2.0 april event log

[gamedevs]

2.0: Event Log

1. DUNGEON: THE STORM AROUND AVISLE CITY

Honey, there's a storm brewing.

… Actually, it's already brewed! Adventurers who arrive in the ON world this month will notice a vicious storm of thunder, lighting and hail roaring across Avisle City and its surrounding area. And while they're free to go "nope", and opt to keep to safer locations, they'll find that it's very easy to misstep and end up lost in the storm…

Task: Navigate to Avisle City and put a stop to the storm.
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Chamber 1: blow your house down

Better hold onto your hats, the storm whipping around the city is brutal and deadly, and it's easy to get blown off your feet and sent hurtling through the air into the first solid object in your trajectory—hopefully another soft, squishy person.

Hapless Adventurers aren't the only ones whipping through the air either. From the city, miscellaneous pieces of property rain down from the sky—doors, flower pots, clothes to name a few. From the Windhaven Woodlands however, small Hummingshrews and Bloobettes will find themselves displaced in the storm. Terrified and unused to being airborne, Adventurers might find themselves being stabbed by the tiny beak of a Hummingshrew or pulled into the gelatinous bodies of a Bloobette.

While you fight your way through the chaotic wind and the rain toward Avisle City, eventually, a loud C R A C K will resound through the air, and that's all the warning you'll get before huge windmill blades will start to hurtle toward you. Better get good at dodging!

Chamber 2: the water is mischievous

Whoever manages to dodge all of the windmill blades will find that once they're lodged in the ground, they actually make decent shields against the howling wind, and by ducking behind them as much as possible, it's possible to make it through the storm to the city.

However, the closer to the city you get, the higher the water underfoot becomes until it reaches nearly your waist. And sometimes… the water seems alive. It swirls around your body, urging you to drink as if the water were the most appealing of wines. The temptation will feel unusually strong, almost hypnotic in its call.

Anyone who drinks the water will start to notice their limbs transform into water. While looking like water, they will remain solid for the first few minutes, and the effect can be counterattacked by squeezing the affected limb like wringing water from a towel. Failure to squeeze out the water will result in the body part being washed away.

Chamber 3: a long boy

Upon finally staggering to Avisle City, Adventurers will at last come face to face with the source of the destruction: a massive serpentine dragon coiled in the clouds above the city. It seems ignorant of the plight and panic ravaging the city, but if any of the brave (and clever) among you manage to launch an attack to where it's stationed in the sky, a deep rumble of thunder will follow before…

BOSS: Water Dragon
HP: Infinite
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Weakness: Earth, Sun
Resistance: Water
Attacks:

• Elemental Imbalance: The dragon will send a rainbow cascading down from the clouds and onto you, imbuing you with an element at random. The element will cloak your entire body, forcing you to attack uncontrollably until the element dissipates.
  
• Bubble Beam: Large bubbles will appear in the field around you, steadily draining you of mana until an ally breaks you out. If you're not freed fast enough, the bubble will drain all your mana, rendering you unconscious.

The dragon will not come down for the duration of the fight, making it extremely difficult to launch any counterattacks, and while the fight goes on, the storm continues to ravage the city, pushing the water levels steadily higher.

Ultimately, one of the Avisle leaders will pull you aside. It seems there's going to have to be another way to survive the storm, and violence isn't it.

2. CHOICE: PEACE IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE AN OPTION

Among the chaos and the panic, a few of the guild leaders take you aside. The first one to speak proposes this: this isn't the first time the Dragon has beset Avisle, and ancient texts speak of a ritual that will draw the beast back to sleep's embrace.

One of the others will shake their head, arguing that there's no way to know if any such ritual will work. The priority should be evacuating the city for safer lands, even if it means leaving Avisle City to fall.

And so, it seems you have a choice to make.

Perform the Ritual: In the courtyard of the Guild Hub, people have gathered to seal the dragon away. The ritual itself involves an incantation and an ancient dance, ending with the sacrifice of an important memory as a show of sincerity. No one knows for certain if the ritual will work, but they do know that the more who give, the higher the chances.

Adventurers desperate to ensure the ritual works may also offer up their soul gem, but this will result in them forgetting their identity entirely.

Evacuate the City: Those of little faith may instead choose to evacuate the city. The citizens are injured and wearied by the torrential rain, and the structure of the city continues to break dangerously from the storm. Adventurers can opt to help the citizens gather what they can, find their loved ones, and escape to the highgrounds of the Dandelion Fields.

But beware, those who chose to save Princess Andalina last month will be met with disdain, and the citizens may not be as cooperative with their attempts to help.

Do Nothing: Hey, isn't this all a game? Maybe you choose to just wait out the storm until you're back in your cozy bed in Dodo House.

Players may thread any number of outcomes, but can only report one of their threads here for rewards!

3. DODO DOWNPOUR

In Crane City, April means spring showers—though it seems like it's really coming down lately! The storms are inescapable, so enjoy going to work and getting hit by sheets of rain everyday, and be sure to pack an umbrella. Though sometimes the storms are intense enough to break them, so you might have to share. The weather is a tumult, but not impossible to travel through… yet.

And while Dodo House is usually a safe haven, the weather affects it just as badly. Your room may spring a very sad, persistent leak, its windows blown open by harsh wind–maybe you should try staying with a neighbor? The house itself sounds sad as well, creaking and occasionally losing power, leaving its residents in the dark. But it does its best to keep some fireplaces and fresh towels available at all times, and floating candles will (spookily) hang in the air to help light anyone's way.

