PLOTTING POST ✨ Nightmare on Elph Street

[avalonmods]

QUICK NAV: LOGS ⚔️️ NETWORK ⚔️️ MEMES ⚔️️ OOC ⚔️️ NAVIGATION 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 March 17th and ICly the event will take place on March 20th and March 21st. Please use this post to plot with your fellow players and ask questions ahead of the event start.

 

 

The ritual-wiping ritual wasn't the best news for Avalon and magic has been wacky for everyone since it was performed. However, if there was a time for it to happen, it happening before the Spring Equinox was just about the best time it could happen. The Spring Equinox, after all, is a time of renewal and rebirth. It's what you'd call a silver lining. As long as enough people participate in the Spring Equinox rituals, it should be fine... right?

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This part of the event takes place on March 20th.

Though there is no Spring Masquerade this year as there had bene the last, there is a much smaller token of appreciation from the castle of Camelot to all of those who live within its borders: a gift basket with a salad of edible flowers, eggs, breakfast sausages, and a small bottle of champagne (or sparkling seltzer for those underage) and a bottle of orange juice to make mimosas with. Those of the vegetarian through vegan persuasions will receive vegan white chocolate eggs filled with coconut cream frosting and a mango puree 'yolk' and Avalon's best plant-based sausages. It's not quite a feast, but no one should go hungry on this day of celebration! Brownies will help to deliver these overnight, so you'll find them on your doorstep in the morning with a special spell to keep everything fresh through most of the early afternoon. Since there is no party this time, everyone will have the chance to see Avalon's plants begin to overgrow at a rapid pace within the city.
Those who saw it last year or locals who are normally residents of Avalon will tell you not to fear, this happens every spring. The plants grow around and not through structures, the buildings still safe and sound beneath large vines and leaves and pools and flowers. Most notably, huge beds of vines, open seed pools, and giantic flowers large enough to take a bath in have started cropping up around town, and they all seem to be filled with a vibrant, glowing liquid of some kind.  Each of these floral wonders, locals will tell you, is called a vernal soul pool. Upon entering one, you'll enter a lucid sleep state that connects you to everyone else in Avalon and the island itself. Doing so will cause your magic to be amplified and grow and stabilize, but also allow you to be cleansed and refreshed as a person. How much detail the person you're talking to gives is up to you (in case your characters would back off of it if they had the following details but you still want to experience it). Once someone enters, they will immediately feel as if they are at home and the pod will close over them gently, leaving them in a pool of that mysterious glowing substance-- vines grow further to encase, the pool closes, flowers close into buds instead of open blossoms.  Under normal circumstances, the pools would remain closed and in this state until the witching hour and slowly and gently awaken those within. However, even the magics of the spring aren't stable right now, and what ends up happening is the pools suddenly spill open before anyone's dream sharing can truly get underway, dumping their passengers out onto the ground into a state of jarring awakeness. With them, they will find they are unable to access their Avalon magics but instead have one of the following: Unstable, uncontrolled access to their canon powers. They may start shooting off random magic, they may be unable to shut down a normally passive ability gone into overdrive, or when they try to use their abilities, it goes outright wrong-- "Accio Excalibur" in an attempt to save the multiverse might result in all figurines of Excaliburs within 10 miles to come hurdling toward you, for example. Access to the beginner, untrained level of canon powers of someone whose shared consciousness you entered. Even if you don't have canon powers of your own, you will be able to access someone else's with this option.   This part of the event takes place late night on March 20th through slightly past midnight on March 21st.
	The fairy queen's envoy, Princess Bluebell, sends out a panicked emergency message (complete with the obnoxious alarm that sets off phones even on silent) after a couple of hours of this, and casts a mirror-travel spell to Nicnevin so that any may quickly arrive just outside of its borders, next to the river. The message states that the dream world and reality have melted together due to the majority of magic being funneled into the time freeze spell or the equinox ritual, which uses Queen Mab as a vessel through which the vernal soul pools channel everyone's magic. The Spring Equinox renewal did NOT go as planned, needless to say. Otherworlders must head to Mab's Cavern to locate Queen Mab and absorb some of her energy by touching her to stabilize their magics and drain the spring equinox's out of her before even bigger disaster strikes!
Mab's Cavern is typically a place forbidden to enter under normal circumstances. It is the world of dreams and nightmares takes from our subconscious what we most desire and what we most fear and our memories and turns them into reality. This is what your character will have to face without their Avalonian magic and the above either unstable or beginner-level powers. Mab normally goes into a slumber and connects herself to the whole of Avalon during the Spring Equinox to allow the vernal soul pools to utilize her magic, so she cannot let everyone in or help anyone navigate her realm. Mab's Cavern looks like a normal mountain from the outside, covered from head to toe in pink cherry and plum blossoms trees, shrouded in a fog that's pink itself from reflecting the petals. The entrance to the inside of the cavern is an ancient door, carved from white marble and enchanted to be impassible without an offering and engraved says: "Offer me your most secret dream and enter this forbidden realm. Dream with me for eternity." The offering, in this case, is simple: speak your most secret dream out loud for the door. The open door will allow one person to pass through per offering, and leads into a hall entirely coated in flowers of a variety of colors. These flowers speak, and will ask you how you are, warn you to turn back, tell you and whoever you're walking with that you make a cute couple, sing the national anthem of their people, whatever. They seem to get more and more chatterbox-y as you head inward and the lights grow dimmer until there is no light left. Even if you light one, it seems as if you are in a black space where nothing exists but you and whoever you walk with (if anyone), and voices.

This portion of the event contains a FOURTH WALL EVENT element and takes place on March 21st.
 

