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❪ october plot conclusion; wyver takes ❫

THE END TO THE EPIDEMIC

On the morning of November 3, there is a palpable buzz on the streets as both the natives of Wyver and Olympian refugees share the same sentiment: excitement. Word will quickly spread that a cure to VIOLET2710 has finally been developed and is ready for mass dissemination.

Throughout the city, the cure can be found at any of the numerous small temples and outposts of the Altar of Volkkra. The shamans of Volkkra will happily distribute the cure to any of the ill in need of it, without restraint. A joint venture between both Olympia and Wyver, citizens of both are granted equal access. As the lines form, the shamans will ask that able-bodied persons administer the cure to themselves and to others. Don't let the needles scare you! It'll only hurt a little.

At each of these outposts, signs will be posted giving credit to those who aided in the creation and manufacture of the cure:

Claire Fraser
Amaterasu
Pike Trickfoot
Charles Xavier
Alan Foster (Bruce Wayne)
Keyleth
Rosalind Lutece
Shinjiro Aragaki
Mipha
Wrathion
Dorian Pavus
Merlin
Morrigan

Clarke Griffin
Rose Lalonde
Peter Parker
Linnaeus
Zelda
John Watson
You Watanabe
Jean Grey
Mikleo
Daenerys Targaryen
Dylas
Frankenstein
Waver Velvet

As they distribute the cure, the shamans will note that those receiving the cure should give thanks to those named. Without their contributions, it may have taken much longer for the cure to be found and created in large enough quantities to save everyone.

SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?

With Olympia and Wyver's fragile alliance still in effect and a cure to VIOLET2710 distributed, Olympia finally opens its gates once again to Refugees if they feel a little homesick. High-speed transportation will be available at record low costs as politicians, merchants, and other business owners desperately hurry home to salvage whatever they can from the terrorist attacks.

Refugees are advised to remain in Wyver until food rations can be recovered and the water can be decontaminated. However, those more personally attached to Olympia may discover that the city is preparing a mass call for volunteers that will go out in the near future. In the meantime, and understandably, you should do what you can to help the Wyver people. The Dragon city has started posting quests, not only for you to do your part, but for the Wyver people to gauge your worth as visitors to their sacred land.

Thesa also has an interest in the unfolding events. Refugees have now been exposed to both lands, and certainly some will find themselves more invested in one side than the other. Darma finally wakes from slumber to observe, and while she is thankful that Refugees are immersed in her world, there is something foreboding on the horizons. On the night of the 3rd, Darma will appear in your dreams for a conversation.

It has been some time, Refugee... ah, no, certainly not for me. I am Darma. It is my hope that Sael as served you well in my place. The Natha do not feel, but I must express gratefulness that I am able to return to you.

My greeting extends to both old and new faces. As we watch you, we see that this world and its people have begun to influence your hearts. In time, your loyalty to either of these lands, to Olympia or to Wyver, shall affect how you are seen by the other side. As observers, we are unable to provide either region a winning edge. Thus, once you pledge loyalty to one, you cannot use Thesa to teleport to the other.

Choose wisely, or choose none at all. There is no war for those who do not wish to see it. For those who do... if I may be prudent— this alliance will not last. Keep your friends close, Refugee, for they may not remain so if your allegiances conflict.

You will wake before you get a chance to reply.

THE UNDERLYING PROBLEM IN THE UNDERGROWTH

The locals often speak of a cursed place deep within Wyver territory, confounded by the spirits of dragons who passed long ago: those who still wish for vengeance on the people of Olympia for their untimely deaths. Though these stories began as nothing more than urban legends among the raiders and shamans, over time the idea has become mainstream. So much that the rumors have started causing unrest between the people of Wyver and their guests. More than a few people within Wyver have used these rumors as justification for opposing the current alliance with Olympia.

Many Wyver locals see these rumors as a sign that their ancestors disapprove of the alliance. As a result, those in charge have decided that it would be prudent to mitigate some of the anxiety from either side. Those who are willing to look into these rumors further will find themselves lead towards the darkest parts of Wyver, deep within the Undergrowth in a region devoid of light. The faint of heart will be advised against delving further.

