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Entry tags:
- %4th wall,
- %event,
- thread: aya,
- thread: china sorrows,
- thread: deon wilson,
- thread: gene khan,
- thread: michaelangelo,
- thread: midii une,
- thread: raine sage,
- thread: skulduggery pleasant,
- thread: tony stark (imaa),
- thread: valdis,
- thread: yami no bakura,
- thread: zatanna zatara,
- † aang,
- † alistair krei,
- † aqua,
- † hiro hamada,
- † iroh,
- † jack frost,
- † stork,
- † tadashi hamada,
- † thread: yuri lowell,
- † xion,
- † zelgadis greywords
[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.
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.
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"I've heard stuff about what happened. Malicant, dream stuff, the turtle being kinda-maybe-dead. You...were here for that?"
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"For that, and more." She nodded. "I've been here since I was eleven. I just turned fourteen the end of last year."
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"Three years...that's like, forever." He could turn seventeen in that time. He could be legal to buy m-rated games and r-rated movie tickets and still be here.
Not that it'd be so bad. Tadashi's alive here, at least.
"What was it like before?"
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"Before Malicant? For a while, it was...kind of like how it is now, except we were more welcome. The kedan were partially under someone else's control--the Emperor's, I think--and susceptible to thoughts that weren't their own. We were brought to help. So they thought of us that way because that's what they were told to think."
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"Wait, what. Nobody told me about that part. The, uh, mind control part?" Hiro stares at her for the longest time, trying to process what he just heard, because okay, this is new information. Freaky information. Like, nothing about this is ethical information, and that puts a whole different spin on things. "Um, did that actually happen? Because if so, I'll take 'they don't like us a little' over 'they're mind-controlled friendly zombies. But more importantly: does that still happen, and can it happen to us, or is it only them?"
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"If it could have happened to us, it would have already." Spoken with certainty, because it was true. There were people will magic, and yet even after that one incident a couple of years back, nobody's mental state seemed to have been affected. Only the physical. "As long as you stay out of the Dream realm, your mind should be safe. Just try not to piss off any of the people here who can cast spells."
(Just in case)
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Maybe. Maybe not. "Still, I think I'm gonna keep my tinfoil hat handy just in case. Stuff's already weird enough here, I think anything could happen."
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"Tinfoil hat?" A foreign expression to her; she knew what tin foil was, but the last she checked, it had nothing to do with fashion accessorizing. Then again, with a wardrobe that basically consisted of battlefield retro-chic, what did she know?
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"It's just an expression, like...conspiracy theories, where you wear an aluminum hat because it protects your brain from mind control and stuff." Which...sounds pretty dumb, in retrospect. "I don't think they even manufacture tinfoil here."
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He sighs.
"Which sounds pretty dumb, I guess, when you think about it."
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Then again, Midii was only just barely familiar with the concept of science fiction. Space travel? Wars fought by machines (albeit still piloted by humans)
"But...you do have a point." Not about the hats, of course. That was still dumb. "You don't have to be so paranoid here, but...it's still a good idea to be on your guard. Not everyone here likes us. Mind control or no."
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He twists the flower crown so it hangs neatly on his wrist and waves in the general direction of the tree. "I'm gonna go get rid of this thing. I figure decorating the tree is the easiest way to do that, since they're doing it anyway. Wanna come?"
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It had been a while since Midii had been invited to anything, let alone by someone her own age. Most of her conversations were with the adults. And tended to end when the subject had been exhausted.
"I..." She was about to say no thanks when the weirdest thought occurred to her: she didn't really have a reason to say 'no'. "Alright. That would be one way of explaining why you don't have the crown anymore when they come back."
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"C'mon, before they decide to crown you too."
no subject
"I don't get crowned."