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AUGUST EVENT PT 1
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→ 8/3-8/4 School Cultural Festival
Good morning!! The crows start cawing at the crack of dawn and they're really noisy, but while they're usually a nuisance on the best of days, perhaps the wake-up call will be appreciated this weekend, as the school gates are open over the weekend for the annual cultural festival the students have been hard at work on for the past few weeks. It's an open event for family and friends to come enjoy themselves, or perhaps get dragged into helping out in a booth or two, as some of the students have called in sick or can't be reached at all. Either way, the general commotion centered around the school is probably even loud enough to be heard all the way over in Castle Ouma if you're quiet enough. I don't know how else to get you guys who still live in the castle ruins over here... Hopefully you've been hearing people talking about it all of last month? Or maybe you're a newcomer who's just woken up in the castle ruins, spent ten seconds with Kokichi, and decided to leave the forest and never return, that's also very plausible.
Involving the elementary, middle, and high school buildings on their shared campus, all the typical sorts of booths can be found, including a school play performed by the elementary school students in the auditorium in the morning, and various concerts or performances held throughout the day. In the classrooms, food stalls and cafes are common, along with haunted houses for the braver souls. Rumors say that sometimes people who enter the haunted houses never come out the other side... but never mind that. It's fine. Sports clubs hold friendly competitions outside on the field, and many cultural clubs have displays of their work to show off in their club rooms, so there's plenty to do and see and eat all around campus. Despite all the preparation, however, some of the stalls appear to be empty, others with students frantic about not having enough people to keep things rolling smoothly. Looks like the strange illness going around town last month hasn't completely resolved yet, but maybe it's best for those who are ill to stay home in a crowded place like this.
For those seeking something quieter, tucked away in a corner of the high school building next to a struggling yakisoba stand is a fortune telling tent which doesn't seem to be getting many customers. The line is short and there's no fee, so why not give it a shot? Inside, a hooded figure sits, head bowed and face completely obscured in shadow aside from their chin, illuminated by a cheap looking crystal ball placed in the center of the table. A stack of cards lays on their left, a bag of something smelling faintly sweet and spicy sitting on their right. Without prompting, the fortune teller speaks in a low soft voice, greeting you by name. Weird. Weirder yet, they go on to address you by the arcana on your omamori, be it The Fool or The Hermit or what have you, and rather than answering any questions you may have about your future, the fortune teller instead offers one of two messages:
『To return to where you hailed, you must return to where you arrived. Take with you that which bears the name of the being you have banded together to defeat, and restore what once was.』
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『When the moon's face shines full and bright, at the cusp of night and day, return to the place of beginnings. Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai must be played, to return two lost souls to this world.』
Huh... Before you can ask any questions, however, your time is up and the next person in line is already pushing you out the seat to the exit. You can always return to the end of the line to have another go, but... curiously, when you enter the tent any subsequent times, a high schooler in uniform greets you, bright and chipper. Home? Souls?? She has no idea what you're talking about if you repeat the messages from before, but never mind that! She can read your fortune!! Maybe you'll let her show off some palmistry and— oh... your life line is rather short... Unfortunate. Never mind, we'll try tarot instead and- hm. That sure is The Tower. Oh well, time's up, next person please!
On Sunday evening as the festivities wind down, a bonfire has been set up in the middle of the field, adding to the unnaturally hot summer night. It's still pretty, though, with the sky dark and bright stars starting to peek out, blankets laid out across the grass and sweet potatoes being passed around to be roasted by the fire. Take the time to relax and breathe... because it's un/fortunately a festival month and the villagers are hype about their festivals.
