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[ OPEN ] CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Who: Anyone and everyone! Yes, even you.
When: IC Date: 6/9 || OOC Date: 3/20
Where: Centered in CERES Academy but spilling out into the streets!
What: It's all fun and games until someone chokes on cotton candy or gets a black eye from jousting. The player plot of the cultural festival!
Rating/Warning: Totally PG, family-approved fun! Please poke me if this changes.
Flyers have been up for the past two weeks, students have been all atwitter (whether this is good or bad chatter is up in the air), outside help has been enlisted by a bunch of weird adults and finally the day has dawned upon us.
The cultural festival is here.
And it looks like stepping into an alternate dimension of Cerealia, a far cry from the Hunger Games that many had to endure just days ago - and maybe that's the whole damn point. Wander around, have some greasy comfort food, and win a stuffed animal to muffle your tears into or something. It's all gonna be okay.
When: IC Date: 6/9 || OOC Date: 3/20
Where: Centered in CERES Academy but spilling out into the streets!
What: It's all fun and games until someone chokes on cotton candy or gets a black eye from jousting. The player plot of the cultural festival!
Rating/Warning: Totally PG, family-approved fun! Please poke me if this changes.
Flyers have been up for the past two weeks, students have been all atwitter (whether this is good or bad chatter is up in the air), outside help has been enlisted by a bunch of weird adults and finally the day has dawned upon us.
The cultural festival is here.
And it looks like stepping into an alternate dimension of Cerealia, a far cry from the Hunger Games that many had to endure just days ago - and maybe that's the whole damn point. Wander around, have some greasy comfort food, and win a stuffed animal to muffle your tears into or something. It's all gonna be okay.
I » PREGAME-FESTIVAL Let's back up a little bit. Set-up for the festival was intended to begin at 8 PM the night before to allow all groups an hour - maybe even two! - to set up their booths so that everything could be pristine and ready. . . . . Of course that didn't happen. So here you are, in the gym of the school where it looks like a crafts store went to die. Don't slip on the glitter glue! Don't touch that feather boa, the drama club might need it! Is that a soccer ball while everyone else is trying to prepare? Do you want to die? The clock continues to tick later and later, a groan coming from everyone in the room when it strikes 3 AM, but there's nonetheless an air of dedication here. Everyone's working - are you? - and this seems like a great time for caffeine overdose and some late night confessions.
II » WELCOME Whether it was through hard work or sheer dumb luck, the festival is underway!! There are sounds of yelling, students competing for patrons - "Care to have your fortune read?" or "Check out this kickass magician!" - or cries of defeat - "That balloon game was impossible - how am I going to get my McCeres plushie now?!" and "What's up with that scavenger hunt?" - You can already hear the sizzle of deliciously greasy food in the distance mixed in with whatever terribly Teen Pop mix they've got playing in the background. It's a little hard not to feel excited! Or... maybe it is, given the fact that you might not have wanted to end up here in the first place?! But the festival is spilling out into the streets! Pushy teenagers and teachers alike might've just tried to corral you in here like cattle to a brightly-colored, teeny bopper slaughter....
But if you look like you're not at all interested in having fun, this may be the time when a snowball smacks you right in the back of the head, suddenly implanting the idea of.... fun?
III » INFLATABLE HELL Whether you were running after reading some horrible gossip about you or getting way into playing the part of a fleeing criminal in the mock trial, you've found yourself in what every single carnival needs and deserves: a bounce house. But wait - that's not all?! Apparently this is some kind of inflatable course from hell as you realize that once you enter, there's even more waiting for you. Yes, that's right, welcome to the squishiest obstacle course of your life. When you make it to the end, you still have one last task: joust for your honor against the person that you've ended up with or break out your intense sumo knowledge for the exact same thing. The student overseeing this area just nods solemnly with an air of 17-year-old sage wisdom. "There can only be one."
IV » ANIME FOOD So that's what you're here for. Well congratulations friend, they've got every sort of carnival contraption or festival delight and dish - apparently this is where the culture can be found! But... but oh god, what's that? The hell is that?! Apparently there's an eating competition for these heart attacks if you really wanna try your luck.
Also hey - is this cotton candy really sticky to anyone else? Careful, don't reach too close to that other person or you just might end up stuck together...?!
V » AFTERPARTY So... where were you after the school festival officially concluded? Were you in the middle of a food coma? Were you trying to steal a giant sumo suit before they could be closed down? Were you caught on the ice of the frozen swimming pool? Drowning under the weight of discount flowers? Hopefully, you're not caught up in the craziness of a cleaning crew turned cleaning competition... or are you?
Either way, there's no way that this party is going to end with a fizzle.... but rather with a bang! Literally. The sky is lit up with a sudden firework, followed by another and anotherandanotherandanother-- except don't those... seem to be a little close? They're deafeningly loud and blindingly beautiful and perhaps that what covers up Lili's distressed screech of, "Those weren't authorized!" Hopefully all the little sparks extinguish in the air before they get too close... Kindly help make sure nothing catches on fire? Stand there and actually enjoy the show? Start a lawsuit for your sudden bout of blindness and deafness? Your move.
