Who: EVERYONE
What: the LOCUSTS! mingle log
When: Days 431-434 ( Apr. 10-17 )
Where: all across the city
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

Day 431 ( Apr. 10/11 )

Any early risers that head outdoors as the sun is rising will find a somewhat strange sight: hundreds of earthworms, scattered all across any available loose earth, squirming around on the ground. What caused them all to dig their way to the surface isn't clear just yet, but they aren't the only creatures behaving a bit strangely today.

Just as the sun breaks the horizon around 7AM, a single stag will come charging through the city coming from the north and heading straight through the Gate of Frost. Mere minutes after that, a whole herd of deer will follow his lead and stampede their way south without care for anyone or anything that might get in their way. Smaller animals like wolves, foxes, rabbits, and the likes will follow at their feet, birds flying overhead in great flocks - all headed the same direction. Any pets or animals within the city will be irritable and anxious, some trying to escape and follow the same path outside and away from Asgard.

In the midst of the mass exodus, the bracelet's SOS function will blare loudly as one of the gods summons the Travellers to the castle.

The Travellers will have less than an hour to get themselves to the heart of the city where natives will already be ushering people indoors with a nervous calm. The whole of the city will be rushing their way through the barrier, and it will be made obvious fairly early on that not everyone can fit inside the castle. Jockey for a safe position and keep a strong hold on your loved ones so that you don't get separated in the chaos, but be fast about it.

After that hour mark, a wave of water will come crashing through the city from the north, flooding the streets at a height of approximately 10ft / 300cm. Anyone not within the castle barrier by that point will either drown or be swept away in a violent current that will carry send their bodies into whatever solid objects might stand in their way. Those safely within the barrier will see Heimdall at the front gate with his hands raised as though pressed against an invisible wall; if they look closely, they will be able to make out all city structures glowing with a faint shimmer - either royal blue, pale green, or amber - before their view is obscured by the water pounding against the barrier. The dome over the castle will be made visible by the flood encapsulating it as it washes anything that wasn't rooted down through the streets. It will be an awesome sight, though grim enough, as nature takes its course through the city.

The flooding will continue for several hours, during which time the Travellers will be largely left to their own devices as they wait out the worst of it. Sigyn, Freyr, and Freya will be going around with castle maids to make sure that no one in harmed and to try to keep people relatively calm. Hel, Fenrir, and Jormungand will be doing their level best to intimidate people into compliance by coordinating the immediate relief efforts that will take place as soon as they are able to leave. This means that, for the few hours it takes for the flood to die down, the castle will be largely unmonitored as the gods try to minimise the damage.

After the worst of the flooding passes, the residents of Asgard will be free to return to their homes. There will still be a foot of water to wade through, but it will be slow moving and relatively harmless. Thanks to Thor, Baldr, and Loki's protection spells, all buildings will still be structurally sound, if not wholly intact. Glass panes may be shattered and wooden doors may be splintered; anything that wasn't firmly tied down may be displaced somewhere down the road or otherwise destroyed. But for the most part, the damage is minimal. Now just to do something about this pesky water ...

Day 432 ( Apr. 12/13 )

By now, the floodwater has lowered to a scant inch or two, leaving the city streets littered with debris but otherwise safe for travel. Natives will be setting up booths to help coordinate the return of lost possessions or missing pets, reporting any property damage, and recovering any bodies of those that might not've made it to the castle in time. Travellers are welcome and encouraged to assist in the relief efforts. There will be district clean-up sign-ups below, but these are not mandatory to get involved, they're more of a way to see who will be in your district to make plotting easier.

Later in the day, while everyone is still trying to rid the streets of the lingering water and put everything back to rights, the first survivors of the flood will begin trickling into the waterlogged city. Outlying villages and encampments were destroyed in the disaster and are now seeking refuge with their gods in the capitol. Despite the stress Asgard is already under with the supply shortage and the damage from the flood, the Prince Regent will not deny his citizens the aid they require and will welcome them into the city until they can revive the land to health.