That is, until you hear a new voice and the chatterbox flowers hush. Anyone from any canon can appear and team up with you within Mab's Cavern as this is a fourth wall event. Guest characters will have access to their canon abilities, but cannot leave Mab's Cavern or affect the environment outside of it. Your new party member can accompany you through Mab's Cavern, which takes the form of a location from in-game characters' memories. Within it, their darkest fear will turn into a physical enemy and attempt to hunt them down. (How you interpret this is up to you as a player-- please create your own monsters based on your character's fears, even if they are more conceptual than physical.) Within it, their deepest desires may find fulfillment (we leave this to player
interpretation again, but be sure to ask permission if it involves another character who is in the game or a part of the fourth wall) and their new party member may need to convince them to leave instead of staying in the dream world forever. Characters who are able to get past both desires and fears will find themselves able to see a door that wasn't within their memory before. Upon going through it, they will be able to find Queen Mab, asleep in the center of what appears to be a glowing, underwater pond with stones that raise above the surface that lead to her bed some hundred feet in. Beneath the surface, more of the talking flowers start to cry about their woes-- unveiling that they failed against their fears and desires, and those who do will find themselves turned into flowers within Queen Mab's cavern, only able to escape if they are able to touch another living person!  If you've trusted the flowers, you'll find yourself in trouble. These are actually souls who crossed Queen Mab and attempted to steal their desires away from her cavern and bring them into reality. Their curse? They can escape if they trade another soul for theirs. Now would be a good time for a partner to help pull you out because as soon as you touch one of the flowers, they will turn into vines and attempt to wrap around you to pull you under the water and drown you! The "water" itself is the same liquid used within the vernal soul pools, so you'll find your life literally flashing before your eyes as this happens, making it very difficult to escape without someone else's help. If you die in the water, the flowers who did it will transform back into their original selves and flee, and you will be transformed into a talking flower yourself. If you make it to Queen Mab, you'll need to place a hand on her and all dreams and reality will sort themselves out within you-- that is, your broken powers will disappear and your Avalonian magics will return. As you head out again, the guest character brought in to help you will begin to fade away slowly enough that you can say your goodbye before they are gone. There is no way to stop this. All memories of fourth wall visitors will be retained as part of game canon. After enough people have come to take Mab's powers enough to deplete the effects of the Vernal Pools, the Fairy Queen herself will come to Mab and run a strange-looking dagger through her heart. All of the Spring Equinox magic that was being filtered through her will be released into the land and stabilize magic for everyone, and a flower will blossom out of Mab's heart around the dagger. Within the center of the bud glows a small child version of Mab, and anyone still in the cavern will find themself just wandering around in a dark cave. The Fairy Queen glows in the dark and will lead them out with little magic glow bubbles that try to make them follow if they get separated from her vicinity, but is still not speaking to anyone. She will also transport anyone who has been turned into a talking flower out of the cave via some kind of levitation spell and give them to someone they know-- whether they know them in a positive or negative light is up to you, she can only register connection on sight with magic, not emotion. A little research will reveal the following solutions to restoring your character: Siphoners and countercurse potions can remove the curse to get them back to 100% normal. Animal mages can transform them back into their original species (but they will still smell like flowers for the rest of their life). Green mages can use their magic to cultivate them into flower people-- who look like themselves, but now require sunlight and water to survive instead of food and occasionally sprout a flower or two in their hair.

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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). Characters who participated in the trip to Mab's Cavern will be rewarded with a surprise from Mab once she is reborn! What it is will be unveiled in the monthly updates post. Characters who are looking for the door will be able to see the fourth Ash Mountain across the river. From a distance, it appears to be a volcano. There is a significant amount of fiery lava all along the mountain and obsidian all the way to the shore of the river. There may be visible dragons roaming the area. Attempting to approach at this time would be too unbearably hot to move forward, however, so this is just a note of what your character would be able to see in the distance. You can offer setting information for your character's memory location in this thread. These posted locations can be visited by anyone who is participating, even if the character is not in the thread. This should be a relatively contained location, like a single neighborhood at largest or a single room if you want to go full escape room vibes. You cannot provide an entire city/country/larger because it's just too unmanageable for people to know what is there. To facilitate non-member posts, this event will be posted in the avalaughs community. HOWEVER, it is considered 100% game canon unless otherwise discussed.

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Now then.. for your convenience, a little form for plotting:

<b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Character:</b> | @username <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>4th Wall Potentials:</b> Have someone you might want to bring in just for the 4th wall? List them here to garner interest and maybe plotting with other characters! <b>Other Notes:</b> Anything else you want to add?



Event log will be posted on the 17th, please check individual prompts for their IC timelines.

Comments

Questions

[avalonmods]

[currysseur]

Okay, making sure I'm not being stupid here... Mab's cavern has the option of either doing the "hunted down by your darkest fears" or "showing you your greatest desire", yes? How does one escape the being hunted by their fears thing? Straight up dream murder?

2. The cavern can only be traversed by an in-game character/4th wall character pairing, yes?

[tsumtsuki]

Does the 4th wall event being 100% game canon unless otherwise discussed bit apply to the 4th wallers as well? Like say I decide to toss a character in for fun and decide to app them in a future round - would it be an option for them to remember what happened?

[queenofkur]

Does the fourth-wall event portion has to happen with a "guest" character only? Couldn't two characters already in Avalon go through it together as well?

[gordianknot]

Are there any NPCs in the locations (either named canon characters or just background people), or are they empty?

[chaoticthirsty]

Will 4th Wall characters be able to top level on the event and will they be able to interact with other 4th wallers?

[mayoninofukucho]

Are we allowed to use CRAU settings for the location in Mab's Cavern?

