Event | Summer Jubilee | June 22nd-28th

[ironwood]

June 22nd-28th | BACK TO THE ROOTS;

During this month, the foreigners might have been able to overhear the kedan have begun to make preparation for a celebration. If asked, the kedan will say it's just a "family thing" and if they press for more, those who maintain a friendly relationship with them will be told it actually varies from family to family, that it isn't a fixed thing. They will be open about sharing (and even happy to talk about it!) that it's a celebration to get in tune with our past, to make sure you learn from your mistakes and also that you never forget where you come from. The older kedan will explain about how the ties between realms have to be strengthened to avoid corruption, connecting past, present and future to the Life realm.

Even with Malicant's presence still darkening the Palace (literally and figuratively) the kedan seem determined to mark this occasion. In addition, this week-long celebration also coincides with the six month birthdays of the turtle hatchlings for which the kedan are excited for (and are producing an ungodly amount of turtle and shell themed festive foods and decorations). Their enthusiasm is contagious and in fact even the cultists seem to have evaporated from the street corners and dark alleys, giving the happy hatchlings (because they totally know this party is partly for them) free run of the city with parents in tow.

Adopt-A-Foreigner

Knowing that the Foreigners are removed from their homes and actual families by being in Keeliai, many kedan are reaching out to include them in the spirit of this celebration. Characters will find themselves being approached by kedan they know (and even some they don't) with offers to join them for dinner, or even inviting them to live with them full time for a day or two. (No longer though, else they will be away from their soul lanterns for too long!) They'll be treated as full fledged members of these welcoming kedanese homes, right down to assuming pseudo-familial relationships with them. (Big sister, pass the salt! It's your turn to do dishes!)

Barbecue!

And, if that weren't enough frivolity, the barbecue mentioned here will also be occurring around the same time. It will be in a separate log, so feel free to swing on by and bring corn on the cob. Or the turtle equivalent thereof.

The Ritual

Considering the risk they all find themselves in thanks to a certain big bad M, every Foreigner will also be invited to attend the ritual which is the central theme to this celebration. They will be repeatedly encouraged to participate, even though it's strictly optional and voluntary. Everyone who goes through the ritual, they said, will get a little advice from the past about something that might be troubling them in the present... however, how that advice will get to them is not known and it's apparently very subjective.

The ritual itself, for those who ask, will be carried out in the Water District, in a central fountain to that sector which is apparently used for this very purpose every time. The only thing they have to do is to choose something with a strong connection to them, something that has shaped them to be who they are today, and soak it up in the water of the fountain at least three different times the same day. That’s it. Easy enough, right?

Dream a little dream of me...

Those who have followed the kedan's instructions concerning soaking their possession in the fountain will get a special visit during the night. People from their past, from any point in their past, will pay them a visit during a dream on the night of the same day they went through the ritual. What is said to the characters is up to each individual player, but the visit will be mostly friendly and with the purpose of helping them out or giving them advice, and run along the theme of family bonds (whether blood or otherwise). They can get visits from more than one person too, and they don’t even have to be 'friends'. It could just be an enemy making them see things on a new light!

Asti's Blessings

In thanks for taking care of his young nieces and nephews, Asti will be appearing to all current turtle parents in a vision, taking the form of the same soft-spoken, teen boy (approximately 13-14 years old) that some may remember from the last Dreaming contact with the Foreigners. He will thank them sincerely for taking care of his kin and protecting them, and offer these Foreigners a very special boon. They may choose either a single ability or power OR be granted control of a memory (to either gain or lose, whether theirs or someone else's) OR affect a physical change to themselves. So long as it is within Asti's considerable power to grant, he wishes to afford the Foreigners a small measure of his gratitude.

OOC Note: There is a check-in comment LOCATED HERE for turtle parents, so please comment there so we can approve the boons to make sure it's nothing game-breaking.

Have any questions? Please refer to the QUESTIONS section of the comments and ask away! We will answer them in as timely a method as possible. Otherwise, feel free to use this post to plot what your character(s) may be up to during the event!

NOTE: As a reminder, we now have an active game plurk @ tushan that you can add.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[ironwood]

Any questions relating to the event, please ask them here!

[peacefullywreathed]

What if a character arrived too recently to have any special possessions with them? Could they use a stand-in--eg a sketch or a facsimile?