Days 433-434 ( Apr. 14-17 )

Relief efforts will now be split into two different areas: recovering the city and creating space for the new arrivals. The natives will need help setting up temporary housing, like filtering families into unused housing and setting up tents for the remaining numbers. They will need to ration out food and general camping supplies, and when Asgard is currently in a supply shortage, making ends meet will be a bit of a struggle. We would really love to see some player created groups banding together to do this! Things like donation collections or fostering an NPC or anything at all, you guys should work together to help facilitate the arrival of these refugees and their temporary(?) stay within the city. There are some player projects already up here if you’d like to take a look and get involved!

On the other side of relief efforts will be cleaning up the streets, boarding up broken windows, things like that. Sigyn will be working to rebuild the wall and could use some assistance in not only construction but the magic of her barrier as well. More player coordination here will help put things back to rights, so if your character has an idea of what they can do to help, please comment below to start up some relief projects! It'll basically be two days of everyone trying to dig themselves out of the mess and get settled again.

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the LOCUSTS! event. All of the gods ( except Odin and Frigg, naturally ) will be out and about during the first day of this event, so if you’d like to plot with any of them, please contact either the NPC handler or the mods and we’ll help facilitate some plotting for you. As a reminder, all deaths during this event count towards your death consequences. Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] along with the time/location of your character in the title of your comment. Let us know if you have any questions! ]

Who: Everybody~ [OPEN]
What: A celbration about those wacky runes
When: Day 116- 1717
Where: Grimoire's Sigil in Freyr District
Rating: Rated P for Party~

( Party time )

Who: Edogawa Conan & Leonie Barrow
What: Interview!
When: Day 202
Where: Forensics Department, third floor of the Sigyn Hospital.
Rating: PG!

( It took me years to write won't you take a look. )

Who: EVERYONE
What: Winter Festival Banquet
When: Evening of 196 (forward dated to Dec 29)
Where: Every Welcome Hall
Rating: PG-13 or less (anything higher please take to a private log)

[This evening, anyone living in the Welcome Halls will come into the main floor to find a banquet of delicious food from both Yggdrasil and the worlds of anyone attending. There will be plenty of chairs & tables around to sit at and a big fire in the living room fireplace. Your patron god may or may not attend, but keep an eye out for the chance to talk to them! The food will be there all night, and the atmosphere warm and welcoming.

Those who have moved out will recieve texts on their bracelets inviting them to come to dinner. Also, for tonight the discomfort of entering someone else's welcome hall has been lifted, though only for those invited by someone who belongs to this House. Guests are more than welcome! Have a great time, and give us some smiles!]

Please keep things organized and reply only to the appropriate subthread!
If the threads get too big to load please ping a mod and we'll post a continuation.

Odin Thor Loki Sigyn Hel Heimdall Freyr Freya Baldr

Who: Nina, and her friends! :)
What: Nina's recovered her bracelet and is no longer lost. This takes place a few hours after she returned and had a chance to research the network (but a few days before her network post). She's contacting her friends to explain her disappearance and ask how they're doing. If you'd like to rp this part, please respond with a blank comment below, and I'll tag with her call! ♥
Edit: Oh, and she'll be calling with a video feed! If your character would like to respond with something different (audio, text), please feel free to! :D
When: Day 182 (Backdated)
Where: Heimdall 307 (Nina's Room)
Rating: G

( there is work to be done before you rest your weary bones )

Who: Aspiring firefighters, rubberneckers, first-aid professionals, random passers-by - in other words, YOU!
What: An arson in Odin district.
When: Night 187
Where: An NPC bar in Odin.
Rating: We'll say PG to be safe, alert me if it gets worse.

( unnecessary tl;dr set-up. )

There's an eerie orange glow coming from the far corner of Odin district, one that only swells and brightens with time. Closer to the scene, there are also strange sounds on the still night air: crackling and groaning, and finally a fatal snap as something very large gives way and something else - is it a building? - collapses.

If you happen to be very close by, you'll feel and hear broken glass crunching under your feet as you approach the blaze, and you'll have to step around the wreckage of several broken pieces of furniture before you reach the bar itself. It's long gone, no chance of saving the structure, but was there anyone inside? Are there survivors? And how long will the fire remain contained before it spreads throughout the whole district?

Someone really had better do something about that.

((ooc: remember, one network post (Rose and Dirk) will be going up alerting everyone to the presence of the fire! feel free to assume your character saw that or just have them stumble across the scene.))

