closed starter for @mortiiferas ( em & jude ! )

Emrys had gotten bored, alone in his office, wandering down to the ground floor. There was sure to be someone that would occupy his attention, at least for a little while. Sure enough, someone grabbed his attention almost immediately.

He was gorgeous, wide eyes, freckles littering across the bridge of his nose and the general vibe of a deer caught in the headlights, standing just by the bar. Without hesitation, he'd swung himself over the bar, shooting the bartender on duty a wink before grabbing a glass, his usual charming grin attention to the stranger, his usual charming grin plastered across his lips. "What can I get you, darling?" He drawled, leaning closer to the other, shamelessly gazing over the others features.

closed starter for @soldefied ft. emrys abbott & ( open )

"okay here's a serious question," emrys leaned across the table towards the other, a thoughtful expression upon his features. "if a song has the word fuck in it..... twenty seven times, is that too much? 'cause when they eventually censor it for the radio i'm guessing the song is just gonna be one long ass beep." turning back to the notebook with a frown, he pulled a face and without hesitation ripped the page from the notebook and crumbled it into a ball. "anyway, you were saying something?"

The last day of the Faire, the sky was overcast, with rumbles of thunder in the far distance. As Mayor Nat stepped up to the podium set up in front of town hall, a small crowd gathered to hear the announcement. She proceeded to declare Pandora Flowers as the winner of the costume contest, and withdrew the sword to present to the winner of the tournament, Morgan Vovk.

Before she could, though, Quinn Buckley from the commune ran up on stage and grabbed the microphone from the podium.

“Listen! You have to listen. This, all of this, is because of a being far greater than us! It sent the creatures from the woods to test us! To separate the weak from the strong. It judges us because it wants us to be ready before it reveals itself. We have to listen! We have to—“

Sheriff Henry attempted to take the microphone from her, but she struggled against him, still shouting into the microphone.

“It’s real! I felt its presence! Those that listen will be saved!”

Thunder rumbled, closer than before, much closer. A loud crack of lightning illuminated the sky, blindingly bright. Beyond the clouds, briefly visible in that split second, loomed a shape, unrecognizable and massive, both bulbous and gangly. As quickly as it appeared it was gone, and what remained was the sizzling body of Tristan Wilde, struck by the lightning. The sky opened up, then, as thunder boomed directly above, and rain and hail pelted the town.

“It’s there! You all saw it! It’s real! We have to submit!” Quinn wailed, as Henry attempted to pull her off the stage. “I can prove it! I can walk amongst them untouched! I’ve been chosen! You can be chosen too!”

Her cries fell away in the deafening downpour, and those that had gathered scattered to find shelter in the nearest buildings. Whether or not they saw something or, if they did, if they believe what they saw, remains to be seen.

The storm raged on through the night, as the creatures wandered the streets unperturbed by the rain and hail. The lights of the town flickered and then, as lightning staggered across the sky, everything went dark.

(Those that ran to find shelter found themselves stuck for the night. Below you’ll find the (randomly selected) groups. You can choose for your characters to have seen the shape in the sky, to have not seen it, or to have seen it and not believe it.

Everyone can continue/finish their event threads, as all this took place on the final day of the Faire (the 29th). You may also time-jump threads, headcanon threads, or make new threads for the plot drop. The event officially ends on August 5th, at which time please do not make any more event starters, however you can continue all threads until completion.)

Town Hall

Aslan “Dodger” Ozdemir Bocephus “Beau” Romero Birdie Tilton Cain Barlowe Eagan Connolly Emma “Em” Dunford Evangeline Cruz Falco Romero Fletcher Cole Helena Theriot Hex Sif-Sidon Jessica Sinclair Kirby Louis Ryan Nickleby “Nick” Dalton Ocean Quinn Odette Abbott Olivia Hart Poppy Sarasa Prudence “Pru” Wheaton Ransome “Rance” Slade Saffron Aubert Scout Garcia Sierra Nevada Starlynn Flowers

