lostcarnival | ⇨ THE LUNAR SOLSTICE

Entry tags:

⇨ THE LUNAR SOLSTICE

Who: Everyone!
When: Winter Breaks: Day 6 - Day 25
Where: THE MOON
What: The carnival journeys to one of its moons to celebrate the Lunar Solstice. More information here.
Warnings: Winter fun.

MOON WALKING↴

The journey to the moon only takes a blink of an eye, but it leaves the carnival far away beneath you. The second moon can be seen on the peripheral, massive compared to its usual view. At least when the holidays start out, there will be no notable wildlife on the moon, though this is something you can talk to the Ringmaster about if you think it needs a change. It sounds like this is the first time she's used it in quite a while - it probably needs some dusting off!

Claim your cabins, and proceed to... well, do whatever you want! There is no rush and little obligation, besides to enjoy yourself. For real, this time. She promises there will be no vampires. Or, at least, none that don't already work for the carnival.

► CABINS: Living arrangements are character choice for this event, and there are a variety of cabins of various sizes, mostly built to house 2-6 people, though you can fit more in if you squish. They are all made of wood and of a rustic design - no fancy modern furniture, here! Each building is housed with a fireplace and the needed amenities. You can pick up materials to cook with the private kitchens if you like. Theoretically, you could spend the whole holiday sequestered away, watching the snow fall. Some of them also have outdoor hot tubs available!

► ACTIVITIES: Activities are mostly going to be character driven, though there will be some large group games like bingo and maybe a poker tournament happening at some point in one of the festival halls. Otherwise, there is a lot to offer: skiing, snowboarding, hiking, ice sculpting, snowball fights - it goes on! If you'd like to run a winter activity, just let the mods know, and we will get the word out there for you.

► FEASTING: Every day isn't a full-out feast because that would get a bit unhealthy, but there will be a number of specific feast events over the holidays where everyone is encouraged to let out their inner hedonist and stuff themselves. There will be one big feast per week, with smaller but also delicious meals offered in between. The feast dates will be B12, B18, and B24. There's also plenty of alcohol available for anyone who wants it.

► SHOPPING: As mentioned in the planning post, there is a massive market being run by the World Walker Caravan! The Ringmaster has given everyone 1250 credits to spend on items, but there is a caveat - must spend at least 500 of those credits on gifts for other people. And it better be a good one, if you only buy one! (She will ask that you do not buy her presents, however. She appreciates the sentiment, but it seems sort of silly buying her things with her own money! If you'd like to gift her, please have it be something more personal or handmade, but you are not obligated to get her anything at all.)

► TREATMENTS: The beginning of the holidays will also be about the time that the emergency Medical Team will have finalized their treatments for the Prince's poisoning. Watch out for further information on that - and make sure to get treated if you are suffering from petrification or poison induced illness! The holidays will be a lot more fun that way.

Page 40 of 172

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

But you can still buy things for people if you buy something for yourself.

[ at least in Cole's mind, this seems to be a very simple concept. And yet, Connie's having trouble with it? ]

9S can't help but wince at the mention of 2B, but brushes it off in favour of dealing with... whatever it is that Rita has got on her mind.

"...like?" he prompts, wanting to know the rest of her thought before he says anything more.

That slurred speech, the unsteady gait earlier... aw man. He's seen this before, at the Resistance Camp.

A: KNIT FAST, DIE WARM

[Hinawa has a lot on her mind when they first arrive, and she wants to do something to keep her mind occupied. So she finds some yarn, sits out in a rocking chair by the fire, and starts knitting.

For hours.

Large knitted sweaters start to take shape after a short while, each one emblazoned with a different letter. If you want to investigate, be warned, because she might jump up and plaster a sweater against you. The letter is the initial of your first name.]

Here- let's see if it fits!

B: Tis better to give

[The market is certainly impressive, and Hinawa feels obligated to at least check it out a little bit, but she's utterly unfamiliar with nearly everything the merchants have to offer. She'd like to buy some treats for others, but that would require her to know what a "mecha armor" or a "video game" is.

When she's not staring with a puzzled expression at the different pieces of armor, she might be following you not-so-subtly as you do your own browsing.]

Oh! Do you like that one? ...What is it, exactly?

C: Say cheese

[A few days into the trip, Scout has graced her with a camera, which she's never seen before, and has no idea how to use. But it was a gift and she's going to figure it out!... Maybe. So she's wandering around, pointing the device at anything that catches her attention, which could very well be YOU.

If you didn't want your picture taken, you can take solace in the fact that there's probably a big thumbprint over your face when the photo develops, or your head isn't even IN the shot.]

Edited 2017-11-28 03:25 (UTC)

[THE WHOLE STRETCH | EMPATHY CABIN]

While food is still provided at some larger, gathering based location, that does not stop Reira from peeking into the kitchen every now and then during the holidays. After a point however, given who they're staying with, the girl finds that there's a lot more....'raw materials', so to speak. Sugar. Flour. That sort of thing. She can't really snack on this.

She can however, notice any smells coming from in there, and gravitate toward that.

