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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:
  • Ainea's temple offers a soft fluffy pink and purple-swirled scarf that's long enough for you and a friend to wear at the same time if you so wish. The temple's game is called "The Best Of." You and a partner step upon a small silver platform and each pull a card from a pile. Tell your partner about the prompt on the card in order to clear it. Only honest answers count and you'll know when the other person is being honest because the platform sings a little jingle and counts a point for your pair. The more cards you can get through, the higher your points! Some examples of the prompts are things like: the most embarrassing moment of the last year, most exciting moment of the last year, hardest you laughed last year, most beautiful thing you saw last year, most memorable trip from the last year, favorite song of the year, etc.
  • Rawna:
  • Rawna's temple has an offering of beautiful gloves, threaded with rainbow thread at the wrists in an intricate and abstract pattern that somewhat resembles dragons in flight. Their game is one of flying kites. For a small Dora donation, priests will give you a thin slip of paper to write a wish upon. Tie your wish, or wishes if you're here with someone else, to your kite and get help from someone to make it fly the highest in the hopes that the gods will hear and answer you. As you deepen your relationship with the person you're flying your kite with by talking or sharing the meaning of your wishes, the kite seems to fly higher and higher.
  • Ohma:
  • Ohma's offering is a tasteful blue, wide-brimmed hat with a gold ribbon and flower accents. Their game is a card matching one. For those read up on Havenwell's poets, try your hand at this game where you match the beginning of the poem with the next line. A robot judge reads the first line and then you have to find the corresponding card among a field of brightly colored cards. Grab the card first and win points! For those not familiar with Havenwell's poetry, you can try the game with more simple themes like colors and fruits (not that they make much sense - why is an apple blue??) or facts about the other people in Havenwell. ....when did that game become so popular?
  • Diacht:
  • Diacht's offering is a white and red feather pendant necklace on a thin white-gold chain. Their game seems to be something like Earth's game of badminton, but minus a net. Grab a pair of large white and red wooden paddles and a multicolored shuttlecock and try batting away the year's bad luck by keeping the shuttlecock aloft. If you're the one to drop it, your opponent gets to draw on your face with a special ink-brush that has the ink contained in its handle. For the non-athletically inclined, you can watch the professionals play the game as the robotic natives most renowned for the art of this game are trying to break a Havenwell record for a single continuous game: 22 days.


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:
  • "The world shall become your limitless bounty, until you choose to rely on others." After reading your fortune, the world does indeed seem limitless. Or maybe it's just large? Everything around you has suddenly gained in size. The fortune-teller's booth seems like a mountain. The stones under your feet like a massive raft. Has the world suddenly grown? Nope, you've just shrunk down to about 5 to 6 inches tall. Everything you were holding and on your person is also proportional to your new size. Hopefully you can find someone to carry you around for a bit because only by being carried will you return to your natural size. As an option, this can happen to you again randomly at any time during the month so long as you keep the paper fortune on you.
  • Medium Luck:
  • "All that glitters is gold for you until another helps you out." After reading your fortune, nothing much seems to have overtly changed. And you probably won't notice anything until the next time you try to eat something. Any time your hands touch any food or anything that can be used to feed yourself, it explodes into glitter and your communicator rings as a deposit of Dora is made into your bank account. This seems pretty awesome at first, until you realize you can't eat anything and you're getting hungry. You may need to get someone else to feed you your next meal, after which the curse seems to have been broken. However, you have the option to have this effect happen again randomly at any time during the month so long as you keep the paper fortune on you.
  • Small Luck:
  • "The smallest things can bring the biggest rewards." After reading your fortune, nothing much seems to have changed until you return home and find all of your pillows, blankets, and bedding have turned much, much too small for you. If you're an adult, the bedding is now the size suitable for a baby. If you are a child, you're looking at something small enough for a large doll. Any bedding you try to borrow changes its size as well, and it seems the only thing that can change them back is to share your bed or a blanket with someone else for a night. When you wake up from your nap or your slumber, everything will be back to normal. As an option, you can have this effect happen again randomly any time during the month so long as you keep the paper fortune on you.
  • Bad Luck:
  • "The love of an animal is almost as strong as the love of your fellow people." After reading this fortune, all the temple animals turn and look at you in unison. They seem to be drawn toward you, literally, as they begin to converge and run toward you like a tidal hoard in an attempt to cuddle you. You best run or they threaten to bury you under their mass, and they'll keep chasing you until you find comfort in the arms of another - whether that's climbing on top of them to get away or jumping into their arms to avoid the tidal wave of mice - as soon as you cling to someone else, the animals seem to lose interest. You can optionally have this effect activate again at any time during the month so long as you keep the paper fortune on you, creating a new stampede of animals of any variety that try to love you just a liiiittle too much.
  • Terrible Luck:
  • "Even bad luck can be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." After reading this fortune, you don't immediately feel any different. In fact, nothing much seems to have changed at all. You decide to walk away from the booth though, and that's when it hits you - or rather you hit it. You're overcome with a clumsy streak the size of a meteor belt as you bump, trip, and fall into just about everything in your path be it inanimate or animate. If it's inanimate, hopefully you don't mind a few bruises. If they're another person, maybe they'll catch you because only by being caught by someone can you break your clumsy streak. As an option, you can have this effect come back at any time so long as you keep the paper fortune on you.

