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EVENT INFO: THE NIGHT WE MET
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.•••
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.•••
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:
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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character(s): Sora
plans: oh my god sora is going to have the best and worst time this week
I'm using this week to give him back various parts of the Kingdom Hearts franchise that he has forgotten! He has left a LOT of friends behind, after all. And he needs LOTS of help from people! He'll probably even ask for people to help him find his memories IC via the network or something - people, he is truly desperate.
Does your character want to see the laugh factory and doors of Monsters Inc? Hang with the toys from Toy Story? Go to the Caribbean and see Captain Jack Sparrow? Run around in San Fransokyo with the Big Hero 6? Go retro and visit the old black and white cartoon version of Mickey's kingdom? Who does your character want to see? Tarzan? Ariel? Simba? Stitch? Belle and the Beast? Rapunzel? Mulan? Jack Skellington? ELSA??? The sky is the limit, my friends. (KH specific worlds like the Dark Margin, Radiant Garden, the Keyblade Graveyard, and Scala Ad Caelum are also available!) I should be okay with Re:Mind spoilers by the time the event hits, so if it becomes necessary, I'll tag for those!
At the end of the day, either Sora will get Destiny Island back or he's going to have to ask someone for it, but that's the only memory I need to definitely have in the cards. I'll randomize the rest if necessary!
I can have Skyler related memories available, but I'll probably only have a handful - not because there aren't a lot but because I'd like to focus on Sora for this event. If you would like to find a Skyler memory, please let me know so we can talk about it 8)b
notes: Definitely please please please please let me know here or through Skyler's opt-out post if you don't want a Skyler memory! He's got a handful of nice things in there too, but lord did he leave some people behind under terrible circumstances.
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As mentioned in plurk, I really just need Jason to see Donald and Goofy in Sora's memories. It would still be pretty funny if that included Olympus world, just for Jason to be very :T about it. But at the same time, I feel like it could be funny to show Jason just how crazy Sora's life was and give him a Toy Story memory (that world in KH3 was bonkers)...but we also discussed Rapunzel. Aaaaah so many options!
Maybe just RNG me something XDb
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and jason can always pick up two bc the first is definitely just a one-off thing! i'll rng that one uou picking ur poison for u... how daring
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Take your pick of what to throw at him
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crosses out like 80% of the kh franchisethat might end up being something like the caribbean, twilight town, or radiant garden, which are fairly normal places to be all things considered! (bonus: they're all fairly warm! except the caribbean sometimes!) i could also give Bucky a little of Destiny Island so he can confirm that it is indeed exactly like the picturebook (which by the way sora needs to show them again IT'S DIFFERENT NOW), but i won't be able to give bucky all of destiny island because some very weird and bad things happen there too ho hum uou maybe just some happy memories though!
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Are you committing to a Disney themed roulette or would you also like more KH original stuff in the mix? I will be writing most of these up tonight but please go ahead and let me know any time!
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She's gonna sign on to help him scavenger hunt for his memories, okok.
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