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TEST DRIVE MEME ⚔️️ 5

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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 slightly chilled 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. It's still chilly, but not enough that you can't manage on your own. The Lady of the Lake is swimming around under the water, but seems to be focusing on coordinating a band of chia manatees to help rescue any wayward new arrivals. Chia manatees are a special Avalonian manatee that is green in color and has what appears to be a patches of grass or other short plantlife growing on its back. While some are fully green, others sport small flower blossoms that haven't yet grown in or various types of mushrooms.

If anyone tries to ask the Lady of the Lake for directions, she will direct you to Archimedes at the Rent-a-Ride. Those with animal magic may get their info from the manatees, though may notice that they're really overly friendly and have zero concept of personal boundaries. Everyone may notice they have no concept of personal space, as they will happily run right into someone's belly for a snoot squishing. 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.

*Reminder: Your character's familiar may or may not be with your character in their initial plunge. If the familiar isn't partial to water, it may meet your character on the beach or sit atop their head while they swim. Or if they are, they might splash about and swim alongside your character. Familiars have different personalities and body specs and we leave those up to the players.

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 and tell them to "Check the Shit Box." The "Shit Box" refers to wardrobe more formally known as the Wardrobe of Finding, a hammerspace-like wardrobe that opens to each person's items and pets when the person touches the handle. It was recently enchanted by Merlin to prevent people from having to fish their waterlogged possessions and pets out of the water with them. From there, Archimedes directs everyone to settle in groups into modernized carriages pulled by horses and gives them a basic explanation of why and how they've been brought to Avalon: The rest of 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. It may be a little chilly when you get out though, so make sure you don't slip rushing back indoors when you get out!

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.

The Isle of Avalon is abuzz with excitement for the upcoming Spring Equinox (though some of the more posh citizens will insist it's the Vernal Equinox, tut tut). Unlike the very specific rituals of the Winter Solstice that require much preparation, the Spring is welcomed throughout the month through a variety of small rituals to help the world along as it renews itself, growing new plants and allowing nature to make new life.

A ⦿ The Lesser Banishing of Frost Fairies

perform a ritual called the Lesser Banishing of Frost Fairies

create bait

adorable little moon rabbit kits

find a stranger to perform the ritual

challenge you and your summoning partner to a duel

B ⦿ The Language of Flowers

flowers are the treasures that they want to hoard

baby dragons need to be brought back to their mother's cave in the Ash Mountains

Use the language of flowers to communicate with the dragons and try to get them to follow you by wearing a flower crown that matches one you offer to the dragon

fighting alongside the baby dragons to fight off the Land of Rot creatures

C ⦿ Spiritual Cleansing

The frost is gone, the flowers are free, and rabbits are running around town like they own the place. All of the physical and symbolic spring equinox preparations are made, now it's time to look within. As the season of renewal and rebirth, a huge part of that is personal reflection and growth. As such, outdoor meditation and yoga flash parties are all the rage right now. Get caught it one and you and anyone around you will be stuck in a barrier until you complete at least 5 yoga poses and hold them for 30 seconds each. Some of them are a little challenging.. thankfully, no one is going to stop you from getting help holding them from someone else who's stuck with you.

A plague of smoothie hockers has also cropped up around town, which means portable carts offering different magical smoothies is going around selling their fruity and flowery spring flavors for a refreshing boost of your spirit. No, really boost it. The magical effects are in small text underneath the flavors, so they may be easy to miss.

Hibiscus-Berry: Vanity Spirit (person may become temporarily obsessed with appearance, finding cute clothes, getting their hair and nails done, needing to be their ideal of attractive)
Strawberry-Rose: Romantic Spirit (flirtiness, desire to be romantic with someone)
Jasmine-Peach: Friendship Spirit (go out of your way to make new friends, make grand friendship gestures to people you've already befriended or have known for five minutes and want to befriend)
Lavender-Mulberry: Distrusting Spirit (paranoid, may start fights because they think someone is out to get them)
Butterfly Pea-Lemon Tea: Meditative Spirit (fall asleep easily, peaceful/relaxed about alarming things, sudden penchant for Big Thoughts about the universe)
Dandelion-Apple-Banana: Surivival Spirit (sudden desire to do everything yourself, whether that's hunting/gathering food, getting really into DIY projects like making your own soap or building your own chicken hutch because you're going to get your own eggs, or really wanting to live outside for a while)

The effects only last for an hour or two, so it's unlikely any real damage can be done (hopefully) but it'll certainly give you a new outlook on life!

