STORY SO FAR?
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STORY SO FAR?
STORY SO FAR?
Dearest Kyngdom residents,
Now that the Power of Claw is done and the Power of Fin has launched, the time has come to update the Story So Far thread! Yay! Except...it's a little hard to follow everything that's going on. Could you give us a hand?
Please use this thread to post summaries of the Story So Far in our own words. We're interested in the major plot points (involving Claaws and the Powers, etc.), as well as any subplots you've created on the RP board or elsewhere.
If there are two different versions of a story, we can discuss a compromise here. If there's not an easy compromise, we can create a poll.
Also, it would help if you included links to the threads you're summarizing.
Sincerely,
The Editors
submitted by The Editors
(July 1, 2016 - 1:05 pm)
(July 1, 2016 - 1:05 pm)
I found this on the Q&A thread from April 2, and it looks pretty good, so I'm copy-and-pasting:
So, the Power of Hoof is with Blazing Star, of course, but there is a decoy owned by a reindeer named Regina. She lives in the mansion Jökull, which stands within the Wreath Wall in Northwestern Kyngdom, near the town of Snow Don and east of the treacherous Decoy Forest. Cornelia Hornshaw had a dream about the fourth Power, that of Hoof, and so took the Badger Express train to the Decoy Forest to find it. Zephyra intercepted her and tried to convince her not to go, but she didn't listen, instead running off into the woods after the illusion of a lost love. Catastrophe, meanwhile, slaughtered a convent of monks and got the obscure but powerful Sword of Ravenmore, and will be looking for the Shield of Battleclaw and the Crown of something-or-other next.
shadow was on the train, too, as were Ronan, Icy, Mina, Anwen, Elliot, Lia Moonstrider, and Charlotte. Sprocket ran along outside, and MoonRacer and Trillian flew overhead. Everyone went separately and met up unevenly. Details elude me, but the train was attacked and partially destroyed by bandits and members of Catastrophe's army, and Mina pretended to go rogue and shot Icy nonfatally. Moonracer found the three wolf Masters who guard the Crown that Catastrophe is after, Sprocket and some other(s) rode mechanical eagles and nearly fell to their deaths, Ronan uncovered his identity, Elliot got Sprocket and some others chais once they got to safety (I think an inn someplace), shadow and Anwen called Ronan Icy's boyfriend and loverboy when they were telling him to get help for her wound, Harbor brings news of Heather's death and Mer's destruction to the inn, Hazel helps Anwen find Rain, Rae falls from SailHaven into the inn's library, Jake comes for shadow and confesses his love, and when Catastrophe's troops crash the party, Gabria pretends to be Sprocket and allows herself to be taken in exchange for them leaving.
Alexandria sends a letter to shadow, needing to be rescued, and I forget exactly what happened, but we got her out and cut half her arm off because of the bomb in it. She has a prosthetic now, like Sprocket's. We have a new medic, too, the talented Quill Aspen. shadow robbed an evil bank with which there was some drama and I illustrated it. SailHaven got repaired and back up in the air.
After that, there was a lot more, but I'm kind of running out of time, so hopefully someone else can help you with it. Right now, shadow just left Jökull after running off with Jake, getting captured on purpose to see if Alexandria was there and meeting her mother, Mina is on horseback somewhere, and SailHaven kicked the Resistance out, leaving an untold number of members near the Decoy Forest, from where they all went east and are currently just outside the Wreath Wall. Catastrophe is likely to leave Jökull (which he is currently occupating) in a few days to seek out the Shield. Icy is climbing its walls, and Caelani is with the Resistance, in his crow form.
(August 16, 2018 - 8:40 am)
Here's the complete history of Kyngdom. It's comprised of the summaries written by me, Sybill, and Viola?! (Mostly Viola?)
I'm posting it in parts since it's INSANELY LONG--26 pages in Google Docs?! So...Half today, half tomorrow...or something like that.
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The Beginning
-Before Kyngdom was even thought of; before the land and the sea or anything, a giant flower bloomed in the darkness. It had six petals.
-When the flower was grown, six baby creatures emerged from the flower, one for each petal. One was a gryphon; one was a clawed serpent; one was a sea dragon; one was a wolf; one was a unicorn, and one was a dragon. These were the Powers.
-From behind the Powers emerged a blue fairy, the PowerFriend, who acted as a sort of mother to them as they grew. Her name was Celesti.
-The Powers created Kyngdom as we know it--Caelani, (the gryphon; Power of Wing), created the skies and gave winged creatures their joy for the skies. The clawed serpent (Power of Claw; his name was Ecio) created the ground, and was ruler of all animals under the earth. The sea dragon made the seas (Power of Fin; Ayearth). The wolf, named Lunee, was the Power of Howl. She made the moon and the night and gave creatures their voices. The unicorn, Sylvia, who was the Power of hoof, created life, including animals and plants. The dragon, Power of Fang, gave creatures the ability to bite and kill for their food. Her name was Claaws, and she controlled some of the impulses that led to biting and killing--namely the darker ones, greed and such.
-The Powers walked the land for many years. But soon trouble began to arise. Claaws began to grow unruly and jealous. Darkness grew within her heart, and she began to feed it. She spoke to it, and it spoke to her...
-Claaws's darkness soon grew so great that she was exiled by the other Powers. In order for this to be balanced, Claaws became the Power of Darkness, while Lunee became the Power of Light. Claaws was forced out of the Powers' abode.
-Alone, Claaws's darkness grew. She could not control it, and soon, it took on an actual form. This form was one of the first Sideaffected Powers. It was a dragon, just like Claaws.
-The Sideaffected Power was named Jaaws, and she held powers of great darkness. She was evil personified, and also a sort of punishment for Claaws, who had caved in to the darkness within her. Jaaws would do everything she could to destroy Kyngdom. Jaaws went around Kyngdom putting true evil into the hearts of humans.
-The Powers decided that humans were too evil to keep on Kyngdom. They began to hate them. Soon, some Powers were killing humans, including Claaws.
-One poor innocent boy's family and town was destroyed by Claaws. His name was Samson...but he soon changed it to Catastrophe.
-Catastrophe, orphaned and alone, went into the forest and befriended a wolf named Froststone. She pretty much adopted him, and nurtured him in his aloneness. Catastrophe also befriended other animals.
-Soon Claaws mastered her darkness and was able to rejoin the Powers. She was once again the Power of Fang; Lunee then returned to being the Power of Howl.
-At this point, however, other Sideaffected Powers had been born. Here is a list of all Sideaffected Powers, just in case you're curious:
CAELANI'S SIDEAFFECTED POWERS: Aya; female; phoenix AND Leptomoris; male; manticore AND Enyo; male; Song of War Bird
ECIO'S SIDEAFFECTED POWER: Grondor; male; megatherium (a megatherium is a giant ground sloth)
AYEARTH'S SIDEAFFECTED POWER: Chinese dragon; female; (I forgot her name); was once Ayearth's love but was killed; created hurricanes and bad weather, including snow
LUNEE'S SAP: I don't believe she has any. Great job, Lunee.
SYLVIA'S SAP: Whist; female; deformed owl with scar over eye; has powers over the mist and can create mist animals; can hypnotize minds with her mist
CLAAWS'S SAP: Jaaws; female; black dragon with red eyes; power over evil and can turn people evil, breath purple flames, posess and hypnotize, fade into shadows, speak to the evil part of people
(Sideaffected Powers are created from Powers' flaws and typically strive for destruction. They are not good.)
-This is where Catastrophe comes back in. One day, Caelani killed Froststone and Catastrophe's other animal friends. Catastrophe, broken and alone once more, fled.
-He came across Whist, who attempted to hypnotize him but only partially succeeded. Catastrophe then stumbled into Jaaws's cave. She sensed his darkness--the anger at the Powers for ruining his life, his ambitions to become something powerful, his thirst for revenge--and Jaaws spoke to those desires. She used her powers to turn him evil, into someone to destroy Kyngdom.
