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Who: All characters with fire as their element
When: OOC: 10/15 - 10/22 ; IC: 3/22 - 3/26
Where: It's a volcano. No, really.
What: It's time for the legitimate reward -- a safe place to live for the rest of your happy, contented lives
Rating/Warning: PG-13: Some scary images, some violence. Please let the mods know if the rating goes up or the log needs to be locked!

//event020.EXE

It’s been a few days in the jungle now and hopefully you haven’t managed to die just yet – after all, the fun’s just begun.

On the seventh day of trekking the wilderness, each character who has Fire in their heart will suddenly find themselves pausing in the middle of the day. Something in their chest feels warm and it’s heating up quickly. It spreads from their chest to their fingertips, down their legs to their toes. There’s a bark of laughter against their ear, but it seems that it’s one that only they can hear.

Then without warning, there is a bright light that encompasses their sight entirely and the ground beneath their feet seems to suddenly open. At least they don’t have time to be scared as they suddenly lose consciousness after falling for a few seconds.

Don’t worry. It’ll get better. When they wake up, they hear the following message – and then they hear it again, and again, and again as it echoes echoes echoes.

You’re all spirited, aren’t you?! You wouldn’t be one of mine if you weren’t.

So c’mon, look alive, look alive! I’ve got something I want to show you all. Stay close, stay close, I can't wait until you see where you'll be living!

//SCENARIOS.EXE

PHASE I

[ day one ] It’ll admittedly be hard for Ardeo to show you anything though. When you wake up, you see darkness. Blink a couple times and it’s – yeah, it’s still darkness. Oh, that’s not good. But after some mumbling around in the dark, perhaps you’ll find another. Better hold on so that you don’t lose each other as the steps on smoothed rock, the resounding quality of the noise you make, and the faint sounds of dripping make it clear that you’re in some kind of cave. Probably.

All you have to guide you is the occasional glimmer of light as Ardeo flicks his flaming tail and then pads off in one direction.

But try not to run too fast after him since it’s dark and that’s danger--holy shit. Follow Ardeo enough and finally you'll reach the edge of a cliff with no indication of how deep that drop goes. It won't be a fear of tripping in this cave, but rather a fear of running straight off the path Ardeo set you on. Hope you're good at cliff scaling because, good luck. You're now stuck on some very high cliffs, and if you peer over the edge, deep, deep down in the darkness, there's the faint, warm glow of what might be lava. You probably don't want to fall down there.

Of course in response to your yelps of fear, there’s only the same bark of laughter. Damnit, where the hell did that fox go?

PHASE II

[ day one ] Who knows how long Ardeo has been playing this crazy game of hide and go seek, but eventually you hear a faint buzzing. It’s fine, probably. No one ever said that you were alone in this cave but it’s better to be dealing with a fly than a bear, right?

So you see a firefly. Or maybe a firefly sees you. That single hope of light and not being doomed to eternal darkness comes over and says hi, floating around you for a moment. It really is quite dazzling, isn't it? Then, apparently deciding that you’re ~~an idiot~~ safe to land on, it settles itself on your clothes and-- ow.

That burns. Maybe you even caught fire a little.

But before you know it, more of them are coming. Little specks of light all ready to land on you and warm you up a little. You must be cold in this cave. Try not to die from their thoughtfulness, because they're really all over the place.

It’s like this happens a lot or something.

PHASE III

[ day two ] Maybe you threatened him or maybe you asked nicely, but it seems that Ardeo is willing to take pity on your poor souls. Every few steps, there is now a will-o-wisp conjured to guide you away from the sudden, steep cliffs and keep the insects away.

However you’re deeper in the cave now and it seems to be getting… hotter? You hear the water more and more now. Eventually you reach a flat surface and see an arrangement of craters in the ground. The surface beneath them glows with heat, apparently reaching high enough temperatures to emit a white glow.

The brave may wander close, curious about what lay inside the craters – and they may lose their faces as the water suddenly shoots up without explanation, a geyser erupting suddenly and burning anyone who got stuck in the splash zone.

However, there are signs of people here. Small housing constructions made in tucked away corners, built of stacked rock and supplies clearly from this very spot. However, there's...nobody here to greet you.

In fact, it seems as though a certain event has been reported to them, and so the natives who clearly are still living here won't be making an appearance. You may feel them watching you, and if you poke around in their homes, Ardeo will make a quick appearance to warn you away, but they're far too wary to step out and say hello.

PHASE IV

[ day three ] Finally, after however many miles, Ardeo’s done walking. He walks up the steps of a shrine – or the remnants of one. Broken statues of animal-like creatures lay in shatters and he wanders around the area once, circles quietly, and then lays down, curled in on himself. A second later, he disappears in a flash of smoke.