Spring is in the air, the Equinox is coming, and prep is underway. But all work and no play can get a little boring, right? Avalonians have come together and set up a few activities for Adventurers. While all of these activities can be completed and enjoyed without using magic, participants will be encouraged do to so, don’t worry if it goes a little haywire. There are magical force fields around the play zones to contain any mishaps.

A ⦿ Keep it Rollin' Rollin'

The first area set up for fun and games is a barrel rolling contest. Participants are split into pairs to compete against each other to see who can roll their partner inside the barrel down the hill and across the finish line the fastest. Springtime is when geysers start bursting around the bottom of the hill though, so you'll have to watch out for those and any boulders to make sure your barrel doesn't burst before you reach the bottom!

To make things a little more interesting, the planners had a bit of mischief with the barrels... As barrels reach a quarter of a way down the hill, the outside will burst into flames. Surprise! While they are enchanted so that the flames aren't actually hot, participants are not aware of this. Sorry, the guys running this game aren’t that big on explaining; after all, it’s just rolling a fire barrel down the hill; what’s so complicated? Fire makes it look like it's going faster and is way more exciting to watch!

B ⦿ Hop Skip and a Jump

Everyone loves hopscotch, right? Well, whether you do or don’t, that next zone is all about the hop, the skip, and the jump. Two hopscotch boards about the size of a basketball court each are laid out side by side for participants. The object again, to see who can complete the task that fastest. If you reach a spot with a magic symbol, you have to cast a spell at your opponent or you can't proceed. This is combat hopscotch!

Of course, once more, the folks running the show forgot to mention one tiny thing, a quarter of the way into the board, random spots will drop away as you go, leaving holes in the ground! Yikes, better take that leap! Don’t worry, if you miss, the bottom of the hole is filled with marshmallow fluff in bright pink, yellow, and pastel purple. (Kind of reminds you of something, huh...?) Down in the hole are rungs and footholds to get yourself back out, but boy, will that put you behind the other guy if they didn’t fall. Well, guess victory will have to be a little sweeter than you planned!

C ⦿ Gettin' Brewy With It

Now, this activity probably seems a little safer. Welcome to the “Brew” tent. Participants will be given ingredients, space, and set up in pairs to brew up a tasty drink! A variety of ingredients are available and with it, participants will be taught the Recipe: Brewery. This spell can be used to accelerate brewing and distilling processes for alcoholic drinks. Of course, if someone who is too young to drink according to their world's rules, any alcohol in the drink will evaporate, so it's really only a spell that's useful for adults... but everyone can participate in making drinks.

You can pick any ingredients you want, but all participants are instructed that a sprinkle of that magic at just the right time will make it perfect. When asked what the right time is, all they will be told is they’ll know when. Some may get it right, depending on instinct. Others might sprinkle too much and cause the drink to burst all over them and their partner, and their workstation or have some other silly side effect, like make them hiccup uncontrollably or catch a case of the giggles. Or maybe they cast for too long or too short a time and the drink turns sour, turns to ash, grows wings on the cup, and flies away. Brewery magic can be fickle, so there's lots that can go wrong.. but get it right, and you can have one heck of a drink to enjoy!

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( the basics: blaze is a big (very big), sunshiney ninja. former rogue, currently a wandering adventurer. not a warrior of light. )

one ☀ soaking in your arrival

[ Oh, hells, is about the only thought that springs to mind when Blaze quite suddenly finds herself suspended for a split second over the water. Gravity soon takes hold, and down she plummets, what little breath she’d managed to suck in driven from her lungs by the shock of chilly water.

Thankfully, she’s a strong swimmer, and kicks herself back up to the surface to cough and sputter, one hand pulling her soaked hair out of her eyes. It is about this moment a group of manatees come to help bear her to shore, help that she gladly accepts despite not really needing it, if only because she finds the novelty amusing.

