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{ when it snows }

WHEN IT SNOWS

All items on this post will last/be available for the entire month! So timey wimey shenanigans are allowed.

More details on everything can be found here. We will request any thread submissions for certain prompts during A.

I. REVEREIN

II. DREAMS

COMMENTS

I. REVEREIN THAWED

After freeing the Ice Queen from the glass shard from her chest and clearing the dreamscape, the blizzard that affected not only Reverein but the Wildlands and beyond finally dissipates and soon everything returns to…mostly normal.

A. Glitter Snow. While the freezing sleet and ice of the blizzard is no more and a more gentle winter has entered Reverein, the fresh new snow that falls is not one one might want to stick their tongue out to try and catch a snowflake. Unless one likes the taste of glitter.

🎉 Good luck getting it out. Perhaps this wouldn't be so bad if the glitter melted like snow, but it does not. It sticks to everything everywhere and while some might like a splash of colors, others may not.
🔮 Dreamglobes. Some fae are passing out empty spherical glasses, suggesting those who are interested to collect some of the glitter snow into them and then set the snowglobe next to their bed before sleeping. Whatever dream they have will be captured into the glass and upon waking will create a physical representation of the dream to create a little special "dreamglobe." Hope it's a good one!
✨ Glitter Collector. There are a number of people and shops that actually want the free glitter and ask for anyone to collect as much as possible. Works well for those trying to clean up and not sure what to do with it. What kind of products will end up coming from them well.

B. Mari Lwyd and Family. Mari Lwyd has finally returned to Reverein, and she's bringing along some family she's found. However, they can be a bit of a handful. Some are friendlier than others while others are going to make full use of this glitter snow with pranks and mischief. But they all just intend to have a good time, something that everyone may be in need of after that blizzard.

💃 Little Pranksters. The young Lwydlings cannot sing or speak, but they love to dance around and make all manner of noise—they also bite if you're being a big fat party pooper in their presence, and are a lot more likely to pull a few harmless pranks than their dear older cousin Mari Lwyd is. Very quick, they have the same vanish-and-leave-you-with-bad-luck if harm is attempted on them. Have a dance off with them, or aid them in pranking those who are being big fat grumps/meanie-butts.
🔥 Bonfire. One of the merry friends looks like a very tall pile of long hair and arms, but with them they seem to be carrying a basket and filling it with sticks and other kindling. This is for giant bonfires! Help gather wood and kindling to make a great bonfire to welcome some warmth in this winter, and aid any lost to not wander in this cold.
🥜 Nurturing Gifts. There appears to be another skull-faced being wandering around with their own 'little one' in tow—and despite the horned and frightening appearance of the larger fur and hyde clad figure there are small gifts to be shared. An act of kindness rewards one with a bundle of magic beans that if nurtured and cared for will bear a great gift come spring. Great.

C. Hot Springs. The dragons are holding an open invitation to anyone who wishes to use their hot springs to warm up after that frigid blizzard. The dragons in particular will be practically living there, so hopefully others can squeeze in a spot. Rooms will be available for anyone who wishes to stay the night, and all amenities will be available: food, recreational games, etc. Just beware of the monkeys that have descended down from the mountain seeking warmth as well. They are prone to stealing things, particularly clothing—and wearing them.

D. Dream Board. This is the perfect time to do many of the Dream Board prompts, and while the full details are on the notes, here is the quick list of what they are:

Dream Board List:

⛄ Snowball Tonics: Transform into massive, different colored snowballs.
🔔 Bell Choir: Grab a bell and play for a concert!
🧣 Never-Ending Scarf: Help untangle the beautifully, extremely long crocheted scarf, dodge cats, and get the whole thing together in one place.
🍻 Keg Brawl: A game where one must carrying a keg of ale from one end of a field of ice to the other while avoiding the other team trying to stop you.
🐶 The Inugami. Help a pair of spirit dogs find each other.
🌠 Falling Stars. Make wishes upon the falling stars before they cause too much damage!

II. SHATTERED DREAMS

Although the Dreamwalkers were successful in removing the strange glass shard in the Ice Queen's chest and ended the nightmare dreamscape that caused the blizzard, the Ice Queen still has yet to awaken. Jack Frost has taken her to Orkili to try and purify her with the pods, yet it only caused an adverse reaction, prompting the Orkilins and Jack Frost to ask for help from the Dreamwalkers once more. Isolated in a separate room where neither dreamotion nor nightmare energy can enter, those who are willing to investigate the Ice Queen's dream will be able to freely dreamwalk, with the warning that she seems sensitive to positive dreamotion so everyone should take caution when using it.

In the meantime, there are some other happenings going around in Orkili, including investigation into some nightmare crystals.

A. Piecing it Together. Those who enter the Ice Queen's dream will find themselves free floating in a dark void with large reflective glass-like shards with blurred, fogged scenes reflecting on their surface. They float aimlessly through the space, and a closer inspection will reveal that these shards can fit together and likely form a larger image. The goal is to now try and put the pieces together, though it's not as easy as it might seem.

