Fantasy Come Winter's Light

[FeMChara]

Come Winter's Light

Table of Contents

Festival of Stars (Below)

Season of Descending Fate

Glimmers on the Cursed Isle (Earth Group)

Firefly Star (Heaven Group)

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The Festival of Stars

Block parties are not unknown in the city of Eagle's Landing-but it's a unique one that is happening in town, signs going up, radio playing ads about free concerts, food, drinks and a lot of booths both selling things and showing off projects safe to know about. The Blessed Isle is all abuzz with anticipation. The morning dawns as trucks and various vehicles set up what looks to be a grand show.


Many people show up of all ages, origins and backgrounds. It's going to be the "it" neighborhood party of the year-even Calibration may not hold as much going ons.


Tinny music fills the air as the party opens for business-it's a place for fun. Music. Opportunity.


And changes.


The party was a great opportunity for more than the shopkeepers and the ones dealing in less-than-legal goods...


But what would people make of it?


Crowds are heavy-just about everyone is going who can. Posters are everywhere about a mission to Mars.


Touch the stars, they promise.


Little does anyone know, that promise is about to be fulfilled.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

A man in a faded tweed coat meanders inexorably into the thickest of the crowds, nudged along by the motion that made it thickest to begin with. He's shouting in Varangian into a cell phone, though whether angry or just trying to be heard over the commotion is unclear. He keeps bumping into people as he goes, as though oblivious to the press of bodies all around.

 

[Ludek]

Kip calls his friends(with some he talked days ahead of event) and proposes to meet at place near party half an hour before start he tries to gather as big crew as he can muster. Smokes weed to ensure good mood then dons his best clothing (it's expensive and it makes him to stand out in the crowd ), loads some crystal and weed for private use then travels to meeting place .. and as usual he arrives about 20 minutes late.


OOC: (to other players)Please feel free to insetrt yourself in Kip's group if you wish as his friend or just friend of the freind. That way we could start in one place.

 

[Epiphany]

Having received a call herself, Anne originally didn't plan on going. However, a certain persistent friend of hers, Bran Aniolrod, nagged enough and finally came over to her house that not-going was no longer an option.


And so, a trim young woman with green hair and wearing a t-shirt and jeans drives in with Bran. Upon finding somewhere to park, she makes her way through the crowd, letting him part traffic. Despite a certain hard physicality to her figure, she moves slowly and carries a collapsible cane that she finally starts using most of the way to the meet up. She arrives exactly on time thanks to Bran but spends the first few minutes of mixing just catching her breath.


A minute after that, she's all bright smiles and friendly conversation as she catches up with old friends she hasn't seen in forever. If there's one perk to being sent home from the army, it's the chance to reconnect...


OOC: Joining up with Kip's group.

 

[FeMChara]

==============《 The Doctor


The crowd the Varangian is in brings him near one of the quieter booths. Something about the study of beetles over the past three years. An older man that the Varangian knows in passing from the Heptagram is there-Dr. Steven Asra, a man in bio department but one who was fluent in every major language of Creation it was said. He was friendly, liked to talk about his precious niece but nothing about what he believed. The Closed-Mouth Blabberer some called him. He stood with a second gentleman the tweed-coated man isn't familiar with, easily missed who was arguing with him tensely but quietly in Old Realm.


The crowd surges past the booth, bringing him away from there.


===============》The Alchemist


Among Kip's crew is one of the more charming-and younger members. Heck, they called him. He had features of the near north, yet he didn't sound like anything but the docks. There is a chain wound around his arm, a stick he carries that just looks like a simple stick. With a little screwing on of a hidden bit of metal, it became a spear.


He rarely stopped smiling. He was a cute guy to girls who called him an adorable puppy. Kip would know better: the dog had his teeth and bad moods.


But none of that showed today, all smiles and joking. "Is this a good crowd or what? It's going to mean a lot of squares sold." He grinned. "This thing's gonna leave us richer."


A curious thing about him was that he never dipped into his own stash, he didn't even smoke tobacco, just drank a little. "You ever think about going legit, though? You could do it. You ain't as messed up as some of our friends here."


Some rolled their eyes at him and grumbled. He was strange sometimes.

 

[Ludek]

(Kip)


Kip being relaxed by smoked wee smiles friendly and replies to kid.


"Work ? today no man it's .. it's bad dodo .. with all those people thinking about Mars there are no Meruvians .. or .. or Marukians just people. I watched TV man and there was some dude talking, professor or something ... really smart guy who told if o lot of people will think about something really hard it will happen he called it white energy normally it's wasted by opposing wishes but today is day when we can think as one we should think about world peace and love. Look! Look at them!"


Kip points at people around him "It's working!"

