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

[fleurdesel]

[Basic festival games weren't her forte, but. They were simple enough to work out after a bit of instruction. The goal of this one seemed to be tossing hoops to hook over bottles? She wasn't certain. Adele does turn at Scorpius' approach and offers a respectful nod.]

Good afternoon.

[tellmejohn]

Good afternoon. [He'll just nod back because she did it before turning to inspect the game, his hands folding behind his back]

[fleurdesel]

Observing the festivities?

[Adele turns her attention back tot he bottles and tilts her head to the side, feeling out the weight of the hoop in her hand.]

[tellmejohn]

As a matter of fact I was specifically invited.

[fleurdesel]

A guest of honor, then. [A half smile, a thoughtful sound in the back of her throat, and she tosses the ring with a bit of a spin. It lands centered on one of the bottlenecks.]

[tellmejohn]

I believe that means you won.

[If he understand the game right]

[fleurdesel]

I must get all three rings around the necks of a bottle to win.

[She tosses the second ring in her palm up and down, considering her next throw.]

So I am a step closer, but could yet fail.

[tellmejohn]

[Oh, so he misunderstood. Which is mildly annoying but he'll just not mention that, instead watching her hand and then looking at the bottles. The anticipation is clearly overwhelming here]

[fleurdesel]

[She finds her target. Half a step back, she leans, throws, and lands the second ring. This probably wasn't what Gambit had meant when he'd started training her.]

[tellmejohn]

[...Ah. Nice reflexes. His hands coil behind his back, and he nods to himself]

[fleurdesel]

[The next throw is quicker, she has the feel of the rings now, and as before it lands centered around a bottle. Now she's won.

...but what is it she's won?]

...wind chimes. Lovely.

[tellmejohn]

Congratulations. [Sincerely. With a little smile which doesn't make him more inviting. But he'll reach out ahead to get said prize to hand it over to her. Because he's a classy bondage suit alien like that]

[fleurdesel]

[The chimes are accepted with a half smile and nod. A frivolous prize, but pleasant all the same.]

Would you care to try your hand at this?

[tellmejohn]

[Not really but. He'll bend and get some rings of his own, examining them for a moment with a nod before he casually throws one for exact accuracy. There, first down]

[fleurdesel]

[She was honestly somewhat surprised by his willingness to indulge in frivolity but; she does not let it show on her face. Though she is appropriately impressed with his first throw.]

[tellmejohn]

[A second similarly effortless throw nets him the next bottle. On this last one, he runs the thing around his hand a moment. Biding his time, containing his frustrations... He's always been a patient man. But this is absurd, even so]

[fleurdesel]

[Adele has to bite the inside of her cheek to keep from chuckling. Or smiling. There is just something terribly...out of place, about Scorpius taking part in such a simple and pointless game.]

[tellmejohn]

[Okay... so. Third casual toss, it also connects. And he... too. Gets a wind chime.

...] Would you accept this?

[fleurdesel]

I do not suppose you have much use for wind chimes. As it is they are not, by design, terribly useful.

[tellmejohn]

They are not... however, they are quite pretty, and the noise made by this one [And he leans in to it, moving it up. He shakes it a little right in his face before bringing it back down at a level to offer her] is quite melodious. It strikes me as suiting you, my good Doctor.

[fleurdesel]

I...[Don't. Quite know how to take that. Compliments are always odd and she's fairly certain this is a compliment.] Thank you Scorpius.

[She accepts the offered chimes, and now has a pair. One for the front door and one for the back. It does make her wax nostalgic for a moment, remembering chimes and the sound of the shore.]

[tellmejohn]

You're quite welcome. [With a smile. This one... still doesn't make him look more inviting. But he always has that going on. Delicious uncertainty. He was just getting rid of something useless, okay]

[fleurdesel]

Have you found the rest of the fair agreeable?

[When in doubt? Smalltalk. Awkward, awkward smalltalk.]

[tellmejohn]

Frivolous, actually, but as I was invited and find myself with an excess of time, I saw no reason not to come.

[fleurdesel]

Are not most celebrations frivolous? It brings comfort to those that need it, a sense of familiarity to those that want it, and an opportunity to observe both of those parties for the rest who do not care for it.