February Event: Just One Mist-ake

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FEBRUARY EVENT: JUST ONE MIST-AKE

Who: Everyone who ends up on the floating islands
What: February's event
When: February 15th to February 20th
Where: The floating islands above Ensō
Warnings: Mark as needed!

Sky High

Those curious floating landmasses far above Ensō have only grown more prominent in the coming days. Whether you've chosen to explore the islands purposefully or have ended up there via a mana pool malfunction, you'll doubtless discover their unique properties soon enough. You might even take advantage of their impressionable nature to mold them to your own desires, shaping pieces of the places you once knew, or maybe a place you wish you could be.

Either way, the repercussions to using the floating islands as your modeling clay will be evident by the time midnight rolls around, each night, and the islands impose a regular reset cycle to wipe away whatever changes have taken place, including that peculiar, almost volcanic texture that seems to affect the lands sculpted by your mentality. Just make sure you're not caught outside the depressions in the shape of mana pools centered on each island, lest you bear some unpleasant consequences for a day.

If you haven't signed up for a Reset Penalty and wish to, you can still do so here!

Check Your Wishlist

But of course, it's not all doom and gloom. It's quite the opposite, in fact. If there's something you've been wanting, simple or complex, something that has been making its way into the texture of your thoughts with a frequency that's almost noteworthy, the islands will attempt to see to it that this wish of yours, this yearning, is satisfied in some way or another. Some of the effects will be temporary. Some won't.

Regardless, at some point during the event, if your character visits the islands, the possibility is there.

If you're interested in a Wish Request, let us know here! Remember that filling out this form is required if you want to take advantage of the islands' "giving" nature.

Event Timeline

[ ♆ ] February 15th: The floating islands appear
[ ♆ ] February 16th: The mana pools begin malfunctioning, and characters begin ending up on the floating islands
[ ♆ ] February 20th: Monthly Storytelling occurs, along with a vote as to the next land adventurers will brave. Upon waking, the Storyteller returns everyone to Ensō, and shrouds the islands in cloud once more

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Comments

[savedbyasong]

It's very strange. It is like it is using our memory but making it real. Even if it's not reality in truth. [He smiles and looks around properly at where he found himself. Apart from the hedge maze ] You must have a good memory. This place is... I've never seen anything like it before.

[There had been a castle in the tower. But it had been a empty shell, this looked lived in, real like something he had read about.]

[souris_keteer]

[Well, if he's going to explain it, he's going to do it right! He backs up, straightens up, hand to his chest!]

This is the royal castle, where Princess Minnie Mouse lives, ruler over the entire Disney Kingdom!

[Was that grand enough? He jabs a thumb to his heart.]

And it is my duty to protect her.

[savedbyasong]

[Royal castle, it did sound like something from the books he had read in Rat's room and in the tower. A royal castle and a princess. Shion smiled brightly]

Are you her knight? [Knights protected princesses. He feels confident enough in what he had read to know that.]

[souris_keteer]

A-huh! In my world, we're called musketeers! All for one, and one for all!

[Now, time to be even friendlier! He offers his hand for a shake.]

My name's Mickey Mouse!

[savedbyasong]

Muskateers. [Shion nodded with a smile and shakes Mickey's hand. Shion's nails were different colours; grey, blue, purple and red with tiny black rat silhouettes. They were pretty chipped by now.]

It's nice to meet you Mickey Mouse, even if we are a bit stuck up here. I'm Shion.

[It's quite odd, a mouse who can talk. Not in the way you would think it is odd- but mice are so cute, and he's a little thrown one who is definitely not a normal animal.]

[souris_keteer]

[Vigorous warm handshake! Mickey sees the oddly colored nails - maybe leftovers from Tim's glamorous paint party? He pulls back.]

Nice to meet you too, Shion. I'm sure we'll find a way off here sooner or later. Just gotta find the exit, is all.

[Not that he's in any great hurry to leave. He glances up at the large windows, kind of hoping a certain someone would be there looking back.]

[savedbyasong]

I'm sure we will. Maybe they will eventually form a mana pool. [After all they form other random things and Shion had gotten here by a mana pool so maybe eventually one would form. Maybe he could try to make one appear. Sometimes he could control what the land formed, though when he did that often the dark ash appeared.] Have you been on these islands long... I mean the main islands [He waved his hand] Down there.

[souris_keteer]

Oh, yeah. I've been here for several months now. I was among the first to arrive.

