asgardmeridiem | EVENT MINGLE: AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

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! ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Especially since there's exactly nobody I'd wanna get caught with."

Which is a dirty, obvious lie.

She snickered. Yeaaaah, she wasn't buying that. But she also wasn't prying. "Good attitude, if you ask me. So, what've you been up to, since the frost witch's dead and we're getting ready for the big showdown?"

"I thought that was the big showdown."

Ellie kicks at the pavement, shrugging. "Just when you think the war's over. ... I've been- spending some time with Riley. And Tris, and Clementine."

The people she won't be able to see when all of this is over.

"It was half of it," she said, sighing a bit and shrugging. A scratch at the back of her head and she just seemed to let out all the resignation inside of her bones. "But her dead... we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Surt doesn't play games like this. It'll be a real fight, up front and personal."

"And good. They all seem, at least that I've seen, like good folks."

"We'll win."

Sometimes, being sure of it will help with the doubt, the fear. True courage is in pressing on despite being afraid.

"They are. Even with the war and all... I'm glad I came here."

"I have a lot fewer doubts, now that Thiazi's gone," she admitted, seeming to relax just a bit with the statement. "Not that Surt isn't terrifying. I know that... first hand. He was the one that we barely escaped just to make that weapon work. But, without both of them there, this war can be won."

There would just be a lot of death. "And... I think we both are. I'm just glad I can see this through now."

"So."

Ellie ducks her head, steps a little closer, as if she's afraid of being overheard.

"What do you think will happen, after everything's done?"

"One of three things," she frowns, considering them carefully. "One, The world collapses at that instant, everything goes to end-game and the world forces it to play out the way it needs to survive. It cannibalizes whoever it has to of the gods, and it's done. We don't even see most of it, sent away in that instant."

"Two, the world breathes a sigh of relief as it prepares for rebirth, and there's a moment. We all dance around fires, sing kumbayah, I get really fucking drunk. Folks say their last goodbyes while the gods get into a pissing match over who has to take Thiazi's place. It gets ugly, or it doesn't, and we go home."

"Three... we all die."

That last one? That was said because somebody still had a certain honest streak forced on her.

"Does it kinda suck that I expecting something like that?"

Because she doesn't seem surprised. If anything, she's resigned.

"Not half as much as people would tell you," she said, shrugging. "You're smart enough to know that there's usually only a few ways things will play out, unless something's going on that we don't know about. At least some of those are better than others. We just have to make sure three doesn't happen."

"As much as we can, anyway."

Shrugging, she tips her head back to look at the sky. "I try not to think about it too hard. I'm good at staying alive and fighting like hell, so that's what I'll stick to. Let the rest of it get sorted out."

"We both are, and I think for both of us it's almost all we know. Might as well stick that out to the bitter end, right?" she said, smirking and looking around for a moment. "Good luck with the mistletoe the rest of today, by the way. If you see Loki, kick his ass."

She'll probably end up kissing his ass with the luck she's had today, but she doesn't want to tempt fate by saying it aloud.

"You too, Sam. Have a good one."

EVENT MINGLE: AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

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