mamaterasu: (huehuehue)
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. ♥]
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]