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PLOTTING POST ✨ Be Careful What You Wish For


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This is the plotting post! Ask questions in response to this comment HERE. Click here to view top-level comments only. The actual event log will be posted on Feb. 18th, please use this post to plot with your fellow players and ask questions ahead of the event start.


It's a lovely winter's day. The rain is a light sprinkle, periodically the sun peeks out and forms a rainbow across the sky, and it's not even too cold to go out. The perfect kind of day. "Nothing could possibly go wrong!" is what someone said right before things started to go awry. All throughout the town, strange happenings began to occur... people began to experience odd effects, and though it was clearly magic, most of Camelot City's residents didn't seem to have an immediate understanding of what had happened. In fact, much of it seemed somewhat.. random.

Characters will optionally be able to experience the following during this event (player's choice; characters may experience more than one):
    • Constantly bombarded with random flashes of what your friends are doing or are going to be doing later at inconvenient times during the day.
    • Uncontrollable super strength. Like go to open a door and it comes off the hinges or push someone and they fly through the wall level.
    • Being able to sense and feel the air around them. All of it, at all times.
    • Physically not being able to walk into any building without an invitation from the owner, including your own.
    • A part of your body grows in size.
    • Unable to be touched by anything, to the point that objects will move away from you as you try to pick them up.
    • Start seeing people you know from back home, but only you can see them.
    • Your technology falls in love with you and tries to keep you from looking at other pieces of technology.
    • You gain a canon magic! The only problem is, it was never yours to begin with. You gain someone else's magic/powers for the duration of the event.
    • You turn into whatever your zodiac sign is whenever someone touches you.
    • Emotions cause an immediate physical response regardless of strength; so if someone is even slightly sad, they'll start bawling. If anyone is happy, they're ecstatic and beaming.
    • Objects turn into your favorite thing when touched.
As you can guess, chaos is ensuing because of these strange effects, and counter-curses don't seem to be doing anything about it. Unaffected people are being offered the chance to quarantine behind the castle walls in the castle's guest rooms-- a huge upgrade from the inns in just about every way (it's royal opulence, after all, enjoy the stay and the amenities!) or being told to find another location to spend their time other than the close-quarters of the city, in case it is some kind of magical disease that's spreading. The town criers (read: social media news outlets) who are sharing this information will also be gathering volunteers may be conscripted by King Arthur on a trip to the edge of the Forest of the Fisherking to seek the help of a magical archivist that might be able to help them identify the cause of this clusterfork.


To get to the Forest of the Fisherking, the safest path is the pass between the Land of Rot and the water. It's a dangerous journey. The Land of Rot itself has the stench of death about it, and in the distance, anyone traveling with the party will once in a while be able to see a lone member of the undead traversing what appears to be barren, dying lands-- be they a walking skeleton or a rotting corpse of a zombie. The skies above are filled with vulture-like creatures that pick the flesh off of those who wander in and don't wander back out. Anyone who tries to go toward it will be warned that it's a bad idea or stopped by someone else nearby, as though one alone may look like a single creature, they can call a horde at a moment's notice. The camp could be overrun within moments and none of them are equipped to fight the undead right now.

The pass itself doesn't appear to have many creatures to fight along the way- most don't want to be near the Land of Rot longer than they have to, and it's dead silent at night, except for the periodic shrill scream from the Land of Rot in the distance. In fact, if you wake up past midnight at the camp, you'll find that even the camp itself seems to have all of the sound sucked out of it. When you try to speak, no sound comes out. There is a reason that this little stretch of land between the lake and the rot is called The Silent Shore by the water creatures and fae who live just offshore... though since they aren't the ones making the maps, it's not common knowledge in Camelot City. There's no way for anyone to have known ahead of time that everyone in the camp would be silenced.

It's also why orc bandits attack the camp in the dead of night, as they know that no one will be able to let out a scream. Try to get to your friend's tents and alert others as soon as possible, get help, and stop the bandits from stealing all of your possessions or hurting someone... you know, without a peep. Good luck.


