📯 Great Hunt: Aleister

Sound the horn! At the end of the Grand Tourney, disaster strikes: a mage has corrupted and is now threatening the tourney grounds as well as the whole town of Mead.

Click here to view the monster's current HP

Killing Blow:

Silver & Bronze Hunters:

Every character who participated in this event will get a special badge for their profile!

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the combat system

In addition to your mage's base damage output (which you can read about here), every 10 gold counted for a piece of art, writing, or roleplay, will earn another +1 damage.

This means if your mage does 5 damage based on their stats, but your attack is worth 40 gold, they will deal an additional +4 damage. This is calculated before the double event bonus, as well as any effort bonus, is applied.

If you have any questions about this or need help calculating your damage, write to us via Modmail or in #ask-staff and we will be happy to help!

Click here to use our new Hunt Damage calculator!

prizes

These are the prizes for participating:

ALL PARTICIPATING MAGES receive +2 to their choice of Power or Discipline.
THE MAGE WHO DOES THE MOST DAMAGE receives the Killing Blow badge, is the slayer of the beast and receives +100 Gold, +1 Corruption, and their choice of scroll or amulet from the shop.
SECOND PLACE MAGE receives +75 Gold, and their choice of scroll or amulet from the shop.
THIRD PLACE MAGE receives +50 Gold, and their choice of scroll or amulet from the shop.

monster description

After a long and notorious life, the mage formerly known as Aleister has willingly taken the step over Fortune’s threshold and become a monster.

Strangely enough, there is no beast to be seen, only a thick fog that covers the area; upon further inspection, it is completely made up of eyes of various sizes, slowly floating over the landscape. In the middle of it, well hidden by the thickest of the mist, is a giant, lumbering giraffe skeleton with an eye on the inside of the skulls' mouth.

monster abilities

The Wasting Miasma does no physical damage; not even the skeletons' steps seem to disturb anything.

Instead, most people caught in the mist get trapped in a dream world of their own making. In this dream, their real body remains still, but in their mind, they are transported to a perfect life, in which the one thing they feel went wrong in their lifetime is altered. A non-mage dreams of being a mage, a widower dreams of a life where their spouse is still alive, a poor commoner dreams of riches and prosperity…

After a time, the fantasy unravels. Small details go missing, and a persuasive sense of it being wrong eventually may wake up the victim.

Others may fall into their worst nightmare, and a lucky few may be immune to the Miasma’s lure, and are able to see it for what it truly is.

monster behavior and location

The fog lies thick over and around the town of Mead, where the Grand Tourney was held. It does not seem to be moving, though it seems to be spreading, very slowly.

The skeleton inside it is passive and unmoving, not violent, but it seems like it is also not affected by physical attacks.

monster combat bonuses

It’s good to have a buddy, lest you get lost in the mist. Mages working in pairs or groups deal +1 damage. (Applies to collabs and roleplay)
Mages who have one or more familiars deal +1 damage.
Those with a Magic Detection amulet deal +1 damage.
Mages with powers pertaining to the mind, hallucinations, or illusions are at an advantage, and deal 2x damage. Applied to the base stat point damage, before gold damage is added.
Fire magic is at a disadvantage, and deal ½x damage. Applied to the base stat point damage, before gold damage is added.

📯👹🏹 Join the Hunt!

Hunt Prompts: Every week the monster still lives, a new prompt will roll out, describing the monster's behaviors, location, and the destruction it has wrought. Collabs are encouraged for Hunt Prompts! All event-related art is worth double gold!
- This Hunt's prompts: click here
- This Hunt's attacks: click here to submit your attack for damage.

Art/writing/RP/Collab Submissions: You don't have to respond to a specific prompt to kick some monster tail!! Any submission showing mages whippin' ass (or otherwise responding to the Great Hunt) can count as an attack; just tag this profile as a "character" on your finished work, and follow the instructions here!

Attacking and Aiding: Mages have the ability to attack a monster, or (for whatever their reasons may be) aid the monster, and try to keep it alive. When submitting pieces that attack or aid the monster, please follow instructions on this comment.

⚔🛡🏆 How does this work?

