PLOTTING POST ✨ Something (Celli)Wigged this Way Comes

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Autumn, despite the chillier weather, is a season of warmth and gathering. Perhaps moreso this year than normal, given the rather unplanned gathering of Celliwig and Lestari underneath Camelot's roofs. Though significant contributions from otherworlders have made food, shelter, clothes and other productions and donations, medical care, security and protection, and childcare an amazing group effort, typical individual celebrations for the departure of the dead from Avalon aren't being held, like Lestari's Death Ball. After looking at all the support they've been given, Lestari and Celliwig have looked at what they have to offer to help both their own people and the people of Camelot and other worlds.

The people of Lestari excel in cognitive magic, and while there are those who use it for mind-altering magics, there is a good portion who dedicate their studies to emotional and psychological support. One such method is the enchantment of origami paper into something affectionately called Worry Monsters: an specialized counseling technique used to help form support bonds between people with negative emotions. Having spent a portion of the month enchanting paper, two square sheets of paper are handed out to anyone the encounter. The first paper says: "Personifying your emotions can give them a tangible form and make them easier to face. Write down something that causes you worry, stress, fear, or sadness. This is your Worry Monster." The second paper says: "When your Worry Monster is present, how does it make you feel? Any reaction is valid."
When both papers are written on, the writing on both will disappear as if absorbed by the paper, then the pages will animate and fuse, then begin to fold into a monster! Halloween is this month, is it not? There is no sense in not having a little fun. These little Worry Monsters will stomp off and begin roaming Camelot until they find a match-- someone who shares those feelings. Once they find an emotional matching Worry Monster, the monsters will return to their creator and grow to the size of kaiju. They are very light, enchanted paper, so even if someone or something gets stepped on, they won't be hurt or damaged. However, they are strong enough to pick their makers up and carry them to the matching monster who will do the same. Don't worry-- characters will be invisible while being carried by their monster, so their identities will be protected until they are brought to their match. The paper monster will turn to butterflies and fly away once their task is complete. What matches do after they are brought to each other is up to them-- but they will know, undoubtedly, that they share the same worries-- they are with someone who understands. Do it as many times as you'd like, for as many negative emotions as your character wants. For finding something to do, Celliwig offers a solution. While Lestari's people have spent their efforts this month enchanting papers, the people of Celliwig are less apt to share so openly. Instead, they take their time learning about a variety of holidays from other worlds, and come to find one they can apply their particular talents to. While most of their showcase in the past has been on light magic, a holiday such as Halloween plays in particular to their talents in dark magic. A number of locations that have opted in and won't interfere with other relief efforts have been enchanted with dark magics for brave souls to venture into and test their courage! What's more, each of these locations will yield tokens for the victors that can be used to gain prizes. All courage tests must be performed with partners. Costumes are encouraged but not required.
	The library has been converted into a haunted art gallery, many of which have had their paints and other implements enchanted. Some paintings will seem like they're watching you, others will seem like a small figure in the background is following you throughout the library in different paintings. A painting of fruit may start throwing the fruit at you and materializing it into real fruit, so you may find yourself pelted with tomatoes if you don't run fast! A single painting filled with black paint might start leaking and filling the room you're in, pulling you into shadow until you're stuck in the library's underground labyrinth. (Reference monthly quests here and here for more info about the labyrinth.)
There are a variety of paintings with different curses applied. Navigate through the library and escape the haunted paintings-- pairs who make it through without turning back will gain a Celliwig Token.
Another token can be gained via scavenger hunt in the Broceliande. Find cursed dolls from within tree hollows. The dolls will giggle and try to run away, may move when they're only visible in the corner of your eye if you set them down. What's perhaps a little spookier is that they take on the appearance of the first person to touch them, though they will never exceed three inches in height. Beware during your search, however, as there are a good many trees that have been transfigured into mimics. Though the mimics are not going to attack anyone, they do have giant hidden, wriggling tongues that will reach up and wrap the unalert up above the ground for capture. The only way down is if a partner fights the mimic, so don't go alone! Find a doll of both you and a partner and make it back to Camelot to obtain your token. The curse will break once they're exchanged for a token, so you can keep the cute little doll for yourself if you'd like.

