EVENT LOG: FOURTH WALL!

[asgardmods]

Who: EVERYONE literally anyone and everyone ever
What: the mingle log for the Ain't Nobody Got Time F'That event!
When: Days 464-466 ( June 15-20 )
Where: anywhere in the city!
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

June 15-16 / Day 464:

Not long after sunrise on Day 464, the air in the city will become briefly charged with magic. It will feel something like static electricity, hanging noticeably before dissipating suddenly a half-minute later. This will mark the beginning of the Visitor's Event! Starting then, characters old and new will begin to tumble into the city. They may appear anywhere there is room for them: in the middle of the street, on top of the Ferris Wheel in Hel's creepy amusement park, in the Comfort House, or ten feet in the air above the lake! Visitors may appear at any point during the duration of the event.

The city's natives will begin to usher them to the courtyard of the palace at the center of the city, where Freyr and the Welcoming Committee will have set up stations. This is where they will be given a bracelet to allow them to communicate with the network and reside safely in the city, provided with food and drink, and given camping supplies - basic tents and sleeping bags - if they choose to stay in the courtyard.

June 17-18 / Day 465:

A minute after midnight, all characters in the city - including the freshly arrived Visitors - may notice something a little odd: a soft, warm glow through their shirts, right at the center of their chests. The light will fade, but it isn't quite finished yet. Starting then, threads of light with that same gold glow will lead from their wrists, beginning as intangible bracelets of light and leading them with anyone they have a "connection" with; what exactly that "connection" is is up to you! It could be romantic interest, or simply belonging to the same world, or sharing a favourite colour. Anything is viable, and they can have "connections" with as many or as few people as you'd like. The closer they get to the person they are bound to, the more brilliant the light. Physical touch will stop the light, and will also bring a sense of something like completion, contentment. When characters close their eyes, the glow of the strings is a soft, gentle one, akin to a nightlight.

The lights are not permanent, and seem to flicker to life and back off again arbitrarily. Your character may have one connection at noon that splinters to fifteen later that afternoon, and then none at all that night. Not all connections will always be "on," and you are welcome to play with this at your discretion! Please note: They will only ever be formed as a result of feelings your character already has - they will not create new ones.

That night, in the Castle Courtyard, Freyr will build an enormous, contained bonfire beneath the Great Oak Tree Merlin planted during an earlier celebration. Things may be rationed, but modest snacks and drinks will still be provided. He will encourage storytelling, games and riddles, and a general welcoming, since who knows how long these new Visitors will be here for, right? Mellow gold lights in the same shade as the ties between the Travelers and Visitors, among other things, will decorate the area to give it a sense of warmth and peace.

June 19-20 / Day 466

Day 466 brings a gentle rain onto the city. Awnings and canopies will be set up in the castle courtyard for shelter, and the Welcoming Committee will continue to operate the bracelet and supply stations for any latecoming Visitors. That evening, a god will make a post to the network, giving notice that the Visitors will soon be sent home, so that people should say their goodbyes. After the given time, they will flicker and then disappear. The strings of light between people will begin to fade at this time as well, a gentle tapering off for a few hours until they are gone for good.

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for our second Fourth Wall Event! All rules and guidelines can be found on the information post; please do feel free to ask if you're unsure about anything. We'll make an overflow log if the need arises. Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] along with the date and location in the title of your comment. Let us know if you have any questions, and have fun! ]

Comments

[bythewaves]

[ an embarrassed shrug and he nods shyly, gladly following along ]

It seems so. [ Strange, when I had long given up hope that any would want me ]

Two of the younger ones - a young man by the name of Kevin, and a lovely young lady named Alice. You might see them around. But I had forgotten, Finda - how readily Men might open their hearts to strangers - there are so many here who are willing to overlook my past.

[goldenplaits]

Your past is not here, Laurë.

[He's never been one to linger - not one to forget, for forgetting will make the future rhyme with the past, but walking with your face turned backwards will also make you walk into walls.]

Kevin, and Alice... you will have to introduce them to me. They've proven to have a good taste in adopting parents. [There is a note of teasing in his voice, but he's also being serious. He'd like to meet them.]

[bythewaves]

Perhaps not phsyically, but I will always carry it with me, Finda.

[ He looks older than he Fingon remembers for a moment, before he pushes the shadows away - so much more has come between them - Asgard has helped, but he will never truly heal ]

They are fine young folk - in their own worlds they suffered much, and I am glad that they open their hearts to me. [ He considers ] They are like both to be at home right now - shall we go see? [ a small smirk ] Alice, in particular, is leery of strangers. I wonder if your famous charm will work on her cousin?

[goldenplaits]

I should love to. ...She has a cousin here?

[He will, for now, lay the other matter at rest. It is not the time for it.]

[bythewaves]

[ he shakes his head a little ] Ah, no sorry, I misspoke - although she does have a younger self - Asgard is strange like that, you will find. Little Alice the Younger is a bright, saucy thing, but Alice the Elder is... gentle and kind, but she has been very badly wounded. In many ways she is as wild and wary as a stray cat - but it has not dimmed her care for others.

[goldenplaits]

A younger self? That does indeed sound strange, cousin.

[Curiosity and interest lie in his voice, a wanting for the unknown and new, the same that once led him to talk his father into following along to Middle Earth.]

[bythewaves]

Mmhm. I thought they were two who shared the same name, at first - it is not unusual for Men, after all. But my butterfly tells me that the younger is indeed herself, as she was, or perhaps, as she might have been, before sorrow and tragedy took her.

Asgard is strange - it is a place where worlds and times may meet. Some here are from far, far in the future - why, do you know that Men will eventually reach the stars, cousin? And there are folk here who were never born on Arda at all, but on different worlds entirely! [ Maglor is equally animated - new worlds, new peoples, it's all so very exciting ]

[goldenplaits]

How will they reach them?

And where are those from who do not hail from Arda?

[Let them fanboy in their corner for a bit?]

[bythewaves]

Machines, if you can believe it, cousin! There is one here who tells me that Men make great ships of metal and glass which carry whole cities worth of Men out to sail among the stars and to strange new worlds. Such a sight that must be!

And there are those here from other worlds entirely!

[ yes absolutely. sailing among the stars!!! ]

[goldenplaits]

They must glint in the skies like a thousand new stars.

[He tilts his head back, looking up as if hoping to see one of them up above.]