[He hasn't really kept track of the time, other than that. He returns to the roses, and takes out his sword, trying to cut off the thorns in order to pluck off a rose.]

[savedbyasong]

You were [That was interesting. He'd been wanting to find some of those who had been the first to wake up here. He follows Mickey watching him try and cut the thorns] How long ago? Um... how many storytellings? [That was how Ceej was keeping track and Shion figured it as good a way as any]

Oh this might be easier [He has his knife, he had been collecting vines before ending up on these islands in the sky, he passes it over]

[souris_keteer]

[Mickey needs a moment. Math's not exactly his strong suit, and he silently begins counting on his fingers.]

Um... hmmm... let's see... if I count that time, and that thing... Six or seven?

[He thinks??? But he welcomes the knife.]

Oh, hey, thanks!

[Cutcutcut.]

I know it might not last, but... I'd like to keep it around with me for a little while longer.

[it=being rose because rose=i miss my crush.]

[savedbyasong]

[Six or seven. That gives him a start at least. He smiles] You're welcome.

[It wouldn't last, but Shion just nodded] To remember this place? [It must have made a big impression on him, as he had said he had only ever seen it once]

[souris_keteer]

Mmhmm... I don't think I'll ever forget it, but... can't ever be too careful.

[He twirls the rose wistfully in his fingers before trying to put it on his hat, alongside the red feather.]

[savedbyasong]

No you can't. [He reaches out towards the roses, not to pick one but just to touch it, to feel the petals.] Memories are precious. [And he worried that such a place that could use their memories would be able to take their memories as well. This kind of power was worrying.

He notices him trying to put it in the hat and reaches out to help.]

[souris_keteer]

Oh, uh, careful there! This hat's my precious treasure.

[But he'll still let Shion help out.]

[savedbyasong]

I will! [Gently he helps, very careful of the hat. If it is Mickey's treasure then it is important to him.] There you go, I think that will stay. It looks very pretty.

[souris_keteer]

[He blushes, a little embarrassed - guys aren't supposed to be pretty - but then it was his own choice to stick the rose in there.]

Uh, thanks? ... I hope it doesn't go away for a while.

[savedbyasong]

[Shion is a little confused at the blushing but smiles anyways.] I hope not. Are roses your favorite flower?

[souris_keteer]

Not really... I mean, I never really gave much thought about flowers before.

[A pause, and those cheeks get redder for a different reason.]

... There's a girl...

[savedbyasong]

A girl? [He blinks again and smiles] Is she someone you like?

[souris_keteer]

[Mickey is now SO RED that it's even affecting his ears.]

... This is... This whole place is hers. The palace, the gardens, it's where she lives.

[So yeah, he likes her a LOT. Oh boy.]

[savedbyasong]

[Wow and Shion thought he was awful at blushing. Mickey is blushing so hard it is making Shion blush. His tone is gentle when he speaks again] Does she like you too? [This really isn't his subject of expertise, he is so bad at this. He knows nothing about this. But he knows what it feels like to love someone and he thinks it is good that Mickey has someone like that, even if it is sad that she is (presumably) not on these islands.]

[souris_keteer]

[His tail begins to flick back and forth, just by talking about her. Mickey's hardly any expert either - which is why he's acting like this. He's just grateful Shion's the nice sort of dude and one who won't tease him for it. LOOKING AT YOU GUZMA]

I... I don't know. This place picked me up before I could ask.

... B-But I made her laugh! That counts for something, right?

[Oh boy he hopes so she has the prettiest laugh it's so cute HE LIKES HER SO MUCH-]

[savedbyasong]

Oh [That's sad, but they will get out of here and Mickey will get to ask her. Shion is sure of it.]

It is, if she laughed I am sure you make her happy and that is important. [He wouldn't tease, he knows how it feels to like someone, to wish to be near to them]

[souris_keteer]

[Yeah!! YEAH!!! THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S HOW YOU HAVE TO THINK!!! He puffs his chest out a bit.]

R-right! People laugh when they're happy, s-so I must've made her really happy! So... there's a chance!

[is he telling Shion or trying to convince himself? Both?]

[savedbyasong]

I am sure you did. We will get home, we will find a way off these islands and you can tell her. [He looks back at the palace and smiles] Does she work here then? Is she a musketeer too?

[It would make sense, if the princess lived here that some of her musketeers would too, to protect her. That's how it happened in stories.]