Plot || The Star Wars Vaikuntha Special

[hatejakku]

Who: Open
When: June 8-14
Where: Everywhere
What: The race for the crystals is on!!
Warnings/Notes: OOC Post


Crystals have fallen out of the Dream Width in a beautiful meteor shower and scattered all over the world! Due to their origins and mysterious properties, the Curti Center is interested in gathering as many as they can for researching purposes. To incentivize the public in helping out, O'aka has donated a few silver coupons to those top few who collect the most crystals. There's also a rumor that the one person (or more if there's a tie) who collects the most, wins something marvelous and mysterious~

The hunt for these crystals have taken storm across Vaikuntha and they're suddenly worth a lot. It's all anyone talks about anymore! The locals have gone crazy with it! If you weren't interested to begin with, surely the madness that is this new fad has sunk its teeth in. Besides, who knows what the crystals can actually do? Are they gifts? Curses? Dust collectors? Only one way to find out.

NAVIGATION
❄️ Snow	🔎 Shadow	🔥 Flame	🌼 Flower	☔ Rain	☀️ Sun	❤️ Love	🌵 Arrow
🎭 Sword	🎶 Chime	👻 Grey	🥚 Egg	✉️ Chrome	🏁 Rainbow	🐹 Plasma

LEADERBOARD
Character	| Crystals
Klonoa	| 08 ❄️🔎❤️🌵🎭👻✉️🐹
Kuja	| 07 🔎🌼🎭🎶👻✉️🐹
Frisk.bin	| 06 🔎☔🌵🎭✉️🐹
Uendo	| 05 ❄️🔎🎶✉️🐹
Corrin	| 04 ☔❤️🌵🎭
Red	| 03 🌵🎭✉️
Okuyasu	| 03 ❄️🌼🐹
Tyzias	| 02 ❄️🐹
Megatron	| 02 🌼🐹
Maul	| 02 👻🏁
Sephiroth	| 02 🌼✉️
Naoto	| 02 ❤️✉️
Adrien	| 01 ❄️
Castor	| 01 ✉️
Selphie	| 01 🌵
Pidge	| 01 🥚
Minimus	| 01 🌵
Kenichi	| 01 🐹
Papyrus	| 01 🔎
Naomi	| 01 🌼
Ovelia	| 01 🌼
Asriel	| 01 🎭
Kanji	| 01 ❤️

Comments

A picnic in the woods

[bladeofconquest]

A notification goes out over the MogNet from Corrin.

Hey everyone, I'll be setting up for a day or so near the outskirts of the Sakura Forest in case anyone wants to search for Crystals there; I know the forest gets kind of dangerous the further in you go so we should probably go looking in pairs or so. I hope I see you out there!

If you decided to take Corrin up on her offer, you'll find her relatively quickly; a small beaten path leads to a clearing where you find the small campsite Corrin has set up for the day...along with what appears to be a picnic she's laid out of food in case anyone does decide to show up.

Corrin herself is resting on the blanket she's laid out for the picnic with a book in her hand to pass the time, but at your approach she looks up, carefully inserting a bookmark and placing the volume by her side. "Oh, hello! I'm so glad you could make it." She says with a grin, before motioning to the picnic in front of her. "Join me for a bit? There's plenty of time to go searching and we shouldn't do it on an empty stomach, right?"

Re: A picnic in the woods

[wind_in_my_ears]

Klonoa nods emphatically, holding his arms up with a cheer. "Yeah, definitely!" He says, stepping over to sit down next to her. He holds out the Wind Ring, and a moment later there's a bottle of grape juice on the picnic cloth. Not alcohol, though.

Never again, alcohol.

He hop down, taking a look over the spread. "You brought all this out here?" He asks, smiling.

[bladeofconquest]

Corrin has brought some alcoholic beverages, but for the moment she's contenting herself with fruit juice, like Klonoa. After all, gotta pace yourself, and it's still early in the day yet.

She nods. "Mmhm! I thought having a picnic before we went out searching would be good idea. And it's just nice to have a chance to catch up with friends, you know? I think sometimes that gets lost in the shuffle off all these adventures we have. Sandwich?" She asks, offering Klonoa a plate with one of the ham and cheddar sandwiches she's come to think of as one of her signature dishes.

After a moment, her expression grows a bit more solemn, or at the very least, concerned. "How've you been Klonoa?" She asks. It seemed to her that in their last few encounters Klonoa has been having a bit of a rough go of things, but she hasn't had the opportunity to check in. Until now, at least.

[wind_in_my_ears]

Klonoa takes a plate with the blessed sandwiches of the gods, or at least, of the diminishing hunger pangs, taking a ravenous bite without any kind of delay.

"Mmhlpmh!"

He swallows.

