Who: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria Thorpe, Ezio Auditore and Caterina Sforza
What: ASSASSIN DOUBLE DATE
When: Day 344
Where: A Fancy Restaurant

( Would you guess that I didn't know what to wear? )

Who: EVERYONE
What: Look! A Masquerade! Festival log part two, for the masquerade. Part one can be found here.
When: Day 342 (Oct. 16-17th)
Where: The banquet hall and ballroom inside Gladsheim Palace.
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please.

[ On the fifth day of the festival, Travelers will be welcomed into the castle itself -- many for the first time since their arrival -- for a masquerade ball! Live ensembles will be providing music for people to dance to in the ballroom, and maidstaff outfitted in fancy clothing will be walking around and providing flutes of sweet champagne. (There will be food and an open bar in the banquet hall, as well as comfortable seats to rest, relax, and chat.)

The gods will be gods, however, and it won't stop at that. This is the last day of their epic party; at the stroke of midnight, a small curse will hit everyone inside the castle barrier and the Travellers will be compelled to kiss their dates! This can be their date-auction dates, whomever they're dancing with at the time, their secret crush, or even everyone they came to the party with. The gods aren't picky about what defines a "date" this time around, so go crazy and pucker up!

EDIT: ( Because we mods miss things too ) By the time the party starts dwindling down and people are ushered out of the castle, it will have started raining outside. It's nothing so heavy as to trap everyone indoors, but those without an umbrella or a coat may find themselves soaked before they reach home. Stick together and try to keep each other dry - or at the very least, warm! Honir and the castle maids will be handing out umbrellas at the door, but Loki will be cursing the vast majority of them to turn into paper as soon as water touches them. Sorry, not sorry.

Part one of the event can be found HERE. Please include your location in top-level comment of your subject line when starting a thread! If you want to request a certain god, feel free to ping them and we will do what we can. Otherwise, have fun, and as always - let us know if there's anything you need! ]

Who: Desmond Miles & the Asgard Assassin Fam
What: Resurrection brings the need for comradeship
When: Morning of Day 334 and beyond
Where: A Needle in the Haystack
Rating: PG?

( and with it came the feeling, strange/ I'd waited for it all my life/ I didn't feel alone )

Who: EVERYONE!
What: Bad Moon Rising: Week Two
When: Days 323-326 ( September 8-15 )
Where: All across the city.
Rating: PG-13. Anything that might go higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

[ You've been on edge. Inexplicably, so far as you can tell in the moments after those short bouts of quick, sharp anger you've experienced in the past few days - but maybe it's simply stress from the recent attacks on the city. Perhaps some rest will help, or a nice day at Folkvang to decompress and gather yourself.

Whatever you try, though, the odd feeling of being off stubbornly lingers on. Anger is joined by discomfort, the shadows in the corners of the room just a little bit darker than usual and did you see something dart down that alley way? The hallucinations creep into every day activities, paranoia and snappishness leading to insomnia and sleep deprivation. Try as you may to ignore it, the symptoms only seem to escalate over time. Maybe it's stress. Maybe it's something else entirely.

But it's stubbornly lingering on. Perhaps some rest will help ... ]

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for Week 2 of the Bad Moon Rising event! Characters will start experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations alongside vivid violent thoughts at strange, innocuous moments. Some characters may start sleep walking and heading towards the Gate of Fog; none will make it, however, so lock your doors and keep an eye on your friends. Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] along with the time/location in your comment titles. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns! ]

Who: EVERYONE
What: The Fruits of Our Labor special event!
When: Days 322 & 323 (September 6-9)
Where: All across the city
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than this should be taken to a private log, please!

[ Starting Day 322 (September 6/7), Travelers in the city will notice apple trees of varying sizes springing up all over the city -- and we do mean all over, as while most of these trees will appear outside, some may show up unexpectedly in a bedroom or right in the middle of a shop! While some are quite small (and others incredibly large!), none of them will cause any actual damage. The branches of the trees will hang heavy with multicolored fruit, and the trunk of each tree has the following words written clearly into the bark: Choose Wisely. ]

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the Fruits of Our Labor event! Please see the linked post for details about the event, such as which apple does what and how to get approval on items from home. Threads can take place in traditional prose or in [brackets]; it's all up to you! Otherwise, please be sure to include your character's location(s) and [OPEN/CLOSED] in the subject line and let us know if you have any questions! ]

Who: Desmond Miles, Ezio Auditore, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Caterina Sforza
What: Nipote is in Asgard again and has some grave news from home
When: Day 308
Where: Needle in a Haystack & in the Bureau
Rating: PG-13?

