There was very little difference between LongNight and the rest of Deepfrost in the Underwater City, where the sun never truly reached and bioluminescence bathed the area in an eternal twilight of living stars.
Outside the City was a different matter, at least in those regions nearer to the surface where the various lights in the sky created the rhythms that landwalkers moved to. Merfolk living in the shallower coastal waters tended to either spend the week with friends and family in the City or else in Haulani's starlit canals. The parties of the Merfolk were perhaps slightly less wild than those of their landbound fellows, but party they did.
And not always responsibly.
The afternoon of the day after LongNight (because not even Hadama expected any of his people to be up with the sunrise after those parties) the Tidebreaker surveyed the state of the City's currents with an unreadable expression. A glass bottle rolled along the sandy 'street' below, one of several currently in view. Several pieces of statuary within the gardens had been damaged by what he assumed were drunken celebrants, and more than a few of the large, decorative fan corals that had been growing along seafloor paths had been knocked over by incautious tails.
All in all, it could have been worse. But there was plenty to keep a group of earnest Merfolk busy for a few hours, cleaning up the mess.
Well. Earnest Merfolk, or else those who had been assigned community service for their own hard-partying sins after being caught contributing to the problems. There were both in attendance on the King this afternoon, and he waited for the last few stragglers to arrive before beginning.
This is an aquatic-focused PQ for Merfolk only, that will also fulfill the 'cleaning up after LongNight' SE! Please post your Merfolk arriving so Hadama can get a headcount before everyone gets to work :3 Volunteers are welcome, or else your character might be serving some community service time for an undisclosed LongNight party foul.
1. Hadama
2. Kaiden
3. Andromeda
Outside the City was a different matter, at least in those regions nearer to the surface where the various lights in the sky created the rhythms that landwalkers moved to. Merfolk living in the shallower coastal waters tended to either spend the week with friends and family in the City or else in Haulani's starlit canals. The parties of the Merfolk were perhaps slightly less wild than those of their landbound fellows, but party they did.
And not always responsibly.
The afternoon of the day after LongNight (because not even Hadama expected any of his people to be up with the sunrise after those parties) the Tidebreaker surveyed the state of the City's currents with an unreadable expression. A glass bottle rolled along the sandy 'street' below, one of several currently in view. Several pieces of statuary within the gardens had been damaged by what he assumed were drunken celebrants, and more than a few of the large, decorative fan corals that had been growing along seafloor paths had been knocked over by incautious tails.
All in all, it could have been worse. But there was plenty to keep a group of earnest Merfolk busy for a few hours, cleaning up the mess.
Well. Earnest Merfolk, or else those who had been assigned community service for their own hard-partying sins after being caught contributing to the problems. There were both in attendance on the King this afternoon, and he waited for the last few stragglers to arrive before beginning.
This is an aquatic-focused PQ for Merfolk only, that will also fulfill the 'cleaning up after LongNight' SE! Please post your Merfolk arriving so Hadama can get a headcount before everyone gets to work :3 Volunteers are welcome, or else your character might be serving some community service time for an undisclosed LongNight party foul.
1. Hadama
2. Kaiden
3. Andromeda
