Event Log: Patron Gods

[hadrielmods]

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!

Comments

[circumitus]

"Would not recommend using that for a baseball. Not unless you want a face full of cornstarch."

And that would be just terrible.

Her face flushes at Firo's last comment. "It isn't knitting, it's crochet. They're... different." Totally!

[foundafamily]

"Cornstarch?" No, no he does not want that. He eyes his little stress ball suspiciously before he resumes tossing it again.

"They are? Look the same to me--not that I'm an expert on this kinda thing."

He raises both eyebrows at her, because apparently she is. Want to explain that, Rey?

[circumitus]

She nods. "Gives the ball a tougher texture. Some of the other ones are squishier because they're filled with rice."

Give it a shot, Firo. You might find yourself surprised with catharsis.

"You use a perfectly practical and versatile hook for crochet. Knitting requires stupid, useless needles," Rey explains, shamelessly indignant.

Duh, Firo. Get with it. Those two are very different craft forms and one is very much more girly than the other!

[foundafamily]

Half of his mouth twitches up in a smirk. Strong feelings about this topic, huh? "I don't see how one's more useless than the other. You could stab people with needles."

[circumitus]

Rude, Firo. You're supposed to be on her side, not teasing her.

No, teasing is a perfectly acceptable pastime for family.

"And you can pop someone's eye out with a hook." See? It'd hurt more, you twit. "Guess they're both pretty lethal," she admits.

[foundafamily]

Speaking of eyes, Firo rolls his at her.

"You can stab 'em in the eye too with a needle. And pop it out if you're careful.

"What's your problem with knitting needles?"

[circumitus]

Don't judge her, bro (even if she totally deserves it).

"No problem. Just, well..." She tries to shrug flippantly. "Was just told that they were 'grandma hobbies'. I'm not a grandma."

Hell, she had a hard enough time coming to terms with some kid calling her 'mother' -- and it still feels weird allowing it now. Especially when said kid now looks more like an older teenager.

[foundafamily]

...Oh. Firo can't keep himself from smiling just a little, though it's a sympathetic expression instead of mocking. He hadn't really expected that answer.

"So you're afraid if you don't trash talk knitting enough, people're gonna think you're a grandma?"

He shouldn't be smiling, considering he has plenty of strange insecurities himself. But, well, they're his so they're not at all strange to him.

[circumitus]

Thank god Firo at least understands.

"Well. Guess I'm old enough to be one, all things considered."

If you think of Rey's age in the concept of normal human years, and not the years she's raked up in her head. It's best to keep it simple where Firo is concerned.

[foundafamily]

"I've heard you're not supposed to comment on a lady's age." He considers Rey's face carefully and then shrugs. "But I can tell you right now that you really don't look much older than... oh, 50 or so."

Nothing to worry about, Rey!

[circumitus]

You're right, Firo. It really isn't nice to comment on a lady's age.

On the other hand, Rey doesn't see herself as much of a 'lady'. She just gives him a dubious look, a brow arched.

"Wow. Rude," she says flatly, at least expressing no evidence of offense to Firo's jab.

[foundafamily]

He flashes his teeth in a grin and finally decides to seat himself across from her at the table. No need to invite him; he'll invite himself. "It was a compliment. You really don't."