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Jonathan Strange ([personal profile] kingsroads) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-12-07 08:22 am

[open] december will be magic again

Who: everyone!
When: the evening of D15
Where: A small meeting hall on the moon, close to the portal to the carnival
What: a whole bunch of show-offs meet up to show off their magic, people interested in magic come to learn about said magic, and other people show up to see if something inevitably gets set on fire. (aka mage club)
Warnings: none so far, will edit if needed.

The meeting hall is a large open space, with hardwood floors and a rustic decor. A few chairs and tables are scattered around, though there aren't enough for the amount of people who'll hopefully show up. Some food has been set out: mostly finger foods (tiny sandwiches, fruit, veggies & dip) though there are some savory options and plenty of home-baked cookies, courtesy of Rin. Drink wise, there's water, hot chocolate, hot tea, and a few bottles of wine because tipsy magic sounds like an awesome idea and this is what happens when the alcoholic makes the dinner menu. Aside from the food table and the few tables, there's not much of anything in the room: plenty of open space for showing off or getting out of the way of someone who wants to show off.

One of the doors of the meeting hall leads to the outside. There's a wider, 'backyard' sort of area with plenty of room for people to cast magic as large and impressive as they want. A fire pit stands outside also for warming your hands and other fire-based magic. Please don't set the building on fire.

This is all very informal. If pressed for details, Strange would have told anyone to just come whenever, stay as long as you like, and so on and so forth. The emphasis is on learning about each other's magic, displaying one's skills and talents, and helping anyone who wished to learn magic decide on a path for them to take.

Showing off is just a given.

( ooc: This is an open mingle log! Feel free to make your own top-levels & tag around! )
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[personal profile] whattaprick 2017-12-24 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
If only life were that simple. Lambert frowns a little, but ends up just forcing a laugh, shaking his head. Leaving behind the only life he's ever known? Even if he doesn't like it, it's familiar, comfortable, most of the imperfections known. to go from that to something completely new ... well, it's probably the benefit of being young, isn't it? The future seems so much easier to attain.

"Maybe," is what he settles on instead, shrugging with a slightly sardonic smile. "But I've got months to go on this contract yet. Don't need to plan on my next one."

But speaking of contracts -- he cocks his head at Yuya, raising his brows. "Did Gongenzaka renew his? He said his time was up soon." He must have, since Lambert's seen him around, but he could have been sticking around just for the cure, too.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-12-24 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Eh?" Yuya's expression lifts and he's surprised. That's not a question he was expecting. "Oh, not yet. He's going to when we go back down to the carnival." Once their vacation is over and he can take a brief trip home between contracts. Yuya doesn't expect to miss him long, given how short Strange was gone.

His expression scrunches a bit as he tries to remember whether Gongenzaka's in Lambert's department, and that's why he's wondering. But he's under Sans in patrol, right? "Why?"
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[personal profile] whattaprick 2017-12-27 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"He told me while we were stuck under the Prince's castle." Lambert shrugs, idly. "Didn't say if he was going to stick arund or not."

If he chose not to, given what he went through? It wouldn't surprise Lambert, though it also wouldn't surprise him if he chose to stay. There are reasons for both, and he doesn't know Gongenzaka well enough to predict what he'd choose.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-12-27 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Well, Yuya's gone and said it, but it's not really a secret is it? Gongenzaka's contracts are relatively expected and innocuous compared to everyone else from his set of dimensions.

He stuffs his hands in his pockets. At least Lambert's properly distracted Yuya from his own contracts, at least for now. "He's going to stay for another year, and then we're going to go home. Uh, not all at the same time but closer together than if he left now I guess?"
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[personal profile] whattaprick 2017-12-28 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
If they survive the year. That's the mildly cynical thought at the back of Lambert's mind, but it's one he doesn't share.

"Doesn't really make a difference, does it?" he says. "Either way, time runs differently here."
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2017-12-28 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"It does for the people who are still with the carnival." Which is exactly why he's staying and not waiting out their contracts. It's exactly the thought that Lambert doesn't voice. "It gets dangerous, so we have to look out for each other and make sure everyone makes it home."

He doesn't want to think about what happens when someone doesn't make it home, least of all one of his friends.