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A ⦿ Soaking in Your Arrival

KERPLUNK, SPLASH!

Regardless of what you were in the middle of, you and your familiar have been magically pulled into the world of Avalon just above the Bay's waters. After a brief plunge into the Bay, the rush of water filling your ears and soaking up into every creak and crevice of your body, you may need to cough to clear your airways when you rise above the surface. You'll definitely see other new arrivals plopping in. If you can't swim, a red-headed woman known only as the Lady of the Lake will drag you to the shore if she doesn't spot someone else near you helping so no one ends up drowning. She's a little busy casting directive magic to make sure everyone lands safely and playing lifeguard, so if anyone attempts to talk to her, she'll tell them to head up to the Rent-a-Ride. The shores themselves are littered with new arrivals complaining their way up a staircase carved into the walls of the White Cliffs. There is no railing, so be careful, but if you do fall, be prepared for a mysterious sand hand to reach out of the side of the cliffs to catch you. The hand will pat you atop the head twice before retreating back into the wall. This is the Cliff Beast; despite the name, he is quite friendly.

B ⦿ The Caravan to Camelot

Once everyone is wrangled up to the top of the White Cliffs, the handsome owner of the Rent-a-Ride, Archimedes, will distribute smart phones and a pair of earbuds to everyone before getting them settled in groups into modernized carriages pulled by horses and give them a basic explanation of why and how they've been brought to Avalon: The universe is frozen in time and your character has been brought here by a familiar that was able to bond with them. They'll have to learn magic to help save their own world from destruction, but first they've got to get them to Camelot. It is here that you have the first opportunity to decide who they will be in their new home. You'll have about an hour to wander around here, meet and greet, and pet the horses before it's time to go.

These carriages use fae technology that combats weight, so your character will be able to get in regardless of whether they're light as a feather or weigh two tons. The carts have air conditioning when it's hot, heating when it's cold, and a mystical shield to protect from bugs. There is also a mini-bar that pops out of the console with nip bottles. Characters can use their smartphones to connect to Camelot's internet service,

avalononline (AOL), to chat with other characters, watch dumb videos, learn about the world, contact Camelot Support (they'll answer any questions they can for you, from how to use a smart phone to where to find quests and resources to learn more about your magic). Be careful if you decide to use your phones while in the caravan-- if you don't use those earbuds and start forcing everyone to listen to your nonsense, Archimedes may make you walk.

C ⦿ The Red Spring

The journey from the White Cliffs to the City of Camelot is a long one, and the first evening you arrive you'll end up spending at the Red Spring, a booming resort town. Because of the volume of new arrivals and vacationers, inn rooms are assigned two-to-a-room. The rooms have two twin beds, a bathroom, a mini-fridge and microwave, and a TV equipped with a couple of entertaining video games and a few free movies.

If you don't want to relax in the room, try taking a dip in the spring for another chance to meet your fellow travelers. The waters have restorative properties that help horses and travelers recover quickly when drunk. It is known to relieve stress, improve energy levels, and mildly accelerate healing.

The springs are also home to a large training grounds just outside town limits, where there are teachers who will teach basic magic safety and help you discover what kind of magic you have together with other new arrivals. Try target practice, obstacle courses, meditation circles, and other ways to try to figure out just what you can do.. if you didn't already have an accidental discovery on the ride there.

A ⦿ Get Fresh

Upon arrival in Camelot travelers are ushered to a large set of wash rooms where they can clean up and make themselves presentable for the Welcome Feast. They are informed that once the feast concludes there will be an announcement on where they can seek lodging and how to begin their magic studies.

B ⦿ Be Merry

After they freshen up, travelers are led into the main dining hall. The decorations range from simplistic to a little more grandiose, it is likely everyone will find something familiar. A modern mash up with a medieval flair. The jester makes his rounds, perhaps he has a joke or two to tell, go ahead, give him a listen or perhaps volunteer to participate in one of the jester's shows, like knife-throwing or hypnotism. Within the crowd of staff there are mummers, a juggler, here and there dabbled through small troupes perform mini skits, perhaps they’ll perform a well known verse from a traveler’s world or tell a tale of fancy from this realm.

C ⦿ Eat Well

A banquet is prepared with food that while all “rustic” in appearance are usually a version of modern dishes ranging from basic roast chicken and veggies to Korean-Mexican fusion and French patisserie. The drinks are much the same; while served in old fashioned goblets, they are drinks modern travelers will be familiar with.

