lostcarnival | ⇨ 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

'Because it's magic' sounds like a perfectly sensible description of what the sky and weather is all about. Not quite an explanation, because even magic has some amount of explanation... But a good summary!

"The cold is stronger than the sun, but the sun is stronger than the snow..." Sounds like a regular hierarchy of powers, here. "And... the snow is stronger than the plants?? This gets complicated, huh?"

"But the sun helps the plants. Snow melting gives water, sun shining gives light, the two together make the plants grow."

Well, the two and other things. Some plants grow better in one place than others. But Cole's got a feeling that Papyrus doesn't want to hear a complete and in-depth recitation of Cole's scattershot account of how plants work.

"It's a circle."

"A circle... Now that you say that, haven't I heard of a water cycle?" Scattered memories of human education and monster education overlap on the phrase, and he nods a slow understanding.

"The water recycles... how efficient." The surface couldn't count on rivers from higher worlds dribbling water and trash down into them, after all.

"That's a thing?" Cole doesn't have any memories of human education or monster education. As such, he's never heard of the term 'water cycle' before. Still...it does sound like a very efficient way of doing something and a good term that could be used to describe all of this.

"It sounds right," he admits, with a little shrug.

"But," Papyrus says with another frown, moving on from the subject of science neither particularly knows or loves. "What about the shape of the snow. Could a snow dragon... become a water dragon?"

A water dragon sounds very cool. Like a river, but wiggling around through the sky instead of through the ground. Or like a large, oddly-shaped floating puddle.

"Dragons aren't snow," Cole replies, as if it's the most obvious thing in the history of creation. "They're just dragons."

Cole, at least, is from a world with dragons. And those dragons that he's seen were the giant, fire-breathing lizard sorts of dragons: big and scaley and reptiles and not snow. Were Papyrus's dragons different?

In fairness, Papyrus considers, the snow dragon they're standing near is just a snow sculpture. Not a living creature of snow. It doesn't prove anything... besides the mystery artist's skills. But 'snowdragon' sounds familiar, and it takes him a minute to place.

"Are snowdrakes dragons? They're dragonish." It's hard to put hard lines on the sorts of monsters out there.

This is just going to be two people ask each other for clarifications for who knows how long. Because snowdrake? Cole's never heard that term before.

"What's a snowdrake?" Cole asks, with a frown.

He continues stroking at his chin thoughtfully, and offers, "Comedians, mostly...?"

That's an exaggeration by a good measure; while there was a slightly broken family who made or sought a living based around joking, there's plenty of the snowflake-looking dragonish monsters around Snowdin who don't spend their time making jokes of... varying quality. Teenagers especially, roaming around and doing whatever teens in the snowy forest do. But while they were all much smaller than that sculpture, and had beaks rather than whatever mouths dragons have... drake and dragon sound so much alike, there must be a connection.

As expected, Cole has no idea what's going on. So, snowdrakes are comedians who also look kind of like dragons. That...well, that doesn't make any sense! Even Cole thinks that doesn't make sense! But Papyrus feels it makes sense so Cole is going to try and find a way to piece out what the heck a snowdrake is so this can all make sense.

"Do they speak like you do? I can't really talk to the dragons I know. Just feel."

Unsurprisingly, most of the pain Cole feels from dragons is something along the lines of what the hell, please stop trying to murder me. But if it's between killing the dragon and letting his friends die then sorry dragon, Cole knows what he's going to choose.

⇨ THE LUNAR SOLSTICE

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