Enoukn's little flitterat rode on her shoulder while she continued on her way through the festival. She cam across a crowd of nightmare and daydreams gathered around some carolers. She decided to pause and enjoy the music. While she was standing there someone was passing out little reindeer antlers to the crowd. She wasn't afraid to be silly! She took a blue pair and put them on top of her head, joining in on some of the singing while she was at it.
It was pretty fun, maybe she'd just move around with the carolers for a bit. It seemed like some of the other people who had come to the fesitval were moving with them as well. It was certainly an enjoyable way to spread the cheer around. She wondered briefly if Enoukn could sing. But well, it's not like she was trained to either. But maybe he had a surprisingly good singing voice...?
Nilima sure was having a good time with the festivities. After the fun house adventure she decided she wanted something sweet to eat. Boy, did she love candy. Her mother even made this really yummy homemade hard candy. It was the best, but she supposed she could settle for some simple Candy canes. She found a booth that was giving them away for free, it was the time of year for gofts after all! Everywhere you turned around there seemed to be someone giving away something for free. She took one out of it's wrapping and stuck the end of it into her mouth as she walked around.
Iris found a game booth that looked pretty interesting. He had to use a little, fake, fishing pole to hook himself a prize in this little pool. It proved to be more difficult then he had expected. But, ah well. He had all the time in the world to give it a try. And lucky for him in the end he pulled up a prize that landed him a cute little Salamander friend, how adorable! He was sure his siblings would like it as well. He totted the little critter around with him as he enjoyed the rest of the fesitval. At some point he was handed a cup of hot cocoa, because he 'Looked cold' and he sipped at it quite happily. It was so yummy!
Leilah was simply minding her own business, enjoying the festival. She had just left the hot cocoa booth and was sipping at the warm chocolate when something smacked her in her shoulder. She yelped as hot cocoa poured down her arm, at least someone was kind enough to hand her some napkins. At the same time they also handed her the plushie that had hit her. "Someone must have intended this to be yours." As much as she sort of wanted to complain about it, well that was sort of unlike her. Instead she simply thanked the Daydream that had come to her aid and even got her cocoa refilled since the Nightmare running the booth had also witnessed the mess. At least her arms were covered in fur, but it did leave a little stain on the sleeve of her sweater. Hopefully she could get it out in the wash.
Oh hot cocoa! That looked like the perfect little treat right now. She stood in line behind a rather furry nightmare. She's tried to study up about the Nightmare races before her move. She believed they were an Imp? She couldn't be one hundred percent sure honestly. Oops. When she turned around with her own cup she watched as the poor, small, Imp was pelted with a plushie. Where did that thing even come from? She picked up some napkins and handed them to the poor Imp, then the plushie as well.
"Someone must have intended this to be yours." She helped the girl clean up and even refilled her cocoa for her. Poor thing, she hoped that didn't hurt too much. She had a feeling that fur on her arm would help her out though.
"Yees, I cen cook." He nodded, and... well, that smile he had disappeared when he was handed yet another large fennekit plushie. What was he going to do with this? Maybe he could give it to someone... Teo liked plushies, didn't he? Hm. At least it had a purple light on it, now he had one for almost all of the group! Just one missing for Ustule... "I em sure thet is fine, Histeol. It is kind to offer." He nodded, then froze up as he felt hands on his shoulders.
He turned his head enough to eye Ustule, and immediately felt something in his own gut drop. He knew that look- it matched his own internal feelings that occupied his thoughts on most days. Longing... Yearning... Pain. But was fortunate enough to have spent a decent amount of time in his rightful home-- Ustule was not. He shifted his prizes to one arm, and then reached out to gently place a hand on Utsule's shoulder. "Eet ees fine, Ustule... I em sure thet I know what eet ees thet you are feeling.... I would be heppy to share them with you. Eet ees only naturel thet a Litch know their roots." He nodded, and then gave her a gentle pat. "Especeeally those who were born in Boreas. I hev a book thet I brought, my femily wrote their recipes down before I left so thet I would alweys hev some "home" here." He sighed, expression falling back into his usual disinterested yet borderline depressed state.
