This part of the plot will last for the next 1 ½- 2 weeks. We’ll keep an eye on things and see how it’s going for you guys, as we don't want to hurry you, but also don't want things to drag along. Feel free to use this post for questions, discussion, and rp threads!

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The spirit vines are spreading, unfurling tendril by tendril – first slowly, then at a rate of growth that is visible. They are spreading into territory previously left to the city’s human population, expanding the Spirit Wilds inch by inch, foot by foot. While they aren’t hurting anyone per se, and their expansion isn’t horribly fast, they are persistent. They can also be destructive, cracking through buildings and stone. Attempts to kill them or to thwart their expansion will result in a doubling of their growth, as well as additional destruction – much as occurred when Korra attempted to appease them at the beginning of Season 3 of LoK.

Additionally, strangers are appearing throughout the city – individuals that no one has seen before. They seem to be focused, interested in planting seeds . . . seeds that, when left untouched, erupt into more spirit vines the next day. Their mission seems to be to plant seeds in areas where there are none, in parts of the city where it would take longer for the vines to reach themselves. They appear in homes and businesses as well as public locations, undaunted by any chaos they cause in the process. Indeed, if people attempt to fight them off, they will be met with force as the strangers protect the seeds they plant, the vines, and any spirits in the area.

People have continued to disappear. The outsiders may even find that three of their own have vanished. Even the Triads seem daunted as their numbers slowly shrink and have quieted, banding together and holing up as though this will prevent the loss of any more. Things are looking a bit daunting in Republic City . . . What will you do about it?

You can expect:
+ Spirit vines in unexpected places
+ Property damage as spirit vines expand their territory
+ Persistent strangers appearing in places they shouldn’t be (including your bedroom!)
+ Those same strangers being touchy about you not wanting seeds planted in your bedroom
+ Citizens displaced/needing help as spirit vines slowly take over more buildings
+ A general sense of anxiety and panic in the city

With all the excitement going on with the penguin races, the spirits came to a conclusion that the citizens and the people they brought to this city just weren't doing their best job to take care of the problem that they were sensing. Maybe they didn't bring the right people, or maybe they just needed more protection. Things seemed far too quiet and it just didn't sit well with them. So, some of the stronger spirits who preferred to watch instead of interact with humans decided to combine their powers together to summon more people from all over the worlds.






Welcome to the Fourth Wall Event of Cyclicality.

The spirits are bringing in all sorts of people for three weeks to try and gain more help and more alliances to help protect Republic City from anything that may wish to harm it. Any characters can come into the game with their powers to try and help out Republic City or just make things even more chaotic for the citizens. Your characters can come in as their original self, or you can AU them into the setting as well.

At the end of the event the new characters that were pulled into Republic City will be sent back to their own homes, unless you wish to app the character you brought in. You will be able to app them and let them keep their memories of the event. That goes for the characters already in the game as well. However, any canon powers will be lost as usual upon apping unless they're a canon bender or apped as AU. An overflow post will be posted around this time next week depending on if there are a lot of people tagging/commenting, so hop to it, everyone!

Some rules to follow:

1. If you’re a player in the game and interested in participating in the event, use the [4th wall] tag. This will let everyone know if you want to participate. You can also tag posts here.

2. If you’re not in the game, you can post a starter post here or tag into someone else’s post who has the [4th wall tag].

3. As always, remember to be friendly! And, if you have any questions, feel free to shoot us a PM.

It's been some weeks now since Yuri had discovered his new... talent. He had been disgruntled at best to learn that he was suddenly a bender. After all, he had taken pride in being able to defend himself without needing bending, using his sword skills instead. So this was quite the change and shock for him. A lot of people had their bending changed or suddenly granted to them, but most of them he'd come to find out, had lost it or gone back to normal. In his case though, he still had it.

He was an airbender now, and he had to deal with it.

So deal with it he did. Yuri had experimented with his new skills in private. Practicing when there was no one around. But lets face it, he couldn't learn as well by himself. He had never needed a master to teach him swordsmanship when he was a kid, though he did hone his skills while he was in the Earth Kingdom military. But well, bending was a whole different animal. So it was time to make a pilgrimage... to Air Temple Island. Where all the airbenders supposedly hung out.

