acatalepsy_ooc | world jump # 5 event post: night of wonders

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world jump # 5 event post: night of wonders - Happy Anniversary, Acata!

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the night of wonders.

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EVENT INFO:	NIGHT OF WONDERS \| FESTIVAL EVENTS \| THE FIRES \| FOURTH WALL INFO
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The day begins as normal, whether you wake for work, for adventure, or for no reason at all. It could be in the inn, in another room, under the stars - wherever you find yourself, it’s a peaceful day. A normal day.

It is around lunch that the letters start to arrive, whispers across town in a slowly rising excitement. A party? A ball? What is the guild putting on this time?

Your letter arrives just before your day ends, a young child running up to wherever it is you’ve taken a moment to rest, holding out the letter with very little ceremony before taking off again. The bag at their hip lets you know they’ve been at it all day.

Unfolding the letter, you find the opening words -

Welcome to the Night of Wonders.

Though the name may be a bit misleading, as this party is set to last much more than just one night. In fact, it seems that there are plans for every night of the week. Take part in the dancing, the tournament, the night under the stars, or simply enjoy the festivities, because no matter where you decide to be, the magic will be with you as well.

Magic that feels a bit different than you’re used to. Magic that appears to do a bit more. You’re not sure what clues you in first, whether it’s the lights or the music or the food, but suddenly the whole town feels a bit more full, a bit more crowded.

During these festivities, it appears that the Guild has brought another surprise. Another gift for the travellers who have helped the town so much. Have you missed someone specific from home? Wanted to see their faces? Because it appears that at least for a couple of nights, more have been brought to celebrate with you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ACATALEPSY.

Hello and welcome to our Faerun Event, as well as Acatalepsy’s First Anniversary Fourth Wall Event! As mods, we want to thank everyone who has helped us along the way with this fun little experiment of ours. Modding has been a giant lesson in adaptability and flexibility, and we are so thankful to have a playerbase as willing to step up and help as y’all.

To celebrate, we wanted to open up the game to a little fourth wall event! Tell your friends, spread the word - Astoria’s control on the rift has slipped and now anyone can come play for a time.

Besides - who doesn’t love a reason to dress up and party? Or join a renaissance fair? Or put out some fires . . . wait, what?

THE NIGHT OF WONDERS.

As the day arrives for the beginning of this long-rumored festival, you start to notice that no expense has been spared. The entire town seems to shut down for the occasion, though there is a list of open establishments in the Guild Hall, as well as a schedule of events.

The theme of The Night of Wonders (which, incidentally, lasts nearly two weeks) is one of rebirth. The people of Mirabar are celebrating the continued survival of their home, the success of taming the Giant Rebellions across Faerun, and their resident adventurers! You are all thanked, profusely, for helping reinvigorate Mirabar with your hard work, and the people of Mirabar want to celebrate you for it!

The Guild Hall is very specifically the center of the festivities, where all the food and dance will be contained, Guildmaster Aeryn has graciously provided a good amount of coin and space toward decoration, food, and the like. How kind of her. (She's really not that enthused with your presence, but she does seem reluctantly grateful for your help in completing her empty tasks for her Guild.)

So, some finer details of The Night of Wonders!
➜ The festival itself will have dancing and food and music every single night of the festival, culminating in a big fireworks celebration at the very end of the week! How romantic… hopefully you have someone nice to spend it with!

➜ The ball is going to last from May 8th to May 21st. Throughout the duration of the festival, there will be different events to participate in! Remember -- participation is the basis of the success or failure of Faerun, so you had better get to work . . . or get to having fun. Whatever floats your boat.

➜ Adventurers who submitted tasks will get discounted pricing on all fare during The Night of Wonders!

The very end of the festival will culminate in The Night of Wonders itself - a masquerade ball with food, dancing, and fun! There will also be a ceremony to honor the adventurers of Mirabar, and characters will be able to participate with the people of Faerun in honoring their comrades in arms. But overall? It is a joyful event! Have fun picking out clothes and designing your masks.

