[Video post- backdated to the 31th]

[clockmaster]

[The camera turns on and we can the Hakuba's pet, Irene, waving at the camera. She wears an obi around her rounded tummy and there's a sparkler fireworks in his right paw. When she's sure that she got people's attention Irene starts to dance. ]

Irene? What are you doing? We need to go to the temple. [Hakuba walks into the room, he wears a blue royal blue Kimono, and looks at her with amusement.]

Chu! Chu chu chuu! [Hakuba blinks and then he notices the camera.]

Ah, I see. [The boy smiles, holding her up and looking at the camera.] Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu!


[ooc: Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu= Happy new year in japanese. :3]

Comments

Re: [Video]

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

[She gets closer to the camera. Hi thereeee.]

Posting videos here, as you can tell.

Re: [video]

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

[Riiight because Max world isn't strange at all.]

She's with my dad most of the time. Irene is technically his pet. [Irene nods.]

Is the tradition here in Japan. What do you do in New Year?

[Video]

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

My mom acts different when she's around my dad. Kind of like...how Akako and I used to be.

Re: [video]

[agent-86-smart.livejournal.com]

[It's not. Just spoofy James Bond stuff]

Oh, interesting. [Another puff on his cigarette]

I didn't know that about Japan.

Well, some of the guys from here, thought of getting together at local bar. Have a few drinks, laughs. Those sorts of things, yes.

Re: [Video]

[nike-hat.livejournal.com]

Pikaaaaaaaaaaa! [Waves]

Well, enjoy your time at the temple. Are you going with anyone else, Hakuba?

[Video]

[changerofwilds.livejournal.com]

I lived alone with my mother there for many years. If she were not hiding from her deceased husband's family...we would have been living in Lothering. You see the Wilds is quite barren, as the name suggests, filled with barbarians, darkspawn, beasts, and of course...I suppose you never have heard of Flemeth, the Witch of the Wilds?

Re: [Video]

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

[She pats the screen.] Chu chuu? [What are you?]

Just my family and my housekeeper Baaya.

Re: [video]

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

[Uhuh, suure.]

You should come over in Christmas one year and see it.

That's good.

[pandorabox]

You're gonna be there too?

[Video forever]

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

[Irene waves at Kaito.]

Yes, my family and me are going to the temple.

[pandorabox]

Aoko and I will be there.

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

And your parents?

[pandorabox]

Mom? I think she has to work tonight.

[Video]

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

That's quite of a story, madam. [He looks serious.] No, I never heard of that witch before, but witches exist in my world too.

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

In New Year? That's sad.

[pandorabox]

She's a nurse. People get hurt on New Year's Eve too, y'know.

[Video]

[changerofwilds.livejournal.com]

There are more witches here than just Flemeth, of course, but Flemeth...she's the worst of them all. Most female magic users keep themselves in the Mages Tower but not Flemeth. She was before the Tower was founded in Ferelden. [She shrugs.] Or so the legends say.

As the bards tell it, many centuries ago before Ferelden was governed under one king there was a beautiful young woman. Her hair was black as a moonless sky and her eyes were as mysterious as the seas. Her name was Flemeth and she was the wife of a bard. After a jealous lord made and broke a deal with the husband and wife so that he could marry Flemeth instead, Flemeth was furious. Not because she loved her former husband but because the lord had broke a deal. Eventually she made a dark pact with a demon from the Fade. She took vengeance on the lord and ran to the Wilds to brood.

The demon made her powerful and, so the legends say, she lured many Wilder men to her bed so she could have as many daughters as possible. Some of the legends tell of a falling out between her and these daughters; Flemeth, of course, grew jealous of their beauty and chased each one of them down and devoured their still beating hearts.

Just a legend, of course. To scare children. [Though, of course, Morrigan wouldn't put it past her mother to do such a thing.]

Re: [Video]

[nike-hat.livejournal.com]

Pika Pika a chu Chu? [I'm a Pokemon. What are you?] [Pats back, while Ash looks confused on what Irene is saying]

Hey, Hakuba. Do you know what Irene is saying?

That's nice.

Re: [video]

[agent-86-smart.livejournal.com]

[Puts out his cigarette]

Why only on Christmas? Isn't the rest of the year just as good?

[Leans forward with a gleam in his beady eyes] Yes, but that doesn't mean the ever watchful eye of Maxwell Smart won't be on full alert for those KA - I mean those rival greeting card business thieves. [Raises his eye brows]

[heisthelight.livejournal.com]

Temple?

Ah, that's right. It's New Years.

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

Yes, all my family and em are going to the temple. My Dad it's traditional man. What are you doing in New Year, Krad?

[heisthelight.livejournal.com]

I hadn't really made any plans. Perhaps I'll go to the local temple. See the tradition first hand.

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

That woudl be nice. And you should offer a prayer too.

[heisthelight.livejournal.com]

What sort of prayer does one do for this type of tradition?

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

That's up to you. You can pray asking for more money this next year, more luck in love, a better job...or just say thanks.