EVENT ✨ Something (Celli)Wigged This Way Comes

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Autumn, despite the chillier weather, is a season of warmth and gathering. Perhaps moreso this year than normal, given the rather unplanned gathering of Celliwig and Lestari underneath Camelot's roofs. Though significant contributions from otherworlders have made food, shelter, clothes and other productions and donations, medical care, security and protection, and childcare an amazing group effort, typical individual celebrations for the departure of the dead from Avalon aren't being held, like Lestari's Death Ball. After looking at all the support they've been given, Lestari and Celliwig have looked at what they have to offer to help both their own people and the people of Camelot and other worlds.

The people of Lestari excel in cognitive magic, and while there are those who use it for mind-altering magics, there is a good portion who dedicate their studies to emotional and psychological support. One such method is the enchantment of origami paper into something affectionately called Worry Monsters: an specialized counseling technique used to help form support bonds between people with negative emotions. Having spent a portion of the month enchanting paper, two square sheets of paper are handed out to anyone the encounter. The first paper says: "Personifying your emotions can give them a tangible form and make them easier to face. Write down something that causes you worry, stress, fear, or sadness. This is your Worry Monster." The second paper says: "When your Worry Monster is present, how does it make you feel? Any reaction is valid."
When both papers are written on, the writing on both will disappear as if absorbed by the paper, then the pages will animate and fuse, then begin to fold into a monster! Halloween is this month, is it not? There is no sense in not having a little fun. These little Worry Monsters will stomp off and begin roaming Camelot until they find a match-- someone who shares those feelings. Once they find an emotional matching Worry Monster, the monsters will return to their creator and grow to the size of kaiju. They are very light, enchanted paper, so even if someone or something gets stepped on, they won't be hurt or damaged. However, they are strong enough to pick their makers up and carry them to the matching monster who will do the same. Don't worry-- characters will be invisible while being carried by their monster, so their identities will be protected until they are brought to their match. The paper monster will turn to butterflies and fly away once their task is complete. What matches do after they are brought to each other is up to them-- but they will know, undoubtedly, that they share the same worries-- they are with someone who understands. Do it as many times as you'd like, for as many negative emotions as your character wants. For finding something to do, Celliwig offers a solution. While Lestari's people have spent their efforts this month enchanting papers, the people of Celliwig are less apt to share so openly. Instead, they take their time learning about a variety of holidays from other worlds, and come to find one they can apply their particular talents to. While most of their showcase in the past has been on light magic, a holiday such as Halloween plays in particular to their talents in dark magic. A number of locations that have opted in and won't interfere with other relief efforts have been enchanted with dark magics for brave souls to venture into and test their courage! What's more, each of these locations will yield tokens for the victors that can be used to gain prizes. All courage tests must be performed with partners. Costumes are encouraged but not required.
	The library has been converted into a haunted art gallery, many of which have had their paints and other implements enchanted. Some paintings will seem like they're watching you, others will seem like a small figure in the background is following you throughout the library in different paintings. A painting of fruit may start throwing the fruit at you and materializing it into real fruit, so you may find yourself pelted with tomatoes if you don't run fast! A single painting filled with black paint might start leaking and filling the room you're in, pulling you into shadow until you're stuck in the library's underground labyrinth. (Reference monthly quests here and here for more info about the labyrinth.)
There are a variety of paintings with different curses applied. Navigate through the library and escape the haunted paintings-- pairs who make it through without turning back will gain a Celliwig Token.
Another token can be gained via scavenger hunt in the Broceliande. Find cursed dolls from within tree hollows. The dolls will giggle and try to run away, may move when they're only visible in the corner of your eye if you set them down. What's perhaps a little spookier is that they take on the appearance of the first person to touch them, though they will never exceed three inches in height. Beware during your search, however, as there are a good many trees that have been transfigured into mimics. Though the mimics are not going to attack anyone, they do have giant hidden, wriggling tongues that will reach up and wrap the unalert up above the ground for capture. The only way down is if a partner fights the mimic, so don't go alone! Find a doll of both you and a partner and make it back to Camelot to obtain your token. The curse will break once they're exchanged for a token, so you can keep the cute little doll for yourself if you'd like.

The last test of courage invokes a temporary blindness hex on one of the partners. Both partners are walked into a soundproofed room, entirely silent in a way that truly seems to mess with one's head. The unblinded partner is only allowed to answer "yes" or "no" questions, though no one will fault them for giggling as long as they give no clues otherwise. The blind partner is to stick their hands into a tank of water with mystery items hidden within. These items may be mere objects like peeled grapes in soggy noodles, or perhaps the tank is filled with chicken bones and those tiny garra that eat dead cells and are sometimes used for pedicures. All the items are set up to feel spooky, but ultimately are unharmful. As long as the partner who can give clues doesn't break the yes/no rules and the item is guessed within 3 guesses, a token will be rewarded!

