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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.
theprezident: (→34)

[personal profile] theprezident 2020-04-25 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's okay." He takes a breath. "I'm fine. Been keeping myself busy. You didn't go?"

Maybe the conversation isn't actually awkward, but he's definitely trying to compensate as though it is, as he moves to sit down.
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-04-27 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
"No," she replies. "I met with the half-orcs as an ambassador when they arrived and I helped those who went pack for the journey, but I did not go myself."

Mary doesn't tend to put herself into such types of dangerous situations. She doesn't really know how to defend herself. Based on everything that she heard about what happened at the cave, she's very glad that she didn't go.
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-04-28 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Wise choice."

He might have blamed her for agreeing to go, but he has no doubt most people would have gone even if there were no ambassadors to speak for them. And him? Well ... Curiosity killed the cat, it seems.
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-04-29 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Individuals ultimately had a choice of whether or not they wanted to help the half-orcs out. Jim had been pretty gung ho about going out to the cave, and had found a lot of other like-minded individuals, as she had expected. There are a lot of people here who feel like they need to be heroes.

"I would have been quite devastated if I had been there when they chose not to break the quarantine and I knew that Jim would die." She sighs. "I might have tried to break it myself."

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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-01 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
This time, he has himself to blame for continuing on that topic at all. He should have just changed it completely. Now would kind of be a bad time to do so, though, and he has to accept the fact that he's just in this conversation now.

It's fine, really. Everything considering, it wasn't ... too bad. But he also picked the nice and painless way out.

"I hope he's doing okay."

He hadn't spoken to Jim all that much, but he liked the guy.
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-05-03 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Jim, the idiot, had chosen to stay until the bitter end and die a painful death. She'd been cross with him about it, and then he had dropped the other shoe, the fact that he and John had slept together. It had been an intense conversation between them that day.

Mary would have picked the easy way out too. She picked the easiest way out by not even going.

"He is," Mary replies with a sigh. The kettle is whistling and she takes it off of the flame. "How do you usually like your tea?"
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-04 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uhm, I don't usually have tea. What kind is it?"

He doesn't know too much about tea, but he knows that there's black and green and some other kinds. Also pretty sure that milk is nice in black tea.
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-05-06 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Earl Grey," she answers. "I'll make it how I usually make mine, with one sugar and a bit of milk." Since he wasn't a fussy tea drinker, she figured he would be just fine with drinking it that way. It was a pretty standard way to take tea, especially for an English person.

After handing off his cup, Mary takes hers and sits down at the table across from him. "How are thinks in Tyr house lately? Has Ivar completely taken it over?"

She and the Viking did not see eye to eye, to put it mildly.
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-07 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Sugar and milk sounds perfectly fine, so he nods. Usually he has a ton of sugar in his coffee back home, but coffee in Asgard tastes way better than that and he can even stomach it black, so Earl Grey with just one sugar will probably be fine.

He murmurs a thanks as he takes the cup, and closes both hands around it.

"I'm not sure, actually. I moved out a long time ago, but let's just say he's the reason I moved out, so." A pause. "Then again, he's been pretty quiet, and last time we talked was ... fine."

But Ivar seems to have developed a tiny amount of respect for him just because he got a flash of memory of him tearing his own cybernetics out and, frankly, if people need to do bullshit like that just to be treated decently, well. Ivar's got some issues. A lot of them. Eerily similar to Pandoran bandits.
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-05-10 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"I hadn't realized you moved out," Mary says with a raise of her eyebrows. "Really? I hadn't realized that you two had clashed." She sips her tea. "He's part of the reason I moved out as well. I didn't trust sleeping in the same room as him. I kept a knife under my pillow." And Mary wouldn't hesitate if she had to use it. "Plus I was sick of the general lack of privacy."

Mary laughs quietly and shakes her head. "Now that he's chased nearly everyone out, he can have Tyr house all to himself, complete with his own throne." That had been one of the last straws for her.
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-12 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
He gives a breathy laugh, lips spreading in a wry smile. How many people has Ivar chased out, exactly? He only knows of two, but a lot of people aren't in Asgard anymore either, so who knows.

"I'm sure he'd love that. After all, he's suuuuch a big deal."
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-05-14 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Indeed," Mary replies with a roll of her eyes. "He can be his own bloodthirsty king." At least the gods are here to stop him before he gets too drunk with power.