Common among these rumors are accounts of people being attacked by an unseen enemy, or talk of possession and out-of-body experiences. Those who press on will find that the culprit is none other than a new, undocumented beast.

This creature is able to camouflage itself perfectly to its environment. This, paired with darkness of the deep Undergrowth, makes this beast nearly impossible to detect with the naked eye. The creature also release a noxious gas that can spark a range of emotional responses: some may grow hysterical, while others may be consumed by despair. The effects only last for minutes, though some may linger in the back of one's mind for hours after. While the creature does not actually attack people directly, the other beasts of the Undergrowth may take advantage of its victims.

Fortunately, Wyver is not looking for the creature's capture. They respect the delicate balance of the jungle as they see themselves as its protectors. For now, they only desire more information about this creature in order to assuage the people. Good luck and do your best to keep your wits!

ALRIA'S FULL MOON

While Olympians worship the ever-present light of Thesa, the people of Wyver are captivated by the smaller, yet ever-changing Alria. Alria cycles in and out of the night sky much like what denizens of Earth would remember as lunar phases, and those who are familiar with that may notice it is very similar to their own. And likewise, the creatures, men and women of Wyver are affected when Alria transitions into its full moon phase.

DRAGONS & LUNATICS —
The dragons are restless. Perhaps because this particular full moon is accompanied by far more human scent than they are typically used to, but there's no doubt that they are eyeing humans as they do fresh prey. That is exactly why humans or human-like refugees will be tasked to tame a particularly rowdy dragon stable.

The dragon mounts at Lhongha Stables have broken free from their homes, roaming aimlessly in the deep undergrowth. You and another will be advised to strip down to your undergarments (it's hot, relax a little, human!) and lure the dragons back to the stables with your bodies. Rowdy dragons do love their human flesh! "Just a hunch," says the owner of the stables, "But I bet they'll come running faster if they smell your human blood."

He laughs as he hands over a pocket knife if he sees you're not carrying a weapon. The owner assures you that the dragons have been trained not to attack unless told to, but who knows how serious he is about that?

JUNGLE HEAT (NSFW) —
The full moon affects Wyver in other ways as well. While Olympia has a district blessed by Thesa's light all year long, Wyver only feels it at a certain time of the month. "The Heat" lasts for a full week starting on a full moon. You'll see it everywhere. Olympia has its lust confined in a single district, but in Wyver, during the phase of the full moon, the lust is everywhere. The people of Wyver will be friendlier then, offering you ale and meat. They sing songs of destroying their enemies up north, but even the native Olympians won't be able to will themselves to be angry when Alria shines upon them.

Perhaps you'll be find yourself affected, too, by Alria's light. And it's okay to get touchy; it isn't like the locals care about public displays of affection when they most certainly are getting handsy themselves.

THE PACT OF VOLKKRA —
Shamans, too, participate in celebrations of Alria's full moon. During the event, the shamans will give pairs each a couple of blessed dragon teeth necklaces. Wyver tradition states that if a shaman approves you as a pair, then you are granted a chance to form a Volkkran Pact. This pact, the shaman will explain, will bond a pair as an unstoppable team, granting one another a small influence on each others' powers.

"King Shanrian and his Pact, Counsel Shenya benefit from this. Shenya was granted physical strength, and our King his Counsel's perception. It has made quite a difference."

THE VOLKKRAN PACT AT NAMARAK SUMMIT

Despite being mistaken for a pair, there is no need to take the shaman's advice. The necklace will disappear if the Pact isn't completed in a week's time. However, if the Pact's benefits might be something of interest to you and your partner, then you'll be advised to travel further south, until you reach Namarak Mountain. At the summit, you'll find an altar, where you and your partner are expected to return the necklaces and make a vow to support one another.

The shaman there isn't particularly interested in what you do to complete the Pact. In fact, many people who attempt the Pact tend to... go a bit further than is necessary, when it can be achieved through a simple kiss between the partners.

