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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.
takoyakitori: (🦋046)

[personal profile] takoyakitori 2021-02-18 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
but senpai what!!!!
takoyakitori: (🦋010)

[personal profile] takoyakitori 2021-02-18 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
what sounds like a rough couple of days LMAO
bakudan_bambino: (interest)

[personal profile] bakudan_bambino 2021-02-18 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
it will be!

giant tentacle fingers....
apshot: (4)

[personal profile] apshot 2021-02-18 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
But you gotta show him how things are done!!!
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[personal profile] apshot 2021-02-18 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking about a TL for Xiao. But Baku’s a tag out unless anyone wants to do closed threads?
apshot: (Default)

[personal profile] apshot 2021-02-18 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
If you TL with her I’ll def throw Baku at. Or we could work something else out
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[personal profile] apshot 2021-02-18 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I have two boys! One of them is definitely this explodey boy.

The other is also technically a depressed “old man.” I mean 2k+ years counts right? Pfft
apshot: (Default)

[personal profile] apshot 2021-02-18 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Up to getting into more conflict?
bakudan_bambino: (き)

[personal profile] bakudan_bambino 2021-02-18 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Always
tookashirototheknee: ([pidge] Comfort)

[personal profile] tookashirototheknee 2021-02-18 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, because I just thought of this. Some time we really need to thread out a Holts Quest. Because I just love the thought of them taking one on together.

(Also, in threads in the silent place, please feel free to just say Matt's around helping people or fighting 'over there somewhere' or something like that if she'd make a reference to him. I'm always pretty flexible when it comes to that kind of thing.)
secondedenic: (pic#14556207)

[personal profile] secondedenic 2021-02-18 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Joy
Contact: [plurk.com profile] Kanetsugu, Discord: Joy#8142 or pms to this journal work fine.

Character: Joshua Edenic & [personal profile] secondedenic
Familiar/Magic: Kelpie and Light Magic
Event Plans: I'm torn between having Joshua get hit by a negative effect or being spared, so I might take some time to settle on a plan.

Effects I am interested in if he's hit by it:
-Feeling all the air because what the fuck?
-Emotional overload from a man who still barely knows how to emote so that Joshua can die inside after it's all over? Tempting.
-Someone's canon powers? I mean yes that could be cool.

If he's spared, he's probably going to try and just hole up from all the insanity. He's not going to just jump on the chance to go adventurering because that's going to be miserable for him on a physical level, but if someone wanted him to come along, he'd probably grudgingly go. He's still learning to use his magic, but he also has a knack for it and is innovative under pressure.

Other Notes: I'm recovering from a week and half of rl!hell, so I've been slow and I'm still gathering my thoughts! So bear with me!
Edited 2021-02-18 19:17 (UTC)
withclawsout: ([angry leopard noises])

[personal profile] withclawsout 2021-02-18 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds good! Lethe's going to swing so many things like baseball bats without help, RIP

Also she has Questions about the draconic traits but those can wait until after class.
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[personal profile] withclawsout 2021-02-18 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
HI

oh man this is a hard decision, haha. I WANT TO DO BOTH
mayoninofukucho: (New Hope)

[personal profile] mayoninofukucho 2021-02-18 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm canon-blind apart from Hijikata's encounters with a couple of FFXIV characters, but I'd actually be really curious to see how this country bumpkin samurai would handle Emet's powers!

He wouldn't try to teleport out of Avalon (he figures he'd just end up frozen) or mess with the souls of the dead (he's scared of ghosts), but he would create a horde of baby-sized mayonnaise mascots (I reckon those would just go poof at the end of the event) and be confused at seeing people's souls.

Would that be alright for you? If so I'd have some more questions: Does darkness work like Avalon's dark magic? What is aether / is six-elemental magic the same as Avalon's elemental magic? What does a soul's colour, shape etc. signify (and would Hijikata know instinctively)?

Sorry, that was a lot... he doesn't have to get the full arsenal, of course, if you'd rather split things up!
withclawsout: ([angrily pointing at things intensifies])

[personal profile] withclawsout 2021-02-18 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Lethe isn't above throwing hands to get her point across, haha. Or she can sit on him, though that may not be super effective. She's person sized but not that big of a person.
serpentinthegarden: (Moral argument)

[personal profile] serpentinthegarden 2021-02-18 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Crowley was curious about the monocle guy! It will be interesting to run into the pair of them.
bendless: (Don't trust him!!)

[personal profile] bendless 2021-02-18 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It's always funny to have silent ones meet the very talkative ones. I say we should do it.

... but Louis I thought you were a deer-
bendless: (Overconfident)

[personal profile] bendless 2021-02-18 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
But... the books... !

Sokka will have no intelligent response to that. Just "because boomerangs are awesome?"
bendless: (I have all the pieces)

[personal profile] bendless 2021-02-18 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Sokka will tell Matt is a genius for thinking that! Better than almost dying in magma.....
bendless: (I have an idea)

[personal profile] bendless 2021-02-18 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Fighting the orcs it is. It will be fun.
phoenixwiz: (When He Smiles)

[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2021-02-18 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweet, can’t wait to see it happen.
bendless: (Ack)

[personal profile] bendless 2021-02-18 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Two more questions.

1. Does objects turning into things include food turning into things or would food remain normal? (does Sokka need someone to feed him so he doesn't end up with a plate full of boomerangs)

2. Is there a punishment for if you get caught wandering off to deal with a zombie? (but not ending up bringing a horde along, fortunately)
scarredhorns: (Use the force)

Mari | Lucy/Nyuu - Elfen Lied

[personal profile] scarredhorns 2021-02-18 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Mari
Contact: PM or discord

Character: Name & [personal profile] scarredhorns
Familiar/Magic: Hainu / Animal
Event Plans: I'm mostly going to tag other people's top levels, but I'll put one up just so it's there for whoever. Lucy will have uncontrollable strength and won't be able to get into any building without an invitation. I'd be down for someone to have her canon powers, so let me know if you'd like to do that!

CW: Violence
She'll be killing orcs when they attack, and her super strength's going to come in handy for that.
resistetmords: (We zijn allemaal in zicht.)

[personal profile] resistetmords 2021-02-18 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
She might be less salty about it when she sees Belgium freaking out about it!

Poor Mukuro, any specific way that she could be convinced? I'd also be for doing something after, like Belgium making her some delicious food and treats.
scarredhorns: (Promise to kill me)

[personal profile] scarredhorns 2021-02-18 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
If Mukuro's top-leveling for this event, I'll tag her! Maybe her and Lucy can fight orcs, or Nyuu can be trapped in the elevator with her. If not, I'll be getting a top level up at some point soon.

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