multiversallogs | in the woods dark and deep I offer you eternal sleep

Who: Alba, Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna, Bruce Wayne, Cliona Donovan, Data, Don Draper, Ilde Decima, Irene Adler, Jae-hyun Kim, Jaime Lannister, Kalinda Sharma, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent, Martel, Nuray Amedi, Penelope Lane, Odessa Wander, Pepper Potts, Rex Lewis, Seoraj, Shrieky, Sunny, Wolfgang Einhorn, Xas
What: Something bad is afoot, and you must help.
Where: Abrogate Green, Badside, Barrackham, Chnum, Echomire, Flag Hill, Gallmarch, Ketch Heath, Pelorus Fields, Raven's Gate, Sangwine, Serpolet, Sobek Croix, Stoneshell, and the northern woods
When: July 22nd to the 30th
Notes: People are slow right now and a few are on hiatus, so slow-tagging and back-tagging are totally fine. Please check the accompanying OOC post for info and to coordinate.
Warnings: Disturbing content, will include violence, choking, drowning, body horror, and animal death.

Strange events tend to go unnoticed in Baedal, compared to the much stranger things happening around them. People don't tend to be noticed when they go missing, either. The city takes these things in stride. After all, people get called back to their homeworld all the time, or they die. Everyone knows this.

Still, rumors start cropping up around the city about the sudden appearance of twelve identical towers positioned around the city like the face of a clock...

ALBA ♞ Cliona Donovan
DON DRAPER ♞ Pepper Potts, Kalinda Sharma
ILDE DECIMA ♞ Irene Adler, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent
JAE-HYUN KIM ♞ Sunny
MARTEL ♞ Data, Jaime Lannister
NURAY AMEDI ♞ Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna
ODESSA WANDER ♞ Rex Lewis
SEORAJ ♞ Bruce Wayne
SHRIEKY ♞ Xas
WOLFGANG EINHORN ♞ Penelope Lane

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You are going about your day when you are struck by an arrow loosed out of nowhere. You fall over and find your body slowly transforming into that of an enormous frog-like monster. Soon enough an old man comes by, grabs you up, and takes you to a tower in Ketch Heath, which is guarded by a monster that can only be defeated by pricking it with a certain golden needle...

After sunset, there's an old woman pacing outside the tower. How did you get here? Chance, maybe, fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it. Either way, she looks relieved by your presence. She rushes at you, entreating your help. There's someone trapped in the top of this tower, and if they aren't rescued, something bad will happen to this city - very bad. Catastrophically bad. We all may die.

Plus, if you do this for her, she promises you a hefty reward.

The monster outside the tower - which won't approach as long as she is here, but once she leaves, it will attack you - can only be defeated with a certain golden needle. It belongs to her. Unfortunately it's been stolen from her, placed inside an egg inside a hare inside an oak tree somewhere in the woods of this city. You'll need to find that tree and extract the needle to enter the tower. And you must hurry; you're running out of time...

She'd been taking Cupcake for a bit of walkies when something changed. It took Alexia a few moments to figure out what it was, but—yes, she's sure: that tower wasn't there moments ago, and there's a definite whiff of strong magic in the air. Even though this city is filled with magic, she doesn't recall anyone ever using it to build a structure with that kind of rapidity. And—there's another one that she can see, and another; all apparently arriving from nowhere.

Well, this bodes ill.

She calls Cupcake away from a half-eaten rat and to heel, and sets out in the direction of the tower directly ahead of her. Something is not right here, and she feels she ought to find out what it is...

Alexia waits, somewhat apprehensively; since the call ended she's been staying put so she's easier to find. She closes her eyes and listens to the sounds of the forest; the rustling leaves and the quiet movements of animals through the underbrush; Cupcake scratching at the trunks of trees—listening for something wrong against the sounds of nature.

If I were a mad person, where would I put this needle-in-egg-in-hare?

GG's come in proper hunting attire- which is to say that she's on four legs, muzzle close to the ground, tracking. She knows these woods well, considers them her territory.

Had it been further away from the full moon she might have reconsidered her shape- might have at least come in her half and half form, leaving her capable of speech- but right now, the idea that a stranger might be slightly perturbed to be greeted by an enormous wolf when expecting a woman feels strangely irrelevant.

Slowly, GG emerges from the shadows.

She was listening for the sound of humanoid footsteps, shoes on leaves and soil, but the padding of paws on the ground catches her attention all the same. The woman had said she didn't mean dog... maybe she's not far behind, then. But no one else appears.

Alexia keeps a lot of animals; they've been her invaluable companions on many a scouting mission and a straight-up fight. She knows wolves pretty well—and there is something not entirely wolflike about this one. Something familiar.

...Worgen? She'd know if there were any Worgen here, wouldn't she?

"Cupcake, heel," she says, sharply; and considers. Well, she'll feel a bit silly if it turns out that it's just an ordinary Baedal wolf—the fauna here's a bit weird, it's possible that it's weird enough to throw her off—but...

"Hello?" she says, to the wolf.

in the woods dark and deep I offer you eternal sleep

FROG PRINCESS.

abduction ♚ nuray.

rescue ♞ alexia, anna.

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SOMEWHAT LATER, IN THE FOREST AROUND FLAG HILL:

...I am going to assume this is for me /late

IT IS INDEED :V