Fire Station

Absinthe Capone Arachne Arthur “Arty” Drake Conrad Greene Corvin Delancey DJ Cruz-Dutton Harlow Cole Hawthorne “Hawk” Romero Izan Castillo Katarina “Rini” Roberts Lachlan Ramirez Logan Ferguson Lorcan Hara Luciana “Lucy” Rivera Mercy Wainwright Pandora “Andy” Flowers Phoenix Romero-Sawyer Rainn Scott Reggie Alson Ricardo Reider Ruben Hobbes Samantha “Sammie” Thompson Sebastian Keane Tae-Hyun Cho Theodore “Teddy” Collins Zain Madan

Police Station

Andrew Richardson Antonio “Toni” Estrada, Jr. Celia Ortega Elijah Atkins Emrys Rosser Finn Cunningham Halley McGillivray Hunter Hilton Jahi Karim Jane Doe Jareth Reid Kestrel Sideris Lincoln Abernathy Luke Matthews Mateo Suarez Morgan Vovk Pascal Mendoza Quinn Buckley Salem Salazar Vincent Lewis Violet Beauregarde William Monroe Wolf Lykaios Zachary Ryan Zarina West

Huntsville Bank

Alexander “Xander” Garcia Cabell “Cab” McCay Cassius Romero Catherine Wayne Christopher Winters Briana Ryan Dahlia Cruz-Dutton Frances “Frankie” Wallace Gabriel “G” Westfall Genesis “Sissy” Boone Harvey Langston Josie Reigh Mallard “Duck” Romero Mason Greene Maya Rae Mylene Karimi Raj Aiyangar Raphael Knightley Riley Saunders Sandra Quispe Sare Holmes Sasha Medvedev Spencer Holmes Valeria “Val” Moreno Wylie Bateman

Post Office

Avery Cowling Benjamin Cade Bowie Bardot Bram Williams Carter Behrens Cassandra “Cassie” Slade Eilana Kapur Freya Atkins Guillermo “Mo” Reyes Jasmine “Minnie” Sinclair Lennon Davies Leo Brockton Liam Jefferson Matthew Walker Mia Vazquez Monet Vogel Nathaniel Dawson Ondine Konar Paloma Ortiz Reed Hendrix Silas “Cyan” Canne Tari Park Wren Romero Xavier Cade Zoë Clark

Huntsville Library

Artemis Hayes Axel Addams Calloway “Cal” de la Luna Casey Nestor Claire Forbes Clara Jones Finch Sanders Floyd Blackward Hank McGillivray Iniya Beckett Ivy Oberon James “Jamie” Brennan Jeconiah “Jack” Abbott Jett Liu Kieran “KB” Barnes Michael “Mikey” Beauregarde Nicolas Garcia Parker Russo Peter “Rusty” Craven Peyton Wilson Reza Kogoya Roman Forest Rosemary “Rose” Felton Sicilia “Lia” Flowers Tamaraa Jillian “Jill” Adler

whilst the island danced the night away ...

The night of the masquerade was going smoothly. Everyone in attendance seemingly enjoying themselves. Sure, the occasional quarreling was overheard but that's to be expected when drinks are flowing from an open bar. What most attendees were unaware of was the stirring on the other side of the island. See, nestled at the tip on the edge of Ravenwyck is what appears to be a cozy lighthouse. The lighthouse is home to an ancient wixen who has kept their eyes glued on the prisoners of The Forgotten Isle since its start. Through ancient spells and charms, she along with a few others ensure that no one escapes. There's only been one incident that resulted in a painful death, resulting in none trying since. Unfortunately, whilst the rest of the island is enjoying themselves, a bubbling from inside the mountain of Midnight Labriynth stirred resulting in those thought dead floating to the surface. Ghosts and ghouls were silently making their way across the island, some causing mischief, others filled with confusion. A small group of ghouls led by the aforementioned prisoner made their way to the lighthouse, taking the guards and the ancient wixen by surprise and killing them resulting in most the warding spells failing and prisoners easily making an escape. Once word hit the council members at the masquerade, it was too late to stop things from escalating beyond repair. Acting fast, perhaps somewhat ill-advised, with help of a few powerful magic wielding beings they put the ball under lockdown. Those able to, with power left to see what they could do to calm the situation whilst the rest slowly started splitting attendees into groups until eventually all were split up, some with familiar faces, others not so lucky. Still, few knew what was actually happening, is keeping thousands of supernatural beings mixed with humans in the dark admist chaos truly the answer? There's truly only one way to find out.

