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The Springtime Fair Event!
WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Recolle Square
WHEN: May 20-21
WHAT: The Springtime Fair!
WARNINGS: None, but PM if this needs to change
Springtime Fair Begins! The Booths and Rides! (May 20-21)
As Spring continues blossoming around the city, Recolle Square becomes very crowded for some reason; that reason being the annual Springtime Fair!
As most of the residents enter Recolle Square, they notice many kinds of booths and rides scattered around the park as volunteers and booth owners set up to start the fair. And since the theme for this year is the American Style Cultural Festival, they see many classic rides such as the Tilt-A-Whirl, Merry-Go-Around (with Chocobos instead of horses, obviously), the Ferris Wheel, and much more. Not to mention the carnival games and delicious food lined up in most of the booths as well with booths like "Yamazaki's Paris" and "Satellite's Pizza"!
With all of the booths and rides that the fair has to offer, you have a feeling you will have a great time that Spring has to offer in it's remaining time this year!
The Silent Auction (May 20/Morning)
Due to the Recolle Zoo and Aquarium's Endangered Animal Preservation sponsoring this year's fair, they have a plethora of auctions to you to bid on.
One of the auctions is a silent auction being held on one of the stages in the venue where you can bid on blind gift baskets. The contents of the gift baskets is a mystery, but the announcer did explain what you can get such as a month supply of donuts, some cute plush toys, anything you can think of from the sponsors! However, there is a chance you may get something you actually don't need, so if this happens, feel free to give it to someone who does need it, e.g. when you get a week supply of cat food when you're actually a dog person.
You may be tempted to peek in some of the gift baskets backstage, but where's the fun in that? Don't try to peek if you're not one of the volunteers and organizers or security will kick you out.
The Service Auction (May 20/Afternoon)
At 3:00 PM after the silent auction, most of the residents as well business owners and employees gather in front of the stage as the Service Auction is about to start. Once it does, you see that the tables used for the gift baskets are cleared as the announcer declared the Service Auction as well explaining the rules regarding the bids and the fees are given for their services. If you notice the whiteboard before you take your seat, you can see the list of participants available to bid as well the services they will offer as well the order of their appearance to bid on.
>> Dr. Arataka Reigen (Service: A free homeopathic consultation!)
>> Chloe Bouchard (Service: Yard Work/Gardening, professional level)
>> Rin Matsuoka (Service: One-man Personal Training Bootcamp!!! Get Fit Get Swole 100% On the Grind Etc. Also swimming lessons.)
>> Donald Maxwell (Service: Handyman and delivery services)
>> Terra Mason (Service: Hard, manual labor such as moving your furniture, paint your second-floor bathroom, basically anything! He can also teach you about the civil war, or make you somewhat fancy alcoholic beverages.)
>> Nui (Nadine) Harime (Service: Wardrobe consultation, custom tailoring to make your clothes actually look good on you, and/or sewing for one one-of-a-kind spring fashion item.)
>> Eleanor Lamb (Service: Handyman! Fix your gate, your lawnmower, appliances, electrical junk. Eleanor's good at putting stuff back together. Or...taking it apart, if that's your flavor.)
>> Penelope Raban (Service: Photoshop, Computer Repair, Debugging, or writing a simple program/phone app/etc.)
Judging by the services they offer, you can tell how either useful they be and/or how much fun you will have with them. Just make sure you watch your budget during the auction. Otherwise, you might not able to afford their fees!
Regardless, some of the proceedings (with special conditions from some of the participants) will go to Recolle Zoo and Aquarium's Endangered Animal Preservation, so at least you’d give some help to the cause.
[NOTES: To all of the participants listed above, you are free to decide on the fees as well as who won the bid on your character on your service auction prompts!
To everyone else, don't be afraid to make your top levels about how your character is watching the auction. But if you want your character to bid on your intended participant, make sure you go to their top levels as soon they are posted to bid one of them!]
The Pet Show Preparations (May 21/Noon)
The next day, the stage has been redecorated with bone banners around at the top of it along with some bones and ball props placed around the stage for this year's Pet Show. Not only that, a huge mat has been spread in front of the stage along with a obstacle course for all of the participating small and big pets alike while the audience can watch the events in front of them behind the rope line with several seats lined up for some guests who don't like to stand up all day while watching the show.
