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Entry tags:
- !event,
- attack on titan: eren jaeger,
- attack on titan: frieda reiss,
- attack on titan: jean kirstein,
- attack on titan: levi ackerman,
- d4dj: rinku aimoto,
- danganronpa: mukuro ikusaba,
- dcmk: nakamori aoko,
- end roll: kantera,
- fate grand order: oryou,
- fate/stay night: rider,
- genshin impact: kaveh,
- genshin impact: tartaglia,
- gintama: hijikata toshirou,
- ib: mary,
- in stars and time: siffrin,
- original: evangeline,
- original: nenonen,
- original: nikkolaus,
- svsss: shang qinghua,
- umineko: eva ushiromiya
Event #6: Doctor Why Instead of Who
Doctor Why Instead of Who
LOGS | NETWORK | OOC | MEMES | NAVIGATION
Sawyer, the Autumn Guild Leader, addresses the network on noon on the 19th. He's back from wherever he has been since disappearing in November. The message goes as follows.
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"This is Sawyer. I lead the Autumn Guild as the last Autumn Power Holder native to this world. I was accused of crimes relating to the portal mysteries and sabotage in the Research Center in November. Well, I guess I still am.
I managed to track down the real culprit, but couldn't capture them. Instead, I got the device they used just before they disappeared into yet another portal. The device still has the coordinates to the location they went to. Instead of pursuing them myself, I'm asking for everyone's help, since I got injured fighting them. I'm leaving the device to Olwen, along with a file on another incident, and letting Harrison put me in jail until the real culprit is captured. Hopefully after Jade looks me over.
Anyway, I'm counting on all of you to capture the bastard. They go by the name "The Doctor".
Harrison, I'm waiting behind the Amberfall Guild."
Any inquiries about the video will be met with a "We are forming a plan of action, please wait" for the first few days after. But everyone will be assures that Sawyer did get medical attention before taken away! (Handwaved) Visitations are permitted while he's in custody.
(Duration: Whole month)
There is some really good news following the slightly worrying news from before: The Fairy Queen has reacquired all of her powers! That's why anyone who is interested is invited to Amberfall to gain an upgrade for their seasonal powers. This upgrade comes in the form of a magical tattoo. These tattoos not only give boosts but it can also move around one's body (for example, if someone's tattoo is a bird, the bird can fly around, especially when powers are activated).
These tattoos are permanent by default, but they can also be temporary should the person wish so. Temporary tattoos will wear out in a month (or earlier, if the tattoo is in constant use).
The basic effect of the tattoo is simple: seasonal powers stronger against the dark energy, meaning everyone will be able to fight creatures coated in it easier. That is, however, not the only effect; two more effects can be chosen when the tattoo is made, from a pool of choices provided.
Tattoo extra effects
• Danger Sense (gives an ability to sense danger in the surroundings)
• Door Creation (lets the user create a temporary fake door to pass through walls and other obstacles)
• Elemental Resistance (one element) (can be chosen twice)
• Enhanced Sense (choose one of the basic senses) (can be chosen twice)
• Guardian Spirit (summons an astral being to physically protect them, in the shape of something important to them - stays for an hour per summon)
• Mermaid Song (gives an ability to be able to heal minor injuries with singing)
• Minor Regeneration Powers (automatically heal minor injuries)
• New Element creation and manipulation (choose from electricity, light, neutral) (can be chosen twice)
• Retrocognition (able to see an item's past by touching it (does not work on living things))
• X-Ray Vision (lets user see through walls and other objects by touching them (does not work on living things))
All extra effects of the tattoo drain magical energy just like any other abilities do. If someone is low on magical powers, the tattoo will look like it's faded out (animal based tattoos may even start sleeping). No one automatically masters these abilities, so it might take some time to get used to them and properly use them in a fight.
