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

[michaeljangelo]

"SANTA HAS SWORDS?! AND INK?!"

Mike's eyes are wide in amazement.

"Badass Santa. That...that's awesome. That's the best thing I've ever heard! Bet Raph won't make fun of me for believing in Santa when I tell him this..."

[wintershepherd]

"He used to be a famous bandit, a Cossack I think," Jack grinned widely, pleased to be sharing his fellow Guardian's tale. "You can definitely tell by his accent. And instead of swearing, he uses the names of Russian composers. It's pretty funny, but for as long as he's been around kids, it makes sense."

[michaeljangelo]

"...I just want you to know that I have this awesome mental image right this second. And someday? I'm going to commit it to paper, and it'll be glorious. Some-...

Oh man, what...what if that why Splinter named us how he did..."

You'll just have to excuse him while he nearly doubles over in hysterics.

[wintershepherd]

Jack just lets him laugh, because a little bit of gigglefit goes a long way in the city lately. "Hey, it's a good system! Don't knock it. Who's Splinter, your dad or something?"

[michaeljangelo]

Mike continues to laugh so hard he cries, but in the meantime he shakes his head in the affirmative.

"He...he...yeah. Hoo. Yeah. Splinter's our father. He's Japanese, and I've always like, I've always wondered why a Japanese guy would name his four sons after like, Italian painters. And now, now I know! He wasn't naming us, he was just...he was just swearing at us."

[wintershepherd]

"I'm sure he put more thought into it than that," Jack said, momentarily chagrined before it faded with Mike's evident hysterics. "You gonna be okay, buddy?"

[michaeljangelo]

"No," he says wiping tears of mirth from his eyes. "No I don't think I will. Never again. My entire world has been rocked. If I ever get to go home, and I get to see my father again, I'm never going to be able to keep a straight face when he says my name."

[wintershepherd]

Jack leaned over and gave Mike a playful, though not hard, shove. "You're going to get me in trouble," he joked. "Watch your dad show up here and smack me upside the head."

[michaeljangelo]

Mike moves with the force of the shove and recovers quickly.

"It sounds to me like you've already met him."