asgardmeridiem | EVENT LOG: TAKING THE HOBBITS TO VANAHEIM

Who: Everyone going to Vanaheim!
What: We're Taking the Hobbits to Vanaheim. Part Two of this log can be found here!
When: Days 324-334 ( September 10-30 )
Where: On the way to, the way back from, and in the city of Vanaheim.
Rating: PG-13. Anything that might go higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

[ Vanaheim is a truly medieval-looking city and a close ally of Asgard. The city prides itself on tradition and knowledge, with great libraries and a prestigious academy of music and theatre. Residents are mostly a mix of human and elven, and the rulers are a group of the same kind of beings as the Gods of Asgard. Freya & Freyr originally hail from this city -- their coming to Asgard was part of a long-ago peace treaty between Odin and their father: the King of Vanaheim.

Freyr and Freya have been summoned home to Vanaheim, and they have asked any interested traveler in Asgard to come with them. The trip will involve a full IC day's travel by floating Elven train each way, and a five IC day stay in Vanaheim proper. They will be met with a large banquet in the castle courtyard, ushered to large and comfortable rooms in the palace to leave their things and rest in, and given a comfortable spending allowance for any sort of bauble or trinket that they would like to purchase.

The citizens of the city are friendly, but almost condescendingly so. Some will gawk and stare at the travelers; others will speak to them in cooing, coddling tones; others still regard them with open but vague pity, as if not expecting them to understand. Almost all of them will treat them like uncultured, idiot children, and will assume they have no manners and no sense of social intelligence, and will be visibly surprised if they are proven wrong.

Characters will not be babysat or watched over, and will be allowed to go anywhere within the city that they'd like (though any who try to leave will be stopped by stern and chastising guards.)

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the Vanaheim travel event! There will be several location headers below with further details on places in the city and events that your characters can visit and participate in. If there is something particular you'd like to do or see that is not listed below, please let us know!! There will be NPCs out and about, but if there is something you specifically want an NPC to tag, please drop us a line or put it in your comment title.

Signups for this are not required and open to everyone, but keep in mind that if your character is in Vanaheim, they will not be around for a majority of the Bad Moon Rising plot. Traditional prose and [bracket-style threads] are both equally welcome! As always, please feel free to ask us any questions you have.

NAVIGATION:
ON THE TRAIN | THE ARRIVAL BANQUET | TRAVELERS' PERFORMANCES/DINNERS | THE PALACE/TRAVELERS' ROOMS | THE MARKETPLACE | MUSEUMS/GALLERIES/LIBRARIES/THE UNIVERSITY | PARKS/ZOOS/THE FLOWER GARDEN | SHOPS/RESTAURANTS/OTHER BUSINESSES | ANYWHERE ELSE

SPILL OVER LOG as a continuation of this log in a cleaner space!

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[His jaw clenches, muscles there twitching visibly, and he can't meet her eyes.]

I know what happened to her. I lived it, when we all got one another's nightmares.

Why didn't they just kill her? Why do - that?

[There's nothing to say to the first part - nothing that will make it better.]

They were insane. The ones so full of hatred and madness that not even the rest of the species could destroy them because they found beauty in it. [Her words come out angrily.] They needed no reason why. They did it because they could.

[He's almost shaking. Not even a good reason - she just stumbled into the wrong place, and there would never have been a right time.]

At least tell me they're all gone now. All of them, not just the crazy ones.

[No, there wouldn't have been a right time. Even if she had died in the crash like the crew she would have been converted.]

I wish I could. They're like a disease. We keep fighting them and they keep coming back. Since she erased the information about the Doctor from their Pathweb we haven't seen them but they're out there.

Shit.

[He turns away, pacing in a tense circle, but his anger has mellowed a little by the time he turns around.]

You're with him all the time? All of them? No matter what?

One day the universe will be rid of them. And chances are the Doctor will be the one to do it.

[He hates them so much. The TARDIS just watches as Pyro paces.]

Since the beginning. [To the very end.] I watch over him but I'm incapable of being with him like others can. Like I can here.

You just make sure of that. However you do it, I don't care. Don't let him take so much as a piss break until they're gone.

All things have their time. It will happen when it's supposed to happen and not a minute before.

[She says it sternly.]

No one wants them gone more than we do.

[Pyro's lost one person to the Daleks - they've lost so much more.]

Fate. [He scowls, not too fond of that idea since having his vision of the future.] Everything's on a nice, neat timeline, huh? Can't break free and change any of it?

Fate. [She makes an unimpressed sound.] It's breaking the timeline. That is a catastrophe, makes a big giant mess that needs cleaning up. We've had enough of that in the past.

What if you're already in a catastrophe? What're you left with when breaking the timeline's not allowed?

People die and we have to continue to live. Oswin's...complicated. We met her again, watched her die one more time. Then we saw her again. She goes by the name Clara now.

[She frowns.]

There's something that connects them all but my ability to see the future was taken.

I don't just mean Oswin. I mean the shit some of us saw when they had those apples around. You're telling me there's literally no way to change that because it's already set out in time?

[Oh. That.]

[She also saw something she doesn't want to be the future so she can relate to what he's feeling.]

Once you've seen something, read something it becomes the future. Changing it is very difficult but not always impossible.

So how do you make it possible?

[He's hiding behind a mask of cold determination, but his voice betrays a hint of desperation.]

That depends on what you want to change. Saving a life is the most difficult of tasks to do, it results in everything unweaving until it's put right.

[People who die generally have to die.]

Not death. Just - a change. A major change.

You'd have to remember it beyond the barriers of this world, to start with. Knowing how it occurs helps as well and having a plan to fix it.

Yeah, we don't have any of that right now. [He crosses his arms impatiently.] Not all of it, anyway. I know how she got hit, but not how what hit her worked. But I'd still have to remember this to - I dunno, push both of them out of the way or something.

[Just muttering to himself now. This whole thing was worthless. He should've known.]

Never mind. I can work it out on my own.

It will be difficult. The Doctor's had to die the several times he's attempted to change a moment that's already happened.

[She watches him talk to himself.]

Who are you attempting to save?

You ever meet a blue girl here? Scales, bright red hair, yellow eyes? She probably went by Raven.

I have not. She returned home?

Yeah. And she's gonna lose the most important thing in her life there. More important than anyone but us could probably understand.

You may find yourself surprised by that. Just because we aren't like you doesn't mean we can't understand.

[She gives him a cool look.]

For instance, I am the last of my species. The gods have taken away a very important part of me. It feels as if I'm living a half-life here.

The last, huh?

[That's a sobering thought, especially given what he knows about the future, and it's what he focuses on.]

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