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Hello friends ♥ There will be a post going up this evening with some opportunities to duck in and out for short explorations, puzzle-solving, Darkness-fighting, plot-discovering, etc. There will be a couple little timeslots, although they're flexible (you can drop in late/wiggle away early as you choose).

Tonight
4:30-6 PST
6-7:30 PST
8:30-10 PST

Tomorrow
6:30-7:30 PST
7:30 PST - Finale

There will also be at least one section that is self-run so you can play with it yourself/with others at your leisure if you're not up for threading for an hour or two.

There won't be signups for any of these, but I'll link the new header on Plurk whenever I put up a new section to play in!

dramatispersonae

( Friday night's game )

( Game Unlock )

( Saturday's event )

Giant Beanstalk To The Sky Post:

✦ Self-explanatory Giant Beanstalk To The Sky Post is self-explanatory. Mal channeled the power the heroes freed from the story into a vine to the sky! Here you can find: the option to thread out or handwave knowing all this information, status effects, talking to Happy Ended characters, and cute plant stuff that your character can create at will if they just focus through their keys. . . CATCH UP AND PLAY IN THAT TILL TOMORROW FOLKS.

quitplayinggames

This is a heads up that there will be a small Dream's Heart event going up on Monday, May 4th and running from 6 PM PST and 11:30 PM PST! We may be able to put the event up earlier but that's a bit 50/50. We won't be able to accept new threads started after that time window, though we will finish any that are still in progress at the end of it.

It will be in the vein of the previous dreaming events but will be opened up more towards exploration/creation rather than just being immobile and answering questions (though it's not going to be a full-scale free exploradora by any means.) Threads will run longer and looser than in previous events by necessity but should still get banged out fairly quickly.

We hope to see you there!

quitplayinggames

Hi guys! As you may have noticed, things are going on with Dream right now, and we’re going to be delving heavily into his arc over the next couple of weeks! Here are some important upcoming dates to tick off on your calendars if you are interested:

On March 23 and March 27 a couple of low-key mini-events based off of this one will go up! You don't need to have jumped the first one to participate in these, and if you miss one of the new ones, they should be tied together enough that you'll still get most of the content (and we'll summarize what won't cross over OOC if necessary.) The plot-relevant information from these events will also be ICly available in the library afterwards.

On March 28 there will be a Dream game starting at 5 PM PST/8 PM EST (with mingle going up an hour beforehand) based on confronting fears (and Dream's specifically) and helping to decide what to do with his heart! The game will last 3-4 hours and in the unlock afterwards, we'll post an OOC poll of options we've taken from the game and a thread for Dream to discuss with people and explain more of what steps have been taken in the past - you can use that space to help your character choose how they'll vote, thread with Dream, or add custom options to the poll. These will both run until March 31.

On April 1, Dream’s heart will be released and a post will go up to interact with it. Enjoy that for a while. :')

Further plot events/details for that development will go up when more relevant, but this is also a notice that the weekend of May 29-31 will be Aather’s last round of character-run heart games -- if you’ve ever wanted to do one for your character, this is your last chance! A potential (optional!) theme to consider may involve parts of a whole separating or coming together, but follow your dreams, folks.

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)

adropintheocean

HI AATHER IT ME AGAIN WITH THREE THINGS

- The newest IC bulletin summarizing the salient plot points of the past few weeks is up here with handy-dandy reference links! HOORAY.

- Following Zen's meeting, it looks like people have been variously assigned to speak with Personae and get more information about them/enlist their help, and that recording what comes up during talks with them would be ideal! If you have such an assignment, I'd like to ask that you please record info in the comprehensive IC Persona information doc going forward, so that we have all the IC records in one handy location for easy consumption!

If your character is not yet aware this resource exists you can definitely ICly handwave their having bullied Waver Velvet into telling them where it is/making him do the writing for them, but OOCly I can't track every thread that happens in Aather and would prefer that players update the sheet themselves!