FESTIVAL EVENTS

In addition to the dancing and the masquerade, The Night of Wonders festival will have events meant to celebrate the adventurers of their city! There are two main events: a fighting tournament and a kayak race.

Some things of note regarding these two events!
➜ For the fighting tournament, you may use magic, physical strength, however you would like to win!

➜ The ultimate winner will be determined by RNG. You may self-select whoever you want to fight against, but we will pick the ultimate winner from the list of sign-ups, and they will be announced on the log!

➜ For the purposes of the tournament, the winner will be a member of the Circle! However, Fourth Wall participants can certainly join in the fight if you’d like.

➜ For the kayak racing, you can sign up for a team of three people to operate a kayak to participate in the race. We will RNG the winner of the kayak race tournament, and they will be announced on the log!

➜ As with the fighting tournament, the winner will be a member of the Circle! However, Fourth Wall participants can certainly create top levels to kayak race if they’d like.

➜ Please sign up for either tournament by May 8th, 2019 by 8:00 PM EST. We're going to announce the winners on the log, so please make sure you sign up by then!
In addition to these two events, throughout the duration of the festival, there are a ton of food booths, festival games, and the like! It is essentially a ren faire. You can totally find a giant turkey leg and some mead. You can also buy leather goods, weaponry, and participate in a variety of games, such as archery contests, dunking booths, jousting (with slow horses and toy sticks) and pie eating.

As a general note: remember that you can only bring back to the Temple what you can carry. :)

THE FIRES.

However, not everything is fun and merrymaking. A few days into the festival, Aeryn will be furiously trying to track down some source of ire that has sprung up in her backyard. Posters will begin to be circulated, demanding information on an arsonist in Mirabar -- with a handsome reward of 500 GP to anyone who catches them.

Arsonist? you ask. But it only takes a few moments to figure out what is going on.

Throughout the festival, various fires will spring up at different locations. A booth will burn to the ground on the first day, followed by a kayak, a set of jousting equipment, and other incidents throughout the duration of the festival. No one is entirely sure where these fires are coming from, but assistance in keeping them contained is needed and necessary, throughout the festival.

Is someone trying to sabotage it? Is it a wizard who can’t control their powers? Or is this someone’s dumb idea of a joke? Time will tell . . . probably, but feel free to investigate! In the meantime, please help control the random incidents of arson that seem to be popping up throughout the event. Left without tracking down the source, they will surely wreak havoc.

NOTE: You can feel free to make-up where these fires are. They are truly appearing in random events, throughout the duration of the festival. Would your character try and track down the source? Help organize ways to fight the chaos they cause? Let them be? What will your character(s) do?

Finally . . . let's get to the good part. Who can join the Circle for this event?

FOURTH WALL RULES.

➜ Current players who are at the three character max can certainly join in for the fun of the event, but cannot app a fourth character if they decide to play them past Faerun.

➜ Our standard application rules DO NOT apply! Fanon OCs, doubles, or AUs are all allowed. Our rule concerning canons being at least 30 days old also does not apply. However, you should be aware of these rules if you or your friends decide to join us. Even if they are allowed in the fourth wall, our rules will apply to applications and incoming characters. Aka, Fanon OCs or AUs can be played on the fourth wall but will not be allowed to apply into the game. If you have any questions about our application rules, please check them out here.

➜ These threads will be considered canon unless the players decide otherwise! So if you play with someone in the fourth wall and they decide they would like to app, the fourth wall threads will be considered a canon part of the character's memories/history/etc. They will be treated, in a very small way, like a CRAU. If you have questions about that, please let us know below!

➜ We’re in the middle of an AU event! Feel free to AU your character accordingly! Check out our original OOC post here for rules, but essentially: pick a D&D race/class for your character, and cap them to level five. If you have any questions, drop them down below in the Mod Questions thread!