"Perigor is correct, though. If there is enytheeng thet weell help, we are here to do so." Prometheus nodded once more, and then looked around since their path had lead them out of the final house. "Eet seems we are done with the houses.... Ees there enytheeng else we should do...?" This had been.. a mood killer. He wasn't really feeling the festival anymore, and it was getting hard to carry things... Perhaps it was better to leave.
Geyser Eelborn
Oh, good... Chries didn't seem phased by his phrasing... He nodded, thankful that Froas hadn't caused a scene either. "Yeah... seems dangerous out here.." He stood, and then was immediately beamed in the face by another plush. Tendrils flaring in momentary rage, he stared at the offending plush for a moment before tucking it into his stocking with the rest. Gross.
He sighed, then looked to Chries. "Maybe we could go to the book stand.... seems calmer over there." He offered his hand for Chries to take - figuring they were well on that level of touching now - and then headed off towards the stand. Before they even got there he was nearly assaulted with a book as well! What in the Nine's name was with these people!?
He shrugged a little, "sort of! Mostly it's just years of experience. You develop strategies to help your memory latch onto names and faces." He smiled, and then sipped some of his cocoa. "It takes a while, and sometimes I still mess up, but I'm a lot better than I was before!" Corben set his cup aside, then stifled a small yawn. Ooh, he was a little tired... He'd been up late painting some more pots for the plants... Speaking of plants... "Well, part of loving plants is also knowing when they need to be removed. If it's damaging too many other plants in the area, or the plant itself is getting sick, it's time to let it go. Kidden are exceptionally good at it!" He giggled, then tilted his head. "What are you going to name it?"
Hmm, how to answer his second part without letting on that he already knew... "Mmm, you know, I met Leif much the same way! But it was for nature hikes." He laughed a little, "he didn't really talk to me much either. But I think that's normal! Trust is something you have to gain over time, after all."
Odessa stopped when she saw what looked like fuzz hanging around a booth. She skittered toward it, smiling when she noticed that the fuzz were boas. "Oh! Look at these Kara~!" She grabbed one down and began to twirl around, almost as if modeling for her.
Kiessi's mother led him toward a small alcove that held a lot of books. She smiled and began to thumb them, pulling out a small novel. She showed it to them. "Perhaps..." She began, "Whenever you stay the night at the house I could read to you?"
Kiessi smiled and nodded. "Yeah!" They squeezed their mother's hand a little tighter.
"You're a goof!" Kara said with no hint of malice in her voice. She giggled a little at Odessa before her eyes settled on a cute little green and red holiday plushie. "Awww.. this guy almost matches yours, doesn't he?" She stated and picked the little thing up, pulling it into her arms. After that moment she knew she had to take it back to the dorms with her, it was too adorable not to.
Anara was slinking around in the darkness, trying to avoid the glare of the holiday lights as best she could, but it was definitely harder to do this time than during the Halloween festival. So when she had managed to steal a little trinket, she was mildly annoyed that it was a little light bulb. There had to be a way to turn it off, right?
Rorie was still holding on to his caretaker's hand when he noticed a booth with lit up necklaces! He let go and ran toward it, his eyes growing big as he picked up a red one, looking at the attendant. "May I?" The attendant nodded, smiling at the child. "Thanks!" He replied, putting the necklace on immediately.
Kirella had settled in for a long night of relaxation and observation. She was sitting back in a chair, her book in hand when she went to take another sip of her drink only to notice that it was empty! She frowned and got up, going toward the counter to order yet another.
Today's Items~ Rorie: Trinket Kirella: Trinket
Point Total: 55 Dec 9th: 8, 14, 7 Dec 10th: 12, 7, 7
Carrying their new friend on their shoulder, Cyota began to pick her way across the event. Oh! plushies! Pleased as punch, the little nightmare picked up one of the giant fennekit plushes that were as bad as they were.
- 20 Chun-li ... Didn't want to eat the candy. Oh no, it wasn't like she was attracted to the yummy candy not at all. But you know, it did LOOK good and as she worried her lower lip, why some of the candy canes just happened to drop in her bag. Oops!
- 17 Luno donned a pair of belled antlers, laughing in delight at the silly image he made. After all, the mutant was weird enough all ready. He didn't need horns growing from his head as well. Still, it felt nice and the extra jingle added to the bell on his bow.
