[OPEN] SEPTEMBER INTRO MINGLE

[asgardmods]

Who: Newbies and anyone who wishes to greet them!
What: Getting used to the city
When: Days 137 and forward
Where: anywhere in town!
Rating: PG-13 tops! If it gets worse, move to a private log please.

[Please include your location and the IC day (ex. Day 137) in your top-level comment or your subject line when starting a thread! It can be any welcome hall, major attraction, or just out an about in any district. For newbies making a top-level thread, you may include your character's name/canon/house in your subject line if you'd like, to make housemates easy to find! :) If a God is needed or wanted, please ping the mods and depending on availability we might be able to throw them in where asked.

Also, keep an eye on the event scedule for September! If you're ICly introing during an event, make sure you take that into account. Thank you!

Have fun!]

Comments

[samantha_grey]

[She had her share of things she didn't understand too, so they had that in common.]

Depends on the people. There were people who preferred to be around at night, instead of in the daytime. But most of them were the daylight sort. Me, I kind of preferred the night.

[adventuretime]

I guess it's just surprising to me since we couldn't go out into the sun. We can here. I don't really need to adjust, thankfully, but I think a few of my friends must have had some trouble getting used to flipping their schedules around.

I still like it at night, but it's easier to do things in the day.

[samantha_grey]

Heh, I'll have to ask one of them one of these days, see what they say. But, what do you mean that you can't go around in the sun? Is yours really that dangerous then?

[adventuretime]

The intensity of our sun is too extreme for us to handle. We usually come out at night because most of us can't handle the rays that come from it.

Very few were gifted with being able to enjoy it.

[samantha_grey]

... You know, this place is probably kind of an improvement to you guys, outside of the whole losing your powers thing. At the very least, it's a new experience.

[As they progressed, the carnival loomed just ahead, barely in view. It had quite the spooky look to it at night. Thankfully, however, there were no sounds of honking in the distance. That actually got a sigh of relief. She couldn't handle him right now.]

[adventuretime]

It's pretty fun here! I have things to do back at home, though, but I guess it doesn't matter since things will continue whenever we head back without a problem! I'm just going to enjoy myself while I'm here.

[Aradia picks up speed and drags Samantha with her.] Oh wow!

[samantha_grey]

Something like that. It's probably not a bad plan. Better than I... ACK!

[Another squack and she was being dragged behind Aradia on the way past admissions and right into the carnival. Nope, definitely no honking, but the place had that desire to show off the spooky at every turn. The red-head looked around for a minute before she finally came to a stop.]

She looked at one of the spectral shades that seemed to float around this place and her eyebrow raised.

I have no way of telling if they're illusions or real here....

[adventuretime]

[Aradia was definitely in her element as far as creepy seemingly dead things go. It's like home already! Aradia already knows one of her new favorite places.]

It's probably both, honestly. I wish I could tell you, but I can't commune with the dead anymore. At least, not here! I used too though. The dead are surprisingly chatty, believe it or not.

[She lets go of Samantha's hand to walk around.] So this is a carnival.

[samantha_grey]

[She rubbed her wrist while she followed her and smirked. The animated way in which Aradia reacted to the dead spirits, real or not, amused her. She had never seen anyone behave that way about the dead in general, and while it was a little creepy, she couldn't really knock it.]

Yep. Games, booths, mirror mazes and the like. So what do the dead gab about mostly?

[adventuretime]

[Aradia kind of misses the constant whispers from the dead. It wasn't the most pleasant, but it wasn't terrible. And she could commune to them and get them to do things when she really wanted them too... Like when she sent them on Vriska, but that's another story.]

A lot of things! I think it might differ from culture to culture. I've heard great stories of how they've died and some kind of just blather in general. Most of the time, I can ignore them. It's kind of like white noise? You get used to it when you grew up with it for so long.

[samantha_grey]

[She nodded and looked at the various spooks while they were walking between the booths. After about a minute or two, she visibly relaxed, no longer seeming all that nervous, other than her general discomfort with Aradia, who still confused her.]

Somehow, not surprised that a few would worry about their deaths. It tends to be all some people can think about when they come back, at least at first. I haven't talked with them much, though. Necromancy wasn't something I studied, other than the basics.

[adventuretime]

[Aradia was running all over the place. peeking into booths and behind things like this place was waiting to be unearthed of its treasures.]

I guess I have trouble thinking about it since I've grown up with it. It's something I'm familiar with! I don't think it's all bad, but not everyone likes it.

You can talk about it if you want! I like hearing stories. It'd be like the dead speaking to me again, except you're obviously alive!

*ahem* If anyone else is still watching - possible Trigger Warning ahead

[samantha_grey]

If you grew up with it, then it probably makes a lot more sense to you than it would to most people. I grew up around magic and illusions, so they're pretty normal to me.

...

But, you want me to tell you about what it was like when I died? [An uncomfortable shift. It wasn't something she talked about much.] It gets kind of gory... and really creepy.

[adventuretime]

Well, a certain friend of mine had a similar problem. He didn't quite enjoy it as much as I did I guess.

Only if you want too! I wouldn't want you to talk about something you're uncomfortable with. I just think sometimes letting it eat at you doesn't help you at all!

[samantha_grey]

That's the thing. It doesn't really eat at me. [She is, by the way, being a very shitty liar right now.] Ok, snakes bother me. I really really don't like snakes or naga. There's no way around it. [shudder]

Fucking naga. If you ever meet one, kill it. You'll be doing yourself a favor.

[adventuretime]

It's okay to be bothered by it.

I know what a snake is, but not a naga! But I'll keep that in mind if I ever see one. [Except she doesn't know what one looks like...]

[samantha_grey]

Yeah... it's just uncomfortable in general. Dying normally hurts, after all, and I don't usually die pleasant deaths. But, you want to know what a naga is?

Imagine a person like me, no horns or tail. Fangs, claws, usually not wearing much. It's like that from about the hips up the body. The rest of them's a long, scaled snake. Usually about twenty feet, thirty feet long. Absolute bastards. Don't trust a single one of them.

[adventuretime]

I think some of my deaths were ok! But you get that after dying so many times! [Does it count that most of her deaths were robot deaths?]

I want to see one though. That sounds like something you'd see in a Troll Indiana Jones film. [She sounds way too excited for this.]

[samantha_grey]

[She shuddered.] That's going to be your call. Personally, I hate them, and I don't want anything to do with them. Snakes freak me the hell out.

[adventuretime]

I think I can handle it! [Troll Indiana Jones handled snakes, so can she. She's dealt with worst, honestly.] But I'll be very careful when it happens!

[samantha_grey]

Thanks. It's mostly a personal thing for me, but always good to be careful with something that could wrap you up and crush you, right?

[adventuretime]

I guess so! I mean, that hasn't really happened to me before, but I bet that would be pretty scary!

[samantha_grey]

It... it would be. ['It was' was heavily implied in that statement, though it was an open question of if she understood that part.] There's some things that are probably better off never being known.

[adventuretime]

[Aradia thinks differently, but she's also the morbid one.]

You have a new chapter in your life now, so don't dwell on it too much. There's a lot better things out there and you wouldn't want to get caught up in something that brings you down.

[samantha_grey]

Yeah, well... as long as there aren't too many creatures out there like that, I should be fine. Hopefully.