EVENT MINGLE: AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

[asgardmods]

Who: Everyone!
What: The event mingle for the And A Happy New Year event.
When: Days 555-557
Where: Anywhere in town!
Rating: PG-13 tops! If it gets worse, move to a private log please.

DAY 555 (Dec 14-15)

As the last of the black ice is cleared from the city - and the last of its natives wake from their gray slumber - a cautious winter celebration begins. The city itself opens its doors wide to the allied forces still camped outside it and the natives invite the Travelers to observe the beginning of Winter and the approach of the end of the Asgardian year with them.

The day begins with what seems like a typical party in the streets. There is food, music, and an attitude of general warmth and hope from the Natives that hasn't been quite so present in a long time. It will be interrupted in the early afternoon by a snowball fight that starts in one sector of the city and quickly snowballs out of control. For a few hours, the city itself will become a veritable warzone, with most of the city's native children and adults alike getting in on the fight! Watch your back and take no prisoners. (NOTE: Please check THIS LINK for player plot information about the snowball fight!)

DAY 556 (Dec 16-17)

Day 556 sees a brief return to old - and maybe familiar - tricks. The festivities continue on outside, but some Travelers throughout the course of the day may find themselves influenced by magical impulse… all in the name of good holiday fun, of course.

The effects of these miniature curses will last anywhere between ten minutes and an hour and happen spontaneously, and most of them are echoes of similar curses that have been laid upon the city before. Travelers may find themselves:

• Unable to lie or actively compelled to blurt truths, consequences be damned
• Only able to communicate in poetry or song
• Given a nagging urge to (sincerely!) compliment anyone they come across
• Compelled to just hold hands with whoever they're near
• Caught under sprigs of magic mistletoe that seem to appear at arbitrary times at equally arbitrary places (though they can either be kissed or just wait a few minutes for it to disappear again)

Your character can be affected by as many and as often as you'd like, but none of them are mandatory. To reward the Travelers for putting up with that silliness one final time, they will find in their rooms that night a basket of chocolate, a horrendously ugly Christmas sweater, and one item from home. The item can be anything that fits within the game's technological and magical rules! If you'd like your character to receive something, please just drop a comment HERE to get it approved.

DAY 557 (Dec 18-19)

Day 557 marks the final day of celebration. That evening, twinkling, magical fairy lights will cover the edges of buildings and the branches of trees all over the city. There are light displays of amazing proportion all over the city, and the Welcome Halls are done up in entirely their signature color. the Travelers will be invited into the castle again for a ball much like the one last year. Thor will announce the end of curfew and tell everyone to party hard, because the hunt for both Surt and a way to heal the World Tree will begin after this.

The party will last until midnight, when everyone will be shuffled out into the courtyard for a brilliant fireworks display. It represents both the victory over Thiazi and the hope that the celebration of this coming new year will not be the last.

[ This is the mingle log for the And A Happy New Year event. Please include your location and the IC day in your top-level comment or your subject line when starting a thread! ]

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Day 555-556

[splendid_solitude]

555:

[Though she had taken part in a snowball fight during the past summer's unseasonable bout of cold weather and misery, she was still not the sort to willingly let herself be drawn into such a childish contest.

If you were to find Asuka, she would most likely be ducked into an alley or other such lonely place where no one could reach her.]

556:

[As isolated as she was, Asuka had many a secret hiding within the dark recesses of her mind. Things terrible, embarrassing and even just a little stupid all lay locked firmly away in a vault she had long ago thrown away the key for.

But that same mental fortress had now been torn down by the simplest of curses, rendering the Eva Pilot to speak naught but the truth. And it was terrible, as she tried to in vain to cover her own mouth and prevent the font of long forgotten truth and buried memories from leaking forth.]

I used to have a crush on Shinji Ikari!

[She yelled before quickly silencing herself with both palms.]

2.

[Asuka knew what mistletoe was, even though it had most likely been extinct in her world for sometime now, and had vague recollection of the sort of things people did when it hang overhead.

It also made her recall her first awkward kiss that had comes not all that long ago. The mere recollection brought a slight blush to Asuka's face, and prevented her from moving from beneath the enchanted plant.

By the time she awoke from her stupor, any near here would be greeted with surprise and confusion.]

