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.

► This log covers May 3rd-May 9th.
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Comments

[casperdisaster]

Noah feels a LITTLE bad about the state they’ve left the shop in, if only for the people who come looking for supplies later, but…

Krieg’s happiness is infectious, especially with the fireflies adding to it. Noah doesn’t feel that bad. Not bad enough to not laugh through the pain, even as he quietly adds ‘ouch’ between breathless laughter as he struggles to get off Krieg and stand using only his elbows as his hands are still occupied holding on to the firefly. Just give him a second here, he’ll get it.

“I don’t think I could do that again even if I wanted to. That was all luck.”

[fleshing]

"What a lovely performance!" Krieg follows suit after Noah's mostly off him, unspooling from his ungainly sprawl and hastening to fetch his jar back so Noah can cram the errant bug into it.

He puffs out his chest happily, proudly, as he starts to unscrew the lid.

"TEAMWORK!"

Even if Krieg's part in the kerfuffle was largely "break things" and "make a mess" but still! Teamwork.

[casperdisaster]

Krieg held the jar, and without his jumping at the firefly it would have never darted down low enough for Noah to be able to make a grab at it. Truly, it was the best of teamwork.

Noah quickly gets that little son of a bitch into the jar, on that note, before it can escape again. He makes a rude gesture at it once it's stashed for good measure, too. Noah making rude gestures is a rather hilarious act - it's like watching a small cute animal attempting to be threatening.

"Think you can remember how to make them all by yourself next time, if you need to make more?" Noah asks.

He's going to ignore the wreckage and destruction around them while he says this. Totally not his fault. Nope.

[fleshing]

"I'll make some bullet points!" Not actual bullets, hopefully, though knowing Krieg it'll probably end up that way one way or another. But he's got an eye that works, and he can pick out all the different parts of the habitat that he can put into his other jars, and then he can keep his happiness bottled up forever! Won't that be great?

"Thanks for the slice!"

[casperdisaster]

Noah laughed, pleased at Krieg’s obvious happiness over this whole ordeal. It made him feel less bad about the destruction caused in the process.

“Alright, I’m going to go back to catching some more for myself. You just find me if you need a reminder, okay? Have fun.”

[fleshing]

"We'll just ping everyone all at once!" says Krieg, with a brief nod to the affirmative.

Now he can keep this happiness with him all the time, and never have to go ripping people's guts out! This is a great development! Maybe he doesn't need the Siren to save him. Maybe he just needed fireflies, this whole time!

[casperdisaster]

It's probably for the best that Noah is not aware of Krieg's inner thought process, he'd feel awful when the fireflies vanished later and extremely worried.

Now he's just happy Krieg is happy. With that goodbye and the problem totally solved, Noah ... well, takes a brief and worried look around the damage they caused, takes his own jar of fireflies, aaaaand just moseys on out of there.

No one can prove it was them.