PLOTTING POST ✨ Sugar and Siege

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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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Questions

[avalonmods]

Kadoc Zemlupus | Fate/Grand Order

[impostorsyndrome]

Player: Hen
Contact: benthic, PM, or Hen#6953!

Character: Kadoc Zemlupus & impostorsyndrome
Familiar: Ice Hydra
Magic Disciplines: Light
Event Plans: I've been really absent this month but I want in! Some thoughts:

- I will probably skip the SOL section for this time since most of my backdated stuff I'm working on right now is of that nature!
- For the Wild Hunt, Kadoc would definitely head to the Library to help there, but I am not actually sure how interesting threading that out will be. He's not a combatant or healer so he'd also help out in the citadel or gathering supplies. I'm happy to plot anything involving these interactions!
- He's also a decent field medic, just not a magical healer, so he can help in non-magical ways with some injuries. Or with hurt/comfort. Especially with hurt/comfort.
- Along those lines, I won't be having him interact with the curses personally/receive any of them, but I'd also be down for some nursing the sick. I think I want to avoid rage berserkers, zombies and starving people this time around because sometimes you're just not feeling it.
- He will also definitely do the ritual! He's also a Light mage, so he can help out with magical lighting while the sun and moon are out too, which sounds awesome to me, idk about you.
- We can chat about anything else too, hmu!

Other Notes: noooo I'm tired but I wanna do things with yoooou, yes you reading this

Re: Questions

[problemsoncauthess]

This is basically everything Ardyn wanted, but. What happens to him/the poor people he strung along? Do the Knights of the Veil fuck him up?

[avalonmods]

We'll leave that up to you guys. Maybe as a "thanks" for unleashing then they'll let them go... Unless y'all wanna get fucked up then have at it.

[problemsoncauthess]

Hmmm, as much as I would love for Ardyn to have to instantly suffer the consequences of his actions, at least Emet-Selch (and possibly others) need the opportunity to murder Ardyn for his lying crimes. So I guess he'll just scuttle away in the mayhem and then find somewhere to sit and watch the siege with a glass of wine.

[phoenixwiz]

Is it okay if anyone can can participate the battle while avoiding some of the Knights? I was just wondering because I have very little spoons to handle the second prompt right now.

Alfonse Baelsar | FFXIV

[dontgetintherobot]

Player:Dubs
Contact: dubbins

Character: Alfonse Baelsar & dontgetintherobot
Familiar: Gargoyle in the shape of the armorless diamond weapon
Magic Disciplines: Light/Technomancy
Event Plans: (CW since mostly will be doing second promt) I will definitely be doing the Wild Hunt event. Alfonse will be out on the front lines fighting as soon as there's a wiff of danger. So if anyone wants a bodyguard while getting to safety, or someone to watch their backs he'll be there. He's not going to be good as fighting in full form though, he's still adjusting to his powers and whatnot.

Eventually I plan to have him take a hit from Augusto, and contract the Werlyt plague, so if anyone wants to help him get off the field when that starts kicking in, or tend to/heal him afterwards I'm up for that also.

And lastly he'll try to help with the ritual with what little he can, but might have to try to sneak doing it away from the healers. If anyone wants to join him in that.

Other Notes: I'm open for other stuff too, if you have an idea, toss it at me!

Harry Potter | Harry Potter series

[phoenixwiz]

Player: Mari
Contact: mariscorner, Mariposa21 #4257

Character: Harry Potter & phoenixwiz
Familiar: Rose the pink Pygmy Puff
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic / Elemental
Event Plans: Who knew trying to retrieve the Fisher King’s body before it got stolen actually did give this guy some favor from the Fae Queen? He will get the Enchanted Golden Rose spell for his effort in addition to the Trusted Totem spell.

Harry will try to help out the guinea pigs in getting bird feathers for cake and since he has kinetic magic, he can try to slow down the birds’ speed and use telekinesis to catch them.

He will definitely hit the library to get some knowledge on the Knights of the Veil and be participating the fighting. While he can’t burn the wraiths entirely, he will sure as hell as give it all his best. Maybe unlocking flight in here so he can avoid the Knights’ touch. The poor guy might unwittingly fall for Rubion’s touch and he will get super angry (despite already having gotten a grip on his anger issues at back home) until someone else can come in to snap him out of it. Please save him from his previous anger issues, even a hard smack in the face would suffice.

