August Event Log

[kaisoumods]

August Event
Dominant Element: Fire
Waning Element: Wind

Full Moon: August 1st - August 3rd AND August 29th-31st (blue moon alert!)

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August has arrived and with it less rain than July, though it's just as miserably hot. Be sure to stay hydrated, especially if you're wind-aligned, as you'll be dealing with exhaustion and a general lack of energy or inspiration all month. Everyone who's fire aligned, meanwhile, will be full of excess energy!

That doesn't explain the weirdness this month with the moon, though. The first full moon of the month occurs early in the month, but whenever it passes in front of the Spirit Vein in the sky... it's probably fine. Thankfully this only occurs with the first full moon. Yes, first. August has the rare blue moon at the end of the month, meaning everyone with a monster change gets to suffer twice. Have fun!

The Great Kaisou Gathering

It is once again time for the Kaisou County Fair, which can be found on the edge of town at the fairgrounds. And with the county fair comes fried food as far as the eye can see. It's honestly a bit absurd how much fried food there is, especially since at least half of this should not be fried. They have, among other things, Fried Soul Food Egg Rolls, Cheese Curd Stuffed Pizza Pretzels, and Deep Fried Honey. Aside from the fried foods, though, there's plenty of things you can do. There's local entertainment such as concerts from local musicians, bull-riding, educational exhibits, livestock contests, cooking competitions (as usual, the chili competition gets the ugliest), rides, and carnival-esque games for all ages. They even still have the triceratops that appeared there last year during the Tear incident, though the normies seem convinced it's a prized bull. Spend a day at fair and make some fond, mostly normal memories!

If you're not inclined to go to the fair, there's plenty of other things to do around town. School starts up in a month, so it might be time to hit up those back to school sales! Get a good deal on a backpack, notebooks, and try not to think about how many times your academic life is going to get interrupted by oddities in the city. And if you're looking to stay cool in this heatwave, you can head to the beach or one of the city pools. Blue Fish Lake has now returned to it's normal depths, so you can go back to renting paddleboats and fishing as you did before. Unfortunately though, the geese are still there.

Chicken, Run

Now, with the fair in town, one might expect to see some chickens around, but only a few, and only within the fair itself. But for some reason, there are just flocks of roving chickens everywhere in the city, and no one seems to know where they came from or why they're here. They seem pretty chill for the most part, content to roam the city like a tiny feathery gang of troublemakers, but if you upset them... oh dear.

Attacking, insulting, or otherwise provoking the chickens (extremely easy to do, they'll attack you if they see you eating any chicken-based product) will result in them swarming you. With roughly six to ten chickens per flock, being swarmed by these chickens will feel akin to be attacked by hundreds of very sharp flying rocks. Should you have gone out of your way to offend the chickens, more will fly in out of seemingly nowhere. All of this is accompanied by a sound that can only be described as "unholy" or "as if a thousand off-key trumpets sounded at once". They won't do any serious damage, but they still hurt! Even worse, all these chickens seem to be completely invulnerable to any attacks you return, so all you can do is either try to escape or withstand the barrage.

Once the chickens stop attacking you (or you just pass by a flock without provoking them), you'll find brightly colored plastic eggs at your feet. Upon picking one up and opening it, you will find it contains random items that should not at all fit inside those eggs. This can happen to you up to three times throughout the course of the month, much like those plants that appeared back in May. What is going on here?!

The Plea for Help

On the night of August 3rd, everyone will hear a telepathic message from an unknown female voice: "Help... help... our Hero will not wake. Calamity Ganon will destroy us all... help...

The next morning, Zodiac will send out an alert message.

ALERT: SPIRIT REALM GATE DETECTED IN MOGHOME.
Element Classification: Fire
Danger Level: High
Designation: Hyrule
Zodiac has detected a Spirit Gate on the Moghome Floating Island. Early sensing reports indicate that a large level of corruptive energy is coming from this realm. We believe this was the source of the distress messaged received last night. Please proceed with caution if you choose to investigate.

Should you head to the Zodiac office, there's an apprehensive energy in the air. The (fuzzy) Professor is there, though he won't be able to illuminate anything this month. If you ask why not, he will point out that his specialty is history and as far as he's aware, there's no historical record of a kingdom called Hyrule existing on Earth. Geez Professor no need to get so touchy about it.

Zodiac, in the meantime, will do their best to fill everyone in. According to their research, Hyrule is a kingdom that once thrived, but fell to an evil force called Calamity Ganon about 100 years ago. According to Hyrulian legend, there is a chosen Hero that would usually reincarnate to save them from such calamities; however, for some reason, this time he failed to wake. Based upon Zodiac's readings of the gate, they believe it's a good candidate to be tethered as a stable gate, but before they can do that, they want something to be done about Calamity Ganon to avoid that somehow getting out of the gate and spreading into the city.

They will also caution that maybe you should bring multiple weapons with you on this trip. For some reason, weapons have a shorter shelf-life in this realm. Just a word to the wise. But on the other hand, they've successfully updated the Libra app to work with some of the more unique features in the world, which you'll find out about soon enough.

Once you're ready, it's off to the gate. The gate this time is located on Moghome, a large floating island that hovers above Kami State Park. For those who can't fly or come up with some other inventive way to get up there, the best way up to Moghome is by a single rope ladder that hangs all the way down from the edge of the island to the ground. When you reach the top, there will be a collection of moogles who are irritated by the gate that showed up in their home. They won't hesitate to express their irritation, and also perhaps attempt to make a character do tasks for them to "ease their suffering". More likely though, they're just mooches trying to freeload.

Once you finally get past the moogles, you can hike to the gate, which is not too far into the island. It looks like a small shrine, with green and blue lights circling above it. As you step in front of the gate, a blue circular glyph will appear beneath your feet and the Libra app will inform you that the gate has been unlocked as a warp travel spot, as part of the Libra app new features mentioned before. In other words, you can use the Libra app to teleport you to this spot, and never have to climb up that rope ladder ever again.

The Fallen Kingdom of Hyrule

When you step into the gate, you will find yourself in the ruins of a church that was once a house of worship to a goddess. If you look outside the church, you can see that you're atop a great plateau and that the church isn't the only ruined building - not by a long shot. Zodiac wasn't exaggerating when they said this was a kingdom that fell to a calamity. Just about everywhere you look, there are ruins of a once great kingdom. Veterans of the Spirit Realm will be no strangers to ruins, but the sheer volume of ruins in this realm speaks to how dramatic the realm's downfall must've been.

On your first visit, you'll encounter an old man. The old man is friendly enough, and will help go over the ropes for the new arrivals. Like Zodiac before him, he explains that this was the once kingdom of Hyrule, but it fell to a calamity 100 years ago. The evil at the heart of this calamity, Calamity Ganon, is sealed within the old castle at the center of the realm. Calamity Ganon has been held at bay by the Princess Zelda, who has spent the past 100 years using her sealing magic to hold him, but she can't hold him forever. They have been waiting for the chosen Hero to wake up from his century-long rest... but for some reason, he doesn't seem to inclined to wake. So, they've no choice but to look for outside help or face obliteration.

From there, he'll walk you through the new features of the Libra app that work in the realm and should help you out. First, is the warp travel. Across the land of Hyrule, there are shrines that were built by the ancient Sheikah tribe to help and challenge any heroes. Find these shrines and complete their challenge within, and you'll be able to use the Libra app to quickly teleport to that shrine's location.

