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- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
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introductory mingle: HYGGE
what: Introductory Log and Hygge celebration
when: The month of December.
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines
In the days leading up to December 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Hygge. This holiday is one of Riverview Quarantine's four yearly celebrations of love, this one focused on familial love and found family. The traditions associated with Hygge involve coziness and warmth with loved ones, as snow begins to blanket the Quarantine. Meals comprised of family favorites are shared together most nights of the month of December, and families both biological and found gather together by outdoor fires to drink hot cocoa and other warm drinks, roast marshmallows, and enjoy the beauty of the short-lived winter season on the moon, especially at night, when both the stars and almost unreal aurora borealis light the night sky.
Winter comes to the moon very quickly every year, as the orbit of the Capitol World crosses between its moon and the sun - the temperature drops to just below freezing in the span of only a couple of days, and the trees often don't even change from green to orange. During this short winter, the celebration of Hygge keeps all the residents warm. The main traditions involve comfort and warmth with those people you think of as family - platonic or romantic, though preferably mixed between the two - groups of people gather together to share meals and exchange gifts. The city sets up a series of cabins, each fronted with a fire pit, along the banks of the river, which has been lined with floating logs to interrupt the rushing water and allow the surface to freeze solid and form a series of skating rinks for the public to enjoy. Throughout the month, anyone can head down to the riverbank to make taffy candy in troughs of cold snow and share the various flavors with other families, or toboggan along winding, circuitous courses that range from easygoing to high-speed for the adrenaline junkies. The Town Square has a large, intricate ice sculpture set up, this year in the theme of a castle, that once entered proves to be a maze with a prize at the center for anyone who happens to make it through.
i. beach treats
The cabins that are set up all along both banks of the river are small and cozy, big enough to provide a comfortable lounging area with piles of pillows in front of a small fireplace where gift exchanges can happen, a kitchen to cook in, and a table for groups of people to share a meal at. Much like hotel rooms but without a fee, they're intended to be claimed at the start of the day and used for a while before being tidied and reset for the next group. Each cabin has a fire pit out front where a fire can be set up so groups of people can cook marshmallows for their hot chocolate and share stories or play music together.
Another major feature on the beach are the candy making areas, each big enough to accommodate a couple groups of people, featuring a bank of burners that keep various flavors of thick sugary syrup hot and ready. Once the syrup is at the right temperature, it can be drizzled into the snow packed in troughs to chill, and then rolled onto popsicle sticks to be eaten as a sweet chewy treat. Many families have their own particular flavor combos that are the go-to every year, and new families gather every year to start their own tradition.
ii. winter activities
After all that sugar, everyone's sure to be pepped up for a little activity! Every year, just before the big freeze, crews set up a grid of floating logs to calm the surface of the river along the banks, and when the temperature drops, those areas freeze into a thick layer of ice. As soon as they're safe to be skated on, booths pop up to fit residents with skates so they can skate around with loved ones, participate in ice dances, and play the ice skating version of almost any sport you can think of.
But skating isn't the only type of activity available! The sloping banks of the river have been set up with a variety of tobogganing courses, where people can share various types of sleds to slide down various set winding paths ranging from slow sloped ones to steeper, higher-speed ones that almost resemble bobsled courses.
Finally, for the more competitive, there is a less-gender-divided variation on a Lumberjack Competition, with various physical events that residents can compete in like sawing massive logs, logrolling, speed climbs, and boom runs.
iii. skygazing
After all that sugar and activity, lots of groups of family will settle down around fires either at the cabin or along the beach to enjoy a cup of spiked hot chocolate, coffee, or tea, and look up at the sky. Throughout the cold snap season in December, the sky is almost unnaturally clear and both the stars and the Capitol World are easy to see. Besides that, large swaths of the sky are bathed in beautiful aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, that paint large swaths of bright, beautiful color across the night sky. Curl up with a lover, a friend, a family member, or all of the above to keep warm and enjoy nature's fireworks show.
iv: ice maze
In the city center, residents can find a large, beautiful, intricately carved castle-themed ice sculpture. From the outside, it looks only about as big as a small house, but once residents enter they will find that the inside doesn't quite match the outside - courtesy of some of Gramarye Magic Research's top magic-users, the inside is massive, at least the size of a stadium. While cheery music plays, residents can traverse the complicated ice maze, each wall intricately carved and decorated with greenery, lights, and translucent watercolor paints. The walls are almost opaque, and the maze generally takes a couple of hours to get through for most residents.
Once they reach the center, they will find wrapped gifts arranged on a series of beautifully decorated tables, along with treats and warm drinks. The gifts are tailored to each individual in the maze, having been magically selected from a stockpile of items that have come through the portal, and consist of one small item from each character's home dimension (or, for CRAUs, from their previous game), similar to the "items from home" bonus reward, but without needing to spend points. The item should be small enough to fit in a shoebox, sentimental, and cannot be something intended for another person's character. Alternately, if there are no special items from home that a particular character would want or be attached to, an item of similar size and value that would make the character happy will be inside the box.
v. roommates or wildcard
Feel free to use this prompt to meet new roommates, for the purpose of getting to know each other, or hit up the mod-posted prompt to create a Communal Housing floor mingle. Or, if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during the Hygge, feel free to write it up!