Anyone there might see him wandering around, sword held at his side as it hung from his hand. No, he had no shame when it came to carrying weapons. He was also followed by an interesting dog. Repede, after all, was the only one that actually knew about Yuri's airbending. So they walked around, taking a look at stuff. If anyone was practicing, they would find him trying to watch discretely. He wasn't quite ready to just admit that he needed help. He was here to observe, that was it.

[A - Avatar Korra Park]

[Mia is standing beside the small lake inside Avatar Korra Park, just within view of a concrete base that is being constructed for a future statue.  Mia has her staff in one hand and has her other hand outstretched, commanding a pair of tendrils of water from the lake upward and around her.  She's practising her waterbending obviously, and more or less she's oblivious to the world.  In fact, more than half the time, her eyes are closed as she's so intently focused upon the water.  The tendrils of water break free from the lake and swirl around her in a double helix, ebbing and flowing slowly as they rotate around her.

[She remains completely silent, listening to the waves and only every now and again peeking with one eye to ensure that she hasn't lost her touch.

[And she won't... unless she somehow gets interrupted.]

[B - Spirit Wilds]

[It's a bright and sunny day outside, and in the Spirit Wilds that means that greenish light is trickling down from the thick canopy overhead.  Mia is on the hunt for spirits in hopes of learning something more about them beyond that which she's been taught by her own mentors at the North Pole.  And certainly it seems like it since there are so many more spirits here than at the North Pole.  In her hands are a small sketchbook and a quill with a small pot of ink.

[Every once in a while, she sits down and begins to make a sketch of one of the spirits she sees.  She might also be caught chatting with one of the more outgoing and friendly spirits as well, though the conversation will border more on the level of small talk:  "You're a cute one, aren't you?  My name's Mia.  Can you talk; do you have a name?"]

[C - Teahouse]

[Mia is sitting in a teahouse in one of the nicer districts of the city.  She's at a table that fits four, though she happens to be the only one at it; she doesn't feel too bad because the teahouse is empty enough for her not to feel like she's taking up too much room.  There's a pot and a cup of hot green tea before her, and she's going through the newspaper, reading all of the headlines.  She definitely seems like she's looking for some news somewhere, but every page turn seems like it's just being met with zero luck.  She takes a sip of tea every once in a while before finally folding up the newspaper and laying it on the table.  She sighs dejectedly and rests her head on her hands, propped up by her shoulders.]

Another day without any luck.  It's as if he completely disappeared...

[D - Choose your own adventure!]

There is Republic City all around you.  A wild Mia appears and blocks your path! On the ground you see a cute koalaotter, a newspaper, a load-bearing flask, and other things that you can't pick up.

You can go North, Southish, or Dennis.

[Semi-Closed to Opal / Backdated to the evening of the 7th]

[OOC: Feel free to catch Bolin at Air Temple Island if you want. But the conversation with Opal itself is certainly closed!]

[Bolin had known that Opal had been worried about Zaofu for a while now. What with the Earth Kingdom in abject chaos and her not knowing what had happened to the rest of her family, it wasn't any surprise. And try as Bolin could, there was no way that even he could remove that worry from her, even if he was doing his best to keep her calm and otherwise happy in the interim. Nonetheless, when word came that the barrier had finally peeled back and vanished, Bolin knew that Opal would already be making plans to head out.

[And so he's off to Air Temple Island to go visit her. Tenzin isn't around and neither is Meelo to provide any sort of real trouble with him visiting, but nonetheless Bolin still sneaks through the hallways... you know, just in case they've appointed someone else. After all, he didn't want a stern lecture today, not when he might not see Opal for a few weeks. But nonetheless, he makes his way to Opal's room and knocks.]

Opal? You there?

[Closed to Wan / Backdated to a few days after the Fire Ferrets tryouts]

[Bolin had been dreading the day of going off and meeting up with his future teammates, though mainly because he knew that, once he got some yeses, that would eventually mean that he would have to tell a lot of other people no. But at least the easy part was first, right? And that meant finding all of the people that had done miraculously at the event. And first, he was going to find "Long," a.k.a. Wan, who he certainly had a personal bias for... and had done reasonably well at the tryouts.]