-Jaaws helped Catstrophe rise to power. According to legend, if you killed the monster of the mist you would become king. This monster was none other than Whist, and with Jaaws's help, Catastrophe killed Whist and subsequently became the 13-year-old ruler of ancient Kyngdom.
-While Catastrophe was trying to kill Whist, Whist tried to gain control of Catastrophe's mind to stop him from ending her life. Thus, as Catastrophe fought Whist, Jaaws and Whist also battled, for control of his mind. Jaaws won, but a little bit of Whist's essence was left within Catastrophe's head. (This tidbit of info comes into importance later.)
-Catastrophe, as king of Kyngdom, went around using Brazen Goo to kill all the Powers. [Of course, it wasn't called that back then.] Brazen Goo is the only thing lethal to Powers, and it is derived from a flower. (Sylvia created this flower as a failsafe in case any Power went bad and became too dangerous to stay alive.)
-Around this time Catastrophe fell in love with the PowerFriend, whose name was Celesti.
-Now...it gets a little confusing here, so let me just say:
~Catastrophe had a son named Ronan.
~Celesti also had another child, but not with Catastrophe. This child carried the blood of the PowerFriend. Icy, a character belonging to Icy, also carries the blood of the PowerFriend.
-All of that aside, the Powers fell one by one. The last Power to remain alive was Claaws, along with Celesti, Catastrophe's love. If you can believe it, Catastrophe then killed Celesti.
-Note: Powers do not truly die. When they 'die', they simply turn into an instrument, which holds their essence. As each Power fell by Catastrophe's hand, he assigned an animal to guard it. These animals were instructed NEVER TO PLAY THE INSTRUMENTS, or the Powers would get out. These became the Guardians. More about them later on.
-Finally Catastrophe killed Claaws, but in that battle between the two of them, Claaws struck Catastrophe down, and he died as well. (Though not forever. Later on he somehow comes back to life.)
-Since the Powers were all dormant, some if not all of the remaining Sideaffected Powers fell into a deep sleep for the next hundred+ years.
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That's about it for Kyngdom's origins. This all took place hundreds if not thousands of years ago in Kyngdom's past. The Powers' instruments were passed down from guardian to guardian during that time, so the Powers remained dormant for a very long time.
* Since the Powers each have a 'normal' animal form that they can shapeshift to, Celesti had a human form. It was then that she was in a relationship with Catastrophe. He had no idea of her true status, until the end, which led her to be murdered.
The Power of Wing
Part two of the Kyngdom summary. We pick up many centuries after the previous summary takes place.
-The Powers and Catastrophe were gone. Centuries passed, and over time, knowledge and memory of them were lost. As the instruments were passed down from guardian to guardian, they forgot what exactly they were guarding, only that they must never trigger the instruments. However, not everyone forgot about the Powers. Some guardians still knew who and what they were guarding.
-Sylvia, Power of Hoof, was summoned out of curiosity by the horses guarding her instrument. She made them forget what they did, gave them a fake instrument to protect, and retreated to the farthest reaches of Kyngdom. (No one knows she is active, even to this date, but that is subject to change.)
-Years later, Claaws was summoned. She too spent her time sneaking around in the quiet shadows.
-Catastrophe came back to life, as well as his son Ronan and possibly Icy. The details of how this happened are fuzzy and it is quite possible that these characters did not return to life until much later; basically, just know that these guys came back to life at some point during the next few months.
-Somewhere around that time, the Brazen Inquiry Guild (BIG) was formed. BIG did research on animals and other things, and, as their name suggested, they were bold and without shame in what they did. Many creatures didn't like how BIG treated animals. Lots of them had reason to hate BIG.
-Shortly thereafter, it is presumed that an organization called Fur and Feathers Association (FaFA) was formed. Nobody really knows when FaFA was founded; all we know is they are a group of animal spies that spend their time monitoring BIG's activities.
-The Cypher was invented at a place called Cypher labs. The Cypher can translate animal speech into human speech. Someone named Charlie W. worked there. He was a 'good guy' NPC that was made by the editors/Admins; Charlie kept all the characters who were working against BIG organized.
-BIG made a huge discovery; in the nest of a crow they found the Power of Wing instrument. BIG stole it but had no idea what it was; they only knew that it held very powerful magic. (They didn't even know it was an instrument; it was a stone flute that could only be played by someone with the beak of a bird. To them it probably looked like a rock with holes in it.)
-Now, just a quick note. Each Power has the ability to transform from their original form into a 'disguised' form. Caelani can become a crow. Ecio can become a badger. Ayearth: dolphin. Lunee (a winged wolf): normal wolf. Sylvia: horse. Claaws: panther. The animals who guard the Powers' instruments are the same kind their Power can turn into. Thus, the guardian of the Power of Wing is a crow.
-The crow who was supposed to be guarding the instrument when BIG took it was named Zephyra. Zephyra was a member of FaFA, a frequenter of the Bog and Burrow Inn, and of course guardian of the Power of Wing. BIG knew she was linked to the instrument somehow, so they kidnapped her for information. Zephyra was one of the few guardians who knew what she was protecting.
(Switching to the present tense of narration now. It's easier ;D)
-This is the part where Kyngdom begins. BIG has the instrument. They have the crow who can tell them about it. But BIG has no way to understand what Zephyra has to say, so they send letters out to the young scientists who helped invent the Cypher at Cypher Labs. BIG knows that these young scientists are smart and will be able to use the Cypher to understand Zephyra's speech as well as their wits to research the Power of Wing.
-However, at the bottom of every letter BIG sends is a warning--a muddy pawprint accompanied by writing that says 'don't take the job!' This warning was placed there by FaFA, who knows that BIG is meddling with things that ought not to be meddled with.
-Zephyra's nephew sends out his own set of letters to the same batch of scientists. (I guess the kids at Cypher labs get a lot of mail from animals, since they're the only ones that can understand them.) He tells them about his plight, and asks for help rescuing Aunt Zephyra.
-BIG laboratories and its new recruits continue researching the Power of Wing. Gradually they learn more about it. However, FaFA is working hard behind the scenes to plan a rescue mission for Zephyra. On top of that, some of BIG's new recruits are human spies, who are working with FaFA to make sure BIG doesn't do anything awful.
-This goes on for a long time. Other organizations against BIG are formed; among them are The Animals and Capto Abolere (Capt'n O).
-Another organization that is founded around this time is the Society of Concerned Scientists. (Again, this is just an approximation. They could've formed sooner; they could've formed later.) SOCS is basically BIG's darker counterpart; while BIG is bad, SOCS is evil. They have zoos and do crazy experiments on humans and animals alike. They also have a boarding school that's more of an army camp than anything; they train young girls to fight and kill. SOCS is run by Headmistress Luna Rigga.
-Zephyra is finally rescued. FaFA & co. attempt to steal back the Power of Wing, but they accidentally take a fake copy BIG created.
-A double agent spills FaFA's secrets about the Powers to BIG.
-The Power of Wing is activated by Cornelia Hornshaw, CEO of BIG.
-The spies in BIG's lab get into trouble; their covers are blown and mayhem ensues in BIG's building.
-Caelani blasts out of the instrument and wreaks even further havoc on BIG's building. It's all hands on deck, we shall say, as BIG's lab gets destroyed. Capto Abolere is present, FaFA is present, the spies in BIG are present, and BIG's workers are present, all running around in the chaos.
-The Power of Wing is subdued and caged. FaFA agents and other animals are then sent to talk to the gryphon.
-As all that goes on, certain characters become active. Claaws becomes more active, and she takes up an apprentice named Eliyana Fur, a crazy arctic fox who is also member of Capto Abolere.
-Icy becomes active, and seeks out Claaws to learn more of her powers. Icy is a comrade to Capto Abolere and typically travels near Eliyana Fur, who is her best friend, and Claaws, whom she befriends. Icy is one of the only humans Claaws will trust.
