Hickety Pickety
[ 5/20 - 5/25 ]

Hopefully everyone's had a good time being a princess -- and recovering afterwards. The Town's been quiet for awhile, but it's doomed to not stay that way for long, as anyone used to this place can tell you. Though at first, this time, it doesn't seem so bad.

At first.

See, everyone is going to wake up with a Cute Animal Companion. Even if you had one as a princess before, you're getting one again. They can be literally any animal -- but large animals will be small and cute, just the right size to carry around. Your cute animal companion can be anywhere from the size of a mouse to the size of a large dog, and can be basically any animal or mythical creature at all. Cute Animal Dragon, the size of a housecat? Very possible. Adorable unicorn that's no larger than a chipmunk? You got it! The cutest black bear you've ever seen, the size of a dog? Sure, that can happen too.

These animal companions will all share a few key traits:

• They retain all magical abilities if they have them -- a Dragon can breathe fire or other mysterious breaths, a unicorn can purify poison.
  
• None of them will be larger than a large dog, no matter what animal they are.
  
• They will all be sickly sweet and tamed by your character. They will never misbehave -- almost eerily so. It will be like having the easiest to take care of animal ever in your life.

Almost too good to be true, right?

Well, thaaat's...because it is. You see, after a day or so of these cute companions puttering around, they're going to start to reveal some of their...less than ideal traits. Characters that are close to yours? Suddenly, they're going to be downright nasty to them, trying to drive them off by whatever means necessary. If your characters have other animals, you might want to be really careful, before the Cute Animal Companion eats them to get rid of them. And heaven forbid you have an All Important Rival or significant other or other close CR. The Cute Animal Companion will turn downright evil towards them, trying to get them out of the picture -- this might extend even to trying to get them killed.

How far this goes is ultimately up to you; the cute animal companions might just be little fluffy jerks, or they might be downright homicidal. They'll try to keep those moments out of your character's line of sight, but it's really up in the air how much they succeed. Either way, one thing is for sure -- they want to be The Most Important creature in your character's life. They can be killed, of course, with varying difficulty based off of what kind of creature they are -- a mouse will be easier to get rid of than a dragon, for instance.

When the event is over, all of the cute animal companions will disappear as if they were never there, leaving behind only broken hearts and lots of claw marks. Shame.

As a quick note, this event was originally scheduled to go up tonight -- unfortunately, a few personal issues have led to us posting this OOC belatedly. We're really sorry about the delay. To make sure that everyone still has time to plot and ask questions, we'll post the event Monday evening, and it will run until the weekend. Thank you for your patience with us! And as ever, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here.