Out Of Character Details: The music has stopped, the ball has come to an end, and attendees have been split into groups in hopes to better control the masses. It's possible that one or two have managed to slip out, but the majority are now under lockdown until things are under control.

ghosts are now an available species. more info can be found here. escaped prisoners can also be applied for, though at the moment we'll only be allowing one per mun.

in order to keep us from confusing the dash event threads from new ones, we've decided to test out Discord as we find it can be easier with group threads. Everyone will have access to all the groups as it is quite fun to be able to read what everyone is up to during the event! A Tupperbox tutorial will be shared on the resource blog and in the server, though the admins will also be around for any questions!

The groups have been randomized, and we've done our best to ensure muns don't have more than one character in a single group, but unfortunately for some we had to double up. You can find it below, under the cut.

Group 1 - Basement 

ryland shao ( keanu reeves )  easton jesse allen ( josh heuston )  xiao longwei ( kuang tian )  safieh nassar ( yasmine al-bustami )  scarlett barlow ( lisa ann walter )  

Group 2 - Master Bathroom 

onyx coldwell ( gabriel guevara )  silas sanguis ( pedro pascal )  alisa ( wakeema hollis )  rory sylliboy ( drew ray tanner )  weston porter ( thomas weatherall )  li na shao ( simone kessell )

Group 3 - Recreation Office 

delphine ren ( havana rose liu )  fujita kenji ( mackenyu arata )   rhiannon ( natasha liu bordizzo )  lucien greenwood ( elias kacavas )  omari jackson ( mason gooding ) 

Group 4 - Meeting Room 3 

basilton huang ( lewis tan )  cordelia coldwell ( catherine zeta-jones )  cian moore ( fin argus ) ari tiernan o'cléirigh ( robert sheehan )  defne karahan ( aslihan malbora )  christian “kit” silvestre ( casey deidrick )

Group 5 - Reception 

emrys abbott ( adam dimarco )  stefan benitez ( harvey guillen )  ember silverton ( maia mitchell )  alwyn locklyn ( morgan davies )  river silverton ( joshua orpin )   nazario veres ( taylor zakhar perez )

Group 6 - Meeting Room 1 

cleo santos ( devery jacobs )  dorian marias ( lakeith stanfield )  soren ardelean ( logan lerman )  celeste hotland ( florence pugh )  alaric golitsyn ( nicholas galitzine )  sapphire zhou ( poppy liu )

Group 7 - Corridor 1 

mateo luna marin ( saak )  julian santiago ( oscar isaac )  marcel nkusi ( ncuti gatwa )  micaela “kai” silvestre ( ursula corbero )  zane xiao santos ( charles michael davis )

Group 8 - Corridor 4

atlas perez ( omar rudberg )  zahra osman ( aiysha hart )  dustin nieves ( froy gutierrez )  magnus katiyo ( rege-jean page )  asterion valphyr ( adam demos )  dawson porter ( skeet ulrich )

Group 9 - Kitchen

chainika giri ( amita suman )  fujita ryu ( ryan potter )  adriana sanguis ( stefania spampinato )  elvira santos ( bruna marquezine )  mahsuri wan ( michelle yeoh ) 

Group 10 - Garbage Room 

mateo luna marin ( saak )  amethyst ( greta onieogou )  obsidian kincaid coldwell ( thomas doherty )  roisin balfe ( morfydd clark )  rowan reyes ( vico ortiz )

Group 11 - Library 

kaveri natarajan ( simone ashley )  neo marin ( lizeth selene )  ever solano ( mason alexander park )  julian santiago ( oscar isaac )  marcel nkusi ( ncuti gatwa ) 

CLOSED STARTER ( @wcrstorm​ )

Emrys wasn’t entirely sure how the two of them had lost Bea, but it had ended up with just him and Sage. “You know, Thyme,” Emrys began, lips curving upwards into a grin. "I-” He began, before he actually allowed himself to take note of her outfit, the smug smile on his lips fading a little. “Wow. Have I told you, you look gorgeous?”