Have a seat, meet a new neighbor, find a roommate, maybe a new or old friend? Talk to the person to your left, your right, across from you. Mingle, enjoy the food, the music, it shouldn’t be long before the information promised is provided. Till then take your fill and get to know your fellow travelers.

You've been here a few days now and have gotten a chance to settle in, find a place to stay, and Camelot's citizens have decided that you've been here long enough to start living your life again. Well, your new life.

A group of citizens have decided to give everyone their first quest.

"Hear ye, hear ye!" a man in chain mail with a tablet with his statement typed up on it declares to a crowd from atop a pedestal. There are two other citizens around him with phones to post the video to AOL later to make sure the word gets heard ye all around.

"Those with magic, we beseech thee! Findeth us a grail most holy hidden in the depths of the Brocéliande! This holy grail is known to grant thine wishes three, a most noble quest for noble souls! Great reward will come to those who find it and proclaim at least one of their wishes to find the great Excalibur for King Arthur!"

This is the first you've heard about King Arthur, and it seems curious that he hasn't yet shown his face around town. It also seems strange that this guy is speaking like he's stepped out of a bad period piece, and probably should be the clue that this is more or less an attempt to haze some of the newcomers by sending them into the forest... but no one is telling newcomers this. It's better to get them out there and start praciticing, after all.

A ⦿ Lost, and Lost, and Lost Again

The Brocéliande is well-known around Camelot for being a forest that's both bountiful and mysterious. Oddities are known to happen that may never happen again to the point that even if something weird happens and you can't prove it, most citizens will assume you're telling the truth.

Which is what makes it peculiar when you keep passing the exact same locations over and over again, as if you've been traveling in circles or reaching the end of the map in a video game and coming out the other end. You're stuck in a space loop. The only way out is to successfully find the one difference in each loop five times in a row and collect it. Maybe it's a strange frog, a crystal that wasn't there before, a small wooden step that doesn't lead anywhere, or some other singular item, you've got to find what stands out... pick the wrong item, and you'll have to start your five count over again, and again, and again...

B ⦿ Grail, and Grail, and Grail Again!?

If you either missed the space loop or managed to get out of it, eventually you'll come to find one of... quite a few copies of a grail with holes in the side placed throughout the forest. They look like they might be good for draining noodles, but that's about it. Though they're spread out, it's entirely possible you'll find more than one, but each of them are placed in situations where it's impossible to get to by normal means. You'll have to use magic! It may be hidden in a bird's nest at the top of the tallest tree, inside of a hole in a rock with bars that prevent you from reaching in (perhaps an animal friend could reach it), inside a boiling pond, or inside the body of a bear fir... there are a load of possibilities, and now's a chance for you to try out your brand new magics! Use one of those samples, find something from the bestiary, or come up with your own adventure to get your hands on that less-than-holy grail.

C ⦿ A Quest Completeish

Or it would be, if you could ever find the guy who announced it... The AOL posts have since been deleted. You may end up spending a lot of time trying to find the guy. At this point, citizens will start telling you that you shouldn't take quests unless they're on the quest board or else you're going to get scammed... that's definitely an olden times themed noodle strainer. If that doesn't make you give up, or perhaps motivates you to find the guy to kick his ass, you'll have to head out to the farmland and chase them through a cornfield. (Be careful not to get lost, it's a maize in there.) If one of the boys are caught, they'll explain they were just testing you-- and hey, you got a free addition to your kitchen! If pressed, they'll apologize and give you a bit of money for your trouble. It's not much, but it'll get you at least a meal.

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I'm sure they'll find me eventually, but if you find anyone looking for me, you can let them know I'm here. They're usually loud about it.

[Or at least, Gokudera and Ryohei are.]

I don't think we've studied it in school yet, but I sort of know where it is. But, it's not here, right? I'm still figuring everything out

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We can hope for the best, Tsuna. If I do find at least one of them, I’ll let know.

I assume that you haven’t learned Geography yet. That’s understandable. Yeah, we’re not in any form of Earth at all. But Avalon...

(He has some vague ideas of Arthurian mythology since there are the familiar names of Merlin and King Arthur from his world, but they are way different from what he has known of them and he is still figuring it out too.)

That name seems to sound familiar, but it’s not exactly how I imagine it to be from what I learned from History of Magic.

Thank you :)

I mean, we probably have...I'm just not that good at it. But not even being on Earth doesn't help.

[It's a lot of information to take in and not a lot of time for it all to digest.]

Is that a book?