Various booths have been set all around Nightwake that let people test their new abilities. Most of the booths utilize just one ability (like being attacked by a water balloon with a blindfold on to test danger sense or test their enhanced senses) but some of them have several ways to complete them. They vary from obstacle courses to target shooting. These are mostly fun, harmless things
There's also just general fighting areas set up for people to just fight it out with their new abilities (they know by now that otherworlders love their fights). There are also robots that are installed with various martial arts to use as opponents, for those who prefer not to fight other people.
(Duration: January 22nd -> 26th)
Olwen, the Winter Guild Leader, is the next one to address everyone through a message sent to all devices. It's an invitation to join him in tracking down and capturing The Doctor, but also for anyone who wishes to join the support side of things. The team will be gathering in Blossomcrown Park, on the 22nd of January at noon, where he will explain the plan.
The park has several tents set up. All of them are somehow related to aiding the fighters who will be entering the portals, so all non-combatants will be asked to man them. There are healing, food and even touch energy tents. After an analyzation done on the portal device, it seems that touch energy will drain faster inside the portals than they do normally.
Before the portal is opened, Olwen greets and thanks everyone for coming. He will explain that their primary goal is to find The Doctor, but also prevent monsters from entering Nightwake while the portal is open (it cannot be shut while someone is inside, unless you're someone like The Doctor). He explains that the nature of this portal is otherwise still unknown and he advises anyone who starts feeling bad in any way to return to Nightwake right away.
Once everyone is done with preparations Olwen activates the portal device and leads the way inside, holding a sword and shield in hand.
When people first enter the portal they are met with a breathtaking view. It looks as if the water surface and the sky melt together, as the water reflects the starry sky. On the water there are several rowing boats. Once at least two people are inside a boat it will start moving across the surface of water and will eventually disappear into a mist (all except for Olwen, who disappears alone for some reason, who tells everyone to stay focused on the mission before the mist takes him).
The boats take people into sceneries that reflect their seasons. If there's more than one season on the same boat the scenery will be a mix of them.
• Winter is a cave of ice and water, filled with monsters named Glaciduets (Rock monsters with various animal bodies that shoot ice and rocks as weapons)
• Spring is a place among the clouds, filled with monsters named Galeduets (Birds that are partially fishes, that use sharp winds and icicles as weapons and dive among the clouds)
• Summer is a village that is burning, filled with monsters named Flameduets (Various dinosaurs with wings that use fire and wind as their weapons)
• Autumn is a rainy forest filled with monsters named Terraduets (Skeletons with fiery armor that use earth and fire as their weapons)
All of the monsters are far sturdier than they look and can provide to be difficult opponents. To proceed, they all (at least five monsters, can be more) have to be defeated and if any of them get past them into the mist the people entered from they will attempt to enter the portal into Nightwake. The mist is also the way to escape and return to regroup if needed.
Defeating enough monsters will destroy the space they entered. Once enough spaces are destroyed, one final space is revealed (this will take a few days, there are a lot of these spaces). It's where Olwen can be seen fighting a masked, hooded person. Olwen is using his sword, water and ice - while the other figure uses force fields to protect themselves from magic and two swords. From the looks of it, the fight is rather even.
Those who try to help Olwen will be met with another force field around the area, preventing anyone from entering. Destroying the devices making the field will help Olwen get past the villain's defenses, but they're guarded by shadow monsters called Shadow Moths (This creature takes the shadows of people to become bigger and faster. It usually takes the form of a giant mothman that has shadowy vines as its weapons. If hit by the vines, characters would start doing everything backwards).
Once the devices have been destroyed, Olwen manages to encase the figure in ice before collapsing on the ground himself from exhaustion. All that's left now is to get both the ice covered villain and Olwen out of the portal and closing the portal - but with that, it's mission accomplished.
The masked villain (still frozen) will be taken by the Law Enforcement into custody to be questioned while Olwen gets Jade (Spring Guild Leader) to look after him right away. Olwen is tired, but thanks everyone who came to help with the mission (whether fighting or supporting) with a healthy sum of 20,000 Moon Coins.