Next, is the Ultrahand mode. When this mode on your phone is activated, you'll be able to grab nearby objects telepathically and move them around (though it's more clunky than legitimate telepathy). Even more impressive, put two objects and you can attach them together with a green goo to build something. You can even fuse items you find lying around to your weapons to give them new attributes or strengthen them. The old man will note that mysterious technology from an even more ancient tribe called the Zonai have begun appearing in Hyrule recently, so perhaps that can be used to make even more impressive builds. Just try not to blow yourself up.

[Mod Note: Please note, Ultrahand and the crafting ability will only work while in Hyrule itself. The green goo will evaporate the moment it crosses the gate. You cannot bring your DIY Gundam back to the city. ]

Finally, rather than a new app feature, the old man will give you a paraglider to help you glide off the plateau when you're ready to see the rest of Hyrule. With all his exposition finished, he'll reveal that he is just the spirit of the last king of Hyrule who died in the Calamity, and will fade away. In other words, you were talking to a ghost the whole time. Welcome to Hyrule!

I Want To Go Home

As you leave the plateau and begin your trek into Hyrule, you'll begin to realize that perhaps the Old Man didn't fill you in on every necessary detail you need to know. Like first of all, the realm is massive. To travel it all in one day is simply impossible, and there's even a few different biomes within the land. Even if you intend to head just to Hyrule Castle and not explore anywhere else, you're still going to be in for quite a journey.

And if the size wasn't enough, this realm is full of monsters. Loads of monsters. You don't have to go very far to find an encampment of Bokoblins and Moblins, or to be swarmed by Keese. During the night hours, monster skeletons will come out of the earth and keep attacking until you destroy the skull. And don't relax too much if you think you've cleared all the monsters in an area, as every Sunday night, a blood moon will rise in the sky and revive all the monsters that have been slain in the past week.

To make matters with the monster fighting worse, this realm seems to have an unusual effect on weapons. Weapons found within the realm will break rather easily, not lasting more than a few battles before they become badly damaged. Weapons that you brought in from outside the realm won't necessarily break, but they will only last so long before they start to dull, jam, or temporarily lose their magical ability, requiring maintenance to be done. If you wish to survive in this realm, it'd be best to have multiple weapons on you so that you don't find yourself suddenly defenseless. For those who are more creative, you can make use of the Ultrahand ability to make contraptions that will help you through your journey. Zonai technology will be found littered around the ruins for your use. These technological artifacts have limited battery life, though you can always try to find other ways to keep them powered.

The weather in Hyrule is... interesting. Rain showers are fairly frequent, with a chance of one occurring every couple days (or sometimes even multiple times a day). This can make traveling and climbing (which you'll be doing a lot of - what is infrastructure in a ruined kingdom?) especially difficult. When it thunderstorms, you'd best stow away any metal items you have on you, as the lightning seems to love targeting you. Some regions of Hyrule have rather extreme climate biomes. Depending on where you're traveling, you best bring clothes that can handle extreme heat or extreme cold. And if you're heading to Death Mountain, you'd better find some way to fireproof yourself, as you're heading towards an active volcano.

As the Old man mentioned, every few kilometers you'll come across a shrine that can be used for quick travel. In order to activate this quick travel, you must head inside the shrine and complete the trial within. The trials differ from shrine to shrine; some of them are combat-based where you're expected to beat various types of robots, some are obstacle courses, and some are massive puzzles you're meant to solve. If you manage to complete the challenge, you'll gain access to a room with a mummified monk and approaching their alter will unlock the ability to quick travel. Again, welcome to Hyrule!

It's Not ALL Bad

Alright, so Hyrule has a lot of downsides to it. But while you're in constant peril in this world, there's some nice things about it! While the kingdom has been destroyed, the races of Hyrule have found ways to survive the past century. The most common folks you will encounter are Hyruleans, who act and look human aside from their pointed ears. Hyruleans can be found living in small villages and outposts scattered around Hyrule, just trying to go about their lives in this post-apocalyptic world. If you travel on major roads, you will even occasionally come across a stable where you can rest in a bed, buy from traveling merchants, and even rent out a horse to use! Merchants use gems called "rupees" as currency. If you don't wish to rent a horse, you can try your hand at taming a wild one - they can be found out in the wilds nearby the stables.

Besides the Hyruleans, there are several other friendly races you're likely to encounter. There's the Rito, a race bird people that hail from Rito Village in the northwest. Then there's the Gerudo, an extremely tall race of exclusively females hailing from the southwestern desert. Notably, men are not permitted into Gerudo Town... but you could always dress in drag to get around this. Next are the Goron, a type of rock creature who live in Goron City within Death Mountain. If being on fire isn't your thing, you can also head eastward to the Zora's Domain, a large city surrounded by pristine waters that are home to the semi-aquatic Zora people.

All of these people and towns will be friendly to the new visitors (unless you're a man trying to go into Gerudo Town). If you're feeling charitable, you can help out the locals with various tasks, such as fighting monsters that have been problems, helping them find lost animals, or gathering resources for them. Not only that, but they've found plenty of fun ways to pass the time. You can go sand surfing with Sand Seals in the Gerudo desert, practice your paragliding (or flying) in the Rito flight area, do some gambling in Lurelin village (a beach village on the southeast coast), or many other fun activities. We have fun here amidst all the deadly peril, really.

Outside the monster population and sapient creatures, there's a large diversity flourishing flora and fauna throughout the realm. You can gather different fruits and vegetables to consume, or go hunting for some game. The culinary style in Hyrule is mostly throwing things into a cooking pot and seeing what comes out, but there's still plenty of great(?) cuisines you can make from it. Or you could try your hand and learning how to make elixirs using various critter and monster parts to help combat some of the extreme elements. Just don't try to mix the elixirs and the cooking ingredients together, unless you want a real upset stomach.

Last but not least, throughout your travels through Hyrule you will encounter the playful Koroks. These forest spirits hail from the Great Hyrule Forest to the north, but have decided they'd much rather play hide-and-seek with the Libra app users. You can find them hiding under rocks or posing as fairy lights. Some might want you to perform simple challenges, such as shooting a balloon with a target on it or solving a block puzzle. Should you find the Korok or complete it's task, it will give you a golden Korok Seed (at least, we hope it's seed). Should you gather three of these, you can turn them into a larger Korok spirit named Hetsu, who will dance and give you the ability to hammerspace a single item or weapon permanently. Not bad!

[Mod Note: Players can up to three free hammerspace slots from Hetsu per month. For each hammerspace slot, they are required to thread at least one of the Korok hunts with a minimum of three comments from your character. Free hammerspace slots can be redeemed on the regain page.]

Traitors in the Midst

Unfortunately, not every person encountered this month is friendly. By now, Libra app users have have received intel that members of Krusnik, a shadowy Earth organization who are fixated on possessions and powers, has infiltrated Kaisou. Led by Alba, a "researcher" that some app users may have done quests for, they are hoping to use the chaos of Hyrule to snag potential victims to experiment on. Their targets are usually younger people with interesting powers, and they'll attempt to come at them when they are either alone or their guard is down. Libra app users can get involved in either being potential targets, helping fend off ambushes from Krusnik, or taking down any members involved. As for the Black Order, they've been tasked with dealing with leader and subordinates by any means necessary.

MOD NOTE: Due to the involved and sensitive nature of this subplot, anything related to the Krusnik plot-line has been moved to its own log here! Please be aware that there are content warnings abound in that log.