If you signed up for the Pet Show, you will spend time in the backstage area before the show, as you not only try to groom your pet for the cameras and the judges outside but try to calm them down before the big event begins. Thankfully, you are allowed to bring anyone with you to help you prepare your little (or big) star, from acquaintances to friends to siblings to other family members.
Let the Pet Show Begin!(May 21/Afternoon)
Once it hits 3:00 PM, the announcer then declares in a showman-like manner, "Welcome one and all to our annual Springtime Pet Show!"
As the show begins, the audience cheers in excitement over seeing some cute and cool pets walking down the obstacle course while the three judges wait to watch and decide on which cat, dog, or another animal will win this year.
Of course, as you are called into the field with your furry friend, you will try to help them out in two rounds. For the first round, you will not only have the chance to show off your pet but to also have them show off their talents or any tricks they learned. For the second round, it's just a standard agility round with the only rule is to pass through the obstacle course as fast they can. However, some parts of the course, such as the tunnel and the teeter board, turn out to be defective for some reason, but that's nothing that your pet can handle, right?
The Mishaps (May 21/During the Pet Show)
Of course, just when you think this pet show will go smoothly, you turn out to be wrong. That because just as the talent portion of the pet show starts, you witness some of the Chocobos run the obstacle course and start wreaking havoc such as pecking on some of the participants and guests' heads, running around the field aimlessly, and of course, causing some of their pets to panic and run away.
As the organizers and volunteers are left shocked and confused by this turn of events, one of the volunteers steps up and explained everything, revealing that the Chocobos were supposed to be for the petting zoo for today's event, but one kid got a little too curious with them and accidentally released them from captivity.
Whatever the case, your only two options are to either run away from the Chocobos or help out the volunteers and organizers round them up before most of the stage and booths are destroyed.
Pet Show Winners (After the Mishaps)
After the chaos has been dealt with, the MC returns to the stage unscathed from any animal hijinks. He is still shaken up by those Chocobos, but the show must go on.
With that, he then opens the envelopes that one of the volunteers gave him and reads it before turning his attention to the audience in order to declare which pet managed to impress the judges and the audience enough to win.
"Now then, third place goes to Zaveid Taleb's tuxedo cat, Fred, second place goes to Hitori Togusa and his white miniature schnauzer, Daisuke!
And now for the first place and winner of this year's Pet Show is..."
With a long drumroll that one of the volunteers is doing (How did he get those drums into the stage in 5 minutes anyway?!), the MC then opens the last envelope and reads the contents.
"Mohammed Hefaz with his budgie, Whitney!"
Once the winners are declared, the audience cheered in excitement for the winners while some of them are a little disappointed that their favorites lost.
As for the participants, they were either are happy or disappointed with the results or cheered their pets up. Still, there's always next year!
[NOTES: Just a reminder of the pet show prizes in case you didn't read the replies:
1st Place: $200 gift card to The Towers, $100 gift card to a known pet food brand, and two tickets to Recolle Zoo and Aquarium
2nd Place: $50 gift card to a known pet food brand, 3 new cat or dog toys
3rd Place: 10% discount to selected pizzas from Satellite's Pizza or Yamazaki's Paris.]
Aftermath (May 21/Evening)
Well, other than a little Chocobo mess back there, this year's Springtime Fair ended off with a bang. With most of the guests start to reflect yesterday and today's events, most of them help out the organizers, volunteers, and booth owners on cleaning and packing up everything.
But despite the chaos that has happened earlier, the organizers and volunteers are happy to hear that raised quite a lot of money for the Animal Preservation Program from the auctions and some of the booths, which can be a happy ending to this crazy weekend.
But no matter how you experienced the fair, at least you have fun, right?
With that, thank you for coming and we'll hope to see you in the next Springtime Fair!
WHERE: Recolle Square
WHEN: May 20-21
WHAT: The Springtime Fair!
