NOVEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS

[fairyfoes]

Hey, fairybros! November is a BIG MONTH in term of game developments! First, we'd like folks who have NPC/Black Shuck threads to know that these will be carried out to a sensible conclusion!

Secondly, we'd like to introduce the details on the time skipping mechanic! Please go here to review the info and ask any and all questions! Note that as a result of questions and interaction with the game's community, we may update or modify the mechanic, so please check back frequently!

As a note, the Quest Request will be opened in just a few days, with an ETA of November 05! This will be our first batch, and the mod team will approach all participants for the first month for criticism/reviews of the process en masse at the end of the month. We're not entirely sure how to gauge participation at this point, but expect that requests will be closed if it reaches unmaneagable levels, especially with the holiday at the end of the month.

With that in mind, we're also going to put out a blanket notification that all mods are likely going to have spotty activity for holidays this and next month, so as a general rule, expect that we may spend a little more time getting to requests and replies.

The Uprising Dead GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE | DURATION: 01-07 NOVEMBER

SUMMARY All over the land, unmarked graves are blooming with green sod and bright, fragrant tulips. The fairies whisper that Black Shuck is returning the Long Dead to the notice of the land, and will urge everyone to rebury the bones of champions in the crypts of the castles before fourteen days have passed. The fairies won't say why, but will be moved to tears if their pleas are not carried out. Even the imps will be frantic over the accomplishment of this task. The monarchs will issue decrees for each shard-holder to follow the instructions of the fae. On the seventh day, midway through the deadline, they will be persuaded by the monarchs to speak plainly: Black Shuck wants his dead honoured by Caer Glaem and Caer Scima alike, even within the Station's mile radius. If the mounds are not exhumed and the contents properly laid to rest, the Dog of Death will lay a sickness on the six lands.

Characters need not accomplish this; those that do may receive special recognition, while those who don't may receive unforeseen consequences!

The Uprising Dead GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE | DURATION: 15-21 NOVEMBER

SUMMARY The tulip mounds rot with the sunrise of the fifteenth day. From them rise up large spectral dogs with blank fiery eyes that roam the six realms and attack anyone with a shard. These, the monarchs will inform the realms, are the restless souls claimed by Black Shuck, cast out and damned until felled by the fearless; the trouble with slaying the hungry beasts lies in their ability to inspire ones greatest terrors to grip the heart. As a result, they are difficult to destroy. A royal command will be issued to all shard-holders, instructing them to fortify the castles and all those who are able to ride out and destroy the demonic dogs. Seelie and Unseelie alike will be granted a royal favour at the end of the month.

Since this is not a mass event, players are encouraged to plan and plot among themselves, and set up their own logs as appropriate!

MONTHLY OVERVIEW

01st NOVEMBER (01am IC) • EVENT START. The Black Shuck's will is known, spread via NPCs who have spoken to him at Samhain!
01st-07th NOVEMBER • Saralegui is proclaimed and formally announced Lord of Redgate. News of Reynard's defeat at Maupertius becomes known; his lands are now controlled by Ganondorf Dragmire.
05th NOVEMBER • QUEST REQUESTS OPEN!
15th NOVEMBER • The demon dogs rise and roam the Six Realms!
20th NOVEMBER (00:01am LONDON GMT) • 1) RESERVES OPEN 2) The boon request post goes up on the OOC community. You will be asked to state your character's request and link to proof of having participated in the event. Mods will be around to approve or deny these.
21st NOVEMBER • EVENT CLOSES. If the bones/dogs have been dealt with at player discretion!
24th NOVEMBER (00:01am LONDON GMT) • 1) APPS OPEN 2) Boon requests close!
25th NOVEMBERR • Approved or altered, boons are ICLY received today when characters wake up.
26th NOVEMBER (00:01am LONDON GMT) • ACTIVITY CHECK.
26th NOVEMBER (00:01am LONDON GMT) • RESERVES END. FFA BEGINS.
01st DECEMBER (00:01am LONDON GMT) • ACTIVITY CHECK ENDS.
01st DECEMBER (00:01am LONDON GMT) 1) APPS CLOSE. 2) NEW CALENDAR OF EVENTS.

The next Calendar of Events post will go up to cover all of December. Weather for this month will be bursts of cold rains with a few frosts and light snows, and mostly slate-gray skies. Nights and early mornings will be utterly frigid. Please feel free to use this as a plotting post. Finally, if you have any queries about the event, please direct them to the Questions thread and we'll get back to you ASAP, and feel free to use this post to plot together. Thank you!

Comments

QUESTIONS?