[survival_isnt_living]

Three questions regarding the dream visit from person from past:

1) Does the person from the past need to be from the point in the timeline the character was pulled from or earlier, or can it be, for instance, an old friend or family member some (or many) years after that to give them a different view than they would have otherwise had?

2) How strictly is 'from their past' defined? Does it have to be someone they met? Specifically I've got two instances in mind:
a) person with complicated but adopted-family relationship who was alive at the time, who the character knew about and often asked after but never met?
b) uh, say a family member born the day of the pull point but also never met?

3) How clearly will characters remember the dream? Is it allowed to fade or be hazy but leave the sentiment behind if player so chooses?

ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[ironwood]

The following characters are turtle parents and can claim one of Asti's boons by replying to this comment:

Amelia | loquaciouslyfeline
Annabeth Chase | sophos
Armin Arlert | strategisch
Ava Ayala | superoverachiever
Bart Allen | backinakidflash
Casey Jones | stickaround
Derek Hale | garou
Dick Grayson | bludhavenknight
Donnatello | i_speak_softly
Enjolras | solo_patria
Frank Zhang | iguanasolution
Gaius Septimus | survival_isnt_living
Garrett Hawke | iwannabeadragon
Gene Khan | wrathfulkhan
Hal Jordan | animosus
Iskierka | kazilik
Jackie Ma | jinzhong
Joly | fliesonfour
Kaine | unobtainableredemption
Korra | alphatar
Mark Grayson | shorttempered
Michaelangelo | michaeljangelo
Midii Une | unetrustworthy
Raine Sage | ruinsprofessor
Rapunzel | watcheslanterns
Rex Salazar | deusrexmachina
Richie Foley | gearshifting
Saint Walker | burnseternal
Sarah Miller | hisbabygirl
Skulduggery Pleasant | skeletonenigma
Solomon Wreath | peacefullywreathed
Steve Rogers | neverdanced
Stiles Stilinski | skybluejeep
Temeraire | dracobin
Wally West | runrightround
Wanijima Akito | akito
Yami no Bakura | denyamenti
Zelgadis | gathersnomoss

<b>Character:</b> <b>Brief description of requested boon:</b>

Re: ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[solo_patria]

Character: Enjolras
Brief description of requested boon: Enjolras would like to cast light, that is to have the ability to light up dark places with a spoken word or gesture.

[unetrustworthy]

Character: Midii Une
Brief description of requested boon: Midii would like the ability to read and understand multiple languages; if that's too broad, she would specify English and kedanese.

[animosus]

Character: Hal Jordan
Brief description of requested boon: He would like his dad's last thoughts and memories before he went down in a ball of flames in front of baby Hal and traumatised him for life.

[skeletonenigma]

Character: Skulduggery Pleasant
Brief description of requested boon: There's a sigil carved into his collarbone that lets him pull up an illusory flesh-and-blood face for about half an hour each day. I've been assuming that stopped working at Tushan due to conflicts of magicks, so can he have that back along with an extended time frame please? :3

[peacefullywreathed]

Character: Solomon Wreath
Brief description of requested boon: Sol is going to ask that he's no longer affected by the addicting aspect of Necromancy, which means he'll have more overall control over his magic without needing an item. HOWEVER due to the intense clarity that will give him he won't be able to use the Death Bringer-level techniques (ie: death bubble) without risking shoving himself into the death plane--the same effects as being away from his lantern, basically.

Re: ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[iguanasolution]

Character: Frank Zhang
Brief description of requested boon: Flight! That's it, he's a simple man

Re: ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[runrightround]

Character: Wally West
Brief description of requested boon: Since Wally needs a lot of food to just generally function, he would like to have the little compartments in his gloves provide him with snacks when he needs them. Like a mini personal vending machine, I guess?

Re: ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[gathersnomoss]

Character: Zelgadis Graywords
Brief description of requested boon: Increased time spent as a human (since Asti already granted him a small amount of time in his original body during the dreampost).

[alphatar]

Character: Korra
Brief description of requested boon: The ability to see all things as they actually are. Whether anyone or anything is affected by magical or spiritual means, invisibility, illusions, or by any form of shapeshifting/polymorphing/transmutation.