She shakes her head. "I'd rather not speak of him. I'm enjoying your company and would rather not ruin it." She sips her tea. "Did you go out to the half-orc village as part of the ambassador program?"
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-14 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
That's fair. Ivar is a very shitty topic, so Rhys doesn't protest. The half-orcs isn't a great one either, honestly, but his visit to their village had actually been pretty fun. Maybe he can get over the cave thing soon-ish.

"Yeah. They challenged me to a drinking contest and I lost bad. Passed out and slept till morning."

A lot of things happened before that too, but it's what always comes to mind first when he thinks back on it. Apparently, they thought it was hilarious.
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-05-16 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
That's right. Mary had apparently already forgotten that he had died in the cave there. She inwardly winces and decides to keep the talk on the village and the half-orcs, not what happened in the cave.

"Goodness," she says. "At least you were a sport, I suppose. I went to see Sil. She and I had bonded a bit when she and her siblings came to Asgard to as for our help. We went to see some of the village elders."
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-17 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It's okay, Mary. It's all fine.

"Yeah? At least they seem to think we have good heads on our shoulders."

Which is really a relief. Even though the elders were the ones to barricade the half-orcs in that cave, it wouldn't have shocked him much if they then turned around and decided to hate these weirdos for it anyway. After all, what business did they really have getting involved in it?
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-05-19 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
"God help them for that," Mary says with a laugh. She thinks most of the Wanderers here act pretty stupid for how smart they all are. Not looking at Jim or anything.

"Anyway, they told stories while weaving a tapestry and then gave it to me." She points to it hanging on the wall behind her. The tapestry depicts a half-orc maiden going into battle for her disposed fiancee. "It's quite beautiful, and amazing that they were able to make it so quickly."
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-20 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, he hadn't actually noticed that. He leans a little to the side to see it better, and gives a low whistle.

"I mean, I have no idea how long this stuff takes, but it looks impressive."
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-05-22 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Quite quickly for the amount of detail, though I believe they had at least started it before Sil and I arrived."

Mary had been very flattered that they had offered the tapestry to her, which was why she had hung it in a place of honor in the house.
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-24 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
In his time, people didn't do things like this anymore. Not many, anyway, and even less by hand, he's sure. That he knows, which perhaps isn't much, considering where he grew up, what he studied, and the fact that he's a paper-pusher and not an artist. With digistruct existing, though, he can't imagine that too many would bother.

"Don't think I've seen anything like it before. We don't really do things by hand anymore." A pause, and he shrugs. "But maybe some people do."

He's seen paintings, but who knows if that was actually painted or just digistructed.
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-05-26 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
She knows that Rhys comes from a time and place far in the future, probably more akin to Jim's than to hers. His mechanical arm is evidence of that. Mary thinks of how so many of the injured war veterans in her time would love to have a limb that worked as well as his does, almost like it's a real appendage.

"It's strange to think that art would stop being created entirely by hand," she says. "I suppose there is some talent in using the technology available but... I don't know if it's quite the same."
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-27 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know either. I'm no artist. But I think there's probably charm in doing it by hand. I know I've kind of been enjoying buildings things that I usually don't need to back home."

It's been a fun challenge. Normally he would have thought it ridiculous to need to spend months building something basic like a database and a computer, but consider Asgard has little in the way of technology at all ... He's just glad it's even a possibility.

He takes a careful sip of the tea to check if it's cooled down enough to drink.
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-05-28 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Did you build the house that you moved in to?" she asks. "Jim built this farm house, believe it or not."

It had been quite incredible to see him working on it, and the end result turned out even more spectacular than she thought it would. Who knew he was handy? Sometimes she wonders if there's anything Jim can't do.
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-05-30 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know him enough to claim I can't believe it, honestly," he says, and then shakes his head. "I didn't, though. I got invited after, uhm, an ... argument with someone. A friend of mine got worried I wouldn't be safe in Tyrhaus."

As they've already kind of talked about.
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[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2020-06-01 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Mary hums in her throat. "You probably are safer away from there. Let Ivar stay there alone then. He can be the king of nothing."

With his throne. How ridiculous.
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[personal profile] theprezident 2020-06-02 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure he's happy as long as he gets to call himself king."

He does indeed feel safer to be out of there. Things may have worked themselves out, for the most part, but he didn't quite trust it. Growing up in the Borderlands and living in the Borderlands, you learned not to trust.