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EVENT ✨ Sugar and Siege

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The fairy queen is less than pleased, but not angry, with how her quest went. She has Princess Bluebell of the Guinea Pig Nation speak, and Princess Bluebell also has a favor to ask... which seems to be the calm before the storm, as an unknown third party who made off with the Fisher King earlier this month have performed a ritual to resurrect him and left the veil open, letting in untold forces that have engaged in a Wild Hunt... and the prey is Camelot.

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1st Prompt: --
2nd Prompt: Active: Battle, disease, famine, living death, rage; Historical/Not active in prompt: mentions of serial killers, murder, biological warfare, god/human love affair
3rd Prompt: --

This prompt is backdated slightly and takes place on February 18th.

A live broadcast comes to everyone's devices, featuring a rather peculiar speaker. "Attenchun, kindly o-otherwowders! Tis I, Pwincess Guacachia Bluebell of the Guinea Pig Nation of Nowth Elphame. Though our home is too small to be noted on the Laage Neighbow's maps, I asschuwe you I am caulified as Ambassadow for Chween Elphame. Though you had failed her chwuest, many of you have shown the twust she asked fow even if not the bwains. Those who have will be shown gweat gwatichude, but she does feel [squeaking sound of dismay that cannot be translated out of guinea pig adequately] as the Fishaa King's body was pawt of hew pwans to dishmanchle the Cawamidy and didn' want to speach chuday because of it. Evewyone send good wibes and wikes, she won't speak when she's not
[again: squeaking sound of dismay that cannot be translated out of guinea pig adequately]... the Cawamichy won't be ended if you all don't wowk with the Chween, King Awfur's gwaces or notch, you know! But that's none of myyy busy-ness! Elphame offews a rewawd fow the Fishaa King's body now, much to keep you "fat and happy" for many yeaws! I also have a favew to ask on behaaf of my people. Our Festiva of Life is next week and the usuaw souwce of one of the chey ingwediench of our festiva cakes was a Leschawian, bwessings to them!" As it turns out, the Guinea Pig Nation (all talking guinea pigs who like to dress up in various outfits- in style now in particular is old western themed outfits, but the Princess must always wear her crown) are in a pinch because their Lestari hook-up for the feathers died in the fall of Lestari. They need help to pluck feathers from a bird called the Prism Tweeter! Their people love to decorate the outside of their Festival of Life cakes with their feathers, which are made of finely spun sugar in a variety of colors. These birds are typically found in the first Ash Mountain, but upon its fall, migrated to live in the Forest of the Felled as one of its new, more colorful residents. It only takes one feather to cover a cake, so pluck no more than one feather per bird and the whole flock will go unharmed... the only trick is catching these delectably sweet aviators: The birds can magically phase through physical, non-enchanted objects, so you have to surprise them to grab them. The plus side is, they really love vanilla beans, so they're easy to lure out of the trees.. you don't have to be George of the Jungle to help out the pigs. More of a stay-at-home kind of helper? That's fine too. They need bakers to make as many tiny cakes as they need for the festival since it's so last minute this year! Hurry up and grab a friend to get to baking 3-layer 1 inch cakes wrapped in rainbow feathers to help these little guys out. The Elphame Traders will make a special trip to Camelot to pick up all of these cakes as a favor to the Guinea Pig Nation, so you can stay at home and bake with your friends no matter where you live. This prompt takes place on February 22nd and February 23rd.
	A few days after the fun and fancy-free stylings of the Guinea Pig Nation ahead of their Festival of Life (you weren't invited, sorry, too big you would destroy their homes- but they appreciate the help!) things are going pretty mundanely. That is, until what sounds like a battle cry is heard approaching New Camelot. On the horizon, what appears to be a massive cavalcade of demon horse-riding wraiths lead by four knights in what appears to be ancient armor rush toward the city. A few of the locals who hear the sound and come out to see what all the fuss is about immediately seem to spook, shouting something about the Wild Hunt. Usually it's something preserved for earth and those who find it will be taken along and dumped either in Avalon itself or taken straight to the underworld, but their presence here in Avalon.. well, that can't be good. The shouting seems to alert the castle, which seems to alert more people, and within a matter of minutes people are being rushed to take cover within the castle walls for siege.
