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As the lanterns rose throughout the last part of the night to wish Iris and Daphne a happy union and to commune with Mother Nature, strips of paper floated down almost with purpose and destination far too fast. The released sky lantern were still ascending and the cascading strips of paper weren’t disintegrating upon contact with the soil as they should have. These strips fell at the feet of their intended recipients, some with targeted messages. 

For the majority of guests, the strips that landed near them read Our time is now. 

Others received the following messages: 

Rowan - The Hartwell Curse still lives on. How long can you keep them alive? 

Sebastian - Will they allow you to remain their king when they know your secret? Or hers? Can you really keep the Princess safe?

Jakovan - we’re coming back to finish the job. We’ll take all of you for comfort if you’d like. 

Markus - Think you can truly find him before we do? If you can even remember him.

Iris - When you find him, will he still be alive? 

Bear - Congratulations on the baby, see you and him soon

Evren - You sit on a throne meant for us. 

The notes set a somber tone to the end of the night. The guests gathered their security closer and maybe even their loved ones too and left the realm with targets on their backs. No one, leader or regular citizens would be safe from the immortalem originals. 

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Disco isn't dead, but someone could be soon.

As the silent disco is in full swing, a loud ominous bout of laughter booms through everyone's headphones followed by chilling repeated words of "they're coming". The music eventually returns as the words fade out, sending the disco back to its normal pace.

Was it just a joke? Or foreshadowing for something to come?

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(Reposting for records since the original post was eaten)

When all was said and done the Night of the Westland Ball, several things happened in all the chaos. 

The High Priest, Jakovan Petrov, fell into a coma after being stabbed, but the knife did not transfer the ruler’s magic to the wielder. 

The ancestors used fellow witches to send word to the only hybrid witch in attendance, Roxana Ahn to use her abilities to siphon the the magic out of the barrier around them. Although Roxy thought to turn and run away from the responsibility, she stayed to remove the barrier, allowing guests to leave. Once all the magic was siphoned from the space, the electricity returned and the portals began to work once more. Coven and volunteer witches helped to put the raised dead back in their rightful graves, allowing them to rest once more. 

The culprit wasn’t caught, and it isn’t known who was responsible, but one thing was for certain, the attack was measured with the intent to cause distraction to the general public and intentional harm to the High Priest of Westland. 

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The Falls overtakes the Heights

In the late hours of the night we have learned that Northland Falls has taken the Northland Heights in a surprise attack. Not only were the Heights’ troops outnumbered by not only Northland Falls on the ground but also Southland's troops in the air poised for aerial attack. The absence of help from their allies, along with portal stations being hacked and shut down, media outlets being hacked to shut down all communications, and a magical barrier placed around the realm allowed the Falls to overtake the Heights. Rumors of the Dark World involvement has been heavily speculated due to the hacking specialties of the realm. 

We’re told an unexpected storm knocked out all power and hindered communication with The Heights’s ally The Divine Forest. When the storm let up and word got to the nymphs, the Valkyrie came rushing in, only to discover that the Heights had relinquished power to avoid mass casualties. 

King Markus’s team gave this statement, “Our goal was a realm united where vampires and hybrids can coexist. Not without their own representation and voices, but including them. With other threats in abundance reuniting the realms is a must. And we achieved it with minimal casualties. Our aim was not to harm hybrids and it never will be.” 

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The ceremony ended without a single incident. Although while leaders, nobles, and friends partied, other entities were at work on sinister plans.

The one who freed the immortalem spent time catching the old ones up on this life, and they even walked among those party goers and the who's who in Lume Noua. The immortalem laughed, chatted, and rubbed elbows with no one knowing who they truly were. They assessed the current political climate to gather information. This was simply a fact finding mission.

While they mingled, and while the glitz, glam and fun in the sun occurred, the thinning veil between living and dead continued to wither. The one who freed the immortalem sought this as an opportunity to punish and distract. He aided spirits long departed, giving them a magical push to fully destroy the divide between living and dead with the newly acquired magic afforded to him by the immortalem.

Witches who could astral project noticed the veil come down first, as their abilities to travel from living to the spirit realm was easier without a barrier. But now, spirits of the departed were free to roam on this side of existence. While most were invisible, they could muster enough strength to hold the intangible form for a few moments, enough to muster a sentence.

Should they want to speak to their loved ones at length, touch them and fully interact, or perhaps exact revenge, they would need to possess another willing or unwilling living host.

Only those warded against possession were truly safe from possession. Be careful, of obtaining warding against possession, you must make sure you are not carrying another host with you before the ward is applied to the body. If there is a ghost passenger within you will have warded the ghost in with no ability to leave the now shared vessel.

