Event Fourteen.

[awashmods]

Cease to Be
[ 11/23 - 11/30 ]

It was really only a matter of time before the mirrors came back to bite everyone, wasn't it...?

Because on the 23rd of November, each and every character in the Town, whether they broke their mirror or not, is going to find themselves dumped in the middle of a large, spacious, empty palace -- a palace made of ice and snow and absolutely frigid in every single way. It's huge -- there's a throne room, entirely empty, dozens of empty rooms such as kitchens and armories and bedrooms, a dungeon... all so empty and open for exploration -- and it doesn't look like there's any particularly easy way out.

Welcome to the Snow Queen's Palace.

Still, there are a few important things to note:

• There's no Snow Queen. The throne is empty, the halls are quiet. Where is she...? It's a mystery, honestly. But no character will be able to find or encounter her during this event.
  
• It's possible to leave the castle, but you'll be walking out into a barren, snowy waste. You can walk and walk and walk for the entirety of the week and never see any other civilization.
  
• It's not entirely correct to say the castle is completely empty: there are snowflake knights wandering the palace, prepared to try to subdue anyone and shove them into the frigid dungeons. They can be defeated and killed (they will burst into a pile of snow!) but their weapons are also very real and very sharp.

So what about those people who broke their mirrors...?

Well, they have a bit of an problem on their hand. Each and every one of those characters who broke their mirrors got a shard of magical glass stuck in their body. Where this happened is up to you, but keep in mind that that glass shard is going to start moving towards their heart as soon as they end up in the palace. The further away from their heart it starts, the longer they'll have, but ultimately, it's going to start to make it there.

And the closer it gets, the more frigid they will feel, both inside and out, numbed to their own troubles and the troubles of others. They'll still be themselves...just number, colder, more distant, as if they're trying to reach their typical emotions through a pool of water. This will get worse the further that shard progesses. If that shard of glass reaches their heart? They will be properly frozen over physically, like a frozen statue of their former selves, though they will be entirely aware of what's going on around them the entire time. It will be as though they are an ice statue at that point; if they are shoved over or fall, they will shatter into pieces, and if they are left near an open flame, they will melt -- all of them. So be careful!

So what's to be done about this mess? Well, thankfully, there's a way to save them.

If a character who is pure of heart either cries upon them or kisses them, the ice will recede and they will feel healthier, more whole, and closer to normal.

This effect can be as strong or as weak as you'd like it to be; it could take multiple kisses or tears from multiple characters, or just one from a single important piece of CR to break the spell completely -- it's up to you, and feel free to be as creative as you'd like with it!

So what constitutes a character who's "pure of heart", anyway? For the purposes of this event, if a character meets any two of the following criteria (even if they don't meet the rest!), they can be considered pure of heart:

• Character aligned with a light element/sun powers/similar such things
  
• Characters that have never killed another person (note: not necessarily another human, but explicitly another person-like being that has a similar level of sentience)
  
• Characters that pretty consistently have good intentions for the people around them
  
• Characters that are virgins
  
• Characters that are princes or princesses
  
• Characters that are martyrs, have a great deal of self-sacrificial tendencies, or have acted in a self-sacrificial manner

If a character who meets any two (or more!) of the above restrictions kisses or cries upon a frozen or freezing character, it will properly cure the curse the mirrors have cast on them. But be very careful! If a character who does not meet the requirements for being pure of heart attempts to break the curse, they will be inflicted with the same, even if they didn't break their mirror. The characters will have to be very, very careful as they try to figure out how to fix this mess!

They'll be trapped in the palace for the entirety of the event -- that's a solid seven days! Thankfully, with the kitchens and gardens of the palace, there's food to eat, but it's going to be a very cold, very miserable week for those who feel such things.

The outcome of the event depends entirely on how many characters have or don't have the curse broken; please let us know here if your character has had their curse broken or if they will be freezing over entirely in this event. Please also note: if a character freezes over entirely this event, they will find that when they return to the Town, either their eye color or hair color has disappeared. It will remain that way until a thread with a particular requirement is submitted via their color log. What needs to be submitted will be given individually to each character this applies to.

The event log for this event will be up 11/23! If there are any questions, please feel free to ask them here!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

[expulsions]

I'm exhausted even asking this question...hi mods! Re: snowflake knights and them bursting into piles of snow...are they actually beings made up of snow/ice in the first place? i.e. would it be feasible for someone to waterbend them? Thank you in advance and I'm really sorry.

