PLOTTING POST ✨ Sugar and Siege

[avalonmods]

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The fairy queen is less than pleased, but not angry, with how her quest went. She has Princess Bluebell of the Guinea Pig Nation speak, and Princess Bluebell also has a favor to ask... which seems to be the calm before the storm, as an unknown third party who made off with the Fisher King earlier this month have performed a ritual to resurrect him and left the veil open, letting in untold forces that have engaged in a Wild Hunt... and the prey is Camelot.

CONTENT WARNINGS:

• 1st Prompt: --
• 2nd Prompt: Active: Battle, disease, famine, living death, rage; Historical/Not active in prompt: mentions of serial killers, murder, biological warfare, god/human love affair
  
• 3rd Prompt: --

Poll Results: The Queen isn't thrilled, but enough people participated and acted in her interest to avoid any ire. (35/71 participants took actions toward the queen's favor in at least 1 option, about half.) Regardless of whether they were right or wrong about the riddle, she does commend those who chose to take at least one action in her favor. (This action had a mildly positive effect on the Queen's view of Otherworlders, but she does not trust them completely. The purpose of needing the quest completed will not have its details revealed openly yet. The Queen may also in the future provide contact to those who have demonstrated trust in her.) This results in gifts to the following characters who showed favor to the Queen in some form: chatwithdeath cantgetanyworse inevitablerest themogget judgementor unknowntodeath kiss_it_better silky_bearing greedyvixen wukuiyuxin currysseur emet_sulk garyoutensei tsumtsuki writtendestiny saxsongs @ groundzeroes silvergarden callyourname lovesopendoors yunxiguang dottedline corpsewarblade dontgetintherobot unhappy rustyhonesty phoenixwiz tempredmental angel_of_death sulit yunxiguang hor arf readytolearn The above listed characters will receive the (Recipe) Trusted Totem. This totem cannot be communicated to others. It can be used to transport yourself and 1 other person via handholding, but they have to trust you as you cannot tell them where you are taking them when using one. The Trusted Totem will take them directly to Nicnevin's main tree, bypassing the wet entryway. It cannot be used alone, accidentally, or against someone's will. They may also receive one (1) of the following gifts at the player's discretion: (Potion) Countercurse Potion: A potion that reverses curses. (Will have no effect on ritual-enacted curses or advanced fairy curses.) Single use. (Potion) Fairy Flight Potion: Sprout luminescent fairy wings for 1 hour. Can carry any weight. Sparkles will fall out of your wings as you fly, like sand in an hourglass. Single use. (Recipe) Enchanted Golden Rose: The enchanted golden rose causes people to feel at ease with the person who wears it, making them more likely to be honest or share secrets. Giving an enchanted rose to someone may cause intense pining for the person who enchanted the rose until the rose wilts. The base can use any color rose; it will turn gold after being enchanted. It's a recipe, so you can use as many times as you want. -The group who had the answer correct seemed to have a similar even split and the Fisher King himself was stolen by a "third party" because there was no clear forward decision, which does leave the Queen irate.  -Clarent, which was successfully delivered to the Queen, is a nice prize... but she will find use for it later. She has no intention of regifting, as it is considered rude in fairy culture. If someone gives you something meant for you, it is meant for you. (This action may have a future effect on the plot.) -King Arthur, when informed of its previous location and existence on this plane, seems awfully quiet in response but does not openly react yet. (This action has flagged a Secret Knight's Quest for the March QuestBoard.) -The Fisher King was successfully raised from the dead. The identities of those who did it and the location of the Fisher King are currently unknown to the public. The consequences of this action are present in this month's 2nd and 3rd event prompts. It will take place after a slice of life prompt backdated to the regular event time of the 17th, so players still have something to play with if they do not wish to engage in the darker prompt.

This prompt is backdated slightly and takes place on February 18th.

