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DUNGEON SIGN-UPS: AMESTA FOREST

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AMESTA FOREST

A sprawling deciduous forest to the southwest of the Station, just far enough inland that it's not deeply troubled by the ocean air. Though it seems perfectly normal from the outside, entering beneath the cover of the trees transports you to an eternal spring evening, suspended in twilight and shrouded in silver mist.

There are a total of seven regions to be explored in this Fissure, because we're overachievers I guess.

The Fringes - The outer edges of the forest, where the magic of the Fissure is not so thick. It seems to be relatively normal... Except, you're sure that that tree wasn't there a minute ago, was it?
Silvermist Hollow - A series of clearings with extremely thick mist, almost solid enough to touch even before it takes shape. Eerily quiet, and filled with the tracks of animals.
Blossomgale - An area filled with massive flowers, ranging from their typical sizes to towering overhead with heavy blooms.
Fall's Heart - Unlike the spring enjoyed by the rest of the forest, this area is shrouded in eternal autumn. Brilliantly covered leaves flutter through the air and pile around mirror-like pools.
The Infinity Tree - A massive willow, not-quite-miles-high, on the banks of the lake that forms the far border of the forest. Consists of two separate areas - the damp Roots and the higher Branches.
... And a surprise! The final area will be revealed the last weekend of the dungeon log, but it is in the upper reaches of the Infinity Tree.

Roughly straight west of the forest, beneath the spread of the Tree, is a large lake also shrouded in mist. Beyond it can sometimes be seen the flicker of lights... Perhaps a city? Between the mist and the distance, it's impossible to tell.

More details on these locations, as well as a map, will come with the dungeon log proper!

DUNGEON-WIDE EFFECTS

There are two dungeon-wide effects in Amesta Forest, which are very much related;

The first is that characters within the frozen time of the forest will have no need to sleep. While it's still possible to fall victim to magical sleep effects or other things that unnaturally induce unconsciousness, even those who try to exhaust themselves in ways that would normally send them straight to bed will find dreams escaping them...

...Quite literally, as that is the second effect of the Fissure. The silver mist that hangs thick throughout the forest catches impressions from the subconscious of anyone who stays in one place for too long. In Amesta Forest, your dreams are made manifest - for better or for worse. The mist-forms are not dangerous - at least, not physically - and even the most nightmarish leave behind only the dampness of mist instead of injuries, but that doesn't go very far to make them less troubling.

LOOT

Introducing a new feature on the dungeon information page - Resources! These entries will give you more details about the kinds of Sweet Magical Items you can collect within the Fissures without a loot roll.

As before, characters obtain one piece of loot for signing up for the dungeon and an additional roll per 15 comments on the dungeon log. Additionally, characters can receive a bonus loot roll for tagging someone new on the Test Drive!

IC LENGTH

The IC length of the dungeon will be five days, due to the larger area covered compared to the shoreline! The IC dates will be April 13-18, and as before, the IC date will be noted on Sundays on the calendar going forward!

END-DUNGEON EVENT

The end-of-dungeon event will be the revealing of the final mystery area (as noted above), as well as that area's NPC! There will be a top-level for the entire area, and characters are encouraged to have their own sub-top-levels to mingle, in addition to NPC interactions.

SIGN-UPS

Dungeon sign-ups are used by the mods to manage loot drops. Occasionally, there may be additional information requested by the sign-up, such as opt-in for specific aspects of the dungeon. After sign-ups close, the header comment is frozen until the time comes to distribute loot.

FORM;

EVERYTHING ELSE

BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS: As the Library won the poll on the previous OOC update, that's what you'll be getting first! The week before the dungeon, the unused Lab #6 will be opened and revealed in its full glory... Dusty glory, that is. The androids have apparently just been using this to store all of the books they come across in boxes, and so it's a total mess! Characters are welcome to pick up any reading material they please, and Strange and Down would certainly appreciate any assistance you might offer in organizing... Don't worry, this isn't the library's permanent home.