Not all departed will want to wander on this plane of existence. Some are at peace and will remain where they are, or have no interest in rejoining the living. But others may have more sinister plans in mind or simply want to reconnect with loved ones.

[OOC Note: This can inspire many opportunities for character growth, and reuniting with loved ones who have passed away. You can feel free to interact with this plot in many ways, via self paras, threads etc. If you would like to use a non in game fc as a host, please let the admins know. Witches may have the most knowledge on the subject of spirits and may be more experienced in casting them out of their bodies without wards. Have fun with this plot and remember any major plots please run them by the admins. You may also continue event threads if you wish.]

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Six months ago, the Original Immortalem were awakened. Every realm has had six months of silence. But soon, that silence will end. With the immortalem back, the natural order of the world as we know it is slowly being destroyed. There are consequences for the Originals' return. Consequences that everyone would soon begin to experience.

These consequences are as follows:

The veil between the living and dead has thinned. Witches with astral projection and those with abilities to commune with the dead would notice first.

Frequent changes in weather, storms and hurricanes outside of the normal weather patterns. Warm weather when it’s normally chilly. Rain when it's a drought.

Strange occurrences with time and perception magic only yielded by immortalem originals. (The admin team will post when this occurs)

While none of these things occurred immediately, now after the immortalem have been around for about 6 months their penchant for chaos and unnatural occurrences will begin soon.

[The admin team will post more in depth on each of these consequences soon and how you can begin to incorporate it into your plots.]

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NEW YEAR NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS

Each year, Lume Noua, moves forward with their technological advancements. This year is no different. The new advancements are as follows:

Photo and video capabilities on cellphones now have more clarity than ever. 

Text messages and video messages are now free.

Phones have gotten an update from flip phone eras to razors, blackberries and sidekick style phones. 

The Portal station are now open 24/7 in every realm. 

Computers, the internet and the World Wide Web have advanced with the addition of early social media and the search engine Ask Hugh. Realm Space (Myspace) has surfaced. 

MP3 players are now introduced.

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As the party is getting started, Markus ( @ocean-eyeslnrp ) gets a package and an attendant guides him to a room that just so happens to have the tools he would need to address said package. In the package that came for him was a video tape and a note.

[Sticky Note on the video tape]

Watch Me

Upon watching the video, with no sound, it was simply a video of a faceless figure at a bar in Southland mixing a drink with irregular ingredients for an alcoholic beverage. The scene changes to the bartender taking the figure's place and sliding down the drink to Markus's wife, Queen Rowan Hartwell on a night out a few weeks ago. The video cuts off only for their to be a note left for Markus to read. It was short, sweet and to the point.

[Letter Reads]

Still think I can't get to you, too? Antonia was child's play. Or perhaps so is this too. Is your wife okay? Maybe you should check...

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As the event gets into full swing, and the guests are seemingly enjoying themselves, chaos is brewing below the surface. Rogue groups on a specific mission are rumbling through the palaces while everyone gathers in Kings Hill. And a few uninvited guests mingle amongst those in attendance of the coronation celebration, just waiting for the call to signify the chaos to come.

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Don’t Feed the Hydra  Alone

As the reception continued without a hitch, the guests feeling more secure by the moment as not a single incident occurred. That was until shouts for help had occurred. Clarae ( @fallenferns ) & Mahina ( @ocean-eyeslnrp) just happened to have been outside and heard the distant screams for help. They attempted to act, to make their way out to the water to help, when they saw the Hydra taking the life of another. This was another guest who had come out to chance their luck with the hydra. 

The sight was jarring to watch, and they both had been helpless to help. Now they were tasked with going back to the reception to deliver the bad news. 

Was this a simple mishap? Or was this a calculated move and show of power? It was uncertain and the rumor mill was churning with theories. 

Everyone was advised to stay inside, while guards, war generals, and rulers assessed the situation and safety for the night. They would come up with a plan to get everyone safely back to their rooms before they set out to travel home the following day. 

[OOC: Feel free to do with this what you would like. Keep in mind that the hydra is dangerous and can’t be killed or harmed. You can have your characters hurt trying to help. The news did arrive to others so everyone can feel free to react.]

