[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

[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.

[sophos]

Oh, yeah - that's what I meant, too. Even among people we met here, you never know.

Really? How long did you know them back home? [It's not too much of a surprise though.]

[backwordscompatible]

'bout a month, give or take.

We just happened to click by the end of our first adventure together.

[Saving the world and shameless flirting can have that effect.]

[sophos]

[She nods, with some understanding and a small grin.] It happens. Turns out adventures are pretty good for making friends, especially on a deadline.

[That's how it was for her and Percy, at first.]

[backwordscompatible]

And you know what else is good for making friends on a deadline? Snow projects.

[She rubs her hands together. Both for effect and because she didn't have her gloves on just then.]

What else have you got stored up in that architecture brain of yours? I'm suddenly feeling very creative.

[sophos]

[She laughs.]

Quite a bit, actually. What did you have in mind?

[backwordscompatible]

No idea. I'm tempted to try a snow fort too, but I'm not sure how you feel about repeating yourself.

[Have a little bit of unfiltered honesty right there.]

You're the architect. I just make stuff happen.

[sophos]

I would make something different enough, no worries there.

Can you manipulate the snow?