Merry Christmas, Chosen...

[terminalmegas]

Who: Venusmon, everyone
What: The giving of the D-Streams
Where: Terminal City, Roaming Park
When: December 25th, 2013, morning

At the stroke of midnight on December 25th, every Chosen and their partners fall asleep wherever they are, with nothing able to wake them. They won't stay there all night, however. Bright and early, as if turned on by a switch, the Chosen will awaken in their beds to find their Digivices missing. The individual Digimon -- those without rooms, brought in like the Chosen -- similarly fall into slumber or stasis, waking where the stand in the morning in the morning.

They will all wake up with a note in their rooms, written in beautiful script. "Come to Roaming Park," it says. There's some kind of noise outside. Something drawing everyone out. Noticeable first is the fall of snow, so far absent from Terminal Tokyo. It covers, among everything else, Roaming Park, where on a bench there sits a Venusmon, with a very large sack. Around her are tables full of all sorts of food, and Digimon there both partaking in it and setting up more. It's a whole feast, not spoiled by the weather, but enhanced by it.

[ooc: Below there will be a thread to interact with Venusmon, where she will answer some questions and give out the D-Streams. Every non-canon Digimon character will receive a D-Stream, whether they see her or not. At the end of the day, they will appear in the Chosen's hands. This can also be used to generally mingle with each other and enjoy the snow.]

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D-STREAMS

[olympicdata]

As the festivities commences, the Olympicmon motions towards Lilamon.

Tapping on the glass on her hand, she clears her throat. "I have something for some of you." She places a hand on the bag, radiating a pleasant smile.

"While rough around the edge, I do believe that Titamon brought forth some of the truth surrounding some of your partners. And with a certain person's help, you were able to reunite with both of them." She sighs, there was so many ways that could of unfolded better. "Unfortunately the Digivices you were given were not meant for such a thing, and you have yet to bring out your true potential."

A small nod to Lilamon, "That wouldn't do at all, so I called in a favor to an old friend of mine." With a flourish, both Mega Digimon open up the sack to present it's content. "I present to you, the D-STREAMS. I do hope they will make life easier for you."

Between to two of them, they began to pass out the Digivices to the new Chosen. "If you have any questions about, please ask."

[arrogantalloy]

Once Tony's stopped eyeing the bag suspiciously and actually takes a D-STREAM, it isn't long before he's comfortable again in his seat and is flipping it over in his hands, poking and prodding at it, mumbling to himself the whole time.

He's frowning more than he normally would when looking over something new to play with, as DORUmon is standing just out of reach holding his travel screwdriver kit.

"Would it kill you to give it back? I put the D-Terminal back together."

"That was in the apartment, not public. You could lose bits."

Tony makes a show of rolling his eyes at her.

/waddles over

[amygdalae]

For Bruce, it wasn't him who took the newly given D-Streams. That would be Floramon, who had went in Bruce's stead mainly because he wasn't that willing to go into a crowd and also because he felt he really didn't need it. He wasn't going to fight, after all, so why should he take one?

Floramon went, though, and Bruce, unwilling to just put his kindness to waste, accepted the D-Stream and was now glancing at it himself, studying and mentally attempting to dissect it. Electronics were not his forte, but he knew enough about them to have at least a basic knowledge of what to expect.

Transmitter, screen, slot in area... he thought to himself, going through the parts that would be needed to assemble one of these new D-Sreams when Floramon tugged at Bruce's sleeve and pointed eagerly at a seat near him. It only took Bruce a moment to look up and see who Floramon was pointing at - Tony and his Dorumon, who were also apparently here for the celebrations. Or the developments, either way.

Pocketing his new D-Stream for now, Bruce made his way over to his friend, a crooked smile on his face. "I didn't think you would be here," he spoke, once he was close enough for Tony to hear him.

/Cheers on the waddling

[arrogantalloy]

Tony looks up at Bruce, then grins.

"Please tell me you have a screwdriver."

He shakes the D-Stream to point out why he was after a screwdriver.

"And, it wasn't my choice. Someone saw the snow and wouldn't quit annoying me until we came out here."

Dorumon looks pleased with herself.

"Merry Christmas, Bruce, Floramon!."

