voidtreckerexpress | Winter Wonderland [Event]

Winter Wonderland [Event]

”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.

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Oh. Hell. YES.

No one needs to tell Peter twice. He's already gotten his hot chocolate and bundled himself up in a winter coat and boots. He webs his hot chocolate to the wall and sets about building up a snow fort in the far corner so that he can throw a snowball at the first person that gets close. He's packed up some ammunition, built some snow guards, and made a snow angle. Who wants to take Peter on in a snow ball fight? He's ready for you.

Ignis woke up and moved carefully. It wasn't easy to slip out of bed anymore, but somehow he managed it. And the first thing he noticed was that it was colder. His green eyes then took in the snow and the mountains, surprised and full of wonder at the same time.

Seeing the message on the table, he quickly moved to the dressing carriage and the first thing he did was to grab a very warm knee length black coat. Next he added a set of silver gloves and a green scarf. He smiled when he found a nice black top hat to wear and positively grinned when he put on black leather knee high boots.

Going out to the garden carriage with hot chocolate in a red mug, he couldn't believe how beautiful the snow looked. People were ice skating, but he was more than content to sit down and watch them. Among the hot chocolate stores he'd found a long rolled cookie to put in his hot chocolate with whipped cream and green sugar sprinkles.

Peter is not the *only* one there.

Kaito will swear later that this is purely for science. Gotta test how accurate that spider-sense is, right?

INCOMING SNOWBALL ALERT!

Look. You cannot give a Phantom Thief a pristine environment for ambushing like this and not expect a snowball fight. It's just not done.

Whoever is walking past has only just the warning of a cackle, and then snow drops down the back of their shirt, and Kaito is dashing off for safety.

It's pretty accurate-at least it is today. Sort of. It certainly goes off. Peter feels the familiar prickle at the back of his neck and while he can't figure out which direction the danger is coming from, he can tell there's danger and hops up, doing a flip and landing in his spider like crouch to see who is attacking him.

"Oh it's you." He relaxes, realizing that maybe that was a bit of an over reaction. He scoops up some snow and hurls it right back.

Peter is a little breathless as he's been out in the garden car for some time and built a whole army of snowmen. He's not so interested in skating as he is playing in the snow. He's made snow angels, a snow fort and is currently building a guard for his snowfort when Ignis comes in. He looks up and is a little disappointed when it's someone he can't throw snowballs at-or he could but the man has a mug in hand-that might be rude.

"Hey Mr Ignis!" He chirps, looking up from his snowman. His cheeks are a bit pink and nose an angry red because of the cold but Peter, at least, is in high spirits. "Have you seen Mr Stark? I need to throw snowballs at him."

Nerdanel wanders out into the garden with a pleased hum of appreciation, wearing considerably less than one might expect for the weather, although she has at least got a scarf and jacket on. Snow! Why, she hasn't seen snow in ... at least a yeni. Perhaps she should really try and get out of her studio more often.

She kneels and runs fingers through the drifts and tips her head consideringly. Well. That's an idea. Something ephemeral...

Within moments she's found herself a nice drift that she can work with, compressing the snow down and using water to freeze it further, building what is probably the most life-like snowelf ever. Why. It looks like Feanor! Flames of ice and snow licking up around his feet, his eyes glaring out defiantly at the world, looking almost as if he would shake off his snowy cover and walk. But. His eyes look past you. One hand almost, almost reaching out, or is it pulled back close to him, afraid of rejection?

She stands and looks at it for a long time, and then starts another, opposite it. A lady, this time. Herself. Facing him.

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Kaito waves at him from the branch he's hanging upside down on, and lets go, dropping into the snowbank beneath him with a cackles as Peter returns fire. Once he rises again he'll do the same, of course!

"Eek!" Peter squeaks, diving down and just narrowly avoids the hit. "Oh, it's on, now." He laughs, scooping up more snow and rolling it into a ball, he leaps up, cheating with his spider powers and chunks the snow at his friend with a cackle before falls back into the snow bank.

Of course Eva's joining in. Well as soon as she finds something suitable from the offered clothes.

Throughout the day, she can be found making snow~~birds~~angels to various degrees of success; There's also building snowmen of various shapes and sizes while fending off Princess; she even has a go at ice skating several times, though she's not the best at it. Give her a bike any day and she'll do bike parkour with it ok. That's not to say she doesn't take time out to enjoy a hot chocolate or three, or to sit and watch the antics of everyone else. (Or to corral Princess back into his pokeball if needed. Fairy-types, man. Fairy-types.)

Snowball fights are another beast entirely as one will find out. Eva's aim is true and straight from a lifetime of aiming and throwing pokeballs, as are her reflexes. While there's glee in her eyes and laughter abounding, she's very much a person who's situational awareness is very much above average. But given what she's revealed about her world in general and what sort of pokemon -monsters- humanity has to live with... It's probably not that shocking.

Princess, of course, is not one to be left out. Not from this. At least the fairy-type is more keen on harmless mischief and fun than anything. From pouncing on people, to ruining snowmen, to weaving between legs - if he can do it, he will. This does include trying to ruin any snow forts or push/trip people into the drifts. Or even brief bursts of telekinesis where snowballs hang in the air for several seconds before dropping to the grown. He'll even try Sing a few times; long enough for a person to drift off for a few seconds. Naturally, Princess attempts to hide as much as any pink fluffy thing can. But. Look. He's pink. It's probably easy to spot him.

Oh, and he's absolutely going to be sticking his nose in any unattended food or drink. Even hot chocolate. Look, he can eat anything humans can. Not that... people probably know that. Opps. That said, he's also going to be trying to freeze or chill any unattended drinks via Icy Wind.