[fairyfoes]

PAST EVENT CRIT/REVIEW/QUESTIONS

[fairyfoes]

PLOTTING POSTS

[fairyfoes]

[extramural]

Would magic that repels Creepy Things such as the Patronus charm work on the smiledogs spectral dogs?

Also, asking again on here since it's even more relevant -- would Ariadne's shadow form still have that "canines are your mortal enemy" thing? And either way, would they be able to tap into her fears if she's in that form? What about the fears of regular animals (pets, mounts, summoned creatures)?

Does it matter which crypt the bones are buried in? (Maybe the undead was a Seelie champion who'd be really upset about being buried in Caer Scima, idk.)

[extramural]

THE OUTSIDER will be moving bones to the crypt in Caer Scima, mostly because Lady Red-Hand ~inspired~ him to treat the dead nicely and not just take their bones like a big creepy vulture. He can teleport to seaside locations at night (but only for the night), so he will try to gather bones from those places. He'll be fighting the dogs.

ARIADNE will be moving bones to the crypt in Caer Scima. She can shadow travel/teleport to major locations within forests and can teleport anywhere she's already been on the full moon (November 6th!), so she'll try to focus on mounds in those locations. She'll mostly help with fortifications but will fight if necessary and if any dogs get in!

JOHN GRIMM will be moving bones to the crypt in Caer Glaem; as he can teleport within Glaschu, he'll focus on that region! He'll also be involved in the skirmishes against the Unseelie camps near Cothromach, but I believe that will be happening toward the end of the first week -- either way, he'll try to do both. He will try to fight the dogs but will probably be convinced that Everyone Is Going To Die (haha worst fear) and retreat back to help defend the castle.

[curser]

Maleficent will probably be curious about sudden outcroppings of tulips everywhere, and when told about the unrestful dead, I'd like to have her possibly work towards putting them to rest. I'm open to having her help both Seelie and Unseelies with this, since the dead are the dead as far as she's concerned.

Stiles will be incredibly creeped out, but hey, it's not the first dead body he's dug up. I plan on keeping him in/around Cothromach for the foreseeable future, but he'll have a way to and from Caer Glaem thanks to his mirror porting, so I sort of expect bones to be shoved his way with a 'the next time you go...' sort of look.

Veronica is so not touching your dead bodies, drabwurld. It's bad enough there's creepy skeletons giving her looks on Jack's boat. Dead-dead bodies are just an auto nope for her.

[baseborne]

1: Are there crypts in Cothromach that Jon can bury the dead in if/when they pop up around there, or do they only want the dead buried at Caer Glaem/Caer Scima?

2: Will there be a TDM this month?

[notyetlegend]

MERIDA will be moving bones to the crypt in Caer Scima, because it's the right thing to do and she respects the Black Shuck, transporting them on Angus. She'll also be fighting any dogs that she can, although hindered by the fear of her mother being overcome by the bear's instincts.

[notyetlegend]

Can the dogs shift from one fear to the other? Like, would Mer who fears both her mother succumbed to the bear and Mor'du be subject to both or would that only happen if, say, two dogs were in the same vicinity?

Seras Victoria

[died_a_virgin]

Oh no. Big black dogs with red eyes? Seras' first reaction will be all "MASTER! 8D!!" and then the fear will get to her. Now, how Seras reacts to fear is a bit different. To start with, she will freeze up and be unable to do anything. Then she usually talks herself out of her fear, or at least talks herself into moving enough to get out of the freaking way.

If things get too badly for her, what's still human inside of her gets shut down and her vampire side takes over, causing her to go berserk. This mostly happens when/if she's overpowered by someone or a large group of someones.

As for moving bones? She'll gladly lend a hand.

ANTHONY & TOBOE

[nottame]

Anthony and Toboe are both going to be willing to participate in exhuming and re-burying; the former's certainly not going to take honor/ritual lightly, especially concerning the possible comfort/ease of the dead, and the latter both is going to figure it seems like a right thing to do and wouldn't look a bit out of place digging up or moving bones.

Both are also going to be ready to fight on-call when the dog phantoms appear! Neither is going to have an easy time of it, necessarily, but 'ay - both of them have plenty of heart.

- ANTHONY was recently booned a ring that allows him to immediately teleport to the side of other Seelie, which he's probably going to use to check in at Cothromach, and after that he'll warp anywhere he's welcome to help in burying the dead or fight off dogs. For the latter his surface nerve is going to wear down fairly noticeably fairly fast and leave him on-edge a few hours later thanks to a mind pre-tired-out by canon, and during a fight he might start believing it's all going to hell around him and no thanks to him regardless of what's being done, but he'll definitely hold his ground and do his best to make for fierce and trustworthy backup/partnering-up. He will also be curious to pursue whether any follow-up rites or attempts at "connecting" will do the dogs any good.

