The Ticket Story Thus Far...

[Harpsdesire]

Greenie: In some cases I didn't list all the names of characters present for brevity's sake, which is what happened with both the large group thread in Diamonds court and the Rodney/Pascha/Beraht thread. This started happening more the farther along I got and when I realized how looooong the post was getting. XP

However I just realized I totally missed the part about Zane being picked up by Elodie to get to Diamonds, and the bunnies outsides spades are definately missed as well-- I will add them in the morning.

Nat: You are welcome and I would be happy to keep the post updated as much as possible both with new stuff that happens and to add things that got glossed over initally (like more details about Eurwen's constantly changing group, Pale/Helena and Vishne/Lowlanders, etc) to give all the characters some love.

[Greenie]

No worries dear <3 I have no wish to add to your workload!

[Harpsdesire]

No trouble

I gave the post a little update.

[Old Gobbo]

Whoa. Holy crap. Whoa. Thanks so much, Harps!

[Harpsdesire]

Slightly updated, I'll add more when the posting picks up again. ^_^

[Harpsdesire]

Updated Version! Still not every thread is represented, nor is every single character named, but I added in several more threads and characters as well as updating the ones that have had something significant happen.


Bold = PCs
Green = NPCs

It all started when Donalda, The Queen of Spades, received a message from the Mayor of Selkie Lakes informing her that there had been a rich oil strike in the Lakes, surely a boon to the economy of all the realms. She traveled for a dedication of the new wells with the artists Michael and her stow-away daughter Sophie. Along the way, they met up with little Illyria and the wealthy businessman Graeme McDuck. The group stayed in the Fallen Wing Inn, where they encountered several strange magical items and an unsettling feeling. Despite the effects of a little twig mask on poor Lyr, the group made to the mayor’s house and then to the oil fields, which smell of petrol and ink.

Meanwhile, Colin, a titled Jack in Donalda’s court, invited Dania, (a bookseller and restorer of old volumes) to spruce up the rather neglected Spades Court library. Dania arrived with her assistant Joel to discover that there were strange whispers and voices in the halls. Before long, even stranger things were happening, with all other inhabitants of the place either vanished or comatose. When Zane found himself outside the palace and magically barred from entering, he flew through a storm to seek help at the Diamond Court, receiving a ride in Elodie’s carriage when he could fly no more. The disembodied whispers eventually lead the three cards inside the palace to find Faust, a lost and confused card who appeared from nowhere bearing the scars of recent brain surgery. While exploring the palace, both Colin and Dania unexpectedly ranked up to queen-- rather ominous considering the many stuffed bodies of former queens they found in the attic! A frantic battle with the reanimated queens left both Faust and Colin’s tove Arpeggio gravely wounded.

Outside the Spades Court, not far from where Zane awakened, a group of rabbits are searching for the lost doe Fleur. They aren’t aware that she met her demise at the explosive birth of her daughter Devika, who arrived not as a young rabbit, but a card! When her remains are discovered, Nadja finds herself attractively mutated, but Somhairle meets a fate like Fleur’s, dying at the appearance of a card child.

Things are not much better in the other courts. When Zane and Elodie arrived, they found that in the Court of Diamonds many of the nobles have fallen into the same inexplicable sleep, and Zane and Kushrenada perished horribly, leaving behind improbable ‘babies’ with bodies and minds much older than they should be. Some of the other nobles who remain awake aren’t feeling well either, almost as if they were swelling from the inside. There is also a strange king by the name of Yarrast hanging about; his behavior is certainly suspicious…

Although Yarrast made his escapes, Ceren followed him while the rest of the group began poking around in Queen Sadie’s chamber. There is a strange box that smells of incense, an unsettlingly large number of cursed items around, and some little vials that smell of yarrow flowers and petrol. Above them all, a bell tolls… even though the court has no bell tower.

Wulfram and Zekki, finding themselves unable to enter the court of Spades, took the full-grown ‘newborn’ Devika along as they traveled to the Court of Hearts in search of answers.

