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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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For me?!
[ That felt almost like a joke. ]
Who in the world has that much cash??? Was it it Stella? Jane? Or maybe Anri? She certainly seemed like she has champagne money? Or, wait, maybe Gareth? How much money do knights make? Or maybe it was that goddess? Goddesses seem like they have wealth to spare...
[ Surely, this is not how she expected the teasing to go down, with him listing every girl he has actually flirted with since arrival. Just a gentle reminder that he is, in fact, a flirt. ]
Or, hang on, is this from you???
[ His face a mix of shock, wonder, amazement, and confusion. Something you'd only find in a child who has on the verge of discovering something truly amazing. ]
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[ Sorry, Noah, but that's that line of thought quashed without hesitation. She looks more bemused than offended--as much as he flirts, she'd already resolved not to take it too seriously. Why would he think she'd do that? ]
Gareth makes plenty of money, to be honest, but if she was going to make you something, it'd definitely just be baked goods, and she'd probably give it to you directly. I don't think I know anyone else you've mentioned, though... but to be honest, most of the time, gift baskets don't really cost that much? The bottle probably is the most expensive thing in there.
...But also, lots of people here are rich. Technically, I'm rich.
[ Mostly because within her first couple of months here, Beowulf dumped a portion of a dragon's horde on her, but that's neither here nor there. ]
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[ Talk about suddenly feeling inadequate. ]
B-But this thing cost so much you half a city with it! How much money do you have???
[ Because there was wealth, then there was wealth. Both of which Noah has never known, only dreamed about and now is being troubled by. ]
Ritsuka, I really have no idea what I'm supposed to do with this. I've only ever seen something like this, and that was because this bloke I know was bragging that he had it. Well, deliver it to his boss, but still. The most money than I have ever seen in one tiny box, now is in a tiny basket.
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[ She raises her hands, and unless he dodges out of the way, she's going to take his face in them and squeeze a little. It's the Idiot Sandwich meme, though she doesn't have any bread on hand. ]
This city's been going through a lot of hard times recently, but... it's still pretty prosperous, okay? It's okay, really. You should just enjoy the stuff that's in there. That's the point of a gift, right? To make the receiver happy?
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I-...yeah, okay. You're right.
[ He sighed, now feeling a little more like himself. Which means - ]
For a second there, I thought you were gonna kiss me. Not that I'd mind.
[ - he says as a half joke. He looks down at the basket wondering now what to do. ]
So...care to join me? Please say yes, I've never had something like this so sharing this with someone would be nice.
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Lucky for you, I'm not that kind of girl.
[ She has kissed... one person, at all, ever, and that was under extremely embarrassing awkward party game duress. She has no idea how to kiss anyone, even if she was the same kind of incorrigible flirt that he is. ]
But I'll join you, yeah. Not for the alcohol, but the rest of it.
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Thank goodness! That's a big relief.
[ He beams at her after sighing with relief. Even if she says that the bottle is for him, Noah still can't help but feel kinda awkward about it. ]
This is kind of exciting actually. Back on Earth, you could go around the whole planet and you'd be lucky to even find one of these things. To think someone like me is gonna get to try it! I gotta bring the bottle back to show the kids!
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[ Huh. She cocks her head, her brows drawing together. Given the way he responded to the very idea of a gift basket, that's not what she actually expected to hear. ]
Really? I'm from an Earth, too, but we definitely have these. It's a whole industry, even.
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[ He treats it as nothing, but that information is going to stay in his head like a ghost that won't leave. ]
You know, that might be a sign. Like we were supposed to meet. I personally never put stock in that stuff - prefer to make my own path and such but my little sister loves it. But with magic being real maybe that fate and destiny stuff has some stock in it.
[ He says with particular cheer. He's excited, just like a kid, to try the contents of the box he's now holding affectionately. ]
I certainly wouldn't mind if it meant to bring me to you. By the way, what is that you're drinking?
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[ She laughs a little at that, shaking her head. Even when he's turning on the flirting again, it's not as strong as before, and it loses some of its annoying edge when he's so excited about these new experiences. And it's not like Ritsuka is a stranger to the concept of fate.
But at his question, she tilts her cup towards him. At this point, most of the whipped cream has started to melt into the drink, so it looks even more like a monstrosity than before. ]
Technically, it's coffee! But it's like 75% sugar, so I don't know if it counts anymore.
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[ He looks at the drink and his brow furrows. ]
It looks like a sad cloud than coffee to be honest. [ A beat. ] Oh is this one of those things Sarah keeps buggin' me arse for? A shake, or something? She called it something else, but I can't remember what.
[ He pauses to remember. ]
Fra-. Fro-. Fru-. Bugger. Frank-achin or something.
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[ She can't be annoyed or insulted by his judgment. He's not the first one to look at her coffee concoctions with confusion or disdain, and he surely won't be the last. Ritsuka will drink it black if she has to, but given the chance to sugar it up, of course she'll take it. ]
It's pretty close, yeah. I just think that most coffee drinks taste better with sugar.
