week 3

[jinglehellmods]

WEEK 3

Another week gone and it's still Christmas! Or is it? The paint on the walls is beginning to crack and fade, with especially large chunks in character's bedrooms revealing scratched words like "cantgetoutcantgetout" and "god help me i just want to go home i miss my home i miss my mother i miss" etc. Yikes! The locations page might be updated throughout the week as characters discover more. Seems like now's the perfect time to investigate and hope you'll get closer to finding out what's going on here. There's always more places to look and more things to find!

As a reminder that this week's activity check is now live! And as usual, it's never a bad time to submit threads for regains! Have you been naughty or nice? Naughty children still get presents too, don't worry. And if you'd like to check-in on Thursday night, you always can! You never know what fun you might run into.

So go exploring, find something new and pay no mind to the creepy writing on the walls. We're sure everything will be fine! After all, nothing ever goes wrong on Christmas, right?

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Comments

[commemoration]

Ursa Major is well-known in most world cultures and associated with a number of myths. In Greek mythology, to be more specific, it is associated with Callisto, a beautiful nymph who was turned into a bear by Zeus’ jealous wife Hera. This came as a result of the nymph breaking it's vow of chastity made to the goddess Artemis, in favor of having a son with Zeus, the god that presided over all others.

Hurt by this betrayal, Hera turned Callisto into a bear, who spent the next fifteen years living in hiding until Callisto would one day come face to face with her own son, Arcas. Not recognizing the bear as it's mother, Arcas drew a spear to attack. However, witnessing this scene was Zeus, who intervened by creating a whirlwind that would carry both mother and son into the heavens so that they could be together again forever.

[acherontiastyx]

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There's a lot going on there, man. So like... are these gods supposed to be people or something?

[commemoration]

Hmm... a lot of artwork depicts them looking similar to humans, but there are also some artistic liberties that will have the gods depicted as a mythological creature depending on where you choose to look?

[acherontiastyx]

Huh. Well, that's kinda weird, but whatever. I guess gods are jerks wherever you have them.

[commemoration]

Really? Are they considered "jerks" in the stories you're familiar with back home?

[acherontiastyx]

Yeah, hardcore. Tapu Koko and Tapu Lele are capricious jerks, and Tapu Bulu's a lazy bum. Tapu Fini's just unnecessarily mysterious.

[commemoration]

I see... you really must be from another world then, because my internal database does not recognize those names at all.

[acherontiastyx]

Yeah, like, I didn't recognize any of the names you were talking about at all. Except Ursa, 'cause we've got Ursaring. Which I guess is probably the same as a bear.