Who: EVERYONE
What: Look! A Distraction! Festival log part one. The overflow log can be found here and part two of the event can be found here.
When: Days 338-341 (Oct. 8-15)
Where: The castle courtyard.
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

[ All barriers are coming down for this five-day event: both the ones between the gods and their Travelers and between the city and its center. The castle courtyard is open to any and all for the next five days. NPC booths with games, snacks, and trinkets fill the space both along and around the entrance with plenty of room to spare for anything the Travelers might want to set up for themselves. Music and food fill the air at a constant, with firepits and decorative torches burning at night to light up the courtyard in an earthy glow and keep everyone warm. There will be plenty of food and entertainment, and the party will last throughout the night each night.

The theme of the festivities will change with every day:

Day 338 (Oct. 8/9)

It's time for a costume party! Travelers will be encouraged by the natives and gods alike to wear costumes both silly and serious! Anyone needing assistance simply need to say the word, and they will be descended upon by enthusiastic natives ready to help and desperate to put the tragedy of Thiazi's attack behind them.

Day 339 (Oct. 10/11)

Familiar scents will waft in the air with the theme of the second day: Home away from Home! The visiting god Honir has made a push to organize food and music straight from the Travelers' worlds, and it will all seem absolutely and utterly authentic. The natives will be cooking and playing music throughout the festival, and will be encouraging Travelers to to teach others about their own world/time's clothing and culture.

Day 340 (Oct. 12/13)

This day is going to follow something of a Samhain celebration. Merlin, with the permission and help from the gods, planted the seed of an oak tree in the centre of the courtyard. By this day, it will have grown as large as though it's been there for a hundred years. Travellers will be welcomed to tie ribbons or letters to the tree for their departed loved ones and friends, whether they've passed on or simply left the city, in remembrance and a final farewell.

However, being far too curious about to whom they're writing, Honir will be going through all of the ribbons and letters when no one's looking. Moved by their losses, he'll be bugging Mimir into helping him perform a spell that will bring a sort of comfort to everyone. Characters can receive up to a maximum of three photographs of themselves with whomever their ribbon is for, regardless of whether or not they ever took a picture with that person or even had the technology to do so. All of these photographs will be candid shots of happy memories that will be waiting for them on the Travelers' pillows.

(We aren't doing approvals for these so please, limit yourselves to only three photographs!)

Day 341 (Oct. 14/15)

This day will introduce a festival game with the gods! As you go around to the various booths and attractions throughout the festival, NPCs will be handing out small treats to anyone they see wearing the colors of their patron god - whether you wore the colour intentionally or not!

The gods themselves will also be hosting another game of sorts: each of Asgard's patrons and allies will have a riddle or trivia question for any Travelers that approach them. Answer these correctly and they will tie a token of their favor (a ribbon in their colour or crest) around your upper arm. These ribbons can be cashed in for prizes at any time during the rest of the festival! (More details can be found under Day 341 HERE.)

The log for the fifth day masquerade can be found here!

The event guide for various events throughout the festival can be found here. Please include your location and the IC day (ex. Day 338 - this can be found in the schedule) in your top-level comment or 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! ]

OVERFLOW LOG

Who: Newbies and anyone who wishes to greet them!
What: Getting used to the city
When: Days 337 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 338 - this can be found in the schedule) 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 October! If you're ICly introing during an event, make sure you take that into account. Thank you!

Have fun!]

Who: EVERYONE!
What: Bad Moon Rising: Week Four
When: Days 330-334 ( September 20-30 )
Where: All across the city.
Rating: PG-13, with a warning for death. Anything higher or very graphic should be taken to a private log, please.

[ Things have suddenly hit a breaking point. Anyone left on the city is still on edge, hallucinating, having trouble sleeping. The Natives of the city are paranoid and terrified, since more of them seem to die every day. The gods have announced that some Travelers are more tainted than others, and that to cleanse their souls, that they must be killed.

