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Event #1: Welcome, Adventurers



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Guild Playing Games With my Heart



Part 1


A new message on everyone's smartphones says that all the Guilds are finally open for business! Instructions on how to get to each one of them are sent with the message.

Each Season has their own Guild (Winter in Frostreign, Spring in Blossomcrown, Summer in Solarpeak and Autumn in Amberfall). Originally they were formed when the world was thriving and the natives were power holders, now they serve a purpose for aiding Otherworlders.

Although there are some aesthetic differences, all of the guilds have the same basic layout, which the newcomers are given a tour of:

The main floor is for information, containing computers that are connected between all guilds. Using them brings up holographic boards which contain information on each of the segments, with a focus on their home segment. You can find out here what the weather is like in each segment, what quests are available, an explanation on how the Flower Yards work, and even a list of powers that have been discovered and how to practice them.

The second floor is a place to go for combat practice, or just practice using your powers. There are simulators here that can be used to create a space to test your skills against virtual monster opponents or against other power holders, all with safety precautions to keep anyone from being injured.

The third and final floor is meant for relaxation and provides a temporary place to nap when necessary. Those who do quests on a regular basis will receive a key that opens their own, personal room for relaxation that can be customized as much as they want. It's void pocket space that doesn't appear unless the specific key is used or the owner invites someone in from the inside.

It's also the floor where the leaders of the guild have their own private space in that's a restricted area. They have their public office there as well.

However, the power holders are expecting everyone outside, in the backyard of the Guilds...

Part 2


The main event of the opening day of the guilds is a lesson on how to become more attuned with your new elemental magic. Some characters may already feel comfortable with them, but the Power Holders wish to help anyone who might still feel like they're struggling.

Behind the guilds there is big open space. A yard meant for lessons like this. Each of the power holders is own their own stage (even Sawyer, who seems rather reluctant to be there) and announces the name of the lesson: Elemental Dancing.

They explain each in their own way that dancing while focusing on their basic element is a way to start properly feeling the element. The dance can be anything, as long as their bodies are moving and they can feel their magical energy align with the element.

To demonstrate, they dance:

Olwen dances a slow dance that looks a little like ballet, with water flowing naturally around him and increasing in quantity as he goes.

Jade has a much quicker dance method, like she's dancing at a party and is surrounded by wind that sometimes helps her even jump higher.

Dawn's dance is a passionate belly dance accompanied by rings of fire around her that turns into a pink fire so she doesn't burn herself as the flames come closer to herself.

Sawyer, as reluctant as he, goes full breakdance with each of his tricks forming pillars of earth that he can use to dance even more.


Once their demonstration is over, they encourage new power holders to give it a try themselves and remind them that they can dance however they please. They also advise that the dances can be attempted with a partner, as long as they can learn to trust one another. Sometimes magic is far stronger when done together... but it may also backfire.






I Came In Like a Questboard




Anyone interested is encouraged to join their guild. The staff explains that it's very beneficial, as they would get access to the upper floors that just today were shown to them, and that nearby stores would give guild members discounts for potions and other such adventuring necessities.

Even without joining, all of the first floors services are available for everyone. That includes the questboard that is now on display, though it only shows four quests for now.

There are some necessary preparations still going on with the questboard itself, but the staff assures that later there will be more of them, with some permanent ones added to the mix that would help with making the Segments safer for those without powers to explore as well.

Why not find a friend and go out on an adventure together? The guild does recommend doing quests together with someone, rather than alone.

Well, except Sawyer of Autumn, if he's around. He will always encourage people to go on their own and claims it's an act of bravery. Oh, and make sure to check the Beastiary before heading out, once you've picked your targets!