Calamity Ganon

Once you've finished messing around and exploring Hyrule, it's time to head to Hyrule Castle to deal with Calamity Ganon. Hyrule Castle sits in the center of the kingdom, in Hyrule Field. Before the Calamity, Hyrule Field was home to the largest city in the kingdom, but now any surviving Hyrulean won't go near the place for their own survival. While the terrain is more forgiving here, it'll be anything but an easy trek. All over the fields and ruins in the field are Guardian Stalkers, large robots who will shoot powerful lasers should they lock onto you, and whose only weak spots are their single eye and a spot on the underbelly. There's a lot of them, and each one is dangerous, so you'll need to either find a way to beat them or move past them quickly.

Once you've somehow made it past the field of death, it's onto the castle itself. Once a grand castle, it now sits in ruin and is covered in a miasma of corruption, or Malice as it's called in this realm. Monsters wanders the destroyed halls in large numbers, including more Guardian Stalkers. You'll have to navigate your way through the crumbled halls and monsters in order to make it to the former throne room. There, you'll find a massive, cocoon-like growth of corruption on the ceiling where Calamity Ganon has been held.

However, before you have a chance to try to destroy the cocoon, Calamity Ganon will sense your presence and use it's power to break free of its binding. A grotesque monster will come forth and attack. It's large, made of a mix of Malice and machine. It can also infuse itself with fire for periods of time. It will be certainly a tough fight, as this is the same monster that brought down this kingdom all these years ago.

When it's defeated, the monster will begin to fall apart at the seams. However, it's not quite done yet. The Malice from its body will fly off and reform into a massive beast out on Hyrule Field. Princess Zelda, the voice you heard and has been keeping the Calamity at bay all this time, will use her magic to teleport you and your party out onto the field, near some horses that are fit to use if you're capable. She'll explain that Ganon is evil and rage incarnate before using her power to bless your weapons with her light magic. Your goal is to use these weapons to strike at weak points she makes with her magic, while trying to avoid getting smashed or burned by this monster's destructive power.

Eventually, the blows will weaken it enough that its true weak spot, an eye on its back, will reveal itself. After that, all it'll take is one last, strong strike to take it out. Once the hit lands, Princess Zelda will be freed from where she's been trapped, and appear on the field. From there, she'll finish the weakened Ganon off with her power of Light, cleansing the land of its Malice and calamity once and for all.

Aftermath

Once Calamity Ganon has been defeated, Hyrule will go back to a, well, slightly less dangerous state. The Guardian Stalkers around Hyrule Castle will deactivate, and the corruptive energy in the kingdom will dissipate. The woman you saved will introduce herself as Princess Zelda, the last living member of the Hyrulian royal family. She thanks everyone for their aid, and vows to do all she can to rebuild Hyrule... and find out what causes Link to continue to sleep. They have a long road ahead of them, but for the first time in a long time... Hyrule may have a future beyond just survival.

A future, as it turns out, that the Libra app users may get to bear witness to. Zodiac will inform everyone that with the Calamity no longer posing a risk, they will be able to secure this realm into being a proper stable gate. So, should you ever feel the need to revisit Hyrule, it'll be there.

OOC Notes

The dominant element this month is Fire! Anyone with an affinity to the fire element will find themselves boosted throughout the month. This could mean a boost to their power, having more energy, feeling more inspired with creativity, having better luck on different attempts -- the boost can manifest in all sorts of different ways. By contrast, anyone with an affinity for Wind will be experiencing the opposite. Perhaps their powers will be weaker, they have less energy, they're having a creative block or general worse luck - again it can manifest in all sorts of way and players are free to play with this mechanic as they'd like.

From this point on, the kingdom of Hyrule will be a stable gate meaning that it'll a place characters can visit at anytime. Characters are also allowed to seek Koroks in order to increase their hammerspace inventory slots without regain points. In order to do that, they will need to find three koroks per slot, with at least one of these korok hunts being threaded (minimum comment require is 3 comments from your character). Please redeem your inventory slot on the Regain page and link your required thread. This can be done a maximum of three times (aka three hammerspace slots) per month.

The original OOC plotting post for this event can be found here. Another Zodiac Post will be going up August 15th to serve as an intro post for new characters and allow characters to react to developments over the network.

Comments

Waver Velvet | fate/ servantswap au | ota

[fionnuisce]

[i; hyrule field]

[Considering both the enormity of the task at hand and the relatively small amount of time they feasibly had to accomplish it, Waver Velvet knew one thing for absolute certain:]

[He was absolutely not walking clear across a goddamn countryside.]

[So, looking at a pile of what amounted to weird scrap metal, he appeared to be in deep thought. The glider would be impractical for ground travel (and he was not looking to repeat the harrowing trip either to the gate or off the plateau), but surely there was some way to shape a simple vehicle. Just how strong were those fans, anyway?]

[ii; stables]

[Rather than take up residence in the stables, most of the time around early evening he'd have settled near a small campfire a distance away. Either he figured the accommodations would be absolutely packed, or probably just wanted space. Or a nebulous third option.]

[iii; wildcard]

[i'm game for whatever]

ii.

[twofoldfury]

[All three are an option, right? Diarmuid would have his own moments where permitted in which a sense of curiosity would take him, but largely he remained with Waver. Given the fact night was beginning to fall, he was by the same campfire after doing his own check of the accommodations.

He didn't know much about these Spirit Realms, but while learning through experience was effective that didn't mean he should discount his or his Master's reprieve.]

A moment to yourself? [Said as if he wasn't here for a reason.]

i

[onahairtrigger]

[Well, he's not the only one looking at the pile of weird scrap metal.]

We could probably manage putting together some kind of vehicle, right?

[... The Audino at his side is so concerned.]

Yusuke Kitagawa | Persona 5 | OTA

[stripartist]

Hyrule

[Yusuke is not much good for the fighting part, but Hyrule is so gorgeous that he absolutely has to go around sketching it and the people there. He can be found just about everywhere at various points during the month, sketching and taking reference images as best he can. There will be several days he (as Rei) is even in the Gerudo city because come on. He has to sketch every single thing here. He has to!

Please make sure he's eating.]

The Auguries -- Closed to Those There

[After Takame got taken by Krusnik, Yusuke was all set to go after him. And then Vash called and said they were holing up in a store called something something Auguries, he had his brother and another child there, and that was about as far as Vash got before Yusuke said he would be joining them. That felt like it would lead to the least amount of upset and frankly if there were children at risk he would be better off helping take care of them than, like. Doing something risky and dangerous like storming the proverbial castle.

So he gathers up some of his things, stops by the craft store to get something for Kni and Eve to do just in case, and he settles in to camp out at the antiques store until further notice.

He also got some adult coloring books just in case Vash needs something to do.]

Wildcard

[Yusuke will be around! Please feed him.]

auguries

[doubledollar]

[ he's honestly relieved that it didn't take much convincing. There's a ... huge part of him that wants to go find out what happened--why Vergil got grabbed, and then only to find out that Rose and Takame, too--but he can't. As important as it is to go find the people stolen--he also knows that he needs to protect those left behind, as well.

Which includes Yusuke. It's what Takame would want, so.
While it feels weird to be living in a city apartment that's half store, half apartment, he's making due.
Hopefully the others are, too.

He's bringing a plate of food down to Yusuke around lunchtime, having set up an area downstairs on some old furniture for those holding down in the store for dinner--Vergil's dining room upstairs wasn't quite big enough for everyone.

he has a plate of doria in one hand, and a tall bottle of juice in the other. ]

Heyhey.
Hungry?

