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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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So we both remember all of that and I remember helping you to fight against Goldie... [Which makes her blush a little.]
I asked because this place can pull people here from any point of their life -- we remember all of those things but we could as well be here from somewhere in the middle of those events or before the Fifth Holy Grail War even started. So it's a little complicated here for everyone and people ask a lot of "What's the last thing you remember?" unless it's somehow obvious from someone's appearance or something else.
[Following so far? Good.]
Then it gets more complicated because this isn't the first time, when I hear about different timelines. They happen in the same place, they consist of mostly the same people, but different things happen in each of them because something happened somewhere to make events split into more than one timeline. And then people have totally different experiences during all of them... No idea how common or uncommon it is for people from any of those different timelines to meet each other somewhere but it's not totally unheard of.
[Sure, keeping it vague as if she doesn't have any personal experience from this. Clearly she just reads and hears a lot.]
But since we both remember all of those things, it sounds more like --- different choices can lead to alternative events after the war too.
Where I came from, I decided to run to Saber before she disappeared and I asked her to stay. She said yes because she wanted to stay too and we made a new contract, where I could keep her around as my familiar instead of her being my Servant. But I guess where you come from, I didn't manage to get to her in time or I didn't even have time to think about making a contract like that, and she disappeared.
[ ... That's... Kind of sad to think about. She'll be gone? Well, it's not like Rin can't see herself being happy with just one of them too, but guess she got the greedy ending to her war.]
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To be honest, I don't entirely get it...
[He rubs the nape of his neck a little awkwardly, responding after he's heard her entire spiel. While there are bits and pieces that he actually gets, there are other things that he doesn't get, too.
Nevertheless--]
But I don't think it matters too much.
[His smile cracks into something small, but there's an obvious fondness to it all. Regardless of whether Saber is around or not, that doesn't change anything.
Not his feelings for her,
or--]
After all, Tohsaka is still Tohsaka. And Saber is still Saber. Even if she's gone or if she's with us, I'm sure that she can be happy. The same goes for you, too.
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[She's had a lot of time to think about most of these timeline things... Even if different paths happening after that hit with Excalibur is new even to Rin too. What really matters to her is that they'll be together in both cases.
Rin has missed that smile and a lot of other things about his personality and just him in general. She smiles at him too.]
That's true about us but the same goes for you too. [Don't exclude your own happiness, Shirou! Rin closes her eyes, still smiling but that's a teasing smile now.] Still, I can't believe you forgot the events, where we'll both be your girlfriends.
[No. She is not joking.]
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Well, that's-
[Emiya Shirou: master of ignoring his own happiness for his own dreams. He doesn't really say much, because he finds himself spluttering at the following sentence. If he were drinking anything, he'd probably be giving a large spittake by now.
But instead, his face just burns a bright scarlet that matches his hair.]
H-Huh? Tohsaka, you're just teasing again, right...?
[Because there's no way--]
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Is that what you'd prefer this to be?
[That's just teasing. After that Rin's still smiling but it's a genuinely happy smile this time.]
No, I would never joke about my girlfriend like that. Saber belongs to me and you belong to me. We all want her to stay around, so you'll assist me and my mana in making sure that she doesn't have to leave and all three of us are together.
[It's her flawless plan for getting to be with both of them. You're so very welcome, Shirou.]
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That's- I- Uh-
[His words are no longer coherent at this point and his face burns a bright, bright scarlet.]
I mean... yeah, I do want her to stay around.
[Not even denying the he belongs to her part of this conversation.]