The Quests [ Click to Expand ]
Quests


CW/TW: possible nudity, possible death

Name: Skeletal Mischief
Rewards: 100 Moon Coins per 2 Snowskeletons vanquished
Location: Winter Segment
Description: For some time Snowskeletons have bothered natives who visit the Flower Yard. Usually the only nearby place of peace has now become a nuisance to visit. Those who attempt it usually return to the city in just their underwear (if they’re lucky). A request has come for the guilds to get rid of the Snowskeletons near the Flower Yard in whatever means necessary.
OOC notes: Snowskeletons have two types: either they're snowmen made from bone or they're skeletons made of snow. Either way they're definitely not friendly and often disguise themselves among the snow to surprise their prey. They're not really out to kill anyone, but may sometimes accidentally do it. Instead they're looking to steal clothes and wear them. Basically they're notorious bandits.

CW/TW: mind altering

Name: That Very Big Tree
Rewards: 500 Moon Coins, Loot you find
Location: Spring Segment
Description: The researchers are curious about the “One Very Big Tree”. They want to know what the tree does and are asking people to take a look and report back what they find.
OOC notes: One Very Big Tree is hollow on the inside and looks like a big tree house. The higher someone climbs it the less they feel like they’re themselves. In fact, they will turn into the exact opposite of themselves. There are also dangerous Gale Squirrels living inside that use wind magic of their own to attack!

Reaching the top, however, will reward them with feathers of a mighty monstrous bird that can be used to enhance any weapon so that they fly back to the user's hand. Only one feather per character, magic stops them from taking more than one.

CW/TW: possible death, possible mind altering

Name: Treasure Ship
Rewards: 500 Moon Coins, any treasure they find
Location: Summer Segment
Description: “The abandoned ship in the Great Ocean Lake used to be a treasure ship! So why not go fetch the treasure? I’m sure it can be used to make some neat weapons or armor. I’d love to help do that, I’m an expert in using treasure for enhancements! But I’m not strong enough to go get them myself. The fastest route there is from the Airship Station!”
OOC notes: The ship is full of Octokitties that are cats with six to eight limbs. They’re territorial and won’t appreciate anyone coming to their ship for any reason and will attack viciously. They can also spit ink that includes side effects of going into a berserker mode and not caring who is an ally and who is an enemy. But the treasure is real.

CW/TW: eaten alive, death

Name: The Blue Flash
Rewards: 700 Moon Coins for finding a lost one*
Location: Autumn Segment
Description: “Help, my friend disappeared on our trip to visit the old lady of Autumn Airship Station. We walked outside to stretch our legs after our airship journey and then there was a blue flash in the corner of my eye and he was gone! Nothing at all remained and I was too scared to go look for him so I ran back inside. I’ve heard this isn’t the first time a blue flash has abducted someone!”
OOC notes: The reason for disappearances is the Angler Will-o'-the-wisps: Most will-o'-the-wisps are harmless, but there are types that act like anglerfish. They take the form of other monsters and toss a "fishing line" out of a dark bush to make it look like a normal will-o'-the-wisp was trying to get their attention. When the prey gets too close, they will attempt to devour them to get more soul energy. They have left their normal place in the forests and invaded some bushes around the Segment.

*Reward stays the same even for just figuring out the mystery behind disappearances.





Enhanced to Meet You




Part 1


Enhancing items is a magical specialty in Ellipsa. The power of words determines how your item of choice gets enchanted. If you're trying to make an armor stronger, it would be wise to use kind and encouraging words but a weapon might need violent and determined words. Enhancement include defense boosts, attack boosts, health stealing and even adding status effects. All of these effects aren't permanent, but they should last for at least a month before fading away.

The workshops around districts will offer teaching to anyone who is interested in learning the basics of basic item enhancement. For more advanced things (like learning to make the enhancements permanent) the natives suggests taking an apprenticeship in the Magical Manor of Amberfall or Tower of Potions of Coldreach. Especially with potions, as those are more advanced than what they are showing.

Of course, armor and weapons aren't the only things that can be enhanced anything is possible as long as it's a non-living thing.

Part 2


A group of mischievous Imps are causing trouble. They're doing everything they can to make people angry (like dropping items on people's toes) as they try their magic. This could happen to anyone, even otherworlders testing their new magic.

