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MINI EVENT: IN FULL BLOOM

IN FULL BLOOM( APRIL 6TH )


april 6 ↴
MINI EVENT: IN FULL BLOOM

It's unlikely you see the catalyst of this event, or at least understand it. The entirety of Asgard can be, and frequently is tied to the Gods that protect it and what they have dominion over. The latent curses that Wanderers have sprung upon them are intangible proof, but when it comes to a God like Sigyn...her ties to the world are much more visible, apparent.

She's holed herself up in her district, tending to the earth with her hands and tools, like a human would. It distracts her, makes it easier to force her mind to feel things it isn't otherwise. Most Gods would know this comes with side effects; if snapped out of the state, she would as well. Right now, it's not so pressing a matter.

Her emotional unsteadiness doesn't come out as ugly or marred as one might imagine -- no, if you're standing outside when the magic takes effect, you'll be surprised to see large clumps of flowers curling up from the earth and blooming blossoms larger than they should be almost immediately after coming into complete existence. Some locations for these plants make no sense, taking root anywhere they please. Maybe in a patch of soil, or maybe on the side of a wall. Your roof, your bathtub, the very sleeve of your shirt.

Their sudden appearance may cause you alarm, enough to stay away on instinct. It's likely for naught, with just how plentiful they are. Smelling their aroma or coming into contact with their pollen is basically an inevitability. And when you do...something strange will happen.

  • ASPHODEL → This flower will cause the feeling of soul-crushing regret and guilt. What's the one thing that you regret the most? The one thing you would change if you could turn back time? It's time to have that thrown back in your face for the next twelve hours, assuming you're not exposed to this pollen again. In the case that there is no big thing that you regret or feel guilty about, it'll be some small minor thing that has been exacerbated in your mind by the pollen to the point that it is now a big deal as well.

  • CARNATION → After coming into contact with this flower, you feel a pull of absolutely clinginess that draws you towards someone you have some degree of fondness for, be it romantic or platonic in nature. There's this niggling feeling that won't stop pestering you, that you simply have to be in close proximity to this person. Hovering, observing, touching. Once you are? The feeling goes away. This magic tether lasts throughout the day, despite how your target may feel about it. If for some reason you can't be near this person, like they force you away by some magical means, your desperation strengthens as the proximity remains broken.

  • EDELWEISS → This one will cause you to become extremely reckless. It goes beyond developing or exacerbating a hero complex. It's like experiencing l'appel du vide for twelve hours and actually listening to it. You won't be very susceptible to reason without some magic to put a stop to you, and your sense of consequence? Completely out the window.

  • POPPY → Upon close contact with these flowers, you experience mild to severe synesthesia for anywhere from ten minutes to a couple of hours. Your senses mingle. You smell colours, see sounds. It often comes with a very mild sense of euphoria, but some find it disorienting instead.

  • GENTANIA → When's the last time you had a good night's sleep? A few days? Weeks? Prior to ever showing up here? Here, let's help with that. The pollen from Gentania andrewsii, commonly known as a closed or bottle gentian, will instantly put anyone who comes in contact with it to sleep. It doesn't matter if they're sitting, standing, driving or swimming. They will fall into a deep sleep, varying anywhere from six to twelve hours. For the duration of that time, they will experience vivid nightmares, and will only awaken after experiencing sleep paralysis.

  • IRIS → Apparently you're allergic to this flower. Don't worry, everyone else is too. Contact with this pollen causes a painful burning sensation. Don't scratch or rub at it, because that'll only cause it to spread. Washing the afflicted area or applying any sort of ointment or balm won't help. Tough it out. It'll only last a couple of hours.


The flowers definitely overstay their welcome, as does their magic. The blooms themselves will fall off and uproot themselves from their unnatural settings after about a week. The magic? It sticks with the plants for a whole day. The curse you're hit with might not last as long, but this means being careful: there's always the chance of being afflicted again. Maybe with two curses at once!