Once the arduous journey through the Silent Shore is finished, the party arrives at the Forest of the Fisherking. It's quiet, but not in the same way the shore was silent. In fact, it's a rather serene location. The sunlight peeks through the leaves of the canopy, and small bugs and butterflies and pixies and other strange things dance through the air like they're under an enchantment of their own. Eventually, the party finds the home of the magical archivist. On the surface, it looks like almost an abandoned steam-powered traincar. There are gadgets and gears and clocks in the first room, little experiments here and there, and at the end of the car is an elevator. The elevator only fits two at a time, so you'll need to take turns going down. And down, down, down it goes. The elevator itself is a little rickety, so it may stop and stutter and you may be trapped in an elevator for any amount of time, alone in a small box with another person. When you get to the bottom floor, a pocket-sized steampunk-dressed gnome will appear on the elevator railing in a poof of smoke.

"In order to pass my door, you must answer my questions three."

The first question will always be your character's name. The second question will always be what your character seeks. The third question can be anything the player wants no matter how serious or ridiculous you'd like, but both characters will have to answer all three honestly, or the elevator will go back up to the top. Should they answer truthfully, the gnome will disappear in a puff of smoke and the elevator doors will open to reveal a dusty, underground library, filled to the brim with books and references.

The archivist appears, pulling up a helmet of variable magnifying devices from over his head, and tells everyone to look around, but they're not allowed to take anything. Anything truly dangerous is locked up, but characters may be able to find information on magical creatures, tips and tricks for different types of magic, or different accounts of Arthurian legend, and more. King Arthur himself goes to speak with the man after this, so they can talk about what exactly is happening in Camelot City.

When Arthur returns, he tells everyone the following information: Apparently, those fireflies people were wishing on at the bonfire normally gather their ability to grant wishes from the stars, which are currently frozen in time. As such, the power they drew upon to grant wishes went absolutely haywire and granted messed up versions of wishes for all kinds of people, including the people who didn't make them. They are wishes and not curses, which is why no one's counter-curses worked. Fortunately, the fix is rather simple, and upon returning home, anyone who stays out of the sunlight for at least 24 hours straight will return to normal. As the sun is the only functioning star and it's supporting the use of the fragmented star power the fireflies use, the magic of the wish will dissipate. As this is an unprecedented situation, no one knew this would happen. He asks that those here on this journey take to spreading word and ensuring it be done.



NOTES:
  • See which effects correspond to which wishes here.
  • If someone's wish is not broken because your character likes whatever is happening for some reason, here's the incentive to avoid the sun: after a while, they will find their magic stops working properly and becomes rapidly dangerous to themselves and others because of interference from the time-fragmented wish magic.
  • If your character tries to take something back up through the elevator, the elevator will plunge down and down and down until it enters into a room that looks like a room filled with magma, which it will slowly continue to drop you down toward outside of the elevator shaft, using magic to suspend it. Give up whatever you took, and it will take you right back up, no fuss, no muss. Or you could die-- all the books have an anti-magma enchantment on them, after all.
  • After this event, The Silent Shore and part of the Forest of the Fisherking will be added to the location pages.
  • Arthur will have a top-level for the trek there and will be available for chats.



  • Now then.. for your convenience, a little form for plotting:


Event log will be posted on the 18th. The event itself starts IC on the 18th and goes through the 23rd.
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[personal profile] wuf 2021-02-17 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
100% totally completely innocent he has no reason to believe otherwise
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[personal profile] wuf 2021-02-17 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
She's really cute! Razor is actually pretty easy to get along with, too, so he won't cause any angst about an elevator that stops, too that should help a lil
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[personal profile] wuf 2021-02-17 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Sweetness! I'd be happy to have him! I'm going to be top leveling with louis during this for suresies :D
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[personal profile] cameprepared 2021-02-17 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I think we can do that. Probably texts on the device, in person, since no sound.
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[personal profile] sulit 2021-02-17 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Michi
Contact: [plurk.com profile] yumesukidesho

Character: Klaudia [personal profile] sulit
Familiar/Magic: Firebird / Alchemy

Event Plans: I'll be tagging around various What the F sections because Klaudia refuses to believe this is caused by some magical disease. She needs to catalog everyone's "symptoms" and figure out what's going on, and she can't do that in some cushy palace room. So if you want her to come bother your character about their weird or embarrassing symptoms, let me know!