/wheeeee

[amygdalae]

"Merry Christmas, Dorumon!" Floramon is more than glad to see Dorumon, apparently, and he runs to her with childish excitement. Bruce watches them for a moment before he looks up to Tony with an amused huff of his own.

"No screwdriver, sorry." He moves to take a seat besides his friend, fishing out his own new D-Stream as well. It looked pretty normal, certainly, but Bruce has heard enough about the Digivices to understand that there was more to these D-Streams than met the eye.

He turns towards Tony. "What do you think?" he asks, shaking his own D-Stream as well to make it obvious what he was asking about.

[velveteenmage]

Fortunately, Waver was nowhere near the technological ineptitude of more skilled and aristocratic magi. Even so, coming from 1995, it wasn't remotely similar to anything he'd seen before. At least the original Digivices had the decency to look like some kind of pager.

So he scrutinized the device as carefully as he could, looking over every inch of it with narrowed green eyes. There was no point in making himself look stupid by asking what could be figured out himself.

...Even if he ended up looking incredibly confused.

[olympicdata]

He does so have a Venusmon comming towards you.

"Everything okay?"

[velveteenmage]

"Wh--" He jumped slightly at that, not having expected her to actually talk to him.

"I-it's fine! Nothing's wrong, I just...this kind of technology isn't something I'm used to."

[olympicdata]

She laughs. "Would you like me to show you how to work the D-Stream?"

gomen....

[codes]

[ Once she has one in her hand, she's scowling at it right from the start. ]

Am I being punished or something? This one is going to take me weeks to figure out!

Re: gomen....

[olympicdata]

It'll be a fun couple of weeks for you though!

[codes]

--But I have a lot of things to do in the meantime. [ She has actual homework now. ]

[olympicdata]

"Well then, why don't I show you stuff about the D-Streams then, while I'm here."

[beingthecreature]

Something had apparently happened earlier in the party, because at the moment Chris was sitting at one of the tables, leaned all the way down with his chin resting on the tabletop, and his arms hanging down somewhere underneath. His expression was troubled and confused, almost bringing to mind a dog that didn't know why it was being left outside in the cold.

His Digimon were sitting on either side of him, minding their own business. Sylvia was leaned into his side, her paw absently stroking a small knit band that was around the base of one ear. Nes, who was the only one with platters of food in front of him, was fiddling with the D-Stream. Hey, Chris didn't seem to want to do anything with it right now, so why not?

[perrytheperson]

Perry nods his head in thanks as he accepts the D-Stream from Lilamon. Being the part time tech-person that he is, Perry immediately finds a place out of the way and starts pushing buttons and examining the device. What new features does it have? How do you access those features? What makes this better or worse than the last digivice?

Gertrude and Bartholomew watch beside him...well...Bartholomew mostly. Gertrude doesn't have the same interest in such things and watches the crowd instead. It was while she was doing this that she noticed Chris nearby looking a little strange. She nudged Bartholomew and Perry who looked up.

What's wrong with him do you think?

Perry and his Tapirmon partner both looked towards where Gertrude was indicating. After an assessment Perry raised his shoulders, shaking his head. He had no idea what could be the matter.

Maybe he got a color he didn't like.

Both Gertrude and Perry gave the Tapirmon a look and he blinked.

What? I can't read minds. It was only a hypothesis.

Perry sighed and rose from his place. He knew it wasn't really his business, but it was Christmas and seeing people sad at Christmas was just wrong. Perry approached Chris and his digimon partners, putting a hand on Chris's shoulder when he got close enough. The question was clear enough on his face, 'What's wrong?'

[beingthecreature]

Nes reacted first, hearing the trio come over. He turned his head and waved, though they were spared a food-sprayed greeting if only because an inordinate amount of toffee had temporarily glued his jaws shut.

Chris' eyes shifted, but he didn't stir much other than that, which is why the glum "Hey Perry" came out quite muffled.

[perrytheperson]

Bartholomew returned the wave of course and hovered on over. "Those look good...wow what all is this?"
He was much more interested in food than whatever Chris was bummed about. Not that he didn't like to help people's problems, but he wanted food a little more.

