ϡ - Chapter FortyNine; This is Halloween [action|video]

[folklorist]

[ Well if anyone is walking through the village today they’ll see Helios with a wheelbarrow piled high with pumpkins. Yes, that’s right, you saw correctly that large orange mountain is pumpkins of all sizes and shapes. Helios is going all out this year to decorate the tree outside the house and the surrounding area with Halloween paraphernalia. If one passes by House 44 on this lovely Autumn day they will be greeted with this sight. Every day the mound gets a bit bigger and the pumpkins a bit larger and more menacing looking or funny looking too. Helios isn’t going to deny help either, and he may even wander around town and start to place pumpkins around the area. The fountain, outside the bakery, and the other shops as well. The Library gets a makeover too as spider webs and chattering bats, fake but made to move with magic, flutter about the ceiling. He’ll be doing this for the entire week as it gets closer to Halloween. Don’t mind him he just likes Halloween. ]



[ It’s during one of his training sessions in the woods that he happens upon an interesting little spectacle of nature today. The video function of the journal will come on abruptly today and Helios will sound ecstatic over the journal system. Though it might not mean anything to a lot of people in the enclosure Helios is very pleased with his findings. A fairy ring sits just a few feet away from where he’s recording. ]

Ah! What a perfect time to find one of these! How many of you have heard of fairy rings before? Ronds de sorciers otherwise called sorcerers' rings in France, and Hexenringe which is witches’ rings in German. I was wondering when I would find one of these here! Oh these things are so wrought in folklore and superstition I’m rather excited to get to see one again. [ It shows Helios, you dork. ]

Did you know that fairy rings are said to be the result of elves and fairies dancing? It’s also claimed that entering one on Halloween is especially dangerous, it can cause all sorts of entrapment from the fae or even the devil himself. One superstition claims that anyone who steps into an empty fairy ring will die at a young age. While others, like the Welsh, believe that mountain sheep that eat the grass of a fairy ring flourish, and that crops sown from such a place will prove more bountiful that those from normal land. And of course the only safe way to investigate a fairy ring in to walk around it nine times, for doing it ten times to do it a tenth is dangerous and a terrible mistake.

[ And Helios will proceed to walk around it nine times while he talks.] Ah, but, of course it’s all legends and such. I’ve met a good few fae in my time, they weren’t so bad, at least not to the point of making mortals dance until exhaustion and death inside a ring. There's a good few poems about fairy rings too. But-but I won't get into that. Do any of your worlds have such myths or-or folkore? Perhaps not with a ring exactly but, you know, with other objects instead. [ He’ll stop at the ninth full circle and smile as he looks down at the ring. ]

S-Speaking of Halloween. [ Halloween tended to have bad shifts and even though his past two weren’t so fond, he still tries to have a positive outlook on the Halloween. He doesn’t want the shifts to sour one of his favorite times of the year. ] I know there’s a lot of…things that have happened recently, but maybe something to liven up people spirits might be good. Help get p-people's minds off of things and all that. [ He wasn’t unknowing towards the shift bomb or the Iron Eye, it still made his stomach turn at learning about all those people gone forever because of the decision of people in this very enclosure. ] Oh! Maybe a-a pumpkin carving contest! Those are always fun and you can make lots of pumpkin pie from the rest of the pumpkin. [ Pumpkin pie for the entire village yes, good. ]

((ooc; You can run into Helios with action from the 9th-14th. He'll be around town and the house. The 10th can be used for voice or action as well~))

Comments

[folklorist]

mm It's right above Seventh Heaven, where Cloud Nine used to be. I'd appreciate the help and be rather grateful for it as well. [ Helios smiles back at the other woman. ] We can stop by if you like? I-I'm not exactly busy right now, if you're free too that is.

[sun_showers]

Oh, yes, I'm free right now. We can go if you like. Let me grab my shoes and I'll meet you there? [It wouldn't take her long at all to get there, or get ready.]

[folklorist]

Ah! Excellent! No need to rush, there's plenty of time to get there after all. [ It's not as if it's going to disappear or anything. ]

We can walk together if-if you'd like?

[sun_showers]

That would be great. I'll be ready whenever you are, just say the word. [Not like it takes long to grab shoes anyway.]