Week 2 Monday Night Pajama Party!!

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[HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE PAJAMA PARTY! They’ve really gone all out here, because the tables have all been pushed up to the wall (thank you, Finn) to make room on the floor for pillows and blankets and some cushions, too. There’s also streamers and other decorations hung up for a party-type atmosphere, as well as nice quality baijuand plum wine chilled and set out along with glasses for consumption. Next to that, there’s a variety of hors d’oeuvres to be noshed on, along with whatever anyone else has brought. There’s several balls of light floating around, courtesy of Stella, to give the place a nice, cozy glow.

Feel free to make yourself comfortable, grab some hors d’oeuvres and something to drink, and settle in for some sleepover activities or just sitting around and mingling. If you’ve brought something for the party, you can add it to the list here, or if there’s a game or an activity you’d like to host, feel free to add it on to this top level and it’ll get added to the navigation! The pajama party is your oyster~]

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Comments

[encelevenemus]

[Eventually--and probably after a glass of wine--Somnus made the unwise and likely mood-killing decision to speak up himself.]

[wu's probably dead. this ain't about him]

If Lucis in the current day and age tells stories of hauntings and the like- [the derision was palpable in his tone] -I know naught of it. In the days of the kingdom's infancy, reality was a source of greater fear than any fiction.

The realm as mankind knew it was built on the ashes of another--of lost Solheim, a civilization that had grown powerful enough to become arrogant in their strength. In this arrogance did they spurn the god which had granted them the very spark of fire at the advent of humanity--Ifrit, the Infernian. Upon seeing Solheim's heresy in turning away from the Astrals, the Pyreburner put all of Solheim to the flame. The rest of the Hexatheon, sworn and dutybound to protect the star, themselves fought against Ifrit in turn--thus waging what was called the Astral War.

...Or so the legends say it began. There were none left who truly remembered, even when I yet lived. But in the legend lay a measure of truth, for the Infernian laid a horrific scar upon the world which persisted ages upon ages into the future.

[pegasinister]

Heh, my own people have a similar story of the goddess bringing down fire to punish her sinful children, leaving a destroyed landscape that still burns to this day.

.... turned out it was actually done with human weapons. Funny, that.

[just gonna siiiiip the plum wine he's nursing, looking smug]

[encelevenemus]

We had not the technology for such a thing. I suppose it is plausible Solheim may have, but the logic does not bear fruit.

[Somnus shook his head, continuing in the same matter-of-fact tone.]

We call it the 'Starscourge'. When I was a child I often heard it said that the scourge was the Infernian's curse upon the land; that in the dark of night, malformed creatures would emerge from the shadow cast by every flame. It is a horrid blight upon the land, these creatures we call daemons prowling the land with the singleminded thirst for human blood.

So was the bloodline of House Caelum granted a sacred Crystal by the greatest of the Astrals--the Bladekeeper, Bahamut. It is our calling by divine right to be the light which dispels the darkness; to gather the power to eradicate the foul plague from the star entirely.

[philomachy]

[oh for--]

Always crystals...

[encelevenemus]

...Is there something you take exception to?

[philomachy]

Simply noting a common thread even across realms. Whenever gods [does he sound skeptical there gosh] are involved, there are always, inevitably, crystals as well.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

[shiver] A scar? Like an earthquake or something?

[encelevenemus]

Not precisely, but now that you mention it I never did know where exactly the Meteor came from. Another remnant of the war, no doubt.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

[shiver] No wonder you didn't want to tell any scary stories, if that's what you have to deal with.

[twibeast]

[ Huh Orthrus looks… weirdly uncomfortable??? With this whole story?

Just going to quietly keep eating a snack or something. ]