Don't Skip Your Flu Shot

[purrtagonist]

Who: Everyone! It's a mingle post for the first week of Struxta sickness!!
Where: All around the temple
When: During the first week of the sickness
Rating PG?? At most??
What: Curry, blankets and pillow forts, and other assorted sick things

[With the Struxta illness sweeping through the temple like a wildfire, and with so many new arrivals trying to get adjusted to temple living, it's probably no surprise that things around the Astoria's little pocket of space have gotten a little hectic. Feeling under the weather? Looking for something warm to soothe that scratchy throat? Just want to curl up underneath a pile of blankets and not move for like, seven hours or so? Never fear! A Mysterious Helper (TM) has you covered]

A. Curry in the Kitchen

[The kitchen smells extremely nice during lunchtime this week, the only meal of the day that isn't pre-prepared by the misty servants. Like the scent of coffee intermingled with complementary spices. Those who take the initiative to investigate will find something pleasant waiting for them. A few pots of fresh made curry and steamed rice; a few pots of miso soup (a. . . little on the salty side, sorry); and some freshly brewed coffee already poured into individual mugs, along with cream and sugar and whatever additives your heart desires. It's all strewn out across the counter tops with a handwritten note pinned against the wall above the stove:]

Help yourself, and get well soon.

[There isn't any sign of the mysterious chef when you enter the kitchen, and if you arrive near the end of lunch hour, some of the food and coffee miiiiight be a bit cold. But hey! This might be a good chance to mingle with some of your new coworkers who are also seeking out a warm meal to help quell some of their cold symptoms. Just please don't sneeze into the curry pot, thanks. . .]

[Lunch will be laid out in the kitchen every day at lunchtime for the entire first week of the sickness. Help yourselves!]

B. The Temple Hallways

[THERE ARE BLANKETS AND PILLOWS EVERYWHERE]

[. . . no, seriously. For some reason, it's like you can't even walk down a hallway without tripping over a bundled up blanket or a pillow. What's up with that! For the most part, they're normal bedtime accessories, although you may find a bundle of pillows and blankets stacked up into an ENTIRE PILLOW FORT if you're lucky.]

[Pinned to the walls of the hallways (not every hallway, but enough of them that it should be easy to find one of the signs without wandering for too long) are more handwritten signs:]

Whoever can build the tallest pillow fort will receive one (1) high five as a grand prize. Good luck. Blanket provider is not responsible for anyone accidentally falling asleep in the hallways and blocking your route back to your bedroom.

[Hm. Well, that's weird. Anyway! You can build a pillow fort if you want, grab some blankets to take back to your room, or. . . nap in the hallways. Or do whatever! They're all free for the taking. Maybe you could even team up with another Circle member to try and win that extremely coveted high five??]

C. Wildcard

[Don't feel like interacting with any of the above? That's okay! Make your own prompt based on the event stuff over here, or just use this post for. . . whatever you want! It's totally and completely open for mingling for new and old characters alike, so. HAVE FUN ♥]

Comments

[spaceforged]

[He studies the forming light with a critical eye. It holds right up until focus slips. To get the best sense of this he'll need to ask some more questions. Shiro crosses his arms over his chest and nods once, smiling just a bit.]

Yes. I could only hold it small amounts of time at first. It was about focus and how much shifting takes out of me. Do you feel...drained after forming light into a solid like that?

And more importantly can you feel the light shaping into what you want?

[hatamon]

Yeah, exactly. You pretty much nailed it on both counts.

[Lucky for him, because this magic stuff can be hard to put into words.]

It's like... I have to stay focused on that feeling the whole time or I totally lose it.

[spaceforged]

That makes sense. Astoria's magic seems like no matter what your experience level is, you have to start from the ground up again.

I was with a previous witch so I only had some adjustments to make. Is it easier to hold if you make smaller panes of light?

[It would make sense. The smaller amount needed solid, would mean less energy. If it works on natural laws.]

[hatamon]

Probably. To tell you the truth I haven't done much practicing that way.

[Channeling big bursts of energy comes more naturally to him than trying to narrow his focus, but Shiro makes a good point.

Takeru gives it another try, only this time the light shield he summons is barely bigger than his hand. Less dramatic, sure, but also significantly more stable, even as he keeps talking.]

What did you mean about another witch, though? There was someone else here before Astoria?

[spaceforged]

Not here. In another reality. Astoria is vastly different from what I dealt with before. [He grins brightly at Takeru’s second attempt. It’s holding steady and hasn’t faded yet.]

Anyway, so far this looks like a good training method. The more you do it the easier it should be. It took most of us about a month to nail the basics of our magic down. It took another month to a month and a half to get fancier things under our belts.