OCTOBER CALENDAR

[fairyfoes]

The battle continues...

RECAP 2702: Please take a moment to fill out anything needed for the game recap by the wonderful Meg!

The Battle of the Gem GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE | DURATION: 01-?? OCTOBER

SUMMARY The inferno of the war billows and grows as all forces fight to claim the Gem of Power. Knowing their own futures are at stake, now the battle is joined by greater beings. The Gods are here.

On the first day of the battle, characters will experience half-lit twilight. All the celestial forces will come down as manifest figures and will battle against each other. Day and night are gone and the world is aflame. The reason for this is obvious to all: the shards stolen by the Red Hand will reappear to reform the Uaine Cridhe as a great green mountain rising from the center of the Cathraon.

The monarchs will also reappear as unstoppable forces of cosmic power clashing through the sky. Rather than the monarchs releasing an edict, the shards of characters will themselves indicate the future course through a searing, insistent command: Seek the Heart. Choose our Fate.

The mountain will be covered in warring factions, and its power has attracted the hosts of remaining gods into the fray. Characters will have to battle their way into one of the many caves and paths into the gem, where battling forces will continue. Everyone will be seeking the Heart of the Gem.

THE SECOND BATTLE FOR THE UAINE CRIDHE: Those with the strength to battle and the will to change all fate know that the Uaine Cridhe can change the nature of all things, and that utilizing its power can change the shape, form, and fabric of the universe. Mortal men, gods, and stranger things all battle at its feet, fighting each other all the way up its steep, strange planes. As the avatars of gods are slain, the gods themselves fall in battle, spreading great stains of blood granite along the patchy earth and stone which the mountain tore up as it ascended to its heights, so that the powers of characters are often unreliable. Nothing is held back, and these are the moments of the greatest sacrifices.

INSIDE THE UAINE CRIDHE: Once a character has found their way within the gem, they will experience extended reality warping, not unlike chaotic dream-sharing, walking through their own memories (or those of others nearby). The nearer the heart of the gem one progresses the more literally painful the experience is for characters still retaining their shards, as the force of the mountain begins to pull the shard from them (much like one small magnet gravitating to a far larger one). Characters will need to travel into the heart of the gem and use their shard to resonate with the shard to will their choice. (Shardless/Natives: If a shardless/native can get a shard, they can also have an influence. Please contact the mods if your character is having a hard time getting access to a Shard!) Any character who does this will experience a feeling of absolute consciousness of all existence that will overwhelm them. We will put up an OOC post with the IC post to ensure everyone can contribute!

MONTHLY OVERVIEW

01st OCTOBER • 01) IC Mod Post. The shards stolen from the courts seek each other and reform the Uaine Cridhe as a great green mountain with twisting, labyrinthian passageways. Shards attached to the dwarven mechas also return to the gem. Sensing the great power, all the Gods join in the battle. The stars and moon fall to the earth to take form in the fight, leaving the world in a permanent half-lit twilight. 02) With the loss of their shard eyes, the dwarf war machines are now capable of being felled!
14th OCTOBER • IC Mod Post. Characters will finally be able to break into the tunnels and will need to travel to the Heart of the Gem. A post will go up asking for links to your character reaching the heart of the gem and what they willed for it.
31th OCTOBER (0:01 GMT) • Post willing the fate of the world closes. • Characters get a fun surprise from reaching the centre of the gem! An IC post will go up revealing what happens to them there.

The next Calendar of Events post will go up to cover all of November! All characters in the game will be affected by the events of the battle on the gem. Details about the result of the plot and what else happens at the heart of the gem will be revealed then. New game information and plotting for what happens next will come out over the next month!

Comments

KIREI KOTOMINE

[wwjd]

Kirei will probably be on the battlefield well until the 14th, fighting his way to the mountain!

For the first half of the month, I'm interested in staging fights with other PCs in the second battle log that just went up. This can include fights we've already talked about and just haven't decided when they're happening and ones that may result from Kirei's actions in the war up until this point... looking at you, waver and diarmuid Anything is cool!

From the 14th on, Kirei will be pretty seriously seeking the Heart of the Gem, and doing anything he possibly can to make it there. He may have three shards with him (including his own), so it'll probably be a painful journey! It's a good thing he's used to pain. For this latter half of events inside the Uaine Cridhe, I can offer—

Memory or chaotic dream-sharing, of some really messed up stuff. I will have to get into details in the plotting itself because of possible tw-worthy content, but if anyone wants to experience his memories of his wife and young daughter, his wife's traumatic death, his murder of Rin's father, the inside of the corrupted Holy Grail (it's pure nightmare fuel), or a terrible burning inferno, let me know! This can happen. COME SEE WHY KIREI IS SO BROKEN I'm also up for him experiencing other characters' memories.

