⇨ The Tourist Trap: WEEK 4

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Who: Anyone, anywhere in Portland.
When: October 22nd - 31st, 2017
Where: In Portland, for the last time.
What: The seasons change as the Winter Court seizes a surprise victory, claiming both the Tree of Life's pendant and the blood catalyst needed to take control of the Severing Ritual. Meanwhile, interdimensional problems are about to get more weird. Check out the conflict results for the attack on the Circle as well as the Beast's attack on the Summer Court here.
Warnings: Individually marked!

DAYS OF WINTER↴ As the end of October nears, so does the grasp of winter. On the night of the 22nd, it will freeze overnight, and the temperature will drop for the following days. As the night grow long, world-wide magic slowly reaches it apex, set to reach it on the night of Halloween. With so many factors at play, knowing what to do with that moment of power may be a challenge. ► FULL CIRCLE: The Angels succeed in their planned attack on the Circle, managing to get to the living quarters of the Council members with the help of Ashleigh Mischief. The plan goes without much resistance from the mages or from the demons attempting to claim the ritual object for their own. Of course, when the fae make a surprise attack on the Angels after they flee the scene, it has the surprise result of the Winter Court ended up with the pendant in their talons. Threads for this attack can be done in this log. If you need mod direction at all, let us know, but otherwise feel free to NPC demons, angels, or random Circle members as you require. ► THE QUEEN'S GARDEN: Realizing that the Rose Queen is distracted with attempting to claim the pendant, the Beast will summon her co-conspirators to raid the Queen's gardens. The ultimate plan seems to be to get the Beast far enough into the gardens to kill the Queen, while also rescuing as many changelings as possible along the way. As it turns out, this doesn't go well. While they do manage to penetrate the gardens with Childermass's help, the Rose Queen, Ignatius, and Nightshade happen to all be there. Seriously outnumbered, even by the Beast's terms, it will take everything the group has to just make it out alive, sustaining heavy injuries as they go. In the end they will manage to rescue Greg universe and four additional changelings that were imprisoned there, but any damage done to the Summer Court itself will be negligible. Threads for this can also be played out here! ► REFLECTIONS: As the ritual draws closer, the line between this reality and the one you came from will also be becoming less clear. Regaining memories is not required, but it will naturally become easier to occur, especially if you're already started receiving them. It's a good time to start making connections, while you still have the chance. ► THE SEVERING: One way or another, the Severing is going to make an impact on both this world and the lives of those trapped inside of it. The Angels are going to be making an attempt to interrupt the Winter Court's ritual, as will the Summer Court and Anath's forces. Whoever comes up on top will be the ones to decide what to be done with it. Yet, with news that the Severing continuing could cause irreversible damage to the planet's spirit, it could feel like there are no perfect options. There will be an event header put up for this by the mods closer to the end of July. (NOTE: canon powers will returning while the ritual is in progress, so keep that in mind for planning - both sets of powers will be active.)

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⇨ THE EARTH SPIRIT (Peridot, Foster, Miko)

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In the end, it's not really clear if this is how communing with the Earth Spirit is usually supposed to work. Maybe being from another world makes that impossible. Maybe the circumstances of the month make it easier, or the spiritual aspects of the world more eager. Either way, with the werebeast's efforts, there is the chance for success.

The Spirit will actively reach out to you, drawing your spirit close as you make that connection. It will feel like being in the presence of many and only one at the same time, and words will comes in the forms of pictures and concepts rather than language. Still, it seems like the Earth Spirit will seem capable of making some thing understood.

It will communicate that the world is dying from the strain of the a powerful spell being run off its energies - the Severing. All magic in the world comes from the Earth Spirit, at its source, but the demands put on it by this barrier has been too great, and is coming outright crippling with an influx of dozens of new entities. These strange souls found themselves on Earth, as the Severing had been devised to work from the start.

The spell had been made to protect the world from the fae, but the cost is too great. The mages that devised it could not know the damage it would cause, and their hubris led them astray.

You are not from this world, but the Earth Spirit implores you - please dispel the barrier, and find another way. If this continues, there will be nothing left for the fae to take.