On the back of one of the manatees is a small red frog that soon makes itself at home on her head. What a wild morning.

Once on the shore, Blaze takes a moment to sit herself down, stripping off her shoes and socks to shake out some of the water. ]

Coming along for the ride, little friend? [ This, to the frog still nestled happily in her damp hair. Then, a bit louder to catch the attention of anyone nearby, ] I don’t suppose you know what in the seven hells is going on, do you?

two ☀ the lesser banishing of frost fairies

[ How many rabbits does it take to scale a seven-foot-tall woman? One, if he’s tenacious enough, and Blaze seems to have found about a dozen rather tenacious little buggers.

She’s not really a practitioner of magic in the traditional sense, though it was common back home it never really called to her. So, the idea of getting to try a ritual seemed interesting, and it’s certainly nothing she’d never done before. She was not, however, prepared for the invasion of adorable bunnies that followed. Now here she is, sitting cross-legged on the ground and covered in little balls of fluff. She seems almost hesitant to move, not wanting to stand up and dislodge them, lest she risk sending them plummeting to the ground. At least one rabbit seems to have found its way into her hood, another is trying to wiggle under her arm to get into her jacket. ]

Um… little help, if you don’t mind?

[ This is a first for her. ]

three ☀ keep it rollin’ rollin’

[ This whole event looks like a disaster waiting to happen, but it also looks like it’s going to be hilarious, so Blaze couldn’t reasonably turn down the chance to try.

However, there is a bit of a problem – while the barrel she’s been presented with is of perfectly average size, that means it only comes up to her upper thigh. She gives the thing a good once over, but it seems no amount of scrunching herself into a ball will make this easy.

Which is why she instead waves over the nearest person – assuming this is her assigned partner, anyway. ]

I don’t think I’m going to fit. [ She nudges the barrel with the toe of her boot. ] Want to give it a go, instead? I’ll push.

☀ wildcard

[ None of this strike your fancy? Come at me with your own prompt, or hit me up at exposition to plot something out! ]

[Lizzie is similarly here for the hilarity of it all. Clearly, her paissa familiar feels the same way--a little ways away from the event it rolls itself down the hill, picks itself back up, and hops its way back up to the top. In her almost-month with the creature, Lizzie has concluding that it's dumb as a box of rocks. However, she's learning to understand it and find its simplicity more endearing than irritating these days.

A voice calls out to her, and Lizzie turns to see a Roegadyn standing near one of the barrels. Lizzie, at a couple ilms shy of two yalms tall, is short for a Viera but tall compared to most other people here. This woman, however, has at least half a yalm on her.]

I don't know, I think with some grease we might manage it.

[It's a jest. There's no way she's getting into that barrel.]

If I am going to trust you to push me down a hill, I'd like to at least know the name of the woman doing it before we get started. I'm Lizzie.

[She holds out a hand.]

[ Well now! Blaze can’t say she was expecting to find a shade of something familiar in this place, but those ears are pretty unmistakable. She’s only seen one or two Viera in her travels, and even then only at a distance, but they’re awfully hard to mistake.

She gives a good laugh at that joke – a loud, bright “ha!” that shows Lizzie’s sense of humor is appreciated. ]

Grease or no, even if we get me in there, I won’t be getting out again.

[ That’s kind of a shame, honestly. She wanted to try. ]

Blazing Sky, or Blaze, if you like. [ She claps a massive hand over the Viera’s smaller one for a firm handshake. ] Nice to meet you.

[Lizzie's smile grows that much wider at the friendly reception she's given. She likes this woman.]

Nice to meet you, Blaze. I know there are a few Eorzeans around, but I have to admit you're the first Roegadyn I've seen. Are you new here?

[Either that, or Lizzie's been really off the ball. It's hard to miss someone over seven feet tall in a crowd.]

[ She has the right of it, apparently, because Blaze doesn't seem offended in the least. She gives a nod, hands resting on her hips. ]

Fresh out of the lake, actually. I have to say, it's nice to meet someone from the same stomping grounds.

Blazing Sky | FFXIV (non-WoL OC) | Elemental

rollin', rollin', rollin'

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The Lesser Bunnying

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two

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two!

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rollin'..........

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two - bunnies!

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