However the will-o-wisps remain as you’re free to explore. You’re now able to see that the walls of the cave are decorated with paintings. However unlike those of Earth, the humanoid-type people in these images all have different modifications on them. Some appear to have fins, others are plant-like themselves, but the most prominent ones all appear to be on fire. It’s kinda creepy, especially since they’re still smiling – and upon further inspection, you’ll find that some of these images aren’t made with paint at all, but rather they’re intricate scorch marks left on the wall. Oh.

However for the children exploring with us today, Ardeo seems to have pilfered some things from the colony that he liked. There’s paint lining the cave walls, as well as the occasional bundle of sparkly puppy stickers.

Seems this is where he lives, and now you can join him here too. It's a great reward! It's really just too bad about the difficulty breathing and the general difficulty finding food in a place like this that won't spit fire back at you.

Welcome to your new home.

[ Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with sensitive or inappropriate material and do let a mod know if your thread careens off into maiming or canoodling so we can lock the log. ]

//RUN.EXE

Welcome to Cerealia's October event! Please visit the OOC information here, and should you have any questions, feel free to ask them here! You can also check the FAQ for more general inquiries. This event will last for the month of October, or IC 3/15 to 3/30. This log will last from 10/15 to 10/22 or IC 3/22 to 3/26. Should this event log hit Captcha, there is an all-purpose overflow here.

There are 71 characters with the element of fire.

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[Phase I]

[Phoenix arrives in this area confused and already very worn out. His clothes are ragged and dirty, and his coat is still wrapped around his waist rather than being worn. Now, things have changed for the definite worst... There's no sign of Trucy, Maya or Edgeworth at all. And a number of others whom Phoenix is concerned about... But it feels like there's nothing he can do at the moment, so he will just keep following Ardeo until there's a chance to find answers.

So Phoenix isn't quite a happy camper at all, as he stumbles his way through the darkness. In fact, once he realizes that he's at the edge of a very high cliff, his fear of heights will kick into overdrive, and he'll quite simply be terrified.]

N-no... no way! That's it, I give up! I'm not going any further! [He shouts very anxiously into the void as he frantically backpedals away from it.]

[Phase II]

[So, it looks like some of the fireflies are being drawn to Phoenix. Maybe they're attracted by the shininess of his attorney's badge. Phoenix admires them at first.]

Heh... You know, it's rare to find bugs that you'd say are cute...

[...But then his suit jacket, still tied around his waist, catches on fire. In moments, Phoenix has untied the flaming jacket and whipping it around at the air, trying to ward off the fireflies and put out the flame at the same time, but it looks like nothing is quite happening.]

Not another one!

[He points dramatically as he keeps waving the flaming jacket around.]

Objection! Objection!! ...Yowch!

Phase IV

[At this point, Phoenix has lost a lot of his momentum. It's been days, he's starving, and he feels no closer to finding the missing people. So he kind of lazily slumps around the cave and looks over the various cave paintings.]

Hm... I guess this is probably a clue or something... [He groans and then looks over one of the scorched-in artworks] ...I think they get points for creativity, if you can even call this art...

[The former art major in him is very judgmental today.

Or you can find him huddled in a hobo-like manner in one corner, looking over the sparkly puppy stickers as well as a locket that he still had on his person.]

Trucy would have loved these...

Edited 2015-10-15 14:22 (UTC)

[Oh look.]

[A flailing man on fire.]

[He should put him out.]

[But nope.]

[Marco just leaves him be.]

[Because clearly Phoenix has it under control.]

[Clearly.]

Um.

[He blinks as he looks towards the stranger, smoke flowing around him.]

Hello???

[Oh damn.]

[He's been spotted.]

[He should be less antisocial and actually...]

[Maybe....]

[Help.]

[UGH.]

[BUT PEOPLE....]

[Marco doesn't reply.]

[Instead, where there was a pineapple-headed guy...]

[There is now a flaming blue sparkly bird.]

[Phoenix: meet... a phoenix.]

[And the bird just calmly walks over to Phoenix the flaming attorney, and holds open a flaming blue wing...]

[And cascades a shower of blue sparkles all over the smoking jacket. Literally smoking, not a jacket for smoking. Yes.]

[Believe it or not though... this does not fan the flames, and instead seems to help? Except that the glitter might stick.]

[On the bright side, the fireflies don't seem to faze the bird at all, he just sort of sweeps them aside with his wings like they're sparkles too.]

[Yeah... that might have been a bit weird.]

[Even for "sucked into another world, twice and then into a deep dark volcano where green fireflies are lighting jackets on fire" standards.]

[Is it better or worse that things can still get weirder from here?]

Turnabout Volcano

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