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ᴀsɢᴀʀᴅ ɢᴇɴᴇsɪs ❧ mod account ([personal profile] asgardmods) wrote in [community profile] asgardmeridiem2014-07-15 02:05 am

CHRISTMAS IN JULY: PART 2

Who: Everyone!
What: The mingle log for Part Two of the Christmas in July event.
When: Days 478-479 (July 13-16th)
Where: Anywhere in the city!
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

CHRISTMAS IN JULY, PART TWO;
Days 478-479 (July 13-16th)

Day 478 (July 14)
Following a network post announcing an impending attack by ice giants and Thiazi's declaration to the city, the fight begins when a small swarm of pixies descends upon the city, no more than eight inches tall and the definition of "glass cannons." They create chaos however they can: shaking snow onto people, carrying off weapons, and attacking directly if approached without an easy exit. Their teeth are curved like fangs and razor-sharp.

While the pixies stir the city up, the frost giants begin to load the golems up into the catapults. Two by two, the massive ice creatures come crashing - literally - into the city. They land hard and inaccurately, as the engineers' defenses on the city walls keep the giants from approaching too quickly, and some golems seem to be damaged already by the same defenses as they land. The pixies seem to lose interest around sunset (though you may find one or two hidden and sleeping in a snowbank if you look hard enough - they'll attack aggressively if woken), but the fights with the golems continue well into the night, until all in the city are dispatched. Where the pixies turn into snow, the golems transform into large hunks of ice after they are killed.

Day 479 (July 15-16)
At sunrise, the pixies ascend from their hiding places and scatter, doing their best to break into homes to attack people directly. Today, anyone who finds himself bitten will begin to feel and act strangely.

Ice golems continue to come crashing into the city throughout the morning. All of the original ones slain, Thiazi begins creating more on the spot: while they may be more numerous, they are weaker, and many have odd physical defects. Some are missing arms, and others have extra heads. Following an attack by the strike team, the number itself will begin to thin considerably as one of the catapults is damaged and the other is destroyed completely.

Just before sunset, Thiazi delivers a final message and makes a hasty retreat with her entourage of frost giants. The spell responsible for the odd weather breaks the moment that she passes the threshold a half mile out, and all remaining pixies and golems in the city immediately, mid-action, turn to snow and ice.

By midnight, the city is thawed completely.


[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the second half of the Christmas in July plot event. More in-depth details about what's going on can be found in that link! Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] along with the date and location in the title of your comment. Let us know if you have any questions, and have fun! ]
womanfromacre: (pic#7552733)

[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-23 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Remember that you are not just an 'I' in this battle Altaïr, our family and the brotherhood fight beside you, and our target will fall.

[She reaches to touch his cheek fondly.]

And we will go home to our boy.
pushesgently: (> baba)

[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-07-24 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I have not forgotten, habeebti.

[But the thought of Darim makes his face soften.]

I'm glad that I know now who is waiting for us.
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[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-24 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It will not be so long until you can meet him again, and then we shall both have Sef to look forward to.

[She reaches to hug hum and doesn't let him go for a long while.]

We will see this right.
pushesgently: (> tender)

[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-07-24 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Honey, really, he's technically at work right now...notice he does not step back, though.]

You know that when we do, I'll be waiting a while for the 'you' who was brought here.
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[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-24 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Work schmerk.]

It is strange to think of it that way, when you put it like that.
pushesgently: (pic#7371011)

[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-07-24 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Other strike team members are right around the corner. Like right there.]

They say we won't remember, though.

[He doesn't actually like that idea.]
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[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-27 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[And if any of them were married you would think no less of them for spending time with their spouses.]

What is to say that we won't? Surely we cannot have toiled for all this and for so long only to be left with naught.
pushesgently: (> distant)

[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-07-27 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[On their own time.]

I'd like to believe that. But it may be that the forces behind all this care nothing for what we deserve.
womanfromacre: (pic#7552726)

[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-28 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sighs.]

And this is why I cannot be convinced to like them.
pushesgently: (pic#7371025)

[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-07-28 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that whether they have earned our regard matters little to them in the end.
womanfromacre: (pic#6144807)

[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-28 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[She lets her lips quirk into a sardonic smirk at that remark.]

How very like my father they are.
pushesgently: (> over the shoulder)

[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-07-28 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Your father is less likely to send me into great peril. [His lips twitch into a small smile.] But perhaps only because he has not met me.
womanfromacre: (pic#6210385)

[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-28 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
And we should continue to be grateful that that remains the case.
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[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-07-28 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know about that. In a way, I owe him thanks.
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[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-29 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
You would not be saying that if you had ever met him.

[But she gives him another gentle kiss and a smile.]

You would never have been his choice but you are mine and that is what counts.
pushesgently: (> neutral)

[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-07-29 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You are not wrong about that. But still, I owe him a debt of gratitude. Because of him, you exist.
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[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-30 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose when you look at it that way...

[Although if her father had had it his way, he'd have put her in a convent and there would have been no crusades for his former Templar daughter, nor would there have been jaunts to Acre or Cyprus or Masyaf.

Or Darim.]


I should go before we become too sentimental to tolerate, habeebi.
pushesgently: (Default)

[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-07-30 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Altaïr nods. If it were up to him, he'd have been all-business from the start, but his wife has a way of distracting him.]

I'll see you tonight, Maryam.
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[personal profile] womanfromacre 2014-07-31 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods, gives his fingers a squeeze.]

We will celebrate a job well done in private when we get home.
pushesgently: (> stride)

[personal profile] pushesgently 2014-08-01 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He squeezes back, then nods.]

Be well, my love.

[And back he goes to the team.]