[Open, Major Event] 12 June 2066

[geistnet]

Over the course of the last week, you'll have likely noticed the buzz and excitement that's been building all around Metro Manila -- if you've been around awhile, you know what time of the year it is. If you're new: well, this is an experience you're sure to enjoy.

The festive mood surrounding Philippine Independence Day is hard to miss. Wander around the metropolis and you'll note that the streets are filled with tourists and locals; turn one corner and you'll see parades, turn another and you may be treated to performances set up on strategically placed stages.

As for Falner, the colors of the Philippine flag seem to be everywhere you look: the kids who live or study at the estate are mostly running around with their faces painted. If you wander down towards the Fair Grounds in the South District, there are a couple of booths set up offering anything from body paint and temporary tattoos to local delicacies. West District establishments The King's Rest and Liquidated also have special treats aligned with the theme of the day. There's also talk about the annual street party which will be held over at the Baywalk later this evening, and the younger initiates are abuzz over the yearly light show held over Manila Bay that showcase reenactments of all the major battles all the way up to the Darkest Vigil.

Independence Day is also not all that's being celebrated, because for Keepers of the Vigil and supernatural communities all over the world, today marks the second anniversary of Arcis Fortress City.

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The Main Garden.

[geistnet]

OTA, early morning until early evening

[clayce]

[ Have a dragon, guys. A really, really big dragon.

There is also a permanent light screen close to him, almost as if he's a museum display. It reads: ]

AIDAN CLAYCE, VOIDSEEKER OF THE FOURTH WORLD
This majestic creature is the Furst of Netsach, the blade leader of the Malice Kings, and the proud, semi-permanent fixture of this particular spot in our Gardens.

You need not approach with caution. However, the Kings strongly discourage feeding the dragon.

MORNING!!!!!!

[magicmissile]

[ One redhead is at his usual spot admiring a certain majestic dragon on the lawn. It's more or less Rin's daily thing, whenever Aidan is around. Just... sit in the distance and watch. In awe. ]

So, are you gonna go up to him noooooow? [ That's Madge, his dragon talking. ]

Are you fucking crazy? He's sleeping! Let sleeping dragons lie, and all that.

But he's just theeeeeere. All daaaaaaaaaay. You've been watching him for mooooooonths, when are you gonna come over??

Uh.

Fine, if you aren't going, then I will. I'll just say hi!

[ Madge, lovely dragon that she is, jumps off from her perch on Rin's head and flies over to where Aidan is resting. ]

You little--! Get back here! [ Rin stares in horror as Madge goes off. When she's halfway to Aidan, that's when he sprints over to catch up with her and possibly yank her away, but it's too late. She's already bothering the Voidseeker. ]

o rin

[clayce]

[ The object of your admiration, Rin, is merely cracking an eye open and smiling at Madge. ]

Hello, little one.

[magicmissile]

Hi! I'm Match! It's nice to meet you finally!

[ Rin, a few feet away, groans and covers his face with a hand. Madge, he thinks. Your name. Is Madge, with a hard -dge. God, how hard is it to say that?? ]

You're huuuuge! That's pretty amazing!

[ ...He wants to shrink and disappear, right now. Madge is being embarrassing. Oh god, someone end his life now. ]

That's my Erin James over there, hiiiiii Erin!!

[ Madge is flapping in the air, happily motioning toward Rin, and the next thing he does is dash behind a tree to hide. Uh. ]

[clayce]

[ Chuckling, because it's been a while since he's met a dragon this adorable.

And now he's lifting his head and focusing on Erin. ]

Hello.

Sometime in the afternoon! Have a babbu, Aidan.

[lyall]

[ This tiny individual is coming by ( mind you: after several tries earlier in which she backed off because SHY ) to stand by that light screen to peer at the words.

Her King has been teaching her how to read but Big Words are still hard. ]

M...Mmm...Maj... [ she knows this word. She's seen it before. ]

[clayce]

[ He's been quietly hoping that you'd approach, but did not know how to call you over without scaring you.

But now, there is an opportunity. ]

"Majestic".

[ Hello, Lyall. Well met, yet again. ]

[lyall]

[ No, she did not ( almost ) jump out of her skin.

Yes though, she is blinking up at you and shyly bowing her head. ]

Majestic... [ she's testing that now. The 'G' and the 'J' confuse her sometimes. ]

Good afternoon... Father Dragon.

