EVENT INFO: THE NIGHT WE MET

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EVENT INFO: THE NIGHT WE MET

the lore part

For most of the day on February 16, all of the town's forest spirits can be found along the stretch of road between downtown and the harbor, clearly setting up for, uh, something. They're piling snow onto the pathway, creating a miles long sled trail that starts outside the Landmark Inn and ends at the very end of the harbor's dock. Not only that, but the forest spirits are also not super willing to explain what they're up to! They're busy, you lantern-havers.

By the time evening rolls around, the spirits have set up wooden railings alongside the snowy path, as well as a warming tent, hot chocolate booth, and announcer stand outside of the Landmark. Oh, and a starting banner for the race! It's dogsled time!

Throughout the event, Beacon's downtown and harbor areas will be completely overrun with forest spirits, all there to bear witness to this holiday celebration—this holiday is for them, though, not you weirdos with your naked faces. Point is, none of the spirits will be hostile at this time! They're more interested in interacting with each other than with Beacon's residents, though if pressed, a kind spirit might be willing to explain what's going on:

The aurora arrives in Beacon for about a week each year, and the forest spirits believe it to be "friends in the sky". The lights are old friends of theirs, it seems! And each night while the aurora shines above the town, the forest spirits send off a handful of friends to join the aurora! The spirits ready to join the aurora build sleds of their own and assemble mighty sled teams, sometimes comprised of dog spirits and sometimes... other stuff. Then, when the aurora is at its peak in the wee hours of the night, the sled teams will ride off one by one, racing down the snow-covered path all the way down to the harbor, where they'll finally rocket off the dock and out over the lake, picking up more and more speed as each team gallops wildly over the water before arcing up into the sky. Once the spirits are barely a speck, they'll hit the aurora and burst into a shower of light. Beautiful stuff!

See, since the aurora is made of light, forest spirits launched into it are killed on impact! Isn't that wonderful! The forest spirits seem to think so! What is death to a dead thing!

All of this information can be learned through handwaved/played-led interactions with the forest spirits during the event. They'll all be focused on saying goodbye to their friends and cheering them on as they stream through the sky, but they're happy to welcome lantern-havers to join in the celebrations. The hot chocolate is free and only tastes a little bit like mud, so. Enjoy!

Even if you're not interested in the forest spirits' holiday, the arrival of the aurora will give you plenty to celebrate on your own. This is the most light Beacon has had since the game opened in July, as the green glow of the aurora is nearly as bright as an overcast day. Bask in the constant near-daylight for those six days, everyone!

...Oh, and it's a memory sharing event!

the memshare part

As the aurora dances over Beacon and forest spirits explode into shooting stars overhead, meteorites will rain down from the aurora. They're not technically meteorites, but you get the picture. They're opals! If a person closes their hand around one of these rocks, they'll experience the memory locked inside...

According to the forest spirits, the aurora is made up of their old friends, friends that have moved on to another stage in their existence and have had to leave them behind. The memories dropped by the aurora will focus on a person or people that each character has left behind by ending up in Beacon. You are free to interpret this stipulation however you like! The person left behind can be a friend or enemy, alive or dead, etc. The idea is that this event will remind characters of those they have left behind in death, in whatever way that most resonates with them.

Opals can look however you like, and they'll be turning up at random all over town! There's no way to determine the "owner" of the opal without peeking at the memory inside, unfortunately, and on top of that, while the aurora is active, the opals are bit tetchier than usual. During the event, touching an opal in any way might trigger the memory sharing. If your character wouldn't ICly partake in memories but you still want them to share stuff/see other people's stuff, there you go! There's your excuse!

When the event ends and the aurora fades, the opals will stick around, and they'll continue to be functional! Feel free to stock up on memory opals to do memory sharing stuff down the road. They're multi-use, and there aren't any drawbacks to using them.

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For those of you interested in plot stuff, we'll be doling out random events throughout the week, so sign up below if you'd like a chance to receive one! These random events will include things like forest spirit encounters and happening upon opals belonging to NPCs. There's nothing dangerous about it—we're just doing sign-ups so we know who's interested in having us bug them! These random events will be posted either to characters' inboxes or to their toplevels on the event page. You're welcome to sign up even if you aren't planning to toplevel at the event.

Check out the header below and fill out the form to sign up! We'll be prioritizing new players and players who haven't yet had a shot at neat plot stuff, but everyone is welcome to toss their hat in the ring.

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Additionally, players are welcome to use this post for OOC event plotting! In fact, please do, as not everyone in the game has access to each other's plurks! If you'd like, you can use the small form below to kickstart your plotting plans:

<b>player:</b> (feel free to put your contact info here if you like!) <b>character(s):</b> <b>plans:</b> (have any plans already? or do you have plans you'd like to make? let the world know!) <b>notes:</b> (anything else worth mentioning, like permissions/opt-outs/hiatuses/etc.?)

the tl;dr

• February 16-21: The forest spirits send off their pals on dogsled journeys into the aurora! Memory opals rain down throughout Beacon.


• The town is super bright (by Beacon standards) throughout the event! It's like overcast levels of light.