Due to their mischief, a group of magical performers who were meant to enhance some animal statues to make them move around in a show ended up cursing a lot while the magic was happening. Because of that the animal statues did come to life, but they're angry and started running around, ramming into people left and right. It's especially alarming when one of the statues enhanced is a giant elephant, and some of the statues were meant to be used in a bullfighting show. Those are some very, very angry stone bulls coming at people in high speeds!

The natives don't want to break the statues, but they would like the statues to be stopped. With kind and loving words the effects of the curses will vanish and the statues will calm down and act like they were supposed to.

Of course they would appreciate catching as many Imps as possible so they could be returned back outside into the Summer Segment.





OOC TIPS


- Ask 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 warn as necessary!

- Event starting date is March 17th, but the opening day of the guilds and the elemental dance lessons happen for a week so everyone who wants to attend them can have a chance to do so.

- NPC Power Holders can be interacted with, but it will all be handwaved. Feel free to ask questions on the questions thread if you're unsure of how the interactions would go.

- Starting in April, quests will be posted bimonthly and there will be a Quest Mingle available for people to use to thread out the quests! This format is just here because it's the first event where they're introduced.

- These particular quests are canonically open until end of month.



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mistsplitter: (ayaka010)

[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-03-25 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hehe, I suppose it has its charms.

[ Ayaka believes Visions are given to those who are most ambitious; it is a reward for working hard, and inspiration to do even better. She wouldn't say it is pretty, but it does make a nice accessory. ]

Where I am from, Visions are given to people who are most ambitious. Others would say that it is proof that the gods have recognised you.

[ And since Kainé does not believe in gods, she imagines she may not understand the importance of it to Ayaka as well as she does. But that's okay! ]

Those who bear Visions are given abilities to manipulate certain elements.
Edited 2023-03-25 06:25 (UTC)
kingside: (surrounded by idiots)

[personal profile] kingside 2023-03-25 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[... Then maybe try being clearer about that next time, but although he sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose, sure.]

Assuming I'm reincarnated in some alternate world with roughly my same personality and interests and a mere fraction of my life experiences, I'd want to study... science? Engineering?

[If he sounds faintly lost, it might just be because he is, and his frown is only deepening as he takes the stairs a little faster, hoping to reassert some distance between them.]

But I'd rather something with a more artistic bent even if I find those subjects satisfying. Architecture, perhaps?
nihilmancy: (pic#13849578)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2023-03-25 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's easier to focus on the alluring stranger and her graceful dance than everything she lost when she was taken to this small, primitive world, how unmoored she is from what she knows and her fondest hopes and desires. Easier than thinking of what she is supposed to do when (she refuses to believe that it will not happen) she returns to her own reality.

So she smiles, and leads them in the dance. She feels the stir of that new energy within them. Let her investigate what curiosities this new fate may bring. Perhaps try to enjoy a few of them. This lovely girl, and the pleasantness of their touch, makes that seem less daunting than it otherwise might. ]


My people call it Heka, an ancient word for magic. "Activation of the spirit." A variety of paraphysical phenomena where change is imposed on the cosmos by direct application of Will— through the intermediary of various enhancements, such as those represented in my tattoos, to the human form. There are mental mnemomics as well, codewords and ritual behavior... not unlike the spells of legend.

[ She says all of this without her steps faltering. There is more she could say, like how she's currently in the process of ensuring that she can use those abilities at optimum efficiency by consulting with the Tower of Potions, but... she need not reveal her vulnerabilities so quickly. ]

Well, if you're so bold, would you like to lead? And goodness, where are my manners? My name is Hlasoh sat Kerhet a'Rhen. Just Hlasoh shall do.
sangreine: huh :: surprised (tell me)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-03-25 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ The arm around her is appreciated, and she doesn't even pretend like she wants to pull away. ]

We'll figure something out. If he runs, it's not like I'll be awake to blame him for it. Besides, if we don't fix this then our housemates are going to lock us in a room and refuse to let us out until we do. [ Saya could easily escape any such room with sheer force but she's powered enough by guilt to just do the thing. ]

-- You understand? I mean I believe you, it's just the first anyone said anything like that to me about this. It's not something in most people's experience.
nihilmancy: (pic#16040778)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2023-03-25 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's not like she won't enjoy the view, since it's so kindly offered to her, but she's not going to stare. Her clothing is just as crisp, a tunic over trousers tucked into high boots, with a long jacket sashed at the waist. She'll wear something simpler if they end up at sea.

