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

roll: 12, also i am breaking his arm

[succiduous]

[Gnosis is already on the fucking ground due to the vines, but then the trees start falling, and he manages to just barely roll to the left, but—

It isn't enough to get him out of trouble, and the giant log crushes his left arm underneath its weight. Gnosis screams as his bones snap and flesh tears, but he knows better than to try to move like this. So.

Gnosis is on the ground for the forseeable future.]

[cleavethetides]

[ Irene is so quick to find Gnosis after Moder hits the ground. She doesn't even check if she's dead, she just wants to make sure he's okay. She hoists the tree up with some difficulty... she's not exactly the strongest person around, but she is strong enough to at least pick it up a little and move it quickly to free Gnosis.

Not without huffing afterwards and spitting out a few curses, of course. ]

Hold still, it's alright. We've got healers here, I'll get one of them over here. Can you hear me? Just nod if you can.

[succiduous]

[Through grit teeth:]

I can hear you perfectly fine, thank you.

[He's holding still, though, staring skyward and pointedly not looking at his arm. It's been a long-ass time since he's broken something.]

I appreciate your assistance with the tree. I wasn't expecting to nearly get crushed to death this evening.

[cleavethetides]

This shouldn't have happened... If that stupid gargoyle didn't run off like that, she wouldn't have...

Whatever, it doesn't matter right now. Aside from your arm, are you alright?

[ She is going to immediately try and get Chung's or Caoimhe's attention when she has the opportunity too. Until then, she's going to examine it herself with what medical knowledge she has. Working for a pharmaceutical company has it's pros. ]

[succiduous]

I'll admit, I wasn't entirely paying attention to our new guest as much as I was the enormous, furious moose-thing trying to gore everyone. SilverAsh would have been ecstatic to hunt something like that...

[Sighs.

Anyway, underneath the sleeve of Gnosis' thick coat, there are several breaks — a compound fracture in his forearm that's going to have to be set before it can actually be restored with healing magic, and lesser but still prominent breaks in the humerus.]

I'm merely irritated, that's all. [Shutting down your emotions like: yeah I'm annoyed that a tree fell on me but I'm good otherwise.]

[cleavethetides]

You should be more than irritated, but I’ll be fucking pissed enough for the both of us.

[ She is so mad at so many things! ]

Wait here for a moment, I’ll be back and we’ll get your arm set correctly, okay? Try not to move it.

[ Aaaand she’s off to go grab Caoimhe. She’ll return later with the young elf — carrying her over if she has to. ]

[succiduous]

Trust me, I don't believe I could move it if I tried.

[And he will wait patiently until Irene returns with a small red elf, still Not Looking at this injury. Thanks for being everyone's mom Irene real nice of you—]

[amhran]

I am here! Irene told me... I will heal any wounds once the bones are set.. But... I-I don't really have anything for the pain on me... [ She did not think she would need to, not with everything going on. She has some herbs at hand, but they will take time to alleviate any pain and course through the body at best. ]

[cleavethetides]

He'll be alright. He might look like a gentle breeze could knock him over, but he's from Kjerag. They're always tougher than they look.

[ She pulls out a tightly bound handkerchief, kneeling down and putting it in front of Gnosis' face. ] Bite this.

[succiduous]

[Somehow he manages an offended scoff, he'll have you know a gentle breeze in Kjerag is a fucking carriage-thrashing windstorm to any other country...!

But Gnosis doesn't really have the time nor the means to be sassy about stuff when he's literally got his arm shattered here, so he does as instructed, craning his neck to bite down on the cloth. When he inevitably screams, at least it'll be muffled, and he can regain his dignity afterwards.]

[amhran]

[ Caoimhe at least settles close to him from behind as best she can, readying to help the moment it sets in. When this occurs, then the acceleration of his body healing over would work from her spell cure wounds. ]

I-I am ready. I will work fast too.

[cleavethetides]

[ Yes, this is exactly why it only looks like a gentle breeze would knock him over and why Kjerag is kind of a hellhole actually.

She nods to Caoimhe, so sure that she has this. She’s not needed for this part, at least, and she has enough sense to leave Gnosis with some dignity, so she’ll depart briefly to make sure no one else needs immediate help and also to yell at a jellyfish. ]

[succiduous]

[something something repairing a man's arm goes here, he definitely shrieks approximately One Time as the bone is set back into place and calms after the healing begins. This is the only time you'll hear this man scream like a child so enjoy it. And enjoy screaming at a jellyfish too, Irene.

If and when Irene comes back, Gnosis has broken out into a pained cold sweat, but he's doing better. Pain tolerance: Pretty normal actually this is the most human he's acted his entire life.

...]

I appreciate the healing and help, by the by. [please stop trying to act cool and just accept that you are the former owner of a broken arm, it's okay]

[amhran]

Please rest Gnosis... [ Caoimhe offers to sit by him for the time being - she was not needed... So it seemed. Knelt down there, she started to move him so he could rest on her lap. Then makes certain that he can stay there, rest is very valuable when you are in such a surmount of pain. ] You are one of our main fighters, we cannot afford to lose you if things go bad.

[cleavethetides]

[ No "if"s. Irene does come back. She seems... calmer, at least? Maybe she's gotten everything out of her system.

She does set Dario's lantern down next to him. It gives off the calm flicker of the pink flame, and providing an impressive warmth considering how small it is. It has to last in the storms in Iberia, though, so maybe it's not a surprise. ]

Yeah, you look like shit. [ She's helping. ] Thanks for the assistance, Caoimhe.