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March City Log
Dominant Element: Wind
Waning Element: Earth

Full Moon: March 13th - 15th

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As the third month of the year begins, so do the blustering winds that come with it. In the sky, the Spirit Vein shifts to hues of green as the Wind element becomes dominant. Throughout the month, winds from the south will be steadily blowing. Fortunately with these winds, will come increasingly warm weather as spring finally starts to arrive to the city.

The Winds of March

A spring starts to roll into town, the city itself comes out of its own hibernation. There's a lot more outdoor activities to be found during this month, despite the constant wind. In Blue Fish park, it's pretty normal to find people flying kites of various types and styles. There's even a kite vendor selling their wares, if you feel the urge to go fly a kite yourself. Or, if you haven't learned your lesson, the kitsune are offering discounted kites that are "guaranteed to fly". These kites will fly, certainly, but they will also break their string and start taking swoops at you. Really, you should know better by now.

In Undertown, with the arrival of spring, comes spring cleaning. Many of the shops are doing clearance sales to help clear out storage rooms that badly need cleaning. In these sales, you might be able to find old magic tomes or relics that haven't been commonly seen in years. Most of them are pretty useless, or completely outdated (not much need for magical cures to smallpox these days) - but the academic and historical minded, they might find some great finds among these items.

Shooting Stars

This month, seers will begin to get visions regarding meteor showers. These visions are often come with a positive feeling about them, but considering the last time a meteor shower came it led to a heartless attack- one can not be blamed for feeling anxious about them anyway.

The following night after these visions appear, the sky will be lit up with a brilliant meteor shower. Brightly colored shooting stars will streak across the sky, giving an incredible light show. While many of the shooting stars disappear over the horizon? Others will come falling much, much closer to home. As in, right in front of you. As the meteorite crashes to the ground, you'll realize it's not so much a meteorite, but a package that resembles some of the packages you find at the goodwill. It'll even have your name on it, with an item inside that's meant for you... good or bad.

Seems the stars are at it again.

[OOC Note: Characters can obtain up 3 free gacha items during the month of March! If you want to claim your gacha items, head over here]

Meanwhile in Hyrule, they're having their own meteor shower. Instead of random gifts, should you chase after one of these falling shooting stars, you may come across a star fragment. These star fragments are a rare material, and according to locals, could be used to craft some incredible items. However, Hyrule is a vast place and it might not be easy to locate one of these star fragments, and they have a tendency to vanish if they aren't found by first morning light. Just following one across the sky might lead you traveling miles until you hit the landing spot. Either you have to be really ready to run a marathon, be really lucky... or you could see if you can have a seer help pinpoint a location where these shooting stars are meant to land.

NEW THREAT: Eclipse

Since last November, the majority of Kaisou has been protected from the Spirit Realm by a magical barrier powered by the Crystal Tower. As long as you stay within the barrier, you'll be relatively safe from any dangers that the Spirit Realm could throw at you. However, for those on the outskirts of town, whether it be in Kami State Park or another edge of the city, that aren't inside the barrier-- it's been an entirely different story. Not only has there been a noticeable amount of extra Spirit energy in these areas, but there was that cold snap in January.

And now, it's going to get worse.

During the month of March, there are reports of tears opening up in the area outside the barrier. These will first appear as cracks of red, before forming into firey red gates- pulling anyone who is near it into the labyrinth within. These labyrinths look like omninous stone corridors, filled with unusual monsters that can only be destroyed via magical needs (meaning ordinary weapons do nothing against them). At the deepest part of these labyrinths, there will be a larger monster that controls this gate-- along with any poor soul that got sucked inside with it when the gate first manifest.

These tears don't manifest randomly, not quite. Rather, they have a tendency to manifest when someone exhibits strong negative emotions that draw the monsters within the labyrinths to them- as that's their favorite kind of meal. Once someone is pulled in, they will have a limited amount to save them before they're eaten. Whether the victim is saved or left to a grisly fate, the gate will linger for some time afterwards- though clearing the labyrinths out of all monsters will certainly help protect any innocent people who pass by.

And you know how every cloud has a silver lining? Well in the eyes of capitalists, so does every monster infested spirit realm. The monsters in these realms will drops crystals of pure condensed elemental energy, an extremely rare material that can be used in magical crafting and in magical spells. Vendors in Undertown and Zodiac will pay a pretty penny for these crystals. Not only that, but there are three organic items that could be used as interesting cooking ingredient: Lunar Mutton which is meat that never goes bad; Star Truffle which is a rare mushroom that shimmers like starlight, and the biggest moneymaker of them all in this era -- Solar Eggs, a type of egg that glows brightly when cracks, and makes the most delicious egg dishes.

OOC Notes

The dominant element this month is Wind! Anyone with an affinity to the wind element will find themselves boosted throughout the month. This could mean a boost to their power, having more energy, feeling more inspired with creativity, having better luck on different attempts -- the boost can manifest in all sorts of different ways. By contrast, anyone with an affinity for Earth will be experiencing the opposite. Perhaps their powers will be weaker, they have less energy, they're having a creative block or general worse luck - again it can manifest in all sorts of way and players are free to play with this mechanic as they'd like.

The original OOC plotting post for this event can be found here. There will be a second log about the spirit realm event and a midmonth Zodiac posted on the 15th.