⇨ The Tourist Trap: WEEK 3

[ringleaders]

Who: Anyone, anywhere in Portland.
When: October 15st - 22th, 2017
Where: Still in Portland
What: As all sides of the struggle gradually become informed, and the awareness of outsiders begins to spread, Portland faces a critical question - what should be done with them? And who gets to decide?
Warnings: Individually marked!

THE WOLVES AMONG US↴ ► WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS: It's fairly common knowledge that October is a special month - Halloween has always been an excitable time in the supernatural community, because its during this month that the magical energies of Earth seem to disproportionately swell in power. This peeks on the 31st, and has every year for as long as anyone can remember. The holiday of Halloween is a byproduct of this, because the magical phenomenon has gone on for ages past. It's also a pretty common time for wizards to attempt bullshit shenanigans, and also when the Severing first came into effect. ► TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL: Towards the end of the week, Prudence Jaeger will be asking her angelic contacts for a pretty huge favour - she wants them to help her and some of her associates break into the Circle stronghold that the visiting Council members are staying at. It seems that they have some kind of macguffin item that will be needed to crack the barrier cutting off the Earth from the cosmos - and, to that end, allow the angels and mysterious outsiders to return to wherever they call home. ► THE PATH TO HELL: Perhaps unsurprisingly, Team Heaven isn't the only group to clue into the fact that the Circle has what they need. On the same night that the angels go in, so will Anath's army, as the arch demon finally arrives in the city just in time to join the party. Whether the angels and demons fight each other all the way or cooperate to achieve a mutual goal is up to them. ► WITH GOOD INTENTIONS: The Circle and Torchlight aren't all bad, okay? It's entirely possible that they are just acting in the best interest of humanity - unfortunately, that has resulted in them being pretty massive pricks recently, and now the payback for that is arriving on their doorstep. If you're a member of the Circle, you may or may not realize that anything is coming in time for you to prepare. (That will depend on your threads up to the end of the week.) However, once the fight starts, you'll be charge with defending the Councillors whether you like it or not, and Torchlight is getting pulled in as an unexpected ally to ensure their safety as well. Are you going to heed their call? Or is it time to split from the pack? ► BLOOD OF ICE AND FIRE: It's been made no secret that the Rose Queen isn't the only fae trying to pull back her lost changelings - now the Winter Court appears to be doing it, as well. More than a handful of changelings have gone missing over the last couple weeks, lost to both the thorns and agents of the Count. Whatever they're doing, it's also in competition with each other - Winter and Summer will be biting at each other's heels far more than normal, to the degree that it becomes clear they must have some competing objective in mind. Unfortunately for everyone else, that objective happens to conflict with the desires of just about everyone else. Fae are, by nature, opportunists. - ✪ - These are the major conflicts that will be coming to a head towards the end of Week 3. In the meantime, your actions will decide how certain elements are set up, and what the likelihood of success is for each group. Dice rolling handily won the opinion poll where we asked for the preferred method of conflict resolution, so that will be coming into effect a bit later on to determine who actually wins and loses, with advantages based on the choices made.

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► VISIONS FOR SEERS & WEREBEASTS (OCT 15TH+)

[ringleaders]

This with foresight will be able to sense the impending conflict hanging in the balance. All the paths of fate seem to be going in one direction, but the way that final destination takes form is in flux.

At the center of it all, you will find the concept of a great tree, with billions of shining fruit, like stars in the sky. Upon that tree you see spilled: the blood of Summer, the blood of Winter, the blood of Hell, the blood of Angels. All of these exist simultaneously, yet in solitude.

And, slowly, the boughs of that tree will begin to burn.

[periphrasing]

Peridot does some preliminary Google searching, without expecting much results wise. Keywords consist of various combinations of "tree" and words like celestial, supernatural, symbolism, burning, fire... and then thanks to memory regain, "tree" in association with things like multiverse, planes, dimensions, etc.

[ringleaders]

The most obvious thing she'll get, that covers both trees AND dimensions, is the concept of Yggdrasil, the world tree. The mythology behind this will vary between the tree being described as the initial source of life on Earth, as well as being described as the tree that hold the multiverse in its branches.

When she really thinks about it, the tree seems familiar for some reason.

[periphrasing]

She'll do a little bit more searching about this concept, and whether Yggdrasil is actually like. A real location that can be traveled to, or an entity that can be contacted; basically trying to figure out the meta-physical nature of it, just for future reference. It feels kind of silly to look into because even if it is real, she doesn't know how one would access something like a tree that apparently supports all instances of all life ever, but she's curious enough to look anyway.

[ringleaders]

It seems like it's probably more of a metaphor, in this circumstance.

[destiny_key]

Sora tells Joker about the vision, and then does his usual method of 'wander around the city and hope he stumbles on something' to try and look for clues, or maybe the tree itself.

[ringleaders]

Predictably, randomly wandering around doesn't yield much result. At least, nothing that hasn't already been made obvious elsewhere.

WERE BEAST

[mylastchance]

Shit. That's pretty scary.

[spaghettimonster]

Papyrus complains to his captors that he's having strange dreams, between the skeleton war, the circus mutants, and the bloody burning tree, and ask if they can fix the wards to have something that stops bad dreams.