⇨ WISMUTH: EVENT REWARDS

[ringleaders]

EVENT REWARDS!↴ The end of the event is drawing near, and while some key threads are still being resolved, the bulk of the plot's mysteries have been exposed in some form or another. This means it's time to talk about what will be happening as this event comes to a close - and in the case of this particular post, what your characters will be taking away from it! Theses are what will linger after the final megathread finishes, when the power of Creation leaves the new Guardians, its job completed. If they receive a Boon, they will have an instinctual knowledge of this fact. EVENT KEEPSAKES↴ A keepsake is a narrative advantage or plot boon, based on what your character did during a plot. In this case, it will be nebulous affects on the soul, determined by what team they were playing for. These are mostly roleplay affects and don't translate to new powers without the expenditure of activity points. ► ALL STAR GUARDIANS Everyone who served as a Star Guardian will gain this aspect. If desired, it can be reflected by a slight brightening of their soul colour, though this is not necessary. CREATION TOUCHED: Your connection to Creation has left a mark on your soul, and may be sensed by future NPCs or used a plot hook in the future. This will also give your character a slight magical propensity for spells involving concept related to creation, such as conjuring, abundance, life and positive emotions. ► ALL HARBINGERS OF VOID Everyone who served as a Harbinger will gain this aspect. If desired, it can be reflected by a slight darkening of their soul colour, though this is not necessary. VOID TOUCHED: Your connection to Void has left a mark on your soul, and may be sensed by future NPCs or used a plot hook in the future. This will also give your character a slight magical propensity for spells involving concept related to the void, such as destruction, reduction, absence, and negative emotions. ACTIVITY REWARDS↴ These rewards are for the players we've observed to go above and beyond when it comes to event activity, or who played their roles in particularly inventive or engaging ways. They have been chosen by a combination of doing rough comment counts, and by considering the context in which those tags occurred. Those who have selected will be listed alongside each reward. ► MAGICAL GIRL BONUS REWARDS Star Guardians or Harbingers that put an extra effort into getting themselves out there will be allowed to choose one of the following rewards. You can't have both. These have been chosen by weighing a combination of overall activity, effect on the plot, and participation in events. SIMPLE SPELL: Your character can retain a free simple spell related to their magical girl powers, and will be able to level it up to Complex for 30 pts instead of the 50 pts it would be usually. This power must be related to their Spark, and can represent either their Guardian or Harbinger form. RARE CHANGE: Your character can develop a Rare Change either immediately or over the next month, due to their high exposure to Creation and the Void. It doesn't have to be related to their Spark, but it can be. QUALIFIERS: Cole, Lambert, 9S, Rita, Steven, Carly, Papyrus, Childermass, Shima. ► BYSTANDERS PARTICIPATION REWARDS Even if your character wasn't a magical girl, their contributions and involvement were important, and have been noticed by Creation. Bystanders with notable or unique involvement in the plot may choose one of the following rewards to take. CREATION'S BOON: Creation has noticed your presence in events, despite the fact that it never lent you its power. In return, it has left its mark on you, in the form of a gift. Creation's Boon is a flexible, plot-focused favour from the very essence of existence that can be called upon at a time of your choosing. Its effects will depend on the situation, but ultimately you will be calling to Creation for its aid, and it will come. RARE CHANGE: Your character can develop a Rare Change either immediately or over the next month, due to their high exposure to Creation and the Void. It doesn't have to be related to their Spark, but it can be. QUALIFIERS: Tyki, Foster, Peridot, Joker, Strange, Gon. ► GRATEFUL GUARDIAN REWARD Before the Carnival departs Wismuth, some characters who went out of their way to render assistance to Noa will receive a small token of her thanks. FROG CHARMS: There's nothing inherently magical about these handmade cloth charms themselves, but a bit of Wismuth's peculiar energy lingers about them... for whatever reason, holding it in your hand seems to have a slightly calming effect. Maybe it's the gentle tinkle of the bell attached to it. QUALIFIERS: Yuya, Gon, Cole, Tamaki, Alphys, Jinx ► OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION REWARDS This is the ward for a special winner who was so incredibly present during this event that I got tired of counting their tags and gave up! Thank you for taking the initiative and helping this event to be a success. This character will receive both of the following rewards: SIMPLE SPELL: Your character can retain a free simple spell related to their magical girl powers, and will be able to level it up to Complex for 30 pts instead of the 50 pts it would be usually. This power must be related to their Spark, and can represent either their Guardian or Harbinger form. RARE CHANGE: Your character can develop a Rare Change either immediately or over the next month, due to their high exposure to Creation and the Void. It doesn't have to be related to their Spark, but it can be. QUALIFIERS: Yuya! And that's it! The finale portion of the end log will be going up tonight.