That’s a subject I had to take back in my world, I had struggles to deal with it when the professor teaching is a bored old ghost. My school is not an ordinary school, at all.

I guess it wouldn't be, if you've got subjects like that.

[The text belies the fact that he is boggling on the other side of the screen. Reborn has tried to teach him some weird things but this might take the cake.]

You were really taught by a ghost?

Unfortunately yes for that subject. I’m not making things up as I go. Professor Binns is a ghost and too static while trying to teach us something. And the other ghosts who live in the school aren’t even as dreadfully boring as he is.

There's other ghosts?

Like a haunted house or something? I don't know if I could take that...

Plenty of them, even my school house has a main house ghost, Nearly Headless Nick, whose death day was celebrated in my school. One ghost in particular, Helena, was even the daughter of one of the school founders.

Actually, my school is located in a castle, so it’s more of a haunted castle.

That sounds like it would be really scary.

I don't really like ghosts too much.

Oh no, most of them don’t mean to do harm at all. Unless you actually provoke them or mention to Helena about her mother’s diadem got turned to a soul jar.

Well, sort of scary if you’re not used to stuff like this, but having been in the castle around 6 years, I’m not that too heavily surprised by a lot of things these days.

[That is a lot of words that Tsuna is not sure how to deal with right now.]

So, even something like this isn't weird to you?

[Because it's weird to him and he's gone ten years into the future]

Quite frankly after all this time, I suppose that most things don’t surprise me that much anymore. I have dealt with worse things back home. And I do mean, very terrible shite that no teenager should go through.

Being stranded in Avalon so far sounds like much less of a prison then being in Azkaban.

[Same hat!]

Yeah, this place kind of seems pretty tame, considering.

Though part of me still wonders if it was set up by my tutor.

Azkaban?

And oddly serene right now, that I give it to this place. Currently better than what has become of my school at the moment.

Wait a minute, who is your tutor by the way?

Azkaban is wizard prison in my world, probably the worst place to be jailed at. My godfather for example is wrongly imprisoned there for allegedly betraying my parents to the Dark Lord (when it is sadly a close friend of his and my dad who did it instead). Also overran by bloody Dementors, very nasty life and joy suckers.

Ah, his name's Reborn.

He's kind of short, and usually wears a suit, but sometimes he's in a weird disguise. If he shows up here I wouldn't be surprised if there was a disguise.

[Just going to. Not mention that he's a hitman for the mafia. Or a literal baby.]

Sounds like a lot.

(Okay, who thought it was a good idea to name one’s kid Reborn? Still, he wasn’t going to comment on that since many wizards in his world had unusual names for normal Muggles to say properly.)

His name is Reborn? And he is also short and dresses sharply most of the time. Must be a man of style, I guess.

Yeah, I had a really weird life back home and there is a lot to unpack and go through. It’s a long story and I don’t think this is the right time to tell most of them to anyone right now.

[And there's six more like him, but Yamamoto's the only one who really has any information about the whole Arcobaleno deal, and he's not here right now. And also sworn to secrecy.

Tsuna tries not to think about it.]

I guess. He's pretty good at making himself stand out.

I know the feeling. Everything got really weird when Reborn showed up

Agreed. Maybe when he does show up, maybe he can check out what fashion this world has to offer.

(Yeah, he couldn’t agree more with the whole everything went upside down part.)

Couldn’t agree with you more. Accidentally making glass of a snake enclosure and the days leading to my 11th birthday were just as crazy as you meeting Reborn, topping off with a friend of mine showing up at the lighthouse my relatives were hiding in to tell me that I had magic all this time and gave me a letter to my school.

That almost sounds more crazy than what I had to deal with.

I didn't meet him until recently. So it's been a lot of chaos in a few months.

Yes, it really was and very complicated even.

So, hold on a minute... you and Reborn got into all sorts of madness back in your world for months?

Yeah.

I mean, it wasn't just us. A bunch of my friends were involved too. They're...kind of a chaotic bunch.

[The mafia is not as smooth as The Godfather would have you believe. There's a lot more explosions, for one.]

Very chaotic, huh? Sounds a lot like my friend’s older twin brothers: they can be very rambunctious at times but still loyal and friendly too. You guys do fight stuff back in your world as well, right?

Yeah, we do.

[Although he's a little uncomfortable to really get into the specifics. Mafia battles and all that fun stuff]

[ooc: I'm going to drop the thread here, as a head's up. Now that Tsuna's in the game, I want to start fresh since he didn't really have much of a canon point for these threads. Looking forward to CR in game!]

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