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⇨ 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.

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It's ok!

....You're coming inside then, if it's cold for you though. [No questions about it. She might not have a full message on the card for him yet, but maybe it's better this way. She'll try gently shoving him toward the door to go inside now.]

[Yuya moves to get to his feet just before Reira starts shoving him forward. Not that it's going very far, and first he turns around to look at her with a raised brow.] Uh, okay.

[He stuffs his hands in his pockets, letting her take the lead to her trailer.]

[Good good, into the cabin then-

It's toasty and warm-and decently sized, fortunately, or Foster would have been quite handily screwed after his....changes. They won't talk about those. Regardless, right now it's just nice and dark other than the warm crackle of the fireplace, its light glinting on something glass in the distance that's been presently covered gently with a blanket.

Reira stops pushing however, at least long enough to close the door. In the meantime, Yuuya can probably see a few remains of scattered paints and things, most of them on the coffee table.]

[Yuya bites his lip to hold in a laugh as she insistently shoves him inside. His attention ends up finding its way to the scattered paints, and he approached them out of curiosity to see what's up.] Are you making something?

AH-!

[ANNNND She's immediately running over to try and spin him around. It's tricky, what with her being 3'8'' and spindly and all.] No, you have to turn around now!!

[Rude!! Why would you immediately gravitate toward her PROJECTS!! (Because they've got glitter and eyecatching shenanigans Reira, it's magical paint stains.]

[Reira absolutely can't spin him around on her own, but he plays along anyway and goes completely rigged before awkwardly turning on his heels.] I didn't see anything!

Good! [YEAH. ...Uh. ...Well, she decides, she can't Not give him his gift Now then...otherwise this will just be awkward. So, quickly,
she runs back toward the glass thing while Yuuya's looking away, gently reaching in to pull something out from beneath the cover, and hurriedly grabs a card on the table. It's sort of crudely painted, and she never got her full message written on it but...it'll do. Remembering to be happy like he had been in that duel with this monster is the important part after all.

So she goes back to being just behind Yuuya, and-]

Ok!

....You can turn around now, but it has to be slow.

[And once he has, before he can speak-] Umnh....

H...Happy Solstice..!

[Yuya closes his eyes with a smile, waiting patiently (mostly patiently) for Reira's instruction. When she finally lets him turn around he spins on his heels, opening his eyes and looking down--

... What is that in her hand? Not the card, the other things.] Oh! Those are for me?

[There is, quietly, a little squeak as the tiny thing wakes a little. It gives a croak sound that almost seems mixed with a chirp, slowly blinking its tiny eyes as the throat blows out and sinks back down with the sound.]

Yeah! ...This is...a Snufflewomp. ....It seemed like the kind of pet that you would like, because it's small, and pink, and the store person says they like 'flowers and sunbathing'.

....So it's a nice friend, that you can have here. [Instead of, you know, a T-Rex. Or a Chain-Chomp. Or a lot of things.]

[It's a... frog-thing? He's not sure why he evokes the image of 'small and pink', though.

He crouches down and cups his hands to form a base to take the critter. He's only ever had cats and dogs, and it looks pretty fragile. Isn't it going to need a tank or something? And what does it even eating.]

Uh--thanks!

[Buddy you ride around on a pink hippo, embrace it.

~~And it Eats the Flowers, ofc.~~

The snufflewomp sniffs for a moment, and then slowly takes to the air, apparently ditching the need for hands over all. Fiddling with its fore legs, it promptly looks over Yuuya with wide eyes, before giving a loud ribbchirp, and diving for the boy's hair.]

UMN-

[SHE DID NOT FORESEE THIS.]

Ah--[Yuya jerks suddenly as it goes for his hair, but he stops quickly in it's too close that he doesn't want to risk hurting it. It tickles, but he can't squirm around once he's lost sight of where it went so he just ends up flailing it hands uselessly.] Aah! Where'd it go?!

[More importantly, what is it doing?]

Umnnn!! [Oh dear. After a few attempts to go at what is clearly an Enormous Flower, the snufflewomp seems to be a bit confused and tuckered. Eventually a tiny weight settles down, with a croaking nod.]

....They're giving up, I think...

...They like to eat flowers, so maybe they got confused by the colours?

My hair isn't a flower. [Whine whine. He almost reaches for it, but considers better and instead tries to just see where it landed. It's not very successful and mostly makes Yuya look cross-eyed.]

I've never had a frog before... did they tell you how to take care of it?

