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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2017-03-15 09:55 am

Event Log: Patron Gods

Who: Everyone participating in the event!
What: The event log for the Patron Gods event!
Where: All around the city
When: March 15th-March 20th
Warnings: The gods choose you! Whether you choose them back is your call.


It's March 15th! Whether or not you've been having a good or a bad week, the gods decided to get together and put all the characters on teams- just like in those gym classes that you always skipped! Whether or not you were the last one picked is up for debate, but until we can figure that particular mystery out, there's another one to mull over... namely, who left that mysterious note in your bedside table/shoe/fishtank? And how did you get a friendship bracelet twined around your wrist?

Regardless, when opened, the letter will say-

'Congratulations! You have been chosen! [God name] thinks you're a great fit for their team! All you have to do is spread their emotion, and you'll get a blessing - and if your team wins, you get the grand prize: one (1) request for each member of the team, no payment required! Or you can band together and request one big thing, it's all up to you! So find your allies, get started, and let's win this thing!'


Whether or not this is for real becomes immediately obvious, as you seem to find yourself yearning to cooperate with your teammates, and maybe feeling a bit competitive toward your foes. Grab a squeaky chicken or a creepy doll or a snowglobe from the shops if you like, and let's get inspiring! Of course, you aren't forced to participate, but have fun telling your teammates that nobody is going to win their wish because you decided to be a stick in the mud.

Go forth and spread joy! Or sorrow, or scare people, or just really piss them off- but whatever you do, try to have fun and build that sense of community! You're going to need it...

► This log covers March 15th-March 20th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you're just so mad at the gods that you'd rather die than participate, then let us know here!
skelebro: (kids these days amiright)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-16 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh." So livin' down in Hadriel does have its perks, it turns out. Pillow forts are just one of 'em. For all the things that could go to hell in the Underground, at least they never had a pillow shortage.

"Sounds rough." Puttin' it mildly, he's sure. "Guess things down here ain't as bad as they could be, huh?"
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-16 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"It could be worse," Danse agrees. "Each housing unit has indoor plumbing and electricity supply. Comfortable beds, non-leaking roofs. The orchard produces fruit that is immediately safe for consumption. And the city has a capable guard to handle threats to public safety.

If the gods weren't trying to force one emotion or another out of us every month, the situation would be much more tolerable."
skelebro: (i won't grace it with a description)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-16 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Plus, there's no weather to worry about tearin' the places apart. That's gotta be one for the positive column, right? Granted, that don't mean there's no natural damage to be had; between the dragons, the rage-fueled events (and here he very pointedly does not think about his short-lived and completely irrational hatred of windows), the evil twins, the malfunctioning powers, and everything fucking else - there's plenty of structural damage to be had.

Tranquility's got his work cut out for him.

"The people here're good sorts," he agrees, amiably enough. "Most of 'em, anyway. Funny how it's mostly the gods jerkin' us around that messes things up."
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-16 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
All the more to support the guy who can fix the roofs above their heads and the holes in the walls.

"I wouldn't count myself a good judge of character." It'll always be painful to know that one of his last few acts as Paladin was to sponsor the Brotherhood's own enemy into their ranks. "But I would be inclined to agree that most--" the key word here, "--people here have retained some sense of morality and common decency to each other."

No one's trying to attack someone for their food, or kill someone for their house. People try to help each other out, and they try to stay strong even when the whole situation looks so damn hopeless. It's a nice change from the Commonwealth, where everyone's hopes and dreams were pinned on one individual. Should anything ever happen to her...well, Danse suspects that every good change she's wrought won't last.

"There are enough resources to sustain the needs of a small community. Maybe if the gods eventually get it into their head that we're more than just emotional batteries, we could all work something out instead of fighting and complaining about each other all the time."

He's been thinking about Hadriel a bit too much lately. Chatting with a couple of gods. Trying to figure out which ones to work with, which ones to avoid. And there's just an underlying theme of how everyone doesn't work well together.

If there's one thing Nora's taught him, is that people on opposing factions can unite to a common cause. You just have to figure out what it is. If Delight and Hope had truly tried to send people home awhile back, then perhaps there's, well, hope for further cooperation and communication down the line.
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skelebro: (took the ashes and played you wrong)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-16 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
'Least he can admit to himself. Privately, Sans can't say he disagrees. Even if he's learnin' to unspool those threads that had him jumpin' to some pretty dark conclusions regardin' monsters, his knee-jerk reactions were pretty damn indicative.

