asgardchrysalis | AUGUST INTRO LOG: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

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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It was an unsettling choice of words. Back home, Alastrians really were killed for their hair. Blue or otherwise. But Ariadne had heard enough of Josie's speech patterns to assume it was hyperbole.

And she liked to believe the best in people. Hard though it could sometimes be.

"Usually, it's brown," she said. "Like your coloring." Which was also quite lovely. "The best way to survive is to go through life unnoticed, I guess."

"Hey now. We brunettes have our fair share of spotlight moments."

Josie, you have barely managed to step out of your blond sister's shadow. Let's not go crazy here.

"But I can see how you would want to blend in."

She pulled the blanket back over her hair. Even if Josie could be trusted, that didn't mean everyone would be okay with a green girl. She didn't need to look too closely at the probabilities to know it was foolish to press her luck.

And on what might well be the first day of...an indefinite period.

"My home is complicated," she admitted. "Beautiful. But sometimes a little messy. You can't really enjoy it for what it is, when you're...not a part of it. If that makes any sense." She paused. "You won't tell anyone, will you?"

"No. That totally makes sense."

All worlds have their own forms of complication here and there, but they are also all beautiful in their own ways. Or at least Josie's idealized, sixteen year-old view it is. Even as hard as her world can be, it's still got it's moments of beauty.

"But no, of course not. Its your secret to tell, not mine."

"Thank you," Ariadne said, with a smile that managed to reach her eyes, making them glisten a little, like silver coins.

She considered promising not to tell anyone that Josie was a witch. But she wasn't sure a promise like that carried the same sort of weight. Maybe she was proud of being a witch. It certainly didn't seem like the same kind of earth-shattering secret.

Ariadne just didn't know.

But she was looking forward to learning more.

"Of course."

Josie's had mixed feelings on whether or not she's going to be open about her witch status. She's always lived between two worlds - one foot in the Salvatore School, where everyone knew what she was and she didn't have to hide, and one in the real world, where secrets kept her safe from things that would try to use her.

She isn't sure which Asgard is yet.

"That's what friends are for, right? Or ... hopefully soon to be friends?"

Ariadne let out a little gasp. It was somewhere between delighted and surprised. Or surprised and delighted. She wasn't sure which came first, but it didn't really matter much because they mingled together like a cheerful melody.

"Oh! Yes! Yes! I would like to be your friend!"

The sad fact of the matter--and it definitely showed--was that Ariadne had no real idea of how one went about making friends. Not for lack of interest, exactly. Just lack of experience. Lack of time. Lack of...

Well, yes. Lack of social graces. At least when it came to playing the role of herself and not some kind of spy.

Josie grins, before nodding her agreement. "Then good! And I think, as our first act of friendship, we should possibly check out this whole scavenger hunt and see what we can find?"

It seems like an easy enough way to learn their way around the city, if nothing else.

Josie seemed to know what she was doing, so Ariadne wasn't going to argue. She was going to learn, soak it all up like a sponge and use it, perhaps to even make as many as two or three friends.

If she was in for the long haul.

"All right!" she said with genuine enthusiasm. "But...only if you tell me what a scavenger hunt is, first."

"Basically we get a list of things to find, and the team or person that finds the most wins?" She gives a small shrug. "I figured it would be an easy way to learn our way around."

Poor Josie really had no idea what she'd just signed up for. But Ariadne decided she would try to limit the questions just a little bit.

For the first day, anyway.

No promises for the future.

"All right," she said again. "You lead, and I'm sure I'll pick it up as we go."

"Great!"

To be honest, Josie doesn't mind answering questions, and it's always more fun to figure something out together anyway. So with that, she will finish her food and get to her feet.

"Let's do this."

And with that, off they will go to have some scavenger fun.

AUGUST INTRO LOG: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

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