seasonsooc | EVENT PLOTTING - Event #21: A Much Needed Reprieve

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EVENT PLOTTING - Event #21: A Much Needed Reprieve

A Much Needed Reprieve
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Cruisin' Along

SUMMARY

• Otherworlders are invited to holiday on a massive luxury cruise ship that docks in the Solarpeak lake
• The ship is filled with amenities such as restaurants, a spa, pools, water slides, and age-gated areas for gambling and other adult pursuits (remember, move anything NSFW off the event post)
• Troublemakers will be thrown in the brig with the Namazu (who did something stupid again)
• Odder Otters and other variants are facilitating activities, including bonding activities
• One of these activities permanently increases a person's touch energy meter

Part 1

All of the guilds, the Research Center and the social media influencers of Nightwake have come together to bring everyone a chance to take a well-earned break. Everyone is invited to go on a cruise!

The cruise ship docked in Solarpeak. It's large, almost taking up the whole pool in the progress. It has twenty decks in total, with five of them underwater. Four of them are meant for machinery and staff, but one of the decks is a naughty person jail for people who cause trouble on the cruise ship. Some of the jails are already occupied by strange squeaky fish so at least there's company.

Floors 6-10 are all restaurants, bars and even small cafes with specialized cruise menus. There is even a huge casino with basic games and a section for games that have striptease rules attached to them, with private areas to do whatever people want after.

Floors 11-15 are the outdoor areas with pools, water slides and sundecks. The south side of the open deck is for those who want to take a more nudist approach (no kids allowed on that side of the deck). There is an invisible barrier that blocks eyes from seeing from the outside of the deck, whether they be on the ship, above or outside of it.

The final five floors are the cabins reserved for cruise guests. All of them are luxurious rooms that have a king size bed, a mini bar, baths and even their own tv. All of the decks also have a special spa zone that offer massages of different kinds.

Part 2

All around the area, familiar looking otters are assisting with the activities. The posher otters are greeting people who come in and help with the casino. They are joined by the newly appeared senor otters who will hand out free poker chips to people whenever their colleagues aren't looking. Unfortunately, the chips aren't useful for anything here, as they are printed with the image of a cactus wearing a fancy hat.

The abroader otters are in charge of the outdoor decks, encouraging people to try different water-related activities. Some of them, however, a little distracted and will attempt to get people to fish with them. Sometimes they fish in the pools on the ship, managing to catch people by their swim trunks (they sure are strong for their size). Whenever that happens they give their fishing pole to the nearest person and flee.

Lastly, the odder otters are guiding people through bonding activities. They wish to help people form greater bonds with one another and sometimes are a little too insistent on bringing people together for an activity. These activities include trusting someone to feed them food while they're blindfolded, singing karaoke in sync, massaging each other with relaxing oil and focusing on your touch energy together, to make it even stronger.

The last one is actually an important one, which will help in the long run: it will make you have more touch energy in reserve for later trials to come, increasing the amount of time you can survive without the touch of someone else.

Egging You On

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SUMMARY

• Some dragons have laid eggs and brought them to Blossomcrown Central Park
• Dragon eggs "choose" a seasonal power holder to take care of them in the hours leading up to hatching
• Upon hatching, the baby dragon bonds with their person and the person can teach them things like speech, flying, and magic over the next week or two
• Dragons are not pets or familiars, but a bonded dragon may visit as a friend, bring gifts, or come to help their power holder in their time of need

Part 1

Dragons that often visit Nightwake are acting very happy. They are saying that something amazing is going to happen at the Blossomcrown park soon and are urging people to follow them there.

With permission from the guild leaders, several bigger dragons have made their way through portals to the Blossomcrown Park. There they have multiple brightly colored dragon eggs laying on soft nest-like surfaces. The head dragon, a medium-sized ivory colored dragon with bright blue eyes called Einnainth, tells everyone that the eggs are going to hatch soon. This is something that happens once every century, so it's a big event.

