{ GAME OPENING LOG }

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✵ GAME OPENING LOG ✵
Normally our TDMs serve as intro logs, but we have prepared a special character intro log for game opening! It is a massive, chaotic feast that can only be found in a dreamworld like Songerein. You can also use this to continue ongoing TDM threads, especially as it nears captcha. Reminder that any thread from the TDM can be carried over. Players are also welcome to make their own logs for things if they would rather skip this part. Be sure to read the Mod Announcement for other information and you can ask any questions regarding the log here.

I. THE FEAST

As the sleepy looking sun begins to set, the small little tapir fairies will buzz around to find all the new inhabitants and usher them to the plaza. There everyone will find several tables of various lengths, sizes, and shapes. Yes, that is a star shaped table along with a moon one. A special feast has been made just for them to welcome and celebrate their arrival. Some may even recognize decorations: leaves mottled and changing to an assortment of colors, festive streamers, popcorn strings, glittering garlands and bows, string lanterns, and maybe a few small gravestones here and there. Some areas might look a bit brown and withered while some of the trees take on a more cherry blossom look. It's a bit of a strange mashup, and yet the chaos seems to have a sense of harmony as well—especially when considering everything else that the feast has to offer. This is one divine feast that is going to be completely topsy turvy.

A. What's Your Sign? Everyone will find themselves mysteriously "tagged" with a special sticker and will suddenly gain special characteristics based off the animal: ears, tails, behavioral traits. They're mostly mild and to add flavor, but they may also feel different compatibility towards another, such as more attracted or opposed. The sticker will be hard to remove, but it is possible to swap with someone if they want to try a different experience.

B. Special Bowls. There are many tables and anyone can sit wherever they want. Just don't forget to pick up the special dinner bowl already personalized with their name on it. Of course there are some extra paints and decorations that can be added to it if one desires.

C. Wild Food. Every table has the same kind of food, and there is plenty to go around. Of course, that's only if the food can be caught and if one can keep an appetite for some of them. The boar's head is a bit talkative and might settle down if someone stuffs an apple in its mouth or tells it a joke. However, it might just get several laughs by the barrel of monkeys funnel cake nearby, monkey shaped pastries hiding within it to chuck out various candies and fruits. Not even the candy is safe, at least not the stringed ones. Licorice, chocolate coated taffy, and others will start slithering around and even hiss, sometimes wrapping around the arm of those who try to eat them. Playing some music might calm these sweet serpents so they can be eaten properly. How about that special carousel cake stand with the horse cookies prancing about?

D. Spice Up Your Li—Meal. However fear not. There is normal food around so it is possible to have a proper meal. However, some helpful little dragons may fly by to add a few herbs and spices to the dishes. They are quite friendly and will listen to requests, however if one is rude or too demanding, they may just dump a bunch of a hot pepper and other unsavory seasoning instead. Make a good enough impression and they might make house calls, even follow someone home. They live to spice up food, after all.

E. Drink Tea. Although there is an assortment of beverages, the prevalent one will be tea. They are similar to the ones found in the cafe and all will help bring out festive dreams and restful sleep later for everyone. However, someone is clearly making mischief as they have slipped in some rodentia tea. Drinking it will cause the drinker to shrink to the size of a rat. The only way to return to normal is to find the elusive cat cookies, which can be strangely hard to find; they seem to vanish and reappear at random, but only the ones with wide grins and “Eat Me” written on them can be eaten.

II. FUN & GAMES

Perhaps the food isn't up to one's tastes, or they just would rather have some fun. There are a few games around the plaza that everyone is welcome to participate in and they are encouraged to play to their heart's content. Just beware of the geese as they are being a menace not only at the tables but disrupting games as well.

A. Playing Chicken. A simple game, really, one that will test one's creativity and taste buds. There is a goat cheese fondue fountain surrounded with various platters of cooked chicken: grilled, steamed, boiled, baked, fried. This fondue fountain, however, is special. The flavor of the fondue can be altered depending on the kinds of emotions near it. Joy and love make it sugary sweet, anger and jealousy spicy hot, despair and distrust salty sour. And of course everything in-between including a chaotic mix. The challenge is one person will try and alter the flavor of the fondue, lather it on a piece of chicken, and then hand it to their opponent. The chicken must then be consumed. If not, the one who "cooked" it wins. If it is consumed, then the second person can now do the same to the other. This continues until one forfeits. It should be noted that the emotions of the one eating can also affect the fondue. (It is of course possible to take either the fondue or chicken without playing this stomach churning game.)

