EVENT LOG: THE NIGHT WE MET

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EVENT LOG:
THE NIGHT WE MET

characters: everyone.
location: the path from downtown beacon to the harbor; all over town.
date/time: february 16-21.
content: the forest spirits send off their friends to join the aurora. memory opals drop from the eerie green lights above.
warnings: n/a.

i had all and then most of you, some and now none of you.

For most of the day on February 16, all of the town's forest spirits can be found along the stretch of road between downtown and the harbor, clearly setting up for, uh, something. They're piling snow onto the pathway, creating a miles long sled trail that starts outside the Landmark Inn and ends at the very end of the harbor's dock. Not only that, but the forest spirits are also not super willing to explain what they're up to! They're busy, you lantern-havers.

By the time evening rolls around, the spirits have set up wooden railings alongside the snowy path, as well as a warming tent, hot chocolate booth, and announcer stand outside of the Landmark. Oh, and a starting banner for the race! It's dogsled time!

Throughout the event, Beacon's downtown and harbor areas will be completely overrun with forest spirits, all there to bear witness to this holiday celebration—this holiday is for them, though, not you weirdos with your naked faces. Point is, none of the spirits will be hostile at this time! They're more interested in interacting with each other than with Beacon's residents, though if pressed, a kind spirit might be willing to explain what's going on:

The aurora arrives in Beacon for about a week each year, and the forest spirits believe it to be "friends in the sky". The lights are old friends of theirs, it seems! And each night while the aurora shines above the town, the forest spirits send off a handful of friends to join the aurora! The spirits ready to join the aurora build sleds of their own and assemble mighty sled teams, sometimes comprised of dog spirits and sometimes... other stuff. Then, when the aurora is at its peak in the wee hours of the night, the sled teams will ride off one by one, racing down the snow-covered path all the way down to the harbor, where they'll finally rocket off the dock and out over the lake, picking up more and more speed as each team gallops wildly over the water before arcing up into the sky. Once the spirits are barely a speck, they'll hit the aurora and burst into a shower of light. Beautiful stuff!

See, since the aurora is made of light, forest spirits launched into it are killed on impact! Isn't that wonderful! The forest spirits seem to think so! What is death to a dead thing!

All of this information can be learned through handwaved/played-led interactions with the forest spirits during the event. They'll all be focused on saying goodbye to their friends and cheering them on as they stream through the sky, but they're happy to welcome lantern-havers to join in the celebrations. The hot chocolate is free and only tastes a little bit like mud, so. Enjoy!

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For the entire duration of the event, the aurora will dance in beautiful silence overhead, lighting up the whole town with its eerie green glow. Every so often, handfuls of opals will rain down like meteorites from the lights above, and these opals each contain the memory of someone currently in Beacon! They can be found all over town, landing on paths and atop buildings and maybe even rocketing straight through your ceiling to crash into your living room. Perhaps a forest spirit decided to hide some shiny rocks in your cereal box or under your pillow... Better hope the Postmaster General doesn't find your opals before you do, though. That spirits sure does love their rocks. Point is, who knows where the opals might turn up?

On that note, if you signed up for a random event, we'll be RNGing characters to receive these random events throughout the event! The event may happen in response to a toplevel on this event log, or we might turn up in your IC inbox... 👀 These events will be entirely random, meaning we could dole out any number of them at any time, so it'll be a fun surprise for all of us.

If you missed signups and would still like to toss your name in the ring, go right ahead! Signups will remain open throughout the event, though we can't promise everyone who signs up will get something.

And finally... Each day, we'll post a list of the forest spirits joining the aurora! What, did you want to know in advance? The forest spirits have never been a particularly organized bunch, so they're winging this—which means more surprises for you. :)

Enjoy the races and the lights and the opals, residents of Beacon, and remember: WHAT IS DEATH TO A DEAD THING!

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Comments

[legalcy]

Minimus crosses his arms and nods solemnly. "Not unlike our own situation. We are brought in by an outside force to provide help to this world, or - in the case of The Circle - to aid the world on the behalf of another figure."

It would have been polite to ask them first, but when they are dead, what choice can they make until they wake up?

"What did you find about this goddess? Were you able to leave of your volition?"

[dadandgone]

Maes nods to confirm. "I actually thought, when I first awoke on the ferry, that this was just one other mission for Astoria. The only problem was she usually gave us at least a little heads up...and had recently disappeared from the Temple. My best guess is that her disappearance caused a chain reaction that led to me being here."

He was dead back home. Astoria had more or less confirmed that should the magic keeping Maes connected to the temple were to break that he would return to the moment he'd been brought from and various conversations with Barabas, Shiro, and Keith had more or less confirmed that. It didn't mean that he'd stopped searching for an alternative, but it had made the options rather limited.

"Not a lot. She was rather vague with her answers, though I had trouble telling if it was a facade or if she was being truthful about her lack of memories and knowledge of the Temple and how it functioned."

Finally he shakes his head, the question about leaving on their own had always bugged him, but they'd been at Astoria or the Temple's mercy the entire time. "No. Never got close to that one."

[legalcy]

"A dead end, then." If she were unable to leave a designated area, then she would not be able to stop a kidnapping outside of her zone. Hughes was a pawn in Solis' game whether he wanted to help or not.

"Were you considered to be dead in that universe? The requirements to enter Beacon may not be as rigid as I had believed."

[dadandgone]

“Maybe...I did see her name in the log book of The Landmark,” he confesses. He sighs, a little frustrated, “I haven’t had a chance to make it back there to check with everything going on nor was I able to verify if it was the same being. I spoke to Rastus, his name was in that book too, but I’m not sure if he remembered her, he got a little distracted when I mentioned the Parade. If she was here though...well, I’m not sure WHAT that means. After all, she disappeared and not long after I blacked out...woke up on the ferry.”

There had been a light and instead of returning to the dirt of Amestris, he’d wound up here instead. He couldn’t explain it really. Everyone else that had ever left the Circle hadn’t retained memories of it or, presumably, the magic Astoria had granted them. Maes had a hunch it had something to do with the fact he was dead, though he couldn’t be certain.

“I mean...I think so? I certainly never felt dead, if that’s what you’re asking. I wasn’t, like, a walking corpse. But both Roy and Riza both confirmed I was dead back home, they attended my funeral. I asked Astoria about it once and she more or less told me that were I to leave the Circle’s magical influence I’d be returned to how I was before I arrived.” Ultimately he shrugs. He’d wavered on that a long time since it was difficult to accept your own death when current experiences and everything contradicted that fact.