( A stranger here, reborn it seems )

Who: Caterina Sforza and YOU
What: Free Tea and Hummus at A Needle in a Haystack!
When: Day 298 afternoon (or whichever the spy was caught)
Where: A Needle in a Haystack, in Odin's district
Rating: PG

[There is a sign outside of A Needle in a Haystack. It reads:

TODAY

FREE TEA AND HUMMUS

CELEBRATE CLEAN WATER WITH OUR HIGH QUALITY TEA
AND A PLATE OF HUMMUS AND PITA BREAD

When you enter the shop, you can find a few employees serving the drinks at the tables, a couple other stocking the shelves and helping customers, and Caterina overseeing the whole thing from a table in the corner. She has a cup of tea and is looking quite satisfied and would not be opposed to some company right about now.]

Who: Caterina and Maria
What: BFF SHOPPING TIME hell yes
When: Day 292
Where: ALL THE GOOD SHOPS
Rating: PG-13 because this is Caterina and they're going lingerie shopping.

( girls just wanna have fun...? )

Who: Anyone playing the Library Plot.
What: discovering things!
When: Day 239 (March 24-25)
Where: The Great Library in Odin District
Rating: PG-13

[Over the course of the day, some Travellers will receive the following anonymous text message:

the library guards are sleepy

Should these (or any) Travellers go looking, they'll find that the guards are in a deep magical sleep and they now have (unlocked) access to the inner chamber of the library. The room is a smallish round chamber containing mostly books of world history, geography, and information on famous people. Some books are missing -- the Gods have personally taken into their possession some materials and some were checked out when the greyness set in. The information available is anything that is not marked red on the plot gdoc. Yellow marks in the doc are things already known, but blue points are things only widely available as of this plot.

The characters who get the text will be anyone who would really want it. If your character isn't already interested in finding out what's in that room they won't get the message. If they were already curious prior to this plot you're welcome to assume they get it. There are no sign-ups and we won't be policing who says they got the message.

If you'd like an NPC to show up in your thread, please contact the player of that NPC as listed on the mod contact page.]

Who: Caterina Sforza (canmakemore) and YOU
What: Caterina gets canon updated...
When: Day 232
Where: The back rooms of Needle in a Haystack and elsewhere!
Rating: PG

( I came home like a stone and fell heavy into your arms )

Who: Newbies and anyone who wishes to greet them!
What: Getting used to the city
When: Days 200 and forward
Where: anywhere in town!
Rating: PG-13 tops! If it gets worse, move to a private log please.

[Please include your location and the IC day (ex. Day 200) in your top-level comment or your subject line when starting a thread! It can be any welcome hall, major attraction, or just out an about in any district. For newbies making a top-level thread, you may include your character's name/canon/house in your subject line if you'd like, to make housemates easy to find! :) If a God is needed or wanted, please ping the mods and depending on availability we might be able to throw them in where asked.

Also, keep an eye on the event schedule for January! If you're ICly introing during an event, make sure you take that into account. Thank you!

Have fun!]

Who: Caterina Sforza and YOU
What: SHOPPING SPREE
When: Day 199
Where: ALL THE GOOD CLOTHING STORES, AW YISS

[Basically Caterina has decided it's time for additions to her wardrobe.

And Ezio's wardrobe.

And probably Connor's wardrobe too since Lord knows it's unlikely the boy will ever shop for himself.

So throughout the day she will be found:

A: Browsing various shops, chatting with shopkeepers regardless of how much color they have, trying on clothes, and holding up men's clothes to envision them on certain people.

B: In the late afternoon, back at A Needle in a Haystack, out front at a table drinking tea after a good day's shopping. She'll have the items she bought for Connor and Ezio with her in case she sees them, but all of her things she's already deposited back at her room in Freya.]

Who: Caterina Sforza, Ezio Auditore, and Connor Kenway.
What: Meeting Mentore.
When: Day 185
Where: Needle in a Haystack
Rating: C for CONFUSION????

[After meeting Connor, buying him some clothes, and giving him some information about Asgard, it's time to bring him to see Needle in a Haystack and meet the Mentore.

So Caterina, arm in arm with Connor, arrives at the front of the store. She smiles at him and gestures widely to it.]

Welcome to Needle in a Haystack, Connor.