On the night of Day 330, things hit their breaking point. The nine chosen by Thiazi and Corrupted finally cross a final threshold, and the tainted magic takes complete hold of them. Their god powers are gone -- they are focused now with simply attacking the city, and they are no longer attempting to hide who they are. ]

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for Week 4 of the Bad Moon Rising event! Characters are still experiencing vivid hallucinations, sleepwalking, and fugue states -- but the attacks on the city that had been happening at night are now happening during the day.

The corrupted must be killed for their souls to be cleansed.

There will be two sections of mod-headers for this log: one will be threads of the corrupted just attacking the city, and will not be the threads where they die.

The other headers will be where characters in the city (eg, everyone still in Asgard and not corrupted!) will have the chance to kill those attacking. There are no signups for this, and unless otherwise noted by the character, these are a free-for-all.

Other than that, feel free to make your own headers if you want to thread out the events of the week without encountering the corrupted! Simply make sure to include LOCATION and OPEN/CLOSED in the subject. Thanks, and please let us know if you have any questions!! ]

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: EVERYONE being haunted by/hunting the ghosts/Reapers
What: An Introduction to Holes
When: Day 312 (August 17/18)
Where: The Dark Carnival/all across the city
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to the R-rated log and label any possible content warnings or triggers in your comment title, please!

[ On Day 312 (August17/18), the Reapers that were floating listlessly around the hospital have found new victims to manipulate. They can be found in the Dark Carnival instead, twisting the otherwise peaceful spirits that usually meander around the theme park into violent vengeful spirits.

These angry spirits, driven by the Reapers, will take to the city and will target Travellers whose circumstances remind them of their own. The spirit of a woman killed by her lover may go after a man who has been violent to women in his past; the spirit of a boy dead from drowning may go after someone who has nearly drowned before. Their only purpose is to achieve “vengeance” for their untimely deaths, and they will seek this vengeance out wherever they can throughout the city. Take care, Travellers, for the night is dark and full of terrors or your past may come back to haunt you. ]

[ OOC NOTES: This is the PG-13 mingle log for the Introduction to Holes Reaper plot. These spirits will not rest until they are either banished, brought to peace, or the Reapers are dealt with. A thread for plotting out how to seal the Reapers off is over here. Please be sure to include your character's location(s) and [OPEN/CLOSED] in the subject line, along with any possible trigger warnings. The R-rated log for threads with heavier content can be found here. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns! ]

Who: Gil Marverde and Nevy Nervine
What: Sickness! (belated)
When: Days 296-298
Where: Gil's room in Sigyn House
Rating: PG

[Gil wasn't an idiot; he knew that as a doctor he wouldn't be immune to disease or injury, any more than anyone else. More than anyone, he knew that. He'd died, after all. But knowing a thing, and imagining that it might actually happen, somewhere out of the blue, were two very different things. And when he'd started to get sick, he'd just sort of shrugged off the symptoms as nothing more than a few allergies, or a little cold, and carried on with it.

But even he had to admit by the end of the second day that this wasn't something he could ignore. Something he couldn't just walk off, when he couldn't even remember where he was or what he was doing half the time, and couldn't seem to shake the nausea, or the fever, no matter how he tried to eat and keep from being dehydrated. So he crawled into bed, and huddled up there to try and and wait it out. Just for awhile. Just long enough that he didn't feel so unspeakably awful.

It might be the one and only time since they arrived that Gil completely forgot about his best friend.]

Who: EVERYONE
What: Somebody's Poisoned the Waterhole!
When: Days 296 - 298 ( July 16 - 21 )
Where: All across the city.
Rating: PG-13. Anything that might go higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

[ The evening of Day 295 ( July 15 ), characters might go to sleep with a bit of a sore throat or an upset stomach. Something they ate, maybe, or perhaps they're coming down with something. Maybe a glass of water early the next morning will help clear it right up - or make it severely worsen. By the evening of Day 296 ( July 17 ), the poison in the water system will be spread throughout the entire city to affect anyone using the public water supply.

