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[OPEN] FLOWER FESTIVAL
Who: Open Log (All)
Where: Point-à-Tarte
Summary: A festival of flowers.
Warnings: N/A
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.
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.
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.
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.
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[Were he someone else, Haruka would at least attempt to smile or laugh it off, maybe casually turn the topic onto other things. And maybe he'd be up to his own brand of reassurances if he weren't still too busy processing the fact that he's gone from fighting flying eyeballs on a plane back to a mundane festival on the ground.
Lonán's words at least get him a little more focused; everything's still a bit shaky, but he can dust himself off and get to his feet again, anchoring himself a little more with each brisk movement. First, he checks on the tulips to make sure they haven't been crushed -- priorities. Then he stops to think for a moment.]
Maybe I didn't get enough sleep? [it's as much an excuse as it is an actual muttered thought to himself; some particular phone problems are to blame for that issue, but it's easy to gloss over] I'll just go to bed earlier. Sorry.
[--that's directed at Lonán. He'd been planning to head home as early as he could, anyway, but this complicates things a bit.]
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You too, huh? [He hadn't really gotten back to sleep after that....disaster of a hallucination. Don't think about it. Talking about it just brings more headaches and gut-wrenching dread.] Don't apologize, just get some rest. Getting sick now of all times would be the worst.
[Haruka still seems a little out of it. If Lonán sticks around to make sure he gets home okay, can he still get back to the dorm before curfew? It would be cutting it pretty close...]
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More importantly, he wants to make sure that won't happen again anytime soon-- if something like that vision hits at the dinner table, he's going to get carted off to the doctor's no matter how much he prefers to avoid that -- so he has to consider something other than going home right now.
(You, too, Lonán said, but his response slides away in the wake of a sudden hammering pain in his skull. He has to wrinkle his nose a little, but it's probably best to ignore it in light of everything else going on.)]
... Maybe I'll get some tea from the cafe before it closes. I don't think it's a cold, but...
[It's entirely whim, but the tea itself is a good soothing remedy for both headaches and whatever else is going on, and he can help a bit with cleanup before he leaves. It'll take his mind off things, and back to where it's supposed to be.]
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Better to not let it turn into one, then. I'll go with you.
[He turns, feet already moving back toward the cafe. There isn't a lot of time left before curfew. They'd better get moving.]
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[Haruka begins to protest, reflexively -- even if it is the beginnings of a cold, he's normally healthy as a horse and not so given to serious illnesses, and he'd feel bad pulling him away from the festivities when he's normally at the center of them -- but Lonán is already moving ahead through the crowd and it's a little difficult to shout above the buzz of everyone appreciating the fireworks and talking excitedly about what they want to do before sunset and for the next week.
By the time he manages to catch up, the cafe is already in sight and that... is probably that. He wonders if he should put this as another tally in the 'Lonán is mysteriously really good at getting his way' column. Maybe it's
Maybellinea King thing.He's distracted, anyway, by the realization that his friend has somehow managed to acquire more flower crowns than he'd seen him with earlier today. That is most definitely a King thing.]
... If you're here, I think they're going to give you more of these.
[Many of the employees have already been decorated throughout the day, and there seems to be no end to the amount of flower weaving the staff can do during downtime.]
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It takes him a moment to figure out what Haruka means. ...Oh, right. flower crowns. He adjusts the trio on his head with an exaggerated sigh.]
I'll do my best to survive. I think I get fewer the less I fight it.
[Some people want him to look ridiculous, some people (mostly his fanclub) want him to wear their crown and no one else's.... He's expecting to have worn maybe thirty different flower crowns by the end of the festival, honestly.]