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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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I haven't. It seems you get to be my first with this as well.

[W H O O P S.]

[He shoots her an odd look at that comment - omg Pyra you can't just say that sort of thing to someone from Eos!! - and opts not to ignore it.]

I think... maybe not a dynamic change or anything, just one to the other, like a light switch. It'll be levels, not a big open world, so we don't need anything complicated.

[She would like to very gently remind him that she indeed an oracle and he is still the founder king, one of the line of Lucis, and therefore it is her duty to help carry his burdens. More than that, beyond the sense of loyalty, is the desire to actually aid and relieve some of the weight that she knows rest upon his shoulders.

Which is maybe why, once both slips have been tied properly to the string, she reaches out again to touch him. Not so fleeting this time, hand resting on his shoulder instead.]

I know that I am not your oracle, but it is still my wish to aid you. If you will only allow me to do so.

As well?

[Give him a second. He doesn't spend much time thinking about innuendo. ...Aaaaand there's the blush.]

...R-right... I mean, me t- [WAIT ABORT ABORT] --So! What are you gonna wish for?

[ HEY she doesn't know about any of that! People used to make sacrifices of goats and chickens and other humans for the sun to rise! Little did they know, they should have made their sacrifices to the earth turning on its axis instead. Silly hooomans. ]

Not like this, then, where there's a steady increase in light. [ She waves at this virtual reality with her free hand, where the steady turning to time is calculated to reset upon re-entry for another dawn, then another. ]

But a completely night-based dungeons?

[It's a little loud, but he appreciates the effort. And while he's embarrassed to be so minuscule that standing on someone's hand is such a big help, he trudges over anyway and grabs onto her thumb for balance.]

Thanks... if you can get me to a landmark I can probably find my way from there.

[Very slowly, but...]

[Excuse her, have you seen yourself blush Noctis? It's cute, okay. Totally worth it.]

If I tell you will you make sure it comes true?

[Is she flirting right now? Is that what's happening? She honestly can't tell.]

[ Firstly, being carried around like this, even if the Carbuncle has her secured, is disorienting. Honerva has to keep her eyes closed for most of the wander over because vertigo is real.

At the familiar voice, strangely louder than expected, she forces herself to open them, only to witness the flurry of glitter, and hopefully there's no breeze to blow that closer. ]

... A different target was selected.

[ Did you know your carbuncle could talk - no, that's not what's happening here, though it's not the easiest to speak like this. But at least her cloak might stand out a little more against the red. Granted, that's even if she manages to be heard, with the, perhaps more familiarly, sudden padding of cat paws approaching and a cat that gives a meow of greeting that eclipses most of her words. Thanks, Kova. Animal friends, so helpful today. ]

[Amid stilted preparations for the kite's flight, Somnus stops to look at Lunafreya over his shoulder. He's shouldered this weight—irrelevant to the prophecy's fulfillment—for millennia, and she has bigger wishes to pursue. Somewhat motivated by the touch, he returns to attaching the kite line.]

You have already given your aid with the offering of contact. There is naught more that I need.

[For some strange reason she highly doubts that his words are actually true. Perhaps one day the guard will fall and she'll be able to peer more easily inside. But if all he wants on this particular day is her hand on his shoulder, then she's happy to provide it.]

Then perhaps I should make sure to offer it more often.

[Weekly visits where all she does it hold your hand.]

[ While lame, Era's joke was still a joke, and she immediately brightens at Noctis' response. ]

Where would you like to go?

[ She holds him at eye level, both out of respect for him as an equal and to avoid that feeling of smallness she is all too familiar with in her own way.

It also allows her to see Noctis clearly, and for all that he looks very similar to Somnus... To her, in this moment, he more strongly resembles Ardyn. ]

[Perfect, thank you. Come again.

Although he doesn't grace her suggestion with a response, his silence is an answer of its own as he finishes securing the line to the kite. He offers the kite to Lunafreya. This particular design is something she should be more familiar with than him, even if she may or may not have ever flown one. This is for her more than for him, anyway. ]

[It's okay Pyra he doesn't hold it against you. Just one of life's unknowing missteps. Plus telling her could kill the mood, and he does that enough as it is.]

That's how it was back home, yeah. Most of the levels were bright enough, but a bunch of dungeons were all grim and dark- really set the mood. It wouldn't feel right if you were in the middle of fighting some big nasty in the basement and the sun came up.

