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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!
11calls: but i can't decide if it's good or a shitty one. (empathy is my superpower)

[personal profile] 11calls 2017-12-28 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Alex nodded quickly, and she filed that away before she took a bite of her goat and washed it down with a sip of her mead before wiping her hand on her pants. When in Rome and all of that, and she didn't see any napkins about. Once her hand was reasonably grease free, she offered it to the girl.]

I'm Alex. Alex Reagan.
like_quicksilver: (outside)

[personal profile] like_quicksilver 2017-12-28 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Gyda [She did likewise with her hands, the cotton dress not likely to stain. ] The men who put this together are my father and brother.

[She helped of course, but she couldn't entirely take credit.] Are you from the 'modern era' as well?
11calls: When did I start working for you, exactly?! (Researching)

[personal profile] 11calls 2017-12-30 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice to meet you, Gyda. Your brother is wonderful. He was one of the first people I met here.

[At least she's assuming it's her brother, because the baby that she was shown pictures of is a baby. But she has a grin on her face when she nods.]

I guess you could say so, yeah.
like_quicksilver: (eating)

[personal profile] like_quicksilver 2018-01-01 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Gyda wondered at just what she really knew of Ivar. True, he was nice and never threatened her, but one didn't earn the name 'Boneless' and just take it like a weakling-not anyone who was viking.]

He was the first person I met too. I was stick with..what you call the flu..and he was able to take me to the clinic.

[She couldn't call him nice, not really. That would've implied he was nice all the time-and he wasn't, she could tell that much.] What is it you do back home?
11calls: Shakespeare is better than you, Richard (I can be pretentious too)

[personal profile] 11calls 2018-01-03 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry you were sick, but I'm really glad that you're feeling better now! [The words come with a smile and it's clear that Alex means them.]

Back home I was a reporter. It's kind of a storyteller who goes around telling people what's happening now in reality rather than in fiction.
like_quicksilver: (listening in)

[personal profile] like_quicksilver 2018-01-04 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"So, you mean a scribe rather than a storyteller," The smile remained. "We have a scribe with us back home, though we don't have the means to create paper. He's more of a thane now then scribe. [She heard from father that Athelstan was free, and it made her glad to know that he still remained with them. Storytellers are always meant to exaggerate things to make the stories more interesting.

11calls: but i can't decide if it's good or a shitty one. (empathy is my superpower)

[personal profile] 11calls 2018-01-06 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
A thane? Is that someone who tells the stories rather than writes them down? [Alex hadn't heard the term before, not even in all of Nic's DnD stories, or in the histories that she'd heard about the cults and orders that she had been studying. For a minute, she just nods as if she's assuming that's what it is, because well... she does.]

Because if so, that's what I do. It's an audio story called a podcast.
like_quicksilver: (at a task)

[personal profile] like_quicksilver 2018-01-06 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shook her head, trying not to laugh.] He didn't write anymore because we don't have the means to create paper back home. Thane is someone in charge of the servants of a household.

[She wondered if they didn't have the same role in the modern era if the woman didn't recognize it.] Are podcast like sagas?
11calls: yeah this won't come back to bite us in our ass (Wait play that again)

[personal profile] 11calls 2018-01-09 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [Alex just grinned, because hey, it was funny. She didn't know, and here she was at one of their parties! It was an experience for her all the way around.]

I don't know if it is or not. I mean, it's more like news than fiction.