→ 8/6-8/8 Tanabata Festival
- While the students had been hard at work setting up the school festival, the rest of the town had been preparing for the tanabata festival, with stalls set up encircling the entire lakefront at the center of town. Yukata can be bought or rented, along with traditional hand fans to ward off the heat of the summer, and many of the typical food stalls and carnival games can be found, including stalls where you can test your luck in scooping goldfish/yo-yos/other small plastic toys, shooting targets with cork rifles, attempting the rigged ring toss that's impossible to win without cheating, or playing the lottery with tickets for free food from the stalls as consolation prizes. Maybe your luck sucks and you just want to buy stuff and that's fine too. Come with full wallets and leave with full stomachs filled with yakitori skewers, sweet or savory dango, roasted sweet potato, and the seasonal favorite: shaved ice. It's seasonal because it's summer and summer is so hot. This particular summer feels like hell and halfway through the last day, they run out of syrup, but cups of plain ice are still selling very well, so... yay...
While some of the stalls are already heavy with decoration, others are pretty sparse, with the lack of people running them. Which is fine, or intended, because there are workshops held all around for teaching and encouraging people to make decorations meant to improve different aspects of one's life: paper kimonos for artistic ability, strings of a thousand paper cranes for long and healthy lives, paper purses for wealth, colorful streamers for handicraft, wastebaskets for cleanliness, and of course, tanzaku- paper strips hung up on bamboo trees for a wish to be granted by the gods. Decorations are judged for artistic ability, with a small prize given to the best decoration judged at the end of each night.
In the evenings, stages set out along the lakeside feature folk dance performances, and decorations are collected to be lit on fire and sent off in small boats in the lake, the collection of flames giving off a soft light as the paper burns down and turns to ash, reclaimed by the lake as they sink. A reminder from the townspeople to anybody who stands too close to the lake: please do not touch the water. On the very last evening of the festival, a fireworks show is held, shooting up overhead above the lake and is visible anywhere around town, raining down sparks of gold and red, hell fire from the sky.
...Also hell fire in the woods. It's been windy and dry all month, and a small forest fire has started at the edge of town, be it from arson or by accident. The villagers cut the evening short to go help, as there is no established fire fighting service, so any and all assistance would be appreciated. Somewhere nearby, a child starts to cry, unable to find his mother. With the villagers pulled away, the night ends with the stalls left empty. Nobody comes to clean up the next morning...
→ MOD NOTES
- ⬥ As mentioned in the OOC plotting post, a heat wave befalls the town and NPC villagers start disappearing until the daitengu from last month is defeated. 2 more dungeon threads must be submitted before 8/11 to secure the ofuda. Lockdown continues to occur each midnight, with the school transforming into the dungeon; details can be found on last month's event log.
⬥ For the cultural festival: characters will receive a hint about either 1) how to return home (take the ofuda received after beating the dungeon boss to the castle ruins), or 2) how to summon the Velvet Room attendants (playing Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai at the castle ruins during the full moon), and are highly encouraged to discuss both messages amongst themselves. Characters may learn more about how to play Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, date of the full moon, etc. by asking around town.
⬥ On 8/12 (ICly dated on 8/15, the night of the full moon), a mini-log will go up encompassing both of these findings.
⬥ For the tanabata festival: each character may claim one small wish pending mod approval at any time this month (comment below) for writing their wish down on a tanzaku, and 3 characters will be randomly chosen on 8/12 as winners for the decoration judging, and will be contacted at that time for the option of receiving an additional wish.
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I feel accomplished.
[ He stretches his arms up and legs forward under the table. Sweet, sweet muscle tension release. ]
Oh yeah, are you gonna eat that mi-dango too?
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Huh? What 'bout it, you gonna feed it to me?
[ He's joking, you can have it, Terry. He'll push the packet Terry's way so he can just gobble it up if he wants to. ]
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Say ahh~
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He hasn't actually forgotten about what happened earlier, but he's in too much of a good mood to think about it, and is actually amused that Terry's going along with his joke. So he does open his mouth and says a quiet and deep 'ahhh' as he opens his mouth wide.
Terry, you'll regret this. ]
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Terry didn't think this far. LMAO... He thought Mondo would have gotten flustered with how he offered the dango, but here he is, willingly accepting it? What?? Terry looks surprised for a moment, but Mondo's in a really good mood. He doesn't really want to ruin that right now, so, he'll take out a dango from the stick and put it to his lips, pushing it slightly so that it goes into his mouth.