The monster described above is rampaging through Ivras! It is up to the Mages of Anathema to stop it. Only mages can damage monsters.

Every piece of art, writing or roleplay made for this event featuring Mage characters counts as an "attack" on the monster. the damage your mage does is based on their stats and the monster's weaknesses; read the Hunt Guide for more info! Attacks for this hunt should be posted here. The event runs at least two weeks, and then ends when the monster's HP is lowered to 0.

This monster has 880 HP. A grace period of 4 days will be allowed for submissions when it hits 0 HP, so works in progress can be completed. Check this profile for the most up-to-date look at the monster's HP.

For more detailed instructions and information on prizes/rewards, check out the Hunt Guide by clicking here.

❓ Any questions?

Feel free to comment on this bulletin, or don't hesitate to contact staff on our Discord server or our forum! We're happy to help!

Comments

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prompt one: the miasma descends

It is the last day of the Grand Tourney, and spirits are high. The final grand champion of the tournament will be crowned, prizes will be given out, and then it is time to pack up and go home.

It happens almost too fast for anyone to react. Around midday, a commotion erupts in the audience—people are screaming, and running away, but suddenly, the panicked crowds fall silent and still as a strange mist descends upon them. It quickly covers the tournament grounds, then begins to spread across the town of Mead, but it doesn’t seem to go beyond the town borders.

All around your character, people fall to the ground, suddenly swept into a dreaming sleep, expressions of bliss and happiness on their faces, save for a few, who seem trapped in a nightmare.

Does your character fall into a dream world of their own, or do they resist the lure of sleep?

Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot).
Upload your response like any other art or literature submission, tag this character profile, and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses. Responses to this prompt should be done individually, one character per response.

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prompt two: dream wasteland

The monster, if that’s what it could be called, shows no signs of retreating or moving. The mist has slowly begun to creep outside of Mead, but it seems to be a slow process. Witnesses have reported a few people stumbling out of the mist, confused and disoriented, many of them lamenting waking up from whatever dreams they had.

It is reported that the King is safe and unharmed, having left the tournament mere hours before it happened.

The Order and its mage protectors, those who weren’t present at the time of the monster eruption, have set up a camp a safe distance away from Mead, to observe and figure out how to defeat it, as well as help the victims.

Does your character join forces with the Order, or do they work on their own?

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prompt three: dreams and delusions

The fog still lies thick over Mead. In the rest of Ivras, news has spread and been hotly debated—what kind of monster is this? Is it even a monster? It is unlike anything that has been seen before.

As time passes, the miasma shows no signs of abating, though there has been a steady trickle of people making it out of the mist, some of them gathering outside it.

Interestingly enough, there have also been people who, after having gotten out, immediately try to return into the mist, talking about how their perfect lives await them. Some have been restrained for their own safety, but the mage protectors—and others—gathered outside Mead can’t help everyone.

Would your character try to keep others from going back into the fog?

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prompt four: wasting away

Witnesses report that parts of the fog seems to be thinning out, especially in the northern parts of Mead, though others say that the Miasma has begun to move southwards. The large skeleton that seems to be the center of it all has been sighted, even from outside the mist, though only in brief glimpses. There have been many debates whether the efforts to defeat it have been effective or not.

Many of the inhabitants of Mead who have made it out have camped on the outskirts of the town, with whatever they have managed to bring with them; many only have the clothes on their backs and little else. Surrounding villages and farmsteads have offered food and aid.

Voices have been raised against how both the King and the Order have handled the whole thing, but there have also been protests against what some believe is a Wild Mage conspiracy. Gossip and rumors are everywhere.

What does your character think about it? Are they still trapped in the mist, or have they made it out?

📯 Great Hunt: Aleister

hunt for the Wasting Miasma

the combat system

prizes

monster description

monster abilities

monster behavior and location

monster combat bonuses

📯👹🏹 Join the Hunt!

⚔🛡🏆 How does this work?

❓ Any questions?

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prompt one: the miasma descends

Does your character fall into a dream world of their own, or do they resist the lure of sleep?

prompt two: dream wasteland

prompt three: dreams and delusions

prompt four: wasting away

attacking and aiding:

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