Event Log: A Jar Full of Sunshine

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone!
What: The Jar Full of Sunshine event
Where: Throughout the city
When: May 3rd-May 9th
Warnings: Fireflies as a conduit for drug use. Annoyingly catchy songs.

On May 3rd, you may wake up and notice that something is different about the cave. Are you sure it's the daytime? Maybe you didn't sleep long enough, because it still seems pretty dark outside. Or, of course, the gods are messing with the lights again.

This time, however, it seems like it's actually a good thing. Sometime around the afternoon, some smaller lights begin to appear around the city, trickling in from Delight's temple and flickering on and off. These fireflies are brighter than what you might be used to, but being illuminated by their light will mysteriously allow a small surge of joy to rumble through you.

By May 4th, the shops are stocked with large mason jars, and you can start distributing them and using them to catch these fireflies as you wish. They're most concentrated in and around Delight's temple, but by now, the delight-erflies are pretty fairly spread throughout the city.

Be careful (or don't) of how many you catch! 1-3 fireflies in a jar will be enough to give you a mild emotional boost, at 4-6 you might be able to realize that you're definitely happier than you used to be, at 7-10, you can definitely tell that something is making you more cheerful, warm and happy. Beyond 10 fireflies, the additional effect gets smaller the more fireflies you capture, but it will still continue to build until you may just spend the next few days wrapped around your firefly jar in a pleasantly drugged stupor.

Just, uh... don't forget to eat.

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Comments

7th

[quaerit]

[ Gansey finds that he's enjoying the fireflies. They remind him strongly of home, and combined with the general feeling of happiness they're emanating, he finds them impossible to ignore. He wants to be around them, to share in that feeling. He's aware, by now, that it must have been created by the gods' magic. When that magic is fearful, or rageful, he loathes it more than he can say. Even Hope's magic had left him with an unhappy taste in his mouth, since it left him yearning for what he couldn't have.

This is different. Happiness does not make any promises. It doesn't ask for anything, or require anything. All it needs, really, is joy in the moment.

That, Gansey thinks, is difficult to argue with. And ridiculous to resist, given that none of them know what trauma they'll be put through next.

It's why he smiles at Ashley, while he watches her through a kind of haze. There's fireflies floating all around him, twinkling like stars, and their aura is making him flush with delight. He waves at her. ]

You're only keeping some of them! Why is that? Are you looking for something special?

[cowardley]

Don't you think the fat ones are the cutest? [ Her smile is wide, and joyful, and perhaps even a little sheepish at admitting something so silly out loud. She lifts her carefully decorated jar, showing off the few she's captured.

They're not much larger than the other fireflies, just a little more round. ]

[quaerit]

[ Gansey leans closer to see, and of course, the effect of the fireflies washes over him. Even though he knows there's not much to take in terms of size, he can't help smiling and agreeing with her. ]

They are, I suppose. Although, the tiny ones are cute too. Look.

[ He points at one, much smaller than the others, but almost twice as bright. ]

Like it's not fully grown.

[cowardley]

[ She makes a soft squeeing sound as she leans in close to get a better look at the small, flitting insect. It's so small, and bright, and really very cute. ]

It's brighter than some of the others. You think it's because it's small?

[quaerit]

I think so.

[ Gansey is smiling, too. He's leaning forward, and finding himself happier for it - as though the firefly's glow is growing inside him, too. ]

It's stronger because it's smaller. Concentrated. Those are my favorites.

[ He glances at the ones she's caught. ]

What will you do with them all?

[cowardley]

[ At the question, she looks down at her jar. ]

Keep them for awhile, then let them go. They don't deserve to be locked up in my jar forever. [ No matter how much they make her feel good. ]

[quaerit]

[ That strikes Gansey as kind, so he decides he’ll be nice to her. ]

I’m sure they won’t mind for a little while. They seem to like making us happy, don’t they?

[cowardley]

You think so? [ There's doubt. She believes the joy they feel from them is simply an aftereffect of their existence, not their reason of being. Still, she'll keep them for a time, in their own little space, before she releases them. ]

[quaerit]

I do. Besides, you’re going to take good care of them.

[ He can see that she is. He watches while they fly around, his hand lifting to them again. ]

I wonder if Jane would like some of these…

Where did you get the jar?

[cowardley]

I got it at one of the stores, the one with all the wind chimes outside of it. There are tons of them, in all sorts of pretty colors. [ but she liked the pure clear jars. ]

Is Jane your girlfriend? I bet she'd like to get a jar with some fireflies! [ that's so romantic. ]

[quaerit]

She is. [ Says Gansey, with the kind of pleasure that comes with not having said that to very many people. It's nice to say it.

Also, Ashley is probably right. ]

I think she would. Do you know something? I'm going to get one for her, just like this. I think she'd like them just as much as you do.

[cowardley]

[ She smiles wide. She knows the kind of pleasure that comes from finally being able to say words like that. She still gets giddy whenever she thinks of Chris as her boyfriend instead of just her crush. ]

Good. [ She leans in towards him, as if sharing a secret or advice. ] If you get a goldfish net, you'll catch them a lot easier.