Location Share

[avalonmods]

Are you putting up a canon location for this event? Reply to this comment with the following info:

Canon: Your character's canon
Location Title: What do we call this location you are sharing?
Image Links: If available.
Brief Description: Less than 2 paragraphs. Your location should be smaller than a neighborhood but at minimum a room.
Vibes: What kind of vibe does the setting give off? The mood of your character's memories may make a place seem drearier or more rose-colored than it might be otherwise.
Other: Anything special you want to note? Do so here! Try not to tl;dr as this should be a quick reference for other players. Link images, don't embed them please.

<b>Canon:</b> Your character's canon <b>Location Title:</b> What do we call this location you are sharing? <b>Image Links:</b> If available. <b>Brief Description:</b> Less than 2 paragraphs. Your location should be smaller than a neighborhood but at minimum a room. <b>Vibes:</b> What kind of vibe does the setting give off? The mood of your character's memories may make a place seem drearier or more rose-colored than it might be otherwise. <b>Other:</b> Anything special you want to note? Do so here! Try not to tl;dr as this should be a quick reference for other players. Link images, don't embed them please.

Rigel Castle & Catacombs Dungeon

[silvergarden]

Canon: Fire Emblem Echoes - Shadows of Valentia
Location Title: Rigel Castle & Catacombs
Image Links: I made a Curated Image Gallery with the castle, catacombs, and super cursed bad vibes altar
Brief Description:

Rigel Castle - A military fortress that happens to have a throne room. Built almost entirely of stone, the entire castle is unfeeling and hardly a shelter against the bitter cold outside. Everything echoes in the giant halls, but an oppressive silence blankets the building in a way that's hard to break.
Rigel Catacombs - An array of tunnels under the castle that lead to the Temple... if you don't get lost along the way in its countless dead ends. The low ceilings are studded with stalactites and everything is lit from below with eerie torches. Monsters infest the place, attacking intruders on sight.
Duma Altar - A huge bonfire in one of the many corridors of the catacombs. The heat is stifling and the firelight doesn't seem to reach as far as it should. It feels like someone could be sacrificed here...

Vibes:

Castle: Cold and austere. Huge, empty, and lonely. Music Vibes
Catacombs and Altar: Claustrophobic and hot. Oh it's fucked up in here isn't it. Music Vibes

Other: List of monsters roaming the catacombs. CW for zombies. Human enemies include witches and necromancers ("Duma Faithful")

nik.

[currysseur]

Player: nik
Contact: exits#8071 / exits
Notes: I am hiatused this month but I love everything about this event so I really want to do at least a couple of things! Totally welcoming all handwave requests for my three and help in narrowing down my potentials...
4th Wall Potentials:
1. Steak / Food Fantasy | Almost guaranteed. Stupid lineface knight who lives to fite things. carries two swords. thinks a crop top is adequate "armour". will argue with a wall if given the option.
2. Beth Harmon / The Queen's Gambit | I... have not actually played her yet but I love her. Chess genius who battles with substance abuse problems and is bad at being a person. uu very much my type don't drag me.
3. Reni Kamikizaka / A3! | bastard director of God-za with a mysterious grudge against Mankai Company. Demands perfection and beauty from everything he does.
4. Guy / A3! | Another Satoshi Hino lineface servant with a dedication to his duty. Kinda a walking spoiler for act 2 of A3 but he's a good and pure boy who deserves good things. ;;
5. Misumi Ikaruga / A3! | A bizarre young man with incredible physical and acting abilities, loves triangles. Somehow immune to all magic and able to communicate with animals in A3! land. Misumi's existence is just a Mystery.

izumi tachibana.

[currysseur]

Character: izumi tachibana | currysseur
Familiar: Miho the lioness :3
Magic Disciplines: light / bargaining
Event Plans:

vernal soul pools;
— Izumi has no specific powers, but she will go into the pools, so if you wanna give a normal human some magic... she's here.

4th wall;
— A3! Cast has been talking about bringing in more actors so I am thinking about Izumi getting to see her desires being fulfilled - namely, her dad watching as she and the reborn Mankai company receive the Fleur Award.
— And just to deviate from the obvious a little bit, we may use God-za's theatre as her location.
— She is gonna be sensible enough to not trust the flowers but if anyone needs to be taken care of and either given a countercurse potion or brought to a mage for de... I was going to say de-flowering but. you know what I mean!

Other Notes:

Mari and Harry

[phoenixwiz]

Player: Mari
Contact: mariscorner, Mariposa21 #4257

Character: Harry Potter & phoenixwiz
Familiar: Rose the pink Pygmy Puff
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic / Elemental
Event Plans:

Harry definitely gets into the pool and he will have beginner level abilities of the person who shares consciousness with him before the pools opened.

For his deepest desire, that would be for his friends back home to be safe and sound. He’s just a simple guy like that.

Ever since his experience with the sea otter sirens back in May, he doesn’t want to touch the cursed flowers and runs up to Mab’s Cavern as quickly as possible. There is going to be a Dementor or three out to stalk him and his partner, so this is going to be fun.

Other Notes: I got Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanova (Anastasia 1997) and my newest muse Isabela Madrigal (Encanto) for the the 4th Wall Potential. Let me know if you want either lady to join you on the 4th Wall portion.

nilla | tsumugi tsukioka

[tsumtsuki]

Player: Nilla
Contact: castforms or PM!

Character: Tsumugi Tsukioka (this account!)
Familiar: a spectral dog named Fuyu!
Magic Disciplines: Cognitive/Green
Event Plans:

Gifted - Tsumugi has no canon powers to speak of, so him picking up someone else’s might be fun! Especially if it’s very different from the cognitive/green magic he’s kinda sorta gotten used to.

