Luceti Valley - The First Log

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone
What: The start of a new experiment... or is it?
When: August 2nd - August 6th
Where: Luceti itself
Summary: Luceti has become an idyllic and peaceful 50s-esque village. The first few days are just business as usual, right?
Rating: Varies with thread. Please move explicit stuff to appointments post with appropriate warnings.

August 1st had seemed like an ordinary day in Luceti. But late in the evening, for those night owls who had not turned in yet, they were witness to strange fluctuations in the barrier. Beautiful, really, almost like Luceti had received its own 'Northern Lights', even though it seemed to come from the far east, across the ocean. This ominous light show lasted for all of fifteen minutes before it ceased all together. Skimming the ocean waters, a horde of cultists entered Luceti, cloaked by darkness. Upon reaching the entrance to the tunnels, their leader stepped inside and was followed one by one by his fellow cultists. When the last had entered, the tunnel entrance closed. Across the mountains, the entrance to the tunnels in the village did the same.

Midnight passed without incident, but by three in the morning, the change suddenly came. Minds were altered, forms were changed, and buildings sprang from nowhere.

Much later, on August 2nd, morning settled on a changed village, the new mayor made his way to his mansion with his pair of adorable dobermans at either side of him. The sun shined bright. It was a good day to be a Lucetian.

Note: There will be a stand alone log for the homecoming dance. There will be another log for the second stage of the event.

Comments

[markofthebrave]

Katara was in a dress suitable for the country club, but was scowling in a way more suitable for picking up a club and hitting someone over the head with it.

She was waiting with her legs tucked modestly beneath her chair, hands folded in her lap, and back ramrod straight, and staring at the wall in front of her. In the other room, their mother could be heard preparing herself to go out.

When Natasha approached the room, Katara glanced up, and her eyes went wide. Shaking her head from side to side, she mouthed "Run" at her older sister.

[widows_kiss]

The warning has her pausing a moment before she hears their mother in the other room and she does roll her eyes then before crossing over and taking the chair beside her sister's.

"We're safe yet. Hear that? She has at least fifteen more minutes of fussing and scolding before she'll even think of stepping outside that room," she confided, pitching her voice low enough so that only Katara would hear her. "You got caught, did you?"

[markofthebrave]

Katara did not feel quite as safe as Natasha. She was quite certain that if she did get caught, it would have been much worse. But as far as she knew, her applications for nursing school were still safe in her locker at school and her parents were none the wiser regarding her trips to the hospital. She shook her head and mouthed, "Johnny Butler."

Johnny Butler had been the unofficial bane of Katara's life since he had pulled his head out of his rear long enough to notice that Katara grew breasts about two months ago. He was from a good family, their parents were shareholders in his father's business, and her mother thought he was perfect, it was to be a 'darling match.'

Katara couldn't stand him.

She looked absolutely miserable, "Mom wants me to meet him at the club with her this afternoon."

[widows_kiss]

Natasha made a face in sympathy and dismay. "Ugh. He's been an irritating little prick since he was in diapers. Is that who she has her hat set for this month?"

She reached out, patting Katara's arm consolingly. "How determined is she to have you accompany her? Should I start thinking up contingency plans?"

[markofthebrave]

"He's an octopus," Katara said, making a face. All slimy and all hands. She wanted to punch him just for looking at her.

Katara's shoulders slumped a little, "You'd better not, Nat. She says I haven't been doing enough with her lately, and she's right."

She is their mother, after all. Still. Ugh.

[widows_kiss]

"Shame there isn't a large enough body of water close by to push him into again," Natasha's lips quirk with mischievous humor. "Was that you or Kate that dunked him in the lake when you were little? Clearly it had long-lasting effects."

When Katara's shoulders slumped, she reached out, resting a hand against her shoulder. "You've been busy. Then again, so has she. Not that I'd complain of that normally. Perhaps you could think of a suggestion that might distract her to somewhere other than the club for the day? Shopping, maybe?"