"Sorry. I'm, ah, well, I guess I'm okay! I thought I would have disappeared by now, but.. well, maybe this dream's just really long? Ahah." He smiles at her, sitting back to look up at the peaceful forest canopy. "Anyway, I'm not complaining. It's great to get to hang out with all you guys, no matter how long it lasts. Oh, hey, thanks for saving the world with us! I forget if I actually said that before."

[bladeofconquest]

She smiles at him. "I'm glad you're still here too, Klonoa. But if this is a dream, it's a pretty long, pretty intense one!" Corrin replies with a laugh, but then she grows thoughtful. Klonoa talking about enjoying this experience for however long it lasts seems to get her thinking.

...You know, it's kind of amazing, when you think about it." She says finally, the thought just occurring to her. "An infinite number of worlds, and an infinite number of people to inhabit those worlds...and yet of all possible people to be brought here, to be Heroes of Light and fight for Vaikuntha...we're the ones. Out of an infinite number of people, we're the ones who were chosen." She looks over at Klonoa. "I don't know why; I suspect that's a question that can't ever be answered, but whatever the reason, I'll always be grateful. After all, if I'd never come here, I'd never have become friends with you and we'd not be enjoying this picnic together."

She reaches over and hugs Klonoa. It's sudden, but Corrin is a hugger by inclination and she suspects Klonoa won't mind. "It's been an honour saving the world with you too, Klonoa. I'm glad we got the chance to meet."

[wind_in_my_ears]

Klonoa blinks. He's been listening and nodding along in dutiful agreement to everything Corrin's been saying, but suddenly, things become hugs! Klonoa gathers himself quickly, and wraps his arms around Corrin, squeezing her back. The hugs are quite fluffy. "I'm really glad I got to meet you, too, Corrin. I can't think of better people to save the world with than you and everyone else we've met. No matter what happens, I know I'm never going to forget you all. I hope I'll see you again, too...!"

Another squeeze. "No matter how long this lasts, it's been one of the best dreams I've even had. And you're a big reason why." Are those small tears in his eyes?

[bladeofconquest]

If they are tears, they're being matched by the ones forming in Corrin's eyes too. "Aww, Klonoa..." She mutters, touched by the kindness of his words. "I feel the same way about you, my friend. Your Melody is calling on all your friends to help you out, right?" She asks, remembering his use of it during the first fight with Ramaa. "If you ever use it again, doesn't matter where you are, or where I am, but I'll come running all the same, you can count on that."

Best. Dream. Ever.

[hatejakku]

Aww, you guys are adorable. And the crystals seem to think so, too!

A Love Crystal for each Hero knocks against their feet, seemingly appearing out of thin air. Congrats!

[tiredcharmer]

Funnily enough, after getting her eye cut out by a berobed maniac, Tyzias has learned to enjoy time off. Maybe it's the full week of bed rest after that incident that made it really sink in.

So, after she gets off work, she flies her manacutter to Sakura Forest on Corrin's invitation. Her magitek eye works decently, but she prefers to keep in under an eyepatch for now. It just looks too damn weird, at least to her eyes. There's holes to see out of, though, so she's fine flying.

Tyzias strolls up to the picnic site, hands jammed in pockets. "Hey." Giving a brief wave, she sits down besides Corrin, at a loss for what to say.

[bladeofconquest]

Corrin returns the wave with one of her own as Tyzias sits down. "Hey to you too." She says with a grin. She doesn't comment on the eyepatch, knowing her friend is still having difficulty adjusting to the replacement. That road trip had not ended the way Corrin had expected it to, but at least Tyizas had managed to give worse to that masked maniac than she'd received from him.

And he'd get even worse from Corrin the next time they crossed swords; she'd told the "Knave of Blades" she'd kill him for hurting Tyzias as badly as he had, her position as an officer of the law be damned. In her heart, she still knew what Xander had told her on the last day of the Hoshidan war was correct. There is no such thing as a clean win when lives are on the line. Instead of clinging to a false sense of justice, hold strong to something true...the desire to do what you know is right and to protect the ones you love...And the ambition to see your vision of a peaceful future through to the end. If we allow evil men to let their vision take precedence over our own, we all lose.

There was no doubt in her mind that killing the Knave was absolutely the right thing to do. The next time they fought, Corrin wouldn't hesitate.

None of which shows on her face as Tyzias sits down next to her. Seeing the troll's uncertainty about what to do, Corrin takes the initiative. "You've just come off shift, right? Here, I made sandwiches, and there's drinks too." She passes one of the aforesaid ham and cheddar sandwiches to Tyzias before turning to the cooler of drinks next to her. "What are you in the mood for?" She asks cheerfully. "I've got most anything you could want. Should fill a corner before we go out crystal hunting."