He will definitely take the ritual in exchange of feeling tired for most of next month.

Other Notes: Harry upon seeing the Knights of the Veil and how their eerie appearance reminds him of those damn Dementors:

[avalonmods]

As always, you can participate in or not participate in whatever parts of the prompt you want as a player. There are only 4 knights so there's a good chance you can avoid any of them! The rest are just regular wraiths.

[phoenixwiz]

Oh, that is good to know. Thanks for the response mods.

[arf]

Player: Tay
Contact: tartetatin or taylotjelly on discord!

Character: Taichi Nanao & arf
Familiar: Akapoyo-kun Jr! (it's a red slime that he put a baseball cap on)
Magic Disciplines: Healing & Technomancy! He's only decent at healing though, his technomancy is spotty except for DogDash (delivering food through screens to his friends).
Event Plans: Taichi is going to stick around as a healer and try to help out until someone who cares about him makes him skedaddle. For sure I know he's gonna run into Weiss and give a heal and Izumi to help save some kids. Open to anything else, before or after getting dragged out or maybe wetting his pants.

Also interested in having him scream in the dark because he can't find anything and thinks he went blind until someone turns a light on.
Other Notes:


Character: Emerald Sustrai & unhappy
Familiar: Goliath Grimm (it's like a giant murder elephant- but shrunk to hip height)
Magic Disciplines: Light and Dark
Event Plans: tbh with you part of me wants Emerald to get cornered and her goliath to go full-size for protection and there's just a giant murder elephant added onto the problem

other than that I don't have any particular plans yet! i want her to do some cool shit with light magic and cursing a doorway to lure enemies into a fucked up trap or something. Anybody wanna have flower burning time quiet bonding time with her? I'm interested in that too. She also needs some new cr so literally like anything!
Other Notes:


Character: Horus & hor
Familiar: Falcon (named Pet! Which is from Pt which is like the Coptic heiroglyph for "sky.")
Magic Disciplines: Alchemy and Death
Event Plans: Horus fight. He's trained basically since he could hold weapons to defeat a war god, so he's pretty damn good at it technically even without his god strength. Not sure what in general I wanna do with him but I'm willing if anyone wants him anywhere!
Other Notes:

Re: Questions

[rustyhonesty]

How useful will sihponers be against the curses the four knights inflict?

Also will the rainbow birds listen to animal mages at all?

[rustyhonesty]

Player: Shiranna
Contact: sasageyo

Character: Archer (EMIYA) & unknowntodeath
Familiar: Phoenix
Magic Disciplines: Cognitive & Blood
Event Plans: Some initial thoughts;

Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: Archer will be helping to bake the small cakes at Fortune Panda restaurant. Anyone's welcome to come and help out, especially with tiny details.

The Wild Hunt: Archer will be fighting with swords and arrows, as well as his blood magic. He can also help give warnings and stuff with cognitive magic. Likely gonna make him have Carlea's curse for a while.

He has the spell for Familiar Symbiosis, so if he sees it necessary he'll use that and gain super cognitive magic and communicate with people even furhter. Or confuse the wraith with supersonic or something.

Unideal solutions: He'll be helping with the rituals so hold hands with him, I guess?


Character: Elsa & readytolearn
Familiar: Snowgie
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic and Elemental
Event Plans: Some initial thoughts;

Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: Elsa will go out and help find feathers! While she could just bake, she wants to see the birds herself and go out.

The Wild Hunt: Elsa considers herself a fighter and she will fight using Kinetic and Elemental and probably a combination of both. She will avoid getting cursed this time around.

Unideal solutions: She will help with the rituals out of her own will, despite her name being known by the Fairy Queen. She will continue be unaware of her connection to the Queen.


Character: Jean Kirstein & rustyhonesty
Familiar: Mythological Lynx
Magic Disciplines: Animal & Healing
Event Plans: Some initial thoughts;

Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: Jean's helping find the birds and get the feathers, as well as make sure the birds aren't harmed. He's hoping animal magic will help.

