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Event Log (Finding the Cure)

Welcome to Happy Heights!

Attleton's premier amusement park!

Or at least it used to be.

Attleton's mayor has mentioned the unfortunate only access point to the items needed to make the tonic that will cure the tragic sense-depriving infection that's going around. They'd thought the disease was gone, so they hadn't bothered to maintain the area, but the wells are Happy Heights are the only place that's still going down to the aquifer. They could drill down but-- well, they don't have time for that before the disease really sets into permanence! The number of freak incidences and the decrepit state of the theme park will make it difficult to maneuver, but they've notified the electric company to turn the power on so that people can navigate their way through the park in order to gather the ingredients to make the cure.

Unfortunately, since it's been so long since the park's been opened, rain water and nature have all but wiped the park's map into illegibility. You're on your own for exploration and it's time to find at least four wells from different parts of the park. There are many, but none are a walk in the park to get to! They used to be part of a collection game kids could play when they came into the park.

The mayor warns everyone that the cure is incredibly sensitive to sunlight and oxygenation from the atmosphere- by the time a person can get four, the first extracted water will have their bioluminescence diminished. (And going to that park in the dark... it's too dangerous, he wouldn't recommend it!) It probably won't make it out of the park, so drink it right away! Good luck!

OOC NOTES: There will be different areas listed for different flowers that have soaked into the wishing wells' aquifer. Each area will have a couple of different scenarios you can play out- you're responsible for playing them out and you're welcome to have a blast with whatever you want to do! If you don't want to play it out but you did play sensory deprivation, feel free to handwave your character getting a cure, but remember: If you manage to have at least four different threads with 10 comments from your character, your character will receive an Attleton Charm ICly and for 'exceptionally valiant efforts' in eliminating the disease. (3 month prize claim limit puts this prize available until Dec. 21st.) To claim a charm, click here. Good luck!

Don't forget: If your character tampers with any of the things that are set up to get access to wells except when stated, the ride may explode or collapse, cutting off the well. Pretty unstable park, you know.

If your character wants to explore more of the park than where the wells are, they're more than welcome to. Feel free to make your own thread if you just want to have your character playing on any rides or doing things that they want- get creative, have fun, but the only areas with wells are those listed.

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Honestly, shame on him for dragging the poor, gentle princess into this...candyland nightmare. It's his fault for being lost. These gigantic, towering lollipops of swirly colorized hell is...evil.

"I'm sorry. I know. This looks evil, but..."

Hey, he's curious. He just have to find out. He punched one of the lollipops, a short one, and the lollipop was crushed to pieces.

"It's just candy. Only someone in this place have a bad sense of humor to make maze out of this."

[Anastasia jumped in surprise when Abel punched a lollipop.]

"I don't want to be trapped in this place forever... Abel? Can you break through the candy walls and make us a short cut out?"

[She may have beaten military commanders in strategy games, all of which lost to her on purpose because she was the princess, this was certainly not one of her most brilliant plans. But, in a way, she feels somewhat safer being with Abel.]

[Thinking he sees no harm in that, he keeps punching one lolipop at first, and then a second, and a third until he broken so many, he left behind a trail of broken lolipops and he's getting tired. It's easy for him, but the sticky stuff break into fragments and they stick to his gloved fists.]

This...this isn't easy. I wonder what kind of candy factory that can find a lot of ingridients and sugar to produce this stuff.

[Anastasia was, at least, feeling better that Abel did all he could with such a request.]

"There has to be some way to find the right path out of here..."

[She looked up, trying to see if it might be possible to see over the walls. But they looked too high from her perspective. Then she looked around some more, seeing the broken candy fragments.]

"Abel? Can we make a trail from the candy so we know where we've been?"

"That would be easy enough."

[Abel continued to break some more. He doesn't look like it, but he is very strong that he break the thickest candy. But then again, when he was a young lad, he broke handcuffs with his brute strength, soundproof glass in a cell when his superiors disliked him and misbehaves when he was a rebellious teenager, and that was when he entirely human.

Eventually, they left behind a trail of broken candy on the floor.]

"There, that should serve it's purpose. Whenever we get lost, we can follow it back where we started."

[Anastasia followed Abel, watching him smash the candies into a trail they can follow. She feels much better now that she thinks they have a chance to get out.]

"Are you okay, Abel? Doing that doesn't hurt you, does it?"

"This was nothing. It was just hard candy." He said with a shrug.

Then a thought, an idea struck him.

"I have wings. If I could fly up above, then maybe from the air, we can find the trail to the exit. What do you think?"

[Anastasia nodded at his suggestion. It might work. Granted if the ceiling isn't lower than it appears.]

"Be careful, okay?"

"You don't have to look, if my wings frighten you."

[Makes a gesture with his hands that she should turn around and close her eyes.]

[Anastasia turned around and walked ahead a few steps, covering her eyes with her hands.]

"Okay, Abel. You can bring out your wings now."

[Abel made sure she didn't look. He doesn't want to frighten her.

She didn't. Good. Her eyes is closed.

Abel slowly unraveled his pitch black wings to it's full span. Anastasia can hear a beat of feathers beating at the ground and the wind, as Abel took up to fly upward to get a good view of the labryinth and study the path.

You know, for mischief, she can take a look and have a glance, but he's quite far up in the sky, but she would get a good view of how large his wings are.]

"This maze can go on forever. It's really big." [He said, talking to himself as he study the layout of the maze.]