What's that sound?: The noises outside the station walls continue, though they've lessened significantly compared to the previous few weeks. Occasionally, Top and Up can be seen coming back from the source of the noise, both covered in dust and looking exhausted but pleased. Strange also vanishes off in this direction occasionally, usually in the middle of the night (when they can leave the medical lab under Jetshard's care).

What's cooking?: Is there anything in particular that you'd like to see in the kitchens next food update? Please leave it under the header comment below! Note that not all suggestions will be used at this time; they may be added later or not at all, at mod discretion.

And now, the weather;

4/9-11; mostly sunny, occasional cloud cover
4/12-13; overcast, occasional light showers
4/14; heavy rain over the station - lighter rain in the forest (but still not completely dry)
4/15-17; overcast, mixed sunbreaks and light showers. gentle but regular gusts in the forest (the station maintains its usual sea breeze)
4/18; sunny with occasional clouds; significant breeze in the forest
4/19-21; sunny and distinctly but not oppressively warm
4/22-25; showers with occasional breaks; rarely, sunbreaks

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Player name: Nai
Character name + Journal: Izunia Lucis Caelum @

founderinglight

-> A small plush unicorn, white with a mane and tail of lavender yarn. Squishy and huggable.
-> Three fleece blankets, folded on top of each other in a neat stack. Dark green, black, bright red.
-> A box of particularly stale Gushers, tropical fruit flavor. Tough, but edible.
-> A small wheeled filing cart, with three deep drawers of clear plastic. Easily lifted or rolled.
-> A bottle of high-quality champagne.
-> A package of sheet music for piano and flute, consisting of six arrangements themed after the seasons of... Well, some world that has six seasons, apparently?
-> This black teeshirt says "MY FEET ARE DOWN HERE" in white text over a white arrow.

Player name: Bramble
Character name + Journal: Jetshard @

dubiouslychthonic

-> A modern car muffler that's seen better days.
-> This glove projects a force field the size of the wearers head when held palm-out. Wires and metal embedded in the glove suggest that the barrier is technological in nature, not magical.
-> A SodaStream carbonation machine with two cans of air, full instructions, and a small bottle of strawberry syrup.
-> A book written as a series of diary entries from a servant girl in a world where the nobility have magical familiars, detailing her love affair and break-up with a prince and eventual role as the governness and lover of his (female) cousin's children. You're only mostly sure it's fictional.
-> A leather coin purse decorated with blue musical notes, containing a variety of coins from the European Union, a belt silver ring with a swirl design, and six glass beads in various colors.

Player name: Ric
Character name + Journal: Wren

thoroff

-> A bolt of silver holographic stretch fabric.
-> A keypad that looks like it would be a touch lock if it hadn't been ripped out of the wall. Hooked up, it reacts to thoughts, and only activates its mechanism in response to thoughts of water.
-> A very large feather pillow, in an orange and white striped case.
-> A bottle of "sparkling pink" juice. Tastes like an odd mix of lime and raspberry.
-> A somewhat worn Altoids tin containing a tube of chapstick (peppermint, unopened), one of those super short pencils they hand out at voting events, a folded-up grocery list, and two individually wrapped mints.
-> A paper lunch sack filled to brimming with a total of eighteen fast food tacos of various sorts. Not a single one has onion.
-> A book detailing the numerous kinds of dragons found in some other world. Several pages about fighting dragons, as well as shadow dragons, are marked by dog-earing the pages.