It's not a frog, [she corrects immediately.] And they don't know it's not a flower! They just see it's shiny and red. [But don't worry, don't worry-she gestures for him to follow, and uncovers the tank she'd draped a small sheet over. It was meant to be Night Time after all and the firelight was going to ruin that.]

...It's a Snufflewomp. That's different. I got a lot of instructions, and they were written down, but they also made a 'vivvvv...' ...vivvar...viv...

[Moment please.]

....They made a 'Vivarium'! So there's lots of plants and things in there already, and you don't have to clean anything other than water and food stuff. [Tadaaaah. It's a nice little tank-it didn't need lots of space, being the size of a hummingbird, but it looks like for ground activities at least, it's good. There's space enough for a little carefree flying in there as well, though he'll probably want to take it out for that kind of free time.]

Snuffle... womp. [That sounds like a very fae name, maybe that's where it's from?

He gets up slowly so as not to scare it as he moves to check out the tank. He's used to cats and dogs that get the entire house to roam, but reptile pets are usually kept in tanks like this, right?] Can I have the instructions?

[Cause he's gonna need them.]

[Honestly it's probably going to fall asleep up there if he's Too Careful. This is your life now Yuuya.

The tank in any case, seems to be of a decent size; he'll be able to see the bottom, which is one half white substance and another half Soil for the plants inside. For all that it likes flowers, there aren't a lot of flowers in there...There are however plenty of things to hide in, fly to, climb on...a water dish, and also some sort of feeding thing. With the sheet removed, the light above it can be seen to be set to off, but still 'warm'. Night time.

Reira pulls from beside it what looks to be a folded up pamphlet of sorts, which was absolutely handwritten down. (Not by her. That'd be silly.)] Here!

[Whether Yuuya can realize it or not, it appears a lot of the care for the little guy works on the rules of a more active, diurnal frog, combined with a pet bird. Make sure the Darkness is there at night for 12 hours, make sure to let them out for a little play-time so it can get a decent amount of flight...feeding is a nectar-like mix which is relatively easy to cobble together, combined with the occasional bug (One to two a day), and a list of good 'treat flowers' has been provided.] I've been looking after them for until it's time to give you them, but... ...I guess that's now, now.

[Yuya does not remotely realize it, having paid little actual attention in biology. Or any other science class.]

Huh... [He's reading it over and it's a lot more complicated than he's used to. But it's his pet now, so he's going to need to take care of it. And figure out a name. And where the hell he's going to put the tank.]

Can I come back for the tank in a little bit? I'll need to make sure I know where to put it.

Yeah! I can still look after them, for now, [She insists, holding out her hands.]

....They're supposed to be sleeping though, so we need them back.

[Before they doze off There, for that matter.]

[It shouldn't be trouble taking it to their cabin until he can scout his trailer for space, but he should still get help moving it... he snaps out of his thoughts quickly, however.] Oh, yeah sure!

[He sticks the corner of the pamphlet between his teeth so he can free hands to carefully roll the snufflewomp out of his hair and into his hands instead. It starts squirming around, of course, and he tries to shush it and calm it back down.]

[Good, good- She'll take that once she can...

Now watch the ~~empath-cheating~~ master at work- Reira runs one gentle finger down from nose to rump a few times, and the tiny thing stops squeak sniffling and seems to curl up for a snooze again. She carefully deposits it on a leaf, closes the tank door, and replaces the blanket.] ...ok..!

...umn....

....do you think you won't have room, though..? [She asks, following a guess at the other's mood.] ...It seemed like something that would fit really easy on the table Yuzu and I have, so I thought you'd have room too...

[Yuya removes the pamphlet from his mouth now that his hands are free. It's a lot less slimy than he expected.]

No, it should be fine. But I don't want it to get in the way of Tamaki's things, so we might have to rearrange stuff?

[Ideally the tank should be out of the way for convenience and its own safety.] I'll come back for it tomorrow!

Mnh! [Well, if he says so, he says so. She'll just have some faith that he won't Not have room, and smile for now.] ...ok..! ...That's good...

[........] ....Who's Tamaki?

[Ah, minor detail she's not ever really asked about, that one-]

He's my roommate. [Yuya gestures his hand high above his head.] He's really tall with horns and silver hair. He's an acrobat too, you've probably seen him around!

Mnhhh... [...She probably has, and just not really noticed. There's lots of people like that for her, to be fair.]

...I'll know when I see him again, I think. [Y a y]

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⇨ THE LUNAR SOLSTICE

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its bright red its askin for it shhhh

help him

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wind down time...