I get a little warm in my heart [mingle log]

[hellawrath]

Who: anyone looking for some wintery fun!
What: admiring mysterious icy artwork, warming up by campfires, making a fool of yourself while ice skating, snowball fights?? it's a snow party!
When: Jan 14 and on
Where: Enso, in and around the temple ruins
Warnings: snow-based violence

When you've had to deal with a literal apocalypse every single year for a hundred years, a little battle for the sun isn't really gonna grind your gears that much. Sure, the elf twins are still nobly doing their part every day. Lup is keeping several small campfires going inside the temple ruins, as well as periodically blasting two large stone slabs in the main chamber with a Fireball - those babies radiate heat for hours afterwards. And Taako is graciously handing out truly delicious soup from a huge bowl to anyone who asks nicely. Island Walmart is still a thing too, the large scrawled sign declaring this month's name to be The Hot Spot. Looks like it was Lup's turn on the naming.

But they're also just kinda bored of the whole thing? Like, everyone's so focused on preparing, on gathering and planning and training. There's a place for that, and Lup is pretty psyched for the actual fighting, but this pall of doom and purpose that's fallen over the islands as heavily as the snow? Neither of them is here for that.

So anyone who makes their way up to the temple will not only find the usual warm respite from the freezing temperatures, but also - a ten foot tall ice sculpture of a majestic as fuck unicorn rearing on its hind legs. And a smaller one of a figure with long ears hiding its face in the crook of its elbow, arms pointing upwards do we have a single modern day character who knows what dabbing is. Off to the side in a clearing, there's a twenty foot circle of clear ice that's just begging to be skated on. Just don't admire the artwork for too long, or you're gonna get noscoped with a snowball by a pair of horrible winter goblins.

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[onegreeneye]

Ginko stares at that for a moment, brow furrowing. Is that an umbrella?

He does his best to reach behind his back and dust any snow off, but it's pretty hard to reach the spot the snowball actually hit. So he wanders over to the wall, peering up at the umbrella and then around to try and find the source of the movement.

"Who's over here?"

[hellawrath]

GOTCHA. As soon as Lup has a line of sight on him, she jumps up from her crouched hiding spot like a fiery jack-in-the-box and lobs a huge snowball at his head.

"Your worst fuckin nightmare!" she crows in triumph. This one's gotta get a reaction out of him.

[onegreeneye]

Oh boy yeah it sure as hell does. Ginko stumbles at the impact, letting out a strange, crunching, cracking sound that's probably a noise of surprise.

Then he slips, and lands on the ground, and swears. Before, a moment later, adding, "Why?!"

[hellawrath]

For a second it sure sounds like there was a whole bunch of rocks in Lup's snowball and her ears snap forward in startled concern. But nah, that's impossible, it was all just vanilla ass fluffy snow in her hands.

Anyway her attack landed to hella satisfying effect and he's still swearing so no concussion or anything, clearly. "Cuz that's how we have fun!!" she cackles. Which, this dude doesn't look like he's having just stupid amounts of fun, right now? The thought has her bursting out laughing, doubling over. It's obnoxious as hell. She's the worst.

[onegreeneye]

See, Ginko might be inclined to agree on the "the worst" thing, except that she hasn't tried to stab, shoot, or otherwise seriously injure him yet, which does put her above a few people he's known and a couple who he would do basically anything for.

So, for the moment, this just goes under "really annoying".

He growls under his breath and starts working on getting back to his feet, the fur on his back and tail fluffing up with some mix of irritation and embarrassment. "Well, maybe think a little before dragging other people into your 'fun'. Seriously, how old are you?"