[ there had been an art circle between him and the kids on said table earlier, but. kni had fallen asleep after dinner, and eve was upstairs with the rabbits with wolfwood. ]

I appreciate you bringing the stuff for people to play with, by the way. I hadn't thanked you proper, yet.

Hyrule

[bolledivita]

[Yusuke, Caesar appreciates your dedication to sketching Everything, but also. Sir.

He'll at least wait until Yusuke's done with his current sketch before he cuts in to ask--]

Yusuke, have you eaten recently?

The Auguries

[playtag]

[Their move to the Auguries had been far more upsetting than her time at the cottage. A reminder of what had transpired scarcely days ago.]

[Eve has spent most of her time sitting huddled on floor, lost in thought. Or watching out the windows for potential threats. Considering the circumstances, understandable yet concerning behavior. Frankly, she needs some external distraction.]

[A new person in the building does get her attention, enough to lift her head and watch him enter the room.]

Ritsuka Fujimaru | Fate/Grand Order | Open!

[prunedworlds]

[I. High Places]

After getting an initial look around the place and hearing the old man out, some people might be... hesitant, to even approach the edge of the high plateau. Let alone jump off of it.

Ritsuka is not one of those people. Paraglider in hand, she's standing over by the edge and peering over, presumably trying to scope out good landing spots or something. Should you approach, or if she notices you hesitating, she'll give you a friendly grin.

"You ready?"


[II. Adventures in Hyrule]

While Ritsuka definitely can't do much fighting herself, that's not going to stop her from getting some exploring in. Generally sticking near people she knows who are actually capable of combat, because she's not stupid, but if there's no monsters in sight a little looking around is fair game, right?

And at least she's not completely unarmed. She's wearing her Mystic Code and... is that sword she has there? She totally has a sword. That can be magically charged with lightning. She doesn't really know how to use it (as should be blatantly obvious just from how she wears/holds it to anyone who does know) but hey, it's better than nothing!

In any case, she's definitely ready and looking to do some exploring, so why not team up?

Or alternatively, tell her to put that sword away before she hurts herself...


[III. Advent Calamity]

Unlike last month, now Ritsuka can contribute to the fight. Not directly, of course; fun as her magic sword is to play with, it's all but forgotten once the real enemy takes the stage. No, what she's her for is tactics and support. If she knows you well or if you trust her enough to explain your capabilities, she can give you direction, being an extra set of eyes as well as quite experienced directing battles against world-ending monsters. Or maybe you might reap the benefit of a brief, party-wide attack buff.

Either way, she's here to help, with an air of focus and confidence that might suggest this is far from the first time she's been involved in something like this...


[CLOSED to Gil and Vergil - Korok Hunting!]

Later, once the battles are done and rescues have been had, Ritsuka finds herself in Hyrule again. In what's probably rather odd company, not that it would ever occur to her to think of it that way. But in any case after all that happened some people had needing a bit of a vacation of sorts and Gil had been fascinated by the prospect of tracking down the little tree spirits for rewards, so here the three of them were.

"So I guess first we need to find some of them..."


[Wildcard]

Have another idea? Feel free to hit me up in PM or Discord (Altocumulus) to plot, or just throw a tag my way!

korok hunting

[kowase]

Honestly, there's a very large part of him that would rather be home right now. It's clear by the way Vergil keeps turning his head, looking over his shoulder--that he's still not quite trusting of any sort of surroundings right now--regardless of the fact that he's being bookended by his oldest friend and... one of his newer aquaintences as they walk into the strange gate.

...He'd tried to refuse going, multiple times, but when Gilgamesh insisted that he 'needed to get outside' to learn how to breathe again, he couldn't deny he was right.
As much as he preferred the idea of hiding in the comfort of his bedroom.

His hand is on the hilt of the katana at his side, even so. Fingers tense and ready to draw it at a moment's notice.

"...I can detect magic on a small degree, but I am not certain that includes these apparent magic creatures."

He mutters, quietly.

High Places

[femmecatale]

"As ready as I'll ever be, if I'm honest." Ann had run into Ritsuka a bit after she arrived, and hoped the redhead didn't mind her tagging along for a while. It seemed that strength in numbers was the best for some of the Spirit Realm explorations.

"And if worse comes to worse, since we're here, Carmen can probably catch us if we fall." She motions to the Persona floating beside her, visible now that she was in the Spirit Realm.

"Where do you want to aim for?"

Friends in HIGH PLACES hehe

[standless]

"Oh-?" Well! If it isn't the lovely young lady he spoke to over his phone! Jonathan- whose things are long being held by his relative at this point- gives a wave from where he sits perched upon a ruined pillar. "Oh! Yes, I've just been charting for myself the best path of flight to get myself to the castle! It should be a fair bit of time even as a direct course, so I need to take care to consider possible places to tuck in for sleep every now and a while. For that matter," he adds with what seems to be a batty equivalent of a smile, "I have food to consider!"

Fortunately, he can in fact eat leaves in a pinch.

Coming of Age Luz coming through!

[a_cute_batata]

The Great Kaisou Gathering!

The summer had gotten off to a good start, and Luz intended to take every advantage of it that she could! With her Pokemon in tow, she was at the pool, trying exotic foods, and even befriending/riding a Triceratops! Sure, none of the ongoers knew it was a dinosaur, but that was probably for the best, right? In any case, she's having the time of life, though she'd secretly hoping this will help her wand egg to finally hatch. It had been WEEKS, and the little guy had to pop out sometime, right?

Oh, and don't be surprised if you see a gaggle of chicken running after Luz later! It seems she tried to convince them that pecking people was wrong, and they were just NOT having any part of that conversation.

Hyrule, Take One.


So being transported to this new gate turned out to be more than Luz bargained for. In the one hand, YES, it's everything Luz would have wanted in a fantasy world! Death defying odds! A world in need of a champion (or in this case, a temporary fox FOR the champion), magic and weapons! Calamity!

And that all sounded good on paper, much like the Boiling Isles. In person, it was an undertaking that Luz was finding much harder without being able to cast without tapping her glyphs. Bokoblins seemed to be nonstop, and Luz found that she didn't always love beating them into submission, especially when said weapons would fall apart after a few tries. She had to resort to casting magic, and that took time, daring, and relied on her to get close to use them. Luz had some narrow misses with a club as a result, and one NON miss that sent her sprawling into a tree with a nasty cut on her leg.

Then came the rain, which made things worse. She had to scramble for shelter, so this usually left her shivering in a hunkered down shelter unless she was able to get a fire going. With no one but her thoughts, she usually found herself thinking the worst thoughts, missing everyone she cared about, and crying a little that she felt pretty useless without a staff.

Company would really be welcome right about now.

Hyrule, Take Two.


Sometimes, though, being alone for a bit was a good thing. Luz had time for reflection, was able to remember that she braved the Isles and didn't die. She was sad not to have her Pokemon OR a staff yet, but she still had her egg and her wits about her!

In time, Hyrule not only feels less oppressive, but Luz actually feels like she was growing a bit. The further in she explored, the more she found people she could learn and grow from. She managed to befriend and tame a horse and, in three day's time, traveled to Gerudo town. Here, she met and befriended the tall warriors, who taught her how to shoot with a bow and arrow and even helped her pick some Gerudo style clothing, which strangely complimented her leggings! After this, she manages to do some sand surfing, which wasn't flying but was just as action packed!

Luz thanks the Gerudo, saying this is the most accepted she felt in a long time, and voiced that she finally was starting to feel at home...and suddenly, her Palisman egg cracks. It's just a purple beam for right now, but Luz doesn't need to paraglide when she has a staff to ride on!