All of Camelot's gates are closed and people are directed to a couple of different places: knights and those who wish to fight are to prepare for battle at each of the gates. Healers who wish to stay and help the wounded are to gather in the citadel, where the injured will be taken. Those who wish to battle and heal will act as field medics to get people into a state enough fit to be taken to the citadel. Those who wish to offer other support may be asked to hand out food and water within the citadel or fetch supplies around the city, or to rush to the library to try to figure out what the hell is leading this hunting party toward them. King Arthur will lead the knights into battle. Merlin will also be assisting in battle, using a variety of magic from atop the castle. If your character gets into a pinch and you aren't sure how to get them out, feel free to have him send a magic spell to block an enemy. Knights given the authority to direct other fighting characters as they see fit (though your non-knight fighter's compliance is, as always, depending on your choice as a player). Those who wish to opt out of this event entirely will be whisked away by some of the Fairy Queen's spies to Nicnevin for safekeeping. If you do not want your character to remember or acknowledge any portion of this event, we can handwave that the Fairy Queen arbitrarily found your character annoying and put them under a sleeping spell for the duration of their stay. This will be done before the outer city gates are broken through, so your character can be safe the whole time and just chill in a hotel room in Nicnevin. Those who stay will be fighting wraiths (unkillable enemies) lead by four beings called the Knights of the Veil. Those who have rushed to the library to find answers will be able to spread the following information regarding the enemies, though first-hand experience may also be how your character finds out some of it: The Knights of the Veil live in the void between the world of the living and the dead and escaped when the veil was not closed during a ritual to raise a heavily cursed and protected corpse back to life. Though there's no way to know which corpse, recent news of the Fisher King's body going missing leaves some speculation and fear about who it was that was raised, but no one has any idea who did it. The Knights of the Veil have touch-based magic in addition to weaponry which you may have your character afflicted by at your behest. The four knights are as follows: Carlea: Once a proud Queen, she sold her soul to the darkness after her husband was killed by enemies and the prince of the enemy nation forced her to marry him. She used this ability to brutally murder every last citizen of her enemy's kingdom over time in secret and feed them to a pet bear she was gifted by her new husband, saving him for last. Carlea's touch will invoke a curse of famine, causing all food and drink to turn to ash in the touched individual's mouth. Rubion: Rubion was a serial killer in his world known for killing over a hundred people, though the exact number is not known. Who he was before that isn't particularly known, but as a killer, he was known for brutally killing anyone who crossed him in a fit of rage. He was from a time before forensics and tended to kill witnesses, so he was never caught. That is, until he missed seeing a small child hiding under his bed during one of his rampages. The child's grandfather took him in and killed Rubion himself after he found out why the child would not speak for a month straight. It is thought that his own god cursed Rubion to stay in the void where he could not torment his victims in the afterlife too. Rubion's touch will invoke uncontrollable, violent rage and turn even the smallest slight into a mountainous anger. Augusto: Augusto was the general of an army who used the blood of his people's sickly to spread disease in conquering nations. He did not choose to become one of the Knights, instead being cursed to eternal damnation by a priestess in one of the villages he wrought destruction upon. Augusto's touch will inflict a disease of the player's choosing upon their character, at full height of symptoms within 30 minutes of touch. Pien: Pien is a god of an older religion who was banished from the heavenly kingdoms for loving a human so much she attempted to give her eternal life despite that it was forbidden to grant eternity to mortals. She has a high-and-mighty attitude, and if disrespected will disrespect you right back with dignity-obliterating consequences. Her followers tended to be on the M side of things. Her touch will invoke conscious zombieism, meaning that your body will die and begin to rot despite still being able to move, and you will be aware and able to communicate and feel during this experience. The Knights and Wraiths cannot be killed by any means as long as the ritual remains in effect and their tie to the underworld is stable, so for the time being this is a heavily unwinnable battle. Thankfully, wraiths are not very coordinated even if they are aggressive in battle so it's easy to dodge, flee, or take cover.

