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Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson ([personal profile] ragnarsson) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-12-10 12:20 pm

The Yule Log

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!
garotted: gabbie | dw (i'm right at the end of my rope)

[personal profile] garotted 2017-12-17 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ listen? it'll be fine, her reality is scarier. also maybe next time don't take 'shrooms. ]

Well, I am my mother's child. [ so she gets him, perhaps, in a way that people who aren't relations can't. and.. maybe that extends to au versions of loki.

the question earns a small shrug, though, her glance sliding away from billy again, drifting out over the crowd. ]


Haven't decided yet. [ usually when she goes to parties, it's to steal shit off rich people. this is.. different. ] It's.. nice feeling like I'm not so completely out of place, though. [ and maybe she's only being that honest because billy is high. plausible deniability later. ]
wiccant: (we've gotta burn that fire.)

[personal profile] wiccant 2017-12-17 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
( sometimes it's important to make extremely bad life decisions, alex. this is just one of the many billy has made in the last twenty four hours.

and he definitely won't judge her for having a good time. )
That's good. Though I can't say this is an every day occurrence, we seem to be gathering a lot of Norsefolk lately. I'm sure they wouldn't be too hard to talk into partying hard again.

( this isn't quite his usual crowd, but it's fun regardless. billy pulls out his phone from--god knows where, it appears in small cloud of wispy blue magic that leaves behind the scent of ozone. )

Want to exchange network IDs? I promise I'm a little less weird usually. But only a little.

garotted: gazgraphics | dw (that apocalyptic lust)

[personal profile] garotted 2017-12-18 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ she's concerned about what the others might be.......

she's not much of a partier, but getting all the norse together again wouldn't be bad. she likes the ones she's met so far, though the second one of them gives her shit about her gender, she's going to beat the hel out of them.

still, she glances toward him again as his phone appears, head tilting faintly at the reassurance. ]


Billy, I'm a dead demigod warrior of Odin. You're not even scratching the surface of 'weird' for me right now, I promise. [ so. yes, she'll gladly exchange IDs with him. ]
wiccant: (must have forgotten.)

[personal profile] wiccant 2017-12-18 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
( maybe some of the older generation vikings would have trouble understanding it, but. he doubts they’d really give a shit, either, from what he’s seen. and billy will fight anyone right next to alex if it becomes a Thing. it’s a very stupid thing to judge someone on. billy—knows another shapeshifter who is much the same, and while he and xavin don’t see eye-to-eye on somethings, he’d definitely fight for xav, too. there’s nothing wrong with being different. )

I’m supposed to grow into the omnipotent Demiurge who redefines magic across the multiverse one day, ( offhandedly; it stresses him out to think about it, but sharing with alex isn’t going to hurt anything. ) we can be weird together.