Care to say hello to Luz and her new Palisman?

Hyrule, Take One

[schrodingersghost]

It was good to be back in the spirit world again (and more importantly, feeling more like himself than he had in a while). Danny found himself getting excited at the idea of exploring a new place. It was the part of himself that used to dream about the space program and discovery. Something that he'd worried that he'd lost somewhere in everything that had happened in the past year.

His enthusiasm had been considerably dampened by rain and constant fighting by the time he spots a small fire through the dark.

"Luz!" He calls out. "How's it going?"

He glows in the darkness as he approaches. With one hand he holds a ball of energy to light the way. His other hand is holding onto a large backpack packed with survival supplies. He had learned some things after past trips to the spirit realm.

YASUHO HIROSE | AU | PROMPTS BELOW

[youwouldntdownloada]

PRE-HYRULE, SEMI-CLOSED | GAPPY ARRIVAL & RELATED

[youwouldntdownloada]

{CLOSED - GAPPY}

August, is a great time of the year.

There's no classes (other than perhaps some continued glancing at the idea of Magic related ones), there's no exams, there's nothing. That can bring her down.

IT'S! FAIR TIME!

Great food! Great music! Lots...of chickens, that was weird, but honestly when the eggs explode into new stuff she can't even be mad. She just stows the headphones in her bag, tries on her new shoes (neat), and carries on with the fun!

She will not comment on the triceratops. She will NOT.

Nothing can bring her day dowwwwwnnnnn that's a dimensional tear in that gap between stalls.

Yasuho blinks. The tear seems to be a bit awkwardly placed. Maybe more like a hole? Something about that does not sit right. Something does not sit right at all.

"U...uhhh...."

HMMMHMMHMHMHMHMHM-

{SEMI-CLOSED | CURRENT/CLOSE CR - VOICE}

[A phone call through the App- or even just a phone call for that matter- is happening! It's Yasuho, definitely, and she sounds more than a little...Shook? Shooking? (Shaking?)

She's kinda going through it over here.]

Hi!

[That's some mega false cheer there.]

Sorry about this, do...you have time to talk? Maybe we can meet up at the fair, get a dring somewhere...

Not like an alcholoic drink, obviously, ugh, just a coffee or something, not as a date either!

[She's a bit wound.]

Jusis Albarea | Trails of Cold Steel | OTA (TW: EMETOPHOBIA IN PROMPT B)

[noblerise]

A: Of Course, Of Course

[The moment Jusis is told by the stable master that the wild horses around the stables are free to be tamed by anyone, he knows what he must do. It'll be a lot easier to travel around with a horse, and he'd rather not be the horse. Besides... he does miss having a horse of his own to care for. Strahl is a bittersweet memory for him, as the closest he has to his old friend is the spirit of Light that he can summon.

He goes out to survey the field and calmly studies each wild horse. One of them sticks out to him. A horse with a golden coat that seems to be both incredibly lonely and highly defiant. This one has known, and quite possibly lost, a rider, but hasn't become fully feral yet. Yet, strong spirit or no, that loneliness is going to eat away at that horse and kill it someday.

Even if the horse doesn't accept him as a rider, he feels he has a duty to at least bring it back to the stable to await someone worthy. Jusis steels himself as he glances to the person closest to him.]

Watch my back, please.

[Without even waiting to hear an answer, Jusis is going to start making his way over to the horse. He's keeping himself out of its sight and as upwind as he can manage so that it can't smell him approach.]

B: Castle's Haunted TW: EMETOPHOBIA

[The reason Jusis is even going to the castle in the first place is twofold. One, it's the right thing to do now that the Krusnik situation is handled. Two... it's an experiment. After his reaction to Weissmann and then in the warehouse itself, Jusis has gained a suspicion about a change that occurred. One that hasn't really reared its head until this point.

He manages to avoid the robotic guardians, though not unscathed. While the blond has no visible wounds, there are holes and slashes burned into his clothes. He's never been more grateful for the cursed Goodwill to have sent him high-level healing magic in the mail. Somehow. Jusis is still figuring that one out.

Jusis looks up at the ruined walls of Castle Hyrule. The miasma of corruption that rolls off of this place in waves is almost enough to make him retch. He feels sick just looking at it. The blond then pushes open the doors, steps inside, and immediately falls to his knees to vomit. His body shakes uncontrollably as a terrible weakness threatens to overwhelm him. Jusis reaches up to the stone doorframe, attempting to push himself back up to his feet so that he can get some distance and clear his head enough to teleport somewhere, but he clearly isn't going to be able to get very far without help.]

C: Wildcard!

[None of these prompts speak to you? Feel free to hit him up for anything you like! He'll definitely be out by any of the towns, except Gerudo Town.]

b

[sunforging]

Easy, mate, you're alright. [A clawed hand patted his back lightly, the woman now kneeling by his shoulder flicking her tail uneasily.]

Can y'stand? Ought to fall back and get some air, place is right foul.

Danny Fenton | Danny Phantom | Normal AU

[schrodingersghost]

At the County Fair:
Danny had come to the fair determined to relax. He avoids the rides after taking one look and blanching at the sheer amount of iron in the area, but takes some time going through the barns and checking out the cooking competitions. He even takes some time to try and fail miserably at a couple of carnival games.

But then he heads for the real fun of the carnival. The food. He picks up some fries start, tosses one in his mouth, and instantly recoils as a feeling of complete revulsion slams into him.

Danny spits out the fry and quickly tries to wash away the taste with his lemonade. Then stares at the bucket of fries with suspicion.

"Maybe someone mixed up the seasoning?"

Chicken Run:
Danny sighs heavily as he carefully maintains his intangibility inside a cluster of outraged and very confused chickens.

"Right then, I'm just going to go. This is not what I signed up for today.

Traveling Through Hyrule:
Well, the good news? Danny actually wanted to explore again. He wanted to travel somewhere new and help people. He'd started to worry that maybe he'd lost that part of himself somewhere in the complete nonsense that had been the last year of his life.

Of course, he was also trying very hard not to think too much about the situation here. Because of course it had triggered yet another memory of his past self's ridiculous life.

And just how many great evils sealed inside castles for hundreds of years were there anyway? Was this a common thing he needed to worry about now?

But this really wasn't the time to think about that. Danny had a lot of territory to cover if he wanted to get anywhere near enough to help.

After several monster encounters, Danny takes to the air. At least he was moving faster this way? Though it really didn't help much with the weather or the climate. Danny has to land frequently to find shelter from storms as they pass through. At least the cold didn't bother him much, but the heat was miserable.

Country Fair

[phoenixwiz]

There is something about country fairs that brings a smile in Jamie’s face: fond childhood memories of him and his family walking around barns and playing carnival games to get the stuffed toys they wanted badly. Not to mention stuffing their faces with fries and pretzels. His siblings have went off to do their own things in the fair so he doesn’t have to worry about them for now as he goes off to get fries at the food stands.

As he waits for his fries though, he then hears someone gagging on fries and turns his attention to Danny drinking lemonade in a hurry.

“If I had to guess, the guy running the fries stand had accidentally mixed up the seasonings by mistake.”

Caesar Zeppeli | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure | OTA

[bolledivita]

Headed Straight for the Castle
[As tempting as it is to let himself get distracted with all the other things around Hyrule that need doing, one thing stuck out to Caesar. That the only thing between Calamity Ganon and the rest of the realm is the sealing magic of a princess who's been at work for longer than he's been alive.

