January Event: Setting Fire to the Sky

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JANUARY EVENT: SETTING FIRE TO THE SKY

Who: Everyone!
What: The sun dies, and the creatures of the night emerge from the depths
When: January 21st - January 28th
Where: Everywhere! Ensō, Monsun, Chol, and the Islets
Warnings: Character death, possible body horror and violence. Please mark any additional warnings as needed!

So We Can Take the World Back From the Heart-Attacked

The night of the 21st, the sun begins to dim. It dips in the horizon, sinks to nestle itself in the center of Chol like a star falling in slow motion, where it begins to smolder quietly - massive, smoking, and hot, like a massive egg. The night grows colder, the sky reduced to an inky black. The surface of the surrounding water is still but for the occasional ripple, the odd, strangely subdued wave, with not even the hollow lights of distant stars to glint off its reflective waves.

The Jormun gather around the sunken, dying sun with their scaled hands on their weapons, their expressions grim. They fan out across the island of Chol with arms in hand. Their fortifications have settled around the island's center in a dense ball of bristling weapons. They have been preparing for this. They are ready to fight.

Are you? No island is safe. From the well-trodden mainland of Ensō and its islets to the stark dichotomy of Monsun to the craggy shores of Chol, all manner of strange things have begun to haul themselves, dripping, from the watery dark.

No more preparation. No more running.

From here on out, it is fight or die.

One Maniac At a Time, We Will Take It Back

As the Storyteller has promised, there is sanctuary in their temple on Ensō, which will keep out the worst of the creatures. It will not, however, protect characters from the cold and dark, and so they will have to keep themselves warm some other way.

The Jormun fight fiercely, but they do not fight alone. Aside from the help that the willing of your number have offered, you may glimpse the Storyteller battling alongside the rest in a flurry of strange, shifting animal shapes: a heavy-antlered reindeer, a shrieking owl with outstretched talons, a slavering grizzly bear with the Storyteller's signature tome strapped across a broad, furry back, to name but a few. Those creatures that the Storyteller defeats will burst into a flurry of paper and dark, spattering ink, rather than being felled in the conventional manner. How odd.

As this is an event with a high risk of death, the Storyteller will impose death penalties for one week only. However, deaths succumbed during the event will count towards the character's total.

Then I'll Raise You Like a Phoenix

Come the sunrise on the 28th, the sun will launch itself into the air with a victorious shriek, its wings trailing plumes of fire behind it. The phoenix takes flight, reborn from the ashes. The shores of Chol are littered with corpses, both shadowy and scaled, along with an even smattering of crumpled paper and splotched inkstains. Despite the triumph of the fight, it did not come without its costs. The Jormun gather their dead and prepare to mourn them quietly. Those who perished in the fight will not see the sunrise from this unique perspective, watching the murk of the night tint to soft, milky yellow and pink, and then to a glorious new day.

Munin will greet the survivors with a mixture of solemnity and relief, thanking them profusely for their help. There is not much more that her people can offer you, at this point - they must grieve their dead, and she must return to the sea to prove that she has cemented her worth as a leader in the eyes of the other Jormun - but that does not mean that your stories will part forever.

Event Timeline

[ ♆ ] January 20th: Monthly Storytelling occurs as usual
[ ♆ ] January 21st: The dark arrives, the temperature drops further, and the first hostile creatures begin their assault
[ ♆ ] January 28th: The dark ends and the sun rises
[ ♆ ] January 30th: Those who perished are revived, suffering from a reduced death penalty

Event Specifics

[ ♆ ] If you have any questions, feel free to look over our OOC Info Post.
[ ♆ ] Feel free to make your own logs if necessary!
[ ♆ ] If your character perishes in this event, please let us know!
[ ♆ ] Item trades with the Jormun can be found on the OOC plotting post here! Even if you were only recently accepted, you are free to participate!

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Re: Ren | temple | ota

[proficienciesouttheass]

[ Magnus keeps going out there to help out in keeping the monsters at bay. But he's only human, and he has to come back to the temple every so often, slightly battle damaged but not too upset, it seems.

It's during one of those times, during his short rest before he heads out there, that he catches Ren drawing on the wall.

He watches her for a moment, before walking up to her. ]

That's some awesome looking art, there. Is that Lup and Taako?

[catpiper]

[Doodling on the walls and ignoring her problems are easy enough tasks. She only has to look up when her chalk nubs get so small that the fingers scrape against the stone and she has to look for a new color to play with. Because of that, she doesn't notice Magnus until she hears his voice and when she does, she turns to look at him with a big smile.

He's okay. Alive and feeling well enough to walk over and talk to her.]

Yes, they look pretty on this wall.

[She points further up the stone-beyond the trail of chalk flowers and suspiciously realistic pawprints, there's a vaguely Magnus shaped person.]

You're up there.

[proficienciesouttheass]

[ Magnus blinks and looks over at the drawing of himself, before smiling, pleasantly surprised! ]

Oh, wow! That's pretty good, haha. [ And that's really sweet of her. Look at that. She's such an artist. ]

Really got my sideburns down.

[catpiper]

[Everyone's far too kind to this gremlin and her terrible doodles.

