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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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Event at a Glance

Prompt banner title: Gifted
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


baby jackjack accidentally almost laser beaming mr. incredible

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
 


Prompt banner title: Door of Dreams
This part of the event takes place late night on March 20th through slightly past midnight on March 21st.

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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. 



Prompt banner title: Mab's 4th Wall
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

 

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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.

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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[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2022-03-23 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, we were having secret lessons and we were avoiding a very terrible professor who was teaching us at the time. She was a government official in my world and she is not a pleasant person to be with.

(He lets out a deep sigh, he still couldn’t get over the memories of Umbridge’s iron grip rule of Hogwarts. Those were rough times as he glances at the back of his right hand. If Anna takes a closer look, the faint scar on it would have been read as I will not tell lies.)

The Ministry had sent her into the school to squash any word about the return of a dangerous person in my world from spreading and she would try to rule over my school as the year progressed. That is why me and my schoolmates had to find a place where we can safely practise without incurring her wrath.
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[personal profile] lovesopendoors 2022-03-23 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh... Oh, well that's ... a really unfortunate reason for something like secret lessons, not that all secrets are fun either.]

Yeah, she-- absolutely sounds like the opposite of pleasant to deal with, I'm glad she didn't teach you through your whole time in school.

[Anna shuts up and actually feels almost bad for bringing the topic up, when it really doesn't seem like he enjoys remembering that part of this. But she sees that glance and she glances too... She doesn't see it. Yet. Well, she sees something there and it gets her even more worried.]

The Ministry lets someone like that work anywhere especially when you should be protected against dangers and be taught to protect yourselves against danger too?? So she was there only for a year? That's a relief, I can't even imagine what that was like other than maybe one of the longest years, it sounds horrible... Still I'm really glad you and your friends found a place to keep up with practicing your magic.

[Anna suddenly grabs Harry's wrist gently and pulls his right hand closer to her face, so that she can see what's on it. What?! What are those words supposed to mean??]

She did this to you?!

[Maybe it's good that she's not here or Anna would absolutely punch her!!]
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[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2022-03-23 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
(OOC: mentions of forced bodily harm)

Thankfully she would no longer cause so much grief to more people in my world nowadays. I hate to imagine what would it be like if she was still in my school for much longer. That would be a student’s nightmare to be near a professor who behaves similarly to her.

Oh, um, this writing on my hand? She made me wrote those words on the back of my hand on a detention session against my will, with a blood quill.
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[personal profile] lovesopendoors 2022-03-27 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That sure would be any student's nightmare.

[Anna watches his hand again during and after listening to that before she puts it back down. She's speechless for once in her life, even quiet for a moment while she tries to think about what to say to that.]

Harry, that's-- Horrible, no, that or anything else sounds like a huge understatement. I'm so sorry. No one should go through anything like that from anyone and she shouldn't have been allowed to be called a teacher or I mean, professor.

[Can she hug? She absolutely will hug right now if he doesn't stop her, not that she wouldn't understand stopping it.]
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[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2022-03-27 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
(He quietly nods upon hearing her words of shock. It may have been a few years since that happened, but he could still recall them as if it was yesterday, trying not to cry about it.)

Yeah, it was a very terrible idea for the Ministry to even send her to the school just so she can ruin anyone’s life and they can control the narrative. Although it was run by someone not that bright at the time.

I just hope that they can get better people running it after time and our worlds are saved.
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[personal profile] lovesopendoors 2022-03-29 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If he (ever) wants to cry about it or anything else, Anna will try to be there to support. ]

Yeah, a very terrible idea indeed and I really hope so too. I'm sorry you had to go through all of that.

[Maybe this isn't the right time and definitely not the right place to talk about her any more than that. Okay, back to trying to be a cheerful sunshine to get them both into a better mood after that!]

But enough about her here, yeah? Let's not let her ruin this too. Your heart desired to be here and she's not here... I can see that all of you created something amazing during all of that time, that you spent in this room. What kind of spells did you teach? Can I see magic here?
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[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2022-03-29 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, back in my world, most normal people aren’t supposed to see and feel the presence of magic but since we are not in there now, you can definitely see how we perform a lot of defencive magic spells.

There are plenty of spells that I did taught to my schoolmates, such as the Patronus Charm and the Disarming Charm. Not to be boastful, but I did well helping plenty of them out in getting their skills sharpened up.