Summer Festival in the MGU

[crashout]

Wherever you are, whoever you are, one minute you’re at home minding your own business and the next you’ll see a shower of sparkles before you blink and find yourself teleported elsewhere.

The elsewhere, it seems, is an open grounds lined with stalls, pathways and gardens. Lanterns light up the pathways in soft glowing oranges and pinks, and even though it’s evening the weather is warm and enjoyable for a fun summer festival.

As you set off to explore, you’ll find that there are countless stalls with every type of treat you can imagine from a variety of cultures (including some from your own home worlds, strangely), all of which smell delicious and enticing. There are other stalls available with different carnival games as well. Go ahead and give it your all! Win a prize for that special someone, or just keep trying out of sheer stubbornness. Other stalls seem to be selling wares such as clothing, household items, flowers, and other things that can be given away as gifts. It seems that every time you look around, a new stall opens, almost as if this festival is responding to your every wish.

Speaking of wishes, there’s a small cluster of bamboo trees nearby as well, tables set up with baskets of arts and crafts supplies to write your wishes on the colorful paper and tie them to a branch. It’s a sweet thought, no?

And of course, what’s a festival without fireworks? Every now and then fireworks will light up the night sky, bursts of color in fun shapes such as stars, hearts, faces of people you know, whatever! Sparklers and bubble wands can also be found to play with throughout the evening near the viewing gardens. Flowers bloom and cover the area, though the paths lead to several small alcove-like areas and gazebos for those of you who wish to have a little romantic privacy. No matter where you are though, you’ll always be able to see the starry night sky.

Do try to play along and enjoy yourself for the evening. It’s only when the last firework bursts several hours later that you can actually leave anyway. Have fun!

[ooc: you know the drill, past mg characters from any of our past games, please don't make me list them again but go nuts.]

Comments

[evocationary]

[you can find lup (redacted, or rings, your choice) in several places!

first, she's out by the fireworks, sitting on the grass. she's got a sparkler of her own, and she's got a mage hand writing curse words in midair. she's also sending her own fireworks up into the air, and those are usually less obscene and more like... symbols. an umbrella, a big floppy wizard hat, an axe, a shark. if you catch her in the act, she just grins at you.

there's also a point where she's curled up writing a wish on one of the papers. upon running into her doing this, she immediately shoves the paper down her shirt. what? what paper.

she can also be found harassing a poor food stall worker.]

Are you sure you used the right amount of cumin? I can barely taste it, my dude, you have to change your recipe because this ain't it.

[liuli]

Perhaps your palate isn't sensitive enough?

[ comes a very teasing, familiar reply from behind lup. ] I could taste it fine.

[evocationary]

[wouldn't it be funny if i gave you redacted lup]

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Do you even have tastebuds?

[liuli]

[ something something gu yun has been told someone loves him many times but no one ever showed it something ]

I do, in fact! I'm as clever with my tongue as the rest of me. [ bad ]

[evocationary]

Are you. Well. I'm taken, buddy, but the flirting is appreciated and noted.

[enfangs]

[white is a nosy asshole, so]

What were you writing, huh?

[evocationary]

Noneya! [be lucky she didn't shove the paper in her mouth]

[enfangs]

[NO!! HE'S NOT DROPPING IT!!!]

C'mon, now you're just making me even more curious!

[evocationary]

[wouldn't it be funny if i gave you redacted lup

no she just makes a face at him!!!]

None ya business. If you tell wishes, they don't come true. [...] You have to trade me.

[toyska]

[



flicks water at her from somewhere]

[evocationary]

[sets his dumb shirt tail on fire]

[toyska]

[HEY]

This is a little excessive, don't you think?

[evocationary]

It's just a little fire! Don't be a baby!

[ambiography]

[boy, that's a familiar voice harassing this stall worker-- lucretia is at a nearby one, but hearing lup? that has her attention SO fast. she's caught up at home but like, she knows where she's seen a lot of these people before, so. what the fuck.]

--Lup? Lup, what are you doing here?

[evocationary]

[she startles about forty feet into the air, and immediately forgets about this poor harassed shopkeep because this is more important.]

What - hello? Lucretia? [???] Oh boy. Oh jeeze. Okay, uh. Hi.

[ambiography]

I-- yeah. Hi.

[what are they both doing here thouuugh. what the fuck.]

Where-- where did you come here from?

[evocationary]

Well, home, but I get what you mean. Uh.

... How about you tell me which one you were from first, before I get into the whole, uh. The deal. [sweats]

[reconnective]

[well it's hard not to follow the sound of her voice, so sora comes around the corner most likely holding some sort of sugary garbage half in his hand and half in his mouth before he raises both eyebrows and grins.]

Hey, not everybody can be as good of a chef as you are. I'm sure he tried his best. [this is said in the tone of a boy who is trying to help but ultimately will defer to his mom anyway.]

[evocationary]

[HELLO? FUCK THE SHOPKEEPER it is son time now

she hears sora's voice and squawks a bit before turning around to see him. immediately beaming.]

Sora! [and she puts her hands on either side of his face!!] Did you get taller? Stop getting taller.

[reconnective]

[the shopkeeper is probably grateful for the assist, but it's not like sora cares? he has priorities! his priorities are his mom, actually, so he immediately grins back even while she grabs his face. it just means that he starts laughing though.]

I'm still growing! You can't be that surprised. [he says, like he actually got taller and that it's not wishful thinking. but he seems pretty excited to just be here in general.]

[evocationary]

[ohhh, her face is just, unrelentingly fond. she loves this kid.]

You're not allowed to be much taller than me. [she pats his cheek, and then tugs him into a hug? c'mere.]

[doublebladed]

[roxas...genuinely has no idea what the fuck is even going on here. there's a lot of people? there's a lot of people and a lot of activity and he's really kind of just wandering around and trying to figure out what the heck to do. it's why he ends up near the bamboo, and he's about to turn his head and ask the closest person where the exit is when the closest person happens to be lup.

shoving a paper down her shirt.

so he...kind of stares at her uncertainly.]

...um?

[evocationary]

[it happens! sometimes you shove a paper down your shirt.]

Yeah? What are you looking at? [a beat. this boy is like, vaguely familiar. weird. anyway.]

[doublebladed]

I'm not actually sure. [hm. that is to say he's busy kind of glancing at the bamboo again, along with the papers.] Are papers supposed to go on trees like this?

[and not down people's shirts?]

[evocationary]

It's likely! I'm not sure why. Never come across this tradition before.

[a beat.] Are you going to?