Door of Dreams - I’ll have to refine this further, but the gist of his dream is for validation and recognition, if that piques anyone’s interest?

Mab’s 4th Wall - I’m not sure what his fear would be or how it’d manifest, but his deepest desire will be a twisted version of the above, a stage that he never has to leave/can act upon forever. :”) And, unfortunately for him, he’d end up trusting the flowers, so he’ll need some help not dying h-hahaha. But he has a countercurse potion as well as green magic if anyone needs help returning to their original form????

4th Wall Potentials: I’ve got plans with Tenma Sumeragi (A3!) and Saburo Yamada (HypMic), and I’m most likely throwing Omi Fushimi (A3!) into the mix as well! But since I’m sticking to just tag outs for my 4th Walls, I’m down to make even more plans - basically anyone on my muselist is fair game, with varying degrees of refreshers needed on my part for their voices, so feel free to ask!
Other Notes: …though I’ll add that work’s been kicking my ass for the past week+, so apologies in advance for any extra slowness, lmao.

Mab's Wall - Flowers

[tantailizing]

ASKJDHALK HE EVEN HAS GREEN MAGIC, TSUMUGI NO!

Zidane will stop the dying from happening...

Schmittchen | Toshirou Hijikata

[mayoninofukucho]

Player: Schmittchen
Contact: This journal or schmoechen#2734 on Discord!

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

Event Plans: Hijikata was looking forward to the wonderful masquerade (not that he'd admit that) and the strengthening sleep in the vernal soul pool, but so much for that!! He'll appreciate the Gifted basket, though, and come to Camelot to watch the flower show... until things go south once everybody tries to slumber. He actually has no canon powers (he's downright just a guy with a sword), but if anyone would like him to gain theirs please let me know!

He'll be pissy about another message from Princess Bluebell (she's so squeaky, plus that alarm..!), but sure, he'll come along to the Door of Dreams and admit his embarrassing sappy wish of getting back to Prismatica once this is all over. The plan will sound sketchy to him (Why is there another queen he never heard of?! Is this a trap?!), but it's not like he has a better idea. He'll probably be pretty spooked by the chatty flowers (all the more without his magic, which he's come to rely on a lot) and may be inclined to heed their warnings, so any company who'd help him keep a cool head would be appreciated!

I'm pumped for Mab's 4th Wall! If anyone would like their non-Avalon character to accompany Hijikata, by all means! I think I'll mix it up from good old Edo (also since that's a relatively more stable place for him) and instead have him and his companion traverse a part of Prismatica (if that's allowed)! I'll probably make two prompts for this, the bad dream (this may include Majestas, one of the "boss enemies" of Prismatica, a lion-masked seraph who can brainwash people and turn them into his minions), and the good dream (which may feature either or both of his two love interests he left on Prismatica... they're nice ladies, so it should be a pleasant time)!

Honestly, he'll probably totally fall for the lies of the flowers in Queen Mab's pond cave bedchamber. This is what he gets for his continuous mistrust towards the fae... I'm good with either his fourth-wall partner saving his ass, or someone ending up with flower Hijikata in the end. That latter option would be embarrassing, but sometimes it goes that way! He'll most likely be quite sad to see his companion fade away as they all depart the cave.

If he does end up as a flower I'm fine with any type of restoration (though the sunlight dependency of a plant person would really screw him over right now, and it'd probably freak him out on principle... but hey, does he really know what's good for him?).

4th Wall Potentials: I actually don't play any other characters... 😅 This is a one-samurai-show, alas.

Other Notes: This has nothing to do with the event, but I'm still revving to do the secret knight quest, so if anyone is interested do let me know!! On an IC level Hijikata would vastly prefer going with someone he knows and trusts, but OOC I don't care (he can deal with it!), so in doubt we can just have them run into each other at/in Nicnevin Castle and join forces since they're already there together.

Alex

[beewulf]

Player: Alex
Contact: PM, Discord: billbill#6387, Plurk: Pluto-kun

Beowulf

[beewulf]

Character: Beowulf | beewulf
Familiar: Hulder
Magic Disciplines: Healing/Siphon
Event Plans: WHO WANTS TO HELP AN OLD ASS BEOWULF FIGHT AGAINST A DRAGON??? Or help him fight Grendel... naked? The last part is SUPER important btw. I'm also fine with him entering other people's dreams as well. Like just show up out of nowhere as the big dang hero or some such thing. Or something else. They're not trapped in a nightmare, the nightmare is trapped with them! For those cursed and not wanting to be a flower he does have siphoning, in case anyone wants to thread that out.

I also wouldn't mind doing something with the whole powers out of whack shtick.

4th Wall Potentials: I'm not entirely certain if I want to do anything with the 4th wall bit. But if anyone wants, I have Billy, Jing Ke, Ibaraki, Blackbeard, Abigail, Bloodaxe... and Salome. Just give me a heads up if any of those names sound interesting to you.
Other Notes:


Source

VG

[tantailizing]

Player: VG
Contact: demidemonLove

Zidane Tribal | Final Fantasy IX

[tantailizing]

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

Event Plans: At some point, Zidane's just not going to come to Camelot for it is a silly place and things keep happening when he's supposed to be looking after a township...

But haha! On actual event notes, he'll appreciate the gift basket and watch some plants grow because one can actually do that... and of course get into the soul pool shenanigans.

-> NOTE: Zidane's normal abilities are thief skills so I'm not sure how sharing them might work if characters aren't already thief-y by nature. HOWEVER, ya want something unstable? How about FFIX's limit break mode TRANCE which will at least boost even a normal person's physical abilities, but I guess one could take a dip then into Zidane's Dyne skills. Be careful, they're only destructive.