On the second day of the Siege, devices will flicker with a face we haven't seen in some time. She is this world's mother goddess, after all, so if threatened she will come to offer reprieve. Morganna looks almost amused at how much destruction had been wrought by the actions of, truly, one man and those he had strung along. Morganna will not punish nor reveal them, but she will speak on the matter:

"Those wishing for this to end, rejoice. I have birthed verbena upon your doorsteps. Take another's hand, light a candle and burn the flowers. Whisper 'lights out' three times together, and pray to send some of your magic to me. I need as many of you to do it as possible, or else I will not be able to freeze time fast enough to stop the calamity from engulfing this place afterward when I complete the ritual shutter."

verbena flower

That is all she says. The ritual won't do much if only one person does it outside of today as Morganna is keeping secret what she does on her end to complete it. If your character's name is possessed by the fairy queen, they will be forced to participate in this ritual so they may notice something odd if they weren't intending to do it.

After the ritual is complete, all personal rituals will be voided and need to be recast. (This includes things like brownie summoning spells or the banishing of lesser frost fairies if your character was doing that from last year to keep their house warm.) This will also cause both the sun and moon to black out for about a day afterward, so you may want to get on board with artificial lighting or spells until a party heading to Celliwig to repair that ritual can get out there in about a day's time.

The most dangerous ritual that has been broken will be the time freeze. Morganna uses everyone's magic to give herself superspeed to recomplete the ritual to recast it, along with a significant portion of the Isle of Avalon's itself that had been built up in surplus having everyone here for so long. However, there are still 2 seconds in which the massive event that threatens the multiverse can move forward. It is now visible in the sky to the north during the night even without being at the End of the World, and will stay that way for the duration of isleofavalon until the multiverse is saved. It is outright terrifying if you travel to the End of the World now, taking up the majority of the sky.

For a month afterward, those who participated may find themselves fatigued without clear cause... but in general, magic will be misbehaving and causing accidents for everyone for about the next month.

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Haha! Do what you gotta!

[Though he can see some people fighting for spots. Looking around the the citizens, he'll give them another little magical push. Once they're in the castle, they can get back to the wraiths.]

That's it, everyone to safety!

It's telling that she see the archaeopteryx coming, but that makes it easier for the creature to snatch her out of harm's way. She shouts her frustration, kicking and flailing madly with no hint of strategy. Her staff falls to the ground, but the wraiths ignore it.

Of course. I've got this! I'm just not the best person to have your back right now. I'll exorcise as many as these annoying rags as I can while I have access to my familiar's mana.

[He's a professional warrior; there's no need to worry about him! He waits for another moment until the group gets back to take Tsuna into their midst, more than willing to protect him while his mana reserves recharge, then swings himself back up with strong wingbeats, surrounded by the spinning golden magic circuits.]

I'm counting on you!

[He tells himself to not worry about Tsuna either; they each need to keep their attention on the enemies.]

[ It is deeply unfortunate and unfair that normal girls have to deal with plot bullshit, instead of being lazy gremlins. This alternate Camelot is calmer than some of what Ritsuka has had to deal with, but that doesn't actually make it any easier!!

She does pause for just a second, not quite frowning as she looks at Claire. ]

Are you sure? I'm not really in the habit of just leaving someone behind.

Yeah, go, go, go!

[She does the same, heading forward.]

Gonna take a breather before heading back out. You probs should too.

And up the dinosaur goes, flapping out over a few streets and depositing Stephanie rather unceremoniously into a bale of hay. Flying off, it heads back to Claire, leaving the enraged Batgirl to...do whatever it is she's going to do in a haybale.

Yeah, I'm sure. I need a minute. Not long. We've got enough of a lead.

