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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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It's spring already?
[ The vernal equinox...! She hadn't even realized. Between her missing powers and the fact it had been Christmas in her homeworld prior to her arrival a few weeks ago, her confusion wasn't all that surprising. But it was still a bit of a shock for her to be so disorientated.
She took a seat next to Belgium. ]
Then I suppose you are right... [She took the plate. Honestly she was happy there were no parties. Jumping straight from an eternity to loneliness to a party with tens if not hundreds of participants? That sounded a bit much.] I'm sorry, I didn't bring anything... B-but I probably have some things at home!
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[Poor Eresh, it must be a huge change of pace from her usual place of gloom and lonely... Belgium goes ahead and loads up that plate with all the good things. She got the sausages, she got the eggs, she got them dope-ass salad greens. It's all very spring-ie, which she guessed was the whole point.]
But don't worry about it! [She'll go ahead and start serving herself after filling up Eresh's plate. This girl is way too polite!]
I wouldn't be able to eat all of this on my own anyway. So please, relax~.
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[ Wait. Now that she thought back about it, there had been a few baskets on the main table back home...! She'd assumed they all belonged to Ritsuka, but one must have been addressed to her. It wasn't like the underworld had any kind of postal service. She really ought to adapt better to her new circumstances... She was still living her day-to-day life mostly the same way she always had.
But there were so many things to do...! It was a tad overwhelming really. ]
I'm s- [She stopped herself. She had to stop being sorry so much.] I mean, I'm not used to life on the surface world... [She picked the sausage with her fork, examining it. The last time she'd seen one was that time she'd opened a crack to the underworld just below Gilgamesh because he was being too loud with his incessant parties and celebration. She'd only intended to scare him into stopping, but some stuff had fallen through the crack, including food and a certain person made of clay.] So please forgive me if I say or do anything out of place.
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[Oh gosh, oh dear- this girl... she's just way too much on the cute spectrum of things! The way she acted though was more like a puppy that only know a cage its whole life. Which felt like more than a little bit of a worrying thought. Then again Eresh has said she's the goddess of the underworld. So perhaps she really just isn't used to life on the surface, like she said.]
Take as long as you'd like to enjoy things and have new experiences.
[Belgium started to look around for her bottle opener. It really would be a waste to not drink that bottle on such a lovely day.] It might be a little overwhelming at first, but over time it will get easier as you go along.
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I have met more humans in a few weeks than I have across the course of my entire existence. [Alive ones, anyway. She didn't count the souls of the dead, seeing how she couldn't understand them and they were just little lights.] It's exhausting sometimes... It feels like my energy goes down while stress goes up when around many people, faster than it should.
[ The pains of being an introvert. But she would learn to do better with time, she was sure. She had to, now that she lived in this place. Though she was worried at how lonely it would all feel once she'd be back home. ]
But it's easier with just one or two person. Especially if I know them. [It was her second meeting with Belgium, so it helped tons. She took a bite from the sausage. Wow that was...] ... This tastes really good...!
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Heh~, it can be rather exhausting meeting a ton of new people. All the crowds, sounds, smells, and faces can be rather overwhelming, can't it? Knowing someone through it all, though, can make things all the more easier to process and get through.
[Eresh's reaction to the food brought another giggle from her lips as she leaned back, bringing the drink up to her nose for a sniff and sip. Taking her time to roll the alcohol around her tongue; letting the drink hit all of her taste buds. And then finally swallowing with a sigh. Lovely.]
You're really not all that used to this stuff, huh? [Green eyes sparkled a little in the sun. Filled with warmth and the spirit of countless people as her powers from home flashed through her briefly, elevating her mood.] But you're right, Camelot didn't skimp out on the gifts this time around~! Try the salad they gave us.
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In my homeworld, I could never leave the underworld. [She smiled and looked down.] It was the price to pay to ensure the safety of the dead.
[ She could have left every now and then, technically. But then she wouldn't have been absolute in the Underworld, therefore putting every souls within her care at risk if someone attacked her, like Ishtar and Nergal had once tried. And a goddess should care about protecting those under her care rather than focus on personal desires.
Regardless, she did try the salad. Maybe it was so good because she had never eaten it before? ]
It's really good! [She smiled and paused.] Did- [A pause.] Are your eyes sparkling?
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[She nods her head in return. It must be rather dreary being a god of the dead. Her mind wanders towards memories of older beliefs. Names, and rituals, and stories long since forgotten. Some remembered, others more like a haze. Most that Anri remembers would usually agree in the idea of the importance and price that the rulers of the dead have.
She was torn from those thoughts when Eresh took her bite. Smiling she takes another sip.]
I'm glad you like it! Or, I guess whoever put it together would be. [Belgium does think she could do a better job. But she also wasn't one to overlook a sweet gesture like this.]
Are they? Hm, if they are it's because I'm happy with my current company~.
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[ Happy with her current company, huh? She was very happy to hear that. When was the last time anyone had been happy spending time with her, asides from Ritsuka...? No one ever, right. That was double the sparkles. ]
I'm glad to hear it...! I'm pretty happy too.
[ That made her another friend! Wow, she'd reached... Two! At this rate perhaps she'd even have a third friend by the end of the year. Regardless, she went silent for a while as she ate after that. ]