 

[Esbilon]

Sophia had not really wanted to go to the party. She was at university to study, not party, much less in another city. Though, to be brutally honest, it's not like she really needed to study. But it's good exercise, getting used to spending time with the books before she gets to the really difficult bits next year (she planned on grabbing some of the more advanced courses rather than follow the standard study plan). And besides, biology is a "learn a lot of facts" class, even with her grasp of the fundamentals, she still had to study those things. She had sighed at that thought, learning things by heart is such a waste of time. That's what computers are for! People are for figuring out rules and systems and laws and such.


Anyway. She had planned on studying. But then the Mars posters had started showing up. Sophia loved a lot of things; computers, books, technology, learning, Space! If there was a big reveal of the Mars expedition at the party, she would be there, and the finer details of a cat's anatomy could go screw itself.


So that is why this particular pretty blonde girl in a light summer dress is walking around the party, looking at the booths, reading the pamphlets and being entirely oblivious to her peers partaking in illegal substances.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

(Kip)"...if a lot of people will think about something really hard it will happen he called it white energy normally it's wasted by opposing wishes but today is day when we can think as one we should think about world peace and love. Look! Look at them!"
Kip points at people around him "It's working!"

Singhit snaps his phone closed abruptly, overhearing that in passing.


"Oh, no, no, you're talking about Ziglar. That fraud gets on television all the time, but his theories are completely untested! Every reputable investigator has accepted that 'white energy' is really nothing more than subconscious aura manipulation, and that doing anything useful with it requires a clear leader to accept the collective intent and shape it into acti—" He sniffs at the air for a second.


"Is that Purple Forks?"

 

[FeMChara]

==============《 The Alchemist


Heck laughed and threw a hand around his shoulder. "You man are such a treat." Heck took a look at the party. "What would you wish for with that nice white light?" He smiled, faking innocence.


=============} The Farm Girl


A classmate of Sophia's-a young and very smart young lady herself of clear Harborhead descent-found her friend and waved. "Hey, Sophia!" She called.


Kosche was her name and she wanted to be a vet, just like her parents, who ran a wildlife preserve and rescue center. Although she looked of Harborhead, only her mother was of that blood. Her father's family was old Meruvian. Some people thought that she was a goth of some sort though she didn't have black or white on her.


She did, however have a mild fascination with death."So you're playing hookie from studying, huh? Me too. I couldn't read another word. How's the parental units?" She smiles mildly. She is a pretty young lady, her hair kept short and dressed in clothes that wouldn't be out of place on the farm. "What drew you?"

 

[Esbilon]

"Hey, Kosche," Sophia returns the dark-skinned girl's greeting with a smile, it was nice finding out that some of her class mates were able to keep up with her. She hesitates for a moment before ignoring the first question and answering the second, "four words," she says with a grin, "Mysterious, Attractive, Ravishing and Sexy."

 

[FeMChara]

===============} The Farm Girl


She raised a hand to her open mouth, chuckling. "Oooooh. Fun!"


The weather was fairly mild, the sun shining down. "Four words, so many things and people that could describe." She smiled more fully. "You wanna come clean or do I have to sit and stew in my ignorance?"

 

[Esbilon]

Sophia gives Kosche an amused look and a laughing smile, "you're a smart girl, you can figure it out. After all, you can spell, can't you."

 

[FeMChara]

==============} The Farm Girl


It took a moment but she laughed. "That's pretty well done. Mars, Bringer of War, wasn't it?" She squinted in concentration. "All those signs everywhere, why didn't I guess that in the first place?"


The PA system crackled over the music. "The sound stage will soon have The Five Dragons in fifteen minutes. And would the owner of a jade-colored Chaser minivan with the license plate number AI4-00-76T please report to the security tent. Repeat..." it droned.

 

[Ludek]

(Kip)


"Hmm what to do ..." Kip strikes his chin with his four fingers "What to do .. Girls, drugs and love! I wonder how this big release of white energy will change things. See those 2 girls? One on the left is looking at you third or fourth time so go forward young man don't let good occasion to be wasted! I may be your wing man unless you want from solobattleroup and engage unknown."


Then he waves at man who so brutally dismissed wisdom of his idol from TV and says almost shouting (just to make sure he will be heard). "Hey man! Why you are trying to dismiss his theories about white energy .. this guy have achievements! His pyramid to sharpen kitchen knifes works"

 

[Flowing Ink Words]

It isn't every day that Mizu is kept as busy as this day has kept her. And even without much travel. Mizu's bike remains parked at her own personal appartment, a little studio thing well below her means. Her crimson longcoat flows behind her as she moves among the crowd. She weaves her way about, watching, listening, but not really partaking of the celebrations herself.


Now why did the old man want her watching this? she wondered to herself, frowning as she recalled the rather brief text message, that had already been deleted.

OldMann

right

You might want to peek at that party.

left

Parties happen all the time, why this one?

right

This one might be... special.

left

If you say so...