- Caelani escapes from his cage and goes off into the wilderness.
-Zephyra previously revealed a snippet of information about the Guardian of the Power of Claw, which contains the essence of Ecio. She urges FaFA and its allies to find the guardian--who is a badger--before BIG does!
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And that brings the Power of Wing chapter to a close.
(November 19, 2018 - 7:11 pm)
The Power of Claw
So. Here's what's happening at the beginning of the Power of Claw chapter. Sorry to you spelling/grammar police; back when I wrote this I didn't know how to spell "labyrinth".
Claaws and Caelani are traveling together with Icy and possibly Eliyana Fur. (It is revealed that Claaws freed Caelani from the cage.) I think the Powers are at this point in their 'disguised forms' (Claaws is a panther and Caelani is a crow) and are hiding their true identities. They hang out at FaFA base a lot of the time.
Most of the characters congeal into two main groups at this point. During the Power of Wing, things were fairly spread out and loose; now, in the second chapter, character arrangement begins to take on more pattern and form:
~There are those of BIG. They are seeking out the other Powers.
~Then there are those of FaFA. Granted, not all of these characters are members of FaFA, but they are pretty much the 'good guys' right now. During the Power of Claw segment they spend a lot of time working/traveling together.
Okay! With that settled, here's the summary:
-Following Zephyra's warning that BIG will be seeking out the Power of Claw, FaFA & Co. attempt to find the instrument and its guardian--a badger--before it's too late. They recieve a code that tells them to 'dig underneath the stone tree', which they go on a mission and do.
-I think BIG is having a meeting at the tree or something when FaFA arrives. I couldn't find the thread on which this particular event took place, though, so I'm not sure. Just know that BIG had something to do with the stone tree.
-Those on the mission then manage to make their way into a cave beneath the stone tree. There they find the instrument of the Power of Claw as well as a badger (the guardian), who ends up having rabies and is crazy. FaFA & Co. use sleep darts to get it under control.
-Icy is on this mission and she suddenly feels the urge to summon Ecio. However, when she attempts to play Ecio's xylophone, nothing happens. BIG has already taken the instrument and this one is fake.
-(BIG rebuilt their lab after the first disaster with Caelani. They now take the instrument there.)
-FaFA immediately organizes a mission to retrieve the Power of Claw as well as rescue the animals BIG is experimenting on. They tunnel through BIG's base, but just before they can reach the instrument, one of BIG's ex-employees summons Ecio.
-As I'm sure you could've guessed, this does not end well! Ecio bursts out of the xylophone and starts destroying BIG's newly-restored laboratory!
-During the chaos, Claaws and Caelani fly in and greet their brother Ecio. They also help him destroy BIG's base.
-Cornelia Hornshaw (BIG's CEO) comes out armed with Brazen Goo in an attempt to save her building. She shoots Claaws with it.
-Claaws is now on the brink of death, but all is not lost for her. It turns out that Icy has a half (or maybe full?) sister named Anwen, who also carries the blood of the PowerFriend. Both of them own one half of a locket that is revealed to have belonged to Celesti herself. Just as Claaws is about to die/go back to her instrument, Icy and Anwen, who (luckily enough) are both present at this time of need, put their lockets together, and Claaws is healed by the resulting magic.
-The Powers are now VERY angry. They continue destroying the building and BIG flees the scene. (Excellent idea, BIG. Shoulda done that sooner.)
-After BIG leaves...Catastrophe shows up. You can imagine the shock the Powers feel. I think FaFA & Co. witnesses his arrival, too.
-Another epic battle. Catastrophe and the Powers fight.
-Catastrophe leaves amid the confusion.
-FaFA & Co. leave.
-The Powers disappear for a while to talk about recent events, especially Catastrophe's sudden appearance.
-At this point there are three very angry Powers roaming around Kyngdom. As you can imagine, everyone--even BIG--wants to know more information about Ecio and how to potentially stop him. FaFA/crew also want to learn more general info about Ecio, since his guardian was rabid and thus couldn't talk to them.
-A new fragment of the map of Kyngdom is discovered, and southeastern Kyngdom is revealed. It's a rocky, mountainous place with many plateaus. A particular cluster of plateaus is labeled the 'labrynth lands'.
-Charlie W, Little Crow, and some others discover a door at the base of the largest plateau in the 'labrynth lands'. It has a code on it as well as a lock which requires a word to be opened. Charlie and the others also meet a badger while poking around the entrance. The badger gives them a piece of bark with the alphabet scrawled across it and sends them on their way.
-Charlie and Little Crow call for an expedition team to explore what's behind the door. FaFA & Co. take up his invitation and a very large exploration team consisting of both animals and humans begins to gather. They prepare to plunge into the maze of tunnels behind that magically locked door.
-Remember Jaaws? As the Powers progressively fell into their instruments, she fell into a deep sleep. Her resting place happened to be within the very same labrynth FaFA is trying to get into. Just before Charlie, Little Crow, members FaFA, and everyone else enters this maze, Catastrophe does. Since more Powers had awoken, Jaaws is nearing consciousness. Catastrophe wakes her up.
-Now, while Charlie/Little Crow/all the people attempt to get into the heart of the labrynth by walking, BIG is on top of the plateau drilling into the center. It now becomes a race to whatever secrets lie within the labrynth.
-There is Cypher code etched all around the 1st door. The code forms a clue, which the expedition team solves, and the labrynth is opened.
-The badger Charlie and Little Crow met appears and decides to go with everyone.
-The team delves deeper and deeper into the labrynth. Prior to entering, however, a cryptic message had been sent to them: Who is the spy? ('The spy' referring to the double agent who's been spilling all of FaFA's secrets to BIG.) As the team solves more riddles to pass through more doors, unsettlement arises. A FaFA agent who just so happens to be an owl named Who is exploring the labrynth with them. People begin to believe HE is the spy. The team begins to grow on edge.
-Someone (I believe it is either an owl named Storm Windwhisperer or an owl named Windswift) wanders down a side tunnel and discovers Jaaws, but does not get a good look at her. Jaaws attacks. They now know that something bad is in the tunnels.
-The team must solve more clues to get through the many doors barring the way deeper. As they explore, flying animals such as Little Crow, Storm Windwhisperer, Windswift, and Who make trips out of the caves to retrieve supplies for everyone. (The badger who is traveling with the team often requests for these carriers to gather green stones for him. Nobody knows why.)
-A vampire named Elliot enters the labrynth with his army of bats. He finds Jaaws and then a battle between him, some others, and Jaaws ensues.
-Either after or during that, Jaaws hypnotizes Little Crow, Icy, and Eliyana Fur.
-Who, the owl, (who is indeed a spy) is carrying info to BIG as he travels to and from the labrynth for supplies.
-Little Crow is unhypnotized.
-Eliyana Fur and Icy somehow make it back to FaFA's HQ, where Claaws is waiting. Jaaws speaks to Claaws through her hypnotized minions and promises to destroy Claaws. Jaaws is looking for Brazen Goo with which she can kill the Powers.
-The team finally reaches the center of the labrynth and they can hear BIG tunneling above. However, where they thought they would find information they can only see smooth stone walls that make up a vast, empty chamber.
-Jaaws follows everyone to the center of the labrynth, invisible.
-The badger has been marking letters off the bark he gave to Charlie during the whole adventure. Now there are only nine letters left on it. It is presumed these letters make up the final clue, but no one can unscramble them.
-Jaaws attacks by breathing fire on everyone from the roof of the cavern.
-As the team ponders on their dillema, the badger eats one of his green stones. It is revealed that these green stones grant him the ability to speak the human language, which he does. Everyone learns that this badger was the old Power of Claw guardian. He explains that he helped create these tunnels (but not the locks and doors), possibly to store the Power of Claw in. However it is obvious that the Power of Claw's instrument did not remain within the labrynth.