The court of hearts is also no stranger to bizarre goings on. When Zekki, Wulfram and Devika arrive, they find all the nobility oddly frozen, like statues. Zekki is worried for the safety of his sweetheart, Virtute, who is among the frozen. Elsewhere in the Palace of Hearts, there are cards stirring. A group of lowlanders are embroiled in a fight with some higher-ranked civilians of the court, who fight them vigorously for a time, then seem to lose the will carry on. Could this have something to do with the strange surge in anti-lowlands sentiment Vaska has recently noticed? And why can he suddenly see Wiglaf, a ghost who is usually invisible to all but his chosen haunt?

Just outside the palace, Jerome and Jarvis awake with pounding heads to fine that the other hearts court gaurds are either gone, comatose, or beheaded out in the garden. There are no obvious signs of who - or what - killed them.

Officer Rodney made his way to the Fallen Wing Pub, where a murder had just been committed. His investigation is complicated by the arrival of Beraht and Pascha, who followed a strange, spicy smell into the bar. Rodney has no idea who did the fox in, but earlier in the evening Kaden and Eurwen saw the killer, a mysterious woman named Resta with unexpected powers. Leaving the scene of the crime in search of Eurwen’s admirer Aiden, the pair encountered a strange zombie-like monster, and narrowly escaped with a little help from a band of Jossigies, eventually reaching the fountain in the city’s center, where they met up with Aiden.

Kaden headed back toward the pub where he met up with a few others and headed out to the Selkie to escape the strange oppressive air of the capital. They arrived at the Rising Wing, which seems to be oddly uninhabited. Someone spilled ink on the counter and just… left…

Meanwhile, Eurwen met up with several other cards, had another run-in with the lowland/torquehelm ‘zombie’ and led her group to the fountain once again, where something strange is going on. Sathre and Lilac have found that the fountain is iced over, and someone is beneath the ice!

Earlier in the evening, the same fountain was the site of a romantic encounter between Helena and Apocalypse that went sour when the King of Hearts flew into a magically induced rage. His summoned weapon saved Helena and the odd-looking child she seems to have… coughed up?

Mephista, a titled King of Hearts, has gone quite mad and headed out of her usual dungeon to see prey elsewhere. Frighteningly, she’s reached the capital, where her run-in with Arkady and Farran sent the children running to meet a most displeased Rosewood. Along they way, they found Conall tied up and disoriented, and the group sought the relative safety of Dr. Zenon’s lab. While there, they discovered a strange moving inkblot and Rosewood was haunted by a ghostly apparition who pointed and slavered.

The police station next door seemed to be deserted, perhaps because the cops are out on calls. Inside, the group finds not only more of the dark little blobs, but also what appears to be a pair of toves with glowing eyes. Outside, something rotten is circling the building. This time, the lowland zombie seems to want to talk to its victims.

That strange mobile blob of ink that appeared in Zenon’s lab seems to have fellows elsewhere, including in the outer bazaar, where one was chased by Fenzik, and in a little second-hand-store, where they appeared in sudden profusion and include a blue blot which moves faster than the others. Nova has managed to catch one of the blobs, but it escaped, merging with others of it’s kind to form a creature of oozing blackness.

Now Fenzik has a blob of his own, and it seems to be quickly cracking the jar he trapped it in. He is met by a small group of cards including Othello, who is distraught by his sudden ability to see the present, a sight that is usually denied him. Before long, a Jossigy named Farrago shows up, one of the group that earlier aided Eurwen. He seems to be on the lookout for Resta and his Jossigy buddies, and is unaware that from behind a crate, the leveret Talaith watches silently.

