When winter comes, this year, the cold does not.

Kin gather in a familiar field to find that it is changed. Perhaps it was the strange events of last Winter Market, or perhaps it's merely that their world each year is different: more magical, less orderly, chaos introduced into the rules they've come to expect. Whatever it is, this year they find their Winter Market location balmy and near tropical. The waves that lash against the shore not too far away are an azure blue, the vibrant color of a tropical sea, a place where fish would delight. The sun above beats down heavy and hot but somehow not oppressive.

It's hot, but it's a plesent heat. The breeze cuts through and tousles fur, the water is cool and refreshing. This year seems like it's going to be a good one.

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The winter market is happening again, and this year the world has turned tropical, a winter market in summer! Once again the usual kin selling wares, or running games, offering pebbles or taking them from the visitors who move through the clearing each day are infected by the energy of this warm setting, often turning booths cheery and light-hearted, in a summer theme. This year's smorgasbord of activity, friends greeting friends, raucous laughter, sometimes take on four-legged shapes, or two, or wings, identities blurred or confused or completely changed....

Come on in and explore: viewtopic.php?t=3965

The Winter Market kicks off with several events open; of course the first Free Raffle is open & ready for entries, open through 12/01, so just this weekend: viewtopic.php?t=3967

And the brand new HUMMINGBIRD and SPECTRAL CAIMAN FAMILIARS make their appearance in a little dice game, ending 12/4: viewtopic.php?t=3979

Last but not least, we want to make sure EVERYONE gets a chance to enter for this year's Advent! Thanksgiving is so late this year that signups are only about 3 days long. Get in there QUICK: viewtopic.php?t=3976



NOTE: thank you to BANE and FRANKII for some fabulous art for this event!

Your kin is pulled into a Holiday Movie! Here they embark on a romantic adventure that helps them rediscover themself and find the ONE!

To participate in this event, choose any one of your kin to write in a Holiday Movie.

It takes place in a town where it hasn't snowed in 20 years. It ends with a big snowstorm and a kiss.

Start by posting the form and rolling 8d50.

Match your rolls to the list in the thread to gather up 8 tropes to include in your Holiday Movie, and edit Movie Title and Movie Plot into your post!

Stories should be between at least 200 words, and are encouraged to stay under 500 words.

If you have repeats, please choose ANY PROMPT you'd like to replace the repeats. You also are welcome to slightly reskin your tropes if you'd like to make them more appropriate for a non-Christmas winter holiday!

You can write up to three stories; each will give a ticket toward the above prizes!

The event will end on December 11th at 11:59PM EST.