....Or maybe this is later in the week. Later, when she's not only found said source, but is actually learning how to contribute herself. Slowly. Awkwardly. Probably by way of simple tasks like mashing a bunch of dough on the floured counter, or rolling it flat with the pin.

The cookie cutters, at least, are quite fun.

[DAY 9 | CLOSED | PAPYRUS & LATER FLOWEY]

It is simple enough for her to prepare....Mostly.

The struggle with planning surprise gifts is that it's best to have some distance from the one you intend to surprise. Unfortunately, while Papyrus has an almost guaranteed way of avoiding Flowey-namely, his cabin also having Sans in it-Reira is not only not so lucky, but rather foolishly had Flowey stay with her in the first place. Getting the orders for things made was easy enough-Flowey had his own shopping to do. But now, they had to actually...deliver it.

Which is why she finds herself knocking on Papyrus' door, rather than going to the blacksmith to claim her new heated flowerpot from the dwarf. She's lucky she was willing to hide it for a bit, really.

"Umn...! Papyrus?" she calls, new sweater sleeves dangling a bit from her arms. "....Are you there?"

[DAY 11, LATE AFTERNOON | ARC-CABIN]

The cure, fortunately, is one dose for her. Unlike Gongenzaka-who is absent from the cabin for the very reason-Reira doesn't need to take a long soak in someone's hot tub, which means she grabs her liquid dose and makes for the place where it's 'most responsible' to drink. At least, that's what she starts to do.

She quickly backtracks, after all, if at least to grab something....important. There's not really anything to wrap it in, but....well for now one of the pillow cases will do. The paint is dried, anyway. So with the card and gift in the pillow case, Reira heads off, still wearing the same sweater and shorts as before, still carrying whatever else was shoved in her pockets throughout the week.

She heads out, and eventually, knocks on a door matching the number she was given at the start of the holiday.

"Ummmm....Yuzu-Neesama? Can I come in?"

Edited 2017-11-28 03:45 (UTC)

Joker wakes up in his best friends' cabin, with a horrendous hangover that sounds like he might as well have bashed his head into stone last night and it might have been the better choice than the alcohol.

But he's not poisoned and his legs are both purely flesh. So that's something.

When he makes it out, it's to head straight back to his trailer in the carnival for a stop to grab all the things he'd forgotten to grab initially. Poison is a hell of a thing, as it turns out. Bare necessities are the most important, of course, and he's glad to be in warmer clothes... but he's even more glad when he can settle down in front of a mirror and carefully applies eyeliner along the curve of his eyelids. Habit is harder to break than any spell or curse, which is part of why he's so relieved as his face starts coming together in the proper way... but there's another part to it too.

Being able to put on a more solid representation of the mask he so often wears is as reassuring as anything.

Once he's dressed up, looking as healthy as he feels and no longer quite wanting to keel over from headache and nausea both, Joker takes his time glancing around the moon. This isn't the first time they've made a chilly stop, he thinks, but it's been a long while regardless. He enjoys in the nostalgia of it, trying to focus on more positive memories instead of the more negative ones. The company and the market help balance it all out, in the end, and he has a good time just being able to walk among his coworkers again while perusing the various wares.

Yet it's hard to ignore all that's happened.... At least completely. Hard to remember things that were said or which happened. He's a bit absentminded as he walks through the snow, not realizing where his feet and subconscious mind have lead him until he glances up to see a certain cabin nearby.

If a certain skeleton is there is another matter entirely.

And at the knocking at the door, there’s Yuzu, her face turning from confusion to happiness.

“Of course you can.” She said, smiling as she opened the door wider for Reira. How are you feeling?”

Taako is, honestly, overjoyed to not have to work and save the world this Candlenights, and he's celebrating with his two favorite winter activities: baking and drinking wine. When Reira enters the kitchen, she'll find a fresh tray of sugar cookies, along with Taako-- sitting next to a partial bottle of Merlot, some of which has been poured into a tall glass-- humming to himself as he carefully pipes a mixture into small circles on a baking sheet.

It's only after he takes another deep swig of wine that he notices Reira, and he quickly sets the glass down, clearing his throat.

"Uhh, hey there, pumpkin, what's going on?"

The wine is, suffice to say, not what is catching Reira's interest. Actually it's not even Taako's good mood-though on any other day it could well have been. Positivity is infectious to a point, and it's just a generally nice thing to be around. No, what it is, is-

"...I smelled something," she starts, blinking with more obvious interest than typical. "....It's 'sweet', like candy is."

A Fact: Reira has absolutely not been told that cakes and pastries are not candies, and is absolutely going to lump those things together.

Anghel does have a top level now. Would this count?

"It's certainly been more fun than the last few times I dealt with snow like this." And that's all Strange is saying for that cryptic statement because floating boxes! That's something much more fun to talk about.

"I can carry a few of those, if you wish," Strange says, as he gestures to the floating boxes, "although I understand if you'd rather take care of it yourself."

After all, Susan's using his magic to make these things float. If Susan wants to keep showing off and having fun and using his magic, Strange isn't going to try to stop him. Lord knows he's had his own share of moments that boiled down to 'yes you could just do the thing via normal means but we're gonna do the thing via magic'.

