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kaisou2025-02-03 02:19 pm
February Town Log
February City Log
Dominant Element: Fire
Waning Element: Wind
Full Moon: February 11th - 13th
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With the arrival of February, the worst of winter is finally past. In the sky, the Spirit Vein will take on the colors of fire, blazing across the sky in hues of red and orange. As such, the temperature will begin to warm to much more bearable weather. While it's still winter, as the month moves on it'll step closer and closer to spring with rising temperature and melting snow. Most of the days are sunny and bright, bringing much needed warmth to the town.
Valentine's DayThe season of love is once again here for Kaisou. Throughout the city, stores and streets are decorated in red and pink hearts along with loads of other romantic themed things. Just about everywhere you turn, there's vendors selling chocolates, flowers, jewelry, as well as mundane items that are trying desperately to be marketed as great Valentine's day gifts. If you're hoping to take your date out to eat for the special holiday, you better make reservations well in advanced- as the nicer restaurants will quickly fill up. But don't worry if you didn't plan ahead, because Papa's Omniria is open with a full Valentine's Day special line up that includes strawberries and pomegranate being added to just about everything - even if it's really questionable if it actually works (strawberry and pomegranate sushi?). Just be careful not to be the first customer of the week, unless you prefer to work through the holiday.
Down in Undertown, the merchants there have also gotten into the holiday spirit. Lots of stores are selling enchanted items used to help keep the spirit of love going: aphrodisiacs, enchanted rose petals, and various potions and enchantments that'll help you in the bedroom. The kitsune have also opened up a shop here, peddling beauty products that they claim will definitely attract a date-- but in reality the only date you'll be making is one to the Urgent Care to clear up a heart-shaped rash, or a date to salon to get the hot-pink dye out of your hair.
Looking for a more romantic getaway? The sparrow clan that live in the El Nido realm can also be found in Undertown, promoting their beach resort. For the small price of delicious birdseed, you'll be welcomed to stay at their beach resort paradise in El Nido. During your stay, you'll be given a 5-star treatment from room service, massages, spas, and a high quality restaurant where you can have a romantic dinner as the sunsets over the ocean. It might be a perfect way to spend a romantic holiday- or simply get away from the winter cold.
As usual, whether you're shopping in Undertown or around the city- you'll find an absence of any kind of true love potions. Those are seen as deeply taboo in paranormal circles. Even than less than moral vendors don't want to risk a visit from the Black Order peddling those.
Speaking of the Black Order, just like every year, there's those people out there who use romantic holiday as an excuse to sell much more dangerous potions. Almost like clockwork, they start to hear reports of some dealing selling "love potions". Sure enough, if you look into it, you find victims who are dealing with the typical array of symptoms: obsessive love, disregards of personal well being, and blind devotion. Though there seems to be something a little bit different from this year's batch, as the victims seem ... more detached from reality than normal. They ramble incoherently more, and any victims that happen to be monsters are acting much more bestial, almost as if they've become feral.
Fortunately, there is an antidote. The Black Order headquarters will send batches of a bitter tasting antidote potion. While normally this clears up symptoms right away, this year? It'll still work, but some of the victims seem to experience symptoms similar to withdrawal over the course of the new few days. Luckily the symptoms will pass within a week, leaving the people back to normal. Still... was someone trying to make these love potions addictive?
Investigations of the source of the love potions will lead to an abandoned warehouse in the Warehouse district. It's a small operation, run by drug pushing thugs that just happen to have some supernatural powers. How they will go about dealing with these guys will be up to the Black Order Guardians. However should they investigate the warehouse, they won't find any sign that the love potion was produced there- it was shipped in from somewhere else.
[OOC: As usual, the results of the Black Order mission will be left up to the Black Order team! Characters not part of the black order can also take part in this plot, though the investigation and the fate of the thugs will be left up to TBO players]
Black Order Mission Results
(As discussed between mods and TBO players)
When the team reaches the warehouse, they are able to apprehend the potion sellers. They will interrogate with legal methods, using a good-cop, bad-cop method. Xie Lian will be a good cop but fail to persuade them. Wriothesley and Ayato will take on the role of bad cop and succeed in scaring the crap out of some of the potion sellers.
