asgardmeridiem | EVENT LOG: GOOD GOD, Y'ALL

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EVENT LOG: GOOD GOD, Y'ALL

Who: EVERYONE
What: the Good God, Y'all mingle log.
When: Days 461-462 ( June 9-12 )
Where: the castle courtyard
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

Day 461 ( June 9/10 ): When the Travellers wake up, they will find a message sent to every bracelet in the city:
As per the agreement between the gods and their Travellers, all persons within Asgard are humbly requested at the castle courtyard for enlistment in the Holy City's war efforts. Every individual is invited to find their resolve and seek out their purpose; this is the final stand in Ragnarok, and your help is needed now more than ever.

Enlistment is mandatory! Please see your local officials for more information.
A friendly if not a touch formal invitation to what will essentially be Asgard's job fair! A mandatory job fair. This is why we can't have nice things.

The castle courtyard and the streets leading into it will be crowded with bustling natives and several booths, not uncommon in appearance to the many festivals they've had over the last two years. This time, however, there is no music or celebration to be had. Everyone is hard at work organising their efforts for the war and doing their level best to assist in the transition.
Day 462 ( June 11/12 ): The fair will continue for two days, to give everyone time to get down there and make their decisions. Anyone that hasn't signed up by the end of this day will be visited at home by a city rep and a few guards that will politely ask them to register for a group and weaponry if they plan to carry it. Refusal will land them in jail for the day, where they will still be politely asked to please, seriously, just pick something. Anything. Uncle Odin wants you.

At the end of the fair, there will be food and drinks to thank the Travellers for their support and cooperation. Throughout the entirety of the event and for the rest of their stay, the natives will be more reverent and grateful than ever than the Travellers have chosen to stay and fight at their side. They will do anything they can to help them win this war; this evening will be one of camaraderie and appreciation for the past, present, and future sacrifices to save the World Tree.

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the Good God, Y'all event. Remember that all characters must be signed up for at least one group by June 12. Information on the currently established groups can be found here; sign-ups are in the comments section on the same post. Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] along with the time/location in the title of your comment. Let us know if you have any questions! ]

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Well, workers, builders, any sort of task in the process of construction is useful. You do not have to be an actual engineering proclivity on its own. Your power, after all, could be used to help set up catapults to rain fiery death down upon our enemies. Imagine! You could light pitch and see it hurled at the frost giants' ranks and watch them explode!

It will be glorious!

[.....]

Goodness, you're very passionate about being an engineer and um....fighting our enemies with a lot of detail.

I don't think I'll be suited for this kind of job regardless of my powers or not. It's a little different from what I had in mind? And especially with the construction of building Asgard.

[Oh boy, let's see where this goes]

War is a thing of passion and excitement, the sort of operation that cannot be handled in a half-way fashion. [He listened to her and sighed a little, clearly somewhat disappointed.]

Well, if I may ask, what is it that you feel that is your talent, human?

[He ... might be trying to find excuses to convince her to join regardless.]

[She's doomed no matter what she does, isn't she?]

Well, my passion is computers and I try my best? I'm not really cook at cooking but when it comes to engineering, I'm better with electronics rather than the things Asgard has to offer right now?

[And sealing her fate in 5..4..3..2..1....!]

Electronics you say? You are an expert in the workings of electronic creations and the functioning of hardware, software and other such fabrications?

[He was going for her hands with wide eyes behind his glasses.]

I require an assistant! Simple hard-wiring works here. You could help me fashion explosives!

Um...yes? Yes, I am? I know how to manage those things if I need to?

[And as he managed to take a closer step toward her, she took a step right back!]

B-But I said I can't do that! I don't want to work on such things that could harm people! It's all about building the city, not destroying it, sir!

Ah, but if we build the weapons, they can destroy the enemies from a distance who would seek to damage, decreasing the respective workload of exacting repairs would they not? I suppose I could handle entirely constructive work, but to put limits on the sort of creation we could accomplish together would be such an unacceptable possibility!

Yes, yes... if you have fire, you could simplify the usage of a blowtorch with some training, couldn't you? Perhaps light bellows...

[on and on and on...]

[He just wasn't giving up was he?]

Um, I'm afraid you're not understanding. I just don't want to build stuff for the sake of violence! I know there are enemies that could hurt us but I don't want anything I make to be weapons regardless of what my powers are!

I just don't want to hurt people enemies or not!