As for the Door of Dreams, might skip over the fighting your fears part. His fear is being alone and probably facing a Terran version of himself, but that wouldn't be good for anyone. Instead, who wants to hear the most obvious desire Zidane has to open the door? Because, if people know him, it's that bloody obvious, help him. Or maybe the door doesn't open because that's not a secret, but details haha...

Finally, Mab's Fourth Wall is open to anyone to join him. Might just go to the pool and help people escape/ignore flowers, but again, can have his fears manifest as a prompt too. Might just tag out for this again, but I'll play by ear when the actual event starts.

4th Wall Potentials: If you guys want Wolf Mom aka Amaterasu, I could do that. Otherwise, I have some Purse Owners 4, Odin Globe, Trauma Tears, and some other canons probably not in-game presently.

Other Notes: Gimme gimme characters!

Chips | Emet-Selch (Final Fantasy 14)

[emet_sulk]

Player: Chips
Contact: This journal or PM ch1ps0h0y

Character: Emet-Selch & emet_sulk
Familiar: Shadow Gwiber
Magic Disciplines: Alchemy / Death

Event Plans:
GIFTED - I'd like to give Emet some of his canon powers back but am undecided on whether it'll be chaotic and uncontrollable or baby-level. :x The former could be fun if people want to see him Create things with a snap of his fingers! Witness a sorcerer of eld!!

FOURTH WALL - For this I can offer some potential temporary characters:
- Mat Cauthon (Wheel of Time), he's a sassy, foul-mouthed young man but means well. Seems to have a very weird streak of good luck in all parts of life. Fantastic with a quarterstaff/glaive.

- Mukuro Rokudou (Ten Years Later) (Katekyo Hitman Reborn), he's a sneaky bastard whose strength lies in creating illusions so real you could lose yourself in them.

- Lord Shen (Kung Fu Panda 2), he's a bitter, self-assured peacock who uses long blades as part of his martial arts. Where does he hide them? Gods only know. A bit too quick to attack anyone who looks like a panda.

Other characters I'm less confident with include Yuri Lowell (Tales of Vesperia) and Rin Okumura (Blue Exorcist, but I haven't yet read beyond Shura's backstory chapters).

Other Notes: I apologise for being so slow. OTL I'm doing my best, thank you for your patience if you're still tagging me. I do always finish threads where possible, so if you didn't receive a tag from me for a while you might want to check the thread since I may not have received the notification.

Offering characters

[markedfordeath]

Player: Ozzy
Contact: discord ozzy#9721
Character: | ELza markedfordeath
Familiar: IronMoon
Magic Disciplines: Kenetic || Green

Event Plans: While it does sound interesting, I'm going to have her sit out of it as she wouldn't put herself into the situations unfortunately. If anyone does want her for anything though feel free to DM me and we can work something out.

4th Wall Potentials: I do have a few semi-obscure muses I'm happy to throw at people if anyone's interested.

Tassadar - Starcraft : He's a nearly 10ft telepathic alien who likes to kick arse and chew bubblegum... but he doesn't have a mouth so he just kicks arse. He's a gentle giant until you're threatening life and then he fights with everything he's got to prevent that from happening. He also can only communicate telepathically so yes he will be speaking into your mind.

Sohki - Genju no Seiza : A nearly-completely-blind kirin who can take the shape of a human. He's got some kickarse elemental powers and is quite strong... almost as strong as his trolling side. In his canon he's a huge troll and loves to get a rise out of others in the guise of 'harmless fun'. He thrives off of it! Step over the line though with disrespect and he's not above offering physical punishment in the form of slamming a lightning bolt on your head before becoming happy-go-lucky again in the blink of an eye. The only thing more 'dangerous' than that is if you happen to be someone small and adorable as he may want to sneak off and keep you as he's a sucker for cute things.

Yuuri Shibuya - Kyou Kara Maou : he's a regular baseball boy who also happens to be the demon king in another world. He'll bend over backwards to help anyone in any situation and trusts others completely despite others telling him otherwise. He has a heart of gold and does everything in his power to help those around him.

I have other muses but they're generally antagonists who wouldn't actually help others, so I won't list those here.

Other Notes: fair warning my tags can be quite slow as I only have short windows to actually tagging back.

Melodie || Monika & Ereshkigal

[queenofkur]

Player: Melodie
Contact: lorulean, feel free to add me!

Character: Monika | peninhand
Familiar: Nine-tailed fox
Magic Disciplines: Telekinesis + Technomancy
Event Plans: The place the cavern will turn into for Monika will be the DDLC's classroom and the monster based on her greatest fear will be... Monika herself. She has said it before after all, she is a monster. Her Act 3 self, to be specific. The one who deleted all of her friends, makes hanging puns and laughs to avoid feeling any guilt. If someone wants to see her ugly side, that's now or never. She'll be absolutely devastated at anyone seeing that.

Character: Ereshkigal | queenofkur
Familiar: Gallu Spirit
Magic Disciplines: Light + Death Magic
Event Plans: Wish fulfilment you say? Ereshkigal will find herself lost in her Underworld, except it's filled with flowers, there is an artificial sun, the cages for the souls are a lot comfier, the other gods commend her for her work and her friends can come and go to visit her at anytime. She'll even have a little cozy room where her temple was never built! It's gonna take a lot of effort to snap her back to reality because that's exactly what she's always dreamed of.

4th Wall Potentials: I have a couple characters I can bring for the Fourth-Wall Event on request. Their voice may be a bit rusty, but if anyone is interested in any of them, let me know.

