JUNE CALENDAR

[fairyfoes]

Hey, fairybros! Welcome all to June, especially our new people! The mod team is undergoing transitions at this time, so we ask that you bear with us. But we hope this event will be easier on both ends, encouraging CR all around!

As of this month, Snow has stepped down. She will be remaining with the team to help in the transition, easing our regrouping and resettling going forward. And please join us in thanking Snow for all the hard work and effort she has put into the game!

ACTIVITY CHECK
As noted on the calendar, activity check is this month. Characters new this cycle will only need to submit half the required activity to pass. A note of this has been added to the General FAQ.

MINI STATE OF THE GAME
There have been many rumours flying about concerning Eachdraidh's endgame, the Void, and other issues! We want to reassure players that there are multiple endgame options, and while by certain actions (or inactions) players have steered the course of the game towards a swifter endgame, the modteam is making certain story revisions which should avert this… with sufficient player involvement! Keep your ears to the ground.

QUESTS
The quest system's overhaul is being postponed for the month of June while mods work on the transition! Quest boards have been posted to the quests requests page and are now available for taking! For quest-givers who have not yet finished their boards, please send your boards to us by PM for approval when you complete them.

Players are asked to follow the new format: request a quest, ask for its mod approval on the quest request page, thread out the handing out of the quest, do the quest, and then thread out the reports, before turning in a link to all relevant information to the mods!

For those curious about what the rules will be in July, please follow this link.


MONTHLY EVENT
With everyone recovering from the Dullahan battle and the newcomers, the monarchs are taking it easy. Shardhunters, however, are not, and will be going after targets of their own!

The Silver Sickness GENRE: MYSTERY/MAGIC | DURATION: 6-20 JUNE

SUMMARY They stand in a circle, each holding each others hands. Mercury mixed with blood forms the patterns of markings on the ground around them. The moonlight shines heavy above. At the center, a single shard, acquired at high price, and a single silver coin.

The incantation shakes the room, makes the shard tremble and glow. Power fills it, heats it up, stronger, stronger, even as they shout their spell louder. Sudabeh thinks, “No, it’s all gone wrong--” but it is too late. The room goes still and quiet. All that is left are ten silver statues, open-mouthed and holding hands..

It starts as something barely noticeable: a coldness at the tip of the fingers; a spot of strange, hard silver on the thigh that just won’t come off. But slowly it spreads, seeping along veins, spreading over skin, staining its way over and into your body. At first it only appears amongst those with bounties on their heads: all those of four stars of influence or higher, all who have control of territory (Barons, Baronesses, Marchionesses, Marquises, and Lords or Ladies controlling any cities), the Golden Cadre Knights and Necroveils, those who have escaped the prisons of their court enemies, and any others who have earned enough wrath to have a bounty set on their head. It may start from different places on different people, but the result is the same: more and more of the body turns to cold, hard silver, taking approximately a week and a half from infection for a person to turn to statue completely: immobile, unable to move or speak or even scream, but seeing and aware.

But the sickness quickly spreads from those who bear bounties. The cause may not be clear at first, just as the infection may not be. Direct physical contact from any infected spreads the illness, as does any exchange of bodily fluids. Neither Shardless nor Natives are spared the disease. In its earliest forms, the disease is bearable, but those silvered parts have no ability to sense what they touch, and the more the body is taken over, the more difficult and painful it is to move what is frozen.

No cure is known, but many are rumoured. Books of folklore and people wise in the ways of history may recommend an assortment of cures: a compliment from an enemy, a kiss from a stranger, walking backwards around the castle seven times with a different person each time, a gift of horseshoes, an act of kindness done to a stranger or enemy that gains a garment in return, prayer and offerings to Luxuria (God of Lust & Lechery) for one’s senses back, or having another person bathe those parts of the body that had been turned silver. Which of these are true?

Any one of them might be. Different sources provide different cures, and the reason is that one of these may cure someone, but someone else will require a different cure. One person may be cured by an act of kindness, while another may require a kiss. Those affected may need to try multiple cures before they find the ones that effectively treats their cure, and often (although not always) the cure that works on an individual is a cure that in some way answers the wrongdoings a person may have done.


UNSEELIE
When the disease begins to spread, the monarchs will issue a proclamation urging the Unseelie to go out amongst the people seeking a cure within the folklore. All those who research cures, by whatever means, and/or attempt to deliver them, will be rewarded.

SEELIE
When the disease begins to spread, the monarchs will issue a proclamation urging the to research in libraries and records of lore what the cure for this illness may be. All those who research cures, by whatever means, and/or attempt to deliver them, will be rewarded.

NOTE: For both courts, getting infected and/or spreading of the disease will also contribute to boon word count. The monarchs, however, will not be asking anyone to do this - for obvious reasons.

