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Luceti Mods ([personal profile] lucetimods) wrote2012-02-07 02:15 am
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Event!

First things first: I want to once again toss out a huge, huge thank you to everyone who so generously donated to [personal profile] lucetifunds during the move. We've used up almost all of the funds now and have fulfilled all of the requests for donated paids. Thanks to those who donated, we were able to distribute the equivalent of 45 paid accounts! Wow!

Secondly, the part you guys really care about:

~EVENT TIME~

Well, it's almost that time of year! That special day that all of you have been waiting for is at last coming. That's right:

the release of Tales of the Ab Valentine's Day!

And as usual we will be having an event! It will begin on February 12th at 12:01 AM and end on February 18th at 11:59 PM.


That Lovey-Dovey Bit

For those unaware and/or new to Luceti, it's a tradition to, every year, have characters fall in love at random for the duration of this event. By now, many characters expect to be falling in love via the journals. However, this year that will not be the case! Since many (if not most) of these relationships are pre-planned, characters this year will simply be drawn to their partner, regardless of how they meet or who they might have spoken to beforehand. For example, if Masa and I agreed that Ling and Suki would be a couple, they could both wake up in their homes, greet their housemates, go about a normal day - or indeed several days, if we wanted the event to begin for them later on in the week! - and then, suddenly, upon meeting by chance, love would blossom! These meetings can take place in any way, whether they be over the journals or in person.

There is something of a catch. Similarly to the Luceti Valley AU event, the perceptions of affected characters will be altered as soon as the romance begins so that it seems completely normal. Suki wouldn't find loving Ling to be that unusual or disturbing, since naturally she's never been in love with or even engaged to Sokka! And Sokka, if affected, wouldn't be bothered at all because hey, Suki's always been free to love someone else. On the other hand, if (for example) Katara was unaffected, she would wonder what kind of cactus juice her crazy brother and soon-to-be sister-in-law have been drinking. But she's just insane to suggest that they've been engaged all this time, so no one really listens to her...

For the most part it should be an uncomplicated alternate reality - a little silly, perhaps, and after the fact characters might find it hard to believe there was any logic to it all, but for the sake of simplicity feel free to just go "a wizard Shifter did it" and roll with it. :|b

Much like last year, you have some freedom about how these pairings can be played out. Here's the options/explanations from last time:

Love At First Sight: Characters A and B talk on the journals or in person, fall in love, everything's coming up roses. Easy. (Note that, in this scenario, the trigger only works if neither A nor B has already fallen for someone else.)

Always In Love: Characters A and B, when they fall in love via the mechanism explained above, believe they have always been in love, and just not realized it until this very magical moment!

Lost The Spark: Characters A and B fall in love, believe they have in fact always been in love... but it's been too long. The spark is gone, the love has faded, and now all they can do is fight over practically nothing. Characters do NOT need to have ever interacted before to use this option!

Existing Love Amped to Eleven: Characters already in love can suddenly become the most ridiculously sappy love-dove fools in the world.

Soap Opera Love Triangles: A delightful threesome (Characters A, B, and C are all in love together) or unrequited love (Characters A and B are in love, Character C loves one or both yet is unloved by either).


That Big One-Day Lovefest

Again, like last year and the year before, a single day has been set aside for some extra-fun festivities. That day will be Saturday the 18th, and a log will be posted for it. On that day characters and couples may inexplicably be drawn (or even directly teleported!) to the beach, where they'll find that the weather is beautiful: warm, sunny, and fresh as a mild summer day.

The beach has become peppered with palm trees, but rather than coconuts, they're growing a star-shaped fruit that some characters might find a little familiar. And much like last year, the fruit may seem almost irresistable, giving characters the urge to share with someone - anyone who might be nearby, regardless of the character effects already in place- in other words, even if your character loves another, they can still hook up with someone random for a bit of fruity fun. Depending on the ripeness and flavour of the fruit, it may have a varying effect:

Mild/Nearly Ripe = sudden, fruit-inspired friendship! Characters feel the urge to spend some time together, hang out, get to know one another. Even if they didn't know one another beforehand. Even if they hated each other.

Sweet = innocent puppy love! Awkward hand-holding, cheek-kisses, long and romantic walks on the beach. Just kids being cute kids in love.

Perfect = true, passionate love. You want to hold them, to kiss them, to be with that person forever. Or at least until tomorrow.

Sour = ....hi, hormones. Suddenly finding a nice, quiet place to get naked to know one another would be great. Your place or mine?

Characters affected by the fruit might need or want to find a place to hang out, have fun, or get fuzzy with one another, and Luceti is more than happy to supply a place for them! For the duration of that day (and the next, for those... waking up) the mountainside will be decorated with cozy, private hobbit holes, each one styled for different activities. Maybe one will be a game room, or a cozy lounge area to hang out. One could be decorated with furniture and food for a romantic dinner for two. One could be full of couches for those delicious makeout sessions. And one could look something like this. What room will your characters get? Who knows...