Beatrice || Umineko
Scrooge McDuck || Disney Comics (specifically, the Don Rosa continuity)
Santa Alter || Fate/ Grand Order
Yotsuyu || Final Fantasy XIV
Omega(-F) || Final Fantasy XIV
Hilda || Legend of Zelda

Other Notes: ... I suppose this is where I cough loudly and discreetly say "please bring dokis or Ishtar to the 4th wall if you can." I mean, coughs coughs.

Amy | Caster, Mukuro, Noelle

[colchismagecraft]

Player: Amy
Contact: ArchangelAmy#4540
4th Wall Potentials:
Rider | Fate/Stay Night: Almost definite! She's well in need of a voice test and I've been wanting to play her for ages.
Mid-Boss | Disgaea: Also very likely. Crouching moron, hidden badass demon with a heart of gold. He thinks he's the most beautiful man to ever walk the earth.
Magilou | Tales of Berseria: Another of Amy's disaster witches.
Other Notes: I've got quite a few old tags I'm still clearing up from the backlog as life has been very busy- thank you for your patience with me!

Also if anyone has any Dangans, Mukuro would love to see some of her old classmates again.

Caster | Fate/Stay Night

[colchismagecraft]

Character: Caster | colchismagecraft
Familiar: Skeletal Dragon
Magic Disciplines: Dark / Siphone
Event Plans:

• Caster would be... 'delighted' to be given her canon powers back. Mana instability is going to be a bit of a problem for her, thanks, she really missed being a Servant. She also won't like not being able to control her rather distructive magic. She didn't mean to arson this time...! Please believe her!
  
• I'm also up for someone else getting her canon powers- she'll be salty about it, but if you fancy having fire and light beams and being able to fly, do hit me up.
  
• Her dream is to live happily and peacefully, somewhere where she can call home- but she doesn't really know if it's meant for someone like her. She will be unamused with that all coming out.
  
• Tempted to have the Argo itself or Ancient Colchis as her location, just to shake things up a bit.
  
• Also, she has Siphon magic if anyone needs help!
  

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Player: Tay
Contact: tartetatin and taylotjelly#4556 on Discord
Character: Emerald Sustrai | unhappy
Familiar: Goliath Grimm - This but hip height due to Avalon shrinkage.
Magic Disciplines: Light & Dark
Event Plans: Anything sounds good to me, mostly just interested in getting her some new CR. For fear, anyone want to fight a weird oversized version of Salem that tries to break down your faith in your relationships while completely restricting you with magic Grimm hands?

Also Emerald's canon ability is the ability to cause audio/visual hallucinations so there's a good chance that she's going to accidentally cause hallucinations (can do multiple people as well) so what exactly that is we can totally discuss bc that could be anything really. FUN TIME.
4th Wall Potentials: I have no idea but I may try to do like.. Maze from Lucifer or Thoth from God of Calamity. Can't app him since I play Horus already but love Thoth, justice for Thoth. Or maybe a wild card. Idk.
Other Notes: Want to visit the whale Emerald lived in for a hot minute? I put it up for a location! Have fun.

[morns]

maze maze.......... :EYES:

Shiranna's Quintet

[unknowntodeath]

Player: Shiranna
Contact: sasageyo
4th Wall Potentials: Definitely bringing: Armin Arlert | Attack on Titan // Gilgamesh | Fate/Stay Night: UBW // Kuzuki Souichirou | Fate/Stay Night: UBW // Mercury Black | RWBY // Winter Shcnee | RWBY // Sisu | Raya and the Last Dragon // Vaan | Final Fantasy XII

Maybbe: Lucifer | Lucifer // Lancer | Fate/Zero // Ralsei | Deltarune // Raven Branwen | RWBY (with Avalon memories) + open to suggestions especially from the first two categories.

Character: Archer (EMIYA) | unknowntodeath
Familiar: Phoenix
Magic Disciplines: Cognitive & Blood
Event Plans: * Who wants to be able to make swords appear out of thin air, even if amateur-isly? That's his canon ability. Also maybe making yourself disappear into spirit form (unintentionally at times?).

* Archer's current dream is to... finding out who he is as a person.

* He will be having a nightmare time in his own cave space of himself fighting ... himself. Since he's full deep down his identity crisis at the moment and doesn't know how to handle himself. Some of them look half like Shirou and sound like him. So just. Lots of swords, fighting and despair??


Character: Elsa | readytolearn
Familiar: Snowgie
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic & Elemental
Event Plans: * Who wants to control ice? 8) That is basically reactive to your emotions and may go berserk the more scared you get and the less control you have... which is a little concidering the powers are amateur level?

* To return home and continue watch over Arendelle and Anna as the fifth spirit.

* That being said, her deepest desire is what is keeping her in her room, holding her there as she wants to continue to explore the memories in Ahtohallan and speak with the spirits residing there - especially talking on planning on visiting Anna in Arendelle.


Character: Jean Kirstein | rustyhonesty
Familiar: Mythological Lynx
Magic Disciplines: Animal & Healing
Event Plans: * He has no canon powers to speak of, but I wouldn't mind him gaining someone else's powers, if you're interested in sharing?

* His biggest dream is simple and that is a calm, normal and happy family life with Mikasa, possibly with three kids and some animals.

* Jean has a nightmare monster is a Mikasa who looks like she's been killed, chasing him down and trying to kill him too. Which is... likely something that breaks him quickly and makes him want to be killed because what is life without her and they can be together in death. On top of the Trost titans being around too... Help.

* He's an animal mage so he can return people from flowers... just you'd smell like flowers forever :)


Character: Mamoru Chiba | reincarnatedprince
Familiar: Skvader
Magic Disciplines: Light & Green
Event Plans: * I'm not putting him up for power sharing or receiving powers this time around.