The Volkkran Pact's effects are immediate upon physical contact. Each Pact can be broken through a special process with the head Shaman, but there needs to be at least a month's time before one can sever it. The pairs may be fake and still receive the benefit of the Pact, though they may find that sharing power with someone they are not truly committed to is a mistake.

NOTE: Players may be creative about what powers can be shared. The recipients of the such powers can never be granted its full strength, but it may be strengthened with Wyver REP rewards. Please note that PCs does not need to pledge allegiance to Wyver in order to keep the Volkkran Pact; they will only need 10 Wyver REP in order to strengthen it. Refer to the questions thread below if you have any questions.

BUILD-A-BLADE WORKSHOP

Sirod, the weapon's head shopkeeper, is interested in procuring a few materials for his clients. While these clients have already collected the claws of larger beasts and various other parts needed to create their new weapons, they are still missing some rare, necessary items. In particular, they are still missing the following:

High Prisms — These tiny crystals attach themselves to the branches of older trees. They tend to hang near the tops of them, hiding in the shadows of the leaves. Unfortunately, retrieving them requires one… to climb. Hopefully you got a lot of tree climbing practice as a kid. Who knew that skill would ever come in handy?

Crystal Drop — These are normally found near bodies of water. Especially water that has been enchanted, past or present. The drops tend to cling to the floors of these mystical streams and lagoons. Those seeking them will also have to be careful not to be affected by the water’s properties. Perhaps that's part of the trick of gathering them.

Frozen Mylan Root — Mylans are a type of live vegetation that grows on Namarak Mountain. Constantly roaming in the warm seasons, they root themselves into fertile earth during the winter where they sleep until spring, making the snowy mountain ideal to acquire the roots. Plucking them from the ground takes strength, and slicing them will prove equally difficult... and of course, there is a blood-curdling scream when you wake it from its slumber. Well, it wouldn't be a real test of strength and emotional fortitude otherwise.

Those who retrieve any of these items will be rewarded 100 Silver.

FINAL OOC NOTE

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_{[He's too wrapped up in returning every kiss she gives him to notice how her robe is beginning to slip off her shoulder. If he did he'd have stopped to fix it, but as things currently stand...Yona's lips are distracting.

Very much so.

He decides to be a little daring, a little experimental as he slides his tongue out to trace the edge of her bottom lip, in a bid to coax her to part them further. The warmth is intoxicating. He feels drugged.

Who would've ever thought kissing could feel so wonderful?]}

[Yona's lips part (the icon lies, they're not closed, I promise) further at Slaine's prompting, and she makes a soft sound into his mouth as she tilts her head slightly to deepen the kiss.

The tip of her tongue brushes against his and it sends a jolt down her spine, causing him to tighten her hold on him.

What... what was that?]

_{[What was that? Good question, Slaine's not really sure. What he does know is that he liked it and wants more, tongue sliding past her teeth to graze her's once more. It's wet, if not a bit messy. Neither of them have had practice before with kissing, but that doesn't matter. At the very least Slaine doesn't have to worry about him not measuring up to someone else. Or so he hopes.

He's getting carried away, wanting to hear her make even more sounds to accompany his own. The little wet noises of their current activity fills his ear and causes his spine to tingle. He never thought he'd get to do something like this with someone. He thought he'd die, quite literally, a kissless virgin.

There's a shift as he holds her in his lap, thighs going a bit numb. It doesn't matter though, he's not worried about feeling his legs. What he wants to feel is her and he's getting to do just that. There's an airy, wanton little sound of his own that he makes as he tilts his head, catching her lower lip between his teeth only to tug and suck on it. Maybe it'll feel good? He's not too sure. All he knows is that it seems like a good idea.]}

[Well, good for Slaine, that's only half true now.

Also good for Slaine: if it's sounds he's trying to coax out of her, he's most certainly succeeding. Yona shifts against his lap as they readjust, her legs coming to rest on either side of his - inadvertently tugging her robe even looser - and she makes a soft noise as she settles against him.