There's the problem folks, sure. There's people who're gonna kick up a fuss no matter what happens, simply because they apparently seem to enjoy the inevitable chaos that unfolds. Rage and Confusion must really like those fellas, huh? Might be why the gods draw in such a motley bunch. It's a free-for-all buffet, and every god's invited.

"Problem is, that sorta thing involves trust." And while there's certainly some people who're willin' to put stock in the gods and their apparent plans for the place, most aren't nearly so willing. Coexisting is entirely separate from feelin' safe enough to place yourself in their hands. "Gods don't seem real likely to trust us, and it's not like all of us're giving 'em a lotta reasons to."
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-16 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Someone has to break that cycle. The fact remains that the gods have the upper hand; they're more powerful than we are and they know where the Door is. If any of us want a chance at controlling that Door, then we're still going to need their cooperation anyway."

And in Danse's world? That cycle had been broken by a woman out of time. Someone far removed from the biases of the Commonwealth, who could reach out to the hearts of everyone regardless of faction or race. She even had a god damn super mutant on her team, one that still threatened to crunch on toes in its ridiculous search for the Milk of Human Kindness. Either that thing was dumb as a sack of brahmin dung...or the Vault Dweller had, against all odds, touched the heart of a vicious monster, enough that it would refrain from killing anyone in her settlement.

It didn't matter that her companions didn't get along. Everyone trusted her. Everyone loved her. And because of her, they were all willing to tolerate each other's presence. They were all willing to work together, Danse included.

When the dust settled and the Institute emerged victorious, one of their number was dead. And Danse swore he would never work with non-humans ever again. Such a stupid vow to make, since everyone else were content to leave him alone. But it was done in the thick of betrayal and mourning, and nothing but a raw outburst could've kept him sane, lest he went crazed with grief.

Can he do it again? Force himself to work side-by-side with friendly non-humans like Sans the Skeleton and King Asgore Dreemurr? Monsters with SOULS made of love and kindness and friendship. All the good stuff that Danse knew he would never be treated to ever again.

...awkwardly, he realises he's been gripping the jar of lollipops hard enough that his knuckles pop. Quickly he sets it back down on the table, head bowed to hide his embarrassment.

"What about yourself, Skeleton? You sound like you've been here long enough. Do you trust any of them?"
skelebro: (whatever floats your pontoon my dude)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-16 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That query seems to have stirred somethin' up. Don't take a genius to figure that much, though the minutiae are up in the air at this rate. But it's evident in the white-knuckled grip on an innocent jar of lollipops, the protracted silence that stretches out between the pair of 'em, the tensing of musculature. That's one of the perks of bein' made of bone - you don't necessarily got those telltale giveaways when things ain't goin' so great. People might learn to read you eventually, sure, but it takes time, and it takes work. Humans're made of all the soft and expressive bits that make it that much easier to pick apart what they're feelin', even when they're tryin' real hard to feel nothin' at all.

The jar settles back onto the tabletop with the quiet clink of aligning edges.

"Hard to say." Trust don't exactly come easy to a guy like him. 'Specially when caring in the first place is such a dangerous, fraught path. "Like you say, trust is a two-way street. Don't see much reason to trust. They ain't exactly cultivating a real trustworthy environment, see?"
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-18 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Even easier when it's someone like Danse. Too many bad memories. Too many hurtful memories. Too many reminders everywhere.

Suffice to say trust doesn't come easy to Danse either. That anti non-human sentiment stems strongly from a place of distrust, after all. But living with non-humans that continue to surprise him and his expectations of them have started to slowly chip away at some of that distrust.

It's why he's trying to gather all these different opinions about those mysterious seven beings and where each of them stand on the topic of Hadriel's reluctant population. As much as he feels he owes Tranquillity his best efforts to win this competition, he can't say that he particularly trusts the being either. If it came down to the gods vs all of them, Tranquillity would either stay out of the conflict or join in the continued imprisonment of them all. Tranquillity wants them to stay, and Danse doesn't think he can convince the god to see otherwise.

Which leaves him with just the other two to investigate.

"What about Hope and Delight? If what I've been told is accurate, they tried to send the people home through the Door. Do you believe that was their true intent?"
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[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-18 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Might be it was." He shrugs his shoulders, a limp rolling of the loose bones, seemingly unperturbed. The gods can say that they were tryin' to help all they like; their treatment of everybody in their care is about as close as

"Intent don't always mean everything. Might be they intend to send us home. Point is, they never really succeed. Usually end up makin' things worse in the process."