"We're in accordance, then. Naturally, we shall split our earnings." She grins, extending her hand to shake. "I'm Hlasoh."
glidinglight: (o rly)

[personal profile] glidinglight 2023-03-25 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ some of us only have one henchman with a singular talent, and that's for eating

two, if you count complaining. ]

[ Finally the big cat relaxes totally. It takes a few steps toward him and then leans in against his pant leg, purring. ]

Looks like you have a new friend.
dereban: ([m] 187)

[personal profile] dereban 2023-03-25 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately.

[ Inaba's shoulders sag as she lets out a bit of a sigh. ]

I haven't gotten caught by them yet, but I sure as hell wish that they'd stop.
sultanofsquat: coeurlwhiskers @ twitter (looks drawn)

[personal profile] sultanofsquat 2023-03-25 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
I was an amateur to Nipponese— [ Wait, it's the same as her world. ] —Inazuman cuisine.

[ Shooting her a smirk after she's laughed behind her little fist, their pace slows as he takes a step in closer to her. Close enough that as they approach the cherry blossom tree they would soon camp under, that Cloud slips his hand in hers, giving it a squeeze as the emboldening power of 'touch' is amplified. It's like magnifying how good this felt when he was with her... ]

One time I watched how someone made 'em start to finish. Bet I could prolly make some decent ones.

[ Assuming he had the right cooking equipment. One thing at a time. Rice Cooker. Motorcycle. A house. Takoyaki molds can wait. ]
mistsplitter: (f012)

[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-03-25 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
Y- Yes!

[ SORRY, DIMITRI. She's a little frazzled now, realising that she hasn't been helping! How embarrassing...

Ayaka would bow her head in apology, but there really isn't any time to apologise profusely to him now! She must apologise to the bull first.

(Not that she knows it is a bull in the first place). ]


Ah, um, we apologise for making you angry! I'm sure you are a very kind and calm cow!

[ Despite being called a cow, the bull seems to calm down after a couple of huffs. ]
scattershot: (✶ cold salvation)

[personal profile] scattershot 2023-03-25 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Then we are of one mind.

[She smiles. She hopes it looks vaguely reassuring.

[Well... her goes nothing. She starts to move away from the station, rapier in hand, stirring the foliage with the point of her blade. Would it be better, she wonders, to present an entirely innocuous front? Would these wisps even care to go after somebody who had already bared steel - well, crystal - against them?

['tis hardly as if this is the first time she has gone chasing after some kind of -kin or -sent or -eater with half a handful of justification and even less of an understanding of what she might be facing, and yet she still feels rather foolish and even more exposed.

[Which is why, when Alisaie espies a flash of blue at the corner of one eye, she isn't even certain if she's seeing things or seeing things.]


Did you see that?

[How pathetic is it that that's a genuine question?]
fishfearme: (neutral)

[personal profile] fishfearme 2023-03-25 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
Very well.

[And so with that invitation, Byleth began to sing The Old Town's Inn. His voice was... well, like hearing the goddess herself serenade you: absolutely beautiful. Hope Alcryst can listen and dance at the same time...]
fishfearme: (look down)

[personal profile] fishfearme 2023-03-25 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
Thinking in terms of which one is far more profitable whilst balanced with effort, the skeletons offer up higher chance of a heavier reward. The reward is 100 coins per two kills, whereas the other quests offer a flat rate of 500 coins. Therefore, while killing ten skeletons will yield us 500 coins, we can theoretically go further.