Otherworlders are encouraged to approach the eggs and pick one of them. Sometimes it's the egg that chooses who it wants to go with by sending small vibrations to the person they sense. They are then asked to take care of them until they hatch, which will happen soon (from one to five hours). Dragon eggs are special that they need seasonal power holders to help them hatch.

Several cozy spots have been created in the park and outside of it, to relax and wait for the little ones to be born.

Part 2

The dragons that hatch from the eggs usually resemble the egg they hatch from. They get attached to the person that picked them (or that they picked) and will bond with them for life. They will not follow the person home and become their fulltime companion, but they will come visit them regularly and help them on quests occasionally.

At first the communication with the baby dragons is mostly pantomime, but once the person taking care of them gives them a name, they start to slowly learn how to talk. They also cannot fly right away, but are determined to do it so they might try to jump from high places which is usually a bad idea. The color of the egg also doesn't determine what element they can use so they will need some help figuring out what they can do. They are good a mimicking what others do. Luckily, dragons are fast learners and won't likely misfire too many spells at different targets.

It's obvious that the baby dragons have a lot of energy, but at some point they will need to take a nap. Their favorite stop? On top of the person who they've bonded with.

Once the babies have developed enough (from one to two weeks), they will return to the Dragon Sanctuary with the promise of future visits. This means sometimes turning up with treasure they find from the segments or something they've killed for food to eat together.

Beware the Miasma
(July 24th onwards)
CW/TW: death, monster corpses, gore, vultures

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SUMMARY

• The Knight, one of the Pierrot's followers, has been slaughtering boss-tier monsters around the Segments
• The monster corpses left behind are missing parts and emitting miasma that kills nearby plant life, so they must be buried or destroyed
• When this black smoke is left alone too long, it creates Darkness Vultures, which eat dead material and take its form
• Darkness Vultures can also feed on energy from people until they turn to stone from lack of touch energy
• Energy vacuums (that look like hand vacuum cleaners) are provided to counter the Darkness Vultures and suck them up; they can also be harmed by magic, but not physical attacks (as they're made of smoke/miasma)

Part 1

In the morning of the 24th, reports start coming to all guilds: several strong monsters have been found dead all over the segments. All of the monsters are from danger levels 8 to 10 stars and they've been killed in various ways. Some have been torn apart, some are completely crushed to pieces and some are just bleeding out. The common thing between these monsters is that they're all missing a piece of them.

All of the corpses are emitting a black smoke that's killing the plant life nearby, which is why the guilds are issuing rewards for people who either completely destroy them or bury them deep into the ground near the barriers. The closer they are to the barrier, the more likely the dark energy will reclaim the smoke.

Herakles makes an announcement later that the methods used to kill all these monsters so effortlessly and the black smoke are telltale signs of The Knight making his move. His sword is made out of black energy, so it would leave smoke in its wake. He advices everyone to be careful around the corpses because the full effects of the smoke is unknown.

Part 2

The smoke that has been left alone for too long transforms into creatures later known as the Darkness Vultures. These beings feast on dead corpses and grow larger with each one they devour. They don't really have an actual form, but they take on the form of the latest thing they have eaten.

Darkness Vultures usually leave living things alone, but if they're disturbed during their feeding or they get big enough, they will turn on anyone or anything nearby. They don't do any physical damage, but instead drain their energies. They usually stop if someone turns into a stone statue due to loss of touch energy.

The best way to defeat this new threat is to use specialized energy vacuums. These vacuums look like normal hand vacuums, but they can store up to one Darkness Vulture that has eaten a maximum of three corpses.

Depending on the monster they've eaten, there's a small chance of the Vulture possessing the vacuum and starting to suck all of kinds of things inside of it to get it to explode.

Other than the vacuum, magic does work on them, but physical attacks will just go through them.

OOC TIPS

• Ask event related questions here!

• The cruise and the dragon egg event will last whole month, giving people time to participate in everything they want.

• Despite there being references to NSFW prompts, smut is not allowed on the event post, so if your thread is heading that way, please move it to a separate entry (like to your musebox or characters' journal).

• Remember to content and spoiler warn as necessary!

• Reminder that July is an Activity Check-in Month! Remember to check in before July 31st, 23:59 PST!

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