genessia | Cold as Ice Event Start

[Papyrus was hopelessly charmed by Genessia the moment he came to be. It was everything he dreamed the surface would be, and so much more. So many people, so much activity, cars of every shape, size and color whizzing by and making him almost giddy with delight. How he longed to drive a car of his own and realize one of his many dreams. He'd made just two broadcasts and was showered with so much attention from so many strange and wonderful people. It seemed so magical in the best way; like everything he'd ever wanted was right here, just waiting for his greatness to take it.

It was hard to leave a place that made him so happy. He'd learned, however, that his necklace had colors for a reason, and one of them shone Fayren's color. Could it be? Another wonderful place to explore where even more people would do wonderful things for him? They even had royalty there! Like he was used to. And cold weather, too, another familiarity. It didn't bother a skeleton like him--no skin, you see.

He strolled along the medieval, cobblestone roads, expecting something great to happen to the great Papyrus any second now.]

THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE IN FAYREN IS SMALLER THAN I EXPECTED. ARE THEY ON VACATION? MAYBE THEY'RE HOLDING A SURPRISE PARTY FOR ME AND HIDING UNTIL I FIND IT! NYEH HEH HEH, COULD THE GREAT PAPYRUS BE STROLLING INTO ANOTHER TRAP TO DROWN HIM IN AFFECTION??

[Before he could find this mysterious surprise party, no doubt laid to roll out the red carpet and welcome him, he had another visitor: one of many that were the real reason no one sane was out of doors.]

UM...

[An ice wolf. Well, some dogs Papyrus liked and admired. Most of the guardsmen--what he wanted to be--were dogs, and they kept vigilant watch over Snowdin. Other dogs...other dogs had given him trouble.]

GREETINGS, ICICLE DOG! ARE YOU HERE TO LEAD ME TO THE SURPRISE PARTY...?

[It was not. As it lunged towards the unsuspecting skeleton, it was clear that this one was after his bones.]

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[Ted had bounty hunted so long that he had a sixth sense for rumors. He knew from experience that Genessia, more often than not, rewards those who meddle in its spontaneous affairs. Fayren's experiencing something right now, but what?

A little canvassing told him that the troubles were felt to start with the forest. While the weather's different in all cities, what shouldn't be different was a steadily increasing temperature as they approached Spring. Fayren had gone the other way, and this bore investigating.

Cloaked in his goku uniform, a black wraith glided along the frozen undergrowth with a blocky Nova City weather device in his hands. The chill was unnatural, and it had an origin. Where did the wind blow fiercest? Coldest? There, Ted thought, laid the heart of the matter.]

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[With the ice covering most of the forest, finding the source would be no easy feat. However the further one might go in, the more ice creatures there appear to be. Most will attack on sight. Starting off with wolves, probably the weakest of all the ice creatures, but still ferocious.]

[OOC: let me know if I'm stepping over bounds for the NPC's]

[Wolves, eh? Per their usual nature, Ted let them draw in close, encircling him from all sides as they exhaled bursts of hoarfrost. Call him crazy, but he's detecting a significant ice theme here, so he'll apply an elemental, protective charm to himself to that effect.

They pounced, and he reacted. Threads lanced from his form, embedding into each attacker. Next, a small piece of kinetic crystal was drawn from the void into the frigid beasts, implanting itself where the threads struck. Finally, all in a split second of action, he punched the crystals, producing a burst of kinetic force that the connecting threads would divvy up between each attacker. It was more than enough to cause the crystals to riotously expand, bursting each and every ice-wolf from the inside-out.

A messy attack, but at least he'd get to see what they're made of.

The lesser threats dispatched, Ted thought he had a good idea of how to proceed. Should he fail to discern where the temperature was lowest, perhaps the motion of further monsters on a motion tracker would avail. Where the monsters were thickest, there might the root of the problem lie.]

Edited 2019-03-28 21:44 (UTC)

[Further along more monsters. In an clearing the numbers seem to be close to the hundreds, and as some poor unsuspecting deer would find out, they had a pack mentality all pouncing at once on the poor thing. It seemed like going in solo could result in a very quick and painful death.

However studying from afar there seemed to just be a clearing, nothing that seemed out of place. Just seemed empty and filled with monsters. But why were the numbers much higher here than anywhere else?

If one pays closer attention might notice that they seem to not cover one specific area of clearing so appeared to form a giant circle around it instead, but the numbers were still rather high around them.]

[Solo? #YOLO!

