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!

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[lastexit]

[Maya's not really scared. Okay- sure, the produce pelting was annoying, but everything else is that beautiful line of freaky but beautiful she was drawn to. Not so horrifying she was worried of relapsing into old habits. But fascinating and dark in ways Maya's heart yearned for.]

[So she offers Lorenz the faintest of smiles at his approach.]

If you get scared I'll hold your hand, if that won't make it worse.

[silky_bearing]

Maya, my dear, I assure you there's naught to be afraid of.

[The smile he offers in return is a bit sly, clearly very confident in his ability to withstand whatever new assault the curse presents tonight.]

Come, There are actually a few very lovely pieces on display, eerie though they may be.

[He offers his elbow, gesturing for her to loop her arm through his. Leave it to Lorenz to try to appraise the artwork in a haunted gallery.]

[lastexit]

[There's always something to be afraid of, it's just a matter of if that fear controls you or not.]

There isn't anything here to be afraid of, no.

[She looks confused at his offer, not recognizing the gesture right away for what it is. She has to dig into her period pieces movie marathons to finally figure out her part here. She smiles, and rests her hand on his forearm. Arm looped in as best she can manage.]

All the pieces I've seen, except the one throwing fruit, have been beautiful. So I'd love to see which ones you like.

[silky_bearing]

[Once she takes his arm he sets his hand over hers with a fond little squeeze before leading her inside. ]

The entire set up reminds me a fair bit of home, really. Not that the Gloucester Estate has so many pieces of such quality but we've a few truly breathtaking pieces.

[lastexit]

I ran a show like this once. Not cursed, no magic. But a chance to show my school that my classmates were more than what they thought of them.

[It was ambitious, and really more than Maya could handle. Especially with Zig in the middle of a weird crime thing she had to deal with.]

But it was a form of performance art, like this. Where the line between audience and piece is blurry. Like the small figure that's been following us in the painting since we entered.

[Neat trick, Maya liked it.]

Were the pieces at home cursed, or just generally magical like this?

[silky_bearing]

Performance art [He repeats the words with a subtle question in his tone under the awe. An art display at her school? A school that promotes art instead of punishing it?

How very wonderful!]

Magical...? Oh no, no. I simply meant the arrangement of the gallery. [A dismissive sort of wave, his attention far more focused on whatever this thing she did at school was.] We've a small viewing gallery at the Estate but- tell me more about this art endeavor you were involved in with your school. I can't imagine the faculty was pleased with such a thing?

[lastexit]

Not quite plays, but smaller experiences that included sound, action, and just sharing some part of yourself with the rest of the school. It took a little convincing to get them on board. I ran it using all the kids the teachers didn't trust.

...Myself included.

[Maya may have sung a song, in class, about wanting a classmate dead and after the previous year having been right next to a tragedy that rocked the whole school. So she may have had a small reputation she was trying to work around.]

One of my friends prepared to play piano- then stopped before ever touching the keys. And another one set up a dance party where the people dancing could hear the music, but nobody else could. Some- things happened and I had to leave before seeing everyone's works. I was also too busy running things to make my own...