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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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Tadashi's eyes flick between Hiro and Cass several times, that growing excitement quickly fading as concern and confusion turning down the edges of his mouth and forming a furrow between his eyebrows. Tried to tell her what? Why was she looking at him like that? He risks a quick glance down at himself, searching for some sort of abnormality that would explain the absolute shock he's getting from his aunt. That guilty avoidance from Hiro.
"Aunt Cass? What's wrong? I-"
He cuts off when he feels the slight tremor in the hand on his cheek, one of his own larger ones automatically rising to cover hers. To support. Something's very wrong and he doesn't know what, but then suddenly Cass starts to cry and the only response he can come up with is to try and pull her into a hug.
"Hey, it's okay..."
Except maybe it's not, but they'll find a way to make it okay. They always have.
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"A-Aunt Cass, he doesn't know," Hiro begins, haltingly, feeling that same numb sort of detachment that hung over him all through the funeral and the weeks after descending again; where everything seems far away and not quite real. Implicit: Tadashi doesn't know, because Hiro didn't tell him. "It's this place, it's...we're in some kind of an in-between...where time outside is relative, and he fell through a crack in the timeline somewhere before...before...I thought it'd be better if he didn't..."
Somehow he starts making excuses for himself before he's even told the whole story, guilt slipping in between the cracks. He bites his lip and shoves it down, far, far down where he doesn't have to think about it for a few seconds.
For maybe half a moment, he makes eye contact with Tadashi, and then looks away again.
"There was," he starts, taking a deep breath and swallowing a lump in his throat before he can continue - oddly calm and straightforward, "a fire. After the expo. Professor Callaghan was still trapped inside, so you went in after him, only you -"
Hiro takes another breath, but this one's more shaky, and his calm and his voice both crack together. "- you never came back."
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He's warm, solid. He even smells like the Tadashi she remembers.
It's Hiro that finally breaks her out of this, forces her back to the immediate issue. Tadashi doesn't know. Or, well... didn't know. She pulls out of the hug just far enough to be able to look at both of her nephews without actually letting go of Tadashi, still resting a hand on his arm as if he might vanish otherwise.
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Once you make peace with the idea of living on the back of a giant turtle, it gets much easier to believe when other strange topics come up. Tadashi's seen shapeshifters, people who can control the elements, and animals that don't exist in the world he comes from. Even the topic of multiple universes and distortions in time isn't a new one, but somehow that suspension of disbelief that he's been cultivating since his arrival chooses this moment to fail him utterly.
Something he doesn't know? The expo and a fire and Callaghan and-
Independently, all the words Hiro's saying make sense. Strung together, Tadashi can make out the message they're meant to convey, but he doesn't understand because... that's not what he remembers. Hiro made his presentation and got his acceptance letter and they were all going to go back to the cafe to celebrate, so this? This does not compute.
It doesn't make sense and it shows pretty clearly on his face. His grip on Cass tightens a little, though he doesn't seem entirely aware of it, his focus almost entirely on Hiro for several long moments. On that tight posture and that cracking voice and that match up so eerily well with all the other strange behavior that Tadashi's observed over the last month or so.
"Hiro, but-... I'm right here." He looks down at Cass, searching for confirmation. Hiro wouldn't lie about something so serious, but maybe he isn't. Maybe he's confused somehow. Hiro's confused and Cass is just upset and worried by her and her nephews' sudden relocation, right?
"Aunt Cass?"
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"Yeah, you're here, but if you go back you'll be dead!" Hiro snaps, interrupting before Cass can get a word in. He's so far past caring - or he's telling himself he doesn't care, that these are the facts and everyone's just going to have to deal with them now, even if it hurts. "Ask her, ask Krei - they know. You can even ask Callaghan. He knows, and he's dead too!"
The outburst is obviously garnering attention, Kedan glancing, giving strange looks, giving their little group a wide berth now. Hiro's almost sorry. They were here to celebrate and now this thing that has nothing to do with them is happening in the middle of their festival.
"You get it? The you that's here is all that's left." His voice shakes. He doesn't care if it shakes. Fine. "You didn't stop, and I didn't stop you, and so now outside of this weird in-between place you're dead. Okay?"