WEEKLY UPDATE May 25 - 31

[thecanopycrew]

weather

It's getting even hotter this week, the warmth accompanied with a thunderstorm on Thursday. Lightning will strike close to the tree, but thankfully the following rain will quickly take care of the smoldering aftermath.

The sky remains clear until Saturday, when it starts getting cloudy and gray again. This continues into next week.

flora

The tulips and the poppy are still growing nicely, pretty and colorful petals brightening up the outside of the tree. The dandelions are puffing up into white balls, ready to release their seeds.

At the edge of the mist, the raspberry bush is starting to flower.

After the attempts to solve the quest that backfired so badly, large oak leaves have fallen all over the ground outside.

fauna

More and more animals are starting to appear around the tree. Bumblebees, honeybees, wasps and other similar insects are swarming all over flowers and the tree's trunk, the mother rabbit is eating dandelions and birds are singing endlessly from dawn to dusk.

In Chime's shop, the bluebird has laid three little eggs and now remains even at night to incubate them under her feathers.

Outside the mist, deer can be seen wandering the forest, and a fox will be sniffing around the boundaries.

events

Things still seem kind of calm around the tree, but those that get close to the crystals that are blocking the last floor might hear the smallest little musical tone now and then.

quests

The adventurers have valiantly attempted to solve the quest with all kinds of ideas on how to hold hands and use their gems, but none of them have so far managed to solve it.

After trying to put Night gems against the large Day gem and vice-versa, they started a shocking turn of events that left the gems cracked. That had a bad effect on Chime as well, who nearly died.

While the gems were healed thanks to some clever adventurers and Chime was saved, the main quest has failed and the words on the mirror have shattered. Contrary to what was espected however, there doesn't seem to be an immediate backlash for failing?

ATP is next weekend, so tell us what characters you're looking for!

Comments

QUESTIONS

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PLOTTING

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Sewing Lessons Request

[princeandscholar]

So, an interesting fact recently came to light in the FAQs! Did you know we can make our own clothes?

Since everyone will need another spare change of clothes eventually – and some of our characters don’t know the first thing about fashioning their own outfits – is anyone willing to offer sewing lessons? Nothing fancy, just basic guidance: how to measure, cut patterns, make buttons and ties, create a finished piece, etc. It would make a fun side activity and I'd be happy to explore ideas with someone if they're up to it.

Re: Sewing Lessons Request

[alley_kit]

Well Kit can already do basic repairs, like sewing buttons on and repairing rips and the like. But she's perfectly willing to learn the big stuff too. :)

[gandere]

I've had Rin working on stuff like this for a while so it's good to have confirmation. I was planning to have her bring up clothing in the last meeting, but irl kept me away from the game for a few weeks there so I was unable to do so. I'd still be glad to have her help out if necessary.

[braavado]

Not sure if it has been mentioned anywhere, but Korra's also made a handful of faerie-sized needles for sewing projects and can hand them out to whoever needs them.

[2wei]

I'm definitely up for having Illya learn how to make clothes, since she only has her normal winter outfit + any magical transformation outfits that Ruby makes explicitly for her. It will definitely be like an arts and crafts project, so she won't have any problems learning it personally, although shenanigans might happen because her kaleidostick can kind of transform her into various outfits (that are definitely Not Normal because Ruby's taste is weird).

So, uh, if anybody wants to see any magical clothing transformations, that's probably going to happen when they decide to come as a group and start wanting to make clothes/sewing.

[knight_king]

Is there any character interesting or capable to deal with animal domestication or taming including breeding? Saber was conversing with Archer earlier about turning the rabbits into cattle animals (farm animals are too big for them now) if that is possible, she's wary they will stay long enough to see the winter and they could provide pelts and meat.

Foraging and hunting would exhaust their resources in the long run.

welcome committee stuff

[gandere]

It was mentioned before both OOCly and ICly that there should be some kind of welcoming committee. While I think for now a feast/mingle log might be a bit ambitious, I'd like to see if there was any interest in making little baskets for newcomers as well as temporary housing until they found someone they wanted to live with?

I just wanted to poke around and see if any folks wanted to get started on that sometime this week. If so, I can do an amber + action post to get the ball rolling, see what the characters can come up with and who would like to do what.

QUEST ROUNDUP

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[princeandscholar]

I'd just like to thank everyone for the awesome time we had in our last minute rush to solve the riddle. It was lots of fun. ^_^ (Let's try to get the next one!)

MOUNT RENTAL

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Re: MOUNT RENTAL

[greatrage]

Not a request for a rental, but a suggestion;

Bats as night mounts! :D THEY"RE SO CUTE

[sleepwardsnored]

Not sure if I should be putting this in here or in the questions section but--

Would it be possible for Link's Loftwing to show up at some point? Bite-sized, of course. It's a personal mount/soulmate deal in canon so I'm not sure how that'd work out.

Re: MOUNT RENTAL

[knight_king]

Remember this? I didn't have time to play this then, but I may this week or next?

I have a question since I'm planning, could the animal return to the mount rental while Saber remains anchored and someone helps her to get to the fifth floor to get her gem back?

ATP

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Dragon Age

[formerslave]

Want: Mage!Garret Hawke, Anders, any other DA II characters, Inquisition characters.

Have: Fenris, Warden-Commander Surana

Magic Knight Rayearth

[monster_san]

Umi or Hikaru would be fantastic, but tbh I'd love to see anyone from the canon. Anime, manga, OVA, whatever. does anyone even play from the OVA haha

Fate/

[knight_king]

Want: Sakura Matou, Kiritsugu Emiya, Irisviel, Manaka, Waver, Bazett, Karen, Avenger, Kirei Kotomine, Lancelot, Gawain, Merlin, Mordred, Miyu, Kuro, every Lancer, Berserker, Archer, Ruler, Rider, Caster, Saber, Assassin, etc. I would personally like anyone from Fate/Prototype Fragments because of the potential confusion that could cause.
Have: Archer (FSN), Saber (Zero&FSN), Emiya Shirou, Rin Tohsaka, Illya (Prisma).

Steven Universe

[gempathic]

Have: Steven Universe

Want: Anybody! Any of the Gems, Greg, or Connie would be especially fantastic.

[sirpisspot]

Want: Any Assassin Ever and especially Elise de la Serre.

Have: Arno Dorian.

Samurai Warriors

[hakanai]

Want: Anyway really, from any version of the series, but special requests for Nagamasa, Oichi and Mitsunari.

Have: Takatora and Yoshitsugu (SW4)

[sleepwardsnored]

gently raises hand

yet more Links

Vampire Knight

[cocooned]

Not sure if this is too late...!

Want: Kaname, Aidou, Ichiru, Takuma, and more!

Have: Zero, Yuuki

Akatsuki no Yona

[backstory]

Have: Yona, Hak, Kija, Jae-Ha

Want: Zeno, Yoon, Shin-Ah, Tae-Jun, Soo-Won, Lilli