[ There must be exposure to examine the bird, but only after measures are taken for calming. Somnus procures a hood from his person and slides it over the falcon's head with surprisingly practiced ease. (Millennia later, it seems his body is still used to this particular motion.) He secures the braces with his hand and mouth, then adjusts his hold on the falcon for Era to unwrap the scarf.

Once that's been done, he gives the bird an as thorough examination as possible on the spot. Searching for perceivable injuries, he spots none. ]

The pull was strong enough to disrupt his flight and no more. His wings were not harmed in the fall.

[Glad she enjoys it, because she's very good at coaxing it out of him.]

Hey, you know me. Dependable like that.

[He would flip the whole goddamn world upside down for her and they both ought to know it.]

[ No--....No, it wouldn't, and she giggles softly at the imagery. ]

I imagine they might just hiss and cower at any light to begin with.

[Squawking, the falcon flutters his wings and soon makes his way onto Somnus' arm while Somnus rises. The flustered, somewhat incoherent screeching continues intermittently. Through this, the falcon levels his sharp gaze at Nita.]

The fall has left him unsettled.

[Looking at the falcon, who continues to watch Nita, Somnus considers placing a hood when the squawking quiets into a moderate cry. He follows the bird's gaze to Nita.]

[ Era hears Honerva's voice and quickly locates the source, even if she couldn't make out the words being said — especially with Kova's miaow overshadowing them. ]

Hello, Honerva. Kova. [ She offers a polite greeting as Carbuncle, once again pleased, trots the last few steps over to Era and drops Honerva carefully on the bench next to her.

Era is quick to curl her tail around the shrunken woman, offering a wide (for her current size) perimetre of protection from any unruly gusts of wind. She takes great care not to let any of the peanut butter on her tail touch any surface, as she still intends to eat it as soon as she can. ]

Were you heading somewhere?

Edited 2020-01-18 05:57 (UTC)

[ Era observes, quiet and curious. After removing the scarf she wraps it back around her neck, though doesn't take her eyes off of Somnus' inspection of his avian companion. ]

Full glad am I to hear it.

[ Somewhere in the back of his mind, he thought about how Tanjiro might comment that the gravity well would have been a great training opportunity to level up their Breath Styles.

He's going to disregard that Tanjiro thought because who the heck would willingly go into that massive gravity pull?! Plus, Pyra is so worried about him! ]

That came out of nowhere...! That was way too scary... But thank you, Pyra! If you haven't come by when you did, I dunno if I could've survived that!

[ 6 inches too little for 3 wives, apparently.

Now that there's no reason for him to be wary, Zenitsu gives a small bow in response to the introduction. ] I'm Zenitsu Agatsuma.

[ Now that the introductions are take care of, he looks down at the racket to test the grip out. He's actually surprised this kind of game would exist in this world. ]

Have you played this game before?

[ Just checking!! ]

Edited (i hit the button too early) 2020-01-18 06:11 (UTC)

[ His smile, relieved at his escape, seems to cause her expression to relax as well. With the tension in her shoulders leaving her, Pyra merely shakes her head, but gives him a small nudge. ]

Oh, stop. [ He doesn't give himself enough credit. By her reckoning, they both had to support each other to leave that well together; he's honestly stronger than he seems. ] Don't think I didn't see you standing up against that power to pull you down!

Don't think I like thinking about what would've happened if I hadn't heard you.

[With care he hefts Persian up a few inches by the scruff of her neck. Her ears flatten but the rest of her body is compliant to Nanu's handling. She's not pleased her toy is being taken from her but so be it. Nanu gently extradites Will from under her paw. Feeling the weight and warmth of Will in his hands is immediately weird. Really weird.]

You alright?

Huh... runs in the family I guess.

[What a grimdark family. Maybe it's the general aesthetic or something.]

Ever seen a Zu?

[ ... This is stable. Better. Although she didn't expect quite a close look at those scales, which is... fascinating, given the way Era had talked about them before. The suspicious substance on the tip at least was far enough away for her not to take too much notice of that. The priority was currently not to get knocked down and to ... avoid animals.

Which. Kova is certainly pacing around the front of the bench now, eyeing Carbuncle and giving another miao. This time Honerva tries to not speak until the cat seems finished with his complaint, as much as she gives a very clear defeated half shrug during it. ]

I would appreciate if you could confirm our location. Navigation has not been ideal.

[ At least being stable like this she can use some magic to help project her voice better. It's -- fine. This is fine. ]

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