The Wild Hunt: Jean's a Knight so he's naturally out in the front. He's a leader type, so he will be out there also potentially giving orders.

Jean has taught himself to fight well using animal magic and he also has an enchantment on his sword - a "Sword Beam" which lets him basically shoot a beam when he waves the sword.

However he's also a healer so he will also be acting as a field medic in emergencies. He will be avoiding curses this time around.

Unideal solutions: Other than participating in the ritual, Jean will be helping with providing lights, as he owns Floral Illuminator he carries with him all the time. All you need is some flowers.. so maybe a joint project with a green mage?


Character: Mamoru Chiba & reincarnatedprince
Familiar: Skvader
Magic Disciplines: Light & Green
Event Plans: Some initial thoughts;

Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: He will be assisting in baking the cakes.

The Wild Hunt: Mamoru will rush to help study this incident in the library and afterwards will be helping to fetch supplies as needed. He will also be avoiding curses this time around.

Unideal solutions: He will be helping with the rituals.


Character: Ren Jinguji & saxsongs
Familiar: Fox Fairy
Magic Disciplines: Healing & Siphon
Event Plans: Some initial thoughts;

Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: Ren will help bake cakes to his best skill.

The Wild Hunt: Ren is a healer so he play the role of a field medic to help with the injured. He is also a Siphoner so he will attempt to remove any curses if possible. Can't stop him from trying, right? He will be inflicted by the Rubion curse ... uhh... and try to siphon magic out of people? Idek. He isn't a fighter, so his rage comes in a strange form.

Unideal solutions: He will participate in the ritual out of his own will, despite having his name known by the fairy queen. So he will continue to be unaware he's connected to her somehow.

Other Notes:

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doppo kannonzaka | hypnosis mic

[doppomine]

Player: Lanie
Contact: honorableshadow and discord: noiz#0511

Character: Doppo Kannonzaka doppomine
Familiar: Komainu
Magic Disciplines: Alchemy/Kinetic
Event Plans: I'm super new here and haven't posted anywhere yet so I'll def be hitting up this event! I don't have any super locked in ideas, but with magic going nutty, I think it's pretty natural to expect something nutty happening around Doppo.

I think the feather catching bit will be something I'll top level, with guaranteed possible slapstick abound~

I'm down to write cake baking too. Doppo's more of a helper in that kind of setting. Let him whip that cream or mash those cherries or w/e. It'll be cute and stress relieving for him.

For the Wild Hunt, I'll prob tag out? With Doppo wanting to help others who need it...and at the same time, try not to slow down those that do not. He'd be helpful with his abilities here, I think.

I'm super new to the game so I'm kind of just playing by ear. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me for any ideas!! I'm likely all for it.

Other Notes: Here's a mood:

[tantailizing]

Player: VG
Contact: demidemonLove

Character: Zidane Tribal | tantailizing
Familiar: Moguo the Moogle
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic/Bargaining

Event Plans: Planning on doing a top-level for the event and here's what's coming up:

---> Guinea Up, Pawtner: Since Atys is located near the Forest of the Felled, Zidane's become pretty familiar with it. Also, he's keeping an eye on the Stone Giant so if anyone wants escort into the Forest, he'll be available. Also, yes, he will help get feathers.

---> The Wild Hunt: Oh yeah, he's coming to help fight off the Hunt. However, I'm considering either contact with Rubion or Augusto so open to suggestions.

---> Unideal Solution: May make two options here, one for the ritual and another for providing light. Zidane remembers the Candlebloom spell from the massive winter storm and also has a Floral Illuminator. If there's some greenery in the scenery, it should help. Also, great, seeing the end of the world again... fun times.


Character: Naomi Kimishima | chatwithdeath
Familiar: Eve the Snake Spirit
Magic Disciplines: Healing/Death

Event Plans: I'll likely top-level Naomi so here are event plans. Oh, and she will be taking that Countercurse Potion, thanks (not for her curse, but for the future).

---> Guinea Up, Pawtner: Aha... baking... no, she'll get feathers, thanks.