Who: Caterina and anyone who works at Needle in a Haystack or has a good reason for being in the back office there. Or anyone who manages to wander back there. OR WHATEVER.
What: WRESTLING WITH THE BOOKS
When: Day 185
Where: The Needle in a Haystack back office.
Rating: PG-13 for Italian swearing.

[Caterina is working on the record books for the store. It's clear they started off being kept well, but at some point in the past couple of months, the record-keeping has fallen a little short of Caterina's standards, and she's spent the past several days wrestling with them to get them up to snuff.

Anyone who walks into the office area, for any reason, will find her there, muttering curses in Italian and surrounded by piles of ledgers and paper and etc.

...

Fair warning, if you disturb her it's entirely possible she'll throw something at you.

...

That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it anyway.]

Who: Newbies and anyone who wishes to greet them!
What: Getting used to the city
When: Days 183 and forward
Where: anywhere in town!
Rating: PG-13 tops! If it gets worse, move to a private log please.

[Please include your location and the IC day (ex. Day 183) in your top-level comment or your subject line when starting a thread! It can be any welcome hall, major attraction, or just out an about in any district. For newbies making a top-level thread, you may include your character's name/canon/house in your subject line if you'd like, to make housemates easy to find! :) If a God is needed or wanted, please ping the mods and depending on availability we might be able to throw them in where asked.

Also, keep an eye on the event schedule for December! If you're ICly introing during an event, make sure you take that into account. Thank you!

Have fun!]

Who: Caterina, the staff of Needle in a Haystack, and YOU.
What: Free Tea Time!
When: Day 177 in the afternoon.
Where: A Needle in A Haystack, Odin District
Rating: PG, unless otherwise stated.

A Needle in A Haystack is open and serving complimentary tea and hummus to all who enter its doors. There's a good deal else to peruse and buy, including other food items and some more general goods. The atmosphere is lively and there are several tables to sit at, and guests can choose to socialize or simply enjoy their tea as they choose.

The staff wanders about, serving tea and making conversation.

Come in, browse, have some tea, and enjoy yourself!

((OOC NOTE: This is a super casual open kind of mingling free for all. Anybody is free to tag anybody!))

Who: Ezio (sicarius) and YOU
What: So someone's been asleep for his canon update and is now awake, and six years older. :|b TIME TO TROLL ALL THE PEOPLE.
When: Day 157!
Where: Odin, A Needle In A Haystack
Rating: PG-13 at most lmao

( Your number has been called )

Who: Malik singlehandedly, Ichigo suppressthedark, Caterina canmakemore, and Alice digophelia
What: Bringing Malik to A Needle In A Haystack and dealing with what happens then.
When: Day 155
Where: A Needle In A Haystack
Rating: Uhhh pg-13 at most, I think.

( Read more... )

Who: Thiazi & people up for trouble
What: a grand opportunity to get in with the baddies
When: Day 154 (oct 5-6)
Where: Utgard
Rating: possibly R for violence!
Warning: This log could contain dark content such as murder or torture. Please be aware of this if you tag in! Thiazi is a villain and interacting with her is risking damage to your characters. Please PM her journal or include your boundaries in your comment, so we know how much you're willing to expose your characters to.


[It's raining in Utgard as in Asgard. A steady, light drizzle comes from a flat grey sky, turning everything dim and damp and dreary. Still, the rain isn't stopping business from going on as usual in the busy metropolis. Shops are open and buses are running and more importantly official city business is being discussed.

At various times of day, Thiazi can be found in the nicer parts of the city near the government buildings. The buildings are well-crafted but stark and modern, in a sharp contrast to the fancy (but also modern) estate next door with its wide green lawn and ornamental trees beginning to turn colours. She is dressed in the rich pale golds of harvest wheat and russets of iron-laced earth, a picture of warm finery against the chilly drab backdrop of the rainy day. Her two bodyguards, tall and broad, flank her in sharp but equally fine clothing in a gold to match their queens, and carry the wide crimson rain-shade that keeps the water off of all three of them.

She stands out like a sore thumb -- but to her senses, so do Travellers. You may approach her, or she may approach you, but the clock is ticking and the Queen of Frost is looking to put more pieces on the game board.]


[ooc: Anyone who wants to meet Thiazi or has previous plotting plans with her is welcome to tag her here! Please be aware that involving characters with her is potentially a long-term plotting investment, so only tag in if you're looking to get involved! You don't have to have previously talked to the mods to jump in, though! Everyone's welcome. Also, feel free to have tags as long or short as you like, in actionspam or prose form. I'll follow your lead! :)]