THE FINAL SUMMARIZING

[dramatispersonae]

This post can be used as the master summary post for the larger plot that's been running in Aather between late October-November and mid-January! It includes the events of this last weekend in consumable form for those who did not need all details to participate but would like to catch up. ♥

Reading the following comments alone — or even the top portion of the comments that get a little bit lengthy — should suffice for a broad understanding to enable you to play your character being aware without being involved, though there are a lot of links throughout for reference if you want to go back in and double check details. We do encourage that if you want to do it, especially if you want to dig for extra facets to play with later when handwaving involvement — some of this stuff has been pretty cool!

ON TO THE SUMMARIES:

Foreshadowing: Day 403 (end of October)

The Start: Day 407 (Mid-Nov) through Day 413 (Dec 1)
The Prince's Struggle & Heroes' Plans: Day 415 (early Dec) to Day 420 (end of Dec)
Hope, Beauty's Return, & Preparation: Day 423 & Day 424 (early Jan)

Down the Trails: Dawn, Day 426 (Thursday Jan 15-Saturday Jan 17)
Dreaming With The Dragon: Morning, Day 426 (Saturday, Jan 17 finale)
The Dragon Who Must Be Defeated To Claim Victory: Late Morning, Day 426 (Sunday, Jan 18 finale)

The Return: Noon, Day 426 (Sunday Jan 18, end)
The Result: Afternoon, Day 426 (Monday Jan 19)

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Villians Unlamented (Saturday Jan 17 run)

[dramatispersonae]

Here.

This was Beauty's group to find the Prince, and the Dog led the whole group through some discomfiting territory littered with scraps of paper from many stories featuring Princes before the trail abruptly ran out. It had been muddled by the Darkness - and hidden underneath a Darkness statue of a retired Persona, the Netted Lion. There was some consternation at the Lion's presence before the group discovered a starving and apparently unDarknessed fragment of story in the form of a very weak mouse hidden with the statue - when they fed it a hope seed, it streaked on ahead, reestablishing their trail. It also revealed to them a memory of the Lion's self-defeating story and attempt to sell Aather out to the Darkness long ago at the end of Three's realm, with the knowledge that this attempt was unsuccessful, as it was consumed by the Darkness instead. The hope seed grew into a bush that destroyed the statue, and the Lion seemed to be left to some kind of peace.

The party continued past more ominous paper scraps and past a conflict wherein monstrous crow-things attempted to imitate their loved ones, to the crumbling gates of a garden that had once issued a challenge that only princes could pass. Once inside the garden, they found the remains of a beautiful garden with a giant dragon with marks of battle on its hide that dated back to its previous appearance attacking over the walls in the Siege of Camelot coiled around an enormous tree. After the dragon woke up, it revealed that the Prince was its prisoner.