She'll also be joining in on the trip to the Forest to find the magical archivist. I'll probably make a top level for The Silent Shore and Gnome More Problems! She's going to get incredibly distracted once they actually get to the library, though, and probably try to take a book or something. So if you want a fast track into the magma abyss, hit me up. She'll drop it before anyone dies; she's not out here to get murdered for petty theft.

Other Notes: My girl's brand new, so I'm down for any CR that's not listed here, too!
Edited 2021-02-17 03:09 (UTC)
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[personal profile] warfan 2021-02-17 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Rude, is what.
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[personal profile] bakudan_bambino 2021-02-17 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Shoot me a link and I’ll tag in!
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[personal profile] lovesopendoors 2021-02-17 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Nea
Contact: [plurk.com profile] baranohanabira | Freyeria#2213 @ disco

Not sure whether I'll toplevel or just tag out, we'll see how much of either happens. Might give super strength to someone, we'll see, but plans so far...

Character: Mikasa Ackerman & [personal profile] callyourname
Familiar/Magic: Pegasus / Elemental
Event Plans: Mikasa will get affected by at least two things; seeing people from home (some of them are still alive there and some like her mom are not, might see enemies too oops...) and she'll get hit with the emotional physical responses too. Which is why she's not going to the thing with the king, not that her relationship with royalty is very good anyways. Might just go to her and Jean's home to wait for this to be over.

Character: Usagi Tsukino & [personal profile] starshaper
Familiar/Magic: Moon Rabbit / Animal
Event Plans: She's going to be turning objects into cakes and food. She's possibly also going to sense and feel all of the air around her. She's not going to the zombies/undead trip!

Other Notes: Sorry, Sailor Moon powers would be cool but her crystal is back home... but speaking of Sailor Moon, anyone's free to fourth wall her anytime.

Character: Katara & [personal profile] waterdroplet
Familiar/Magic: Otter penguin / Healing
Event Plans: Unaffected by the sudden changes herself but as with all below, she's up for reacting to anything. May go on Arthur's trip, may stay around in the city to help with healing on either, haven't really decided on that yet. If she'll be there, come be stuck in an elevator with her or whatever else.

Does anyone want to become waterbender? She might follow around to help with that, unless you want the powers without her help so it may also tell whether or not she'll go to the trip.

Character: Rin Tohsaka & [personal profile] greedyvixen
Familiar/Magic: Kitsune / Kinetic
Event Plans: Unaffected by the effects herself, I think, may change my mind about that -- but definitely at least interested in castle's guest rooms and then going to the trip!

Actually good at staying up late into the night, so she may be awake when those bandits attack BUT she's used to bossing people around by telling them what to do... Less used to explaining the same silently, so that's going to be a challenge. Don't blame her if you get a rude awakening, whatever that may be. She'll be fighting bandits with her kinetic magic.

Come be stuck in an elevator with Rin, we'll see how it goes but she's not the most quiet girl around here or anywhere. And whatever that third question is going to be, well, depends on the question how that'll go. Nothing too personal? Oh good, that's easy then. Something personal? Miiiiiiiiiight be less easy.

If you want something from Rin's canon abilities, well, at least a literal fingergun with magical bullets and faster legs are possibilities from there.

Character: Anna & [personal profile] lovesopendoors
Familiar/Magic: Snowgie / Elemental
Event Plans: Unaffected by everything herself but kind of going to be like "but why" about it! Or maybe she'll have the thing about being unable to walk into buildings, but we'll see if she'll even notice it being part of this... and if she'll notice, she'll be like also why that, when there were so many other options.

Anna's going to the trip and one of her favorite games is charades / pantomiming so guess she'll try to be good at explaining anything there silently. Gonna try to wake up anyone in a much nicer way than she recently woke up some giants back home and then she'll grab the nearest weapon or thing, that could be a weapon to fight against the bandits and protects others with that and her new magical abilities, that she's still getting used to having at all.