- TOBOE meanwhile got pointed to a pack of wolves near Caer Glaem who'll let him train with them! He's flower-minded right now so he'll note the tulips - though firstly he's planning to request his canon's Lunar Flowers for his next boon and might be looking for someone to embark on a quest with (or ask questions about quests to) when the option's there. He might also humbly ask the pack he visits to let him know if they happen on any tulip mounds before he does so he can pass on locations (I may be putting up an open log for one or two, with describing their locations handwaved or posted!) and later on he'll somewhat-more-urgently ask them if they'll call for him if they spot any phantom dogs. Thanks to them he's getting fighting practice in and he has armor - he'd like to prove what he can do beneficially! He hates hurting anyone he doesn't need to and so his fears may be played on there, as the first coming to mind.

[baseborne]

Jon will definitely lay the dead to rest okay. He has Experience with why you don't just let bodies lie around. He will probably find a lot of them (sorry Stiles) as he'll make his direwolves run around smelling for tulips, so busy first half of the month for Jon. Yes.

When he fights the dogs he'll try to do it warged because otherwise he's probably going to be a mess from all of his gross asoiaf fears.

[judicatus]

Gabranth will take part in moving bones back to Caer Glaem, but only after he's learned of the whole "restless dead" thing. He'll be riding out to fight the dogs, either on his own or with an assembled party.

J'sairr will also be taking bones back to Caer Scima, but he'll be much more reluctant to do any fighting outside of the court. He can probably be convinced to go out and fight, but otherwise, he'll be sticking close to the castle and helping with fortifications.

[baseborne]

:'D Jon is going to put Stiles to work overtime tbh.

He might poke his head down by the falls again if the direwolves find graves thataway though so hi we should log some more then.

[teenyoda]

Jon is a dick. =|

Clearly the answer to that is I want all your cr. I'd love to work out some planning stuff with both putting Stiles to work and exploring for graves with Mally =)

[baseborne]

WOW STILES you'll appreciate all his efforts when cothromach isn't completely overrun by terror dogs ok

yesss jon and mally can have storytime about the others and the impending ice zombie apocalypse in westeros while they're tromping about the woods looking for bones tbh

[teenyoda]

He's just gonna come crash in your bed and be safe with the wolves around, ok? ok.

Sweet. She'd be so interested in the magic stuff from his world and she can tell him about the pool where there's jewels all over the place and glowing flowers and stuff. Maybe make a few while they're out and abooooot.

[baseborne]

omg =| shove over stiles jon needs to crash too

oh just sweep him off his feet why don't you, mally?? he will ask if she can make blue winter roses screa

[teenyoda]

stop hogging all the blankets, you jerk.

She can do ANYTHING. Here, have a blue winter glowing rose. that's magic. and glows. forever. like a blue flashlight.

[digophelia]

Alice will be helping moving the bones to the crypts! After her last encounter with the Black Shuck, she'll do what she can to show him her respect as well as the dead.

Without a doubt she'll fight the dogs, because no one messes with her friends.

[scramasax]

Is it impossible to re-house the bones in tulip mounds that spectral dogs have already emerged from? And whether it is or isn't, atmre there any communion efforts or rites that can be performed on/for the dogs in an effort to put them more ceremoniously to rest even after they're "eliminated"?

[rangerandking]

Aragorn will be moving as many remains from the mounds to Caer Glaem as possible. He doesn't believe in leaving the dead without some sense of peace.

Vanyel won't like this event at all. He'll likely help move remains, but he'll be much more useful when the dogs appear. If you would like for him to protect your character, just ask! (The same applies to Aragorn too. :3 )

Re: PLOTTING POSTS

[mixcds]

KIEREN will be moving bones almost immediately, due personal investment in spooky dead stuff. He will be giving free, unprovoked lectures on the importance of respecting spooky dead stuff. He will also be getting a quest this month.

PETER could not give less of a shit, but likes being spoiled by Morla so he'll be around to move bones and punch spooky doges. This month he will also be battling NPC werewolf alpha so !! Exciting.

[orcsurfing]

When the dogs rise they should go hunt. No matter how painful (inspiring terror cries) the hunt turns out to be...

[orcsurfing]

Legolas will both move the bones to Caer Glaem because personal experience with the dead and their ghosts already in Drabwurld (leave the Greenwood to him, eyyy he will unearth all that need it), and later do his best to fight the undead dogs (since his greatest fear will actually push him to do better etc). So either if your character wants to tag along, help or be saved by him, I'm game.