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♥ June (Dianir) Event Log

an expanse of blue space with a dim light shining down
June (Dianir) Event Log


There's a lot going on this month, plenty of work to be done. But as they say, many hands make light the work! And to make up for the grim and grey atmosphere awaiting those who decide to venture outside the barrier, the weather within the city limits is clean and clear, that perfect spot resting between hot and cold. The middle of Dianir brings to Havenwell the start of perfect summer weather. Be sure to give yourself a lovely break when you need to get away from the endless storm outside.



PROMPT I: Corridor of Lights
a park pathway lined by benches at night, lit by a line of streetlights '

Compared to how the weather and world beyond the barrier was a few years ago, the wilds these days appear far less harsh. While the constant storm of dust and debris appears to maintain its viciousness further out, and it is yet strong enough to obscure whatever source of light there is beyond the atmosphere, its tumultuous gusts are noticeably less harsh closer to the city itself. And, in fact, there even appears to be patches of green just outside the barrier, although the growth rapidly stops at a certain near-distance from the city. All together, this prompts those of the researchers to make an announcement: that they are allowing– no, they are asking the off-worlders for help in Phase I of repairing the mysterious train station to the south. What do they want the non-locals to do? To make a corridor meter by meter or even inch by inch if necessary, by placing the charged up crystal-conduits of last month on poles either side of a path, stringing them together with reinforced cable.
  1. As mentioned above, characters will be setting off beyond the barrier. The further characters trek as they set up the corridor, the more hazardous and darker the environment becomes. Further away from the city, even before reaching the train station ruins, light is scarce, and the world is cold, dry, and with winds as harsh as sandpaper. At some point, one's only source of light may be the flashlight attached to the exosuit front or the dim glow of the conduits themselves. Safe travels.

  2. Characters will all be given exosuits to wear beyond the barrier, which are custom-fitted to their body, as well as a conduit. While researchers encourage characters to continue engaging in touch as they march into the open, it isn't necessary to participate.They will also all be given a flare to use in case of emergency.

  3. Despite the improved quality of air beyond the barrier, staying out too long can still result in contracting a mysterious illness that involves chills, fever, malaise, and fatigue. The locals know of this illness as being borne from a mysterious miasma that permeates both air and ground outside. Touch alleviates the symptoms, but it takes time. If one is exposed while still beyond the barrier, characters can use their flare to signal for (player-discretion) NPC support to bring them back to the city. Tents will be set up by the locals to take in any injured or ill characters.

Once the corridor is fully finished with the conduits strung together by poles and cables, the makeshift highway will come to life by a dim, golden light reminiscent that of the barrier. Starting with the conduits nearest to the city, a shimmering, semi-translucent shield appears to dome over each section of the path until finally spanning its entire length, seemingly dispelling any miasma within. Just in case, though, the locals suggest to not remove one's exosuits just yet. This golden-lit corridor has an ethereal quality to it, muting the howling wind outside, as well as providing a sense of safety and warmth. A few local helpers can be seen standing in awe of this grand accomplishment, holding hands or linking arms as they marvel at the replicated barrier, walking down the path slowly. Some of them may even come up and thank the characters for their hard work. If they hadn't been made of metal, they are sure they would be shedding tears of joy.


PROMPT II: Chaining the Supply
a video game screenshot of two people attempting to capture a giant lizard in a jungle

With the highway finally established, the researchers are calling for the initiation of Phase II, involving more sets of volunteers (they know, they know, they're needy; but don't worry, they promise they'll compensate you with dora!).
  • Help with Supplies: Become a runner of supplies from point A to point B on the corridor, passing off items, cords, metal, electronics, to the next volunteer.
  • Help with Charging the Conduits: Regrettably, the consistency of the barrier surrounding the corridor is patchy in some areas. The locals are asking for help: simply engage in any form touch with someone next to a dimmer-looking conduit. They have even provided plush couches for characters to relax upon. What do you mean, that's not comfy? No worries, they'll also provide a privacy curtain for you. Alternatively, these couches can be used as a resting station for characters in need of a break.
  • Protect the Corridor: The light of the corridor is bound to attract a few curious and hostile wildlife to its source of light. Those who are brave enough may depart the safety of the corridor's barrier to combat or capture the creatures that would threaten its integrity. Please see below for list of potential wildlife encounters, and note that any engagement with these creatures generates a big risk of exposure to the miasma that may make a character severely ill and lethargic. Working with a partner is encouraged.

    For those who opt to attempt to capture some of the infected creatures, specialized nets will be provided to allow for safe catch-and-transport without making contact with the poison they exude. There will be an area designated for the captured creatures until they can be transported to one of the research labs. Some of the crystals have been moved to clear the area, and while they are held there, offworlders are encouraged to attempt a new experiment: can the crystals also purify the poison inside living creatures, as well as the air itself? If offworlders make contact within the creature's and the crystal's vicinity, can they be saved?

