New Moon/Zahliya Event START!

[mooninthewater]

NEW MOON, WHO DIS?

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"INVITATION"

Everyone will get a recounting from Mizuki about his encounter with the creature in the woods, regardless of whether or not you had your own run in it with. He knows it was brought up before, but he just wants to make extra sure everyone is up to speed! He gives a general outline of information that he learned from Ydalir, the Trader. (And, yes, he calls her that to everyone.)

One, the creature's name is Zahliya, but has many overall titles. His full title seems to be "Zahliya, The Purifier, He Who is the First Sentinel, the Grove's Guardian". It's kind of a mouthful, but Mizuki seems adamant you do your best to remember it all.
Two, "Purifier" seems to imply his capability to ward off and, well, purify corruption from the forest. This is obviously going to be very useful to the Grove as a whole.
Three, the fog is apparently at its weakest during that of a new moon, hence the timing. Which is tonight, Mizuki happily reminds you!
Four... "Zahliya needs our help."

He doesn't seem to elaborate further on that last point. Feel free to ask him about it, or just go to your fellow neighbors and be like "hey, what the fuck is that cryptic twink on about???" Regardless of what you do with that information, Mizuki strongly encourages your to meet with everyone at the edge of the fog closest to the inn tonight.

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GATHERING

...And by "strongly encourages", it means he will drag your dumb ass to the meeting if you need an excuse to have them actually show up. Mizuki seems very adamant about this. Zahliya is their friend now! We don't leave friends behind.

Mizuki explains that it seems relatively simple, all things considered. Simple relative to other things within the Grove, anyway. They just all gotta... "wish" for Zahliya. Sort of like believing in fairies, or calling out one's name for them to appear. Sort of.

He's certainly not going to lead in this, however. He's just here to provide the information! If anything, he's more hopeful that someone else will take the reigns from him the moment all knowledge about this is out there.

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OOC

The OOC post about this event is here. I figured I should make the post about it initially, considering Mizuki dug for the lore about Zahliya, but considering he is not the leader-type, he will simply defer to the group from here. This is helpful for both chaos reasons and so everyone can more easily be involved. I also left the first prompt open for any pre-discussions about this you'd like to get out of the way, though if you would just like to read through Mizuki's discussion with the Trader and handwave knowing it, I'm totally fine with that, too. Mizuki wouldn't make any attempts to hide information from anyone, assuming they asked him the question first.

Recap of the Event so far! (Click to Expand!)

• The event begins with characters learning and talking about how to go about the information above. Caoimhe's brought a song. Natsuno brought knives. BB brought herself (unfortunately). Add brought... medical attention. All's well!
• Until it isn't, as when the moon is at its zenith, there's a horrifying roar and two mysterious sets of footprints within the fog. Using the goggles from the Shopkeeper, Add is able to find a twisted looking creature and a humanoid. It's decided that it's now or never to call out for their Guardian friend.
• And he does, in fact, appear! But he certainly doesn't seem to be doing so hot...
• ...but taking care of him might have to come second to the very angry monster beyond Felicity's barrier.

Comments

[harmacy]

Right. I know.

[dynamo is fidgeting a little behind him... trying not to make his anxiety show but sucks when u have telepathic robots like that.]

... I won't be long. If we're not back by sunrise... I'll try to leave trail markings, but don't leave without getting those glasses off the shopkeeper. It's too dangerous to wander around without them. I'll be careful, I promise.

cockblocks

[succiduous]

"Too dangerous", he says, without a single care as to if something will see him and murder him in the dark.

[Gnosis hands Add a cloak — he's not taking no for an answer on this, if Add doesn't take it the Liberi is going to throw it over his head.]

I purchased that from the Shopkeeper. He said it prevents you from being seen at all during the nighttime, and if you're headed into danger, it makes sense to keep this on your person. Your partner, [looks. at Add. Partner, Platonic, the same thing he tries to do when he brings up his own,] is worried about your wellbeing, as are the rest of us here.

how dare

[harmacy]

[i'm just going to assume he was wearing the cloak on the way over so Add can freak out for .2 seconds dont SCARE him he is FEARLESS!!!

clearing his throat, gently taking the cloak from Gnosis]

Your concern is unnecessary. I do have my own cloaking methods... but I suppose I can take it with me. [he doesn't wanna say a magic invisibility cloak is useful that sounds so lame ughhh...]

[succiduous]

[Yeah he was testing the effectiveness and it worked, clearly.]

Of course not, Doctor. Your contributions to this place are invaluable, that's all.

[The glint in his eyes says he sees past the façade. Gnosis is the same way.]

It would be remiss of me not to offer a helping hand. Stay safe.