➜ Your character will arrive smack-dab in the middle of Mirabar with absolutely no idea how you got there. Astoria will not welcome you here; in fact, you just seem to appear out of absolutely nothing. One moment you were home, and the next you were here, with absolutely no explanation of how you got here. Guess you’ll have to ask around to find out?

➜ Fourth wall participants can participate in the event-writ large if they like! Drop a comment below for questions, feel free to sign up for events, etc.

➜ And, most importantly, have fun. :)

Reminder: the log for this world jump will be posted May 8th 9:00 PM EST. This post is purely for plotting, and there's a place below for questions and for the world interactions, or possible characters you may want to 4th wall with! Otherwise, feel free to leave a plotting comment below!

We are, as always, open to any kind of player interactions with regards to the ball. if you have a question of how you can get involved, something you'd like to see, or something your character may want to add to the festivities, let us know!

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General questions concerning the event/world go here! Please include all fourth wall specific questions here.

Plot questions concerning the fire go in a separate thread. :)

Edited 2019-05-05 22:57 (UTC)

Fill out the below form! While the winner is RNG, please use this sign-up to plot out fun fights/tournament threads if you'd like!

Edited 2019-05-05 23:17 (UTC)

Fill out the below form! While the winner is RNG, please use this sign-up to plot out fun fights/tournament threads if you'd like! Additionally, feel free to "sign up" as only one person, and have two other people tag into your kayak team! Recruit away, people.

Edited 2019-05-05 23:18 (UTC)

So, for the Festival itself, North is pretty much down for everything! I'm especially interested in the kayak races and possibly doing some Arsonist hunting. But if he could get a team together for kayaking I think that could be a lot of fun.

Or you know, they could start a food fight. That could be fun to.

North is also currently a half-elf ranger/paladin.

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4th Wall wise, if anyone's got RvBs, I'd love to see them! Reds, Blues, Feds, News, Freelancers, you got 'em I'd love to play with them!

Points especially for Freelancers and Theta.

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I'm looking to bring an CRAU Roxas, specifically from where I'm playing him at

balance_rpg (which is based off of The Adventure Zone: Balance arc) . So if anyone wants Reclaimer!Roxas anywhere, please let me know. He's technically a human fighter.

So for fourth wall this should be fun because NONE OF MINE look normal 8Db

Maes Hughes | Shifter Bard
Could possibly be convinced to participate in the kayak racing or fighting tournament...but someone would probably have to suggest it because he's not normally the type to go for such things. Otherwise, he'll be enjoying his discounts for helping earlier and doing a lot of food sampling, games, and possibly purchasing some new weapons. Catch him and he may buy you a drink or two ;D He will definitely make an appearance at the dance/masquerade if someone needs a person to drag you to it.

Once the fires start though he'll definitely be making an effort to investigate and keep an eye out for trouble if nothing else. Maes is good at balancing work and fun and it doesn't seem right to spoil such a good party.

Carmen Sandiego | Tabaxi Rogue
Where in the world is Carmen? She's going to be shopping for the party for one and will definitely be making a snazzy appearance at the ball. She's not particularly interested in catching an arsonist, but she will definitely be making use of these discounts going around. Much like Maes, if you need someone to drag your character to the ball, Carmen would be happy to trick you into being her +1.

Hunk | Gnome Monk
Having more or less adjusted to being 3 feet tall, Hunk will DEFINITELY be enjoying the food and fun of a festival here. He will also happily point out that he helped paint those light posts everywhere you see. He also may need your help carrying his souvenirs since his friend's deserve nice things. He isn't likely to enter the fighting or kayak race (unless someone asks him to specifically). He's more interested in this pie eating contest...

4th Wall Characters
So far I can tell you that Jaune Arc from RWBY will make an appearance. Probably as a paladin ~~because Joan~~. I TDM'd Atticus O'Sullivan once as well so he might also appear (probably as a druid...I mean he IS a druid). Otherwise, no idea who else might show, kinda depends on what I see happening.