Emrys Open (set two weeks after the gala)

Emrys’ head was still spinning. It had been ever since he’d turned up at Caden’s that morning. He wasn’t even sure how he’d gotten there, but his brother had flipped his shit, and that’s how Emrys found out he’d been gone for two weeks. He’d tried to wrack his brains, but he had no recollection of where he’d been or what had happened.

It was frustrating, and so he’d left, needed time to breathe - to think. He knew she’d been worried, but Winnie had gotten a tiny bit smothering. 

He was so lost in his own thoughts, he didn’t even hear someone approaching, flinching as he realised they spoke to him. “Huh, what? Sorry, I was... somewhere else,” He muttered and it was easy to tell something was off, his usual bright enthusiasm clearly lacking.

closed starter for @slccplessniights​

While he was excited for his friends, Emrys was bored with them. Richie especially, but that was probably due to his giant crush on the other. Not that he’d ever admit it out loud. 

This was why the second Richie had text him he was home, Emrys had instantly driven over. The other was probably tired, but it wasn’t like Emrys was actually going to make him do anything - he just craved the others company. His knuckles rapped against the door as he shuffled on his feet waiting for the other to open the door. 

He wasn’t surprised to be greeted by Bells, who instantly scoffed in amusement before patting him on the cheek and walking out, calling goodbye to the both of them. Not that Em actually paid her much attention. 

“Richie!!” His face lit up into a grin, shooting the other finger guns. “Did ya miss me?”

Okay, so perhaps he was avoiding Moody -- and, yeah he was definitely doing it on purpose. He thought it would be fine, when Cain had drunkenly blurted out that he’d slept with Emrys’ best friend. It was totally fine. Emrys was completely over his crush. 

Except, as it turns out, he wasn’t. Feelings he’d pushed down came rushing to the surface. Now usually, Emrys wasn’t one to shy away from his feelings. Except this could ruin possibly one of the best friendships in his life, just because Moody didn’t like him back. He wasn’t about to risk that. 

Slipping into the office, Emrys was glad for the peace -- glad to be alone. However, as he turned around, he realised he was face to face with the one person he was trying to avoid. “Bloody Hell, Al, are you trying to kill me?” He muttered, purposely not meeting the other’s gaze as he looked around the office.

14th Feb 1981, 8:00 PM

What had started off as a nice, calm evening was slowly turning into a grim and dark night without the knowledge of the students at Hogwarts. While the school enjoyed the Valentine’s Day celebrations, pieces were falling in place outside the castle for evil to thrive. With several Death eaters having been convicted in the past few months, the Dark Lord decided that he wanted his loyal servants back in his ranks. And to achieve that, he took control of the creatures who controlled the prison. Death Eaters surrounded Azkaban with one goal and one goal only -- to break out as many of their own as possible, with some of the dementors leaving the prison with them to wreck havoc as well. The news soon began to spread through the wizarding world and everyone began to buzz with fear.

14th Feb 1981, 9:45 PM

Half way through the dance, Emrys Abbott disappeared into Hogsmeade under the imperius curse activated by Elijah Rowle through a dark object in his possession. The Death Eaters wanting revenge on several of the students of Hogwarts for the last time they failed on the school grounds, as well as the murders of two of their own -- Amadeus Rowle and Cygnus Black. They used Emrys to sneak their way into the castle, not only were they armed with their magic but they also came with dementors who were promised the souls of the students in the castle.

14th Feb 1981, 11:00 PM

They may have slithered in secretly but it wasn’t long after that chaos ensued everywhere, the peaceful night of celebration had quickly turned darker than anyone could possibly have imagined. With the entire castle swarming with Death Eaters and dementors, a lockdown was immediately initiated, to move all students where ever they were in the castle or its grounds, into the Great Hall immediately. Many failed to take this precautionary measure seriously and it was taking hours to make this work but a wake up call came in the form of the first death of the night -- Emrys Abbott.

