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! ]

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Ah, sorry about that. I was tryin' to make it more comfortable for you, but it's hard to do layin' on the ground like that.

[...Haah, what a topic to end up on.]

[Ayumu keeps his face straight, thankfully, but there might be the tiniest hint of an embarrassed flush on his face. He hadn't meant to say that.]

It's not like the situation was that comfortable for either of us.

Well, like I said before: at least the kiss itself wasn't bad--

[--Dammit, he wasn't fast enough to get his hand over his mouth again.]

[Yeah, see, that isn't helping the blush on his face. At all. There's surprise on his face though, warring with embarrassment.]

You liked kissing m-- [He slaps a hand over his mouth, quickly glancing around at the dwindling stalls. They couldn't keep going like this.]

[No, indeed they could not. Especially since his reply, although muffled, is clearly an affirmative "mmhmm."

...It was fun, okay?]

[...Yeah, that response is one Ayumu is going to try to ignore, even as it sends his brain skittering to a halt for a second before he shoves it in a box to think about hopefully never. Today had already been far too much for Ayumu to deal with.

He practically drags Hizumi over to a nearby food stall, shoving his hand into his pocket to pull out his wallet in a rush. His voice is a little strained when he speaks.]

Pick something. please.

[And shove it in your mouth.]

Edited 2015-01-25 07:58 (UTC)

[Hopefully Ayumu is quick to pay, because he's just going to reach out and grab a skewer of grilled meat (naturally) and begin gnawing on it before anything else slips out.

Now it's his turn to try, if unsuccessfully, at getting his hand free. Alas.]

[Ayumu hands over the money fairly quickly for someone who could only use one hand, buying a grilled meat and veggie skewer for himself to keep his mouth occupied and grateful that Hizumi had picked up on his intentions with the sudden treats. If they could just keep their mouths occupied, they couldn't say anything weird.]

[He tries to take his time with eating even as he begins to tug Ayumu on the way to the house again. It may be a halfhearted attempt to actually separate his hand from Ayumu's while he's at it. The curse has long since lost its charm.

Unfortunately, just as he swallows, a few words come out:]

You really gotta work on your kisses th--

[It's a miracle he doesn't stab himself in the mouth as he begins chewing furiously on the next piece.]

[The silence has managed to pull Ayumu's focus away from Hizumi, and he had started to turn his attention to watching tree branches and the eaves of nearby stalls.... well, until Hizumi said that.

Ayumu nearly inhales a carrot slice for a moment at Hizumi's inopportune bit of advice, struggling before he finally swallows it down with a short gasp of breath.]

Work on them with who exactly?

[It's not like he would have had any chances to have gotten in any practice before.]

Edited 2015-01-25 09:23 (UTC)

[To be fair, he holds out for a good while, slowly chewing on the meat. But there's only so long it lasts before he has to swallow.]

You have another best friend, don't you?

[And he's got a guess as to just who that would be, too.]

[Damn it, he's never going to let that statement go, is he....?]

She's not my type.

[Ayumu shoves the skewer back in his mouth after that statement, just to make sure nothing is tacked onto it that he wouldn't want vocalized.]

She is older though, isn't she?

[He's still eating, but with a little less enthusiasm now that this isn't such an embarrassing topic for himself, personally.]

[Ayumu just keeps munching on his piece of meat as slowly as he can possibly manage, but eventually he has to swallow.]

What makes you think that has anything to do with it?

[Besides, she wasn't that much older.]

Well, your type is older women who are tough on the outside and cute on the inside, right?

And what makes you think she's that? [If anything, it was the other way around with Hiyono.]

It's not like my type is necessarily older just because of my sister, either.

[Just. To be clear. Madoka was Madoka, not....]

Heeeh, really? Kiyotaka seemed pretty sure of that one.

But still, she managed to get pretty involved despite everything, didn't she? She's gotta be close to you.

What do you mean, my brother seemed pretty sure of it?

[How much had his brother talked about him, anyway....? Way to rub salt in the wound. That 'despite everything' bit, though--]

Are you kidding? She's been stuck to me like glue since the Munemiya murder at my school.

Edited 2015-01-25 10:24 (UTC)

You didn't know? He told everybody all about it-- your first crush, that is.

[In case Ayumu ever wondered how everyone seemed to know.

Although on the topic of pigtails...]

...Just won't leave you alone, huh? You must be pretty important to her, if she's stuck with you this long.

What business is it of his to go spreading it around? It's still not enough to predict me off of. [Oh, he'd wondered, but for his brother to go that far--

Thanks a lot bro. Isn't that a little creepy, to go broadcasting your little brother's crush on your wife?

But at Hizumi's words he falls silent, memories of the fight with Kanone fresh in his mind again. She'd always been like that, stubbornly believing in him when no one else in their right mind would....

At this point, he'd given up on trying to shove her away. In all truth, he didn't want to, even in the situation they'd wound up in.]

I still don't know what she--

[And that Ayumu most definitely did not want vocalized, from the way he shoves the skewer back in his mouth, biting off as much as he can.]

It could be used to catch you off guard. Or as a weak point.

[Whatever the Blade Children saw fit to do with that information, really.

And ha. He knew it.]

Well, she's gotta see somethin' in you to keep riskin' her life like that. [Since tangling with the Blade Children can be dangerous at best, fatal at worst.]

EVENT MINGLE: AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

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