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Summer Festival in the MGU
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.]
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We had roles we could give, too. I didn't know about Hugo or the killers at first. I only made my role to try to help keep people from dying who were innocent. There were a lot of limitations. I was worried saving people would make the world unstable. So anyone Nier told wouldn't be able to be saved, and whoever it was couldn't know they would be. He had to tell me at the start of the week, too.
But Nier is... he's too good, I think. A little like you. [hehe] He was angry about the limitations because he wanted to help everyone, so he started telling anybody he could...
[Riku sounds TIRED. But maybe a bit fond.]
Hugo had the people who needed to kill to keep people from being assimilated. Iris had... they were sort of like detectives. Annie had a role that could make a rule people had to follow...?
But... I get it. Doing all of that work... just to learn it was a game for someone's experimental amusement. It wasn't your fault though, Sora. Even if he was someone you think you might've known.
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It worked that way for us, too. The role that Goat gave Xie Lian meant that he had to pick one person per week to protect, but they couldn't know they were protected or they could die anyway. We had to keep a lot of secrets in the last couple of weeks we were there. Once we all found each other and knew what teams still had to meet the minimum, we were able to tell him who to protect so we could rig the trials and vote for that person. Then we could save them.
[sometimes...you have to cheat.]
...I don't know if I blame him. We should always try to help everyone, shouldn't we? [nier was right and sora's gonna say so. he's never met nier, but kin recognizes kin, etc.]
Let's see...Tiger had the King, who was Emet-Selch. He got to make a rule each week we all had to follow. Goat had the Knight, Xie Lian, who could protect one person a week. Rabbit had the Bishop, Clementine, who could check once a week who was on what team and if they had a special job. Fox had the Rook, Blanca, who could stay awake on Thursday nights to help look for clues about the murders. Wolf had the Pawn, Rufus, who got assigned tasks every week and sometimes would be asked to kill people if they splintered or something. And then Swan had me as the Queen, and I already told you what my job does. We didn't have a dedicated Leader that was assigning killers. All six of them had to go around asking us to make sure we were doing what we were supposed to do.
[but...there's a frown.] I know it's not, but...I dunno. I thought it was finally over, and then we learned it was this guy who was doing tests to try and do something to our worlds? I don't even know what he meant about our hearts being in the same place, so how am I supposed to even find him? [annoying!!!] I know we will, but...I don't want him hurting other worlds before I can get there.
["I don't want him hurting my friends before I can save you again." goes unsaid.]
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Sounds like you all had your work cut out for you.
[But Sora is here. (Haha... "here".......) So that means Sora and the rest managed to do what they needed to do to make things right. Typical Sora. But he really wouldn't have it any other way, honestly.]
Sora... [Stupid best friend. I can't remember if he even has a free hand, but whatever, he puts a hand on Sora's shoulder to offer it a squeeze.] Don't worry. I'm sure we'll find him, and we'll get answers about what he's after, and what he's up to.
He made it sound like it wasn't so bad, but... I don't buy it. Especially if he's using other people to try to run his experiments.
...If he's doing something bad, we'll stop him, too. Just... don't do it alone, okay? I know that's rich coming from me, but... I'm saying it because I know. Sometimes, you don't have a choice to do things on your own. I get it. But if you have friends, it's okay to let them help you.
[Feels stupid. Telling Sora "I love ALL my many friends" Kingdomhearts to rely on friends.]
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It's probably bad if he knew about Xigbar. [...right, wait.] We had to fight everybody in the Organization again. But the last time we saw Xigbar, he said that someone had promised to bequeath a Keyblade to him. I don't think he meant Xehanort, but he must've meant that other guy. He said he didn't have anything to do with the Organization but he implied he knew about the people involved.
[...riku says to rely on his friends, and it's not like sora couldn't use the reminder. they all could. sora usually relies on his friends, but sometimes he does his own thing.]
We'll figure it out. You and Kairi are still together. I trust you guys.