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Amaterasu ([personal profile] mamaterasu) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2019-02-15 06:08 pm

Light up the Night - [BACKDATED to 2/5]

Who: Ammy + Anyone interested
What: Fireworks show for the Lunar New Year!
When: Evening of 2/5/19
Where: Monkey Compound
Warnings: None so far, tag as needed!



[It's about noon when a message is posted to the Message Rock, as well as over the Stones of Farspeech - an elegant writing in kanji with a translation below. The voice is foreign, not often heard and possibly lost from most peoples' memories, but it sounds...excited? There's definitely a chime-like laughter hidden in the depths of it.]

All interested in a beautiful sight, please show up at dusk at the Hana--eh...the Monkey Compound. Drinks - for the elders among you - and some snacks will be provided, but I encourage you all to pack a box lunch.

Those unable to attend...I'll try to make sure you see it. Thank you.

[How very enigmatic indeed.

Still, those that do show up as the sky begins to change into a purple-blue color, dotted with small, glittering stars, will see that the Monkey Compound has been done up a bit. There's a line of small, flowering cherry blossom trees creating a lovely arch by the entrance, and little paper tags have been hung from a few of the branches, holding pictures of a tiny boar, or piglet, and a prayer written on the opposite side in kanji.

Inside has a very, very pleasant air to it. Much different than what this place used to be. It's laid with fresh, clean, springy grass and flowers, and a bountiful garden off to one side, which looks a little barren...probably because most of the foods have been harvested and laid out neatly on a bushels of palm fronds. Fresh vegetables and fruits from Ammy's garden, ripe for the taking and eating, if you're more the rustic type. There's also fire-roasted fish, skewered on a stick and cooking nicely by a crackling bonfire. Eat, enjoy, converse with neighbors and friends alike! Drinks have indeed been provided for the adults, a large barrel of sake with a ladle to pour it into one of twelve dishes. And yes, a bowl of water has been added to the side to rinse them off.

The centerpiece is a very basic shrine put up with a folding wall, once white in color but painted over with a beautiful portrait of a boar rolling a round firework, and a tiny, ceramic figure on a boar topping a little rock pile. Below the statue is an offering of sake, a single sakura mochi, a grilled fish, and some flowers. That is where the wolf will be when you first spot her.

For...a moment, at least. Because once the sky grows truly dark, and the embers from the bonfire has crept to soft, orange glow, a whistle will wheeze its way through the sky as a streak of light soars up, and up...before it explodes in a puff of white sparks. Nothing exciting, more a call to attention.

A minute passes, then another, and the're movement by the far end of the compound as the wolf readies everything she needs. A few final touches--...there! All ready for the show to begin.

And what a show it is.

The fireworks are beautiful and vibrant, coloring the skies in a vast array of rainbow hues, dancing like they're actually alive. True artistry, and a blessing from the God of Explosions, Bakugami (and the local rabbit god, who provided a number to help make this work). An explosive force meant to open the gate for a blissful new year - full of color, full of life, and bountiful in all things that bring happiness and joy to those with good in their hearts.

Happy Lunar New Year. ♥]
journalname: (🔱 sunset)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-02-25 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Asgore smiles.]

How long have you been on the islands, Yeager?
scythegun: (NOD ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-02-25 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Not very long. A couple of months, I believe!

How long have you been here?
journalname: (🔱 faded)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-02-26 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
A year. Technically more than that, but there was some time where I had vanished...I don't recall going anywhere, I only went to sleep one night and woke to find two months had passed.
scythegun: (REALIZE ⇝ estelle's the princess?)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-02-26 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Really? That's crazy... Is that something that happens often here?
journalname: (🔱 savior)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-02-26 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Less often than disappearing altogether, I think. They say those people are sent back home. Only a few are ever brought back here a second time.

As for myself, I do not think I went home. It was probably just some kind of time travel. That sort of thing happens in situations like these. [Don't ask him to explain it, but he gets that it happens.]
scythegun: (OKAY ⇝ "regaey" is yeager backwards)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-02-26 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

[...he does not see, but he's also not about to start down the rabbit hole of time travel. No thanks!!]

How has your time been here? Aside from missing a couple of months randomly, of course.
journalname: (🔱 askance)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-02-26 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Asgore hesitates before answering, which is your main clue with him that his real feelings aren't so great.]