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)
a sunrise shining over a mountain

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!
wannabethehero: (My whole life no one's noticed)

[personal profile] wannabethehero 2020-01-19 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
[They shut their eyes against the butterflies in their stomach - crying so hard was making them halfway sick as it was. Once they look up again, they're home, curled up on the couch together. There's a flicker of relief at being away from anywhere someone might see them, and shift to bury themselves more effectively into Will's arms, still clinging to his forearm as they continue to soak through his shirt with tears.]

I know. But I...I just miss her. I don't think I even realized how much I miss her. I tried...I tried so hard to keep going, be happy and spread that happiness to others, like I always do. But it hurts. No matter what I do there's always a part of me that just. Hurts.
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[personal profile] scentsitivity 2020-01-19 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ He pauses and thinks it through. It's true, he doesn't really detect anything malicious from her, if anything, he likes to think that Pyra is already one of his friends here. It doesn't take him long to decide his answer. His maroon eyes show determination. ]

I'll leave it as a surprise.

[ Even before his training, Tanjiro is used to walking around in the mountains, growing up in one with his family. It'll be a long while before he gets tired walking around. ]

It's something important to you and wanted to show me, so I'll wait until we get there.
zapdope: (247)

[personal profile] zapdope 2020-01-19 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's been a few days after Zenitsu got arrested for domestic violence being a moron and released a day after that, even without the lack of sleep Zenitsu had been feeling a little down even after Tanjiro's sound said that he's already forgiven him. ]

Urgh...I guess, kinda? My bed's shrunk so I've been sleeping pretty much on the floor.

[ He slowly eats his food, since he's still hungry, but the lack of sleep is giving him so little energy, and his eyes start to close on their own again. ]
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[personal profile] zapdope 2020-01-19 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Just don't let Zenitsu know when your goal gets achieved because he will not take it well at all.

Tennis surprisingly was known in Japan from even before the Taisho era, but Zenitsu himself never really thought about trying the sport. No friends and all.
]

I think it's kinda the same, but I think no court. I don't think tennis has the losers get their face drawn rule too? I've never played tennis before myself, but I've heard people talking about it.

[ Also he's never played the current game they're about to start as well, because no friends. ]

Uhm... Do you want to start?
scentsitivity: (020)

[personal profile] scentsitivity 2020-01-19 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Would you like to participate the games at the Ohma temple with me? I need to win the prize from that temple.

I would really appreciate the help, sir!

[ Tanjiro politely bows down in front of him. ]
zapdope: (005)

[personal profile] zapdope 2020-01-19 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Normally, if it's his friend saying all that, he'd flat out disagree and not do it, but...

Pyra is the one saying those words. Of course he'd get hyped up, his face blushing like crazy because of her actions as well.
]

I could try, yeah!

[ Zenitsu pls ]
scentsitivity: (068)

[personal profile] scentsitivity 2020-01-19 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Honestly, as ridiculous as their argument was, he was more worried that Zenitsu might have ended up on death row or something. Who knows how rough it is in the hug slammer. He's still grateful that they didn't gave him any tattoos.

But back to the present manner at hand, that answers why Zenitsu's hair smells a bit like the floor's cleaning solution. He gets up and gently holds his friend's shoulder in place before he could nod off again. ]


How about sleeping in my bed? I could take the guest rooms.
zapdope: (269)

[personal profile] zapdope 2020-01-19 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Drowsiness is setting in again so it's doing more of the talking than Zenitsu's usual thought process. ]

...Mmm...it'd be nice to be able to sleep on a comfy bed again...

[ All the while he keeps nibbling at his food out of habit. Maybe he can just get into unconscious battle mode and eat on auto pilot...

He nods off again.
]
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[personal profile] scentsitivity 2020-01-19 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah-

[ He lightly shakes the blond. ]

You can't sleep just yet, Zenitsu! You need to eat before going to bed, you'll end up with a cold. Finish eating even for just a little bit, please?
original_is_best: (Daydreaming)

[personal profile] original_is_best 2020-01-19 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, apprenticeships. Yes, those were far more common in the prior centuries. It would be quite different if birth rates were so low. It's difficult to imagine - were our rates like that we would die out rather quickly."

He glanced over the city.

"Were the Words of Halmarult outside of the city, then?"
zapdope: (262)

[personal profile] zapdope 2020-01-19 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The shaking does bring him back a little, but at this point he's just wanting to go to sleep. ]

Nnnghh, I'm way too sleepy now...
scentsitivity: (068)

[personal profile] scentsitivity 2020-01-19 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Just a little bit, please? Pretty please?

