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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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soaking in your arrival; cw: drowning

Water.

Until rather recently, Kirishima has always been terrified of deep water. It's not because of what might be hiding within it - though that is pretty creepy - but because up until the last couple of years he's never been that confident about controlling his Quirk, a supernatural ability granted to almost everyone in his world for better or for worse. Tension was what activated his, transforming his skin into rough stone and altering his density accordingly. He'd accidentally cut himself with it in the past - cut other people, smashed fragile things for gripping them in just the wrong way, and bashed through furniture other people stubbed their toes against too.

So when the summer pool and beach parties rolled around, Eijiro stuck to the shallows. He had his fun, all the while cheerfully finding a way to excuse himself from that surfing lesson, that race in the Olympic sized pool,anything where his Quirk betraying him could lead to what he considered to be an ignoble and painful death. Since he'd really started training himself to enter U.A.'s hero program and subsequently spent almost another year training under multiple mentors, activating his Quirk had become an asset to him and those he chose to protect. Finally, Kirishima can be confident in having a choice when it comes to his body ( at least 99% of the time when it comes to his Quirk ) and need fear the water no longer.

But he forgets that during the moment of impact against the surface of the Bay.

The old terror is back in the instant Kirishima feels water enveloping him, filling his unprepared nose and lungs. And with the water, the nightmarish thoughts of the struggle to the surface making parts of his body into stone come flooding back in. He'd become more afraid and distressed by not being able to breathe - it's only natural - and thus more heavy for it, sinking further and further into the abyss, only able to unlock himself from his petrified state when he accepted his lonely demise and breathed the water in.

These thoughts do pass into Kirishima's mind as he sinks into the chilly waters of the Bay and begins to feel his lungs burn. But in that moment of chaos, of adrenaline, there is clarity that the last year of training to fight villains - some of who would mostly like nothing better than to kill him - brings. Eijiro simply decides he's not going to die. Not like this, not with so many people counting on him.

And this works for him, allowing him ease some of the pressure in his lungs by exhaling a bit. He follows the bubbles up, frog-kicking his legs, telling himself all the while he will reach the surface. This is either a dream or some sort of villain's trick to subdue him during the operation to invade their nest. He's got this!

The swim to shore, after a few great gulps of air and a glance around, is single-minded and along the same lines. It's only when he's sitting on the shore that he takes stock of his surroundings. Not for very long, though! Because right away he spots what looks like another person struggling in the Bay - not only that, several dark shapes are approaching them! Crazy what the imagination can conceive of shadows, which is what the slow-moving but large manatees look like from a distance to Kirishima.

And just like that, the fear is wholly doused, crumpling out of the way in favor of the determination to swim out and save this person! Pulling the length of fabric free from his costume, Kirishima jumps back into the water, planning to throw it out to this person and more or less become their one-man tug-boat to shore.

... Hopefully he'll be forgiven if he's mistaken about the aforementioned person needing his help and/or for punching one of those sweet manatees right in the snout.

greater summoning of moon bunnies;

This hotel they've got to accommodate newcomers really must have some good insurance or else some dedicated mages for damages, because they've committed themselves to a bunch of people who've probably never practiced magic in their lives.

Despite coming from a world where the majority of people were predisposed to have supernatural abilities, Kirishima's still in the stage where it boggles his mind watching magic at work. One moment he's trying out gardening in order to help banish this chilly as hell weather and in the next his room seems to explode with white rabbits. Are these the frost fairies? Man, he really should have read ahead in the ritual instructions, huh? Because now they're covered in furry bodies, getting kicked off under his bed by strong hind feet in the pursuit of leaping onto him.

He's already called out for help from his familiar, but the stone liondog sits still and silent even as one of the kits wriggles up between her brows towards her carved and curly man. Considering her lost, Kirishima stumbles out into the hallway, looking like a poorly-made mech of an abominable cowboy with the way he makes award and broad steps with his arms stretched out to his sides as if for drawing twin-shooters. This is his way of not hurting the animals while also not encouraging them to get any more comfortable than they already are.

Now for every rabbit he seems to tug off of him, it seems another takes the opportunity to hop on while he's bent over to set the other down, or else dart back inside of his room.

"Look! There's someone else!" He announces, pointing. Normally Kirishima wouldn't roll another person under the bus, but... The bunnies are awfully cute, he needs help sharing the load, and he doesn't actually think they'll go flooding down the hall towards this person.

But they do.

the language of flowers;

a.
It takes about five minutes of Kirishima reading over the flower guide before his eyes want to cross. Ugh, they couldn't add any pictures to this list? He's not a total idiot, but he's definitely not a gardener either, and this wall of words is making him feel a bit overwhelmed.

