Something strange is afoot in New York City. On the morning of OCTOBER 15th, residents of the city and surrounding areas awoke to an unfamiliar energy in the air. The energy itself is no isolated incident — and the events that its presence manifests go from weird to weirder in record time.
It starts simple. The stray cat in the alleyway says hello in a surprisingly human voice instead of its usual meow. A skeleton decoration hung on a front porch in anticipation of Halloween begins telling jokes to everyone who passes. But in New York, things never stay simple for long. In the graveyards, benevolent spirits rise from their tombs, eager to make contact with the people they left behind. Jack-O-Lanterns on fire escapes grow arms and legs and quickly devolve into acts of petty crime throughout the city. Broomsticks once used for simple sweeping gain the ability to fly at the most inconvenient of times.
This Halloween, nothing is impossible and magic is to blame. Unbeknownst to her, Zatanna Zatara’s pregnancy has made the magic in her veins unstable, and the effects of it are being seen all around the city. Alone, none of the events are especially dangerous, but together? The world of Begin Again is in for a whole new brand of chaos.
WHAT’S HAPPENED
Zatanna Zatara ( @mistressofmagic )’s powers are on the fritz due to her pregnancy’s interference with her magic. Because she is unaware that she’s causing it, she’s unable to consciously stop it from happening.
These waves of unstable magic have wreaked chaos throughout the city. Some things caused by this event include (but are not limited to):
Animals gaining the ability to speak English, thus inspiring them to strike up conversations with their human neighbors and roommates.
Halloween decorations coming to life, and humanity learning that Jack-O-Lanterns are mischievous beings with a knack for petty crime.
Benevolent ghosts rising from graveyards and traveling to the people they knew in life. (Note: Because the cause of this is Zatanna’s unconscious use of magic and she has no unconscious desire to do harm, only friendly spirits have been raised from the dead for this event; malicious ones will remain in their graves.)
Broomsticks taking off in flight… often at times you really wish they wouldn’t.
If you would like your character to encounter something magical not listed here, please run it by us first so we can keep an eye on all the threads in motion!
No one, not even Zatanna herself, is aware that she is causing the influx of magic… making the events much harder to stop.
POTENTIAL PLOTS
Your character arrives home from a long day at work to find their pet in an unusually chatty mood. Chaos ensues when they try explaining the situation to a friend who has not yet encountered any magical side effects, thus leading them to believe their friend has lost it.
While sweeping, your character’s broom takes off into the sky, and they must hold on for dear life while awaiting a hero with the ability of flight to assist.
Your character encounters the ghost of someone they lost in life.
Your characters band together to stop a robbery, only to find that the perpetrators are… pumpkins. Gotta love New York!
For this event, we will also be asking for characters within the group to help stop the events taking place. Because they don’t know the cause of the events, they’ll be tackling them individually! If you’re interested in your character tackling one of the issues at hand, please contact the main. These will likely not require discord threads (unless the muns involved want them), rather short writeups of how the events were resolved. Keep in mind that we want everyone to get a chance to be involved, so if you play multiple characters, please try to limit the number you want involved in the main solution to one or two! All characters are welcome to be involved in the plot as a whole, of course, but this is one event where we’d like to give every individual mun a chance to shine!
This event will commence on OCTOBER 15, 2021 to allow for plotting. It will continue for a little over two weeks until OCTOBER 31, 2021, however threads started during this time (as well as Discords, if you are kicking off a longer plot for example) can be continued on after the event concludes. This is just the time period for starters to be posted!
Please tag open starters for this event as #beginagainhalloween (please don’t use this tag for private, closed starters!). As usual with events, we will lift the usual “reply to three starters before posting your own” rule, although make sure that every starter receives equal attention to the best of your ability.
As always, if there are any questions, please feel free to contact the admin team through the main or use the questions channel in our group Discord. We can’t wait to see what you will do with this event!