Who: Anyone taking part in the Utgard Expedition!
What:Travelling to and Shopping for Supplies in Utgard (using godly credit!!) and then travelling back.
When: Day 184-5
Where: From Asgard to Utgard to Asgard and everything in between.
Rating: Extreme Shopping.

[The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The journey to Utgard starts with a very early start the morning of Day 184, a roll-call at the Gate of Fog involving a seven-year-old with a clipboard and also involves a knight with a shiny crown organizing people into carts. Fun times.

When Utgard is finally arrived at there is much to enjoy -- the big city lights, the big city sounds. There are cars, subways, an internet -- even people who aren't grey! There is no end to the excitement, although there is lots to be done by way of shopping.

Day 185 gets off to a more leisurely start, the Travellers having accomplished most of their shopping the previous day. The citizens volunteer to load purchases into the carts while the Travellers look around a little before heading back to Asgard.

With so much to see and do in the City, why not look around, take in the sights, even -- mingle a little?]

((ooc: Totally open mingle log for characters taking part in the Utgard expedition! Run wild, run free -- but keep in mind the godly credit only extends to supplies for the city. No getting your hair did with Odin's dough.))

Who: The residents of New Camelot & their neighbors
What: Catch-all entry for the rest of November
When: (Backdated) During Arthur's canon-update and beyond
Where: Thor District
Rating: PG

( The sun is gonna rise, gonna rise, & shine down on another day. )

Who: Allen Walker and YOU
What: See above
When: Day 160-162
Where: Various, mostly Sigyn
Rating: Don't foresee it going above PG/PG-13

[CONGRATULATIONS, you have acquired run into one (1) somewhat odd-looking but well-dressed, white-haired polite (mostly sort of) British teen and his somewhat squishy, flying metal(?)... well, who knows what it is (it's a golem), but it's frequently flying after him or perched on his shoulder.

You have perhaps run into him them in:]

( One of three possible ways )


[Or anywhere in the middle. Really, he could turn up anywhere. That mop of hair could even already look passingly familiar. Easily. In that way of people that are kind of everywhere but always distracted and on their way somewhere, too. Just don't expect him 'home' Sigyn hall if it isn't to eat or sleep.]

Who: OPEN TO ALL | GENERAL MINGLE GO GO GO
What: Naked Bath Time!
When: Day 158, Evening.
Where: Folkvang Comfort House Freya
Rating: PG + (Mention of Nudity!)

[The Folkvang Comfort House has it all, pretty much -- massages, facials, mud baths, fancy finger food, gym and sauna. There is something for everyone here -- so it's not all that surprising to run into someone you know. Particularly in the luxurious hot spring section. With Asgard's large population of Japanese characters, the communal style bath facilities are popular -- and tonight is no exception.]

((ooc: This is a general log for interactions at the Comfort House! Please put your location in your subject line, or tag in under someone with that subject line, and enjoy! If you decide to take advantage of the Comfort Hall's services to pursue something more adult, please warn in your subject header and let me know so that I can up the rating on this/friends-lock as necessary. Cheers!))

Who: Uther Pendragon and ALL OF ASGARD
What: War teachings!
When: Day 156 to 167
Where: The Draupnir Theatre in the Freyr district
Rating: PG-13 at most, I guess...? To be on the safe side

((OOC: This is a catch-all log for Uther's war lessons! Anyone is free to come - yes, even children, he won't actually kick you out even if he's really unsure about them but, really, if they're going to fight no matter what anyone says he would like them to know this too. This stretches until the day before the start of the Big Event, and another will be tossed up after that one ends.

This is basically for anyone to gather new CR or talk it up with Uther or whatever you may want to use this for, because I won't be writing up the lessons. Put the day in the subject line etc, and have fun!))

Who: Newbies and anyone who wishes to greet them!
What: Getting used to the city
When: Days 155 and forward
Where: anywhere in town!
Rating: PG-13 tops! If it gets worse, move to a private log please.

[Please include your location and the IC day (ex. Day 155) in your top-level comment or your subject line when starting a thread! It can be any welcome hall, major attraction, or just out an about in any district. For newbies making a top-level thread, you may include your character's name/canon/house in your subject line if you'd like, to make housemates easy to find! :) If a God is needed or wanted, please ping the mods and depending on availability we might be able to throw them in where asked.

