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CR & PLOTTING: JUNE
Miss Nessie and her Witches had suspicions about the longevity of the new arrivals, and a theory was proven true when they all vanished before June 1st - Mirrorbound require a mirror in the Looking-Glass House to truly anchor them to this world. While they do not yet understand what allowed people to be pulled through other surfaces, Nessie feels for all the Mirrorbound who saw old friends and family only to have them ripped away again. There is a renewed interest in the Coven in trying to discover the secrets of the Looking-Glass House and harness its magic in a controlled manner.
As Ieuneril sets in, with the departure of so many temporary Mirrorbound, the city grows quieter and starts to settle back into familiar routines, bustling as they prepare for Litha at the end of the month. Hopefully a less-ominous Litha than last year! Eyes are kept somewhat tersely on the skies searching for any hint of red. So too, there are whispers around Parliament about the sheer number of Mirrorbound that arrived last month, a fact many are uneasy about, but concerns must shift as a new problem arises...
What Lies Beneath
On the morning of the 13th, Sowilo, the Bonded Fae of Miss Nessie's assistant Theodore, will broadcast himself through the Watches, haughty expression uncharacteristically grim, bearing news. A dozen Wilders stationed at the Northern Outpost vanished unexpectedly a handful of days ago while investigating a rockslide in the cliffs, and search parties have turned up very little. Until now. Two of the missing Wilders were successfully recovered, injured but alive, and brought back to the Coven for treatment. Their story is a strange one.
From what they can gather, the group found a tunnel in the stone, leading far, far underground, where they were ambushed in vast caves of illuminated crystals. Overtaken, they were captured and pressed for information. Eventually, two were sent back with a message from a Monster the attackers called their Matriarch: she will release the Wilders unharmed if those who witnessed the stone spires of their city in a dream will come and visit. She has a keen interest, and the Mirrorbound (and only the Mirrorbound) are cordially invited to her realm.
Many may remember the dream from Mareuer - the caverns, the sheets of man-eating moss, and the bustling marketplace: the Underground, with all the strange people who have never heard of the world above them. Before, they were not allowed into the city proper, halted at the marketplace that rings the outskirts, but now there is an opportunity to make a discovery, an entire civilization no one in Aefenglom knew was there. Sowilo will explain that a group will leave in just a handful of days, and he will accompany them as far as the strangers will allow. They will need curious minds and strong bodies both: they know nothing about the people who live there, and weaker Mirrorbound could need fighters for backup. The Wilders may be over-curious meatheads but they cannot merely leave them hostage in a strange land, and with the tunnels lying so close to the Northern Outpost, knowledge of their neighbors will be highly valuable...
Yes, this June, we return to the Underground! All who wish to volunteer are given the mission to visit this new city, on the Matriarch's invitation, and gather valuable intelligence and experience for Aefenglom and the Coven. Ten characters as well will be chosen by the Matriarch's guards to have a conversation with the Matriarch herself - which means a chance to ask questions directly, questions other NPCs may not be able to answer, not to mention potentially affect relations. Representatives will be chosen by RNG and will each get an NPC thread. Please only sign up if your character would ICly volunteer for this duty and if you want to have a small thread with an NPC!
Representatives will be chosen OOCly on the 15th at 3pm EST by RNG. ICly, they will be chosen by guards when they arrive to the city, and will have 4-5 days to discuss with others and prepare their questions and comments. The meetings will ICly take place on the 21st.
They aren't the only ones who can affect relations with the Underground, however. We will be posting a good ol' Action Tracker for you all to let us know what shenanigans you get up to, and how things go will determine future friendliness or enmity, along with whether they accept a teleporter set-up in their city or not. They could be a new ally in the fight against the Cwyld, or a new enemy right at the Northern Outpost's doorstep.
The Underground will be ICly open until mid-July at minimum, possibly permanently.
FORMS
With all that out of the way, here is your CR/Plotting form!
Player Name: Your name, handle, whatever you'd like!
Pronouns: Your preferred pronouns.
Contact: Preferred method of contact - discord, plurk, twitter, PM, ye olde MSN messenger, etc.
Timezone: Where are you in the world?
Character Name: Name & username!
Canon: Exactly as it says.
Appearance: Link an image or describe your character; if there's anything notable about them at first meeting, put it here!
Brief: A few words to sum up your character, a couple of lines to tell what they're about, whatever you'd like. If you have an info post all ready to go, feel free to link it in addition to your summary!
Choice: Witch or Monster; and for the latter, which one?
Event Plans: Anything specific to this month's event!
General Plans: Any other plans you have for the month! Don't forget to check out the Quest Board, too.
Regular June Plans
For Litha, Leslie will be participating in the flower parts of the festival and will be unaware of the adults around her gently steering her away from the spicier parts of the festival. Unless anyone tells her otherwise, she will think it’s a festival of plants and marriage and nothing else. She will specifically be aiming to gather the seven flowers to put under her pillow. She doesn’t currently have any direct interest in romance, but she was told growing up that getting married is a necessary part of a happy life for a woman, making it more a box to tick currently.
General Plans: I fell absolutely flat on my face when it came to activity last month and I basically missed the fourth wall. My bad. Leslie likely spent much of early Maiuril not going out very much: she believes that only good people come through the mirror, but she’s not so confident about people popping out of midair (especially if she picked up on any of her housemates or friends being rattled by meeting someone unexpectedly) and she has a list of people she never wants to see again, on top of some lingering memories during the memshare dream hitting her self-confidence. Not that she entirely disappeared: Ferdie the beagle still needs walkies and the Coven library is needed to keep up her witch studies. She started coming out more towards the end of the month, especially for her job at the newly opened Purramid Cafe as “Royal Cat Petter.” (No, really.) She’ll be back in regular action by now.