And, well, shit, someone's gotta take care of that.

So. One Caesar Zeppeli will not be fucking around, thanks.

Getting past all those Guardian Stalkers is a goddamned pain, but one way or another he manages. Once it becomes clear Calamity Ganon is emerging, the first thing he does is transform--turns out, having a magical girl transformation sure has its perks! If anyone's with him, he'll call out--]

Let's deal with this quickly, everyone-- And don't worry, I'll patch up anyone who gets hurt!

[When everyone's teleported out to Hyrule Field for the second part of this fight, Caesar decides that the best way of dealing with this whole mess is--

Oh. Okay. I guess we're just fully transforming into a dragon now.

He looks down at his new form, then decides something, nodding to himself.]

I'll do what I can to keep him distracted, you just focus on attacking the weak points!

And now that that's over with... (Wildcard)
[Once Calamity Ganon has been dealt with, only then will Caesar let himself get distracted by everything else happening in the realm--it's easy to find him doing things such as gathering resources for folks in various settlements, fighting off particularly problematic monsters, playing with Koroks, or even just enjoying local cuisine.

If he spots a fellow app user, he'll wave them over--it's safer in numbers/many hands make light work/the more the merrier/etc.]

(ooc: Feel free to hit me up if you're interested in plotting something else out!)

[drewthetower]

[Caesar is helping Koroks.

And three ravens are swooping around causing havoc amongst the Koroks, because birdbrain has taken over August and this is fun.]

Jun Nightroad | Tokyo Xanadu | OTA | Post Krusnik Plot

[whiteshroud]

I. Hyrule Cooking (w/ secret ingredient Depression)
[It's been a long couple months for Jun, especially the past few days. Dealing with Krusnik and facing his past was hard enough, even if it had been necessary. And after the raid had concluded, he knew he still had things to do. This Calamity Ganon was still a threat in this realm that needed to be dealt with. Sorey had gone on ahead of him, and he said he'd try to catch up after cleaning up and getting some food in him.

Unfortunately the food part is where it went awry. After everything, he had the idea of grabbing some late night food with Ryouta. Only when he messaged him, he noticed that his boyfriend's name was no longer on the app. And when he went to manually call his number... well, it didn't take long to realize that Ryouta no longer remembered. Not about magic, not about the spirit realm, not about their past life together, not about who Jun really was ... it was all gone.

"Was this the price?" He found himself wondering as he hung up. He finally had freedom from the demons of his past, he could live how he he wanted to live... but not with who he wanted to live with.

Not knowing what else to do with himself, he set his mind on his mission. Get to Hyrule and catch up with Sorey.

He managed to make it to the Riverside Stable before his exhaustion from the long day was too great for his willpower. So he can be found outside the stable by the cooking fire. Having not really prepared rations, he seems to be trying the cooking method that the locals suggested to him: throwing whatever ingredients he can find into the cooking pot and hopes it comes out edible.

Definitely not a worrying sign at all]

II. Wildcard
[Got another prompt me? Hit me up! I'm open to a lot of things and may be adding more prompts later through subcomments. ]

I

[reignitions]

[Totally not a worrying sign. Shio... watches for a moment or two with a frown before he goes over.]

... Want something a little less trial and error?

Josuke Higashikata | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure | OTA

[onahairtrigger]

Best Builds and Moments (Closed to Yuuki)
[For all that Josuke is a responsible guy, sometimes you need a bit to be irresponsible. Well, it's still responsible in a way, considering Josuke knows Yuuki intends to do a paper on this, but still. Can't hurt to have a little fun with this.

Josuke looks at the assembled devices, then looks over at Yuuki.]

So, got any ideas where you want to start, or should we just start sticking things together?

[Maybelle the Audino looks deeply concerned.]

Across Hyrule
[Once Josuke's gotten the wilder shit out of his system, he can actually be found going around Hyrule (though he's spending a lot of time around the Rito Village and Zora's Domain) by way of more practical contraptions.

Ones that are clearly meant to be moving med tends, of sorts.

If anyone's injured, they'll find Josuke and an Audino at their side, him having jumped from his vehicle.]

Hey, do you need help?

[Otherwise, if he spots someone he knows, he'll slow to a stop and wave.]

Hanging in there?

[Alternatively, you may catch him hanging around one of the cooking pots, busying himself with some bottles, throwing things into the pot, and writing things down in a notebook. Should anyone get a closer look, it becomes obvious: he's making a bunch of elixirs and taking notes on each.]

Fun(?) With Koroks
[Might as well give this a try as long as he's here, he thinks. But now giving this a try means he's squinting up at balloons with targets on them.]

Think we can hit those from here?

Wildcard
[Not satisfied with these and want something different? Hit me up and we can plot something out!]

[killerapp]

[Chibi and Maru look even more concerned. This is Yuuki, after all.]

Let's start small, see how well this all holds together first before we do anything bigger. The end goal is something that can propel itself.

Rren | Star Trek OC | OTA

[cheep_soongbird_knockoff]

The Great Kaisou Gathering

1. Rickety Rides

   Rren waited in a line that seemed far too long for a ride that looked like it could fall apart in a strong breeze... obviously it had passed some kind of inspection. So perhaps that appearance just added to the thrill. They knew that certainly were all for it. If they'd ended up with a companion in their wanderings, well, you can guarantee they'd at least tried to coax them into line for the ride with them.
   
   "You know you'll have fun once the ride starts. I don't know what you're so worried about."
   
2. Please, My Cat Can Do Better (That's a lie, please keep going)

   Between rides and snacks, Rren wandered to find the animals shows and when the next one might be. Frisbee dogs? Excellent, they headed into the stands, looking for a good spot to sit. "It's a shame my transformations don't work on demand." they said quietly, voice full of amusement. "You could make a killing on 'your trained cat', which of course we'd split."
   
   They were immediately distracted from that statement when the show began. And these dogs could have been tripping over their own feet and the show would have been amazing, but seeing as they weren't, seeing as they were going over obstacles and doing tricks and not missing a single toss. Yeah. Maybe the trained cat act wouldn't be much competition
   
3. Deep Fried Everything

   Rren was going to need someone to stop them from trying every weird deep fried concoction. No, seriously. They were very small and going on a lot of rides, and it was going to catch up with them. Not that they seemed inclined to think of that. "Oh! Deep Fried Honey. That sounds so much better than Deep Fried Butter." They gave a shudder at the memory but immediately moved on. "We have to try it." They grabbed their companion's hand and started to pull them
   
4. Con--err Carnival. Carnival Games

   Rren paused in front of the ring toss, concentrating intently for a moment. They'd learned the trick to this game. If they overshot the jug they could do a quick mental tug back their direction and hook it almost every time. If they undershot, they were just plain out of luck, so they did their best to avoid that. Had they explained this trick to their companion? No. But come on, the game was rigged, so how it cheating to take advantage of Kaisou weirdness?

Deep Fried Everything

[schrodingersghost]

"Good," Danny says grumpily. "Maybe one booth in this entire place is making something edible."

He hadn't been able to eat anything yet, which just wasn't fair.

Patrizio Fugo (Pannacotta Fugo) | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | OTA (one closed prompt)

[infezione]

Holy Shit, We Can Do Things Again (Closed to Ash)
[Without Krusnik's bullshit hanging over their heads, they can actually get out and enjoy things again. It's kind of incredible.

Of course, this means hitting up the Kaisou County Fair at the first opportunity.