With The Doctor in custody, Sawyer is free. Harrison makes a public apology, which Sawyer accepts and a viral video can be seen of all the guild leaders hugging him and telling him how they always believed in him. Are those tears in Sawyer's eyes? You must be seeing things!
Information about the villain will be given at a later date, once they manage to interrogate them. Meanwhile Sawyer will return to his guild duties. This time actually doing them without (as many) complaints.
(Duration: January 28th - 31st)
The Research Center Leader, Helene, and the Fairy Queen have been working on a project while the Portal fight has been going on. They send a message that there's another mission to take to those who are interested, with a 50,000 moon coins reward because of how dangerous and important this mission is.
Those who agree to take on the mission are asked to take at least a temporary magical tattoo. Those who already have a tattoo (permanent or temporary) will have theirs temporarily enhanced. This is the only requirement to participate in the mission. The enhancements for the tattoo are to protect the user from what they are about to face and make magic work against it - as well as work as an emergency exit if all else fails.
Explanation of what they are about to face is a dangerous entity once faced by two otherworlders. It has been named the All-Consuming Darkness: an experiment made by the Doctor that was meant to be unleashed to destroy the barriers around Ellipsa. Under normal circumstances it would eat any attacks delivered at it. But with the Fairy Queens magic tattoo boosts that danger will be out of the way.
After all the preparations and explanations, they are advised to take the new, temporary teleport crystal out to the Autumn Segment, straight to the Abandoned Mansion.
The Abandoned Mansion is a creepy, old two story building that looks quite rundown. It's surrounded by mist that expands into the forest. There's not much to look at on the outside, other than two tombstones with the names of Kamisato Ayato and Kaveh on them. Anyone who has previously visited the mansion might remember they definitely weren't there before June, when the place was sealed.
Magical tattoos let everyone pass through the barrier and into the house. The strategy is simple: find all the arms of the monster, spread out to the mansions every room, and destroy them. With the boost from the tattoos all attacks can now deal damage, but the monster can still inflict status effects (silence, stun, burn, poison) and the air around it generally feels poisoned.
The being itself has no actual figure. It's a shapeless blob of mass that attacks people relentlessly with its arms. It will also try to capture anyone it can and eat them to make itself bigger, since it no longer can consume attacks to do so. Even with the magical tattoo boost it's still a difficult opponent to face.
Those that do get eaten will receive their own tombstone outside. It seems it appears automatically after death.
Everyone is also advised to retreat if they need to, which they can do by passing the barrier out of the house. With how many arms the being has the fight may take a while.
Once all the arms are destroyed, the shadow blob will evaporate and the eerie feeling that was all over the place will vanish. The spirits that were guarding the doors will open the windows and doors, relieved that the danger was now gone. It's almost as if the nature was celebrating too, as sun beams start to fill the mansion as well.
The teleport crystals will take them back, but there's also a promise of a free luxury airship ride back for those who want to pamper themselves for a job well done. The airship is parked at the Autumn Airship Station.
• Ask Event-related questions here!
• Smut is not allowed on the event post, so if your thread is heading that way, please move it to a private entry of your own (your own entry or a new locked post on the comms).
• Remember to content and spoiler warn as necessary!
• Characters are responsible for coming up with their designs for the tattoos or at least ideas for them (the fairies doing the tattoos can offer options). As a bonus, there's no healing time for the tattoos, as they are completely magical! It also doesn't hurt (unless the person is very sensitive to it, then it might. Player's choice). Everyone is also allowed to get temporary tattoos first before committing to a permanent one (the limit is one permanent tattoo per character).
• Those with special skin (mechanical or otherwise) will still be able to get a tattoo, as they are magical. Even those whose skin would normally regenerate (like titan shifters) can have a tattoo stay permanently. These tattoos will also be available as "aesthetic only" ones after the event.
