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Who: Everyone!
What: November open log
When: November
Where: The Merchant Dome/The Pools
Warnings: NA
Notes: NA

Holiday mingle log

It’s the most wonderful (welcome) time of the year

Christmas is coming earlier and earlier every year, which isn't a surprise but hey they're starting the Christmas/Winter stuff the week before thanksgiving. Because why not. this month’s party takes place in the Merchant dome. But it’s not the everyday appearance of the merchant dome. No, for the next five days the Merchant dome’s appearance has been altered to look like a sort of Bavarian Christmas Market. There are small clusters of tables every so often, so people can just sit and chat and eat and drink.

Some enterprising person has even managed to make it snow through some unknown means. It’s not cold, but the snow is soft and steady and slowly building up.

The entire dome, all of the streets and all of the merchant stalls are practically glowing with white fairy lights that are strung everywhere. Vendors in their stalls gleefully cry out to paterons passing by, offering them free food or drinks. The food consists of the sort of things that one might expect to find in a place like this: sausages on buns and on sticks, pretzels, pizza, loads of cookies of every variety that one could think of, including elaborately decorated gingerbread, chocolates, fruits, french fries. Think winter fair food, and be as absurd and as complicated and extra as you want. It is a fair, after all. Go nuts. Drinks are also along the same line: hot cider, mulled wine, hot buttered rum, hot chocolate both with booze and without, as well as all the normal things: water, coffee, tea, milk, soda, and a variety of fruit juices that you’ve both heard of and not.

But food isn’t the only free thing that people are giving away! They’re also offering characters hats and gloves and scarves, small toys, books, delicate ornaments, perfumes, wine… it’s a giant welcome party after all, and these people are cheerful and happy. Even offering to pay just gets met with laughter and being told not to worry about it.

Fun and frivolity.

There are even carnival rides set up! A medium sized ferris wheel, a carousel, a giant slide and ice skating ring are all along the outside of the stalls.

At the far end of the dome, the snow has fallen deeper and held to several inches. Wouldn’t you know it just happens to be perfect snowball snow! So, there of course needs to be a snowball fight! What did you think those free mittens and gloves and scarves are for after all? The snowball fight can be organized into teams, or one on one depending on the player’s choice. This is a friendly fight, of course, so no rocks or slush balls or anything. Well, probably not. No one in the Sphere is your mother.

So you want some summer?.

While the welcome party rages on in the merchant dome, people have made a smaller party in one of the recreation domes. Around the pools, as a matter of fact. There’s almost like a small barbecue clustered around the largest of the three pools, and the light is constant and sunny here. The large pool is olympic sized, and is a sparkling blue. It’s fresh water, and probably clean enough to drink. I still wouldn’t drink it. The second pool is slightly smaller and more kidney shaped with a gradual sand mound at one end of it. This pool is salt water and looks a bit more like a beach than a pool. The third pool is a kiddie pool, complete with a splash pad, that’s running. Buckets drop, it’s got one of those mushroom things, and sprinkler jets. There aren’t any kids though, so people are welcome to go nuts.

Bathing suits and towels are provided in the changing rooms. There’s frozen and fruity drinks flowing freely, along with finger food and snacks. Loud music is playing from a local band that’s just generally of a pop sort. There’s people dancing rather in a rather haphazard fashion, but the dance floor is there and present!

Oh yeah, and there's definitely the baths and everything too!

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[She stays close to him after falling but steadies herself so that she isn't pressing his weight against him.] Yes. I think so too and... I don't know how humans do it but I want to spend as many moments with you as I can.

[Inesa's movements are excited and a bit exaggerated. She's so happy that she can barely contain it.]

I can make you dinner every night. I've been learning more about food. [She doesn't need to eat so some of the things she makes aren't always eatable but she's trying.]

I'm pretty sure that's how it works. [If you're lucky enough to find someone you love -- and most in Westeros don't have that luxury -- then you spend as much time with them as you can.]

I would enjoy that a lot. [He'd never really had to learn how to cook. Winterfell and Castle Black had both had cooks, and from his time among the wildlings, he'd picked up how to roast or stew meat and vegetables over a fire, but that's the limit of his ability to prepare food. He'll gladly take up her offer -- although it reminds him that he should probably learn some more of it himself, so she doesn't have to do it all.]

I think so too. [There are some aspects of their life that they'll have to stumble through together but Inesa is eager to spend as much time with Jon as she can. They both still must work and have friends to visit but each night, she'll get to rest her head next to his.

It feels like a dream.]

Good. I already began to create a place for Ghost to rest too. It's near Lancelot's pen though I expect he'll fit in the bed too.

[Thanks to her adopted fathers, Inesa has a lot of pillows.]

That's settled then. [As long as they both want the same thing, it doesn't matter how it's "supposed" to work.]

So that's where he got that idea from.

[Inesa nods, her fingers tightening around Jon's as they circled the sheet of ice. She couldn't remember ever being this happy before. She was finding that there was many types of love and no love was the same. She loved those she considered her family but Jon had become something so much more. Words didn't exist to describe it.]

He?

[She asked, wondering who he was talking about. Had someone else decided to move too? She knew that a great deal of Jon's family had recently arrived to the sphere but she didn't know if this was related to that or something else.]

[Inesa isn't the first woman Jon has loved, but he hopes that this time, there's more of a chance for them to have a future. Especially since Sansa has told him of what the future will look like for him in Westeros.]

Ghost. Where he got his habit of sleeping on the furniture.

[She smiles sheepishly and giggles as her hand remains laced between his.] I'm sorry. That might be my fault.

I always let him onto the couch at the shop when he's waiting for you. [Inesa feels her face flush, feeling a little embarrassed at the thought that she'd given Ghost an entirely new habit.]

But he'll have his own bed now.

There's not really furniture that's good for sleeping on in Westeros.

[It's mainly just uncomfortable chairs and narrow beds.]

And my bed wasn't big enough for both of us.

[She smiles up at him and slides a little closer to him as they glide around the ice.] Well, the bed is large enough for us both now.

And if we return to Westeros, I will make sure to find a bed that we can both sleep on. [Her grin widens.] My home is where you are Jon.

Right, but is it big enough for him, too? [Once he's in the habit, they won't get him out of it again.]

The beds are Winterfell are large enough for us both. At least some of them.

Of course! I would never leave Ghost out or you.

It will be all three of us.

[Of course, there are times when Ghost will likely want to leave the pair of them alone but Inesa doesn't mind if he shares the space with them.] There will even be space for Lancelot.]

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/fade to black soon?

sounds good

<3 fade here ish? or if you wanna cap off.