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EVENT ✨ Nightmare on Elph Street
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| 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. |
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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:
 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. |
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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. 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.
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Hayato Gokudera | Katekyou Hitman Reborn | OTA
cw: violence, flashbacks to torture
[It’s not a dream that the pool brings Gokudera to, but a rush of adrenaline and a confusing nightmare. If you’re connected, surprise, you’re both in an underground warehouse. The sound of electricity humming and foxes screaming echoes, but this memory is one Gokudera is trying to escape, so it shifts to a different one.
He’s lying on the ground, and there is a man on top of him, cutting into his back.]
How many cuts until the fire goes away? That’s one…
[More slicing… with a playing card.]
That’s two…
[Gokudera’s left hand is crushed beneath a boulder, but there’s more flames curling out as he screams. There’s gargling, then a leopard roar.
Machine gun fire is loud and sudden, and the pod bursts open. Gokudera is on fire, the source is a skull on his left arm, and it slowly reduces to just the strange bone weapon. He gets up with a groan, staggers, and then looks at his flame arrow. Oh… that’s… he hasn’t seen this weapon in almost a year. It’s… so cool. But… it won’t come off. He’s not even sure how it got out of his box. There’s a rainbow flickering on his right hand, and he looks really cool, yeah, but that’s about it. These flashy accessories aren’t doing anything aside from getting in the way and attracting attention.
He can be seen staggering about the city, as if the strange skull cannon attached to his arm is sucking his energy. Gokudera feels fine, but his magic is pretty depleted, and he can’t deactivate the flame arrow.
The teen turns a corner and slumps against a building wall, out of the way of the main streets, and seems to pass out.]
B. Mab’s 4th Wall
[He’s had it with these chatty flowers! He doesn’t care what they’re trying to convince him to do, because nothing with the fae has ever resulted in anything good for him.
Gokudera stops in the cavern and yells, because that’s a good idea, right?]
SHUT UP!!!
[There is his fear to deal with. Gokudera is easy prey to scream out like this, and so it dangles wires, spins a giant web of electricity and it pulses around his feet. He’s scared of being trapped, pulled, shocked, and so he’s running. Nope. No giant electric robo-spider. NO THANK YOU.
The monster is an amalgamation of different foes, something he has no idea how to fight, and his desires… he could have both, but he’s just running.]
C. Wildcard
Do whatever you’d like here c: you can PM me to chat it out if you’d like, but I’m excited for improv so HIT ME
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[The sound echoes from further in the cavern, louder and more robust than the chattering flowers… and seemingly as annoyed as Gokudera about their blathering.]
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[Well, that’s a very different voice.
Gokudera stops and recognizes this place. It’s just… a park. The little one not too far from his boss’s house. He’s quiet in response to that yell, looking to see who yelled out past the chattering flowers. Their voices hush and now Gokudera’s listening and looking out.
Who is this person? He won’t ask, but he’s clearly looking a bit distressed. After all, he’s without his magic and has a weapon attached to him that’s not acting right. He’s armed, but not trying to fight anything, just irritable and tired, and as confused as he usually is when dealing with anything related to the fae.]
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[The flowers were quiet at least, but now there was… some sort of park? Not like the old ones in Werlyt that has fallen into disrepair, and not enough metal to be Garlemald. Eorzea maybe? He wouldn’t know a chocobo’s ass from anything in Eorzea… but wait no. That wasn’t right either. He should be dead? Shit, if he wound up some creepy playground haunting ghost he’s going to personally find Valens Van Varro and drag him into the seventh hell.
He turned when he noticed movement out of the corner of his eye. Aha! A hyur! That was… better than being lost in a creepy playground by himself. If he sees him then clearly he’s not a ghost! Sound logic!]
Oi! Hyur boy! You got any idea what in the seven hells is going on here?
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Probably just some other dream of mine…
[It seems like a safe place to be, so who is this guy and what is he doing here?]
Turn around and go back the way you came. You should be able to leave easily that way.
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Ah, thank shite you can see me, I though I was going to be stuck as some weirdo haunting a playground for eternity.
