Drumroll please.
You've been waiting. You've been plotting, patiently, and counting down the days. Slowly, but surely, the need to know has been nibbling away at your soul. But no longer shall you suffer! Like a herald of fun and goodness, I bring you .... the final event details and timeline for the family AU event! [Please, save your applause for the end of the performance.]
For those in need of a refresher course, or just a handy dandy list (in reverse chronological order!): here is the last planning post with world details/family trees, here is the first family tree planning post, and here is the original announcement.
What this post will do is fully clarify the mythology behind this event... and give you all a choice of how long you'd like it to last.
Remember from the previous post how the Malnosso are known, in this alternate Luceti, as sort of mysterious benefactors? Well, there is in particular one member of the Malnosso who is well known -- both for his communication with the villagers and for his contact with The Great One -- whose name is Catherine, though he is also known as Bil.
Bil acts as an envoy, you see. Both for the Malnosso at large, and for The Great One.
Who is this Great One, I hear you ask? Well, we all know him as a certain "John." However, to Lucetians of this alternate world, he is a highly enigmatic figure of no name -- they know only his title.
But his title comes with the due amount of reverence you'd expect. All of Luceti looks up to The Great One, which is why, every year, the Lucetians plan a festival in his honor! And wouldn't you know it, that festival will just so happen to coincide with the dates for our event!
The idea here is to give our characters something to do ICly while we all chortle over their ridiculous familial relations OOC. Your characters can pitch in with any number of things to help plan and pull the festival off -- set up food stands, plan out games, help organize, create art and music, whatever a festival dedicated to The Great One might contain! We're not going to give specific outlines precisely because we want you guys to be creative. Feel free to work with other muns in creating attractions and things to do for the festival! It will occur in the main plaza towards the last few days of the event.
Because of the timing, and due in part to the assumption that the characters would likely have been planning this festival at least weeks if not months in advance, feel free to assume that plans for this festival are in medias res at the start of the event. Please use this post, if you wish, as a planning space for things you'd like to see/make happen at the festival! (This doesn't really require ornate detailing, so don't feel obligated to do something. It's just there if you want the option!)
However, that's not all. You see, all is not well beneath this quiet, pastoral surface. In brief, in the last few days of the event, villagers will start having dreams about their "real" lives -- that is, they will dream of memories from the true Luceti, as well as their true canons. There will also be beasties. Yes, beasties, coming from the woods, and you'd better stop them -- after all, you wouldn't want The Great One's festival to be ruined, would you?
Now. All of this is being summed up rather briefly for a reason. You see, we are offering you all with a choice: this event will last for either seven days OR ten days. Meaning it will either start on the 21st and end the 27th, or it will start on the 18th and end the 28th. Here are some rough timelines for how each would go.
One week:
21st: Things kick off, shenanigans ensue, people work on their festival plans.
24th: Bil arrives in the village to oversee the festival, which occurs on this day. (And, you know, make sure everything is perfect. Not that he has any personal investment in it!)
25th: The beasties begin to appear in the forest, creeping into the outskirts of the village. Also starting this night, the dreams of characters' true lives begin.
27th: Event ends at midnight. Have a nice wake up call, Luceti.
Ten days:
18th: Same deal. Things, shenanigans, planning, etc.
22st: Bil arrives. Festival ensues! Good times.
24th: The dreams begin. In this scenario, they start off more slowly before allowing bigger reveals towards the end of the event.
25th: BEASTIES. (Starting around midday.)
28th: The end.
We offer this option because the event had at one point been envisioned as a 10-day affair, until we became uncertain that much time was necessary. Well -- what do you think, Luceti? Would you like a more extended plot (where happenings are more evenly spaced out) or a shorter plot (where happenings are smooshed together, but it's all a bit quicker/more exciting)?
Why not tell us in a POLL:
Poll DATES
However, I would like to clarify one thing. Please DO NOT use this post for further family planning! The previous posts are available for that. If you plan anything here, it should only be for the festival, or other things related to either the dreams or the beasties.
For those in need of a refresher course, or just a handy dandy list (in reverse chronological order!): here is the last planning post with world details/family trees, here is the first family tree planning post, and here is the original announcement.
What this post will do is fully clarify the mythology behind this event... and give you all a choice of how long you'd like it to last.
Remember from the previous post how the Malnosso are known, in this alternate Luceti, as sort of mysterious benefactors? Well, there is in particular one member of the Malnosso who is well known -- both for his communication with the villagers and for his contact with The Great One -- whose name is Catherine, though he is also known as Bil.
Bil acts as an envoy, you see. Both for the Malnosso at large, and for The Great One.
Who is this Great One, I hear you ask? Well, we all know him as a certain "John." However, to Lucetians of this alternate world, he is a highly enigmatic figure of no name -- they know only his title.
But his title comes with the due amount of reverence you'd expect. All of Luceti looks up to The Great One, which is why, every year, the Lucetians plan a festival in his honor! And wouldn't you know it, that festival will just so happen to coincide with the dates for our event!
The idea here is to give our characters something to do ICly while we all chortle over their ridiculous familial relations OOC. Your characters can pitch in with any number of things to help plan and pull the festival off -- set up food stands, plan out games, help organize, create art and music, whatever a festival dedicated to The Great One might contain! We're not going to give specific outlines precisely because we want you guys to be creative. Feel free to work with other muns in creating attractions and things to do for the festival! It will occur in the main plaza towards the last few days of the event.
Because of the timing, and due in part to the assumption that the characters would likely have been planning this festival at least weeks if not months in advance, feel free to assume that plans for this festival are in medias res at the start of the event. Please use this post, if you wish, as a planning space for things you'd like to see/make happen at the festival! (This doesn't really require ornate detailing, so don't feel obligated to do something. It's just there if you want the option!)
However, that's not all. You see, all is not well beneath this quiet, pastoral surface. In brief, in the last few days of the event, villagers will start having dreams about their "real" lives -- that is, they will dream of memories from the true Luceti, as well as their true canons. There will also be beasties. Yes, beasties, coming from the woods, and you'd better stop them -- after all, you wouldn't want The Great One's festival to be ruined, would you?
Now. All of this is being summed up rather briefly for a reason. You see, we are offering you all with a choice: this event will last for either seven days OR ten days. Meaning it will either start on the 21st and end the 27th, or it will start on the 18th and end the 28th. Here are some rough timelines for how each would go.
One week:
21st: Things kick off, shenanigans ensue, people work on their festival plans.
24th: Bil arrives in the village to oversee the festival, which occurs on this day. (And, you know, make sure everything is perfect. Not that he has any personal investment in it!)
25th: The beasties begin to appear in the forest, creeping into the outskirts of the village. Also starting this night, the dreams of characters' true lives begin.
27th: Event ends at midnight. Have a nice wake up call, Luceti.
Ten days:
18th: Same deal. Things, shenanigans, planning, etc.
22st: Bil arrives. Festival ensues! Good times.
24th: The dreams begin. In this scenario, they start off more slowly before allowing bigger reveals towards the end of the event.
25th: BEASTIES. (Starting around midday.)
28th: The end.
We offer this option because the event had at one point been envisioned as a 10-day affair, until we became uncertain that much time was necessary. Well -- what do you think, Luceti? Would you like a more extended plot (where happenings are more evenly spaced out) or a shorter plot (where happenings are smooshed together, but it's all a bit quicker/more exciting)?
Why not tell us in a POLL:
Poll DATES
However, I would like to clarify one thing. Please DO NOT use this post for further family planning! The previous posts are available for that. If you plan anything here, it should only be for the festival, or other things related to either the dreams or the beasties.