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

[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.