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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,
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- † 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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Beginning with: "Alternate universes? So it's not just the vastly different ones like you had mentioned with the sigils you showed me - there's multiversal forms of us around?" That is both a really fascinating and a really weird concept.
Tony having a sour opinion of someone is still strange to him. He makes a mental note to follow it up later. "You got lost in this...dream realm? What does that mean?"
Sorry, Tony, your dad asks a lot of questions, and none of them have easy answers.
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Tony looks a little flummoxed as he realizes for the first time that, despite all the talk about it, he really doesn't know that many people who've had doubles. Or triples. He kept expecting to run into more, or hear about more and... never did.
"Guess I'm a hot commodity on the multiverse market," he says with a little grin (because being smug is always better than being confused and having an existential crisis).
"But that's the idea, yeah. Anyway, Malicant was this... death dream monster... thing," vague handwaving, "so when we fought him, we had to fight him on his home turf. Matrix-style. Except the person who was supposed to give us the red pill lost the prescription. So we all got a non-refundable year-long vacation in Wonderland. The Matrix. Whatever."
Nicely done, Tony, A+ metaphor.
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Are you a mercodity, Tony?"Knew I did something right raising you," Howard jokes with a laugh. But his expression settles into something more serious when Tony explains the situation with the Dreaming. How horrible that must have been!
"I still can't believe that you lost a year like that," he says, sounding disturbed. "Trapped in a dream. Did you know it was a dream? What was it like? Was it anything like Yogthulu's realm?"
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"It wasn't so bad." It was quite nice, actually, at times. For reasons that involve Gene and will remain locked in the strictly confidential Never-Ever-Tell-Howard-Ever file until the end of time.
"It was a lot like a regular dream, except we could move in and out of each other's dreams. Not everybody realized they were dreaming at first, but once we snapped out of it, we could manipulate what we were dreaming. The weirdest part was that it didn't feel like a whole year. That was a little shocking to wake up to. I had a beard." An awful beard. "And long hair!"
It was so traumatic, Howard. He looked like a sleazy, unwashed drug dealer. Long hair is not a good look for him.
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"That's pretty frightening," Howard says. "But at least it wasn't all bad while you were there. I can't imagine what it'd be like to lose a year like that, really lose a year." And to wake up looking like Rip Van Winkle? Yikes.
"So we're stuck here, then, you and me?" There are worse people to be stuck with. "If we put our heads together, I bet we can come up with a way home that keeps our memories intact."
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"That was the least frightening thing about the situation," Tony says, with slightly grim humor. Besides, a year doesn't feel like so much to lose when you're young, healthy, and guaranteed a body reset at some point in the indefinite future. Living in Keeliai really changes your perspective on life. And pretty much everything else.
"Yep. You, me, Gene, and all the other foreigners. Until we get zapped out or find our own way home. With our memories." He smiles at his dad. "I think we can do just about anything if we put our heads together."
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"Okay, so let's put our heads together. If we don't have access to the lab, where can we work? And..." He pauses as mundane concerns catch up to him. "...I guess I need to figure out where I'm staying. The Hotel, right?"
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If he was about fifteen years younger, he'd be skipping with excitement. Everything seems better with Howard around. If anybody can solve the mystery of the foreigners' arrival and departure, it's the two of them. Together, the two Starks can do anything they put their minds to.