How will you know the curse is over? Maybe if you can put two and two together, you'll wake up in the morning and notice stepping outside doesn't...smell the way it usually does. The grass, any stray flowers, trees. None of them have any whiff of a scent.


MOD NOTES

This is the April mini-event before our bigger event later in the month!

Note that you can stack flower curse effects except for the Gentania curse that puts someone to sleep.

[personal profile] dataset 2020-04-10 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, he hadn't felt anything until this stranger started talking again. The sound felt... strange. It was difficult to put into words but the sound felt rigid and sharp, somehow. Connor blinked and his face shifting to confusion. How could sound feel strange? Or feel anything for that matter?

"Maybe." He said, carefully setting the flower down as a ...precautionary measure. "Can you describe what you mean?" His own voice felt differently.
hei_pao_shi: (Feeling even more mysterious.)

[personal profile] hei_pao_shi 2020-04-11 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Shen Wei pauses, for a moment struggling with how to describe the madness rolling through his mind's eye, suddenly awash in red. His heartbeat is too fast, his knuckles white - he's angry. Shen Wei takes a careful breath to calm himself.

"Each feeling I have," he says, "Each emotion - it seems to invoke a color in my mind." He doesn't miss the flicker of confusion across the other man's face. "You feel something, don't you?"

[personal profile] dataset 2020-04-11 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Every time either of them spoke it was difficult to concentrate on what was being said versus how the sound felt. It made evaluating the circumstances much more challenging than usual.

"I do, but it's not the same as what you describe." Connor stood and brushed off his jacket. "If these flowers are what is tampering with our senses, it's better that we discuss this somewhere else."
hei_pao_shi: (Nose.)

[personal profile] hei_pao_shi 2020-04-15 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes," Shen Wei breathes, blinking hard. The colors aren't in place of his vision, yet in their newness seem to take up all of his sight, the field of poppies and the man before him seen through an agitated, pulsing cloak of red.

He staggers away from them, seeking any patch of earth not covered in poppies, and finally stops in a clearing of grass with a ragged breath. Blue fills his vision. "It isn't stopping."

[personal profile] dataset 2020-04-16 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Connor patiently waited for the sounds to stop feeling like anything, but as the soft feeling of crunching grass would attest to, it certainly persisted. "Perhaps it needs some time to wear off." If they were experiencing side effects at all. It was conjecture what they were experiencing. "By the way, my name is Connor. It's nice to meet you, regardless of the circumstances."
hei_pao_shi: (Listening in tiny.)

[personal profile] hei_pao_shi 2020-04-17 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Shen Wei nods, pulling off his mask to rub at his eyes, a childish impulse he gives into all the same. "Shen Wei," he replies. He's been keeping to himself for the most part, as lonely as he'd been at home but for his brother, but it's refreshing to speak to another person again, even if he's ill.

"What house are you?" he asks, for it seems to matter a great deal here.

[personal profile] dataset 2020-04-18 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
House? It was the first time he'd been asked the question since he'd arrived. House. They meant the house that he was staying in, he supposed. "I'm part of Odin's house," Connor raised his hand and lifted his long sleeve to show the color of his bracelet. "as this seems to indicate."
hei_pao_shi: (Gathering.)

[personal profile] hei_pao_shi 2020-04-22 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Shen Wei nods. His usual vigilance might have caught that already, in the colors in his eyes weren't so distracting. "Heimdall," he returns. He's doesn't seem like the sort of god that would allow a break in patrols for something as inconsequential as colors, part of the reason Shen Wei pledged to him in the first place, but just now his loyalty is a terrible inconvenience.

"I'm meant to be working, but I don't know if I can like this."

[personal profile] dataset 2020-04-25 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"It certainly provides a unique obstacle to overcome." He said, finding that he would rather take a break and listen to the quiet himself if that meant the side effects would subside. There were too many possibilities for errors if he was distracted with side effects.

Connor squinted in spite of them. "It may prove advantageous for both of us to stop working until this reaction subsides."