It has been alright! There are frequently life-threatening events - I suppose you have seen some of those already - but the Storyteller typically revives those who die in their temple. So...that is not as dangerous as it sounds?

[okay, the revival sorta wigs him out and it is kinda clear on his face]
scythegun: (LISTEN ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-02-26 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
I've heard that those that die are revived. That's... nice of the Storyteller!

[His cheerful tone doesn't falter much, but the pause is probably enough to tell that hey, he definitely isn't saying what he's feeling!! Surprisingly, some people are really not okay with being brought back from death so that's cool!!! Totally cool.]

I assume there isn't any way for anyone to get home either, ja? Not to say my time here hasn't been enjoyable, but I do have some important business to get back to!
journalname: (🔱 watching)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-02-26 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Asgore grimaces sympathetically at that pause, and doesn't really brighten at the other question.]

If there were a way, I would have left long ago. Sometimes people disappear at random - they say they return home, but there is no way to make it happen.
scythegun: (OKAY ⇝ "regaey" is yeager backwards)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-02-26 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting... Well, it's possible something will eventually change and a way home may be presented, but it's probably not wise to hope for that.

[So we're stuck here. Great!! It's what he figured, of course, but it's frustrating anyway.]

Ah, oh dear, I haven't meant to be such a downer right before something big like this! I'm terribly sorry, I do hope you enjoy tonight!
journalname: (🔱 an old friend)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-02-26 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and you as well! Do not worry too much about it - in my experience, these things do generally end in going home eventually.
scythegun: (REALIZE ⇝ estelle's the princess?)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-02-27 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"These things"? Have you had an experience like this before, Asgore?
journalname: (🔱 wtf man)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-02-27 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes. I came here from another world that was not my own. By the time it happened, we had already obtained the means to travel freely between worlds ourselves, and we were preparing to leave...that device did not come here with me, I'm afraid.

[Because of course it didn't.]
scythegun: (REALIZE ⇝ estelle's the princess?)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-03-01 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course it didn't...]

A way to travel between worlds... That certainly does sound incredible.

[It's a bit much to wrap his head around right now so he'll just. ignore it. Sounds good!!!]

What was the world you came from like?
journalname: (🔱 savior)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-03-01 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
It was...

[boy he wishes he had an answer to this that wasn't long, complicated, and generally depressing]

Monsters and humans were the two intelligent species. But my people were imprisoned beneath a mountain a long time ago, after we lost a war, so we have not had contact with humans for generations.
scythegun: (REALIZE ⇝ estelle's the princess?)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-03-02 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Humans can be incredibly cruel like that.

[i mean he's human and he's cruel so it works.]

What was it like down there?
journalname: (🔱 summers turn)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-03-02 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It is not so terrible anymore.

[No comment on the first few years. Or decades, probably.]

There is an underground river, and we have adapted our magic to allow for plants to grow in some areas. Humans do tend to throw garbage in the river, but we sort it out, and some of it can be quite useful! Their technology in particular. Most recently, we have created an electrical power grid using the magma pools!
scythegun: (LISTEN ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-03-02 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh my god, this sounds kind of depressing...]

How inventive! The plants sound fascinating too, what are they like?
journalname: (🔱 thrown shadows)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-03-02 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
We have some trees and flowers like the ones growing on the side of the mountain - the seeds blow in often enough. There were also a few plants native to the underground already! They mostly grow by the river; there are a few different types of glowing mushroom, and the echo flowers.

[He seems to enjoy this topic more than "the underground in general"]

The echo flowers glow blue, but they have also become imbued with magic over the years. They can repeat the last sound they heard.
scythegun: (FAKE ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2019-03-02 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[He thought that might be the case, honestly.]

Really? That sounds incredible... Do they always repeat the last thing said near them? I can imagine that could be a bit creepy...

[But he sounds more like he loves the idea, he wants twenty. Just surround the Manor of the Wicked with them, that sounds like a wonderful idea.]
journalname: (🔱 faded)

[personal profile] journalname 2019-03-02 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Not always. You usually have to get close enough to touch them to make it happen, although in a field they can set each other off fairly easily. I think perhaps it is meant to scare things off.

[although with magic involved, it doesn't necessarily serve some kind of evolutionary purpose]