[ MOMMY IS WORRIED ZENITSU. ]

I'll even feed you.
unfavorableinstigation: Nita Callahan kneeling in the woods, drawing a glowing blue diagram on the ground while reading from a book. (Drawing a Spell Diagram)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-01-19 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nita appreciates the steadying touch, sighing in relief once they touch down.]

Thanks. I sure owe you one-

[And she offers a hand in greeting, this time.]

Er, my name's Nita. May I have yours?
unfavorableinstigation: Nita working with a Kernel (Wizardry Is Kid Stuff)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-01-19 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nita probes about, checking her sides mostly, before nodding.]

Yeah, though I might have bruises later. Can't really feel anything off right now.

And I wish I could be surprised, at this point.

[She probably will be, later - it's more likely than the bruises, if she's perfectly honest - but not by this.

Not by being unique.]

Anywhere you were heading at this time of day?
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-01-19 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Haven't done that one yet," she says, biting her cheek in consideration.

"... Go for it, I think."

Worst outcome is that they're wrong, right?
zapdope: (257)

[personal profile] zapdope 2020-01-19 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It's...it's fine... I'll eat it myself.

[ Even if he's sleepy that sort of thing is done between a girl and a boy! Couples!

Zenitsu forces himself awake by slapping at his cheeks, and goes to finish the rest of the food. But by the time dinner's finished, Zenitsu feels like he should just go to sleep on the floor again, even though he knew well enough that his light sleeping is going to keep waking him up during the night.
]

Nngnghh... This is the worst...
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-01-19 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[And Nita's interest is piqued, much as her knee keeps aching.]

Yeah - what, have you found something out about them?
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[personal profile] scentsitivity 2020-01-19 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Tanjiro keeps a hand on Zenitsu's shoulder at all times as he guides the blond to his bedroom. No way is he going to sleep on the floor when there's no futon, he'll see to it that he's resting on the bed.

That was the plan, at least.

When he gently manhandles him to the bed, the bed suddenly shrinks before his very eyes. ]


How...
zapdope: (269)

[personal profile] zapdope 2020-01-19 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ DANGIT... Zenitsu thought something was wrong with his bed, but if it even shrunk Tanjiro's... ]

...Sorry...I must be cursed or something... Now your bed's all shrunk too...

[ He's too sleepy to even properly cry about this ordeal. He'll slowly move to get up and go back to his own room. ]

I'm hoping it'll wear off eventually, so... I'll just go to sleep in my room.
the_tailor: (52)

[personal profile] the_tailor 2020-01-19 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorryyyyyy!

[He's trying to help, he really is! But thankfully, after enough effort, he feels the weight lifting off of him. Lance stumbles to his feet, nearly crashing into Zenitsu.]

Ack-- Okay-- Phew!
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[personal profile] the_tailor 2020-01-19 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Think we're on opposite sides. Which, honestly, is probably for the best. Neither of us know what we're doing, so we're evenly matched.

[He grins.]

Uhhh, okay, what were the rules again... I know tennis a little, but...
unfavorableinstigation: Nita working with a Kernel (Wizardry Is Kid Stuff)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-01-19 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Try not to land it on the ground on your own side?

Or on the net, I think.

And if you win a point, you draw on the other person's face.

[Which could get awkward...]

You want this side of the net, or?
Edited 2020-01-19 15:45 (UTC)
yallstupid: (I SAID OVER EASY!!)

iv.

[personal profile] yallstupid 2020-01-19 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[It may be during some of that waving and flailing that Lance's foot collides with something rather solid, and a loud curse can be heard down below him. Guzma is a tall lad, and those few feet Lance was floating didn't take the monochrome thug out of strike range. He grips the back of his head in pain, reeling slightly - because ow! - then looks around wildly, expecting someone to have actually thrown something at him.]

WHO'S THE PUNK WHAT JUST HIT ME?! [If someone was having fun with snowballs or some shit like that, then dear god...that was more ice than snow or something. Or someone was a right douche and put a rock in it, maybe. Asshole. He's ready to smash their face into the bedrock when he gets his hands on them.]
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[personal profile] the_tailor 2020-01-19 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Though he's rather used to low gravity what with the whole space thing, he isn't used to it in the middle of town and outside of his armor. So yeah, there's a bit of panicking, which leads to a bit of flailing. He doesn't notice that there's someone right beneath him until it's too late.

Aaaaaand the yelling causes him to literally squeak with fear.]


I---um, sorry, sorry, sorry!

[Oh god please don't beat him up. He doesn't have his armor on and his face is too pretty to get bashed in.]

[personal profile] empoison 2020-01-19 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The last place he had been spirited away to required physical contact. So to feel her reach his hand didn't bother him. It only startled him for a second before relaxing and giving her hand a gentle squeeze.

Maybe his cheeks went a bit pink at that compliment but he won't say anything...! Totally just the cool weather. ]



[He takes both her hands and rubs them gently with his, expecting them to be probably cold. There's a blink at their warmth but he answers her question! ]

You can call me Alfyn. I'll take responsibility of this if you give me yours, little miss.
Edited 2020-01-19 16:51 (UTC)