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Event #6: Doctor Why Instead of Who

Doctor Why Instead of Who
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Sawyer's Return

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.

Color Me Inked
(Duration: Whole month)

Part 1

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.

Part 2

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.

Bigger on the Inside

(Duration: January 22nd -> 26th)

Part 1

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.

Part 2

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.

Part 3

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.

Epilogue

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.

Waiting in the Shadows
(Duration: January 28th - 31st)

Part 1

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.

Part 2

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.

Part 3

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.

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• 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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[Oh, that wound looks gruesome, even with the torn armour covering it. The amount of blood alone speaks volumes. In Frieda's homeworld, she'd have to give the poor man a handkerchief or rag to bite down on while she'd peel the clothing off his skin for the doctors to treat him... but luckily, here they have better options at their disposal.]

If it's alright for you, I'll use my Mermaid Song. Please drink this healing potion, too.

[Whether he drinks it now or later, unless he objects, she'll sing him an Eldian lullaby while guiding him to a field bed to sit or lie down on. Given that this is magic imbued in her tattoo rather her a clumsy attempt at wrangling her spring magic, it should give him a lot of relief.]

( The blood is gruesome, but despite it, Steak doesn't seem to be feeling the effects beyond the pain rolling through him. His Soul Power remains strong, and his bond with Uke Mochi (who is milling around somewhere nearby) keeps him from approaching any real danger.

Still, he supposes to humans who aren't used to Food Souls, this probably does seem particularly nasty. )

Ah. Thank you.

( He's a brusque hard-head, but he does have some manners he can use. The potion is taken without complaint or suspicion, just knocked back as easily as someone might knock back cheap whiskey.

This world is not Tierra, but a lot of it is very similar. Similar enough that Steak doesn't need to question much of it. )

[He drank that so fast..! Well, it's a good thing he doesn't have to painstakingly sip it bit by bit. She refills his cup with more of the potion right away while singing a second verse of her song. It's hard to gauge if it helped a lot yet...]

Let me remove your leg armour, alright? If it hurts, I'll sing some more first.

[If his would is healed, any blood and grime technically won't be more than a cosmetic issue anymore, but unless he's going to march right back into battle, she'd prefer to get him cleaned up a little! She can't help but glance at his horns... he looks like a devil, but kinder.]

( There's only one way to take medicine, and that is so quickly that you don't have time to figure out if it tastes terrible or not. Better to just get things done before you overthink them.

Not that anyone would ever accuse Steak of overthinking anything. )

It's... ( He grimaces, biting back a hiss and curling his hands into the field bed. ) I'll be fine.

( He's familiar enough with healing magic, the processes and general weirdness that comes with any magic that song hardly registers as the weirdest thing he's seen someone do in order to trigger their abilities (looking @ u, Cola). It's actually quite pleasant, rather like listening to Candy Cane's prayers. )

Is this something you've always been able to do, or a result of this world?

( And there's no reason he can't make small talk between rounds of her song, is there? )

[Honestly, it's a good move. Her potion does taste kind of bad! And already, she's pouring him more, clearly banking on his leg healing before he'll need to go to the bathroom from drinking so much (if Food Souls even work that way!). At his question, her expression brightens up a little, and she touches her chest right beneath her collarbones, covered as it is by her blouse.]

It's the latter. My new tattoo gives me this ability. Where I'm from, magic doesn't exist, so any healing is a slow and arduous process, even with medicine and other assistance.

[Unless you hold the power of the titans, like her. But that's far from the norm, with only 9 such persons among many millions.]

What about you and your world?

[He clearly is a combatant, and not only since today... conflicted as Frieda feels about violence, she recognises that she can hardly speak out against the current efforts, given that the opponents are monsters called by an individual with ill intentions towards this struggling world. All the more does she wonder about this man. Could he really be a devil? In her world, only horrible connotations are attached to that race, but he's as easy to talk to as any other person.]

( Honestly, not a question elex ever answered! And we're probably, for once, quite glad about that fact. )

... Is that so? It must be difficult to get used to a place like this.

( No magic at all? That's so far from how Tierra, run on ~imagination~ ~~God I wish I were joking~~ as it is, works that Steak can't quite picture it. Though, he supposes most humans on Tierra don't really have access to magic in the way Food Souls and Fallen Angels do.

And so, when she asks, he nods (and grimaces slightly, okay so apparently he isn't fully healed yet); ) Mm. There's a lot of magic on Tierra. It allowed humans to summon us Food Souls as their servants and warriors.