Credit: image i: Ryan Woodhouse; image ii: Hjalmar Wåhlin; image iii: David Fortin; image iv: Tzuyu Kao
skygazing
How far does it go? (She wonders aloud, then, glancing to her right, spots Finn.)
Oh- hello again. Finn, right? (She raises her sketchbook to show what she has so far, a flicker of a grin on her face.) No swear words this time, I promise.
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[ Finn does pretty well for himself on remembering names and faces, but in this case, he probably wouldn't even need to fall back on that. Some first impressions, like some plates, are impossible to forget.
He winds up grinning back, something a little broader than a flicker. ]
Don't worry, I wouldn't turn you in for it.
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(She smiles properly, buoyed by his remembering her name after their last conversation. She flips the cover of her sketchbook back over to hide her work, tucking the pencil behind her ear.
It's funny because there isn't much hair to hold it there, really.)
How are you? Getting used to all of this yet?
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The lights are one of the first things here that he can see as being beautiful enough to recreate.
Also it's nice of her to ask that. He bets Rey would like her, the way he generally figures she'd like anything genuinely nice. ]
I've been good. I think. I'd still take the first door out, but it turned out I had some friends from home here. Made it easier to settle.
[ Well. Requisite air quotes, metaphorically. He's bad at settling. ]
Have you been okay?
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(It would have been much, much harder to find her place. At that point in her life she had been surrounded by friends for thirty-five years, and she can't imagine she would have handled the sudden loneliness very well. She gives her head a little shake to clear it of that particular thought.)
Okay enough. Thanks for asking. It's– uh, I think I'm struggling with realising how long I've been stuck here. I kind of thought I would have been home by now.
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I get that.
[ Probably not exactly, possibly not even quite as much, but sure. Wanting to go home. Even just in terms of getting to the right galaxy again, he understands that. He wishes there were something he could do to help. ]
How long has it been?
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Six months, (she says eventually, glancing up at the sky.)
I've been thinking of asking to help, with the portal. Maybe they just need a few hands.
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[ Makes more sense to be struggling in that context, yeah.
The problem being here is that he didn't get a choice in coming. He woke up and someone said "this is where you are, this is why you're here, you can't leave." If he got a choice he'd grab Rey and Poe and leave just to avoid being part of that again. (If they got a choice, Rey and Poe would both leave, and the real problem being here is that now there are two people he knows for a fact he'd follow out even if he somehow made a whole life for himself here.)
Six months.
That's so much time. He swallows. Pushes his thoughts back, not for the first or last time. ]
You're good with tech?
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Either way, she's more than happy to honour his silent request to drop the subject.)
Not enough to be helpful, but I'm good with magic. Good at researching. I don't know if they need that kind of help but there's no harm in asking.
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Worst they can do is say no.
[ If he were especially good with tech or magic or researching, he'd pretty much stop at nothing to volunteer for portal duty. He gets it. Finn thinks maybe saying no is not actually the worst they could do. ]
But if you wanna have backup when you ask, just in case, I'm a really good shot.
[ RIDE OR DIE ]
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Lucretia chuckles.)
You know, I'll keep that in mind. What are you a good shot with, Finn? Are you a magic user?
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(She doesn't know what a blaster is but it's probably a type of gun, right.)
Do you have magic too?
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It's not really something that-- exists where I'm from. Unless there's something people haven't been telling me.
[ Maybe the Force would count, but he doesn't know nearly enough about that to get into it. ]
Seems like there's an awful lot of it to go around here.
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Yes, I've noticed. I suppose magic is more common than it isn't.
(So many different kinds, too. She shrugs.) I work at the magical research institute. Gramarye. It would be a lot stranger for me if magic didn't exist here.
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[ he smiles a little. ]
I think I'd rather have to learn about something new than see people trying to work without something they always used to have. If that means getting used to magic, I can manage.
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(Very caring. Lucretia smiles to herself, and glances back up at the borealis.)
Even though a lot of things here are unfamiliar to me, I find the night sky is a constant no matter where I go.
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I didn't get many chances to look at it before I got here. Not from planetside, anyway. It's been nice.
[ And it's one of those things that circumstance or space fascists showing up hasn't been able to ruin yet, which is honestly ideal. ]
Doesn't change too much, huh?
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(Shrug.) Honestly, it all looks the same to me. I've never charted before. (Davenport did, though. Lucretia still remembers going through his notes while desperately ransacking his quarters during her cycle alone and finding stacks of neat star charts, one for almost every cycle until then. Perhaps it was a comfort for him. She never actually asked.
She looks away, and back toward Finn.)
Hey, I'm– sorry, this is pretty anti-social of me but I do really want to get a good sketch of this in before it fades, so I'll leave you to it if you don't mind?
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Finn's glancing over by the time she's done saying 'sorry,' eyebrows lifting. Then he actually kind of laughs a little? Not especially loud or long, but it's definitely a form of laugh. ]
It's fine, I don't mind.
[ go draw a badass aurora whatever and have a good time, he respects that. ]
[one week later]
Good to see you, Finn. Until next time.