His body is warm and solid under hers. It's almost distracting enough to keep her from noticing anything else - until he catches her lower lip with his teeth and tugs it into his mouth.

She gasps, but when she catches her breath, the next thing to escape from her lips is a light moan. Her fingers dig more tightly into his shoulders as she clutches at him, red-faced and dizzy and breathless and not at all willing to break the kiss.]

_{[She's fully straddling him now. It hits him as an afterthought, brain busy with trying to process everything that's happening as they make out on her bed. The moan has his spine tingling, blood rushing to his head as he pushes forward, in a bid to deepen the kiss. He wants her to moan, he wants to be shown, not just told, that she wants him.

He suckles at her lower lip until he decides he ought to use his tongue instead, slipping it past her lips to flick against her palette. The dig of fingers is exactly the kind of response he wants, even if her nails kind of hurt If anything, the fact it does makes it all the more desirable, oddly enough.]}

Edited 2017-11-11 02:12 (UTC)

[See, the problem with not being used to this kind of thing? Certain things catch you by surprise. One of them, in Yona's case, is his tongue plunging into her mouth. A bit of tongue on her lips - or on his - was fine, but.

She's never had someone kiss her with tongue before.

She jerks back, startled and more than a little flustered. Her eyes are wide as saucers; she makes quite a sight staring at him, her cheeks as red as her hair, panting, her robe slipping from her shoulders.]

Y-you, um...

[she's never heard of a french kiss france doesn't exist in her world okay]

_{[The sudden jerk backwards has him staring at her, dazed and confused, not really sure there's a problem until he notices just how wide her eyes are. Oh god...did he fuck up? What was wrong?]}

I...?

_{[His dazed look is starting to melt, slowly being replaced with one of concern.]}

I messed up, didn't I?

I don't know, I...

[She's so confused. It didn't feel bad, really (the opposite, in fact; her heart is still pounding), but it was so different...]

Was... was your tongue supposed to go there?

I-I...

_{[So it had been too much tongue then? Shit.]}

I was just trying to French kiss you! I'm sorry! I'll never do it again!

...I don't know what that means...?!

[what is france]

I-it wasn't bad! I was just surprised!

I-It's a type of kiss...that you use your tongue with...and France is a country on Earth.

_{[No, let him die. He's nearly deflated, gaze cast off to the side, shoulders tense. Red alert Yona - his confidence is quickly disappearing. ]}

...It wasn't bad?

Do people in France us their tongues for everything...?

[Isn't kissing supposed to be done with lips? She's so confused. She doesn't get this at all.

Wait, no, this isn't a geography lesson.]

It wasn't. I just, um, I thought kissing was... [She brings up one hand to brush her fingertips against his lips.] I thought it was just like that. I didn't realize there were other kinds.

[She has so much left to learn.]

...will you teach me more about them?

About the French or kissing?

_{[He's hoping it's the latter. Swallowing his fear he leans in quickly to kiss her cheek, in a bid to stop himself from throwing his body off the bed and hiding under it.]}

If it's the latter I'll do my best...

...

[Okay, to be completely honest:]

Both. But... kissing first.

[Because. Priorities, definitely. Her cheeks are still flaming, but after he kisses her cheek, she leans in to brush her lips lightly against his cheek in return.]

If that's okay with you...

_{[There's a sudden shake of his head. It's more than okay, especially since he doesn't want to stop.]}

Yeah, it's okay with me...

[Okay. Okay, they're back on track.

...at this rate they're not going to sleep at all, are they? But Yona's not really tired right now, even though earlier she was whining about how he was staying up instead of resting.

Oh, well. Eventually they'll wear themselves out. In the meantime, she looks up at Slaine through her lashes and smiles faintly.]

...so, teach me?

_{[Looking at him like that...asking him like that...it makes his stomach do flips. He wants to teach her, but he's also kicking himself for the fact he barely knows more than her about the subject. It's not like he's read any books on the kissing - his knowledge extends to couples he saw in public and whatever he saw on television.