• Each memory opal contains a memory belonging to someone in Beacon, and the memory is focused on a person they have left behind by dying.


• The opals will stick around after the event ends! They can be reused to your heart's content.

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Comments

[sublimebeast]

player: Psi (PsiYamaneko | PM)
character(s): Link
plans: No real plans but I am down for Link running into people!

The types of memories people may experience from him are:

Midna: A mischievous imp may sometimes be seen riding around on a large, blue-eyed wolf.

Friends: Children and a farm girl wandering around in a forest village with someone who looks like Link but is dressed differently. Link is often playing with the children or riding a horse with the girl.

Ganondorf: A black silhouette against a night sky. Only a flash, but ominous.

Zelda: A brief memory of a beautiful woman in a dark cloak sitting the room of what seems like a castle tower. She wears a royal tiara and has sad, troubled eyes.

Zant: Inside a well lit cavern spring is another ominous figure. He wears a robe with deep sleeves and a cone-shaped helm that obscures his face. A giant, glowing serpent leaps from the water but he shatters it with a single gesture and the world seems to go black. A humanoid figure in blue armor collapses before him and seems to change shape in the darkness.

The Darkness: Churning vortex of darkness sucking up everything around it. In the eye of the vortex is a human-shaped figure clinging to a skeletal hand and screaming, but the features of the individual are hard to make out in all the shadows.

If there are any other kinds of memories you might be interested in, let me know! Want talking animals, brilliant light spirits, a volcano, rock-eating monsters who are pretty chill actually, the sacking of a town, the saving of another?
notes: N/A

[arsarcanum]

slides in here. hello

[sublimebeast]

Soraaa.

What sort of memories would you like? Happy? Sad? Ackshun?

Scary?

Daaarkneeessss?

[arsarcanum]

ALL

preferably either something link would prefer to keep hidden from sora OR something that would highlight the ways their reincarnation situations differ? (reincarnation... situations....)

i'd love for a memory of midna so sora understands what she meant to him! do you have any particular memories for that?

[sublimebeast]

Sounds like Sora could see Link draw the Master Sword!

This would entail seeing Wolf Link wandering through some ruins with Midna and them musing about a "Brave One" who also had the Triforce mark wandering these same ruins and bringing the Sword to their center.

When they approach the Sword light radiates out and transforms Link back into a human. The darkness expelled from his body is picked up by Midna who offers to keep it and use it to transform him into a wolf whenever he wants.

Theeen Link draws the Sword, goes into a trance while grinning like a maniac and Midna has to call out to him in worry to snap him out of it.


Sora could also catch a glimpse of this moment! (Midna is telling Link about the Mirror of Shadow and asking him to come to the Twilight Realm with her and defeat an evil sorcerer.)

[arsarcanum]

I actually like the first memory a lot! if we have room for it, i could probably go for the second one as well, but the additional detail about hey, uh, maybe the sword hero stuff isn't as great as a getting a keyblade after all... is a very interesting and important detail! let's go with the first one

[pure_havoc]

I don't know what I want but I want something. Especially after they get to explore together!

[sublimebeast]

Fore sure!

Would you be more interested in happy/sad/action/scary/whatever?

[pure_havoc]

HMMMM...something that might let them slightly connect. Happy or sad? A lord who misses his lady might be roped in by a fair princess, he can ask Link about it.

[sublimebeast]

He could certainly see Zelda! Link feels connection to her through the Triforce but not personally.

If a personal connection might ping his interest more, there's the farm girl (whom Link cares for and who has a fondness for Link) and the imp Midna (who is pretty much Link's best friend at this point.)

[pure_havoc]

Oh no a cute farm girl? I can't pass that up, that sounds adorable. Which is...totally the opposite of anything in Cao Pi's personality but look. He needs poetry inspiration.

[notthatjason]

Since they are both Sora friends and have a wolf-motif I would love to finally get some CR between these two. I don't have a particular preference for memory, though he Midna and Zant ones sound interesting.

Here are Jason's and this could hopefully open the door for CR.

[sublimebeast]

Knowing about Lupa might make Link feel easier about Jason knowing that Link is a wolf sometimes. He tends to keep that a secret because people are generally afraid of wolves.

So maybe Link could see that and Jason could see Midna riding on a wolf? I'm sure we can go somewhere with that if you're interested!

[notthatjason]

Jason might even be able to understand Link in wolf-form a little. He's rusty, but I was just re-reading the book that features Lupa the most and it mentions Jason understanding what she's saying based on things like the movement of her ears and whiskers and basic body language. It's hard to tell if that's because it's a dream or Lupa's a wolf-goddess or WHAT...but either way Jason understands wolves better than most.

Sounds like a good trade of memories to me :D

[really_sketchy]

I'd love for Naminé and Link to have CR! She'd totally have questions about the children of the Kokori Village. Because she was never technically a kid.

[sublimebeast]

This Link lived in Ordon Village! So the children aren't Kokiri, they're human. And even more annoying at times. She can definitely see some memories of them!

[really_sketchy]

okay! That would be cute tho. I feel like Naminé envies those kinds of things (as someone who didn't have a childhood) so I'd be interesting for her to see.