With the blizzard come and gone, the city administration makes quick work of transforming the landscape from a post-apocalyptic white dream (or nightmare) to a more picturesque winter wonderland. While the heavy snow drifts are easily plowed away and the sheets of ice quickly cleared from roofs and bridges, the grounds of the city's parks and sidewalks still enjoy their seasonal coating of soft, fresh snow.
By mid-month, new posters begin to pop up on bulletin boards and network advertisements, featuring the cheerful sound of trumpets and the encouraging view of your favorite volunteer coordinators, inviting you to take part in the city's annual winter games. It's not quite olympian, and no previous experience is required — any and all are welcome to sign up for as many events as they'd like, and while medals aren't awarded, winners may very well find themselves bequeathed with something even more fun! (We hear bar tabs and instachecks are all the rage these days!)
Feeling festive? Come join the fun this weekend at the games!
▸ Are you freakishly flexible? Are you beauty? Are you grace? (We recommend not punching the judges in the face.) Ski ballet may be just the game for you! Play your walk up song as you emerge on skis to Cadelle's adoring crowds. You'll have 90 seconds to make your way downhill while twirling, spinning, kicking and leaping your way with style. Don't want to go it alone? This year Cadelle's offering the chance to compete in pairs. Let's hope your chemistry sets the rain slopes on fire.
▸ Does anyone remember that phrase 'Go sit on a block of ice?' Well, the sport of ice blocking takes that little idiom rather literally as participants slide down one of the city's grassier hills with little more than a giant block of ice, graciously provided by the local ice master. First one down is the winner! Though, just as a reminder: the city is not responsible for any stuck tongues, buns, or other body parts that may result from this event.
▸ Are you crazy about water? Are you unafraid of those freezing waves? The sport of polar diving may be perfect for you! Be sure to slather on the providied petroleum jelly all over your exposed skin and climb on top of the recently built high dive board at Lake Bunton — once you're poised and ready, let loose with your best swan dive... or bellyflop. Three judges will score your stylish dive on a scale of 1-10. The best average score wins!
▸ Are you a fixture at Lucky Lanes? Or is that elusive perfect 300 a pipe dream? Either way, what happens when you mix winter weather, pins, and big round balls? Epic fun, of course, in the form of a fantastically frenzied game of ice bowling! Just.... try not to fall over as you do your victory shuffle after you get that 7-10 split.
Of course, if you're not the sporting type, there's still plenty to see and do during the games! Maybe you'll opt to cheer on your friends and neighbors in their exploits — flags, vuvuzelas, and all manner of spectator accessories are available for purchase from nearby vendors, and for those who may not want to spend a fortune, the city offers free decorate-it-yourself kits for banners at the entrance to the viewing stands! More entreprenurial citizens may choose to invest in a willing market; visit the barking traveling bookies to place a wager on your favored winner, or maybe lay down a few cuddlebucks on an implausible yet possible end scenario — Ireland wins but Russia gets the snitch, anyone?
Whether you've opted to practice your best polar bear performance, rolled a turkey on the ice, or maybe just kept warm in your parka on the stands, be sure to keep a space open in the end of your weekend for the city's closing ceremony. There's the traditional pomp and circumstance, of course, in the issuance of awards and winner's trophies; more important and certainly more exciting, though, is the hosted dinner, held outdoors under a gleaming white tent just beyond the shores of Blue Springs Pool. It's a beautiful place to enjoy a delicious meal with friends, so the city certainly hopes you'll make time to attend!
Howdy, cuddlers!
With the excitement of the 2018 Winter Games just around the corner, we thought it might be fun for you to get to enjoy some sportsmanship of your own this time of year. While the Olympic Games are certainly reserved for the best of the best, Cadelle's version is open to all, and focuses less on swiftly navigating down snowy hills on your preferred mode of transportation (because, really, what else differentiates snowboarding from skiing from bobsled racing and luge...?) and more on the way you choose to move! We hope your characters have a blast while they dance on skis, slide on giant blocks of ice, dive into freezing cold water, or just roll an ice ball down a slick plane of frozen grass... or maybe just watch all their friends make fools of themselves instead!
