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☃ the last summary of winter
❄ The summary of the plot kickoff/tunnel to the Icefields exploration (explore # 1) is here!
❄ The summaries of Gerdaquest sessions # 1 (Kai and Gerda’s houses) and # 2 (the river) are here!
❄ The summaries of Gerdaquest session # 3 (the flower field) and the robbers’ castle (explore # 2) are here!
❄ The summaries of Kvitoya (explore #3), Nimue's call to help her lake, Gerdaquest #4 (Lapland), and the avalanche in the Icefields and Camelot are here!
This is the final set of summaries! WE'LL TRY TO KEEP IT BRIEF. There are two sides to this last part of the plot, Camelot's side and the Icefields' side! They took place at the same time, so I'll cover them separately and show where they link up.
In accordance with what Guinevere had said about trying to get realm personae to gather power for a response to the Snow Queen's attack on afternoon 307, the Camelot personae held several small quests or events to build their mutual strength:
❄ Gathering Power (Camelot Side)
- Afternoon 307: Guinevere offered and then started recollecting small "springglobes," snowglobes that would change to a springtime scene if warm thoughts and an offering of strength were given to them.
- Evening 307: Lancelot hosted a fight club with small prizes for winners!
- Night 307: Morgan inspired people to hold hands!
- Morning 308: After everyone was provisioned and rested, Guinevere opened the way to the Icefields, which people followed. ***
- Morning 308: Once the people who went to travel with Gerda were gone, Guinevere immediately called a meeting to decide what to do with the power that had been accumulated: what form will it take? The decision was made to hold an awesome feast to defy the snow with warmth and unity.
- Morning through evening 308: Preparation, feasting, and merriment! [note: general hiatus options (1, 2) were provided here for those remaining in Camelot who needed an excuse not to participate!]
- Evening 308: Finale!✝
AT THE SAME TIME, though starting slightly later and on a generally different progression of events:
❄ A Journey (Icefields side)
*** This doesn't start till Morning 308 in Aather's time, and it covers more time than the few hours of their absence from Aather proper - time doesn't line up between the realms, and it took several days inside the Icefields to make the overland journey to the Snow Queen's palace.
- Morning 308/Day 1(???): After everyone was provisioned and rested, Guinevere opened the way to the Icefields, which people followed. Kit - the person anchoring Gerda to Camelot - crossing the threshold of the realm through the crack between them rather than through the fire's magic had the result of loosing Gerda's anchor and slingshotting the whole group to Gerda and Bao. Once everyone had caught up, it was time to try to make it through a mountain pass blocked by an avalanche that was blocking Gerda's way. In the process of finding the underground path through, the heroes discover a few disturbing things: an ice bee with haphazardly growing organic parts, echos of flight from a darkness attack, the memory of a boy drinking from a familiar cup, and objects truncated in an attack. It ended with the decision to rest for the night, warming each other with stories out of sight of the Darkness attacking the boundaries of Snow Queen's realm.
- Day 2(???): Heroes broke through the last of the mountain pass to find a beach from which they could see the island of Spitzbergen, the location of Snow Queen's home. Bao left, unable to cross the ocean - everyone else had an opportunity to examine things on the beach first. They included a letter about someone named K—, fragments of Snow Queen's story, and malevolent mirrors made of Darkness'd ice, with an unfortunate status effect.
- Days 2(???)-(???): A couple of days of travel took place here! Characters had more tent sleepovers, talked to Gerda, speculated on their situation, and continued to make faces at the watery Darkness mirrors till they got to their destination.
- Day ???: Heroes entered Snow Queen's palace and found some things you should really glance over if your character was in the Icefields. They included a lot of seasonal references emphasizing a former balance of other seasons with winter, a glimpse of Snow Queen's original nature, some clues as to how the heroes were changing her, and several different snippets of perspective on the Darkness attacking Snow Queen's palace -- the event that originally forced her to flash freeze it with her power at great personal cost. At the end, they met the Snow Queen, who was profoundly weary and hurt from the changes enacted on her person and role by her previous ideological battles with the heroes. After various offers of support in this difficult time, a more substantial offer of knight patronage to help Frost continue trying to find her heart, and a gesture of Irisviel's that gave her hope, Snow Queen agreed to try to find another way with everyone else back at Camelot. She returned the explorers there... just in time to interrupt the feast.
✝ Evening 308: Finale!
