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DECEMBER EVENT PT 1
DECEMBER EVENT PT 1
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→ 12/3 Lockdown
- The wind picks up at midnight, flowing through the streets but softened by the snowflakes that drift down from the sky. Over the full hour of Lockdown, the snowfall dampens the wind and makes it harder to follow the stream than before, blowing out from the forest and towards the center of town where a snowdrift builds up against the shut doors of the hospital's main entrance. Defeat the Daitengu, and the next dungeon appears the month after... During Lockdown, black blobs of Shadows continue to seep out of the hospital, shrine, lake, and school, but with the third Daitengu defeated, the wind doesn't howl as strongly and the snowfall is light, leaving the town dusted with snow the next morning that easily melts by mid-day. The town is cold, quiet, and still, almost as if holding its breath, but perhaps it's an illusion created by the townspeople staying indoors to keep out of the cold, and that everybody who had arrived from the alternate Hirajiro has been spirited away overnight, gone without fanfare by the time the wind dies down at the end of Lockdown. The only thing left behind is a complete deck of tarot cards with no duplicates, neatly stacked and set by the entrance of the honden, with a heavy stone on top to keep the cards from blowing away in the wind.
With the wind picking up around the shrine, a slow, deep ringing can be heard from a large bell that has been tied up above the offertory box with a thick rope, swinging with the wind; the offertory box itself is emptied of gemstones at the beginning of the month, but will slowly fill back up if the Persona users continue to donate the stones dropped by defeated Shadows, with the understanding that any boon they receive comes with strengthening the Kotengu as well. As if called by the toll of the bell, it seems like all of the crows in town have congregated around the shrine for the winter, perched on the rooftops, lit stone lanterns, and even the torii, all peering down at whoever enters the shrine and keeping an eye on them all the while they stand on sacred land. Although the crows seem unbothered by the ringing bell, the resident fox skitters away whenever it hears the noise, although it will always return when the wind dies down, or if the bell is otherwise bound and still. The sign that's supposed to contain the shrine deity's name still lacks the name, but this time, the sign is painted over with solid black, the paint layered on so thickly, you can see where the trails of paint are pulled to the bottom of the sign, under which dry spots of black paint can be seen before covered by the dusting of snow.
Near the path leading from the shrine to the castle, a large area of trees has been demolished in a vaguely serpentine shape, the trees lying splintered and fallen but far enough to pose no danger to the castle. Unlike the shrine, there are little to no crows that hang around the structure, the same two stories with the broken stairs up to the incomplete third floor becoming hazardous to climb with the falling snow and the wind that blows through the open windows of the second floor, making the castle howl. The throne sports a new cushion and a thick woollen blanket draped over the back of it, but with the ofuda door containing just the same two as before, the castle remains stuck in time, and the night goes on.
→ 12/3 - 1/2 Town events
- It snows on and off over the next few days, getting steadily colder as the month progresses. While the snow is powdery and easy to clear, there's a lot of it that piles right back up by the end of the day, creating a constant demand for help shoveling the roads around the neighborhoods and marketplace to keep them clear, although the Persona users will have to keep the path to the castle and shrine clear on their own, as none of the townspeople are concerned about the forest in general. In town, all the extra snow initially gets pushed towards the center to dump into the lake, but after the lake freezes over after the first week of the month, the excess snow gets piled into a large hill and packed down to be perfect for sledding, with makeshift sleds ranging from laundry baskets to trash can lids left lying around for people to grab and slide— and pray they don't veer off course and crash straight through the ice covering the lake. A Persona may be able to thicken the ice and make it safer to skate on, but in the meanwhile, people will just have to watch out for the spots where the ice is thin and easily broken. Please don't fall in, unless it's near midnight and you fall straight into a random floor of the lake dungeon.
Strings of plain white Christmas lights adorn the trees in town and around the outskirts where it borders the forest, leaving the entire town lit with a soft glow after sundown. Throughout town, the decorations are similarly subtle, with fancier decorations seen in storefronts rather than people's homes, and instead of a single Christmas tree towering over the town, a set of four smaller trees line the back of a large stage set on the lakefront across the school building, which has made its appearance for summer festivals in the past. Surrounding the stage are many stalls that make up a holiday craft market that will be open all month. For a small fee, anybody can purchase a spot at the craft market to sell their own crafts, most of which are intended to be decorations for people's homes or to be given as gifts for Christmas and the New Year. Among the crafts are traditional gifts like knit scarves and sweaters, as well as clay figurines, beaded crafts, painted plates, and any manner of handmade items people have to offer. Although the main focus of the market is for crafts, there are also stalls selling refreshments such as hot chocolate and baked goods.
On the stage itself, each of the four trees is topped with a bird-like angel painted in soft reds, blacks, and golds, and rather than lights and ornaments, the trees have emas hung on the branches, with wishes written on the small wooden plaques. While emas are traditionally hung at a shrine for the kami to receive them, the emas here are for the community to offer and receive: for every wish you hang up, you're encouraged to take at least one other ema and fulfill that wish in return. Some of the wishes are very general, such as asking people to do good deeds to make the world a better place, wishing for the exams at school to be a little easier next year, or hoping everybody in the hospital will get better. Other wishes are more personal, such as wanting to learn a new skill, receive a certain toy, or help cleaning out a basement, and these personal wishes contain the person's name and contact information to indicate who to report to grant the wish. Not all wishes can be granted directly, but the effort put towards them still counts. There is no payment or other incentives to fulfill multiple wishes other than good karma, which will surely be returned to you in the new year.
