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ph_logs2024-03-05 05:57 pm
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Mingle - Emergency Potluck
Pumpkin Hollow Community Bulletin
WELCOME POTLUCK
Greetings, residents! Those more observant sorts among you may have noticed a large influx of very crowded ferries. In order to welcome our new residents en masse, Town Hall is holding a potluck in Town Square. Please bring a dish if you are able and make a new friend!
All of our newest arrivals need only bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you all into our community, and may your lanterns always be lit.
This event is open to all! In light of our new influx of prospective players following the Great Sail Migration, we've decided to offer a small public event to tide everyone over until the TDM this weekend.
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Ammy does a very doggy thing. She finds the fork on the ground, and, taking a moment to recall it, does the point motion. It's very eye catching, and totally at odds with her clear divinity. And helpful! Most people don't want dog slobber on their eating utensils, even if the dog in question is divine.
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Slowly, she reaches over to get it, still with that awed, vaguely starstruck look in her expression that Ammy might understand as someone truly seeing her.
There's a great deal of difference from the divine you know and talk with every day and a creature that feels like this. Caution, perhaps, is required. Respect, most certainly. And if something inside her feels a little funny about the whole thing, she isn't going to say it.
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Ammy pauses, and speaks. "More than happy to help. If I might help a little more.. I expect you've met other divinities, but none quite like myself?" Her voice is... serene. Knowing her true nature imparts an intensity into it, but the key aspect is, and always will be, divine canine serenity.
No one does 'perfectly calm until it is time to act' like a dog resting in the sun.
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It's the first response she can think to give, to properly explain it. No, not just calm. The warmth of it, like a clear day. It's intimidating in the exact way that still makes her want to emotionally creep up to bask in it.
"Most of the gods I've met have been a bit..." She waves the free hand, not the fork hand. "Needing appeasement. Or they simply defied category."
Pause.
"Apologies. You're simply so magnificent, I couldn't help but stare."
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"Indeed. I have discovered that many of my fellow divinities are... rather less well grounded, than myself or the Goddesses of this world. I have no demands to make, of anyone who lives here and seeks not to harm the rest."
And she smiles, because it's true. She is magnificent. "Thank you. I am Okami Amaterasu, Guardian of Nippon, and Goddess of the Sun." And she puts her paw out to shake. Because of course she does.
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"My name is Fever. Do you prefer any specific titles, before I go misstepping?"
It both is and isn't a joke. The god she's closest to had no preference, but that doesn't mean anything for others.
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"Truthfully, I prefer Ammy. Everything is more fun when no one is bowing or trying impress me with worship. Just don't malign the sun, that's my ... cousin's? Not quite sister's? Hm." She gives a slightly over dramatic thinking look and then grins. "It's not my sun, at least."
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The smile that crosses her lips is a little less tinged with uncertainty.
"It's been a while since I was under a proper sun, at any rate. I'm not inclined to go badmouthing such a gift."
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"... Ah! Were you also in that horrible, lifeless world I have heard of?" A world without proper life is, fundamentally, a world without a proper sun... At least, from Amaterasu's perspective.
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Lifeless is both true and not, from her perspective.
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"Ylva, a recent arrival and fellow wolf, she came to here from a land with no trees, no wildlife, no grass, or fish, or birds." The horror is evident in Amaterasu's voice... and perhaps, explained by the blooming wildlife beneath her, now that she has stayed in one place for a bit. Grass is sprouting, flourishing despite the fact that it is early spring at best. Small lizards are scurrying out from under it, startled by her casual movements. Flowers are blossoming at her paws.
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The name is obviously ringing some kind of bell, but she's also distracted by the way the earth is responding to the goddess. It makes sense with such divinity, but it's also beautiful in the way all well woven magic is. Things that are living, truly - how long has it been, since she could see and enjoy them? That one hideous moment in time doesn't count.
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"Ah! You know her? I was quite excited to meet another wolf! She's setting up a den not far from mine."
If she keeps watching, she'll get to see it just keep growing. Not quite the same burst of flourishing life as she had a week or two ago, but Ammy is vibrant with praise and it shows in the world around her. Come to think of it, the air feels like it's full of summer sun, now. Not an oppressive heat, but the kind of warmth that's just hot enough to encourage seeking shade, or swimming, or a good cold drink. The light of the sun that carries very nearly every living thing in her heart.
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It's warmer now, but Fever's still engrossed in looking. Watching the life come to be, lunch forgotten in favor of wide red eyes just drinking it in. And the weather being different, not always comfortable - it's welcome in its own way. Things change here. Things are allowed to be real.
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Amaterasu is more than willing to provide the touch of the sun, the blessing of a living world. It is part of her duty, here, in this town she has chosen to guard for the time being. Companionable and calm. "It seems more from that place are arriving here, I think. I hope the reunions are happy ones."
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Even if some of them she detested, would rather see dead before her feet, it didn't mean that when they had fought so hard for everyone that she had the luxury of drawing lines. All those divisions could come back later - she can take care of her grudges after the immediate problem was solved.
"Beyond Ylva, have there been any others who mentioned it?"