015 | Sky Full Of Stars

[godsoffortune]

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

Pieces of paper called tanzaku have been strewn about a number of bamboo shoots all over the festival. There are brightly colored decorations on the bamboo and the papers themselves exist in every color of the rainbow as well. Attendees are encouraged to write down any wishes they may have and hang them from the bamboo, a normal Tanabata tradition. Wishes can range from 'I want a soda' to 'World peace' and anything in between. Obviously, some of these wishes may not be able to be granted during the time of the festival, but gods and shinki alike are encouraged to answer any wishes they can as well.

NOTE: Please report any wishes your characters answers to the first comment on this post along with a link to where the wish is answered. There will be small bonuses awarded for answered wishes.

The Bridge

As stated previously, the bridge that will allow Orihime to meet her lover touches down in the very center of the festival's street. It may be made of tiny pieces, but the bridge itself is sturdy. While it may not be able to take just anyone who sets foot on it across the Milky Way, you are allowed to walk along the bridge yourself, though you will always find yourself turned around after a short time and heading back towards where you stepped on. Lovers in particular are encouraged to walk the bridge together to deepen their bonds, but be cautioned! If you walk onto the bridge with someone, you might start feeling affectionately towards them even if they are your sworn enemy! Such is the power of love on this day.

In Summary:

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

Comments

[lookingforhead]

The helmet drooped pretty heavily now as Celty was getting more and more exasperated. But she offered to help and she was going to stand by that. With what looked like her head dipped down low she held out her phone straight on to carry her response.

'They don't work like that. It's just part of the helmet. Anyway where did you hear this voice? We should check in that direction.

[madcuriosity]

"OH! Well, I've never seen a helmet like that before... or... one quite like yours at all, to be honest. I beg your pardon then. You're not a cat, then? Why didn't you just say that?" honestly! She should have said that at the beginning.

"And I heard it in this direction," she gestured towards and past Celty. "It's very soft, like it's a little voice, not a distant one."

[lookingforhead]

Celty didn't think she particularly seemed catlike, outside of the helmet. Making a declaration that she wasn't one just seemed like...something extra?

In any case she wasn't here to have an argument over this, and instead turned in the direction Alice was indicating, looking about for any sort of small person or creature.

[madcuriosity]

She just got told she was a goddess, it wasn't the year 1865, nor was it England, and that she was going to have magical powers and the ability to fight evil spirits. The possibility of a cat person was definitely on the "high" portion of that list, Celty.

Still, it was important to find the cry for help. She cupped her ears and closed her eyes, trying to hear it above all the din.

"Help! Please!" she opened her eyes and pointed in the direction, grabbing Celty's hand. "This way I just heard it!"

[lookingforhead]

It would also be likely important to be careful of where Alice went on the internet once she discovered that, but that would be a peril for another time. At least she's making a new friend who can help be her online chaperone.

But in the mean time Celty is sincere in believing Alice about hearing the cry. Even if this wasn't the situation it was with gods and spirits, she'd still help a child in need and worry. So when the girl took her hand, Celty didn't hesitate at all in running with her.

[madcuriosity]

Alice wasted no time. She closed her eyes again to listen for the cry only to pull Celty in a certain direction. As they got closer, the cry for help got louder. While she heard the cry for help, clear as a bell, Celty was likely to only hear whining from that of a puppy.

For indeed it was a puppy, whining and "calling out" as he tried to the best of his ability to get out of a massive mud puddle. The poor thing sounded exhausted, every time it tried to lift itself up, it merely collapsed.

"OH YOU POOR THING!"

[lookingforhead]

Alice may have been hearing a more refined and clear call from the puppy, but as soon as Celty could see and hear it she was just as worried. Just because she was a headless woman with no heart didn't mean she didn't care. Especially when it came to animals in need.

Alice's cry called her to action and she stepped forward with a hand outstretched. Her shadow spread out as several tendrils, moving across the mud to the puppy where they began to gently wrap around it. Once it was secure she began to tug, gently pulling it out of the mud and to safety.

[madcuriosity]

Alice was quick to take the puppy into her pinafore, wrapping it up and getting the mud away from it's mouth and eyes.

"Shh shh, it's alright, you're alright now. You poor thing," the puppy then proceeded to explain how he got into the puddle of mud, how he had been chasing a ball. "Oh I see," she whispered, stroking his head. She turned back to Celty.

"Thank you so much for your help, miss." Since Celty had said she wasn't a cat, Alice no longer called her Miss Puss. "That was wonderfully brave of you!" Alice was now covered in mud, they both were, but she didn't seem to care.

Well, she DID care in so much as she rather LIKED the strange outfit and she hoped the mud would come out of the white, but she felt the puppy to be far more important.

[lookingforhead]

Celty was just as worried about the puppy as Alice was, even if she was so silent about it. It wasn't until she saw the puppy begin to calm in Alice's arms that she allowed herself to relax. She couldn't hear the voice of the puppy in the same way Alice was, but she was just as ready to accept it as the normal comforting chatter of anyone talking to an animal.

She nodded at the offered thanks and then fished out her phone once more. 'It's fine. I'm glad I could be of help. The puppy is okay, right?' A little mud could be washed away but a life in danger was always more important. That her kind was associated with death had nothing to do with how she felt on that.

[madcuriosity]

"A little dirty and certainly tired, but we can have that fixed easily enough," she smiled as she continued to wipe the mud from his face. "Would you like to hold him? He would like to thank you for helping save him," she smiled as she held up the little puppy, his mud-encrusted tail wagging as best it could.

[lookingforhead]

[Celty's nod is rather eager as the offer is made, and she reaches out to take the puppy in her arms.

Her shoulders wiggle as she takes in how cute he is, even covered in the mud, and she begins to gently pet the good boy. Trails of shadow follow her fingers, raking through the fur and helping to clear some of the dirt and much out of it.]

[madcuriosity]

She smiled as she watched the puppy, and then an idea occurred to her.

"Would you like to help me clean him up a bit? Maybe under all that mud he has a collar. Since you're not a cat, water shouldn't be any sort of problem!"

Alice, will you stop with the cat thing?

[lookingforhead]

It is a bit much for a running gag, but at the same time water isn't a problem, no. Celty nodded, happy to help with that bit of the cleanup, but for now she was content to pet and brush the mud out of the fur of the rescued pupper. Finding water would be Alice's job, especially if they had to ask somebody for it, but Celty was all in favor of seeing this puppy cleanup through.