- 5 Xochi's felt invigorated to keep exploring and grab things that her possible new child might like. She happened upon free books and took one of them. Reading was the foundation of education. Without a good love of reading, there was little that could be done..
- 14 Caetys decided to leave the crowd for a moment, to let the little flitter rats rest. He instead went and peeked into the plushie table. There was a golden cat plushie that called his name. Adorable! Taking it, he nestled it in beside the sleeping flitterrats. They seemed very pleased for the company.
Autumn shuffled along the path, her eyes glancing left and right, and eventually stopped at a booth covered in shiny dangling necklaces. They were all colors of the rainbow and appeared to be filled with matching glitter, but the most important thing about them to her was the fact that they were glowing. What made them glow? It was probably magic, but what spell did they use to make something shine like that? She tapped her chin and took one of the red ones in her hand.
"Oh! I didn't know, thank you!" Autumn squeaked, before blinking as she saw his multiple eyes. Wow, was he a mutant like her? She couldn't help but smile at that.
Frey was about to call it having won another thing, this time a glowing necklace. He had been out here for quite a while now when he realized he recognized one of the nightmares near a festival booth. Well tucking himself away in his room would be a little boring; it couldn’t hurt to see how Ash was doing could it?
Mind made up he maneuvered himself through the crowd until he was standing relatively close. “Hey Ash didn’t think I was going to end up running into you up here”
Cinnamon Panda
Well he should have actually been expecting it but he hadn’t seen Lace for a little while due to finals so he was surprised that seconds later after he had called out to his girlfriend that she was suddenly in his arms. Ah well it’s not like he really minded. Of course from the squeaking from his shoulder, someone else might. He looked down to realize there was a staring right back at him. Welp, apparently Limerick was getting a friend.
“Yeah I came here with Nymeria because we wanted to eventually spot you but she disappeared and then I spotted you first. Having fun so far?”
Yushika
Muninn stared at the hybrid suddenly nervous until he realized the eyes and then a huge smile lit up on his face. “you have eyes like Muninn” okay so they had a slitted pupil instead of a star pupil, but they had the double irises in one eye like Muninn had. Of course then it dawned that Muninn was probably utterly tacky with that statement and grabbed a hot chocolate form the nearby vender fully intending to use the cup to hide his face. Yeah he’d just let Mani talk.
“Well you did have no tact what so ever in that statement Kie, plus you gotta wait for their shock to wear down and then answer you. Although he doesn’t look to offended, mostly just sad.” Pherein stated finally turning her head towards the conversation that was going on. She was going to reprimand kie earlier but someone had just handed her this plushie.
Well she was looking for a new one so everything did work out. Of course now all her attention was on why did the chimera look so pouty. She didn’t think it was due to his mutations? Seraph seemed happy enough with them but then she supposed Seraph was Seraph. “Ah no I was just startled not many people come to actively talk to me. So I was surprised that you were. I… well I was here with my twin sister and then she lost me and I haven’t been able to find her and knowing her she probably ran into a friend and then forgot she was here with me” Baum answered. He felt bad that he had caused the demon to feel down. He then blinked as he was given a pair of candy canes from the purple haired twin… and a bracelet from the red haired twin “Oh no I cant take your candy. You earned it” Baum panicked. He didn’t want to look that pitiful, but he had been getting stuff siting on the bench.
Milo was incredibly excited to see Coco as she came up to him. She was wearing reindeer antlers just like he was, they matched! That was so cool! Maybe he could get her a Kidden plushie to match the one he just got?
"I've been looking for you too, and my friend Laurel!" He replied, before pausing to listen to her speak. A mural on the walls? He couldn't see why the adults would say no to artistic expression, espescially if it covered one of their boring walls! He nodded furiously.
"Yes! Let's see if we can't find a few teachers to ask!" He exclaimed, reaching out for her hand. "Let's go!"
Mel ended up finishing her cup of cocoa and circled back to get a refill when the booth offering books caught her eye. She liked to read, though not as much as she liked to dance, and mosied over to peruse the selection. There was that atrocious book with the soulstone on the cover that she'd sworn never to touch and a few others she knew from her childhood, but one book at the end was one she'd never seen before. Curious, she scooped it up and gave it a once over.
