AUGUST INTRO LOG: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

[asgardmods]

Who: EVERYONE
What: the August intro log and first god house competition, More Than Meets the Eye
When: August 8
Where: Gladsheim Palace for breakfast, around Asgard for the game/curse
Rating: PG-13; please take anything higher than this to a private log!

morning: a warm invitation

Everyone wakes up to a friendly invitation to breakfast at the castle with the gods. For most of you, this comes as a message on your bracelet, reading:

Join us at the castle today to welcome some new Wanderers into our midst. Breakfast will be served and a lively game will be available to all of our guests, both new and old.

New Wanderers are curious on their own, and this is the first there's ever been mention of a game. Perhaps it's enough for you to make the trek to the castle, to see what all the fuss is about, or maybe even to see if there's someone you know. Perhaps you want to learn more about the game, or maybe you just want the food.

For our new guests, this comes as a bit more of a surprise. Wherever you were before in your world, without even realizing it, you wake up in a strange new place. No time or space inbetween, just an awareness of There and then Here. A matronly figure tries to explain your circumstances with a sympathetic smile, but ultimately invites you meet them all for yourselves: the Gods of Asgard, and the Wanderers that arrived before you.



The sight that greets you on the castle grounds is a rather festive one, regardless of where you're coming from. Colorful streamers and flags are draped above large tables with room for several guests. Natives bustle about, cheerfully offering food and drinks to anyone that wants some. Everyone is welcomed to mingle and greet the new Wanderers on this bright summer morning.

the game: a friendly competition

Among the brightly decorated tables are ones highlighted in a specific color for a specific god house, and most of the gods themselves can be found sitting behind it with a few of their district's natives. They are here to welcome the new Wanderers into Asgard - but they're also here to explain the rules of today's game. There are coins hidden throughout the city and disguised as mundane items, and the god house that returns the most of their coins will win an upgrade to their god housing! No hints will be given, but the natives are excited to help facilitate the activity and happily invite you to wander through their districts to find what you can.

But you don't have to know about the rules to be playing the game! The coins are already hidden throughout the city, and no one knows what they are until they've been picked up. Whether you're banding together with friends to find as many coins as you can or blindly stumbling over an unpleasant surprise, the game and the curse are in full swing!

evening: a fair prize

At sundown, all of the coins in the city disappear at once, whether they're in your pocket or still disguised as a bowl. Points will be tallied and a winner will be announced (OOCly, on August 17) - but Asgardians are keen to celebrate regardless of who wins a rather inconsequential game. The same colorful display of tables and chairs is still spread across the castle grounds, although now they twinkle with fairy lights haphazardly blinking throughout the air. Snacks and drinks are made available, as well as more dinner-shaped meals for those that request it. Mostly the natives simply want to bask in the strangeness of these Wanderers from other worlds for a moment longer - but they're also eagerly listening to any stories from the day's mischievous game. Relax, enjoy yourself, or again, just stock up on some freely served food. Whatever suits your needs today. Welcome to Asgard, dear Wanderers.

[ OOC NOTE: This is the intro log for August, as well as our first god house competition/curse: More Than Meets the Eye. You are free to play with the curse prompts and searching the city in any way you want! If you would like to submit a map to earn points for your god house, please check out the rules to learn what to do. We will accept maps until August 17, at which point a winner will be announced and members of that god house will be allowed to vote for an upgrade to their god housing. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or need any help on the mod contact page. Enjoy, friends! ]

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[ikanteven]

Chidi is incredibly lost.

He thought the path he was on would return him to the castle grounds, but he's nowhere near there, and it keeps getting worse. He tries to return to Odin's district next, but that's not apparently where he has ended up, either.

"Excuse me," he finally says to the next person he spots, who happens to be Mary, "can you tell me which way to get to the castle?"

[thequitecontrary]

"I've just come that way," Mary says with a smile. She motions behind her. "Down the path and to the left." Then she pauses. "Well... actually if you take the first left, you'll probably end up in Honir's district and I'm not sure where the second left will take you..."

With a shrug, she turns around so that she's heading back the way she came. "I probably ought to show you," Mary continues, "otherwise I'll probably end up getting you lost." From what she can tell so far, Asgard seems huge.

[ikanteven]

"Oh, thank you," Chidi replies, scrambling slightly to catch up and falling into step beside her. "I was actually trying to get to Odin's district, but I didn't end up where I was hoping I would."

He falters just slightly in his speech.

"Well, to be honest, I don't really have any sense of direction."

[thequitecontrary]

Mary laughs slightly. "Mine's not fantastic either," she admits. "Hopefully I won't get both of us lost." She's fairly sure that she remembers where she just came from at least. The paths here are not so maze-like that she thinks she won't recognize where to turn.

"My name is Lady Mary Crawley," she says, holding out one of her hands for him. "Are you newly arrived as well?"

[ikanteven]

"Chidi Anagonye," he replies, and shakes her hand, though he's not entirely certain that's what she was going for. "There might be a map on our bracelets, but I'm not very good at reading maps, so I didn't bother to look. And yes, I'm new."

[thequitecontrary]

The shake is fine. It's a bit more modern for women to shake rather than to simply clasp hands, but she's done a few business deals in her time. Mary honestly hadn't expected him to kiss it.

"Pleasure," she replies, not even going to attempt to try to pronounce his last name for now. "I can read a map, though I'm not very good at using the bracelet." Mary holds up her wrist to show her bracelet with a teal stone. "This is... far beyond anything that we have back home."

Watches tell time. That's it.

[ikanteven]

"This technology?" he asks. "It's fairly similar to what we had where I was from. That doesn't mean I'm good at using it, though."

Even with a map that shows where you're located on it.

[thequitecontrary]

"Oh," she says. "You must be from the future then. Well. It would be the future for me. I'm from 1924."

Mary has already met people from far in the future, like Jim Kirk. She wonders if Chidi is from that far ahead in time as well. Jim's world sounds like a Utopia, way too good to actually exist.