- Quest help! As stated in the bulletin, Waver has a quest from Maleficent to install a magical thing in the library that will recite things for people who don't know how to/can't read! The quest is to ask five people to lend their voices to the library for twenty-four hours (the characters will be ICly mute during this period.) If you would like to help with that thing in the near future please drop a comment to this post and let me know if you want to thread out Waver making the request, or just handwave it! Either way I'll work out a good IC day for people to be mute on and let you know.

dramatispersonae

We're leaving you with one last happy fun post for the holiday, everyone! The post is intended for reaction, speculation, and mingling - we're not running it. Please note that everyone currently in Aather or hiatused (including active Personae) got to see/experience this dream, though you don't need to comment or do anything about it unless you want to. I mean, it doesn't seem ominous at all.

As a reminder: a brief wrapup of plot events thus far can be found here and here, with the addition of this dream as a postscript of sorts.

Plot will resume in January! HAVE FUN WITH YOUR BREAK.

dramatispersonae

Hi gang, as of now we've finished with our wrapup of this week's plot event! Everyone should have their conclusion, handwaved or otherwise. Feel free to play out fallout in the threads if you like, just don't start new ones ♥

Between the many battles fought and the games played, the tiny patches of petrified ground from the door event and the larger splashes of shadow-splashed ground from this latest plot post will all be gone from Aather by the end of Goldie's game! However, the large petrified patch in the woods is still present. This will be noted in the unlock for your characters to fully notice and react to (please ping Ellie if your characters decide to do something about it!)

The next plot-related post will go up on December 23 sometime in the morning, so we'd appreciate if no one could move time past night 418 till then. It won't be an event requiring runners, so it'll be 100% available for you to play in at your leisure. Thanks for sticking with us thus far!

dramatispersonae

Just FYI, we'll be trying to wrap up the plot event by Saturday night! Thus, we won't be starting any fresh threads per se at this point, but we will be handwaving. Anyone who wanted to participate but didn't have time this week, don't worry - all you need to do is:

1) read the toplevel flavortext in the link above so you understand what "my character would have been there for this" means
2) figure out whether you want a psychological or physical encounter and how you would've wanted it to go, with or without other players if you decide on a group - "Bob and Jane would've done physical combat, Jane is a heavy lancer and Bob shoots things," for example
3) comment here before 11:59EST Saturday 12/20 with the aforementioned thing you figured out, to get a comment explaining what your character(s) would've encountered!

YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET THAT SETTLED BEFORE KISSING GAME IF YOU'RE INTERESTED just because kissing will surely occupy us all. Please comment here or to the mod plurk that'll go up for questions/assistance with doing so! ♥

overclocked

"See a pin, pick it up, 
And all day you'll have good luck. 
See a pin let it lay, 
And your luck will pass away."

✦ Day 414
Morning: Dorian runs a murder mystery game
Midday: Unlock! Birds & cats are suspicious of the woods . . .
Afternoon: Arrival! Koujaku on Turquoise
Evening: Handless Faith's trauma game
Night: Unlock! More pathways, and messenger cranes

✦ Day 415
Midday: Arrivals! Chromedome on Ruby & Soujirou on Peridot
Afternoon: Arrival! Melody on Tiger's Eye
Late afternoon: A mysterious, sea-soaked document leads to Darkness exploration
Sunset: Arrival! Ashes & Sky on Amethyst , Skypunch on Turquoise & Thom on Carnelian

✦ Day 416
Morning: A community discussion re: the Darkness and its Prince connection, & quests from Personae
+ OOC QUEST ORGANIZATION
Midday: Maleficent's knight game
Afternoon: Dionysus's memoryshare game

60 Second Plot Catch-up

IN PREVIOUS EPISODES, Beauty's Prince, long trapped in the Dark part of woods, tried to reach out to Aather by running a game from afar! After some exploration by the heroes jogged the Dog's memories loose (and perhaps changed some other things…), as the Prince's Dog, it alerted Beauty to its Master's presence. Realizing that the Dog would soon be able to track down where the Prince was trapped, Beauty decided to rescue her man herself with the help of any who would aid her, and left to gather power from her knights outside of Aather for the journey.

