Player: Sky Character: Nahida Idea: Tl;dr It's a groundhog day scenario aaaaaaand the land is corroding yayyyy!
Due to canon shenanigans, Nahida doesn't remember that a previous Dendro Archon existed. However, since Ei is from an earlier canon point before the canon shenanigans, she remembers and has essentially told Nahida that there was another Dendro Archon. Being the smart girl that she is, she'll be able to conclude that the previous Dendro Archon was erased from history and that she was probably the one who did it. Cue nightmare!
What will happen is a combination of the Samsara of Sabzeruz Festival and the Withering. Essentially, the samsara is a groundhog day scenario where the same day loops over and over again. In canon, the samsara was actually a dream, and its purpose was to generate energy from all the people who were part of the dream. In Songerein, this samsara will generate nightmare energy. Because of the repeated cycles, the day's events eventually become tailored to produce nightmare energy, but characters will not remember previous cycles.
Characters will go about their day as normal, except they will encounter something negative during the course of the day, ranging from a mild inconvenience or something truly catastrophic, like a monster attack or something personally terrible. During all of this, they'll be getting a strong sense of deja vu, like they've done all of this before. In addition, some NPCs will have become noctaeres. These NPCs are the ones who could not withstand the buildup of nightmare energy through the cycles and became noctaeres as a result. Players are also free to have their characters go noctaere, if they are the type who might be weak to sustained cycles of negative events.
At the same time, the Withering will be taking over the land, which is the result of the accumulation of nightmare energy from previous samsara cycles. And every time a character encounters something that makes them feel negative, the Withering will expand. The Withering is essentially a disease upon the land. In areas that are affected, life dies, monsters corrupted by the Withering spawn (in this case, it can be noctaeres), and anything that steps into the Withering Zone will begin to suffer from decay. The Withering is even strong enough to destroy buildings, so it can appear within Reverein.
However, Withering Zones can be destroyed! Each zone is maintained by a Tumor of the Withering. Characters must destroy the Withering Branches to unveil the tumor, which can then be destroyed. Any dreamotion powered by positive emotions will be sufficient to do the job! Once the Withering Zone is destroyed, the area will revert to its normal appearance (but buildings probably won't be fixed... sorry).
While the day progresses, characters will hear a whisper in their mind, repeated somewhat infrequently. "Save her... end the cycle." Anyone who spends effort trying to connect to the voice will eventually be led into Nahida's dreamscape, which will appear as a dream version of Sumeru! Except, this version of Sumeru has been mostly consumed by the Withering, so it's quite dangerous and full of noctaeres and other native monsters. An Aranara carrying a white branch will appear to explain the samsara to characters, and lead them through Sumeru. They will be able to generate a small area around them protected against the effects of the Withering. Characters will have to navigate with the Aranara to Sumeru City and reach the top of the city, the Sanctuary of Surasthana. Upon entering though, they'll instead be greeted with Irminsul, and Nahida trapped in a sphere at its roots.
Cue boss battle! In front of the tree will be a huge patch of Withering, and in its middle will be Marana's Avatar. This being is a swirling mass of nightmare/Withering energy, so it must be completely destroyed. Characters must destroy Tumors of Withering to expose Marana's Avatar to attack, and seek shelter under the Aranara's barrier when the Avatar unleashes powerful attacks.
Once Marana's Avatar is destroyed, characters will be able to approach the sphere Nahida is sealed in. Here, the Aranara will offer the white branch they've been carrying as the key to open the sphere. Once the sphere is broken, the white branch will vanish, whispering "Thank you..." into the wind, and Nahida will wake with memory of the previous Dendro Archon.
Once Nahida wakes, the samsara will stop and the Withering will disappear, leaving only damage to buildings and other non-organic things. Any characters or NPCs that were turned into noctaeres will become subdued and can easily be reverted to normal by a liberal application of positive dreamotion.
Date: Probably within the first half of the year? Questions: Uhhh idk there's a lot, so lemme know if some parts need to be pared back or if some parts can be further elaborated on.
Hi! Sorry it took us a little bit to get back to this. We really like this idea and we're actually thinking about using it next month for the TDM. There will be a few things that we'll need to iron out regarding how to incorporate it to the event but we will definitely share it with you once we nail it down. If you have anything else you'd like to add, please let us know.
Would you mind if we lifted some of the text from this for the dream notes?
Of course, go ahead! I do have to mention that I am on vacation next month though, and I'm still unsure what my connection to the net will look like during that period of time. Will I be needed to do anything for this event, or can it essentially run on its own without my input?
