Hi guys! Guess what time of the year it is?
~~~~~~~VALENTINES~~~~~~~~
OH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Well it's February and according to every store ever Valentines is right around the corner. SO! Time for Eros shenanigans again. To explain this to our new people I'm gonna paste my explanation from last year, but this is our fourth year doing this guys! EXCITING.
For those new who have no idea what I'm about, allow me to enlighten you. About 4 (!!!) years go I talked to Ren. I was like 'hey Ren, around Valentines wouldn't Eros be SUPER powerful. In fact, powerful enough to effect an ENTIRE city?' Cue the most terrible idea to have ever been born. We got together and put up an occ notice. Who would be interested to get Eros'ed?
The idea grew. During Valentines Eros would go around the city and blindly shoot his arrows at unwitting targets. Later we decided that he could also pick targets he found 'worthy' of love. It was fun. It caused CR and some epic repercussions. LULZ were had.
We did it the year after, and now this year.
Now if that confused you this is how it works. You go over your character list and decide who you want to be targeted. If you have two characters you just want to hook up SO BADLY (This is how Prometheus/Pandora happened one year. And Michael/Lucifer. DON'T ASK) you put them in a comment and they will be '
established couples'. If you have a character and you're like 'ah hell let's see what comes up' you comment and they go in the '
random' list.
I then go to this site:
Random.org and I use both the list generator and the sequence generator, creating the best way to randomize this on the internet. There should be a note that this website has a sense of 'humor' it has created some truly
unique couples. Now this will only work if I have an
even number of random couples. But don't worry! It always pans out. Also if you are wondering how I manage to get no one stuck with themselves I have ways. Unless you are cool with that! The point is to play with others though :D
How Eros' Arrows work, and for how long: These arrows will create a feeling of Love, which has gotten people married, and former enemies cuddling on couches (I'm looking at you Michael/Lucifer >.>). So it will work however suits your character. If you think they will elope with their partner they do so. If they end up in bed in a pile of limbs, also awesome.
HOWEVER if you don't think your character would have sex, they don't. Eros doesn't override that. Usually we have this last a day, at the most two.
Most characters will know it was Eros, or someone will say it was because Ah Predictable Greek Syndrome. How we love thee.
Why do we (me and Ren) do this: LULZ and Character Interaction. We all have characters that we are 'hmmm I would love for these people to meet, BUT HOW'. Because of Eros' arrows they will know they are drawn to someone, even if they do not know their names, and will then smooch faces. But Charlie you say, you don't play Eros. Nope, but I have a LOT of free time on my hands and don't mind running the numbers.
Now NOTE: No one is forced to do this. If you aren't comfortable, then it's all good! Also if my explanation made no sense let me know and I'll clear it up. Also! Feel free to comment with names ^_^ A secondary thing. We always try and do something a bit different, but this year we are both stumped. Last year we did lead arrows, but we can keep it at 'Eros is a dick at Valentine's'
Established Couples:( Established Couples )Random List:( Random )