Well, not just yet. If pressed, Ted could, alarmingly, pull out the equivalent of a nuke and decimate all life, natural or otherwise, in a large area. But maybe he didn't have to be noisy just yet. No harm in observing. He could clear out the beasts later. Eye on the prize: why are they there?

A circle's a suspicious shape, especially as the threes have thinned out and all but disappeared. He'd thought the forest was pretty thick in Fayren, going in all directions for a ways. Yet this was barren, with the monsters forming some sort of epicenter, like a bulls-eye.

He sent one furtive thread silently out towards that center; one black, think serpent that dove a few inches underground, seeking the center and digging therein to see what secrets these monsters gave the impression of guarding.]

Edited 2019-03-29 15:15 (UTC)

[It appeared the thread wasn't able to reach the intended center. An invisible force seemed to be keeping it at bay.]

[Now that's strange. Were the monsters guarding something, or were they after something they physically could not reach? Well, no one puts up invisible force fields for nothing. What's certain is the importance. He'll make a note on his GPS for this very spot.

Even if the monsters' goal and his are alike, Ted decides to try and destroy the barrier anyway. Doing nothing won't stop this unnatural cold. First, he'll have the thread pull something out of the void: his nundu cloak, an anti-magic sheet of fabric whose anti-magic properties would ruin just about any wizard's day. He'll try and apply it to the force-field, again with the thread yards away from himself, and see what happens.]

[Considering a cloak isn't invisible, the creatures seemed to have spotted it and are currently attacking it, claws extending, fully intent to destroy.]

[Oops! Darn, if only he'd wrapped it around something first, it really would be invisible. Well, better not lose it. While he's applying it furiously to the barrier, Ted will cover every other inch of exposed surface area in the void, letting all attacks go harmlessly through into literally nothing.]

[Rock, rock and just more rock seem to be shown before quickly being repaired and looking like there had been nothing there at all.]

[OOC: How do you feel about him involving more peepz? Such as...]

[Huh. So it's clearly magic something, but any headway he makes with the cloak will be paved over. Ted figures he'll have to disable whatever's powering it if he wants the goods. Whatever those are. Who can he call to assist? This would be so much easier if he didn't hate the very idea of getting help with anything dangerous ever. Desperate times...he withdraws the cloak to the void, and makes a few calls. Calls also cloaked imperceptibly in the void. ~~assuming he can still get reception in there~~]

To Uai: Hello Uai. I assume the increasing chill and general, if artificial, malevolence is nothing new to you.

I'm calling because I've come across a large outcropping of monsters surrounding an impenetrable, magical dome of I know not what. I'd like to dig further and see what the fuss is about. What do you know of impregnable arcane hemispheres?

To Koishi: Good afternoon, Moon. Have you caught wind of Fayren's troubles yet? Do the monsters seem at all susceptible to your soporific ways? I ask because lulling them to sleep may put a dent in what I'm after. Or at the very least be more elegant than blowing them all to pieces.

Edited 2019-04-30 20:37 (UTC)

[Of course Ted would get involved in Fayren’s affairs. Uai had mostly kept to the city itself, since he was more interested in guarding the citizens. He figured that other adventurous types would go find the source, so he should focus on his job... It isn’t a surprise to receive a message that implies Ted is one of those types.

It’s also concerning. Ted isn’t someone Uai trusts to use his power well.]

GPS coordinates? [It’s with a sigh that he texts back,] I’ve been to hundreds of worlds with hundreds of magicks. I should be able to do something.

No blowing it up.

[The coordinates are sent. He wasn't aware Uai was that familiar with the occult; that could come in handy since Arro, his other pseudo-friendly mage, was AWOL.]

Well if you insist on taking the fun out of it. Again, there's countless of the frosty devils here. Can you arrive with absolute subtlety, or should I send an escort for you? Give me your coordinates if it's the latter.

[Uai responds promptly:] one sec.

[And then literally appears a second later. He’s familiar enough with Fayren’s layout to know where to go based on coordinates and his own map. Uai hovers in the air, having teleported high up so as to avoid appearing on top of someone, and then gradually descends to Ted’s level.]

You’re worried about being subtle? [...] Describe what you’ve observed so far.

[Lord, Ted hopes Uai comes invisibly or something. There were hundreds of these things, as he'd find from afar. Ted had taken the opposite tack, being little more than a small, voidy hole in the ground, beneath notice.]

Yes, and more for your sake. They're all like-minded, acting in unison, and will attack all that moves. They've formed a perimeter around the aforementioned area, and I've made little headway. The abjuration is somewhat permeable, though I couldn't go very deep. Seems to be made of magically reforming rocks.