Also, keep an eye on the event schedule for October! If you're ICly introing during an event, make sure you take that into account. Thank you!

Have fun!]

Who: Norman & Conan (& potentially Shinji)
What: Zombie movie marathon & a sleepover!
When: Day 153
Where: Conan's house
Rating: B-rated for Norman's movies

( “Oh My GAHHHHHHHHD!” )

Who: Conan, open!
What: Attempting to summon a god/setting internal ghosts to rest/possibly tantrums.
When: Day 152.
Where: Grounds of Hel's Welcome Hall, before the Altar.
Rating: Mention of death likely!

( It's all in the past now. )

Who: Sigyn Hospital/Yakuzen Clinic staff, volunteers, the ill, the recovering, and everyone in between.
What: Biological Warfare Plot: Distributing the immunisation.
When: Afternoon Day 148 - Day 149
Where: All across the city.
Rating: We'll say PG-13 for illness/possible violence/possible death. Please make sure to label your threads with appropriate warnings!

[ Following the dragon's less-than-friendly visit on Day 147, the severity of the situation has elevated steadily until the virus has met every district in the city, claimed the lives of many and threatens those of everyone left behind. Even as the good people of the hospital and the clinic work to find a cure for the illness, there's nothing to stop the rise of panic and fear in the citizens as they dread the second plague to claim their city.

So when the treatment is prepared, delivering it to those in need will be no easy task. The medical staff is harshly overworked, many are still grievously ill and those reaching that point are desperate for help. For the men and women working to distribute the immunisation, their work will be difficult but it is no less necessary. These are their stories.

dun dun

Okay, ridiculousness aside, any and all plot information can be found here, the open hospital/clinic log can be found here, and here is where you'll find milestone posts one, two, and three, though responding to any of the above is not required for mingling around this post. This is an open log for the final stage of the attack, wherein people can feel free to run around like big damn heroes and save the city! Huzzah! ]

Who: Healers, Volunteers, Friends, Concerned Parties, Glee Club and People Being Sick.
What: Biological Warfare Event!
When: Day 147 - 149
Where: The Hospital in Sigyn | Yakuzen Clinic in Heimdall.
Rating: Please warn in individual threads using the subject line! Death / Character Suffering a possibility so please be ready before jumping in.

[General mingle log for the Biological Warfare Plot! Read the ooc planning post for more detailed information, but as a quick guideline:

Day 147 (afternoon/evening): Wave 1 Patients start to develop symptoms - persistent coughing, nausea, dizziness, fever, blister-like burn marks.

Day 148 (morning): Wave 1 Patients worsen, coughing up blood, slipping in and out of consciousness. Hospital staff overwhelmed, Wave 2 Patients start developing symptoms and NPC panic starts.

Day 148 (afternoon/evening): First Wave 1 deaths occur, but Wave 1 patients who survive find their symptoms abating. Work on a immunization starts. Wave 2 Patient's condition worsens. Once developed the immunization is distributed throughout the city.

Day 149: Fully recovered Wave 1 patients join Hospital volunteers in caring for patients, but as the immunization takes effect, symptoms abate and recovery starts.]

Who: Ichigo (suppressthedark)and YOU!
What: After his Hollow's little rampage, Ichigo finally wakes up and has to face what he's done.
When: Day 146.
Where: The hospital in Sigyn.
Rating: Uhhhh pg13?

( Our faces like a mirror, showing us our secret sides. )

Who: Conan Edogawa, OPEN.
What: Awkwardness.
When: Day 134, afternoon/evening.
Where: The library, Odin.
Rating: PG!

( The Science of Deduction. )

Who: ERRYONE IN ASGARD
What: The Darkness Plot!
When: Night of day 128!
Where: ALL OVER
Rating: Seriously PG-13 at the most I'd think if it changes LET ME KNOW

[The natives tonight are... odd. Off. There's something about them that doesn't seem right, doesn't feel natural. If they spot you, they'll pursue you. If you run, they will follow. Only in the light will you be safe, and the shadows of the incoming threat will seem to disappear in the air as quickly as they came.

What's going on?????]