As you can see, the runs link up again at the finale, so starting from that point:
❄ ☈ ☼ A Conclusion
- Evening 308
Worn down and weary and ready to try anything to make sense of what'd been happening to her, Snow Queen came back to Camelot with her trespassers and apologized for her actions and the pressure of her role, requesting help in struggling against it. The heroes had already changed her enough that further change was the only way forward, but the snow still needed to get out of Camelot! Various suggestions for how to do this were put forward, and while Guinevere protected everyone's bodies and Gerda protected everyone's hearts against the ice of Snow Queen's power, everyone did their best to direct it. The redirection of the snow went as follows:
☼ Back towards the Snow Queen's territory, to protect it while she and Gerda rest and recover in their own realm.
☼ Back to the previous realms (the Forest, Three's, and Wonderland), to help defend them against the dark and bring them into a truer balance and progression of seasons again. The possibility was also brought up that the Snow Queen could send a smaller winter to other realms once the heroes had fully freed them, preventing the Darkness from trying to edge into them again after the heroes moved on.
☼ Creating crystal spyglasses, some crystal jars that seem to hold a miniature snowstorm inside (open the jar and it'll surround you in a thin layer of snowflakes that protects you from physical damage for a few minutes), two small iceboxes, some very lifelike hand-size ice figurines of whoever Kaoru was thinking of cloning, and a small heap of live crocuses and snowdrops, ready to plant.
☼ Fixing the snow seals so that they won't melt, transforming some into real freshwater seals to live in Nimue's lake, and creating some new tiny snow animals - a couple of penguins, a couple of sheep, an otter, and one or two of any others people were thinking of.
☼ ☼ ☼
We'd like to thank you all for your participation and input on this plot, even if it was quite long and situated during a busy time! It went very differently than we expected as a result of your amazing decisions. ♥ This is not the end of Snow Queen and Gerda's story, and we have some stuff in mind to pursue further (such as a DISTINCT LEGACY ROLE in upcoming stuff, STAY TUNED!) buuut we're. not going to be running anything else with them for a while. Everyone take a well deserved break from thinking about snow! Spend a whole day marveling that you're not frantically writing flavortext— wait, no, that's us.
(BUT SERIOUSLY WE CAN'T OVERSTATE HOW PLEASED WE ARE WITH EVERYONE AAAA MUCH PLOT VERY RAINBOWS I LOST MY NARRATOR VOICE IN GLEE ONLY CAPSLOCK NOW!)
Stay cool till next time and enjoy your spring, Aather!
❄ The summaries of Gerdaquest sessions # 1 (Kai and Gerda’s houses) and # 2 (the river) are here!
❄ The summaries of Gerdaquest session # 3 (the flower field) and the robbers’ castle (explore # 2) are here!
❄ The summaries of Kvitoya (explore #3), Nimue's call to help her lake, Gerdaquest #4 (Lapland), and the avalanche in the Icefields and Camelot are here!
This is the final set of summaries! WE'LL TRY TO KEEP IT BRIEF. There are two sides to this last part of the plot, Camelot's side and the Icefields' side! They took place at the same time, so I'll cover them separately and show where they link up.
In accordance with what Guinevere had said about trying to get realm personae to gather power for a response to the Snow Queen's attack on afternoon 307, the Camelot personae held several small quests or events to build their mutual strength:
❄ Gathering Power (Camelot Side)
- Afternoon 307: Guinevere offered and then started recollecting small "springglobes," snowglobes that would change to a springtime scene if warm thoughts and an offering of strength were given to them.
- Evening 307: Lancelot hosted a fight club with small prizes for winners!
- Night 307: Morgan inspired people to hold hands!
- Morning 308: After everyone was provisioned and rested, Guinevere opened the way to the Icefields, which people followed. ***
- Morning 308: Once the people who went to travel with Gerda were gone, Guinevere immediately called a meeting to decide what to do with the power that had been accumulated: what form will it take? The decision was made to hold an awesome feast to defy the snow with warmth and unity.
- Morning through evening 308: Preparation, feasting, and merriment! [note: general hiatus options (1, 2) were provided here for those remaining in Camelot who needed an excuse not to participate!]
- Evening 308: Finale!✝
AT THE SAME TIME, though starting slightly later and on a generally different progression of events:
❄ A Journey (Icefields side)
*** This doesn't start till Morning 308 in Aather's time, and it covers more time than the few hours of their absence from Aather proper - time doesn't line up between the realms, and it took several days inside the Icefields to make the overland journey to the Snow Queen's palace.
