Event | Sinbrilee | Bacchanal

[ironwood]

Characters: Any and all!
Date: August 24 - 30th
Location: Sinbrilee
Situation: An ancient festival of an ancient city, all are welcome at the Bacchanal!
Warnings/Rating: Please label threads as appropriate.

Death and destruction cannot curtail the single most important festival celebrated by the denizens of Sinbrilee: The Bacchanal! The ghosts in and about the city have begun to gossip about high fashion and festivities, sending any that inquire to the Amphitheatre -- a grand, circular structure nestled in the west side of the city.

This structure bore the fall of Sinbrilee and the wear of time with dignity, having lost handfuls of archways and one long stretch of wall to crumbling decay. Despite this, it is obvious that the amphitheatre once hosted many a display and every more festivities than the mind can grasp. This was their solace and safety; here is where the people of Sinbrilee came to find the mind's escape from all that threatened them and their great turtle.

Ghosts have been busy throughout the week, clearing paths through debris and hanging great cloth banners of soft blues and greens to disguise the more blatant signs of its decline. Many hundreds of them shimmer and slid through the area, providing for tables upon tables of food, offering drink, and overseeing competition of sport and skill (some even denying death's non-corporeal curse to enter).

Here, well... Here is where the party begins!

Food & Drink | Music, Discussions, & Dancing | Wrestling & Competitions

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[raptorcanaria]

"It's a party, moron."

Hal is handed a chalice filled with wine, and the arm that carried it is thrown around hie shoulders to hug him.

"When the Hell did you get here?"

[animosus]

"Dinah?"

She looks far happier than she was the last time he saw her. This is slightly worrying and she's crushing his broken ribs so forgive him if he's not immediately hugging back.

"I just got here." A couple of hours ago in which he spent trying to leave.

I don't know why I went prose instead of following your lead. Sorry.

[raptorcanaria]

She's just happy to see him. But the instant she detects a wince from hugging she backs off.

"Oh, so you didn't announce your presence on the turtleweb and I missed it? Thank goodness. Welcome to life on the back of turtles. It makes no sense, but we're here until we defeat a great evil menacing this world.

"With a break for a party, apparently."

nah it's cool! I don't mind either way

[animosus]

Hal straightens up again, he doesn't need to let people know that he needs to see a doctor. It'll fix itself eventually, he could deal with a little pain.

"So drafting from all over the multiverse."

A second or two passes. "How are they doing that?"

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah glances down at his torso, back up at him, and raises an eyebrow.

Okay, Jordan. Play the big manly man who can't be hurt. She'll play along while there is important orientation to be done.

"You know, I am exactly the wrong person to ask that. There's something about this place being on the cusp between the realms of Life, Death, and Dreaming, and I know that's true because I've visited both Death and Dreaming in the last few days.

"But if you want a magical or a scientific explanation, you're asking the wrong girl."

[animosus]

That's exactly the sort of explanation he needs because let's face it, he wouldn't understand a proper explanation. It's a lot to consider, but something about it doesn't quite make sense.

"But I'm not dead and neither are you." Or again in his case and he sure wasn't sleeping.

[raptorcanaria]

"No, it's more like dimensional travel than actually dying," Dinah says. "Just be careful of the arches around this city, okay? The experiences on the other side aren't really the most pleasant places to be."

A pause, and she tries to come up with a comparison without actually reliving the experience.

"Like overdosing on fear gas, except way more real."

[animosus]

Hal smiles cockily. He's not hearing anything that he needs to really worry about.

"Overcoming fear is part of the job description, remember?"

It was probably the worst example to discourage him from trying something.

[raptorcanaria]

She rolls her eyes, as unimpressed as ever with his flyby show, as real as she knows it to be.

"Remember Seattle?"

He and Ollie weren't exactly on speaking terms at the time, but of everyone, Hal must know what went down there.

"It was that, again. With bonus leg fractures."

[animosus]

Hal's face falls. How could he forget? He should of been there and if he'd arrived here a little bit earlier he could have stopped this as well.

"Sorry."

It wasn't like he was involved in either events, but still Hal feels like he let her down by not being there.

[raptorcanaria]

Well, maybe he could have done something, but Dinah never blamed anyone but herself for that. As for being here, well, she had clark, didn't she?She offers half a smile, and a small half-shrug.

"Hey, it's okay. Just don't run off being all Hal, is all I'm saying, okay?"

[animosus]

Hal ducks his head and lets the moment pass with a sly smile.

"You're telling me not to be myself? Tall order there."

[raptorcanaria]

There's a fraction of a second when she's about to nudge him in the ribs. It passes and she punches him lightly on the arm instead. Blink and you'll miss it, she's not mentioning it because he's not.

"Are you suggesting that there's something you can't do?"