Event | Summer Jubilee | June 22nd-28th

[ironwood]

Characters: ALL! With special guest appearance by Asti
Date: June 22nd-28th, 2014
Location: Keeliai, all sectors
Situation: To celebrate the six month hatching days of the baby turtles that coincides with the arrival of summer, the kedan are throwing a city wide party! And Asti gifts everyone with a happy dream to make up for the badness plaguing Keeliai lately.
Warnings/Rating: TBA

While the kedan have a complicated and extensive system of writing, a good portion of their folklore is oral tradition and there's one prominent tale that's being told over and over this week. Small variances in the tale do occur from telling to telling but the core of the story goes like this:

Long ago before there were any people in the world, the First Family was made in the sky. Sun, the Mother and Moon, the Father were happy but desired children of their own. They watched all the creatures in the oceans, on the land and in the air and wished they could also have a family but they could not, for they didn't know how and so they were sad. They drifted apart, with Mother the Sun only coming out for part of the time and Father the Moon sometimes disappearing from the sky. Not wanting to see them so saddened, the creatures in all the lands and seas and air gathered together and searched their respective domains for children to give into the sky. From the four corners of the world they came with four children: one for the Dawn, one for the Midday, one for the Dusk and one for the Night. Mother the Sun and Father the Moon were overjoyed! They thanked the creatures of the world and promised they would never again abandon their places in the sky and became the First Family. And for a time, all was well. But Dawn and Midday and Dusk and Night grew older and, as children are wont to do, started asking when they could leave their home in the sky to begin their own families. Their parents were afraid of feeling so alone again if that happened so each year they said, "next year, next year". Eventually the children grew tired of this answer and so, sneaking into the place of the Stars where everything that was known was kept and they cut the end off of Time. The next time that their mother and father went to deny then, the children cried "You cannot say next year, for next year does not exist anymore!" And the Sun and Moon were afraid that if the children went away, then Time would indeed run out and so they agreed that their children could have families of their own, if they stayed and became the Second Family. The children agreed and even today, it is said that they are still waiting for the end of Time to grow back so they can visit other places without everything ending.

OOC INFO & LINKS
Subheaders are for various parts of the event and the rest of the post (not in sub headers) is for general mingling and tagging! Questions relating to the event go HERE.

Adopt-A-Foreigner | The Ritual | Dream A Little Dream | Asti's Blessings | Barbecue | OOC Post

Comments

[sophos]

[She sighs.] I'd settle for being surprised at this point. I'd probably have more of an idea if they weren't so vague about the outcome.

[iguanasolution]

It's weird, isn't it? They are usually as open as they can be when it comes to other things, but their magic and things is kind of taboo or something. Maybe they just don't have the words to explain?

[sophos]

I hope it's the latter. But I mean, it sounds like it's something traditional enough that maybe they don't feel like they need words to explain anymore.

[iguanasolution]

[He thinks about it, looking at the Kedan dipping their personal belongings in the fountain as he bites his inner cheek.]

I guess I'd have a hard time explaining some Chinese traditions? What looks weird to us must be obvious to them... but we still end up in the dark and not knowing even if they mean well. [And he hates it, and hates he doesn't really have anyone to blame even more.]

[sophos]

[She sighs.] Yeah. Pretty much.

It seems harmless, though. I doubt they'd be so thrilled and happy if there were negative consequences. [She prides herself on reading people, and she really hopes this isn't a case of her pride getting in the way again.] The entire population can't possibly be that good at deception.

[iguanasolution]

[He shakes his head.] And Eva or Milyn would have warned us, if not Evandau himself if something weird was really going on.

[It's weird, that he's come to trust them when on his first days he mistrusted them so much he didn't even care to listen to what Eshai and Evandau had to say. He always went to Percy and Annabeth, to listen to their side of things.]

I guess I just really don't want to lose my voice again.

[sophos]

[She nods along in agreement.]

[But her expression turns a shade sympathetic - she gets it.] Or any other sense, really. [Blindness, no thank you.] I'd offer you to wait and see what happens on my end, but it might be too late to participate by that time.

[iguanasolution]

[He nods, biting his inner cheek. He's torn, but...]

I think I don't actually need any particular advice, right now. I miss everyone, yeah- but no advice is going to bring them back, right? Or bring me back home until I just poof away like they did.

[sophos]

[Her mouth draws into a bit of a line - not at Frank, just at the reminder at which people can literally poof away. She won't count to remind herself how long it's been since Percy disappeared again. She can't really acknowledge the truth of what he's said either.]

Would it be too cliche of me to say even when we don't think we need advice, it could still be useful?

[iguanasolution]

I don't know about cliche. [He tilts his head, trying to lighten the mood after the bomb he just dropped. He's usually awkwardly honest, which can be useful sometimes and really annoying in cases like these.]

But it's definitely an Annabeth thing to say.

[sophos]

[A smile manages to slip on her face, and she doesn't bother trying to fight it. It's most definitely complimentary, if a little teasing, coming from Frank.] Fair enough. I'll take it.