B. Gravity of Luck. There is a special wheel lottery set on a table decorated with rabbits. In fact there are a lot of rabbits congregating here and would love a few carrots. Anyone is free to spin the wheel one time per round to determine what kind of special "gravity" effect they receive. Each time the wheel is spun, a ball will drop and the color will indicate the type. A gold ball will cause them to lose all sense of gravity, their bodies starting to float away and although they can fly and float around, they'll need help being tethered down. White balls allow them to jump higher, small mushrooms appearing at their feet so others can follow. A black ball will cause them to be stuck in place, even fall flat all the way to the ground and need help standing up. Those imbued with the power of the different balls can help balance each other out until the effect wears off in half an hour.

C. Ox Go-Kart. For those who really want some speed and action, there are ox driven carts stationed by various streets. Two people can partner up with one driving and the other serving to help try to slow the other cart down. In this race, all non-lethal, non-destructive abilities are allowed to try and disrupt the other racer. Perhaps utilizing dreamotion based abilities may fare better. Just beware of other obstacles, especially any random crying dodos that create giant pools of tears as water hazards.

D. Tiger Fishing. There are special colorful ponds filled with sparkly gummy koi fish. At each one there is a little round tiger(?) with a pair of tiger mittens. In the same vein of fish scooping games, players must wear the tiger mittens and catch the gummy fish with them. It won't be easy as the gummy fish are even more slippery than normal. Perhaps some other skills could be used...but the little tiger will be watching and will latch onto anyone's heads who try to cheat. But if caught, they will make for a delectable treat—or interesting pet.

Comments

[indolentaxe]

Oh, please. Can't a girl have both?

[She gives him a wink.]

Wait here.

[And off she goes to approach her mark, all feminine charm and light, breezy giggles. The man responds immediately, laughing and puffing himself up for her approval. It doesn't take long for him to volunteer to win her some fish--it's an important part of the process that he thinks this is his idea, after all--and luckily he's good enough at the game that it doesn't take a small eternity.

And then, as easily as breathing, Hilda thanks him profusely and takes her leave. She trots back over to Vanitas and holds out one of the two bags she's holding.]

Here, I got you one.

[darkcharge]

[ The comment actually does make him chuckle. He's not going to have to wait either since Hilda waltzes off.

Vanitas observes, watching the girl do her work. He's amused, of course. Can definitely appreciate how effortless Hilda seems to make it. How clearly she knows what she's doing and how to get someone to do something for her without promising anything in return.

The fool doesn't even realize that he's been played either as she walks back over with fish in hand. ]

Oh well look at you. Getting me one wasn't even part of the challenge.

[indolentaxe]

[It's for the best that Hilda uses her powers for minor evil like 'do this thing for me' and 'I don't want to work right now' instead of something too nefarious. She's a natural manipulator.

In response to the compliment, she shrugs and smiles easily.]

It wasn't any harder to ask for a second, and I figured this way we both get to avoid looking like idiots with those gloves. Don't mention it.

[darkcharge]

[ Even if it wasn't "minor evil," chances are that Vanitas would be okay with it. Not like he'd be effected right? At the moment, he only seems to benefit so why not?

Though now he's holding the fish and eyeballing it. Does he really just... Eat it? The texture looks odd. ]

Hmmm. I wasn't really going to say thank you, since we were both spared.

[indolentaxe]

Rude, but I'll let it slide this time.

[Look, part of how Hilda plays is by the rules of politeness--it's only fair to have an even exchange, after all, and a "thank you" counts toward that. Although she does suppose that with Vanitas, it doesn't matter that much. It's not like he's really into playing her games to begin with.]

[darkcharge]

Oh? What does that say about next time?

[ He grins. It's true. Vanitas isn't playing by any rules. But that's just how he is too. It's fine?

But he's amused by this girl. ]

So what are we supposed to do with it?

[indolentaxe]

That I might not be as nice about it.

[It's an idle threat. Mostly.]

I plan on finding a nice bowl for mine and keeping it as a pet. Although you can eat yours, if you want. I won't judge.

[They probably taste like candy, which would be pretty neat if true.]

[darkcharge]

[ Vanitas looks at the fish moving this way and that way. The weird colors that it has...

And makes a face. ]

Yeah I don't think so...

[ Something about the consistency of gummi! ]

[indolentaxe]

Then it sounds like you have a new pet, too.

[Those are the only two options, at least as far as Hilda's willing to consider.]

[darkcharge]

Sounds like... How do you even feed something like this?

[ Yeah he doesn't know. Vanitas could pass it off to some child? ]

[indolentaxe]

Dunno. I'm kind of hoping that they're magic and we don't have to feed them.

[It is a gummy, after all.]

[darkcharge]

Wouldn't that be something. Magical gummi fish that don't need fed.

[ Vanitas laughs. ]

Watch it be something like sugar.

[indolentaxe]

At least sugar's easy to come by? I'll experiment and let you know.

[Or not, because let's be honest she's probably going to forget.]