daybreakacademy | When You Made Wishes: start! (player plot)

Imagine Wist's surprise when April rolled around and their plan for a great prank was foiled on account of all those students just...leaving??? Truly, they have become the April fool... It's what they wanted, of course -- for the pitiful humans to find freedom -- and sure there are some stragglers around, but...in the end, they decide to take the win and enjoy a short break of their own. Good thing, too, or they might have pulled out all their hair in frustration when Spring Break comes to an end and the swarm of students and faculty willingly return to their prison.

While settling back into the academy and resigning themselves to a routine, the people of Daybreak will be soothed by a gentle tune rising up from the forest. It isn't a song they've heard before, and yet, somehow...it's nostalgic, isn't it? The soft notes of the pan flute stir up something in their hearts, tugging at old memories and drawing forth a feeling of dissatisfaction and longing out from under them. Let the song lull them into taking a moment to withdraw from the hustle and bustle -- hey, turns out they sort of need it. Maybe they're coming down with a cold, or just some quick little bug...
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>> user M3G4M4G1CH4XX posted on April 6th, 2019:
Why did you come back? You don't have to live like this.

Weren't things better back then? Try to remember what it used to be like.
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The odd message from an iris account that doesn't exist isn't up for long before the spell kicks into the next phase. However they manifest and from when differs from person to person, but those affected will all have the bizarre experience of watching some ghost of themselves from their past be born from their soul's memory. Don't think there are those that can escape this fate just by returning at a later time, either -- Wist can keep up this panpipe nonsense all day, every day if they have to. If that what it takes to get their point across...

Good luck trying to comprehend whatever point that may be, because now Daybreak is the new home to a bunch of familiar-looking rugrats and has to contend with whatever complications they may bring along with them.
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[For more information on this plot, please see this ooc infopost!]

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[Hieke laughs, and he doesn't seem too worried. Maybe he should be, but...

It's a dying man's last gamble. Anything he does can just be undone.]

Not bad, old man. But is that all you're going to do?

[.......

It is fucking on.]

Nope.

[It's going to knock him out faster he knows, put more strain on his already failing body, but if filling this room with magical geysers is going to help him get his vengeance, so help him he is going to do it.]

[Oh.

Okay, things are getting a little more serious. Hieke grimaces, and...maybe he is in a little over his head. This might be someone a little out of his league.]

Nice trick.

[The ringing gets louder, sounding like bells crashing together, as Hieke tries to dig deeper into Avery and cut him to pieces.

It's a little hard to do when he's trying not to get demolished himself, though.]

[The magic circles begin to fizzle out one by one, coughing up a pitiful amount of magic as Avery's insides start to feel as though they're being ripped apart. He practically folds in on himself, hacking and coughing, mouth filled with the coppery taste of blood.

Shit.

Hieke isn't the only one who's starting to believe he's in over his head.]

[The magic fizzling out is a relief. It means it's working, and that it's time to leave.

Hieke takes one step, then two, and unless Avery has another trick up his sleeve, he's going to book it away from there as quickly as possible.]

[He has just one, and it's as much his best bet for living as it is for capturing this fool.

His hands shake as he reaches into his blazer, the edges of his vision starting to go dark, and with his last bit of consciousness he makes use of the summoning sigil that Hieke had given him.]

[The sigil works - of course it works. Avery might have annoyed Hieke into making it, but that doesn't mean he'd give him one that was fake. He's not that cruel.

Two things happen when it's used - which is probably to be expected. The younger Hieke gets summoned to Avery's side, and so does the older Hieke. Who, really, had not been expecting this. Maybe he should have? But a younger version of himself going around and his coworkers slowly dying aren't generally things you can prepare for.

His first priority is stabilizing Avery - the magic works damn quick, going for the worst of it. Everything else will have to be taken care of in the infirmary, but he can at least get the other man back to consciousness.]

[There is only one thing on Avery's mind when he regains consciousness. He studies the Hieke before him through blurred vision, squints, then looks over at the other.

Having determined which of them is the younger, he promptly flips his attacker off.]

[That says a lot about what's going on. Hieke looks up at the younger version of himself, who is once again trying to escape, and looks completely baffled.

Then he takes a closer look at Avery, and his stomach twists into knots. He did this, didn't he? Guilt settles heavily on his shoulders, and he swallows.]

...We should get you to the infirmary.

[And leave dealing with his younger self for later. He at least doesn't seem keen to start a two-on-one fight - he's not that stupid.]

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