4. CRANE CITY BLUES

Whether it's at home or on your way to get groceries, sopping wet, the rain might subside just enough to see a rainbow. How pretty! Though the sight of it will stir something in you, even in the OFF world. Namely, it's a surge of those pesky elements. Thought you were free of those in Crane City? This rainbow is apparently here to remind you that you're never safe.

♔ Light & Fire: All this rain is dampening your inner light. Characters will experience a seemingly unshakeable melancholy, one that fluctuates with the weather. Sunny means less depression, stormy means more. Good luck getting out of bed when the rain is really bearing down.

♔ Water & Earth: Everything you touch turns wet, even if you escape inside. This includes clothes, shoes, any surface you come into contact with, and other people (not like that). Try not to catch a cold! It won't be easy. Weather around you seems to get even worse too, as though a storm (or hail, icy rain, etc) cloud is following over your head.

♔ Wind & Dark: Something about the rain just really makes you think dramatically about the past–which might be weird, depending on the choices you've made this month? This nostalgic spell might make you want to share elements of your tragic backstory... to anyone who's willing to listen. Very noir.

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Comments

[defendure]

Remember the body spray?

[ It had smelled like...well, nothing good. Izuku had valiantly tried to wear it for a day anyway...

There's good All Might body spray as well, but the one Izuku mentions that Katsuki will be able to recall had smelled like way too much and kind of musty somehow. ]

[blastedass]

The one that made you smell like the underside of the bathroom cabinet?

[Yeah, he remembers that one. You know how some memories are called up due to certain scents? Yeah, this is one of them. Katsuki had been looking forward to using the spray when he got home, but upon finding Izuku outside with their mothers discussing (warning) in the front yard...

He never got to try it.]

[defendure]

Yeah...Mom wouldn't let me use it more than once.

[ Granted, Izuku shouldn't have wanted to, but he was a kid and the All Might brand was super compelling even if the scent wasn't. ]

[blastedass]

No shit! It reeked! I'm surprised she didn't throw the whole can away!

[Maybe Midoriya-san sprayed the spray elsewhere until it was gone and let Izuku keep the can. Katsuki doesn't know how that story ended. Save for it being the reason he never got a can of All Might spray...]

[defendure]

You're just annoyed you didn't get to try it!

[ ...Izuku...suspects? Possibly incorrectly? ]

[blastedass]

Shut up! The second batch was better anyways!

[Very much one of those "hit the nail on the head" moments he's not admitting to.]

[defendure]

[ Oops! Calling Katsuki out by knowing him too well...5yo him, anyway. ]

The fourth one had the best scent!

[blastedass]

[Even at 5yo they knew each other too well. Katsuki still wanted a can, but for some reason, a used can wasn't "enough" for him. Sour graped it.]

As if! The second was the best! It was too sweet by the fourth!

[defendure]

N-no way! It had a great minty scent...the second one almost didn't have any scent at all!

[ Izuku had only been sad he couldn't use the terrible dud one a second time...as a kid, he'd really wanted to. ]

[blastedass]

Yes it did! You just had a headcold and were all stuffed up when it came out!

[Everyone else, Inko most of all, was likely very happy he didn't get a second use out of that skunk spray.]

[defendure]

Yeah, but I tried it after! It just didn't have any kick!

[ Izuku may like slightly stronger scents. ]

[blastedass]

You couldn't handle a fucking kick back then, string bean.

[Taunting Izuku's childhood cat's tongue.]

[defendure]

[ He nudges Katsuki in the arm, pretty solidly. Not trying to do damage, but... ]

You really can't call me "string bean" at this point, Kacchan.

[ He's anything but! ]

[blastedass]

[Katsuki flexes instantly, solid against the nudge and barely rocking. Because he's a badass.]

I was calling the you back then string bean, Deku.

[defendure]

[ Izuku was just demonstrating he was not, in fact, a string bean. ]

You weren't all that much better at that age.

[blastedass]

[He can upgrade to a green bean.]

I was bigger than you even then!

[defendure]

Yeah, but you were noodly.

[ Like...less noodly than Izuku, but still! ]

[blastedass]

I grew out of it!

[Yeah, he was his own noodle boy. But an active noodle boy too.]

[defendure]

What, and I didn't? You can see me, right?

[ He might be shorter and a bit slighter in some ways, but he's packed on muscle. ]

[blastedass]

Yeah, but I know why you grew out of it.

[If Izuku hadn't been put through those ten months of insane training by All Might (and himself) he never would've gotten this ripped.

Katsuki's assuming that because Izuku hadn't attempted to bulk up before All Might, so...]

[defendure]

...An actual diet and exercise regime that worked...?

[ He hadn't been eating "right" for bulking before All Might took him under his wing, go figure. Or at least...hadn't gotten it down right... ]

[blastedass]

Uh-huh. You would've been a bean all the way through graduation if All Might hadn't come along.

[While Katsuki had been working out and bulking up even as a middle schooler, preparing for his glorious arrival to hero training.]

[defendure]

Hm...probably. Even with my research, I...didn't really get how to specify things to my body, I guess? Like, even eating stuff that was healthy wasn't enough, that sort of thing...having someone experienced in the exact kind of regimen I needed helped a lot. Like, the real-world experience couldn't be beat!

[ Way better than books. ]

[blastedass]

That's usually how it works when you try and reach outside your normal realm.

[Usually. Experience from someone older and smarter prevents you from wasting your time figuring out what path's best, since they can direct you right from the start.]

How many times did he let you eat katsudon? Since that has a lot of protein and calories for energy and muscle building.

[defendure]

A reasonable amount...? He did take my favorites and such into account, and he, um, helped me put it all into an easy way to present to mom...she was really willing to help me out, even if she was a bit confused by the sudden interest.

[ And then her child got Fit. ]