[OPEN EVENT] Weekend Winter Wonderland

[wintershepherd]

Characters: All?
Date: March 8th-11th
Location: All of Keeliai
Situation: It's been a stressful month thus far for a lot of people, but Jack is determined to Make All The Happy and decides he needs to get back to his wintery roots by giving the city a proper snowing.
Warnings/Rating: People high on snow glitter?
NOTES: Actionspam OR prose, whatever is preferred! (Settings were just easier to prose.) Make your own thread headers if none of these suit! ♥



Jack had spent the last three hours balanced motionlessly on the top of a flagpole, head tilted back as he listened to the wind and the sound of the city below. Where is Winter? it asked. I'm here! the spirit replied, but he knew it didn't mean his physical presence. He'd had too much on his mind and too much in his heart and in that sense he had indeed been absent these last few weeks.

Eyes closed and thoughtlessly trusting, he tipped forward into open air, letting the wind catch him and hurl him upward into the misty cloud cover that scudded across the stars tonight. At his touch they thickened, fat and pale grey against the indigo backdrop and Jack swirled them up, the motions so ingrained in him they felt just like breathing. In the small hours of the morning snowflakes began to fall on the sleeping city, specks at first but then quickly becoming heavier.

Now with a fresh canvas to work with, Jack was really in his element. He could never have done something like this back home, not anywhere in his world. It would have been too strange, too inexplicable, drawn too much attention. But here on the turtle, things were different. There wasn't really a semblance of normal and Jack poured his imagination and heart into the things he wanted most to share, and from the snow rose gleaming swirls of snow and blue light, forming things of exceptional detail and delight.

By the time the sun rose, a solid three feet of the snow had blanketed the city, glistening and crisp and Jack went rocketing down the streets, rapping on doors and windows to leave spirals of frost on every surface.

"Whooohoo! Snow day! Get up sleepyheads, everyone come out and play!"


THREAD STARTERS
Ice Skating | Snowball Battle | Sledding Hill | Ice Cityscapes | Kids Playground | OOC Plot Post

Comments

[backwordscompatible]

[Whoever this theoretically person is just doesn't get it, because snow forts are awesome.]

[...in this case, maybe a little too awesome. Zatanna can see the thing from all the way across the field. It easily stood out among its many shapeless peers, a literal monument of both frozen craftsmanship as well as architecture.]

[So it wasn't that much of a surprise when she realized the person swooping in and out of its scaled entrance was so familiar. Of course. Who else?]

You and Jack should really team up sometime. Between the two of you, you could build an entire snow city.

[sophos]

[She's distracted enough by the project in front of her that she doesn't even notice Zatanna until the other girl speaks; it's another few seconds before she looks over, because Annabeth spots an imperfection in the wall and runs her hand over it to fix.]

[When she whirls around, she's grinning happily, and maybe a little smugly.] To be fair, I wasn't working alone here. But sure, why not?

[backwordscompatible]

[The imperfection went unnoticed to the untrained eye. To Zatanna, she appeared to be swiping at an invisible flaw,]

I don't see anyone else.

Who were you working with? [Then, on a hunch:] Percy?

[sophos]

[She nods a little absently.] Once he got the hang of the ice, he helped with a lot of the stabilization. But I got some of the kedan to help, too, especially with a lot of the earlier packing and stacking. It's my planning though.

[backwordscompatible]

Just how did you manage that?

[She wouldn't have figured the kedan to volunteer their time for something like this. Some of the younger ones, maybe. She'd seen handfuls of children all over the place, behind snowkedan and snowracecars and snow things she couldn't even begin to guess what they were supposed to be. Lumps, most likely.]

[A few more minutes of appreciation, and she had to ask.]

Why?

[She knew why most people would build things out of snow. But, as far as she knew, there wasn't any contest going on. And Annabeth's design seemed far too advanced for mere child's play. Why the detail?]