A live broadcast comes to everyone's devices, featuring a rather peculiar speaker. "Attenchun, kindly o-otherwowders! Tis I, Pwincess Guacachia Bluebell of the Guinea Pig Nation of Nowth Elphame. Though our home is too small to be noted on the Laage Neighbow's maps, I asschuwe you I am caulified as Ambassadow for Chween Elphame. Though you had failed her chwuest, many of you have shown the twust she asked fow even if not the bwains. Those who have will be shown gweat gwatichude, but she does feel [squeaking sound of dismay that cannot be translated out of guinea pig adequately] as the Fishaa King's body was pawt of hew pwans to dishmanchle the Cawamidy and didn' want to speach chuday because of it. Evewyone send good wibes and wikes, she won't speak when she's not
[again: squeaking sound of dismay that cannot be translated out of guinea pig adequately]... the Cawamichy won't be ended if you all don't wowk with the Chween, King Awfur's gwaces or notch, you know! But that's none of myyy busy-ness! Elphame offews a rewawd fow the Fishaa King's body now, much to keep you "fat and happy" for many yeaws!    I also have a favew to ask on behaaf of my people. Our Festiva of Life is next week and the usuaw souwce of one of the chey ingwediench of our festiva cakes was a Leschawian, bwessings to them!" As it turns out, the Guinea Pig Nation (all talking guinea pigs who like to dress up in various outfits- in style now in particular is old western themed outfits, but the Princess must always wear her crown) are in a pinch because their Lestari hook-up for the feathers died in the fall of Lestari. They need help to pluck feathers from a bird called the Prism Tweeter! Their people love to decorate the outside of their Festival of Life cakes with their feathers, which are made of finely spun sugar in a variety of colors. These birds are typically found in the first Ash Mountain, but upon its fall, migrated to live in the Forest of the Felled as one of its new, more colorful residents. It only takes one feather to cover a cake, so pluck no more than one feather per bird and the whole flock will go unharmed... the only trick is catching these delectably sweet aviators: The birds can magically phase through physical, non-enchanted objects, so you have to surprise them to grab them. The plus side is, they really love vanilla beans, so they're easy to lure out of the trees.. you don't have to be George of the Jungle to help out the pigs.   More of a stay-at-home kind of helper? That's fine too. They need bakers to make as many tiny cakes as they need for the festival since it's so last minute this year! Hurry up and grab a friend to get to baking 3-layer 1 inch cakes wrapped in rainbow feathers to help these little guys out. The Elphame Traders will make a special trip to Camelot to pick up all of these cakes as a favor to the Guinea Pig Nation, so you can stay at home and bake with your friends no matter where you live. This prompt takes place on February 22nd and February 23rd.
	A few days after the fun and fancy-free stylings of the Guinea Pig Nation ahead of their Festival of Life (you weren't invited, sorry, too big you would destroy their homes- but they appreciate the help!) things are going pretty mundanely. That is, until what sounds like a battle cry is heard approaching New Camelot. On the horizon, what appears to be a massive cavalcade of demon horse-riding wraiths lead by four knights in what appears to be ancient armor rush toward the city. A few of the locals who hear the sound and come out to see what all the fuss is about immediately seem to spook, shouting something about the Wild Hunt. Usually it's something preserved for earth and those who find it will be taken along and dumped either in Avalon itself or taken straight to the underworld, but their presence here in Avalon.. well, that can't be good. The shouting seems to alert the castle, which seems to alert more people, and within a matter of minutes people are being rushed to take cover within the castle walls for siege.
All of Camelot's gates are closed and people are directed to a couple of different places: knights and those who wish to fight are to prepare for battle at each of the gates. Healers who wish to stay and help the wounded are to gather in the citadel, where the injured will be taken. Those who wish to battle and heal will act as field medics to get people into a state enough fit to be taken to the citadel. Those who wish to offer other support may be asked to hand out food and water within the citadel or fetch supplies around the city, or to rush to the library to try to figure out what the hell is leading this hunting party toward them. King Arthur will lead the knights into battle. Merlin will also be assisting in battle, using a variety of magic from atop the castle. If your character gets into a pinch and you aren't sure how to get them out, feel free to have him send a magic spell to block an enemy. Knights given the authority to direct other fighting characters as they see fit (though your non-knight fighter's compliance is, as always, depending on your choice as a player).  Those who wish to opt out of this event entirely will be whisked away by some of the Fairy Queen's spies to Nicnevin for safekeeping. If you do not want your character to remember or acknowledge any portion of this event, we can handwave that the Fairy Queen arbitrarily found your character annoying and put them under a sleeping spell for the duration of their stay. This will be done before the outer city gates are broken through, so your character can be safe the whole time and just chill in a hotel room in Nicnevin. Those who stay will be fighting wraiths (unkillable enemies) lead by four beings called the Knights of the Veil. Those who have rushed to the library to find answers will be able to spread the following information regarding the enemies, though first-hand experience may also be how your character finds out some of it: The Knights of the Veil live in the void between the world of the living and the dead and escaped when the veil was not closed during a ritual to raise a heavily cursed and protected corpse back to life. Though there's no way to know which corpse, recent news of the Fisher King's body going missing leaves some speculation and fear about who it was that was raised, but no one has any idea who did it. The Knights of the Veil have touch-based magic in addition to weaponry which you may have your character afflicted by at your behest. The four knights are as follows: Carlea: Once a proud Queen, she sold her soul to the darkness after her husband was killed by enemies and the prince of the enemy nation forced her to marry him. She used this ability to brutally murder every last citizen of her enemy's kingdom over time in secret and feed them to a pet bear she was gifted by her new husband, saving him for last. Carlea's touch will invoke a curse of famine, causing all food and drink to turn to ash in the touched individual's mouth. Rubion: Rubion was a serial killer in his world known for killing over a hundred people, though the exact number is not known. Who he was before that isn't particularly known, but as a killer, he was known for brutally killing anyone who crossed him in a fit of rage. He was from a time before forensics and tended to kill witnesses, so he was never caught. That is, until he missed seeing a small child hiding under his bed during one of his rampages. The child's grandfather took him in and killed Rubion himself after he found out why the child would not speak for a month straight. It is thought that his own god cursed Rubion to stay in the void where he could not torment his victims in the afterlife too. Rubion's touch will invoke uncontrollable, violent rage and turn even the smallest slight into a mountainous anger. Augusto: Augusto was the general of an army who used the blood of his people's sickly to spread disease in conquering nations. He did not choose to become one of the Knights, instead being cursed to eternal damnation by a priestess in one of the villages he wrought destruction upon. Augusto's touch will inflict a disease of the player's choosing upon their character, at full height of symptoms within 30 minutes of touch.  Pien: Pien is a god of an older religion who was banished from the heavenly kingdoms for loving a human so much she attempted to give her eternal life despite that it was forbidden to grant eternity to mortals. She has a high-and-mighty attitude, and if disrespected will disrespect you right back with dignity-obliterating consequences. Her followers tended to be on the M side of things. Her touch will invoke conscious zombieism, meaning that your body will die and begin to rot despite still being able to move, and you will be aware and able to communicate and feel during this experience.    The Knights and Wraiths cannot be killed by any means as long as the ritual remains in effect and their tie to the underworld is stable, so for the time being this is a heavily unwinnable battle. Thankfully, wraiths are not very coordinated even if they are aggressive in battle so it's easy to dodge, flee, or take cover.

