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

[not_sasuke]

Not too lucky with these, are you?

[Did that shit eating grin just widen? Maybe a little.]

Need some help?

[windbreak]

Ohhh, no, not from you. Not with that look on your face.

[But his almost reflexive step back is cut short, and he hesitates.]

...What kind of help are we talking, anyway? [If there's even a chance of, say, a bucket...]

[not_sasuke]

[It's taking so much effort not to burst out laughing right this moment but by golly is he managing it somehow.]

The obvious one? I mean, there's only one real easy way to get out from under there...

[windbreak]

No, there isn't! [He knew it. Jerk. And yet that doesn't stop his face from flushing a colour that forms a seasonally appropriate contrast with the white flowers up above.] I mean, I'll wait it out! It's no big deal... like this entire morning...

[not_sasuke]

[This is so worth every second of it.]

What, really? You'd rather be stuck there for hours than kiss someone for, like, five seconds?

[He takes a few steps closer... but not close enough to get stuck yet. Still...]

[windbreak]

[Oh man, it's not every day he hopes another dragon will fall out of the sky to give him an escape route from this awkward situation.] I-It wouldn't be hours! God, please tell me it wouldn't be hours.

[not_sasuke]

[So melodramatic, Yosuke.]

You never know. It kind of depends on how long that mistletoe sticks around, doesn't it?

Or how long it takes for you to find someone who's actually willing to kiss you.

[windbreak]

[Oof, that last one stung.] H-Hey, that's uncalled for! I've got a girlfriend! ...I think!

[not_sasuke]

...You think?

[windbreak]

Look, the important part is that I have one! [If he could literally melt into a small puddle, maybe he could seep away from here through the doorframe...]

[not_sasuke]

Well, that solves everything, doesn't it? You can just call her here to get you out.

[windbreak]

[It's really not a good idea for him to get this worked up right now, but faced with that prospect, he doesn't have a choice.] Wha - of course I can't say it like that! She'd just run me through with a parasol!

[not_sasuke]

...What, seriously? She wouldn't even spare a single kiss to get you out of this mess?

That's rough. Are you sure you're dating?

[windbreak]

I-It's not like that, you moron! Could you just go up to someone and ask them that!?

[Hey, if he keeps sweating waterfalls, maybe he'll dehydrate that way!]

[not_sasuke]

Sure. It beats being stuck in a doorway all day. Besides, it's an excuse to kiss your beloved girlfriend some more, isn't it?

[windbreak]

[At this point, he can't help but clap a hand to his face, which at least does a good job of warming up his fingers in the absence of gloves. Deep breaths, Yosuke. Deep, not too sudden breaths.] Okay, okay, I get it, never mind what you'd do! Just... let it go? Please?

[not_sasuke]

[Never.]

...What's the big deal? Is it really that difficult? It's just a kiss.

[windbreak]

Dude, I - [Noticing just how much he's raising his voice, he hastily lowers it.] I don't have to spell out what's not so "just" about kissing a girl!

[not_sasuke]

[Pffft.]

...What, have you never kissed one before?

[windbreak]

[This silence is a sound powerful enough to grind a certain kind of person's entire mental universe into dust.]

... You... have?

[not_sasuke]

Of course I have. It was really cute when she got all flustered about it.

[Never mind that she's a bakeneko and also tried to scratch him to ribbons afterward. She was in human form, it counts.]

[windbreak]

Th-The cute kind of flustered...!?

[He doesn't mean to get sidetracked. It just happens.]

[not_sasuke]

Blushing bright red and everything!

[It was super adorable.]

[windbreak]

No way... I mean, no way! [He raises an accusing finger.] It's easy to say whatever you want when you're not stuck next to a door!

[not_sasuke]

What difference does it make? The truth is the truth.

Unless you want me to step over there with you, but...