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♥ January (Lasra) Event Log

a winter scene showing a line of houses, each a different colour, and a church in the background

January (Lasra) Event Log
Are you feeling free of last year's burdens, offworlders? The natives certainly are after spending the final month of the year at Rawna's temples. Now it's time for a new beginning even as the cold deepens, leaving snow drifts piled along Havenwell's streets. Industrious robots are hard at work keeping the city clean and removing any ice from the stone roads, leaving only beautiful winter scenery behind. The city sparkles under the snow and the silvery white decor brings out of their temples the priests not only for Rawna, but all of the gods.

❥ PROMPT I: The Temple Celebrations

lights decoring trees in front of a church

As noted in the Intro Log, the residents of Havenwell have been invited to help with the decorations in order to incorporate your worlds' cultures with their own, and to assist in celebrating the new year's coming. Residents are encouraged to visit any temple at their convenience or pleasure and join in the design process. There are craft tables, ranging from basic (for the younger or less skilled, such as kites or papercraft) to intricate and advanced designs (like glass lanterns or embroidery). Those less creatively-inclined are welcome to use their various skills, magics, or just ladder-balancing talents to help with the decoration installations around town. Many hands make light the work, after all.

Each temple has music playing and all of them have their associated animals not inside the temple like normal, but spread all over the temple grounds and surrounding areas. They aren't lost for once, but seem to be beckoning people toward their respective homes which are bedecked with holograms of dark green leafy boughs, ribbons, and ornaments all in the temple's colors. Diacht has red and white striped ornaments, Ohma has blue and gold, and Ainea is bringing up the cute factor with pink and purple. But Rawna is looking especially resplendent with rainbow sheened silver ornaments hung in the air, mixed in with real ones that are suspended from wires so thin they look as if they're hanging in midair. The dragonlings fly through the air, trailing silver ribbons behind them that make the temple really seem to shine this month. At each temple, simply by showing up, you can receive a small gift from the priests regardless of whether or not you're an adherent. And they invite you to play the temple games or dance along to the festive music playing from speakers. Each temple has something different to offer, so grab a friend and make your first visit of the year a special one!

Ainea:

Rawna:

Ohma:

Diacht:

❥ PROMPT II: Your Yearly (Mis)Fortunes

a hand pulling a fortune in front of a set of temple drawers

At each temple along all the other celebrations and games, you can also find a separate booth that has a strange and unreadable Aellyn script on it. The robot sitting behind the booth has their face covered with a strip of fabric that obscures it completely, but it calls out to you when you walk by. It offers you an ancient-looking wooden container with a single small hole at the top. If you take it, it mimes shaking the container and tipping it over. Do as they say and a wooden stick pops out of the top with that same strange script on it. The robot takes a look at what you got and takes the container back, passing you a single strip of paper with reverence. "Keep your fortune close or learn to let it go," it says, and then looks to find another patron. Turn your paper over and discover what your fortune holds for you.

Big Luck:

Medium Luck:

Small Luck:

Bad Luck:

Terrible Luck:

OOC: If you wish to roll for a random fortune, leave an comment with your character's name in the Request Thread. The mods will randomize for you and give you your fortune. Your character can only claim 1 fortune, no matter how many times they attempt the fortune-teller's game. Feel free to choose your own fortune instead, if you would prefer a set result.

❥ PROMPT III: Memories of the Sun (VR)

This seasonal VR simulation is especially popular with the natives for the fact that it lets them see their world as it used to be. Load into the simulation "Memories of the Sun" and you'll be transported along with all others who are currently logged in to make a pilgrimage up Aellyn's most sacred mountain. Although its peak is rocky and somewhat barren, it has a serene beauty as it reaches up through the cloud layer and you climb upwards through the dark. The path is clearly lit by small lamps embedded into the ground, but you might find it easier to take the climb if you hang onto someone else. Once you reach the peak, whether you're alone or with someone else, you'll be treated to the sight of a gorgeous sunrise peeking over the thinning clouds. It's a sight to remember, and a sight that brings memories. As you watch you're overcome with a very real vision of your home, a place you remember, or people you know. This vision is typically of a better time in your life, something to bring you hope and peace as the new year dawns - but not always. Is this a vision of your past? Your future? Of your present? If you came here with someone else, they can also choose to share in your vision and you in theirs. Are you brave enough to face what the mountain has to show you?