[A deep breath and he properly addressed the other, now that the whole ghost concern could be put to bed.]
Anyway- uh, you see I didn’t exactly come here. I just sorta… suddenly existed. This might sound kinda crazy but I’m a bit dead. Or I should have been last I checked.
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No, this place is weird. It’s not… you.
[Or it could be this guy, what does he know?]
You died and showed up here? How long have you been in Avalon?
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[He looked around, his tail snapped back and forth in a quick anxious movement. It was thinner than his brother’s and, much like the rest of him, was more animated.]
But uh, you mentioned knowing the way out? Might be worth making use of it, if a playground is abandoned on a nice day there’s usually a reason.
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[No. This is not where new people show up! Something is definitely wrong!]
Only two minutes…
[But it’s not so bad here… and it’s really close to home. Maybe this is somewhere between being in Avalon, and returning? He moves towards this new person, then walks past him, wondering just how far this goes.]
It looks like my home…
[The swing set gives off an electric pulse, but Gokudera is still trying to figure out how real this place is.]
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One Mukuro - the older version - strides out as though he's taking a leisurely walk in the park. He seems quite unconcerned about the nearby webs. ]
I thought you were stronger than this, Gokudera Hayato.
And I am molasses
Oh. No. This is bad, but not the worst? Still sucks, but… Better than being eaten by a giant electric nightmare robo-spider.]
Yeah…
[He looks down at his useless flame arrow, pushing out some storm flames. They’re back! But… they aren’t concentrated. A year and a half of mastering his magic out the window and replaced with… this?!
Gokudera kind of wishes he and Mukuro could trade spots. He can go home, and this mirage of a family member can stay here in Avalon. Why he dreamt up the Vongola Mist Guardian of all people instead of Hibari is even more confusing. Hibari would be Gokudera’s first pic. He assumes this is something fucked up to do with his mind and… if there will be mind-fuckage, it’ll be coming from this guy.
Fits, honestly.]
Me too.
[He may sound defeated, but what the fuck else is he supposed to do?! Throw dynamite at it like he does most of his problems?]
hey no worries :>
Now, this won't do. I can't have you giving up whilst you're still young. There won't be a Vongola Famiglia for me to take over otherwise.
[ He strolls forward leisurely, ignoring the struggling spider, and leans down to stare right into Gokudera's eyes. ]
A dog you may be, but I did not figure you for one that would flee from a fight. If it is too much for you, however, I can simply kill you right here, right now.
Hope this works
Tch! You’re the only one mentioning giving up!
[And because newbies don’t usually show up this time of month, Gokudera is assuming Mukuro is some… fae monster. Something that’s playing on how he feels. So… is this old bastard supposed to be the voice of something he’s been ignoring.
Huh, that would be helpful. Still.]
Why not someone else?
[Complaint directed at the spider and the illusionist. Gokudera turns and puts his hand to his flame arrow. With some well-timed dynamite, he might be able to overcome this. It doesn’t look so scary with Mukuro holding it still.]
/thumbs up!
I feel the same way. I would have vastly preferred to have found my dear Chrome here rather than you.
[ Waving a careless hand, he creates more lotuses around him that grow at impossible speed. They seek out other threats, attempting to halt them before they can terrorise the Storm Guardian. They're not always successful - the spiders are nimble things - but...he seems to be helping? For now. ]
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Which is how she ends up coming across Gokudera at all. She's keeping off the main streets, away from the plants and the eager locals who are far too cheerful about encouraging her to just give it a try, when she spots someone huddled up against the side of a building.
Naturally, she recognises him immediately. Her steps echo in the relatively quiet air and she almost trips over herself when she gets to his side.]
Hayato? [Her fingers go carefully into his hair, pushing his head up slightly.] Hey, Hayato!
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… Poison?
[What’s she doing here? He doesn’t remember letting anyone into his apartment. Gokudera tries to sit up a little more, lifts his arm up to rub his eyes, but his cannon taps against his cheekbone and he’s looking on at it. Wait… is he still dreaming?]
What happened?
