Winter Gala

[justaddh2o]

WHO: Everyone
WHERE: Jeopardy
WHEN: Saturday, December 21 from 5:00 p.m. onward into the early morning hours of Sunday, December 22.
WHAT: The Winter Gala Fundraiser for Jeopardy Relief Efforts
WARNINGS: Please include any necessary warnings in your TLs.
NOTES: This post will serve as a catch-all for logs for the entire event (though you’re also welcome to post things elsewhere, of course).

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Well, mostly. In the wake of a near-apocalyptic event, the city of Jeopardy is in need. What started out as an idea to advertise Rikki Chadwick's burgeoning business, after a little more planning and nabbing some ideas from Kenzi's post, she and Rupert have reconfigured and rebranded their idea to focus less on her and more on the relief effort.


Characters will enter the venue after giving a small donation at the door and they will be greeted by a large room lit in blues, soft pinks, and purples. From the ceilings hang snowflakes made of glass. The centerpieces are also made of glass. Come to think of it, nearly all the decorations are made of glass. Except, that is, the mistletoe hanging from several of the rafters and archways. A buffet-style dinner will be served from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at which point, the buffet tables and seating tables will be cleared away to make room for the makeshift stage for the DJ and a gigantic dance floor.

Drinks will be flowing, music will be playing, and people will be bidding on silent auctions to win everything from one of the centerpieces to a date with their favorite imPort and everything in between. So, eat, drink, and be merry until you can't stay awake any longer. Why not? It's all for a good cause, after all.

Comments

[bifroster]

Jane grins. “It’s more than I can do! I can’t do a lick of magic at all and I wouldn’t consider the powers that I got from coming here magic either. But, area of a circle, I can do that. And a ton more. There is this thing called calculus that is apparently a nightmare for most other people.”

And dragonborn thing?? Do tell!

[fireandhoney]

"I consider myself a pretty powerful mage, even without taking the Dragonborn thing into account, but doing calculus, that I consider pretty impressive." He's considering reading up on astronomy, seeing as his boyfriend is from outer space.

[bifroster]

“Thank you! If you’re ever curious, I have a ton of books on the subjects and teach physics at a college.” He should! It would be fun for both of them! “But Dragonborn? Is that what it sounds like?”

[fireandhoney]

"I might have to pop in and sit on one of your lectures then." Science has become quite fascinating to him. Perhaps what he calls magic, others call science. After all, in his world, magic has laws, just as science does.

"Dragonborn just means that I'm a mortal with the soul of a dragon, and by speaking the dragon language I make things happen. It's a whole big thing."

[bifroster]

“That would be great! I’d love to compare any differences you notice.”

There is a chance of that! In her world, what was once mysterious and ‘magical’ has now been explained scientifically, though they have much further to go.

“Is that another way you can do magic?” she asked.

[fireandhoney]

"Basically, yes. See, regular magic, the kind I do with my hands, requires mana, while Dragon Shouts do not. Mana is the power I tap into when I need to cast magic, and when you cast a spell, it uses up mana. Dragon Shouts require no mana," That's the quick explanation, anyway. "They say that when two dragons get into a fight, they're really just having a very intense debate."

[bifroster]

“Interesting, spells that don’t require energy of some sort,” she muses. “Is it just an extension of yourself, then? Kind of like how other people have skills and talents?”

Of course, everything uses energy, but perhaps not mana as he was describing.

[fireandhoney]

"Basically, yes," Paarthurnax could probably explain it a lot better than he can, but he's all the way back in Tamriel, so Finn's the current expert in all things Dragonborn and the Thu'um.

"Non-dragonborns can learn to use Dragon Shouts, but it takes years of training and meditation, whereas I can learn to use them in just seconds. You see, to use a Shout, you have to know the dragon language, but it goes beyond just having the vocabulary, you also have to understand the word. If that even makes sense."

[bifroster]

“No, no, it does,” Jane replied, her mind starting to turn gears. “It’s like … foreign vocabulary. A word might be translated as another basic term, but it could mean more. Or what you consider ‘bread’ looks nothing like what someone else considers ‘bread’. There’s depth to it.”

Once again, it was kind of like science: people could throw around words like gravity and atoms and black holes, but all meant so much more than that. It was physics. It was reality.

And for some people to be able to tap into something like that naturally? That was amazing.

[fireandhoney]

"Basically, yes. For example, when I want to breathe fire, I say 'fire' in the dragon tongue. When I want to enhance this Shout, I say 'fire', followed by 'sun' and 'inferno'. Also, a common greeting between dragons is drem yol lok, which translates to 'peace fire sky'."

[bifroster]

"That is amazing!" she exclaimed. "I am going to have to pick your brain more about this. Would you mind if I observe you do some of those spells sometime?"

[fireandhoney]

"By all means," Finn loved showing off his powers, and the idea of a scientist studying those powers was kind of exciting.

[bifroster]

[OOC: Okay if we fade to black here? I would love to plot the two of them studying magic and science together!]

[fireandhoney]

[OOC: We can fade to black here, sure. I'm also down for them talking science and magic.]

[bifroster]

[OOC: Awesome! I plan to throw a log up soon so we can do something in that! Or maybe I could ping his inbox?]

[fireandhoney]

[OOC: I can tag that log]

[bifroster]

[OOC: Okay, I'll be sure to ping you then!]

[fireandhoney]

[OOC: Sounds good!]