[EVENT] Bonfire Night

[ironwood]

Characters: ALL!
Date: February 21st
Location: Various.
Situation: It’s cold. Time to cuddle up and make bonfires for the warmth.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.

As night falls the city’s lights take something of a unique turn. Instead of being lit by millions of paper lanterns, Keeliai is tonight lit by the flames and warmth of dozens if not hundreds of fires. Some of them are small, not much more than warming hearths in a barrel on a street, but others encompass squares and boulevards.

The fire lighting procession winds through the city’s streets, beginning at the first bonfire in Fire Sector. By the time full night has arrived, that procession is a snake illuminated by dozens of torches, parting from the main parade to light smaller fires in smaller streets. It ends, finally, in Central, in the Courtyard of Public Opinion, whose bonfire is second only to the initiating one in Fire Sector.

In some areas an exchange of goods arises, mostly in terms of woollens and other warm clothes and blankets. Though food is considered a public resource on this occasion, bartering small knickknacks, songs, stories and even other woollen items is not uncommon an exchange.

Meals are shared among kedan and Foreigners, commoners and emissaries--primarily stews, soups and other foods easily baked in the coals of the fires. Everyone brings food, and what isn’t contributed to the pot is nevertheless shared around after preparation. Although some bonfires are markedly wealthier than others, food and shelter is spread around to make sure everyone is safe and warm. No one goes cold and alone on this night.

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LINKS
Fire Sector (main bonfire) | Water Sector | Metal Sector | Earth Sector | Wood Sector | Central Keeliai

OOC Notes
The five Bresilykian emissary NPC can be found moving from Sector to Sector and partaking in the various traditions of each, and so can be engaged anywhere, while the Keeliai NPCs generally are staying in their respective areas as detailed below. Please put the name of the NPC you're requesting in the subject line of your tag if you want to interact with them. Thank you!

Comments

NINJA VANISH

[michaeljangelo]

Or rather, that's what happens to a pair of socks that strayed too far from the watchful eye of their creator.

A nearby shadow just got a little bit warmer.

[gistful]

Anton had been a soldier in an active war-zone too long to miss the slight disturbance, even while relaxed and not on guard. The fact that he couldn't immediately pinpoint the cause and the cause's location, however--only the effect--that was rather impressive.

"Oh dear," he said blandly with a disinterested glance into the basket before he leaned back in his chair and picked up his knitting needles. "I appear to be missing a pair of socks. Wherever might they have gone?"

Not that he was going to try terribly hard to determine which shadow had made the claim, anyway. That was what they were there for.

[michaeljangelo]

Two juulan coins barely make their mark into the basket.

He's cold, and that makes his aim not so good.
It's hard out there for the mostly cold-blooded.

[gistful]

Not so great a throw, from someone so adept at hiding--and Anton caught the glint in the firelight which pinpointed the observer's general position.

"How generous," he murmured to the air. "Worth another pair of socks at the very least, I should think." It was an offer, however oblique, for the observer to take more.

[michaeljangelo]

There's nothing but stillness from the shadow.

Then, eventually, a sigh.
Something in the darkness moves, a darker shade of shadow until...a stocky body wrapped in multiple layers of cast of clothing and sporting a green face appears.

Sheepishly he holds a pair of socks in both his hands.

[gistful]

Anton glanced without surprise at the stranger's hands, though he did recognise them--peripherally--from the venture below the shell. Among the stranger of Keeliai's residents, really.

"That seems fair takings for the price you gave," he observed. "Are you lacking for warm clothes?"