isleofavalon | EVENT ✨ Fall Equinot

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SUMMARY: In the days leading up to the fall equinox, geese intended for eating escape and cause havoc around town, people share techniques to preserve plants for the winter, and Camelot's citizens compete to make the best light shows with traditional wax candles to draw spirits peacefully into Camelot.

With all the harder preparations gathered for the Fall Equinox, throughout the month people will notice that decorations start going up around town. The colors of fall seem to seep throughout Camelot, but more than that, so do more traditional sights and smells. In the days leading up to the equinox, traditional acts such as the sacrifice and consuming of flesh are performed. Well.. normally they would be. The fattened geese that are normally eaten in preparation for the equinox have escaped and are causing havoc around town. Geese are running around causing trouble for everyone-- stealing glasses, opening gates, putting up toilet seats when people try to sit down so they fall in the bowl... all kinds of madness! Even if you weren't intent on eating geese and were going to settle for the vegetarian option (pumpkin and nut soups are frequently served using the gourd itself as a bowl), you have to agree the general public needs to be rescued from these menaces. If you have the stomach for it, you are welcome to keep one of the geese you capture for your own table... but otherwise, please return the birds to the farm where they can be handled accordingly.

Birds are not the only sacrifice made to the autumnal equinox. As the flowers begin to reach the end of their life, there is a strong tradition of gathering flowers and herbs and preserving them for the upcoming winter, either to protect their beauty, scent, edibility, and sometimes magical properties. The simplest form of preservation is, of course, drying and pressing-- a technique you don't need magic for, but some of the locals will happily teach you. A more advanced technique can be learned to enchant glass bell jars to suspend the lifeforce of any living thing within its grasp for up to a year, if no one opens it. It's a technique used to preserve important or rare plants that may otherwise die out during the winter, such as herbs used in your favorite spell.. or dish. The glass bell jar will protect the plant, but each time it is picked up, a single petal or leaf will fall off of the plant. If all the leaves fall off, the plant becomes unrecoverable, and come spring the caster will find themselves cursed with a touch that wilts any plant they come in contact with. So if you choose to use this, be warned that there are consequences for misuse and a wide number of horror stories from people who have tried to use this spell for anything other than plants. Any type of mage can pour their magic into a bell jar to enchant it, and the type of magic will be reflected in a glass design that forms around the rim and handle. (An elemental mage may have glass flames form, or frosted etchings of your favorite animal may appear if you're an animal mage, and so on. Feel free to get creative.) Green mages may find this magic a little useless, since they can just replenish plants with their own magic, but it's still a good technique to know.. just in case!

Perhaps the most beautiful tradition that takes form leading up to the autumnal equinox is the candle pathway. Every street in Camelot will be lit up with thousands of candles for two nights leading up to the autumnal equinox, as a guiding light to help the spirits find their way to Avalon. The way the streets in Camelot are mapped out, the lights will form a path to the square where the fairy coins are being held until their release on September 22nd, the same area where the guardian egg ceremony had been performed. Some people get very creative with their lighting displays, which can sometimes result in beautifully lit streets and magnificent structures of flames. Accidents are quickly quelled by volunteer elemental mages throughout the city to prevent any structural damage. Some people might be compelled to make their own light display the most outstanding on the block, and it becomes a bit of a game to compete with your neighbors to see whose section of the candle pathway is the most extravagant.

SUMMARY: The autumn equinox ritual is interrupted by a huge earthquake caused by a Stone Giant bursting out of the Ash Mountains, bringing the closest Ash Mountain and Lestari to the ground. The purple dragon erupts from the ruins to attack Celliwig. The survivors of the collapse need help desperately. Characters must choose where they go to determine the fate of Avalon.

Calm and mundane preparations are a nice break from the sometimes stressful lives of Camelot's citizens and otherworlders, who often are asked to embark on life-threatening adventures and tasks. It's probably a good thing most of the month has been relatively peaceful, as things need to go a little bit differently this year on the fall equinox itself... but not as differently as they actually do.

In the town square, elaborate celtic-similar symbols are carved out into the ground and filled with mysterious glowing liquids. All of those who gained guardian tattoos and their attendants were asked to attend a ritual to release them on the night of the 22nd, along with anyone else who would like to witness. Everything is ready and as the witching hour approaches, several individuals dressed in flowing robes with their faces painted like skeletons approach. As the leader raises his voice to explain why they've come and what to do to make this night a success, a sudden shock-- Avalon itself shakes with the might of an earthquake... or at least, that's what it seems like for the first few minutes as everyone gathers themselves until they hear mass screaming in the distance. Though it's hard to see what's going on... there are still some very, very obvious problems.

