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

[mindseer]

Oh sorry. Humans call them turkeys. I hear it was a mean thing to call one. You know, gobble gobble? [She snickered.] A lot of judges are pretty rough with the local populace though. That's not unusual, but was there anything special about it?

[She considered that for a moment. How did they know? How did they... oh that was obvious!]

We grab the coin and it doesn't disappear and we don't do anything stupid, of course!

[keybearing]

....Turkeys? I think you mean chickens? Like, calling someone a chicken means they are scared.

[Sora says, tilting his head in confusion a bit. Because....well, she kind of got it right in some ways but the wrong bird. Close enough though he supposes. The focus and priority is obviously on the coins.]

I guess that might be it. I hadn't found one yet myself to know for sure.

[mindseer]

Oh yeah. You call someone a cluck beast if they're scared. But no, I know people who call someone that's pathetic and stupid a turkey is all. People like to call folks animals a lot when they're insulting them, don't they?

[But yeah, close enough. Cluck beast, gobble beast. Either way they were bad.]

You wanna keep looking? Maybe we can get you to do something silly? Let's just not take it seriously, ok?

[keybearing]

I guess.....

[She isn't wrong? Calling someone a pig isn't necessarily a good thing either, for example. Sora never really thought on that, with insults being to call people animals.]

Me? That...well. We are supposed to find them. We can just try avoid the ones that aren't for our house. There's got to be a trick, or some way to tell?

[mindseer]

I'm not entirely sure about that, but we can tr...

....

You're thinking I should totally take the blindfold off for this part of things, aren't you?

[No shit, sherlock.]

[keybearing]

Well...it'd help? I mean, you could help look for the coins better without it, right?

[Look. He knows she is not actually blind. So she doesn't actually need to blindfold. So at this point when they are supposed to be looking for something, yeah, he figures she can go without and help more.]

[mindseer]

[Grunt. Grunt. Fidget. Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

She pulled it off and stuffed it in her pocket, right before giving him a stuck out tongue and a wink. Ok, she could at the very least blink out the sunlight and see what coin she found erroneously. But, hey she was trying at least.]

Suuuuuch a slave driver, making me actually look at things, eheh.

[keybearing]

Oh, the worst. I know.

[But he laughs, smiling and nudging at her a bit in showing he was just joking about being a slave driver. He just wants to get them both a better chance to find as many of the coins as they could! They continue on in still looking, Sora blinking and tilting his head before grinning excitedly.]

I think I found one!

[And reaching to grab it, blinking when it just disappears....]

[mindseer]

[She watched as he'd grabbed it. not her color, not his. Nope, they were in for some shenanigans again, weren't they? She snickered and put her hands behind her back while she grinned over at Sora in her usual impish way.]

Oh, this oughta be good for a laugh. What'd you get?

(OOC: Feel free to pick any of them you want. Truth or dare)

[keybearing]

[Well, Sora isn't sure on the specific House. Not that that seems to matter, given he answers instead by blurting out:]

I really look up to Riku!

[....As if that sort of thing wasn't obvious already by the way he talks about his friends all the time anyway. ]

He's really strong, and he's come so far, trying so hard to make up for his mistakes.

[mindseer]

... hah.

[She shook her head and grinned over at him, winking as she did and showing a mouthful of fangs in the process.]

Maaaan, what do you wanna bet all of these basically make us say something kinda embarrassing we didn't expect to say?

[Terezi, yours was way more out of this world than his. Of course, your world...]

[keybearing]

I don't know. It might do other stuff? Depending on the House? I don't know, but I still want to try win.

[He admitted that to Riku at least. And well to most anyone else that is probably just obvious if they saw the two together at any point. That the two cared about each other and admired each other a lot.]

[mindseer]

Hey, I'm down for winning one way or another, so we can deal with a little bit of frustration and stuff. I mean, seriously, what's the worst that can happen in this case Sora?

[And she was already starting to rifle through stuff, as if intent on proving that point. After all, honestly? It had been pretty tame so far.]

(OOC: But in this case I'm so in the 'hit me with your best shot' category depending on your urges.)

[keybearing]

I don't know. We've only found a couple of them and they were probably the wrong House, but there's more than two of them.

[Still, he continues, exploring and keeping an eye out for more coins. Which means of course than when he finds another one, he picks it up to show her and it is Tyr's. Which leads him to feel an urge to hug her for some reason.

Which may or may not be awkward for both of them at least a bit. As he blinks when it again disappears and approaches her with outstretched arms.]

[mindseer]

[She hadn't had a whole lot of warning when it happened. Funny story was that this was going to happen with Nammers too, later in the day. Slightly less awkward with her being her moirail these days, but still the suddenness had her freeze there.

Eheh. Ehehe. She was trying to giggle as his outstretched arms caught her by surprise.]

Right... so... that's a thing. And a half. Ehehe... they make people wanna hug? Glob, how bad could't get? [She was definitely a little rigid right now, not sure how to react.]

[keybearing]

I guess....? Sorry, that...must have been the coin. I thought it seemed like they just made us say stuff so far.

[At least, the other two coins they had grabbed had done that. Sora gives a shrug, sheepish a bit as he raises a hand to the back of his neck and then a finger to his cheek. Given this was the first time they had hugged and it was....kind of forced. It's a little awkward...]

[mindseer]

Nooooope, guess not.

[She didn't actually pull away per se, not stepping back but she was relaxing a little bit. She'd figured it was the coin, but it was a little surprising and she wasn't quite sure what to do with it.]

I mean, it could be a lot worse, right? Just kinda feels out of place, doesn't it?

[keybearing]

Something like that. I mean, not saying that I wouldn't hug you or any of my other friends. It's just...

[Not the best for their first hug to be kind of forced like that is all. But at least she didn't seem too freaked out or anything by it. Especially when he can't be sure what sort of things she might be familiar with or not given the whole troll thing, with how they might show affection. Sora steps back, giving a shrug.]

A-anyway, let's keep looking.

[mindseer]

Heh. Trolls aren't really the hugging sorts usually. Yeah, let's definitely keep looking. With any luck, you can at least find one of these things.

[She trotted ahead and started going through a few of the bushe, a look of determination in her face as she was bound to find one more, just one more.]

[keybearing]

R-right! Let's focus on finding the right one next time!

[Because clearly that was what they needed to do. Sora tries to move on from how awkward the hug was to try focus in glancing around to see what he can find. He turns, looking to the side, turning from her.]

[mindseer]

[Her hand froze when she saw something change. Oh, there was a coin, right there. It hadn't disappeared, but she hadn't grabbed it yet. Looking down at it, she sniffed and squinted before beckoning.]

Hey, hey! is this the right color? I can't tell.

(OOC: Hehe, it can be his if you like. She officially never finds any from Mimir.)

[keybearing]

Hm? Oh, that might be Heimdall!

[Cue Sora reaching a gloved hand for it to take it from her after she sniffs at it. Because it is the right colour at least?]

[mindseer]

[The Coin didn't actually disappear this time. Terezi reached up and took a victory pose, ignoring the fact that she wasn't actually succeeding in helping Mimir in the slightest. It was definitely on the silly side, but hey she was going to take any victory she could get.]

We actually managed to get one, did we?

[keybearing]

I think so?

[He grins, blue eyes all but shining excitedly as it sinks in after these duds that they finally seem to have found a proper one for their House. Sora can't help but to be thrilled!]

We did it!

[mindseer]

[Cue the victory music. They'd managed to actually snag one of the blasted things.]

We did, and what's the worst that happened? A few dumb questions and some weird sudden hugging! That's not so bad, is it?