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                                    A Surprise Wedding 

With all the competitions being held the previous day, there was uncertainty for what surprises Friday spent in the Dark World meant as little to no information had been given, and those in the know were sworn to secrecy. An invitation was sent to all lodgings in the early hours of the morning. Each invitation was vague. This mystery event required formal attire and directions to a destination in the forest. Although it was snowing in the rest of the realm this particular area was snow free, grassy and warm, thanks to weather manipulation abilities provided by Svala Hansen ( @ocean-eyeslnrp ) 

Upon arrival, the guests could see that it would appear to be a wedding set to occur. There was a mini drink bar to indulge in before the ceremony and a photo booth. As the ceremony was nearing a start everyone was asked to take a seat. That was when a very dashing Master of Mayhem, Finnian Ambrose, ( @gvldntrbl ) took his place at the front near the beautiful arch along with the officiator performing the ceremony.  In that moment, silence fell and Lark Fairwind ( @fuisecg ) took her place in front of the microphone to sing as The Mistress of Mayhem, Skai Rai ( @theartofruling )  appeared, making her way to down the aisle to her groom.

Once the vows had been spoken, the I do’s were exchanged and a kiss shared, the pair was pronounced Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose.

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The storms across all realms at once were practically inexplicable. The witches and really all magical beings (Nymphs and Faeries) could feel something different and off about the night. The longer the full moon hang in the sky the more the storms raged. A spell was being broken. One that most thought was little more than a myth. The spell required immense power and  sacrifice.

On the night of the full moon, two people on separate quests to reawaken a myth from long past of an original species from which all supernatural species is derived put their plan into place. Markus and Antonia joined the likes of those in Kings Hill under the guise of celebration during the full moon. Unlike the rest, they had been sowing the seeds of a spell that would take immense power. The spell to awaken a species known only in myths as the Immortalem.

The spell was one that required more power than one witch had alone. So Antonia had to draw from the celestial event of the full moon, connected with channeling the power of a centuries old vampire. While the curse that kept the Immortalem a myth had required the sacrifice of human blood of the noble line, to undo such a curse, it required the complete sacrifice.  With so much planning to prepare for this night, they were ready in the early hours of the morning. A guardian witch with mind control and a vampire with the ability to compel, gained access to Kings Hill’s Queen and King while they were slumbering.

It was no easy feat and had taken weeks of mind control in Antonia’s therapy sessions to make sure that none of the guards that were present that night would be on vervain to weaken the compulsion that Markus would do to allow them entry and exist without memory of the night. Without a sound they were able to kill both the King and Queen of Kings Hill, leaving the room scattered with pamphlets from the Uprising as if to point the finger toward the group making their statement.

With the blood of the monarchs spilled, the full moon where they needed it, and a vampire to channel the spell to remove the curse was complete. Or so they thought. Instead of awakening the very first of their kind, the curse was linked to all those that descended directly from the Immortalem. Those that had the genes and abilities that weren’t quite like the rest. When the last lightning strikes of the storm crackled, it awakened something within supernaturals that did not know what they were. They fit themselves into the known categories or thought themselves just a human with odd things happening, or they simply didn’t know what was happening to them.

With the curse lifting, three different type of descendants awakened. The lifted curse could bring forth a new ability, it could bring out memories long buried of a past life. But what it most definitely would do is eventually set the world into chaos.

When morning came, word spread quickly throughout Kings Hill and the other realms that the King and Queen of Kings Hill were dead and the Uprising was suspected, leaving the Uprising and the Dark World a mystery and a decision to deny or take full claim for a move they didn’t make.

[OOC Note: Read more about the Immortalem here.  More information about applying for this new species or even having one of your existing characters have been this new species without knowledge of it will come in a post later today.]

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The Dark World Escape Plan 

Just as the guests were being released as the night was ending, and so was the week spent with the Dark World, people began to realize that certain guests were missing. They weren’t accounted for as everyone began to take counts of those that came with them or had been spending time with them in that night. Murmurs began and a decision was made to keep everyone inside. Instead of a night in their lodgings before traveling back home the next morning, they would spend the night in Mayhem Manor while they figured out where the missing had gone and what could have happened. Guests were uneasy and it didn’t take long for them to start to believe that this was the plan all along.

Throughout the week, those originally banished to the Dark World had been devising an escape plan.  When the realm was originally purposed, those that were banished to realm were enchanted never to leave unless the barriers were lifted or the enchantments were lifted. With so many people in visiting the realm, the banished had hoped that they could confuse the barriers and enchantments and escape as essentially passengers to the others.  Their plan was simple, grab as many non Dark World residents as they could without raising alarm, and using them in their attempt to escape.

