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! ]

Comments

[melodyoflogic]

[Ayumu freezes as well, and when Hizumi pulls away he quickly follows, sitting up quickly and staring with wide eyes at Eyes for a second, face flushed deep red.

.....The question of how much he'd seen doesn't even have to be asked, seeing the device he'd had in hand, and for once Ayumu is fully supportive of Hizumi abusing his power as he pushed himself to his feet, expression hovering somewhere between irritation and embarrassment.]

Did anyone ever tell you spying on people was rude?

[seeksblessings]

[The device does fall from his hand—but seeing as he'd anticipated such a move, his other hand is already prepped to catch it. And he does a rather good job of popping the card holder open and ejecting the memory card, which he is now flicking in Charles' direction. She knew what to do.

Which meant she was already scampering off with it while he merely raises and eyebrow.] Spying would mean I came with the intention of obtaining valuable information.

[This he calls an amusing sideshow.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[Hizumi hurriedly gets to his feet as well, their hands still rather unfortunately linked. Dammit, for something that had been so entertaining earlier, this is actually a huge pain.]

Blackmailin' isn't so nice, either. Call her back.

[He's gonna snap that stupid chip in two...]

[melodyoflogic]

Give it back, Rutherford. [Ayumu scowls further as his hand continues to refuse to let go from Hizumi's. What had been a minor embarrassment, earlier, was now a great deal more embarrassing to be seen doing in light of the past few moments.]

What's the point in keeping it anyway? [It wasn't like it was all that viable as blackmail-- this place messed with everyone.]

[seeksblessings]

Call it moments of opportunity. [Or so Kousuke and Kanone used to call it. Eventually he'd learned how to get back at the former as he stuffed the camera itself safely back into an inside pocket.] She's already out of hearing range.

You wouldn't rather have fond memories to look back on? [That mistletoe was gone, you know.]

[bondsofsuffering]

Who wants memories of--

[Congratulations Eyes, even Hizumi's getting flustered now. If he weren't attached to Ayumu at the moment, he may have actually attempted to snatch at least the camera from him, futile as it would have been.]

[melodyoflogic]

[That blush on Ayumu's face, if possible, grows even more pronounced. Ayumu's fingers grip Hizumi's a little more tightly as his hands release some of that frustration he's feeling.] In photographic form? I'd rather not.

[seeksblessings]

Memories of good moments and fun? Who can say, perhaps in the future. [Seeing Hizumi flustered? Is definitely something he'd rather remember.

Now how far would they get with threatening him while they were still stuck together?]

[bondsofsuffering]

[IT WON'T STOP HIM FROM TRYING.]

You've got a weird idea of fun, Rutherford. We were kinda trapped there, you know.

[We are quietly ignoring the part where it was totally actually fun because this is Rutherford and admitting any such thing to him is basically a one way ticket to hell, in Hizumi's mind.]

[melodyoflogic]

[And Ayumu would help. Really Eyes, your odd hobby of taking pictures of them embarrassing themselves is going to far this time.]

Exactly. It might have been a bit fun, but it was still embarrassing.

[...What.

What did he just say.

Can he please rewind time and gag himself.]

[seeksblessings]

[Whatever response Eyes had is completely lost—that was not what he expected to hear, that was not what he wanted to hear. Those words did not come out of his mouth.]

... Excuse me?

[No Ayumu, don't you dare repeat yourself because if you do, Eyes might take to strangling you instead.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[Wh.......at.

Congrats Ayumu you've just rendered Hizumi speechless. Or, well, mostly. Because before he can stop it, what slips out is:]

Well, it was pretty nice--

[Before he hurriedly slaps his free hand over his mouth. Just kill him now, Eyes, it might be for the best at this rate.]

[melodyoflogic]

[Ayumu looks downright horrified with what he just said, so Eyes is definitely not getting a repeat of that. If anything, Ayumu's quite happy to say nothing at all, less risk for further disturbing words coming out of his mouth.

And then Hizumi says that. About the time he raises his hand to slap his mouth closed, there's an elbow digging none too gently into Hizumi's side, courtesy of Ayumu.

Why, why won't his hand let go so he can escape.]

[seeksblessings]

[All right, he's heard about enough. Sparing only a second to wince in sympathy at Ayumu jabbing Hizumi's side, he quickly steps forward and strategically places one hand on each of their heads.

And then he forces them both down and slightly apart, mussing their hair more than a little. He'd been tempted to just knock their heads together, but this carried less risk.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[He's already doubled over thanks to the jab, so it's not really that hard to force his head to the side. Praise his remarkable self-restraint in keeping his hand planted firmly over his mouth even through both the pain and hair mussing; in any other situation there would be a steady stream of complaints right about now.

This sucks curses suck everything sucks.]

[melodyoflogic]

[Everything does indeed suck, and Ayumu's blushing yet again, embarrassment and indignity mixing to make him downright sulky in a grumpy way. He reaches up with his only free hand to try to brush Eyes off.]

What are you doing? Get off!

[seeksblessings]

I'm not actually on you. [For that comment, Ayumu has earned himself a little bit of extra mussing. At least they've stopped saying such... things... If he had to keep doing this repeatedly, he would do so all day.

But that didn't solve the 'stuck together' issue, not unless he removed one of their arms...]

[bondsofsuffering]

[Excuse you, no chopping his arm off while he's still alive to feel it thank you very much.

Despite his wariness, his patience is also running pretty thin. He'll try to duck out Eyes' reach as a result.]

Then just stop!

[Oops, he wasn't supposed to talk, was he? But hey, at least nothing incriminating came out this time.]

[melodyoflogic]

[Between that mussing and Hizumi's pulling away, Ayumu's jerked to the side as well, his chin and jaw smacking uncomfortably into Hizumi's shoulder.]

Hey!

[Will you both stop jerking him around?]

[seeksblessings]

[Eyes had already planned to stop, but the position Ayumu lands himself in brings him to an abrupt halt. This... This isn't something he wanted to see, if the ways he raises a hand to rub his temples and simultaneously obscure his vision is any indication.]

You couldn't wait for more privacy before you start marking him?

[... That didn't come out the way he'd intended.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[He does reach out with his free hand to try to steady Ayumu once he realizes he's rather abruptly yanked the other, but--

what.]

What?!

[melodyoflogic]

[It actually takes a second for Ayumu to get at what Eyes is saying, and his expression is priceless-- wide eyed, gaping, both at the sheer idea and Eyes saying it.

He quickly tugs himself away from Hizumi, at least as far as he can do so, anyway, cursing the issue of their still glued together hands.]

I wasn't doing anything!

[seeksblessings]

You are both sixteen, I shouldn't have to explain what I mean. I've already had to before. [... No, he wasn't supposed to ever bring up anything like that ever again. Why did he bring it up?

Maybe if he glides over it and back onto the topic of them, they will, too.] Whatever you say you weren't doing, it wasn't what it looked like.

[bondsofsuffering]

[There are so many things that could be said about those words that Hizumi frankly does not want to have to be the one to say.]

Who did you--

Wait, more importantly, he fell! How'd you get somethin' like... like that from it-?!

[melodyoflogic]

....Unless you've got a perverted mind. [Bluntly said with no little annoyance.

Frankly that bit of honesty he can't even bring himself to regret saying.]