The fruit's effect can last as long or as short as you want, depending on the strength of the flavour and how much they eat. For example, if you want characters to get awkwardly frisky but not go all the way, the fruit's effects can wear off before anything happens.

The hobbit holes will be gone by the end of the event- if characters are still inside it when it ends, it will lock once they leave and be Shifted away shortly after. The trees, too, will be gone.


A Few Final Notes

As usual, this event is optional. Characters can be unaffected if you so choose, left to shake their heads at the silliness of their friends, or they can join in.

Feel free to mix and match your options as much as you like, or to change things later on in the event period (such as choosing "Always In Love" and then switching to "Lost the Spark" partway through).

Due to the fact that Luceti isn't a sex game, if you decide to go all-out with the paopu fruit section of the event and want to play out the sex rather than a fade-to-black, please keep it in character entries (clearly marked) or, if it starts on a log, move it to an appointment post. We're fine with it being played out! We'd just like to keep the log ratings down for the sake of everyone. Thanks!

Don't forget the dates: February 12th to the 18th. Feel free to use this entry to plot, discuss, and ask questions. And have fun!
notreesplease: (Let's head home - 05)

[personal profile] notreesplease 2012-02-07 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
But why can't Martel get Tracey I meant, if there's so much as ONE picture or even vague sketch of a certain Edward Nigma in Yuan's house, this is me breaking in at night, tearing it to shreds and burning the remains. And maybe the house as well for safety's sake. Can't ever be too sure. It'll rebuild itself anyway. Plus it'll rid the multiverse of a certain Seraph's legendary interior decorating skills for at least a few days.

(Too tired to stay on right now, but I'll show up later - or if all else fails tomorrow - for shenanigan plottings!)
fortunefail: (Devious)

[personal profile] fortunefail 2012-02-07 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
ROFL, don't worry, no Edward Nygma stuff. That's only in Epic Mafia, after all.

I was talking to Lexi about the event and we were thinking maybe a Kratos/Yuan/Martel OT3? If you'd be up for it? If not, Kratos and Yuan will just have to have shenanigans with Paopu fruit. (fu fu fu~)
notreesplease: (Floating in the air - 08)

(UNSURE)

[personal profile] notreesplease 2012-02-07 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
On the one hand, this is hilarious and after getting over the initial general embarrassment, Martel will be laughing herself to a brand new death while Kratos and Yuan feel awkward forever, which would we glorious to behold both in and out of character. On the other hand, a green-haired person among us has to return to house 52 afterwards, and then this wondrous love story ends with Luceti Fried Seraph Wings in possibly up to three different colors depending on who strikes first.

I'd say hell let's rope Kath into this what's ten more years of age gap right, but Mithos' already hanging out with Jeb. So first he's dating a human then his sister left him for the other guys forrealz and also possibly banged Kratos.

I vote yes pending Kath input. Kath are you in the general vicinity and will Mithos' brain asplode.

I mean, asplode MORE.
fortunefail: (I rule - u don't)

[personal profile] fortunefail 2012-02-07 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
But baby, who says Mithos even has to find out in the first place?

/wink wink

/nudge nudge



Yeah let's wait for Kath input, then.
notreesplease: (Let there be light - 05)

[personal profile] notreesplease 2012-02-07 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuan, dear, you're talking to a pro mastermind liar, here. It's you beginners I'm worried about. Knowing Kratos, he'll go brood in a highly visible place and be suspicious as hell, and you'll fudge your excuses. Or not even make any. Also you'll both blush like schoolgirls. You'd blow my flawless cover that the two of you had fallen helplessly in love with each other and that I'd gone over to save Luceti from ending up like the Dragons' Nest upon the experiment's end.

Wait no that ends in glorious long hair in the rain, no one'd believe that excuse from me. Dammit.
imatreenow: (OOC: Mithos/Kaori shippers?!)

[personal profile] imatreenow 2012-02-07 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
WHAT IS THIS MITHOS DOESN'T EVEN

which means YES, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE. I want to stalk this so hard.
Mithos will be judging so hard, but that's ok because y'all can be weirded out by his cute little ~boyfriendo~ too.
shiningbinds: (truly blissful.)

[personal profile] shiningbinds 2012-02-07 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
ALL THE OT3 THEN, GUYS?! So Kath can stalk forever?

And Kath... psh, I joked around with Meowzy about Jeb approaching Yuan for advice of how to approach his first kiss with Mithos. Reasons being that a) Yuan has known Mithos longer and b) Yuan is involved with Mithos' older sister.