In other parts of the city, small groups have formed, as the air is heavy and a sense of paranoia makes everyone seek out safety in numbers. On such group as found a large pile of bodies: a wholesale slaughtering of lowlanders, including the well-known baker, Mrs. Lovett. Although Orrin, a Jossigy, is hardly bothered by the idea of killing lowland scum, the rest of the group is appalled. They decided to investigate the area. Even though there is no sign of a living soul, the air smells of tempting baked goods. Moving a counter within the shop revealed a stronger gust of cooking smells and a set of steps leading down…

Another group encountered an equally gruesome sight. A large number of cards from Selkie lakes have been murdered and left stacked and hung all over a pub. Oddly, there’s a strange brownish discoloration of their coats and a discharge from their eyes that smells a little like ink. Bristol, another card born full grown from the grisly remains of his parent, Sergi, Catastrophe and Zhenya tried to go after a strange sound they heard on the roof without success, then a strong sense of foreboding and a dreadful smell chased them down a smoke-filled alley, where they discovered that the source of the smoke was a drugged-out Ercole, his small smoke ability over performing to an alarming degree.

While out for a bit of shopping, poor Vishne found himself unexpectedly surrounded by lowlanders, including the mysterious Gaurin, who seems to think there’s a full on Jossigy/Lowland war afoot in the Capital.

It seems Mephit’s condition was only deteriorating as the evening wore on… now she’s outside the Falling Wing Pub, attacking Ichigo and Thyme, who had just left the pub after noticing some very odd behavior on the part of their fellow patrons. Now they will have to defend young Makenna and Adrianne from the violently enraged king.

In Anubis’s warren, the rabbits are faring no better than the cards. A whirlwind carried Maeve to the Jack’s feet, where she helped him fight off the smoke-like spectral creatures who were terrifying his leverets and afflicting his does with exhaustion and paranoia. Although her bladed tail seemed to disperse the lesser monsters, one that was larger and more frightening than the rest made off with Anubis’s prized doe Yasmine. The Jack and newly acquired leveret chased after her in vain, but then…

A pile of rabbits awakened in a grassy highland meadow, each arriving there by magical means of one sort of another. Maeve finds herself among them, along with Yasmin, who is seemingly unharmed. In the distance is a warren, a promise of safety, but when they arrive they find it had been dreadfully torn up, the interior in disarray and spattered with gore. No survivors are evident, but there is a smell of baking coming from the leveret’s rooms… and a dreadful smell from the does’. While investigating, Alicia discovers a hidden room filled with the corpses of the ravaged warren’s does. Some are fresh; some look as though they’ve been there for a while. To add to the horror, the leveret Jala explodes, leaving a strange, fully-grown doe behind. Yasmin’s death soon follows, also bringing an adult doe into the world. Brighid has begun to feel terribly ill, and it looks like a similar fate could be in store for her…

Alicia, a little ahead of the others in exploring the leveret’s rooms, is suddenly carried off by the same sort of whirlwind Maeve arrived on, and set down just in front Kaden, Kendra and Jordon outside of the deserted Rising Wing inn.

[Satra]

So, I've been on a hiatus this past semester, unable to keep up with the threads as they went. Coming back, I felt the need to keep up. Hell, I even wanted to read and start trying to figure out what's going on before everything was revealed. However, found myself in need of accomplishing other things during my precious free time this vacation than reading RP posts.

Thank you so much, Harps. I really appreciate it.

[Harpsdesire]

You're welcome, Satra! I'm glad people are using it.

By the way, nice posting, everyone! At this rate I will need to update again tomorrow. Awesome!

Also I still need to add a bunch of the newer/shorter threads.

[Harpsdesire]

Lots more is happening throughout the realms, and many more cards are being dragged into the horror…Question: Should I keep adding to and reposting this, or would it be better to post just a sentance update on each thread now that it's getting so long?

Bold = PCs
Green = NPCs

It all started when Donalda, The Queen of Spades, received a message from the Mayor of Selkie Lakes informing her that there had been a rich oil strike in the Lakes, surely a boon to the economy of all the realms. She traveled for a dedication of the new wells with the artists Michael and her stow-away daughter Sophie. Along the way, they met up with little Illyria and the wealthy businessman Graeme McDuck. The group stayed in the Fallen Wing Inn, where they encountered several strange magical items and an unsettling feeling. Despite the effects of a little twig mask on poor Lyr, the group made to the mayor’s house and then to the oil fields, which smell of petrol and ink.