VI » WILDCARD ME UP For the record, there is a medical tent for anyone who gets a little tooviolentexcited during the events. And besides all the festivities mentioned here, there's also the typical bunch of carnival games and prizes, too. Maybe even a maid cafe. Also hey, is that smell of something burning... normal? Do we have a fire on our hands?! Or is there some other type of carnival gimmick that you really love but didn't get written up here? Feel free to make it right on up! Have fun, everyone!
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I'M YELLING TIMBERRRR
Or rather, that's Lili that Namazuo is suddenly crashing into and given the fact that she is Small and Unsteady, there's no way that she's going to be able to do anything about it as they're both going to fall right back down onto the bouncy floor.]
A-Aahh?!
[AUGH NAMA WHY THIS]
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Ah, Lili-san! I didn't see you there!
[If he doesn't sound sorry, it's because he isn't... look, at least he wasn't wearing his armor??]
This is such an interesting game!
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kick him....
off.....
tbh she'll still do it in 0.5 seconds if he doesn't respond to this warning:]
Get off me!
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[HE ISN'T A PERV he was just more interested in the bouncy castle... tbh... THEIR SHOUJO MOMENT, RUINED. Scooting back, he wobbles to his feet, holding out a hand for her to take--hopefully they won't just fall right back over??]
Are you having a good time, Lili-san?
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But she's just going to take a moment to breathe once her personal space is granted. Aahhhh, there was a boy on top of her, that's the wooooorst. Sure he's a sword but he looks like a boy!
Luckily Nama is... some kind of polite. So she's careful as she takes his hand at least, fumbling to get to her feet even as the force is definitely still bouncing beneath them.]
Better now, admittedly....
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But Namazuo probably isn't helping all that much, since he's still bouncing from one foot to the other. As soon as she's on her feet, he takes both her hands and starts to jump again, laughing happily.]
Wouldn't it be fun to live here?
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That said she's going to be surprised when he takes her hands?! A-Aaahhhh, who said that he could do that, they're not that friendly?! She's blushing before she can even stop herself and she can't pull away suddenly because then she'll just fall again?!
She's been trapped. Cornered. What does she treasure more - her pride or her personal space?
She almost doesn't hear his question.]
Wh-What...? What kind of question is that?
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He also doesn't realize Lili's having a miniature crisis, because he's too busy being a child.]
You could bounce everywhere you went! To the kitchen, to the bathroom, even your bed could be bouncy!
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Aaaahhhhh.]
Could you... ever get a proper drink though?
[Like - how would you make tea?
Why is she considering this?]
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[AND THIS IS A TRAGIC REALIZATION. His dreams of turning the citadel into a bouncy castle, dead and gone... he presses his lips together, the serious expression on his face all the more comical because he's still bouncing. SERIOUS THINKING BOUNCING.]
Maybe just the hallways!
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Would your ceilings have to be as high as this one?
[Are they really thinking of the architecture for an actually bouncy house.]
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I suppose it depends! If Iwatooshi-san or Tonbokiri-san lived there, then yes, they would have to be. But if it was just for tantous and wakizashis and master, then I don't think so!
[tiny haru is tiny]
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(She didn't check at all.)]
Well - don't you all always live together if you can?
[From what she knows of them...]
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Oh yes, of course. But we're rather secluded at home and we have quite a lot of open space around, so perhaps master Haru will want to make The Citadel larger!
[Not that he minds rooming with Honebami at all, but it would be fun to have a wakizashi lounge or something.]
And we could have bouncing tunnels connecting everything!
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Yet Lili's just going to shake her head softly at that, perplexed as she is.]
That sounds so troublesome... I don't understand how some of you are truly swords at all.
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[LOOK... okay, maybe it's not that practical considering the ridiculous choices of footwear some of these swords make, but--]
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[?????
but for real she's just so lost]
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Well, as a sword, we're meant to protect our masters, right? They're our family and our friends, and that's what we're made for. Protecting and taking care of them means making sure they're happy. And if they're having fun, that means they're happy.
[Another thoughtful hum, and then he nods, mostly to himself.] But now that we have physical bodies, there are all kinds of things we can experience now, you see? And since we're all together, we're like a family. My brothers aren't here, but I love my comrades and my friends, and I want them to have fun and be happy. It's like protecting them from sadness.
[Or... something like that. He doesn't usually stop to think about these things!]
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But it... makes a certain sort of sense. Again, she's reminded of Ayura and Tetora and how they pledged their allegiance to Lili in the past, doing everything that they could for her to be safe and happy, even if sometimes those were mutually exclusive and they had to pick one over the other.
So she nods after a moment, trying to take her hands back from him now that the bouncing has momentarily stopped.]
... I see. That's right - you've only had a body for perhaps a year, correct? Everything must still be very new.
[And... exciting! Things are still new for Lili, certainly, but she just isn't the type of person to get hype.]
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And a nod!] It's difficult to keep track of time, but yes, that sounds about right. And I haven't been here very long at all... sometimes it still feels like a very strange dream.
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Tilts her head.
The question is out of her mouth before she can even stop it.]
Has it been a nice dream?