-BIG breaks through into the cavern. It is revealed to FaFA & Co. that Who really is the spy. BIG and FaFA trade insults for a minute before suddenly someone solves the clue--the letters unscramble to form the word 'megatherium'. (Megatherium is the scientific name for the giant ground sloth.)
-Suddenly the floor of the cavern breaks open and the megatherium emerges! This creature is Grondor, Ecio's sideaffected power! The badger apparently knows/knew this beast, and he leaps to embrace his old friend, but the megatherium, still groggy/angry from being awoken, doesn't see the poor badger, and he falls to his death. :(
-Chaos ensues. Water rushes up from the newly made hole in the cavern floor, and suddenly, those within the labyrinth find themselves being flooded out through a different tunnel. They wind up floating in the ocean of southwestern Kyngdom.
-A new map fragment is discovered and Southwestern Kyngdom is then revealed. It's known for its waterways and oceans.
-All through that time it is presumed that Catastrophe has been working on growing an army.
But I'm getting ahead of myself...I think that's it for the Power of Claw! Stay tuned for the Power of Fin chapter!
Just so you know there were two different stories going on at the same time towards the end of the Power of Claw. I only included one part. Here's what else was going on. (It includes info on how Eli, Claaws, Icy, and Caelani get to FaFA's base.)
Just a detail I found while thread diving: Icy, Eli, and Little Crow get hypnotized BEFORE the battle with Elliot and everyone else.
Power of Claw II...What Happens Meanwhile, at FAFA
-So, Icy, Little Crow, and Eliyana Fur get hypnotized about halfway through the labryinth tunnels.
-Shortly thereafter, Claaws and Caelani--in their disguised forms (black panther and gold/white crow)--enter the maze and begin to make their way to the group.
-Claaws can sense Jaaws's evil in the tunnels, but she does NOT know Jaaws exists yet. Thus, she mistakenly believes that Jaaws's aura belongs to a seventh Power no one has ever seen before.
-Jaaws sends Little Crow back to the group and he continues along with them. Nobody knows that he's actually hypnotized.
-The tunnel adventure continues...and THEN comes the battle between Jaaws and everyone else. MoonRacer, an Icewater dragon, and some others decide to try and rescue Icy and Eli. They try to fight Jaaws, but fail. Jaaws retreats farther down the tunnel.
-Claaws and Caelani hunt Jaaws down. Claaws is mainly looking for her apprentice, Eliyana, and will do anything to rescue her.
-Little Crow and the other birds pass by Jaaws's cave on their way out for more supplies. Jaaws steers Little Crow towards her and frees him from hypnosis, sending him off with a message for the main group. The message does not arrive successfully.
-Claaws and Caelani finally catch up with Jaaws and Claaws sees her Sideaffected Power for the first time. She realizes that Jaaws is her own doing, and she and Caelani are afraid--Whist, Sideaffected Power of the most gentle Power of all (Sylvia) was hard enough to kill. How much harder to defeat would the Sideaffected Power of Claaws be?
-Claaws and Jaaws fight for a little bit until Claaws finally snatches Icy and Eli out from underneath Jaaws's wings. Claaws and Caelani fly out of the tunnels. Ecio digs out of the ground as they are exiting the labryinth and explains that Lunee, once the Power of Light, would be able to cure Icy and Eli from Jaaws's hypnosis.
-While the rest of the group is going through the final labryinth tunnels, the Powers and the hypnotized people are heading towards FaFA's base, which seems like a safe enough place to plan their next move. While they are there, some beavers have build cages to contain Icy and Eli.
-The cages somehow explode and Icy and Eli escape. A giant battle occurs, in which lots of other people are hypnotized.
-During the battle, Catastrophe shows up. Jaaws controls Icy and makes her stand in front of Catastrophe, hoping the boy king will kill Celesti's descendant.
-But Icy, thanks to her PowerFriend powers, frees her mind from the hypnosis and grows wings, which she uses to escape from Catastrophe.
-Note: Ronan is also present during the battle. He does not realize, however, that Catastrophe is his father.
-The Powers reveal their true forms to try and defeat Catastrophe. Catastrophe threatens to kill Eliyana if Icy and Ronan don't obey him. He wants to convince Kyngdom to let him take the throne without a fight. However, Eli frees herself from Jaaws's hypnosis, surprises Catastrophe by biting him, and the battle continues.
-Jaaws still wants Catastrophe to kill Icy, but Catastrophe does not wish to do so. So he only pretends to strike Icy down. Here it is revealed to readers that Catastrophe did not actually kill Celesti all those years ago--It turns out that Jaaws controlled him and made him do it.
-Jaaws discovers that Catastrophe has tricked her and is angry with him. Conversations between Jaaws, Catastrophe, and Icy occur.
-Catastrophe leaves.
-Jaaws's presence receeds from the scene. Though she had been in the labryinth caves the entire time, she had been present during the battle by peering through her hypnotized minions' eyes.
-Everyone tends to the wounded. Claaws requests a box of medicine to treat the wounded.
-While they wait for the medicine, Claaws and Caelani find a newspaper in a back cave of FaFA's HQ. It talks about an underwater ball, where a new guardian of the Power of Fin will be elected.
-Claaws and Caelani are angry to see this kind of information in a newspaper. Catastrophe--or any enemy for that matter--would now know exactly where and when to find the Power of Fin. They could sneak into the underwater ball and steal it with no problems. So the Powers resolve to suspend their search for Lunee in order to attend the ball and protect/possibly take the Power of Fin.
-A group of beavers bring Claaws a box of medical supplies. However, these beavers are not the same beavers who helped build the cages for Icy and Eli. They are actually creations of BIG--GMOed animals with fangs and garbled voices. The fact that they are mutants goes unnoticed.
-When Claaws opens the box vials of Brazen Goo shoot out! One splashes onto her tail.
-Thanks to her lightning fast reflexes, Claaws dodges the rest of the vials. She snatches Eliyana Fur and races out of the cave, heading to find a river in which she can rinse her tail. Caelani follows.
-Catastrophe, BIG, and Jaaws had teamed up briefly to acheive this trap. Jaaws now believes Claaws is dead.
-The story continues. The characters remaining at FaFA's base clean up, thinking over the events. Then they set off in the Powers' footsteps, preparing for the upcoming underwater ball.
And that truly concludes the Power of Claw! This part was sort of the link between the Power of Claw and the Power of Fin. Remember, those in the labyrinth tunnels were dealing with the Megatherium and being flooded away while all this was happening.
INTERLUDE: So, the underwater ball occurs. Here it is as described by Viola?! Oh, and give Viola? a round of applause for her excellent and VERY dedicated summarizing skills, because she took a huge amount of time for the following summaries! So here's what happened at that underwater ball:
(November 19, 2018 - 7:13 pm)
The Power of Fin
Some helpful quotes to set the scene:
"Calling all landlubbers, we invite you and one guest to join us for the Enchantment Above the Sea Ball, the first-ever dry land-themed underwater ball, as we select the next Guardian of Fin!"