From this, they will learn that they heard the potion was devised by a person who goes by the name "H". Unfortunately, they won't get much more information than that, as one of the potion sellers will panic will decide it's better to resist than give up information to the Black Order. He will take a clear potion (the love potions are pink) from his coat pocket and chug it. This causes him to go berserk and fully lose himself to his monster side (which unfortunately, is a flame bear that is now much larger than normal). He will attack the Order, and a few other of the potion sellers will see this chaos as a chance to try to escape -- or to try to fight off the guardians.
When the dust settles, several of the potion sellers are now dead. The rest of them are really freaked out and opt to go quietly into custody. The team will decide to take a few samples of the Love potion to send to the order to analyze, before burning the place down.
Red Strings of LoveAt the start of February, those who are connected to the Greek Pantheon (either by being a member or possessed by one), will be treated to a video message from the mysterious number 696-6969. Should you open it, you'll be treated to a full body video of Cupid in all his naked glory. He is completely unfazed by this as he delivers a quick message:
Hey Fam! Heard a bunch of you had moved to Kaisou, so thought I'd say hi. I'd love to drop in and visit for awhile, but as you know I'm totally swamped this time of year. You know, with the whole holiday about me and everything!
So thanks to Aunt Persie and the others in your town, my staff are back to work and more motivated than ever! Thanks so much with that help. Anyway, they wanted to test a new product and felt that Kaisou would be the PERFECT place to do it. So don't be surprised if you see some strings pop up around town- they're totally harmless, swear! You just gotta be emotionally honest if you want them to go away, so if one of you could let people know that if they start panicking- that'd be great.
I gotta run. Happy Valentine's day! Oh, and mom sends her love too- as always, ha. And Uncle D? Love the new arm candy you got, talk about a 10/10, rawr!
Oh oh, and Polly? I heard you sucked at archery again- you're never gonna hit a poor guy in his heel again at this rate. Never knew you had a thing for fishermen though, Uncle Po-Po would be delighted!
Byeeee! Love to you all!
Everyone else in the city will not receive such a message. Which means you have no warning to what's to come... but also you were spared having to stare at Cupid's dick. So, maybe you're the lucky ones after all.
Sure enough, around the city, if you're spending time with someone, you have a chance to have a string appear on your wrists that will tie the two of you together. The color of the string will depend on your relationship with the person: red (romantic), pink (friendship), white (family), orange (rivalry), or candy stripped for the very complicated relationships.
These strings can not be untied or removed by hand. The only way to get rid of them is to be emotionally honest with your feelings towards the other. If both of you manage to vocalize your true feelings for each other, the string will disappear and you'll be free. However if you try to lie or deny? The strings will both tighten and increase - until you two are virtually tied together.
Looks like it's time to open up about your feelings!
The dominant element this month is Fire! Anyone with an affinity to the water 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.
The original OOC plotting post for this event can be found here. There will be a second log about the spirit realm event and a midmonth Zodiac posted on the 15th.
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... it'd always been a problem with him. He mulls overtop Rose's head, his heart beating uncomfortably fast as he looks towards this, this. Idea. That people are trying to push, like it makes sense, or is... reasonable to expect. To Want.
You cannot fall in love with Destruction incarnate. ]
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What is not done? Loving someone? Someone loving you? If that is the case than that is simply nonsense, you are as deserving of love as anyone else in this city.
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peple dont lov naturl disastsdres
i destroy
→ private.
she puts on a private filter, an attempt to spare him from putting too much more of himself out there for the rest of the city to see, and takes a deep breath. ]
You're not a destroyer, Veldora. Since I have known you you have done nothing but protect people. You braved that terrible labyrinth when Rose was kidnapped, you helped bring her back when we thought her lost.