"Hm, I'll start it tonight when I get back to Grendel. It seems good!" She said, nodding to herself.
Though more than eager to give another ten plants a home in his dorm, London eventually decided to leave the booth so others could have a chance to take some for themselves. He cradled his chosen plant carefully as he walked, his purple tinted glasses glinting against the lights of each booth, and stopped when he spied someone handing out candy canes. Something sweet and minty sounded good right about now, didn't it? The Baphomet smiled and took his fair share.
"Wow, who knew plum and mint flavors worked so well together?" He mused, nibbling on the curled part of one of the candy canes. "I should write this down in my journal when I get home, it could be useful information!"
Laurel couldn't believe that he was late for the solstice festival! It wasn't like he'd slept in or something, how could he have forgotten something so important to him? Festivals were his favorite thing! To forget about them made him think he was sick! The demon hustled through the crowd mercilessly and nabbed himself a stocking, before rushing off to the nearest booth. He had to make up for lost time! He'd probably missed out on so much!
"WHOA! It's like the one I got at the last festival!" He exclaimed, reaching out for the pink ornament necklace. "Emma would love the purple one, I can't wait to show the-"
Suddenly, his expression drooped and he found himself slapping his face in disbelief. He'd left Emma at the dorm again! They were going to be so mad with him! He had to go back and get them!
Zephyr was only at the festival for two very important reasons. Free stuff and to get away from his roommate for a little while. Though he and Beta were still good friends, Zephyr couldn't help but notice how far they were drifting apart in a lot of ways. It was almost as if Beta were a different person! The Fallen shook his head to himself as he pulled a stocking from the wall and continued onto the first of many games he was sure that he'd be playing.
"Mm, this bracelet's not so bad." He muttered, analyzing it as he pulled it from the stocking. He shook his head again as the face of another friend popped up in his head and looked up at the booth he was facing. Free plushies? Really? He squinted, only for his eyes to go wide as bullets. They had GIANT PLUSHIES?! He had to have one!
"I have no idea how I'm going to get this thing into my dorm room, but I'm pretty damn satisfied with this thing. It's EPIC." He beamed, hoisting the plush over his head. "Beta's probably going to kill me, not sure if I care though."
- ( 18 ) - Fig tipped his head back to drain the last of his cider. He sighed contentedly as he lowered his hand to tuck the now empty mug into the stocking hanging at his hip, making sure to settle it in as low as it could go. With his hands and fingers suitably warmed up, the Fey spied a little game where the prize was potted plants! They were young plants, just getting started. They'd look lovely growing in his dorm! They'd bring a little life into his space, at the very least. The name of the game was beanbag toss and he didn't do too badly! Picking just one was hard, and he was sorely tempted to get one with a pot that matched his stocking and mug, but the red and white potted plants really caught his eye. Perhaps he'd try again for another one, he didn't see any sign that said one per person, but for now he held the small potted plant to his chest, gingerly stroking the small leaves with a fingertip. "Little one," He murmured softly, looking warmly down at his new plant, not really paying attention to where he was going or who might be around him.
Of course, his attention refocused upward and outward when a flash of a silvery boa whipped across his face, causing him to jump in surprise. He hadn't had time to dodge or duck, though Fig reflexively shielded the small plant snuggled to his chest. Looking to the source, he blinked at the softly colored Imp woman, piecing together what had just happened, before breaking into a short easy laugh. "I'm sorry, miss. I hope I haven't interrupted a moment you were having."
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- ( 1 ) - The young hybrid slowed her walking to adjust her stuffed cuddly into one of her arms when an empassioned librarian came by offering nearby event goers their choice of book from the selection in her arms. Samira drew closer, tilting her head to read down the exposed spines of the books available. "Ooh!" She chirped as she righted her postured. "Miss, could I have that one, please?" The librarian carefully lowered herself into a squat to help balance the stack of books on one of her knees to free up a hand and help draw out one of the copies of the book she had selected. "Thank you, ma'am." The girl waited for the librarian to stand again before she scooted out of the way to read the back cover. Mystery of the Timepiece. It looked like an interesting read.
