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recolle2017-12-27 08:51 pm
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open || ring in the new year
WHO: YOU!
WHERE: Koyama Shrine and Tojimi Temple. I literally just made those up. Please assume they're one of the largest in the city.
WHEN: December 31st through the end of January, as well as one special coming-of-age event on January 14th!
WHAT: Celebrate the new year with everyone!
WARNINGS: None I can think of, let me know if this needs to be changed! BACKTAGGING IS ENCOURAGED.
I. THE COUNTDOWN AND NEW YEAR'S FESTIVAL
Main event: December 31st to January 1st;
Stalls: December 31st to the end of January
[Everywhere you look, people are in brightly colored kimonos, milling around the shrine and waiting for midnight. Don't worry about stumbling in the dark! Everything is lit by lanterns, and will continue to be even in the daytime, thanks to this month's odd lack of sunlight.
At any rate, there's plenty to do to kill time before the big event.
look around the stalls. There is cheap traditional festival food available, of course, like yakisoba, Japanese-style fried chicken, takoyaki and gyoza, grilled meat and seafood on sticks, okonomiyaki, cups of hot soup-- and that's just for dinner. There's also chocolate bananas, crepes, taiyaki, dango, and cotton candy. Hopefully you can taste all of it. And while Japan allows for drinking in public, America doesn't, so you better be drinking in designated areas and have a wristband on, OR ELSE.
for those who ate before coming, there's plenty of shopping to be done as well. Kimonos to rent, along with accessories, and various knick-knacks like festival masks, noise makers, and special Japanese crafts and fabrics.
or maybe you want to participate in some festival games. Try and catch some goldfish, do the ring toss, or pop one of the balloons on the backboard. The most dangerous game of all, of course, is the gatcha...pay money to pull a certain amount of paper slips from the box, and hope that one of them has a number for that thing on the shelf you really want. Don't worry, you'll always get a prize no matter what paper you pull! How nice that prize is, though, is up to the gatcha gods.
play the lottery wheel! And you thought it was the end of chance games. N o p e. For a small donation of two dollars (it all goes towards the upkeep of the shrine, promise!), you can try for a chance at the big prize: a giant kagami mochi to take home! Consolation prizes include omamori, or good luck charms, and tissue packs. Because you always can use tissues!
Once it gets closer to midnight, people will...start leaving the shrine. Imagine that! But no, it's because everyone is heading to the temple a five minute walk down the street, gathering near the building that houses the giant sacred bell. Get a smooch in if you want when the new year arrives, but after, it's time to line up to ring the bell. Take the chance to wish for good fortune in the new year, and hope that the bad karma of the last goes away! It's supposed to ring 108 times for symbolism, but don't worry, no matter how long the line is, they'll let everyone ring it once. Just get ready to wait for a while.
Done with that? Then it's back to the shrine with you! Now you can get back to your eating and shopping and games, but the staff have prepared everything else you need to do to finish off your first shrine visit of the year.
get in line to cleanse your hands at the water basin. There are no directions at this place, and other shrine goers seem to be walking right past it even after entering, so it's probably okay to skip it...? But if you watch other seasoned shrine goers carefully, you might figure out that you need to: scoop up water in a ladle with your right hand and pour water over your left hand, then do the reverse with the same ladleful of water, with the ladle with your left hand and pouring over your right. Some people also seem to be using the ladle to rinse out their mouths? But others aren't, so it's up to your character if they want to try.
get in line to pray at the main shrine. Once you approach the donation box, follow the directions on a helpful card on the side: toss a coin into the donation box, swing the long rope to ring the bell, bow twice, clap twice, pray to the gods, and then bow once before stepping to the side.