"Spira stone provided...for up to 8 hours of oxygen..." (Since the ball was underwater)
"Naturally, the Powers are here in full force. They’re flexing their powerful…do dragons have muscles? They have to, right? They’re looking fabulous in formalwear specially designed by none other than the untouchable CERES AND COMPANY (we’ll hold for applause). And these drama-prone Kyngdomites even seem to be getting along, at least for now." --Actiniaria and Hexacorallia, the sea anenome reporters
"We’d be remiss not to mention the cornerstone of the décor: a giant ice sculpture in the middle of the dance floor, surrounded by tantalizing desserts (salt-water granitas, anyone?). The sculpture is carved into the shape of a massive and very realistic rodeo scene, but instead of a cowgirl, the artist depicted a breathtakingly accurate version of our very own Finny—the heir apparent to the Guardian of Fin. The little dolphin is portrayed so accurately that she looks practically real. In fact, if you glance at the sculpture at just the right moment, you can almost see her eyes move. Magical! At the base of the ice sculpture is a keypad that requires a code, but it’s unclear what it’s meant for. Does anyone have any information? Come find us and spill the deets—we’re all tentacles." --Actiniaria and Hexacroallia
"Having just slipped over to try a bit of the punch, your faithful correspondents are happy to report that the punch is especially tasty this year...There’s something a bit different about it…a certain fizz…a tang on the back of the tongue. Perhaps the celebrity chef is trying out a new seaweed-infused simple syrup? In the interest of full gossipy disclosure, we’ve been hearing rumors that the punch is spiked—but we’d have to try another cup in order to report back for sure." --Actiniaria and Hexacorallia
Power of Fin, part I, by Viola?.
I've added italicized notes and explanations.
So, there's a fancy cowboy-themed underwater ball happening off the east coast of Kyngdom, and nearly everyone is there, including Claaws, Caelani, Ecio, and Blazing Star, Guardian of the Power of Hoof, because the Guardian of the Power of Fin is to be announced there. But the punch is spiked with Brazen Goo, which affects guests in different ways, and the ice sculpture of Finny, the prime candidate for Guardian, is real. Blazing Star runs at the threat of her Power being stolen, and Laya, a being trapped in the body of a fox [she was formerly human, but a book of spells caused her to become animal], types a code into the keypad at the ice sculpture's base, shattering it and freeing Finny. Icy then sets off an underwater firework that breaks the dome surrounding the ball just as Catastrophe shows up, effectively ending the ball. Everyone makes it out okay, but in the confusion, the Power of Fin is stolen and Finny disappears. It's not clear where either of them go.
The air-breathers manage to put together at least one makeshift raft from floating debris, and spend two days there, accidentally going away from land. On the second evening, Jaaws shows up, and she and Claaws battle in the stormy sky that gathers. Claaws loses, turns back into an instrument, and falls to the bottom of a deep underwater chasm. Jaaws flies off, and the night and most of a day pass before Laria [just a character] spots a B.I.G. research ship. We all get on the ship to avoid being pulled through its propellers, and another night and day pass. In the middle of the second night, Ronan gets attacked by a girl named Marsha Yearwood [She works for Catastrophe].
THE NEXT DAY:
So we were on the ship, and it was night. Zephyra had just shown up, and let's see...Okay, so Zephyra appeared out of the mist, but we quickly realized that it wasn't Zephyra, it was Whist. Whist summons an enormous flock of birds, and they kidnap Ronan. Icy and Trixie try to save him, but they can't, and the birds carry him out of sight. I think Icy and Caelani follow him, but it's not entirely clear. Icy may leave at this point, or she may have left earlier.
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Ronan gets taken to abandoned inn in a fishing town called Bridging-on-Sea. Catastrophe and Marsha Yearwood and some others are there, and they do an experiment on Ronan, separating his shadow from his body. Icy and Caelani come out of hiding, and Caelani's shadow gets removed, too.
The ship crashes on a reef and starts to sink. Everyone piles onto lifeboats and heads for land, which is somewhere near the Hardswallow River. Jaaws is on the bank of the Hardswallow River.
The inn is destroyed, and Icy, Ronan, and Caelani escape. Icy may be elsewhere; it isn't clear. Other threads indicate that she has not been with those of us who escaped the ball for a long time; days maybe. But either way, none of them are there anymore.
Caelani and Ronan fly to the place where the survivors of the shipwreck have set up camp. We have also received a Morse code message saying that Icy and Catastrophe are in Aslahari, a beautiful city in the Southern Deserts, possibly near the sea. We have made plans, and we immediately set out to battle Catastrophe and save both the city and Icy.
Others are also in Aslahari--a human with hawk wings [Her name is Shadow, and was given hawk wings by SOCS (see the dictionary)] and an anthropomorphic cyborg cat who was brainwashed into believing that she is a general in Catastrophe's army. [This is Mina, and her species is Dolor Felis. Mina was Shadow's best friend.] Also, Eliyana Fur Pawprint, who is an Arctic fox, Jake the spy and ex-B.I.G. researcher, Octavia and her army of Scions [Scions are tameable electronic bugs], and a blue-haired princess of [Mer] named Harbor who also may have an army.
So, there's chaos on the ship, and characters are kidnapped. A mission forms to rescue those charries, and they all head to Aslahari. This mission is what will bring the Resistance against Catastrophe to its height...The following events are still contained in the Power of Fin chapter, but don't have much to do with the Power of Fin.
Power of Fin Part II: The Resistance Era
This is the time when the Admins haven't posted the next chapter, so Kyngdomers have a lot of time to develop the lives of their characters without specific plot goals. This is one of the most beautiful ages in Kyngdom's timeline. Key names to know for this summary are as follows:
Shadow of Everywhere - Formerly the Angel of Death, Shadow was given wings by scientists. She was Mina's best friend and a key member & founder of the Resistance. (Shadow was created by the Chatterboxer who went by Nebula, I believe. Sadly, she's left the CB.)
Mina Courageux - A dolor felis with a prosthetic arm, an assassin. She was a founder of the Resistance and was a Resistance General. Shadow was her best friend. At one point she was captured by Catastrophe and brainwashed to hate Shadow, and was renamed Ravage. Mina ended up getting un-brainwashed, dying, and coming back to life with all her body parts, so she was no longer a cyborg.
Ronan - Catastrophe's son, and a founder of the Resistance.
Icy - Celesti's descendant and the new PowerFriend.
Here is the story, beginning from Shadow of Everywhere's introduction. This is how Shadow and Mina become friends, and everything that happens after. It ends with their arrival at Aslahari.
Out of charrie, shadow introduces herself as shadow of everywhere, a mercenary staying in room 13 of the Bog and Burrow Inn, and invites anyone who feels like it to come visit her.
shadow finds a radio and thinks she may be able to tap into B.I.G.'s transmissions. She doesn't, though, because Mina arrives, introduces herself, and talks with shadow for a while in her room. When Mina leaves, shadow puts up an ad for her services and goes to sleep. When she wakes up, there is a note asking her to come to the kitchens at midnight. She does, and meets a kitsune she refers to as fox-boy, who we later named Nicolai. He gives her 300 lupas, an invitation to an event, a map, and a mission to infiltrate B.I.G. and free the gryphon. [Apparently Caelani was recaptured by BIG after the mishap on the ship.]
Mina recieves orders to go to the Taft Tavern in Northsole to find someone. When she arrives, she meets shadow, who can tell Mina has a dart gun. shadow storms out of the tavern when Mina doesn't deny that it's for killing her, but Mina catches up and explains that she's actually been sent to kill fox-boy. They argue about Mina's job, but become friends and travel east on horseback.
Mina explains her fear of horses to shadow, who tells Mina that she (shadow) might not be entirely human. They make camp, but get ambushed and tranquilized, waking up in a B.I.G. lab. Two scientists, a woman and an intern named Jared, talk and experiment on shadow. When she wakes up, her back hurts like heck, the scientists are taking fervent notes, Mina is staring, and she has wings.
Mina reassures shadow and is taken to be experimented on.
Eliyana Fur Pawprint (Eli for short) crawls through the ventilation system, on a mission with Icy to rescue shadow, who, once she can't scream anymore, examines her wings and thinks.
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Mina wakes up to Eli's appearance through a vent. B.I.G. workers promptly show up, but although Eli and Mina get darted, they manage to escape. Mina disguises herself as a B.I.G. worker, and they go to the kennels. Meanwhile, Jared uses a crowbar to pry apart the bars of shadow's cage. shadow finishes the job just in time for Mina and Eli to show up. Mina nearly kills Jared, but shadow stops her. They leave on Eli's reccomendation, and shadow frees the gryphon on the way out.