He can intend to help a pair of kids all he likes. If he only ends up pushing 'em away further, that's still on him. For not sayin' the right thing. For not bein' the right guy.

Case in point.

"You weren't around for the dragons, were ya?"
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-18 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, the lack of any muscles, joints or ligaments beg the question on how Sans is even capable of that movement. Danse has to fight back a flinch because he's fairly certain bare bones can't do that.

But you know what? #itsmagic. He can get used to it.

"No. I came in with the sharks. But I heard about the dragons, and all the other horrible things that some of the gods have done here."

Danse lets out a slight sigh. "I have a rough idea where Tranquillity stands, and he won't get involved too deeply if he can help it. I think Hope and Delight might be our best chance at even gaining access to the Door, but you're correct that the god's intentions don't match up very well with the results."
skelebro: (took the ashes and played you wrong)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-18 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It's definitely magic. Don't mind it any. It gets about a thousand times easier to mentally reconcile the general bizarreness of the thing once you let your suspension of disbelief take the wheel.

He drums his phalanges across the top of his stand as he considers.

"Sounds about right." Tranquility's chill, but that's about all he is to start with. He might prefer to keep the peace, but actually gettin' up to enforce said peace might be more work than he's willin' to put forth. "Hope's probably the most powerful, but not a lotta people seem to like him. Bit too frank for their tastes."
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-19 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I would have thought that a being that subsists on feelings on hope would have a softer personality to him. I imagine he hasn't been able to offer a compelling case to hope so far if he's that blunt."

Personally, Danse actually likes the frankness. But that might be because he himself doesn't earn himself any favors with his stellar manners.

"And Delight." Switching to the second of the gods they're discussing here. "As the god that established and stocks the bar, she must be the most well-liked of them all in Hadriel."
skelebro: (im always smiling)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-19 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Suppose that's why so many people ain't too fond of him. But, hey. 'Least the guy's direct." That ain't a complaint of his. Hard to complain about the guy who brought you back to life. His attitude ain't the best thing out there, but he's warmed up to Frisk all right.

So he can't be all that bad. Turns out they might get him to laugh at one of their jokes after all.

"She's just about the only god Gren didn't plan on fightin', one-on-one," he affirms with a faint nod of his skull. "And if Gren likes her - well, y'know she's all right."
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-19 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Someone wanted to fight--actually, I may have heard about this incident earlier."

Danse shakes his head. Seriously? There's taking one for the team, and reckless, possibly suicidal attempts to get out of here. Danse reckons this one falls squarely in the latter.

"I haven't met this Gren character, but from the context of your statement, I understand that Delight is far more personable than the rest of them. I might stop by her temple and speak with her directly."
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skelebro: (it just doesnt matter)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-19 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Gren ain't exactly what you'd call a personable fella, nah. 'S true that the man's gotta have somethin' of a soft center, or one that counts as soft enough to get along with the likes of Rhys, when he was still down here. Or - Wade, possibly, though that raises entirely too many questions on its own. But if he does have a sentimental core, he makes sure to bury it deep, deep down, wrapped in a layer of cynicism and profane outbursts.

"She's good people. She even likes my jokes," he says, like that's the only real relevant bit. None of the other gods seem to fancy a bit of idle wordplay. Might be why she took a shine to him; hence the yellow woven into his little god-specific bracelet.

"Plus, she's the one who gave us the bar." So you gotta know she's lookin' out for everybody, right?

Though not for much longer.
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-19 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
RIP bar, will be dearly missed.

"She might like your jokes, but I hope she doesn't share your affinity with puns." Danse doesn't think he can handle an entire conversation laced with lame wordplay. Still, Sans's testimony lines up with the others. It looks like Delight might...well. Be a delight to visit.

Danse glances at the bracelet on Sans's wrist again. He knows he's on Tranquility's side, but it's not a bad thing if Delight wins either. His eyes flick back to the jars and jars of sweets.

"I'm not familiar with any of these. Which would you recommend?"
skelebro: (here today gone tomato)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-19 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"She's been tryin'." He sounds legitimately proud about that one, even if her puns are kinda hit or miss. Wordplay's a tricky thing to get a hold on, it turns out, 'specially if you're the personification of positive emotion. Might be Rage would be a better one for that sorta thing.

He picks over his selection carefully. He can't exactly say he's sampled the goods any - none of 'em are magic, but none of 'em necessarily have to be for other people's enjoyment.

He withdraws a pair of lollipops and offers 'em out.

