expiationlogs | {Mini Event} Day of Devotion

DAY OF DEVOTION

This is an entirely opt-in very casual event that has nothing to do with overarching storyline and is just an additional introductory log, and a means for characters to meet. We hope you've all had a very happy Valentine's Day week however you've chosen to spend it!

SCARVES OF LOVE

The season of affection and love of all kinds falls upon Aldrip in the wake of their festivities for Those Who Were There. As part of the celebration, what's referred to as the 'Day of Devotion,' local merchants carry a variety of wares, but none so coveted as their multicoloured scarves available in a variety of prints, designs, and fabrics. Perhaps consider picking one up and giving it to someone who's important to you. No money? No problem! Whilst Aldrip doesn't exactly work on a layaway system or akin to, you'll find the mercantile business owners are quite open to trades and other means of bartering. Maybe they'll give out a scarf or two in agreement for running some errands...

Lucky recipients of these very fashionable scarves will find themselves suspiciously open to sharing positive, warm and fuzzy, or perhaps downright amorous feelings toward the person who gifted them the scarf to begin with, regardless of whether you've known them for years or even just a couple of weeks. But don't worry—the feelings are temporary! Once the Day of Devotion comes to a natural conclusion, your feelings will return to something like normalcy and you'll still wind up with a new fashion accessory. Of course, if you've always been amorous with that special someone, you likely won't notice any sort of change.

Take the opportunity to embrace the celebration, maybe embrace one another a little bit, too, and begin forming some potentially everlasting bonds with others.

BRING PROTECTION

Not everyone is choosing to celebrate the Day of Devotion in the same way. Due to the heightened popularity of the pretty scarves, some of Aldrip's jewellers have been bitten by the green bug of jealousy. In an attempt to compete with the sales of scarves, jewellers are advertising pendants, brooches, and other assorted charms that are meant to serve as warding and protective trinkets. What are they protecting one from? It's difficult to say and the merchants aren't inclined to give a straight answer. But whether you need protection from love, personal feelings, or perhaps something more physical, they've got you covered!

If you choose to give these amulets to others, recipients of them and their related will be compelled to share their true feelings with those around them in addition to the person who gave them the protective charms. This sounds like it could be a good thing, however, that means it covers the array of positive, negative, and every shade in between, without a filter in place. Consider these accessories a potential test of friendships, familial relationships, and more.

Like the scarves, this need and desire to be truthful with your feelings will be temporary, lasting until the Day of Devotion celebration is over. But at least you'll be protected. From something. Maybe. Probably. Or not!

FLOWERS FOR ALDRIP

By now, you may be well familiar with Aldrip's variety of fields that are filled with vegetables and fruits that grace the dinner tables of the town and local cuisine. During the Day of Devotion and weeks leading up to it, you'll find that they're clearing another field and preparing the soil. What for, you won't find out until the actual day of the celebration. Once it arrives, there's a collection of simple carts filled with flowering plants. Locals and newly-arrived alike are welcome to lend a hand in planting them along the neatly tilled rows.

You may find plants that resemble or are identical to plants from your home world. You may find plants that you've never seen in your life. They come in a variety of colours and are accompanied by a lightly pleasing scent that shouldn't be too overpowering, though may still disturb those with allergies.

All who help out with the planting, watering, and other tending, will be rewarded with a bouquet of flowers that can be passed onto others to show your appreciation and other forms of affection. You may even find yourself making a good and lasting impression on the locals by offering some assistance.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Hoo boy. Well, he's used to explaining things by now. So he just... does it. No annoyance or exasperation or shock that she doesn't know what he's talking about. Just an explanation. ]

A chip or something that'll tell them where you are at all times. Makes sense to hide it in something pretty that you'll want to wear.

[Well. That sounds very disturbing indeed.

With a smile, Ethlyn buys both pendants from the merchant, and then nods towards the man to take a few steps away from the stall so they won't be overheard.]

And if there was a tracker in one of these--how would you find it?

[She turns over one of the little carved horseheads in her hand, and then offers the other out for his inspection.]

[ He doesn't take the offered trinket. He doesn't need to, to answer her question. ]

Take the heaviest object you can find and smash it. Destroy whatever's inside.

Hm...

[Ethlyn considers it. It sounds outlandish, and it seems a shame to destroy something so pretty. But there's enough here that's unfamiliar that she can't discount the risk. She's pretty sure that the merchants are just interested in making a bit of coin from a festival, but that doesn't mean someone more sinister couldn't be using them.

She didn't wear her sword to the market, but she does still have its whetstone in her belt-pouch. So--taking another few steps so that she isn't in view of the man who sold her the thing--she takes it out, crouches down, and smashes the amulet between it and the ground. Then she picks up the fragments, poking through them before showing them to the stranger.]

I don't see anything unusual in here. Are you talking of a device, or something magical?

[ Joel watches her impassively. Maybe a little surprised that she just went right ahead and did it, but hey. Better safe than sorry.

Then he shrugs. ]

No idea what it would look like, or if you'd even be able to see it. But if there was a tracker in that thing, it's destroyed now.

[Ethlyn pokes through the remnants of the pendant. It seems to her that it'd be much more likely than not that you'd be able to see something like that.]

I don' see anything unusual in here--and I didn't feel any sort of magic when it was intact, when I broke it, or now. [She doesn't know how that sort of magic would feel; she's not aware of any practice of it in Jugdral, but she's fairly confident that she wouldn't feel nothing.] Still, it's good to be cautious... what made you suspect such a thing?

[ Joel looks at her flatly. ]

We've been kidnapped. Maybe this place doesn't look or feel like it yet, but it's a prison. They'll be tracking us somehow.

[Ah... right. Ethlyn reminds herself that most other people were pulled here out of a life they were still living.]

I suppose this is one of those things that depend a lot on where you're from. My home doesn't really have ways of tracking people besides physically keeping them in a place you can watch them. [aka: an actual prison with walls.] But if they are doing that, wouldn't it be more likely through the pendants that we use to understand each other?

[She fishes hers out of her collar, the communication pendant with the waves. It had never occurred to her that monitoring them could be a purpose of it--but it would be well-chosen if so, because without them, they're kind of stuck as far as the language barrier goes.]

Understand each other?

[ He has no idea what she means by that, but whatever. He knows the pendant she's talking about. His is probably not even on his person - likely shoved into a drawer in a room in the inn. ]

Yeah, you shouldn't keep that on you, either.

{Mini Event} Day of Devotion

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