Player name: Amber
Character name + Journal: Robin (

matchmakes)

-> A single kitchen cupboard, the type you would find attached above a counter. It is not attached to anything.
-> A how-to-draw book helpfully titled... "A How-To Draw Book." Reasonably useful for the beginning artist.
-> A large ornate metal axe; the axehead, except for the edge, is made of wrought-iron vines, with a single burst of ivy leaves where it attaches to the handle. Double-sized and attached to a worn metal handle; swings surprisingly easily.
-> A vial of a sweet-smelling substance that, when consumed, fills you with the urge to kiss people on the cheek and ruffle their hair for half an hour. Roughly three doses.
-> What exactly is this? It's a small animal that looks like a cross between a moderately large rodent and a very small dog, with huge fluffy ears and a tightly curled tail. The chinhuahua looks at you with huge beady eyes. Please don't leave it alone?
-> A makeup brush with a pale pink handle that removes any pink makeup worn by the person it's used on (but only pink makeup).
-> A sack containing an assortment of random seashells, all of fairly good size and quality. Spiralling snail shells seem to have been the gatherer's favorite.

Player name: Asher
Character name + Journal: Prompto Argentum |

photoshooter

-> When you remove these brown hiking boots and fail to restrain them (put them in a pack, etc) they will walk back the way they came, all the way back to where you first put them on, with more-or-less the same cadence and sounds. If you walked in a loop somewhere along the line, the boots will get stuck in the loop and repeat.
-> A stack of four frosted purple drinking glasses. Inside the top one is a red twisty-tie with a pair of keys on it.
-> A pair of wide but comfortable-looking canvas pants... That appear to be fitting for a man seven feet tall with a tail. Better get a belt.
-> This pair of book-ends, secured in a set with a zip tie, are black with statues of rearing horses.
-> A pair of tasteful black heels that are just a size too small for you, personally. The material is some kind of scaled skin that's impossible to identify.
-> This bone armband, when worn, allows the wearer to twist and bend any bones below where it rests (usually above the elbow) as though they were made of fairly tough rubber. The bones will resume their normal shape slowly over a few minutes, but if the armband is removed while they are still twisted or bent, you're stuck that way.
-> A novel from the middle of some seven-book epic fantasy series. It follows a young man who accidentally developed the ability to speak with the dead, where necromancy of any sort has been outlawed for a century after an evil king tried to use it to take of the world with an army of the dead. Once you get over the last of context from starting in the middle, it seems to be pretty good.

Player name: Alex
Character name + Journal: Akira Kurusu @

beguiledcard

-> A wall phone with message machine from sometime in the mid-nineties. The previous owner must have had a habit of twisting the cord, as it's very bent out of shape.
-> A key that can unlock any door, but cannot be removed from the mechanism until the door is relocked. Only works on mundane doors.
-> A pair of garnet stud earrings of middling quality. Set in gold, with gold backs; the gems are approximately one carat each and a dark wine red.
-> Three pouches of Ooze Tubes. Two cherry, one blue raspberry.

Player name: Jeff
Character name + Journal: Astolfo +

riderofcharlemagne

-> A cute, light blue blouse with short, lacy sleeves and a button-up collar.
-> A pair of tight-fitting pants made of an unknown, plasticy material. Keeps you warm when you're cold and cools you off when you're hot, via some mutably permeable effect of the fabric.
-> A biography of Maharajah Duleep Singh.
-> A set of modern keys on a keychain. Includes a magnifying glass (in a cheap plastic loupe) and a tiny flashlight. Also, $1.37 USD in various change.
-> A belt that seems abnormally long, at least twice as long as it needs to be to fit around your waist. The buckle is shaped like a cat head. When worn, the wearer is compelled to sit in high places, such as on tables, etc.
-> Three boxes of Little Marie snack cakes, all chocolate with cream filling.
-> A brand new pack of dress socks! Eight pairs, mostly black, one pair dark brown, one pair navy.

Player name: Ni
Character name + Journal: Letitia Genesister/

newlawtolight

-> Sixteen large beeswax candles that smell faintly familiar. When lit, they fill the room with the scent of brimstone.
-> Six bottles of nail polish, all various kinds (one microglitter, one large round glitter, one metallic, one pearlescent, one regular nail polish and one glow in the dark), in practically the exact same shade of bright yellow.
-> This is just... straight up a leaf-blower.