[Mercenary maths with Byleth! He's awfully pragmatic about this, but also...]

Also, they're snowskeletons. I'm skilled with fire magic, so more than likely this will take little to no effort at all. Unless you wish to go for one of the other quests? The Blue Flash, for example?
scattershot: (✶ like a summer rain)

[personal profile] scattershot 2023-03-25 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Roger. I shall have to remember that.

[It is a pleasure to met Roger, too.]

Well, I doubt they call it That Very Big Tree for a reason. It does make up in precision for what it lacks in poetry. We'll have to catch an airship then, I presume...? I can explain what - well, 'tis more like who, to be exact - the Elezen are on the way.
scattershot: (✶ dawnbound)

[personal profile] scattershot 2023-03-25 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
But considerably more diverting, I should hope.

[Alisaie had been noting the maneuver gear, but coming as she does from a world where it is not particularly uncommon to see passers-by using exceptionally elaborate-looking weaponry as simple daywear, it had not occurred on her to remark on it as particularly out of the ordinary. Curious, yes. Enough so to be worth disturbing the peace over, not really.]

Please. I had rather been wondering how we were expected to get there.
scattershot: (✶ from the heart)

[personal profile] scattershot 2023-03-25 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
So, we simply stuff them inside?

[Alisaie hadn't been planning on saying aught of it, but yes: Theo's saddlebags did look peculiarly bulky and furious today. And, after all the trouble that squirming wretch had caused her, over Clarion, a little discomfort seems entirely justified.]

Well, now I'm almost sorry you took that one from me. I'll simply have to step up my game.

[As always.

[Quite like home.]
scattershot: (✶ against the wind)

[personal profile] scattershot 2023-03-25 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I do like to believe myself competent... but not so much so that I have eyes in the back of my head, an affinity for axes, or any understanding of preventative healing. I can think of very few people so competent that they wouldn't be better served traveling with friends.

[And even then--

[It's the same problem as before: one song, a myriad of singers. For every Warrior she remembers to be gifted with a sword or thaumaturgy, there is another who is a prodigious healer, a third who carries a bow. The swordsman cannot always shrug off his wounds; the healer struggles in offense; the archer wishes for a sturdy back to shield her. Even they should never be expected to struggle entirely alone.]


Where would you say your skills lie? I'm trained with a rapier, and magicks. But were I to venture alone onto a ghost ship, what would I do if I were overwhelmed?
greedyvixen: (Fingerguns)

skeletal mischief

[personal profile] greedyvixen 2023-03-25 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh look, here's a girl, who almost always wears her own version of a totally badass looking red and black outfit. Though she is wearing her red jacket and a red and black scarf combined with it at the moment in all of this snow, but that jacket doesn't even cover her miniskirt or legs at all.

Anyway! Rin is about to shoot that snow skeleton with her own magic or local magic, but then this weirdo jumps out of the snowpile and completely murders it dead!!!??]


HEY, THAT WAS MINE!! [She glances at his metal ... blade... thing.] And what the hell is that even supposed to be?!!

[Like she is one to ask, when she has three weird tattoo-like things on the back of her right hand... Congratulations for getting something else than her usual(?) pretending to be all prim and proper start with Rin.]
scattershot: (✶ the warrens)

[personal profile] scattershot 2023-03-25 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine.

[Alisaie sticks her hand out. Brusquely. Two can play at this game.

[And yes, she is absolutely making a deal out of this. Mayhap she's no keener on dancing with him than he is with her, but if it gets this arrogant youth to at least put his money where his mouth is, she'll count that as - well, mayhap as a no-score draw. At least this way they both end up annoyed.]


Will you be leading, sir?
Edited 2023-03-25 12:46 (UTC)
mistsplitter: (a003)

[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-03-25 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's so confident in his skills!! Of course Ayaka is pumped up. For a moment though, her attention is on their hands, the way her eyes light up different from how excited she would get whenever Cloud agrees with her or suggests another adventure. This time, it gives her a bit more energy than usual. Something unique to this world! ]

I am sure you will be able to. [ :D!! Oh, but now she realises— ] We would have to buy a stove for it, won't we?