* Mamoru's biggest dream is the life he is already planned to live with Usagi and others... and being a doctor, maybe, for some time.

* Mamoru will likely have a dream of desires of being with Usagi and others, but he will quickly be able to leave by himself and explore other cavern rooms instead.

* He's a green mage so he can turn flowers into flower people if desired.


Character: Ren Jinguji | saxsongs
Familiar: Fox Fairy
Magic Disciplines: Healing & Siphon
Event Plans: * Interested in possibly gainin a canon power from someone else, since he has no canon powers of his own.

* His dream is simple one of marrying the one he loves and living a happy family life.

* He has desires and he's confomrtable in his Saotome Academy dreamspace, not wanting to leave there since he has fun and is surrounded by people he cares about (even if not present, currently).

* He can siphon the flower curse out of people.

[mayoninofukucho]

Sorry for suddenly swerving into boss battle mode in Gilgamesh's thread with Hijikata, but I found the parallel so neat, and also if he kicks Majestas' ass Hijikata may actually really mean it when he thanks him later! But if you'd rather not deal with that do let me know, I'll change my tag then!

Ashu

[ringsthatbind]

Player: Ashu
Contact: JustAshu
Character: Shadow the Hedgehog | ringsthatbind
Familiar: Chompy the Dark Chao
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic, Light
Event Plans: Possibly getting his canon powers back for this event, so that means random blasts of energy and teleporting. As to a dream or nightmare I haven't exactly decided on what I'll do with that, but I'm cool with him going into others dreams/nightmares.
4th Wall Potentials: Basically anyone here except Chara, but I'm really looking at bringing Hakuno the most though.
Other Notes:
None.

Nea's quintet

[starshaper]

Player: Nea
Contact: baranohanabira | Freyeria#2213

4th Wall Potentials: Staring at my list of currently active homeless muses ... strongest considerations so far are

• Winry from Fullmetal Alchemist (manga/bh)
• Isabela Madrigal from Encanto
• Madoka Kaname or goddess version of her from Puella Magi Madoka Magica
• Eve and/or Chloe Decker from LUCIFER
• Korra from The Legend of Korra
• Blake Belladonna from RWBY

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

• Anna doesn't have any magical canon powers since they don't even count her amounts of love as powers... Even tho Iduna says her love could hold up the world, but I mean, anyway, if anyone wants to give some kind of powers to her, I'm here for ideas!
• Her so called secret dream is to become the queen of Arendelle because she's from before that happens.
• And her deepest desire is to live her happy life in Arendelle, marrying Kristoff somewhere along the way and ... yeah, she'd love to go home to live all that.

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

• She's strong as hell in canon and that's been taken away from her here... Also fun fact, any memory spells don't work on Ackermans or Asians in this canon, hah. But other than that, she doesn't have any magical powers there.
• Her so called secret dream is to see some people from Titan Hell again even tho she doesn't want to return there
• So of course once she gets to the other side of that door, she will be in Titan Hellhole again, namely in Shiganshina because it was the last place, where she was before world hopping... And then everything goes to Hell in this nightmare version, because she didn't kill someone and one of her best friends ended up dying because of that... Her darkest fear is Eren hating her anyway, so he gonna be trying to hunt her down and yelling how much he hates her and how much he's always hated her and blaming her for leaving into other worlds and so on. So that's nice. Don't hurt/kill him or Mikasa WILL hurt you, punching or kicking or throwing him away from her is fine though.
• Her deepest desire / biggest dream nowadays is living a calm, happy, peaceful life with Jean! So welcome to some nicer place after that, where they own a big farm house, have at least three kids and some pets like dogs, cats, horses.

Character: Raya | mistrustingheart
Familiar: Dragon
Magic Disciplines: Cognitive & Green
Event Plans:

• Raya doesn't have any magical skills, but if you want to throw something random at her, she could have something here.
• Her secret dream is just to get her father back from his current stone statue state.
• If you want to visit her darkest fears, that's .... basically how her life at home is at the moment except darker like Sisu dying or something, also avoiding some mysterious spirits called the Druun, who'll turn everyone into stone statues! Welcome to her home world, I guess, maybe this would be like at Heart where she used to live until everything went to hell.
• And her deepest desire aside from getting her father back is to save her world, seeing it become this place called Kumandra again, where people and dragons live together happily ever after.

Character: Rin Tohsaka | greedyvixen
Familiar: Kitsune
Magic Disciplines: Kinetic & Elemental
Event Plans:

• Rin has magical powers in canon too - do you want to have a literal fingergun?? Make your legs (and possibly also arms) glow while you can go much faster than usual for a moment? Not like that's all she can do but those are what we mostly see in canon.
• Her secret dream is for her little sister Sakura to have a happy life with Shirou ...and of course in UBW timeline of these events, Rin becomes Shirou's girlfriend in the end, so idek, it's a complicated dream or it was complicated until she learned about different timelines existing :'D
• Aaaaaaaaaaand guess what? Her darkest fear is Sakura hating her, like she'd deserve whatever Sakura would do whether it's yelling at her or (trying to) kill her. It's fine. She dug this hole to herself by falling to the boy and she dug it even deeper by starting a relationship with him instead of not letting him know anything about her own feelings for him. Might happen in her own estate, it's totally fine, it used to be Sakura's home too.
• Deepest Desire; Hello, this whole world hopping thing is amazing because she could see Shirou and Sakura from another timeline, where they are together and they could all live happily together in a house somewhere in Avalon or anywhere else.