[sophos]

They were mostly kids. Some of them I'd gone sledding with, and they were curious. The others I just... convinced. [She sort of half shrugs, with a tiny smirk. Being good with words has its benefits.]

[There's a few moments of silence after Zatanna asks 'why?']

I wanted to. [She looks over at her creation, a fond smile sliding onto her face.] I don't get to build snow forts all that often. They don't even last very long most of the time, technically and in a general sense, because it all melts. But I wanted to see what I could do.

[backwordscompatible]

[It was a good enough answer for her. Why? Why not!]

You know, if Kaldur and I'd had a fort like this earlier, the boys wouldn't've stood a chance.

Nothing could get by that gate.

[sophos]

[Her smile turns into a smirk, and she nods at said gate.] It might have been for fun, but it's completely utilitarian, too.

[She grins a little.] Snowball fight, huh?

[backwordscompatible]

[A nod]

Though, if he asks, it was definitely a 'training simulation'.

[The particular choice of phrasing was necessary, considering their Team leader's rigid, soldier-like demeanor.]

[sophos]

[She laughs a little.] Sounds like Capture the Flag back home. Innocuous in concept, but it's all about the training, too.

[backwordscompatible]

No, this was definitely mostly about bragging rights. Most of us still know how to have a little fun every now and then. And it's our job to remind the rest.

What were you training for exactly? Championship competitions?

[sophos]

Bragging rights can be pretty important. [She's says it with an air of mock sincerity, nodding. But she's a bragger, so she definitely gets it, and does the same thing quite often.]

Combat training. We're allowed to use weapons in game.

[backwordscompatible]

[You have no idea, Annabeth. The tears were essentially magic vs. science. ...okay, maybe not specifically, but the two members who studied the art against a certain non-believer? It might as well have been.]

Okay, now when you say weapons...?

[sophos]

Swords and spears, shields and armor, all that. [She says it as nonchalantly as she can.] It's the demigod version, so it can be a little more intense than the stereotypical summer camp version. But it can be a lot of fun, too.

[backwordscompatible]

[Zatanna had a feeling she wasn't talking about Nerf brands, either.]

Are you sure you and your friends aren't vigilantes?

[Because that was the only way training for real combat, with real weapons, in a summer camp game of Capture the Flag made any sense to her.]

[If the Team had thought of it sooner, they could very well have done something similar.]

[sophos]

[Celestial bronze! It's the best kind!]

[She grins a little sheepishly.] We don't run around in skintight costumes and masks, so I'm gonna go with no.

[backwordscompatible]

Hey! Not all of us wear masks, you know.

[As if the thought were somehow completely offensive.]

[She stays noticeably quiet about the skintight part.]

[sophos]

[A laugh.] Okay, fair point.

But it's mostly so we can defend ourselves and combat monsters. All the ones straight outta Greek myth.

[backwordscompatible]

So you're Greek vigilantes, then. Figured as much.

[Nope, not letting this notion go.]

Well, whatever classes your camp offered in fort-building really paid off. I'm tempted to suggest we have a Capture the Flag battle tonight just so you could put this beauty to some good use.

[sophos]

Let's go with heroes. Though we do have our own fair share of run-ins with the police.

[She grins a little.] Most people can't - don't really - do this. I study architecture. And if you do, just know I rarely lose.

[backwordscompatible]

[Heroes. Vigilantes. After a while, pretty much the same thing.]

Sounds like fun.

How many people do you think we could get in on this?

[sophos]

Good question. How many people do you have from home now?

[backwordscompatible]

Four.

Robin, Dick, Wally, and Kaldur.

[...actually, that was only three. Because she still had no idea only some idea that Robin and Dick could be the same person. Which they were.]

[sophos]

Still just Percy and Leo on my end. But there's plenty potential players here. Though it's hard to tell who'd actually be interested.

[backwordscompatible]

They don't have to just be from our words, you know.

Technically, there are people here who I've known for longer than some of them. Like Kara. And Jack. And Kyle. You too, even.