❥ PROMPT IV: All the Ups and Downs

And while the celebrations continue, there seems to be something a little awry with Havenwell. Here and there throughout the month, gravity has gone utterly haywire. You can be walking from temple to temple or going about your everyday life when suddenly you feel yourself lifted off the ground or heavier than you have any right to be. Havenwell's natives aren't immune to this effect either, and you might see a robot go shooting up into the sky suddenly to hover a good five to ten feet in the air. Or they might take a step and suddenly fall flat on their faces, their gears whirring with the strain as they try to pick themselves up. Thankfully the other natives are quick to jump up and grab their companions if they're flying overhead or pull their friends out of the well if they're stuck to the ground. If you find yourself caught up in these gravity wells, you'll need someone's help to do the same. Be sure to pay it forward because you'll never know when it could be you in this awkward position.

This event will run from January 15 to January 31. Click on each prompt's title to see the text. If you have any questions, feel free to direct them to the FAQ or to the Mod Question thread below.

This post is meant to act as a catch-all for convenience, but feel free to make your own posts if you prefer!

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Huh? So you're feelin' picky?

[Swing and a miss.]

[ A. Ainea ]

[Well the scarf looks comfortable! And who was Alfyn to use it for himself when the whole place still had a chill to it?

So he's inclinced to wrap it around you, who either came upon the shrine like he did or he finds the nearest person. ]

Care to try some questions with me?

[ B. Rawna ]

[ SO it's time to make wishes and fly some kites.

Alfyn might be looking to you for just some advice as he's no expert at flying kites. This would be no different.

Otherwise, he'll be glad to help tie those wishes to the kite! ]

I'm pretty confident it'll go pretty high!

[ C. Diacht ]

[His partner might have to be the one to show him essentially how to play badminton, but he learns quick!

But not quick enough since it seems you're being offered the brush and will get the freedom to draw on Alfyn's face. ]

[ D. Medium Luck ]

[ Alfyn finds out the hard way that he can't seem to touch food when he attempted to touch one and the poor soul has glitter all over him and maybe you, as well.

Rather than worried about this situation, he's apologizing to you for getting glitter on you as well, looking genuinely sorry! At least he can reach for a cloth and attempt to help get some off you! ]

I'm real sorry about that! Thought it was just gonna be a one time thing, but I guess it wasn't...

[ E. Virtual/Memory share ]

[ Well. If you are not athletic inclined, Alfyn is offering to carry you to the top. It wouldn't be a problem for the 6'0 blonde!

But regardless, he reaches a hand out to whoever happened to join him. ]

Shall we? With me around, I'll make sure you're ok and nothing will hurt ya.

[ F. WILDCARD ]
[Had another idea? Feel free to hit me up at plurk: uminmoballad. or discord: megohime#9061 . ]

Edited 2020-01-17 15:36 (UTC)

[ He’s holding her hand, doesn’t it count? That’s good enough for her. Although she does wonder why he offers the one with the brace....

And so they set off. ]

Mm, you’re right. There’s no telling if the sun may rise tomorrow in reality.

[ S p o o k y ....Okay but no she’s just joking. ]

Ah! Speaking of, programming day and night cycles.... would you like something like that in your game?

[ Listen, she’s still been working on coding okay. She really wants to make this game a reality for him! ]

[Though Verstael's roaming meant he could not always be in one place, checking each temple at intervals and observing the festivities.

At some point he showed where Emet-Selch crafted his city. The design and speed at which he crafted were impressive. For some moments he watched, taking in the structures and overall design. When he approached it would be marked by a sound of a few steady footsteps behind Emet-Selch, before standing just behind his shoulder.]

A memory?

[After all, Emet-Selch was not thinking. He was not considering what sort of design he wanted to make or how he wanted to put them together. He was simply doing. As if he was re-creating something that already existed.]

[ She continues to support him even as they make it out, and— boy oh boy, wasn’t that rough! She lets out a breath of relief that the trial is over, but he best be prepared in that she hadn’t let go of him yet, just in case.

And also, because contact in this work is important.

She rounds on him, looking him over with concern. ] I’m— not sure. In some places, gravity is far more intense. In others, it’s less...

But are you alright? Are you hurt? [ Her tone and expression is somewhere between doting and worried, but not completely overwhelming (or so she intends). ]

[Nita pauses.]

What drinks did you have? Mine only effected me for a couple hours.

[And she doesn't want to know how it happened the first time, either.]

Maybe if I literally hand food to you...?

All of them.

[He still has no memory of how MUCH of each one but, yes. That]

And it can't hurt to try...

[Nita finally grabs that hand, trying not to step on dragonlings in the meanwhile, and lowers her center of gravity to better pull Pyra out...]

I've got you! Can you get your legs under you, or are you all pinned down?