There you go, big boy. ]
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Unlike the tricoloured dango that's pretty much dry, mitarashi dango is very... sticky. The thick sweet soy sauce that coats the dango drips when Terry pulls it out of the stick, to the chin when the dango airplane arrives at the Mondo's mouth runway. He puts a hand under his chin just to prevent the string of sticky sweet soy sauce to dirty his jacket, tongue slipping out to lick his own lips and chin clean. Better remove your fingers fast, Terry, or he might accidentally lick them too.
Mm, yum. ]
You're really bad at this, Terry.
[ He smirks, for some reason feeling like he won??? ]
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Terry just sits there, frozen, staring at every intricate detail that's happening in this scene, and-- ]
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W-Wha-- I...
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Mondo doesn't actually notice that it was Terry's fingers that he licked, since his own hand was also near his mouth, so when he flickers his eyes to look back up to Terry, he's confused. ]
What? You ain't gonna feed me the rest of it?
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[ Awawawawawa
Terry slowly withdraws his hand. ]
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Mondo doesn't even have a time to blink when the whole stick's just shoved into him. The edge of the stick tickles his uvula, prompting him to cough, though he tries not to keep his mouth shut to prevent sweet soy sauce rain on Terry's face. He puts his hand over Terry's that's holding on to the stick, just so he can control it a little, but the sauce that's leaking from the edge of his lips is too fast for him to stop, it trickles down his neck before he can even wipe it.
He makes a slurping noise as he tries to suck in the sauce, fingers wiping the sauce on his face, as he tries to use his tongue to pull the dango out of the stick inside his mouth, one by one. If he has a free hand, he'll thwack Terry, but that'll have to wait because he's busy trying to control the situation. ]
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This is torture. He wants out!!!
He'll just... look away...
uuuuuuuuuu ]
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Once he takes off the hand that was keeping Terry's there, it moves to chop the guy on the head. ]
Idiot. Were you tryinna revenge? [ He raises an eyebrow, sighing. ] You thought it'd be fun to look at me choke... 'twas gross, right?
[ Unlike Terry who has, uh, a fairly pretty face, Mondo thinks he's just big bara dude that will just look gross whatever he does, so. ]
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[ The supervisor just stares at them like what the fuck ]
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Hearing what Terry said makes Mondo grunt in annoyance. ]
So what was it for?
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[ lmao
That's not what he really wants to say, but that's what ends up coming out of his mouth. ]
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Mondo, you... you're lewd!!
[ Since Terry is so flustered, he completely forgets about the mobile and dashes off. ]
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Hah?!
[ Mondo just blinks because Terry's not making any sense. ]
Why am I lewd?!
[ That's probably something that he shouldn't say aloud, because some of the girls in the workshop are now looking at them, covering their mouths and squealing. They might've gotten their photos taken too by some other viewers who found it hilarious as they mutter "lol BL". Mondo's too focused on watching Terry escape to care about that, grabbing the mobile with him and chases Terry down. The supervisor watches them leave the premise, shaking his head. "Ah, youth."
Now back to Mondo who's still running after Terry... Don't think you can outrun him forever! He's been training for a long time to keep his speed up to standard with his strength! Is what Mondo thinks but he's only human... Anyway he raises the mobile up high over his head just so the stars don't touch the ground, making them sway with the wind. ]
Oi, wait!! Why're you runnin' away?!
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Why are you chasing me?! Stop chasing me--
[ Terry was looking back at Mondo as he shouts, so he didn't watch where he was going, so he runs into a tree.
Everything hurts and nothing is beautiful. It gets him to stop though. ]
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[ Too late. Mondo will cushion his fall if needed, otherwise he'll just resist from giving him extra thwack in the head for the dumb. ]
I'm chasin' ya 'cuz ya suddenly ran away! The heck's wrong with ya? Ya need to pee or somethin'?!
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[ Thanks Mondo. Terry is gonna keep being red in the face. ]
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[ He presses his palm on the tree, essentially kabe-doning Terry except it's more of a tree-don, lmfao. ]
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You're a messy eater!!
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Aah?! You're a terrible feeder!!
[ Look... This isn't a contest... ]
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