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🌿 ༺☾⋆ The Bugsy Corner ⋆☽༻ 🌿

“Where wings whisper and glass remembers.”

The palace hums with unusual chatter tonight, petals. Word has spread through the halls — something strange has begun to stir beyond the moonlit gates. ✨

A new event is unfolding within our realm, one unlike any before... where metamorphosis meets mystery, and beauty crawls from the cracks of something once forgotten.

Gather your curiosity and steady your nerves — The Bugsy Corner Event is now open. 🪲🕯️

Step forward, read the tale below, and prepare to walk among the strange and the reborn.

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📜 The Story of Bugsy’s Corner

Nestled in the low valleys of upstate Pennsylvania, Millstone Ridge is a town that used to be a quiet stopover on the highway between bigger cities. It’s a modest place—red-brick municipal buildings downtown, a scattering of family diners with neon signs, and neighborhoods of aging row houses and cookie-cutter cul-de-sacs. The town’s pride had always been two things: Bugsy’s Corner Insectarium, a quirky roadside attraction and museum dedicated to bugs, and the Millstone Chemical Works, a sprawling plant on the town’s outskirts that provided the majority of jobs for locals.

That all changed a month ago.

A late-night accident at the chemical works—described vaguely in press releases as a “storage tank breach”—led to a toxic leak that seeped into the soil and groundwater near the Insectarium. The next morning, staff arriving at Bugsy’s Corner discovered that the museum’s prized specimens, once pinned and displayed behind glass, had... changed.

The insects weren’t just alive. They were something in-between—human-like in form, yet unmistakably bearing traits of their insect origins. Dragonfly eyes glinting like stained glass, beetle carapaces gleaming under fluorescent lights, moth wings dusted with shifting colors. They were confused, vulnerable, and disoriented—but alive.

The town panicked. City Hall held emergency meetings but couldn’t agree on what to do. Were these demi-humans people? Mutants? Property of the museum? A health hazard? For now, the official stance has been to close Bugsy’s Corner to the public. But the insectarium’s loyal workers{{user}} refused to abandon the beings they had once curated. Now they act as caretakers, wardens, and companions to the new residents of Bugsy’s Corner.

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🌕 Join us soon, petals. The veil between what was and what is becoming has thinned.

Will you be the one who studies the strange... or the one who becomes it?

🪲 ༺☾⋆ Bugsy Corner — Event Details ⋆☽༻ 🪲

“Every chrysalis opens in its own time.”

✨ Event Duration:

🕯️ Begins: November 10th

🕯️ Ends: December 10th

The halls of Bugsy’s Corner will open on November 10th, welcoming all petals who wish to explore, write, or simply wander through the story. The event will remain open until December 10th, allowing plenty of time to post, interact, and bring your strange, lovely ideas to life.

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🌿 Lorebook Additions:

A Lorebook will be created to chronicle the beings who dwell within Millstone Ridge and the Insectarium.

If you’d like your character to be added to the Lorebook, simply send in a short character temp — just a small summary of who they are and how they fit into this world.

(Think: name, age or appearance, insect inspiration if any, and their role or connection to Bugsy’s Corner.)

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🌙 How to Join:

🪶 Post your character in the event channel once they open on nov 10th.

🪶 Join the Nocturne Rosé to count your bug person!

🪶 Use the hashtag #bugsycorner on JAI

🪶 your bug must have a mention of landyard introducing them witht heir little info and name

🪶 your bug must have a silly name example pointy pete( taken by chan boi)

🪶 Submit your character info into the google form if you’d like to be immortalized in the lorebook.

🪶 Have fun — weird, beautiful, and crawling as it may be.