Welcome to the Winter Wonderworld!

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⫸ WORLD: A crystalline pocket dimension
⫸ AGENCY: Shared
⫸ LOCATION: See above
⫸ EVENT: The Winter Gather Exchange!
⫸ NOTES: This is a general info post and a place to RP with one another and with the host, the enigmatic Noya Fosse


Part I: Arrival
You find yourself drifting off to sleep, or perhaps merely daydreaming, with the faintest sensation of a cold breeze tickling the back of your neck. Then, as darkness subsumes you, you feel the brush of hundreds of heavy flakes of the most beautiful, crystalline snow. This snow glints in all the colours of a frozen rainbow, prisms of sourceless light that blind you until you push your way forward into... into what, exactly?

The place you arrive is nothing like home: a frozen den of sharp pillars of ice support a mirror-smooth roof. Like the court of a powerful ruler, this place is fit to impress. Treasures of every kind and shape are frozen below the floor and along the walls: look but don't touch, please! The main hall is artfully littered with places to sit for creatures both large and small, and to one side is a never-ending buffet of cold and hot food (and drinks, and of course you know there are marshmallows) attended by little icy creatures not completely unlike flitters.

But what takes your first impressions and blows them away is the owner of this odd little place. A sinuous dragon of crystalline grace rests upon a raised dais on a throne molded of snow. Her scales seem to reflect the globes of light gently shining down on the room, and she is currently in deep conversation with a very furry creature made, it seems, to exist only in the deepest cold.

A chubby little flitter wings over to you (or perhaps it's a small fleet) with a pelt of heavy fur.

::Welcome to the Winter Gather! Noya chose you to partake in her riches and get to know one another. The Nexus is back! The Nexus is back!::

That thought fades from your mind as the flitter scoots off to its next duty, though it sounds like a triumphal cheer.

Welcome to the Winter Gather, it seems. What do you do next?


Part II: The Revelation
(To be posted on December 19th! For now, feel free to post a mingle starter and tag others, get to know them, etc!)

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Aenieso Landwerlen is dawdling, too. As a human, he stands a little under six feet tall, and sports the same blond hair plaited down his back in an intricate braid, a precisely trimmed beard to frame his oddly olive-coloured face. Dressed in a snow-white three-piece suit with a golden cummerbund and a tucked golden tie, golden cufflinks and other details, he's about as opposite of Shy as one could get while still being an elderly looking gentleman.

However, he spots the outrageously dressed guest and he is forced to ask: "Don't tell me you have arrived in your pajamas as well?"

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Shy made one long, sweeping gesture down his cloak, and then flicked at the tinsel tie holding it together.

"You should see what I'm wearing under this." Inappropriate? Maybe. Deliberate? Well. It was Shy after all. But unfortunately, this time it was just the truth.

"I'm afraid I did not have the chance to dress myself for this invitation" Shy wondered who had, and he turned an assessing eye to the man in front of him. No. Apparently not everyone had been dressed by the village idiot, and Shy was very sure that he too could carry a white and gold themed outfit VERY well.

"The Nexus is back, it seems, and I am looking forwards to reconnecting-" Hmm. Shy did not have that particular shade of blonde hair in his collection. What a beautiful combination it would make for some of his golden eyed projects. Just that perfect, complementary shade to bring out their eyes.

"But I have not introduced myself" he purred. Oh, and he would never want to be rude to a potential donor. "My name is Shy."

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Aeni' wasn't used to being ogled, nor objectified, so the sneer he grew as Shy looked him up and down was wholly unschooled. By the time that Shy introduced himself, the Asandus mutt had his repose once again, and he offered his palm, upon the back of which were keratinous brown plates along both fingers and the back of the hand.

"Charmed to meet you." Oh, that tone could melt metal. "You may call me Aenieso Landwerlen. I am..." a burgeoning sigh, here, "the foremost representative of Nidus Novalux, it would seem. And you, Shy, what is your tale?"

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"Nidus Novalux" Shy murmured. It sounded familiar- he knew he had stuck into visited a few Nidus' himself, but he couldn't remember if there had been a Novlaux. Clasping the offered hand and dipping into a shallow curtsy, Shy took a moment to examine plates.

An offensive project then, maybe combine the blonde hair with plates of a slightly more complementary shade. "Aeni" Because a formal, distinguished foremost representative of the Nidus Novalux must surely be used to people bastardizing his name. "Has the Nidus Novalux come across many worlds within the Nexus that have vanished, or reappeared?"

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"Aeni'" very much does not enjoy the nickname, and were he in the form to express it, his ears would go back, his tail would lash. For the better, probably; there were other people here and flits that had a habit of swooping dangerously close.

"We have been in... a contemplatory phase," he responds, irritatingly vague in the face of Shy's mountingly over-close examination. "Can one really call a planet vanished when it has sunk over the horizon? Only an idiot would pull his hair and scream over a sun fallen out of the sky, after all." Turning half away from Shy--never fully away, not now that he knows this hideously dressed creature is observing him so closely--Aenieso gestures towards the buffet. It's something to do.

"You haven't told me about yourself yet."