"If you're not careful, Princess'll try and con you out of that," Eva says as she parks herself down near Ignis, her own hot chocolate cupped in gloved hands. Though, thankfully, the pink menace is elsewhere for the moment. "Him aside, enjoying yourself?"

The cackle is all she needs - along with the tug of someone pulling back the shirt. She does not yelp -not that's not cold because it is- but because he gave just enough warning to know what was coming.

Eva crouches forms a snowball and lobs it hard and true at Kaito. As if he were a fleeing pokemon, of course.

Yes, finally, a real challenge. This kid was brave to shove snow down the back of a shirt with a guy that had fire for a head. The fire that is his head flares up from magenta to a lovely cobalt blue, though it seems less aggressive and more gleeful somehow. It took every bit of self control he had not to roll. Instead he whipped around and knelt, quickly forming a snowball.

There was that little trickster. Prisoner threw the snowball to Kaito - he had pretty good aim, but this was done with such haste he might miss. He was already forming another snowball and standing back up so he could get moving himself.

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A pink thing? Like he? Oh this was not to be ignored! What a mischievous little thing, ruining everyone's snow sculptures and the snowballs! Right now? Princess was trying to hide. It was clear where he was, but he didn't know that.

Prisoner took care to sneak up to Princess, then gently patted the top of Princess's head. Found you, it seemed to say. Prisoner hesitated a second, then took a few quick steps away, checking back to see if Princess was going to give chase.

The game was tag. Woe to anyone in their way - or any thing.

Smack!

The snowball hit Prisoner right in the head, dampening the flame a bit. Prisoner's fireball head turned to Peter, the fire flaring up in a way to say, "oh, it's on!". Though it may just be terrifying to the teen, since Prisoner can't actually talk and doesn't actually have a face and now suddenly the fire was Very Big.

Prisoner scooped up some of the snow and quickly made a snowball, throwing it to the teen as he started moving to try to find some cover.

Perfect~

Kaito whoops and returns fire. What's a few hits of snow between friends?

If anyone thought Ash had an extra bounce in her step as she made her way to the dressing cabin they would be absolutely correct - this was the closest to home she'd seen since joining the train. The mountains, the snow, the trees - it reminded her of Ishgard and her home before being here. With all the elves on the train nowadays the illusion was almost complete, too!

She found a bundle of warm clothes to tug on - she seemed to gravitate closer to the more "ornate" furs the train made available, and then grabbed the pair of skates that looked like someone took a pair of stiletto heels and put a razor blade on the bottom. She hadn't skated in a while, so hopefully she could shake some of the rust off.

Time hadn't thrown her off her game. She was excellent at ice skating even still, and she was more than happy to help anyone find their feet on the ice.

Later she could be found sitting somewhere with a cup of hot chocolate - sans whipped cream and sprinkles, but smelling heavily of cinnamon - watching everyone as they played. An uncharacteristic small smile could be found permanently fixed on her face as she watched.

Kaito yelps as he's nailed, turning it into a forward roll that brings him up facing her with another snowball.

"SNOWBALL FIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT~"

Kaito whoops, not bothering to do more than cursory dodging - it's just snow, right?

He drops behind a snowbank and pops up again to toss one at Prisoner.

"A CHALLENGER APPEARS!"

Ash came across Nerdanel as she worked on the second sculpture, stopping to admire the sculpture that appeared to be Feanor, then watch the process of the second statue being formed. The Feanor statue was absolutely stunning, and the second was shaping up to be of the same quality.

"These are beautiful. You have quite the talent."

Ash was curious what it was Feanor was doing, but she hesitated to ask considering the arguments. She had positive images of both of her new roommates, but talk about some tension.

During one of her rounds of ice skating, Ash would skate her way over to Eva and offer a stabilizing hand, if she wanted it. Ash's voice is a bit lighter than what Eva would be accustomed to.

"Ice is a bit tough, isn't it? It took me so long to get used to it. I'd never seen snow where I was originally from." Ash would fall in to skate with Eva, mostly just to chat and help Eva get stable if she slipped.

Nerdanel looks up and smiles at Ash - she feels rather sorry for their roommates, although they've done their level best to keep their voices down. But there's millenia of hurt on both sides to work through, and it's going to take a bit.

"Thank you." She tips her head graciously. "It's nice to work in something other than stone for a change!"

He silently admits the army snowmen are impressive. He's never built one and he has no idea why they're a thing as he's only heard and read about them. But Peter looks happy if a bit cold so it's all good.

He considers going to get the boy a hot chocolate when he's asked about Tony. Looking behind him, Ignis turns back to Peter and shakes his head. "Funny, I was certain he wasn't too far behind me."

Stopping a moment, he paused and moved his head to the side. "You're going to throw snowballs at him?" Call him confused.

Ignis stood up and moves to give Eva room to sit. The hat came off with his left hand and he nodded to her giving a smile. But that was replaced by a confused look as he sat back down. "Are you speaking of the wafer cookie? If so, I have a few extra I can share if you two would like." There's extra cookies too for their roommates.

Looking from Eva to the ice skaters, the advisor took another sip of the hot chocolate, making sure to leave his hat off because that was proper etiquette. "I must admit it's rather different. We don't have things like this back home."

Edited 2019-12-17 16:02 (UTC)

"You're looking quite dapper, as always."

It seemed Ash was finally ready for a break from skating, holding a cup of hot chocolate in her gloved hands.

"Is it alright if I take this seat?" She motioned to the spot next to him.

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i s2g if he had a face it'd be like. >:D and not just this squint

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LOL

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