It seems the Mayor was not entirely forthright with them, for he reveals that Selkies working on the wells have been mysteriously dying. As if this isn’t complication enough for the day, Queen Donnie feels magically compelled to eat one of the little fruits that grew from the tree on Lyr’s back… and becomes a Diamond!

Meanwhile, Colin, a titled Jack in Donalda’s court, invited Dania, (a bookseller and restorer of old volumes) to spruce up the rather neglected Spades Court library. Dania arrived with her assistant Joel to discover that there were strange whispers and voices in the halls. Before long, even stranger things were happening, with all other inhabitants of the place either vanished or comatose. When Zane found himself outside the palace and magically barred from entering, he flew through a storm to seek help at the Diamond Court, receiving a ride in Elodie’s carriage when he could fly no more. The disembodied whispers eventually lead the three cards inside the palace to find Faust, a lost and confused card who appeared from nowhere bearing the scars of recent brain surgery. While exploring the palace, both Colin and Dania unexpectedly ranked up to queen-- rather ominous considering the many stuffed bodies of former queens they found in the attic! A frantic battle with the reanimated queens left both Faust and Colin’s tove Arpeggio gravely wounded.

Although Joel manages to patch them up well enough, the strange goings-on have not ceased: Dania has attracted the attention of the last undead queen, who is following her like a confused puppy, and Colin is filled with a surge of power and pride. Somehow, he knows that something has happened to Donnie and that he’s THE Queen now… Spades is HIS court!

Outside the Spades Court, not far from where Zane awakened, a group of rabbits are searching for the lost doe Fleur. They aren’t aware that she met her demise at the explosive birth of her daughter Devika, who arrived not as a young rabbit, but a card! When her remains are discovered, Nadja finds herself attractively mutated, but Somhairle meets a fate like Fleur’s, dying at the appearance of a card child.

Things are not much better in the other courts. When Zane and Elodie arrived, they found that in the Court of Diamonds many of the nobles have fallen into the same inexplicable sleep, and Zane and Kushrenada perished horribly, leaving behind improbable ‘babies’ with bodies and minds much older than they should be. Some of the other nobles who remain awake aren’t feeling well either, almost as if they were swelling from the inside. There is also a strange king by the name of Yarrast hanging about; his behavior is certainly suspicious…

Although Yarrast made his escapes, Ceren followed him to Queen Iria’s room and found her sleeping deeply, but able to awaken. The poor queen feels bloated and awful, much like Zane did before his demise—and Ceren is starting to feel the symptoms, too.

Meanwhile, the rest of the group began poking around in Queen Sadie’s chamber. There is a strange box that smells of incense, an unsettlingly large number of cursed items around, and some little vials that smell of yarrow flowers and petrol. Above them all, a bell tolls… even though the court has no bell tower. When Morgan gets the box open, the smell fades, but Sadie still sleeps and the sound of the bell is only getting closer.

Wulfram and Zekki, finding themselves unable to enter the court of Spades, took the full-grown ‘newborn’ Devika along as they traveled to the Court of Hearts in search of answers.

The court of hearts is also no stranger to bizarre goings on. When Zekki, Wulfram and Devika arrive, they find all the nobility oddly frozen, like statues. Zekki is worried for the safety of his sweetheart, Virtute, who is among the frozen. Elsewhere in the Palace of Hearts, there are cards stirring. A group of lowlanders are embroiled in a fight with some higher-ranked civilians of the court, who fight them vigorously for a time, then seem to lose the will carry on. Could this have something to do with the strange surge in anti-lowlands sentiment Vaska has recently noticed? And why can he suddenly see Wiglaf, a ghost who is usually invisible to all but his chosen haunt?

