escordviooc | player plot: the warden of the wind 🌪️

Hello fellow riftfarers! I come bearing... a player plot!

In the late morning of the 4th of May, storm clouds and dark skies will loom over Nogard, Eltrut, and other nearby islands, and the winds will be stronger than what can be considered even remotely normal. Strong enough that it can tear the land off the leviathan's backs, rip apart ships and carry them away, and create dangerous riptides. This is all because Benedikta Harman has primed into the full might of her Eikon, the winged harpy, Garuda. Her only goal is to wreak havoc, strike fear in anyone who might encounter her, and destroy everything in her path.

Nogard, Eltrut, and surrounding areas will be affected the most, though it is possible for her magic to spread further. As for what people can look forward to on the day of:

🍃 Storms and wind damage. Tornadoes and wind tunnels that are strong enough to pick up people and small boats will need to be avoided, and those on the open seas must weather the tremendously violent storms. If any crews or ships are out there, they will run the risk of their ships being destroyed in the chaos if they do not know what they are doing. High tides will also cause damage to the leviathans and the surrounding wildlife in the water, so they will need the help of riftfarers in keeping safe and repairing their homes in the aftermath.

🍃 Birds and Birdfolk. The birds residing on these islands will be especially aggressive, attacking people for seemingly no reason at all. Even the Birdfolk are unusually hostile, willing to fight just about anyone they make eye contact with. Larger birds will swoop in to snatch people and take them back to the forests on Eltrut where others will need to rescue them, fighting through large, tangle nests and terrifying eldritch-like terrors to get there. The birds will be especially aggressive to those who are more attuned to lightning.

🍃 Gryphons. For those who are part of Cid's crew, The Hideaway, the gryphons on the crew's island will be in an uproar. With the Matriarch leading the cause, the females will be fighting the males in an attempt to kick them out of their nests and will also cause chaos down on the ground and on the ship, and will need to be subdued. The males, however, will fly off to help anyone who is attempting to take down Garuda by allowing people to ride them.

🍃 Wind Egis/Elementals. Garuda will be summoning winged avatars that resemble her sisters, Chirada and Suparna, that will spawn across the affected locations. They will be attacking anyone they come across, but the more extreme ones will try to lure men out to sea to drown them, while kidnapping women to take them to safety. People will have to fight them off to escape them. As with the birds, they will be especially hostile towards lightning users, but they will also be weak to lightning.

These effects will last from the late morning for several hours into the afternoon before she is stopped, and even then, some of the magic may still linger, and the local wildlife and people will need help repairing in the days after.

Last but not least, there will be a chance for Garuda encounters. Some people may not be so lucky to avoid encountering the Eikon herself. While she will swoop in to scare people just for fun before flying off, she might not be feeling so benevolent for others. While it may be difficult to get in a hit, and her aether allows her to rapidly regenerate, it is not impossible, and managing to weaken her will, in turn, weaken her magic.

🍃 How to fight her. She can be attacked from the ground/ships with cannons and anti-magic devices, or in the air on the back of a gryphon. There will also be devices that can capture her magic and be used to gain temporary flight. While Garuda may be big, being small still has its perks. NPCs may also be utilized to assist in the encounters to provide support or serve as a distraction. People can try to reason with her and talk her down, but because Benedikta has lost control over Garuda, it will only anger her further. She will be more prone to lightning attacks.

🍃 Landing a hit. The attacks from her Egis and the birds will be weakened, and some may even vanish. The birdfolk will be snapped out of their spell, leaving them disoriented and confused. The storms and winds will weaken as well. Those with wind or animal powers will be given an opening to better control them.

🍃 Memories and Thoughts. Anyone who has a relationship with Benedikta may hear her current thoughts or see flashes of memories from her past, and present, with the possibility of some more memorable ones pertaining to the character she is encountering being shown. This option will only be available to those who have CR with Benedikta.

🍃 Note: Garuda cannot be killed or severely injured, and will escape any encounter before she can be, as it will take the strength of another Eikon to take her down.....

Please use the sign-up form below if you would like your character to encounter Garuda, and what sort of encounter you would like (a fight in the air, at sea versus a ship/crew, kidnapping, etc.) and if your character will be sustaining any injuries (please note what kind), and we can plot out the thread properly. Let me know what Garuda can do for YOU. For my own sanity, I will be limiting it to seven (7) threads, and I am willing to do one (1) three-way thread with two characters. If I end up with more than that, I'll RNG. I will also be keeping the threads fairly brief (I will get them to minimum AC length at the very least, but probably won't be more than 20 comments, if that), and I ask that we skip lead up/filler and get right to the main focus of the thread.

Another note: players do not need to sign up to interact with the egis/Benedikta's sisters, they will be free rein for anyone to do what they like with them on the log!

Signups closed.

The log will be set up as an open log where players can make their own top levels/threads, plus a top level for starters for the Garuda confrontations, and there will also be some residual things on May's open log. New characters will be free to tag into the log as well, as it takes place after they have arrived in April.

Questions can be asked here.

Threaded | Flat

Player name:
Character name:
Type of encounter: Do you wanna fight her? On the sea? In the sky? On land? Try to reason with her? Any strategies that you would like your character to utilize? Do you want her to include Chirada and Suparna, too? Do you want memories/thoughts?
Injuries: Do you want your character to sustain any injuries from this? If so, please list what kind/level of injury and we can figure something out.
Questions: Any questions you might have.

Any questions? Ask 'em here!

Edited 2024-04-28 02:39 (UTC)

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Izuku's crew has been talking that they want to get into some trouble against the Wind Egis/Elementals (possibly try and go toe to toe with the sisters) and maybe the bird folk too, some fighting and injuries as they try and get the situation under control. It's okay for us to thread our stuff out on the main log for this, yes? Just making sure!!

commenting here to say that after all this rem will visit bene after the fact ;;

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