- Morning 308/Day 1(???): After everyone was provisioned and rested, Guinevere opened the way to the Icefields, which people followed. Kit - the person anchoring Gerda to Camelot - crossing the threshold of the realm through the crack between them rather than through the fire's magic had the result of loosing Gerda's anchor and slingshotting the whole group to Gerda and Bao. Once everyone had caught up, it was time to try to make it through a mountain pass blocked by an avalanche that was blocking Gerda's way. In the process of finding the underground path through, the heroes discover a few disturbing things: an ice bee with haphazardly growing organic parts, echos of flight from a darkness attack, the memory of a boy drinking from a familiar cup, and objects truncated in an attack. It ended with the decision to rest for the night, warming each other with stories out of sight of the Darkness attacking the boundaries of Snow Queen's realm.
- Day 2(???): Heroes broke through the last of the mountain pass to find a beach from which they could see the island of Spitzbergen, the location of Snow Queen's home. Bao left, unable to cross the ocean - everyone else had an opportunity to examine things on the beach first. They included a letter about someone named K—, fragments of Snow Queen's story, and malevolent mirrors made of Darkness'd ice, with an unfortunate status effect.
- Days 2(???)-(???): A couple of days of travel took place here! Characters had more tent sleepovers, talked to Gerda, speculated on their situation, and continued to make faces at the watery Darkness mirrors till they got to their destination.
- Day ???: Heroes entered Snow Queen's palace and found some things you should really glance over if your character was in the Icefields. They included a lot of seasonal references emphasizing a former balance of other seasons with winter, a glimpse of Snow Queen's original nature, some clues as to how the heroes were changing her, and several different snippets of perspective on the Darkness attacking Snow Queen's palace -- the event that originally forced her to flash freeze it with her power at great personal cost. At the end, they met the Snow Queen, who was profoundly weary and hurt from the changes enacted on her person and role by her previous ideological battles with the heroes. After various offers of support in this difficult time, a more substantial offer of knight patronage to help Frost continue trying to find her heart, and a gesture of Irisviel's that gave her hope, Snow Queen agreed to try to find another way with everyone else back at Camelot. She returned the explorers there... just in time to interrupt the feast.
✝ Evening 308: Finale!
As you can see, the runs link up again at the finale, so starting from that point:
❄ ☈ ☼ A Conclusion
- Evening 308
Worn down and weary and ready to try anything to make sense of what'd been happening to her, Snow Queen came back to Camelot with her trespassers and apologized for her actions and the pressure of her role, requesting help in struggling against it. The heroes had already changed her enough that further change was the only way forward, but the snow still needed to get out of Camelot! Various suggestions for how to do this were put forward, and while Guinevere protected everyone's bodies and Gerda protected everyone's hearts against the ice of Snow Queen's power, everyone did their best to direct it. The redirection of the snow went as follows:
☼ Back towards the Snow Queen's territory, to protect it while she and Gerda rest and recover in their own realm.
☼ Back to the previous realms (the Forest, Three's, and Wonderland), to help defend them against the dark and bring them into a truer balance and progression of seasons again. The possibility was also brought up that the Snow Queen could send a smaller winter to other realms once the heroes had fully freed them, preventing the Darkness from trying to edge into them again after the heroes moved on.
☼ Creating crystal spyglasses, some crystal jars that seem to hold a miniature snowstorm inside (open the jar and it'll surround you in a thin layer of snowflakes that protects you from physical damage for a few minutes), two small iceboxes, some very lifelike hand-size ice figurines of whoever Kaoru was thinking of cloning, and a small heap of live crocuses and snowdrops, ready to plant.
☼ Fixing the snow seals so that they won't melt, transforming some into real freshwater seals to live in Nimue's lake, and creating some new tiny snow animals - a couple of penguins, a couple of sheep, an otter, and one or two of any others people were thinking of.
We'd like to thank you all for your participation and input on this plot, even if it was quite long and situated during a busy time! It went very differently than we expected as a result of your amazing decisions. ♥ This is not the end of Snow Queen and Gerda's story, and we have some stuff in mind to pursue further (such as a DISTINCT LEGACY ROLE in upcoming stuff, STAY TUNED!) buuut we're. not going to be running anything else with them for a while. Everyone take a well deserved break from thinking about snow! Spend a whole day marveling that you're not frantically writing flavortext— wait, no, that's us.
(BUT SERIOUSLY WE CAN'T OVERSTATE HOW PLEASED WE ARE WITH EVERYONE AAAA MUCH PLOT VERY RAINBOWS I LOST MY NARRATOR VOICE IN GLEE ONLY CAPSLOCK NOW!)
Stay cool till next time and enjoy your spring, Aather!
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