Heya... "Long," [Bolin says with a rather knowing look. What can he say; he really likes these codenames!] So... uh... about the tryouts?

[Closed to Yang and Katara / Backdated to shortly after the above]

[Well, after getting rejected by Wan after finding his own plans to create a new team—won't that be fun??—Bolin goes off to plan B.  He's seeking out Yang and "June" out in hopes of recruiting them to the team.  Of course, he at least got how to contact them, so he'll be making personal calls upon them before posting up the list.  So off across Republic City he goes to hunt down the hopeful recruits to the newly reformed Fire Ferrets!  He'll step up to the door where they're both living and give a knock.]

Helloooooooo?  Anybody home?

[A: Pro-bending Arena / OPEN]

[Bolin has finally posted the results from the Fire Ferrets tryouts.  There are two names scrawled on it.  Yang's name is clearly on the list, and the waterbender is probably someone no one has heard before, whether it be "June" or someone else, depending upon how the former felt about it.  Nonetheless, someone will likely catch him putting the results up.  Someone will likely hunt down Bolin and ask if that meant that they weren't on the team, and Bolin would be dreading that conversation.  Or someone else might catch him practicing and want to have a serious talk with him.]

[B: Volunteering / OPEN]

[Asami talked to him about it much earlier when all these strange people started appearing in Republic City, along with the Spirit Barrier, and something really connected with Bolin.  He had a chance to offer something back to Republic City.  He could really make a difference and make some in-roads here.  That really spoke to him, especially after all these trips Bolin has taken with Korra in order to change the world and defeat all these horrible bad guys.  So Bolin will be volunteering and helping the poor; after all, he knows exactly how that lifestyle was.]

[C: Make up your own / OPEN]

[OOC:  Seriously, Bolin could practically be anywhere.  If you've got a different idea in mind, let me know!]

[Backdated from this post.]


[With the statue on the island looming large overhead, Lloyd's heart races with excitement even as he struggles with his oar to paddle the makeshift boat he and Jin are in closer and closer to shore. Though, perhaps calling it a boat is a bit too generous.

Okay, maybe way too generous. But hey, even if it's a washtub, it worked!]

Look, Jin! We're almost there!

This is a post to keep track of all the tags in game. This way, before you've used your tag, it will still show up in the list. You can basically ignore this post. Bury it with other posts.

It was a bright and sunny normal day in Republic City. Children were playing, spirits were chirping about, and everything was going along like normal. Well at least that's what everyone seemed to think. That is until so many people seemed to be appearing out of nowhere. For some reason Republic City seemed to be more lively and the crowds bigger.

The spirits have grown restless as if something important was about to change, and to try to fix that change, the spirits with their big long tree like limbs dragged people into the world left and right. Even the vines covering Republic City seemed to help. Although the spirits had the best intentions in mind, some people were more affected by the grab than others. There's talk that people in this city don't even know what this place is. People who have never heard of the words "bender" or "non-bender."

Welcome to Republic City! And to those who already live here: Happy Saturday. Please make yourselves at home and don't mind a little spirit gunk. It's mostly harmless. Go enjoy yourself a classic mover. Maybe you're the athletic type. If that's the case, come watch a few Pro-bending matches or form your own team. Just watch out for any Satomobiles. They can be deadly no matter how pretty the driver is.

Please remember to enjoy your stay and don't cause too much trouble. The Republic City Police don't need more riffraff to take care of. And don't stray too far. To make the the peace is kept, there's a huge spirit barrier around the perimeter of the city. It seems pretty strong, but it won't be able to last forever. Still, it's worrying. Radio signals and telegraphs don't seem to be getting past it.

[ OOC: The game is officially open! From this point on, feel free to make any posts you want or tag into this. Please remember to tag your posts with Canon: Character. Finally, although the game has no real network, you're free to respond with prose or brackets, whatever you're comfortable with. With that said, have fun! ]