Character: Usagi Tsukino | starshaper
Familiar: Moon Rabbit
Magic Disciplines: Animal & Healing
Event Plans:

• LOL normally this would be Do you want to become a magical girl?? Or Usagi getting to use Sailor Moon's powers BUT her Silver Crystal would be a game-breaking item because it's way too powerful and it's not here with her... So sorry, no magical girl powers to her or anyone else from here, but if anyone is interested in Usagi getting their powers, let's talk?
• Her secret dream is returning home, having her magical powers and saving her loved ones, saving everyone and the whole world with what she's about to do there.
• If you want to visit her darkest fears, that's ... Everyone's either already dead or she has to kill them before they hurt / kill anyone and she can't revive them because her canon magic doesn't work at all. Welcome to a normal day in Sailor Moon, though if it was a normal day, everyone could just be reborn again.
• And her deepest desire is to live her happy life back home with Mamoru and their friends!

Other Notes: Nooooooooooooot sure if I'll toplevel / how many toplevels there will be because me and starters take forever and eeeever.

Fae | Azul Ashengrotto

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Player: Fae
Contact: DM or Plurk here
Character: Azul Ashengrotto | dottedline
Familiar: An Oceanid. I can't remember her name rn oops
Magic Disciplines: Alchemy and Dark!
Event Plans: I've tossed up Mostro Lounge aka Azul's home restaurant as a location for sharing, but otherwise I may toplevel or I may just throw him around if anyone in specific wants to deal with him. If I toplevel, he will have some access to his magic from home, which is just basic elemental stuff. No signature spell for him, though, since no one wants to deal with him trying to steal powers/hair color/singing voice and it going terribly. He'd cry.

4th Wall Potentials: I'm looking at Urianger Augurelt from Final Fantasy XIV (specifically post Endwalker so like. spoilers yo). He's a newer muse but he'd be fun and also the most likely. All of the other characters I have right now are either OCs, folks we already have, TWST characters, or my FF14 Warrior of Light. I do have 9S from Nier Automata but he is super rusty.

Other Notes: Nah

Alfonse Baelsar | FFXIV (Sorrow of Werlyt Spoilers everywhere)

[dontgetintherobot]

Player: Dubs
Contact: dubbins
Character: Alfonse Baelsar | dontgetintherobot
Familiar: Gargoyle version of the diamond weapon
Magic Disciplines: Light/technomancy
Event Plans:
Gifted: I am willing to have Alfonse be a witness to power shenanigans, or have him receive some. Aside from being a big lizard his only real "power" is "I drive a robot real good", and since he is currently lacking in robots, he's painfully normal.
Door of Dreams:
I've got a few ideas I'm waffling on. For the "greatest fears", I'm debating doing when Allie tries to turn on Velens with the Diamond Weapon, only for him to shut it down. Only unlike canon the weapon doesn't reactivate itself (since his fears being something happening to his sister and Velens). It would mean for him and his partner running around a Garlean stronghold and fighting things. Maybe jailbreaking some smaller robots.

For the greatest desire, I was thinking possibly the diamond weapon fight in game, since he'd have the power to stop the people from attacking him (as the diamond weapon) from within their ranks. This is a Very Bad Idea for many reasons, since he was sort of on his way to lay waste to Garlemald in hopes of conquering it to "make it better". This one is bound to get emotional since he may or may not have some unresolved anger issues on the subject, if his godawful idea didn't make that glaringly apparent.

My Other idea for that is pretty unoriginal "All the siblings back together again", which would be sad, but ultimately easier to pull him out of since they all sacrificed themselves for a reason. He understands that, and the youngest sibling is alive, so he's got the faintest scrap of hope there. Still bound to be sad.

4th Wall Potentials: I have... so many lizards.
Rex Baelsar: Alfonse's hot headed, but far more jovial younger brother. Typical middle sibling. At least he's funny.
Magnai Oronir: A great big back of dicks that's from a tribe that believe they're descended from a god. They have the egos to match, and he is the perfect accumulation of everything wrong with his tribe, yet he leads them. He's equal parts ridiculous and badass.
Tengejin Tumet (WoL): No one likes these, but figured if anyone wanted a giant himbo lizard, with questionable intelligence, and an affinity for punching things, he's here.

Keith | Voltron: Legendary Defender

[tempredmental]

Player: Sailor G
Contact: sailorgundam06, SailorGundam06#2608
Character: Keith | tempredmental
Familiar: Tarak the kotka
Magic Disciplines: Elemental/Animal
Event Plans:

• Power Share - Keith doesn't really have spectacular canon powers, per se. He's more durable than a human, can sense quintessence, and potentially has a super sharp intuition that borders on extremely last second precognition (they show it like once in canon... so many things that they touch on for him and then never did anything with)... so his "abilities" probably would affect like... nothing. [Kanye-shrug] That said, I'm open to him gaining powers? :D
• Desires/Fears - Keith's biggest desire would be to have his family together again... as in like, having his mom and dad together. Super sad, honestly. It'll be hard, but not impossible to drag him away because it's something he knows can't actually happen outside of Avalon. As for fears, his biggest fear is loss... either through death or rejection, he fears losing his friends. That's going to be hard one for him to deal with since a lot of his CR has gone home over the past year, and it hurts.
• 4th Wall - If anyone wants to tag along with Keef, I'm up for it!

4th Wall Potentials: No one specific. I could do an extra thread or two, but I have a convention coming up, so I'd likely be slow and have to backtag. If that's okay, my strongest muses would be:

• Duo Maxwell - New Mobile Report: Gundam Wing
• Tieria Erde - Mobile Suit Gundam 00
• Minako Aino - Sailor Moon (1990's anime)
• Kitty Pryde - X-Men: Evolution

I have a few others, which can be found on my muselist in the active section.
Other Notes: I'll be at Zenkaikon for the weekend of March 24-28, but I'm willing to backtag!