kusuriuri | medicine seller

SETTING UPDATES:

• Autumn begins kicking off late into the month, including some leaves changing colours and the mysterious smell of pumpkin spice in the air. Ydalir, who is addicted to pumpkin spice and may be the reason the entire Grove smells like it, declines to comment.
• All of the NPCs I sort of took out with a bat last month are back in operation; everyone is awake and roaming and we have left Hyperspace behind. Zonari is back on her feet and is now largely staying within the Grove at this time. She has Lore for you, should you seek it.
• The Seaborn are migrating! Where are they going!! Weeeeell—

PLOT UPDATES:

• This month’s event is brought to you by Rubie, who also wrote this next section because I forced her to. :) Everyone say thank you Rubie!
• This month’s event will take place on the beach! The Seaborn have sent invitations to everyone for a glorious carnival as a thank you for being so kind to them! This one won’t have your fears chasing you probably!!!
• On heading to the beach, everyone will be met with a bunch of additions to the beach that include:
  • Thrill rides made out of leftover carapaces and a lot of coral, held together with Netherbrand on the inside like glue. Most of said rides use water to run them, and have tons of Seaborn inside of them to keep them running.
  • Stages for theater and music played by the Seaborn for entertainment
  • Plenty of food! :)
  • Carnival games that are all relatively easy to win, but the prizes are… strange.
  • Other miscellaneous things like dunk tanks and inflatable water courses, but all the “mechanical work” and the inflatables themselves are just Seaborn working or laying there.
• The caveat is that… well, eating Seaborn food – and it’s hard to avoid, considering anything else in the area seems to be inedible – will eventually turn you Seaborn. Eldritch, sea-faring monstrosities. Normally, the maddening words of what equate to the Seaborn Gods would also live in your heads, but… fortunately, you seem to have been spared this for now.The process is gradual and the Seaborn corruption can be as subtle or intense as you like.
• Being Seaborn now, however, means that you will be stripped of any powers or otherwise brought over from your home worlds. However, magic regained here at the Grove will be still available to everyone.
• The Seaborn strongly encourage you to not head back to the Grove for now, and set a curfew for midnight. If you try going back, or you stay up past this time, you will be met with illusory hellscapes of your own making. Much like the memories of grief one experiences in touching the Nethersea brand, these mindscapes are tailored to your character and either their grief or their regrets. Those around you will also be stuck in these mindscapes with you, sometimes even imposing their own problems into the space.
  • This doesn’t have to be entirely different from the environment around you – for example, someone who can’t let go of their past might find that they walk through doors only to end up right back where they entered it, someone who are caught up with something they can never have might find staircases to be never-ending, no matter how long they climb up it, someone who lost their family might be walking through the sandy beach with hundreds of gravestones that tower above…! (If you would like, I can help you come up with something if you are lost for ideas!)
• These mindscapes won’t affect those who stay at the beach and sleep when they should, but as the month progresses, they’ll find themselves fairly restless with the sound of a raging ocean keeping them up when they try sleeping.
• This event will end with a boss battle of sorts, that will not be on the main log but a separate one that will need sign-ups for below. This boss battle is going to be in the ocean and on ships, and largely collaborative with Grove-given magic and your new Seaborn-y forms! The scale of the battle will be adjusted depending on the amount of sign-ups. Only one character of yours is allowed to sign-up.

OOC UPDATES:

• Do your AC :)
• This month is a TDM. Bring me little guys and turn them into eldritch horrors. Pls thank :)
• If you go to the Discord under Art Gallery and open the pins, there’s a ton of reference images of Seaborn pinned. Jump to and scroll down from there because I didn’t want to pin everything I sent lmao. Use it for inspiration! Become a guy! I’m not your dad.
• I cannot think of a single thing I did this month work-wise other than update the map. Sorry chat, big love!
  • Currently I’m playing with the idea of allowing you guys to regain additional buildings to fill out the space with more businesses/town things/etc, particularly ones that can be managed by “ghosts” to eliminate the “my character wouldn’t buy this but I want this” IC limitations. Let me know if this is a wanted thing or not.
• Also let me know if there are any BAC or event requests so I can get them on the books! Right now events are planned through Jan 2027 so yay hooray \o/ but I have no additional BAC things at this time, so again. Let me know. Tell me everything your hearts desire.
• Loveyouguybye

Please use the following form for plotting:

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CR: Who is your character? Any special powers or things they have going on? Any specific CR you want to kickstart?
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Not Seeking: Anything you'd like to avoid.
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