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

[liuli]

[ oh, her clothes look liangese... he has no idea who this is, but a pretty lady is a pretty lady, so. gu yun leans down to affix the flower behind her ear, nestling it in nicely with her hair. ]

There. Perfect.

[fishingforcompliments]

[oh! hm. she almost starts to draw back - her ears... - before forcing herself to go very still again. perhaps the poof of her hair will hide the way the tips of her ears are pointy.]

Ah, thank you! [she smiles] ...pardon my asking, but are you Gu Yun, by any chance?

[she's literally only asking because he's one of the few other fantasy chinese-looking people here that she doesn't already recognize i'm sorry.]

[liuli]

[ jokes on you im into that shit

no im kidding. when flayn says his name, gu yun blinks at her, once, and then smiles, very charming. he might just think it was someone who knew him based on the clothes but not a single damn person in great liang has green hair so. ]

I am. Does my reputation proceed me?

[fishingforcompliments]

Oh, um! A young woman and I were discussing some similarities in the places we had been, but we were unable to determine if we'd recently come from the same world or not. She said that I had her permission to, ah... harass you, if I saw you.

[so


yes?]

[liuli]

[ oh. well, his first thought is shi qingxuan! however, as flayn continues, and gets to "harass", he huffs a laugh. ]

Lup. No?

[fishingforcompliments]

...I believe so, yes!

[me just like, realistically, they'll have exchanged names before this probably]

Lup said that she had been to a place called Liang, but I must admit that I spend most of my time within Ghost City in Zhongguo, so if there is such a place, I have never been to it. But we spoke the same language!

[liuli]

[ he tilts his head - but 'zhongguo' does in fact ring a bell, and gu yun snaps his fingers. ]

Ah. Yes. That place is one adjacent to my homeland - different worlds, but remarkably similar cultures. I spent much of my time with someone from there on my own little adventure. Great Liang's far more advanced than Zhongguo is, by a difference of some two to three hundred years, I believe? Though I'm not sure how well Shi Qingxuan's judgement of the passage of mortal time could be trusted.

[ gods, ] You aren't the first to make such a connection - it's a shame, it would be nice to make your acquaintance on more familiar territory, miss.

[fishingforcompliments]

[honestly, don't trust shi qingxuan's judgement of anything.]

Oh, I see...! How interesting.

[two hundred, three hundred years... well, honestly, if she ever does visit great liang, she will in theory be able to go back to zhongguo and see if they match up after that amount of time.

huh, now where has she heard the name shi qingxuan before...? eh, it'll come to her later, maybe.]

I suppose, given that there are many different worlds out there, it is not so surprising that there would be some that are similar to each other. It would be nice to visit them all, someday! ...although that would likely take quite a lot of time...