What's December Without Christmas Eve? [Tree Decorating: OPEN]

[littlecrowgirl]

WHO: Anyone and Everyone!
WHERE: Around various parts of Haven
WHEN: From now until what counts as 'New Years' for Cybertron (New Years Day for us?)
WHAT: Tree Decorating!
WARNINGS: Infinite cute and maybe tree eating

Well, Kay and Elita had done it. It took awhile, and surprisingly, all in one night, but they'd been able to grab branches from the large crystal trees that the pink robot had grown, and placed them all around Haven. Where, specifically? Outside the temples! Really, surprised no one noticed it.  But to those who walk out of the them, they'll now notice a tree on either their right or left, empty, glittering, and with a note.



What could this mean? What's this? There's trees everywhere! What's this? And depending on what your alignment is/where you live, you'll get a different tree. 

(ooc: I'll be putting comments up for each quadrant's tree. Comment under whichever one you'd like to react to/decorate/chat with people under. It's a huge mingle thread! Also, don't forget to put your tag in the log!

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LEIGE MAXIMO QUADRANT

[littlecrowgirl]

Leige Maximo Aligned can expect to see a rather gnarly tree. While crystal tends to move in jagged, straight lines upward, this branch substituting as a tree seems like a willow. Truth is, the branch is upside down, giving it a reverse-growth appearance. In a sense, it almost seems like a dome, with a pointed top from where the branch was torn off. The interconnecting crystals also give it a 'spiderweb' effect in some places. It sits outside the temple to the left.

[staresat]

Seeing this creep actually outside his hole was a rather rare sight. But there he was, returning from some unknown activity that had just been completed.

Considering he had actually paid any attention to the crystal formation rather than brushing by it by suggests he had probably finished what he had planned for the day. Or was finished enough where pausing to observe the new fixture wasn't an impediment.

A single claw-like finger runs down the length of one of the interconnecting crystals to get a feel for the texture. Considering it was nothing more than a useless decoration(in his opinion), it wouldn't keep his attention for very much longer.

[littlecrowgirl]

While your attention is focused on the tree, Shockwave, she's more focused on you. For a second, she mistook you for <a href="http://noparachutes.dreamwidth.org>the other Shockwave</a>, but she can now clearly see that there's a difference, albeit subtle. As for her, she was just getting ready to move to the other temples, keeping herself a rather busy bee. "...Hi."

[staresat]

The soft ring of a tentative metal claw on crystal halts as the voice diverts his attention. Here's a red optic drifting in your direction, Kay. Looks like he's particularly observant today. This Shockwave had been trapped within a space bridge vortex for some time, and was not familiar with modern Earth and it's inhabitants.

But hey, it's a close encounter with warm-blooded alien biped. One that was capable of speech. That merits a few seconds of creepy scrutiny, with who knows what dark internalized thought processes darting from circuit to circuit. It most likely includes vivisections.

[littlecrowgirl]

Well, this is an awkward silence. And...with someone far less inviting than any normal creepo. Congrats, Shockwave, you've put her on edge.

Way to go.

"I should go."

[staresat]

"This is crystal formation is yours.", sorry Kay he's ignoring that discomfort with a not-question. Considering the handwritten note was rather tiny, and the childling had stuck around it.

Why else would she greet him anyway?

Also did one of his feet just shift slightly forward? Hm.

[4_toteachus]

Decorating a tree? This was totally on Four's list of things he always wanted to do in his lifetime. Decorating trees was a very difficult thing to do in his world, seeing as all of them were brown lifeless husks. But these ones were beautiful in a way that he found enchanting, and he gathered a few things to decorate it with. He could thank Jetfire for giving him his hover device, this would be so much more difficult without it.

Four was having a little bit of trouble right now though. He had been on the very top, trying to decide what would go well there. His hovercraft had floated out of reach and was now, quite unfortunately, stuck on the top of the crystal tree.

A little help would be appreciated.

[staresat]

"..."

Well there's a hand... grabbing the lone hovercraft. Oh.

Don't mind if Shockwave just inspects this, giving the exterior a good tap or two. This was one of Jetfire's devices, he remembers. Transport devices for some of the aliens that had been pulled onto their planet.

His gaze drifts back to the crystal formation, where it appeared to have come from.

[4_toteachus]

Four waves his little arms around, blinking his eyes frantically in an attempt to catch the robot's attention. It's times like these that he really, really, really wishes that he had a voice. Most of the time he doesn't really mind, but it's when he's in trouble that it becomes so inconvenient.

Please notice him Shockwave.

[staresat]

Now what is this? A combination of the stitchpunk's flickering eyes and Shockwave having been searching the interconnected branches to begin with helped him spot Four rather quickly. There's a slow drift forward to get a better look, the red optic quickly fixing on his location.