On the second day of the Siege, devices will flicker with a face we haven't seen in some time. She is this world's mother goddess, after all, so if threatened she will come to offer reprieve. Morganna looks almost amused at how much destruction had been wrought by the actions of, truly, one man and those he had strung along. Morganna will not punish nor reveal them, but she will speak on the matter: "Those wishing for this to end, rejoice. I have birthed verbena upon your doorsteps. Take another's hand, light a candle and burn the flowers. Whisper 'lights out' three times together, and pray to send some of your magic to me. I need as many of you to do it as possible, or else I will not be able to freeze time fast enough to stop the calamity from engulfing this place afterward when I complete the ritual shutter."
That is all she says. The ritual won't do much if only one person does it outside of today as Morganna is keeping secret what she does on her end to complete it. If your character's name is possessed by the fairy queen, they will be forced to participate in this ritual so they may notice something odd if they weren't intending to do it. After the ritual is complete, all personal rituals will be voided and need to be recast. (This includes things like brownie summoning spells or the banishing of lesser frost fairies if your character was doing that from last year to keep their house warm.) This will also cause both the sun and moon to black out for about a day afterward, so you may want to get on board with artificial lighting or spells until a party heading to Celliwig to repair that ritual can get out there in about a day's time. The most dangerous ritual that has been broken will be the time freeze. Morganna uses everyone's magic to give herself superspeed to recomplete the ritual to recast it, along with a significant portion of the Isle of Avalon's itself that had been built up in surplus having everyone here for so long. However, there are still 2 seconds in which the massive event that threatens the multiverse can move forward. It is now visible in the sky to the north during the night even without being at the End of the World, and will stay that way for the duration of isleofavalon until the multiverse is saved. It is outright terrifying if you travel to the End of the World now, taking up the majority of the sky. For a month afterward, those who participated may find themselves fatigued without clear cause... but in general, magic will be misbehaving and causing accidents for everyone for about the next month.

