[Seasons] De-hibernation Plot Brainstorming Post!

[sangreine]

Hey EllipsaFam!

For those not aware, Saya has approximately a year until her 30 year hibernation starts, after which she'll have total amnesia. Obviously, this sucks. She'd like to not do that anymore. That's where you come in! I'll be doing a longer term plot to help get rid of Saya's hibernation-amnesia cycle, which will involve several characters and their powers/abilities as well as several failures before succeeding. The mods have said I can plot out what I want to do so that's what we're doing here. I want to involve as many characters as would like to be involved, so let's plot some shit!

Be aware that anything we plot is subject to mod approval so things might have to get tweaked some.

Here's what I want to do:


Part 1: FETCH QUESTS
I want to do several quests (as many as are interesting and people want to do!) where Saya + whoever all go out and get ~rare magic items~ (which we can make up as long as the mods approve it!) that can be used to help fix her hibernation problem. These should be difficult to get for maximum fun. Here's what I want to know from you:

+ What powers and abilities does your character have that can be used for a cool fetch quest? (ie, can they breathe underwater? Can they enhance the magic inside things? Whatever you think would be fun!)
+ Do you have any ideas for magical things that could stop a hibernation or allow someone to keep their memories that sound sufficiently awesome to find and collect?
+ CLICK HERE to leave a comment for fetch quest plotting!


Part 2: We're doing MAGIC-SCIENCE, BABY!
Saya will want to involve the Research Center and also anyone who has experience with science or magic to help tweak her body so she has no more need to hibernate. DNA experts and scientists of all kids are welcome, as well as anyone who has powers or abilities that you want to play with! I'm totally open to creativity here. But be aware that there will be at least two failures before success. The Nintendo Three, if you will. If you want to participate in this part your character has to be open to trying again even after there are some Consequences for Saya after attempts which don't work.

+ What Sciencey Stuff your character can do that we could use for this?
+ What materials from either Saya (blood and tissue samples) or from fetch quests would be necessary and/or cool to use for this?
+ CLICK HERE to leave a comment for science plotting!


Part 3: MURDER FRIENDS and other consequences
Saya has a berserker mode that she will be worried about activating with the cure attempts. (I haven't decided whether that will happen or not.) ICly she will want Badass people present when they attempt the hibernation fixes, just in case she goes out of control and needs to be contained. These people will need to be prepared to kill her if necessary and she will make that clear.

Failure consequences I am considering:
+ Saya goes to sleep for a short while and wakes up with amnesia, which she recovers from in a couple of days
+ Extreme Bloodthirst for a day or two
+ Weakness and general loss of her abilities for a little bit, which makes her need constant touch
+ MAYBE berserker mode?! Depends what people want to mess with.
+ CLICK HERE to be involved in any of these!!

THANKS FRIENDS! Looking forward to running this plot ♥

Comments

FETCH QUEST PLOTTING!

[sangreine]

Adventure-y characters, fill this out:

<b>Your name:</b> <b>Character name</b> <b>Powers and Abilities you want to use:</b> <b>Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!)</b>

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[at_heart]

Your name: Li
Character name Yuri
Powers and Abilities you want to use: all of them. Look, you know me, you know him, I'm at work and I'm gonna cheat ✨
Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) Watch this space and or I'll comment another comment later to add it with more braining

[wildwarden]

Your name: LiLi
Character name Night Sky
Powers and Abilities you want to use: she can't do anything magic related but she's very fast and can climb really well, so if something needs to be Indiana Jones'd out she can do it! Also, she's a very good tracker.
Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) I'll get back to you on this!!! I probs have ideas that could work.

[sangreine]

So I'm thinking, maybe Night Sky finds something in the forest that she thinks might be of use to Saya (after Saya, you know, gets around to telling her the problem/mission). She'd be the ideal person to find a secret thing.

IDK I'm shit with creativity, so I welcome any ideas on the subject!

From below: I'm tentatively thinking one like "this thing never sleeps" piece, one "this is an an ancient wisdom that has eternal memory" bit, one "this will render things more stable" part, and maybe a "this will fix brain illnesses" deal.

