The night of the full moon is unusually warm after the recent winter weather, and those who follow the sound of music floating through the woods, the path lined by fairy lights, will find that it only grows warmer the further they go. By the time they reach the Carnival, there's no snow on the ground at all - only lush, newly-grown grass and ( Read more... )

While the rest of the Wood is still locked in winter, this particular clearing is unusually warm for the recent weather. Outside the perfect circle of massive white-barked trees, the ground is covered in a patchy layer of snow, half-melted and refrozen several times by the look of it. Here inside the fairy ring, the new arrivals will wake dry dirt ( Read more... )

( Bruce Banner - i’ll offer up a song i was made to play )

Some time around midnight, the statue goes dark. Frost crackles up its sides with abnormal speed, and the eyes light up with an intense and sickly green glow. Seconds tick by as silence fills the Wood, and then light blazes up from the statue once again, painfully bright, and soundless pressure roars through the clearing with enough speed and ( Read more... )

( GROUP TWO - NORTH )