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

[machinamentum]

Good! I want a necklace!

[ It's stubborn as much as petulant. Teeth sunk in and shaking against the bite as she holds on.

But the heat, with her robot cradled in close, she holds tight and it starts to ease in her chest. His well-meaning confusing, more than anything, settled her. Reminded her of home. Of Krieg, and Tannis and Brick. They didn't always get it, but they were always trying, in their confused, sort of messed up way.

She looks down at her little robot and leans in to rub her cheek on his little face fondly, listening for that growly mechanical purr of his engines in affirmation. If Honir was trying, then she was trying. ]

There is only one bit that matters: you don't fuck us over. You don't betray us. You don't hurt anyone that doesn't deserve it. You have our backs, no matter what else, on the stuff that matters. And you do all that? It means, if anyone fucks with you, we have yours. I'm your Vault Hunter, now. Means you give the word and say 'hit this, stomp that, punch that guy in the face, collect this thing from this place', and I do it, without question until you tell me to stop.

[ Had as good as the only payment she cares about, tucked in little and the desperate need to attach herself to someone - and a confused well-meaning God? Well, she's picked worse. ] I have your back and you have mine. There's this old fashioned word they called it? Uh, Champion. Yeah. Whenever you want it. I've probably done it before, anyway. You call me, and I'm there. Right by your side, no matter what.

Sound good, Boss?

[asgardsflight]

[ If a picture is worth a thousand words, have this GIF for a million words to describe Honir's immediate awe and enthusiasm. He didn't understand some of what she said, but you've got him all revved up and ready to go anyway, Gaige. ]

Yes! It's good! I'll fight the whole multiverse for you!

[ At least, this is the main point he's taking away from that. ]

I learned so much from you today, Gaige. I'm a boss with a Vault Hunter champion! How exciting is that?

[ By the look of him, it's the most exciting thing that's ever happened in his several thousand years of existence. ]

[machinamentum]

[ Grinning, even as she holds her robot tight, she just can't help it. He's just as infectiously happy as she was. Reminded her a bit of Tina, in a way, as something cuts through that unspoken fear she'd been feeling about it all. How lost and off-kilter she had been. ]

Pretty fucking cool, I'm a Vault Hunter with a God or whatever for a Boss. Never been one of those before.

[ New, she could work with that, and meant it gave her something to latch onto. ]