Coyotecall and his Dark Forest ghouls are playing the strings this year for our ooky-spooky Halloween event, and we're ready (or perhaps not) to enter his second act! Following the extra-spooky Gathering, Coyotecall's taking over the tunnels and jump-scaring any cat brave enough to enter its depths.

Similar to past thread events, members can choose to roll a random 1d10 dice to receive a ~surprise~ Coyotecall Chokey prompt, or they can select the prompt that best fits their character's plot and needs! So get ready for some psychic damage or cursed loved ones, and read the rules below 🔮👻

RULES

1. You can roll for a spooky thread prompt and create Coyotecall Chokey threads from October 1 to October 31, 2024. To earn the participation pixel, you only have to complete the thread and turn it in at your own pace.

2. To receive a prompt, simply fill out the request form in the Form tab above and respond to this thread below. Members can choose between a random 1d10 roll or select a specific prompt that fits their plotting needs. We recommend posting 1 reply per character since the dice rolls are finicky.

a. Any character from any faction can participate in the event! They simply need to get into the tunnels for the horrors to begin

b. For ThistleClan and LichenClan, where going into the tunnels is off-limits and/or extremely ill-advised, you can say your character felt a call and/or was summoned into the tunnels depths, as if in a trance (or some other creative means).

c. For the Tribe, where there are no immediate underground tunnels, you can say they were traveling onto Clan land to deliver a Foxtail vision (see Tribe Leaf-fall writing prompts), or they were at the Estuary and heard a similar summoning call.

3. Because the random dice rolls include prompts that can severely alter your character's plot by trapping them in the tunnels indefinitely and/or killing them, you can choose to specifically roll a 1d8 dice to exclude the final two prompts.

4. After rolling and/or selecting a specific prompt, you can head on over to our plotting channels in the Discord and use the prompt as a springboard to create a thread! 

a. Your thread can feature your character experiencing the prompt first-hand with another character, or your character can simply chat about the prompt with a friend and reflect on their damage in the tunnels afterwards (experiencing headaches or hallucinations).

5. If your character receives mental and/or physical damage as a prompt during the event (prompts #4, 5, 8), you will need to thread with a medicine cat afterwards to reverse the damage.

a. Coyotecall or a DF ghouls pretending to be another cat cannot physically touch and/or directly injure your character. Physical injuries will result due to the physical environment (Your cat trips and falls out of fear and breaks a leg, etc. Get creative with it).

6. For prompts where Coyotecall pretends to be a loved one and/or an important character in your cat's life (prompts #7, 8, 9, 10), you can ask that member to play a "warped/evil" version of their character in the thread with you.

a. E.g. Tigerpool wanders into the tunnels and sees a hallucination of evil! Robin-nose (that is not real, just his imagination). Wish can play this evil! Robin-nose to mess with Tigerpool until he flees the tunnels.

b. Only living characters can be roleplayed as "evil" versions of themselves. If you want your character to experience an evil hallucination from a dead character, you will need to redeem a Play a Dead Character prize.

7. Characters will not see and/or speak directly to any Dark Forest cats, including Coyotecall. They will simply experience a dark, sinister foreboding presence, and if he or another DF cat is "present" in the thread by pretending to be another cat, they will only see/hear that other cat and later come to believe they were hallucinating.

8. All event threads must contain [COYOTE] or some variation in the title.

9. All members who create and complete a Coyotecall Chokey thread can turn it into Site Awards for a limited edition pixel award!

10. If you have any questions, please reach out to a staff member in #questions-for-staff! 

1. Your character enters the tunnels and relives a trauma from the past.

2. Your character faces something in the tunnels that develops into a new fear.

3. Your character enters the tunnels and is forced to face a pre-existing fear.

4. Your character is dealt severe psychic damage in the tunnels and continues to have headaches after escape.

5. Your character is dealt severe psychic damage in the tunnels and continues to have hallucinations after escape.

6. Your character gets lost in the tunnels for a short duration of time until they are found by another character.

7. Coyotecall or a DF ghoul pretends to be a a significant cat in your character's life (higher up, family member, mate, mentor, etc.) and hurts your character emotionally/mentally. They are able to escape.

8. Coyotecall or a DF ghoul pretends to be a significant cat in your character's life (higher up, family member, mate, mentor, etc.), that hurts your character physically. They are able to escape.

9. Coyotecall or a DF ghoul pretends to be a significant cat in your character's life (higher up, family member, mate, mentor, etc.), and lures them so deeply into the tunnels, they are unable to escape and remained trapped for a long duration of time (either due to physical injury, a long-lasting psychosis, and/or getting lost in the labyrinth).

a. To get out of the tunnels, you will need to thread with a tunnel cat and/or other character to get out at a future point.

10. Coyotecall or a DF ghoul pretends to be a significant cat in your character's life (higher up, family member, mate, mentor, etc.), and lures them into the tunnels and kills them (falling to their death in the tunnels).

Copy/paste the form and respond to the thread below using a separate post for each character.

[b]Name:[/b] name here
[b]Character name:[/b] character name
[b]Character faction:[/b] faction here
[b]Dice roll:[/b] Use a 1d10, 1d8, or put N/A if you're choosing a prompt
[b]Results:[/b] What happened to ur guy? Aka what prompt you doing?