[OOC: Annual winter post. :3 Both Decembers, the comments have been up in the thousands. The post is open all of December until January for all/any winter/holiday shenanigans. Quick reminder, you are encouraged to tag around, tag to other threads as well as making your own. Feel free to spam! :D]This December in Chicago is as filled with ( Read more... )

[Backdated to the end of Rift Tales plot.]

About a week ago, Scarlett Langford found herself no longer human - but a horse. She first spent her day with a lion, adored by his followers and finally… she met Peter. She was only going to ask for help at first, but somehow, she suddenly felt compelled to follow him.

So, for the last week, she’s been ( Read more... )

Nick Andros is spending his morning juggling apples off one of the many apple carts that seem to have shown up around Chicago. This particular cart is on a street near the Kashtta. He's not very good at it, more than one apple is at his feet from being dropped and he can't seem to get a rhythm going if he tries more than three, but he'd been trying ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, because let's face it, 9if anything is going to start with 'Once upon a time' it is going to happen this week, there was a woman. She was kind and good and strong. She took care of the people she loved and even the people she liked ( Read more... )

Grant Park appears to be a popular spot today.

In the morning, Peter Burke is taking his daily run. Then, rather suddenly, he's not running anymore, but flat on his back as he hits the two-mile separation mark. He'd thought he'd had a few feet to go, but either he wasn't keeping track as well as he thought or Neal isn't where he was, because ( Read more... )

Cassie Riddle was having a rather good day. Well as good as she could be, considering everything that's happened lately. She was just enjoying a walk in the park in the autumn sunshine when suddenly, the Rift decided it would be a very good idea to give her deer antlers. And then… they got a little itchy, and she had the instinct to go and rub them ( Read more... )

"Hey babe ( Read more... )

[Open to threadhopping, but no Roderick tags, please!]

The Kashtta is deteriorating. The signs are everywhere, and have been-in the way the walls seem to be cracking more each day, the paint fading and flaking; in the floors that creak and moan; in the air itself, so dank and foul, just hanging in every open space ( Read more... )

Shawn Spencer is a little mad at the Rift right now ( Read more... )

[This post is open for reactions and thread-hopping. Your pups are also welcome to go see Roderick, but he'll be completely unresponsive. All events are backdated to last night.]

Roderick is having a bad night.

Though this place is far more accommodating than he ever imagined-his hallway feels so much more like home now, with bits of his old ( Read more... )