WARNINGS: None, but PM if this needs to change
Springtime Fair Begins! The Booths and Rides! (May 20-21)
As Spring continues blossoming around the city, Recolle Square becomes very crowded for some reason; that reason being the annual Springtime Fair!
As most of the residents enter Recolle Square, they notice many kinds of booths and rides scattered around the park as volunteers and booth owners set up to start the fair. And since the theme for this year is the American Style Cultural Festival, they see many classic rides such as the Tilt-A-Whirl, Merry-Go-Around (with Chocobos instead of horses, obviously), the Ferris Wheel, and much more. Not to mention the carnival games and delicious food lined up in most of the booths as well with booths like "Yamazaki's Paris" and "Satellite's Pizza"!
With all of the booths and rides that the fair has to offer, you have a feeling you will have a great time that Spring has to offer in it's remaining time this year!
The Silent Auction (May 20/Morning)
Due to the Recolle Zoo and Aquarium's Endangered Animal Preservation sponsoring this year's fair, they have a plethora of auctions to you to bid on.
One of the auctions is a silent auction being held on one of the stages in the venue where you can bid on blind gift baskets. The contents of the gift baskets is a mystery, but the announcer did explain what you can get such as a month supply of donuts, some cute plush toys, anything you can think of from the sponsors! However, there is a chance you may get something you actually don't need, so if this happens, feel free to give it to someone who does need it, e.g. when you get a week supply of cat food when you're actually a dog person.
You may be tempted to peek in some of the gift baskets backstage, but where's the fun in that? Don't try to peek if you're not one of the volunteers and organizers or security will kick you out.
The Service Auction (May 20/Afternoon)
At 3:00 PM after the silent auction, most of the residents as well business owners and employees gather in front of the stage as the Service Auction is about to start. Once it does, you see that the tables used for the gift baskets are cleared as the announcer declared the Service Auction as well explaining the rules regarding the bids and the fees are given for their services. If you notice the whiteboard before you take your seat, you can see the list of participants available to bid as well the services they will offer as well the order of their appearance to bid on.
>> Dr. Arataka Reigen (Service: A free homeopathic consultation!)
>> Chloe Bouchard (Service: Yard Work/Gardening, professional level)
>> Rin Matsuoka (Service: One-man Personal Training Bootcamp!!! Get Fit Get Swole 100% On the Grind Etc. Also swimming lessons.)
>> Donald Maxwell (Service: Handyman and delivery services)
>> Terra Mason (Service: Hard, manual labor such as moving your furniture, paint your second-floor bathroom, basically anything! He can also teach you about the civil war, or make you somewhat fancy alcoholic beverages.)
>> Nui (Nadine) Harime (Service: Wardrobe consultation, custom tailoring to make your clothes actually look good on you, and/or sewing for one one-of-a-kind spring fashion item.)
>> Eleanor Lamb (Service: Handyman! Fix your gate, your lawnmower, appliances, electrical junk. Eleanor's good at putting stuff back together. Or...taking it apart, if that's your flavor.)
>> Penelope Raban (Service: Photoshop, Computer Repair, Debugging, or writing a simple program/phone app/etc.)
Judging by the services they offer, you can tell how either useful they be and/or how much fun you will have with them. Just make sure you watch your budget during the auction. Otherwise, you might not able to afford their fees!
Regardless, some of the proceedings (with special conditions from some of the participants) will go to Recolle Zoo and Aquarium's Endangered Animal Preservation, so at least you’d give some help to the cause.
[NOTES: To all of the participants listed above, you are free to decide on the fees as well as who won the bid on your character on your service auction prompts!
To everyone else, don't be afraid to make your top levels about how your character is watching the auction. But if you want your character to bid on your intended participant, make sure you go to their top levels as soon they are posted to bid one of them!]
The Pet Show Preparations (May 21/Noon)
The next day, the stage has been redecorated with bone banners around at the top of it along with some bones and ball props placed around the stage for this year's Pet Show. Not only that, a huge mat has been spread in front of the stage along with a obstacle course for all of the participating small and big pets alike while the audience can watch the events in front of them behind the rope line with several seats lined up for some guests who don't like to stand up all day while watching the show.