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[She frowns, finding his level of incoherency far more concerning than anything else she might have asked about in this moment. Her attention goes to his hand for a moment and she chews her lip.
As if those plants being back didn't give her enough to worry about right now.]
You were unconscious. What's going on?
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[Gokudera fusses with the cannon on his arm and takes a few deep breaths. The flames are gone, and he’s removing the weapon, looking it over. It would be made of flames as well and should return to its box on his waist. They’ve not opened in this world until now.]
I brought this out with me. It’s part of my weapon system…
[His hand is as disfigured as it was before he got in the pod. The way it healed poorly back when he’d been treating it within the slums and without the advanced medical care often provided to Elites and their property.]
I don’t know what’s going on.
[And he’s seriously hoping no one else is having such a bad time as him from those vernal soul pools.]
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He tries to process what he saw, and wonders why the dream-sharing was interrupted... apparently it wasn't only him who got kicked out, going by the many other confused people. He decides to look for Gokudera. It takes him quite a while to find him in a different area (he could have given him a call, but he's so shaken up that it doesn't occur to him), and when he sees that thing on his arm he breaks into a run.]
Gokudera!! Are you okay?!
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Adrenaline still kicking hard, he’s holding his arm and trying to calm down. It looks fine. That was a long time ago. It’s okay… if he just takes a nap, it’ll go away.
And he’s almost well and gone when a familiar voice calls out him. The flames on his arm return to the cannon, and Gokudera lifts his other hand to signal a thumbs-up. Yeah… all good here… except… not.
Gokudera looks at his right hand, his usually dormant rings lighting up one after the next with different color flames, weak, and the red glows brighter. His… dying will is back?]
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What the hell is that thing?!
[He moves in, and if Gokudera allows it he'll try to undo the straps that tie it to his arm... if that's possible. But if it were he'd probably have taken if off on his own already.]
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[Gokudera allows and helps, not bothered by Hijikata touching his weapon while it is not and cannot be loaded. He isn’t putting out enough dying will to waste his energy away. It’s already pretty depleted from activating in the dream-like state the vernal soul pool had him in.]
I could show you.
[And he gently makes a fist, enough so that of five rings, there is one with red flames, white at their base, pink in the center, and framed in red and black. Gokudera’s storm flame. The weapon slips off of his arm as the straps are removed. It keeps its shape, but seems to be consumed by that same color flame, made entirely of a lukewarm energy. It’ll rush out of Hijikata’s hands and back to Gokudera’s belts.]
I was in a fight…
[He was being tortured, but that doesn’t sound cool, so of course he’s not going to be that specific.]
Don’t know how it’s working now… I’ve never had my dying will flames in Avalon…
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[And here he thought Gokudera was being attacked by a bony parasite or something! He calms down as the bomber demonstrates how he can unequip the flame arrow, eyes widening as it simply puts itself away into storage.]
Wow!
[Between this, last year's shared dream, and the intense magical attacks Tsuna demonstrated during the siege Hijikata increasingly wonders what in the world these boys have been getting up to in their homeworld, but then Gokudera's mention of the "fight" they just shared draws his attention.]
Wait, you mean you summoned this weapon through your rings out of impulse because of what that bastard was doing with you?
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[It’s not loaded, and even if he were to try to load it with his dying will, it would not do any actual damage without him meaning for it to. It is an extension of his will, after all, and he wouldn’t want to attack Hijikata.
But now that it’s put away, he seems a great deal more relieved. It’s not sapping his energy anymore, and he can catch his breath, try to recollect where he was, and where he is, and what he should be doing. Gokudera isn’t even certain how to feel, at the moment.]
Yeah. Didn’t work, though. He didn’t want me dead…
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[He glances around - he doesn't expect the guy to have manifested on Avalon, he just wants to see if anyone else is in need of assistance after a similar nightmare. Besides he has another growing concern: between Gokudera's weapon regain and his earlier encounter with Belgium, who also said that she got her powers from home back, he suspects that more people might have ended up with their original abilities, and that may well spell trouble with regards to less lawfully inclined outworlders.]
I think this night is going to go to shit.
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