[Connie is a much deeper thinker than Yuya is. He's also completely distracted from the thought that she might be asking him for a reason, by talking about his friend instead.

Yuya presses his fingers together.] Gongenzaka likes poetry and really heartwarming stories. You know, the ones that make you cry at the end because they're so honest.

[His friend is a nerd with nerd tastes.] I think Reira would read anything, but she hasn't been able to read lots of children's books. And Rita likes magic!

... uh, but I don't know anyone else you mentioned well enough to say.

Edited 2017-11-28 04:01 (UTC)

Oh, how darling. That's right-- this little lady probably hasn't had much time to enjoy cookies and cakes in her life.

"Oh, yeah, uh, I've been doing a little baking." He glances around at the cookies and cakes lining the countertops, and clears his throat. "... well, uh, a lot of baking. Hey, do you want a cookie?"

Taako picks up one of those cookies from the tray, and he offers it to her with an unusually earnest smile.

Not much at all- in fact, her eyes might as well be as big as the cookies. ".........It was actual candy?!" she half whispers, looking to the cookie for a moment with near awe.

She is absolutely (albeit delicately, and carefully) taking that cookie. And after a second or two just to hold it, taking a nibble.

"Mnnmmnn...~" COOKIES...........................

Taako has, it seemed, successfully discovered Reira's greatest weakness.

"Ok!" Good, excellent. Reira is trotting right in, the pillowcase bundle tight in her arms, while one hand carefully holds her drink. "...'m still a little sick, but this is supposed to make it stop," she explains, kicking the snow off her sneakers before trying to pull them off with her feet. She's learned the hard way that the consequence, otherwise, is Wet Floors.

Slippery floors, in fact.

Ow.

That said- "....The doctor said I had to be somewhere with 'supervision' though."

"Well, technically, it was cookies, but, uh... sure, yeah!"

Oh no. That's adorable. He grins as he watches her enjoy that cookie, and he goes back to piping out those little circles as he talks.

"Well, uh, there's plenty more laying around in here if you want it. Go crazy.
I mean, probably leave some for the rest of us, but, you know. "

"Mnnnhh... ....Cookies aren't candy?" she asks, blinking from the cookie for a moment. There is, from there, a pause. "...If I ate all of them, it'd be a long time before there were more though, right..?" On top of eating Everyone's cookies, there wouldn't be cookies for ages, Clearly.

...Right?

Uh-uh! No takebacks! The point of this game is to be very literal!

[ She pours Carly a shot. ]

You gotta drink too! Remember the rules!

It's that and luck. Reading people doesn't mean anything if the cards are sorted in such a way that you get a bad hand over and over.

... do you know anyone supernaturally lucky?!

[ Flowey pops under the ground...

And pops up again, a short distance away! ]

C'mon, I know a short cut!

[ The direction Flowey is going in is absolutely not a shortcut. It's more like the scenic route. ]

That's it? We're just gonna look at what each other's wearing as an excuse to drink? At first I was down but now I'm down for a challenge.

Never have I ever... [ Reading his entire get-up... seems pretty old fashioned politician or detective. ] ... solved a mystery?

If he wants to hear how terrible at people he is, he'll have to keep up with Childermass and Baker. They're steadily walking out of town and the snow is only going to get deeper from here on. To Strange's startled demand, though, he shrugs.

Because, of course, he shrugs, this is such a shruggy moment. How is he even supposed to explain it? If they'd been back in England, he never would have mentioned such a thing, since it honestly only mattered to him if it put them in danger or not, but here, danger is kind of always.

"You spend an inordinate amount of time talking just to hear yourself be clever," he points out. "Surely you didn't do that on the Peninsula. I can't imagine you surviving out there for long if you had."

"I'm sure. Seems like he doesn't remember anything between... being in the dungeon and waking up in the carnival."

Another pause, then... he has to let her know. So she won't assume Joker is more in the dark than he actually is. "...I told him some of what happened. Not the details, but-- I guess he knew something was up. ...Just being told is probably better than remembering it entirely, at least."

He just hopes Doll isn't upset with him for that, but... he supposes he can't blame her if she is.

Maybe the crystal always had a spirit, but you gave it a way to live outside it. [Yuya circles around in front of her with his skates, looking a little excited by the prospect.] That's so cool!

He's sitting at the table with the medicinal liquor and two tall glasses of water.

"Okay, we have to drink lots of water with this so we can stay hydrated." He looks at Susan, still a bit frustrated that this was the outcome of all their work growing things. Beggars couldn't be choosers though, so if this was the only cure they had he would take it, and he'd let Susan take it too. He pushes the glass towards his brother.

"Drink some water in between sips, okay?"

Susan nods as he pulls the glass closer, even taking a sip of it now for good measure.

"It can't be that bad, or it wouldn't work. So don't worry too much." Because he's sure that Lauren is already worrying about him, and about how bad of an idea this is.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Page 40 of 172

⇨ THE LUNAR SOLSTICE

no subject

no subject

Hinawa | OTA

DAYS 9 - 11 | CLOSED PROMPTS

B12

ARC-House

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject