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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 November 17th, please use this post to plot with your fellow players and ask questions ahead of the event start.

Though it's been a year for us OOC, that timeline isn't necessarily something everyone thinks to celebrate, especially in the midst of all that's going on. What they are thinking about are more solutions to the food rationing for two very key reasons: 1. the winter solstice will be spent in Elphame next month, and food from the fae lands cannot be consumed by non-fae or there are very terrible side-effects, the details of which seem ominously vague. 2. winter is coming and with a lot more mouths to feed, the usual preparations likely weren't enough for everyone to remain healthy and happy. This has lead a cadre of likeminded mages to gather together and perform a ritual at Merlin's Step (past info here) to temper the rains and extend the harvest season a couple of weeks to reduce crop loss. Unfortunately, the magic flu is still at large, and someone thought they were above it all and attended the ritual, which has made things go... awry.

Winter was coming.. and now it's here. Right now. The ritual has gone south thanks to the magical flu and a snowstorm has rocked Camelot overnight. There's about 6 feet deep of snow so those on the first floor of their buildings may have some trouble getting out. The snow stays heavy throughout the day, and around sunset the power goes out in Camelot. Anyone who can is sharing a magical spell from olden days before electricity, (Spell) Candlebloom. Candlebloom can be cast by putting out a plate, bowl or anything and chanting the spell over it until a flower-shaped piece of wax begins to grow upward out of the surface.
Keep chanting, the petals will bloom, and then "melt" down to form the sides of a candle and fill in with wax. You can cast this on as many dishes as you have to create multiple light sources! They don't self-light though, so good luck! Thankfully, living so close to the storm sprites up in the Ash Mountains has given Lestari's people ample knowledge about how to deal with sudden weather and living buried under plenty of stuff. They've got a special spell to dig tunnels under the deepening snow, so you may find yourself able to get to and from different locations through snow tunnels.. if you have a little bravery and faith to travel through them. It's kind of reminiscent of crawling through the tunnels of a fast food PlayPlace as a kid, especially since at the end of one of the tunnels, all of that missing snow is piled up in enchanted balls of snow that create a large (snow) ballpit, the magic keeping the snows bunched up into balls unless they are explicitly thrown (then they turn back to normal snowballs and will burst on contact).
	Within the next days, the snowstorm evens out to alternating between snow and rain in the final weeks of the month. The Elphame Traders arrive in Camelot early, having rushed their journey and skipped a few of their usual stops on orders of the Fairy Queen to bring a special item for free distribution to all of the otherworlders in Camelot. Delivered to everyone is what appears to be a totem, woven together with a variety of dried plants pulled into wings held together with twine. At the end, a fragment of moldavite smaller than half your pinky nail. With it, a small half-inch wide scroll of paper that simply says: "The Fairy Queen permits you safe travel to the Land of Maidens. Burn in December. We will bring the newcomers to us."
The totems are enchanted to be unburnable before December starts, so if your character tries, they will find themselves very frustrated and likely catching whatever is next to the totem on fire (including their own hand if they're foolish enough not to follow directions). The totem will only work once and does not include a recipe or a totem back to Camelot, so make sure you find someone who has one or you'll find yourself on the scenic route back. The Elphame Traders plan to stick around the last two weeks of December to make sure everyone receives their Land of Maidens Totem. During this time, they have a "Sorry You've Been Stuck for a Year and Thanks!" Sale with some very intriguing free samples. Their new flavor of their hottie sauce that causes illusions of flowers and sparkles to form around your head when someone gazes upon you for the first time is a hot item! Try the Wuh-Woh Wrench, a small alan wrench that causes a non-fatal accident within earshot when you drop it. They really seem to be trying to get rid of the Snek Tunics, which just appear to be shirts with pictures of a cartoon snake on them. There are no disclaimers that when you get water on you in this, you turn into a Naga until you are able to completely dry. There's also a special free (Spell) Cool Firework donated by Merlin to help you celebrate, or commiserate-- with this spell, you can shoot rocket fireworks out of your fingers into the sky!

OOC Notes for Added Prompt:

Winter has come early, but the Winter Solstice will still be held up in Nicnevin. Characters will not be able to just teleport into Nicnevin, however, as it is the fae capitol and they aren't just letting people pop in willy-nilly!
The fireworks spell only fires up, so it cannot be weaponized.
Naga info is in the bestiary if you don't remember them.
Phones will still work as long as they have a charge because magic. Careful not to run out your battery!
I (Taymod) haven't been able to implement the next updates for the event format because I just moved and had way less energy/time than I thought I would by this point, so additional feedback hasn't been implemented except to change font color for quotes. Sorry. u_u My bad.

Event log will be posted on the 17th, the same day the event starts.

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...How easy is it to collapse snow tunnels? Asking for a friend.

They're enchanted! Try to collapse them, Yuber, and only the section above you will collapse. Mysteriously, when people named Yuber (and other people too probably) unearth themselves it will always be at it center of the ball pit.

Another question!

Yuber is Kinetic/Death so if he got the magic flu could he raise a bunch of skeletons that randomly teleport around the area outside Loch Manor and sometimes have levitating skulls etc? They'd probably shamble off into the city across the snow too but leave the range of the kinetic magic.

Also: if a desperate death mage were to possess a person/body would it relieve their magic flu symptoms for as long as the possession holds (up to one hour)?

...In case it's not painfully obvious I am thinking that the magic flu in a death/kinetic mage could turn Loch Manor into the epicenter of what I would like to call "Hot Nonsense".

Edited 2021-11-15 23:09 (UTC)

I'm going to go with yes and yes. Have fun with your hot nonsense. 😎

Excellent!

Re: the free sample items, can characters keep these if they want them after this event, and will they continue to work multiple times if so?

Yes! Samples are limited to one per character, so the hottie sauce will run out eventually, but unless the other items are damaged they will continue to work.

I am curious about how long would the effects of the hottie sauce last upon consumption. Would it last all day long thing or only just for a few hours?

It's a sample sized bottle about 15g or 1Tbsp. If you drink the whole thing at once it will last you a couple of hours at most. Take it in a couple of sips and you can enjoy a few bursts. One sample per person.

so, if the snow starts overnight, does that mean that businesses like grocery stores will be empty if a kinetic mage was, say, to teleport in and get groceries? ~~it's for others, she swears~~.

Except for the poor stockers working the night shift! They're trying to preserve the food so it doesn't get ruined by the frost since Camelot was in the middle of a food crisis.

That said, if she proceeded to rob the grocery store during a food shortage, which is already doing its best to fairly distribute food and not allow bulk buyers to get away with stupidity, there may be consequences overall depending on if other people do it or of people find out and start panicking and doing the same. Be advised and let us know what you decide to do!

In that case, she'd just ask if anyone can ring her up. Leave the shady behaviour for the well paid quests and not an actual crisis. 😂

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