If you have any further questions specific to this event, we encourage you to ask away on our QUESTIONS COMMENT here in this post. If you have general questions, or prefer a more private venue, our GENERAL INBOX (and SCREENED INBOX) is always available for you. In addition, if you've got an idea for a future event, feel free to drop us a line at our EVENTS SUGGESTION POST.
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Not necessarily. Most people are pretty straightforward. Everybody likes to think they're the one we haven't seen before, [ here, Reid shrugs, ] but truthfully, people are fairly consistent and predictable. There's just a lot of detail that goes into criminal investigations, and we don't have a lot of time to check on it.
The team you're referring to, what do you do? [ He is, as always, interested. ]
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Nate would hate it. ]
So do you just, walk around here, deducing things about people? What would you say about me?
[ Oh, his team. His dysfunctional, halfway broken, only sometimes successful team. He misses them. ]
Oh, we um. We travel through time, and fix time aberrations before they can impact history.
[ That makes sense, right? ]
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[ He smiles as he says it, though, in his no-big-deal sort of way. ] I study criminal behavior. I would guess that you aren't a criminal. [ So far, at least. Reid always reserves some potential. He has good reason to have trust issues.
As for that that-- ] Time travel, seriously? [ Reid is completely caught between suppressed excitement and incredulity. It's just. So hard to pick one. ]
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Busted. I've never even ever got a parking ticket. Sure, there was that time I barged past security into Mayor Queen's offices, but it doesn't count, it wasn't life or death, and I didn't get arrested.
[ Nodding, Nate gives Reid a sympathetic, understanding look, because he's been there. It was hard to believe. ]
Yeah, time travel. I know, it sounds insane, and it is, really, but that's what we do. We've been dealing with a group of people disrupting history to get their hands on the Spear of Destiny - Holy Lance - to use it to alter reality. I'm sure you've heard of it.
[ It looks like the guy has heard of everything, it'd be surprising he wouldn't know about one of the best known weapons in all of history. ]
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Reid doesn't try to muffle his fascination with time travel, however. He doesn't need an explanation for the Holy Lance, either. ] Yes, of course. In a mythological sense. Are you all-- traveling through time, chasing after a band of culprits? Tell me you've seen Doctor Who.
[ Because seriously. Seriously. ]
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[ They just know some aliens. ]
We're working on safeguarding history. That's the plan, anyway, but these guys are always creating aberrations and they seem to always be a few steps ahead of us. Most recently, they tried to scare George Lucas into never becoming a filmmaker. Which in turn meant I never became a historian.
[ He still remembers the feeling of reading and not getting it, and he winces, hating it all over again. While he's complained repeatedly about having to do all the research while on the Waverider, better that than to not be able to do any of it. ]
You're a Doctor Who fan?
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So what's a 'Time Master'? [ The quotes are audible. Reid could (literally) talk about his fandoms all day, in great nitpicky detail, but for once in his life there's something more interesting on the table: firsthand stories. ]
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Nate holds up his hand, only to recall - oh, yeah, the awkward, no touching thing. Right. He lowers his hand, burying it in his pocket like nothing happened. ]
I'm also a Lucas fan. Became a historian because of the Indiana Jones movies - bit of a pipe dream considering my circumstances, but it made me fall in love with history.
[ And Nate, for himself, barely has any firsthand knowledge of the Time Masters, considering the Legends destroyed the Vanishing Point before he ever got to visit it, and Rip is... not quite himself. So... cool.
Cool cool cool. ]
They're this organization that's been tasked with protecting history. See, any small change in history can create ripples that have consequences over, well. Everything. Like... imagine a Rockies mountain pass being sealed off in the 1860's, just before train tracks are laid out. Imagine then-Colonel Ulysses S. Grant not winning Vicksburg. Imagine George Lucas never making movies!