[Nope! No invisibility! Uai is coming as much to screw things up as he is to help clear them up!

He lands in the snow, calmly accepting the threat of being attacked by a hoard of angry ice monsters. This is fine. Uai is already altering the gravity directly around him, to slow any physical attacks that may come his way.]

Unfortunately for them, they've made the mistake of attacking Fayren while Azura is its Guardian. Are you able to move quickly if I clear an opening?

Prompt A. Containment

[After the ice settled in, it became apparent to Satou that this was an issue isolated to Fayren City: Not something that would likely creep through the Archway into Genessia. So she's arrived to help investigate and contain the strange ice as best that she can.

At first, by setting up magic barriers around parts of the city in hopes of keeping them ice free.]

I don't know if this is going to last... [She looks to a frozen home, and its iced over door, with worry.] There's got to be something that we can do to at least help people get in and out of their homes.

Prompt B. FIGHTING

[Her confidence is much higher when it comes to fighting the icy animals. Satou's wand is in its scythe form, the blade being a warm, pink glow of magic: Something that can easily slice through ice.]

Hm. Destroying them is so violent, but they don't seem reasonable either...

My, my, Fayren's got quite the cold reception today.

[Gale walks up from behind Satou. He was another Guardian on the case to lend his aid, having left Grievous in charge in Nova City in his absence. Gale himself was decked out a little differently for this one. The mask was likely going to prove useful. He folded his arms, looking at the same frozen home Satou was.]

First order of business was seein' if we can get through the ice. I did a bit of experimenting already.

[He held his arm out and blue flames traced around the door frame. Slowly but surely, the ice melted away from the door. Dispelling the flames, Gale looked at her.]

Mages that can safely control fire magic may be key players in gettin' people access to their homes.

Edited 2019-03-28 21:13 (UTC)

DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

[Today's not at all surprising fact of the day is: Bakugou hates the cold. He despises it, almost as much as he despises inaudible mumbling, people not doing their homework, and water. It's too hard to work up a sweat in the cold, which means he has to work twice as hard to blow up the icy insides of the animal he's fighting.]

They're animals, Pink Cheeks. They don't understand reason.

Katsuki-san!

[Satou twirls around to face him, red eyes bright with awe. Leave it to Bakugou to bring a ton of energy to such a cold and dreary place!

His comment stings, but she can't deny the truth in it either. They're made of ice.]

Mm, I suppose that's true... How should we do this, then? Got a formation in mind?

What? Did you forget I work here?

[He scoffs at her before eying the ice animals warily.] They'll just keep coming if we attack, there's no guarantee that they'll stop. And I have to be careful about property damage... Think we can make ourselves a path? We have to find the source.

I didn’t forget!

[She pouts, briefly childish and teasing. Then snaps back into focus.]

I can fire a beam to clear a path. It won’t hurt you, so you can lead with me taking the rear. Sound fair, Deputy Bakugou?

Tch.

[He smirks a little.]

Whatever you say, Guardian Satou.

Then let's roll! Which way is that frostbite coming from?

[Satou looks over her shoulder, imagining the trees around them. The windtail of the icicles is her first hint, but she points in her suspected direction for confirmation.]

You okay with heading that way?

[ It looked like a healer's work was never done.Not long after she had noticed the cold, she spied what looked like an ice creature lurking nearby. It attacked her. Her Umbreon Yuunagi made it regret trying.

She saw Satou showing up around the time she also started noticing homes freezing up. ]

I don't know any heavy fire spells, but...

[ She chucked out a Pokeball, and Torracat emerged. Slightly annoyed but ever so happy to see opportunity, it didn't waste time belching fire at the frozen door, melting the ice. ]

I hope that can help us rescue people.

[When Qubine felt the chill weather, he didn't think much of it. Ice was his element, so it was rather soothing to him. That is, of course, until ice creatures began to appear and attack. While Qubine is easily able to defeat the beasts, he can't shake the feeling of deja vu. The last time Fayren was coated in snow out of season, Winter Schnee had been controlled by the ice mage Frostbolt. Winter was gone, so...is Frostbolt at it again? There's only one way to find out.]

[Qubine isn't sure exactly where to go, but he's sure if the culprit was hiding, it'd be as far away from public as possible. So first he'll walk along the forest, towering over the trees to see what he can find, if anything...]

[All that was around the forest were monsters, creatures and more monsters. But one might note that the further in one might go the number of monsters increased and seem to have more of a pack mentality.