- ( 8 ) - Continuing her wandering, Endzela came across a table absolutely covered in delightfully cute glittery, glowing necklaces. How pretty! Of course, she had to have one. The choice of which was easy. She selected a purple necklace, to match the bracelet she picked earlier, and slipped it around her neck, careful not to get it hung up on her horns. Although, if she wrapped it around one of her horns, it could be quite cute! For now, around her neck would be fine.
Yesterday was so much fun! Getting a new familiar and some more earrings to boot it can't get any better. Ruddi smiles happily with Snowi in the front pocket of her jacket and Gummi tagging right along behind her. She didn't want to bring him, but his sad face softened her up. She wonders what's going to happen today.
She walks slow enough for Gummi get ahead of her, so she could watch him. Ruddi sees Gummi scratching up a booth from something till the vender so nicely puts on some blue antlers. She does her best not to laugh as Snowi pokes her head out of the front pocket to see what was going on. She decided to let Gummi where the antlers for a while since he looks so cute in them. All three of you go to the other booths and after a while you pick up a sleepy Gummi to carry around for the rest of the day.
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Frey was about to call it having won another thing, this time a glowing necklace. He had been out here for quite a while now when he realized he recognized one of the nightmares near a festival booth. Well tucking himself away in his room would be a little boring; it couldn’t hurt to see how Ash was doing could it?
Well he should have actually been expecting it but he hadn’t seen Lace for a little while due to finals so he was surprised that seconds later after he had called out to his girlfriend that she was suddenly in his arms. Ah well it’s not like he really minded. Of course from the squeaking from his shoulder, someone else might. He looked down to realize there was a staring right back at him. Welp, apparently Limerick was getting a friend.
Muninn stared at the hybrid suddenly nervous until he realized the eyes and then a huge smile lit up on his face. “you have eyes like Muninn” okay so they had a slitted pupil instead of a star pupil, but they had the double irises in one eye like Muninn had. Of course then it dawned that Muninn was probably utterly tacky with that statement and grabbed a hot chocolate form the nearby vender fully intending to use the cup to hide his face. Yeah he’d just let Mani talk. 
“Well you did have no tact what so ever in that statement Kie, plus you gotta wait for their shock to wear down and then answer you. Although he doesn’t look to offended, mostly just sad.” Pherein stated finally turning her head towards the conversation that was going on. She was going to reprimand kie earlier but someone had just handed her this plushie. 
“Ah no I was just startled not many people come to actively talk to me. So I was surprised that you were. I… well I was here with my twin sister and then she lost me and I haven’t been able to find her and knowing her she probably ran into a friend and then forgot she was here with me” Baum answered. He felt bad that he had caused the demon to feel down. He then blinked as he was given a pair of candy canes from the purple haired twin… and a bracelet from the red haired twin
- ( 18 ) - Fig tipped his head back to drain the last of his cider. He sighed contentedly as he lowered his hand to tuck the now empty mug into the stocking hanging at his hip, making sure to settle it in as low as it could go. With his hands and fingers suitably warmed up, the Fey spied a little game where the prize was potted plants! They were young plants, just getting started. They'd look lovely growing in his dorm! They'd bring a little life into his space, at the very least. The name of the game was beanbag toss and he didn't do too badly! Picking just one was hard, and he was sorely tempted to get one with a pot that matched his stocking and mug, but the red and white potted plants really caught his eye. Perhaps he'd try again for another one, he didn't see any sign that said one per person, but for now he held the small potted plant to his chest, gingerly stroking the small leaves with a fingertip. 
- ( 1 ) - The young hybrid slowed her walking to adjust her stuffed cuddly into one of her arms when an empassioned librarian came by offering nearby event goers their choice of book from the selection in her arms. Samira drew closer, tilting her head to read down the exposed spines of the books available. 
- ( 8 ) - Continuing her wandering, Endzela came across a table absolutely covered in delightfully cute glittery, glowing necklaces. How pretty! Of course, she had to have one. The choice of which was easy. She selected a purple necklace, to match the bracelet she picked earlier, and slipped it around her neck, careful not to get it hung up on her horns. Although, if she wrapped it around one of her horns, it could be quite cute! For now, around her neck would be fine. 
