thenearshore | 015 | Sky Full Of Stars

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015 | Sky Full Of Stars

Who: Everyone!
What: Tanabata Festival
When: All day July 5
Where: The Near Shore
Summary: The Heavens are throwing a party and you're invited!

Edit: OVERFLOW is here!

With Tanabata drawing close, the Heavens have decided that there is nothing wrong with a little celebration for the annual occasion. So they have invited everyone on the Far Shore as well as a large number of people from the Near Shore to attend a festival for Tanabata. Tanabata festivals are not uncommon in this area, so the Near Shore residents are none the wiser, though some of them are a little uncertain about where this street they've never heard of popped up from...

Tanabata is a festival held to celebrate the one time a year that the lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi can meet across the vast expanse of the Milky Way. Many birds have been working their tail feathers off to create a bridge for the two lovebirds and that bridge - perhaps unsurprisingly - touches down on this street, in the middle of the festival.

The Heavens have prepared entertainment, food stalls, and as many tanzaku as might be needed for everyone to write down wishes, along with plenty of bamboo stalks to hang the wishes from.

New arrivals will find themselves ushered to the festival and offered traditional clothing after their normal briefing at the Meeting Hall.

Stalls

There are festival stalls of every kind present, all run by shinki dressed in white robes and bearing the golden chrysanthemum of Amaterasu. Many of them seem a little bruised still, but they are happy to smile for anyone who comes to the stall they are running. There is food, games, and drinks available of all kinds, so feel free to roam around to your heart's content sampling everything that you can.

Performance

A large stage has been erected at one end of the festival street. The Heavens know that there are many talented gods and shinki present, so they are more than willing to clear spots in the scheduling for those people to perform. Anytime a Far Shore resident isn't on stage, there are plenty of Near Shore acts to go on, ranging the gambit from traditional music and instruments all the way to a rock band that has somehow found themselves here for the celebration.

Wishes

NOTE:

The Bridge

with

In Summary:

Enjoy the festival
Watch some quality entertainment
Make and/or answer wishes
Meet Orihime
Traverse the bridge
Have fun~

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[STALLS PT 1]

[ Usually games were all about luck and chance, and while that might be true in most instances, at festivals like this, there was always that one stall that wasn't quite on the level. The one where, no matter what anyone did, they could never seem to win.

Long story short, it's a good way to make money hand over fist.

But there seems to be a crowd forming around the stall, for the Chosen One has apparently arrived. With a small pile of prizes beginning to form, there appears to be someone in a multicolored kimono sitting at the bench, a look of deep focus creasing her brow.

The booth owner stands there with a somewhat perturbed smile on his face, his thick arms crossed as he watches this tiny girl fleece him.

Legitimately fleece him.

There was no cheating here; just a woman who, after stalking the booth perhaps a lot longer than she really should have, figured out the trick and was going to unmask this cheating cheat for what he was. It was a desire bordering on obsession. And, well, part of it was the thrill of competition.

Okay, a lot of it was the thrill, let's not fool ourselves here.

But it looks like things might turn sour fast, judging from how the booth owner's smile seems to fall a little more each time he has to hand her something new. It might be a good idea to drag her away... ]

[STALLS PT 2]

[ So somehow she manages to make it away from ~~her new obsession~~ the game area unscathed, and with quite a few new friends. The toys she's managed to win thrown into a bag, it would seem the shinki is finally realizing that her need to unmask the cheater for what he is might not have been wise.

What in the world is she going to do with all of this? It's just going to clutter up the church... (Well, maybe she would keep one of the larger ones for Timcampy to sleep on, at least)

Oh look, it's a person, and their arms look miraculously unencumbered by strange, brightly-colored plush animals. How fortuitous. ]

Excuse me.

[ Lux is all smiles as she approaches with her little technicolor sack, like she's some strange Santa Claus. Only smaller, less round, and with a sunflower in her hair.

Swinging her bag around, she pulls out some random animal(?). ]

Here! Happy Tanabata!

[ It's a thing! She might actually know what it is! (Spoilers: no she doesn't.) ]

[CLOSED TO ROXAS]

[ Sometime after she's off-loaded at least most of her spoils of the evening (she's kept a couple for gifts; someone has to like... whatever this is, the blond shinki finds herself at a pavilion not too far away, a few slips of colorful paper sitting in front of her.

A pen in hand.

Not writing.

