Winter Wonderland [Event]

[voidtreckermods]

”Good Morning passengers. Today is day Twenty Four of the month of Catfish. You may wish to look out of the window.”

As passengers wake in their beds they will indeed notice something different about the light. If they look out of the window, instead of the ever changing void they will see white slopes of mountains, flakes of snow alling down around them and frost covered trees zipping past the windows. If they glance at the ICP on the table they will see a message.

Investigating the dressing cart they will find the drawers and cupboards unlocked once again. However, instead of the fantasy-esque clothing of world #25768 they will find thick winter coats, hats, gloves and scarves. There are heavy fur lined boots and even some ice skates.

Entering the garden carriage they will see that the glass dome of the roof has opened, leaving the carriage exposed to a bright blue sky. Any nonsense of the past few weeks has vanished, leaving the carriage pristine. Not that that is easy to notice as it is covered in a thick layer of snow. The paths are clearer, a light dusting of snow but easy to talk through. Around the paths the drifts are high, perfect for snowman building or a snowball fight.

The streams and the pond in the centre are solid ice. Anyone brave enough to try to find the ice holds their weight for ice skating.

And the ICP message was correct. There is hot chocolate in the stores.

Comments

[happyends]

The ball for the second layer that she's forming is finally getting enough of a decent size that she can start carefully rolling it around so it grows bigger as it makes more of the snow stick to itself.

But even though she seems pretty concentrated on making sure this second layer ends up just as good as the base they made, something about what Ignis is saying makes her look up from her little project here and over at him. For a second her facial expression is a little surprised, but it quickly melts into a small smile instead.

"Of course! There's so many of us here, no one has to do anything alone." They even have the whole team structure, after all. Even though it's not something thought up by them, it still helps people to know there are people to rely on in a pinch. "Just like you have the whole blue team to rely on, mister Ignis!"

Madoka laughs, with a hint of something awkward in it.

"I know I'm not really the strongest or most reliable member of the team, but I always want to help out with whatever I can do too."

[faithfulsupport]

Between Madoka and Romeo, Ignis wasn't sure which team member was sweeter. They both grew on him pretty fast and he wasn't one for children. He recalled feeling pretty awkward around them as if he wasn't sure if he should even be around them or not. However, they were members of his team (which was tinier at the time) and he would look after them.

The advisor hadn't asked to be on the council he hadn't even voted for anyone or filled out Tony's nefarious survey. But he found himself the Blue Team leader and he accepted it gracefully. And now Madoka was reminding him that no one was alone here. All Ignis could do was smile at her and his heart melted at her laugh.

"You help more than you know, whether we're in battle or not." He tried to appear dignified, but he was pretty sure that was collapsing a bit here so he stared hard at the snow structure. "After all, I've never made a snowman before and you changed that."

[happyends]

She almost says that she's not quite sure how making a snowman is some sort of big help, but on the other hand.. it clearly does seem important to Ignis, so it's probably better to not question it. Maybe Madoka ought to just accept for once that she did do a good thing here instead of putting herself down like usually.

"Well.. If you like this, then we can of course do more fun things together." If he's never gotten to play in the snow, then maybe there are other kinds of playing that Ignis never got to do before? Although she's not too sure what he would or would not enjoy, with as serious as he seems. "We could play Hungry Hungry Hippos in the game room. Have you ever played that before, mister Ignis? I taught Ple Two how to play that too, maybe all of us could play together. She's real good at it."

[faithfulsupport]

"Things such as?" There's a curiousity to his question. But then Madoka starts listing things and he had to admit that he'd never heard of this hippos game. "No..but I would most certainly be interested in learning." There's a surprise in his eyes as he hears how she's played with Ple Two, and Ignis nodded. "That sounds rather lovely, team game night."

Maybe they could come up with prizes or something too. He could see it, his team laughing and playing games together and he'd be leaning against a wall having coffee. Tony would come up and hold his hand and Madoka would come up to smile at them.

But for now, cold reality and this serious business of building this snowman.