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

Stalls

[fortune_detective]

[Naoto had just had another near-perfect accuracy round at the cork gun game. Looking rather triumphant and please with herself, she then realizes that there's someone else who's been waiting to play.]

Oh, my apologies for monopolizing the stall. Would you like give it a try?

[mersunary]

[There’s a moment after Naoto turns to her that Soleil feels… a little stunned? Is this a sort of feminine looking guy? Or a handsome looking girl? Regardless of whichever happens to be right, this is definitely a heart-pounding encounter! What a cute person…!

Her surprise likely doesn’t bleed through to her expression, though her excited and cheerful smile softens to one that looks a little more grateful and wholeheartedly charming.]

If you’d be kind enough to show me how to use that, [And, here she lets her focus drop to the cork-gun for a moment before looking back up to Naoto.] I’d love to give it a go.

[fortune_detective]

Oh? Sure, I wouldn't mind demonstrating.

[Takes a stance, her dominant foot back, her forward foot pointed at the target, the stock of the gun resting against her shoulder, and her back elbow raised. She explains the fundamentals of where to put one's weight while handling a firearm, the significance of keeping your eyes and forward foot pointed at the target, and how the elevation of the elbow help provides stability and accuracy.]

Finally, it helps to take a breath in, hold it while aiming and firing, and to then exhale once the trigger is pulled.

[She then slides out of her shooting posture, and offers the cork gun to the young woman.]

I hope that was not too much too quickly?

[mersunary]

[The pacing isn't much problem, though given the largely foreign concept of the gun in the first place, she does actually have to focus on keeping up with the demonstration. Then again, paying attention to someone's movements isn't a complicated concept either, and Naoto has her attention captured pretty thoroughly through the explanation.

This is information she can, at least for the time being, commit to memory as best she can...!]

I think I've got it! [She sounds confident of it, if nothing else. She accepts the gun, sort of weighing it in her hands for a moment before moving to try and mimic the stance that Naoto had taken.] So, sort of like this, right? [Give her a second to check her own footing, and maybe shift around a bit.]

[fortune_detective]

[Continued on the Tanabata Overflow.]