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EVENT ✨ Tournaments & Trust

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This is the event log for IC comments only! Ask OOC questions/plot/view event notes HERE or use the FAQ for general questions. Click here to view top-level comments only.
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After the departure from Celliwig last month, the people of Celliwig have been working hard to make the area around their town safe again from the angered specters. For now, there are makeshift barriers that are preventing anything from crossing the river, dead or alive, except over the Pure of Heart bridge. It will, at the very least, prevent more from coming over and overwhelming the land surrounding Celliwig again. The city is open and, while the Elphame traders have stuck around to help train people in the proper use and treatment of mounts, the safest way to speak to Elphame is through Celliwig's hall of mirrors. King Arthur, Merlin, and a couple of other members of the royal court entered to speak to Queen Elphame directly in order to find out what information she knew about the Calamity and to begin discussion of what it would take to reclaim Excalibur. With the magics of Avalon having recovered significantly enough to not be at risk of falling apart if some of the otherworlders leave while still maintaining the barrier to keep Avalon safe, they need to begin discussing action. At the same time, in celebration of King Arthur's arrival and a royal wedding within Celliwig, a tournament is underway! Celliwig's tournaments work a little differently, however, and focus on a little more than just combat skills-- a modern tournament for the modern person. (Though there is fighting as well, of course.) Celliwig's Top Talents Tourney hasn't been held in a good many years since it's been closed off, so everyone is invited to participate. Invitations have been sent to all of Camelot's residents. The tournament categories are as follows:
Anyone who shows up to either participate in or watch the tournament will receive 50% off a hotel room and a single (Potion) Counter-curse. How the tournament will be run is a little different from an OOC standpoint. Any characters can participate, but in order to determine a winner, we will need anyone who thinks their characters skill is great enough to win to comment to the name of the tournament they are entering HERE! If your character would have canon advantages in a category, write +1 advantage in your comment. (So if you are from an idol series, you'll have a leg up on singing, or if your character is a skilled assassin in their canon, they could gain a +1. It won't guarantee they win, but it will give them a leg up so we're not ignoring their skill!) If you do not think your character has any chance at winning, please do not comment. (Someone who's never cooked a day in their life isn't going to magically win the cooking competition, you know?) If you think/want your character to lose even if they may have skills, we do not need your information. This is only an RNG for potential winners. We will RNG the winners from those who comment for each competition as linked. ICly, anyone who wants to thread any part of it out, go for it! You can thread out watching, you can thread out participating, interfering, anything you want! Thread out having an intimate moment with a healer after a battle, a tearful failure and hurt/comfort consolation, buying a round of vodka flashes for your fellow losers. Whatever you want! Just have fun. ![]()
The day after the end of the tournament days, all seems well and peaceful as usual within the city of Celliwig. The mirror hall that King Arthur's party had gone into is still closed shut. The Hall is guarded by a 7 foot tall man with a long, scraggly beard and huge rippling muscles named Glewlwyd IV. (You may have seen him around at past events.) None may enter until negotiations are completed, and it is his sacred duty passed down by his ancestors to ensure that none shall pass his guard. Most in Celliwig won't even try, knowing the futility of such an action, which is why it is particularly peculiar that Gwion can be found yelling outside of the halls that they need to be let in. After an argument and a call to action, some other worlders chose to find Gwion and ask questions.
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I was about to!! Just let me tell him to shove it, and I'll get going!
[His reflection arrives in the mirror they're now next to, grinning from ear to ear.]
Aw! You keep collecting girlfriends somehow! How would Mitsuba feel if she saw that? After how you treated her...
Excuse me?! You're full of shit!! She's blind and ran into me by accident, can't you see?!
[He lifts 2B's fringe so Mirror Hijikata can see her blindfold. Never mind that Hijikata clearly realised that she pummeled him away from the original mirror on purpose... either he changed tracks of thought really fast, or he's actually proficient at quickly pulling explanations and excuses out of thin air.]
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[2B swats his hand away from the hair and brushes it back into its usual neatness (after kindly catching him when she saw him topple from their collision). This isn't the first time anyone's commented on the visor, and she should have expected it, but it hasn't grown any less irritating since her arrival.
But there's no time to dwell on trivial things. Not when he's putting himself at risk of being sucked through the glass like she almost was.]
It is full of shit. [She practically growls it at the mirror. Don't call her names!] But if you keep this up any longer, you'll end up just like him. And I don't think you want that.
[Her fist comes up to punch at the mirror, hard enough for it to echo, but only just soft enough not to crack it.]
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Hey, hey! I wasn't doing anything to him, he just needs a pep talk! He's on the wrong track with his life, so as his reflection I want to help!
Just stop while you're ahead. I know what I'm doing, I don't need a pep talk from a mirror.
[He turns to 2B.]
Let's get moving.