Being trapped into an elevator with Anna means endless talking from her but hey, she doesn't mind quiet company at all. She'll try to come up with all kinds of things to do there, not that she minds just sitting and waiting either. She won't have any problems replying to most or any questions from her company or from the gnome afterwards, or at least she doesn't think she'll have problems with that.


NOT interested in anything to do with cannibalism for anyone in the trip, thank you.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2021-02-17 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
We already talked about stuff with Mikasa and Chris, but I'd love to throw Chris at Rin too, because they've both got that bossy tsundere thing going on. Maybe getting stuck in the elevator?
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[personal profile] theskyaccepts 2021-02-17 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Megan
Contact: [plurk.com profile] urbaninja

Character: Tsunayoshi Sawada & [personal profile] theskyaccepts
Familiar/Magic: Griffon/Elemental
Event Plans: Tsuna is here to cause chaos!

Not that he wants to but it's happening anyway because that how it's done in the Vongola mafia family!

He's going to be turning objects into his favourite people! Kyoko (his crush), Haru (the girl who has a crush on him), his other guardians, all sorts of people are going to show up! And maybe other effects to? I haven't decided yet but Tsuna's going to be a mess.

He's also available to fight Orcs and maybe practice his magic more? And to get stuck in an elevator with (although that might also include some panicking and admitting to a lot of embarrassing stuff.)

Other Notes: My focus for the event is going to be Tsuna, but if anyone would like Din anywhere, please let me know.
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[personal profile] incinerators 2021-02-17 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
let's make these two have to deal with one another in the elevator
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[personal profile] farmerofwrath 2021-02-17 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Yun
Contact: [plurk.com profile] positron

Character: Zen Kubota @ [personal profile] farmerofwrath
Familiar/Magic: Sarugami / Kinetic
Event Plans: Not sure I'll be making a top-level because... I'll be honest, my tagging pace is naturally slow-ish so I prefer to limit the amount of tags I tackle. Unless people are cool with a few days wait between tags.

But some things I'm down for are:
1. What the F:
- Emotions shenanigans: Zen's familiar's haughty attitude gets on his nerves for resembling someone he deeply hates in both shape and behavior. I'm sure no one would want to be near an overemotional person who just might end up venting their anger on things or others, right?
- Pudding is one of his favorite things. So everyone gets free pudding!

2. The silent shore: He'll probably be volunteering anyway, because it sounds more interesting than sitting around in a castle packed with people.
... But ok, in all actuality, he's drawn by the danger there. He'll be more than happy to face the orcs, voice or no voice.

3. Gnome more problems: Down for either serious or crack with that third question here. Zen's very private when it comes to his past, and I'm always more than happy to throw him at embarrassing or horrible situations.
- Alternatively, if anyone wants a fun, thrilling ride straight to the magma room, he can relive his delinquent days and attempt to take any book with valuable information on kinetic magic.

Other Notes: I'm not big on the power swapping prompt because I honestly don't think Zen's "powers" are anything great. But, just in case, if anyone is interested in their characters going through (de)ageing up chaos through "death" or getting weird tentacle powers (no kinks included), feel free to hmu anywhere.
Edited 2021-02-17 04:10 (UTC)
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[personal profile] incinerators 2021-02-17 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
hey michi, it's coco! i'm absolutely here for what the f; i'm thinking of giving pyrrha the emotions causing immediate physical response. subject to change though! c:
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[personal profile] frogiveness 2021-02-17 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
We can do that then!
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[personal profile] monostich 2021-02-17 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Avery
Contact: [plurk.com profile] daintily, Avery#8156

Character: Kaede & [personal profile] monostich
Familiar/Magic: Horrible shadow cat, cognitive
Event Plans: •Kaede has more than a few magical abilities, as written on his info post, but the most important feature is that his body is mostly supported by magic... So if anyone wants their character to suddenly deal with that...! Or if you want a more detailed explanation, as I tried to keep it brief.
•He might be effected by the emotional/physical response thing?? I'm not sure yet.
•He'll be going on The Journey, though he might struggle a bit once they arrive at the forest and it's Question Time. He's not keen on divulging his secrets, but he wants to figure things out, so it'll all be very complicated.
•And Much More! Maybe!
Other Notes: I'm not sure if I'll be making a top level or not, but I'm open to any plans people might have!
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[personal profile] dragongrrl 2021-02-17 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Eileen
Contact: PM, here, [plurk.com profile] compassinks @ plurk!

