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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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As for the other robot Tony has...]
I thought you only have DUM-E. I didn't see the other robot you had--oh!
[And Rey turns to Poe once more.] He has this armor that's advanced. It looked similar to C-3PO, but it wasn't. He was able to summon it.
[Ignore how excited Rey got there. She does enjoy learning different technologies.]
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BB-8 tilts his head dome at Tony's offered hand. He does not get it. Is this some moon greeting?? He's just going to... stick out one of his maintenance arms in response. Poe hides a smile behind one hand. ] He'll understand if you talk to him.
[ BB-8's dome swivels to look at Poe for a moment before the droid cycles it back around to Tony, whistle-chirping a confirmation and then letting out a tumbling sequence of electronic chimes that rise and fall like any language. Poe laughs. ] He says you can summon Threepio too. He just won't get to you very fast.
[ It's nice to see Rey excited about something, and Poe has to admit, he's curious. The armor definitely sounds different than what he's familiar with. ]
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He gives the little orb an amused look and reaches out to gently grip the extended arm like he's shaking hands. Hey, why not?]
Same to you, superball.
[Back to the humans, he flicks a glance towards both of them.]
He's a helper bot. Assistant, sort of. That's what he's supposed to be. And the other one isn't a bot, he's an AI. No physical form.
[Does whatever world they come from have those? Huh.]
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After this lovely introduction.
She wants to warn that BB-8 may zap Tony like he did with Finn, but...it's a learning experience, and she won't take that away from him.]
Oh, so what you were working on before, with all the rewiring? [She vaguely remembers that. Unless Tony was working on something else.] Though, I still don't know why you would name him DUM-E. He's not... [Well, dumb, but compared to BB-8, DUM-E might be a bit...simple.] Anyway, how long did it take you to make him?
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[ A cheerful "yep" noise, and BB-8 retracts the maintenance arm, satisfied with his greeting. ]
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[And his world hadn't actually had working AIs at the time, so that had been interesting. Then again they still don't have lightspeed, and Tony can't help but arch an eyebrow in Poe's direction.]
You've got a specific kind of bot just for flight?
[Or maybe that's just this one? The little guy's certainly got enough personality to be one of a kind.]
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BB-8 does more than just flight stuff. He's very handy and helpful overall.
[Like when fixing things, or trying to help in anyway he can. Really, BB-8 was their friend and buddy..and a lot of other things.]
There's also medical droids who help with doctors and physicians.
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[He nods at Rey as he says it. He had been a school project, in that they'd given him a grade for it, but he'd also just been an early experiment in AI. Neither of which explain why Tony's kept him around as long as he has, but that's besides the point.
His eyes flick between the two of them, and then down at the bot.]
Huh. Seems like a helpful guy to have around.
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Probably wouldn't have left Jakku.
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[ Poe rests a hand on BB-8's dome. ] What's it do, without a body?
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[He sounds cheerful about it, though. JARVIS has been running his life for a long time.]
Technically he helps run the armor too, I guess. So sort of a co-pilot. Like your friend there.
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[Was it like a protocol droid--well protocol AI? At the mention of his armor, she gets a little excited too.]
His armor is way more advanced than a Stormtroopers. It does look like a droid when it's by itself.
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[ Great minds?? ]
I gotta say it's nice to find someone who's not completely thrown by the idea of something like droids existing.
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[At least when it seems pretty clear that they do not have the same frames of reference. Tony can't help but flick Rey a grin, though.]
I've been accused of being a robot often enough. As if that wouldn't be easier. But I invented most of the tech for AIs back home, so I guess it isn't too far of a leap.
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[A slight shrug there. Until they interact with JARVIS, they can't really say much about it.]
It is nice, but it's interesting to see how the technologies differ. [The grin makes her feel proud a little, cause Tony is clearly a genius.]
I get the feeling if anyone will build a droid, it might be him. [And it would be so interesting to see DUM-E and BB-8 interact with one another.]