On the Quests side of things, I’m only going to sign up for ones if I end up plotting out a thread with someone(s), as she has a
n allowancepaying job now that means she doesn’t have to take a part-time job to earn her own money. Candlemaking might work well with her current efforts withUncleHubert to work on her fear of fire. I can also see her attempting to placate some sheep for shearing, or berry-picking and somehow being more emotional? Hit me up if interested.On a more personal note, this is now the fifth month of Leslie living in Aefenglom and the fourth month of her having a living shadow familiar, with only a couple of temp bonds of a day or two when she ventured out of the city. If she doesn’t get a more normal bond by then, she will start to feel the effects of not having a bond on the new moon/first day of Litha: nothing bad enough to suggest a risk of explosion, thanks to her familiar, but she promised Hubert to tell him and/or Edelgard if anything changed in her magic, so she’ll be reporting that. In the end, she’s going to have to admit she needs a regular bond.
I mentioned it to someone offhand, so she will have at least one option: Hector (a monster) will offer to provide a bond on an extended temporary basis. He got the mistaken impression that he’s bad at bonding, so it seems he ICly intends to be a stopgap measure. If anyone is interested in a Leslie bond, let’s chat, but also if it’s not the right time, she will be fine thanks to Hector. I like bonds developing naturally and I recognize a Bond, Leslie Bond, Double-O-Cute (someone stop me) comes with some complications from her being A Cute Child Who Must Be Protected in the eyes of the majority of her CR. Did you want to pretend everything was okay in front of the child? Too bad, spill your emotional guts. Did you want to partake in the sex-friendly RP? Better have a grasp on blocking bonds temporarily.
Also, Leslie will start calling herself thirteen years old this month! I guess pedantically she’ll be a teenager. Wow that’s weird. No one bothered to remember her date she was born, so she just counts based on how many summer solstices have passed since she was told her age. So anyone calling her a child after Iuneril 20th will be getting told, “I’m not a child. I’m thirteen years old.” She’s not going to mention it otherwise, because she’s not used to thinking of her age as something anyone cares about, but that’s a thing.
(This is headcanon, as the information on her birthday is not out in English or on the Korean wiki page I could find. I did find a forum where people were discussing information from the untranslated web novel and I asked if there is any information on this, but unless that gets a response or the information comes out in the next comic chapter, it’s either headcanon or learning to translate Korean.)
Otherwise, it’s a case of trying to get the RP mojo back and poking around at things that look interesting.
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Also I can offer Kurumi up for Bond? Shovel girl needs a regular bond too, and Leslie is on her list of potential bonds.
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And that sounds like a good Bond for both of them! Kurumi may need to prepare for the emotions behind stress nightmares occasionally, but she’s currently in a state where that’ll probably only happen once every few weeks, it’s fine. Maybe toward the end of the month, if that works with your own timelines? I think I can get some neat stuff out of Leslie reaching limits and temp bonding with Hector first, and then any time Litha festival or later would work to have a “you need a Bond? I also need a Bond. Let us deal with this.”
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Near the end of the month/during or after the festival works! Kurumi will have to learn how to block out bonds temporarily, but she can probably deal with it when they come. The same goes for Leslie, Kurumi hides A LOT of her emotions from her trauma and nightmares, she might have to occasionally deal with that too.
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Oh boy, two girls who look younger than their actual age (though Leslie's isn't due to unfortunate art trends) and hide a great deal of trauma and nightmares. It was meant to be. Though Leslie's nightmares usually pop up after being in a stressful situation, which everyone she's met in Aefenglom have been working to keep her not stressed, so maybe it's more Leslie who has to watch out for...middle of the day sudden bursts? Since vampire schedule.
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She's likely to be sympathetic to him, because even if what he did might not be right (and even that depends on how he spins it and whether Mikasa talks to her at all about it), Mr. Krüger is a good person! Which I realize might twist the knife more than if she were properly disappointed in him.
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She means well, though. Which may be worse.
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if you'll be making top levels or whatnot, i'll keep an eye out ♥
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It helps that they already have a congenial relationship, and it will certainly make resolution of the event in April (Gosh, April?! We both had a bad May!) very interesting for the both of us.
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But also it’s good in terms of the character fit! ...I mean, also a bad character fit given Lorenz already unhealthily denies himself with adults and Leslie worries that people bonding with her could be putting themselves last, but an interesting bad. Plus gosh, yes, the follow up on The Previous Event (sorry 4th wall it was a rough May) with a Bond sounds GREAT.
And he already learned about the dangers of Bonded having sex with someone else, so he’ll definitely remember to cut that off if he gets laid.no subject
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Frankly, these all sound amazing, so I could easily go for any of them if you have a preference! After thinking about this for like a day, my conclusion is that if I had to decide, it’s probably slight preference to cute Litha shit, but for yesterday evening, it was sheep favoured and GOSH drunken baking is such a funny and unique thread option that I’m not about to get anytime soon with a preteen.
SO IF YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE FOR ANY OF IT, I THINK IT WILL BE STRONGER THAN MINE but if I have to decide, I’d probably pick cute Litha shit, like the marriage superstitions where they could talk about Leslie’s confused ideas about marriage and romance, or down at the harbour since she’s been working on her fear of fire enough to be okay with the candles and she hasn’t been down by the water since early February and her guardian is going to be going to sea at some point this month on the kraken mission. BUT ASK ME TOMORROW AND I’LL PROBABLY HAVE CHANGED MY MIND.
P.S. I’ve been slowly picking away at my backtags. Would comtinuing the memshare be something you’d still be interested in? This reminded me to check and it seems I lost the notif for it (but also I didn’t tag basically at all through May so it would have been this late anyway). I know different people have different standards for how late is “too late would rather go to new stuff.”