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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2015-04-14 11:30 pm

[EVENT|4TH WALL] THE NEWCOMERS’ ARRIVAL | APRIL 15-22

Characters: ALL and plus ones.
Date: April 15-22 2015 (2016 in-game)
Location: Farmlands outside the city walls, but this log can also be used for locations within the city.
Situation: Spring planting - fourth wall event, week one!
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.

The days for the festival dawn sunny if a bit chilly, but the air is clear and the soggy ground has dried enough that there isn’t too much mud in the lanes between fields and homesteads. The broad dirt path to the Woodsmen’s land leads past the tram-line construction, lined with waving ribbons on sticks along the sides. The Woodsmen’s territory circles the city, separated from the city’s walls by five hundred yards of neutral land.

The festival’s central area is Liangken’s Clearing, and this is where the festival will begin and end each day. Liangken is an ancient tree, among the oldest on the turtle’s back. Though it doesn’t flower or bear much in the way of leaves anymore, the kedan have cultivated it carefully and now it’s an excellent representation for the revitalisation of old wisdom.



The lanes between the fields and homesteads will house the stalls, contests and walking areas. The Woodsmen will be keeping an eye on these to prevent anyone from walking off the marked paths. The homesteads provide ‘hotspots’ in among the lanes and fields, with Woodsmen families lending their yards to the comfort and entertainment of their guests.

In general, the Woodsmen are a taciturn, soft-spoken lot who nevertheless take great pride in their work. Their lands are all but sacred -- they accept no attitude, no trespassing, no attempts to thwart their authority. This causes some noticeable tension with the Snakes, who are accustomed to being the sole enforcers within the city; but though there may be some ill tempers and raised voices, at no point will anyone come to blows. It’s hard to argue with someone built like a brick wall and carrying sharp farm implements.

The Woodsmen are a touch anxious about having strangers on their land and this shows in them being overly officious or bossy, but at the same time their pride shows clearly and they are eager to show off the state of their lands, their greenhouses, and their farming processes -- practically without being asked. The residents of Keeliai tend to think of the Woodsmen as ‘cowards’, and the Woodsmen are taking this opportunity to prove themselves otherwise with feats of strength and tall tales.

Due to the farmers’ hours of “early to bed and early to rise”, the festival ends in the early evening at sundown, but begins again before dawn -- usually by greeting the sun with a song.




LINKS
Heojin, Ran and Lin | Liangken’s Clearing | Stalls and Lanes | OOC Information post | 4th Wall Character Check In


OOC
While Heojin and his bodyguards are open to everyone (including fourth-wall characters!), they are not available for small talk and general directionless CR. For the integrity of the mod’s inbox, please only request a thread with him if you already have an idea of what you’d like your character to ask/do. Other NPCs can be requested by sending a PM to the appropriate journals directly, with the same guidelines.

The top-level comments are for the festival, but fourth-wall characters should feel free to use the rest of the post for anything within the city of Keeliai itself! Just remember to label the top-level comment for location and date.
unetrustworthy: (following the conversation)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2015-04-19 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, sure, remember the boy problems. Then again, it was Damian...]

I am.

[She couldn't help it. The response was too obvious. Though, to her credit, she did follow it up with a more useful:]

It's been a long time since you left. Almost two years, I think.

I'm going to be fifteen at the end of this year.
asoothingvoice: ([Happy])

[personal profile] asoothingvoice 2015-04-19 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[It was her main exposure to what had been a clearly precocious preteen girl. One who's not so much a preteen, anymore.]

That old, huh?

I noticed. [A light wave to one of the newer changes, with a hand.] You seem to be doing well.
unetrustworthy: (listening)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2015-04-19 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Well enough.

The danger...we won. Malicant's gone. I wouldn't say everything's better now than it was before, but it's a little safer.
asoothingvoice: ([Neutral] Talking 1)

[personal profile] asoothingvoice 2015-04-19 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
['Well enough'. It's enough to give her a quirk of a smile, just from remembering her reaction to having trouble dealing with a boy being a boy.]

That's good, even though I see that Foreigners are still here.

[She would have thought they would have all been returned to their homes.]
unetrustworthy: (pic#6421346)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2015-04-19 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Her expression faltered. Just barely.]

Some of us. Most of them...left. A while ago. [Including a certain boy Bianca was still associating her with.] Not all. And there's been dozens of new arrivals since.
asoothingvoice: ([Mama] Comforting)

[personal profile] asoothingvoice 2015-04-19 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Considering how she had been in the rest of her appearances on the network, and the comparison to her reaction to that, it's not that much of a surprise, is it?

But Bianca frowns slightly at that.]


Still? I would have thought...
unetrustworthy: (inquisitive)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2015-04-19 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
That it would stop when Malicant was defeated?

[It didn't take a genius to complete that sentence.]

I wish I could tell you why it's happening, but I don't know. Those of us that were here from before were given the choice to stay. Other than that, it's just like it was before.

Lots of questions, very few answers.
asoothingvoice: ([Neutral] Talking 9)

[personal profile] asoothingvoice 2015-04-19 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[The fact she decided to stay here raises questions, too. She would have thought a girl Midii's age would have wanted to go home, that most people would, unless...

Well, the girl did seem to be mostly on the private side, before. Maybe for an unfortunately good reason.]


And I'm guessing the kedan either don't know, or aren't going to tell us?
unetrustworthy: (you make a good point)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2015-04-19 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Mostly the former, I think.

[If she were to guess, just based on everything that had happened since.]
asoothingvoice: ([Neutral] :|)

[personal profile] asoothingvoice 2015-04-19 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure if that counts as an improvement or not...

[Mostly not.]
unetrustworthy: (someone's coming)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2015-04-19 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd say it's better than the idea that they're knowingly keeping things from us.

[Now there were glimpses of that little girl from way back when. The desire to know, and the frustration when she didn't.]