In fact, she looks a bit uninspired, a hand rested at her cheek as she sits deep in thought, turning ideas over in her head. These were like prayers, weren't they? Or at least similar? ]

Is it all right to do this..?

[ She isn't talking to anyone in particular, but it is loud enough to be heard. ]

[CLOSED TO GOTEN]

[ Okay, so writing down wishes, as arduous a task as that proved to be, over with, Lux proceeded to the next "stop" of her festival tour: Food.

She wasn't a big eater per se, but the odd thing about being a shinki, the smell of it was beyond tantalizing. Her stomach roaring to life, demanding some kind of penance for walking around so long without trying anything, Lux flits about from stand to stand, looking to see what they have.

Everything seems so interesting, and admittedly, she's distracted. Sorry, Goten, hopefully you're watching where she's going, because the blond was about to barrel right into you. ]

Ah—!

[CLOSED TO ALLEN]

[ On the sixth, he would find something slipped under his door. A simple note in a light blue envelope, written in what would be familiar handwriting to him. ]

Allen,

I have heard that festivals are best celebrated together, and as this is my first, I want to make sure to remember it fondly. Won't you join me?

Lux

The details for where and when he would find her are unsurprisingly well thought out. Late into the evening, in what would be a somewhat secluded area near a stream. And when he did choose to arrive...

A large lacquered box sat beside her, alongside two other containers filled with some kind of round treat. There were a few other things sitting there beside her—what looked to be slips of paper and... were those some kind of fireworks? A lantern light sits at her other side.

Her back turned toward him as he approaches, she doesn't seem to notice at first, her chin tipped upward as she looks at the stars. Ah, it was getting a bit late... ]

[WILDCARD]

[ Got an idea? Hit me up at

pearlescent! ]

[ But Lux...

They're leaving from the same place to the same place. (Is a note to meet later... really...?)

Well, he's going to presume that she had other people she wanted to meet up with first and probably so many things going on she needs to schedule herself...... It is Lux, after all--that'd make sense. She tends to have a busy schedule she makes for herself with these kinds of things.

But he's a bit surprised to see where the directions lead. So remote... did he end up in the right place? He was expecting it to be somewhere in the middle of all the festivities. (And it's probably as late as it is because he's really not the greatest at following directions.) But no--there was Lux and....

..........packed lunch??! ~~omg~~ (Festival food but that's even better.) ]

[ Timcanpy leaves ahead of him and she'll notice the golem first as he drifts up from behind and bobs over her shoulder in a playful, lazy loop. Like a small gold omen--or distraction as Allen kneels to sit next to her with a smile a moment later. Carefully. Kimonos (yes, not a yukata) aren't something he's used to sitting in. ]

I'm not late, am I...? [ It's a bit bemused though, with a soft sort of smile and bright eyes. Lux, what were you planning really with all this...? Rather, she had planned all this? (Those look like fireworks even.) ]

[ Being someone who can't seem to sit still, yes, she had quite a few social obligations throughout the night. But more than that, the reason why she was so insistent on cramming everything that she could into this one night, why she decided to write him a note instead of saying something when the three of them were getting ready—her fussing with his obi and having absolutely no idea what to do with it, before eventually pleading with Link to help the both of them (because seriously how do you wear one of these things)...

Sometimes it's easy to forget to step back and take a breath. To do something for oneself. And, more than that, for someone who remembers nothing of her past, and knowing how much that bothered not only her, but him as well, she couldn't not do something.

To create a memory together. One she wouldn't forget.

...........and yes of course there is packed lunch, she knows what you're about Allen.

Seeing Timcampy float by, Lux smiles brightly, a small giggle escaping her. ]

Well, someone got here on time, I see.

[ She holds up a hand for Tim to perch on, should he so desire. Although, there was something else sitting there not too far away. Something a bit large, a bit rotund, and extremely yellow, looking more like a beanbag than an actual stuffed toy.

Turning her head toward him, she offers Allen that bright smile as well, although it's dialed back slightly. Earnest and genuine, but also very grateful. Not that she didn't expect him to meet her, but, well...

You two talked, didn't you? If he was smiling like that, then that means it went well, right? She could only hope. ]

Only somewhat fashionably.

[ She kids, she kids! And moving over slightly, she gives him room to sit. ]

I had no idea the view here would be like this. We'll be able to see the fireworks here, no problem.