    If your character ends up capturing one of the creatures, please comment to this comment here noting which ones and how many.


These are the creatures that can be encountered on a character's path. Next to their names are the frequency with which they can be found and level of hostility. Characters can encounter either untainted or poisoned renditions of these creatures, if a regular version exists.
  • "The Apparitions" (uncommon - very hostile): a creature new to those both native and offworld, these ghost-like creatures can take any form, humanoid, robotic, animal. They are translucent and mostly featureless/faceless, floating from place to place and trying to stay out of sight. They prefer to perform sneak attacks, and should they make contact with someone's bare flesh or (if you're unlucky) phase through your suit, they are able to stun most people, capturing and preventing your escape as they begin to steal your thoughts. Whatever fleeting thing might pass through your mind as you make contact with them is devoured, whatever you're feeling is consumed. This effect can be halted by another person interfering and forcing the apparition to break contact, but they can only be harmed by those who have formed a physical connection with one another. Basically: don't be caught alone by one, or there will be no escape unless someone comes to your rescue. (Apparitions cannot be captured, only slain or driven away.)
  • Inky Black Spiders (common - hostile): These relatively small, black spider-like creatures have very basic melee attacks, using their fangs and their sharp legs to bite and claw at people. Those who were around in October when the wall broke will recognize them as the most common enemy back then. Their exoskeletons are hard and when they die, they smash into a black goo. They tend to travel in packs, using sheer numbers to overwhelm their prey.
  • One-Eyed Lizard (uncommon - docile): An iridescent scaly purple and green lizard approximately 8 to 10cm in length from tip to tail. It has a single eye at the top of its head that can rotate to see 360 degrees around it. This creature's main defenses are its tough hide and a spine on the tip of its tail which it whips at predators to dissuade them from eating it. It's more likely to run than fight, however, and can usually be found sunbathing on exposed rock with its eye closed.
  • "Bone Giraffe" (extremely rare - hostile): A nearly 20-foot tall, long-necked skeleton of a four-legged creature long dead with a single curved horn protruding from its skull and a sharp snout. It's usually found lying in a heap, as if it laid down and died that way. A black seven-petaled flower sometimes (but not always) grows from the skull and beneath the skeleton is an oily black film. Touching the oil slick activates the creature, which draws the oil up into the skeletal cage. Its main attacks are brute force, using its bony legs and neck to kick and slam against its prey, and its acid breath. It breathes a black fume that sizzles and burns anything it touches.
  • Rive Talon (rare - hostile - medium): In the past these creatures may have been canines of some form, now they seem to have melded with the detritus of the fallen buildings and creatures of the landscape. Extra spikes, ridges, and protrusions extend from its body at odd angles. Many of them are metal or stone, rather than bone. And some of the bones clearly were not originally its own.
  • Outskirts Hare (uncommon - docile): A shy creature, roughly the size and shape of an earth hare, covered in fuzzy-looking, curly pink hair and cat-like whiskers. Normally quite timid, this creature's poor eyesight causes it to flee when it feels threatened, and relies largely on a sense of touch to navigate its surroundings. Contact with this creature's fur is markedly pleasant, but its skin discharges an oil that causes mild skin irritation on contact when it's nervous. Active mostly at night time.
  • Ansaurini (rare - annoying): a bipedal feathered bird with sharp claws and teeth good for chomping; some possess flight capabilities, but the majority are prone to a lazy waddle. Mostly harmless and deceptively unassuming until you turn your back- and suddenly it's run off with something it stole off your person! They are excellent at escaping, though they can be traced back to their hoard, and if their collection is raided they will make a lot of noise in protest. Just watch your back- they will try again until you leave their territory. Truly, a horrible thing.


PROMPT III: Pop-Up Mouse Café
a line of five cartoon maid girls with mouse ears and tails

This month, the clergy of Ainea's temple are excited to announce a pop-up café for which people are free to volunteer or attend as guests. Whether a character decides to serve others or be served, the staff of the pop-up offers a headband with metallic mouse-ears on top for all to wear. They come in a variety of different hues of pinks and purples, colors that characters may recognize as being associated with Ainea. These headbands are wired to shift and turn with the moods of whoever is wearing them. The rest of the uniform, which includes formal black-and-white attire complete with frilled aprons, is optional. Featured items on the menu include teas and hot chocolates as well as a variety of (synthetic) artisan cheeses. Volunteers who decide to don the mouse-ears of the café will also be encouraged to serve snacks and drinks within the recovery tents set up for the workers who venture outside the barrier. Feeling ambitious? Those who manage to serve tea or cocoa to over five people in the recovery tents will be awarded a golden pin of a mouse they can proudly display on their uniform! Look your cutest, and get out there! You can also keep those ears.