• Neutral Element is what it says on the tin. It's a shapeless energy that usually takes a blank, white form (but can be different colored, too). No creature is super weak against the element, but none of them resist it either; it's the element that will always deal damage, no matter what.
• Reminder that this month does not have Activity Check-in!
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[Is this really the time to turn things into a competition?! Well, given that both of them have a degree of protection against the poisonous air, Hijikata feels like they have a chance of being the most efficient team on the mission! (Granted, they may need to separate to help others, but for now, the challenge is on!)
Despite the solid number of people involved in the battle, they do find another "unoccupied" arm. Given how well their combined lighting-and-ice attacks have been working, he immediately electrifies the monster again to let Kaeya contribute his share.]
I've got one more regular rocket, after that I'll have to swap bazookas!
[Unless Kaeya has another ace up his sleeve to damage the creature hard and fast, it's probably best to stick to the strategy that's proven effective thus far. His Status Lenses show him that the monster has no particular weaknesses they could exploit.]
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Vision Shields were always temporary, they never lasted. He could reinstate it, of course, but the arm was already sensing the weakness and slammed right into it. The captain felt himself thrown back as the shield shattered and he coughed as the poisonous air was breathed in when he landed on the ground.]
Damn it-! Hijikata, distract it!
[Kaeya did not have an ace up his sleeve, but he did have something else other than his powers and Hijikata would know what it is, given they just went through another full moon this month. The back of his shirt tore open as the gargoyle wings burst forth, also revealing the ornate peacock tattoo between his shoulder blades. The beautiful feathers were already spread and glowing as electricity crackled along his fingers.
He had been practicing changing outside the full moon, on command and now was the time to put it into action.]
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With the shadow arm not pinned down, the missile doesn't hit dead center as he wanted to, but it still tears a sizeable hole into the dark mass. Hijikata shoves the empty bazooka into his bag while summoning a dozen fire swords in the air above the arm, then sends them all down to impale and burn it. While the fire doesn't spread outside the embedded blades' immediate radius, the creature still thrashes like crazy, and he hurries to elongate the blades into a length sufficient to pin it before semi-solidifying them into lava.
He has no idea if Kaeya will be able to make a new shield after breathing in the poisonous air, so he yells:]
Kaeya, get out!! I've got this--
[But turning around to check on him, he sees that he partway assumed his gargoyle form. Is this going to help..? He has no idea if it'll give him any resistance to the poison, but the lightning crackling to life in his hands shows that he has no intention of withdrawing from the battle. Alright, then--!
Once the lightning hits the monster, Hijikata will create a large lava axe to cut and burn through the shadowy mass while it twitches under the electricity, focusing on the area damaged by the bazooka rocket. It'll take a good amount of mana and focus, but they may just be able to slice it apart like the other one!]
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The transformation completed and Kaeya planted his feet flat on the ground, bestial and claws as well digging in as he continued to unleash the electricity without much thought, pulling at the arm while Hijikata hacked away at it. It tore free with a rather sickening sound and Kaeya fell back on his behind with a grunt as the detached arm was flung elsewhere. The peacock stopped moving and glowing as the mana dispersed from his claws. Kaeya panted heavily, both from the poisoned air stinging his lungs and from exhaustion. He could control the transformation to a degree now but sometimes, he still went a bit berserk and he let out a little bit too much mana.]
That's two.
[Could he go for a third? He wasn't sure.]
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[Hijikata dismisses his lava weapons, feeling the drain on his mana reserves. If Kaeya still had any protection from the poison, his ambition would allow nothing less than going for third arm with him - after all, the third time's the charm! -, but with things as they are, he's concerned for his battle partner.]
You should get out of here and find something to use as a mask, or else grab a spring power holder to come back in with you - can't they purify air?
[But before either of them can so much as get another world in, a new shadow arm shoves in through the doorway they entered the room from, effectively trapping them, given that the pulsing rump they severed the last one from is blocking the only other path.]
Oh, never mind!
