22 - Harvest Moon Viewing

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Harvest Moon Viewing
When: September 10, 6 PM
Where: The Meeting Hall grounds
Summary: The Heavens are throwing a moon-viewing party!







Party Games

Children are dashing all over the moon-viewing grounds in the early evening, flying kites or playing tag and other games. Many of them are wearing cute seasonal rabbit masks made of paper, or sporting ink curlicues and scribbles drawn over their faces, if they've lost too many games.

Card games and spinning top battles, a few practice archery butts towards the edge of the park, poetry-composing competitions, and even badminton: there's something for everyone, and anyone who doesn't look too busy may find themselves offered a rabbit mask and a game to play. Or perhaps you'd like to try your hand at drawing people into your own game?

Moon Viewing

The moon rises not long after sunset, looming over the garden in hazy golden and red splendor thanks to the volcanic fumes in the atmosphere. The games are winding down as darkness falls, and the faint scent of burning incense fills the air as people settle to view the moon rise. Shinki in their festival best, adorned with Amaterasu's golden chrysanthemum, are serving the guests. They set out trays of fresh seasonal fruit (Japanese pears, persimmons, and chestnuts) and plates of mochi, serve sake, and light portable grills to cook sweet potatoes and skewers of meat.

Mazed & Confused

Part of the grounds have been rearranged into a hedge-maze made of tall, plumed grasses packed close together. A sign at the entrance reads, "Bring back my ribbon from the center of the maze,
and I'll give you a special prize!"

Unfortunately, that's harder than it sounds. The maze is full of dead ends, confusing turns, and twisty little passages, which all look alike. It's almost magical how easy it is to lose your way inside, and the tufted grass will prove to have painfully sharp edges if anyone tries to cheat by pushing their way through the "walls" of the maze.

Those who successfully find their way to the center will find a white ribbon fluttering from the top of a tall pole. If they can climb the pole, pull the ribbon free, and make it back to the entrance, they will hear the sound of a child's laughter, and the ribbon in their hand will disappear to be replaced by a round cake of mochi. Enjoy the prize!

Wild Moon

One of the children participating most energetically in the games of tag and dashing around the party is wearing an oversized gray hoodie with the hood pulled up right to the edges of his happy rabbit mask. He's not being very careful, either: he keeps bumping into other party attendees and barely taking the time to mutter an apology before he sprints away.

Although nothing noticeable happens at the time, anyone who's been tagged or bumped into by that particular child will begin to feel more emotional, quicker to react, and less self-controlled as the night wears on. Those who he only brushed by won't be too powerfully affected, but the more times that he has run into someone, the stronger the effect will grow.

(Note: This won't cause anyone to have emotions that they wouldn't feel otherwise, but both ongoing moods and temporary reactions could be amplified.)

In Summary:

• Play party games
• Relax with snacks
• Try to solve the hedge maze
• Go wild
• Have fun~

Comments

BUNNY RIDES

[challengesfate]

Oh...

[Those are...giant rabbits, and...Nepenhee? Where did she get such giant rabbits? Are they secretly Taguel? No, they don't...look like Taguel...]

How incredible! They're so big!

[Can she pet one is that okay]

[mylanceisbiggerthanyours]

[One of the bunnies does nudge her hand for pettings, so it seems to be cool with them. Nephenee just laughs.]

They are, ain't they? Ah got 'em last time Ah was here, when Ah was Radegast...Ah'd never seen such big ones before! But they're real good an' pretty smart!

[She had never thought of rabbits as intelligent before she came here, but these have proved her very wrong. Whether it's from being celestial rabbits or just rabbits in general, she has no idea.]

[challengesfate]

[GASP

she has been chosen

Lucina takes a lot of care in stroking the rabbit's head along the grain of the fur; having a cat has taught her how important this is.]

I have never seen rabbits of such size that were only rabbits...but I am not surprised to hear that they are smart.

[mylanceisbiggerthanyours]

[You shall now be the new king of Camelot!

Or at least a Bunny-Friend. That's your new title, Lucina. Princess Lucina of Ylisse, Bunny-Friend.

The one that has been most receptive, a fawn colored one, appreciates her care in petting her, and nuzzles into it a bit. And then one of the others decides it wants pettings, too, so it hops over to sniff at Lucina's clothes.]

Strong, too. They pull this sled with no problems at all.

[Nephenee helpfully pats the sled, then scratches one behind the ear, before looking at Lucina quizzically.]

...Whatcha mean by that, though? There were big bunnies that weren't jus' bunnies your way?

[challengesfate]

Yes! The Taguel. They are a race of people who can transform into large, strong rabbits to fight. There aren't very many of the Taguel left, but, I consider myself lucky to count both of them as friends.

[Well, Panne is more her father's friend...but Yarne is her friend for sure. A Rank support, yo.]

[mylanceisbiggerthanyours]

[Bunny people race. And they transform...
This sounds extremely familiar to her, or at least the last part does,]

Whoa...Ya...wouldn't happen to have other transformin' folks, would ya? Like...birds an' dragons and giant cats?

[challengesfate]

We have the manakete...they transform into dragons. But I've never heard of someone who could turn into a bird or a cat.

[mylanceisbiggerthanyours]

[Darn. Well, it was a small chance anyway, but it would have been nice to have someone from her world.

Nephenee tilts her head a little as she thinks how best to describe them.]

Well, Ah don't know how much it's folks turnin' into those...it's more like...

[Hm.]

Ah guess the 'beast' form is their native form. But there's a race back home called the Laguz, an' they can make themselves look either like their type o'laguz, or more like Beorc. Uh...guess ya'd call Beorc 'humans', but that was kind o'a slur back home.

Anyway...There's a few different types. There's bird Laguz, the Hawks, the Ravens, an' the Herons. They're not like your standard birds, though. They're real big, e'en when they're transformed!

[She helpfully stretches her arms out as wide as she can. They big.]

Uh, Beast laguz are lions an' cats an' wolves. An' Dragons are...well, dragons. They come in a few different sorts with different abilities, but other than that, they're all real big.

[Oops, that was a lot of talking.]

S-sorry, got a lil' carried away there.