The group starts to set up camp and realize the place is where shadow and Mina got ambushed. shadow wants to look for Diana, the horse, but the others convince her they can't. Mina goes off to forage and checks her wound, which turns out to be poisoned, and she collapses, unconscious. The others tend to her, and Catastrophe arrives with a plan to make them join him.
Mina has a dream/memory about when her family was killed. She wakes up, and a wolf comes and says some vague stuff. It leaves when Catastrophe reveals his presence and catches the arrow that shadow shoots at him when he tries to get her to join him.
Icy appears in the sky with a flock/herd of pegasi, and our group flies away.
shadow tries flying and successfully transfers Jake (Jared) from her pegasus to another. The pegasi give her some tips on flying, and Mina's claws grow frighteningly long. shadow grows suspicious and asks Mina what she's hiding, and what she knows about Catastrophe and the SOCS. Mina explains, and later notices that her fur is growing matted and her teeth are becoming fangs.
shadow and Mina talk about the poison in Mina's wound, and Mina starts to piece together the puzzle around it.
Alexander the bat appears and says hello, but nobody seems to like him. Mina loses control of herself and starts attacking everyone, wounding Alexander, and Eli darts her with a tranquilizer. The group lands and figures out what's going on with Mina, and Icy reveals her familial heritage.
Alexander orders his bats to find Mina, capture her, and bring her to him, which they do. shadow tells Jake and Icy about it. Mina tries to fight the bats, but one of them pressure points her and she passes out. When she wakes up, she and Alexander argue about his wing and Catastrophe, who appears with an explosion and an army.
Poe Allen [just another character] shows up at Alexander's cave and chases someone who is probably Catastrophe away. Icy, Jake, shadow and the pegasi follow Alexander's bats to his cave. Mina escapes with some fighting, running straight into Catastrophe's army. She and some vampires who randomly show up attack them. Catastrophe reappears and somehow controls Mina, likely through magic. Our group fights Catastrophe with some unexplained reinforcements.
Mina gets abducted again, this time by Catastrophe, who drags her to a ship and knocks her out. She wakes up in a weird room, and a scientist tells her she's passed a test when she eventually gets out. Elsewhere, fox boy captures shadow, which the scientist with Mina is interrupted by a radio message about. The scientist tells the radio sender to throw shadow in the dungeon and continues telling Mina about her brain waves, although she's not listening anymore.
Mina fails an escape attempt, and a scientist named Maverly injects her with something that makes her pass out yet again. But when she wakes this time, she doesn't remember anything. Catastrophe tells her that her name is Ravage and to kill shadow and her friends.
shadow, captured, dreams about Sylvia and concludes that she is part Unicorn. Icy, somewhere else, does her hair and sneaks into Catastrophe's camp. She overhears a soldier mention Celesti in Catastrophe's presence, which gets him whipped, and then sees fox-boy with shadow notice her. However, Icy easily rescues shadow and sets the camp on fire.
Mina/Ravage is told of the incident and tracks down Icy and shadow. They don't know what's happened, so it's tragically easy for her to capture them. shadow calls Ravage Mina and a traitor, which Ravage is confused but uncaring about.
shadow sings and draws on the walls of her cell. Mina/Ravage walks up, and shadow asks her if she remembers anything. Mina/Ravage orders that shadow's interrogation begin. It does, despite Maverly's reluctance to bring shadow to the room for it. Maverly is there, too. Anyway, they begin to interrogate and torture shadow, who sings untilshe passes out from the pain.
shadow wakes up, and Maverly tells Ravage about the interrogation, and Ravage has Icy brought in to be killed if shadow won't talk. She doesn't, and neither does Icy. nstead they ask and tell Ravage about her past as Mina, and about Leva [Mina's younger sister], which has an effect. Ravage shakes it off and restates that Icy will die if shadow doesn't talk, so she begins to, but just then an animal rescue team arrives. shadow and Icy escape with their help, and Ravage is knocked out and brought along.
Ravage wakes up in a cell, unbound, and is soon brought to a restraint chair for interrogation/testing. She escapes it with the help of a spy from Catastrophe, but stops when she runs into Leva. They talk for a while, and the spy tells Ravage to work as a double agent. Ravage is recaptured, and later Leva, who she doesn't consider close to her, tells Ravage her past.
Ravage escapes her cell and overhears/sees Icy reveal the secrets of her wings, powers and heritage to shadow. They nearly expose her, but she says she wants to work with/for them. SOCS attacks, and everyone surrenders. They shoot Leva, and Mina/Ravage shreds the shooter's face in revenge. Icy buys them time to say goodbye, and then the SOCS soldiers take them away and set the place on fire.
Icy, Mina and shadow get loaded into crates and transported by airship. shadow sings, Icy sleeps and Mina cries. The others are quiet. Icy and shadow figure out there's a spy with them.
Some time later, Icy makes the guards pass out so Mina can pick the locks and they and shadow can escape. They do, although Mina lets slip about knowing Icy has wings, landing in the desert near Aslahari. They get through Alia, the guard, and meet Sienna, who brings them to her house. Mina drinks a potion that is supposed to reverse mutations, but instead turns her into a shapeshifter. shadow, when she wakes up, is upset about not getting any potion, but makes the best of it.
Icy and Mina go to the market, leaving her to rest, but she sneaks out and follows. She trades a guantlet for a crossbow and flies back to Sienna's. The four (Icy, Mina, shadow and Sienna) argue about shadow's venture, but resolve it and make a battle plan. Why a battle plan? Because Octavia and Catastrophe have invaded, of course! They bring Scions and carnage.
Icy and Mina go looking for a Power in Aslahari, and shadow fights in the battle that centers around Catastrophe. Waves of reinforcements arrive for both sides, mostly the ones protecting the city, and there's a lot more fighting. Icy, Jake and shadow walk through an airship and meet a rat named Bug when they come out.
A post from shadow announcing that she's died ends the thread.
Power of Fin Part III: The Battle at Aslahari
Octavia arrives to occupy the city using her horde of Scions, those giant mechanical bug things, and a terrible battle begins when Catastrophe shows up as well. It's huge and long, everyone fighting for their lives against at least one army. Icy and shadow get captured and are freed by Jake. But Icy gets kidnapped by a tree monster, and shadow is run down into an alley and shot by Mina/Ravage, who has revealed her loyalty to Catastrophe. Icy is freed, and Ronan arrives. Their side pulls out, leaving Catastrophe to rule the Southern deserts. shadow miraculously revives, sparing Ravage and flying away.
Ronan and some others gather in a forest and activate Ayearth, the Power of Fin, but he is poisoned by Brazen Goo and comes out of his instrument mutated and evil, possessed by Jaaws. Fortunately, a short wizard appears and cures him with a spell. There is some minor tumult in Aslahari, but it settles down when Catastrophe makes an alliance with Octavia and Elliot.
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So, I forgot to mention, could you guys correct me on any wrong details or ordering? And if I forgot to include something important?
(November 20, 2018 - 8:52 am)
The Power of Hoof
Yes, things got a little messy there at the end of the Power of Fin. If you're confused at all, don't worry. Just get the gist of it. There was a little bit more 'meandering' of the plot, and then the Power of Hoof chapter began. The bullet point summary is by me and the paragraph summary is by Viola?.
-The Badger Express discovered a new map fragment leading up into northern Kyngdom.
-Zephyra and Little Crow went up to northern Kyngdom to visit their reindeer friend Regina, the OTHER Power of Hoof guardian, to make sure she was safe from the clutches of BIG and Catastrophe, who were both on the hunt for Powers. Blazing Star and Regina were both apparently Power of Hoof guardians. One held a fake, and that was to better protect the real one.
-Regina lived in the Decoy Forest, a place filled with pine trees and infected with a powerful magic. This magic could generate any image, toying with a traveler's emotions and causing them to be trapped there forever.