🪞 Nightmare manipulation. For whatever reason, those who either have high nightmare resistance or can control nightmare energy will be able to move and be around the shards with very little effect to them.

💥 Too much of a good thing. Because the shards are dark and clearly exude nightmare energy, there will be those who will try to use positive types of dreamotion to purify the shards. Some dreamotion will be safe to use and will help clear up the image on the surface. However, too much focus will have a negative feedback where the dreamers are pushed back with a freezing gale and the shard they are focusing on will crack and break into smaller pieces. Nightmare energy can help mend the cracks, so it's better to try and use both at the same time.

💔 Blurred visions. As the surface of the shards clear up, various scenes of different themes can be seen, both good and bad. Love, heartbreak, hatred, anger, joy, jealousy, loneliness, fulfillment, family, abandonment. Those who experienced the ice mirrors in the previous dreamscape will feel a strong familiarity with these larger shards, except these are clearly towards the Ice Queen herself.

This is where we want players to come up with any scene that the Ice Queen may have experienced that could be reflected on the shard! We'll request submissions and piece together a story based on player input. Don't worry about any contradictions, we'll work it all in one way or another. The only constant is that Jack Frost and the Ice Queen do have a close, romantic relationship, which is why Jack is very worried about her.

B. Unwanted Intruder. While in the dream, a grotesque looking noctaere will appear and try to attack and consume the shards. Should it succeed, the Ice Queen will receive physical damage that everyone will be able to hear and feel inside the dream. The void will contort and turn more like sludge. Attempts to use dreamotion will only worsen it, but those who can control or absorb nightmare energy will take it away from the Ice Queen. How it affects them however, will vary between dizziness to momentary lapse in judgment and may need to leave the dreamscape.

Those monitoring outside the dream will witness the Ice Queen scream and her skin blackening as if charred by fire. Same thing applies here: those who try to use dreamotion to heal her will only worsen it, but those who use nightmare energy to either draw it out into some other container or absorb it themselves will be able to pull it out of the Ice Queen. Those who absorb the nightmare energy will have similar varying effects, from just light dizziness to becoming more irritable and hostile. Attempts to try and directly pull out the nightmare energy otherwise will be unsuccessful—it will only work when the noctaere has consumed a shard and caused the physical side effects.

No one will turn noctaere through this method because not enough nightmare energy will have accumulated.

As for the noctaere, it will sometimes appear outside the dream, and those who encounter it or deliberately try to hunt it down either within or outside the dream will find both dreamotion and nightmare based attacks effective against it. However, it's a very tough and difficult foe, so while it can be damaged, it cannot be defeated at this time. Those who investigated the claw marks from a few months ago will notice it leaves behind the same claw marks. Those who witnessed it will also find it familiar and can safely say it's the same.

I. REVEREIN

II. DREAMS

COMMENTS

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i. glitter snow

[Ei doesn't really seem to mind it. in fact, she finds the glitter snow new and fascinating, even as she gets stuck with it ending up all over her. she doesn't seem to mind it, in fact, she's helping with the rounding up of it and giving it to the collectors.

she does this with her little dream globe in her hand, with a woman that looks almost exactly like her sitting under a thunder sakura. every now and then the bough flickers with electricity, but it doesn't seem to bother her or the woman in the globe.]

It's a strange phenomena, isn't it?

[she asks whoever decides to walk past her.]

But I do wonder how the skies would be getting the glitter... because isn't it water that brings on rain?

ii. obligatory hot springs episode

[Ei's completely fine with going to the hot springs. in fact, she hasn't been to one in so long... so she takes the first chance she gets.

she takes off her towel right as she gets into the springs, and for once her hair is piled high and neatly into a bun. the dragons are also fascinating her, so if anybody encounters her there, she'll be watching them very carefully. not in a scared sort of way... but she just looks incredibly interested.]

iii. nightmares

[she'd been experimenting with dreamotion quite a bit since she'd gotten there -- both sides of it. the assumption is when she comes in there that it's going to be positive dreamotion to fix everything.

but then she's pushed way back by the gale, and some shards even scratches at her arms as she holds them up in front of her face to avoid damage. when it's over, she tilts her head and approaches the shard again, now in smaller pieces.]

An interesting conundrum...

[while dreamotion comes easily to her, given her own dreamwalking experiences back at home, she's still got to get used to it. and even with negative energy -- which is so necessary for life, it's difficult. that sort of energy could bring her back into the abyss she was in before, but... she's too curious about her puzzle at hand to worry too much about it.]

Is something wrong?

[Ryu's in the hot spring, enjoying the warm water... it's been a while since he's felt properly warm. He hates the cold so much...]

[she shakes her head.]

Not at all. I'm enjoying the warmth. It's just the dragons here that I'm curious about, is all.

Mm. I haven't gotten a lot of information out of them. They're not like the dragons of my world at all.

[Neither like him nor like the ones he's met. Even still... it makes him feel a little better to know that there's dragons here. It's reassuring.]

