JULY CALENDAR

[fairyfoes]

Hey, fairybros! Welcome all to July! The mod team has for the most part settled in after the transition, in no small part thanks to your consideration and helpfulness during the time.

QUESTS
As of this month, we will be initiating a new quest system! Quest-givers are asked to give out a maximum of six stars of quests per month, and over two months, quest-givers are further asked to give our six stars in total related to objectives that connect to the meta-plot. Thus, over two months, they have 12 stars to give out, and half must be for the meta-plot objectives. More details are here.

Currently, quest boards on the quests requests page are for June quests! We will be posting the July/August quest boards to the comms on July 1st, so quest-givers, please continue to PM us your boards!

MONTHLY EVENT
For the first half of the month, relative peace and quiet allows for both courts to make war preparations against each other. However, this month, court conflict is complicated by another interest.

The Awakening GENRE: ADVENTURE/MAGIC | DURATION: 17-29 July

SUMMARY The Banshee's scream is a herald. Her cry is a warning of death. Those who hear it in the night are filled with terror, for they know: the Shuck will not be far behind.

But there is a greater terror in this silence that sweeps across the land. No one is hearing the cry of the banshee, no one is heralding. The garments of the bean nighe are left along the riverbeds, the clothes of the slain left blood-stained and seeping into rocks and grass. The caoineag makes eye contact and opens her mouth, but no scream ushers forth from her lips. Death comes silent.

At midnight, as both Monarchs close the doors of their audience halls, a paw sets itself against the door. They move aside. The Shuck himself strides into the halls and stops before the Monarchs. With open jaw, he proclaims his will to both of them: his banshees must be saved. Both courts will set aside their weapons to do this, for he will not permit them to bring more death while death itself remains unbalanced. Those who remain in the hall may notice the wagging of his great tail.

So the proclamation is made there, in public view: Shardbearers are to aid the Shuck, by the Monarchs' command. They are not to turn their weapons on one another but to seek out the Banshee who have lost their voices and work to return to them their screams. The Shuck offers only one guiding point to the method: Banshees once lived.

Shardbearers will find that if they approach banshees on craigs or by rivers, they may hear whispers in the babbling of water or the rustling of wind through grass and leaves. These whispers will tell stories of the former lives of the banshees, telling who they were when they lived and how they came to die. Should a Shardbearer seek out some token of the banshee's former lives and return it to them, the banshee's voice will return, if only for a moment, in releasing a shrieking offering of thanks before vanishing.

Those who wish to speak to the Shuck must travel to Quendi itself to meet with him, but he will not be patient with visitors. He sits at the central throne room and will not leave.

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

MONTHLY OVERVIEW

10th JULY • TEST DRIVE MEME.
16th JULY • MONARCH AUDIENCE.
17th JULY • EVENT STARTS: The Banshee are silent, and Shardbearers are sent to give them back voice.
20th JULY (00:01am LONDON GMT) • RESERVES OPEN.
24th JULY (00:01am LONDON GMT) • APPS OPEN.
25th JULY (00:01am LONDON GMT) • RESERVES END. FFA BEGINS.
29th JULY • EVENT CLOSES. As of midnight, the Banshee that have been saved will remain in the world. Those who have not vanish from it.
30th JULY • All the banshee whose voices have been returned to them wail at once. Anyone near Quendi will be greeted with a surprise. More details to be released later.
01st AUGUST (00:01am LONDON GMT) • APPS CLOSE.

The next Calendar of Events post will go up toward the end of July/start of August to cover all of August. Weather will consist primarily of sunny skies. Fewer breezes are coming, with more frequent harsh summer storms. There is increased flower growth across the map, and weather will be warmer.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[fairyfoes]

Yes, you may get dat cross-court cr, visit one another within reason, and work together without fear of consequence from the monarchs as long as it's under the pretext of doing the Shuck's task.

Next questions! ;D

[fuga]

Other than heading to Quendi, is there anything in particular PCs should do to meet the Shuck? Will these meetings be played out and will they be limited to a certain amount of people? C: Lauralae is hyper-aware of the Shuck and now knows she's connected to him and would do anything to track him down right now.