Comments

[kingsroads]

Strange is picking up Creation's Boon. place your bets as for how long it'll take him to ask Creation for help in getting out of a mess he made his own damn self.

Cole is getting a rare change of hand mouths.

[prazerbutterfly]

4 weeks

[ringleaders]

Bon appetit.

[prazerbutterfly]

Rare Change - Okay yeah thought about this and still going for very long prehensive panther tail with a lot of floof for Tyki

Time to get even more lazy

[ringleaders]

Sounds good!

QUESTION IN HERE-

[betheman]

QUESTION before I choose Carly's; would creating arrows of fire to shoot from her bow be something she can already learn to do using her existing fire magic arts? (They'd. Obviously use That Fire in both cases, but basically I want to check if she'd already be able to do this before going 'I'LLLL TAKE THIS SPELL!')

And on that note-

Gongenzaka - is taking Creation's Boon and a cutefrog! It suits him to be calling on life itself to lend a hand when times are Dire.

[ringleaders]

She could set existing arrows on fire with the regular power I imagine, but any fire "arrow" would basically be a regular fireball with more steps.

So if you wanted to have her shoot fire as a solid arrow with piercing qualities, that would probably have to be a new spell, yes. Also, obviously, if she is shooting fire from her manticore bow, they would not carry the petrification effect.

And, noted!

[fortuneglass]

In that case, if this looks good!

Carly - Simple Spell; Piercing Fire Arrows! If she can tack her existing flames on that, super, if not, that's Okay too.

Upgrading to Complex would probably mean doing one arrow splitting into Lots Of Arrows as she likely did as a guardian at the end.

Alternatively (I'm noting these two considerations here partly to not Lose It in RP Threads)- assuming the fire arrows are their own flame, I might use the Complex Upgrade to bump the fires to what they would have DONE as a Guardian; which is uplift and energize people, basically. (Reverse EnergyDrain, whoo!) (I WILL be upgrading I just. ....gotta decide so I'll comment on that later.............)

(ALSO good to know the fires wouldn't carry petrification-that's actually something preferable for her so this is Awesome)

[ringleaders]

To shoot lots of arrows, that would be Deadly. Considering there isn't much point in arrows besides killing people.

The simple version is approved tho, until you confirm one way or another.

[insidescoop]

THAT IS A FAIR POINT...

AH WELL she doesn't need that kind of firepower (heh)-

Giving it more thought, I think I'll work on her going after an energy-granting fire on something other than arrows, which would make it something to work on outside the event rewards... (Little more useful in that regard, not to mention Gongenzaka seems to be growing into my Support Guy)

I'll stick with the simple! We're all good here now! Plus that means Carly has enough for officially working at that Shadow Book now, hehe

[atouts]

Grabbing a simple spell based off of Childermass's tarot card, The Fool, which represents wind.

The simple spell version would be the ability to cause the wind to pick up in his direction of choice (while outside) and influence it enough to, like, blow smoke away, knock someone's hat off, or just have a nice cool breeze to enjoy. I will be spending 30 points to upgrade to a complex spell.

The complex version of it is he can do all of that and plus generate wind indoors, create windstorms like he did as a Harbinger, blow away/knock down people and incoming dangers (idk, like arrows? yeah, arrows) to an extent. He can also use it to move heavier stuff, e.g., direct the sails of a ship.

COST: 30 PTS

[ringleaders]

COOL.

