towerofanimus | "Love Fool" Player Plot Log

"Love Fool" Player Plot Log

Characters: Diarmuid Ua Duibhne and anyone affected by his curse or who wants to get caught up in the chaos!
Setting: March 29th-April 4th. Anywhere in the tower during the beginning of the event, primarily in and around Room 4-16 later in the event.
Format: Any!
Summary: Instead of being mostly inactive, Diarmuid's curse starts being active most of the time and it's affecting both men and women! Chaos ensues! An OOC plotting and sign up post is here.
Warnings: Death, violence, blood, worms (X.x Kariya...), psychological torture, swearing, shenanigans of a romantic nature, and ANGST! I will update as it is needed!
Notes: Being affected by Diarmuid's curse requires a tag on his permissions post here so please make sure to stop by! If the log gets too big, I will make a second, overflow log and link it here. While most sections have dates on them, they are only references for the time of the week that the events are going on and not when the section is available for posting. All sections are open for posting just as soon as the log goes up and will stay open throughout the event.

Notice: The log is open! Have fun everyone and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

Background Information:

One of Diarmuid's most defining traits is his curse, actually a gift given to him by a spirit of love, beauty, and youth as repayment for something he did for her. Unfortunately, while something like that might be an actual gift to a fellow spirit or god, giving it to a human doesn't work quite so well. Being a honorable man, though, Diarmuid has never taken advantage of those affected by his curse. Instead, he has done his best to let them down gently and guide them through the pain caused by it. Sometimes this has worked and sometimes it hasn't. In either event, he remembers vividly every person he's ever hurt because of it.

That approach works well until the woman who falls in love with him is his Lord's fiancee and a princess who won't take no for an answer. She places a geis on him that forces him to run away with her. Many things end that night and a great many more begin. At least, that's how the legends go.

In the tower, his curse has been weakened somewhat so that it is only rarely active. However, when it activates and for how long is random, and he doesn't know when it is happening until those affected start acting oddly toward him. Those so affected seem to remain that way for a week or two and often have some success controlling their reactions to him if they have a strong will or know that they are under the curse's spell.

Event Information:

During the event instead of activating only once and a while, Diarmuid's curse will almost constantly be active. It will also affect men and women meaning that almost everyone he runs into in the tower has the chance of being affected. He will not know this right away and will continue going about his normal patrol routes, meetings, and so on until he finally realizes what is going on. Once he does, he will start hiding in his room to limit the number of people affected. However, this won't work out so well because with him staying in one place, anyone who is under the curse's spell and trying to find him isn't going to have to look very hard.

Every day he will be spending at least a little time out of his room so that a character can be hit by the curse whenever they wish to be during the event. Anyone is welcome to have their character affected whether or not they actually have CR already with Diarmuid. This is actually a good time to start up CR if you have wanted to, but not been sure how since he will be checking in with people to make sure they are okay once the effects of the curse have passed. New players are also welcome!

How strongly and how long a character is affected by the curse is totally up to that character's mun. And remember, your character doesn't have to be affected by the curse to participate! Do they want to troll Diarmuid by acting like they are affected when they aren't? Do they want to slip him a gift or thank you but have been too shy to until they have the chance to do it under the guise of something else? Might they just be passing by Room 4-16 and get caught up in a fight? Do they have a friend who is affected and are trying to 'help' them out? Anything is possible and creativity is encouraged!

Below I have set up several locations and times to have things going on, but feel free to start something elsewhere if you wish! Private meetings between characters working together or other similar posts are welcome. Just be sure to mark what is going on. In an effort to try and keep everything to one log, I have made sub-headings for his Mailbox and for Network posts should characters wish to use those things as well to show their feelings. Because people are competing for his attention to the point of fighting in some cases, please be aware that I am encouraging threadjacking and sneaky tricks like stealing gifts out of his mailbox or from his room. If you want to make sure that a thread isn't interrupted by others or a gift stolen, please mark the thread's subject line with the word "Locked." Any thread marked in such a way should only have Diarmuid and the thread starter replying in it unless other arrangements have been made. All other threads are considered open for interruption, but please remember to be polite.

Important Note: To help keep things organized, please make sure to put either "Open" or "Locked" in the subject line of all newly started threads so that people know if it is okay to jump in or not. It is all right if you decide to change the status later in the thread--just adjust the comment title in the next post.

Diarmuid will not respond to threads that aren't marked until they are marked, and I would ask others not to either since once replied to, comments can't be edited. Once the thread is marked, it is fair game to be replied to.

During the end of the event players will find it harder to get into Diarmuid's room because the way will be blocked. Master Kariya Matou (

vermicompost ) will have ordered his Servant Berserker (

chevalier_mal_fet ) to guard the door. Far from what it looks like on the outside, both men aren't trying to help protect their friend from those affected. Instead, they have also been affected and are tying to keep away all other potential suitors! Can anyone say Boss Fight? Will those affected team up to take them down or maybe just sit back and let them take out a few rivals to thin the competition? It's all up to you guys and how nuts you want to get!

Important Note: When tagging the 'Boss Fight' section, in addition to marking your post "locked" or "open" in the subject line, please also state if your character is meeting Lancelot in his true form--which will mean having to deal with him in some way so your character can get through to the room--or in Diarmuid's form--which will mean he will greet your character and act like Diarmuid in an attempt to lead your character away from the room. Your character is free to be fooled or see through his deception as the thread progresses. Just be aware that Lancelot's mimic ability is high level and will take either knowing Diarmuid and his quirks well or having a lot of magical knowledge to see through.

Finally, while the tone for the event is mostly fun and humorous, if you want there can be more serious consequences. If any character is involved in a serious incident or dies because of something related to the event, please make sure you put a comment in this section with your character's name, journal, a quick blurb about what happened and, most importantly, if you want Diarmuid to know what happened. Obviously, because of his nature, he is going to want to contact anyone who is seriously impacted by or killed because of his curse.