If you signed up for the Pet Show, you will spend time in the backstage area before the show, as you not only try to groom your pet for the cameras and the judges outside but try to calm them down before the big event begins. Thankfully, you are allowed to bring anyone with you to help you prepare your little (or big) star, from acquaintances to friends to siblings to other family members.
Let the Pet Show Begin!(May 21/Afternoon)
Once it hits 3:00 PM, the announcer then declares in a showman-like manner, "Welcome one and all to our annual Springtime Pet Show!"
As the show begins, the audience cheers in excitement over seeing some cute and cool pets walking down the obstacle course while the three judges wait to watch and decide on which cat, dog, or another animal will win this year.
Of course, as you are called into the field with your furry friend, you will try to help them out in two rounds. For the first round, you will not only have the chance to show off your pet but to also have them show off their talents or any tricks they learned. For the second round, it's just a standard agility round with the only rule is to pass through the obstacle course as fast they can. However, some parts of the course, such as the tunnel and the teeter board, turn out to be defective for some reason, but that's nothing that your pet can handle, right?
The Mishaps (May 21/During the Pet Show)
Of course, just when you think this pet show will go smoothly, you turn out to be wrong. That because just as the talent portion of the pet show starts, you witness some of the Chocobos run the obstacle course and start wreaking havoc such as pecking on some of the participants and guests' heads, running around the field aimlessly, and of course, causing some of their pets to panic and run away.
As the organizers and volunteers are left shocked and confused by this turn of events, one of the volunteers steps up and explained everything, revealing that the Chocobos were supposed to be for the petting zoo for today's event, but one kid got a little too curious with them and accidentally released them from captivity.
Whatever the case, your only two options are to either run away from the Chocobos or help out the volunteers and organizers round them up before most of the stage and booths are destroyed.
Pet Show Winners (After the Mishaps)
After the chaos has been dealt with, the MC returns to the stage unscathed from any animal hijinks. He is still shaken up by those Chocobos, but the show must go on.
With that, he then opens the envelopes that one of the volunteers gave him and reads it before turning his attention to the audience in order to declare which pet managed to impress the judges and the audience enough to win.
"Now then, third place goes to Zaveid Taleb's tuxedo cat, Fred, second place goes to Hitori Togusa and his white miniature schnauzer, Daisuke!
And now for the first place and winner of this year's Pet Show is..."
With a long drumroll that one of the volunteers is doing (How did he get those drums into the stage in 5 minutes anyway?!), the MC then opens the last envelope and reads the contents.
"Mohammed Hefaz with his budgie, Whitney!"
Once the winners are declared, the audience cheered in excitement for the winners while some of them are a little disappointed that their favorites lost.
As for the participants, they were either are happy or disappointed with the results or cheered their pets up. Still, there's always next year!
[NOTES: Just a reminder of the pet show prizes in case you didn't read the replies:
1st Place: $200 gift card to The Towers, $100 gift card to a known pet food brand, and two tickets to Recolle Zoo and Aquarium
2nd Place: $50 gift card to a known pet food brand, 3 new cat or dog toys
3rd Place: 10% discount to selected pizzas from Satellite's Pizza or Yamazaki's Paris.]
Aftermath (May 21/Evening)
Well, other than a little Chocobo mess back there, this year's Springtime Fair ended off with a bang. With most of the guests start to reflect yesterday and today's events, most of them help out the organizers, volunteers, and booth owners on cleaning and packing up everything.
But despite the chaos that has happened earlier, the organizers and volunteers are happy to hear that raised quite a lot of money for the Animal Preservation Program from the auctions and some of the booths, which can be a happy ending to this crazy weekend.
But no matter how you experienced the fair, at least you have fun, right?
With that, thank you for coming and we'll hope to see you in the next Springtime Fair!
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...maybe Minako would look at her like that someday, too.
But what could have happened to Ryoji? He seemed rather bulletproof.]
What happened?
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I don't want to say too much, since it involves him, but. He recovered a terrible ability that belonged to the other Ryoji-- his past self, I guess-- and he got upset, and scared. He was so scared he'd put all his friends in danger, so he left to try and get it under control. It's been a few days now, and I got past the crying fits so...now onto the anger fits, I guess.