( For starters. ) It's common for Food Souls to have magical skills of their own.

( Even he does, although his abilities aren't as interesting as, say, someone like Candy Cane or Croissant. )

[If she's honest, after the initial awe and wonder (and confusion about some things, especially home appliances - luckily, she had her sister to show her how to use them!), she got used to all the comforts of this world faster than expected. But it's his answer to her question that gets her full attention.]

Food Souls? I've never heard of your kind.

[Him being a Food Soul is about the last thing she'd have expected, even without fully understanding what that even is! Nothing about him seems related to any food - not that she can tell at a glance, in any case. He looks like a proper flesh-and-blood person to her! Having noticed his pained expression, she urges him to drink that potion - and while he does so, she'll sing another small verse, even if she'll hardly have enough time for that. His wellbeing takes priority over her curiosity!]

( It's a comment he's going to have to get used to, and while it seems logical for other worlds to not have Food Souls, actually confronting that fact has Steak stuttering to try and figure out what to say or how to explain it.

Is it a more peaceful world, then? One where humans needed nothing to defend themselves from the monsters? )

We, ah, we're beings summoned to serve our human attendants. We ensure that the Fallen Angels on Tierra do not harm anyone.

( Well, that's mostly what he does. But there's a lot of odd jobs too. Construction, deliveries, dressing up as someone's deceased boyfriend and proposing to them... )

You fight against fallen angels?

[That sounds like a task on the scale of a cosmic battle!]

It doesn't seem fair that the humans of your world make you fight their battles.

[Given her inherited memories of human-wrought cruelty and oppression, it doesn't sit right with her for humans to summon other beings for the express purpose of doing their bidding.]

What provoked those angels' fall to begin with?

( Fighting the humans' fight is not the worst thing humans have done to food souls, but that's a conversation for a lot of alcohol, honestly. )

They can't hurt those creatures themselves. Besides, without that purpose, I wouldn't be able to exist and protect others.

( Steak's always been fortunate, in a way. His Master Attendant was an excellent man, if not a fool when it came to the woman he loved, and while he has known many a human who were not nearly that good a person, their existences haven't remained entwined with his own. They never coloured his thoughts on his purpose as a defender and protector of humans. )

The God of Beginnings was upset at the results of an ancient war, apparently. They were created from that energy.

( He shrugs. That's what the lore says, anyway. How much he believes it? Ehhhh. )

[Of course the humans did something awful. Of course. But she indeed won't give him anything that's not water or more potions right now, so she won't hear about that part of the story this time around.

Steak seems to be entirely content with his existence as, essentially, a summoned servant, so she's hesitant to criticise it further and make it unpalatable to him - all the more because the origins of the conflict seem nebulous to even him, so how is she to make a judgement call?]

...

Then, as a human, let me thank you for protecting my kind.

[Do the humans of his world deserve it? She doesn't know. But he seems earnest and dedicated, and it's the least she can do (besides healing his injury).]

( He's very content. Steak loves life, honestly. Loves the ability to fight, to defend, the freedom which comes with knowing that he never has to face aging, that death does not come easily to a Food Soul. He loves travelling around Tierra and spending time with his friends.

He isn't sure what he thinks of Ellipsa, yet, but he's finding the people agreeable enough so far. (Well, Steak's idea of agreeable usually means "I can disagree with them" but that's neither here nor there.)

She thanks him and Steak clears his throat, cheeks pinking slightly. )

...You're welcome. ( And, hey. ) I hope we can work together to protect this place, too.

( People who can heal are always necessary, after all! )

[His good attitude, along with that charming modesty, changes her uncertain expression to a smile. If he's this engaged and collaborative about it all, far be it from her to put a damper on that!]

I hope so, too. For a start, I hope you aren't in pain anymore now?

[Otherwise, she'll need to sing some more for him! And, since she hasn't introduced herself--]

My name is Frieda.

I'm good, thank you.

( Sometimes, just sometimes, he can be not a complete fool in conversation! At least, when it is close to things like defending whatever place he's in, and when he's injured enough that he knows his health is held in the hands of the person he's talking to.

(Unless that person is Red Wine. If it was Red Wine, a fight would have already broken out.) )

Steak. ( He offers a hand to shake with his name. Just a very normal thing to be called, but at least she knows he's a food soul already. )

[She does shake his hand... and she lights up at his name!]

Steak? Like the meat?

[He's never going to be able to escape this reaction, is he? Yes, he told her that he's a food soul, but he didn't say that he was Steak!]

Is that why you have horns? Because you're-- I mean, the food you represent is beef?

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