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CR & PLOTTING: AUGUST

While July might've been a little hectic on the real life side of things (show of hands for everyone who's grateful August is here now), in-game, it was a little bit more lowkey. With the weather reaching its peak in summer, a few Witches decided to bring it down a notch - or several, resulting in a fairly snowy month. A last minute snowstorm stirred up at the end, leaving the cold to roll into August's early weeks - mind yourselves, everyone!

The weather aside, the city and its people didn't take too much of a break. The Coven, deciding that a follow up on the cave was necessary, especially with the discovery of a ley-line beneath it, put out a request to help get Smugha Cave into more suitable base order. They were immensely grateful for the help they received, too; not everyone in the Coven is trained to handle what the Wilde can dish out. With the area better secured, they turn their eyes to the next part of their plan to establish a firm foothold in the Wilde: connecting directly to the ley-line, creating an anchor point for teleportation. Amidst this, Nerissa Bell - head of the Coven - called for a bit of a meeting for everyone who could attend, just for everyone to share any information, queries, and so on - if they'd like, or if they could. With those major points out of the way...

Quest: Special Training

As more than a few of you have already noticed, a quest log will be going up on August 9th for some training by the Wilders. While not exactly an event proper, this will be an opportunity for characters to head into the deeper part of the Wilde in a similar fashion to the last one in June for the exploration of Smugha Cave. We won't spoil too many details for all of you, but just like the last one, it might have some connection to a place in the last dream everyone got to have - that is, July's TDM. Sign-ups are on-going and open to everyone, so if it piques your interest now or when the log goes up, feel free to toss your character up there!

Event: The Black City

Speaking of shared dreams: no points for guessing what our next event log is. Like clockwork, characters will fall asleep on the night of the 16th regardless of if they can truly sleep or need to - and awaken in a dream. They'll find themselves within a city not unlike Aefenglom in structure, but with a major difference: there aren't any Monsters walking freely. Instead, they're leashed and collared, heads lowered in submission - and those who have Monster traits coming in will find they're under the same curse as these ones: they have to obey every order that comes from a Witch's mouth, whether it's a joke or not. Attempting to fight it will give them pain, nausea, and other adverse effects in increasing intensity until they give in, or until the Witch lifts their order.

And just like in the last shared dream, as well as the TDMs, a character's rate of transformation and the number of spells/how powerful they are can be played with - it is a dream, after all!

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

He could! Vikings definitely have wooden shields so he would know how to make one, though Berkian wooden shields aren't 100% wood, so either Steven would have to figure out what would be a good substitute metal, or Hiccup could probably carve an entire piece out of one slice of a tree trunk or something. :|a Maybe leather tied through small holes for the straps? It wouldn't be as sturdy but. Maybe enchantments could spruce it up.

Steel is also probably fine for Fae as long as Hiccup has the means to work it. It just has too be processed far enough away from iron that it loses its anti Fae properties. So maybe actually going for a full Viking shield design would be cool. (Also has Steven mentioned how cool it is that he's a viking? Because it's very cool.)

Steven can pay for whatever materials he needs because he's been saving up, though he'd also love to see whatever enchantments Hiccup can put on it! He's taking it out into the wild so he figures it's good to be prepared.

Hiccup isn't 100% familiar with steel, but he DOES do a lot of work in the series with new materials so figuring it out is def in his wheelhouse, if he's given scrap steel to work with. He can probably make it work lol. A viking-style shield would be pretty easy for him to get done, he's got plenty of good wood from the still-ongoing construction of his and Keith's house so he'd just need the metal.

As far as enchantments go, he's been working on a few things but he'd probably ask Steven what specifically he'd want so he'd know what to try to figure out.

Steven is flexible regarding enchantments, but if asked he'd probably come up with the idea of "some kind of reflect/repel enchantment" that would theoretically bounce whatever hit it away rather than giving it the chance to sink into the wood. In his imagination he's probably fantasizing about something like the mirror shield from Zelda, but really, whatever is practical.

He could probably work up a mostly-reliable repelling spell! He's welcome to hit Hiccup up through his inbox, or wherever one of us top levels next

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