To be fair, I owe him. Mizu grumbles. To not be fair, he never is straightforward about anything. And that would be why over one shoulder rests a simple longbow, the quiver of arrows also held behind her. It doesn't hurt, after all, to be prepared for trouble...


Not that I expect much trouble in this... Mizu noted to herself. Indeed, Mizu's phone already had a few chiming notifications from one of her and Kip's mutual contacts... after all, the media types she ended up being a 'know them' person for quite often tended to mean she knew much of the more illicit activities that went on at a party this size. She frowns as she eyes up one of the posters marking the 'mission to Mars' bit. Well, that's one way to expand, I suppose...

 

[Esbilon]

Sophia raises an eyebrow, but smiles, "it's a planet, not a god. It doesn't bring anything, with the possible exception of small modifications in the tides. As for your guess," her smile gets a distinctively teasing nature, "I really can't say. You are a smart girl, aren't you?" The announcement shakes her out of the goodnatured needling, "the Five Dragons? You know them?"

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

"Of course it works! It's modeled after the—thanks." And he pauses to take his hit in rotation. "Anyway, modeled after the seventh pyramid of Amn-Teltup, the one that's a map to the constellation of the sword. It can't help but work! But do you think he discovered that?"

 

[FeMChara]

=============》The Alchemist


Heck shrugged at that. "Nah, nah no disrespect to him." He laughed. "Maybe you could find a friend to hang with today. Share your unique wisdom!"


=============={ The Old Man


So many approaches to take. The initial move has spooked his contact, as intended. Now for the rest of the plan to go on...


Soon fate would be rocked forever.


===============] The Turncoat


The exchange was going to happen. Really-but something stunk about the whole operation-were his employers onto him? He hoped not. He went into the back of the booth he was manning.


Everything was there, ready... but the time was not yet here.


Wait. Breathe. Wait.

 

[Ludek]

(Kip)


"You see? He is genius he modeled 7 pyramids! In his mind! Genius you see?" Then he pauses after processing whole sentence he heard "Of course he discovered it .. he told it on TV is .. it's on the record."


Pauses and and waves in invitation at Singhit "Come with us concert is about to start , you will feel force .. that should convince you." And to his group "Guys and Gals Let's move closer, music is about to start" And walks with group closer to the music.

 

[Arynne]

Burger and a cola, $6.00.


No, too much.


3-piece fish n'chips, $4.50. Better, but still too much...


Trina trots along the promenade, past booths selling massages and beer and junk "handicrafts". The smells make her stomach growl painfully -- she had only a hard-boiled egg for breakfast -- but her purse is as light as the carefully-mended summer dress she wears. She has a very, very small amount of money left over from her weekly budget and she is determined to make it count.


She slows as she passes the booth selling fudge. In this warm weather, the line is only a third as long as the one for ice cream. Maybe...

 

[Mei]

Morena arrives at the party, as she was unable to politely decline the invitation of one of the girls from the old Home that had tracked her down to catch up. One thing lead to another and Zoey had Morena pretty much trapped in a verbal corner. So now she's being dragged around by the "social butterfly" that she grew up with. Such is the life of Morena Angelo.


Her shaggy mop-like hair obscures where her eyes land, but it is pretty obvious that she's more interested in taking in the visual information than she is in whatever Zoey's saying.

 

[Flowing Ink Words]

Mizu works her way towards the stage where The Five Dragons are going to be performing, stopping only to wait in line for a chocolate shake at one of the ice-cream stands. She seems mostly distracted as she checks her phone for messages... even as she's actually watching and listening to all that is going on around her.

 

[FeMChara]

===================¤


The sun was shining and the fudge was actually a bargain. A lady speared a bit of baked brownie with a wooden stick and covered it with that fudge. Just about anything hot fudge could be found at the stand but it was poorly situated. "Just three scrip." Very cheap. "One more for a hot chocolate, dear?"


This need not last forever. A strange voice spoke softly.


But no further reply would yet be forthcoming.


==============? The ????


Near Morena were two that had gotten into the alcohol a little heavy, so early. One bumped hard into the other. "What's your problem, alkie? Watch where you're going!" One snarled.


"You watch yourself!"


Will you stand? Or will you cast down your eyes and be blind?


People in line for fudge looked over at the scene, where one man got into the otuer's face, bumping chest. "You wanna go, chump? What now?"


It was getting ugly.

 

[Mei]

Morena growled quietly to herself and released Zoey's grip from her arm faster than the girl could respond two. She positions herself in between the two, giving them each a glare from under her shaggy hair. "Both of you walk away, now. Forget this happened and move on before you ruin everyone's night."

 

[Flowing Ink Words]

Mizu frowns as she watches Morena insert herself into the brawl before it could get going... and before she could start making books. She sighs walks up slowly with her shake in hand. "Well, gentlemen, are you going to listen to the very good advice?" She offers as she takes a sip. "Or are you going to make a mess here that I'm going to have to help clean up?"