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! ]

Comments

Re: Castle

[spirited_lissie]

By now, she was beginning to understand that people said 'hi' as a sort of greeting, not as a direction of sorts.

"Hi," The word sounded strange even as she said it. "And, yes, I suppose so." True, she was alone in a strange place, but at the very least there was comfortable shelter and food.

[theprezident]

Things Rhys would never have considered: The fact that people don't greet each other the exact same way through the ages. He was oblivious to how strange it was to her, as well, especially when she responded with it.

"I take it you arrived today?"

[spirited_lissie]

"Is it that obvious?" She gave a nervous laugh without meaning to, even if it was true. She felt completely out of place and for all she tried, she guessed it was clear to anyone who saw her.

[theprezident]

So far, he'd observed a few different patterns in new arrivals. They might dive straight into it with some sort of excited vigor - like it was a grand adventure - they could be clearly uncertain about the whole situation and look like they didn't quite know what to do with themselves, or they looked at everything with a more skeptical air - like it was all some kind of trick and they were about to be ambushed or something.

This woman fell in the middle, and she'd been relatively subtle about it.

"Sort of, yeah. Don't worry, I mostly guessed it from the clothes. Everything they've got here is a lot ... simpler. I'm Rhys."

[spirited_lissie]

She looked at her gown, stripes of bright and pale blue. She couldn't say it was fancy or anything of that sort; just one of her gowns. "Least those in charge have provided clothes."

Perhaps she did rather stick out, but atleast it was from nothing terrible. "I'm Felicity."

[theprezident]

From his perspective, it was actually quite fancy. Nobody wore clothes like that where he was from, unless they were dressing up for some reason, and even then he was pretty sure it wouldn't look quite like this.

"That's a pretty name. Where are you from?"