Dear god, Pat didn't know you could fry this many things.]

I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm adventurous enough for some of the things they're selling here...

[His stomach is already rebelling just thinking about some of it...]

Not the Intended Use
[So. Ultrahand mode is fun, actually. He's put together a few practical things--two fans and a steering stick make for great transportation, actually!--but maybe it's time to get a little more ambitious.]

So, how big do you think we can go with whatever we make here?

Well, That's One Way to Accomplish That
[The one thing about Hyrule that baffles Fugo the most, actually, is the cooking. Sure, he figured the whole "throw things in the pot and see what happens" is worth a try, but no, actually, how the hell did this happen?!

It's easy to find him staring at a few freshly made dishes and then also the cooking pot in mild disbelief. These are very different dishes, so how--?!]

[switchaxe]

[He may think he is saying that to Ash.

He is not. He is in fact saying it to the dogs, who they brought out to let them work out some energy. Ash is already coming back with some deep fried honey, deep fried calzone, and what might be deep fried soda.]

What was that?

Alhaitham | Genshin Impact | Open

[admonishinginstruction]

The Great Kaisou Gathering

[You know what, if you can convince Abasi to go to the Kaisou County Fair, you can 'enjoy' his company. He'd probably be most entertained by the education exhibits and cooking competitions... and maybe watching people surround the triceratops-bull.

Good luck, and godspeed if you manage to convince him.]

The Fallen Kingdom of Hyrule

[Well, he's not going to ignore that message. Especially when there's a new Spirit Gate involved. He'll at least take in the information Zodiac provides, considering it a starting point to his own research. Getting past the annoying white floating puffballs, he'll step through the gate and end up on the plateau.

From here, he can be found wandering Hyrule making notes in a notebook he normally carries with him. First and foremost, he'll be researching the different shrines throughout the kingdom, making notes on any and all written language he finds as he goes. It is his specialty after all.

Later, he'll be found investigating the Ultrahand mode, sitting near a pile of rubble and using them to build random objects. There's random bricks stuck together, along with something resembling a cart nearby.... with rockets attached. Sometimes you can make the scholar grow up, but his need to play with explosives will probably never go away.]

Be careful if you get close to that. The rockets activate easily.

[It's Not All Bad]

[After he's blown up a few different built contraptions, he'll go for a wander between some of the stables, probably renting a horse instead of taming one, and try to find the different settlements throughout Hyrule. He'll be taking notes on the different races he finds, although any drawings he tries to do will be very lackluster. He wasn't the type to take art classes in school.]

Do you have a preference on what direction we go next?

Wildcard

[ooc: ok look, I love Zelda and love the idea of this guy in Hyrule, so I'm open to all sorts of wildcards if you have an idea I didn't cover. /fingerguns.]

Great Kaisou Gathering

[senorita_perfecta]

(It would be very fun if there is someone who is going to dare people in riding that triceratops bull at some point. And it had to be one who had ridden on it at least 4 times on this very day despite never having anything similar to it in her world. Now it is time for Isabela to convince another person to ride it.

Her first choice of daring someone to ride a mechanical triceratops bull ride? Professor Cactus of all people as she waves at him, hoping that he gets to ride on it and have fun like she did.)

Oh, oh! Over here, over here! This bull sure looks like a lot of fun to ride on.

JONATHAN JOESTAR | DAYBREAK CRAU/OU (JJBA) | OTA

[standless]

PRE-GANON DEFEAT HYRULE

[standless]

{UPON THE PLATEAU}

Oh yes- oh I quite understand, but I can't see how my wings won't manage-

[At the temple ruins, fellows coming in through the gate may find themselves intruding on an interesting conversation. Between a seeming old man and a tiny little bat- now helpfully wearing a knit onesie with a set of triangles on it, clearly that ought be identifying right?- it seems as if he's trying to convince the little thing to take a paraglider. Paradoxically, the old man speaks more quietly than the bat! Or perhaps it's something about the little thing's very existence that makes his voice stand out more. It is, after all, a talking bat.]

Oh! ...Well I suppose yes it would be rather useful eventually in that case, but oh...

[The old man watches. Jonathan however, looks to the phone that's also sitting with him.] I've not really any method of carrying these is the trouble...

{AS THE BAT FLIES}

[Ultimately Jonathan manages to convince his great-grandson to keep hold of his things for the time being. It'll make it difficult if the bat ends up in a bind, but he's determined to do his part after all, and this Calamity and Malice business seems just the thing his Hamon training is meant for! As such, the moment it's determined that he's passed the Old Man's personal test of capability and won't simply get himself squashed, he's off!

Though, even as a speedy flying bat, it's a good ways of distance to travel! Jonathan might outpace most relying on newly caught horses or similar, but he's got his own problems to face and they're all problems that one might catch him in the middle of. Many monsters don't get along as is, but on top of bokoblins and the sort, there's birds of prey and other wild life through the safer areas of Central Hyrule who are keen on a snack.

To say the least of those Guardians! It's not as difficult as one would fear, dodging lasers, but hoh!

In the Night, it's even easier to spot him at work though- the bat coating himself with Radiance and gleaming like a little shooting star as he goes, fluttering on a straight course for-]

CRKCKSH!

[Perhaps not so straight! If ones watching, they really saw that- Stal monsters only have one hitpoint, and one weakpoint, and a speedy anti-undead bat is more than enough for that! Which means that on the evening approach to the castle, the sight of a bat crashing through multiple skulls is Real and Happening!

.....he must surely be tired though...]

{THESE LITTLE ONES ARE LOST}

[At some point along the way as he took a rest, Jonathan encountered a very odd thing indeed. It was just a hollow in a tree; there was an odd pot inside taking up the space though, and while he would typically be unsure about breaking such a thing, the ruin in the area made it clear that nothing was coming back to get it. He wasn't even sure how it got there, frankly- it just was! But breaking it....hoh!

'Yahaha!', called a voice, and so Jonathan met a Korok while looking for a place to sleep. It was a fair enough situation. And he could even keep hold of the seed he was given- those are small, after all. But what worries him is the information the Korok gives him...which, ultimately, is why at a few noted spots along the way to the Castle, a small bat begins hailing people down from where he stands.]

Hoh! At last! Someone from outside the gate! [he's quick to determine, beaming and waving a wing. Farther out from the Castle and a little closer to the middle of the fields, and he seems to simply be sitting among a pile of stones. Closer to the castle and it's a strange log, a stump in the ground where there truly shouldn't be a stump. As it is.

At the rocks, he calls-] Could I ask a favor? You see, I believe something might happen if I put these stones in proper position, but as you can see, they're all quite a lot larger than I am!

[...And really that's true he's very small.

But at Castle Town's ruins, it's a little more interesting. Giving a wave, he shouts-] Hoh! You there! I need someone to keep watch as I fly through these rings! Could you perhaps lend me a moment of your time?

[It's fine the guardian stalkers are distracted. Maybe.

They're not coming up Here, they won't be his problem just yet.]

sung jin-woo | solo leveling | black order au | OTA !

[lowestclass]

💫 1. // unlucky pair go down the hole || closed to Eizen, Jusis, + Jun

[ it's been about two days. Maybe three? it's only so lucky that jinwoo's phone has stayed charged because he never leaves home without a portable charger in his side-bag--he's been caught outside far too many times in the past to be stupid enough to be caught unaware by things like that.

it was dark. and while he doesn't personally have an issue with the dark--he's travelling with someone who might not be as chill about it as he is. you know, being able to hide in the shadow, go invisible for a while--and even teleport out of wherever they've fallen--but it wasn't as if Jinwoo was the type of person to ever leave Eizen behind. Not on pain of death.