That's it! Go forth and cause chaos! If there are questions or problems at any time, please feel free to contact me via pm though Diarmuid's journal (

oathshackledbird ) or on Plurk at

NekoSandy

IC Event Introducton:

The day starts off like any other for Diarmuid and for that he is glad. After all that had happened at the end of the month in February, quiet and routine days are something he is not going to argue against. Besides, with so many people who are from some version of the world he knows having arrived this month, he would really like them to have a chance to settle in before things get too chaotic again. There are those he would also like to spend as much time with as possible before anything else happens. So many people, himself included, need as much time as they can get to just sort out the things going on in their heads.

The problem is, will the tower give that time to them? Diarmuid knows each quiet day is one more step forward so that they can all be prepared for whatever the administrators throw at them next.

A small smile crosses his face as he takes off to make his first patrol of the tower. After that, he will probably have something to eat at the cafeteria, before taking some time to visit friends. Sometime before nightfall, he will make another patrol of the floors before retiring to his room for the night. It's a simple day and considering how quickly things can go bad in the tower when things get too complex, he's not bothered at all by that simplicity.

It's just a shame that he doesn't realize, as he leaves his room, that things won't stay simple for long. Not with his curse suddenly becoming active in a way it never has before...

Section Links:

Diarmuid's Mailbox #0091
Network Posts
Diarmuid's Room (4-16) on Mar 29th-Mar 31st
Outside of Diarmuid's room on Mar 29th-Mar 31st
Anywhere in the Tower on Mar 29th-Mar 31st
Diarmuid's Room (4-16) on April 1st-April 4th
Outside of Diarmuid's room on April 1st-4th
Anywhere in the Tower on April 1st-4th
Boss Encounter with Berserker on April 3rd-April 4th
Serious Incident/Death List

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Looking to catch Diarmuid outside of his room or maybe to catch others there and cause trouble? Post here! As with the other sections, please remember to mark your threads with "open" or "locked."]

[Lancer wasn't exactly looking forward to this meeting, if only because he knows he would get scolded. Nevertheless, he comes, since he knows that getting scolded only means Diarmuid cares for him. And it was his fault that he had made Diarmuid worry.]

[So right now, he's standing outside their room, waiting for his brother.]

[Diarmuid is probably more relieved than he should be to see his brother outside of their room. Yes, the other Lancer can take care of himself, but Diarmuid knows how dangerous the dark Saber is. To know his brother had tangled with her when she was so enraged...

It scares him. And the letters they had been writing each other about it hadn't helped lessen those fears.

He drops an arm around Cu Chulainn's shoulder when he gets close, squeezing it and then pulls him toward the room.]

Lets talk. Tell me what happened.

[Cu Chulainn had thought he was fine until Diarmuid draped an arm over him. Only then did he realize how much he missed his brother's touches.]

Yeah, sure.

[He looks a little too happy for someone confessing to doing something stupid, though. Even if he's probably in for a scolding, he can only feel warm and fuzzy.]

Well, Saber was really, really pissed and smashing everything. I was at Ayaka's grave at the moment. So I decided I couldn't let her smash it. Nor could I just let her rampage on some other floor when she was done with that one. We ended up fighting and...she was really strong.

[One hand comes to stroke the arm draped over his shoulder.]

Ah...I guess she killed me. Dunno if I nailed her with Gae Bolg or not.

Edited 2013-03-29 21:37 (UTC)

She killed you?

[Unconsciously, Diarmuid's arm tightens around his brother's shoulder. When he speaks, there is disgust in his voice.]

She claims to still be noble and a knight and then she does something like this? She has no right! We all grieve, we all grow angry, but that doesn't give us right to hurt others because of it!

And she holds what I did during the experiment against me? That was beyond my control, but I still wished to make up for it to those who I hurt. This is fully her doing. Will she make it up to those she hurt?

[Diarmuid forces himself silent trying to get his anger under better control. It is not she who he should be worrying about now, but his brother. He steps away from Cu Chulainn so that he can look the other servant in the face.]

Brother, I know you are strong, but I beg you. You must be more careful. You are dying too much and now that we know what we go through when we die... Who knows what toll it will eventually have on us?

[On some other day, he would argue that one couldn't hold it against Saber, given that she had gone berserk. But he doesn't have it in him to argue with Diarmuid. Instead, he just quietly nods.]

[Come to think of it, he never realized how beautiful his brother was. Or how nicely that beauty spot brought out his eyes.]

Yeah...I get it. I'll be careful. No eighth death for me.

[If his answer sounds distracted, it's because he's busy staring at Diarmuid's golden eyes.]

[Usually such an easy agreement would worry Diarmuid, and he does start to say something when it hits him how many times his brother has died.]

H-how did you die so many times so quickly? Not long ago wasn't it just three times? You weren't caught up in sleep paralysis all that much longer than me when...

[But, he had been, hadn't he? When Diarmuid had woke up after they had killed each other in the mist, he had been distracted for a very long time trying to calm his emotions. That whole time and for some time afterward his brother had been trapped in sleep paralysis.

Diarmuid's eyes sadden.]

How can you call me brother when I have failed you so many times...

[Somehow, the sad expression on Diarmuid's face just makes him look more beautiful. Lancer extends a finger and places it over Diarmuid's lips.]

Because I'm happy to be around you.

['I love you.']

It doesn't matter how many times I die while you're not watching. What matters is that I'll always come back to stand at your side.

[Saying so, he leans closer, though something in the back of his mind warns him that this is not the way that brothers are supposed to touch each other.]

I'm just really glad you managed to stay out of this mess.