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[ Is all he'd further comment about the drink. Looking at the drink evokes some images in his head along with a memory and a voice, pleading and begging straight into his right ear. He can really hear the voice, the sights and smells of that time, the familiar tension and dull ache in his leg as he navigated the daily traffic of his homeworld.
There's a dull sensation in his chest the small smile he constantly wears curved down and he tries to hide a rising sigh by letting it out through his nose as a long exhale. ]
Fond of sweets, are you?
[ The small smile returning as he buries that dull and heavy sensation. ]
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[ She waggles a hand, laughing in a bit of self-conscious acknowledgment. ]
I think it's more, I'm not really good with coffee? If it's between coffee and tea--I'm Japanese, we're all about tea. But when it comes to coffee, it's way too strong.
[ There's another pause, still embarrassed, and then she shrugs, swaying just enough to bump her shoulder against his in a quick, companionable gesture. At this point, she doesn't know him well enough to read his pause, but she is familiar with the signs of someone lost in thought. ]
...and yeah, okay, I definitely have a sweet tooth.
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Ah, here we are. [ He opens the door to his apartment. ] After you.
[ He joins her and leads the way up the stairs once inside and towards his tiny studio room. ]
Really, thanks again for helping me out. I'd still out there buggered out of me mind if it weren't for your help. Are you sure you don't want some? I'd be happy to-
[ He says as he opens the door to his place and stops short. His bed looking like there's someone vaguely human shaped under the sheets occupying it. ]
I swear its not what you think.
[ Quickly he sets the basket down on the small dinner table nearby and goes to the bed, yanking off the covers and waking the vaguely annoyed leopard nestled there. ]
And where have you been, miss? Around for food but gone when I needed you? Is that how it is?
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[ She does stop short at the sight of the lump on his bed, which quickly becomes laughter when she sees the leopard. There she is! In the flesh! Ritsuka's not about to crowd forward--familiar or not, a leopard is still a giant predator and she's not a very large girl--but she does lean in to look, delighted. She's never been this close to an animal like this! Zoos definitely don't count. ]
Hello, sorry to intrude! I hope you don't mind.
[ She says that to the leopard, at least, because between her and Noah, one of them has teeth and claws that are immediately physically dangerous. ]
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Oi. Don't ignore me. C'mon then. Paws up n' off the bed. Go say 'hi' to Ritsuka.
[ He says rubbing her belly then egging her off the bed by yanking the sheets under her, small noises of protest coming from the leopard before she finally moves off - does a long lazy stretch - and goes to bump and rub her head along Ritsuka's legs. ]
Well, that was surprisingly less difficult than usual. Maybe she likes you more than me.
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Hi there, aren't you pretty? You're the prettiest person in this whole room.
[ There are probably wiser things to do than babytalk a giant snow leopard, but is she going to worry about that? No. Absolutely not. ]
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That means rub her belly. Better do it or she'll never stop. She's terribly relentless.
[ He says while fixing his bed, for the second time today. ]
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[ Which is to say, as soon as she has the permission, as it were, Ritsuka drops to a crouch next to the leopard to pet her belly. This is definitely fulfilling a childhood fantasy of hers, right here and now, and she's going to take advantage of that for as long as she can. ]
I've only ever seen leopards in zoos, you know? This is the closest I've ever been to one.
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Well, she certainly like you more than me. Took a bit of time and some of my food before she started listening to me. [ A beat. ] Somewhat.
[ He also did treat her like a filthy creature so, tit for tat as far as the leopard was concerned. ]
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Yeah, mine just immediately started begging for food. Sometimes, I feel like he's only interested in me if I have a snack to share. They have the same range of personality as humans, you know?
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[ The leopard meanwhile is just loving the belly run as she just purrs and stretches, sometimes letting out a little approving growl - or maybe just a very low meow. Its hard to tell when the purring sounds like a motorcycle engine. ]
Right! All nice and tidy, again. No thanks to you, you little diva. [ Now he turns his attention to the bottle of champagne, taking it out along with the juice and laying them out neartly on the table. ]
You sure you don't want any? I can handle my alcohol pretty well, but I don't want to look like a poor host, ya know?
[ The sister taught him that much, and she will make him suffer if he forgets it. ]
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[ One could argue that since Japan as she knows it no longer currently exists, and the fact that she is in a completely different world with different laws and rules, this isn't so much an issue. But she's only a few months off from being twenty, and it's honestly a kneejerk self-preservation instinct. She knows too many heavy drinkers to not be wary of alcohol. ]
Anyway, if you really wanna meet an animal that's too smart to be an animal, I should introduce you to Fou someday. I swear he can actually carry on a full conversation, but he isn't anyone's familiar.
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[ He says looking at her, then to the leopard, then back to her. ]
She can.
[ The fuzzy creature then raised its head and looked at her, big yellow eyes just looking straight at her as if trying to hypnotize her to go into the cupboard and get the bag of jerky Noah got and labeled 'for the human only' when clearly its not and give it to her. ]
It works about half the time.
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