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WHO: OTA
WHAT: Eglaf Annual Earth Day Extravaganza
WHEN: Friday, April 17, 2020 - Sunday, April 19, 2020
WHERE: All over Historical Downtown Eglaf
WARNINGS: The whole premise of Friday's event is dub-con, so...you know. There's that. If you feel your thread should have content warnings on it, please say so in the soonest possible comment subject line.

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone?

Every year, the weekend before Earth Day, the city of Egalf has a three-day festival to celebrate centered largely in Historical Downtown. Eglaf was one of the first cities in Florida to pass Go Green laws and they're proud of their attempts as a city to reduce their carbon footprint. Each year, the line-up of events is about the same.

Friday night is a fundraising theme costume party, usually attended by any and all, featuring local celebrities and registered Displaced Supers along with raffles, meet and greets, autograph sessions, photo ops with Displaced Supers, local vendors, and more, located in Downtown Pride Hotel's ballrooms. This year's theme is "Getting In Touch with Nature." Party-goers will be turned away at the door if they're not in costume. No exceptions. Tickets can be purchased all week at the hotel or at the door. General admittance is $10 and admittance with dinner reservations is $25 per person. Group discounts are available; please call the front desk at Downtown Pride Hotel for details.

NOTE:This event is where things might get a little hinky this year. The portal being reawakened in January has been causing little issues around town, but the government mostly has this on lockdown. Unfortunately, it would appear that something new has made its way through. Earlier in the week, a small group of playful and mischievous fairies slipped through the portal. Learning of the Earth Day celebration and wanting very much to carry on its message, on Friday morning, locals and Supers alike might notice a sort of shimmer in the air. Spoiler alert: it's their version of fairy dust. Exposure to said fairy dust will have residents of Eglaf under the fairies' spell. They'll feel compelled to reduce, reuse, recycle, and be at the Earth Day fundraiser with bells on.

When the clock strikes eleven, though, that's when they'll decide to have a little more fun. Anyone still in their costume and within a five-mile radius of the hotel will believe themselves to actually be their costume or, in some cases, they will become their costume. So, if someone comes to the party dressed as a tree, they should be prepared to stand very still and be very silent while swaying in the wind for the hour during which the spell will take hold. This spell will last anywhere from 1 to 24 hours.

Saturday, there will be a parade featuring giant balloons, floats built by local businesses, and Displaced Super appearances. The parade will begin at 10:00 am and will follow the usual path down all of Main Street from Historical Downtown up to the upper east side before returning back to Historical Downtown. Typically, this parade runs two to three hours in its entirety. Then, Saturday evening will kick off the Earth Day Film Festival, where locals and Displaced Supers alike are invited to the Downtown Green, weather permitting (or the Oakdale Theater, if not) where the stage will be hidden behind a giant screen onto which Eglaf Community College short films will start things off at 7:00 pm and, by 9:00 pm, everything from nature documentaries to summer blockbuster films will be played back to back until the last movie is scheduled to end around 11:30 pm on Sunday night.

All concessions purchased at official events this weekend will go toward furthering technological advances toward making Eglaf run on clean energy.

Come one, come all! Have a great time!

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His head bobs with agreement, the slightest smile quirking his own lips. “Thankfully, or I've got a feeling a lot of us might not be here.” They'd be dead, wouldn't they? Sure, that makes sense, but Eglaf has obviously got some crazy strong influence if it can bring people (like his brother, Ben) back from the dead. Had Five not spatial-jumped them, they undoubtedly would've been finished, The Boy aside. Good thing they'd all decided time-traveling and at least trying was better than standing there, waiting for the fire to consume them all. “I have no doubt. People are a lot more resilient than we give them credit for most times.”

Of all the things to be afraid of, why would a werewolf frighten him? Unless they're coming after him, he's got no reason to fret.

“Wasn't too worried about it, but thanks for the reassurance.” He offers a fuller grin this time then briefly diverts his attention, fiddles with the cap on his waterbottle, ultimately glances back up after a few minutes. “So, you can just. Change whenever you want, then? Or how does it work if the full moon isn't involved?”

To say the very least, Derek finds himself thinking as he nods his silent agreement. He smiles a little at the latter sentiment and nods again. "Yeah, they really are," he agrees easily enough. Sometimes for the worse, if you ask Derek, but that's not really the direction in which he cares to take the conversation, so he leaves the sentiment at that.

If Derek looks a little surprised by that, it's because he is. Even having lived in the cities, and now, here, where people are less inclined to be afraid of him, there's still some part of him that just expects discomfort from a human being who isn't entirely aware of werewolves being actual things where they come from. He knows that they're not something, at least, that Diego and Vanya were aware of back home, so he can only assume Klaus hadn't been, either. It's refreshing, though, to have someone smaller and more human than he is, say that he isn't worried about it.

"Good to know and glad to hear it," he replies, looking somehow equal parts impressed, relieved, and surprised. "I mean, I still feel it more on the full moon, but I can change whenever I want, yeah. It took a lot of years of practice; when I was a kid, I was pretty much a stereotypical monster every full moon, but yeah. At this point in my life, I get to decide. It's kind of nice being able to toggle back and forth between me and the me that's socially acceptable, at will."

And that's fine, it's absolutely, one-hundred-percent alright with Klaus if they skip over talking about how resilient people can be. Some are, some aren't, then others are downright indestructible in a way he could never describe. Those are the ones that need to be watched closely in case they decide to put their toughness into action for less than good things.

Werewolves are supernatural beings a lot like himself and his siblings; it's different, yes, but they're all considered anomalous in a sense. He doesn't personally know what being a werewolf entails, just knows that it sounds badass and that he wouldn't mind being one rather than get stuck with mediumship. God, anything would've been better than that. Not that he'd say it aloud, considering some peoples' abilities, keeping in mind there are probably worser things.

He nods with understanding, lifts both hands, presses his fingers against his cheeks in half-surprise when Derek admits the moon still has a hand in his situation. (Does that word work? Klaus doesn't know, but it isn't being said aloud, so it should be alright.) “I mean, it makes sense? The moon has always been a thing when it came to werewolf lore,” a beat then, “Actually, considering there's one standing in front of me, I don't think that works! But you know what I'm getting at, yeah?”