If you go down to the woods today... (open log)

[sos_pilot]

🧙 WHO: Della Duck & You!
⚔️️ WHAT: After the Animal Mage Hunt last month, Della is throwing a small shindig to help them all relax. Food, games, face paint, and awkward questions for everyone. You don't have to be an animal mage/animal person to come, everyone's invited!
🕒 WHEN: First Weekend of the Month.
🗺️ WHERE: Brocéliande, a.k.a the local forest.
⚠️ WARNINGS: N/A.

Delightful Decorations
Do you miss your ears and tail from the temporary spell the month before? There’s a box to slightly cure that! It’s filled with fake animal decorations including cat-ear headbands, fluffy fox tails to clip on your pants, feathery wings to hang on your shoulders, and so on. If you’re feeling a bit more colorfully creative, there’s also face paint! Pick a partner to practice on!

Food Festivities
What’s a party without grub? There’s a big wooden table surrounded by little wooden chairs so you can get your snack on. In keeping with the theme, there are cookies shaped like cat-heads, sandwiches cut to resemble webbed duck feet, and plenty of veggie platters for those who feel they can’t eat what they resembled for a while. At least the tea is normal. Feel free for your character to have brought along their own food to share as well!

Games Galore
Why sit around when you can get some exercise? The easy to play Pin The Tail On The Griffin, where you’re blindfolded and have to pin the tail on the paper griffin on a tree… and hopefully no one else. Or make Tag way more exciting by trying to grab one of the fake tails from earlier off of your friend’s butt! Since you’re in the woods, there’s also a contest to see who can climb trees the fastest! The prize is bragging rights. And maybe a cupcake.

AMA - Animal Edition
Let’s face it -when you’re surrounded by all kinds of new species, you get curious. Here’s your chance to clear the air and learn something new – there’s a big red chair with a label on the back – ASK ME ANYTHING. Anyone who sits in it is volunteering to answer whatever is asked of them. Of course, there’s no guarantee it’ll be the truth… you trolls know who you are.

As a reminder, according to our lovely locations page, “It is cautioned against magic in these woods, as the mystical forces within tend to interfere and cause them to go awry.” We definitely wouldn’t want that happening, wink wink nudge nudge.

Comments

[pricklybloom]

Oh wow, really? Did you ever get to meet any of the fae there?

[phoenixwiz]

I did meet a couple of fae and pixies during the Winter Solstice: apparently they told me to sprinkle some magical water onto a rock and I got one of my good memories as the result, though that practise did led to a wild weather problem afterwards.

As for the pixies, I found myself dancing with a couple of them after I accidentally stepped on a fairy circle and got shrunk.

[pricklybloom]

Well, it sounds like things with them are never boring at least.

But how did that lead to the weather problems?

[phoenixwiz]

A lot of people sprinkled the magical fountain water onto a magical rock called Merlin’s Step and, because there were so many people trickling water at the rock, it caused the weather to act up and woke up the Black Knight. The Fae has a tendency to not tell the whole story behind things sometimes.

[pricklybloom]

Huh...that's kind of...negligent. And a bit dangerous.

[phoenixwiz]

I agree, that does sound a little terrible when you are just given very little information on a ritual you are not familiar with before trying it out and not knowing of the crazy things that could possibly happen.

(He couldn’t get over that winter thunderstorm that plagued Camelot for hours and how everyone had to seek shelter in cellars and waited in there for hours until a few volunteers step in to get the Black Knight’s sword.)

Morganna did sent us an apology on behalf of the fae with the help of the Lady of the Lake and she had instructed us to retrieve the Black Knight’s sword so she could restore the weather back to normal.

[pricklybloom]

Well, that's good at least. But does that happen a lot? Being told to do something without all the info?

[phoenixwiz]

Very rarely so far. I do know that the people of Celliwig did gave us all the information about the Summer Solstice ritual before we started it which is a good thing, though the spirits attacking people on the bridge part was out of their control.

Apparently, them allowing us to enter their city after a few months was a big no-no to those angry spirits.

[pricklybloom]

Oh yeah? Did they say why?

[phoenixwiz]

Well, no one isn’t sure why just yet, I could also tell during the bridge incident that they didn’t expect to see that coming as well. I do hope that they can explain about it in detail someday, even if it could take them a long while to sort it out.

[pricklybloom]

[ She nods. ] Yeah, hopefully. It does make it kinda tough to help them if there's stuff they're not telling us.

[phoenixwiz]

Same here, I just hope that they can sort the whole angry spectral spirit situation out real soon and find the solution to it as well. The least we can do now is just hope for the best.

[pricklybloom]

Yeah. [ She nibbles on another brownie. ]

[phoenixwiz]

(He nods back as he takes another bite of his cream puff and Rose also nods in silence as she recalls about getting her fur wet during that time along with Hedwig who also chimes in with her hoots as well.)