NEVER PLOT DROP: The Shadow
“You got a taste for blood when you were licking your own wounds.”
This plot drop is going to be different. So normally, I give you a narrative bit here that tells you about something new happening on the island. Well since the beasties from the last plot still feel pretty unexplored and fresh and I don’t want to ruin their mystique just yet and since all of us are still reeling from Honesty Week and many are still going through that angst; I asked for our writers to choose whether they wanted their characters to be a part of this drop and, if so, how much they were willing for those characters to potentially be hurt. I used a random generator to decide how harmed each character would become and scaled the generator depending on their writer’s decided threshold. Below the cut you’ll find the results.
Before you check out who has been scarred or maimed, we need to talk about Pan’s Shadow. Not much is known about the shadow as it is a secret that Pan holds close. However, the shadow has always acted a bit strangely when compared to other shadows, seemingly autonomous. A sort of protector to Pan, the shadow holds onto the darker thoughts and feelings that would otherwise overwhelm and bring Pan down. It’s the shadow that causes Pan to sometimes seem unbothered and untethered and other times seem more grounded and capable of feeling every past hurt at once.
Pan’s shadow has been particularity active lately, visiting people around the island at night. Most often it visits while they are fast asleep. I will be reaching out to each person who opted-in to this plot drop so we can discuss what their recent encounter with the shadow looked like. Many will be minor glimpses of the shadow and others will be more significant encounters. A few of the encounters will be shared between two characters. Once we’ve settled on a scenario, it is up to each writer to decide what they’d like to do with this encounter. You could write a drabble, keep the information to yourself to reference later in your threads, or whatever else you might want to do! These encounters will not all have happened in one night, but over the span of several nights.
Like I said, this plot drop is unique and with it I’ll be posting the release of a new skeleton bio shortly. Now go and click the read more if you haven’t skipped ahead and done so already. ;) I know you’re all really here for the pain!