You have been immensely kind to me, to Wrio and he is not the sort of man to back someone undeserving of his trust.
Maybe you have enough power to be called a natural disaster, but so do many of the people who live in this city. They have found love, haven't they? You are not less deserving than they are.
→ private.
noyoure wrong
iw am a catastophe ranked monstr
it felt good ot destry things and peple were building anyway
whn my sisters gt tird theyd pt me dwn and try agin
i ws dying in cave whn i met rimuru
i didnt kno until i saw thru his eyes
→ private.
You're not the same person as you were back then because of your friend. Are you saying you should suffer now because of the choices you made back then?
→ private.
[ rude! that's two people who've reminded him of Rimuru in less than twenty minutes and given him a grounding jolt out of all of his worst thoughts and feelings about himself (and those little voices sound oddly like his sister, but that's a conversation for another day, or century). ]
maybe? maybe not?? wasnt wrio a prison guard [ prisons are where people go after mistakes, after all. 'Until you die' can be a sentence. ]
→ private.
[ it was a mention of Rimuru that spared her the wrath of the Storm Dragon when they first met. and it doesn't take a genius to understand how much he meant when Wriothesley described her as his own Rimuru. ]
He was a prisoner first. [ perhaps Wriothesley is a good example of her point; that despite his past actions he is still very much deserving of love and affection. ] Before he became the administrator of the Fortress he arrived there as a prisoner, charged for the murder of the people who took him in. They had committed a terrible crime, selling children, and in truth their murder was just but he was still charged and sentence all the same. After that he worked his way up, became the administrator of Meropide and was given the title of Duke. Changing Meropide into a place people can live rather than just a prison for the exiled.
And I [ pausing, Furina looks at her phone for what feels like forever. writing and deleting, writing and deleting, before finally, finally─ ] I love him despite his past, despite what he had done. I love him for the man he is today, not the man he was before.
You are a good man, my dear Storm Dragon, you are kind and good and are worthy of being loved.
private text
No, he knew exactly why.]
If I may, Veldora.
I believed the same of myself. I still do very often. A day does not pass where I look back upon those I destroyed for the sake of a tyrannical Empire. Or anyone who stood in my way. No one was able to best me. To meet me is to meet death in my realm. And it was such a way long before I was called the "Warrior of Light". No matter what I could do for the sake of "what is right", it would not change what I am.
And still I found someone that loves me in this realm. Someone who accepts me despite how much of a danger I am. Despite the fact that I still find it difficult to believe I am aught more than a weapon to point at one's enemies.
A man-made disaster.
Yusuke still loves me. I love Yusuke. If you find yourself unworthy of such love, it would make me unworthy as well. But I am aware you'd not say that to me.
So I do not believe you should say it to yourself. I believe you are worthy.
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Takame is Miss Rose's dearest brother. If he knew... he's the closest thing to council Veldora thinks that Rose would keep. ]
heroes like you would be sent to destroy monsters like me.
i was imprisoned for over 300 years by a hero for my rampaging
i was supposed to die there and be reborn again
less troublesome next time
you do not carry the burden of catastrophe to yusuke
i don't
she's been through enough
i don't know if i'm enough to carry the delicate burdens of being so mortal
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I am no longer that person, though it is woven into what I am.
I once told her that death will be all she meets if she stays near me. And she was angry with me for saying it.
I think that she would be angry with you for calling yourself a monster. Even if at one point it may have been true. A true monster feels nothing and does not share nor smile nor protect. Have you not come to her rescue, shared the manga with her, and smiled with her?
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[ now's not the time to argue the semantics of what a monster is and is not--where other worlds have a negative connotation to it, Veldora's world just uses the term and monsters are what they are and aaaaaaagh there's not time to be swept up in his own head. ]
i care for her
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I think that you should tell her.
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[ positive a? negative a? it's just a time, baby!
the greater otaku community is going to come to Veldora's house and take away his figurines at this rate. ]