Only individuals who complete at least 1,000 words of logging in each of the May and June events will be eligible for boons for June! Quest logs will not count toward this event.

NEWBIES: Those who arrived for June will not qualify for the full scope of possible boons. However, they may ask for non-powered objects, such as mementos from home. These will not be scaled by wordcounts, save that you must meet the 1000 minimum.

MONTHLY OVERVIEW

01ST JUNE • NEW ARRIVALS. FEAST!
03nd JUNE • 1) Debal 13 Fortuna is assassinated! The Treun tourney is cancelled due to his death, and the situation in Treun becomes even more troubled. 2) A strange, small jungle is reported to have sprung up overnight in the Desolate Lands; less strangely, it is already dying due to heat and poor soil.
06th JUNE • EVENT STARTS: Characters with bounties on their heads will begin to turn silver and will become contagious to all those who make contact with them. It may take time for them to notice this. Tzilan formally vanishes, leaving his depowered shard behind. The university passes to control of its board of governors. The Midnight Court’s king is not announced formally, but it is known to have passed hands.
07th JUNE • Solais announces the passing of Ridire. All swords are lain aside for a week, and bells in the towers toll. To honour his passing, gold is not worn.
08th JUNE • Morla and Reul host a celebratory orgy in the Great Hall. All are encouraged to wear gold. At the end of the celebration, all gold clothing is to be removed and tossed into a silver fire.
09th JUNE • It is announced that the PC leaders now hold command of the Red Hand. The whereabouts of its former leader, Aly Red-Hand are unknown, and her private villa has vanished. Rumours abound concerning her involvement in the godswar.
15th JUNE • Tarz, who had been in the infirmary after the battle against the Dullahan, passes. His shard is mysteriously taken by a medic orderly.
20th JUNE (00:01am LONDON GMT) • EVENT CLOSES. Those who have not yet been cured will be hunted down by fairies or imps and given a treatment of every possible cure until one works. They will also probably have drawings done on them. 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 events. Mods will be around to approve or deny these.
24th JUNE (00:01am LONDON GMT) • Boon requests close!
25th JUNE • 1) Approved or altered, boons are ICLY received today when characters wake up unless otherwise specified. 2) ACTIVITY CHECK.
01th JULY (00:01am LONDON GMT) • ACTIVITY CHECK ENDS

The next Calendar of Events post will go up toward the end of June/start of July to cover all of July. Weather will consist primarily of sunny skies and variant breezes with the beginning or harsh summer storms. Nights are turning warm and cool.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[fairyfoes]

[survivra]

as far as actually curing the sickness goes, is the thing that works in the end up to player discretion per character?

[depicted]

For people with strong regeneration abilities or magic portraits that take on all changes for them COUGH COUGH, will the sickness be affected in any way?

[showmeyourwreath]

what if people wanna take care of the not-so-desolate lands

[reticence]

How should this silver sickness affect characters who are normally "allergic to silver", do you suggest? As in a werewolf that is normally burned at the touch of it...? /side-eying Remus haha

[judicatus]

Would it be at all possible for some silver to remain (without spreading) even after a cure has been successfully applied, or is it all gone for good?

[arla]

I'd be interested in having Lavellan get involved in investigating what happened with Lord Fortuna and attempting to facilitate calm during the transition period for refugees if that's amenable, or if the mods are interested in there being some sort of plot thread with that. Is that okay or is that a no-go? And if so, who should I speak to in order to work with that?

[chromosomes]

As the son of the Shuck, John's wolf-fangs are said to be able to "heal the sickest soul". Does that include the silver sickness?

[detoxifying]

Could someone inquire on what happened to Tarz and his shard, and what would the monarchs, or the staff tell them?

[shamanism]

Thrall is only 2 stars but he is sort of renting the old Barrel in Nimh Gleanne. Would he be affected? I know he pays dues to the local npc lord of the region, so he doesn't like, totally own it entirely but... :|a

I just wanna know if I have to get him infected by other people or if I can mess up everyone else. TY.

some questions

[pontificus]

1. is there an apparent heir to Treun?

2. Is anyone announcing Fortuna's death?

3. Has this happened in the past? Lucrezia has the tome from the old potion master. Will she be able to find anything in it to help?

[hawkethat]

On the topic of boons for newbies!

If there isn't anything minor a character might want with a mini boon, would it be possible to save it to "cash in" at a later time, possibly by combining it with a larger boon, later, for better rewards further down the line? Does that make sense?

hawke just wants his warhound, please don't judge him

Re: QUESTIONS

[enthraller]

Two things!

1. Just to be sure, can Sara have found Tzilan's deported shard? I briefly talked about it with Snow but I just wanted to check before making assumptions.