[iwannabeadragon]

Character: Garrett Hawke
Brief description of requested boon: He wants to be a dragon. Hawke wants to recover from injury much faster than an ordinary person, so basically a regenerative healing factor. It doesn't have to be on par with someone like Wolverine, but he wants to heal at a much faster rate than normal.

Re: ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[i_speak_softly]

Character: Donatello
Brief description of requested boon: Telepathic communication. With permissions posts and things, of course.
Requested OOC boon: Can you fix the spelling of Don's name on the turtle-parents list? It makes me sad every time I see it.

Re: ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[michaeljangelo]

Character: Michaelangelo
Brief description of requested boon:

Empathetic projection.

The ability to project his emotional state onto those around him within a given vicinity. When he's happy/content he sort of radiates that to those near him. I don't see it as something he'd even realize he had until...those three out of ten times when he's not happy/content.

I figure it'd affect npcs and then pc's with permission.

(It was suggested I request the ability to summon Theme Music to well up from no where when thematically appropriate. Descending underground would prompt "Mario Goes Underground" music, or a fight scene might call for Carmina Burana, that sort of thing.

While I kind of figure this request isn't really befitting the nature of the game, I couldn't in good conscience NOT share it just the same.)

[akito]

Character: Wanijima Akito
Brief description of requested boon: He would like the ability to [learn how to] waterbend. He would ask for some basic knowledge along with it, to get him started on training himself in both offensive, defensive, and healing techniques.

Big thanks to his BFF Sarah for giving him the idea.

Re: ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[ruinsprofessor]

Character: Raine Sage
Brief description of requested boon: Essentially, a straight-up power boost, such that her healing techniques work at the same level of efficiency (high) regardless of the healing rate of the subject. In-canon, her artes are less effective on people without exspheres, which led to the reasonable conclusion that since exspheres increase all of a person's abilities, healing rate is on the list, and that Raine's artes are affected by a person's own regeneration. Since there are very few people here with an accelerated healing rate, she'd really just like to be as effective as she's used to being.

Up to your discretion whether the power boost affects healing skills only, heals and buffs, or all magic including offensive.

(I may have misplaced this comment at first. shhhhh, you saw nothing.)

I HOPE I AM NOT TOO LATE

[gearshifting]

Character: Richie Foley
Brief description of requested boon: Richie would like the ability to influence face blindness in others. Where people who look at him as Gear and has Richie can't recognize them as the same person just by looking or hearing him. He does not need to have full control of this ability up front, but would it be okay to learn to control it?

[wrathfulkhan]

Character: Gene Khan
Brief description of requested boon: Gene would like to be able to not have the rings be taken away from him for any appreciable length of time. (That's the problem with external power trinkets, you know.) i.e. if anyone tries to take them away from him they'll appear back on his fingers.

Re: ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[backinakidflash]

Character: Bart Allen
Brief description of requested boon: A memory of his father, from his mother. The details don't really matter.

[deusrexmachina]

Character: Rex Salazar
Brief description of requested boon: Full control over his Omega EVO mode. As it works right now, it's an an automatic defense protocol that will only activate and build up when he's near death/extremely traumatized. I'd like him to be able to assume the mode at will and to be able to build it back down so he's normal again without exploding and leaving a football field length crater in his wake. (Game-based size limitations would still apply, of course; he'd be 30 feet high instead of canon height, which is probably closer to 50 feet tall.)

[jinzhong]

Character: Jackie Ma
Brief description of requested boon: the worst idea in the world The ability to copy powers from people, 'cause he wants to do all the cool magic stuff too! Of course, only being able to copy one or two at a time before they get "cycled out" of the rotation. I wanted to play a normie. what am I doing.

[strategisch]

I... uh, honestly can't think of a power that wouldn't detract from Armin's character, lol. Um. Do you mind if he has a thread with Asti anyways, and I try to feel things out?

Re: ASTI'S BLESSINGS

[skybluejeep]

Character: Stiles
Brief description of requested boon:

I'd like to request that Stiles get the permanent power of flight from the bracers he picked up last year in Sinbrilee. The original condition of the bracers was that, once removed, they'd never work again. Stiles used them in the Evil Jar Of Doom landfall event, took them off after, and subsequently has never had them work since.

I'd like our Turtle Friend™ to give them their mojo back and make them a permanent use item.