FEBRUARY 2025 OOC INTRO AND PLOTTING POST

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• PLOTTING & CR MEME •

Welcome to our February CR meme! This post is our monthly CR meme for everyone, an OOC intro for our New Players and also serves as a place to make some plans for our next event which will go live on February 15th. Below you will see the Event planning form as well as an Event Outline for our upcoming event.

• Event Outline •

Expand to see our Event Summary

A Royal Audience

• A Royal Forum is being held in Stellari where Seravo himself will appear - Dreamers are encouraged to attend
• There is food and drink, mingling is encouraged
• Seravo announces that he will be returning the powers that Dreamers sacrificed during the November event
• Throughout the month, Dreamers who sacrificed their regained abilities will feel the powers slowly begin to return, and they will have returned fully by the New Moon
• Seravo opens the forum to questions - one question will be allowed per character, with short Servo threads in response; please keep IC questions to IC knowledge

Flower Petal Affliction
cw: disease, blood, body horror

• Dreamers who are withholding something important / hiding a secret will develop a cough and begin to feel sick
• Locals are aware of the disease and warn that it will progress quickly unless the truth is told
• The afflicted feel symptoms such as fever, headache, weakness, difficulty breathing, and a persistent cough which produces flower petals and blood, as roots grow in the lungs
• The disease also causes increased feelings of mistrust for the people around you
• The afflicted WILL die if the disease is not cured, and it can only be cured by confessing the afflicted's hidden truths

Crystal Corruption

• Corrupted clusters of crystal begin appearing in the swamp, where local workers are stationed, tasked with destroying it - Dreamers are asked to help
• Getting close to the corrupted crystal will cause feelings of mistrust to grow between the Dreamers working together, worsening the longer they are exposed
• Dreamers must work in pairs of twos or threes to clear corrupted crystal
• Dreamers will help remove corrupted crystal from the swamp by either crushing clusters, helping snakes who are afflicted with the crystal, skimming the waters for crystal clusters, or removing crystal clusters from trees
• Crystal clusters are collected in small bags that are to be returned in exchange for a small amount of cords (up to three bags)
• Crystal clusters are also appearing in Lumindeas, which Dreamers are also asked to help clear
• Crystal rings (similar to fairy rings) can only be cleared by two Dreamers standing in the middle and telling a truth
• Crystal in the woods can only be cleared without using magic
• Domestic animals are infected with the crystal and must have it cleared, as well as wolves from the woods, which much be healed so they don't spread the parasite
• Those who clear the crystal in town are asked to bring them to a purification dance, where they will be paired up and taught a dance similar to the tango; it increases trust between the partners

Truth & Trust

• The Uweih religion is holding truth & trust exercises at the gold crystal to promote healing from the flower petal disease
• The event has the atmosphere of a festival, with music, food, games, and other pageantry
• Dreamers are encouraged to participate in activities such as trust falls, telephone, two truths & a lie, etc. (there will be a list of activities and directions for how they work)
• Participating in these activities will help Dreamers start to feel better if they are afflicted with the disease, but only if they've addressed the hidden truth that is making them sick

<b>Player Name and Pronouns:</b> <b>Contact:</b> Your best contact. Be sure to let others know if they can add you! <b>Timezone:</b> <b>Interests:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>General Info:</b> Their personality, role in the story, what they do, etc. <b>Permissions Post:</b> <b>State Of:</b> What's your character's current state? How are they doing, what are they currently dealing with and occupying their time with? How are they feeling about recent game developments or changes/developments with their CR? <b>CR Desires/RP Wishlist:</b> What it says on the tin. What sorts of relationships are you looking for? What personalities go best/worst with your character? Who would attract them and who would repulse them? List out some scenarios you really want to RP, or a character arc you'd like to work on! <b>Non-Event Plans:</b> Do you have specific plans or a current post going on outside of the upcoming event? <b>Event Plans:</b> What are you looking to do in the event? <b>Anything else:</b> <img src="IMAGE URL" style="width:400px;max-width:100%">

There will be a header comment for all questions aimed at Seravo on the event post. The NPC will be available for one question per player. In order to keep the tag load manageable, the threads may be kept fairly short. Seravo reserves the right to ignore or talk around any question he doesn't want to answer. Only those who attend the Audience can ask questions of Seravo.

All questions/thread starters should be posted before February 18th 11:59pm CST. After the end of February, any threads with the NPC will be considered wrapped.

Comments

[a_cute_batata]

Hey, I wouldn't mind these two meeting up a little after the Royal Announcement, especially with Luz finally getting her glyphs back!

[waterfawn]

Yes! Eilonwy will celebrate with Luz and then like IDK try talking to a bird and get shocked that it knows what she's saying.

[a_cute_batata]

Excellent!

Wait, is Eilonwy getting along better with her animal powers?

[waterfawn]

So in Eilonwy's January quest with Chise, the two of them ended up speaking to a bunch of hens first via clucking (that was boosted by magic), and then via words and it was fun, so I decided to run with that idea. Eilonwy essentially went "Wait this worked before, I can just keep speaking to animals and they'll get it." And then the area itself was like "Will they though? Nah. But keep trying, that's very cute!"

Since the powers are coming back gradually, Eilonwy will test it out after the audience, have the "[Eilonwy can talk to animals while in her fawn form because of her generic telepathy kicking in, like what happened during one of the events last year, IDR which one right now]" part kick in for a second, and then turn itself back off.

[a_cute_batata]

That sounds both complicated and funny, and I'm glad to be a part of it! In fact, I should probably have Luz turn into a funny animal at the time, just so she can watch with adorable interest. Maybe I'll have her be her favorite animal then.

[waterfawn]

It's a very long road map to get to "the magic turns itself off and on once", in so many words! But yes! Good for both of them!

[a_cute_batata]

Can't wait!