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

[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.]

[seeksblessings]

[And in what might seem like a completely stupid gesture, Eyes jabs himself in the missing rib to stop from answering Hizumi's first question. Or the one following after. He might have answered Ayumu, but he's sort of grimacing from the pain.

Of all times to abruptly start telling the truth...]

[bondsofsuffering]

[Considering who it was and the fact that it was self-inflicted, Hizumi has absolutely no sympathy for him.]

Hey, don't try gettin' out of replyin' like that!

[melodyoflogic]

....You did come off a bit creepy when we first met, but I never though you'd be a pervert.

[Really, Rutherford?]

[seeksblessings]

Only someone as pathetic as you were would have been denying yourself to begin with, I did what I had to to make you move. [... Well, he would admit that saying it that way was a bit harsh, but it had been the truth.]

And they are beautiful.

[That he hadn't meant to say. Maybe he should just leave.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[WOW EYES

W O W.]

I already knew you were a jerk, but that's takin' it way too far, isn't it?

[In

so many different ways.]

[melodyoflogic]

[.....Congratulations Eyes, he's struck speechless for a moment.

Just a moment.]

....please don't ever say that again.

[He did not need to know about Eyes bizarre hand fetish. He did not. The pathetic comment is blissfully not responded to, because that would have been even more awkward if he was honest.]

[seeksblessings]

I'd rather be honest if possible. [Even though he often didn't divulge the truth unless given valid reason to. And that was definitely not right now.]

You can rest assured that I will not repeat it again. Willingly.

[bondsofsuffering]

I think that's probably a little too honest. You sure have a knack for bringin' up the worst stuff.

[What has this even become. He can't even just walk away from it, given a short attempt to flex his hand only proves, once again, that he still can't let go.]

[melodyoflogic]

[Ayumu wished much the same, and a light tug on his arm only doubly confirmed that they were, indeed, still stuck.]

There are some things you just shouldn't be honest about.

[seeksblessings]

You don't need to tell me that, however the truth has a habit of emerging anyway. [You should know all about that, dearest uncle.

But none of this solves the dilemma of the two little brothers still being stuck together.] Are either of you prepared to spend the entire day like this?

[bondsofsuffering]

I don't mind it at all but-- [Dammit.]

I can't help it, okay? It's like the mistletoe- there's nothin' I can do about it!

[melodyoflogic]

Some parts aren't tha- [No.

No, he is not going to say that, and he covers his mouth once again with a stubborn scowl.

If he has to do this all day, he will.]

[seeksblessings]

[... Okay, he's heard enough. This is going too far and he's turning his heel with a dismissive wave to let then know he's out. He'll figure out how to deal with this when it isn't shoving itself in his face.

Except he can't move any further than that one step. Trying to take another feels like he would almost trip, and it takes him a split second to realise the high probability of what the cause might be.

Why this.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[-? Why is he moving so--

--Strange...ly...?

Hizumi snaps his head up to take a look, and naturally, there it is.

The mistletoe has returned for round two.]

No way.

[Nuh-uh. Nope. He's not doing it. He refuses. He will not.]

[melodyoflogic]

[Ayumu glances from Eyes, to the mistletoe, to Hizumi and back again.

No.

No.]

You've got to be kidding me.

[And damn it, Ayumu's not enough of a jerk to insist Hizumi do it, either.]

Can't we just... call someone over?

[seeksblessings]

I'm afraid I don't have anyone on hand in the chance I'm in dire need of a kiss. They've all gone. [... What did he even mean by that—

Okay, if he only takes a moment to breathe, he can try to find another way out of this. Whatever he may have said about Ayumu's hands, he did not want to kiss him.

And Hizumi was absolutely out of the question, if his intense scowl toward the ground means anything.]

[bondsofsuffering]

--Don't tell me you actually considered it.

[Eyes of all people? Actually thinking about smooching others what???

As for Hizumi, he'll try to step back as much as possible to just make it even clearer that he has no intention of being the person kissed here. Given his relationship with Eyes, both genetic and otherwise, he just... no.]

[melodyoflogic]

[Ayumu grimaces a little, looking more than a little sour at the position he's found himself in. He lets Hizumi step away, but will probably tug lightly on his hand if Hizumi goes too far and stretches his arm awkwardly.]

Don't you have fangirls here yet, Rutherford?

[seeksblessings]

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. [Though from there his hand is back over his mouth, to keep from saying anything more incriminating.

Well, he can still spare a narrowed gaze in response to Ayumu's suggestion. His fangirls? Really?]

[bondsofsuffering]

Nevermind, I don't even wanna know.

[This is just way too awkward even for Hizumi.]

Can't we just get this over with quickly? Then we can just go our separate ways-- that works, right?

[It's easy to say these things when you aren't the one doing the kissing, but y'know.]

[melodyoflogic]

[Ayumu sighs into his hand, shaking his head. Hizumi, you do know what you're asking, right?

And guessing from Eyes' scowl, the answer to his own question was a very strong negative. But Hizumi was right.... he wanted out of the snow, out of public, and out of any more embarrassing, god driven mischief.]

....Fine.

[Damn the gods. Damn them.]

[seeksblessings]

[Considering how much they all would love to be out of here, that's all the consent Eyes needs to hear. So he reaches out and pulls Ayumu toward him far more roughly than he has to, pressing his lips firmly against the younger's.

No, he doesn't care for comfort.

Or the intimacy of it.

He just wants this over with.]