aterat | Winter log

Who: Everyone!
What: Open Log
When: December
Where: The Hunter's Lodge
Warnings: N/A
Notes: This is a mingle log, so people are free to set up their own TLs under it. So tag in and tag around!

Snow has fallen outside and while it's not heavy it's set just enough down to gently cover the wooden benches and ground outside. The chairs have been removed but the lanterns are still out and lit (as well as the little lights that have been replaced with more festive ones) if people want to walk around outside and have private chats among the snow, the trees and the lighting.

Potluck - Food is all around. Got a story about how the food you brought is part of a long standing family tradition? So much the better! But Ignis for his part has been researching and working on bringing the foods he's heard about. So here you'll find an appetizer platter along with a cream cheese tree, turkey, ham, his version of the Crown City roast, stuffing balls, roasted potatoes and roasted vegetables, and of course a few different desserts.

So you can find him making sure the table is decked out in christmas colours and full of food. But as he sets the last appetizer tree down on the table, he nods. "Quite glad to see that you could make it."

Trim a tree A small group of freshly cut green trees are sitting in a corner with room to go around the back. Simple lights are already in place, but there are ornaments with hooks sitting in silent invitation to decorate the tree and gather around as well as different coloured garland too.

But there's plenty of supplies and being able to decorate a tree with Nida last year was all sorts of fun as it will be again this year. So the advisor is definitely happy that nature can come inside at least temporarily.

Ignis stands back and takes a look at the trees with a satisfied sort of nod. "I suppose after the holiday, I will see about replanting it outside." Turning to his guest, there's an easy smile. "It won't do to simply throw it away do you think?"

Gift exchange - Gifts aren't required, but people are free to do so. This can be as private or as public as wished! The royal strategist is busy arranging gifts under the tree, trying to make some sense as to how they should be grouped, so he's on his knees trying to keep the order straight. As soon as someone approaches, he acknowledges their presence with a smile. "Would you mind handing me that blue wrapped gift sitting on the chair right next to you?"

Wild card- Dancing? Snowball fights outside? Feel free to make up a thing here!

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That got Harry grinning.

"It's a card game." He stood, stooped due to the low ceiling. "Tell you what. I'll run and grab us a deck of cards and teach you the ropes. I'll bet you'll be a natural."

A card game? Hm… He was pretty sure he saw adults playing with those sometimes around Aterat, but he hadn’t really known any of the games you could play with them… Mono had to ask something that sprung to his mind rather quickly. “Why’s it called ‘Go Fish’ if there’s no fish and it’s played with cards?”

But the kid was definitely enjoying the opportunity to learn how to play games now and then, especially learning how to them properly. The way he saw most games being played by the porcelain bullies in his world was… Far less fun. So discovering that they weren’t so bad when done properly was an experience. “But um… learning sounds like fun?”

He turned from the doorway, as he was heading out, smiling. He'd never had siblings growing up, and in a lot of ways, Harry Dresden was just another big kid himself. He'd always wanted a brother to play games with, and while he's found out recently that he has one, some things you can never get back. It was all the more reason to give Mono a childhood worth remembering instead of one he wanted to forget.

"So, we each get to start with five cards, and the rest go in a pile in the middle. You start your turn by pulling a card from the middle stack, then you look at your hand and see what you've got. So, if you've got a card with a 5 on it, you could ask the other person if they have one. They have to answer honestly, and if they do, they have to give it to you. If they don't, the person who asked has to 'go fish' or draw another card from the deck. If that card is a five, they get to discard the pair they made, the one they had originally and the one they drew, then they get to ask again. This keeps going until there aren't any more pairs, and if they're lucky enough to empty their hand that turn, they win. That's the object, to get rid of all your cards by making pairs and discarding them when you do. Oh, and you get to ask again if your opponent had the card you asked for, too. Simple, right?"

Mono listened very closely to the explanation, though it did seem like an easy enough game to follow. You just had to ask questions and find pairs, right? Since there was no lying, you didn’t have to worry about being tricked or figuring out how to get what you needed to make a match! “So we just gotta ask the right questions and make pairs? That does sound really easy. I think I can do that!” And maybe if he paid really close attention to the questions and answers, he could work out easier if a card was in a hand or in the pile still!

"Great! I'll be right back." And with that, he slipped out into the cold, a deck of cards to teach a kid who'd never had a childhood how to be a child.

(OOC: Might be a good place to wrap? They play card games in their fort for a while?)

(ooc: Definitely!! :D)

“Okay, I’ll wait here and work on my snow people till ya get back.” He responded with a little nod, though it was pretty easy to see he was kind of excited to learn a new game.

Still, he got back to work on his little snow people army after Harry disappeared, keeping himself busy until the man returned.

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