EVENT LOG: FEAST OF LIGHTS

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EVENT LOG:
FEAST OF LIGHTS

characters: everyone.
location: around town.
date/time: december 23 - 30
content: Holiday cheer is here!
warnings: n/a. please cw tags appropriately.

a show of lights

When characters wake on the "morning" of the 23rd, they'll find all of Beacon is lit up beautifully. Spirits have carefully placed candles all around the town, lighting up the familiar buildings and streets with a warm, comforting glow. If others wish to help, they're more than welcome, but it won't take too long: they've clearly spent all night getting things ready. If asked, Rastus will explain the spirits do this every few years, and yes, those candles are lit from the bonfire, but he'll get them back before the end of the event.

Once the spirits finish their task, it's time to hand out dreidels! While the four-sided toy has the usual Hebrew letters on it, characters will soon realize that they've little correlation to the typical rules. Instead: each side offers a certain kind of prize (listed below). Characters can play against the spirits or among themselves, but either way, they'll find a personal dreidel in their possession for the duration of the event.

secret santa

Of course, the spirits aren't the only ones in a holiday mood. Thanks to the tireless (and secretive) efforts of Eleven, quite a number of people wake up to find a present nearby. The wrappings vary from elegant to, well, an effort, and the gifts range form big to small, but there's no doubt each was given with at least a little thoughtfulness in mind.

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[worthallthis]

"Better coverage for the village, and everyone has a thing to do at a set time," the Soldier agrees, relieved. While they hadn't consciously expected to be rebuffed, it still took effort to take the initiative. And being prodded by Rosinante to let them know they even could. "I go twice a day, two full revolutions around inhabited areas, one out to the main outlying buildings." They haven't added all the new locations to their patrol yet, but the armory, museum, and scrapyard at least get a visit once a day.

Even if Bruce probably figures he and his friends have the museum covered. They still go out there, just in case.

[notthatjason]

For a moment Jason felt guilty. He had proposed a rotation or sign up of some kind, making a more official call to patrolling, but he hadn't actually committed to following up on that. He could easily blame all the activity as of late, but that seemed a poor excuse. He had to remind himself, however, that this was hardly Camp Jupiter or Camp Half-Blood, he wasn't quite expected to be the guy in charge here. In some ways that suited him, but in other ways he felt like he was letting someone down...even if that someone was himself.

None of this showed in his expression except as a way of looking momentarily thoughtful and distant, an expression he wore quite a lot. After a moment he nodded.

"I typically begin and end my day with a patrol, usually on my way back from Javert's training exercises. I've mostly stuck to the main areas, but now that we're starting to expand it might be a good idea to start branching out...maybe even have people do simultaneous sweeps or at least cover more ground at the same time." It still made him nervous, going out on his own. Not that he didn't think he could handle himself, but it just wasn't how things had ever been done back home. You didn't do solo because that was how you got picked off. A lone wolf was something only in fiction, in reality it was much better to be with the pack or, in the case of demigods, comrades in arms.

"I sometimes like to get a peak from the air, but with the recent attacks I've been more careful about that," Jason admitted.

[worthallthis]

"I know myself," the Soldier admits after a moment, looking just slightly ashamed to admit it. "I can't split a patrol route. I have to do all of it myself, or I won't feel safe." Shitty thing to have to confess, given they're assuming that Jason doesn't have hypervigilance problems, but honesty is much better than the opposite. Fellow soldiers have to know each others' strengths and weaknesses. "Could stagger it with yours and the Inspector's, though, so each of us are at different places at different times. If you have others you're coordinating with, could fit them in, too."

And if Jason wanted to team up together for one, honestly, they wouldn't say no. It is technically safer, especially given the potential for hallucinations and not knowing what's real. They just haven't even considered asking about it. It's that initiative problem they've got.

[notthatjason]

There's no judgement, Jason just nods with some level of understanding. He could share because he was used to working as a unit, to relying on his fellow legionaries to do their job. This Soldier was different, but Jason wasn't going to hold that against him.

"Staggering the patrols isn't a bad idea actually. As we've discovered more territory it's gotten harder to keep track of all of the things going on, so it'd make sense to spread us out if we had enough people involved." Jason would need to reach out, he'd sort of been sitting on that for awhile and now might be the time to coordinate this properly. He couldn't use the poor weather as an excuse, something could still happen.

"I haven't asked yet...but I'll let you know if we get more volunteers. If we got enough people, we could do a combination of staggering and maybe sharing the patrol."