[But she knows she does have to sooner or later]

Pacifism? [He frowned, visibly a little perturbed before shrugging and sighing.] You're a bit like someone I know from home. I would still welcome the additional experience in this sort of thing, but we might be better served to send you towards the welcome committee or something similar if you have no wish to fight at all.

[siiiiiiiiiiiigh, and she had such potential.]

You make it sound like it is a bad thing. [Fuuka said as she gave a sigh. Admittedly, she was a little scared of Equius but she also knew better to let herself be dragged into something she didn't want to be in.]

While we do have to fight, I don't think pacifism isn't all that bad.

I come from a world where it is considered exceptionally close to suicide to be pacifistic. [He grunted and put his arms up under his chest, crossing them and sighing.]

I have known one troll who was mixed in his success. I do not know that I suggest that route, but it is your choice.

[blink blink]

What do you mean? You mean that in your world, you always need to fight or else you'll have to die? [Pause] Goodness, that's just...terrible.

I can't see why we can't just find a way to get along somehow.

That is exactly what I mean. Only the strong survive, might and prowess in battle being an indication that one is not a fool but valuable enough to be a tool of the greater empire. [He grunted sourly.] I personally love that aspect of our society. We do not breed weaklings. It makes us great.

As for the giants, I expect that they are unwilling to simply talk. they have not in the past.

There are different types of strengths that don't involve fighting. I believe that as long as you have a strong enough will to do anything, it proves that you are powerful to defeat most things!

[Such as Death.]

Um...what giants?

Ah, you are freshly arrived or within a limited span are yo not? [He grunted and seemed mollified a little bit. Time in this place had a way of affecting people after all.]

I suppose there is strength in some forms of technique, but we are a martial species, one of conquest and warfare. The giants, here they are the enemy. A little taller than a tall man, muscled, powerful and deadly, with larger and more fearsome allies.

...or smaller and deadlier in the case of the blasted pixies.

Yes, I arrived here a couple of days ago but that won't change my opinion. [Maybe it will maybe it will not but as of right now, she is stubborn with her beliefs

Either way, her eyes widen a bit]

I have faced some rather fearsome creatures before, some that might as well be giants. [Then there was a pause] However, I will admit that it will be different here compared to back home.

I have heard as much in the past. If you can uphold that, I will be surprised, but I will not refer to it as impossible. It does occur occasionally.

But, you say that this will be different? Exactly how did you face them before if not violently and what do you expect to be different?

[Fuuka opened her mouth but quickly closed it back.]

We couldn't talk to them but we did have to fight to prove ourselves to hold back against a god once before. Although, I do wish that there was another way to prevent anymore people feeling so many negative thoughts and feelings.

[And besides, how did you expect things to go different when facing the god of death anyway?]

Negative? [He blinked and considered for a minute.] What would you say is a negative emotion? I confess that you humans have the strangest expressions of negativity.

[Blink blink]

Um like sadness? Anger? Depression? Hate? Those kind of things?

[She wasn't expecting a question quite like. Aren't those emotions universal?]

But anger and hatred are such beautiful and romantic emotions for my people. They're part of how we propagate our species. These aren't undesirable traits for my people. In fact, we cannot survive without them as a species.

Um....that's quite different from how it is in our world?

Love, friendship, and anything related to it is how we grow as humans? Although, I do have to ask. What is your world like? It's starting to see that it's different from our world though.

Well, I have had it explained that our emotion of Pity, tied to procreation in other directions, is very similar to your human notions of love. We appreciate something of that sort as well, though it carries a more protective aspect to it, a desire to preserve from the hostilities of our world.

It is a hellish hive of destruction and carnage, from which only the most powerful and potent emerge victorious to join our galactic empire of conquest. It was a glorious, violent and deadly place.

[Fuuka... what have you gotten yourself into?]

[.............

Oh.]

It sounds like your world is rather destructive and thrives on the ideas of violence. That's quite a change from how our world would see something like that? You are right, pity can be seen as something like that but I think that would be the closest thing to love to us.

Although, it is still strange to see another world that's so different from our own.

[But this is starting to sound more and more like a medieval like world to her]

[More like a post-apocalyptic nightmare]

Quite different, I expect. But I will hold out hope that we get some proper rage into you. You would look fetching with a blade in han...

...

[And, for some reason he started dabbing his head with a towel that he kept with him at all times.]

Apologies. That's not a proper thing to say to a stranger.

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