-Zephyra and Little Crow meet Regina and stay at her mansion, called Jokull. But the next morning, Catastrophe has ransacked the mansion! Zephyra and Little Crow escape the mansion and find Regina waiting out front, and Regina helps them escape the forest. They plan to go find backup from FAFA and all the other Resistance agencies. But when they get to the edge of the Decoy Forest, Regina the reindeer disappears...she was a decoy all along.
-Little Crow flies as fast as he can to rally FAFA and the other animals. He flies faster than ever before and earns his name--Flash.
-The animal groups all arrive, but it's more than just FAFA. It's The Animals, the Mutant Army, and even some of the Resistance. Cornelia Hornshaw has agreed to ally with FAFA...because she realizes that Catastrophe will destroy everything if he gets the Power of Hoof.
-But Cornelia chickens out and runs into the Decoy Forest, never to be seen again.
-With Catastrophe in control of Jokull, the good guys invade it and rescue Regina.
-Ronan is kidnapped by Catastrophe and is almost executed, but he is rescued.
-The Powers are kidnapped by Catastrophe and Icy goes in to rescue them all.
-Catastrophe's army crushes BIG's laboratory.
-(It is at this point that the Admins and Editors give CBers the control of Kyngdom's plot.)
With no one around to write for them, the Powers lost their place in the spotlight. The focus instead shifted to the Resistance and their Power-less war on Catastrophe. Ronan explained that the latter had discovered the tale of three ancient, powerful magic relics known as the Sword, the Shield and the Crown. With all three, he would be able to rule Kyngdom forever. But they must be collected in order. He took the Sword easily and set out for the Shield, attending a meeting with several Resistance members on the Oracle's flower [a really giant flower by the river] in Eastern Kyngdom for a prophecy. A decoy was discovered and the flower burned. Catastrophe took the decoy, thinking it the real Shield, and set out for the Crown, which was in the possession of Queen of the Dolor Felis and Resistance General Mina. [Yep, Mina became queen of the dolor felis while all this was going on. Also, the Resistance rose to its epitome of power at this time.] Catastrophe crashed an event she was attending and the whole thing turned into an all-night battle. It is unclear who won.
Harbor Reinedela Mer (and I do hope I spelled that right) died, leaving behind an heir named Ocean. shadow returned to life, sans wings and on the agreement that she take the lives of five specific people or never enter the afterlife. Brynn, the Angel of Death, also died, and Alexandria turned out to have never died in the first place, escaping SOCS, dyeing her hair and taking the name Marie.
[Let me just stop here and tell you a little about Alexandria, since she's actually kinda important. Alexandria was Shadow's sister, who was raised in SOCS's boarding school to be a ruthless killer! She was used as a bargaining chip between the Resistance and Catastrophe and the others. In fact, while the Resistance was at Jokull & the Decoy Forest, they received a message from Alexandria asking to be rescued...but this was a trap.
Alexandria had a long, hard battle between being good or being evil, but eventually decided upon good. She was caught by Luna Rigga, headmistress of SOCS, and an execution was called, which Jaaws attended. Alexandria died, left some messages for Shadow her beloved sister, and everyone was sad.
(But, of course, she hadn't actually died, and now you know the story.)]
Headmistress Rigga also died at the hands of Mina and her now-also-deceased friend (read: romantic partner) Baron, and the SOCS was largely if not entirely dissolved. The Elites [an organization in opposition to Jaaws; see the dictionary] discovered that elf magic, in sufficient quantities, may have an effect against Jaaws. One of my charries found a magically protected old house in Great Forest (or was it Secret Forest?), and a promising apprentice practitioner of magic from another world will be coming soon.
The Resistance had a diplomatic meeting with Catastrophe and his officers, after which Mina drained the Crown's power into herself, and Alexandria/Marie took that power into herself, saying she knew how to control/safely dispose of it. Catastrophe was told that the Crown had been drained and that the Shield was being drained and now believes their power to be gone. The whereabouts of the true Shield are only known to Trixie W., a member of the Elites, and possibly her family.
Icy left with the/an Oracle to look for the Powers, and Caelani took Blazing Star's drum. Ayearth is...evil/possessed, and many Sideaffected Powers have allied with [Jaaws.]
Power of Hoof, Part II: After the Diplomatic Meeting, by Sybill
The Ball of Stars began. The Ball of Stars is an annual ball where the stars all align. Very beautiful. Several Resistance members attended, some of which were Sprocket [Mina's friend and engineer for the Resistance], Mina and Nygrune [Viola?'s magical wizard charrie]. Others who haven't been involved in a lot also attened, like Davina and Kimi. [Davina is a human played by Sybill and Kimi is a raccoon anthro played by Hazel C.]
So before the Ball, Mina and somehow Master Nova [one of the shapeshifting wolves who have guarded the Sword, Shield, and Crown for centuries] found out that the crown's !magic HAD NOT gone into Alexandria/Marie. Mina still had the Crown powee. Moonshadow, a wolf, now posses the Power of Howl. [Moonshadow is played by Leeli and his family was always involved with guarding the Power of Howl. Now, he inherited it.]
At the Ball, Master Nova forces the crown's magic out about of Mina and into Ocean [Queen Harbor's daughter]. This causes Ocean to pass out, and Mina gets angry at Nova. Fortunately, Ocean awakes and is unharmed.
Later, when the stars align, Ocean climbs onto the roof and looks at them. When climbing off the roof, she falls, and magic golden dust rescues her. This is the Crown inside of her. Moonshadow is the only one to actually see this, but Nygrune feels the powerful magic...somehow.
For a short bit, things are relatively peaceful, but then Master Nova drags Mina into the ladies room. Nova calls Mina an obstacle, and says Kyngdom will only be at peace if Nova ruled it. This causes a fight. Mina is stabbed several times, and kills Nova without meaning to. Mina is aghast, and Ocean walks into the restroom...And screams.
Davina, and Moonshadow hear the scream. They are the first to get there, followed by Iyana, Mitchell, Sprocket, and Kristjan. [Various characters at the ball.]
Davina looks at the scene, throws up, and realized that Mina had murdered Nova. Moonshadow is distraught. Sprocket grabs Mina, and they have a talk outside the bathroom. Sprocket is worried about Mina. Davina eavesdrops on them, without realizing that sprocket was reading her mind and knew.
At the same time, Nygrune comes to the rescue of Ocean. He leads her away and comfort her. Davina offers to help Mina because the blood is attracting a crowd. Mina refuses, even though Sprocket and Davina insist.
Mina storms away from them. Sprockey and Davina agree they must help Mina. They turn to help her, and watch as Ocean heals Mina using the crown's power.
Power of Hoof, Part III: In the Shadows, the Sideaffected Powers lurk...
-Jaaws and Whist have allied. They have discovered a NEW form of Brazen Goo that affect's a Power's MIND instead of their BODY, allowing them to TAKE CONTROL of the Powers.
-Caelani wants to activate Sylvia, so he hunts down Blazing Star and steals her Power of Hoof instrument.
-Jaaws and Whist, in control of all the other Sideaffected Powers (except Enyo) AND Ayearth, ambush Caelani and use the new Brazen Goo to overtake his mind. They take the drum in hopes of being able to brainwash Sylvia herself, but the drum turns out to be a fake!
-You remember from the beginning summary that Sylvia had been activated long ago. Well, this is where that comes into play. None of the drums are real! Sylvia has actually been out all this time...and now, safely tucked away from the grasp of the SAPs, she gives birth to a foal...
-Is the foal truly her son/daughter, or is the foal going to be a sideaffected power? Will he/she be evil, or good?
-Mercifully, the SAPs don't know about Sylvia having been summoned. They keep searching for the Power of Hoof and grow clsoer to Sylvia by the second...
-But in the midst of this all, a startling poster has begun to spread across Kyngdom! It's advertising for the ANNUAL MER FLEA MARKET...and it claims that someone will be selling the Power of Hoof there!