15th Feb 1981, 2:00 AM

Emrys’ death had done what the staff could not do -- it had made the students understand the direness of the situation. The staff and the aurors who had immediately arrived on hearing about the attack on the castle managed to put all the students in the Great Hall as they tried to make sure the rest of the castle castle was safe.

15th Feb 1981, 11:00 AM

Hours passed but all the aurors could manage was to make sure that the castle was free of dementors. A couple of Death Eaters were caught, but it was feared that many were still at large within the castle itself. The students were allowed to go back to their dorms, and advised to stay in their commons rooms itself. Nobody is allowed outside the walls of the castle as the task force sent by the Ministry strived to catch the criminals and declare Hogwarts safe again.

THE HOGWARTS CASTLE IS ON LOCKDOWN TILL FURTHER NOTICE. ONLY AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL MAY ENTER OR LEAVE THE CASTLE.

What? A plot twist to the Valentine’s Dance!

When? In character it is set on the night of Valentine’s day, timings have been mentioned above. The lockdown starts on the night of the 14th and goes into 15th till which students are locked up together in the Great Hall. On 15th, they can go back to the dorms, but are confined in the castle walls till we post the end to the plotdrop in a couple of days.

How? Please use the tag finestra:plotdrop03 to post starters and tag threads.

Who? All students are involved in this plotdrop. It is mandatory whether they attended the dance or not.

We hope you enjoy this twist! Go wild and have fun, guys!

OPEN STARTER event: masquerade ball

An amused smirk graces his lips as he sips his drink, watching the other's gaze with intrigue. "You know," He drawled, settling the empty glass on a nearby table, turning his full attention to the other, settling halfway into their eye sight to catch their gaze. "If you really want to make them jealous, I could absolutely help with that." Flicking his gaze over his shoulder, he turned back to the other with a grin. "We can have a little fun and I'm almost certain they'll come storming over."

closed starter for @spxxkygays ( em & soren ! ) event: masquerade ball

Emrys had been basking in the glory of his little plan working, happily making out with Dusty when he'd seen Soren reappear. A frown graced his lips at the other's expression as he excused himself from Dusty, peeling himself from the other boy as he made his way over to Soren, slipping into the room behind him. "Oh my sweet boy," he murmured softly, shaking his head as he took off his mask. "What happened?" Crossing the room, he took Soren in his arms, mentally plotting Baz's demise with a frown.

closed starter for @spxxkygays ( emrys & easton ! )

"So, dear sweet Easton," Emrys murmurs, a grin on his lips as he approaches the other, noticing how alone he seems standing at the bar of his club. "What brings you to my lair?" He teases gently, his hand gently caressing the others bicep. "You know Dusty isn't here right? I think he's with his boy toy."

closed starter for @bloodwiine ( em & poppy ! )

"You look lost," Emrys mused, a charming smile gracing his features as he approached the other, hands deep into his pockets. Originally, he hadn't planned on talking to them, but his curiosity had got the better of him. "Anything I can help with?"

closed starter for @honeyedblossom ( emrys & urien ! )

"Whaddup sibling," Emrys greeted with a nod, grinning from ear to ear. "I am bored, therefore you are entertainment now. What are we doing? Any gossip?"

closed starter for @lcvelymxnifest ( emrys & pie ! )

"So, Cherry Pie," Emrys finished pouring the other a coffee, sliding the mug across the table to him. "Your text seemed like you were slightly distressed, come on, talk to your bestie. What's up? Did you bang the wrong person again?" He mused, a grin on his lips.

closed starter for @lavcndcrmoon ft. emrys abbott & ( gemma )

emrys hummed to himself as his pen flew across the page in his barely eligible scrawl. pausing for a moment, he huffed, setting down the pen as he slid the paper towards his fiancée. "babe," he murmured, wrapping his arms around her waist, a dopey smile gracing his lips. "god i love you, and you're utterly gorgeous -- but also I can't write this fucking song and i want to throw this notepad across the room."