Player name: Gail
Character name + Journal: Stone @ scarsolderthanyou

Player name: Incardine
Character name + Journal: Pidonus Marasia,

have_hat_will_travel

-> A game of Apples to Apples that, if one looks closely (or without the influence of the translation magic) is actually in a language completely unknown to anyone on the Station, utilizing the Cyrillic alphabet and read right-to-left.
-> A book called Biology of the Wicked that seems to detail the anatomy of a variety of evil outsiders from Pidonus' world. It's about 90% accurate.
-> Three clip-on neck ties. One black, one black with dark purple rings in a pattern like polka dots, one light brown with a pattern of darker brown leaves.
-> Animate rope with the personality of a loyal dog. 50 feet, thick twine. Must be taught knots the way a dog must be taught tricks.

Player name: Claire
Character name + Journal: Violet Evergarden (

shiritai)

-> A three-pound bag of shell meal. Exactly what is shell meal? Well, it has a crab on the front of the package...
-> A small bag of deep-fried walnuts.
-> A pocketwatch that is enchanted to not only always accurately show the time, but also how long it's been since you last checked it. Even works if stored in time-stasis.
-> Six itty-bitty dessert forks. All but one match.

Player name:Michelle
Character name + Journal: Noctis Lucis Caelum,

nightcure

-> A box of 12 oil paints in tubes. Learner quality; does not include even a cheap brush.
-> An assortment of 35 socks, mostly plain white or plain black. Only two pairs; the rest are mistmatched. One has a metallic gold stripe near the top.
-> What seems to be a normal package of oil bath beads in shades of green, purple, and blue. However, as per the fine print on the back, when put in water or thrown on the ground hard enough to burst, they instead instantly explode into a wall of bubbles (roughly thrice the volume of a regular bath tub). 18 beads.
-> A set of Bluetooth over-the-ear headphones of reasonably good quality. The headphone casing is, in fact, blue, with stylized teeth along the band (which is the style that sits behind your head instead of over the top).
-> This wooden charm is carved with runes against food spoilage. When carried, it prevents any food carried on someone's person from going bad (does not apply to hammerspace).
-> A "spidermelon" according to the retail label. When you crack it open, the inside is bright red and sweet-smelling, with black veins in a weblike pattern. Tastes somewhere between a watermelon and a prickly pear; if you save the seeds, it can be grown in the gardens.
-> A purple hair comb carved with lightning. When worn, it sparks interestingly without doing damage to the wearer.

Player name: Awe
Character name + Journal: Aya Shameimaru /

bulletnews

-> A plain wooden jewelry box. Anything placed inside it is covered with an illusion that makes it look worthless and boring. Currently empty save for a loose quartz point.
-> A faintly glowing staff with an ever-blooming blue flower at the top of the twisted wood. Approximately five feet in total length.
-> Six packs of printer paper, plus a half.
-> A family sized frozen vegetarian lausaugna. White sauce.
-> SPATS SPATS SPATS. A plastic-wrapped three pack of faux-leather spats with brass buttons up the outside. Black, cream, and bright turquoise.

Player name:Ki
Character name + Journal: Soma Cruz

power_of_dominance

-> One of those large photography coffee table books that hardly anyone actually seems to buy. This one's focused on cloud shapes, and can teach you a passing amount about meteorology.

Player name:Teena
Character name + Journal: Kurama @

byanyother_name

-> A wooden crate, a little larger than someone's head, full of... boxes of modern tea bags? They're all a respectably decent brand of green tea. 16 boxes times 22 bags in each box.
-> A lovely bouquet of fresh flowers.
-> A set of black leather gloves, no thumbs, that go up several inches past the elbow.
-> A modern razor with three blades that never go dull. However, a rune on the back curses the user to always cut themselves at least once while shaving any significant rea (the effect can be eliminated by getting rid of the rune).

