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.

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"Great. Awesome," Julien says, more flatly and hesitantly than is his usual. The skeleton hadn't shown a lot of industry in his experience, but stop. Stop. Don't be like that. He shouldn't take it personally, however much he wants to.

He closes his eyes, inhales and exhales deeply, and just goes on and bites the bullet.

"Do you... not remember me? I mean, I looked pretty different. A lot bigger. More teeth." Maybe that's not clear enough. Julien's looking away, now, uncharacteristically, but a spectral eye forms floating by his elbow so he can still see. He'd better make it unmistakeable. "Fluffier, blood all over my face by the end... hah, I still have some concussion going on, actually, but my skull's back in one piece and my eye's reformed now. The good thing about a healing factor. So, I'm on the mend."

He has no idea how both of his bodies got made into the daspletosaurus, but the damage all ended up with his bird one. Along with the poisoning.

Fluffier, bloodier, and skull... healing... Papyrus stiffens, backs a half-step with his hands reflexively raising to his mouth. There was really only one person that could describe, one he hadn't sought to check on. One he had hoped to forget about, and who... he'd hoped... wouldn't remember any of it.

Apparently they hadn't all been that lucky.

"Oh no," he says, all the recognition flooding into face and voice. "I, uh... That is. It's good you're healing! I'm... very glad, that you are." A brief pause, as he struggles for words for a few seconds, and deliberately looks back at that spectral eye. "That means, you remember... What a terrible memory. I'm so sorry that any of that happened!"

Julien feels bad about bringing it up, now, but also, he still wants it brought up, he still wants to talk about it. He pushes his glasses up with one palp and rubs the lower half of his face with the other, grimacing a little at the taste of salt.

He still doesn't look up with his actual face, but his spectral eye doesn't close either. "Yeah, I remember." That it seems like the others don't is honestly upsetting, not that he wants to tell them that. It's better not to remember. "It's mostly flashes at the end at least but, shit."

Ugh, he should probably get to the point. "It's... I want it to be recognized. That happened, and pretending that it didn't sure won't make it so. I mean, I know whose fault it was and he's dead anyway, but, it happened. It sucked. It still sucks."

It's strange hearing someone else say that, that pretending things didn't suck won't make it better. So many people are unwilling to just say unpleasant things, outright, to Papyrus. It's one of his favorite ways of dealing with problems.

So he's unpracticed at hearing accounts of feelings like these, and a range of expressions crosses his skull as he listens. Guilt confusion, sadness, and a kind of relief. Having such clear instructions of what Julien wants, makes it easier to know what to do next and still believe he's helping.

"It super sucks!" Papyrus bursts out. "It does suck, and, if it helps you to think of it, then... I'm willing and eager to think of it with you! Affirmation... isn't my middle name, but it could be."

Julien half smiles up at him, lips tugging over lopsidedly. He speaks more slowly than is usual for him, as if he has to haul each word out from somewhere before saying it. "The whole situation was awful. I'm glad no one else who was in those catacombs also ended up in the hunt. ...It was just a bad scene all around. Maybe I deserved some comeuppance for making a stupid assumption but I really didn't deserve all that. None of us did."

He scuffs a boot in the snow and curls his fingers in his pockets.

"I don't want you to feel bad about it." Julien pauses. Might as well be honest. "Maybe a little bad, but like, I know you're not to blame and I don't want you to have to dwell on this too long either? It was just really fucked up, the whole situation."

⇨ THE LUNAR SOLSTICE

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