---> The Wild Hunt: Naomi will help gather information on the Knights of the Veil and broadcast it. As well, she will be providing field healing. With her own magic, she might be able to deter some Wraiths for a moment, but no promises.

---> Unideal Solution: She'll need help with the ritual so if someone wants to join her for that, awesome. After that, staring up into the void that's the End of their Worlds in the sky. Joy...

Other Notes:

Melissa | Della Duck + Maribelle + Asterios

[sos_pilot]

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

Character: Della Duck & sos_pilot
Familiar: Moon Rabbit
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic/Dark
Event Plans:
Guinea Up Partner - Della will be more than happy to go feather-plucking... mostly because she thinks it'll be funny for people to double-take at a bird hunting birds. But she also wants to show off all the progress she's made with Gareth's baking lessons, so you may see her destroy a kitchen later too.
The Wild Hunt - At first, Della will be eager to join the fight... until she learns in battle that the bad guys are basically unkillable/undefeatable and that touch is a no-no. Even she knows not to fight a losing battle, so she will head off to the library to help learn what she can!
Unideal Solutions - Della will easily go along with the ritual, but the time unfreeze, when she learns of it, will... definitely make her nervous. But she's fine. it's fine. right?

Character: Maribelle & troubadamsel
Familiar: Caladrius
Magic Disciplines: Light/Healing
Event Plans:
Guinea Up Partner - Since Maribelle's familiar is a bird, she might see if she can use it to try and get some feathers! It might not work, but hey, it's better than all the shit she's been doing to Hijikata.
The Wild Hunt - Maribelle is used to fighting and healing, so you'll see her as a field medic, doing her best to stay alive and keep others alive. The sudden plagues/curses/etc will be infuriating, but she won't give up!

Character: Asterios & beefaroni
Familiar: Camahueto
Magic Disciplines: Green/Animal
Event Plans:
Guinea Up Partner - Being an animal mage, he might be able to help out with the birdies. Also I haven't really done anything with him this month so oof.
The Wild Hunt - Ah, what a Berserker does best. Smashy smashy. Asterios will join the fight, although because he is insane by nature, he may need help making sure those hits hit the enemy and not anyone else. Also tempted to give him a curse because his life is always suffering.

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: This turn of events is absolutely incredible. Hijikata will hate it, but I'm cackling. Kudos to our mods for allowing things to go haywire like this!

Hijikata is really handicapped right now since he was poisoned by the person whose Roast Pork quest he outed himself as having ruined, so he can only go out at night anymore. He'll be aggravated at Guinea up, Pawner - being woken up (since he sleeps during the daytime now) by a guinea pig broadcast isn't his idea of a good start into the day! He'll be disgruntled over Princess Guacachia's admonishment to work with Queen Elphame, and very alarmed that the body of the Fisher King was stolen. In the end he won't help the guinea pigs despite living in the Forest of the Felled since he assumes that the birds are active during the daytime (and because he's a sucky baker).

Due to his predicament he'll only join the fight against The Wild Hunt after the sun has sunk (yes, he'll kick himself hard when he realises what's been going on!). Once he does, though, he'll fight on the frontlines of the battle, probably using his Familiar Fusion to amplify his death magic (if that even helps against the wraiths). Of course that'd mean that he'd be out cold for a day after an hour of fighting, so if things go that way would anyone be willing to store him in their basement (or somewhere else where the sun won't shine)? Also anyone who wants to join the battle but needs direction can fight under his command!

The four monarchs' curses are all godawful, so it's a tough decision which one(s) to hit Hijikata with... I may just RNG it or something (unless someone would specifically like to deal with a hangry/berserk/sick/zombie samurai)! He does have a Countercurse Potion, but he'll probably only use it if he gets zombified because that's just too scary. Also he's already a weredog, being that and a zombie would just be too much! Of course if a siphoner helps him out he'll be grateful.

Of course he'll participate in the Unideal Solutions ritual - would there be any volunteer to hold his hand for that?

