EVENT LOG: LOOK! A DISTRACTION!

[asgardmods]

Who: EVERYONE
What: Look! A Distraction! Festival log part one. The overflow log can be found here and part two of the event can be found here.
When: Days 338-341 (Oct. 8-15)
Where: The castle courtyard.
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

[ All barriers are coming down for this five-day event: both the ones between the gods and their Travelers and between the city and its center. The castle courtyard is open to any and all for the next five days. NPC booths with games, snacks, and trinkets fill the space both along and around the entrance with plenty of room to spare for anything the Travelers might want to set up for themselves. Music and food fill the air at a constant, with firepits and decorative torches burning at night to light up the courtyard in an earthy glow and keep everyone warm. There will be plenty of food and entertainment, and the party will last throughout the night each night.

The theme of the festivities will change with every day:

Day 338 (Oct. 8/9)

It's time for a costume party! Travelers will be encouraged by the natives and gods alike to wear costumes both silly and serious! Anyone needing assistance simply need to say the word, and they will be descended upon by enthusiastic natives ready to help and desperate to put the tragedy of Thiazi's attack behind them.

Day 339 (Oct. 10/11)

Familiar scents will waft in the air with the theme of the second day: Home away from Home! The visiting god Honir has made a push to organize food and music straight from the Travelers' worlds, and it will all seem absolutely and utterly authentic. The natives will be cooking and playing music throughout the festival, and will be encouraging Travelers to to teach others about their own world/time's clothing and culture.

Day 340 (Oct. 12/13)

This day is going to follow something of a Samhain celebration. Merlin, with the permission and help from the gods, planted the seed of an oak tree in the centre of the courtyard. By this day, it will have grown as large as though it's been there for a hundred years. Travellers will be welcomed to tie ribbons or letters to the tree for their departed loved ones and friends, whether they've passed on or simply left the city, in remembrance and a final farewell.

However, being far too curious about to whom they're writing, Honir will be going through all of the ribbons and letters when no one's looking. Moved by their losses, he'll be bugging Mimir into helping him perform a spell that will bring a sort of comfort to everyone. Characters can receive up to a maximum of three photographs of themselves with whomever their ribbon is for, regardless of whether or not they ever took a picture with that person or even had the technology to do so. All of these photographs will be candid shots of happy memories that will be waiting for them on the Travelers' pillows.

(We aren't doing approvals for these so please, limit yourselves to only three photographs!)

Day 341 (Oct. 14/15)

This day will introduce a festival game with the gods! As you go around to the various booths and attractions throughout the festival, NPCs will be handing out small treats to anyone they see wearing the colors of their patron god - whether you wore the colour intentionally or not!

The gods themselves will also be hosting another game of sorts: each of Asgard's patrons and allies will have a riddle or trivia question for any Travelers that approach them. Answer these correctly and they will tie a token of their favor (a ribbon in their colour or crest) around your upper arm. These ribbons can be cashed in for prizes at any time during the rest of the festival! (More details can be found under Day 341 HERE.)

The log for the fifth day masquerade can be found here!

The event guide for various events throughout the festival can be found here. Please include your location and the IC day (ex. Day 338 - this can be found in the schedule) in your top-level comment or your subject line when starting a thread! If you want to request a certain god, feel free to ping them and we will do what we can. Otherwise, have fun, and as always - let us know if there's anything you need! ]

OVERFLOW LOG

Comments

Day 338

[unbrokenwheel]

You're not supposed to laugh! [Leo wiggles his fingers at him, grinning brightly and clearly not taking any offense at all.]

You're supposed to take me to your leader.

[The circuits one his fingers and tracing over his clothes and face are intricate and well done. For a throw together project, he thinks he did a damn good job. Because he's just that good.]

[chronologistics]

[The corner of his mouth purses and he crosses his arms.]

You know, they always say that. You can pretty much put all of your great-aunt Edna's inheritance money on it that they're gonna say that. But have they ever stopped to think that they might actually be talking to the leader? The Man?

[unbrokenwheel]

Are you kidding, that's logic and we all know logic is crazy talk! Can't have that. [He shakes his head in mock sadness as if that's all if all the movie aliens were people to feel sorry for.]

And they never go find the leader themselves either. Lousy tourists.

[chronologistics]

Yeah, I mean, they're not even stopping to take pictures. It's like, hey, look at that building, it looks like a giant dick. Look at the giant lady standing in the middle of the harbor. Is that a pyramid? It's always fuck that, let's blow this shit up.

And yet somehow, they always succumb to our probiotics or whatever.

[He shrugs.]

Or they just single-handedly grab the world by the balls by handing out tasty cakes and shake it like a dog killing a sock.

[unbrokenwheel]

Well look at history. Every conquering army is stupid and snatches up delicate and priceless technology and wrecks it somehow. Probably just thinking, 'hey people from the stars are totally going to act like we do'.

[Leo shakes his head sadly, and starts fiddling with a bit of wire like he had the night Dave was drunk. It starts looking like he's constructing a sphere at the same time he's talking.]

With the level of tech they usually have in the movies, it's so short sighted.

[The sphere takes on definition and dimension.]

[chronologistics]

[He watches in an idle sort of way.]

Man, just once, I want there to be a movie when the aliens drop ship and everyone learns some shit.

I should be sorry. I'm not.

[unbrokenwheel]

They'd all come down and go, 'hey earth people...things...get ready to have some science!' [Leo is aware of the conversation and the sphere he's making at the same time. The sphere really isn't anything. He takes it apart and puts it right back together the exact same way in the time he thinks about it.]

Bill Nye could play the lead alien. No one else can do the job better than he can.