Bring tokens to the inn where a stall has been set up, with Gwion working the booth to exchange tokens for the following prizes: 1 Token: Celliwig glasswork glass set of 4-- spooky themed! It's filled with candy upon receiving, so they are friendly for everyone. 2 Tokens: Recipe: Smokescreen - Cast this spell on any liquid to make it billow plumes of fog. The smaller the water surface, the smaller the billow. A shot glass might just create a small whisp, but two mop buckets would be enough to fill up a medium room. Will not effect the contents of the liquid. Cannot be used on water bodies larger than a swimming pool (could screen about half a block). 3 Tokens: Recipe: From the Void - Summons a disembodied tentacle from the shadows. It takes a lot of energy, so you could probably manage up to three casts a day at most before becoming exhausted. Great for binding enemies, sneaking in small spaces, and reaching places you might not be able to otherwise. The tentacle will follow whatever command you have in mind upon summoning, so be sure to concentrate on the task at hand!

Comments

[fujimaru]

You don't need to tell me twice.

[ And it's easy, for Ritsuka. This might not be the Nero she knows, whatever version, but trust is something that comes very easily to her, especially with a Servant. Maybe this will be a problem down the line, but that's all for Future Ritsuka to worry about. ]

Man, when I signed up for this, I was just kind of expecting a cute scavenger hunt... porno monster trees were not in the description. Do you think people knew about them when they set this up?

[umuperor]

Likely. Fairies organized this, correct? It sounds like something they would do.

[ she glances about, reaching into another tree with aestus estus in her other hand and—yep! doll! no mimic! nero beams, turning and holding it up. ]

[fujimaru]

Cute!

[ She says it automatically, because it is. It's a cute little doll of someone she knows and likes (even if it's not exactly the version she knows and is close to), and also there's a part of her soul that will always be fond of small rounded caricatures. You can take a girl out of a mascot-loving country, but you can't take the mascot-loving out of the girl. ]

Anyway, I don't really know that much about fairies. I went to Celliwig once before everything happened. The most I know about fairies is the stuff I've heard from Robi-- uh, a particular Archer.

[ Robin Hood isn't in Camelot, but she does know that he would probably shove his way to be first in line with DON'T TELL PEOPLE MY TRUE NAME. ]

[umuperor]

[ nero preens, humming pleasantly. yes, it is cute, isn't it?? ]

I know who the Green Archer is, no need to worry about that! He was my second opponent in the Holy Grail War. But yes, I understand they can be rather troublesome.

[fujimaru]

If you know him, you know he'd definitely yell at me for just blasting his name around.

...Or maybe booby traps. Actually, that seems a lot more likely.

[ Something like one of these trees, maybe, but with less of the whole suggestive element. Robin's got some definite hangups that Ritsuka tries to step lightly around, but being a pervert isn't one of them. ]

Other than that all I know about fairies is like...

[ ... ]

I watched Disney's Peter Pan when I was a kid? I don't think you wanna take Disney's word for anything, though.

[umuperor]

That certainly sounds like him. He nearly had my Master and I in that way.

[ nero breathes out a laugh—and then again, louder and more openly mirthful when ritsuka brings up disney. ]

I've not forgotten their Hercules. [ thanks, grail knowledge. ] No, no, you likely shouldn't.

[ she scans around for more hollow trees. ]

Do you want to try another one?

[fujimaru]

There's only one guy in Chaldea who likes the Disney Hercules, and his taste in media is already kind of questionable.

[ Sorry, Medea, but your ex is a little too enamored of the flashy and showing off. Which is perhaps rich, when she's telling this to Nero, of all people, but she'll stand by it. ]

Anyway, yes, but one sec.

[ Ritsuka takes a moment to look around the area. It's a forest, so there has to be--aha.

She picks up a long thin fallen branch, giving it a couple of test swings before she nods. ]

Just saying, I'd rather know which trees want to get frisky before I get too close.

[umuperor]

[ honestly, she'd want to kick jason's teeth in if she met the guy, so.

she nods at ritsuka's ingenuity, seemingly approving. ]

Little sense in risking it. [ get your little marketable plushie, guda. ]

[fujimaru]

[ As if they'll ever make one of her, ha.

Ritsuka picks a direction and starts walking, occasionally pausing to take a swing at a tree with her stick, not unlike someone with a bat. Volleyball had been her school sport of choice, but like with so much else in her life, she dabbled in a lot of different things. ]

I wonder if they planted these on purpose for the scavenger hunt. It's not like they've always been like this? I've been camping out for like two weeks at this point with no problem.