Oh? And what are the dragons like in your world?

[there are dragons in her world as well... but she is curious about how they might compare.]

Most of them... they look like people but with weird heads. At least in their smaller forms. Their larger forms are very different. One of them looks like a giant worm with translucent skin. Another looks a little like a whale but with tusks and horns.

I haven't seen any that look like this. But different worlds having different dragons makes sense.

[she tries to envision it all, staring off into a an uncrowded area of the springs while she does it.

she nods.]

It does make sense, which is what I find most fascinating. It doesn't seem as if there are many specific things that are the same in most worlds.

I think that just makes things more fun! There's no reason why worlds would be the same. Learning about the differences helps us to understand each other!

[she smiles a bit, thinking his assumption is pretty cute.]

That's true. That's also how other cultures begin to merge and trade ideas and assets as well.

I... uh. I wouldn't know. Nina and Cray would know more about that kind of stuff since they're leaders, but I'm... not.

[He hesitates a beat before plowing onwards.]

I'm also not as old as I look, so... there's a lot of stuff I don't know.

That's fair. It takes some time to learn these things.

[though it does ping her curiosity a bit...]

And how old are you, then?

... Three months in my world, and it's been...

[He counts on his fingers for a moment.]

Five months here. So five plus three is...

[Six... seven...]

Eight months old?

[oh, huh.

she looks at him for a moment, and then shrugs.

it's not the weirdest thing she's ever heard of.]

I see. And how much have you learned in those eight months?

A lot! But there's a lot of things I don't know, both about other worlds and my own.

[So... he's a little lost like... all the time.]

At least you can count yourself lucky, because many people don't know about this world at least. You're not alone.

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[this glitter, as irritating as it might be, at least ends up overall harmless. no negative side-effects, no weird occurrences or transformations, nothing. kratos finds himself grateful for that much. shining like a colorful diamond may not be ideal, but he'll take it.

...but that won't stop him from giving shaking some of it off one final try. and nope, nothing ends up coming off. however it's sticking, it's sticking like glue. it's during this final futile attempt of dusting some off his arm that ei's comment ends up catching his attention.

he regards her briefly before responding.]

In the waking world, yes, but logic and reasoning don't apply as much to this realm. It may be an enchantment or something related to dreamotion, for example, or simply a weather phenomena that occurs naturally given the correct conditions.

[she nods, thinking that his words do make sense.]

That's very true. Not long after my arrival here, I turned into a tree.

[that'd sound completely nonsensical to anyone who wasn't living here, probably.]

It just makes me curious on how it all works, regardless. I may not be known for my knowledge, but I am curious in nature.

[the fact that kratos finds himself not even batting an eye at someone saying they were turned into a tree goes to show how used he's become to this place. odd things happen and happen with decent frequency.

seeking knowledge is something he can very well understand so he gives a soft nod.]

There may be some books at the library that can further expand your knowledge on the subject.

[it'd be a good starting point for added information.]

However, this may be a curiosity without much in the way of explanation. Since this is my first time experiencing this snowfall, I can't if this is one such curiosity.

Oh, I do need to go see the library for myself... I seem to have forgotten all about it.

[she'd been too busy watching and exploring what she could from here.]

It's true, but you don't know until you try to search for the truth of it, do you? You might still learn something along the way.

[that receives a thoughtful hum in response.]

Wise words. You can never know what truths you may find so long as you try to seek them out.

[which can be both a blessing or a curse. sometimes the truths you find are truths better left undiscovered. in the case of this glitter snow, however, he hopes it's only a simple truth without anything unpleasant behind it.]

And if you’d like to begin that hunt, I’d been on the way to the library myself and can show you where it’s located.

I am trying to be wiser in my advanced years, now.

[since. y'know. she kinda fucked it up for a couple hundred years.]

I'd appreciate it. I haven't been in a new place for so long, I'm kind of surprised at having to learn everything all over again.

[an eyebrow quirk comes at that first part, but he says nothing. advanced years? is that hyperbole or a serious comment?]

It's easy to forget that after not having traveled anywhere new in some time.

[or after being alive long enough to go just about everywhere.]

Fortunately, the layout of this town and its surroundings shouldn't take you long to fully familiarize yourself with.

[she's old af]

Yes, so far so good. I haven't ventured far outside of the city yet, though.

[not because she's worried about the dangers or anything... but mostly because she flat out hasn't had time.]

[so is he. old af club unite!]

How far have you traveled outside it so far?

[as he asks that, he'll start walking at a casual pace toward the direction of the library. why not talk and walk?]

[shakes their canes!!!

also she'll follow!]

Not far. I heard there's a beach of some sort? I haven't been there yet.

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sorry for the slowness on my end! rl's been busy!

IT'S COOL i blinked and somehow we're over halfway through february???

SERIOUSLY THO the month feels like it just started!!

RIGHT...... i took a hiatus but i'm still like WTF HAPPENED TO THIS MONTH