seasonsrpg | 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.

OOC TIPS

• 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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Eren that is possibly the funniest statement ever.

"No, I didn't," he answers, shaking his head. "I was in a place called Trench, or the 'Waking World', as they put it, for over a year before I arrived here."

It wasn't that bad. Not really. Once everyone learned how to deal with it, how to survive, it was somehow more peaceful than home. No road trip. No impending insanity that couldn't be solved with contact or incense. Which wasn't ideal, but better than completely losing your mind to the Minus Wave.

"I... take it Folkmore was somewhere like this?" A world that pulled people in at random.

And then he's quiet again, watching the landscape pass by. "Then... I hope you can. For all the troubles, it's quite a lovely place to remain."

"Over a year?" he repeats, surprised. "I think I was only in Folkmore for a few months…I'm not good at keeping track of time, though."

Things were always a little surreal there anyway, so Eren's own issues with linear time were sometimes exacerbated. He's never sure how to talk about the time thing, though, so he just…doesn't bother.

"Folkmore wasn't like this," he answers. "Everyone there chose to be there, including me. Thirteen, the…uh, fox deity, I guess…who ran the place, she gave me a choice. Stay where I was or follow her and determine my true potential."

He chews on his lip for a second, an anxious habit, something mildly destructive that he does when he's deciding how much he wants to reveal about himself. Or sometimes just when he needs somewhere to direct energy. He always leans towards destruction.

"I already knew what that was, but I said yes anyway. I wanted to avoid it. I don't know what her deal really was with potential. It was a lot weirder there than here, but some of the stuff was the same. Some people had weird powers or could turn into animals and shit like that."

Then he'd come here, not exactly against his will, but certainly without consent. He thinks again of how this place is a cage, trapping them inside the safety of yet another wall. He's been to the barrier and seen outside it, knows it's not safe, but that's not the point in his head. Even safety can be a cage; that's what the walls he grew up inside of were designed to be, after all.

"Nothing here even comes close to the shit we had at home. I'd take this place any day over the hell we came from."

He glances at Hakkai again.

"Trench wasn't like this?"

He chooses to lean against the railing, then. Listening to Eren speak, and watching the world slowly go by down below. It almost feels like one of them should be smoking for this conversation - like this is the sort of talk that needs the background smell of nicotine.

"True potential," he muses, thoughtful. What did that mean, really? He's very curious as to what Eren already figured out, but that's probably not his place. Not if he didn't already say so. What would his be? Nothing, probably, at this point. True potential to be a murderous monster, most likely. "I wonder if such a thing would hold true here."

It does feel more like freedom.

"I can understand. Most worlds I've heard of aren't terribly kind to the people who live in them." Their own included.

His smile is... it's not quite his usual mask. Maybe it's something fond, nostalgic? Something distant. "Trench was nothing like this world. Nor the other you described... we were constantly under the threat of Corruption, becoming horrible Beasts." A shake of his head, his hair hiding his eyes for a moment. "To say nothing of how our blood could alter our perception of everything."

Eren shrugs.

"Who knows? I've felt static for a long time," he says, which is a strange sort of admission for a boy who experiences so much of time all at once.

"Your…blood…?" he asks, trying to follow along. What the fuck kind of world was Trench? It sounds like a nightmare world — and Eren comes from a nightmare world, so he would know.

"…Were you pulled into the desert last month? The one with the tree of light?"

He doesn't actually have a good word for it, the Paths. He doesn't know the word other than the Coordinate, but that's the tree itself. It's just a place, out of time and memory, that he knows and doesn't know.

No one else should have been there, certainly not non-Eldians. But he wants to know if Hakkai saw the terrible truth of their world, the looming omnicide that Eren will bring to it. He isn't acting differently, so maybe not.

"Perhaps that's a blessing, in a way. If you feel static... maybe there isn't much that needs to change." He laughs a bit, in his usual filling the silence sort of way, not because anything is actually funny.

A nod, while he looks down at his hands, idly - long fingers, short lifeline. "It was altered. To one of five different sorts, if I remember correctly. All with their own benefits and drawbacks." This time, the look on his face is close to a relieved one. "It seems to have reverted to normal, here."

the tree of light

His hands drop back to the rail. Tensing. "I... did," he admits, slowly. "It was an uncomfortable time. Did it delve into memories for yourself, as well?" A careful, almost guarded question.

Eren shakes his head slowly.

"No. I want to change, I'm just not sure I can," he answers. He means it, but he also…cops out somewhat. By saying he can't change, he doesn't have to try. (He is trying, he just gets fucked up in his head.)

"I don't think I understand this Trench place at all. Was it a bad place?"

It sounds like a bad place to Eren, but he came from a nightmare world. He's rarely encountered anyone whose world — their own or otherwise — was as horrific as his. But there must be others that were terrible.

A muscle tenses in his jaw. He doesn't look at Hakkai.

"Sort of," he answers. "It's what I was trying to do, but…it was only supposed to be me and Reiner. No one else should have been there." He tries so hard for honesty these days, even if he doesn't always say the whole truth.

"I think I once heard that trying counts for quite a bit." It's said after a few moments' quiet. "I'm not sure I believe it myself. But it's a nice thought, isn't it?"

It probably doesn't apply to people like him, though.

"Not all bad. It could be perilous, deadly. But the people who washed ashore were... it there was a sense of community. No matter where you came from, the Sleepers were your people." In that way, it was welcome. It felt like you belonged. And part of him does miss that.

He waits, patiently, until Eren speaks again. The inclusion of Reiner is a surprise, but no less than the rest of what he's told. When Hakkai looks over at Eren, it's with shock, instead of anger. "You were able to do something like that...?"

Event #6: Doctor Why Instead of Who

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