[ ... they seem like an entire machine to her '-' ]
orangebrained: (003*)

i

[personal profile] orangebrained 2023-03-25 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[By now he's used to it - the way people he knows remember him, but also remember others and how perplexing that is - but he's still... strangely nervous to approach Alisaie. It would be a heartbreaking thing for her to be an exception (amongst others, but let him focus on one thing at a time) but these things cannot be ignored and avoided forever so when he sees her lingering about the questboard he approaches with just the right timing to hear the last part of her muttering.]

Got anyone in mind?

[Possibly a slightly air-headed but always good-hearted Miqo'te who can make things explode?]

Couldn't help but overhear.
turneditin: (That would be me)

[personal profile] turneditin 2023-03-25 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sisu has only ever seen dragons that are "her type" so the tattoo looks interesting. It's likely why she approached the lady.]

Most likely. Though you never know how magics in this world mingle togehter.

[It's a fun thought to experiment with.]

I'm Sisu.
scattershot: (✶ most unworthy)

Skeletal Mischief

[personal profile] scattershot 2023-03-25 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
'twould seem there is quite a lot, that the guild aduyses have chosen to leave out.

[Now, mayhap, is not the time to go into them. Still, one would think it common sense to include things like - oh, a description of a missing person, and not merely the simple fact of their absence. Word on what the researcher sponsoring them was actually researching. That sort of trifling little detail.

[More accustomed to cold climes Alisaie may be, now. But that still hardly makes it pleasant, to find herself once again standing on a snowbank, rubbing her palms, blowing on her frozen fingers (in gloves, even; where did one find better gloves?) and waiting to be attacked. How, she wonders, for what must be the umpteenth time, how did the Garleans do it; and, yet again, no wonder they were angry. Nobody - well, almost nobody - sets out to play the villain. Even Bahamut himself had a reason.]


What do you think a snow skeleton is, Maxima? Is it a skeleton made of snow? Or some kind of - snowman of bone?

[Gods.

[She's not at all sure which would be worse.]
scattershot: (✶ dawnbound)

Re:

[personal profile] scattershot 2023-03-25 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh - Kayan! You're here, too?

[And here we go again. Another shift. Another voice.

[Another smile, totally genuine, blooming on her lips. Gods, how does she explain this, how is it that her heart can be big enough for them all? Every one so different. Every one so very dear. No fault in him - them - with any of them. Alisaie simply cannot believe herself equal to this.]


I'm not exactly going to turn down the Warrior of Light. Yes, I know there's a lot of them here. That doesn't make you less--

[special]

--you.
nomorewaiting: (So call me maybe?)

[personal profile] nomorewaiting 2023-03-25 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Winry is... Somewhere halfway between thinking that this is either another dream, or he is an illusion, or that he might, just might, even be real this time. Time flies pretty fast here but she has had time to wake up from dreams, where he and Al aren't really here. But she is glad, that Ed meets her halfway.]

You heard what they said about Elemental Dancing, right? These are important lessons too! [.... She really should have expected that question right back at her.] I was curious to see what kind of dances other guilds have after seeing and learning Spring's windy party dance.

[That's totally all that he meant with it, right??? Judging by some blushing on her face, she knows that's possibly not all of it.]

When did you arrive, Ed?
pyramidsmash: (Threat)

[personal profile] pyramidsmash 2023-03-25 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's too bad he can't just use his Noble Phantasm out of because that would definitely destroy all the statues causing chaos. But it would also likely destroy some buildings. And take too much mana. So he just opts to using the Sphinx and some lasers.]

Get on my Sphinx. Use your abilities to fight back. If you're a policeman, it's your duty to help with this chaos as well! I am giving you the tools out of my good grace.

[The sphinx in question seems calm and willing to take Hijikata as a rider on its back.]