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Minako's words echoed too loudly against Lucy's thoughts, her worries, her memories. Glimpses of strange corpses, piled in a strange corner in a strange house and—Lucy not caring.
She cared now.
Was that a...past life? Stepping around bodies on the way to the damn fridge?
By the end, Lucy's hands were balled into fists at her knees, clutching the fabric of her skirt. A...distraction. Something to distract from this, yes. That was all.]
...when the anger fades, what will you do?
[Asking for a friend.]
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Be a little sad again. Be a little mad again. But be a little less sad and mad each time until the only thing left is a desire to understand and to make things better from here on out for him. [Because Minako is still talking about Ryoji, after all, even if she suspects she might have just answered for something else, too.]
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...I couldn't do that.
[Lucy rubbed her thumb over the felt between the plush's horns, an idle fidget. There were a lot of things she didn't understand about her roommate, about...people in general. How Minako could just...do that, without being afraid of the quiet nothing that was waiting for the anger to quench.
...but this wasn't about her. Or shouldn't be.
There were too many suspicious pauses in her voice.]
Was his...past self, that terrible?
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You don't have to. You're allowed to do things at your own pace in your own way. [A deep breath, as the question comes.] Whoever that other Ryoji was, he...was definitely capable of terrible things, yes.
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...no. Not now. Minako had enough to worry about. It would be fine.]
There's nothing wrong with who he is now.
[Annoying, yes. Obnoxiously cheerful, yes.
A bad person?
No. Even Lucy thought that was preposterous.]
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[She bites her lip.]
And I can't-- seeing what the other Minako saw, I can't deny that he is, the way he is now. But I also know he wouldn't do anything to hurt anyone else on purpose. He's so gentle, but now he's taking on so much guilt and blame...I'm angry at myself that I couldn't help him more, before he decided to leave to take care of everything on his own.
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She couldn't bring herself to say something like 'I'm sorry' or 'That's awful'; they seemed empty, or so self-evident as to be ridiculous. Not helpful. And it wasn't just Minako she was worried about, selfishly.
'Capable of terrible things.']
You didn't know.
[Lucy's voice was stiff as her shoulders.]
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[She stares down at her lap, then impatiently rakes a hand through her hair.]
There's nothing I can do about him leaving now. Well-- there was, but then I finished the game. Now all I can do is wait and hope for the best.
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Did he leave the city?
[Minako must have tried to find him; Lucy would have, if someone important to her went missing. Even if they could do scary things.
She wasn't good at letting go.]
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I don't think so. He's hiding somewhere, really well. He still texts me every couple of days, to tell me he's okay. So I just...have to keep faith that he'll eventually be back soon.
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Because that was also what she'd do, too.]
He'll be back.
[She didn't know that. It felt like lying. But...she needed to say something, something helpful, something useful. Letting the conversation fade off into empty air would have been worse.
Lucy shifted a little in her seat, and finally glanced up at Minako. She reached out again, still a bit tentatively, to rest her hand on the other girl's shoulder. It felt more genuine than trying to say anything else.]
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Yes. Thank you, Lucy. I'm just being a worry wart, I guess.
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With her free hand, she picked up the sheep plush. It was large, but mostly fluff; it didn't weigh much. She plopped it into her roommate's lap, as a round felted distraction.]
You should show Freya. I think she'd like it.
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Okay, I will.
But after that, I want you to have Twinkle Toes.
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[And Lucy froze, mind a bit short circuited. She didn't...she didn't expect that. Or know how to answer that either.
Please hit her reset button this process is taking a long time to complete.]
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[Pause for an answer, and when none is forthcoming--]
...er, Lucy? Do you not want it? I won't be offended if you don't.
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No, I—do, but-
[She withdrew both hands to cover up her face, like she could keep any further embarassing noises behind her teeth.
Her ears were steadily blending in to her hair.]
Just—
[Someone gave her something?? Minako gave her something???]
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It's a thank you gift. For pulling me out of my angry mood.
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Don't...don't tell anyone I did that!
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Did what, help me?
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That I made a noise like that!
[Or blushed, or got stuck in a flustered loop, or—]
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