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

[divinacommedia]

It's fun! [he takes a step- almost like a bounce and now he's behind her, walking away a bit.]

Come on let's go do some things here at the festival!

[happyends]

... They won't feel pain..?

[ Madoka, unlike Fuuko, is not a starfish expert. ]

[menial]

Well, I don't know for sure, but they probably don't have enough nervous system to do that, right?

[Neither is Kyon.]

[etudes]

[ w-- wah, don't leave her alone now..!! ;; ]

B-.. Battler-kun.. [ PATTERING AFTER HIM?! ;A; ]

What do you want to do..?

[howsmashing]

Hmm. Maybe I will.

[He looks around the area a bit.]

Any of those strength test things around here. Ya know. The one with the hammer and bell. [Because those are super fun to do!]

[howsmashing]

[... He doesn't get it. Why do you keep pestering him to stay here, little girl!]

You're not gonna let this go are you... [Though admittedly. Hulk isn't very used to people wanting him to stay... Well. Anywhere. Or being invited to anything. So her being persistent that he stays to the festival is taking him by slight surprise.] Fine. I'll stay.

[allseeingdeath]

..! O-of course not! [ Lies. ] I just want to let more people hear you, that's all! Really!

[whimsicalwinds]

[. . .

just.. eying that cup...]

..E-eh? Are you sure that's a good idea...? [Do you even know who made this and if they knew what they were doing..?!]

[justicereigns]

Thanks kid. I bet this will be one everyone will be talking about for months to come.

[justicereigns]

Tch. Sure, but those are easy, anyone can do them. How would you like to try one with a little more skill?

[justicereigns]

What? Hmph. Him? Hardly. He's not my only head-case here though.

He's been... [Side glance.] A bit more subdued lately.

[godbent]

Oh he wanted to show you around. I see! That's really considerate of him, wasn't it!

[de_bel_survivor]

I don't mind going first.

[Watching the targets carefully...]

Which prize do you want?

[blessingone]

[Well, she temporarily regains her balance and manages to just barely maintain it as Sophie points determinedly in yet another direction -- "Wanna eat that." -- and Fenimore laughs as she mock-protests:] We can't go everywhere at the same time.

[That might be about as un-awkward as it is liable to get.]

[blessingone]

Uh, that's a little much....

[A lot much, actually. Not that Sophie minds the look of it. While her expression remains rather lineface, her eyes are shining in a way that only the child of an anime-styled video game can.]

[de_bel_survivor]

Got it!

[AND LOOK AT HIM CLIMB! He did put some streamer in his mouth, leaving both of his hands free to climb.

Almost at the top...!]

[menial]

['ALERT ALERT ALERT']

She's showing me around! I'm not showing her around!

[hisdarkmark]

I suppose that makes sense...though that sounds like you're planning on leaving sometime soon.

[hisdarkmark]

Seems like she picked a good time then, especially considering the summers here. I'm impressed. I didn't think she had it in her to plan so well.

[happyends]

.. Hmm.. I don't know. Maybe I should ask Fuuko-chan about it later, she seems to know absolutely everything there is to know about starfish..

[emp3thy]

[Minato seems to be having a similar thought, and so at that moment he snaps two pictures in quick succession. Hopefully one will turn out well.]

[emp3thy]

Sometimes, yeah.

[starfishlovesyou]

[OH EXCELLENT! Uhm... Il est cinq heures moins le quart?]

All the more reason to not go calling your starfish something that might make you want to take a bite out of it! Similarly, names like Cookie and Biscuit are also not allowed. And Fluffy, starfish aren't fluffy!

[starfishlovesyou]

Isn't it a compliment when someone thinks you're younger than you actually are? [...] Actually, never mind. There are plenty of people here who probably think Fuuko is a child. That's just rude.

[This part of the plaza is also getting coated in coloured streamers.]

You're big, yes, but there are even taller people than you who are even younger! There are probably some people here shorter than Fuuko who are even older too.

[starfishlovesyou]

[OH KOUKI YOU SO COOL~ Ew now there's going to be drool all over the streamers. Welp at least no one will really see them that high up...]

You're amazing Kouki-san, Fuuko could never climb that high without getting scared!