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abraxaslogs2022-08-06 05:56 pm
nadine_he_loves) wrote in abraxaslogs2022-08-06 05:56 pm
Open Log + Closed Prompt
Who: Nadine + Open
When: August
Where: Horizon, Nadine's Domain
What: It's a carnival!
Nadine rarely changes much in her domain, save to shift it from season to season or decorate for major holidays. But every now and again she has cause for something a touch more dramatic.
On the last month of summer, she makes one of those changes. In the town square that is the centerpiece of her little patch of the Horizon, the shops and town hall and church and open green park have been replaced with a small town style carnival. The sort she remembers from her childhood in New Hampshire.
The towering Ferris wheel dominates the space, surrounded by a variety of rides such as bumper cars and a Gravitron, a Viking swinging ship and flying scooters, a freefall tower and even a small roller coaster with a fanciful dragon theme to it. Besides those are the tamer rides - a 'haunted' house that's not at all scary but more silly, a tunnel of love, and of course the skeletal carousal that's always there. But for this month it's in bright carnival colors, blues and pinks and yellows.
The horses are still skeletons, though.
And the other trappings are there, game booths and food stalls and vendor booths along the midway. There's even a stage from which a spectral, unseen band seems to be playing classic rock, and a little wooden dance floor in front. Nadine hasn't made any staff for the carnival, as whenever she tries to make people in the horizon they just come out as shadows. Not the vibe she's going for here. But the rides and games function as though manned, and the food stalls have all variety of fair goodies on display for the taking.
There's a sign by the entrance booth that reads 'WELCOME - PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL' - for anyone who may wander in when Nadine isn't there, or simply without warning.
While Nadine is happy for anyone to come and enjoy the little summer fair, she does have some specific purpose for the place.
She doubts Geralt and Jaskier have anything like this in their world, and she imagines another touch of good old fashioned American summer fun would probably do Julie some good. She knows it will do her some good. What better way to enjoy themselves than all four spend a day at the fair?
Considering the amount of time they all spend with one another in various groupings and pairs already, it just makes sense do something as a foursome. It's like a double date, though she doubts Julie or Geralt would describe what's between them as dating. Nadine wouldn't, either, but they're still something of a pair. Just a different kind than her and Jaskier.
She'd extended the invitation and it had been accepted, and she's finding herself rather excited about the whole thing. Life's probably going to go straight to hell again before too much longer, it always does, but for now...she's going to enjoy a day out with her lover and her closest friends.
When: August
Where: Horizon, Nadine's Domain
What: It's a carnival!
Nadine rarely changes much in her domain, save to shift it from season to season or decorate for major holidays. But every now and again she has cause for something a touch more dramatic.
On the last month of summer, she makes one of those changes. In the town square that is the centerpiece of her little patch of the Horizon, the shops and town hall and church and open green park have been replaced with a small town style carnival. The sort she remembers from her childhood in New Hampshire.
The towering Ferris wheel dominates the space, surrounded by a variety of rides such as bumper cars and a Gravitron, a Viking swinging ship and flying scooters, a freefall tower and even a small roller coaster with a fanciful dragon theme to it. Besides those are the tamer rides - a 'haunted' house that's not at all scary but more silly, a tunnel of love, and of course the skeletal carousal that's always there. But for this month it's in bright carnival colors, blues and pinks and yellows.
The horses are still skeletons, though.
And the other trappings are there, game booths and food stalls and vendor booths along the midway. There's even a stage from which a spectral, unseen band seems to be playing classic rock, and a little wooden dance floor in front. Nadine hasn't made any staff for the carnival, as whenever she tries to make people in the horizon they just come out as shadows. Not the vibe she's going for here. But the rides and games function as though manned, and the food stalls have all variety of fair goodies on display for the taking.
There's a sign by the entrance booth that reads 'WELCOME - PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL' - for anyone who may wander in when Nadine isn't there, or simply without warning.
While Nadine is happy for anyone to come and enjoy the little summer fair, she does have some specific purpose for the place.
She doubts Geralt and Jaskier have anything like this in their world, and she imagines another touch of good old fashioned American summer fun would probably do Julie some good. She knows it will do her some good. What better way to enjoy themselves than all four spend a day at the fair?
Considering the amount of time they all spend with one another in various groupings and pairs already, it just makes sense do something as a foursome. It's like a double date, though she doubts Julie or Geralt would describe what's between them as dating. Nadine wouldn't, either, but they're still something of a pair. Just a different kind than her and Jaskier.
She'd extended the invitation and it had been accepted, and she's finding herself rather excited about the whole thing. Life's probably going to go straight to hell again before too much longer, it always does, but for now...she's going to enjoy a day out with her lover and her closest friends.
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"Damn, that's good." He nods along to what she's saying, trying to picture it. He's never been to big cities like that, but he'd been to Atlanta enough to be able to draw imagined similarities.
"Honestly, it's not so bad? It reminds me a lot of some of the communities I've been to. There's one that was called The Kingdom and everyone even called their leader the king. He had a pet tiger. But Solvunn is a lot of big families and there's lots of farming. They actually don't work through the day? They do all their work in the morning so they can do what they want in the afternoon. It's pretty neat."
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Nothing beats the classic. It's one of the best things about the Horizon - whenever Nadine's missing pizza or sweatpants or Madonna music, she can have it.
"And I've got to say, I've never run into kind of community quite like that. The...kingdom with the tiger place, I mean. Solvunn does sound like a nice place to live. A lot different than the other two countries. They work all day long in Cadens, and usually longer."
It's something she noticed, how productivity is praised and lauded. Even in areas like the arts. The old fashioned American work ethic seemed alive and well in the Free Cities.
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Carl grins, shaking his head. "Yeah, they're kinda one in a million. People needed different things at the end of the world, I guess, but it works for them. What's the Cadens like?"
Solvunn is so laid back most of the time, but everybody pitches in and does their part. There's never a lack of things to do, but it's interesting to see that everybody has a hobby or a craft that they work hard to perfect. Carl hasn't even begun to think about what he'd like to do. He's been doing a lot of reading, learning the stories and a little history on the place he's going to call his home. He wants to do something that will help. Something that will make him feel productive, at least.
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"You know," she finally says, casually, "you're really right about that. People needing different things when the world ends. I met a lot of people after my world ended, and they all needed all kinds of different things. I never met any tigers though. That would have been really cool."
She keeps her voice casual, not wanting him to feel pressured to talk or expect some kind of long drawn out pity speech. She just wants him to know that if he does want to talk, she'd probably understand. There's common ground, and she understands how important that is.
"I did see a lot of deer inside of Walmarts."
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"The biggest thing that everybody needs is people. If you don't have 'em to back you up or be in your corner, things can get really dark. I think all anybody wants is to just have a place to belong and call theirs. It's the ones that decide that what they have isn't enough that screws it up for everyone else." He learned the hard way that fighting is just human nature, and boy is it exhausting.
"We didn't really go into big stores like that.. Walkers tend to gather in places like stores or common areas. But I bet that would have been cool to see. I like deer."