Could be a possible reason for it?]

[It didn't escape Qubine's notice how the creatures' numbers seemed to increase. That could only mean that he's on to something. Qubine almost smirks as he presses on into the forest. Let all the creatures come; he'd stomp on all of them.]

[Monsters grew and seemed more to hunt in larger and larger numbers pouncing on any animal with numbers close to the hundreds. However, the biggest numbers were close in the clearing in the middle of the forest. The creatures seem to linger, but there seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary.

But then why were the numbers so big compared to other places?]

[There has to be a reason; Qubine is certain of that. He'll approach the clearing slowly but fearlessly, seemingly ignoring the creatures that were guarding it. He'll look around at the trees and branches around him first for signs of anything strange. Then he'll move towards the center of the clearing again and begin to drag his massive claws along the ground, seeing if he could dig up anything.]

[The creatures will attack if sighted, however it seems as if getting to the center will be harder, about two-thirds of the way toward it there seems to be a force keeping people at Bay.]

[Any creatures that attack will simply get swatted aside with his paws. As for this force, Qubine will take a few test swipes at it with his claws to see what would happen. How strong is it? Can it be broken with physical attacks, or would he have to utilize his ice manipulating abilities?]

[Physical hits don't seem to do much of anything and the monsters for the moment seem to have retreated, gathering together. As for what they were going to do who knows. Maybe they could be forming in a bigger creature.]

[If they did form a larger creature, Qubine would welcome the challenge. He'll ignore the creatures for now, still focusing on this unknown force. Since his claws don't seem to do anything, he'll have to tap into his icy abilities. He'll summon sharp icebergs from the ground surrounding the area, angled towards the force in the center, and then begin to apply pressure from all around. It'll be soft at first, but it'll gradually increase in force.]

[By aiming icebergs at the center there is soon a rip, not big but enough to see what was underneath. However, all that appears to be underneath is a small amount of rock that is shown before the rip seems to repair itself.]

[Gale had arrived from Nova City personally to help Fayren in this ordeal. Fayren's Guardian team didn't exactly get much time to breathe, so Gale was happy to honor his offer he made months ago to aid. He had pulled out his pilot uniform to wear out for this trek. It felt odd being in it again after so long, but the mask would doubtlessly give him the aid he needed. Being able to track creatures and temperatures could very well be a key item in this investigation. Despite the cold, Gale seemed to be quite comfortable. Living in cold regions for a good majority of his life helped in that.

Gale, however, was not one to stand around. He made a point to aid in the city some, but just helping the city wasn't going to get to the source of the problem. He wasn't going to bother making a team for the moment (a team would just be a bigger target, and those ice creatures weren't exactly friendly) so he would do what he does best: Running straight in the direction where the ice seemed to grow thicker.

He had his mask to scan the area in case there were bigger beasties to worry about (or if there was someone else in the direction he was going), and he would use it to determine any temperature changes... but he wasn't exactly being tactical or methodical about his approach. Charging in recklessly was just what he tends to do. LEEEEEEROY-]

[The further one would go into the forest, the closer it will be. Deeper and deeper the numbers of creatures will also seem to be getting higher and higher and the smarter they start to appear to be. Even working as a team should one be spotted.]

[JEEEEEENKINS--wait. Stop. Put on the brakes, Gale. It's easy to figure out how the demeanor of the creatures is changing the further he goes in, so he decides to put some more thought into his movements.

So he leaps up into a tree, and carefully jumps from icy branch to icy branch. He'd rather not alert anything if he can avoid it. Eventually he comes to a stop and crouches carefully onto a branch, putting a hand on his mask. He zooms in to view further into the distance, in an attempt to see if there's anything further on than ice, ice and more ice.]

[Lots and lots of ice. However there is a clearing that the ice seems to have been coming from, but through normal eyes there appeared to be nothing there. Which seemed a little odd.

Could there be something there but couldn't be seen by normal eyes?]

[When it became clear that something was going down in Fayren, Etna was quick to scope it out and see what she could exploit. Thankfully fighting ice monsters were right up her alley. After a quick scouting mission, she'd darted back to Genessia city, gone to a print shop and made a big sign that read "Beauty Queen Etna's Monster Extermination Service!" that she put up next to a large jar with a $ sign etched in sharpie. There was also another poster board with several tally marks seemingly noting her kill count, though it was inflated by 5 upon being erected.]

Never fear, folks! Etna is here! Donations are very much welcome, but I will be sending an invoice for services rendered to your benevolent Guardian.