In the meantime, the Prince tried again to reach out to Aather in her absence! This time, the Darkness realized what he was doing and followed the path that he made through Aather's defenses to try to get in, taking the form of creepy doors that called with desperate voices for help from the heroes. Anyone who opened the door found no one there—just twisted landscapes, lingering numbness, vision fading to gray, and even petrified fingers and toes that required Apple's hopebloom salve from the clinic to cure. When the heroes regrouped to talk about their scare, the Dog revealed the Darkness's strategy, and the heroes called on the Personae for help in giving them extra defenses for when the Prince—and the Darkness—tried again. They also started making plans to take care of the creepy patches of Darkness left behind, which is a good thing, that stuff is weird.

dramatispersonae

HI FOLKS, just reminding everyone that the plot event is still up! We will continue running that for the rest of the week. If your character participated, note that after Midafternoon Day 415 they will be subject to status effects lasting 1-2 IC days; numbness or a dead feeling where they touched something they shouldn't have, greyed-out vision if they looked somewhere inadvisable, and even some (unimportant) body bits turned to stone.

(Also, there are small petrified patches and one large petrified patch scattered through the woods where the doors were opened, if anyone feels like being creeped out by some rock.)

A discussion post which includes some explanations for the attack is also available for your character to dig into their trauma at your convenience! Please feel free to have your character jump in to take on a quest to protect the realm from the next darkness incursion.

SPEAKING OF WHICH, THE NEXT DARKNESS EVENT is going to be starting on Monday, December 15. BE THERE OR BE... SMART.

dramatispersonae

Hi Aather! As you know from the announcement tag and Storytime, things have been happening and should continue to be happening! In the aftermath of your trauma we bring you an announcement of upcoming event dates - please save Tuesday, December 9th and Monday, December 15th for further plot which will bring the heroes into contact with the encroaching Darkness yet again, in subtler ways than an all-out battle. These events will be easy to play with throughout the week whether your character is a combatant or not, so we encourage anyone who's interested in some status effects to come learn more about the current plot there!

Heroes who wanted to take initiative to engage with or defend against the darkness in a more directed way (such as those who expressed interest here) will also have opportunities to approach individual Personae and follow up on that! It's our hope that Personae who want to do things & heroes who want to do things will communicate ICly and OOCly to find what's most fun for you, though trips outside of the current safely held ground probably won't be wise till Beauty gets back. We encourage everyone to get out there and make things happen!

Feel free to contact the modbox or our official Persona mod Ellie (

thelibrarian) with any questions ♥

putitdown

HEY DOOMTOFU AND FRIENDS. The end of the Dog's quest is now in the timeline! For those who didn't know, some of the Dog's story got revealed either directly or indirectly in this quest. Everyone please come see them crying.

Thanks again to everyone who participated. To the people still finishing up, I've emailed or PMed you so we can work out what happened in the rest of your runs and/or when we'll finish those up, so please get back to me on that!

MORE TO COME ON THIS FRONT SOON

putitdown

As I promised before, the Dog's dream thread is available here for anyone who was interested in that! As a reminder, this was meant to be an option for anyone who did not participate in the Dog's quest to have a shorter and easier dip in and out of some of the themes explored there.

Re: the Dog quest, I am aiming to have everyone wrapped up within the next couple of days (or close enough to handwave), so that we'll be able to post on Sunday with the aftermath! Thanks for everyone who participated. ♥

putitdown

Hi again, all! A reminder that the Dog's quest is a thing - it's up now for those that have been previously poked about it OOCly or ICly!