[She's already working the magic, blending Green with one hand and Dark with the other. It's been a year of practicing this spell, but she's gotten it to the point where fusing the two types together doesn't make her sick.]

Gonna grow something real ugly that'll keep them busy. But I can't move once I start this, or the spell will backfire.

Any form of assistance is appreciated, Taichi.

[ She's not going to yell at him for offering help, gosh!! :( WHAT DOES HE THINK OF HER!!! ]

Most of what Steph does in the haybale is flail, yell, and get hay in her mouth.

By the time she extracts herself there's nothing left for her to be angry about. Feeling almost normal again, she avoids Claire and heads back to the battlefield.

[ He makes a sound that might have been a harumph, if cats were capable of making that particular noise. ]

They sound more like lesser immortals than elementals.

[ Literal embodiments of nature have no business interfering in the affairs of humans. ]

[It has not been the easiest of days, Fran will agree. Nor the easiest of nights, for all that she has not been much involved in the fighting. But if there is a means to stop it... better to try than not. Even should it prove to have had no effect.]

Then let us try.

[She holds out a small bundle of the flowers required by the ritual, though she does not yet make to burn them.]

Nope. [It's a miracle he hasn't vomited a second time already, especially while he was laughing.

Ichiro pushes himself back up the wall and as soon as he does, Shiro darts out of the alleyway (right between Rei's legs, too, just to trip him up one more time).] But we can't stay here.

[Their options are slim. So there's not much to do but go.

He hates what he's about to say, though.] I just might need a hand.

( she feels terrible pushing Taichi in a moment like this, but light illusions can only do so much. it's not like she's contracted any creatures with healing abilities, either, or she'd have called upon them to help.

even after all her training with Red Wine, she can only do this much...

but she doesn't have time to get discouraged, looking back at Taichi and nodding before she gestures in the opposite direction. the wraiths are heading the same way, but they can turn off soon enough.

and it's not like they really have another option. so sticking as close to the wall as possible and shuffling to the corner, holding their breath and hoping they're not caught, it is. )

( nice. Kate's too busy to say so, but those curses were a work of good magic and she won't let them go to waste. one wraith is knocked back with kinetic magic, the next blasted with magic siphoned from its attempt to get out of the curse. she teleports out of reach of a third and uses her "staff" to knock it to the ground.

(a voice in her head, sounding strangely like Rider, asks if she really need to be relying so heavily on magic, but why wouldn't she right now?)

it's a good start, and Kate's feeling confident about their ability to defeat these things... right up until the second wraith reforms itself out of nothing, as though their magics never touched him, and darts past Kate, heading towards the backlines. )

Shit—

( she's beating off these others, so better hope you can cause that thing some more misery, Caster. )

Ugh, I'm going to see if anyone's found a way to get these curses off so I'm not worrying about hurling later.

[Tsuna nods, trying to look determined at least. It's weird having someone say they'll count on him. He's not used to it, even if he should.]

Okay.

If you don't report in soon though, I'll come looking.

So be careful.

( fucking hell. okay, let's move, kitty cat. teleporting is out of the question — she's been fighting for so long that the simple act of snatching that sword sends a wave of fatigue through her bones — but she can force her feet to move, sprinting back and around a corner, through a doorway which is slammed behind the two of them.

she's exhausted, and nothing seems to be getting better. and a fucking cat is making really obvious statements about the fact she looks a mess. )

I'll wear a gown next time.

( if she's sarcastic enough, she doesn't have to think about the fact that bits of skin are dropping off her, right? )

( the onslaught of wraiths darkens and thickens, blocking the passage forward until there's no hope of even catching a sliver of light between the ghostly bodies trying to attack them. it puts the urge to snap back at Rider on hold for a while, practicality taking over.

they can't win here, and dying is a stupid idea. )

C'mon.

( sorry about this, bitchy mcgee. she's gonna just grab him by the arm and attempt to drag them both backwards, searching for a room they can barricade themselves in. )

The hell is wrong with you?