[babbylon]

Are these Banshees going to be NPCed by the mod team, then? I'm a little confused on how we're supposed to interact with them in the first place, or if we're just supposed to handwave it within the narrative.

[oathshackledbird]

I am a little confused on quest numbers for quest givers. I know the numbers were lowered from 8 a month to 6 a month, but if all those have to go to meta-plot quests we can't do any personal quests. Is that right or were some numbers just missed when they were being adjusted in the documents?

Re: QUESTIONS

[jaywalks]

are the banshees capable of communicating in ways other than sound, ie, will they respond to questions in pantomime? can any of them write? what happens if someone tries to communicate to them telepathically?

[red_branch]

How responsive should the Banshee be? Say, for example, Cu flirts with one to try to put them at ease when he goes to help them?

[survivra]

how much does the visiting within reason/working together extend as far as territory lines go? like if someone were to "follow a banshee's trail" into the other court's territory, how would that go?

[notyetlegend]

would it be advisable to take offerings to the Shuck during a visit or would that just piss him off?

[skjalf]

I'm curious: would Elizabeth's connection to a water goddess in her world render her more sensitive to the stories of the banshees told on the bodies of water in the Drabwurld?

[waterbearer]

Is it only water near where Bansheess are sighted or is it all water everywhere. (aka How easy/hard would it be for a water-dwelling water-travelling individual to find or ignore Banshee past lives.) Will he be constant hearing oodles of oodles of life stories when he's trying to get his beauty sleep, gosh or would he have to hunt for them?

Re: QUESTIONS

[ofmyth]

Hey! This is a super meta-gamey question, but I'm wondering about this event in relation to boons - since I saw on the last boon post they're being reserved "for signs of exceptional service."

What would constitute exceptional service for July's event? Is it having a higher wordcount than the minimum 1000 words, or the PC doing more to actually achieve the goals of the event (in this case, saving many banshees)? I'd really like to get shard concealment for Thor's next boon, but I want to make sure I know what's required so I know whether or not to go for something else instead. Thank you!

[commemini]

Will characters only be able to help the banshees, or will something be going on with the bean nighe too?

EVENT PLANNING & ORGANISATION

[fairyfoes]

DAMON | KURT

[withbite]

Damon: There's a shrine to the Black Shuck near his town, so I expect he'll be pushed by either the townsfolk or the Morveni clan to help whatever banshee might live near the Liath river. (There should be one and if not screw that there's one anyway). I'd love to find people, both Seelie/Unseelie around there to run into or maybe for him to order around to go find banshee trinkets.

Kurt: Will be happy to play blue fetch puppy to go find whatever's needed for a banshee to regain her voice. I'd love to have him team up with people for that and I think he'd be happy to do multiple tasks, not for the shuck, but for his own peace of mind. Also applies to both Seelie/Unseelie, since Kurt doesn't care.

Lightning and Jason Todd | Unseelie

[heralding]

Jason will be doing the bare minimum of what he can to help out, in part because he doesn't want to piss off the Shuck. He's going to be slightly irritated about the apparent ban between killing sides, but he'll also be busy and hitting Mair this month.

Lightning will be completely dedicated to every aspect of this event, from setting up shrines to help the Shuck gain more strength with his lost banshees (if it might help) to helping people hunt to bring offerings to the Shuck to trying to find anything she can for these banshees so that they can get their voices back. She is very interested in learning about the cycle of life and death in this world. She also got some information about the Shuck last month from her quest (and Grell), so if people would like her as a newer base of knowledge, she's game! I'd love for her to meet some Seelie folk while she runs herself ragged trying to help.

EMMA SWAN

[dreamcatcher]

I would love to have her involved in helping to restore a banshee's voice. not so much because of the demands of the court, just because she wants to help. team ups welcome???

Chloe | Bethany

[desperate_times]

Chloe: She'll make herself useful this time and seek to find some of these lost voices. Now that she has the ability to teleport about, it'll aid her in retrieving voice related items for the banshee's. It's a low risk job, so it's up her alley this month!

Bethany: Bethany may be helping out depending on how much I can manage to balance with tagging. If so, she'll do some item retrieving. Open to running into people, etc!

-- Open to running into people while searching, working in a search party, or emitting some banshee's for you!