get in line to pull a fortune. For a small donation of one dollar, the shrine maiden will give you an aluminum container with one tiny hole in it. Shake it up, let one stick slide out, and then she'll give you a slip of paper that corresponds to the number on the stick. What omikuji did your character get? RNG to find out! 1 is best luck, 2 is great luck, 3 is good luck, 4 is average luck, 5 is half luck, 6 is small luck, 7 is bad luck, and 8 is w o r s t luck. It'll also have little blurbs and advice for various areas of your life, like business, school, love, family, and so on. If you have a bad fortune, tie it to the rack so that the bad luck doesn't leave the shrine with you!
get in line to have your shrine book stamped. Three dollars means one of the shrine calligraphers will write in your book and give you something like this. What purpose does this serve? ...none, really, unless you like collecting them as proof of how many shrines you've been. If you don't have a shrine book, you can buy one for ten dollars! It has an elegant, stylized image of a Recollé peach tree on the front.
get in line-- no, no line this time, but if you're looking for a quiet place to sit? The huge lantern lit garden in the back is a nice place to quietly ruminate about what you did in 2017, and what you hope to achieve in 2018.
If you can't make it on New Year's Day, that's no problem! The shrine is open the whole year round, so coming at a later date in January for hatsumode is okay. But you might come back a second time anyways, because...]
II. COMING OF AGE DAY
January 14th; Tojimi Temple
[The Sunday closest to January 15th is Coming of Age Day in Japan, where young adults at the age of 20 (or those who will become 20 relatively soon before the next Coming of Age Day) are formally acknowledged as legal adults. There's a lot of pomp and ceremony for those actual young adults that only family goes to, but you'll be able to see the spectacle that imitates a certain competition in Kyoto, where all the lady adults, in their extravagant kimonos, shoot arrows on the archery range in the back to see how far they can progress in the contest. It's more ritual than anything else, though actual experienced archers of all genders have their own competition. Maybe some of the horseback archers will make an appearance on the track too.
And where does that leave you? Well, aside from watching the contests, you can head to the other other archery range and shoot arrows too, of course! You don't have to be in a kimono to do it, though, if you don't want to be.]
III. WILDCARD
[Feel free to use this log for any other New Year shenanigans. Though remember, anyone exhibiting bad behavior will be ICly kicked out of the shrine and temple. If you have any questions, you can always find me at![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
raynestorm!]
WHERE: Koyama Shrine and Tojimi Temple. I literally just made those up. Please assume they're one of the largest in the city.
WHEN: December 31st through the end of January, as well as one special coming-of-age event on January 14th!
WHAT: Celebrate the new year with everyone!
WARNINGS: None I can think of, let me know if this needs to be changed! BACKTAGGING IS ENCOURAGED.
Akemashite omedetou! Happy New Year! If you're looking to celebrate in a traditional way, look no further than visiting Koyama Shrine and Tojimi Temple, one of Recollé's biggest and most popular religious sites. There's a variety of things to do throughout the first week of January, so why don't you come and visit? Pay your respects to the gods and pray for a good year.
I. THE COUNTDOWN AND NEW YEAR'S FESTIVAL
Main event: December 31st to January 1st;
Stalls: December 31st to the end of January
[Everywhere you look, people are in brightly colored kimonos, milling around the shrine and waiting for midnight. Don't worry about stumbling in the dark! Everything is lit by lanterns, and will continue to be even in the daytime, thanks to this month's odd lack of sunlight.
At any rate, there's plenty to do to kill time before the big event.
Once it gets closer to midnight, people will...start leaving the shrine. Imagine that! But no, it's because everyone is heading to the temple a five minute walk down the street, gathering near the building that houses the giant sacred bell. Get a smooch in if you want when the new year arrives, but after, it's time to line up to ring the bell. Take the chance to wish for good fortune in the new year, and hope that the bad karma of the last goes away! It's supposed to ring 108 times for symbolism, but don't worry, no matter how long the line is, they'll let everyone ring it once. Just get ready to wait for a while.
Done with that? Then it's back to the shrine with you! Now you can get back to your eating and shopping and games, but the staff have prepared everything else you need to do to finish off your first shrine visit of the year.
