New Year's Eve/Day City-Wide Celebration
Who: Anyone and everyone!
What: Ringing in the new year
When: Beginning New Year's Eve at sunset and going through New Year's Day
Where: Out in the streets -- primarily near the Clock Tower and the Cathedral
Warnings: Contents under pressure
Status: [In Progress -- OPEN]
The music started around sunset, and sunset was early in these winter days so close to the recently passed solstice. There was no telling exactly where the music came from. There were no speakers, no bands, no obvious signs of it. But it was joyful and light, the sounds of celebration, no melancholy this time. If one followed the music, it grew louder to the center of the city, around the cathedral and the clock tower.
The music wasn't the only sign of festivities for long. Intermittently, fireworks explode in the sky above Ruby City, obscuring the stars momentarily in a flash of colorful sparks of light. These grew more and more frequent the closer the hands on the clock tower came to midnight.
It was chill, as winter often was. But was it warmer amidst the music and festivities? It felt that way, even if it was only a trick of perception.
And slowly, and goodness only knew from where, things appeared along the sides of the streets in the area by the clock tower, where the music played the loudest and clearest. Tables littered with foods and drinks -- from places as vast and varied as the places from which the inhabitants of the city haled. Of course, most of the city was old enough for it, so liquor was quite easy to find. Other booths and stands boasted games or oddities -- other pieces of homeworlds left behind. The faces running these stands were strange and unfamiliar, but they were smiling. They would chat in pleasantries happily, but direct questions outside what each booth was about seemed to fall on deaf ears entirely.
Giant puppets danced -- on their own, in wood and fabric -- gleefully through the streets in time to the music. Ice sculptures were set among the snowdrifts left over from the storm of a few weeks back.
After all, a new year was beginning. Even in Ruby City, separate from time as it so often seemed, it was something to be marked. And celebrated.
At midnight, the fireworks would crescendo to a stunning display of color and light and noise. But the party would not end then. It was likely to run straight through the first day of the newly arrived year. There was no sense in cutting a party short after all.
((ooc: for what the tables hold, please feel free to fill in games and trinkets and food and drink from your character's canons. what happens in this log is up to you. happy new year, everyone. once again feel free to backtag as long as you need. we wish everyone a safe and happy 2011))
What: Ringing in the new year
When: Beginning New Year's Eve at sunset and going through New Year's Day
Where: Out in the streets -- primarily near the Clock Tower and the Cathedral
Warnings: Contents under pressure
Status: [In Progress -- OPEN]
The music started around sunset, and sunset was early in these winter days so close to the recently passed solstice. There was no telling exactly where the music came from. There were no speakers, no bands, no obvious signs of it. But it was joyful and light, the sounds of celebration, no melancholy this time. If one followed the music, it grew louder to the center of the city, around the cathedral and the clock tower.
The music wasn't the only sign of festivities for long. Intermittently, fireworks explode in the sky above Ruby City, obscuring the stars momentarily in a flash of colorful sparks of light. These grew more and more frequent the closer the hands on the clock tower came to midnight.
It was chill, as winter often was. But was it warmer amidst the music and festivities? It felt that way, even if it was only a trick of perception.
And slowly, and goodness only knew from where, things appeared along the sides of the streets in the area by the clock tower, where the music played the loudest and clearest. Tables littered with foods and drinks -- from places as vast and varied as the places from which the inhabitants of the city haled. Of course, most of the city was old enough for it, so liquor was quite easy to find. Other booths and stands boasted games or oddities -- other pieces of homeworlds left behind. The faces running these stands were strange and unfamiliar, but they were smiling. They would chat in pleasantries happily, but direct questions outside what each booth was about seemed to fall on deaf ears entirely.
Giant puppets danced -- on their own, in wood and fabric -- gleefully through the streets in time to the music. Ice sculptures were set among the snowdrifts left over from the storm of a few weeks back.
After all, a new year was beginning. Even in Ruby City, separate from time as it so often seemed, it was something to be marked. And celebrated.
At midnight, the fireworks would crescendo to a stunning display of color and light and noise. But the party would not end then. It was likely to run straight through the first day of the newly arrived year. There was no sense in cutting a party short after all.
((ooc: for what the tables hold, please feel free to fill in games and trinkets and food and drink from your character's canons. what happens in this log is up to you. happy new year, everyone. once again feel free to backtag as long as you need. we wish everyone a safe and happy 2011))