"What d'you think our message ought to be?" He tries a different tack, addressing his partner. "Something about adventure? OH! OR A FEAST!"

Kirishima, this is about enticing the dragons, not you...

b.
For the first time, Kirishima's really getting to see his familiar in action and it... is pretty damn awesome. It's bittersweet, reminding him for a moment of how one of his mentors, All Might, suggested he use his Quirk to just bulldoze through to his opponents if not into them. Watching his komainu turn skeletal warriors into so much powder, as if she were plowing through a snowdrift rather than bone, is really making him miss his original abilities. It looks really fun...

Eijiro, for his own part, has managed to pick up a surviving bone - he thinks it's maybe from the leg? - and now wields it like a club against their attackers.

"On your left!" He alerts his nearby companion, and proceeds to try and bat the skull off his opponent into the same one he pointed out.

rollin' rollin' rollin'

Kirishima loves team games! And the barrel rolling reminds him of some of the various school festivals he's been involved in. Simpler times to be sure.

"Hey," He addresses who he's been paired with. If they're strangers, he jerks both thumbs to himself, "Not to brag, but I'm pretty strong! Either way you wanna do it, we've got this!"

If he knows the person, obviously this is a great time for a little humor. "You wanna rock-paper-scissors who's goin' in the barrel?"

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[ Even though there is absolutely no intent to harm the little furry critters just hopping along, doing what bunnies do... Seeing a shadow of a bird is always going to startle. Ruby is small enough to fit through the hallways. Kirishima better be mindful of his head, because the phoenix is swooping by. In the process it does, in fact, startle a few of the rabbits out of the way.

Now if the redhead bothers to follow the bird, he'll find that he lands on a shoulder. A familiar shoulder that's actually walking away from the scene behind him.

Someone better catch up. ]

[ Of course more than anything it's the red that gets his attention, catching his eye like a fire set in a frozen tundra. He does not, in fact, watch his head and so Kirishima will take whatever punishment he's got coming to him for that on the chin ( or the forehead, temple, whatever ).

There's a much more affected yelp from him as one of the kits decides the best way to shelter from the bird is to burrow right down his pajama shirt from the collar. His arms immediately devote themselves to digging the little creature out before it scratches up his chest too badly, flinging the rabbits on his arms harmlessly to the floor in the process, though what he actually ends up doing is clutching it to him.

Because the silhouette of the bird's apparent companion is all too familiar. His heart feels like it stops for a moment, then comes back with a vengeance at twice the speed. Or maybe what he's actually feeling is the result of the bunny's heartbeat radiating into the skin of his own sternum.

Is wishful thinking just making him see shit that's not there? Kirishima shuffles after the blonde's back, going at a pace that means he's wading through the creatures rather than risk stepping on them to run. If he's wrong, his next move can't hurt, but if he's right... ]

BAKUGOU!

[ He might lose a little bit of hair off of the top. That's all. Ruby is, surprisingly, a very well behaved bird.

The sound of that voice, that yelling and his name, makes Katsuki stop in his tracks. He turns, phoenix giving a bit of a chirp. Sure enough he's greeted by the stupid sight of of his best damn friend. A friend he hasn't seen in kind of a long time at this point, but hey. This little blackhole of a world just seems to be pulling all sorts.

Why not Kirishima too? ]

The hell took you, huh? You wanna scoot around in your pjs or what?

[ Just saying... ]

[ Welp.

Kirishima takes a moment, smoothly pulling the baby rabbit out from beneath his shirt. Since he's had his hands around it and squished it up against his chest, the creature has calmed considerably as a semblance of security had been established. The redhead sets the kit on the ground...

Then goes running full tilt down the hallway towards Bakugou, who probably should have been more careful with his wording. A few tears eek out of the corners of Eijiro's eyes as he dashes towards his friend, who hasn't been missing in his life for nearly as long but long enough for Kirishima to have to go through the trauma of being Quirkless in a foreign land without him.

You bet your ass he's going to try to swoop the bastard up into a hug! ]

What the hell do you mean what took me?! Where've you been, man?

[ He's pretty much shouting at the other, but it is happy shouting. Kirishima's overjoyed to see him in spite of the circumstances. ]

[ Yeah he definitely should have expected Kirishima to come speeding at him like some shark-toothed missile. Bakugou barely has enough time to throw a hand out to stop the idiot before that can happen. Unfortunately this dislodges Ruby. She does not appreciate that and will have to find some kind of other perch. At least for the time being. ]

OI! DON'T GO AND TOUCH SOMEONE WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION! WHERE ARE YOUR DAMN MANNERS!?

[ Not that Kirishima is going to listen. He never listens. And, honestly, that's probably for the best. Bakugou would hate to admit it out loud, but this asshole is one of the only people that can get away with this garbage. ]

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