2. So Sara was getting shard training from Tzilan but we didn't get to actually do the thread in the log I put up before Snow announced her stepping down. Since shard training has to be logged out, do I have to retcon that to not happening since we can't thread it out now?

[aslandish]

Soooooo for those characters that are animals, does licking an affected limb over and over count as washing it?

Ridiculous Question Time:

[thebreakingwave]

Harry's weird-eye heals him from injuries by temporarily replacing the wounds with golden scales. How's that going to play out?

[fulminants]

Johnny's been known to purge poisons and infections from his body by heating up his core body temperature to insane levels.

Is it possible for this to be a cure for him?

[chaoticwhimsy]

With Aly disappearing and the red hand shifting to PC hands, did they ever actually buy all the chocobos they were going to be buying from Lumina after the fall of mair?

[oathshackledbird]

Like detoxifying 's question about Tarz, will people be able to find out any information on why Ridire suddenly passed away? Or will Solais be keeping everything hush hush?

[depicted]

What happens if you cut off a limb that is silver? I assume it won't stop the spread of the infection.

But will the limb stay silver? Will it spread disease? And can John and Dorian get rich quick with it?

[babbylon]

Are the new quest requirements only in effect for July onward? I had wanted to take a 2-star quest but was wondering if PC threads would still be required before the overhaul delay kicks in.

EVENT PLANNING & ORGANISATION

[fairyfoes]

Flora | Seelie

[showmeyourwreath]

IDK HOW DOES ONE PLAN FOR THIS EVENT?

Flora is going to...TOUCH PEOPLE A LOT, I GUESS? She's a Marchioness w/ a bounty on her head and 5 stars (heyo) so ifyou guys want to have your character touch her or vice versa? (???) I'm game for that. She does like doing that a lot. Like, a lot a lot. She's a very tactile individual is into friendly/comforting touching, and is receptive to it.

And then does research on how to fix this. she's got daughters ok she's gonna be at this tirelessly.

jfc sorry in advance team seelie 8(((

Hawke ✓ Unseelie

[hawkethat]

Hawke is the newbest of newbs but he is also a helper and once people are requested to start researching cures, he's gonna be researching some cures!!

Also he's friendly and touchy-feely so if one of his Bran' New Frans gets sick it's really only a matter of time until he does, too. Welp. 8'D

[skjalf]

ONE OF THOSE BRAND NEW FRIENDS WILL MOST DEFINITELY GET SICK.

But hello, potential research buddy!

Flint | Unseelie

[fauxdysseus]

Flint being very, very new, he will not start out infected, but I'm all for him getting touched / sick at some point.

He will look for a cure, if only because he has a strong sense of self-preservation and he won't want to catch that shit / will be doubly determined to go around hunting down a cure if he does.

And orgy what haha WE'LL SEE??

[unnatural_animal]

Hi omg I just started watching Black Sails and I love you for having him here is this the right place to say that I don't care either way cause I love this show now.

Umm... I mean, if Flint wants a looking for a cure purely out of self-preservation buddy, Richard is available. Aka: I just really want them to have some sort of cr now. They're both incredibly violent, cunning dudes from wildly varying historical periods. What could go wrong?

Lia de Beaumont | Seelie

[psalmed]

Lia will be kissing the crap out of some silver people if that's found to work even once.

But more seriously she will probably be testing her psalms, trying to use magic and all manner of things to cure people. She does not have a bounty on her head so she's fortunately at everyone's disposal. She can carry books. She can transport to distant locations to attempt to find something there. She's all over this.

Except sick people are kind of gross. She had rather stand there wringing her hands and murmuring soothingly than mop up any puddles of grossness. I'm open to the sickness to be spread to her but she tends to not touch people unless it's a little bit teasing anyway so...

I feel so fortunate to have been lazy with quests last month ♥

Seriously game for any whacky shenanigan. Lia will be flitting between Caer Glaem and Cothromach pretty regularly.

[wwjd]

Perfect opportunity for Bible magic? I need to play with you again!

Four | Seelie

[maidenofexcuses]

Four is a nobody who knows no one, so she won't be infected at first and I'm not sure if she'll get sick at all. However, she is used to caring for people so if you need a totally bland meal that is really healthy, stern reminders to rest, or a fetch quester she is your girl! She'll probably hole up in Caer Gleam's library looking for cures, and trying them out on obviously sick people she comes across.

Of course if someone wants to get her sick in hilarious fashion I am down for that as well. I mostly want CR from this so she will be as helpful as she can be, figuring it'll be good to be down for the cause.

She still ain't taking her gloves off though sorry y'all.

[cerebral]

Charles here is Seelie and is going to get p sick early on since he's Marchioness Hermione's second! You're free to hit him with ridiculous cures :D His sickness is actually going to start from the toes up because I'm a horrible person who's horrible to my characters, so he may be needing some help in his old wheelchair, too.