Meme: Holiday Presents Meme

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Yes, I'm aware that there's no strict in-game calendar. What about it?

 

It's the holiday season! And what does that mean? That's right, presents! What are your characters giving their CR this time of year? Are they naughty gifts or nice gifts? 

(Optional) Instructions:

1) Post with what your characters plan to give others for the winter holidays.
2) Tag around.
3) Reap benefits.

Can be IC or just for fun. It's up to you. 

Comments

[immolzeth]

Even is going to be offering up a few things, some in conjunction:

• Candied orange peels and orange-peel tea. He's been scavenging orange peels from the greenhouse for weeks, perfecting the recipes, and now he has a handy reason to keep perfecting them! He'll give tea and peels to those who have expressed an interest in tea, and just the peels to anyone who hasn't.


• People he particularly likes are going to get small hand made star charms: pleasant little flat rocks from the beach, engraved with small constellations that seem to match the person and given a small glamor that makes those engravings glimmer in the dark. He will slip these in amongst the tea and peels, because sentimentality is lightly embarrassing and he's not confident with his craftsmanship. Also, the constellations are from Toril, his world, and so may not be familiar, but they are labeled on the back.

[zechs_isonfire]

What sort of rock would Zechs get?

[immolzeth]

Zechs, in fact, will not get a rock.

Even and Oran, in a joint effort, have constructed a small gift for Zechs. It's hard to tell whether the small wrought iron lantern* is something they constructed entirely or requested from the Augur, but it's certainly been modified: the inside has a candle that, while it will need to be replaced now and then, sits in a socket amongst a small nest of dark green beach stones.

When it's lit, Zechs will find the lantern gives off a soothing scent -- and it must be supernatural, because the scent changes based on what Zechs will feel soothed by in the moment. It's not a strong effect but it builds over time -- and, after all, it's also a very pretty little source of light.

On the base is engraved "Lavarandar's Lantern" and a constellation.


* - that but without the cheesy fake plants

[zechs_isonfire]

Even and Oran are so thoughtful!!!! And I am so full of feelings from this. Awww. Just.

I'm going to have fun playing around with what kind of scents soothe him when, too. Thank you!!!

[vegalthon]

Oran is likely tired of orange peels, but he would absolutely want a shiny rock! I can imagine him using it as a focus for a light spell and keeping it next to the bedside table regardless of how Even feels about having made it.

[immolzeth]

Oh, Even knows not to give him orange peels. Oran's still the only one he knows who hates sweets (and probably especially so, after all the sampling he no doubt had Oran help him with). Oran's not getting a food-based gift from Even at all; listen, he cooks for you most days, that's not going to be special!

No, this, I think, is when Even gives Oran the jewellery. It's a full set of golden chains, necklaces, horn-danglies and horn-caps, rings, bracelets, anklets, earrings (and other potential piercings). He's constructed a small wooden box and has arranged the lot of them nicely inside; on the top of the box is engraved a pair of constellations. Even has spent much of his hobby time back home learning the constellations both of his own homeland and of others, and he's chosen a pair: Jauhar and Selan.

When next to one another, these two bring out the best in each other: the wealth that is beauty, the dance that is sincerely caring for another person.

In one of the more thickly adorned necklaces, too, there is a small note on thick paper, handwritten and rolled up tight and hidden in a hammered-gold heart: not meant to be found, but meant to be kept.

Oran Vegalthon, Aster of the wastes, I see you and I know you and I will keep you and protect you as best as my mortal hands can.

There is also a blessing written somewhat incongruously in Infernal: a small piece of superstition that Even would not admit to. He's enchanted a few of the bracelets with Bless, only one charge a day, including the necklace with the note: that one, he's also infused a little bit of Prestidigitation into so that it glimmers extra shiny.

[vegalthon]

Oh gosh, that's so incredibly sweet. He's going to be impossible to get all of that gaudy stuff for days, regardless of what he's doing or who he's visiting... well done, Even, you win the prize. (He may also be really really annoyed and delighted to realize there's a secret message! He's got all kinds of identification spells yet he wouldn't think to use them on Even's present.)

[immolzeth]

HUR HUR. Ya boy can be sneaky!! and it may not be a gd pseudo-proposal, but the sentiment is there I assure you

[vegalthon]

Look, they can be no bromo roommates and bedmates for life, can't they? Why does Even need to rain on his parade?

(And who's getting who gold rings, eh?)

[immolzeth]

>:] between the two of them, they'll end up with all the ingredients for a wedding.

someone had better give them some white dresses or something

[silky_bearing]

candied orange peels oh goodness he will be ecstatic

[immolzeth]

He will get a double serving for enthusiasm!

In another little bag alongside the orange peels he will find a small, flat oval of a stone, engraved with a constellation which is labeled on the back in a fine pen-script, The Eyes, a.k.a Where Selune Looks back.

A note along with: Sometimes, they are also taken to look like a pair of daggers. Selune is Our Lady of Silver, whose visage and auspices change with the phases of the moon and who is one of the mothers of magic. She comforts those who seek in the night. Those born under its auspices are flexible, mysterious creatures whose aspects change to the situation as fluidly as the tides turn.

The stone is grey but it has been oiled with a lavender oil, which takes its grey to a deeper, duskier lustre (closer to purple) and makes it smooth to the touch.

[silky_bearing]

All these xmas gifts are going to be the only thing he eats haaaaaaaa

honestly he would argue that he is not nearly so adaptable as the constellation implies but he's trying and he wants to be... but it's beautiful and he might keep it nestled at the base of the pretty succulent Constantin gave him on his nightstand being a soft little night light u.u

[immolzeth]

WELL in his defense Even doesn't actually know Lorenz all that well: mostly what he knows is that he met him one (1) time and he seemed like a terrible prude, and then the second time he was a gosh darn dominatrix. Adaptable.

that is an utterly lovely place to keep it, though, wonderful. ;u;

[spacedisaster]

Aww all these are so amazing. The constellation thing sounds so cool. Would he be giving one of those to Peter? I don't want to assume...

[immolzeth]

LISTEN Peter has been nothing but excellent to Even, that counts! And with a name like Star-Lord how could he not.

Peter receives a nearly perfectly-round greenish river stone, oiled to give it luster and a gentle almond scent. The stars engraved into it are roughly a polygon with one diagonal side.

On the back, the label is Bala.

Under Bala, music heals and uplifts; it is an enchantment and a balm, a rallying cry and a shoulder to cry on. The magic of music flows like the wind and, like the wind, it is implacable to the soul caught in its current. Those who exist under this constellation's auspices are just as flexible, just as powerful, and just as moving as their guiding stars.

[spacedisaster]

AWWWW Nice. I'm glad they're friends, it's so much fun. True about the name, haha.

Oh my god, that's so pretty and so fitting. he will love it and assume that he asked Even about the meaning of the Bala symbol :3