SO YEAH I WELCOME YOUR CREATIVE THINKIES.

[wildwarden]

Something something elephant plant that can help with memory loss something something stuff I said in our dm.

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[kaientai]

Your name: min
Character name Sakamoto Ryouma
Powers and Abilities you want to use:

WELL. She has Oryou cr so it might be neat if he finally gets to use his Noble Phantasm and let Oryou go dragon mode for something hehe (but run this by Mini it's just a thought!)
As a Rider, he can ride or drive anything and has Servant-level abilities, so if there's any need for that, it's a thought.
Also in general, exploration and problem-solving and the like is in his wheelhouse big time.

Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) Unsure at the moment since he doesn't have any particularly interesting items or knowledge or anything, but I can probably add some ideas to what other's are working with.

[sangreine]

I guess the item she needs is guarded by a MAGIC BEAST then! Which only a dragon and her husband can kill! Seems reasonable to me. :3

I'm not sure what Servant abilities are or what Oryou can do in full dragon, so if I know that maybe I can give some options!

[kaientai]

oh yeah that would help, huh? lmao
mostly Servant abilities means he is stronger and harder to kill because his body is made of magic. Basically as long as you don't destroy their Saint Graph (which is basically their core or soul in this context) they won't die.

Oryou in full dragon form can fly and in general she can shape shift and her saliva has healing properties.

[sangreine]

Saya has all those abilities herself, HOWEVER if I can come up with a quest dangerous enough it would be really nice to bring along people/dragons who just can't die.

[kaientai]

Doing something where being extra resilient is a plus is definitely an option! His other stupid skill is getting into dumb situations where anyone else would probably fight or run but Ryouma will attempt to diplomacy it or find another weird solution and even has a liiiittle bit of magically assisted charisma.

Example: how he met Oryou when he was still human lmao. She was a dragon imprisoned on top of a cursed mountain impaled with a spear who was fully prepared to eat the first human she saw and he pulls the spear out and throws it aside and is like "You've had a hard time, haven't you?" and then walks away lmao And Oryou was so ??? that she decided to follow him.

Cool dragon stuff is also just one option so don't feel like you have to check all the boxes!

[essenceborn]

Your name: Dolly
Character name Nenonen
Powers and Abilities you want to use: Nen does magic!!! That's all they've got...sob But they will use water/snow/seeing in the dark to the best of their ability to find stuff that might help her.
Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!)
maybe something like those THOUSAND-YEAR CARP elixirs that you get from legendary creatures in cultivator novels??? idk I'm sorry ;u;

[sangreine]

I LIKE THE CARP IDEA actually, I was thinking of like some really old deep sea creature in the giant ocean lake in the middle of the summer segment. Sharks never sleep and all that.

[fiorello]

Your name: nilla
Character name kenta
Powers and Abilities you want to use: his Extremely Babey Powers. ... but seriously he'd just use his spring powers to help miss saya as best he can ;u;
Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) i don't have anything specific off the top of my head, but kenta's caretaker/tutor back home did a lot of explorin and told kenta about a bunch of weird shit he's found, so i'm sure kenta would be able to suggest something, like an ingredient for a potion or smth

[sangreine]

I will take all suggestions for ingredients! I'm tentatively thinking one like "this thing never sleeps" piece, one "this is an an ancient wisdom that has eternal memory" bit, one "this will render things more stable" part, and maybe a "this will fix brain illnesses" deal.

VERY open to suggestions for flora or fauna that might be fun for those!

[erschlagen]

Your name: Ariel
Character name Rosenkrantz
Powers and Abilities you want to use: He has a whole list of fire-related skills and abilities at his fingertips along with the Lúin of Celtchar, a fabled fiery spear said to be wielded by Ireland's most notable heroes. In addition, he possesses the Power of Vainglory that ultimately makes him immortal and almost unkillable except for several very serious draw backs.
Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) I will get back to you on this idea here. I have to do some research regarding various McGuffins that exist within Irish mythology and the likes.

[sangreine]

She's counting on taking her precious servant out hunting with her! They can quest and look for rare magic shit at the same time.