[He wants to summon another oversized lava axe, but the shadow blob targets him with a heavy swing. Hijikata barely manages to stop it with his telekinesis - he's used to applying it to more solid things than this weird mass, so it only gradually stops until it's right in front of him, quivering with effort to break his magical hold.]
We've got to hurry--!
[He surely doesn't need to tell Kaeya twice. After all, it's the pretty gargoyle who's feeling the poison in his throat!]
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[His Vision activated unconsciously now, the shield returning in a much more translucent pattern. It was a defense mechanism that his Vision did whenever he was too low on health and he was definitely too low on health now. It came in the nick of time as that third arm burst in through the other door.
With the poisonous air cut off for the time being, Kaeya tried to gather his wits quickly. He summoned an ice sword and swiped quickly before him, frosted wind smacking into the arm and icing it over. It wasn't enough to freeze it solid, but it would slow down enough to give Hijikata some more leeway with his telekinesis. This time, as he stood up, the ice sword was joined by a fiery sword, entire sword was blue but only the hilt remained harmless. He was using too much mana but they needed to hurry, so he made the "blade" burn hot enough to turn blue.
A beat of his wings and he was at the arm, slicing downward with both swords to give it the true meaning of burn.]
Dodge this!
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At the three blades' impact, the monster shakes in pain, unable to properly thrash around due to the telekinesis hold, but its sheer size leaves it less impacted than a smaller beast would be.]
Shit, this is going to take forever--!
[He needs to make a decision fast: Abandon the swordfight and summon a lava bazooka, abandon the telekinesis hold and summon lava weapons to pin the arm with instead, or something else? He opts for something else and summons a puddle of lava on the ground underneath the arm, making it burn its way up towards where he and Kaeya are cutting away at the shadowy mass. That's the best his concentration can split itself on.]
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[Kaeya was quick to back away when the lava got too near, wings beating to keep his feet from getting burned. He decided to use his new strength and flight to his advantage.
He dropped down right onto the arm, shoving it down toward the lava. As the arm burned and melted, his claws dug into the arm and unleashed a torrent of electricity. The elemental reacting unleashed a loud noise and Kaeya felt himself thrown off. He landed on his back with a thud, the air knocked clean out him as the shield shattered after taking the brunt of the impact.
At least wheezing and his lung not working momentarily meant he couldn't breath in the poisonous air, right?]
Did it...work? [Wheeze.]
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It's Hijikata's turn to jump back as the bottom of the shadow arm melts at an accelerated pace while Kaeya electrocutes it from the top, making white and purple currents fork their way through the blob and light it up from the inside, along with the lava's red glow - and then, it all erupts into something akin to an explosion that he needs to take cover from.
When he looks up, only splattered black goop is left of the arm, partly melted to the floor. I'm glad I won't be on clean-up duty here. That's the only mental quip he allows himself before hasting over to Kaeya and offering him a hand.]
It sure did!! Good thinking. But now, let's get out of here!
[He himself can probably rejoin the fray after a brief refreshment break outside (he's not sure if his mask really has managed to filter out 100% of the poison, but he feels clear-headed enough, and his throat doesn't hurt either!), but he needs Kaeya to either call it a day or get some substantial treatment, whether it's healing or a status effect dissolution that he needs.
With the doorway finally free, they can exit into a large hall that leads to the exit (among other directions). He'll support Kaeya - hell, he'll carry him if need be. The Cavalry Captain fought well!]
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He let Hijikata get him out of there and passed on to someone who could offer some healing. Kaeya changed back to his human form, which left him without proper footwear and a shirt that was barely staying on his shoulders due to his wings. Kaeya wasn't exactly happy with not being able to go back in, but he waved Hijikata off with a tired grin.]
Keep the competition alive, Hijikata. Win some for me.
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Count on it!
[And if he finds his shoes in there and they're not wrecked, he'll bring them back to him! Maybe then, with more time to spare, he'll compliment him on the great use of his monster form. Being a gargoyle definitely is cooler than being a weredog!]