AH! Where the heck did you come from?

556

[true_renaissance_man]

[Busying himself with the simple task of repairing the runners on a small child's sled Leonardo hadn't even noticed the young lady was around, until that is, she suddenly yelled out her confession. The he and sled both nearly toppled over into the nearest snowbank. ]

Ahha! Signora! Young love is wonderful isn't it?

[With the final bolt tightened the sled was left abandoned by the side of the house it had been resting by before he had happened upon it and wandered closer. It was far easier to nag some one when you were standing beside them! ]

You have told him? Something like this should not be wasted on a total stranger. Some one else might confess to him first and you could lose your chance forever. That would be terrible! No, first chance you get to see him again you must tell this Shinji of your feelings. You will do this?

B

[samantha_grey]

"I know that," Samantha said, coming around the corner and snickering at her. "And now half of Asgard knows that. If you're lucky, Shinji won't have heard it too..." She gave her an impish grin as she said it all and started to walk in her direction.

Someone had her own problems, mostly of the truth variety, but that was something to be dealt with on its own time. So many uncomfortable truths... so little time.

Re: B

[splendid_solitude]

For a moment a feeling of absolute terror spread though Asuka's body, causing her to turn to face the direction of the incoming message with in a dry sweat. Though prepared for the worst, she finds herself confronted by the one person that wouldn't embarrass her to death over this, at least not to much.

"Damn it, Samantha!" Asuka cried in a blush. "You don't have to rub it in!"

[samantha_grey]

"I love teasing you, and you know it," she said, walking in her direction and grinning at her. She held a sprig of Mistletoe in her hand. It was the last she'd had to tear down in the process of the last few hours. Dangling it over Asuka's head, she leaned in and giggled at her.

"Besides, you're not the one who horrified the poor boy by telling him we were sleeping togeth..." Wait... did she say that?

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka sighed a little as she looked up at the offending foliage, thinking all the while to herself that she couldn't avoid Samantha's coy teasing for as long as she was living in Asgard. Yet, honestly, she didn't mind. For by now she had become used to the it by now and had even begun to enjoy it a little bit.

"Yes, I've been with you long enough to know that by now." She said a bit more cheerfully then her prior mood, one that would soon be shattered by the latter of Samantha's statements. "What did you just say?! You told the brat that we're sleeping together? Seriously?!"

[samantha_grey]

This time, there wasn't a compulsion. It was just an old fashioned use of mistletoe. The magic had faded and when her eyes widened in a bit of shock, she clearly had lost the moment of trying to swipe a kiss. There was a stammer and she raised a hand.

"Damnit... Loki!" She practically shouted. "I'm going to gut him. We're in a war, damnation... I didn't tell him details or what I do with my tail that makes you squeal so..." Oh, that was a little too loud. She clamped her mouth shut for a second, eyes wide and furious, though not at her.

"I just told him we were together, really. Nothing more."

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka looked rather cross for a moment. Back when Samantha had asked Shinji for advice regarding their relationship, it had been enough to cause a shouting match that could have woke the dead. The push back from this one might have been enough to split the earth in twain... or it would have been if Samantha hadn't instantly went on damage control.

"Are you sure?" Asuka fumed a bit like a spoiled child. "Well then I guess I'll just have to forgive you this time."

[samantha_grey]

She hung her head and then sighed, nodding. "Oh, I was tempted to break him a little, but no. I mean... he knows we're together, so he knows, but he doesn't know the details. Promise," she said. It was even mostly true. She hadn't told Shinji anything too detailed.

"Still enough to make him stutter like an idiot though."

[splendid_solitude]

"I can't imagine the brat would have any other reaction to hearing I suddenly had a girlfriend." Rolling her eyes as she pictured in her mind Shinji turning into a blubbering mess as the mere mention of her new relationship.

Asuka honestly didn't know how Shinji saw her. Back when she was a kid she had always put herself on a pedestal high enough that no living soul could ever hope to reach her. It was as much an act of self preservation as one of ego, but also prevented her from truly knowing other people. Sure, she could her their distant praise and adulation, but to truly know someone, until now that had been beyond Asuka.

"When I told him he kept going on with silly questions like "how does it feel?" I don't know what he was trying to get at, but I doubt he would know what its like to be in a relationship with someone. I just can't see it."