[ That's coming out not as soft as her usual ( read: stage-whisper level. ) ]

[clayce]

Good afternoon.

[ Tilting head at and smiling. That's a really nice smile for a dragon, by the way. ]

Would you like me to read the sign with you?

late morning

[bloodsinger]

How bad is it that I still think it would awesome to fight you?

[ Sophie wasn't going to stop by, but the thought she just mentioned to him is there once again.

She's not looking directly at his face, more like, at the whole lot of dragon lying there. It's a lot of dragon. ]

Probably the most awesome and last three seconds of my life, but still...

[clayce]

[ That makes him chuckle. ]

Pretty bad, in my opinion. I'm inclined to believe that there are better ways to spend one's last three seconds in the Fifth World.

[bloodsinger]

Hey, if you're going to go...better go in style.

[ Sophie's priorities are not to be emulated. ]

Maybe I should start with a smaller dragon though...and maybe I should lower my standards. Friendly grappling with one sounds dangerous enough as it is.

[ Then why is she smiling? ]

[clayce]

[ Amused. ]

Perhaps you should turn your sights away from dragons in general, unless they happen to belong to renegades.

[ There are other targets out there, young one. ]

sometime in the late morning!

[bladeweaver]

[Have a Taning sauntering up to you to say hi. Much has changed since 2063, and one of those things is Taning's rather unseemly fretfulness at approaching you.

Hey, whatever he contributed to starship building he probably first learned from you. That's kind of a big deal.

He gets distracted, though, by the sign beside you. He takes one long look at it, then bursts into laughter.]

[clayce]

[ ...Sigh. ]

Your mentor did that. The Malice King mentor, I mean.

[bladeweaver]

[Still with the last vestiges of laughter in his voice:]

Of course, Father Clayce. I can't imagine dad doing this.

[He turns and smiles.

It's been a while.

[clayce]

It has been. How are you?

[ He hasn't really asked about how the space expedition is going, so... ]

a little after maybe Rin leaves

[ktotheatothez]

[ Well, Kaz is flitting around today. Yuka's with him, and like it was 2063, he decides to visit Aidan first. ]

Good morning, Father.

[ Yuka gurgles and grins up a the Dragon from her dad's arms. ]

Hahah, Yuka says hi, too.

[clayce]

Hello, Kaz. Hello, Yuka.

[ Mmm, tiny mortals. He loves tinies. =w= ]

I see that you're not with your husband right now.

[ktotheatothez]

[ Kaz actually chuckles when you mention husband. ]

I think he's at Baywalk. We decided that we'd both do patrols today, but not at the same time. He lost to me at rock-paper-scissors.

[ As he says that, Yuka reaches out to you, Aidan. Like her dads, she seems to really like you. ]

So he's stuck with morning patrols, I'm going tonight. Which is a good thing because classes start tomorrow and I don't think I can get any sleep.

[clayce]

[ Indulgent, as ever, because Tiny. Hello, tiny. o3o ]

Don't they start on Monday?

[ Tomorrow's Sunday, so... ]

Early Morning

[anteayer]

[Gray walking out into the lawn to do his morning exercises when he happens to nice the sign propped up next to Father Clayce. And seeing as he was in a very curious mood, he's heading over (with respectful silence for the dragon) to get a closer look.

He'll stand there reading what's written there for a good minute before Temo pipes up from where he was perched on his shoulder. "Aww! I thought there'd be more written down".]

Yeah? Like what? [And he's giving his dragon a rather amused look as he crossed his arms over his chest]

["I don't know. Maybe stuff that wouldn't make him sound like he's a bear or something?" And he jumps at that when he remembered whose presence he was saying that in, then turns to give an apologetic nod. "No disrespect intended, sir".]

[clayce]

[ Cracking an eye open at that, and making a noise that might be the draconic equivalent of a chuckle. ]

Of course. Good morning.

[anteayer]

[He smiles warmly as he nods his head in greeting.]

Good Morning, Father. [And he's going to sit down beside you as his dragon flutters off his shoulder.] So, I guess you're going to be here for most of the day? Being a 'semi-permanent fixture', as the sign says.

[The last is said with a small grin. It was vastly different from their first conversation years ago, when he had been a new face at the estate, and the big dragon before him had seemed too intimidating a being to approach]