The last test of courage invokes a temporary blindness hex on one of the partners. Both partners are walked into a soundproofed room, entirely silent in a way that truly seems to mess with one's head. The unblinded partner is only allowed to answer "yes" or "no" questions, though no one will fault them for giggling as long as they give no clues otherwise. The blind partner is to stick their hands into a tank of water with mystery items hidden within. These items may be mere objects like peeled grapes in soggy noodles, or perhaps the tank is filled with chicken bones and those tiny garra that eat dead cells and are sometimes used for pedicures. All the items are set up to feel spooky, but ultimately are unharmful. As long as the partner who can give clues doesn't break the yes/no rules and the item is guessed within 3 guesses, a token will be rewarded!

Bring tokens to the inn where a stall has been set up, with Gwion working the booth to exchange tokens for the following prizes: 1 Token: Celliwig glasswork glass set of 4-- spooky themed! It's filled with candy upon receiving, so they are friendly for everyone. 2 Tokens: Recipe: Smokescreen - Cast this spell on any liquid to make it billow plumes of fog. The smaller the water surface, the smaller the billow. A shot glass might just create a small whisp, but two mop buckets would be enough to fill up a medium room. Will not effect the contents of the liquid. Cannot be used on water bodies larger than a swimming pool (could screen about half a block). 3 Tokens: Recipe: From the Void - Summons a disembodied tentacle from the shadows. It takes a lot of energy, so you could probably manage up to three casts a day at most before becoming exhausted. Great for binding enemies, sneaking in small spaces, and reaching places you might not be able to otherwise. The tentacle will follow whatever command you have in mind upon summoning, so be sure to concentrate on the task at hand!

 

 

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OOC Notes for Added Prompt: You pick what kind of origami kaiju your character's worry monster is! You do not need to do the worry monster prompt to participate in the second prompt set. Just do whatever sounds fun to you. You do not need to report to mods to claim prizes, just do whichever prizes you think your character would want. One claim of each prize no matter how many times your character does the prompt. (Two of them are recipes, that means your character is learning how to cast the spell and can use at any time in the future!) There are some issues with the font on mobile that we are working on trying to figure out but overall the mobile experience should be more consistent now so once you zoom to the correct size, you should be able to see everything cleanly. All colors were tested for light and dark modes and line length/font size is based on current readability standards for web publishing (as far as is feasible using Dreamwidth). Please leave constructive feedback on the layout updates here if you have any. Now then.. for your convenience, a little form for plotting: <b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Character:</b> Name & <user name=> <b>Familiar:</b> <b>Magic Disciplines:</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 17th, the same day the event starts.

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Mari | Harry

[phoenixwiz]

Player: Mari
Contact: mariscorner, Mariposa21 #4257

Character: Harry Potter & phoenixwiz
Familiar: Rose the pink Pygmy Puff
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic / Elemental (Fire, Ice, Electricity)
Event Plans: While Harry has some apprehension towards Halloween (because his parents died on that day), he is probably not going to show it unless you want your character to find it out themselves. Besides from that and preparing for the Halloween charity concert,

He will definitely do Worry Monsters origami to face his grief where he writes about losing family and friends (like James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, Tonks etc.) and being on verge of grief and bittersweet acceptance on it. His Worry Monster will take the form of a griffin.

For the Celliwigan tests, it is back to Libryrinth shenanigans for him again. Feel free to team up with him and he will try to use electricity magic without accidentally singeing anything in the process (although I can’t guarantee that it will be avoided). He will just settle for the glasswork set, nothing too crazy.

Other Notes: The time has come for the ex-Chosen One to face his secret dislike towards Halloween and try to enjoy it outside of Hogwarts for once!

Melissa | Maribelle + Della Duck + Asterios

[sos_pilot]

Player: Melissa
Contact: melcat33 (plurk) melcat33#1997 (discord)

Della Duck

[sos_pilot]

Character: Della Duck & sos_pilot
Familiar: Moon Rabbit
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic/Dark
Event Plans:

Halloween is DELLA'S JAM along with anything spoopy so I will def make her a TL.