Now just wait a moment! Don't you see that you're acting like a dog? You barely know King Arthur! Is he even qualified--
I know him well enough to decide that he deserves my support. Now shut up, or the young Miss will shatter you.
[Since when did 2B come under his command?! But in fairness, he's probably just hoping that she'll go along with it. Nevertheless he starts marching towards the grand mirror (or.. where he hopes it is; it's goddamn dark and maze-like in here), trusting 2B to come along and hoping that Mirror Hijikata will be wise enough to stay behind. Should Mirror 2B show up, well, they'll deal with that then.]
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But then he turns from the mirror and 2B follows, but not without a grunt of protest back at his reflective self that had dared address her in the first place. When she catches up, falling into a stride beside him, she peers up.]
Don't call me Miss. There is no need to be formal.
[And she hates it!
With that out of the way, she gives the mirrors a glance over her shoulders.]
Why not break it? It will just keep coming back until it's dealt with.
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[He has no idea what might happen to the wizard and the others if all the mirrors were shattered, and in any case this hold-up smacks of a delay tactic, so he keeps a fast pace. Was the Hall of Mirrors this hard to navigate when he first entered it to deliver the crystals for the Pure of Heart and Brave of Soul Mirror half a year ago? The darkness sure doesn't help. He summons a flame in his palm to light the way a little.]
What should I call you if not Miss? I'm--
[Before he can give her his name his reflection pops up in the nearest mirror and cuts him off in a mocking tone.]
Toshirou Hijikata, Demon Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi!
-- Hijikata will do.
sorry for the wait!!
She really does look like she's blind.
And she's just righting herself when the reflection appears in front of her, inside the one that she's collided with. It doesn't startle her so much as it does piss her off, because why the HELL are there so many of these, and with a mighty shove, she knocks the entire thing over. It shatters and scatters glass shards all across the floor.
...
Well, that took care of him at least. 2B gives a low 'hmph' and spins to face the real Hijikata, as if that didn't just happen.]
YoRHa unit Number 2, Type B. But please, call me 2B.
[She salutes, hand across her chest.]
A pleasure, Mister Hijikata.
No worries!
Likewise. Let's keep going.
[He's really worried for King Arthur, but that doesn't mean that they can't keep talking while they speedwalk through the confusing maze.]
YoRHa, hm? What do you guys do?
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They still have a king to save, after all. But past this, 2B has no idea where to go and what she's looking for, so she's glad to explain what it is she does instead.]
An army, [she begins between steps.] Created to fight on the frontlines of the 14th Machine War, and to return Earth to its rightful owners.
[And then, she remembers that there's always that one question that's raised following the explanation, so before he can ask, she adds on:] Androids.
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Damn, fourteen wars in a row? Good grief.
[If his Earth hadn't surrendered to the Amanto after "just" one war he might have wondered if 2B could possibly be from his same world, just a few centuries down the line... but as it is that seems unlikely.]
Who conquered your Earth?
[His big misunderstanding here is that the war is called the Machine War after the androids fighting in it... this may cause some friction just a short bit down the line, maybe.]
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[And thus, chased humanity out of its home. She wonders what it would have been like to have been there when that happened, and if YoRHa had existed when it did, would it have happened at all? Trivial wonders, of course, and something she tries not to waste too much of her time contemplating.
Not that she will have much time to, because they happen upon a mirror, much larger than the rest at the end of their path. One that's much more ornate, and it's the way its trim glints under Pod's light that catches 2B's eye.]
... Is this what we are looking for?
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Yeah.
[That's when the laughter starts, strangely echoing from all the mirrors around, and Arthur turns around, sword drawn and eyes aglow.]
Shit.
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Whatever the magic is that lingers in here, it's infected the King the same way the logic virus did the androids, didn't it?
She can't be sure, but—]
That's not a king.
[Or is it? It's hard to tell from here, and even harder with the way his eyes glow. Other versions of him pass through the mirrors lining the corridor they stand in, and 2B whips around to catch one just as it flits between them and disappears.
She growls.]
I think we should break them all.
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No, don't! Merlin and other people are trapped in the mirrors; we don't know what'll happen to them if we destroy them all.
[He exchanges a couple of sword blows with another Arthur copy, then kicks him away, trying to avoid lethal injuries since he already lost sight of the original.]
I tried it earlier, and the mirror broke alright, but the trapped man was simply pushed back deeper into the endless reflections. I found him again in another mirror.
[Poor Emet-Selch. Hopefully no one else will come by and make it worse for him. Meanwhile some other death mages have started to forge a way towards the main mirror, having identified it as the possessed source of all the replicas, but Hijikata will need another moment before he catches up with the plan. He's still pretty new to the whole exorcism business, all things considered.]