Also, if you need me to further explain and concepts or write up text even more nicely, I'm happy to help! :D
April would be fine for me, but I'm also fine if you guys do want to run it in Feb! There's a good chance I'll have connection, though I don't know how I'll fare time-wise haha. I'm flexible, so I'll go with whatever you decide!
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Character: Nahida
Idea: Tl;dr It's a groundhog day scenario aaaaaaand the land is corroding yayyyy!
Due to canon shenanigans, Nahida doesn't remember that a previous Dendro Archon existed. However, since Ei is from an earlier canon point before the canon shenanigans, she remembers and has essentially told Nahida that there was another Dendro Archon. Being the smart girl that she is, she'll be able to conclude that the previous Dendro Archon was erased from history and that she was probably the one who did it. Cue nightmare!
What will happen is a combination of the Samsara of Sabzeruz Festival and the Withering. Essentially, the samsara is a groundhog day scenario where the same day loops over and over again. In canon, the samsara was actually a dream, and its purpose was to generate energy from all the people who were part of the dream. In Songerein, this samsara will generate nightmare energy. Because of the repeated cycles, the day's events eventually become tailored to produce nightmare energy, but characters will not remember previous cycles.
Characters will go about their day as normal, except they will encounter something negative during the course of the day, ranging from a mild inconvenience or something truly catastrophic, like a monster attack or something personally terrible. During all of this, they'll be getting a strong sense of deja vu, like they've done all of this before. In addition, some NPCs will have become noctaeres. These NPCs are the ones who could not withstand the buildup of nightmare energy through the cycles and became noctaeres as a result. Players are also free to have their characters go noctaere, if they are the type who might be weak to sustained cycles of negative events.
At the same time, the Withering will be taking over the land, which is the result of the accumulation of nightmare energy from previous samsara cycles. And every time a character encounters something that makes them feel negative, the Withering will expand. The Withering is essentially a disease upon the land. In areas that are affected, life dies, monsters corrupted by the Withering spawn (in this case, it can be noctaeres), and anything that steps into the Withering Zone will begin to suffer from decay. The Withering is even strong enough to destroy buildings, so it can appear within Reverein.
However, Withering Zones can be destroyed! Each zone is maintained by a Tumor of the Withering. Characters must destroy the Withering Branches to unveil the tumor, which can then be destroyed. Any dreamotion powered by positive emotions will be sufficient to do the job! Once the Withering Zone is destroyed, the area will revert to its normal appearance (but buildings probably won't be fixed... sorry).
While the day progresses, characters will hear a whisper in their mind, repeated somewhat infrequently. "Save her... end the cycle." Anyone who spends effort trying to connect to the voice will eventually be led into Nahida's dreamscape, which will appear as a dream version of Sumeru! Except, this version of Sumeru has been mostly consumed by the Withering, so it's quite dangerous and full of noctaeres and other native monsters. An Aranara carrying a white branch will appear to explain the samsara to characters, and lead them through Sumeru. They will be able to generate a small area around them protected against the effects of the Withering. Characters will have to navigate with the Aranara to Sumeru City and reach the top of the city, the Sanctuary of Surasthana. Upon entering though, they'll instead be greeted with Irminsul, and Nahida trapped in a sphere at its roots.
Cue boss battle! In front of the tree will be a huge patch of Withering, and in its middle will be Marana's Avatar. This being is a swirling mass of nightmare/Withering energy, so it must be completely destroyed. Characters must destroy Tumors of Withering to expose Marana's Avatar to attack, and seek shelter under the Aranara's barrier when the Avatar unleashes powerful attacks.
Once Marana's Avatar is destroyed, characters will be able to approach the sphere Nahida is sealed in. Here, the Aranara will offer the white branch they've been carrying as the key to open the sphere. Once the sphere is broken, the white branch will vanish, whispering "Thank you..." into the wind, and Nahida will wake with memory of the previous Dendro Archon.
Once Nahida wakes, the samsara will stop and the Withering will disappear, leaving only damage to buildings and other non-organic things. Any characters or NPCs that were turned into noctaeres will become subdued and can easily be reverted to normal by a liberal application of positive dreamotion.
Date: Probably within the first half of the year?
Questions: Uhhh idk there's a lot, so lemme know if some parts need to be pared back or if some parts can be further elaborated on.
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Would you mind if we lifted some of the text from this for the dream notes?
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Also, if you need me to further explain and concepts or write up text even more nicely, I'm happy to help! :D
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In that case, we're thinking of having this in April instead.
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