At the end of the day, the staff will gather the group to take a photo together, local and off-worlder crew alike, to hang up on the temple wall. Supporting each other, coming together, and community through difficult times is a cornerstone of Ainea's teachings.




This event will run from June 15th to June 30th. Click on each prompt's title to see the text. If you have any questions, feel free to direct them to the FAQ or to the Mod Question thread. You can also use the Havenwell Status page or the General Plotting Comment to give you other ideas for original prompts!
ghoulserrand: (Blood)

[personal profile] ghoulserrand 2022-07-30 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[He listens quietly, head tilted. He imagines, if he were living, it would be nothing more than a funny story of a bad time, distance softening the unpleasantness. As he is, he feels a deep relief.]

Then... I owe you a lot... [Which sounds suspicious in and of itself, so he adds.] Apocalypse eating... isn't that great...
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[personal profile] this_loser 2022-07-30 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[He could laugh away the question, sidestep. It might not be super believable, but...

But he also remembers telling Machina that it's been five years since he last set foot on Eos. It's obviously been a while.]


...Yeah. Even before I got whooshed away from my world, it had been a while. [Or maybe, after Altissia, and the production facility, and Gralea, it just felt like it.] Don't think there'll be any races if...when I get back, either.
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[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2022-07-30 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
It is not impossible that the rate of expansion might increase as the restored portions grow? But even then it will be no easy feat to restore this world to what it was.

[Perhaps not impossible, but certainly a more involved effort than many people will likely be inclined to give. Especially when he suspects it to be something that will be measured in years, at least.]
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[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2022-07-30 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Merely that it is rather impractical were I to remain as I am now.

[If only because the logistics of cups are not particularly well-suited to it, without risking spilling one's drink.]

Though if you would not mind other positions, perhaps?
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[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2022-07-30 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Fortunately, perhaps, he is too worn out by his brief exertion to pass any comment on the way she finds herself flustered by the simple mention of her name spoken under the full weight of his gaze. Nor does he offer much argument at her attempts to offer comfort, unorthodox though they might be. They're still something, and he can yet manage to pick up on the intended meaning.

(Later, perhaps, he might speak more on such things, at least in regards to what he would be willing to accept from her. For now... it is more effort than he cares to go to.)]


If I never feel this again, it will be no great inconvenience.
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[personal profile] nomoresharks 2022-07-30 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
And that is without including the risk of an unfortunate accident involving the tea.

[He nods as if agreeing to some grand, sage advice.

And then, unable to help himself, an altogether different grin lights up his face.]


Oh? What positions were you thinking of?

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[personal profile] daikonrose 2022-07-30 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? [ There's a blink, and then Kyoko has to set down her cup so she can bring up both hands in gentle protest. ] No... I mean, that should be a general "you" at most? I said they started fixing it soon after I got here, but that's just how the timing worked out. It's something everyone was complaining about way before that, not just me.
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[personal profile] ghoulserrand 2022-07-30 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
General you... [He repeats, undeterred,] I owe a lot... You're still... included in all... of that change... I can still... express gratitude... to you, right...?
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[personal profile] astralera 2022-07-30 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You must be feeling very unwell to complain so little about it.

[ She gives his forehead another gentle pat, though this time it comes with a great deal more skill and care, along with another small push of aether. ]

Should I summon you to your bed?

[ It seems like it may be a more comfortable place to recover, though she doesn't know how well he would handle the summoning magic at the moment. ]
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[personal profile] tempusfinis 2022-07-31 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Machina turns his head slightly, glancing at Prompto through his exosuit's helmet. Judging from the other's expression and the shift in the, it seems it isn't nothing. ] Damn...Sorry to hear that.

[ Prompto had been one of the first few people to offer him help, even without knowing who Machina was when he had been freshly new to Havenwell. If Machina can lend an ear, it would be the least he could do in return. ] It got shut down, or something?
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[personal profile] daikonrose 2022-07-31 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
I really don't deserve that kind of credit, though... [ She did not anticipate thanks! Why is she being thanked! ] It's not like I'm the one who fixed the replicators, I just whined a little and did some taste tests. It's all part of the group effort to make it through this particular apocalypse, so you definitely don't owe anything! No--actually, decent food is owed to you! [ So there?! ]
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[personal profile] whenyouneedme 2022-07-31 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
"He'll survive."

Certainly he could withstand such a scandalous photo. Kai believed in him. Swinging himself back up, Kai slipped the tablet back away. "But fair's fair now, yeah? You can take a look if you want."

