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Tony Stark ([personal profile] in_extremis) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2023-12-14 01:31 am

Illuminated

WHO: Open! Treat this as a mingle, there's a big thing in the middle of the city
WHERE: Right in the middle of Temba, by the fountain
WHAT: A big display of festive spirit. Bring your own traditions!
WHEN: After freed from the ships
WARNINGS: That's up to you. Mark your threads accordingly.


a. the fountain
The brief had been 'Rockefeller Centre', and Tony wasn't going to deliver anything less when Jan asked, but the impact was still yet alien, and honestly underwhelming in the glare of sunlight. The tree selection had already been slim, between their strange colours and threateningly putrid sap, and complicated further by the blanket of ash that still clung to many boughs and had left swaths of the nearest forested area suffocated and brittle. The ultimate selection was more purple than Tony had been envisioning, and while he would readily call it coniferous, if that was a reasonable designation given the circumstances, its 'pines' were tiny cups that had to be shaken vigorously in its transfer into the city to divest it of gathered ash and bugs.

It was impressively massive, though, and those cups, now stationary, could be made festive. At least, Tony hoped that was how they would look, once the sun went down. At the moment, the lights that he had installed throughout the branches and the water that glowed with pollen from Sh'ka didn't make much of an impact unless he cupped a hand over a branch, careful not to disturb it too much and spill all of the water out, to check that any of it had actually made it into those little leaves. Maybe he could salvage this with the rest of the decorations before Jan got back to check on the progress. They were scattered around the pavement by the fountain, mostly scraps from the forge that caught the light well, or had been dunked into the wealth of glitter so generously provided by the Agrii. There were strips of fabric, bent utensils, and baubles that for the most part looked like stars, though in a great variety, from dimpled copper suns to strings of glass constellations. There might have been enough to make the tree look richly cheery. Now that it was securely upright, the problem was going to be reaching the top of it. Someone was going to have to reach those upper branches, and find something to crown the Christmas tree at the very top to really finish it off.


b. make a wish
"It's how it works," Tony encouraged. "The tree isn't complete until you've made your wish. Whole thing will fall apart without it."
Everything had been prepared and the process couldn't be easier, so you might as well make a wish. Take an envelope from the basket at the base of the tree and write the thing you hope for the most inside. Maybe it will come true once you tie it onto a branch with the attached big, red bow.
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2024-01-06 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's fair too. Tommy nods.

"Well, if you need help with any of this stuff, let me know, right? Not my holiday, but I can see the reason to try and help people with it."
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[personal profile] deal_me_in 2024-01-06 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"There really need an excuse to celebrate the little things and remember people?" Cayde asks with a crooked smile. "Go on. Maybe I'll have a big pile for you to string up by the time you get back." Not likely but he can try.
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2024-01-11 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"They seem to," he says with a shrug. Tommy didn't need that. He had plenty of lonely hours when he was thinking about those things. Less celebrating though.

"I'd be amused by that though. Helping string shit up."
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[personal profile] deal_me_in 2024-01-11 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Cayde is quick to move onto the lighter subject, nodding as he flashes Tommy a thumbs-up.

"You got it. Guess I'll have to think of more names then. Or do multiples. Heh."
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2024-01-12 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Guess we could set them up as, like, gift tags? Make a basket of them for people to use if they need them?"

Because it does seem like a bit of fun, and he doesn't mind tying things off if Cayde wants to make them.
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[personal profile] deal_me_in 2024-01-12 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey, there's an idea!" the Exo snap-points. "What's a good, round number? Six? I may be biased. Anyway, I'll have a pile in no time."
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2024-01-12 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, six sounds good to me."

Tommy isn't biased himself, but he's noticed that super hero teams work better in six over any other number. So he'll get behind that.

"I've always got time to help. Where did you get ribbons? Do you have ribbons?"
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[personal profile] deal_me_in 2024-01-13 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
That's good enough for him. Cayde nods and starts to set to work, picking out more letters.

"Heh, I just went with whatever I found. You see many ribbons up on that thing?" It was mostly a collection of string, twine, some raggedy strips he'd cut from some cloth or another.
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2024-01-14 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
No, he doesn't. This makes Tommy think. Then he sighs.

"Guess I'll just have to replicate some. For morale and all of that."
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[personal profile] deal_me_in 2024-01-14 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not really necessarily but I mean, who can say no to some nice colorful ribbons?" Cayde grins.
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2024-01-14 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"I bet Wesker could," Tommy says. The guy is a grouch. "Back soon man."
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[personal profile] deal_me_in 2024-01-14 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, he doesn't count," Cayde says with a wave of hand. "Later kid."
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2024-01-16 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Later," Tommy says with a smile and then he's gone to seek ribbon.