Snow Queen plot summary!

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The true kickoff of Snow Queen and Gerda's month-long plot happened yesterday night, and we want to thank everyone who participated for making it great! If you couldn't make it, you can definitely handwave participating in either portion (though not both with the same character!) or just jump into one of the other events when you're ready - there'll be things related to this continuing all month, TBA!

In the meantime, a summary of events so far:

Previously, On Snow Queen Versus Aather
❄ Snow Queen reacted badly to the coming springtime, first with ominous stormclouds that blocked anyone from coming close to her mountains, next with sinking temperatures, and finally by revealing her hand with a game. A powerful storm swept in during the game, burying everyone's progress towards springtime and freezing the lake again, but the heroes' answers affected her in the form of a crack across her face.

❄ While the unlock after the game proved that Avalon, the heart of Camelot's power, was still strong enough to hold out against the winter, several days of [BLIZZARD INTENSIFIES] made it clear that this was deliberate, unwanted aggressive action on Snow Queen's part.

❄ With this in mind, Guinevere called Snow Queen out with Lancelot, with some discussion of her plans afterwards. She noted that she plans to consult with Gerda!

❄ Guinevere invited everyone to a meeting - and perhaps more. (ooc announcement)


That meeting took place last night! It took place in three parts, a short discussion of what to do followed by a simultaneous period of exploration and confronting the Snow Queen.

Points of Note:
❄ Guinevere and Gerda's initial speech let the heroes know what the problem was - Gerda is here because she and Snow Queen are from the same story and Gerda opposes her for the sake of someone who's missing! Her counsel is needed because the recent weather is a sign of Snow Queen's role in preserving stasis overcoming her such that she's inspired to continue "protecting" Camelot by freezing it again, and despite the mountains being impassable Gerda wants to get through her defenses while there's a weakness present.

❄ Upon much discussion of plans, Roxas mentions underground tunnels and Guinevere remembers a hidden escape route that may serve that purpose! It's decided that a group will go explore underground to try and see if the crack in Snow Queen's defenses has extended down that far while another group distracts her.

❄ Merlin gave the heroes an artifact that he seemed to think would be useful before the exploration group headed down into the tunnels.

This led to splitting of the exploration and confronting the Snow Queen teams! The exploration team explored a network of cavernous tunnels, found a bunch of strange intersections of Camelot and the Snow Queen's story, made a few frostbite-inducing bad decisions, and eventually reached the breach to see Gerda through while anchoring her to this realm with Merlin's rope. The group confronting the Snow Queen (assisted by Nimue and Lancelot) challenged her in many ways on many angles of the natures of change, warmth, and permanence. They succeeded in provoking an unusual reaction, one which also allowed Gerda through in the first place.

Further Items Of Note:
❄ Snow Queen is still attempting to dump as much snow as possible on Camelot daily, but the shrieking blizzard winds have broken and it's falling quietly.

❄ Morgan noticed that Merlin missed something and acerbically stepped in to help the heroes, so there's now a way to check up on how Gerda is doing in the Snow Queen's realm, using Morgan's charmed fire and Gerda's continuing connection to Kit through Merlin's lifeline! Right now you can't see much, but that could change in the future...

❄ All flavortext found in the explore is collected here. You can feel free to consult it if you want to figure out exactly what your character saw down there while handwaving exploration!

❄ Hearing what other people talked about when distracting the Snow Queen is similarly up to player discretion! If you choose to handwave that part and wish to engage with the other players' arguments in that way, please talk to them about it — otherwise you can assume your argument contributed to Snow Queen's cracking up. ♥

❄ Who got which items from the explore is here - if you choose to handwave being present, you may wish to chat with the person who found them about whether or not they saw your character or interacted with them there, especially in cases like Katou's finding a mirror shard with darkness in it. Anyone can have been present for Gerda talking about a friend of hers, though.

❄ If you've decided to handwave some aspect of plot and have a specific plan in mind for what would have happened, feel free to comment here and we'll work your contribution into any future things that draw on what happened in this event! ♥



I THINK THAT IS EVERYTHING. Thank you all again for being a terrific group to run for, and remember that our next installment of this plot is on Sunday, November 24!

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