[samantha_grey]

Her mental image was almost identical to what happened. In fact, it was probably completely identical. She shook her head and smirked sotly before looking off into the streets a little distantly. "Well, he's trying to have a relationship with an angel that barely knows what it is to be a living, individual person, so I don't think he's got a good framework," she said, shrugging. "And I know they don't know how to fuck properly if what they said is tru...."

Eyes wide. Yep, she'd said it. Couldn't take that back. Ahem. "Before you ask, it's nothing dirty. I just gave Kaworu some advice so it didn't suck quite as horribly... because... ...damn."

No, seriously. Shinji had no clue. It was written all over her face.

[splendid_solitude]

That sound right now, the one currently echoing through the universe at the a frequency that could shatter bone? That was the sound of Asuka's fragile little mind breaking into a million little pieces. The mere thought of it all boggled her mind. Shinji being in a relationship? That was hard enough to believe, but also that it was with an Angel, one of the mortal enemies of the human race, and they were doing it to? Well that just painted a blank look of absolute despair on Asuka's face that not even a blazing fire could remove.

"You have to be kidding, the brat is dating an Angel?" Asuka said in German due to sheer shock. "My god..."

[samantha_grey]

She blinked. German wasn't one of the languages she knew. Her eyes cocked and she looked at her funny. "Ich spreck Dootch Tres Mal?" she said in a garbled, horrible mash that should have made the point of her linguistic failings. A cough and then a laugh. "I'm guessing you didn't know he was screwing Kaworu, did you? Boy needs to learn to use lube properly. That's all I really need to say."

"...damnit. Be careful what you ask. I'll probably tell you that I told Kaworu about..." SLap when the hands clamping over her mouth.

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka tried to collect herself enough to speak in English in a calm and collected manner, but all that came out is confused yelling... but at least it was in the right language this time.

"When the hell did Shinji start dating that Angel?!" Asuka asked again. "And you did what?..."

When it rained it certainly poured today. Asuka was going to need a serious nap after all of this was over.

[samantha_grey]

"Lube! I just told him about how to use lube and aphro... and well... give Shinji a blo..." Hand to mouth again. Samantha was saying more things in behind her mouth, the stream sounding far lewder than the conversation had actually been.

Ahem.

She managed to compose herself slightly and get her head wrapped around this. Needed to be calm. "I... think it's been a while, though they've been real slow getting serious. They're both god-awful at it, more than you or I even."

[splendid_solitude]

"God...Samantha, just stop talking already!" Asuka said with one hand press firmly to her head as if a horrible headache had besieged her mind. "I don't need to be imagining those two going at it in bed."

Though it was obviously to late for that. She had already imagined it several times over. Two waifish teenagers awkwardly trying to figure out where things went and likely blushing horribly. It was an image she would not soon forget, and might need to a stiff drink to do so even then.

"And you don't need to rub it in... you know I was a virgin back then."

Oops, probably didn't need to say that aloud.

[samantha_grey]

"Yeah... I know," she said, sighing, managing to get control over her mouth just barely. "And you're right, but still. I don't care if I've got experience, I'm not good at relationships. It's so awkward trying to have after-dinner talk time with your stea..."

She... was going to kill Loki.

"I have tape in my backpack. Put it on my mouth before I say something else stupid, love."

[splendid_solitude]

"Good idea, we can just gag you and then drag you home before you say anything else dumb."

Not really an outburst of truth, just Asuka walking into yet another horrible brush with unintentional innuendo.

[samantha_grey]

"..."

She looked at Asuka and swallowed for a moment, eyes widening. Her jaw clicked and she seemed to be warring with saying something or not. "Let's get home before we both make fools of ourselves again. You can use the gag there if you really want."

[splendid_solitude]

Asuka blushed profusely, it had been some time since the last she had said something so completely and utterly ridiculous to Samantha. All she could do was cover her face with one of her hands and try and hide her sheer embarrassment.

"Damn it... yeah, lets just go home."

Asuka held out her hand not currently being used to hide her disgust with herself for Samantha to take.

[samantha_grey]

"We can plot elaborate plans for revenge there," she agreed and started in that general direction, taking Asuka's hand. God, this place sometimes...