Other Notes: In case anyone is curious, Hijikata wanted King Arthur to receive Clarent, having found out that it belongs to him, so he can't believe that it ultimately ended up in Queen Elphame's hands... he's really doubting if most of the others know what they're doing (as if he always makes good decisions)! As for the Fisher King, he thought it would be best to leave him where he was, fearing that he'd only ruin whatever place he'd be moved to, but would have been content to hand him over to Queen Elphame since it was her who allowed his burial in his last resting place.

[callyourname]

Player: Nea
Contact: baranohanabira | Freyeria#2213

Character: Anna & lovesopendoors
Familiar: Snowgie
Magic Disciplines: Elemental + Technomancy
Event Plans:

🌸 Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: She'll be baking!
🌸 The Wild Hunt: Anna wants to fight! This is a girl, who grabs an ice sword just in case her family runs into trouble in the middle of a place, where anything could attack them, so... Yeah! She knows how to fight with a sword, she's seen grabbing random weapons in canon and now she has magic to help with all of this too!
🌸 Unideal solutions: She'll absolutely, happily help with the ritual!

Character: Mikasa Ackerman & callyourname
Familiar: Pegasus
Magic Disciplines: Elemental + Animal
Event Plans:

🌸 Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: She'll be baking and anyone anywhere near her may hear Jean's video calls to her or see her checking texts from him.
🌸 The Wild Hunt: Hahah, she's been a fighter ever since she was nine even if their military didn't begin until she was twelve but anyway, she'll definitely be fighting there! Also she's used to dual blades (thanks canon), so she'll have two blades/swords/something like that with her here too, one of her is a similar beam sword, that Jean also has, plus she has her magic too. She'll get the violent rage thing to her. It's fine.
🌸 Unideal solutions She's suspicious of the consequences of sending anyone's magic to Morganna but ... she'll do it to see if that really helps with ending all of this chaos.

Character: Raya & mistrustingheart
Familiar: Dragon, that looks like Sisu / dragons from her movie, though hers is rainbow colored and smaller
Magic Disciplines: Cognitive + Green
Event Plans:

🌸 Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: ...Okay, she would love to do the baking thing but she has no idea how to do that and she's not social enough to start learning through this event, so she'll be going out there to get feathers from the birds. Could decorate some rainbow cakes later with edible flowers from her green magic though!
🌸 The Wild Hunt: Fight! Fight! Fight! Not her first time fighting against some unkillable creatures, she has her sword with her and she has at least some ideas of how to use her green magic, though she can also send warnings / other messages with cognitive and try some other stuff with it too, she's pretty new and hasn't had much practice with either, yet. But anyway, her sword is a ... sword, imagine that, but it's also a whip and her way to jump over long distances since it works for that too. So if anyone needs like help from getting away from some bad situation in the middle of all of this, she could jump in there, grab someone with her and use that sword thing again to get both away from there.
🌸 Unideal solutions Look, she's tried some kind of dragon summoning rituals for 6 years back home and this sounds a little familiar... ...Then Morganna should hold hands with someone to do this and guess who's used to doing things alone? But since helping with this to possibly make this whole chaos stop is much more important to her, well, okay, sure, let's hold hands! ...Also if you need flowers for the Floral Illuminator thing, she could make those with her green magic.

Character: Rin Tohsaka & greedyvixen
Familiar: Kitsune called Kira
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic + Elemental
Event Plans:

🌸 Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: She'll go get the feathers, tho she could also teleport on her way there and back to make that trip even faster, I guess, but either way, she's leaving baking to others.
🌸 The Wild Hunt: She doesn't have any weapons but it's not like she has them in canon either, so she's used to fighting with her magic and she'll absolutely be fighting here too! Or help in situations, where you might need skills like flight or teleportation, not that she's perfect at either but thank you, kinetic magic -- though she's much better at its other things like pushing/pulling people and moving objects with her mind and those could also be really useful here.
🌸 Unideal solutions Why should she be sending any of her magic to Morganna?? Maybe Morganna should be sending her magic to Rin... >| On the other hand sending some of her magic to Morganna sounds really cool! ...So she'll help with those rituals, no problems with that etc.