Worry Monster - Della isn't really afraid of any monsters, so she will probably try to make an origami fish or octopus because fuck the ocean. As for the emotional side? She's worried about losing her family's love, especially for all she put her kids through.

She will definitely go through the trials as well, with the blindness/dolls taking priority because they sound super fun.

Maribelle | Fire Emblem Awakening

[troubadamsel]

Character: Maribelle & troubadamsel
Familiar: Caladrius
Magic Disciplines: Healing/Light
Event Plans:

May or may not make a TL, unsure.

Worry Monster - she won't realize these things become literal monsters until it's too late and will be super pissed off. Hers will take the form of a bird, not wanting to offend anyone with her first thoughts as a dragon. Anyway, her worries? Being unable to help those that need her most. Emmeryn's death, and others, still weigh heavily on her shoulders, especially since she was a healer at home.

As for the trials, she would be interested in the museum, because finally, this world is showing some class! ... then she realizes it's cursed and is like 'goddammit'

Asterios

[beefaroni]

Character: Asterios & beefaroni
Familiar: Camahueto.
Magic Disciplines: Animal/Green
Event Plans:

Probably won't make a TL with him. He doesn't get what's going on and chooses to stay out of a lot of things.

That said, since he lives in the forest, he will be dragged into the dolls nonsense by sheer curiosity. And once the tree attacks, Berserker mode is activated, so free him before he goes nuts and tries to hurt everyone/everything in sight!

Usami | Fenton and Amy Rose

[doctorintern]

Player: Usami
Contact: usamichan13; Discord: UsamiChan13#0916

Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera | DuckTales 2017

[doctorintern]

Character: Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera & doctorintern
Familiar: Pixie
Magic Disciplines: Elemental/Technomancy
Event Plans: I might make a top-level for him, depending on things. He'd mostly focus on the Celliwig trials, particularly the haunted art gallery and the cursed dolls, because they look kind of fun. But someone might be able to rope him into the mystery items one too.

Amy Rose | Sonic the Hedgehog

[pricklybloom]

Character: Amy Rose & pricklybloom
Familiar: Blue Flicky bird
Magic Disciplines: Healing/Dark
Event Plans: Amy's kind of going through something this month, but for some reason I can't not make a top-level for her. Probably going to mostly be focused on the Worry Monster, and her dealing with her fear and frustration about not being good/strong enough to help the people she cares about, and people as a whole. I'm also considering making her Worry Monster look like Metal Sonic.

She might also be interested in the cursed dolls trial if someone would like to go with her

Other Notes: Amy will be feeling just a little touchy about Halloween as a whole, especially if there are any mentions/references/models of zombie-like creatures

[notquitetamed]

With the Worry Monsters is there a way that would work if a character is unwilling or unable to write feelings down but definitely has strong feelings to express?

Robin | Gokudera Hayato | Katekyou Hitman Reborn!

[bakudan_bambino]

Player:Robin
Contact: Plurk: Rocksintreetops Discord: Robinyublind | Gokudera #0733

Character: Hayato Gokudera & bakudan_bambino
Familiar: Lariosauro
Magic Disciplines: Light/Elemental
Event Plans:

DEFINITELY going with the worry monsters and a bunch of different worries but the ones that come to mind first:

He worries about being too reckless, being a burden and causing problems for others by rushing into things

Gokudera feels guilty that he isn't as just as his Avalonian friends might hope (I'm looking at you Ochako and Aang)

He also worries that his friends are going to be hurt or he'll fail to keep them safe. Basically that he's a poor Guardian (this one applies more to Alberto and Asriel)

Along with worries about his own recklessness, he feels he holds back too much, second-guesses too often, and never takes the leap when he should to do important things. So... procrastination? Nerves? General anxiety? Not sure what to bold here.

As far as Celliwig tests of courage I'm thinking blindness hex and the cursed dolls. I'm cool with him being the blind one, or the one restricted to answering in yes or nos.