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[Anastasia eventually did turn around and take a peek. The wings really were quite astonishing. Majestic even. She wonders what it would be like to soar through the air.]

"D-Do you see anything, Abel?"

[Abel stayed up in the midair longer because it's hard to see the exit as the lollipops is a bad work of art with their swirly colors.]

"It's really big...and vast. What kind of construction workers have all the time to construct this maze? I need to go up higher up to examine some more. It's hard to see."

[Abel flew higher up, higher and higher until he's a sizable dot up in the sky.]

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[Anastasia was beginning to have a feeling of dread as Abel ascended higher and higher. She felt alone, and it was quiet. She started thinking that any moment now, a monster will come around the corner and take her away, never to be seen again. Now she doesn't like this arrangement and hopes Abel will come back down soon.]

[From the higher view, Abel takes his time to study the layout of the maze. In his Crusnik form, even at the lowest of the low level, the nanomachines increase his vision. He makes a slow 360, scanning the area.

Anastasia has to wait for a while, while being on ground, as Abel is studying the perimeter of the maze. It's going to take him a while searching for that exit, door, well...anything.]

[It feels like an eternity now. Waiting on either Abel to come back and make her feel safe again, or for a monster to arrive and take her away. Anastasia presses up against the wall and slides down into a sitting position, bringing her knees up for a defensive ball.]

[It takes Abel about 20 minutes, but he found the well. It was tucked neatly safely away in a forest, in the glen, hidden by the trees at a far distance away from the maze. From his view, it looked like a very small version of a well as he looked down like a map. Then it takes another 20 minutes to figure out a route, but the quickest way?

Abel slowly descended down and landed on the ground, his wings are still out.]

Princess, I found the route to the well, and I can get us there quickly...but I need to increase my power for that. I will look like a scary monster if I ramped my power from %15 to %40.

[He said, warning her.]

I need that power to summon my scythe. It's...my weapon from my own blood. I explained to you before, that I'm...sort of vampire. My scythe can plow down these walls, and I'll make a path for us.

[At last, Abel was back. Anastasia got back to her feet as he landed near her and listened to his explanation.

At first, she wanted to ask why he can't just carry her with him to the well, but then knocking down the walls could be beneficial to other people looking for the well here also.]

"I'll be fine. I'm not going to be scared of you. I don't want to be."

[Actually, he could do that too, flying her over, but then perhaps Abel will do people a favor if he makes a path for them. ~~It's that, or the author is a big failure for not thinking of it.~~

But perhaps that's good, as Abel might need to use his Other Self's power to protect others in case of need and this is a need indeed, and he needs his own power to put it to good, productive use. And he doesn't her to be scared of him.]

You can look the other way.

[He said gently, then activate his power to 40%. To be honest, he never raise that level for the entire month he had been in Genessia, and it felt familiar again after a month of disuse. His skin turn blueish, his eyes has a red glow, with his hair flowing up...giving him a vampire-demon look.

From his right hand, a large red scythe appeared with spikey spines along the handle. It seems to look like blood red liquid and then becomes solid to be a weapon. He raised it up, above his head and with a mighty blow in one strike (given Anastasia is far away from a good distance), he destroyed roughly 300ft worth of candy before him, creating a path equal to 6 to 8 blocks of a street. His power in this state did a LOT more damage than he could do with his bare fists and punches in his regular state.

You could move forward now.

[Yet, when he changed in this state, he still looks like himself. Still Abel. Just...in a different form.]

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[Once it was all over, Anastasia turned to look at Abel. She can see the alterations to his form, but even though she was intimidated, she focused on Abel's face on his face alone. After a moment, she smiles kindly at him. Then, she sets out through the holes in the wall that Abel made.]

"Thank you."

[Oh that...thank you. That made Abel happy. She isn't scared of him or didn't run away.]

Let see, just a few more strikes.

[He raised his blood scythe to strike again, candy crushing his way to victory!]

Let's keep going. I believe we can get there in about 20 minutes.

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[Anastasia would stay ahead of Abel, but not too far ahead. She would move out of the way whenever Abel was going to strike a wall, then continue forward.]

"Abel? Doing this doesn't wear you out, does it?"

[He raised his scythe again to strike the lolipops again!]

"No. As long I'm at 40%, but never above it, it's going to be fine. It's part of me...for 800 years."

[They kept walking...he strike another, then another, until at last, with final strike, the well is in sight.]

"Well, this one is difficult to find."

[Abel lowered his power back to 0%, shift back to his regular form, with his flowing hair down, which he ties it back with a black ribbon.]

"Go ahead and drink from that."

[Abel said as he approach to the well, peering down at the water depths, and see it has a healthy bioluminescence glow.]

[Anastasia made her way over to the well, her shoes tapping on the ground. She pulled herself up slightly to see into the well and drew some of the water, quickly taking a drink since she still hates the taste of it.

But before long, much of her feeling was beginning to return. Perhaps one more well will do the trick.]

"I can almost feel things again. We're almost done, I think."

[Abel helped himself to drink the well's water as well. Much of his cold is disappearing, and his throat and nose isn't runny and hurt as much, and he felt relief, and feeling slightly better.]

So drinking these wells...the water is a medicine.

[Well, Abel knows what to do by now. As he started to gather material of twigs and leaves to act a cover for the well to protect the water from being exposed to sunlight.]

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