MOD POST: JUNE EVENT FINALE + PLAYER POLL

[asgardmods]

june event finale + player poll. Howdy howdy, y'all! Faith here today with three good things in store, the first and foremost being that our June Test Drive Meme is now live! Share it with all your friends, enable some of your enemies, do what you do. As a reminder, reserves open on June 24, and applications open on July 1. You might notice there are no times associated with these dates! This is because we'd like to get some player input on our processing. We're currently operating in PST because 3/4 of the modsquad are in PST, but we recognize the difficulties this can place on people in other timezones when it comes to reserves and apps. Also midnight is just so late. :( In the interest of trying to make this work better for the game overall, we're putting this one to a poll! We're still limited in the window we'll consider again due to the personal schedules of the mod team, but we'd like to offer a few options for you to consider. Please give us your input on this poll! We'll update you on what the overall response has been sometime before reserves open. Thanks, everyone! Now let's move on the main dish: our event finale! ❧ june 18 - 22: a dangerous deluge-ion. For a refresher on the main details of the event, please refer to the June Events post. This post is to fill us in on what terrible thing will be coming from one of your worlds into this one. Selected by RNG, our last day of the event will be a showdown with the Red Death from How to Train Your Dragon. You can find further details and a helpful video of this great big beastie on its wiki page. On the morning of June 22, all of the random junk from the previous days will have stopped falling from the sky. It might even seem peaceful again by morning light - but not long after the sun breaks the horizon, a great rumbling begins to ripple across the ground. It feels like an earthquake and sounds like boulders crashing together, and it lasts for a few frightful minutes before there's silence again. Then, with a sound like an unnatural tearing, a creature begins rising from the earth a few miles into the wilderness surrounding Asgard. Its massive body unfurls, cracking through trees and even colossal vines that seem to cross over its form, and it rears its head above the treeline with a fearsome roar that shakes the earth once again. From this point on, the battle is on, friends! ❧ great. now what happens? safety and security Alarm bells ring throughout the city, and the gods begin the process of evacuating their residents into the castle. Please help your neighbors escape to safety! Heimdall will be rousing Asgard's army and anyone willing to stand with them to form not only an offensive against the creature but a defensive line to protect the castle as well. Will anyone fight with them? The native humans are batshit terrified because they have never seen a dragon, let alone something this monstrous. Can anyone keep the populace generally calm and pls won't anyone think of the children? let's fight a fucken dragon because Faith didn't want to destroy the entire game The battle will largely be taking place on the outskirts of the city and deep into the wilderness surrounding Asgard. Anyone taking up the charge of slaying this foul beast has make it through the mystical forest itself before they even get to the dragon. Natives will be at Bærsveit Row in Heimdall's district arming anyone that doesn't have a weapon. Priority will be given to people going out to fight the dragon, but there will also be weapons for those looking to protect the city proper as well. Honir will be providing eight-legged horses to anyone that wants to ride one and attempting to clear a path through the forest. Will anyone join him in this first charge? The initial battle will take place on the ground as the Red Death also has to fight off the forest to become fully free. It might be pertinent to try to keep it on the ground; does anyone have any ideas for how to accomplish that? Doing damage to the wings and attacking it from its soft inside are the most effective ways to harm the creature and eventually kill it. Will someone be able to get all up in its business, or will we just have to wail on it until it keels over? what's the damage? For one, there will now be a supermassive hole in the ground where the Red Death emerged in the forest. Anyone that ventures close to it will see a mess of sharp rocks and crumbling earth that extends downward for a looong way. If anyone might want to actually climb in there to take a deeper look eventually, let us know. :) For now though, it is inaccessible due to giant fire breathing dragon between you and the hole. Thoughts for another day! Fire, just fire everywhere. The nearby wildlife will absolutely be burning, and this massive creature has a long range for its fire breath. If I'm not reading the wiki wrong, it can only do this nine times total, but that's more than enough to raze the entire kingdom if the Red Death isn't kept in check. The city is not unaffected! Fire will be licking at the edges of the city as the Red Death breathes fury all over the place. The rumbling in the ground continues as it stomps around too, sending constant tremors and occasionally even creating cracks and splits in the ground. Trees will be falling over and no one's really sure about the stability of being inside any of the buildings, so best to help each other flee to the castle if we're avoiding the fight. We'll see if the dragon makes its way close enough to the city to cause any further trouble; it'll depend on how well you all plan and work together! Weirdly, there also seems to be far more avian life than you've seen at any point during your time here. Flocks of birds come streaming out of the forests in a frenzied bluster, loudly crowing their way across the city. They will not be kind to anyone that gets in the way of them fleeing. Last but certainly not least, characters that die in this event will receive their first death consequence! This fight ends when the Red Death is killed! The gods will be assisting, naturally, but in lieu of the easy ~and then the NPCs save the day~ option, we're looking to you all to help us plot out exactly how this goes down. Some of the NPC team will have their kiddos in the comments so you can plot with them and start formulating a plan, even if that plan is just "and then everyone runs at it and hits it with things." We'll be working on finalizing your god powers so you can use them in this fight as well! Thank you for your patience with this, it's a real doozy. And that'll conclude our first plot event for the game! It may behoove us to find the little rascal whose world this dragon came from, and there should probably be some conversations about what in the hell happened here. Ah, well. Things to think about when the kingdom isn't being utterly destroyed! The first log for this event will go up on the 18th; the log for the Red Death Battle will go up on the 22nd. This will be all we've got for June! It's been a wild experience getting this game up off the ground, but I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have. Please let us know if you have any questions/comments/concerns/dirty jokes in the comments section below or on the mod contact page. We'll see you on the TDM! navigation.

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[ragnarsson]

Character Name: Ivar Ragnarsson
Canon: Vikings
What are you trying to get?: A tooth or claw, even a jagged scale whatever would make for a good weapon.
How are you trying to get it?: Teamwork, though he'll likely suggest using saws and hammers if the darn things just won't come off.
How much time will you spend on this attempt?: Quite a bit of time. He's a stubborn SOB and won't give up easily unless someone drags him away.

[asgardmods]

Alrighty, let's dish out some dragon bits here! Before I let you know exactly what you managed to pry off of the dragon, I want to provide some reference photos for context:

• this is the Red Death's entire body
• this is the size of it in comparison to human beings
• this shows the size of its claws in comparison to human beings
• this is the size of its teeth

With this in mind, and given that you have approximately 12 hours to work on this before the Red Death dissipates, you will be able to harvest the following:

• one massive tooth approximately 55-60 inches long

Because the claws are approximately the size of a city bus, pulling one out will not be possible by any manual means. You can, however, get some shavings from the side of it and a possible fragment of the sharpened point from one of them.

The dragon also does not necessarily have scales. Its hide is covered in a thick armor that makes it comparable to chipping away at metal, almost. Remember that this dragon typically lives in the bottom of a volcano, and is capable of flying through a mountain wall like paper. The hide is arguable the most difficult thing to harvest, so you will unfortunately not be able to get anything in this regard.

This will be your haul from this event! Please let us know if you have any questions.