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She clicks her tongue in response, turning around to whip out her sword just in time to catch Hijkata block a swing from a copy. He hasn't taken it down completely, and she'd like to make sure the job is finished, but there are more of them still crawling out of the mirrors, laughing at them as they draw their blades, the sound of metal screeching echoing through the chamber.]
Fine. I'll do my best.
[Not to break a mirror that is, because not one, but two swords are out now, a smaller katana-like blade and a much larger greatsword, swinging around until they're floating on either side of them. And with the use of her magic, she sends them flying out to the left and right, piercing through two brand new copies. The blades stop just short of the mirrors they've come out of, leaving small cracks in their center.]
Where is the real one?
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I've got no clue! They all look the same! Have you got blood magic by any chance?
[Even if she did, with all the bodies on this poorly lit battleground she'd likely be hard-pressed to tell the one human king apart from all the other living people. However Hijikata finally takes note of the exorcism activity that's starting around the mirror.]
Actually, change of plans: I'll help cleanse the mirror! I hope that'll stop this shitshow. Can you give me cover?
[Usually it would be him covering the back of whatever spellcaster he ends up with, but it seems like this time the roles will have to be reversed. He only just met 2B, but he's trusting his gut feeling here, and it tells him that she won't let him down.]
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[She complies without question, swords still spinning around in front of her to keep the copies back. Meanwhile, she turns to her Pod.]
Pod, scan for organic lifeforms. See if we can find the real one.
[The support unit beeps in affirmation, but it's a long while before she even gets a response, so she busies herself with the copies, beating them down as they come, but cautious not to destroy them completely in the event that it's the real Arthur that she hits. Kinetic magic comes in handy as well, with her carefully sending it out in waves to knock them off their feet.]
"Organic lifeform detected." [The Pod's light shines on one King Arthur, flitting between a pair of mirrors. 2B grumbles under her breath, wanting to chase after him, but Hijikata is her first priority.]
What's the status on the mirror?
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Ah...
[He takes a brief break at 2B's inquiry, breathing heavily from the exertion, and scans his fellow death mages' progress.]
We're at 40%, give or take!
[Luckily others have started supporting the exorcists by cloaking them in shadows or glamours to hide them from view, so if 2B pursues the Arthur her pod singled out Hijikata has a decent chance of remaining undisturbed.]
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Hopefully the sound of a metal shield against a sword isn't too distracting, because the collision is loud enough to vibrate in 2B's head. Her teeth clench when she fights back, and she manages to push him off of her, sending him reeling back into a mirror that shatters against his armour. Well, one mirror won't hurt.
As for the real Arthur, he's taken off further down the hall, and while 2B would like nothing more than to pursue him and ask him WHAT THE HELL, she's committed herself to protecting Hijikata, and refuses to leave his side. Instead, she orders her Pod to follow, and it does with an affirmative beep.]
What will exorcising the mirrors do?
[She finds herself asking without even thinking, wandering up to an empty mirror to peer into the glass.]
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[That's his hope, at least. He starts up the next exorcism more viciously and aggressively, trying to tune out the battle sounds all around and shut up the voice inside that tells him that that's where he should be, damn it, and the next ghost is forced from the mirror in a much shorter time. They're making good headway! As the spectres lose ground the replica production does slow down notably. 60%, 80%... before long there should be only one King Arthur left as the fake ones disintegrate.]
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Is he okay? Is it even safe to approach him? And what of the mirrors? How are they supposed to know whether or not they're all gone? She trusts that Hijikata and the other mages were able to do the job, but should something new crawl out of there, she could never forgive herself for letting her guard down if anyone got hurt.
2B approaches Hijikata first, a hand finding a place on his back once the exorcism is complete, while her Pod maintains a watchful "eye" on the King.]
You'll be alright?
[She knows that magic can take its toll on a person, and... well, she's here for this one.]
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mana barmagic endurance. He musters a nod.]Yeah. I'm just drained; I'll be fine.
[He takes a deep breath, then lifts his head to check on the main mirror. Satisfied to see all crystals free of that unearthly blue glow he looks around until his eyes find the king. Luckily healers are already swarming towards him.]
Go give them cover as they fix him up, just in case.
[He's confident that he himself will be fine after just a little break... he wants to close his eyes, but he'll keep them open and instead reward himself with a cigarette.]
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Pod, stay here. Keep an eye out and make sure nothing else can harm him.
[The Pod beeps.]
"Affirmative."
Please take it easy. I'll make sure that he gets out of here safely.
[With one last pat on his shoulder, 2B rises to her feet and lifts her hand in a salute across her chest.]
Glory to Mankind.
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He'll have to think further about all that later, though. For the moment he lights up a cigarette, briefly glancing up at the pod, and leans back against the cool surface of a pillar while keeping his half-lidded eyes on the surroundings, just in case any of the ghosts decide that they want another round.]