This can manifest however you'd like from wherever you'd like: indigestion from drinking tainted water, burns across your skin from bathing in tainted water, etc. The chemicals the spy dumped were random and imprecise and will affect people in several different ways to varying degrees of severity. Symptoms can take some time to manifest or appear immediately; they can be slightly inconvenient to near-fatal. Whatever you decide, people are getting sick and fast. The hospital and the clinic will have their hands full with trying to find a remedy as conditions spread and worsen through Day 297 ( July 18 - 19 ).

On Day 298 ( July 20 ), Heimdall will address the network with a rune to purify the water system. Travellers will have to help set up the arrays in various places all across the city and work together to activate this massive effort at reversing the spy's damage to the city. At the same time, three Travellers will be going after the spy himself before he can make a break for Utgard. A thread will be set up closed to Thor, Condesce, and Altair for them to play out their pursuit of the spy where everyone can see it. The decision of how to handle him is entirely in their hands, and they will bear the weight of that upon their return.

Everything should be returned to normal by the evening of Day 298 ( July 21 ) as the antidote is delivered across the city and the water system is completely purified. Reparations for the damages are up to you guys, but this event is sure to leave a sour taste in the mouths of many. ]

[ OOC NOTES: Get it? Sour taste? Because poison? Don't ever let me try to be humorous. This is the mingle log for the Somebody's Poisoned the Waterhole! event. A top level comment will be made for each district as well as the hospital, clinic and the closed thread for catching the spy. Please feel free to use these or make your own top levels with [OPEN/CLOSED] along with your time/location in the comment title. Let us know if you have any questions! ]

Who: EVERYONE, including 4th-wallers!
What: The festival and 4th-wall events!
When: Day 290 - 293 (July 4 - 11)
Where: All across the city!
Rating: PG-13. Anything that might go higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

[ On Day 290 (July 4), all of the natives will close down their shops and stores and instead set up booths and stalls all over the city streets. Bright lights and decorations will be put up across every district in the respective colours of their patron gods along with an underlying theme of Freyr’s dark purple and Freya’s rouge. The city will spring to life in celebration of both the twins’ return and the Travellers’ triumph in reviving them. The festival will last three days, with music, games, dancing and an impressive fireworks display every night, visible all throughout the city.

In the midst of the first night of celebrations (July 5), a small earthquake rumbles across the land. It is nothing terribly powerful or disruptive, only strong enough to shift glassware a bit or rustle the leaves. The natives will seem surprised but unalarmed and continue the festivities as normal.

During the night’s fireworks, people will begin to pop! into the world in arbitrary places. Guards and maids will immediately rush around to give these new arrivals temporary bracelets with grey stones to protect them from the Grey Sickness; be sure to take this gift, as there is no telling what will happen to you if you get lost to the Grey when your soul isn’t tied to this world.

Still, the festivities continue even in the presence of their unexpected guests. The natives will treat them with a vague sense of curiosity and confusion, but are otherwise as amenable and deferential as they would be with the Travelers. Hang out, have fun, and please, mind the carpet. ]

[ OOC NOTES: This is one of the mingle logs for the festival / visitor’s event! Characters in game and 4th-wallers can make their own top-level posts and also comment around to their hearts' content! All information on how exactly the fourth wall event works with the relevant rules can be found over here, and we are always available if there are any further questions or clarifications needed. Other places you can tag into and around include the general visitors/event log mingle, the network mingle with NPC involvement, and the visitor directory.

Please put the time/location in your comment title along with [OPEN/CLOSED] and have fun with Asgard’s first fourth wall event! ]

Who: Gil Marverde (bluespacebabe) & Nevy Nervine (neverymind)
What: Safety blanket event! The irresistible lure of Gil's shirts
When: Day 259-260
Where: Baldr House/Sigyn House
Rating: PG

( And you're miles and miles from your nice warm bed )

Who: Newbies and anyone who wishes to greet them!
What: Getting used to the city
When: Days 246 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 228) 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 March! If you're ICly introing during an event, make sure you take that into account. Thank you!

Have fun!]