mogy
your mom's friend
Journey From the Death of a Friend
a roleplay experience.
the beginning.
Early in the morning, on July 9th, 2019—in Srinigar, India—Ankur Mane’s mother enters his room prompted to by the man’s unsettling screams. She finds her son intertwined in a web of dark green ivy, that has, in the span of one night, managed to infest the man’s bedroom, covering him and his bed in their entirety; spreading its vines across the entire wooden flooring, some of the blueish walls, and part of the rundown window slowly losing its white paint in flakes.
“Help me, mother, please.” He pleads in tears, to which his mother runs to the kitchen, and swiftly back, bringing to the room a knife. Approaching her son, she swiftly cuts the vines near her son’s arm and a blood-curdling scream leaves the man’s body.
Shocked, the woman stops, asking her son if he’s okay and if she, perhaps, managed to cut him in her haste.
“I feel it all, mother. It hurts so much, mother.”
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On July 11th, 2019—this time in Chelyabinsk, Russia—Ludomir Golovin Zakharovich’s one-bedroom one-bathroom apartment is broken into by his landlord, ready to evict the rent-late tenant. Yelling for the ‘cheap bastard’ to show his ‘bald pimply head’ and face the consequences of not paying rent like a man, the landlord comes face to face with a statue.
A life-size stone statue of the man, dressed into his clothes, just standing in the middle of the room, lighter in one hand, and a cigarette in its mouth.
And so, a day or so later, what remains of Ludomir Golovin Zakharovich finds itself on the street, next to most of his belongings, cigarette and lighter not included.
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Panic, however, ensues publicly on August 27th, 2019—from a live broadcast of a press briefing inside the White House. Cameras shutter and flashes burst as Mike Pence takes the main stand. Bustly reporters quiet down as Pence starts taking questions. He calls on a reporter in the front row.
“Vice President Pence, how does one expect to retain public trust when truth is being manipulated? More closely how do you defend the lies about an alleged ‘call’ taking place in between China and USA about reconsidering trade offers which has been disproven by multiple sources?”
A chuckle leaves Pence before he begins his answer. “Lies? Multiple sources? The Chinese government has claims that such a call had never happened, but, young man, have you ever thought that the truth is actually being manipulated by them? By these so-called sources you refer to? Have you giv–“ Pence stops in his words and coughs. He coughs again and then once more.
A bee flies out of his mouth, and the entire room goes quiet, unsure what just happened. Only the buzzing of a bee can faintly be heard.
The elderly man starts coughing more profusely now, and with each cough, bees exit his mouth, starting their flight through the room.
In matter of tens of seconds, the man falls on the ground from lack of oxygen, and those who rush to quickly aid him before medical help arrives find their hands stuck onto a bee hive in indistinct form of vice president Pence.
That becomes the first live broadcast of a process now known as ‘reformation’.
where we're now.
Reformation is painful, terrifying, and a completely random occurrence. There is no cure, there is no protection, and everyone is equally at risk of becoming victim.
It is scientifically proven most humans don’t deal well with change, and with reformation—an epitome of change—having become part of our society, many struggle alone. It is because of this fact and a wish to help that a city-wide project started by Mayor Wheeler is implementing support groups across the city.
Every last Friday of the month, publicly-open meetings for victims of reformation will take place from 5pm to 8pm in the West Portland Community Center. Those currently struggling through the process of reformation, family members and friends of those currently struggling with/deceased from the process of reformation, and all those whose lives have been changed in some way by the process of reformation are encouraged to attend and share their experiences with those most likely to understand.
While your experience might be unique, you don’t have to go through this alone. Attending a meeting is completely free, and if you don't feel like sharing, nobody will force you to. There will also be pastries and coffee provided by Mary’s Bakery, West Portland’s number one bakery chain when it comes to quality and tastiness
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about the roleplay.
Hello, you, person reading this interest check. Judging by the fact that you’ve come this far, I presume you’re already slightly acquainted with the idea behind the roleplay—however, for the sake of being clear and concise in presenting you with the idea of what this roleplay is truly about, I will explain it once more, this time condensed and with more focus on the roleplay side of things.
In July of 2019, the first instances of a process now-called reformation started happening all across the world.
Some people would go through this process instantly, in matter of seconds, minutes, or hours. They would turn into stone or wood, or start growing vines from their orifices that now became part of them. Some would turn into honeycomb, or simply start melting into a puddle of water.
Others would have this process slowly start taking them over, occasionally finding leaves growing from their skin, or realizing they can’t move their finger because it seems to have turned to stone overnight. Even though their reformation process is slow, they do still succumb to it because their body simply cannot sustain them when reformation becomes too much (e.g. their heart turns into stone).
Reformation started happening around July of 2019, however, it continued happening and it doesn’t give any signs of stopping. What sort of reformation, its speed, or who its happening to is completely random and can affect any human. Scientists and doctors have so far found no cure to the process.
This roleplay will be focusing on the support group meetings that take place every last Friday of the month in the West Portland Community Center. Your characters—if accepted—will be able to listen to others sharing their experiences and give their reactions, share their own experience, interact with other characters, etc. You, as a roleplayer and writer, will be able to give focus to your characters’ inner demons and the way they see the world presented to them.
This roleplay will not be focusing on your character’s life outside of these support group meetings. Of course, this does not mean that your character’s life is not important, and that you are not allowed to go into what happens to your character in between these meetings every month; it simply means that we won’t be roleplaying these parts of our characters’ lives. One is completely free to say that two characters went on a date or started living together, but this shouldn’t be roleplayed.
(If this doesn’t make sense or I’ve made things unclear, ask me to elaborate with additional questions on what you’re confused about.)
rules.
- All RPN rules apply. While this roleplay may tackle topics and themes that some would deem gory and mature, you are required to do so with respect (giving trigger warnings where those apply, putting unsettling descriptions in spoilers, etc.)
- While this roleplay is open to all, your characters still must be accepted into the roleplay by yours truly (me!) before you get to write for them, and that means that I get final say as to who is accepted. Mary/Gary Sues will not be accepted as this roleplay is looking for intricately developed characters.
- Roleplaying scenes with another roleplayer that do not take place during the meeting is prohibited, even in flashbacks. Solo flashbacks are, however, allowed if they are a way for us to better understand the character or the character’s remembering of a scene.
- There will be no godmodding (controlling other people’s characters or what they say without that person’s permission) and will be no usage of the process of reformation as a way to give your characters superpowers or abilities—reformation is not that.
- The OOC for this will probably be on Discord, however, joining the Discord server will not be mandatory. One can explore their character without being part of the roleplaying group.
- For face claims we will be using realistic face claims or just sticking to descriptions. Anime/Manga face claimed characters will not be accepted.
- All RPN rules apply. While this roleplay may tackle topics and themes that some would deem gory and mature, you are required to do so with respect (giving trigger warnings where those apply, putting unsettling descriptions in spoilers, etc.)
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