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

[skjalf]

I wanted to add that Bess also has a talent for seeing the future! Maybe they can have some sort of exchange of visions, too?

[conqueress]

YES! I can give Bess the Trident dream, because that's epic. There's also that fever dream she had while in labor, too--or some of the visions from the House of the Undying, of course! DECISIONS, DECISIONS.

[skjalf]

ALL OF THEM WOULD BE FANTASTIC TBH. But if we have to limit it, I can give Dany the Battle of Bosworth, where she sees her King defeated and mistreated in death, and the execution of her Uncle and Half-brother, if you like!

[conqueress]

OOF, yes. Nice and bloody and horrible. I'm going to choose--the Trident dream, possibly some visions from the House, and tucked somewhere into it, a very old, very early memory of her house with the red door. :) The only time she truly felt happy and safe, because her canon is awful.

[skjalf]

I'll add some of her time in Sanctuary, then, as well; one of the times in her life when she's felt the least safe. It's a vulnerability for both of them to share, and I like the balance!

Rhaegar will remind her so much of her father in his youth. I'm pretty confident he is actually meant to parallel a young Edward IV.

This will be beautiful and terrible.

[conqueress]

I do, too. Sometimes characters are so armored up that it's hard to picture them before circumstances molded them into what they are now.

I need to look that up. I'm dying to know more about Robert's Rebellion and Rhaegar in particular.

If her brain had to betray her like this, she's glad this much was done in front of Elizabeth, who knows what it's like to have to be constantly strong. :)

[skjalf]

"I was raised as a talkative princess in an open court rich with intellectual inquiry, where anything could be thought, said, and written; but in the years since my father’s death, I have learned the secretive skills of a spy."

That's a quote of Bess' from The White Princess. She really did change a lot, and honestly, I'm so excited for Dany to see her without that armour, that mask there between them. And to get to know Dany better in turn.

They're going to find so many parallels since GoT is at least partly based on Bess' time period in England. Here and here are some good links to give context on Bess' end. I'll look up Rhaegar and the Trident, as well.

When this is all said and done, Bess is like as not going to feel a whole lot closer to her.

[conqueress]

That's lovely, TBH. Very poetic.

Dany's had a mask on ever since she was kicked onto the streets, partly because she was already inclined to be a quieter/more introverted child, and partly because being raised by your legitimately crazy brother doesn't allow for a whole lot of freedom of speech. She left all the blunders to him while she watched and listened instead. It serves her well now! But it also means she doesn't usually open up to people. And since the Dothraki taught her that people follow only strength, she doesn't usually show vulnerability, either.

TY! <3 There was a super informative YouTube video on it, too, somewhere. I cackled at "Lancasters." Here's a refresher on the visions and here's the Trident dream.