[awashmods]

That would be very feasible! They are made of snowflakes, so while they come across as very human, it should be possible even so to waterbend them if they want to hear them apart gruesomely like that!

Re: QUESTIONS

[heartsteals]

i'm asking this out of sheer curiosity more than anything... does it have to be a kiss on the lips

[awashmods]

It doesn't have to be a kiss on the lips: kisses anywhere will work! Bonus brownie points for kisses on the lips though.

[allweather]

cool fun purity question: does it count as killing a person if they came back to life 30 seconds later. i hate manga

[awashmods]

That's... Something we'll leave up to your discretion! It's more a question of intent at that point, most likely, but it's a grey enough area that we're willing to leave that up to you if it counts or not!

[passio]

if dextera tries purifying the ice curse away instead of kissing/crying, how would that go…

[awashmods]

That will go extremely poorly, as expected! If Dextera attempts to purify someone who has a shard of glass stuck inside of them, he will have to deal with thr magic recoiling on him; there's no cutting corners in fairy tales! A few things could happen with that in mind:

1. He is inflicted with the same curse and begins to freeze from the inside out.

2. He is immediately freezed over into a solid ice statue.

3. He is unable to use said power for the duration of the event, when the reaction "shorts out" his powers.

What happens depends on how much of his purification he tries to use, on a scale from 1 to 3 -- we'll leave it up to you to decide which he encounters when.

[interlucere]

What about characters who broke their mirrors, but would also be considered pure-hearted? Are they able to help those who have been turned into statues, or will they need to have the curse lifted from themselves first?

Re: QUESTIONS

[asano_san]

This question...but I have to ask. Do tears have to be shed on behalf of the person, or can they be incidental tears?

[unfatalist]

Are sign-ups to break your mirror now closed due to the event having been revealed, or can people still break theirs up until the 23rd?

[organfarm]

What would happen if someone tried to surgically remove a shard?

[queenofminiskirts]

So do they wake up in the ice castle? Or are they transported there partway through the day?

Also, are the dungeons locked? If so, could they steal the keys off the knights and lock them in the dungeons instead?

[sirnyxalot]

Are normal ways of keeping warm still available? Are there blankets or clothes in the wardrobes? Can they build fires? Or is everything else made of ice too?

And character powers are otherwise okay?

[fineprinted]

does this mean there's no way to use the network while they're in the palace?

[youwillbeunequaled]

Sorry, but just want to be sure:
Will characters have some instinctual idea come to them that trying to cry on or kiss the freezing characters might work?
Or is it trial-and-error?

[tendershepherd]

1) It's the whole town in the palace, right? Do they all wake up in the same area?

2) Are the knights prone to aggro, or will they leave ppl alone so long as they're not doing anything? Any safe rooms if not?

3) Did you mean for both this and the mirrors to be Event 13 or is this like Event 13 Part 2? (I don't remember last event's post mentioning it so I'm just wondering!)

[espritdecorpse]

1. Is there any malevolent/resentful energy coming from the knights or anywhere else in the palace?
2. Does the magical glass cause physical pain as it makes its way towards the heart? Or does it just spread cold and numbness?

Thanks!

[pyrafect]

Hi there! This question is for characters (like Pyra here) who generate heat/energy on their own.

If the character becomes "frozen".... would they also simultaneously melt themselves? Or will their heat/energy they give off be shut down by the ice that's overtaken them?

[lacrimose]

Would it be possible to break the ice over the lake, and if so, would anyone who could withstand the cold for long enough to go in (like, idk, a dumbass Devilman) be able to find anything underwater?

[photoshooter]

I haven't used all of Prompto's rewards from the gratitude quest, so I was wondering...

1. Could I put any of those into effect during the Ice Palace?

2. If so, would Prompto be able to tell what's wrong with a mirror-cursed Noctis with this reward? Would the magical freezing-over or the glass shard register as a health thing?

[good_ideas]

Belated questions, but!!

Is there anything Shiho can see using psychometry on:
1) the rooms in the palace, more specifically the throne or dungeons?
2) the snowknights
3) people who have a shard of their mirrors within themselves?

[crowsigliere]

Ahhh, my question was already answered in a hidden comment, mb!! Second question still applies!!

Just in case: are we supposed to report if our characters freeze over as well, or only if they've had their curse broken?

Re: QUESTIONS

[youwillbeunequaled]

If the snow knights have a limb cut off, can they reconstruct themselves out of snow?
(Yep still threading thing out over here in the ice palace~)