Stronger With Those Daddy Issues

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Waking to bird song isn't exactly shocking in Auradon, but it seems... louder than usual on the first morning of the event. And there is a reason for that. Auradon has been visited by a rather large flock of Golden pheasants. An odd flock as experienced birders might notice there are only the brightly coloured males in evidence. But there isn't much time to think about that because with them comes... a complication.

Now this is Auradon, of course, so the only mess the birds are dropping are bright colourful feathers. But the feathers, like the flowers last month randomly trigger a memory. Once again the memory shows in 3D, looking the most solid to the one who touched the feather - and unwittingly contributed the memory. No one can interact with it, and no matter how solid it looks, the figures and places and things in the memory can be walked through with ease. Well, physical ease, anyway. The memory, once again, will not be from the perspective of the one it belongs to; they and their companion or companions will be observing from a third party perspective, thus allowing a person to see their own face in the memories without the aid of a mirror.

The memories this time are memories of fathers and paternal figures. Generally good memories. After all, this is Auradon.

If one interacts closely with the birds or their feathers they might also have strong vivid dreams of their paternal figure. Again, genrally happy dreams given this is Auradon. While the birds will fly away after two weeks, and the feathers will lose their power to share memories at the same time, for every day spent handling the birds or feathers during the event, the character might have up to that many day of intense dreams after.

Comments

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Dude, healing magic is super useful," he said. "And one of the hardest kinds to learn, at least when it comes to high-level stuff. I've only managed a basic Cure spell on that front myself. If you're looking to expand your options a bit though, I could try and teach you some fire magic."

[gregorydeegan]

"I'm not an Elemental Mage, and I'm not a good enough student to pick up a whole second discipline. I've been studying white magic since I was tiny. So unless you mean white fire, I'm probably not going to be any good at anything you have to teach. Trust me, my mom would love it if I could pick up another speciality, but those of us who can learn more than one and do any good with them are rare. It's part of why she's an arch mage, because she can tap into lots of different specialties. Dominic's working on it, but he spends most of his time studying and scrying. I'm too lazy."

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea considered a moment. "I know there's some light-based attack spells," he said. "But they tend to be really powerful and pretty advanced; nothing I'd be qualified to teach, even if I knew them, which I don't."

"But I didn't mean you had to become an expert at it or anything. Just that it's good to round out your options a little. That's why I started learning some different kinds of spells besides just fire. So far I've learned basic wind and ice spells on top, plus the Cure spell I mentioned before. Ice was the hardest of the three to learn, cause it's pretty much the opposite of what I'm aspected to. Well, I guess the direct opposite would be water, but there's not a lot of combat-oriented water magic where I'm from; I really only know one guy who specializes in it."

[gregorydeegan]

"Oh, Light is part of being a White Mage. I have that down fairly well," he said, puffing up a bit.