Character: Barbara & [personal profile] dragongrrl
Familiar/Magic: Moogle, elemental magic
Event Plans:
POWER SWAPPING: Would you like to be able to leap a couple dozen feet in the air and then come down REAL HARD on your foes? Or breath fire, ice, and lightning at things? Or... healing sparkles? then the way of the DRAGOON may be for you, apply within, weird obsessive lonerism not included

QUESTIN': Barbara is absolutely going to be marching into the forest to find the archivist. She's... not likely to actually ask him if he wants to help so maybe a person who can use human diplomacy words (like "here is our situation" and "please") should go with. But if you need a partner to efficiently stab orcs n undeadies in the wilderness with you, SHE IS VERY VERY GOOD AT THAT.

HYPERAW-AIR-NESS: she's pretty attuned to air currents already but this is gong to be EXCESSIVE, so she'll be like. annoyed. but also better at fighting.

Other Notes: I AM ONE OF THE MANY NEWBIES so feel free to hmu for any of these or wildcarding
dragongrrl: looking excited for a fight with hair flying (woohoo LET'S STAB SOMETHING)

Re: Sam | Lethe

[personal profile] dragongrrl 2021-02-17 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Would Lethe like to fight alongside a woman with a spear and dragonish mannerisms? SHE'S ALL FOR CHOOSING VIOLENCE and can help Lethe improve her skills of hitting things with a bladed weapon on the fly
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[personal profile] cameprepared 2021-02-17 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely would be cool with either of those things. Claire is absolutely getting visions of her brother and Leon, so maybe they can talk through a vision attack together?
dragongrrl: looking excited for a fight with hair flying (woohoo LET'S STAB SOMETHING)

[personal profile] dragongrrl 2021-02-17 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
SO I THINK. Darin and Barbara would get along well, or probably well, or anyway IT'S NOT GOING TO BE BORING. And while she is going to be SUPER GUNG HO about going through the archive to Fix This, she has... absolutely negative amounts of experience with that kind of thing. Up for ORC FIGHT and ZOMB FIGHT shenanigans too!!
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[personal profile] fullgauntlet 2021-02-17 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'll tag it! Adventure time go! We can probably wrap up our TDM thread pretty soon in the meantime! Show him that spear you got, Gaius!
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[personal profile] dragongrrl 2021-02-17 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
hey friend do you wanna explore the forest and/or an elevator ride with someone who has never seen an elevator in her life
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[personal profile] serpentinthegarden 2021-02-17 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Try not to light yourself on fire.
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[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2021-02-17 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
I’m all game for some elevator shenanigans with Robin.
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[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2021-02-17 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Sure thing, he will try not to become a human lighter himself while causing unintended chaos.
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[personal profile] angelolatry 2021-02-17 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Caprica
Contact: Pm or [plurk.com profile] caprican

Character: Colette Brunel & [personal profile] angelolatry
Familiar/Magic: A protozoan (here for reference) yet to be named since hers is not specifically Noishe but. Also she has Light magic here!
Event Plans: I haven't decided yet on top level or not? I could or I might tag around, we'll see how busy or not I am at the time it goes up idk? But I'm thinking at the moment on her like. Seeing Lloyd at least? Maybe Everything Is Dogs? Because of course that would be Colette's thing. (and consequently she will get Nothing done ever because must pet and name and love all the doggos!!!) Maybe a power swap if anyone wants her abilities from home? quick write up of her abilities here? also comes with things like increased sight/hearing/strength as a basic bonus with being an Angel. Along with the obvious wings that come with being an Angel of course. Hers not being the traditional white feathery sort.
Other Notes: Still new and such, really but. Yeah, if people want to do a Thing. Lemme know.

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