No fear if you haven't; as I mentioned before, I'll have a follow-up that's open to everyone available in the next few days ♥

adropintheocean

HELLO, AATHER! AATHER, HELLO. Ellie, Sera and I come bearing updates for some character resources that have always been ICly/OOCly publicly available to all, but for whatever reasons have faded from visibility and fallen out of date! GUESS WHAT: they're (mostly) not out of date anymore, and now we are dragging them back out for you to behold in all their glory. It has been a busy week.

☼ First things first, the plot info and artifacts section of the Library Catalogue has been updated! These records are publicly available to all and include very detailed histories of all Aather events to date, references, plot maps and ongoing puzzle bits, and memories/records regained from plot events. Waver has been putting helpful sticky notes and signs on everything ICly because he is a jerk like that! It is all there for newbies and oldbies alike to peruse and work with.

☼ The old IC Persona Compilation List has been brought completely up to date! It includes all Personae that have been seen, what they look like, when they were last around (for ease, there are 'CURRENTLY ACTIVE'/'CURRENTLY INACTIVE' tabs), and all the relevant realm/plot/game info for each Persona you can stand. Non-Personae plot figures like the Darkness, the Chorus, and our new NPC are also on there for ease of reference. NOTE: For the 'Status' column, we went with the most recent post under each Persona's character tag -- if they've actually been active past that point and you just missed tagging posts please note the correction under 'Further Additions'!

☼ They're linked up there in the library catalogue too, but the comprehensive Plot History docs are being brought slowly up to date! ICly, these should be available for all realms; OOCly, Beauty's Forest, Three's Cove, and Wonderland are now as comprehensive and complete as we can make them, and Camelot and the Black Woods are in the rough draft stage but will be available soon if we have anything to say about it.

☼ At least semiregular IC reporting of mysterious happenings and plot bulletins is going to be a thing! Aather always has a full calendar for driving forth plot on plot; Waver is keeping busy by putting up regular reports on interesting encounters on the ICly visible Bulletin Board (this one is the first) and will keep encouraging other characters to do likewise or even just let him know so he can do the writing for them and keep the community broadly updated. For those who can't ICly read, we've also had a device on the board for a while that reads out voice recordings of what's on it.

Lastly, all of these resources are and have always been open for characters to add to at their discretion! Nearly all info and spec on them is IC, and any purely OOC notes are marked as such. We've been working with Aather tags to track down info/happenings/dates for things and have added in all the plot information that's ever been publicly available to our characters as a group -- but there is a 100% probability we will have missed things, or that you've encountered a plot tidbit with your character that ours never did -- or, hell, even just that you've added library books that aren't on the catalogue yet (we didn't touch that part.)

All the linked docs are fully open to edit and add onto! If you want to add some info to any of them and help us bring them even more up to date, all we can say to you is PLEASE, PLEASE DO. ♥

putitdown

Hi all! As some of you may know, Zen/Vesper's IC group of intrepid plot-pursuers, FLAMEDOOM TOFU (warning: may not actually be their name) is questing for an explore in the Dog's realm! This trip will take place over a period of several days beginning on Monday, November 17, with each character progressing individually through their run.

✦ The trip itself is limited to tofu members and 1 personal invitee each, for a maximum of 16. If this is applicable to you, click! ( here )

✦ However, if your character was not ICly invited, don't worry! I will also put up a dream post sometime between November 17th and 20th, no quest required; the Dog's thread there will have different content but related themes in individual runs, for characters who didn't do the explore only. Those doing the explore will be stirring things up! ♥ I'll ping abundantly on Plurk and probably notify people here when both excursions come around, so this is mostly heads up and clarification for those who are questing.

✦ I started tearing up this morning planning this because I was upsetting myself, so I think I'm doing Dog stuff right. ASK ME ANYTHING BELOW and hope to see you there!

alltheworldsachoice

BAM.