-And that's what comes next...
Power of Hoof IV: The Flea Market
-So, characters begin to flood the flea market. Some want a look at the so-called Power of Hoof drum, and others arrive because it's on the way to wherever they're going.
-A pirate by the name of Selena Evadere (Captain Phantasma) has set up a booth. She and her crew are auctioning the drum off, but of course it's fake.
-Kimi and Davina decide to steal the drum.
-There's a big commotion of lasers and the two escape on a flying carriage, fighting with two of the pirates.
Various Loose Ends: As of Right Now
As of right now, these things are happening:
-Lycaella's father has brought back BIG from its destruction.
-Sylvia's foal is growing up.
-At a place called the Olive Den, characters are enjoying a meal and discovering new things about each other.
-Catastrophe is visiting his old castle
-Jaaws is breaking ties with Catastrophe
-Enyo (Caelani's sideaffected Power) is posing as Catastrophe's pet to glean information from him. Enyo is working with Jaaws and Whist.
And that's where we leave off.
(November 21, 2018 - 9:55 am)
Maybe you could put a list of important characters before each section?
(November 23, 2018 - 11:51 am)
Good idea. I'll do that.
(November 24, 2018 - 3:20 pm)
Thanks a lot, this is really helpful!
(January 8, 2019 - 10:18 am)
End Of the Flea Market --
Our flea market ends with the pirates surrendering and Kimi and Davina escaping. However, not too long later, they crash land at Jokull! Recruits Ashzan, Deeja, and Tsuki capture tyem under the orders of General Caligo(Cendaren.)
Skylar the thief shows up and tries to steal the drum. Kimi steals it back, but then Deeja steals it from Kimi. Kimi and Davina try to run, but Cendaren yells for the recruits to shoot at them. Tsuki obeys(although she doesn't want to) and hits Davina in the center of her chest. However, Tsuki suddenly realizes exactly what she's done. In her stress, her light magic reacts and she heals Davina. However, the bullet wound transfers to Tsuki.
Luckily, Tsuki's old friend Raven Shadows has been spying on the scene with her friends Saoirse the alchemist and Granite the gargoyle. Ashzan rushes Tsuki to the medic wing. Deeja and Cendaren take Davina, Kimi, and Skylar prisoner. Saoirse sneaks into the medic wing and heals Tsuki with one of her potions. After a failed interrogation of the three prisoners, Cendaren finds Saoirse. Saoirse agrees to help Catastrophe in exchange for lodging at Jokull.
Ashzan and General Grimm interrogate Davina. It results in Ashzan cutting Davina's Achilles tendons. In a deal with Grimm, Saoirse heals Davina. She also helps Skylar with her scar.
Deeja reveals to Raven, Saoirse and Tsuki that she is actually Fahada, a Resistance spy. They create a plan to heal the prisoners and free them, then steal the drum. We leave off with Deeja and Tsuki interrogating Kimi.
The Red Paw--
A new organization, The Red Paw, led by Hunter the panther, arrives from a distant land to Kyngdom. They form an alliance with both FaFA and the Resistance, finally helping to unite the two sides. Nesbit the fox and Bomani the pangolin meet with Hunter and a few other agents. Hunter shows them what appears to be the Power of Fang (but it's probably a fake.) They decide to try to fins Sylvia, the Power of Hoof, and see if the other Powers know what to do about this Power.
FaFA and The Resistance --
FaFA agent Ren goes to the Resistance base in Mer to meet with the Resistance General and Head Spy Crystal. They discuss Catastrophe and possible ways to defeat him. A letter signed "N" is given to the Resistance. Crystal shows Ren the prophecy about the Artifacts. Little does anybody know, she'd gotten them from the Nocturnal, an underground organization that worships Lunee. This sets the stage for the Nocturnal to play a role in the Power of Howl, which will hopefully begin soon!
(January 29, 2019 - 8:22 pm)
Recent Happenings
Tsuki looses her hand in an accident related to her powers during an interrogation. She gets a robotic replacement, and it helps to control her powers. Sanukans attack Jokull. Deeja releases the prisoners.
At the Red Paw, they organize a spy team to spy on Catastrophe. However, Catastrophe attacks.
At the Nocturnal, Kosomi and Sancta are searching for Moonshadow.
The Powers
Ecio and Whist are going to take a detour through Mer, and then the Secret Forest. Whist plans on affecting Rose and Sybill with her magic.
Demise shows up and agrees to form an alliance with the SAPs. Jaaws, Caelani, and Demise are going to Jokull.
Rose and Sybill receive a letter from "N" warning them against finding the Power of Hoof.
(June 24, 2019 - 7:09 pm)
Recent Happenings --
The Sanukans, a race of humans with giant in their blood hailing from Sanukaville, have attacked Jokull from the North. The prisoners being held at Jokull (Skylar, Davina, and Kimi) escaped during the battle and joined up with the Sanukans, since Davina is one. However, it is unclear how loyal the thief Skylar truly is.
Fahada, the Resistance spy pretending to be Deeja Sagestone, is killed during the battle by General Grimm after he discovers who she truly is. Tsuki Natsu kills Grimm is revenge, then flees. She and her friend Ashzan join the Sanukans. They agree to help them by acting as assassins for them.
Cendaran Caligo witnessed Tsuki's act of treason. After the battle, he is appointed head of Jokull. He orders that Tsuki be killed in sight. However, Tsuki and Ashzan had already escaped to Sanukaville.
The Red Paw have formed an alliance with FaFA and plan to lead a spy mission to Jokull.
Deep within the Decoy Forest, a wolf named Timber is a member of a wolf organization. He has stolen a strange object, presumably from BIG. Two Resistance members and a wolf named Dusk have met up with him. So has Nesbit, a fox from FaFA. They plan to leave the forest with the help of the Resistance.
On the top of Bleak Peak, BIG, SOCS, and Catastrophe have all teamed up to rebuild the base. Lihim, a strange cloaked child, General Jantu the white wolf anthro and General Ajana have been sent to deal with a few problems at the base. While there, Ajana tells Lihim he is on her side, and they find the dead bodies of seven guards.
(October 3, 2019 - 3:45 pm)
Recent Happenings--
Skylar the theif has made her way to the base at Bleak Peak. There, Lihim and Ajana find her. She was the one responsible for the dead guards.
A group of misfits are camping in the woods, lead by their unofficial leader, Rori. Kamau, a Resistance member, flees a bombed base after sustaining serious injuries. He ends up staying with Rori's group. Aneko, the were-sprite, meets them too.
Ecio and Ayearth have discovered Sylvia and her child. Jaaws and Demise realize she will heal them and they can't hypnotize Sylvia yet.
Catastrophe, Jaaws, Demise, Whist, Caelani, Rose, Sybill are headed to Jokull. Enyo's whereabouts are unknown.
Kosomi and Sancta have discovered Moonshadow.
(November 17, 2019 - 9:24 am)
Catastrophe may be planning to create a Power prison at Bleak Peak.
Sylvia has healed Ecio and Ayearth, they are free from Jaaws now.
Lunee is going to be awakened soon.
(November 23, 2019 - 7:40 pm)
Recent Happenings~~
Ashzan is on a mission to assassinate Caligo. She has convinced him that she is still loyal to him. Victor Starr and Caligo have signed a truce. Because of this, Victor releases his prisoner, Lieutenant Sanders. Sanders has plans to kill Caligo and take Jokull for himself.
Tsuki has discovered Vida, an orphaned Dolor Felis infant. She discovered Vida is the reincarnated form of Deeja.
Davina and Kimi travel South to the Grasplands. They are supposed to be finding out why Sanukan caravans are being attacked, and how to stop that.
There's also all the Beginner Thread stuff, but I'm too lazy right now to summarize that.
(February 27, 2020 - 8:00 pm)