[DECEMBER INTRO LOG | WORLD TWO]

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Who: All coven members, especially new folk!
Where: In and around the new world’s apartment building where the coven is staying, as well as the rest of Shehui
When: Day 160
Open/Closed: Open to All

How did you get into this building? This apartment room? What the fuck is going on? Let's refer back to this page for a semi in-depth, wow so detailed, explanation of your current situation. Are you up to speed? Great. Now, here's the question of the hour: what are you going to do about it? A ▢ Unlike the other coven members, the newbies are coming into the apartment building with non-empty apartment rooms. Depending on how polite or cautious you are, your first instinct may be to find your apartment and knock on the door. But it is your apartment now, too, and you do have an ID card that'll get you in. What horrible calamity will you walk in on? What eccentric roommates will you happen upon? The wacky situational comedy scenarios are ENDLESS. B ▢ One of the jobs on the job board this week is fundraising -- neat, right? Before you even make it up to your apartment, you may be accosted by an excited citizen -- coven member or no -- that is trying to push something onto your character. Chocolate bars? Cheese logs? Cookie dough? Some other luxury item or overpriced snack food? Because this fundraising task is based on commission, the citizen in question may be a bit pushy...or you may be inclined to buy ridiculous amounts of goods and not know what to do with yourself.

New coven members showing up today are in luck. This week, Shehui is celebrating a Keep the Community Clean event. It's rare that they force jobs on people, but there has been an influx of new citizens and the population growth is leading to more trash. Fulfill your assignment and you'll be rewarded 1,000 credits. Don't? Be fined 500. Everyone has been sent a job to their ID, be it collecting trash, cleaning their apartment building or holding up signs/handing out literature about recycling. Sweeping, bagging...it's dirty work, but someone has to do it. C ▢ Cleaning up trash on the street might be hard, but it's fulfilling! Okay, that's a lie. It's demeaning and a lot of citizens don't really care about the minimal littering credit deduction as they toss trash from their cars or miss throwing it into bins. Volunteers are outfitted with gloves, vests and a roll of trash bags, but it doesn't prevent them from being rudely splashed with snow or having to pick up nasty things. Have fun! D ▢ For those who decided to pass out literature, you did pick the better job! It's a lot easier to avoid getting nasty, but it's also awkward...having to hand out fliers, be cheerful, regurgitate boring facts about recycling. Please sir, stop and listen to this exciting speech about why should put your cans in the red bins, not the blue ones! E ▢ There is a bright side to these jobs: local businesses are getting in on the outpouring of people out and about to try and get them into seats and buying things. Free samples are abound! There's a local coffee shop, Mooncents, that is handing out free small drinks to anyone who is actually working today. Come inside, regardless if you "volunteer" or not. It's warm inside with all that snow out there...

Speaking of snow! Most businesses and buildings in Shehui have paid to have snow falling every other hour, which coats the city areas in a fine, powdery dust of snowflakes. You may be familiar with snow, or maybe you've never seen it in your entire life! It's unavoidable either way, so you're going to have to deal with it. F ▢ Children in Shehui are usually in a school building somewhere, but snow days call for some leniency. School is pretty come-and-go anyway, so don't be surprised that there are quite a few kidlets out and about on the streets. They're also fully into the spirit of snow, throwing snowballs at unsuspecting strangers. Will you get in on the action, or will you plan the murder of innocent children today? G ▢ While it's unadvised to just go lay out in the street and make snow angels, there are plenty of parks in which to examine or play in the snow. You won't be the only one acting like a fool -- it's Shehui. You're allowed to live a little! H ▢ Finally, Coins! has bought the most snow as a means for their seasonal activity -- snow paintball. If you're looking to have a good time and enjoy Shehui for what it is, you'd best be inclined to sign up. A massive field with snowbanks and excellent areas for hiding, snowball paintballs that hurt twice as much as usual. What more could you ask for? I ▢ Wildcard! How will your character interact with this new and unusual world?

Comments

[sealeted]

Yeah, I spent most of it in a blanket fort.

[teratias]

Yeah well...your servant gave me a hand getting out of the hut, since I got stranded. So, thanks.

[sealeted]

Oh, really? How surprisingly nice of him. I'm glad.

[teratias]

Yeah, so was I.

[He breathes out, pausing to move a piece of stray hair that's fallen in front of his face.]

Besides squirrel issues, what do you make of this place?

[sealeted]

It's... nice. Something about it reminds me a little of the Moon Cell, but the snow is fun.

[She takes a long sip of her drink.

[teratias]

--Reminds you of it in a good way or a bad way?

[sealeted]

...in a weird way. I can't really put my finger on it just yet.

[teratias]

[Waver bites his lip at that. The gesture's not on purpose.]

In that case, I'd chalk it up to in a bad way.

[sealeted]

Probably a safe bet.

[She sighs.]

Well, eventually Qri will yank us away anyways, right?

[teratias]

If anyone can figure out where the hell she is. S'weird.

[sealeted]

I mean, it is weird, but we didn't need to find her last time, did we?

[teratias]

No, but it's a different set of circumstances. I'm going off the assumption that magic must work here and there's a clamp on it, otherwise they wouldn't need to ban it.

So if you have a highly magical creature, what are you going to do with it?

[sealeted]

...I wonder if Qri's going to send us on another treasure hunt again.

[teratias]

I really don't want to go on one. But then again, it's not like we've got any indication about what we're supposed to be doing here.

[sealeted]

I just hope we aren't asked to go grave robbing this time...

[teratias]

If we are, then we're all gonna end up being necromancers by the time our stint with Qri's over.

[sealeted]

[She starts to nod, then pauses mid-sip.

She puts her cup down, and looks directly at Waver, her expression blank and serious.]

...Waver, you and I technically are necromancers already.

[teratias]

[Waver's own eyes narrow, trying to follow the train of thought. If she's talking about servants, then that's not necromancy, that's evocation.]

How do you figure? I've not used any body parts for my magecraft. [Just those goddamn chickens.]

[sealeted]

...we called forth the souls of long dead kings and bound them into our service, Waver.

[Look, she might have been born into a school designed by a Holy Grail, but that doesn't mean Hakuno knows shit about being a mage.]

[teratias]

That's uh...[C'MON WAVER YOU CAN EXPLAIN THIS WITHOUT BEING A DICK!]

At least on earth, mages make a distinction between evocation, that's summoning spirits, and necromancy, which involves body parts.

[sealeted]

I see... in my world, Earth lost most of its magic, so I don't know if normal Wizards still have those abilities.

[teratias]

I'll admit, the classifications could have changed by your time due to things like that.

[sealeted]

I never really needed to know more than Code Casts for the Holy Grail, but I borrowed a certain technique once... I don't even know how you'd begin to classify it.

[teratias]

I could try. What was the technique?

[sealeted]

..................................................................uh.

[She blanches.

Oh god, why didn't she think he'd followup on that? Why did she open her mouth?]

I-It... They were called... Thesis of the Still Heart and Ten Thousand Colored Stagnation...