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OOC Notes: If you want to have the fairy queen have obtained your character's name at any point, please comment here for our reference. She will offer these characters means to repay their "contract" down the line as needed (per OOC discussion). Countercurse potions can be used to remove afflictions by the Knights of the Veil in more immediate effect, but so will the end of the ritual, so consider use wisely!

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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 22nd, the same day the event starts.

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Alex

[resistetmords]

Player: Alex
Contact: PM, discord: billbill#6387, plurk: Pluto-Kun

Beowulf

[beewulf]

Character: Beowulf & beewulf
Familiar: Hulder
Magic Disciplines: Healing/Siphon

Event Plans: GUINEA PIGS that is all. Need to do something with the piggies, anything. From bird catchin' to cake makin'.

The Wild Hunt
All stories lead back to Odin!


He'll be super confused, because this isn't really like the Wild hunt he's familiar with, but at the same time it kind of is??? Anyway, he's all for helping people with their ghost curses and generally dragging people to the castle. He can also be found laughing at their attempts to curse him. So yeah, he'll be trolling the ghosts and working to help people as best he can!

The Ritual
He gave his name so he'll be participating anyway. He was also for giving the sword to Morganna too and so will be super interested in seeing what she can pull off here. Beyond all of that I'm not wholly certain what I want him to do for this one.

Other Notes: Since it's still February

Belgium

[resistetmords]

Character: Belgium & resistetmords
Familiar: Lion
Magic Disciplines: Alchemy/Green
Event Plans:

GUINEA PIGS

All my characters are doing something with the piggies. Belgium will, of course, be helping to back them their adorable, little cakes~! She'll also be really happy to make stuff for everyone else as well.

Wild Hunt

She'll be flexing her knighthood muscles to begin directing people in the siege effort. You could say she's something of an expert of being overrun but still kicking the enemy's teeth in and somehow coming out on top in the end.

Mostly she'll be working on organizational efforts to more quickly, and calmly, direct people towards the castle. While also dealing with anyone that's been cursed and slowing down the spoopy ghosts. So yeah, Belgium will be doing her absolute best to stand her ground for as long as she can. Also, also, also, expect her to get really torn up if anyone gets hurt under her watch. :x

She'll also help out with the ritual as well. Depending on how the Wild Hunt turns out.

Beyond events she'll be focused largely on helping her big bro get settled in as well.

If anyone wants to plot out something specific let me know~!

Other Notes:

[beaumains]

"expect her to get really torn up if anyone gets hurt under her watch."

well maybe not torn up but definitely rage cursed

[resistetmords]

O NO angry puppy knight!

Yes, let's make this a thing for them to do. Belgium's little chocolate-covered waffle heart is going to BREAK over it.

*will probably be in her room for the next few days, depending on if her bro lets her.*

[beaumains]

i can never help myself when it comes to tragic irony. just her becoming like the version of lancelot that killed her.

[resistetmords]

nuuuuu ;w;

instead of AAAARRRTTHUUUURRRRR it's LAAAAANNNNCCCEEELLLLOTTTT!!! or some such thing.

want her to be knocked out in an EPIC fight or anything else specific? something uber dramatic and tragic?

[beaumains]

tbh i haven't thought THAT far, but kadoc may end up being the one that helps her regain her senses

[resistetmords]

thumbs up~! i'll go ahead and keep this in mind then!

Feel free to let me know if you wanna do anything else too with her or any of my other pups~ (always happy to expand and create new cr) :3

Cleveland (CL-55)

[clevebro]

Character: Cleveland & clevebro
Familiar: German Shepherd
Magic Disciplines: Death/Light
Event Plans: NO IDEA FOR HER

By that I mean she's going to super confused at what's going on.

Guinea Pigs

SHE'S GOING TO SQUEE AND HELP OUT THE PIGGIES either by getting bird feathers or baking their small cakes. It's too cute...!

Wild Hunt

I'm not too certain how I want her to participate with this one. Beyond her learning how to use her Death magic. In fact, lets go with that, this is hands on experience for her in learning how to control her magics! Really Clevedaddy is going to be busy helping keep people from getting all cursed and the like, and potentially helping out in the library.

Oh and she is going to be helping with the ritual.

Other Notes:

!!!

[oranjekonijn]

I--

I shall be yeetening a Discord invite to you ASAP as that's where I'm around the most! :looking:

...wait Discord emojis don't work here :birdjoy:

...I did it again GAH