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. |
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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"I'm sure he'd love that. After all, he's suuuuch a big deal."
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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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"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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"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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"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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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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"I mean, I have no idea how long this stuff takes, but it looks impressive."
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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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"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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"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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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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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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As they've already kind of talked about.
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With his throne. How ridiculous.
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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.