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: <b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Character:</b> Name & <user name=> <b>Familiar/Magic:</b> <b>Event Plans:</b> What are you interested in doing? Do you want to make a top level or are you just tagging around? No idea what you want to do but you want to do something? Whatever it is, say it here! <b>Other Notes:</b> Anything else you want to add?

Event log will be posted on the 18th. The event itself starts IC on the 18th and goes through the 23rd.

Comments

Questions

[avalonmods]

Re: Questions

[cess]

Re: Objects turning into your favorite thing - what's the limit on 'thing'? Most of Noctis' favorites are people, but that kind of crosses over into "seeing people from home" so I wanted to check before I went ham.

Re: Questions

[avalonmods]

If Noctis wants to have twenty copies of Prompto following him around like little chicobos, I don't see why not. (Or whoever, that was just an astounding visual in my head. If the character is in Avalon, make sure the player is fine with it ahead of time, of course.)

[unknowntodeath]

So, the power can be from other worlds too, right? Like Archer could get Waterbending or something?

[avalonmods]

Yeah. Anybody who is in-game (as long as like, the person is cool with it!)

[emet_sulk]

Barring the obvious "don't destroy the setting" power nerf, are there any limits to canon powers characters can suddenly start showing? My character's canon power includes (but is unfortunately not limited to) the ability to create just about anything by visualising it and giving it form with magic. This includes living creatures, although the creatures created in this manner are not technically 'alive' (they have no soul).

[avalonmods]

The effects of the wish will disappear once the spell is broken, so anything created will eventually disappear at the end of the event. In the meantime, go for it as long as it doesn't break the setting.

Additionally (not relating to your character but just in case anyone is wondering seeing this in regards to limitations/power nerfs) any time or dimensional travel will not work because time is still frozen outside of Avalon. Using those types of magics will result in a character being stuck in frozen time, and they will end up being dumped back in the lake near the White Cliffs as a re-entry.

Re: Questions

[rutilance]

1. Will the gnome answer if you ask it a question?
2. If you ask the gnome 'does it have to be my given name or can it be a name I chose?' what will they reply with?

[avalonmods]

1. No and he'll get pissy with you and state that he's leaving if you're not going to answer his questions.
2. He'll say your "real name," which to him means whichever name feels most like you in your soul.

[sighsheavily]

What are some examples of the sorts of information can one find in the library? And while nothing may be taken, what are examples of things one could copy/note down while there? (It will be a key goal for this character to sus out magic system information)

[avalonmods]

It's a vast collection of all sorts of things, so if you want to find something in particular, you can feel free to assume it's got lots of information about how to solidify foundations in different kinds of magic so that you can start working on intermediate and advanced spells. Characters won't be there for an extended period of time and the archivist will kick people out come nighttime (he has to sleep, you know) but as long as they are polite and find a place to stay when they come back, they can hang out in the archives to read more. He doesn't mind sharing information, but he certainly doesn't want to risk it being damaged.

For the sake of not micromanaging players, we're leaving generals up to you. But if you want to have your character find some good info to get better at their magic, that's a good idea, or to find new ways of casting. For example, the same magic type could be cast differently for different people, so someone may find they can do magic well with hand gestures, whereas others might find their powers work well by singing or when channeled through a staff or a good wiggle of the nose. Some will find their magic is affected by emotions, others will find it's more tied to their self-esteem or energy or something else. How magic presents itself is often personal and some people will find some methods work much better for them than others. One interesting thing to note is that outside of the core magics that players have access to right now, there are a number of other magics mentioned in the books, including but not limited to biowhisperers (plant magic), necromancers, magic drawn from the stars, technomages, and seers. There may be some information about some creative uses of combination magic, as two people can combine different magic types to have different effects. We don't like to specify too much how this can work out as we want to encourage people to be creative and have fun with it, but that's some of the stuff they would be able to find!

All of the truly dangerous volumes are protected, so they won't be able to get to anything massively destructive.

Re: Questions

[thepattern]

Does the zodiac sign wish only apply to the western zodiac, or can it apply to other systems like the Chinese zodiac as well?

[avalonmods]

Both are fine!

Re: Questions

[tookashirototheknee]

Two questions:

1. Would the goblins allow photographs (either openly or sneakily) to be taken of the pages of the books?

2. I noticed up-thread that technomancy was mentioned. How much would be said? Just a tantalizing, look this exists!!! or a few details here and there?

[avalonmods]

1. Yeah go for it, but no flash. The only thing you can't do is leave with or harm the originals.

2. A little bit of general information about the combination of technology and magic! It's got that spells can be sent through email, infused into apps like MagiCast, a warning to be careful if you scan books onto a computer because scanning constitutes reading and reading certain books can activate magic, that wards can be infused into programming in order to add additional protections to your accounts, and that some technomages have found success in something called biotechnical fusion, though it doesn't give many details about what that is beyond stating that it can be dangerous. It's still a field that's being explored, with Merlin being one of the leads in the field.

[leitstern]

Hello! Two questions:

1 - If a character didn't catch a firefly to make a wish [or didn't make a wish in general in the TDM] can they still be affected?
2 - Jasper refused to make a wish and killed a firefly by crushing it in his hand. Might anything happen as a result?

Thanks!

Barbara

[dragongrrl]

Just a quick question to clarify - for "gaining a canon power," would that mean "Barbara gains the power of another character from FF Dimensions" or is it "Barbara gains the canonical powers of someone who is in Avalon"?

Re: Questions

[asano_san]

A slightly delayed question - can the phantom people from back home talk to them or is it visual only?

Sorry, I thought of something else. How thorough is the inability to touch things? Does it apply to the clothes they're wearing? Can they eat if someone puts the food in their mouths?

[bendless]

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)

Re: Questions

[warfan]

Will objects transformed into people's favourite things revert once the wishes are broken, or are the transformations permanent (or permanent until someone applies alchemy)?

Re: Questions

[sulit]

A question about the gnome's experiments! What would happen if someone wanted to mess with the experiments or take apart one of the gadgets in the topside of the train car? For science.

She's a fan, really, she just wants to figure out how they work.

[beaumains]

SO i really want Gareth to find a book about this world's equivalent of herself.

a) would she be able to find that and b) what major details would be different (gender aside)?

[prismatically]

comes in 15 minutes late with no starbucks bc they're all still closed here

For characters who can communicate nonverbally (Stella knows some v. basic sign language, for example), how will the translation magic affect that if they try to use it to communicate on the Silent Shore?

Re: Questions

[warfan]

Do the orcs have any sort of band insignia, or anything that visibly marks them as being part of a specific group (aside from all being orcs)?

Also, are they well-armed, or is their equipment more piecemeal?

[luminatus]

Do the events in WTF reach as far as the Red Spring or are they contained within Camelot?