Soooo.....

How's everyone gonna celebrate the New Year? Well. New Year's Eve, I mean.


[ pause ...oh and ... ]


 Roxas, Ventus... you guys wanna do anything special?

 

[Tired sounding voice.] To anyone I might've led on this past weekend, or creeped out, I'm sorry. Things don't normally work like that, and that was just a curse.

[And now he's going to go hide himself away for a couple of days. Except for work - he'll fly.]

[Guess who is smirking at the video like a smirking thing? That's right. Mindy. She's a pain in the butt. This is known fact. Mocha is flopped over her shoulder, chewing on her hair and wrestling it like it needs to be tamed. Which it does.]

So, is there a t-shirt for people who survive those kinda weekends without getting cursed? I think there should be.

[The device is set down and Mocha climbs off of Mindy's shoulder to investigate, sniffing the lens and barking at it before the device switches off.]

Is it wrong that I keep expecting something to jump out and try to eat my face?  It's been a while since the last thing did that and my life seems somehow incomplete.  That's not an invitation by the way.  But the end of the year and all... some guys get to worrying.

[ there's a quiet rumbling that first comes over the network, a purr as it were before a disembodied voice echos over the line. ]

Oh, c'mon. Can't you let a man sleep?

[ the purring halts and then there's a very, very loud meow and then there's a shift and the cat moves, pawing at Arthur's face which is only a few feet away from the now active phone.

Artur's nose twitched and then he bats away the paw covering his cheek. ]

Go away.

[ the multi-colored tabby meows louder and presses up against Arthur's face. With a sputter, Arthur sits straight up and makes a grab for the cat. ]

Hypnos!

[ and off the tabby runs! Breakfast time? Hypnos obviously thinks it is. ]

((ooc: backdated to early this morning))

If I remember correctly, resolutions were the thing at this time last year. [ he's sounding a little green around the collar ] I think I need to resolve against drinking so much coffee.

... if anyone has a cure for these headaches, I'd be in your debt.

[ double espressos, while a life saver, were obviously not meant to be drunk multiple times a day. After almost a full year of this, Liam, at last, is finally learning to repent. ]

[Charlie's at home today, sitting outside on the steps. She's animal free right now and looks concerned but is still smiling.]

So, for anyone that dealt with younger me this weekend, I apologize if I was trouble. I remember trying to get away from people a few times.

[A shrug as if it's no big deal. And then her expressions shifts a tiny bit, something a little more serious. More of that previous concern shines through.]

I was talking to a new arrival when I was younger. A man named Phil, I believe. Are you okay?

[That's as much as she's saying about that. And then the device shuts off.]

[Theo's wearing his sunglasses again and rubs the bridge of his nose briefly.]

You know those times when you get utterly smashed and somehow came up with an idea that seemed like the most brilliant idea in the world and then when you wake up the next morning with that massive hangover, and the horrible realization of what you did the night before comes crashing down upon you?

I'm starting to think that's what some of these curses are like. Except I wasn't drunk at the time and being cursed seems to be a horrible excuse.

Not having a hangover isn't much of a consolation.



[Private to Xhex.]

Hey. I'm really very sorry about that. I wasn't completely myself.

[Unlike the people who panic, get angry, or ask a lot of questions, Yin just stares at the screen for a moment. It isn't that she's level-headed, but there is a distinct lack of concern for her situation. After all, the real reason for even doing this is to let Hei know of her presence.]

I have read the guides. [What she doesn't mention is she's also read a good number of entries. She hopes everyone takes that to mean as she understands the situation, curses and all. There's no introduction - you don't need her name - just the background behind her. A moonlit night, silvery snow glistening around Yin, and the frozen over fountain not far behind her.] And understand this place is referred to as the City.

[What's not noticeable in the video is her feet are in a puddle of freezing slush, bare. She barely even shivers from the effort and continues, determined Hei will find her.]

[Click.]


[ooc: Feel free to meet her in action by the fountain, but she will not go anywhere with anyone that isn't Hei, for now. She won't say why, either. In the future she'll allow people to take her home and dress her up.]

[Jinora doesn't really get the network device and prefers not to use it, but she has a very important question to ask and the library is currently closed.]

Who decided when to start the new year?

The date doesn't match up with anything important.


[ooc: And action for housemates, if desired!]

[Chekov was conscious well before evening, but he can't for the life of him remember anything. Why is he in a hospital bed? What happened to his hand? Why does everything hurt? More importantly, perhaps, who typed the last entry on his network device and who replied to Lucy and Delacroix this morning?

It was him, of course, but scopolamine has a way of messing with memories. Pavel remembers a random jumble of things: fighting someone in a mask, Korra, watching trees breathe in the park...

In the hope that someone can fill him in, he grabs his network device and starts an audio recording.]

If there is anyone-- [He pauses to clear his throat. He sounds like he hasn't tried talking for days, even to his own ear.] If anyone can tell me what happened this weekend... I would be most appreciative.

[Well, would you look at the time. Just a few hours until midnight.]

Поздравляю с Новым годом. I had no plans for celebrating the new year, but I doubt this would have been included in them.


[ooc: Talk about a crazy weekend. Google tells me that the Russian bit there is basically a "Happy New Year."]