Just outside the palace, Jerome and Jarvis awake with pounding heads to fine that the other hearts court gaurds are either gone, comatose, or beheaded out in the garden. There are no obvious signs of who - or what - killed them.

Officer Rodney made his way to the Fallen Wing Pub, where a murder had just been committed. His investigation is complicated by the arrival of Beraht and Pascha, who followed a strange, spicy smell into the bar. Rodney has no idea who did the fox in, but earlier in the evening Kaden and Eurwen saw the killer, a mysterious woman named Resta with unexpected powers. Leaving the scene of the crime in search of Eurwen’s admirer Aiden, the pair encountered a strange zombie-like monster, and narrowly escaped with a little help from a band of Jossigies, eventually reaching the fountain in the city’s center, where they met up with Aiden.

Kaden headed back toward the pub where he met up with a few others and headed out to the Selkie to escape the strange oppressive air of the capital. They arrived at the Rising Wing, which seems to be oddly uninhabited. Someone spilled ink on the counter and just… left…
Meanwhile, Eurwen met up with several other cards, had another run-in with the lowland/torquehelm ‘zombie’ (this time he managed to swallow poor Rigsy, and leave Mia behind, slimy and stinking) and led her group to the fountain once again, where something strange is going on. Those Jossigys just keep coming and going, Aiden is rather painfully thrashed by Resta, and now a terrible creature made of pure ink has entered the hat shop where they hid.

Sathre and Lilac have found that the fountain is iced over, and someone is beneath the ice! In the process of trying to get her out, Lilac mutates terribly.

Earlier in the evening, the same fountain was the site of a romantic encounter between Helena and Apocalypse that went sour when the King of Hearts flew into a magically induced rage. His summoned weapon saved Helena and the odd-looking child she seems to have… coughed up?

Mephista, a titled King of Hearts, has gone quite mad and headed out of her usual dungeon to see prey elsewhere. Frighteningly, she’s reached the capital, where her run-in with Arkady and Farran sent the children running to meet a most displeased Rosewood. Along they way, they found Conall tied up and disoriented, and the group sought the relative safety of Dr. Zenon’s lab. While there, they discovered a strange moving inkblot and Rosewood was haunted by a ghostly apparition who pointed and slavered.

The police station next door seemed to be deserted, perhaps because the cops are out on calls. Inside, the group finds not only more of the dark little blobs, but also what appears to be a pair of toves with glowing eyes. Outside, something rotten is circling the building. This time, the lowland zombie seems to want to talk. He considers himself the victim of a racist hate crime, and seems unwilling to accept that the police are nowhere to be found.

That strange mobile blob of ink that appeared in Zenon’s lab seems to have fellows elsewhere, including in the outer bazaar, where one was chased by Fenzik, and in a little second-hand-store, where they appeared in sudden profusion and include a blue blot which moves faster than the others. Nova has managed to catch one of the blobs, but it escaped, merging with others of it’s kind to form a creature of oozing blackness. Incensed by Eldy’s attack, the beast swallows Nova, soon bursting into flame and setting the whole shop ablaze!

Now Fenzik has a blob of his own, and it seems to be quickly cracking the jar he trapped it in. He is met by a small group of cards including Othello, who is distraught by his sudden ability to see the present, a sight that is usually denied him. Before long, a Jossigy named Farrago shows up, one of the group that earlier aided Eurwen. He seems to be on the lookout for Resta and his Jossigy buddies, and is unaware that from behind a crate, the leveret Talaith watches silently.

In other parts of the city, small groups have formed, as the air is heavy and a sense of paranoia makes everyone seek out safety in numbers. On such group as found a large pile of bodies: a wholesale slaughtering of lowlanders, including the well-known baker, Mrs. Lovett. Although Orrin, a Jossigy, is hardly bothered by the idea of killing lowland scum, the rest of the group is appalled. They decided to investigate the area. Even though there is no sign of a living soul, the air smells of tempting baked goods. Moving a counter within the shop revealed a stronger gust of cooking smells and a set of steps leading down to a hidden bakery with a suspicious meat grinder and a huge oven.