[She grins, twirling her spear a bit.] But, time to get down to business. Let's crush these clowns!

[And with a gleeful battle cry she leaps into the fray, aiming for the nearest creature to crush.]

As soon as it started getting cold again Koishi came right back out to play. Bundled up snugly warm she flew over the trees, occasionally dipping down to weave in between them without a care in the world. It wouldn't be long before she found herself very deep in the forest.

Hopefully nothing would interrupt her peaceful and happy flight.

[A: Setup]

As soon as Roland heard the news, he came over to Fayren to render his assistance -- not as the mayor of Genessia, but simply as a concerned neighbor. He hadn't intended to take charge of anything, but given his calm, quietly confident aura, like he knew he what he was doing and nothing could rattle him, he found himself in a position of leadership in the relief efforts anyway.

So after helping to clear the monsters from town, Roland flitted from place to place, organizing with others who had come to help, making sure everyone had warm clothes and blankets and hot food to stave off this supernatural cold, with axes on hand to make sure no one became trapped in an iced-over house, and that those with any kind of fire or heat powers were wherever they were needed most.

His higgledies played their part too -- the fire higgledies maintained a magical field of warmth, while those of other elements played with the children to keep their spirits up.

[B: Action]

Now Roland was patrolling the outskirts of town, making sure none of the ice monsters got close enough to town to endanger it again. While gazing across a large field toward the forest at the other end, a moving figure caught his eye, and he paused to try and see what it was.

A young girl emerged from the trees, hugging herself with her head down against the icy wind, slowly but steadily trudging toward town.

"Over here!" Roland waved, and began to jog toward the girl -- she didn't seem dressed for the weather. He inhaled sharply when there was another sign of movement behind her, a much faster one this time. The next moment, an ice wolf burst from the woods, seemingly intent on running down the girl.

"Behind you! RUN!" Roland broke out into a run himself, summoning a gun into his hand. The girl looked behind her, gasped, and tried to flee from the creature -- but ended up tripping over her own feet thanks to not watching where she was going. She didn't get up again, and the wolf was gaining fast.

"Get away from her!" The sound of rapid-fire gunshots carried across the field as Roland began to empty his supply of mana into the creature.

[C: Freeform/your prompt???]

Edited 2019-03-29 16:45 (UTC)

[With strange goings on and ice-monster attacks ~~and not a lot else on his plate at the moment~~ it was only a matter of time before the Doctor came out to investigate. Not so much a head-on fighter, of course, he didn't come at them yelling; instead he came at them from the side, sonic in hand.

Firstly, to scan them, see if he can find out anything about them, especially their crystal structure, what holds them together, any telepathic fields he can suss out (telepathic snow would be a familiar one!), that sort of thing. Secondly, if they're properly ice creatures, they might well be strongly affected by sonic devices resonating the crystals forming their bodies--either discouraging them, or destroying them if necessary.

Of course, they also might not, but only one way to really know. But don't worry, he's got a plan, in that event: run away while coming up with another plan.

And he'll doubtless end up helping someone else in a tight spot, if he stumbles across them.]

[Setup]

Chireiden and its archway isn't exactly the coldest place imaginable, but it's an understandable concern when a region called a Former Hell ends up becoming unbearably cold. Chalk it up to the archway being stuck at the bottom of an old waterway...

Satori, as one can imagine, isn't pleased about this in the slightest, finding herself jolted awake by a much-cooler underground than she's used to and having to throw on a few extra layers to compensate.

And to make matters worse, Koishi's missing once again in the midst of what back home might be called an "Incident". Reluctantly leaving the safety of home, Satori heads out to investigate.

[Action]

Satori makes her way through the frigid day ahead of her with great chagrin. While the cold at least keeps wandering humans and other sapience at bay, she can't help but notice that it's far too quiet out here. That, and she's noticing movement further into the wilderness. Commonly knowledge to Gensokyo's inhabitants dictates that something - or someone - is at fault for this.

This sudden cold snap won't stop her from finding anyone else around, to see about what's going on. Due to lack of problem-solvers like Reimu and her friends around, if Satori runs into anyone looking for a fight, the youkai can't do much but outsmart and outlast. Her Spellcards might give her a bit of an edge, at least.

The best she can do at this point is to see where this unnatural cold is coming from and follow any clues she can find. If she runs into something or someone that helps or hinders, so be it...

Edited 2019-04-01 02:03 (UTC)

Cold as Ice Event Start

Fayren village - OTA

Fayren Forests - OTA

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