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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
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At least she wasn't hearing voices this time.]
Thousands of years in between? [Confusion dances across her face. The other looks like a human, unless humans age very slowly in their world?]
I didn't think humans could live more than a century, if they're lucky.
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That would be lucky, if I were a human to begin with.
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Then, if I may ask, who or what are you then? Elf? [ She doesn’t know! ]
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I've been to Alfheim and Svartalfheim plenty of times, but no. I'm no elf. I'm Asgardian.
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I have no idea what that means. Are those countries or actual species?
[The stranger will have to fill her in a little.]
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[Valkyrie swears under her breath, and laughs. She's not used to people not knowing what she's talking about when she speaks of the Nine Realms.]
They're worlds. Realms. Branches of Yggdrasil, the World's Tree. They're also the places elves live in. Light and dark elves, respectively.
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I've never heard of such a tale. Where I'm from, there's just other planets within a galaxy.
[So..mystical stuff meets science-fiction in a way, but if that's who the stranger's world works, then okay. Rey can feel the pull getting strong, leading to take a right at the next juncture.]
I take it, this entire place doesn't feel weird to you then?
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[She shrugs, her sword clanking on her back with the nudge of her shoulder blades.]
No weirder than anywhere else. You?
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[Minus a few things that she doesn't want to talk about, but whatever. It's starting to get a bit colder as they walk further in.]
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[Maybe it's like Midgard, where people merely don't believe in such things..?]
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[Because they have more of one than the other...and like hell Rey was going to reveal what she could to a total stranger.]
We're almost there...
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[It's fucking freezing. She hates this.]
You promise? I'm over this place. I was over it the minute I got inside.
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[Except for Luke. The Jedi she needed to see, to train under...but that's for another day.]
Then why bother stepping inside? [She huffed, continuing down the long hall of ice and finally, finally there was a clearing. The center of the maze with little boxes...]
...I wasn't expecting this. Do you think it's a trap? [Take one box and then something else happens?]
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[Plus she sort of just stumbled in here drunkenly. It's fine.
She glances around the room at the center of the maze, at the other people opening gifts and...not dying, at least.]
Doesn't seem like it. And if it is, well, at least we didn't die in that fucking maze.
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You would rather die in the center of a maze, rather than in the actual maze.
[Brilliant, really, that was brilliant. She lets out a sigh but approaches the boxes. There's something stirring in the Force, guiding her...until she comes across one box and opens it. Inside is a doll of Captain Dosmit Raeh of the Alliance...something she made when she was ten. She doesn't say anything else, only puts the doll into her pack.]
..There's only one way out of here. We can just go straight and follow the path back out.
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[It's said without malice, but she's rolling her eyes as she goes and finds the box with her name on it, tearing open the wrappings.]
Yes!
[There's a flask inside, and she only needs one whiff to know it's the good stuff. Asgardian. She waggles it at Rey.]
You go right on ahead. I'm gonna stick around here. Thanks for getting me out of there, though.
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[Rey huffs, quick to point that out. She wasn't a killjoy. Unless the other wanted to freeze in here. She turns her head to see the other take out a flask....
Force, this woman.]
So you want to drink here and freeze to death?
[Fuck that.]
Come on, we can head out together.
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[Her fingers tap against the side of the flask, and she shrugs.]
It'd take a lot for me to freeze to death. Nah, I'm gonna stick around here and talk to some of these other nice people. See if any of them got anything fun.
[She waggles her eyebrows.]
S'like a party.
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You were just complaining how cold it was, and now you want to stand in the center of the maze and just drink?
[No, this is not like a party! She's been to one party and this is not how it's done!]
You're assuming someone comes along here in the next few minutes or even hours! [How long did it take them to find this place? At least half an hour? Possibly more?]
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Go on, psychic girl. I'm not gonna die in here, I can promise you that.
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[The words are grumbled out and Rey is severely tempted to try and use the Force to take that flask from the other woman...
But no. She won't do that.]
Uh-huh, yeah. You'll only pass out drunk.
[There's a slight glare in her eyes. What kind of a warrior was she? Not a warrior anymore. No, she'd rather get drunk and be a pain in the ass. Whatever. It's not her problem anymore.
She'll walk away and leave the other to their drunken antics.]
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[She doesn't look completely bothered by that prognosis; she takes a swig of akevitt and wanders along the table of presents, looking for familiar names. Over her shoulder, she waves.]
Byeeee, have fun being a killjoy out there!