So here they were. Down in the deep dark Depths of some place they'd both fallen by accident. there's a bright hole somewhere far above them--but it mattered little, because now there's the whole issue where he and Eizen are busy trying to fight off a giant Frox--a bit monster who's decided he and the rock spirit would make a great snack.

And that's what Jusis gets to hear, on the other side of the lovely phonecall he's getting at --whatever time of the day it is, honestly, with a sheepish, quiet voice of Jinwoo. ]

I could have left at any time myself, to go find help, but there was no promising I'd be able to find Eizen again-- [ and there's the sound of a whoop and an aggressive shout from Eizen, and the sound of something big getting punched. Something shattering? Jinwoo winces. ] --and so we spent a while trying to figure out a way out. ...Some time passed, and it's hard to tell the time down here. So...

[ ...the 'please help us' is heavily implied. ]

💫 2. // what do you mean koroks are cute || OTA

[ this is his third attempt at finding one of these things. The first one had been easy. There'd been a jar inside a log that looked pretty out of place, and when Jinwoo had tried to grab it, it shattered in his hands. The little green fellow that popped out was cute, and it gave him an odd little golden seed.
This is what set him to find another-- it'd taken hours, but a strange spot that made him chase a flower all along the side of one of the stables was ... entertaining, at least.

His current attempt isn't going so great. Especially given it's out in a sort of swampy, bog-like area, out in the dark, on a beautiful mostly-full moon night--and one can stumble in on the hilarious image of Sung Jinwoo chasing around what looks to be an invisible little dancing pile of leaves that are tinkling and jingling with a musical little tune.

Every time Jinwoo tries to grab the invisible creature, it jukes to the side--out of his reach, and it's racing away from him. He dodges to the side to grab it, and the thing leaps over his head--out of reach of his hands--and up a tree it goes.

This will continue for several minutes, the thing just dancing out of reach or jumping between his feet.

He might need a little help. ]

💫 3. // and they stole my boot umbrella || OTA

[ and then finally, a rather miserable sight of the black order's unluckiest vampire can be seen at one of the horse stables at night. He's hidden far in the back of the stable, cutting up apples into the shape of little rabbits with an annoyed look on his face.

His ever-present umbrella is missing.

This guy never goes anywhere without the thing.

If anyone is willing to come sit with him--friend or stranger alike--he'll start complaining about Bokoblins almost immediately, and how the things "wouldn't be so bad if they fought fair, but they don't fight fair."

Get regailed about his bad time trying to fight a group of four red and a blue bokoblins--and how they hadn't tried to beat him up, just steal his stuff. ]

I'd love to go back there and get my things back, but now it's daytime and I'd not dare go out there to fight without my umbrella.
My knife was in the bag they grabbed off me too.

This is just one big headache...

2!

[crisantemo]

[ Coming to a swamp at night is never the smartest idea, but Lapis is a night-owl and sometimes the best thing to do when you can't sleep is go exploring. Though seeing Jinwoo chase a... pile of leaves?? Is not what she was expecting to see that night.

She stands back as she simply observes, trying to muffle her laughter so she doesn't reveal herself - only to have that done for her, when the jingle-jangling pile of leaves swerves in her direction. And then it proceeds to panic at the sight of her and make a hard right up a nearby tree.

And Lapis, meanwhile, is still trying very hard not to laugh - glowing gold eyes watching as the leaves rush around the swamp. ]

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Yuzuki Mochizuki (Kohga) | Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity | ota

[bananinja]

i - Great Plateau

[It's not so hard to find Yuzuki on the Great Plateau; against the lush backdrop, a seven foot man in mostly red sort of sticks out. In the relatively peaceful environment, he's happy to wander about collecting seemingly random little things for his own amusement or glue larger random things together, also for his own amusement, content to ignore the creeping sense of deja vu.

...Though one may witness him take a swing at the old man upon the revelation that he was the spirit of Hyrule's last king, comically ineffective as it is. Ghosts are hard to punch without magic, after all. Don't ask him about it. (Definitely ask him about it.)]

ii - Central Hyrule, and Memories Thereof
(CW: discussion of death and war)
[Once off the Plateau and more into the fields and forests of Central Hyrule, Yuzuki starts finding the deja vu... less easy to ignore. He knows this place. Here and there, he swears he knows what the ruins he passes once were, even though he knows he's never been here.

And then, at the edge of a certain grove of trees, a memory that he knows he should not have finds him like a knife in the back. Something terrible happened here. Something terrible happened, and he finds himself irrationally upset that no sign of the event remains, even if after a hundred years there would be no reason for it to. If anyone chooses to speak with him here, they'll find him shaken.

It doesn't take too long before Yuzuki finds himself drawn to the mountain that appears to have been split in two (the Dueling Peaks, his mind whispers, once again giving him information he doesn't know how he knows), like a moth to a flame. When the memory hits, halfway down the path between the Peaks, the force of it brings him to his knees. Anyone who finds him here will have a slightly difficult time speaking with him; it its, after all, hard to speak through tears when one is a gross crier.]

iii - Calamity Ganon

[Under normal circumstances, Yuzuki would've avoided Hyrule Castle like the plague. He wouldn't call himself a coward, just, y'know, in possession of a healthy avoidance of places that are visibly swarming with evil from miles away. Going there willingly? Noooo thank you.

...And yet, somehow, compelled by empathy and a desire for vengeance that he's not entirely sure where it's from, he ends up going along with everyone else to fight Calamity Ganon in spite of not at all being a trained warrior. When the horrible (and unsettlingly familiar) goo and machinery form falls, he feels brief relief- ...And then they're all teleported outside to fight Ganon again as a kaiju boar, and he can't help but yell the feeling from deep in his soul:]

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO KILL YOU, OLD MAN?!

II

[incendiarize]

[Arthur has enjoyed Hyrule, for the most part. For a great many reasons. He's mostly stuck to the north but, well, he's headed south now.

There's someone in this grove who is clearly having worse troubles. That's all the excuse Arthur needs, really.]

Hey- Hey, you okay?

Souta Suzukaze | Otogi Juushi Akazukin | OTA

[keyofelde]

Cygnus Academy

[Souta spends noticeably more time in the academy for the first half of the month. He has good reasoning. This is probably the safest place he can be right now. Were it not for keeping up appearances with his normie dad, he might have asked to spend the nights there.]

[He can be seen during classes, such as Cooking or Painting, studiously listening. He's fairly open to socializing afterwards though, if someone wants to catch up! Souta can also be found in the study areas, either reviewing classwork or reading.]

[However, he will also stop into the PICHU section at least once. Having been told to ask for a certain someone if he needs an additional guide home. He probably looks very lost]

Watering the Flowers

[There are some downsides to being in only two places during the hottest month of the summer. Especially as a gardener.]

[When walking home, he keeps looking at the various plants they pass. Clearly concerned. As they begin one such journey, Souta turns to his buddy-system companion.]

Would it be alright if we make one extra stop? It wouldn't take long.

Cygnus Academy

[a_cute_batata]

[Luz was really trying to make the classes she could, but obviously the pull of going off world appealed to Luz. There were some classes that needed to be made up for when she returned from whichever portal that opened that month.

Painting, however, was something Luz made time for and always seemed to never miss. Today is no exception, and she spotted a friend, giving a wave].

Hey Souta! Glad to see a fellow...artist? Dabbler?