desire to embarrass his family in front of the rest of their relatives. Their issues can stay theirs. And private.

However, it’s one thing pretending things are okay in front of just your parents, your immediate family. But it’s a whole other ball game pretending in front of extended family too. It’s tiring.

He blames his brother.

Rolling his eyes, he scrolls through the spam of photographs, mildly annoyed by the lack of symmetry in some of the snapshots. He stops at one – the family photo where everyone looks swell, and where Doyoung looks like he’s dead on the inside. There’s one extra individual in this year’s photo.

Hyung-nim had decided it had been high time he introduced his 'secret’ girlfriend to the family. Doyoung had already found out a long time ago (though not because he had been told), but it was news to the rest of the family. He had no idea why they were so surprised though. Kim Dohwan had everything there was to be had in an attractive male specimen. It was inevitable he’d have found a match in his league.

And he’d definitely found a partner of his league. A pretty woman. Smart too, he’d reckon just going off her master’s degree. And Doyoung had yet to find any dirt on her so, she’s nice enough it seems.

He thinks that Dohwan is thinking of marriage; He’s too much of a gentlemen. And also much too easy to read. Marriage must be on the table, or at least at the back of his mind, if he’d decided to introduce her to the family.

God, he hates that he knows him so well.

But he still can’t help but wonder if he’d be invited to the wedding, if there were one. It’s an errant thought, but he also wonders if his brother and his girlfriend would be the Valentine copycat’s ’type’.

“As if,” he scoffs, and yet, he still pulls up a window to look up the details.

“They fit his type… age wise, at least. Twenties? What do you think Felix?” He directs the rhetorical question towards his cat, absent-mindedly scratching its head while his eyes were still glued to the screen.

“Copycat only seems to be following the whole 'couples’ shtick. His first ones were in their thirties.”

But you never know.

He doesn’t like not knowing.

Drumming his fingers on his mobile phone, he ponders a thought. As he arrives upon a decision, he straightens up, pulling out a new window for the image. Sharpened and zoomed in on the mysterious individual.

He crops out the newspaper from the final image.

Digging through his drawer, he pulls out one of the many burn phones stacked haphazardly in the container and dials a number.

“Sweet Nightingale, mind doing me a favour?” He practically purrs into the receiver, his voice taking on that fiendish tone typical to that of his Watchman persona. “I need some help in looking into a person. I’ll send you the photo. Don’t worry, I’ll pay you back. Oh! And happy new year ~”

He doesn’t bother waiting for a response. Cutting the call as soon as he’s done. He knows the message has been delivered, and they both know that it wasn’t so much of a request as it was a demand. Nightingale also knows, that it’s always better to never ask questions.

It’s not as bad as he makes it sound. A mutually beneficial relationship, he’d say.

He sends over the photo.

The Watchman is returning early from his holiday, it seems.

There’s no point going to the SPD. From his experience, the law was always one step behind regardless because of their useless red tape and what not. With their luck, they’d just screw over what little tips that were handed over. And he wasn’t going to the gangs with what amounted to scraps. At least, not yet. He, as the annoying know-it-all, had a reputation to keep.

Besides, where was the fun in that?

His gaze falls on the family photograph still open in his mobile phone’s gallery.

And of course, as his luck often sucked as much, a cameraman with a bulky camera snuck past the tape, amidst the chaos at his section. Myungsoo glanced over at another officer close by and motioned for the other keep control, as Myungsoo took off running after the guy. He was a photographer as well, so he had an inkling as to what a good picture can do for a story, but this was not the time nor place for any of this bullshit. 

“HEY! STOP!” he exclaimed, chasing the cameraman. The camera man was fast, but Myungsoo was faster using his physical prowess to tackle him to the ground. “I told you to stop, didn’t I?” he asked. 

The cameraman groaned. “I think you broke something.” Myungsoo settled on top of the other male and reached for the camera. “Irrelevant. You are interfering with an official police investigation and I have to conficatse your cmaera.” he said, snatching the camera and starting to flip through the picture. “Can youat least get of?”

For the first four hours, the event runs smoothly save for a couple particularly spooked challengers escorted out by first aiders. It’ll be a long night for the performance art students helping scare and guide groups, but it’ll be a longer night for Bae Chaewon, daughter of Professor Bae of Natural Sciences. She’s at home in bed, but her father is hanging from a science classroom in the Health and Science building, the second stop on the haunted route. He’s upside down, gutted like a fish, a particularly graphic but realistic decoration until one of his students wanders through and recognises the mole just above his left eyebrow and trademark spotted bow tie. In minutes, the campus is overrun with MPD officers, but the show must go on. The question is... Why? Or better yet, who? 

WELCOME TO MI’S SECOND EVENT, MI:SPOOKTOBER !

IC, this overarching event takes place onward from Friday, October 3rd, 2019. The haunted house event starts on October 31st and lasts for four nights. The body is found on the first day. The event continues with a slight reroute of the path through the 'house’. 

OOC, the event lasts until midnight at the end of Friday, November 15th, 2019, though you’re welcome to continue threads beyond this date if you wish.

MU’s Haunted House opens at 6:30PM, letting the first group in at 7PM after a short briefing in-character on the concept of the quest by a staff member dressed as a ghost. Groups will be sent in every 15 minutes. This gives the group before them chance to move far enough through the university that the next group shouldn’t catch up to them. The full route takes approximately an hour and a half. The experience costs a mere ₩75,000 for the whole group — a mere ₩12,500 per person! 

Clearly by the time at which the body was reported, multiple groups moved past it before one realised it was real due to the dim lighting and otherwise realistic costumes. The MPD were promptly called and groups rerouted to continue the house missing the classroom in question. It’s likely your muse saw the body without realising — or maybe they did and didn’t say anything... — before it was blocked off. 

Entrants must be 18 or over. Or have a really good fake ID. Up to you. 

The last group will be allowed in at 2:30AM, the experience closing at 4AM. 

As of yet, no one knows who murdered the Professor, but look out over the next month in other events for clues! Here’s your first: it’s most certainly a gang affair. Theories, anyone? 

To earn +3 points, write a four-post thread or 200+ word solo about your muse attending the Haunted House event at Myeongcho University. Group members can be NPCs but we encourage you to take this opportunity to write with new people, as groups can be formed by staff at the entrance if any are short of the full 5 required members! 

To earn another +3 points, write a four-post thread or 200+ word solo about your muse seeing or hearing about the Professor’s body. If you’d like your muse to be part of the group that first realised the body was real, please message us! Remember, there’s only 4 slots as 1 is taken by the NPC student! The group has 1 space remaining. Currently, the group is: female NPC student, @mixhyunwoo, @mimiteum, @doyoungmi. 

To earn another +2 points, make an edit/moodboard of your muse’s Halloween costume. This doesn’t have to be one they’re wearing to the Haunted House event, but at some point over the month’s festivities.

You may write as many threads and solos as you want, of course, but you can only claim points for one thread/solo for each set of points. To count for points, the four posts for your threads, or your completed solos must be posted before the deadline.

Please don’t forget trigger warnings any time of year, but particularly with the common themes of Halloween. If you’re unsure if something should have a warning, don’t hesitate to reach out to us. 

Most importantly, have fun! Don’t forget to look out for more mini events over the next month over on mixbulletin for more opportunities to plot and gather points!