He grinned at her, even if she wasn't looking yet. "If you're worried about him getting other angles, that's up to you. I'm no good at selfies."
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[personal profile] carbungle 2022-07-31 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Noct's response is a heavy silence. What's he supposed to say to that? "Sorry we're sad you sacrificed all your memories of us and got nothing out of it"? "Sorry we can't pretend we're not affected by this"? He seriously doubts she'd expect them to, but it's not like he has much of a better response. It'd be way more convenient if they'd all forgotten her, too, and it was a net zero across the board, but he'd never volunteer that. His memories are too precious to him. Instead it leaves them with this awkwardness, and he's awful with dealing with that.

He looks away, as if something around them is somehow going to help him, but all they've got is Argos and those damn flowers and that's not doing him much good. He shuffles his feet and sighs.]


I can head back on my own, if that's easier.
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[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2022-07-31 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Emet-Selch raises his head slightly to look at Hythlodaeus at that, before ultimately letting it drop back down, either out of lingering exhaustion or simply due to the fact that the grin on Hythlodaeus' face is all he needs to see.]

Many. Though if you wish further clarification, I would rather not do so now.

[When he is feeling better, however, he would be more than glad to do so.]
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[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2022-07-31 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Would you rather I complained more?

[It's an honest question. Though he has not been much - and she's not wrong to assume that some of it is due to feeling thoroughly miserable - he could certainly make an effort to do so more. It might not do much in regards to actually changing matters, but he has ever been prone to it and there's a certain amount of comfort in it besides.

Her question, on the other hand, earns her a brief shrug.]


Should you be able to convince the attendants here of the merits of doing so.
Edited 2022-07-31 05:36 (UTC)
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[personal profile] nomoresharks 2022-07-31 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Now that is a welcome reaction. Whether or not it will be one that remains once Emet-Selch is fighting fit once more is another question entirely, but one he's more than happy to interrogate when the time comes for it.]

Consider a pin placed in it.

[A rather bright, flashy one.]

In the meantime, I will happily continue on with my duty as a comfortable pillow.
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[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2022-07-31 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[More of will remain that Hythlodaeus likely imagines. But for now, Emet-Selch is far too busy being downright miserable to offer any kind of insight on that front, much less attempt to guess at Hythlodaeus' thoughts.]

Would that I could say how long you will be asked to do so.

[Longer yet, that he can tell, given that he's still not feeling all that much better. But how much so, he cannot tell.]

Still, it is far better with you here.

[And not just for the sake of being able to use his lap as a pillow.]
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[personal profile] nomoresharks 2022-07-31 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
You say that as if I don't take pride in my duty.

[His smile softens, his voice fond as he continues to thread his fingers through Hades's hair.]

Wheresoever we may be, you can be assured that I shall always return to your side. That, I think, I have proved more than enough in your own time, have I not?
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[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2022-07-31 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
You have.

[There's a nod, even as his eyes start to slide gently shut as Hythlodaeus continues to run his fingers through his hair.]

Though I would have far preferred that it had not taken quite so long as it had.

[He knows well enough that there hadn't been anything he could do to change the situation, but still. He'd missed Hythlodaeus most terribly over those long millennia.]
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[personal profile] nomoresharks 2022-07-31 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
As do I. Or as I will, as it were, to make an assumption of future-me's thoughts on the matter.

[An action that may or may not be rude on his part, and one he hopes his future self will forgive him for.]

Get some rest. It may not cure your every ill, but I've no doubt you shall feel better for it.
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[personal profile] ghoulserrand 2022-07-31 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[He snorts. Then coughs out a full laugh. This is all very silly.]

Are you opposed... to being thanked...? I promise... I don't mean harm... to hold you up... too high... I'm just... glad for what's... been made here...
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[personal profile] tempusfinis 2022-07-31 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That concern only grows. Saying you're fine while having a coughing fit is not believable... at all, whether or not the other is apparently used to it. Screw manners at this point. ]

....Alright. Then let me be impolite. [ He turns on his heels, giving his companion a leveled look. ] We're heading back. Might as well double-check our suits, anyway.
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[personal profile] daikonrose 2022-07-31 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Kyoko had still been debating whether she could really endure looking directly at him like this, but with that suggestion there was a pause.

Hm. Hmm. Well.

Fiddling around to pull out her tablet, she slowly raised her head. "... Turn to the side," she mumbled.
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[personal profile] pinkmin 2022-07-31 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Someday they'd discover if plant people were susceptible to whatever was happening in there. Today was not that day.

Vianca mimicked the motion, tilting her head the other way.]

Lots of people work very hard. They forget resting is part of working hard too.
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[personal profile] pinkmin 2022-07-31 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a pretty ridiculous image to be fair, even if he'd been familiar with those sorts of decorations. She'd never seen a decorated train either, so it was taking her a moment to think of how to describe what she meant.

"A string of crystals," she repeated softly. "Like the ones strung on the poles, but wrapped around the train like... like wrapping it up in a scarf to keep warm."

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