Daily Entertainment

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Since I stayed up all night rereading War for the Oaks, I'm going to snag today's DE. This one is inspired by a conversation in chat last night and its one I always find interesting.

How are your characters in relationships? Do they go for casual or long term or something in-between? I realized for mine that they fall into some pretty easy groupings.

Will, Sameth, William and Jane aren't made for casual due to their personalities and their eras. When you're with them, there's a promise and loyalty and it can be rather intense. And they have this habit of being rather impulsive and trusting their instincts, Jane does not believe in love at first sight but perhaps in love that lasts.

Demeter, Moist and the Pirate King are all about fun and easy with Demeter doing things her own way and if she cares for you, then you're one of hers. Somehow she makes it so that doesn't work like a normal relationship but she's a Greek goddess, she bends rules.

Tumnus is Tumnus and I've yet to find a way to make him work in any sort of romantic relationship. I blame reading Narnia far too young.

Cubefall

[gone_byebye]

Hi, folks!

Just wanted to let you know that on May 25th, 26th and 27th- Wednesday through Friday- Milliways is going to be celebrating the Cybertronian holiday of Cubefall. The plot was first proposed in 2008 by autocommander-mun and approved by the mods. It's the 2007 live-action movie Transformers' equivalent of New Year-type celebrations, and this is what can be expected:

On Wednesday, those who enter the Bar proper will find that the place has broken out in construction toys. All kinds of them- furniture made entirely of Legos, Capsela constructs whizzing stuff back and forth overhead, the walls are suddenly made of moving, functional Erector sets, Tinkertoy light fixtures- you name it. A furnace, safely locked so that it cannot be entered by accident, will have replaced the fireplace. Patrons who approach the Bar Herself will be presented with vidscreens wishing them a good Cubefall and offering them several test reconfigurations- physical forms different from their own, which they can choose to try on for the next three days. These can be nearly anything within reason, like at Halloween, but since the holiday is the Cybertronian celebration of the day that the Allspark came to the lump of lifeless rock that became Cybertron, there will always be at least one robot form among the alternatives. (And because Bar is aware that this may bother the organics, there will also always be one small, fuzzy, adorable creature that is in no way humanoid, like a kitten or a tribble or something.)

The form changes are not going to happen to people by surprise, and if someone says no or simply doesn't give an answer when first presented with the option to change, they can ask for their choices back at any point during the duration of the holiday. Cubefall is about choosing new beginnings and deciding upon whether to accept them or not. It's not an involuntary thing. No transformation trauma at all!

At the end of the three days, the vidscreens will appear to people again. Unless deliberately and clearly specified in a moment free of outside interference of any kind, the changes chosen go away at the end of the time period. You have to be sober, awake, in your right mind, etc. for the changed form to stick.

The holiday cannot revive the dead. Once your spark has ceased, it cannot be rekindled. It can change the form of the dead, but they're still dead.

Anything thrown into the furnace during Cubefall will be recycled by Bar into something new and appropriate, and may well count against the thrower's bar tab, since the point of the furnace is to melt down the old and smelt it into the new. Anyone who actually plays with the construction toys and makes changes, whether major or minor, to the area around them will find that he, she, or it experiences a few days of good luck- it's considered an auspicious thing, to make changes at Cubefall.

Illiterate characters get the same vidwindow as everyone else, but their messages are spoken aloud rather than printed. Pregnant characters get the explanatory vidwindow, but do not get offered reconfigurations, as they are in the middle of a systems task not to be interrupted.

Outside is not affected. Bar's ability to provide orders is not affected. People who come into Bar on Thursday instead of Wednesday will get the same vidscreens as Wednesday visitors. People who cannot log in on Friday will have their normal forms back the next time they log in, unless they make arrangements in advance to keep the changes. People who don't want to make any reconfigurations to themselves will not get changed, and will not get another vidscreen unless they specifically ask the Bar for one before Friday evening.

Oh, and you get one (1) transformation for Cubefall. Whatever form you pick, if you pick a form to change into? You have that form until the holiday is over. No changing back and forth; either change for three days, or don't change at all.

Any questions? Let us know! Thanks!