This event will go through 4 phases throughout the month. There will be 4 different posts about each phase, including what's going on for those characters who cannot participate or who don't want to participate.

Phase One:
Character will noticed a rotten smell coming from the east(where the forest is located) and strange noises during the night. Characters who sign up for phase one will go investigate with a 5 person party, but these characters will get lost in the forest/trapped and unable to leave. They will find Malboros(Huge ones from FFXIV)and are hit with so many status effects that they are too confused to leave, even if it wears off they are too deep to find their own way back.
You characters are in position to be bait for the rest of the characters and other people to act on seeing them on the network.

You can do threads, logs, video and audio but you are limited to doing action/threads/logs with the group of characters your character went with. Audio/Video is perfectly fine. You character can suffer from any of these status effects during the month, you can have them effected by as many or as little as you want.

Status Effects: Blindness, Confusion(Most Often), Berserk, Poisoned, Silence and Sleep.

Sign Ups:

Cloud Strife, Caius Ballad, Paddra Nsu-Yeul, Yuffie and Sonic.

Phase Two:

After the characters are gone for more than 4 days, someone will take notice of this on top of one other thing: Malboros are around the outside of the forests now, there is clearly a nest. A character who knows one of the missing characters must be in this party, but this time they are stopped near the front and cannot fight them off alone, but one of the characters listed does get inside. The one who gets inside will be the one who finds the other characters and lead them out. Someone who is fast or someone who is very stealthy would be a good decision. After finding the missing party, they will see that they are trapped and travel back to Rotundus in hopes of finding someone to help the other people.

Sign up:

Annie Leonhardt, Noel Kriess, Zack Fair and (Killua Zoldyck)

Phase Three:

Phase three is the rescue of the missing party. During this phase, more Malboros can be see hanging around the beach, moving into the mountains and clearly taking over the land due to lack of predators. For this party, we need 4 characters: 2 Stealth characters, 1 research character and 1 character who is a 'paladin' type or a 'front-line battle' type. We can have more or less characters involved with this one, we can also have characters starting to plan for phase 4 during phase 3. Basically, the paladin and the research character are there as decoys to allow the two stealth characters to enter the forest unseen/unheard. The researching character is there to find a way to see if the Malboros can be used for anything. Perhaps making a amulet, shot or an item to nullify some of the effects.

Meanwhile, the characters who want to start leading parties are discussing how to go in and deal with vermin so much bigger than them. There will be 3 Leaders with their own party members, they can consist of people who participated or people who haven't participated. The characters who are leaders have decided to come together to try to gain a small army of people to deal with the problem, this starts in phase three.

Sign Ups:

Tiir, Stealth, Hope Estheim and Warrior of Light.

Leaders:
Caius Ballad, Leader 2, Leader 3


Phase four:

This will happen near the end of the event, the leaders will choose their teams with a limit of 3-4 per party. This is an unlimited sign up, there can be extra leaders and all you have to do is specific. This is the party that will fight their way through the Malboros to get to the nest, killing the Malboro Queen and the baby Malboros. There should be quite a bit of people injured from this phase. So, let's have a good event :)~ When we get signs ups for the first phase, we'll start it :D!


PARTY MEMBERS:
Terra, Leon, Tiir

WHEN YOU SIGN UP, MAKE SURE YOU LABEL WHICH PHASE.