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[pissoffbook]

Your name: Mina
Character name Kainé
Powers and Abilities you want to use: Kainé is skilled with wielding a pair of jagged looking twin swords and has natural enhanced speed and strength because her Gestalt was experimented on with legion blood. She is also very agile and acrobatic.

She is said to exist as neither Shade (shadowy monsters that roam the world), nor human by Grimoire Weiss. Due to being half Shade, she is also able to wield magic an ability as It is not something humans can do.

Some of her attacks are to shoot orbs and general blasts from her aura that look like a mixture of lightning and white magic. She is also able to send arcs of magic along the ground to trip up her enemies.

She can also make a shield of her lightning magic around her. Her magic itself is blue and white, as opposed to the black and red of Grimoire Weiss, her own Shade, and the other Shades (aka
other 'Maso' based magic) .

Another ability of hers is to sustain massive damage and still live even so much as being impaled by a giant spike.

Her body heals fast, but if she were to die completely, Tyrann would gain full control over her body making her go berserk. Only one person has been able to bring her back from this.

Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) something similar to the Sealed Verses in Nier. Spells needed to be learned by defeating monsters to use during the curing attempt.

[sangreine]

Definitely welcome Kainé's help with quests and with making sure berserker Saya doesn't hurt anyone except those who are there specifically to handle her! I don't think based on the descriptions here that any of those attacks would be enough to defeat Saya in that state but she would definitely be slowed down. Her instant healing is rough for this.

Kainé going berserk is not going to be a thing for this plot, because I'm saying no on Saya killing anyone during the cure attempts. I won't be able to talk her into trying again if she does, and she has to try again so it can work! She's a fragile thing that wouldn't be okay with killing anyone so she can selfishly try not to hibernate.

The spell verses are pretty cool, but I'm hoping to use Seasons-specific magic that can be used and applied by the research center to do DNA manipulation science/magic. For example, like a fungus that only grows in the Silent Mountains that is known to restore a person's mental faculties, or whatever (that's just an example, I'm thinking there will be maybe 4 or 5 things they need to gather from around the Segments). Strong people absolutely required for fetching all the magic pieces!

[pissoffbook]

Cool! Sounds good!

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[forgingfires]

Your name: Sair
Character name Red Son
Powers and Abilities you want to use: I'm pretty easy to have Red Son do things for support since he's fairly hardy to go most places (except for underwater. Underwater wouldn't kill him, but oh boy he would not like it and would be severely weakened.)
Red Son is both fireproof and lava proof (he can't control lava though) and he can provide protection against heat. (Throw him in a volcano, he's Fine.) He is also just immortal in general so he can't die unless something has got magic involved.
He's also a smarty and knows how to decipher magic and technical stuff, so any sort of dungeon crawl could be a fun time.
Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) Never underestimate a dungeon crawl and I could even get things for it (probably taken from tabletop oneshots, but shh, its fine.)
Some kind of rarely blooming forget-me-not type flower, Rose Quartz is supposed to be good for memory and a stone that blooms could be a fun thing, some kind of special dream catcher that catches memories. I can probably come up with more stuff, but that's what I got right now.

[nihilmancy]

Your name: Ava
Character name Hlasoh sat Kerhet a'Rhen
Powers and Abilities you want to use: More detail on her info/permissions, but she's got telepathy, teleportation and portals, minor telekinesis, can detect magical stuff, has clairvoyance, and can ward/exorcise against otherworldly spiritual beings.
Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) idk. ghosts?

[idlehanded]

Your name: Ava
Character name Jupiter
Powers and Abilities you want to use: She has a thousand hands and they're very strong. Otherwise her powers are vaguely defined and mostly operate on vibes. She is strong, though.
Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) idk??? ghosts again.

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[the_wandering_scion]

Your name: Knux
Character name M’yrrnah “Crystallis Ra-Lyn” Takahashi
Powers and Abilities you want to use: All of them! Fetch Quests are her thing, even if she hates them! She comes with her Paladin abilities, Dragoon abilities and Summoner abilities, meaning she’s well-prepared for anything to come at her.
Ideas for items, monsters, adventure info: (optional but appreciated!) Imagination is poor, but I’ll toss her at anything and everything!