Other Notes: More CR please always thanks

Alex M

[absentconstellation]

Player: Alex M
Contact: flamingchemist or Spoiler Alert#8665 on discord

Character: Stephanie Brown ichoosefight
Familiar: Bat
Magic Disciplines: Healing, Light
Event Plans: Steph cannot be convinced to take part in any voluntary Halloween shenanigans, no matter how hard you try. If pressed, she will tell horror stories about The Long Halloween and all of the other horrible crap that happens when psycho villains in themed costumes decide its their month to shine. She will absolutely try to convince your character not to participate either, because of course something is going to go horribly wrong and probably somebody will get murdered.


Character: The Cat absentconstellation
Familiar: Tree Sprite
Magic Disciplines: Cognitive, Kinetic
Event Plans: The Cat has no real interest in any of this, but he is a purple-eyed black cat, so feel free to invite him along and/or adopt him.

Koree • Ziva (FFXIV: Shadowbringers/Prisma CRAU)

[purrrrfection]

Player: Koree
Contact: Plurk would be a good jumping off point, and it's a little more reliable since I can access it more readily for plotting. I'm sweettalker

Character: I'ziva Ganajai & purrrrfection
Familiar: Dragon, unnamed
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic, Light
Event Plans: Sensory deprivation challenge, scavenger hunt, the library and the labyrinth, and the "worrygami" in that order of preference! I'd love to do all of it, and Ziva won't care that you can only claim prizes only once, she'll probably go back for more anyway, help out people who need partners, etc.

Options for her worries (one partner/group(?) for each, only):

• Fear of failure (to protect the people she cares about, again)
• Worry for people left behind (from her time in her last game specifically)

And honestly those are the only two she has. She doesn't do much by way of fretting.

Other Notes: Anyone doing stuff with her please be reminded that you're signing up for absolute ridiculousness. YOU HAVE BEEN FOREWARNED. Lol

Permissions and information are in her journal, but be aware there are huge spoilers for the main story if you haven't caught up, up to Shadowbringers.

[purrrrfection]

Hey there again, Robin! This is Koree. It's been a while!

I'd love to toss Ziva here at Gokudera for some CR. Worry monsters is an option as she also worries about keeping the people she cares about safe, or if you want to just throw every ounce of caution to the wind, I'm very interested in the blindness hex OR cursed dolls.

I'm down for seeing where things go for CR from there?

[bakudan_bambino]

Hey Koree!

I think it all depends on how much depth you’re after!

If we do the worry monsters, it sounds like there’s a lot of opportunity for some large tags and deep cr. If you’re cool with that, so am I.

I think blindness hex would be amusing with anyone

The cursed dolls one though… I could have him get tangled up in a mimic tree if you want her to save the day? Or have him save her?

I always feel like these plotting posts are such teasers. I just wanna write my top level and go, but then the event drops and I get overwhelmed. Would you like a closed top level, or do you just want me to PM you once my open top level goes up?

g | gareth, baiken, kipposhi

[beaumains]

Player: gsai
Contact: pm or discord

Character: Gareth beaumains
Familiar: Stoirm, a dire wolf spirit
Magic Disciplines: Elemental (specializing in lightning) and, as she's starting to realize, Alchemy
Event Plans: Look, Gareth could use some spooky fun to distract herself from the rough time she's been having lately. Between feeling like she failed in her knightly duties during the last event to Gawain disappearing, it's been tough times for small knights. So she could use something that's only superficially perilous, and ultimately just for fun. So whether they get tokens or not, anyone who just wants to take out Gareth for a spooky good time is welcome to.



Character: Baiken garyoutensei
Familiar: Suzuran, a kama-itachi
Magic Disciplines: Death and Siphon
Event Plans: As usual, Baiken's a humbug and won't willingly participate in holiday events even if by god she could probably use some giant origami therapy. But she is open to being dragged along by close CR, so there's that.


Character: Oda Nobunaga aka Kipposhi owarifool
Familiar: Mori, a spectral firehawk.
Magic Disciplines: Elemental (specializing in fire) and Blood
Event Plans: Kipposhi is more the type who likes to spook others than be spooked so anyone who partners up with him on these excursions had better be prepared for him to be absolutely insufferable about it. He would probably not participate in worrigami, even if nagged to do so, but that's because he's genuinely not ready to talk about some of his deeper issues despite some recent events forcing at least some of them to the surface. Look, he just wants to have fun, okay?