THIS EVENT IS GOING TO BE HORRIBLE AND THAT'S WHY IT'LL BE AWESOME.
imatreenow: (✘ confusion)

[personal profile] imatreenow 2012-02-07 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
no Jeb why would you ever ask Yuan that fdjsfhsdjf.
.......so basically he totally should.

/rolls around
sketchingideals: (☆ let's just have fun today)

[personal profile] sketchingideals 2012-02-07 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. If Meowzy's okay with that, awkward advice time will be a go!
fortunefail: (Eyebrow raise)

[personal profile] fortunefail 2012-02-08 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, what. But how would Jeb know that Yuan is involved with Mithos' older sister?
traitortoheaven: (Default)

[personal profile] traitortoheaven 2012-02-08 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Mithos bitching about it.

Duh.
notreesplease: (Let there be light - 01)

Angie speed-passing through, the sequel

[personal profile] notreesplease 2012-02-08 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
WAIT. If we all fall under "Always in love" or an upgraded form of it, Mithos wouldn't have any reason to bitch, since AUs mesh together and Martel default gets an "Existing love amped to eleven" for Yuan, since, well, existing love with proposal and to her it was almost literally yesterday.

Attempt at making my words make more sense: if for the event, Mithos and Jeb have always been in love (since the time when they fell in love in the glorious AU in our heads, that is), then that AU meshes with the one where Yuan and Martel have always been together forever since the dawn of ages. What would Mithos have to complain about? Every relationship would be a default, long-standing state.

How does Kratos get in there? "Always in love" too? OT3 all the way, it's too ridiculous not to milk for all it's worth. Did he see Yuan propose and piled his own proposal on it and somehow it all worked out? XD

Martel herself will laugh off most of it afterwards, because coming from her time spot it's too beautifully wrong to not be hilarious, and as far as she knows there's no harm to be done on Kratos' side. Unless someone informs her that a certain Anna existed, which would turn everything into COMPLETE DRAMA.
traitortoheaven: (Default)

[personal profile] traitortoheaven 2012-02-08 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh, true. I'd forgotten about thaaat. *sobs* ...in which case, Mithos could mention how much he likes to troll Yuan, because Kharlan!Mithos seemed to be fond of that. Hm. WHAT DO YOU THINK, KATH...

I would have Jeb ask Kratos, but... hahaha... yeah. *sobs again*

...maaaybe they did a three-way proposal because screw the world.
fortunefail: (Inventing manafriendly Rheairds)

[personal profile] fortunefail 2012-02-08 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
So how are we doing our soap opera love triangle? Is it like completely mutual Kratos/Yuan/Martel on all sides, or... Yuan/Martel with Kratos lusting after both of them hopefully, or...

SO MANY OPTIONS.
traitortoheaven: (Default)

[personal profile] traitortoheaven 2012-02-08 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Mutual was what I was hoping for, but anything works for me. 8D that's what she said
Edited 2012-02-08 02:08 (UTC)
notreesplease: (The whereabouts of my feelings - 02)

Angie speed-passing through

[personal profile] notreesplease 2012-02-08 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
I think this OT3 is the stuff of wonders and I don't even ship it. The crack is high, the fallout disastrous, COUNT ME IN. Go for it however you want for the planning, I'll just toss stuff here and in the thread above. In fact, since I'll be slow no matter what, you should do the fruit thing too on the side. That'd allow you a "faster" thread.

If we go for EVERYONE LOVES EVERYONE FOREVER, Martel should logically get a "Existing love amped to eleven" for Yuan comboed with "Always in love" for Kratos. Sorry Kratos, your hair's just not fabulous enough to compete, also YOU didn't get her a ring. Now what the hell was she doing in house 52? I'd have said checking on Mithos to see how he's getting by on his own with his new boyfriend, but that'd imply Jeb moving in. ...Which actually would make a lot of sense what with Mithos' leg. Hmm.

Let's make this a wonderful failure and give Mithos nightmares forever.
fortunefail: (Inventing manafriendly Rheairds)

[personal profile] fortunefail 2012-02-08 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Lexi and I will do the fruit thing! And it will be very lemon- I mean hot- I mean sour- I mean... I don't even know what I mean anymore.

Wait, so was she actually staying in house 52 or was she just 'visiting' when the experiment hit?
notreesplease: ([written])

[personal profile] notreesplease 2012-02-09 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
So this is where I resort to my ultimate weapon of plothole fixing - the almighty weather calendar.

OK, the 11 is a cold snap, and on the 12 it snows. So wondrous AUland decrees she was visiting her dear brother and his cute boyfriend but lost track of the time. And since it was already dark, cold, and snow was kicking in, she spent the night over there and will be coming "back" to House 8 once the sun's up.

Thanks, weather calendar.

Resting as much as I can so I'm good to go by event time.
Oh and sorry for all that TLDR.