[Or maybe the hand contact will be enough? Nita's not sure.]

[Nita huffs, more amused than annoyed.]

You're right, there.

[A pause.]

Did you write anything along the lines of wanting people back home to be all right, too?

[That's to be expected of a panicking animal, frankly; Nita winces in sympathy - and is then distracted by Somnus' maneuver.]

Thanks, Somnus. You carry those daggers everywhere, or do you keep them in a claudication for summoning?

[But then her attention returns to the bird.]

You think he'll be alright?

[This isn't even Nita's first time today needing to be rescued, let alone this week, and she is sick of it.

Still, it's a nice view from up here, and whilst she fights down the motion sickness she always seems to get in low gravity, she'll try and wave in return as Reyson comes by.]

I swear, this is worse than the Moon...

[And she likes the Moon.]

[Nita is one of those people Kyoko bumps into, though this time she manages to retain her footing.]

O-oof. Are you alright?

[She does recognize Kyoko from the Network, but maybe the teen doesn't want to be recognized right now...]

Nita recognized the expression on his face more than the actual person.

That, and the glitter was telling.

Sliding over next to him, she thoughtfully rubbed a finger through the glitter.

"I think this whole thing's supposed to be solved by getting someone else to feed you. It's way more trouble than it's worth, from what I've seen."

She turned to look at him. "We need to get some water into you, at least. Fast."

"I can reset your personal gravity," Nita begins - which, out of context, is probably a really strange statement, but she's far too used to it at this point.

"But I'll need physical contact to do that. Nothing major, just your hand should work. Do you consent?"

Why does using the formal phrasing make this so much weirder??? Nita will never know.

[Nita nods; Honerva's too right there.]

Yeah; just this month.

How about you?

[She looks curious.]

Seen anything stranger than the gravity switching around on people?

[Nita can... sort of make him out, at his size? She gives up on squinting and sits down, offering a hand.]

Need help getting around?

[She does her best to whisper, not wanting to give him a headache, but her voice is probably still loud, comparatively speaking.]

Wh-aaaaah!

[Nita isn't expecting that, to say the least.]

I think this is supposed to be the other way around?!

[She's not sure herself, though if the birds turn confused that may solve their problem anyhow.]

What, did one of them have alcohol or something?

[Because that WOULD explain the hangover, frankly.

And Nita goes over to the replicator herself - it may not respond to the Speech, but it still takes commands without much fuss, and she does her best to be polite in return anyway - and ends up with some lentils that look decidedly blue.]

Huh... Okay, these should be edible; I recognize the texture.

[And she'll just hand a couple over to Takashi at a time.]

[He accepts the blue veggies, frowning but not arguing it. He's seen a few weird food-stuffs in the dungeon after all]

There was mulled wine, so it was probably that.

...Perhaps so, but it is the mask closest to my heart, and one I have not been able to bear freely in a very long time. It is hidden either behind another mask, or else buried behind that which an Ascian does and is, without any memory for the person beneath.

[When he acts as an Ascian, it is a role - to those they use, Emet-Selch is no different from Lahabrea or any other. Such is clear enough in how they are so often addressed as 'Ascian' to their faces.

He smiles weakly.]

I cannot turn back time on what I am any more than I can make anew the flesh I once possessed, my dear. I cannot be that which I am not, nd often are the times that Hades seems a stranger.

[Perhaps unsurprisingly, he leans into Ardyn's shoulder, just enough to make it obvious.]

I will think on it, at the least.

... More and more I find I forget their names. How shameful.

Such is the unfortunate truth of time’s passage. I have found I forget many things from my past, so intent I was on remembering one thing to the detriment of all else. I can scarcely imagine the difficulty for you.

Equipped with one (1) personal portable source of music means that going out for long walks is that much more appealing, even when the weather is still too chilly to really enjoy, and even if the listener happens to be a little more tired than he'd like. Being out and about more often means that bumping in to someone else out and about is so much more likely! Who could have guessed? And what are the odds that he'd run across the familiar shock of black and gold he was hoping to see?

That's. Uh. More gold than he was anticipating, though.

Music paused, earbuds out, he approaches with a look of Concern.

"Kaito?" What? Is this about?? Are you okay???

[She keeps a watchful eye on Takashi in case more glitter appears, but as long as things work, she'll keep handing the lentils over until she runs out.]

Yeah, that would do it.

There's probably a lesson about mixing medications in there, too; side-effects...

[He holds it then carefully tries to nibble and

*poof*

Glitter time. He is very sparkly]

... fuck.

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