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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[catpiper]

[There's something beyond fear that fuels her when his words reach her ears. It's hard to place. A bolt of courage-of understanding?

I have tried. But nothing happens.

There's a memory of when she would sit in an empty lab room and will her heart to be better and work for the project she was born for.

When she would try to change the results of tests and experiments, to make herself more useful, less useful, to stop them from hurting her, to not care as much that they were because that's how it was. Nothing in her changed. Not from her own power because she was weak. A coward. Unable to stand on her own two feet and face the world. To stand up to Shin, to stand up for herself, to stand up for the few people remaining she almost hurt-

But Seto found her, helped her, held her hand and showed her a new world. The elves say she's pretty and remind her she can be someone else. Her cat tells her it's okay to be lonely and she knows there's comfort in his arms. Drifter lets her hold their hand and she uses their bravery to bolster herself in the face of scary things. Guzma makes her face ocean waves, standing as her anchor when it seems impossible. Kidwun looks her in the eye, says they'll help-says they'll save her, because they might see value in her.]

Sometimes it's not something your heart can do. Mine can't-not by itself. It's not like that either.

[And it's hard to look at the face of someone who hit and attacked and fought to end the world with his own two hands. It's hard to look at him, but she does. She tries to keep her gaze steady on his shirt, at least, even if she can't meet his eyes.]

You have to hold someone's hand and use their pretty heart to help you. That's how you become 'something else'.

[unpurify]

[It's a change in the script. Instead of a battle between a cat and a monster, it's a debate on how someone can manage to become 'something else'.

A debate he cannot dominate because it's a topic, not a battle. The Batter can't fight this. Verbal debates were something he didn't engage with others - save one other person but thinking of the Queen at this point in time would only make things worse.

Although trying to not think about her causes the walls to groan under the weight of his thoughts. It may almost seem like something is trying to get into the room itself. Scratching at the walls. Screaming.

The Batter could hear Hugo screaming.

He is very, very happy Ren can't see his expression right now.]

Hearts are only one color. I want to see a rainbow. I want that darkness again.

[His manner of speaking is slipping again, but the Batter can't bring himself to care. Every emotion the monster has been cycling through start to vanish, one by one. He's shutting everything down.

And if Ren doesn't stop him soon, he will turn everything OFF.]

I need to return to my coma again. Stay there. I know what I want. But I'm here again.

[catpiper]

[He doesn't get it. Any of it. Of course he wouldn't understand her-it's so rare that people do and someone who bears this kind of resemblance to Shin would close her off in a heartbeat. It's something she should've seen coming.

And maybe it's mutual. She can't understand him either. Rainbows and darkness aren't associated with each other in her mind. They're beautiful colors in the sky that only appear after the darkness is gone. Sometimes without darkness at all-she would sometimes look at the sky and be able to make out pale colors against a far off rain.]

Hearts are-they're many colors. They're bright.

[Because his definition is garbage. He can't see hearts like she can, like she used to, he doesn't know. That's something she's good at and an ability he lacks.

She doesn't know what's going to happen, but darkness doesn't sound promising. It might turn off the light-it might turn off everything. She could be stuck in this dark room, trapped with a monster who can't escape his purpose, and never get out.

It's scary. He's scary.]

I can show you a real rainbow. If we leave, I can do that for you.

cw for suicidal ideation

[unpurify]

[It's mutual.

He doesn't understand her. He doesn't understand someone who would reach out to a monster. The Queen had, once, and that ended as they both predicted. Everyone saw it coming, the worst news that Zacharie had ever been given. He was not wrong. None of them were.

In the depths of madness crushed down to emotionless, there he was. But the Batter had not closed Ren off out of not wanting her to be able to listen.

He closed her off out of fear.

Because Ren scares the Batter as much as he scares her.

When it comes to fears, one could say "Like father, like son." in regards to the Batter and Hugo. It's a phrase that makes him feel sick and bitter at the same time, but it's true. He had not remarked that Hugo's eyes were like his own for nothing.]

Our hearts have been purged of color long ago. There's nothing left.

[Although his hand remains on the switch, the Batter turns his head so he can look at Ren. His face...it may seem human or still like a monster to her. It may be both.

But for once, the Batter's expression is very, very readable.]

The rainbow I want is the one at the end of the world. I want an end. I want to die.

[That's all he wants.]

A real one can't save me. There's nothing in this world that can make me feel alive any longer. I killed all of them.

cw cont

[catpiper]

[She doesn't get it, not fully, but there's an understanding rapidly forming, twisting, settling and easing its way into her mind. Shin had been like this too, hadn't it? It's why she saw the connection between them to begin with. Maybe not to this extent. The regret stemming from his unintentional actions, the memories stuck in a cat that showed what an outcast he was in his own life-the despair and pain of it all had been something he withstood, but it wore on him. She didn't know-didn't see him enough growing up to even become aware of the change until it was over.

And she didn't see the change within the Batter, either.

And like Shin, she can't do anything for him. He's stuck in his own mind and if this were her world, she might be able to experience the pain with him. Say I'll try and hold onto his clawed hand that seems far too human in her eyes now.

She doesn't want to die-wants to live for as long as she can and can't begin to understand the desire to end it all. Even at her loneliest, her life was never hers and the thought never crossed her mind.

She doesn't want to die now. Doesn't think the world will kill them, given how it can change. If she's able to get past her fear of being trapped, there might be a way to work herself out of this situation, but for now-]

You can hold my hand.

[That's it. It's nothing. There are no grand words she can say to talk him out of it-his feelings are his own. His life is his. He scares her, but he still smiled at her once. Still played baseball with her. Saved her from being lost and killed in the dark woods from a monster she saw as a friend. It's conflicting. Weird. And she tries not to make it more complicated, despite her fears and-

He's bad, but he's good too. He's scary, but can be kind.

She-]

I want you to live. For right now-maybe we can stay together.

[He can hold her hand instead of that switch and what he does after, she can't control. It's up to him. The remainder of his life is his own and she won't stop him. Can't. Outside of offering a hand that likely means nothing to him, but remains the most powerful tool in her own arsenal.]