I haven't decided the specifics of what he'd wish for, but both existence and the Void will be highly important to his choice. Because of this, I would not like him to lose his shard/die, or be incapacitated to the point where he won't be able to continue, but as always, other injuries and such are fine!

[depicted]

I feel like it might be fun to have a fight where Kirei and Dorian try to stop each other from going in/convince each other to make different kinds of wishes when they do, since they kinda probably have a sense by now that they have pretty opposite objectives?


THEN I WANT MY NIGHTMARE FUEL.

[wwjd]

They should run into each other and fight inside the gem!! High stakes! Kirei would easily assume Dorian won't be trying to influence the gem in any good way and would go after him, though, yeah. (I'm also cool with fighting on the battlefield! Gods dropping in, woohoo)

EDIT: Yeah, let's have them fight in the battle outside, to start! I want to set some threads there.

What brand of nightmare fuel do you want... I sort of really want Kirei to show Dorian his family memories.

[depicted]

YES SHOW ME FAMILY!!

i feel that any nightmare fuel dorian might answer with won't really cause nightmares

[wwjd]

only if dorian says it just like that, like in that icon

Dorian can have Kirei!dad times (with killing), Kirei!wife times (with killing), Kirei!child times (with just a cute beeb and the haunting realization kirei actually reproduced), Fourth Holy Grail War BadInfluence!Gilgamesh...

It might not but I'm still interested in having him experience some of Dorian's memories. uwu

[gordianknots]

This is the time to do the Kirei v Waver fight, but I want to know what your feelings are on it first/any way you want it to go.

[wwjd]

I'm a-okay with it and was expecting it, yeah! I'm also fine with anything you'd want to have happen short of having Kirei die, lose his shard, or be incapacitated to the point he can't continue moving forward.

He's got a few tricks at his disposal, but I'd suspect he'd be at a disadvantage compared to Waver.

[gordianknots]

Okay, so, the problem is that Waver is furious and his prime objective would be to kill Kirei because he's not only harmed Rin back home, he's harmed her here and Waver is absolutely done.

[wwjd]

Right! Totally understandable. I'm definitely willing to try and work with whatever we can. Perhaps they could face off inside the gem mountain or something, when memory-sharing is in effect?

I'm also willing to have him get utterly creamed to the point of death as long as I can arrange some sort of way for him... to keep living! (It could even be through his own healing magic, honestly.) Kirei would teleport away at the point he felt he was dying, too.

[gordianknots]

Hmmm. Yeah, Kirei keeping his own clock ticking would be pretty nice. I like the idea of a close quarters fiht in the gem - it'd also give them both a reason to have to keep it short and keep moving. Waver might ask for help with it too (Grell's mun sort of would like in) so if she pops up here--

[erythristic]

shows up to this thread with a repost

Waver's calling on Grell, and she's not really willing to give Kirei anything short of massive suffering if he's pissed off Waver, and the list of things she'll do is many, including trying to forcefeed Kirei her own blood to work magic from inside him. (Which is obviously a high chance of failing, but jsyk.)

[wwjd]

ooooh massive suffering lady grell oooh

I'm okay with lots of terrible things, as long as he doesn't die. :,)

[erythristic]

blows a kiss

and also breaks his bones from the inside

[wwjd]

miss grell marry him now

[erythristic]

not in front of waver

[wwjd]

then later....

wishes for marriage to grell, gilgamesh, and the void

[wwjd]

That is absolutely okay with me!! I feel bad that I can't offer him up for death because otherwise I totally would for you...

Grell likes him for some reason, he doesn't really know why. >_>

Did you want to have any creepy Fourth Holy Grail War memsharing?

[gordianknots]

I think that setting it in the gem is a pretty fair compromise! It forces them to choose between going after each other or the real mission at hand.

Also, I'm gonna no on the memory share just because I want to focus my writing on the fighting (which I don't do much, and need to practice!)

[wwjd]

Awesome! And yes, no problem. I haven't written much fighting myself, so I hear you. I can probably send you a link to a thread once the log goes up on the 14th.

[gordianknots]

Ok, that sounds great. The narrow pathways should make for good terrain problems too, but uh.

oh god that'll work in VH's favor.

[wwjd]

VH...! /kirei shakes fist

Looking forward to threading with you!

[babbylon]

CONFIRMING FOR OFFICIAL RECORD

Awful waifu and daughterfu dream sharing is go. At some point during this wild adventure.

[wwjd]

don't eat his baby

[babbylon]

munchmunchmunch

[wwjd]

DON'T EAT HIS BABY