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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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[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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[Then he… felt the pulse. Auri hearing being based on feeling vibrations gave it some advantages over the other races. He didn’t necessarily hear better, but he could feel and pinpoint nearby disturbances that might otherwise be missed.
He gave Gokudera a sharp yank back be the collar of his shirt, while his attention was turned to the swing.]
You hear that?
[He reached up to put his hand on the hilt of his gunblade.]
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But he’s being yanked back and making an undignified little noise about it before yanking himself back free. He does not like anyone grabbing him, and will tell his guy about it.]
You’ve got some fucking nerve, barging into my dream! You don’t even know what’s go-
[There’s another pulse, and some of the equipment shifts, as if it had been acting as camouflaged for some strange construct. Not quite a creature, or a robot, but thick, clearly armored, and firing off a few more minor pulses, as if that it its way of seeing.
Gokudera’s breath catches. He lifts his cannon and tries to fire off a shot of fire at the thing, but his magic and his weapon are both too weak for this fight. He seems to take some kind of damage with the attempt and falters.]
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Stay behind me, alright? Unless you can get your weapon working again, it’s better to let the dead guy take front and center.
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The more it can waste their time and effort, the more it can feed on.
But it’s camouflaging again, spitting out web that seems to vanish the second it lands. But there is a subtle buzz in the air, and the kind of energy that raises hairs. Gokudera backs up, but this doesn’t feel… right.]
I know a spell…
[Since his weapon isn’t working, and he can’t use his magic, he needs to try for a different weapon, or a spell.]
It’s a shield so if you need a bu-
[There’s a crackling sound. The giant robo-spider thing is on the move.]
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[He closes his eyes to focus on the feeling of the pulses, and aiming his gun accordingly. It isn’t until the spider dives in for another attack that he fires again, briefly dispelling it’s cloak and forcing it back to retreat and stalking.]
You think you can keep track of where it’s laying down it’s… chargey thingerwhatevers. I can hear where it is, but not what it’s laying down.
[He could feel it, and with the initial trap it was easy, but with more piling on it was all starting to blend together, the robot itself at least remained distinctive.]
Hey, you said this was a dream of yours right? Don’t suppose you could dream me up something to destroy this thing with? I left my mech at home, and apparently wishing really hard hasn’t made it magically appear.
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[And it just means he’ll take all the damage. The Sub Shield is fun like that. Gokudera looks about for the weird electro-web, and as their opponent is visible, so is its trap. He has no idea how he’ll mark where the web is, so watched around this new person. If they get close, he’ll warn them.]
Well, it feels like it…
What did you have in mind?
[Wouldn’t that imply that this guy is also a dream?]
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[He looks over his shoulder at the other, his tail swishing in a wide arc from excitement of the possibility. But of course, so foolishly taking his eyes off their foe was just inviting it to strike. Which it did.
Rex at least made up for his folly by realizing his error quickly, and moved to block the incoming attack with his gunblade. However, that also meant he couldn't shoot with the weapon, and he was stuck trying to outmuscle a spider robot to keep it from eating his face.
And apparently cussing at it does not make it weaker.]
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[It’s worth a shot! Gokudera’s trying to focus on a mech, and it looks probably nothing like this guy’s. It’s… a character he’s seen before. It’s a mere hologram-like replication that fades and… yeah, nope this is powered by his fears and he needs to push past this. He can’t let this guy just… save the day…
Even though Gokudera’s magic isn’t working, and he has his storm flames back, but can’t muster them up properly to even use his flame arrow or put it away. It’s just stuck to his arm, being somewhat decorative at best.
He does have that shield as a spell, so… it’s not quite his light or elemental magic. Gokudera casts it just as the giant robo fangs come down, an electric current like a taser crackling loudly as it hits the shield.
And… he knew the shield would transfer damage to him. Gokudera is down. The shield stays up]