[ Right? Right?
That's exactly the kind of expression on Nate's face. This right??? look, passionate and earnest. ]
Well, the Time Masters were put together to safeguard all of these pivotal moments and make sure history run its course. And now that's what my team does.
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Thank God Nate moves right on. What a trooper. ]
The butterfly effect, [ Reid says succinctly. ] I'm familiar with chaos theory. Less theoretical for you.
That sounds very... [ Pause. ] Dangerous. And fascinating. You must've seen a lot by now? [ There's a slight lilt at the end to make it a question, inviting him to tell stories if he wants. Reid is all ears for something as interesting as time travel. ]
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[ Nate shrugs, not playing coy, but, all things considered, he's still the rookie in the team. He's seen a lot less than, say, Mick.
This stuff he must be telling people at CriminALES to get them staying and paying, man. A goldmine. ]
Been to the Wild West, and to the Cretaceous period. Briefly in Salem. I was around for the INF Treaty to be signed. Also got to impersonate Elliot Ness for a hot minute?
[ Okay, yeah. It's all pretty cool, really. ]
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[ Ah, one of the things Reid has textbook knowledge of but has spent no real time on, academically or research-wise: archaeology. Then his eyes widen, Cretaceous forgotten. ]
You got to impersonate Elliot Ness? [ Sorry, actual FBI agent here. Reid doesn't do a lot of mob boss takedowns but he can appreciate the sentiment a lot better than the average civilian. There's nothing quite like bringing in someone who really deserves it, and knowing you were personally responsible for helping make that happen. ] He was a complicated figure. How did that happen?
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[ Little does he know that he'll be going back there...
Nate grins, hands moving around as he talks, always excited to share the amazing stories he's got to tell with someone that's actually interested. And knows who Elliot Ness is.
Much to Nate's chagrin, that is not actually that common. ]
Honestly, just for a couple of days. See, there was this aberration - the bad guys we're after tipped Capone off about Ness, and so he almost got him killed. We saved him, but he had some brain damage and was laid out - on the week he was supposed to find Capone's ledger.
[ Nate points at himself. ] So I took his place. Got his team together, raided the Chelsea Club, and then Capone's warehouse.
[ Not that his plan hadn't been a bust and it was Mick that saved the day. ]
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You can always count on Reid to catch every single one of the little-known references, and almost zero of the pop culture ones. Elliot Ness he definitely knows, given how precisely the history of crime is in his wheelhouse. He listens to this intently, brow furrowing. ]
Wait. So... Did Elliot Ness originally bring in Capone in your iteration of existence, or was it always you? Are you preserving the integrity of events as they occurred, or creating a loop that ensures it will always occur?
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[ Time travel is definitely... complicated. There are some things that still don't make sense to Nate, who's spent his whole life studying history. But the intricacies of how time works, sometimes still entirely elude him. ]
We try to preserve the integrity of events as much as we can. History's not really fixed, and it takes time for events to harden. With the help of my friends, I built of time-seismograph, which detects timequakes, which happen when history has been changed. So we follow these quakes, and put things back in their place.
[ If they can. In the best way they can. ]
It can't always occur. If you're dealing with another time-traveler, they can always go back further, change everything earlier on. We can't set things in stone.
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Reassuring, in a way. I'm not a determinist. The laws of reality itself don't conspire to take away the impact of human will.
And there's no reason the past should operate differently than the future, in terms of quantum physics. If we can change one, we can ultimately change the other.
[ This is what happens when you let a man get both advanced science degrees and a philosophy degree. ]
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Fun. Fun fun fun. ]
This is why we're not really allowed to go and change our own pasts, either. Because it'd change the future, change reality as we know it, and who's to say that won't have massive consequences on the world?