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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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She modded and paused to pull the stick out of her mouth, leaving it too full of meat to talk. But she tried anyway. "Amf fum pepoof ay e in foo...!" she said happily, trying not to lose any of the meat as she tried to talk. She shoved the stick behind her ear and got back to work as she chewed.

She may not hear the words properly due to Naja speaking with a meat kebab inside her mouth but she does get what she is trying to say to her. People had been trading with her some food and beverages in exchange for her glitter collecting or offering treats for her dog and rabbit to feast on. Pooka the little dog whimpers hard as he shakes off the glitter to no avail, accidentally sending some to Mashka’s fur instead.

“Oh, so people are paying you with food for the glitter collection? I see, I was offered some hot chocolate earlier for gathering tons of glitter a while ago. It was really good, I must admit,” Anya nods as she proceeds to capture more glitter with the globes.

She nodded, making herself swallow. "Yummier than snow."

Anya does wonder what has led Naja to come with this conclusion (other than being caught up in the glitter snow like everyone else), but that is not what she wants dive into right now. There are glitter to be gathered. And yes of course, she doesn’t like the awful aftertaste of glitter either.

“Yep. Anything but glitter is always a good choice for food,” Anya nods in agreement.

"I'd rather glitter to some other things," she mumbled, getting back to work.

That is quite understandable. As much as she does enjoy glitter, she didn’t want to see it as an ingredient in any dishes she could eat on. She too shares that sentiment as well while she too catches mor glitter into the globes.

“Yeah me too. I would rather like glitter to be a part of artwork or to give clothes a bit of sparkle than it being on my food. I mean, who would be crazy enough to make that as an edible ingredient?” Anya admits to Naja.

"Someone hungry?"

“No one I can think of right now but I have been promised by a shopkeeper that I can get a couple of ingredients for my pantry if I was able to gather plenty of glitter for them. Apparently they want to use the glitter to make decorations with.”

"Must be nice," to have a place to keep things like that in. But at least it was making her clothing kinda pretty for now.

Anya nods in return as she captures more glitter in her globes, while Pooka attempts to shake off the glitter yet again. The poor little dog couldn’t seem to catch a break with all this glitter.

“Apologies if my dog keeps on shaking off the glitter from his fur, he seems to having it the worst right now,” she admits to Naja before asking her about her glitter progress, “By the way, how is your glitter collecting going so far? I think that I lost count in collecting glitter since starting this task earlier in the morning.”

"It's fine, that's why Eidolon is in his Card, or he'd collect all the glitter easy, but we wouldn't be able to hand it over," she said with a chuckle.

“I did tried to tell him and my rabbit to stay at home and not worry about getting covered in glitter snow but apparently they decided to come with me to collecting glitter instead. And this is the result that they got,” Anya reveals to her while starting to fret less about Pooka’s glitter situation, “By the way, you can actually summon Eidolon from a Card? I have rarely heard of anyone doing something similar to that before until now.”

"I'm a Cepter," she said, proudly, nodding.

“A Cepter? What does that role entail? I don’t think I am very familiar with Cepters that well myself.”

She had told this story so many times now. She sighed and sat back in the snow.

"Once there was only the Goddess Culdra. And she created everything. First she created the Culdcept, the book of Creation. She used that to create the other Gods, and then all the worlds and all the things in it. But one of the gods, Baltheus, decided he wanted to be the God in charge, so he stole the Culdcept and used it to write devastating creatures in, to try and destroy the worlds so that he could remake them all. Culdra and the other Gods fought him, but as long as he had the Culdcept he could create whatever he wanted to oppose them. The creatures of our world fought as well. But he was winning. Until Culdra herself made the ultimate sacrifice, she destroyed the Culdcept. It shattered into countless pieces in every world. In my world it fell as Cards. Cepters are the people who can actually summon things from the Culdcept Cards."

Whoa, she didn’t expect to hear a story about a terrifying conflict involving deities fighting over a powerful book meant for Creation and the main Goddess opting to destroy that book so the God causing all of this wouldn’t try to abuse its power ever again.

But it does explain how Naja gained the ability to summon things from these very cards. The Cards were indeed remnants of the Culdcept, the book of Creation from her world.

“So, the Cards came about because Baltheus got too greedy with the desire to be the top god and used the book for all the wrong reasons that it forced Culdra to destory it into pieces that became the Carfs? May that must be a tough situation the gods who aren’t him to be in but at least he wouldn’t use them for his own goals ever again.”

Najaran nodded. "They show up as other things in other worlds, but in Rakkan, we have Cards."

She nods in return as she proceeds to catch more glitter in the globes.

“Ah okay now, I understand the Cards a little more now. That is quite fascinating to learn about various worlds and how magic works in every one of them.”

She nodded a bit. "I guess so..." sounded too much like studying for her, to be honest.

“Bark, bark, bark! Bark!” Pooka whimpers on as he continues to shake off the glitter from his fur again.

“Pooka. You’re shaking your fur and yourself too hard, you might be spreading the glitter faster than you are expecting. I promise that I will try to find a good way to remove the glitter from your and Mashka’s fur.”

"Maybe Gremlin can help?"

“Oh yes please. Anything to help Pooka out in getting the glitter from his fur.”

She nodded and drew a Card. She flung it into the air. "Come to me, my little devil, Gremlin!"

And the card shattered in the air with a bright burst of light. The light resolved into a small scaly creature that landed on her wrist and gave them all a toothy grin before ambling down to start picking bits of glitter out with long dexterous fingers.

Pooka was initially scared by the appearance of Gremlin when the Card creature was summoned by Naja but it becomes clear that Gremlin means no harm as Gremlin goes to work to remove the glitter from his fur. The little dog is relieved to have most of the glitter out of him so much that Mashka wants to join in as she hops in place eagerly.

Anya is pretty amazed by the ability of summoning Card creatures although she does keep her attention on Gremlin removing the glitter from Pooka’s fur. She is quite pleased to see the glitter out of her dog’s fur.

Naja gave her collection of glitter to Gremlin so he could add what he picked into it, and then she leaned back against a tree to relax.

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Good place to wrap?

Yep let’s end it here