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Festival Log: March, Eostre
| Aefenglom's spring holiday of Eostre has three main features: parades, pies, and public drinking. It's a time to celebrate the warming of the weather, and being able to enjoy the outdoors again with the coming of spring, though stray patches of snow can linger around the very edges of the city, clinging on. Parades are held for anything under the sun, often forming up in the streets at the drop of a hat, at any time of day or night, and swelling with dancing, singing people as it progresses through the city. Along with flower crowns or flower-adorned hats, many natives hang bells on their clothing, to jingle merrily as they dance. This is a holdover from the old days where they'd use it to invite the Fae in for Boaltinn later in the spring. While it's lost that meaning, this year, many artisans are selling quite decorative sets of bells to adorn clothing and hang from eaves of homes, trying to rekindle interest in an old, silly tradition.
Food and drink are sold on street corners for a pittance: primarily pies of various flavors (meat that isn't of the mystery variety tends to be more pricy, but vegetable, fish, and fruit types are popular), and lots of alcohol, including a clear, sweet liquor served with tiny, delicate blossoms floating on top. Members of the City Guard go light on public intoxication during the holiday, so long as you aren't hurting anybody in your drunken stupor, but anybody starting fights or traumatizing children might be thrown in the drunk tank overnight to sober up. Maybe you’ll make a friend in there! Music is a big part of the holiday every year. While last year’s musical talent show does not return, that doesn’t mean the scene isn’t hoppin’ - many are searching for new sounds, from wealthy patrons who would love to sponsor a budding musician’s work, to casual groups humming bars together in the pub. |
➤ I. Ice and Fire
Pockets of clashing weather sprout up all around Aefenglom and its surroundings. One block might reach scorching temperatures, either dry or terribly humid, while on the next street, it could be snowing, hailing, or freezing over. The pixies clash with each other anywhere and everywhere, and you’re very likely to get pulled into the mess, becoming the victim of their particular brands of mischief or getting pulled into a physical skirmish - beware of tiny pixie slaps and kicks, and hair pulling. Lots of hair pulling. If you're wearing bells or have hung bells outside your home, you're more likely to see the pixies visiting, for better or worse. Summer pixies riding their fire-scarab beetle mounts like to set things aflame or summon up hot winds, while the ice pixies prefer to keep it cool - in the most literal senses of the phrase. Both breeds of pixie are incomprehensible to speak to save for a few choice bad words they throw around, and both are free with the rude hand gestures - at you and each other. They can also both be placated with offerings that suit their tastes or simply... eliminated, if that’s more your speed. Fewer in numbers and preoccupied, they cause less damage this time around, too busy squabbling with their polar opposites, and are mostly annoyances that can be worked around. They’ll move on of their own volition after Eostre, when the residents of Aefenglom ditch their many bells, but it might be good to curb the potential for property damage by getting them to leave early. |
➤ II. Color Wars
Except some batches have been tampered with by pranksters, perhaps taking a page out of the pixies’ book. While many of the eggs thrown are just regular projectiles filled with harmless colorants, others have been enchanted with certain effects, usually but not always determined by color. These effects run from the slightly annoying to the unfortunately embarrassing, though none of them are actually dangerous. They can “stack” if one gets hit by multiple affected balloons, but they only last a maximum of four hours. Effects run the gamut, and can be just about anything you can imagine as long as it isn’t outright dangerous, but some examples include: getting stuck like glue to the next person you touch; only being able to tell the truth or only being able to lie; being unable to understand or speak any actual languages - only funny gibberish; being preceded by the sound of a string quartet wherever you go; the uncontrollable urge to laugh, or sleep, or cry, at anything and everything; losing all sense of direction; growing a beard or moustache that keeps growing longer as the minutes pass; unable to get traction, sliding around on solid ground like it’s ice; temporary growing or shrinking; swapping appearances (as an illusion, not a transfiguration) with another person; and more! Players are welcome to make up their own silly effects as they please. |
➤ III. Color Wars: Red Light Edition (NSFW)
The idea of the game remains the same, pelting those around you with eggs filled with different colored powders or paints. While the eggs elsewhere in the city are brightly colored, Red Light District eggs tend to be darker, more jewel-toned or neutral shades to distinguish them, for anyone who might not be looking for that sort of fun. They took precautions, so if you wander into something you aren’t prepared for, that’s really on you, right? Nearly all the Red Light District eggs are enchanted in some way, and have various sexy or embarrassing effects, including but not limited to: an excess of desire; certain embarrassing physical reactions; an increase in pleasure in others from your touch, or vice versa; the feeling of being tied up, ranging from just tugging sensations to full body restriction of movement; growing or shrinking of certain body parts; spontaneously vibrating fingers; the urge to confess your feelings for another person; and many more. Like the more “work-safe” enchanted eggs, the effects of the Red Light eggs last for four hours at most, and effects can be stacked by getting hit with different colors. These games also tend to last for much shorter times as the participants wind up slipping off to rent rooms for a few hours. You may want to follow their lead if you find yourself in the middle of it. Or maybe just hunker down somewhere with a friend until it’s safe to walk the streets again. Up to you! |
Welcome to March's festival, Eostre! These prompts are just some examples of what's going on in the city from the 21st to 23rd. You're also welcome to draw inspiration from the blurb on the Festivals Page to write your own prompts. As always, if your thread has or will contain NSFW content, please content warn appropriately in your headers!