EVENT LOG: GATHER UP

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EVENT LOG:
GATHER UP

characters: everyone.
location: beacon at large.
date/time: september 16-25.
content: a town-wide selfie scavenger hunt!
warnings: unflattering camera angles.

🔎📸😘

It starts with a network post, and then a song begins to play in the Invincible, loud enough to be heard throughout Bonfire Square. Welcome to the scavenger hunt, everyone! You've been tasked with finding 25 "items" in and around Beacon, so hop to it!

Please remember to ICly report your findings on Robin's network post if you want them to count toward a prize! As a further reminder, you're free to interpret the list items however you/your character would like, and you're free to assume your character can find all of these things somewhere in town without running into trouble! Just don't stray too far from town to go gallivanting off into the wilderness, as that might be dangerous. This includes finding forest spirits! You're welcome to NPC your own forest spirit encounters, just like in our last event.

That said, if you would like to search a particular area for a fun surprise, let us know below!

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Comments

[unpredict]

[ kol feels impatient as he waits. the scavenger hunt has proven to be fun, and kol likes fun things—loves them. so when his fun seems to be in the hands of someone else, his patience wears thin (thinner with nik, elijah, and rebekah than anyone else, but it's still reasonably thin). he's perfected the art of the fake smile, which, thankfully, turns into something more genuine. ]

Pretty good?

[ it's clear he questions that.

he allows her to adjust the tablet. kol had been daggered for a century before he'd come to and had quickly learned how to use a cellphone and play video games (and win). taking selfies was part of the curriculum, but he purposefully holds the tablet at a slight angle. he can't be perfect at everything. ]

This is a scavenger hunt. There's no room for "pretty good", love. You're either exceptional or you've lost.

[ or been hunted, which is what he wants to say, but that's probably a bit too much. "lost" sounds far nicer, doesn't it?

purposefully squatting just a little in jest, he declares, ] You're very short.

[mayorly]

[ Honestly, Kol. You're going to have to learn to be teased and strung along as much as you like to do to others. You don't survive a place like West Ham, or New Ham for that matter, without giving as good as you get.

She fights a smile at his words, a light flush of color brightening her cheeks at the casual term of endearment. It was the sort of thing he probably said a thousand times to everyone he encountered, but it still did fluttery things to her insides. ]

Or maybe you're just exceptionally tall. [ Raising her eyebrows at him through their displayed image in the preview screen as she nudges him with her shoulder.

He's not. She is. It's all beside the point.

Adjusting the angle, she allows herself a moment to study their image, her smile coming naturally now. Allie having to refocus her attention on the lens before trailing a finger down to tap the screen and take the picture. ]

No one else will even come close. [ Turning her head just so, to arch an eyebrow at him. ] Better?

[unpredict]

[ is he meant to not pay attention to how she reacts to him? kol hasn't been taking boundaries into consideration since he was 14 years old. listening in on rebekah's conversations, pushing finn into trees, and mocking elijah right to his face... he can hear the way her heart beats and he feels far more alive at the sound of its rhythm. getting a reaction out of someone has always been one of his greatest joys.

he lets her readjust the camera and press the button before he arches a brow, looking at her in the tablet's screen. ]

To your shortness?

[ pursing his lips, he nods. narrowing his eyes for a moment in thought, he then teases, ] You're right. You're quite possibly the shortest person here. Shorter than the shortest spirit—I wonder how he'll take you stealing his crown from right out under him.

[mayorly]

[ That would be preferable, yes. If course, Allie isn't used to anyone being aware of the effect they have on her. It's usually long periods of them being utterly oblivious. At least he's good enough not to call her out on it.

This time. ]

I - [ Gaping at him and reaching across her body to shove him - like... she could actually move him. ] I'm not that short.

[ Right now... mainly because he's ducking down. In reality? She kind of is ]

I'm not even the shortest person here. [ No because there's Mary. Children count, right? ]

[unpredict]

[ children don't count.

the denials are expected. the shortest person in the room declines to accept that they are the shortest person in the room and usually tries to target other people. kol's surprised she hasn't fiercely grabbed hold of trying to call him abnormally tall.

arching his brow, ] Have you gone around comparing your height to everyone in town?

[ yes, he wants her to feel like that's weird and he'd totally believe she'd do that. crawling under people's skin is his favourite past time when murder isn't on the table. ]

[mayorly]

[ Well they should!

She considered it but he's not even that tall. ]

What?! [ An incredulous bubble of laughter spills over as she gapes, trying to summon up a solid argument. ] No!

[ Except that when you are usually one of the shortest people in any room, that's the kind of thing you seem to do automatically. ]

I have... eyes. [ Which narrow on him despite the amused grin she's failing to suppress. ] You just want to pick on me.