Her eyes are expectant, willing him into action. Now what? What should he do? He kisses the corner of her mouth to start, before planting one right on her mouth.]}

[This is where "fake it til you make it" comes into play, Slaine.

The brush of his lips on the corner of her mouth is light and gentle - it makes her heart flutter somewhat, but it also makes her a little concerned that she messed up by pulling back earlier, that he's not going to go much further than that. He proves her wrong a moment later when he presses his lips onto hers, and she scoots forward again to return the kiss, her arms coming up to wrap around his shoulders.

It's fine. This is fine. She even knows to expect tongue, so if it does happen, she won't freak out again! ...probably.]

_{[Having her arms find his neck again makes him settle back into the groove they'd got going on before. It's tentative at first, like dipping his feet back into the ocean after he'd dried off. He's afraid to plunge in head first, even if he sort of knows what to expect now.

It's easier to kiss her now than the first time, if only because he can pick up where he once left off. He takes a different approach, deciding to pepper her lips with little, soft kisses instead of one long, drawn out smooch.]}

[It's a little easier to breathe like this - which means they can keep kissing for longer. That suits Yona just fine, and her lips curl up into a small smile as she returns the kisses, peppering his lips with them in just the same way that he does.

...she's a quick learner, if nothing else!]

_{[A quick learner indeed.

It's nice, just doing this much, not getting carried away...but as much as Slaine tells himself to keep it PG the teen in him wants to push the rating a little further. It's easy for stiff lips to soon loosen up and turn pliant. Each kiss turns into something deeper, bit by bit, but he doesn't stick his tongue back in when given the chance. Instead he decides to do something different, moving back to press against the edge of her mouth and trail a few kisses down her jawline.]}

...You smell nice.

...Slaine...

[It's his name that escapes from her lips with a sigh as he starts to trail his kisses down along her jawline. She feels dizzy - but a pleasant kind of dizzy, not at all the way she felt when she was ill.

She feels almost like she might fall. ...but she also feels like if she falls, Slaine will catch her, so maybe it's okay to take the leap.]

Umm... That's my perfume. You like it?

[She has expensive tastes. Let's be real, she probably bullied Hak into buying it for her... maybe she shouldn't say that.]

I can wear it next time too. If you want.

["Next time"?]

...It's perfume?

_{[Expensive tastes, sure, he's not surprised at that, but he is surprised at the mention of perfume. He's not sure why, maybe he just expected her to naturally smell so good. Then again, it wasn't like she smelled bad either when she'd been sick and wouldn't have been able to put any on...

Not that he's going to tell her that.]}

I like it.

_{[It comes out soft, a whisper against her ear as he kisses his way to it, nose nudging hair out of the way. She'd said she wanted him to show her other kinds of kissing and so he'd do just that...

...if he could man up and do so.

There's an inhale as a hand slides up to plant itself between her shoulder blades, in a bid to support her as he kisses the shell of her ear and takes the lobe of it between his teeth for a gentle little tug.]}

Mmhm. Perfume.

[You didn't think girls naturally smelled like orchids and vanilla, did you, Slaine...

But also he should definitely not tell her he smelled her while she was sick.]

Then, I'll wear it a— ah!

[His breath against her ear makes her heart skip a beat, but it's the way he tugs on her earlobe with his teeth that causes a hitch in her breathing and a gasp, her toes curling as she squirms. It's strange. He's not even doing that much, objectively, but she can barely focus on anything aside from how close he is, how firm his body is underneath hers, and how she wants him to keep going.]

...mm, that... feels nice.

[She's going to die. She's straight up going to die.]

_{[That's the kind of reaction he was hoping for, and as soon as he gets it he feels compelled to continue. Nuzzling against her he pulls back from her ear, only to flick the tip of his tongue over the shell of it. Before she has time to respond he's back to suckling at her earlobe, hoping to draw out more moans out of her.

Hearing it feels nice is validating beyond belief. As much as he's enjoying this, it's her satisfaction and enjoyment that matters most of all. That's what he finds the most gratifying out of all of it.]}

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