If you can't make it on New Year's Day, that's no problem! The shrine is open the whole year round, so coming at a later date in January for hatsumode is okay. But you might come back a second time anyways, because...]
II. COMING OF AGE DAY
January 14th; Tojimi Temple
[The Sunday closest to January 15th is Coming of Age Day in Japan, where young adults at the age of 20 (or those who will become 20 relatively soon before the next Coming of Age Day) are formally acknowledged as legal adults. There's a lot of pomp and ceremony for those actual young adults that only family goes to, but you'll be able to see the spectacle that imitates a certain competition in Kyoto, where all the lady adults, in their extravagant kimonos, shoot arrows on the archery range in the back to see how far they can progress in the contest. It's more ritual than anything else, though actual experienced archers of all genders have their own competition. Maybe some of the horseback archers will make an appearance on the track too.
And where does that leave you? Well, aside from watching the contests, you can head to the other other archery range and shoot arrows too, of course! You don't have to be in a kimono to do it, though, if you don't want to be.]
III. WILDCARD
[Feel free to use this log for any other New Year shenanigans. Though remember, anyone exhibiting bad behavior will be ICly kicked out of the shrine and temple. If you have any questions, you can always find me at
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[ yeah kasa-kun, be fucking grateful that someone's already briefing you about this instead of experiencing it for yourself firsthand and embarrassing yourself to a bunch of your peers. goddamn. ]
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Oh. [ . . . ] Weird, but... okay. I guess there's nothing really not-weird about all of this though.
[ ...mmm. tap tap tap... ]
Sena-senpai, do you mind if I ask what the school we go to is like? Um, I've remembered that it seems to be some sort of performing arts thing, and there are "units"... Hina said he remembered doing circus stuff? And he has gotten really acrobatic... [ okonomiyaki...~ ] Oh, I meant to ask you who else from there is on here too, since he and I and Ritsu were wondering about that...
[ ya wanna slow down your roll there??? ]
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[ he does appreciate ritsu's help but it could've been better, y'know. ]
It can be seen as a performing arts school, yeah. But it's actually a little more specialized than that. Yumenosaki is an school for idols, or at least most of its student body are composed of idols. And that means most of us belonged in idol groups - or units.
[ should he tell him about the war and traumatize the poor guy... probably not right now. the last thing sena wants is a kid getting actual ptsd over this. ]
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Idols, huh. [ ...he still can't believe himself being anything like that, so he sounds a little skeptical. ] I see. And there are "producers" as well, obviously, I guess.
[ After all, that "oneesama" was one, right? ...And she can't be the only one, right? That'd be insane. ]
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[ UNLIKE THAT HACK YATO YATOSON ]
I actually remembered someone like that in our school. A girl. It was vague, but she'd definitely gone to that school. It was a very vague memory though, so that's all I know.
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[ .............. ]
It's not important. [ nnnnope he is not telling his senpai that memory involved asking to kiss her. ] She's shown up in a few of my memories though, so I guess she and I must be... Must have been? On very good terms. ♪
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What do you mean it's not important? You have no say in that right now, Kasa-kun. It may not be important to you but it could be for me or for anyone else who's here in this city. Now cough it up.
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It wasn't important! It deeeefinitely wouldn't be important to you either! Or anyone else, for that matter! I promise!
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[ DO NOT TRUST ]
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...That'd be Nazuna, wouldn't it? Not you, Sena-senpai?
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in that case he's just going to swipe that stick of dango that you've been hold onto, tsukasa. ]
Rescind your statement or else.
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Or else what?
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don't mind if he just takes a bite of it, wincing slightly at the unfamiliar taste
you had it coming, kasa-kun ]
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well now he doesn't want it back, so. and he has plenty of other food, SO. he's gonna start on his grilled shrimp. how about that. ]
...You're not a bad senpai, Sena-senpai, and it isn't like Nazuna's really my senpai anywhere either, so that makes you a better one by default anyway, or something...