HERMIONE | ERIK | LAURALAE

[fuga]

HERMIONE will be going out of her way to try and help! She'll do what she can and organise parties, as well as offer resources to people and information if they need it. If you want to go out as a group let me know! She also, as always, has potions and cloaks for sale for anyone that might want them. She will also have a Seelie quest board related to researching Shards for anyone that wants a shard magic quest.

ERIK is going to be forced into helping by Morgana. He'll be protecting his village and likely setting up around there, tracing any of the Banshees and doing what he can, within reason. He'll also be taking advantage of the cross-court CR by visiting Charles Xavier's watchtower, if anyone from the Seelie court wants to meet him!

LAURALAE is going to Quendi. All she cares about is the Shuck, so if you want a native guide/helper, she's your girl - but she will be jealously protective of her chance to speak to the Shuck and will be vicious with anyone that tries to stop her, get in her way or prevent her from seeking him out - using blood magic and bending she's learned. Good luck!

DORIAN

[depicted]

July 1st on the full moon, Dorian will be holding a Midnight Court meeting, I will put up a log! He will also have a quest board up for crime, art, and researching the Void, so anyone interested, please feel to tell me!

He'll be busy for part of the month with Flora (not sure when rn) but after, Dorian will be helping out the banshees. He will 100% be using this as an excuse to hang out with his Unseelie pals and possibly make some Unseelie CR. FOR THE SAKE OF THE BANSHEES. YUP. YUUUUUP. Look he is reminding the Banshee of their former lives....somehow. HE IS HELPING. HE IS TOTALLY HELPING.

Gonna avoid the shuck like woah.

Leo + Anya

[commandertoolbelt]

Leo will be taking care of things around the Troichean Beinn/Redgate and Lake Valdez areas! He's done about a thousand fetch quests before so what's a few others? If anyone wants to join him/wants him to join them, that'd be awesome. Cross-court CR is also welcome :3

Anya will of course want to help the banshees as much as possible - not for the Shuck, but for them. They didn't ask for this, after all, so she'll do what she can. She's still getting acquainted with the Drabwurld though so she might need a guide for how to do this kind of stuff?

Balem / Unseelie

[entitles]

Balem will be out helping, because he's trying to make a good impression on his court and also he's curious about all this banshee and death business. He can be part of a team, but will most likely be a bit rude to you if you're Seelie. The Shuck said no killing, not no being mean!

korra ;; seelie

[sangilak]

Korra will be heading to Quendi to talk to the Shuck! She'll want to take a (small, up to 5 other characters) group with her because there's safety in numbers, and they'll be flying on Appa to get there! Of course she'll also want to do what she can to help the banshee (despite not knowing the lore), so who wants to scavenger hunt???

and regular hunt, ofc, since she'll want to take offerings to the Shuck. she'll be hesitant about Unseelie CR, but I'm up for her meeting some people on the other side! :3

Four | Seelie

[maidenofexcuses]

Four will be actively helping out the Banshee mostly because she's gotten in the habit of helping the supernatural lady spirits of the Drabworld. Plus it's an excuse to gossip about some dead people who doesn't love that.

She'll be in Leathann, and I'm more than open to cross-court CR and helping out with banshee antics of all sorts. She does want to know what's up with you Unseelies anyway so now's as good a chance as any to find out.

Zack Fair & Aslan | Seelie

[colorofthesky]

Zack Fair will be in Leathann for a good part of the month, likely questing and helping out. When the event rolls around, he WILL pitch in and help because he is a good soldier like that.

Aslan will also be in Leathann because his 3-star quest (to be started in the next few days, hopefully) to save some kids will be happening in that area. I may or may not throw him at event things, depending on how his quest unfolds.

I WOULD LOVE SOME UNSEELIE CR FOR BOTH OF THEM C:

[skjalf]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS. Elizabeth must meet Aslan.

Tom McNair || Seelie

[mannersandbombs]

Tom will be packing up and heading out to explore his new world. Plans are for him to head north, possibly towards the Station. I'd LOVE for him to find a travelling companion or two. When the event rolls around, he'll be all too happy to help since he's pretty good at sniffing things out. He'll have a good month before his next transformation (he won't leave the Caer Glaem until after his time of month) so anyone who joins him will be safe as horses.