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deercountry2022-12-19 10:24 pm
mehanizovati) wrote in deercountry2022-12-19 10:24 pm
sanctuary holiday party
Who: Anyone, open to all
What: Sanctuary's holiday party, low key since it's a hectic irl month. There will be a handwave thread for just that.
When: the last week of december
Where: sanctuary
Content Warnings: alcohol, others to be put in headers
Welcome to Sanctuary's attempt at a holiday party. It's open door, feel free to have heard about from word of mouth, a friend, just walking by and being curious.
It's also half planned by a man who doesn't know the first thing about any winter holidays, so that will probably be fine.
The kitchen is the drop off area for people who brought food. It's also open for people who want to prepare something themselves. The general instruction for anyone who asked what to bring was nostalgic food, something from their world, something from their preferred holiday this time of year. Because of that the selection is a bit wacky, but a lot of the staples are there.
Like cookies of various sorts, hot chocolate, a big bowl of some spiked drink that people are hopefully guarding from the wayward youth. Feel free to take a turn doing so or making it worse. Otherwise it's pretty much just a buffet of people moving in and out, taking a plate to wander.
Ugly sweaters are apparently a tradition so there's a pile of them in one of the rooms, brought by none other than Vi. Anyone is welcome to go and steal one, they're terrible. Imagine what Trench thrift stores would have in terms of ugly holiday sweaters and despair.
Music wafts through the rooms as well, again a weird combination of whatever holiday music seemed appropriate. The central room to the party has a tree, only it's made of metal and looks more on the menacing side than festive. Presents can be placed under there, ones that will be sent to Koz Orphanage for their own celebrations.
Speaking of there's a table for making decorations. Craft stuff, glitter and glue, origami and instructions on how to make stars and simple chains. It's clearly meant more for the Koz kids when they visit but no one's going to stop anyone from unleashing their muse over here. In fact it's encouraged to hang the decorations up when done wherever you'd like, including the increasingly cluttered, dangerous metal tree.
It's more than likely mistletoe ended up tacked up somewhere. Hey, at least it's not Trench bullshit magic mistletoe, it can be easily ignored.
Outside lights are strung up everywhere, the snow is fresh and it's a lot quieter in general. Not a bad place to wander, or to start hurling snow at people so it's immediately less quiet.
What: Sanctuary's holiday party, low key since it's a hectic irl month. There will be a handwave thread for just that.
When: the last week of december
Where: sanctuary
Content Warnings: alcohol, others to be put in headers
Welcome to Sanctuary's attempt at a holiday party. It's open door, feel free to have heard about from word of mouth, a friend, just walking by and being curious.
It's also half planned by a man who doesn't know the first thing about any winter holidays, so that will probably be fine.
The kitchen is the drop off area for people who brought food. It's also open for people who want to prepare something themselves. The general instruction for anyone who asked what to bring was nostalgic food, something from their world, something from their preferred holiday this time of year. Because of that the selection is a bit wacky, but a lot of the staples are there.
Like cookies of various sorts, hot chocolate, a big bowl of some spiked drink that people are hopefully guarding from the wayward youth. Feel free to take a turn doing so or making it worse. Otherwise it's pretty much just a buffet of people moving in and out, taking a plate to wander.
Ugly sweaters are apparently a tradition so there's a pile of them in one of the rooms, brought by none other than Vi. Anyone is welcome to go and steal one, they're terrible. Imagine what Trench thrift stores would have in terms of ugly holiday sweaters and despair.
Music wafts through the rooms as well, again a weird combination of whatever holiday music seemed appropriate. The central room to the party has a tree, only it's made of metal and looks more on the menacing side than festive. Presents can be placed under there, ones that will be sent to Koz Orphanage for their own celebrations.
Speaking of there's a table for making decorations. Craft stuff, glitter and glue, origami and instructions on how to make stars and simple chains. It's clearly meant more for the Koz kids when they visit but no one's going to stop anyone from unleashing their muse over here. In fact it's encouraged to hang the decorations up when done wherever you'd like, including the increasingly cluttered, dangerous metal tree.
It's more than likely mistletoe ended up tacked up somewhere. Hey, at least it's not Trench bullshit magic mistletoe, it can be easily ignored.
Outside lights are strung up everywhere, the snow is fresh and it's a lot quieter in general. Not a bad place to wander, or to start hurling snow at people so it's immediately less quiet.
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Yes, Palamedes and I are here more often than not these days. [the heating system helps, viktor loathes the cold.] Would an afternoon this week do?
[he glances around a moment just to see if he could call pal over- can't see the stickbug at the moment either so he lets it go for now. better things to focus on, such as,] Have you used these techniques against a beast or highly corrupted individual yet? I'd be very curious to hear the results.
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I have no prior commitments, [he assures viktor with a smile, which is the truth, because he doesn't have a regular job that keeps him busy during the day yet beyond trading modest talismans in exchange for other goods and services.] I would be delighted to meet this week.
[as for the rest, he pauses to consider, then offers,]
I have not used talismans or arrays, as such. But I have used musical cultivation to quell the spiritual unrest in a friend's mind, which seems to reduce the intensity of his blood power manifestations. [there's a bit more to it than that, he knows, but divulging more detail risks identifying mike, and jin guangyao would prefer to keep his friends' confidences, where possible. he smiles a touch apologetically.] It can be a difficult subject to explain to those with no familiarity with cultivation. Perhaps I could demonstrate the technique when we meet with Palamedes-xiansheng.
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ah, viktor already looks incredibly intrigued, fingers itching for a pen to start scribbling notes. he just barely refrains, taking mental notes instead. musical cultivation sounds incredibly promising.]
We have a lab here for corruption research, if you ever wish for a place to test anything. It tends to be safer. [allen alone made it less of a risk, really.] Musical cultivation, is this like weaving magic into sound?
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I believe it is similar, xiansheng, yes, [about musical cultivation, that is.] The effectiveness of the music will depend on the amount of spiritual energy that a cultivator can pour into the playing of the notes, which will in turn be limited by the strength of his golden core. Ah, [he stops himself and laughs in a self-effacing manner,] my apologies, in my eagerness I am perhaps getting ahead of myself.
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viktor waves a hand though.] No apologies necessary, I'm well aware how fascinating topics tend to get away from us. I suppose we should wait to discuss it all at length. [with the tone of someone disappointed because he wants to ask about golden cores and spiritual energy badly, okay.]
In truth I would much rather be back at the lab, discussing this. I don't see how anyone could find all this a relaxing way to spend the evening.