Other Notes:

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Melodie || Monika

[peninhand]

Player: Melodie
Contact: lorulean

Character: Monika & peninhand
Familiar: Small and pink nine-tailed fox
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic Magic + Technomancy

Event Plans: Monika will most definitely have a worry monster. Her origami kaiju will have a vaguely angel-like form, but with broken wings and a fallen halo. I'm happy to have her be "matched" with anyone who got similar worries to hers. There are three possible flavors for this:

• Worry that she is unlovable
• Wory that she will never get a happy ending
• Worry that she is an irredeemable monster

She will also do all three tests, mostly out of a completionist instinct to get every single spell / recipe that may end up being of use to her. I'm happy playing with any of the tests and to have her partner up with anyone.

Other Notes: Monika's still in a terrible mental place, but doing an amazing job at hiding it.

Cuyler | Lorenz Hellman Gloucester

[silky_bearing]

Player: Cuyler
Contact: draconicseraphim Cuyler#7666 @ Discord

Character: Lorenz Hellman Gloucester (silky_bearing)
Familiar: Rêve - Young white stag
Magic Disciplines: Light/Green
Event Plans: He's been a good boy and using his words to talk about a lot of the things that he would need a worry monster for so, actually... he is mostly going to stick to doing the cursed locations. Partially because, please let this man dress up. Partially because it sounds light-hearted and fun? Also he wants prizes.

Good luck convincing him to put his hands in something gross though bfdsjkh

Other Notes: dumping costuming ideas on plurk if y'all wanna help me decide on things

[purrrrfection]

Sorry this is short, running out the door for work again, but I'm good with waiting for the event log and then seeing which prompt calls the loudest, if you want!

[bakudan_bambino]

No worries dude, I’m replying between tattoos.

I’ll hit you up when the top level in the event goes up!

Schmittchen | Toshirou Hijikata | Gintama

[mayoninofukucho]

Player: Schmittchen
Contact: This journal or schmoechen#2732 on Discord!

Character: Toshirou Hijikata (mayoninofukucho)
Familiar: Crow Tengu (Arashi)
Magic Disciplines: Elemental & Death

Event Plans: The Worrigami are so cute..!! Hijikata's primary worries right now are: 1) "Can I be a good leader?" (for the ghosts he recruited into a task force of sorts) and, more convolutedly, 2) "Someone like me shouldn't get too close to innocent civilians, but what if I hurt them worse by pushing them away?" (bad boy syndrome ahoy!). If anyone has similar worries, let's match them up and see what happens!

Normally he'd stay far away from the Accursed Thanks prompts since he's still a scaredy cat to some degree, death mage or not... but he's a Prismatica CRAU, so he wants that 'From the Void' recipe for questionable reasons (I'm really sorry to everyone who thought he was a decent man). As such he'll aggressively be game for everything: the art exhibition in the library, the dolls in the forest, and the blind mystery item guessing (either role)!

Other Notes: Work has really been wiping the floor with me, so apologies for any late tags! However if I take longer than 5 days please give me a ping; in that case I most likely missed the notification.

Gore | Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck

[flapsin]

Player: Gore
Contact: goreo or ask for discord or PM

Character: Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck & flapsin
Familiar: A bat named Littlewings
Magic Disciplines: Light & Siphon
Event Plans: I'm thinking of just tagging around for this event while I have a bunch of quest threads, so let me know if you want to do something here! Not sure about the worrygami, but Drake is very interested in taking part in the courage tests because a smokescreen spell would be the best thing for Darkwing Duck to have! The haunted art gallery and the cursed dolls should both be pretty fun for him, while the touch tank would be a maybe!

Other Notes:

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[fruitknife]

Please bring back the short prompt summaries.

[avalonmods]

The general idea is that it is intended to be therapeutic and helpful. Being forced into it would risk people feeling paranoid and distrustful, so it could just make things worse. The enchanted papers and the people who enchanted them generally wouldn't do it, but...

If another character were to use cognitive magic to hypnotize/influence them or a dark mage were to curse their hand to write everything they think or something, that could inspire them to do it. If you can't find another player, feel free to make up some rude NPC who disagrees that help only works if you're ready for it.