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Shopping/Gift Exchange
Who: Variable
What: Holiday Shopping and Gift-giving
Where: The Pole and elsewhere
When: Before or shortly after the holidays.
Warnings/Notes: N/A
There's a room in the Pole that's been designated specifically for Gift-giving, decorated gloriously, complete with a tree that has lights that shimmer and move in ways that are clearly magical. It looks like the platonic ideal of Christmas, like the idea of it as illustrated in a children's book.
This is a place where denizens of the Pole can leave gifts for each other, whether they do so before the holiday itself or they take advantage of the relative quiet after. (After all, if they're shopping in the human world, it's a bit easier to go visible and be less conspicuous if the stores aren't as crowded.)
The group is also taken on a field trip to El Dorado so they can get comfortable enough with the place to visit on their own whenever they feel like it. It's bustling streets, painted gold (most of the real stuff has been stolen over time) are about as safe and as dangerous as the average city. It looks all the world like a strange blend of modern major South American cities and the market-filled streets of a fantasy world.
A bit of a melting pot of mythkind, myths and spirits here are from all over the world, some settled permanently to live with others of their kind.
The group have had the safer parts of town pointed out, as well as discourage from the the more dangerous ones. They've also been cautioned against certain ways to word deals and payment arrangements to not wind up in any mystical trouble. Some payment methods, after all, don't take gold, but rather something like singing a song or letting a spirit bottle their laughter. Sometimes it's harmless where they simply want the one-off iteration of the item but you always want to be careful they don't intend to take something permanently.
They'll find that they're all generally well tolerated in the city - they could only be there if they're myths after all - but those that were born and still look human are unwelcome in some establishments that clearly show a preference for those born into myth-hood.
The average fae bar, for instance, only welcomes those who fall under a range between "gorgeously beautiful human with pointy ears" and gnarled "hobgoblin."
The stores have wares that are definitely not of human make, most of the goods handcrafted and some of them lightly charmed with pleasing effects. That said, the group is told to be wary of anything that offers up wishes, as there are few items that offer these without there being a price. They're also told to always look back at shops after leaving and looking away, especially if the shop offers something for free. If the shop has disappeared by the time they look back, they're to let Jack know so the absolutely-cursed item they obtained can be contained and destroyed safely.
Wherever they go, they're advised to go in pairs or groups, stay inconspicuous and retreat via snow globe if anything looks dicey, on the off chance they're spotted by Kuk's people.
Whether people decide to try to navigate El Dorado, shoplift from the human world, or put on their best attempts at visibility to buy legitimately from humans, they'll have a chance to get gifts for others at the Pole. And find they're the recipients of gifts, too, sometimes from unexpected places, including any of the yetis they've been particularly friendly with.
[ooc: Feel free to use this to either place some SOL shopping or to simply list gifts left at the tree for your character's CR.]
What: Holiday Shopping and Gift-giving
Where: The Pole and elsewhere
When: Before or shortly after the holidays.
Warnings/Notes: N/A
There's a room in the Pole that's been designated specifically for Gift-giving, decorated gloriously, complete with a tree that has lights that shimmer and move in ways that are clearly magical. It looks like the platonic ideal of Christmas, like the idea of it as illustrated in a children's book.
This is a place where denizens of the Pole can leave gifts for each other, whether they do so before the holiday itself or they take advantage of the relative quiet after. (After all, if they're shopping in the human world, it's a bit easier to go visible and be less conspicuous if the stores aren't as crowded.)
The group is also taken on a field trip to El Dorado so they can get comfortable enough with the place to visit on their own whenever they feel like it. It's bustling streets, painted gold (most of the real stuff has been stolen over time) are about as safe and as dangerous as the average city. It looks all the world like a strange blend of modern major South American cities and the market-filled streets of a fantasy world.
A bit of a melting pot of mythkind, myths and spirits here are from all over the world, some settled permanently to live with others of their kind.
The group have had the safer parts of town pointed out, as well as discourage from the the more dangerous ones. They've also been cautioned against certain ways to word deals and payment arrangements to not wind up in any mystical trouble. Some payment methods, after all, don't take gold, but rather something like singing a song or letting a spirit bottle their laughter. Sometimes it's harmless where they simply want the one-off iteration of the item but you always want to be careful they don't intend to take something permanently.
They'll find that they're all generally well tolerated in the city - they could only be there if they're myths after all - but those that were born and still look human are unwelcome in some establishments that clearly show a preference for those born into myth-hood.
The average fae bar, for instance, only welcomes those who fall under a range between "gorgeously beautiful human with pointy ears" and gnarled "hobgoblin."
The stores have wares that are definitely not of human make, most of the goods handcrafted and some of them lightly charmed with pleasing effects. That said, the group is told to be wary of anything that offers up wishes, as there are few items that offer these without there being a price. They're also told to always look back at shops after leaving and looking away, especially if the shop offers something for free. If the shop has disappeared by the time they look back, they're to let Jack know so the absolutely-cursed item they obtained can be contained and destroyed safely.
Wherever they go, they're advised to go in pairs or groups, stay inconspicuous and retreat via snow globe if anything looks dicey, on the off chance they're spotted by Kuk's people.
Whether people decide to try to navigate El Dorado, shoplift from the human world, or put on their best attempts at visibility to buy legitimately from humans, they'll have a chance to get gifts for others at the Pole. And find they're the recipients of gifts, too, sometimes from unexpected places, including any of the yetis they've been particularly friendly with.
[ooc: Feel free to use this to either place some SOL shopping or to simply list gifts left at the tree for your character's CR.]