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cordibus ([personal profile] cordibus) wrote in [community profile] tornheart2017-05-21 11:57 pm

[OPEN] FLOWER FESTIVAL

Who: Open Log (All)
Where: Point-à-Tarte
Summary: A festival of flowers.
Warnings: N/A

" Ah... the Festival of Flowers while a dreadful deadline looms! Enjoy what normal life you may have left...soon you may long for the return of these simpler times..."

A week of celebration (General Prompt)

At Point-à-Tarte, at the edge of the largest park in Eddan, booths that have been worked on for the past week are finally being opened to the public. Colorful banners decorate every single tree and and even the dullest of areas are covered up in the most creative of ways.

The booths themselves have everything one could hope in a flower festival, from mountains of flower crowns and necklaces being given to every resident of Eddan for free to the flower-shaped candy to the city-approved businesses touting the latest and greatest of the upcoming flower technology. New flowers, some supposedly glowing under UV light and others made to look like galaxies, are being sold at eye-popping prices.

The food, as always, is delicious and fresh, with early spring greens and even flowers themselves being added to salads. The only negative to the entire festival (if one can call it that) are the giant counters displaying the remaining time before sunset that serve as a reminder of Eddan's strange nature.

Opening Ceremonies (Special Prompt)

Sunday's opening sees the release of over ten thousand 'floating' seeds into the wind, a promise from the city to continue to make Eddan the greenest city in the entire world. Each person coming to the festival is given tulip bulbs in a variety of colors to be taken home.

The mayor takes time to speak about the recent string of murders and assures the people that they city shall continue to be vigilant to make sure that its citizens are kept safe. This is greeted with cheers from most of the population. Even the rainy weather doesn't keep such a happy day down!

An hour before sunset, the opening ceremonies close with a fireworks show. Due to the fact that they must be released only during the day, the explosive components have been changed as to give the night varieties a run for their money.

As the bright lights fill the sky, those soon-to-be-Awakened may have a flash of a memory from their past lives, such as a happy moment they spent with someone close to them or a moment of glory. This will soon be drowned out by ringing in their ears. For a few, brief seconds, they may notice figures close by glow oddly, their forms becoming distorted, but before they realize what has happened, blinking returns their vision to normal.

The headache, however, lingers until bedtime.

Weekly contest (week prompts)

Royal Mount opens its WonderWorld Park to the public on Monday. For its opening week during the festival, the rides are all free.

Green Valley Organizes a flower judging contest for the various schools on Wednesday. Students are asked to present their most beautiful and unique flowers. Flower arrangements are also judged and with prizes evaluated at over 20 000 Macca, the stakes are high!

Eastmount offers rides in flower-shaped carriages driven by mechanical horses that could almost pass off as the real thing. (Though it is only the latest technology, thus keeping the entire thing animal cruelty free!)

The Giant Float Parade on Friday afternoon travels around the vast forest of Point-à-Tarte. Each school has been encouraged to enter its cheerleaders and theater productions into the parade. The Flower King and Queen greet visitors at the very end, throwing little presents for the children.

The festival continues until Saturday Nightfall. The schools visit the festival in turn, sometimes for education courses about the various flowers and trees that dot Eddan's landscape, sometimes to show off flower and plant-based sculptures that the various clubs have worked hard on.




seasonsofdeath: (Pharos [Curious])

[personal profile] seasonsofdeath 2017-05-24 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Akira, aka weird neighbor kid, is wandering mostly with his parents. But he is small and quiet and also not great at sticking close to the people trying to look after him, so he wanders over to the flower stand eventually. There is still a flower crown in his hair that he seems to either be entirely unaware of or just doesn't care.

"No," he says, quietly crouching in front of the flowers and just looking at them. ...That's it. That's all he's doing.
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[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-05-25 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay." Well. That's easy, then. If Akira wants to stare at the flowers, he's welcome to. Asher doesn't feel the need to say anything else for the moment, even if it does feel a little awkward.
seasonsofdeath: (Pharos [idk my bff Minako?])

[personal profile] seasonsofdeath 2017-05-27 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
There are a few long minutes while Akira just squats there, looking over the flowers very carefully. Even he's not really sure what he's looking for, other than he seems to be missing something about this whole thing. But eventually, he'll look up at Asher. "Why do you like flowers?"
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[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-05-29 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh?" He'd kind of zoned out in that moment of silence, and the question was surprising both because of that and because he didn't really have an answer.

"I don't know. I've never really thought about it. These are my dad's so I help out." He's not sure how much he would even say he likes them in general, even if there are some he thinks are really cool, like the blacklight flowers. "They're pretty, though, and some of them smell nice." It's as good of an answer as he can come up with.
seasonsofdeath: (Pharos [Curious])

[personal profile] seasonsofdeath 2017-05-29 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh." Hm. Akira looks up at him, finding his answer less than satisfactory. "...Do you have a favorite flower?" Is that an easier question?
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[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-05-31 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
He nods. That one, he can handle. He points to a corner of the display where there's some flowers set up under a blacklight, glowing neon colors.

"Those. They just look like normal flowers if they're sitting out, but when they're under the blacklight they glow like that. I've hardly ever seen anything like that outside of my dad's shop."
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[personal profile] seasonsofdeath 2017-05-31 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh..." That is pretty cool, and Akira goes to crouch in front of those instead. "How do they do that?"
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[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-06-03 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Well I don't totally understand it." He's not the one who runs the flower shop. Besides, him and science...

"It has something to do with using chemicals when you're growing them. I think it's about the same way some flowers can be dyed different colors."
seasonsofdeath: (Pharos [Surprise])

[personal profile] seasonsofdeath 2017-06-03 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"You can do that?" Akira didn't know about that... it seems pretty cool. Maybe he can dump some dye on his mom's flowers to make them nicer colors!
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[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-06-07 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
He nods vaguely. "You'd have to ask my dad about it, though. I don't really know how it works." He does know it's not quite as simple as just dumping dye on them, but since he can't read minds, he also doesn't know that he should maybe say that out loud.