It makes her happy to see the smile on his face and she hopes it'll stick with him when he has to leave again. She can draw another Magnus closer to the entrance-so it's easier for him to see when he gets back.]

Do you want to put 'sideburns' on Taako and Lup too?

[Since she apparently did a good job?? Why not put them on everyone!!]

[proficienciesouttheass]

[ Soft gasp. ]

Hell. Yes.

[ That's the best kind of portrait. A sideburns portrait. Taako will probably hate it, but goddamnit, now Magnus wants to see everyone with sideburns. It's a look that never gets old! ]

[catpiper]

[Good thing Ren has 99 problems to hide from and the wall is littered with images of friends, just ready to be sideburned out. But first, the two most important nuggets of all.

Taako gets a nice blue sideburn on his image and she holds the chalk out for Magnus to take.]

You can do Lup.

[proficienciesouttheass]

Thank you.

[ He's deffo gonna crouch and give Lup some sick sideburns. Magnus might not know clothes fashion like these two, but he knows face fashion. So there. ]

Who else you got?

[catpiper]

[Who else can they sideburn? Everyone, really. She looks over the newly haired Lup and turns her gaze up, then to the left and right of her-really, there are so many people.]

I drew everyone.

[Everyone she knows actually. People here, a boy that isn't, a dog, a mouse, a couple pokemon-it's wild. How could she not draw all the kind-hearted people she's met on the island?]

The dog would look pretty with sideburns.

[Ammy's face is already covered in fur-what's a few extra pieces of hair?]

[proficienciesouttheass]

Hell yeah.

Huh, what are these? [ He gives the pokemon drawings a curious look. He's seen a bunch of really weird creatures in his lifetime, but he's never seen anything like these! ]

[catpiper]

That's Guzma's 'bro'. He's a pokemon that likes to play tag and-

[She doodles some beautiful sideburns on Golisopod and draws a line to what probably looks like a dog?? with an extraordinary amount of tails. More than nine for sure. Sup Nina.]

This is a pokemon that helps make winter. That's Luna's friend.

[proficienciesouttheass]

Huh. Pokemon...

[ If only he knew what those were! But, sadly, no, and it's also hard to tell from Ren's drawings (but he's not about to insult her illustrative skills!). ]

They look pretty cool...buuuut we're making 'em cooler.

[catpiper]

[One day, he'll see them. If anything, Ren could politely request their presence by yelling 'Goli' until Guzma hears her. That seems like it'd work.]

Do we draw ice to make them cooler?

[proficienciesouttheass]

Well.

[ Oh, Ren. You're adorable.]

I mean, we can.

[catpiper]

[SHE DRAWS THE HUGEST?? SQUARE?? How do you even draw ice?? She's doing her best. There's a snowman too-that's also ice.]

Now they're 'cool'.

[proficienciesouttheass]

[ Magnus appreciates a good pun. 10/10, bonus points for the visual element. Good job, Ren.]

Just a- hold on.

[ He scribbles some sideburns on the snowman.]

There, perfect.

[catpiper]

It's a 'perfect' snowman.

[And now there's a cat on its head? With feline sideburns. Good job team. Maybe they'll start a fashion trend if they give everyone a patch of hair. Sorry Storyteller, these are your interior designers now. It's not great.]

And a perfect cat.

[proficienciesouttheass]

[ What are you talking about? It's amazing. It's wonderful. It'll be a success.]

Hell yeah.

[ He's very pleased about this impromptu collabo. He even forgot about how tired he is, about the battle outside. This is fine. This is fun!]

Best mural ever.

[catpiper]

Hell yeah.

[That's right. Join Ren on magical drawing adventures inside the safe cave. Leave the battling to other people for other people and hide with her.]

The Storyteller will smile when they see this.

[proficienciesouttheass]

[ He really could. It's nice here. But he needs to protect people!

But also rest, for now. ]

Have they been popping in?

[catpiper]

[They had said they would try to return during the last storytelling and Ren had been keeping her gremlin eyes open for them, but-]

No. They haven't come back yet.

[proficienciesouttheass]

Oh.

Do, huh...are they usually around? Haven't really seen them in person yet.

[catpiper]

[It's a rare sight to see them pop up in reality and the more she thinks on it, the more she realizes how uncommon it is to catch them ambling about here.]

I think they like to hide in our dreams and hearts.

[Look at these dope ass bunny sideburns she's doodling though.]

But I haven't seen them there either.

[Which is a bummer. Hope they remember how to hide?? Don't get hurt lil god.]

[proficienciesouttheass]

Oh.

[ He's quiet for a short moment, just watching her draw. She sounds kind of sad about it...]

Hey, maybe they'll pop in later. And see this rad portrait of them.

[catpiper]

Yeah, it'll make them smile.

[They probably won't care, but they were kind enough to let her wreck this place while they were gone, so they deserve to have their sideburned image on the wall too.]

The next time you come back, I'll have a 'rad portrait' of you too.

[A BIGGER MAGNUS. A BETTER MAGNUS. Maybe a hammer by his side?? Who knows.]

[proficienciesouttheass]

[ Aw.

He smiles.]

I'd like that.

[ What is this genuine emotions bullshit. Taako would be disgusted.]

Make sure to get my huge muscles.