→ MOD NOTES
- ⬥ Each character may make one free ema wish in the top-level below and the mods will reply with how the wish is fulfilled. Note that personal wishes will be signed for everybody to see, and while ICly all wishes will be fulfilled by the townspeople and not the Kotengu, for this first wish, a crow will occasionally swoop down and take an ema, so you guys can get your stat boosts and skill upgrades.
⬥ Additional ema wishes may be made for every thread reported that involves fulfilling one of the townspeople's wishes and must have a minimum of 5 comments from you. There is no limit to how many ema wishes that can be made, but all threads are due by 1/3/2020 when January's dungeon log goes up. These extra wishes will be fulfilled by the townspeople, so they might not know what to do with wishes like "+1 to all stats." You are still welcome to try, though, and they will do their best.
⬥ Part 2 of December's event will go up on 12/15 to encompass Christmas, New Years, and tragedy.
⬥ This month, the full moon occurs on 12/11 - 12/13. While Personas are stronger around the time of the full moon, they are more difficult to control and may behave strangely and disobey orders around these dates. This is an optional mechanic.
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[ It's... basically just chocolate and nothing fancy as long as the chocolate is melted slowly so it doesn't dry. There's dark chocolate and white chocolate chips so he can make fancy swirls or something to make it look more like a dinosaur egg.
Cake is cake and she's made enough of them to be able to eyeball amounts and what order to do things in so there's always something going. Two tiers means two cakes, but instead of cutting the cake in half, she's just going to bake one and then the other. ]
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Kido, are you running out of socks lately?
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That's such a suspicious question... I don't run out of socks on a regular basis. Why?
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[ Terry does. He needs to go shopping again because he's lending clothes to people and ruining them. He thinks about this for a moment, and thinks of a great gift idea. ]
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Do... you want me to buy you socks? I can knit you socks?
[ Is he fishing for something? She doesn't get it. She looks down at his feet to see if he's wearing socks, or if there's holes in the toes or something. ]
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[ Terry is indeed wearing socks. They're clean and pretty good condition in black color. ]
I was just thinking about something... at least it's good weather for your hoodies, huh?
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[ She's not sure what he's thinking about, or if she could even follow the thought process. ]
Are you going to tell me what you're thinking about, or are you going to keep being cryptic?
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[ Cryptic isn't really Terry's thing when intentional. But he seems relatively happy anyway. ]
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Sure. I don't really get it, but I'll knit you a pair of socks anyways.
[ She goes back to her baking, because ??? Terry being weird is nothing new. ]
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[ His socks are all thin, so his feet are always cold when it's cold outside. Feet have the worst heat retention ever, but he smiles, because he'll get something from Kido. And that makes him feel a little better. ]
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Are you doubting my knitting? I've gotten a lot of practice in with all the cat sweaters. Maybe I should make you a sweater instead.
[ Let's see if the sweater curse holds true ]
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[ Terry laughs a little, but that gets him thinking... ]
Have you ever slid on the floor before? Just for fun?
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[ Not even for fun. That sounds like a disaster and Kido is no fun. ]
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[ He used to do that all the time in Jace's house pre-war and topple onto the white couch. It was fun... those were the fun days. ]
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[ Because he's going around sliding on the floors. They'll have to wax the floors to make it slippery enough, and that's just a disaster waiting to happen right there. ]
If you want to go sliding around, at least do it on the lake. We can go skating or something.
[ Since Minato ditched Terry, Kido can be his stand-in. ]
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[ Oh. ]
Ice skating sounds fun. We can rent skates and stuff. Do you know how to ice skate?
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[ Has she ever skated before? Who knows. She was sort of hoping they could do the whole holding hands while skating thing, and then when she falls, she brings him down with her. So he better not let her fall. ]
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Terry raises an eyebrow. ]
Why would I slide you across the ice? Won't it be better if we go together?
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That depends. Do you know how to skate?
[ If yes, they can go together. If no, one of them is going to have to shove the other person across the ice in order to get going. ]
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I can skate and ice skate! I was much better on the ice with my shoes though.
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Yeah? Then I'll be relying on you, okay? We can go whenever you're free, since it looks like you're getting busier and busier every day.
[ He's been doing a lot of moping and brooding and note taking, but the end result is being holed up and always looking like he's busy. It makes him kind of unapproachable sometimes, compared to the good old days where he'd be stuck in a hospital bed with nothing to do and Kido could bother him whenever. ]
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Yeah, it's been getting busier lately... I'll definitely make time for you though.
[ If Kido ever peeked inside his room, she'd probably find Terry sleeping with his notebook open on his face from time to time LOL ]
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Thanks. I'd offer help, but I'm not stepping foot in that cafe ever again, and there's nothing I can do about your stand.
[ She could try to convince Toki to go back to working for Terry, but he seems happy enough with his cat sweater business. ]
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It's fine... I don't expect you to work there again. And working at the stand... well, you don't have to do that either. I can do it on my own.
[ He thinks things will be fine by himself and mostly offered the job to Toki to do some easy money earning. Alas. Things aren't meant to be. He doesn't want to tear him away from the cat sweater business either because Toki seems so happy with it.
Terry finishes up the chocolate egg and makes sure it's sturdy enough that it doesn't break upon the slightest touch. ]
Alright, I'm done here.
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Great. Stick it in the back of the freezer so it can set overnight. I'm almost done folding the batter, so if you can get a baking tin out and set the mold on it so I can pour the batter inside, that'd be great.
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