It's been an amazing 3+ years for Seth and however long it's been for Sera, but the Firebird is going to take the advice of the heroes and find herself! This will take her out of this part of Aather; the door she is using to leave is one that many of you made for her in her final game, and she is leaving behind her garden and some extra healing and supportive elements even as she takes the heroes' well-wishes with her.

We want to thank you for one heck of a ride with her, and for your continuing commitment to her story and playing with us through her long, complicated journey. None of this was planned! Everything Firebird has done is 100% your responsibility. It's all your fault. Be proud of yourselves for all the strange turns and twists her story has taken!

Her drop post is here, and while we have paused it for the night at the moment we will pick it up as long as anyone wants to play in it. Fresh commenters, please indivdually start at the dark room comment! We'll take you to a personal conversation with Firebird from there.

If you do not wish to talk to Firebird but you wish to look at or be aware of the IC topography she left behind, check out her goodbye to see that.

ETA: And alumni who have gone on Legacy quests with Firebird and are coming back for a visit, you may also assume that she let you know she was leaving Aather proper on her way out!

Thank you again, Aather.

persnickitty

There is a FINAL ENCOUNTER today from 12:30 PST to 3-4PST (approximately). That post also has links to various summaries to this point. Feel free to jump in/handwave involvement at any point! There will be options for combatants and noncombatants to participate.

Starting between 3&4PST there will be an EVERYBODY IS INVITED BIG THING including Alumni (Happy Ended or Legacy-questing, so long as they are elsewhere in Aather). This is not at all intensive exploration or battling or anything. Invite your friends.

At 7PST there will be a post actually moving us to the new realm but you are of course free to continue playing in the previous posts through this (it will be forward-dated some).

On Monday, there will be a cabin-design game starting at Noon PST and ending Wednesday at 6PST.

If you would like a handwave option if your character wasn’t in the main exploradora/battles for any reason, at any time, Merlin may have teleported your character to his eclectically decorated study. There, Merlin will have asked the group for help dealing with some of the shadow creatures that have been in the city for the last few days. He’ll have explained that the paper men generated by his loser game are good for finding and handling low-level darkness monsters, because they don’t suffer negative effects from touching/interacting with them. He’ll have given your character control of one of the little paper men like playing a magical first person shooter and asked you to have the little man go around the city finding tiny wisps of darkness in the city and rolling them into bigger pieces of darkness that can’t run away, katamari style.

Please comment here if you're taking this option! You can pull yourself back from this at any time and participate in any of the events that you choose! And of course if you have any questions about anything please email aather.mods[at]gmail ♥

ALSO PLEASE NOTE KIWI'S QUERY ABOUT OOC ORGANIZATION FOR THE NEW REALM thank

persnickitty

On the evening of Day 332, Beauty & Mordred returned from the Forest, where they claimed to have come across some sort of creature in the woods . . .

During Day 333, a creepy crawly presence made its way across Aather. King Arthur called the heroes and Personae to the round table to discuss how best to proceed with the restoration of the realm, and deal with the continuing presence of the Darkness.

Beauty commented on the current state of the realm, noting that it should be time to move on, but something seemed to be concerning. Mordred provided his two cents that the realm's instability was due to weak leadership and other flaws. During the ensuing arguments, Maleficent & Beauty also began to bicker, and Morgan tried to be a voice of reason.

THIS ALL CHANGED WHEN THE ~~FIRE NATION~~ QUESTING BEAST ATTACKED. The heroes managed to defend themselves, but Excalibur shattered apart with a piece still embedded in the Questing Beast, which escaped back into the Forest.

The discussion of what to do . . .? Will resume tomorrow (Saturday) at 11AM PST (approximately).

Please remember to sign up!

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WHAT JUST HAPPENED: THE SUMMARY

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THE FINAL SUMMARIZING

STUFF, STUFF AND MORE STUFF

PLOT BREAK (FOR NOW)

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Plot note

Story Time 82

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Announcement!

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BAM.

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