If anyone wants to bring in fellow castmates for my bunch I would be more than happy to see them 8Db

Ruby Rose | RWBY | Changling Sorcerer

Okay. So Ruby is going to be jailed temporarily on suspicions of being the arsonist. (She's going to wild magic a fireball on herself) If someone wants to be around when that happens it would be great.

She will likely be helping out to track down the real arsonist from there or at least doing damage control on the actual fires.

She's also entering the combat tournament. She's getting the hang of being a magic user now so come fight her. >:>

Other than that she is up for all any sort of shenanigans but will need to be dragged to the ball. She is pretty shonen protag and always down to either fight or have fun, so come play games or watch fireworks with her.

So, RNG determined Pidge to be a Dwarf Ranger for this, and she's been poking around and helping where she can. She's roughly... 5-6 inches shorter than she normally is, so it wasn't much of an adjustment, at least~

She could probably be convinced to help try to catch an arsonist, but otherwise she's likely just going to continue snooping around. This festival is also different than the one Astoria gave them all, so she'll be checking that out for sure. She might be ridiculous enough to enter either of the tournaments, but I'm not decided yet so.

The masquerade is probably enough of a novelty to have her attention, so she'll be checking that out at some point as well. c:

MOLLY IS STILL HAVING THE BEST TIME, and will be zipping around making friends and being a right nuisance and a know-it-all asshole. But he's in his element and by god is he gonna milk this. All of his CR owes him a dance at the masquerade. Also turkey legs for days.

AS FOR THE FOURTH WALL, well since I planned on apping him next round anyway, I will be bringing in ROCKET from the MCU, probably post-Infinity War, because his life cannot get any worse, except where it can. For confusion's sake, he will be dropped into this world as a human gunslinger, AND MAD ABOUT IT. I needed one character who pointedly does not enjoy everything.

percy's probably gonna be interested in investigating the fires and will be doing the stuff in this comment in terms of taking a look-see alongside vex. i'm totally into tracking these sorts of things/investigating them with other people though so feel free to hop on!

as for fun shit, he'll be flexing his muscles in the tournie for fun and in general just enjoying the festivities. you can steal a dance with him or try to steal some coin from him and lead him on a wild and merry chase through mirabar (and get attacked by a snowy owl for being a lil shithead, thinking you could get away with it), idk i'm just throwing some tasty ideas out there! come at me!

Ren is very into parties and is definitely going to be happy to drag anyone around for finding clothes and masks and what have you for the party...so if anyone needs an excuse to be dragged into silliness, he's here for it. I'm debating whether to toss him into the tourney, since he might have a decent shot at it considering he can fight properly in this world and he likes competing in stuff.

Klan...may also want to do the fighting tournament, honestly. Big celebrations are a bit out of her usual area (or at least, big formal celebrations are), but she enjoys a good fight and knows her way around combat, so it might be a point of pride for her.

As for fourth wall, if university doesn't kill me in the upcoming week I'm considering dropping in either Pyrrha Nikos or Coco Adel from RWBY for some shenanigans, since that's about my only canon that has cast here so I am here for that opportunity.

A particularly grouchy-looking statue would probably have a better time at a party than Zero, but for the sake of his poor fiancee, he'll be around. He'll mostly be hanging around games that require skill, or trying various foods while he's still in a non-robot form and can actually taste things. He's very unlikely to be at The Night of Wonders because it's 99% not his bag, but he might make an appearance (again, for said fiancee's sake) and do next to nothing outside of keeping his partner company. He can still get roped into things as he's a little more open to it than he'd otherwise be, but don't expect an enthusiastic response. Boulder, uphill, etc etc.

He will be at the tournement though! ... Deeeespite being a cleric, but he's still in very good shape and will put up a hell of a fight. He doesn't think he'll win, but he won't be holding back or going into it half-heartedly either. And hey, maybe he'll even heal the other fighters when all is said and done. ~~Provided he doesn't blow through all his spell slots during the fight, anyway.~~

When the fires start up, he'll be investigating. After doing questioning and investigating, he'll eventually attempt to stake out a spot he feels another fire may happen in. If any other Circle members wanna run into him while all this is going on, go for it - he may not be the friendliest guy around, but he'll welcome assistance for this.

