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State of the Game: October

The humidity of the last two months begins giving way to a crisp, coolness that suggests autumn is creeping up on Aterat. The idea is reinforced by the colors beginning to blaze through some of the trees, and if one gazes southward, the trees of the great southern forest are turning to fire in the evening sunsets, which are coming earlier and earlier as the month marches on.

In fact, the weather is so cool and crisp and the air so dry that the grass, at once time still trying to cling to the idea of living a few more weeks, is browning, softly crunching under your feet. It really hasn't seemed to have rained in weeks. Maybe that's why it's so dry.

The answer will come soon enough, and not in the form many who've been a guest of the City of Aterat for some time would assume. We'll get to all that in a moment. First, a bit of OOC information:

» A fresh Test Drive is up, so invite your friends!
» Don't forget to get your activity check in!
» I did a lot of reorganization and updating of the settings and business pages, so if you see any issues, please let me know!

Event; Never Tell a Lie

When the Academy of revealed, it brought someone with it, a small custodian who has since been missing. Well, the little tonberry wasn't missing exactly, but misplaced.

At least that's what appearances suggested, but in reality, she's been on something of a hunt, and now she's returned with information. She'll be making a network post Friday to clarify, and she will be responding, though everyone is free, of course, to chat among yourselves about what information she's brought.

She's done something, you see, but her powers are strange to her, in her new form, and something may have gone a bit awry. She was trying to follow the trail left by the shard of the Voidcryst and got a bit off track. When she saw the world of darkness she'd found as she surfed the Astral plane she fled, but it seems not before things living there caught her scent.

It starts innocuously enough. People these creatures have decided to feed upon simply...cannot tell a lie. Remember though, lies of omission are still lies! This isn't that they can't answer a question dishonestly, but that they have a very difficult time not answering at all. They have little to no verbal filter, saying the first, most honest though that enters their mind on a topic.

While not evident, someone should track the culprits and seem them destroyed. They are creatures, roughly the size of a medium human male, though reptilian, and while they are capable of camuflag nearing invisibility, they can be tracked if one knows how, but why are they stalking people and why can't people lie around them? That will require investigation.

If they're tracked down and destroyed, everything should return to normal, but if you have any questions, ask here.

Event; The Dark Hour

Aterat is notorious for change. Things appear, things expand, and the addition of the Mirrors and their link to the MirrorVerse has proven the planes of existence in this reality are wont to shift and grow as well. Sometimes these changes are temporary, other times they're permanent.

Starting October 10th and running through Halloween, every night at midnight, the mirrors that suddenly appeared in August begin to vibrate. If investigated, the view through the looking glass is very different from the usual darkness of the MirrorVerse.

While it seems to be a reflection of the room behind you, it's a room coated with years of neglect and decay, with dark crimson rivulets running down the walls, and there's a green glow barely seeping through the grime coating the windows. Touch the mirror and you'll be transported to this place, but we warned, for the mirror through which you stepped does not exist on the other side.

Where once hundreds of milling people would fill the streets of Aterat here, there are standing coffins, and a bright green moon hangs over all while the streets run with blood.

If you're to escape this dark fetid world, you'll have to find another mirror that works, and these are random. You may find them in a tarnished side street, or on the third floor of an abandoned building in the harbor district. You should begin looking, because there are creatures that call this twisted world home, creatures of darkness made manifest, creatures that are manifestations of human emotion that take many forms both monstrous and beautiful, ones that will feed on your minds and leave you hollow husks unless you can defeat them, or evade them.

There are safe places to be found where these Shadows can't find you, but they change from hour to hour. It's likely best to keep moving. The longer you stay in this place, the more fatigued you will become, making your reaction times sluggish and the idea of resting for just a moment all the more attractive. The Shadows are opportunistic hunters though, so resting is ill-advised.

Note:

This portal to this Dark place is only open one Hour at a time on the Aterat side, and each hour that passes on the Dark side is one full day in the main city's setting, so if you wander lost your absence can easily be noticed.

In Closing

We have not one event this month but two! You're welcome to participate in one, both, or none! One is more horror-oriented, the other a mystery with an extermination aspect. I hope you guys enjoy your October! If you have any questions, please ask in the thread below.

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