( if they both make it, that question finally gets growled out. )

[goddammit Shiro!!! Princess would NEVER. Speaking of Princess, her cry echoes above the alley from far away; seems she's of the same mind to go.

When Ichiro says that, though.... Rei's kneejerk instinct is to mock, to provoke him. He told you so, didn't he? Guess a brat will stay a brat. Guess he learned his lesson the hard way. Guess all those years of refusing him were for nothing.

But...]

Suppose we'll see what kills you first-- that curse, or leaning on your old man.

[Rei puts out his hand for Ichiro to take.]

It takes some effort, with the armour and all, but Chris is pulled in successfully, stumbling a bit as she clears the window frame, but managing to find her footing, and exhaling in relief; she'd almost been a Chris-pancake if she'd fallen.

But just as quickly, her expression grows, serious, and she throws an arm around Claire and pulls her in for a comforting embrace. "And now I've got you." She says Apologies for taking so long. Are you all right, Claire?"

Claire, for all her strength, can't help but sag against Chris as she's pulled in for the hug. Burying her face against Chris's neck, she sucks in a ragged, unsteady breath.

"...Not hurt. Just...freaked the fuck out. It's...it's like Raccoon City all over again. Only worse."

Much, much worse, in some ways. These things are fast. And she'd been cut off pretty quickly.

[ Emerald pulls her weapons out in an instant the second he reaches for his but pointedly doesn't do anything but draw them. Instead, she narrows her eyes, hissing words out at him. ]

It's not a kid, it's bait.

[ Her eyes flicker to the nearest wraiths, which have been attracted by the yelling. So speeds up her voice to try to get through the explanation faster. ]

The doorway is cursed to blind whoever goes through it. Like, you know, the things that can't be killed. They're useless if they can't see us!

[ So it's Emerald's.. best attempt at trying to deal with the situation. She knows blind people can learn to fight, but it takes a long ass time and these creepy monsters aren't going to have any way to learn it. ]

[ Everyone here seems to have abilities that are cool and most importantly, useful. Meanwhile, Doppo's lucky if he doesn't make air punch him in the face. Or trees. Maybe nature just hate him especially in this world - ]

A-ah, no. I'm the one that's sorry. I... [ Man, he's rehearsed this speech a few times in his mind already after Hifumi informed him about him being here before, but there really is no way to avoid sounding awkward. ] I don't remember anything...even though Hifumi told me about being here before. [ Anything or anyone that he hadn't already met back home, he thinks. But either way, he doesn't recognize Rosho at all and the thought of that hurts. ]

I um...hope I didn't give you a hard time. [ He just reintroduced himself by running into a tree. There's no going back after an impression like that. ]

[ Doppo nearly refuses the handkerchief outright because he cannot let something so nice and dainty looking by stained by his...incompetence. He takes several deep breaths along with Jyushi, making a face only because the blood continues to flow. He sooner tries to just keep his sleeve on his nose than to use the handkerchief as a plug. This seemingly positive presence taken the form of this tall young man is already too good for him! ]

I think I'll be okay...thank you. [ Doppo's version of "okay" is still being studied by experts. So far, "okay" is a relatively low bar. At the very least, he's stopped with the constant apologies. ] You're.......... [ To think after meeting yet another person who recognizes him that he'd be able to do the same with time, but instead Doppo just shakes his head, disappointed in himself. ] I'm sorry, I really don't remember anything. Do you know Hifumi also?

Give me 24 hours! The Familiar Fusion fatigue needs time to wear off.

[Just so Tsuna doesn't worry prematurely! In the end things will go south a little more than anticipated, and they'll need to mind Morganna's ritual among other things, but whoever ends up sending a message first will surely get a response.]

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EVENT ✨ Sugar and Siege

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probably a wrap soon, then start a new thing?

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sure!

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apologies for the delay on this!

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sorry for the wait ;;;;;;; rl is rough

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