As the night went on, they sneakily used different things that they knew would weaken certain species to subdue those that they planned to take. The banished captors took Lark in the makeshift backstage area, and all it took was weakening her with salt slipped into the food and drinks that she consumed. It was no easy feat, but catching a window of time when Louisa was alone, they caught her off guard, binding her with sliver.  Olivier’s drink was laced with liquid silver.  Vada was grabbed from behind and her hands bound using Lobelia Flower. Almira was caught by surprise and knocked unconscious. Nia was knocked unconscious by a spell cast by one of the prisoners. Each of them were skillfully taken out to the the barrier of the realm. They hoped that with so many taken that the barriers would allow them to cross the threshold along with those that they held with them. They had to time it just right, and they waited stashing their captives in a little cabin close to the barrier of the realm. They believed that the cover of midnight would be the perfect time to act. A time when those at the reception would be too drunk to realize what was happening, or so they thought. Once the time was right, they would take the kidnapped out to the barrier and try to escape. They cared little about what would happen to the kidnapped if this went wrong. They only cared for their freedom.

As soon as the numbers were figured up, all the reports of who was missing had gone out, search teams were started. Those heading up search teams were: Kingsley, Mischa, Niklas, Adrik, and Selene. 

Everyone else was advised to stay in Mayhem Manor. Cots, pillows and blankets were provided. Rooms were first come first serve to all that claimed an empty one. Until these guests were found everyone would spend the rest of the night in Mayhem Manor in order to stay safe. Leaders adjourned to discuss the events, that had occurred and a safe travel plan home for the following day. Any healers that wanted to volunteer was asked to aid in gathering supplies so that they could ready themselves for potential patients to come. Any guards, war generals, or volunteers that wanted to help and weren’t out searching, were asked to patrol the manor.

[OOC: This will be our last plot drop of the event (other than the conclusion/event recap). Those that are kidnapped, we are leaving it completely up to you how roughed up your character got. You can have been taken with another person if you want to write it out that way. You can self para if you’d like, it’s totally up to you. If you would like to write it out attempting to escape while they held everyone in the cabins that’s fine too. Those on search and rescue can work together or anyone that wants to join the search feel free to post about that as well. You can also actually plot with the kidnapped and write out rescue threads if you’d like! All inside the Manor are free to do what you’d like as well. Keep in mind there are certain rooms that are off limits, no juicy intel will be found anywhere in the Manor. Any major plots or deaths please run it by the admins, but please go wild and have fun with this!]

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An Introduction to the Uprising 

Throughout the festivities pamphlets were being handed out by unidentifiable guests. A simple strategically placed stack would be at the entrance of different games and competitions. Sometimes a simple bump into another person would result in a pamphlet in hand or in a bag next to the person. Each read as a recruitment pamphlet and a thinly veiled threat to stir fear within those that could easily scare or who expected something bad to occur in the Dark World during this event.

The pamphlet read:

The Uprising is Here….

Tired of the status quo? The monarchy as it is? Feeling as if you have no voice? Join us. We stand for the forgotten and the voiceless and we will demand change. If it can’t be achieved civilly, it will be taken.

The Announcement After Fight Night 

Just as Fight Night wound down, the lights went out followed by a projector churning to life, showcasing this pamphlet. A distorted voice read exactly what was on the pamphlet going further to describe how joining can occur.  “Our pamphlets have been magically spelled. Should you want to join our fight, simply write your name on the back of the pamphlet. Each letter will disappear as if it were never written, and magically be transferred to our ledger so that to all others you remain anonymous. Should you join the Uprising, we’ll be in touch.”

[OOC NOTE: If you would like your character to join the uprising (and they aren’t already), send a message to the main and let us know :) ] 

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                                    Wedding Reception 

The announcement came shortly after that the ceremony that in a few short hours, they would all be invited to convene inside for the reception. There would be music, and live performances by Lark Fairwind ( @fuisecg ) with dancing in the ball room. There will be a heated indoor pool for anyone that wants to take a swim, along with numerous celestial themed backdrops for photos.  There will be endless food and drinks throughout the night to celebrate the union of the ruling monarchs of the Dark World. 

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Since the signing of the treaty, Lume Noua’s social season began in August. The season launched the official inter-realm celebrations of unity throughout the lands. It was tradition. Each of the seven realms hosted an event and Southland, as the orchestrators of the ancient peace throughout Lume Noua, began the season. Every year...until this year.

Each realm, and every occupant therein, received an invitation. As usual. But it was the only thing that followed the tradition. The destination of the realm had changed and the social season began a month earlier. The Dark World had sent them, instead of Southland, and invited all of the realms to join them in the celebration and clear revision of Lume Noua’s social season.

Not only was this unorthodox but it was a public snub to Southland. The former prison territory and its illegitimate leaders were not officially recognized. Not by their peers nor as an actual realm to host their own event and invite others. The Dark World’s invitations have been met with mixed feelings throughout Lume Noua.

More to come…