Event log: How Delightful

[hadrielmods]

Who: Anyone and everyone!
What: Delight's resurrection.
Where: Throughout the city, starting in the bar.
When: March 23rd-April 3rd
Warnings: Partying too hard, poor life choices, underage drinking, the worst hangovers of all time.

On the morning of March 23rd, bright and early, Delight is resurrected. Her temple is restored, and her bar appears in the city. What does that mean? Well, obviously it's time to celebrate. We hope everyone brought their party shoes! From March 23rd to March 27th, the party will be mostly contained in and around Delight's bar, with an invitation from the goddess herself. But it won't be long before she decides that's just not good enough - gotta bring the party to the people! From March 28th to April 3rd, the natural light is dimmed and replaced with flashing colored lights, fireworks, and even a few disco balls. Loud music blares through the city, making it hard to sleep, and a wide variety of trouble is available to be gotten into.

Wanna drink away the pain of being trapped in a hellcave? There's unlimited amounts of alcohol of all kinds, and Delight will be happy to supply anything that might be missing. More interested in karaoke-ing your heart out? Hit up one of the jukeboxes. Enjoy gleeful displays of your own mortality? Here's a skateboard and a ramp, have fun. There's just about anything you could desire, as long as what you desire is to party hard and make bad decisions. And hey, if you find yourself getting tired, grab one (or five) of Delight's special energy shots. They'll eliminate your need for sleep, food, water, cure an oncoming hangover and immediately relax any sore muscles you've got for 24 hours per shot! There's no down side! (Except for all the effects coming back to hit you at once when the shot wears off, but whatever.)

After about a week and a half of tequila shots, keg stands, roman candle battles, tagging the city with free spraypaint, inappropriate party games, and balloon hats made to look like rocket ships (wait... that's not a rocket ship), Delight realizes everyone's partied out and starts to wind things down. On April 3rd, she'll clean up the city, removing everything except for a few remaining fireworks and disco balls, stored in her temple. Her bar will still be around, if you can stand to even look at liquor after all the poor choices you made. Otherwise, lay in bed and try to recover from your hangover while the city goes back to normal.

► This log covers March 23rd-April 3rd.
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Comments

[thechoiceisyours]

Yeah. There's uh... A lot of stuff like that, I think.

[Riding a bike is of course the classic example of something that's muscle memory more than anything else, but he's been noticing more and more mundane things that can be done on autopilot lately.

He offers a small grin at the mention of the stove, amused, because his skill with electronics so doesn't translate to the stove.]

I totally can't cook. Ashley's figured out how to use the stove, though, so we've got that covered.

[He shrugs a little, glancing away for a moment, then back.]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Newt's definitely right in that it's really useful when it comes to fighting monsters; it's one of the few skills Chris is really glad he has in this place. But it's also one that really drives home how different things are now.

Still, he's too practical to let that stop him, because the reality is that yes, it's important here. It saved his life on the mountain and it could save him and his friends here, even if the idea that fighting monsters had become so commonplace is terrifying on some deep level.]

We're um... Limited on bullets, but yeah. Good for an emergency, at least.

[krangke]

(Newt can't help but to snort a too-loud laugh. Being drunk was a great thing, clearly.)

I didn't mean cookin'. I meant like. Electrical work. Guess that's not what you're talkin' about though.

(Newt frowns a bit at Chris's reaction but the frown smooths out. He understands well enough. Newt himself isn't much of a violent person. Honestly, attacking some of the monsters in the cave felt wrong. He didn't like to hurt animals and some of the monsters like the bears and those cat things...They were a lot more animal to him than they were "monsters".

But then there were the grey children and smokers and those weren't as hard to kill because nothing about them was animal or human.)

That's mostly why I wind up usin' spears and stuff.

[thechoiceisyours]

Oh. Yeah, no, that's uh... That'd be more helpful.

[He can do wiring and such in computers, but that's about it; he'd considered engineering for a major, but decided he was a lot more interested in the programming and logical side than actual hands-on stuff. Too bad hands-on stuff would probably be a lot better a skill to have here.

To be fair, it's not like he could've ever expected to end up in a place like this.

He raises his eyebrows slightly at the mention of using a spear, partially because he's impressed and partially because he's surprised. He hadn't really pictured Newt using any sort of weapon, let alone a spear.]

That's... Pretty cool, actually. I think I'd just hurt myself if I had like, a spear or a sword or something.

[krangke]

(Newt shrugs a bit. He's got nothing else to offer up. Especially when he can barely remember anything about technology that would be of use.

Who ever did? Okay, so, Newt actually was convinced this was another Trial for the first month he arrived. It was way too similar to his life so far so it wasn't a surprise for him but as far as everyone else was concerned, yeah, totally.

Funny how most people didn't. The kid was a gentle sort admittedly but he'd also come from a pretty violent world. Didn't outlive that sort of thing without resorting to violence a few times yourself.

Newt winds up smirking just a tad. He wasn't expecting that compliment and he'll totally take it.)

I had a machete mostly back where I came from. Which sounds more badass than it was. It was handy for gardening but if I had to I could use it to knock out someone who uhhh-

(Wait a second there. He twists his mouth shut for a moment and okay. So certain aspects of his home life were easier to talk about than others and this was one of those others where he didn't like talking. He's drunk enough to be clumsy and he stares up at the colorful sky for a moment to collect himself.)

Anywhoooo. Spears are easy. It's all about balance, yanno? They're good though cause you can use them long range or up close 'nd personal. And they're not so bad for blocking and knocking things down either. Can use 'em to vault around. Talk about a multi-use weapon.

[thechoiceisyours]

[It's really impossible to miss that there's more story there, but it's also clear Newt isn't as interested in talking about it as the other topics. So Chris just makes mental note of it and doesn't ask; he assumes by the use of the word 'someone' that it was a matter of self-defense, which is... Not fun to have to deal with, in his experience.

So instead he focuses on the last part, giving a small laugh and shaking his head.]

That all sounds super badass, but I'll just uh... Stick to guns. 'Balance' is not exactly a thing I'm super great with.

[He's also thinks that within spear range is far closer than he ever wants to get to a threat.]

I did wanna try to learn to use a bow, though. But uh, one of the events hit the day I was supposed to meet with the person who was going to teach me, and I never got back in contact with them.