He sees you, Four, and appears to be lifting the hovercraft in your direction. Here, it's right in your reach. Just hop inside. If he took a closer look though, he'll notice that Shockwave wasn't letting go of it just yet, no. He wants a good look before deciding whether or not to disregard this little discovery.

[4_toteachus]

As far as Four was concerned, Shockwave was his saviour. He smiled brightly and jumped from the branch to his hovercraft. That Shockwave hadn't let go yet didn't particularly alarm him; he was used to robots being quite interested in him when they saw him. This was fine, Four liked examining them too.

Which was what he was doing right now. He flickered his eyes several times and immediately started cataloguing the one-eyed robot. If he felt uneasy about the giant glowing red eye, he didn't show it.

[littlecrowgirl]

If Four wanted help, it wasn't going to come from this girl. You see, she had the terrible reality that was being short by Haven-citizen standards. Extremely short. In fact, she almost misses Four because of his size, and since he doesn't talk, she couldn't hear his scream or anything. If he screamed at all.

But she's down there, making a quick check that the tree is still there before starting to head away. Maybe you can catch her attention, Four!

[4_toteachus]

The only thing Four CAN do is flash and flicker his eyes while waving his little arms about. But can she see his little seven-inch self at the very top of this Christmas tree?

He sure hopes so, because being stuck up here sucks on so many different levels.

[littlecrowgirl]

"Oh right! I forgot to sign my note!"

And with that, she turns around, looking back towards the tree. At first, everything goes unnoticed as she makes her way back to the trunk, scribbling her name at the bottom. But then...the small arms catch her attention. Like there's a little 'leaf' blowing in the wind.

But...these trees had no leaves...

"Hello??"

[treacherous_widow]

The tree was a strange thing to see on her way back from the junk pile. In fact, she actually stops to look up at it. The spiderweb effect wasn't lost on the widow.

In fact, she seems to appreciate it and was even contemplating getting a better look at the tree.

[littlecrowgirl]

It's a crazy coincidence, Kay'll give her that. She never expected an actual spider lady to come...well...looking at the spider web tree. She was just heading out of the Maxic Quadrant, or at least leaving the scene of the 'crime', when she spotted BlackArachnia looking up at it.

"You like it?"

[treacherous_widow]

The spider bot tenses for a few moments before she spots the girl talking to her. "You could say that. It has a form that I can definitely appreciate." In fact, she might even be willing to decorate the tree in her own way.

Not that she cared about some strange human holiday. It would just be something interesting to do.

[littlecrowgirl]

"Well, happy to be of service! I chose this one because this quadrant can be kind of creepy."

Well, at least she's honest.

Re: LEIGE MAXIMO QUADRANT

[dirge]

Shiny things always catch Dirge's optic, and the weirdly twisted tree is no exception. He interrupts his flight over Leige's temple to land beside the new thing and examine it.

It's so delightfully sparkly that the jet can't help but purr at it, touching the branches, the trunk, even going so far as to try to break a piece off.

"You're beautiful," he croones. Could this thing be the present Kay had said he might get? For that human holiday... what was it called... Cryzmahs?

[littlecrowgirl]

Kay saw Dirge appear, and was actually just on her way out of the temple. Hey, she had places to go, trees to 'plant'! But she figured she could give a little answer to Dirge, at the very least.

"Isn't it? I had help in picking it out!"

[dirge]

Ah, exactly the human he wanted to talk to.

"It's perfect. And I didn't even have to give anybody anything for it!" the clone chirps, reaching down and scooping her up. Oh, you wanted to leave? Sorry, but not yet!

"I'm glad you came to your senses about that though," he says with a nod. "This will look absolutely wonderful in my room back at the temple." And with that he reaches down with his free hand to try and pluck the tree from the ground.

[littlecrowgirl]

AND WE'RE BEING SCOOPED UP--Oh no. She's now in the hands of a jet and he is trying to take the tree. WHAT DOES SHE DO?

Yell.

"HEY! That tree's not for you, buck-o!! It's for Mr. Maximo!!"

[treacherous_widow]

"While I know I'm a beauty, hands off the tree."

It just so happens he's disturbing a certain black widow that's currently inhabiting the tree.

[dirge]

Dirge actually pauses for a moment when a voice comes from the tree. Was it.... talking to him? Vegetation had never talked to him before. Peering closely at the branches however, reveals something else.

A spider.

"Why? Someone obviously left it here for me," he protests, reaching a claw out to prod at her.

[treacherous_widow]

"Hands off the goods, Jet boy." Blackarachnia swats a claw at the impending prod and glares up at him. "Just because the tree is here, doesn't mean it belongs to you. Finders keepers slag heap and I just happen to be the first to find the tree."