"Not even a couple of suckers like these?"
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-20 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god. "Don't encourage her," Danse grumbles, even as he continues to eye the spread. Anything like cream cakes over here? He's probably take those too, on top of the two sweets that Sans is holdings out to him. Danse glances at the candies and frowns thoughtfully.

"These are...I've seen pictures of them. But I'm not sure what they're names are. Do you pop these into your mouths and run your tongue over them? How do they taste like?"
skelebro: (that sounds fake but ok)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-20 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Do I look like I gotta tongue?" He don't even open his mouth if he can help it; not a lick of muscle to this guy. "But yeah, pretty much. You suck on 'em. They're sweet."

And he's pretty sure that if Shadow stops by in the interim, they'll all know - every lollipop and chocolate bar will go mysteriously missing. Though hopefully he'll pace himself a little better than he did upon discovering the sweets.

"'S on the house," he adds, as if one ever pays for anything down here.

So go on, Danse. Live a little.
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-20 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
"How would I know? Everything about you doesn't make sense. You might have a tongue or something similar to tastebuds inside there." #itsmagic, remember?

But he takes the lollipops, trying not to flinch when his fingers brush against Sans's finger bones. "What flavor is it?" he asks, pocketing one while looking over the remaining one with all the curiosity of a child that's been given a new toy.
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[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-20 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Sans considers that for a moment. Then he shrugs again, chuckling faintly.

"Fair enough."

How would anybody know how a guy like him works? Plenty of people have just figured they should ask hey, why are you a skeleton? As if he's got an answer. He more or less runs on what's funniest for people to look at. He could conceivably go for dramatics and achieve essentially the same end result, but where's the fun in that? The lowest form of humor's always in easy reach when you're only about four feet off the ground.

"That one? Cherry, I think. Or, uh...an artificial flavoring that somebody thought tasted like cherry." Guy's still jumpy around him, but he can appreciate that he's makin' the attempt to bridge the gap. Or maybe his standards are just low after meetin' good ol' Dr. Tenebris.
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-20 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Cherry. A relatively normal flavoring for lollipops. Danse finally unwraps the lollipop and holds it up for inspection.

"It looks just like the pictures," he mutters to himself with something that sounds faintly like wonder. Like he's witnessing a piece of history in the making...or a piece of history that's long gone, only to be read off in dusty books and worn, faded posters and labels.

Finally, Danse pops it into his mouth. It's probably comical that a grown adult can stand there looking so serious like trying out his first lollipop. Or maybe it's a tragedy. Likely it's a combination of both. But he seems to be focusing intensively on the flavor, quiet as he tests the tart sweetness on his tongue.
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skelebro: (get this onceler ass shit outta here)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-20 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Pictures. There's somethin' unquestionably sad in that, in not having something sweet to your world. Only knowing that a thing exists through artifacts and pictures. But maybe that's a thing he can relate to; to not having what plenty would call a necessity, somethin' that they could always take for granted.

There's no sky Underground. No stars. All they got are sparkling stones. That's something some say is sad, in its own right, and - well, he won't disagree.

Not quite the same, but maybe it ain't so different.

Who says a thing can't be funny and sad simultaneously? Ain't that practically Sans's entire life?

"How is it?"
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[personal profile] manofmettle 2017-03-20 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
The first taste had seen his eyebrows shoot up, and he looked almost shell-shocked. He doesn't answer Sans immediately, choosing instead to let the taste linger a little longer in his mouth before he pulls the lollipop out. The verdict?

"...It's good. Sweet, with a bit of sour that goes well with the hard sugar." Danse pauses, mouth twisting into a perplexed frown. It's hard to describe what a cherry tastes like, when you've never had a cherry before. "But it's not sour in the same way vinegar is, and its sweetness doesn't have that stale aftertaste in a snack cake's cream filling. I'm not sure how else to describe it, but it's...pleasant. Like berry and grape mentats, but without the side-effects of consuming those drugs."

Hope Sans doesn't mind if he pops it inside his mouth again. He has a lifetime of no lollipops to make up for it.
skelebro: (does that make sense?)

[personal profile] skelebro 2017-03-20 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Poor guy seems like he's never tasted a sweet thing in his life. Hard to describe what it's like to taste the color red, ain't it? Hasn't he ever had a thing he could just enjoy, without there bein' any strings attached?

The way the guy talks about the thing, he wouldn't bet on it.

"'S good stuff. And, hey, with the shops and things, we never run out." Long as he don't make the same errors Shadow does and eat entirely too much all at once, it might do him some good to have somethin' nice for once.

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