Player name: Jess
Character name + Journal: Goro Akechi (

foolishjustice)

-> A... full dining room set still packed in their initial shipping boxes.
-> A pendant in the shape of a small serpent wrapped around a flawed amethyst. The gem is maybe four carats.
-> A six-pack of actual, genuine, mundane human Cup Noodle! Celebrate good times! Chicken flavor.
-> A CD of saxophone-centric jazz music, tending towards the upbeat.
-> These cookies, white with pink sprinkles baked into the cookie itself, cause the consumer to only see shades of pink and red for two hours after consumption. All other colors appear in shades of grey. Otherwise, they're very good cookies.
-> A shimmering silver skirt, coming out to about knee length. The fabric is thin and light, but not so light that it can be seen through.
-> A case of high-quality fineliners in a rainbow of colors. 24 in total.

Player name: Jess
Character name + Journal: Alastor (

superstylishsquid)

-> A wind-up helicopter that follows the winder around, about a foot in the air behind their head, until the winding runs out. If the winder is staying still for longer than ten seconds or so, it starts to do circles.
-> A not particularly comfortable folding chair. Tan-painted metal.
-> A set of nearly-opaque goggles with red lenses. Flipping a switch on the side turns them to a much more transparent red.
-> Three DVDs from someone's collection of an anime about a girl from a magical world who stumbles into mid-00s Earth. Culture-shock comedy.

Player name: Mars
Character name + Journal: Makoto Niijima @

lepape

-> A framed and vaguely ominous wall photo.

-> A basket filled to brimming with skeins of jarn. Fourteen skeins in all.
-> A shiny, full-size, brand-new metal slinky.

-> A gentle booping noise leads you to a very familiar automated model Vixen Constellation. Apparently the void also leads here.
-> A modern silver flute in a bright red case. For some reason, in addition to the typical Flute Accessories, contains a five pack of clarinet reeds.
-> A three-pound bag of millet seed. Probably for the birds.
-> A twelve-pound sack of garden rotini.
-> Three volumes of a magical girl manga about a girl in her middle teens with the ability to manipulate luck - specifically, bad luck, enabling her to cause opponents to trip and so on - who takes part in a secret nighttime tournament in order to have a wish granted

-> An eight-pack of iris roots, just beginning to sprout. When grown, they'll bloom with a dark pink color instead of purple, and inexplicably smell of wine.
-> A set of classy goth acrylic nails in a retail box. Includes sticky.

-> A four-roll package of wrapping paper. Three of the rolls are patterned with different slowflake patterns; the last one is patterned with Christmas lights. Unopened, 100 feet to a roll.

-> A sixteen-pack of condoms. Aside from being bright green, there's nothing especially noteworthy about them.
-> Two medium bottles of cherry whiskey. One has been cracked open and approximately two shots taken.

-> A pair of plain brown leather loafers, slightly worn.
-> A video card that was top of the like in approximately 2013.
-> A BRIGHT NEON GREEN elastic headband.
-> A six pack of [MODERN UNDERWEAR OF YOUR PREFERENCE HERE] in that particular grey cotton that you associate with gym clothes.

-> This appears to be a perfectly normal, modern folding knife. Except that it's nearly three times the size it needs to be.
-> A squat green ceramic vase with a cracked effect (not actually cracked).

-> A tiny bottle filled with a few drops of red liquid that give off wisps of pink smoke within the bottle. Labeled "First kiss with a mermaid" - anyone who consumes the vial's contents will, in fact, thereafter be wholly convinced that there first kiss was with a mermaid, or at least a merfolk version of whoever their first kiss was. (If your first kiss actually was a mermaid, has no effect.)
-> The Kennyjob.

[Remember - not everything will be used immediately!]

Not exactly a people food suggestion, but Prompto's on the lookout for chocobo greens!

You know what the current protein options are missing? Bugs. Let's get some entomophagy going up in here. Crickets or meal worms, maybe?

There's probably been some fishing done by now. ~~Just not 'walking on the ocean floor' fishing, because it's too cold for that.~~

Robin would be so hype for bear meat even if he's never actually allowed to cook it

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