Meanwhile, Perry frowned slightly at Chris before pulling out a chair and plopping down next to him. This seemed a lot more serious than even he had originally thought. His eyes flicked to Gertrude standing on the other side. Gertrude inclined her head and Perry closed his eyes. This was going to take some time and care probably. Perry kept sitting there, hoping Chris would say more without him prompting. Oh the bane of being a nonverbal communicator.

[the_lion_roller]

Goodness gracious, what is that sound?

"Here we come a-wassailing, among the leaves so greeeeeeen,"

Surely that isn't somebody singing? Oh wait, it is. It's Martin, weaving his way through the crowd, a mug in each hand, and Cody on his shoulders who joins him in singing along in an attempt at harmony. ...It is decidedly not harmonic.

"Here we come a-wand'ring, so faaaaiiir to be seen."

Next to them, Adele has her flippers pressed against her ears, although she still looks amused. Spying his brother at the table, Martin heads that way.

"LOVE AND JOY COME TO YOU. AND TO YOU, YOUR WASSAIL TOO!!"

He plunks a mug down in front of his brother, taking a seat himself beside him.

"Hey Bro, there you are! Got ya some wassaaaiillll!!"

[beingthecreature]

Chris' eyes tracked around as Martin neared, and he followed the path of the mug, but otherwise he didn't move. Nes however, sat up curiously and sniffed at it, then glanced at the blue Kratt.

"What's 'wusstle'?"

[the_lion_roller]

He gives a blink at the both of them, then glances at Nes first with a raised eyebrow before he grins, albeit just a little too widely,

"It's just boring old cider. The hot chocolate they've got is waaaaay better."

All the same, he slides both mugs of wassail slightly more over to himself and then sets Cody down.

"S'matter of fact, how 'bout you guys and gals go get yourselves some hot cocoa and enjoy the snow a little. H'after all, you've all been huge helps handing out gifts today, y'oughta go have some fun!"

[olympicdata]

"Are you okay?"

[beingthecreature]

Whatever the way he was feeling, the appearance of Venusmon at his side is enough to make Chris sit up, looking at her in mild surprise. "I'm..." He stalled for a second or two, unsure of just how to answer that question. Then at last he sighed lightly, resting an arm on the table.

"Someone told me she had feelings for me, but ran off before I could even react." The hand came up slightly as he shrugged. "I'm still working out what to do or say in return."

[brain_behind_purple]

[Donnie took a device from the bag and stared at it. It looked a lot more hi-tech than the old Digivice. He stared at it and pushed a few buttons, to see what it can do.]

Hmm... doesn't look too hard to figure out.

So how long do you think it'll take you to figure out how to work it?

Hmm... it may take a while to figure out a few things, but... [He pushes a few more buttons, studying what pops up. He then smiles] It looks like I can Digivolve both of you guys now. So maybe... maybe now I can Digivolve Paolo into his next form, Koromon.

[That seemed to perk up the bored-looking Poyomon. He looked up at the teenager with begging eyes.]

Is it safe? What if you do something wrong?

Well... the best way to test something is to try it. That's a golden rule in science. So lets see... [He pushed a few more buttons until he found what he wanted.] Okay.. here it goes.

[He pointed the D-Stream at the Poyomon before pushing a button. It seemed to be the correct one as a familiar light surrounded Poyomon. Donnie and Arte covered their eyes before the light faded. In it's place was...]

Finally! Do you know how long I waited to Digivolve into Koromon? I have been trying to tell you I wanted to for days! Is it that hard to understand baby talk you big nerd? Geez!

Paolo! [He ignored the obnoxiousness, instead going over and with one arm lifting up and hugging the Koromon] Your back!

Oh great, now your getting sappy on me... [He sighed, but his expression softened and he leaned into the hug] Glad to be back, you big nerd.

[olympicdata]

Oh, that was quick!

[She's surprised that someone was experimenting with the D-streams already]

[brain_behind_purple]

I can't believe he figured it out that fast... then again he is really good with things like that.

Well it wasn't that hard. All I had to do was-

.Ugh. Please don't start the geek talk. I don't wanna die again this soon. [And that comment makes the teen drop him.] Ow!