Character: Usagi Tsukino & starshaper
Familiar: Moon Rabbit called Mochi
Magic Disciplines: Animal + Healing
Event Plans:

🌸 Guinea Pig Up, Pawner: She'll be helping with baking the cakes.
🌸 The Wild Hunt: Maybe she should stay in the citadel but -- she can't, she'd feel horrible for not being out there even when her healing or other skills aren't in Sailor Moon levels here. So she's going there to be a field medic / also fighting, whichever happens more.
🌸 Unideal solutions She'll absolutely, happily help with it!

Other Notes: Rewards; Rin will get the (Recipe) Enchanted Golden Rose, Anna will get Fairy Flight Potion and Mikasa will get Countercurse Potion! Not sure how many toplevels will happen but I'll gladly tag in to yours or whatever works best for both!♥

nik.

[currysseur]

Player: Nik
Contact: exits#8071

izumi tachibana.

[currysseur]

Character: Izumi & currysseur
Familiar: Miho, the lioness.
Magic Disciplines: Light / Bargaining
Event Plans:

under lock and key;
— Izumi followed the riddle with the locks to the Queen's satisfaction and will end up with the Trusted Totem and the Fairy Flight Potion. Because the idea of Izumi flying around on little fairy wings is cute and I will not hear arguments to the contrary.

guinea pig madness;
— IIIIII... am gonna avoid SOL stuff because I have so much backlog ATM (I'm finally feeling like a person again so hopefully y'all will be seeing me dropping hella old tags in your inboxes soon) but this is adorable and Izumi has two pet guinea pigs of her own so if anyone wants to handwave anything WRT this, I'm here for it!

the wild hunt;
— Izumi was very shook by Celliwig/Lestari and her inability to help during that calamity, so this time she's ready! She'll be acting largely as support, doing runs and offering Light Magic assistance for morale boosts or hiding/creating distractions.
— while she has been learning to fight with a sword and does have hers with her, she is not quite ready to start slashing down wraiths without it being absolutely necessary, so there's an option if you want to put your character in peril and force her to do something! (Or, y'know, if you want to save her 🥺)

ritual incense;
— Izumi will definitely be listening to Morganna's instructions and participating, and then using her Light Magic to make sure people have sources of light!

Other Notes:

century egg.

[fellsound]

Character: Century Egg & fellsound
Familiar: Warrior Spirit
Magic Disciplines: Dark / Death
Event Plans:

the sword in the land of rot;
— Egg was there for the Land of Rot stuff but he just went along with the group consensus without offering his own opinion. So there's that!

the wild hunt;
— Egg doesn't think twice before getting involved in fighting. Despite having Dark and Death magic, he'll mostly be fighting physically as he would back on Tierra.
— He will eventually be hit with a curse* and generally have an unpleasant time.

*curse to be decided, options are rage or zombie.

Other Notes:

kate galloway.

[morns]

Character: Kate Galloway & morns
Familiar: Bean Nighe
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic / Siphon
Event Plans:

graverobbing;
— So, when faced with the Fisher King's tomb, Kate did what any sensible person would do and lifted an Emerald from the tomb. Surely nothing can go wrong there...!

the wild hunt;
— She was an idiot to think that the need to fight shit might be becoming a thing of the past, so naturally she's going to be one of the fighters in this situation.
— Lots of kinetic magic tricks and siphon magic blasts happening in this quadrant.
— She will eventually be hit with a curse* and generally have an unpleasant time.

*curse to be decided, options are rage or zombie.

Other Notes:

pictured: how the graverobbing went

[plenilunium]

Clearly Jyushi and Doppo have to meet during the feather catching so Jyushi can be like OMG YOU'RE BACK!!!

Candace

[leicesters]

Player: Candace
Contact: PM, moonsilver, moonsilver#4734

Claude von Riegan

[leicesters]

Character: Claude von Riegan / leicesters
Familiar: White wyvern
Magic Disciplines: Dark & green
Event Plans: Claude had the dubious idea to do some graverobbing from the Fisher King's tomb, in the hopes that he might be able to bring something back with him that's interesting or useful. There will be repercussions for that, so watch this space!

[inappropriately cheerful hold music 😊]

Aside from that, Claude will be one of those who would head to the library for an idea of how to fight off the Knights of the Veil, so he'll try to spread whatever information he finds where possible.

Other Notes: