Shining In The Sky ★

[starfishlovesyou]

Who: You! Everyone!
What: The Starfish Festival
When: April 14th, all day
Where: All around the plaza
Summary: It's finally here, an entire day dedicated to celebrating the starfish and spending time with friends. Have fun!
Rating: ★ Please accept this!
After months of planning and roping in poor, innocent people to help out with some of the work it's finally done. An actual festival, all for the starfish.

The morning of the 14th mostly consists of people arriving, the stalls being brought in and decorations being put up. It's all about the preparation! Most of the decorating consists of banners and streamers you might find at a school festival, all hung around doors and windows and between the buildings in the plaza. And star shaped pieces of card being stuck up here and there in places too. If the decorations don't tell you what's going on then the banners saying 'STARFISH FESTIVAL' certainly will.

Come midday the festival is in full swing. There's plenty of food at many of the stalls (either prepared by Fuuko and the other girls or brought in by other villagers) ranging from cake, ice cream and different kinds of sweet things, to starfish tea, sandwiches, all sorts of festival fare. There are a few games set up too where it's possible to win starfish related prizes like pins, badges and even plush toys and some stalls are even giving out wind chimes. Finally there's also a little entertainment provided with music being played in the background throughout most of the festival. (You should totally go listen to Kotomi giving her very own violin recital.)

By night time when most of the food is gone there will be a fireworks display to bring an end to the festival. Hopefully the Starfish Festival would be a day to remember!

(You didn't need to receive an invite in order to come, that was just the girl's attempt at getting word of the festival out there. The festival is open to anyone and everyone to come along and have a good time.)

Comments

midday chap

[cherishedmiracle]

[And while Ragna is eying those games, Nagisa is going to POP UP and say hello. She's very happy to see that he actually came..!]

Ragna!

[rageface]

[Everyone is really getting the jump on him today. Sneaking up on him like he has no awareness of his surroundings. Maybe it's just that everyone here are a bunch of ninja, but that's not the point. At least Ragna isn't too startled.]

Hey. Sure is something you guys set up here.

[cherishedmiracle]

[It's because they all love you, Ragna... But yes. Nagisa smiles brightly.]

Do you think so? I'm really happy you came! Are you having fun?

[rageface]

[Ragna raises an eyebrow at that. Fun? All he's been doing was standing around and staring at people and attractions. That's not exactly the definition of fun. But he doesn't want to hurt Nagisa's feelings, because he gets the feeling she put a ton of work into this.]

I guess you could say that. I just got here. [He's been here for awhile.]

[cherishedmiracle]

[He could very well be having fun if it weren't for the fact that he's just standing around and being a party pooper okay.]

Oh, really...? So you haven't gotten to play any the games or anything yet?

[rageface]

[That's no fun! That's a slow death thanks to boredom!!!!]

Not really. Is there really that much to do?

[cherishedmiracle]

[That's his fault!

She nods.] Mm, of course! There are lots of games, and there's lots of good food as well.

[rageface]

[NOT HIS FAULT AT ALL.]

Mind giving me a hand looking around? You helped out, so you'd know your way around, right? [Ragna isn't lazy, okay. Just aloof.]

[cherishedmiracle]

[lies]

Eh? Um... Okay! I wouldn't mind doing that. [It sounds like fun, really.]

[rageface]

[Does it truly sound like fun, Nagisa. Does it truly?]

Well... I guess point me to best thing around here.

[cherishedmiracle]

[Well duh of course!

But okay fine! Nagisa will look around for a moment, and then point at a whack-a-starfish game.] Um... I think that game's a lot of fun! [It's also the only one she's decent at.]

[rageface]

[Hi, Ragna isn't paying much attention and kind of only glances.]

What is it?

[cherishedmiracle]

[rude]

It's called um... Whack-a-Starfish! Have you ever played a game like that before, Ragna?

[rageface]

No. [Hi again, Ragna doesn't get to do much on his free time back home.] But it sounds self-explanatory. I just punch them, right?

[cherishedmiracle]

[...Oh, Ragna. Nagisa laughs a bit and smiles.]

N-no, you don't punch them... [She walks over to the game, and holds up the little mallet] You have to hit then with these.

[rageface]

Just with that? Doesn't that make it too easy? [Seriously.]

[cherishedmiracle]

[She nods.] Does it...? It still seems a little difficult to me..

[rageface]

They're giving you a weapon for free. Pretty easy if you ask me. [Ragna shrugs, walking over to the game and giving it a good look over.]

[cherishedmiracle]

Well, otherwise you would have had to use your hands... And that would have hurt, wouldn't it? [Punching starfish like yeah. She follows Ragna along..!]

[rageface]

Yeah. Makes it kinda hard, doesn't it? [Should he give the game a shot? He looks at it, uncertain on whether he should try or not. Yeah, he can talk that it's a piece of cake, but he's not sure if he can actually manage to do this just right.

He hasn't been having much luck with games in Luceti lately.]

[cherishedmiracle]

I guess so... But that would also make it painful for the people playing it, and would injure them. [And that wouldn't be very fun, would it? Unless the player was a masochist or something. But Nagisa probably doesn't understand masochists anyway.]

Are you going to try playing it?

[rageface]

[She totally doesn't want to understand masochists. It would blow her mind.]

I guess. Unless you wanted to give a shot first.

[cherishedmiracle]

[She should find out one day--]

N-no, that's fine! You can go first, Ragna. I've played it a bunch of times before, so..

[rageface]

[Good thing Ragna doesn't know firsthand--!]

Fair enough. [He takes the mighty mallet that is supplied to the warriors who undertake this life-threatening challenge, wielding it like he would wield a blade.] When does it start?

[cherishedmiracle]

[Well he's got Jin and Nu...!]

It should--Oh! [...The starfish are already starting to pop up, Rags!]