A stone giant rises from the first of the Ash Mountains, crumbling the mountain around it as if the ancient being were holding the very mountain itself up... and it was. Those who visited Lestari will have seen its giant feet within the underground city. The former city. Lestari is now buried beneath the mountain, along with many of the other creatures living on and around the mountain. A huge storm of mixed weather forms above the giant's head, blizzard and lightning raging around it to no avail. As the people of Camelot watch what's only visible at a macro distance, they may not be as quick to notice that all of the fairy coins have begun glowing vibrantly, then suddenly burst out of the jars they've been held in, shattering right through them to fly off en-masse toward the stone giant. They embed themselves in it, fueling the giant with enough power to both begin to walk away from the rubble and for the spirits that have begun gathering in Avalon to head toward it, rather than where they had been intended.

As if that were not enough, after the Stone Giant takes two large steps through the Land of Rot, the gargantuan cloud of dust covering the ruins of the first of the Ash Mountain range rather suddenly lights up with a vibrant, ultra-violet burst of flames that illuminates the smoke. The gargantuan purple dragon that once took up residence in the mountain clambors out of the dust and shoots straight into the sky, enraged and furious, and able to sense where the magic came from that raised the stone giant. The reason it immediately begins flying toward Celliwig with the intent to raze it to the ground is likely not immediately apparent, but it is quite odd that it bypasses the much closer target of Camelot with its rage. As does the Stone Giant, though it does not head toward Celliwig and instead seems to absorb the souls of the dead that were intended to be guided by the fall equinox's rituals as it lumbers through the land. If someone does not stop it, it is headed for the Forest of the Felled.

King Arthur is immediately on the emergency broadcast system to implore people to join one of three groups:

Investigate and stop the Stone Giant

Slay the dragon and save Celliwig

Rescue survivors of Lestari and the Ash Mountain

The success of each of these missions is dependent on character participation. See the poll for details about how certain character types may affect the outcome of the missions.

~~Please refer to Event Poll Notes for information about aftermath of this event and additional event info~~ > Event Outcomes.

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Alright, it here goes.

(Harry soon places the beam onto where Makoto had pointed him to put it in and begins to push it hard against the boulder as hard as he could muster. Despite being weaker than the boulder itself, the beam is actually managing to hold up very well while he does his best to push it out of the entrance.)

Don’t worry, we’ll get you out of here in no time.

(It does took him a while to dislodge it, but after minutes of a lot of pushing (although it does seem to feel like forever for him), the boulder slowly begins to dislodge itself away from the entrance as he pushes it away. Soon enough, it begins to roll off from the entrance and onto an empty dirt road.)

[With their combined powers, it definitely seemed to work after a few moments of struggle. Makoto quickly stepped out of the way when it fell, the earth around them shaking as it landed. But it was soon dragged away and Makoto immediately to remove any last bits of debris, reaching in to start pulling people out.]

There we go, we got you. Easy, one by one...

[Makoto looked over his shoulder.]

Hey, there's some first aid in my bag. If you know any, can you patch up the ones who have minor injuries? I can use my healing magic if there's anyone with anything serious.

Oh sure, I will try my best to assist in that.

(He takes the first aid kit from Makoto and begins to do an assessment on any survivor who only has minor injuries and where to tend them. Thankfully all of the injuries they have are not that bad so he begins to tend to their wounds despite not having healing magic on hand.

He was worried about how these people got caught up in this disaster in where their home used to stand and he is hoping that the citizens of Celliwig are going to be okay as well.)

Thanks.

[Makoto got to work as well, but it looks like there weren't many with anything too serious so eventually, he settled on patching them up as well after cleaning their wounds with water magic.

After that, they were directed to where many of the survivors were being taken to for the time being. Makoto sighed heavily, packing up his bag and assessing his supplies.]

I hope everyone else is okay... the ones fighting that Stone Giant and the dragon, you know?

I am also hoping for the same thing as well. It’s been a while since everyone got into different teams and try to help out. To be honest, I never expect to see this much destruction just right in the middle of the Autumn Equinox.

(His stomach is twisting into knots as he spoke: the damages he is seeing remind of the ruins of Hogwarts after the battle and the memories do hurt. It also hurts him to see the people of Lestari being homeless and possibly losing any loved ones they might have.)

Hoot, hoot, hoot.

I know, Hedwig, there is a lot of going on right now.

I’d like to say I’ve never seen this much destruction at all but that’s not really true anymore. I just don’t remember it being quite this… well, quite like this, I guess.

[Lunatia had a lot going on sometimes, but they always seemed to manage to pull through. This… seemed a bit bleak. Too bleak. A rampaging dragon and a stone giant with no victory in sight?

Makoto rubbed his arm, trying to keep himself from shaking too much.]

A-Anyway, we should see if we can get to any others. All we can do is our best at this point.

(Harry is trying his best not to lose it during the rescue mission and keeping dangerous creatures at bay. There are still people in need of help and there is no time to stop for too long.

Good point: maybe we should go around the rubble and see if there is still anyone alive underneath.

(Hedwig then hears cries for help from another section of Lestari’s ruins and she alerts Harry to the site of the sound source: people being trapped underneath the rubble.)

Hey, I think my owl has been able to track down some more survivors over there. Let’s go over there quickly and get them out of the rubble.

EVENT ✨ Fall Equinot

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