The Yule Log

[ragnarsson]

who: The Norse and everyone else in the city!
what: The Norse celebrate Yule. Gods help everyone.
when: December 22nd, Winter Solstice
where: Somewhere outside
warnings: Alcohol, drugs, animal sacrifice, blood play, rough foreplay, sex. Will update if necessary.



The Yule celebration has gotten underway on the Winter Solstice and it promises to be a most interesting night. The Norse have gone all out with this affair to make sure it's going to be a success. First thing to be spotted is a bonfire, so big that you might want to be careful not to trip around it, because you'll fall right in. There's plenty of room for dancing too, if you feel like grooving to a beat that's a little more unusual than most.

The Yule celebration shares a lot of similarities with Christmas, so it's a good time for gift giving. There's little shoes on a table, mimicking the tradition where Odin would leave presents for good children by putting them in their shoes. Claim one as your own and maybe a friend will leave a gift inside one for you. Watch it though. Any grinches will be fed to the Yule Cat.

There's a table set up to the right of the bonfire with food, mostly of the hearty kind that the Norse seem to prefer, and of course, lots of alcohol. Please remember not to get into any drinking contests with the gods. They will observe no responsibility for what happens afterward.

There are also mushrooms for consumption, provided by everyone's favorite psychotic Viking, Ivar The Boneless. These ones are directly from his home world, which means they come with a variety of side effects. They have the ability to make a person hallucinate quite a bit. But they can also make people much more horny than usual. Lastly, there's the effect that hits some people in making them extremely violent. Sometimes one effect hits, sometimes more than one. In any case, anyone who consumes some is assured to have an...interesting time.

On a lighter note, there's mistletoe scattered around, hung from the trees and tent beams. Fun fact: the Vikings were the first one to use it for the tradition of kissing. Of course, they also believed it was a plant that was powerful enough to kill a god, so the kissing was ostensibly for protection.

At the height of the night, there will be an animal sacrifice done. A goat is slaughtered and the blood from it is gathered into a couple of bowls. If you'd really like to go all out like a Viking, paint your face in the still-warm blood, or drink a little bit of it. Otherwise, enjoy freshly seared chunks of goat as it bastes over the bonfire.

Have fun, drink, fight, and remember to make your ancestors proud!

Comments

[worldsaway]

Come now, it's nothing you don't know! --it's like fighting without a sword. [The idea is extremely novel to him, because he's so high he thinks he's the first person to ever imagine it.]

You anticipate your partner's moves- [He points out, and his feet step in time with hers very elegantly for a man who has been drinking through the evening. He pulls her in closer, smiling slyly down at her before he twists her away.]

--And if you fall down, you die.

[fiercestwarrior]

[ Sif is positively glowing, her smile like a sunrise because she too is both drunk and high and dancing with her favourite person. ]

If I fall because of you...

[ She spins around him until she stands at his back, a hand briefly curving over his throat as she speaks into his ear. ]

You die.

[ Then she lets him go, spinning back to face him. ]

[worldsaway]

[With his senses heightened, it's hard to ignore the fact that the hairs on the back of his neck prickle when she curves a hand over his throat and speaks into his ear.

It's not unpleasant, but it's unexpected. He's known Sif to be playful, but it's been years since he experienced it. Thor's smile widens into a grin that he can't smother, brash and cheeky as ever.]

About those new moves I was going to show you..

[Thor takes a small step back, arms out in front of him as he clicks his fingers and sways his arms left and right, hips moving in time as he does his awkward dance.]

[fiercestwarrior]

[ Her hand is tingling a little as well from the contact with his warm skin, but that is no surprise at all to her. ]

Oh, very impressive.

[ It's impossible not to giggle at the sight of him, because he looks absolutely ridiculous, but Sif still does her best imitation of the move, exaggerating it for extra comedic effect. ]

They must have renamed you the god of dancing in Midgard.

[worldsaway]

Not at all, I'm a novice- [Thor says, but he cuts himself off when he can't help laughing at Sif imitating his moves.]

You look ridiculous. [Which means he needs to look even more ridiculous. He puts more sway into his hips, practically thrusting in time to the music.]

[fiercestwarrior]

[ It's so good to hear him laugh. ]

You look like you are trying to copulate with the air.

[ She's just saying, buddy, that's an awful lot of pelvic action going on right there.

Of course, this means the ugly dancing needs to be taken up a notch once more which is why Sif starts basically doing the running man even though she doesn't actually know what that is. ]

[worldsaway]

That's what dancing is, don't you know? [Thor does The Sprinkler, but his hips don't stop moving.

He looks extremely happy and carefree, a little dizzy and he loses his footing somewhat. Stumbling around the fire.]

[fiercestwarrior]

[ That looks absolutely horrendous, but it's pretty impressive in terms of coordinated movement, really. She does do her best not to look too much at his hips though, even drunk as she is she does know that ogling would give away more than she wishes to.

She grabs hold of his upper arms to steady him after a particularly unfortunate stumble, laughing. ]

Careful, nobody likes a clumsy lover. Not even the air.