This is me belatedly getting my shit together with V's build! Here's some specs to help plot any tourney battling people might want to do!!!

The way I picked was for a few categories: Shadow buffs/heals, crowd control, and mobility. With his cane as his focus, which it is cuz it channels demonic energy :3

Ranger Spells:
1 Hunter's Mark
1 Longstrider
1 Goodberry

Druid Spells:
1 Detect Magic
2 Hold Person
2 Pass Without Trace

Vex'ahlia
Vex is going to be delighted by an excuse to dress up, and the fact we all get a discount? Even better.

Currently a gunslinger (having swapped class with her spouse), Vex still has Trinket with her and can be found indulging in the party when able. Not only will she be on hand for anyone who'd like some help finding fancy clothes for the event, she will be a very willing dance partner! She'll also take part in some of the festival games, though not directly in the tournaments themselves: you won't be getting her in a boat, and she's NOT shooting anyone with her pistols for a tourney. You'll find her cheering others on, however.

When the fire incidents start, she'll be teaming up with Percy to investigate, and will be content to share their learnings with other Circle members.

She's open for any CR you'd like to have, new and old, feel free to poke! :)

4th Wall

VOX MACHINA AND MIGHTY NINE, ROLL CALL we would love to see you! Otherwise I look forward to meeting everyone and anyone. :D

For my part, I might be bringing over Ysayle from FFXIV for a brief visit; this may be CRAU from when I played her way way back in El Nysa, though I don't intend to bring her to the game proper ~~for now?~~. She could use the vacation!

So Sheryl is going to be enjoying the shit out of the gala because this is her jam, being all fancy. Who wants to dance with her??

Also, I definitely want her to try and track down the arsonist because she wants to put her new powers to good use, yo!

Fourth Wall

I am bringing in Olivier Armstrong from Fullmetal Alchemist as a Human Barbarian! Maybe tagging around with Scanlan from Critical Role for a bit? He's still going to be a Gnome Bard.

I'll probably be doing more tagging out for this log rather than setting my own top-level, so feel free to let me know if you'd like a specific thread with Mettaton. (But then I can never predict whether I'll top-level or not... God.) My thoughts for MTT are:

- He'll obnoxiously provide his own performances as part of the festivities, whether that's asked for or not.
- Aeryn paid for enough decorating to go around, but why can't Mettaton ALSO decorate? He has the spare coin. He'll probably commission somebody to make a statue of him or something at this point. Beautiful. This is paying for Goods & Services, thus stimulating the economy with bad decisions. Mirabar is going to be stuck with a statue of Mettaton. He can't carry that home... and maybe he never wanted to.
- He's not much of a fighter in the end, but he can have a healing spell for those who get battered up! I don't think I'll sign him up for the fighting tournament even though he'd love the crowd, but he can also be there for the aftermath.
- Speaking of tournaments, appeal for him to be your Emotional Support ~~Robot~~ Human and he could probably use Enhance Ability for your success! Kayaking or fighting, either way. Maybe that's cheating, but it's not cheating if nobody knows.
- For the most part, he'll be engaging in whatever is fun to him.

Edited 2019-05-08 17:32 (UTC)

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MOD QUESTIONS.

FIGHTING TOURNAMENT SIGN-UPS.

KAYAK RACING SIGN-UPS.

THE FIRES.

Plotting for North Dakota

Erica's Plot Post | Maes Hughes, Carmen Sandiego, Hunk

Josh's plot post!

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percy goodtimes / ranger (beast master)

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Plot Stuff for Zero | High Elf Cleric

V | Druid Ranger

Farli's Plotting Comment

Sheryl (plus 4th Wall)

Mettaton