[EVENT] Moon and Mirrors (Welcome Mingle Log)

[khuimods]

Characters: ALL
Date: January 15
Location: At the Dreaming Bridge and all over Aifaran!
Situation: A large influx of Dreamfolk arrive in time for one of the Lunar Festivals, and they're all invited!
Warnings/Rating: N/A


A surprising amount of Dreamfolk have arrived within a short time frame - a peculiarity remarked upon by a number of Aifaran's residents. It is unusual in that it coincides with a lunar festival, one which only happens every fifty or so years.

Newcomers will find the streets packed with all sorts of people, stalls of fried and sugared foods, carnivalesque games and rides, and all other manner of things to do. Merchants are very keen to get their wares out there, and the stipend given may just burn a hole in your pocket when you see what's for sale.

Comments

[driverslicense]

Scenic and comfortable...he supposes those are good parameters for determining that kind of thing. However— "It lacks purpose."

Though technically speaking, he'd lost his purpose before he even arrived here.

"Comfort isn't so important to me." He looks up again at the sky, then adds, "I'm Chase."

[darkwingsofkilvas]

"Purpose?"

He couldn't help but laugh, giving Chase a small bow as he did so. "My name's Naesala. And if you think there's no purpose to seeing the festival, you're going about it the wrong way. How else will you learn about the residents here if you don't walk among them? See how they celebrate and how they spend their free time? You can't get the measure of a society if you sit inside all day."

[driverslicense]

But that learning...has no purpose, either. Especially if making a living here is not what those who've arrived here want. If his existence had to continue, he would have preferred it to be an existence close to the ones who gave him purpose. But really, it comes down to comfort not mattering that much to him in the long run. If it turns out that he'd have to stay for much longer than he expects...then he shall see.

"You place importance in learning the measure of a society?"

[darkwingsofkilvas]

"Of course I do. They mean it when they say that knowledge is power - and not only in the direct, magic-using sense."

This human was awfully uptight, wasn't he? It was one thing to not be a fan of crowds, and quite another to not care about comfort or a fun activity. Naesala didn't think he had ever met anyone that cared so little about those things. What was this guy, a monk?

"Well, I'm not going to force you into it. After all, I'm only going to observe the culture here myself."

[driverslicense]

"Force me...?" He wouldn’t ask if he weren't curious. Naesala finds the measure of the society...Chase is finding the measure of the people—the Dreamfolk. Though he wouldn’t be able to clarify it quite like that that that’s what he’s doing; his fascination for humans (and by extension, people who act like them) is just white noise to him now.

"I wouldn't know how to do it." Certainly not at absorbing the important things and putting it together with the less important ones. Culture-watching was never a skill he'd picked up.

He was going to go observe the festival anyway, though. "I will...observe."