[hippocarnival]

Simple Spell: Yuya will maintain the effects of his calming mist bubbles, adjusted for the fact that he no longer has a giant bubble wand.

He can either draw a perimeter with his staff, or reinforce and existing one, so that everyone coming inside of it will experience a subtle quelling of negative emotions, relaxing them. Obvious limitations to this include being resistant to mental influence, and the effect being slower/weaker the stronger a person's negative emotions are.

I'm also going to spend 30 points to upgrade to complex: In addition to the base effect being stronger it has a huge boost against violent feelings specifically, numbing the desire/will to hurt others. The same limitations otherwise apply.

Rare Change: A long, prehensile lizard-like tail with iridescent orange scales.

His soul is also going to get a touch lighter thanks to Creation, we're just stacking purification on top of purification here.

COST: 30 PTS

[ringleaders]

COOL.

[spaghettimonster]

Simple Spell: Papyrus will be surprised (and dismayed) to learn he's keeping some of his spark's power. Thankfully, though, it seems to be the Guardian version.

As a simple spell, Papyrus may summon a bone of dream dust instead of a magic bullet. It's far too soft to do anything but crumble with pressure, resulting in a dust that can be tossed at people to help them see the silver lining - to think a little more optimistically, have an easier time imagining possibilities, and so on. A gentle nudge, not enough to single-handedly overcome depression or anything.

Question: would mild hallucinations and sedative properties be feasible with a complex spell upgrade? I don't intend it to be as effective as it was against NPC humans, or to have any of the physical sharpness demonstrated in the thread with Sans. It's all dust here.

APPROVED

[ringleaders]

Yep, if you want to upgrade for 30 pts with something like that, it's totally doable.

[criticallyfucked]

Foster is taking Creation's Boon, which he will probably use trying to do something stupid for RM's "benefit."

APPROVED

[ringleaders]

RAD

[pipers_son]

For the Bystander Participation, Joker will be getting a rare change in the form of that one arm I asked about ages ago!

tldr an arm similar to the body he had as an angel in the Portland event, where his entire body was a humanoid body of light but with wings. Just, now it's only the arm. The color would be constantly shifting, much like that of an aurora.

Not sure if it would be angel-like only in appearance, make the angelic part of his nature more obvious, or is just what he already has particularly concentrated in the arm. I only ask because I need to make sure Tyki isn't accidentally injured when him and Joker are fucking around lmao, or if it's something up to my choice. Creation + angelic origin = questions

[ringleaders]

Whether or not it has angelic properties is pretty much up to you. You just gotta decide one way or the other and stick with that answer.

The rest of this is approved.

[whattaprick]

After hemming and hawing endlessly about it: Lambert will be taking a simple spell that works along the lines of Freedom of Movement.

Basically, Lambert can make himself or anyone he touches able to move normally even if they're under physical or magical effects that affects their body and would restrain their movements. They'll manage to evade attempts to grapple them. The effect lasts for ten minutes.

[ringleaders]

COOL.

[dressedtothe]

Rare Change: A second mouth on the back of his head containing a very long spinal chord 'tongue' that reaches his butt. The bone tongue is not prehensile and can't be used as an effective weapon.

How does all that fit in his skull? Magic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ringleaders]

That's horrible, also it's approved.

[anti_nonsense]

Simple Spell: Knowledge enchantment. With this ability, Rita will be able to imbue an object with information. Should another person touch that object, they'll telepathically receive that information.

Only one object can be enchanted at a time, and the amount of information stored is limited to what would normally fit on a single piece of paper.

[ringleaders]

That's a good spell, it's approved.

[worldlyafflictions]

Simple Spell: Based on his Harbinger ability to manipulate perception and create illusions with that, I'd like Shima to have a limited ability to become 'invisible', working kind of like the Moonwalking Bear awareness test thing, lol, where his presence will be missed or overlooked when he's actively using the spell. It wears off the longer someone is exposed to his presence and may not work at all on someone looking for him specifically.

[ringleaders]

That sounds reasonable. APPROVED.

[periphrasing]

MONTHS LATER, confirming that Peridot is taking that creation boon. I'm a fucking winner,