Another group encountered an equally gruesome massacre. A large number of cards from Selkie lakes have been murdered and left stacked and hung all over a pub. Oddly, there’s a strange brownish discoloration of their coats and a discharge from their eyes that smells a little like ink. Bristol, another card born full grown from the grisly remains of his parent, Sergi, Catastrophe and Zhenya tried to go after a strange sound they heard on the roof without success, then a strong sense of foreboding and a dreadful smell chased them down a smoke-filled alley, where they discovered that the source of the smoke was a drugged-out Ercole, his small smoke ability over performing to an alarming degree.

While out for a bit of shopping, poor Vishne found himself unexpectedly surrounded by lowlanders, including the mysterious Gaurin, who seems to think there’s a full on Jossigy/Lowland war afoot in the Capital.

Guardian Amherst doesn’t know what to make of the strange conditions in the city, but he’s bound and determined to protect the two children he finds unattended outside the Fallen Wing. When they come across Resta and Eir, he’ll have to chose sides: Unbalanced Jossigy or long-necked cannibal?

It seems Mephit’s condition was only deteriorating as the evening wore on… now she’s outside the Falling Wing Pub, attacking Ichigo and Thyme, who had just left the pub after noticing some very odd behavior on the part of their fellow patrons. They will have to defend young Makenna and Adrianne from the violently enraged king. Mephit seems to be losing her grip on reality more and more, but it looks like she’ll be taking Ichigo and Thyme down with her.

Although his family evacuated for safer lands as soon as a hint of violence against lowlanders was on the wind, Morpheus felt compelled to return to the city. He simply had to save his ‘pet’, Khizr. When he arrives with a small group of hangers-on that he picked up along the way, he finds utter carnage—his queen is dead, and in his place a little of half-starved babies. Moe knows they are his own, however strange it is for two red suits to give birth to spade children. Not only have the weakened litter resorted to cannibalism in the absence of food, but there’s an oddly suspicious bloodstain on the floor and something is moving in the rooms above…

In Anubis’s warren, the rabbits are faring no better than the cards. A whirlwind carried Maeve to the Jack’s feet, where she helped him fight off the smoke-like spectral creatures who were terrifying his leverets and afflicting his does with exhaustion and paranoia. Although her bladed tail seemed to disperse the lesser monsters, one that was larger and more frightening than the rest made off with Anubis’s prized doe Yasmine. The Jack and newly acquired leveret chased after her in vain, but then…

A pile of rabbits awakened in a grassy highland meadow, each arriving there by magical means of one sort of another. Maeve finds herself among them, along with Yasmin, who is seemingly unharmed. In the distance is a warren, a promise of safety, but when they arrive they find it had been dreadfully torn up, the interior in disarray and spattered with gore. No survivors are evident, but there is a smell of baking coming from the leveret’s rooms… and a dreadful smell from the does’. While investigating, Alicia discovers a hidden room filled with the corpses of the ravaged warren’s does. Some are fresh; some look as though they’ve been there for a while. To add to the horror, the leveret Jala explodes, leaving a strange, fully-grown doe behind. Yasmin’s death soon follows, also bringing an adult doe into the world. Brighid has begun to feel terribly ill, and it looks like a similar fate could be in store for her…

Alicia, a little ahead of the others in exploring the leveret’s rooms, is suddenly carried off by the same sort of whirlwind Maeve arrived on, and set down just in front Kaden, Kendra and Jordon outside of the deserted Rising Wing inn. Kaden captures the leveret easily, as yet unaware of the strange magic that is bringing cards and rabbits together.

[The Jenn]

You are the most awesome thing... xD

Maybe just highlight the text that you add each time in pink or summat to make it more visible, but repost the whole thing so that it's easy for us to read in context if we need to? :3