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

[stillnot]

[ hell yeah, zombie deathworld survivor buddies. ]

Dunno. I think it's like some law that every world likes to put cartoon faces on food.

[silentscout]

It might be to make sure we don't eat it. But that's silly, nobody would accidentally eat a pillow.

[Still, he'll hold onto it! Maybe Kissa will like it.

Speaking of which she is around, meowing at food stands to get tweats.]

[stillnot]

[ oh, kitty! clem isn't that enamored with animals, but that's still very cute. i hope kissa gets tweats. ]

... Yeah, I don't think anyone would try to eat a giant stuffed banana.

[silentscout]

[Kissa will get something later yes, there will be feesh.]

Or a stuffed tree. Not that people eat trees anyway.

[stillnot]

Tr--what?

It's broccoli.

[silentscout]

What's broccoli?

[And then, a moment later:]

I can guess it looks like that- [Gesturing to the stuffed broccoli.] -but what IS it?

[stillnot]

It's a vegetable.

Do you not have broccoli in your world or are you just a picky eater? It's good for you.

[silentscout]

We don't have broccoli in Finland. Dunno about anywhere else. Usually we eat potatoes.

[stillnot]

Heyyyy, that's an Earth place.

[ her, uh, understanding of geography means that's literally as much as she knows, but still! so many people are from magic places that this is notable. ]

... Huh. Do they seriously not have broccoli there?

[silentscout]

It must be too hard to grow. There's not much time for farming anything difficult, not between maintaining the walls and fences and keeping trolls away from the safe zones. There's plenty of sheep and fish and potatoes and tomatoes though.

[stillnot]

[ hm, concerning. ]

... Yeah. I know how that is. We've got a greenhouse where I'm at, but it's pretty limited.