STARDROP CELEBRATION: FINAL DAY

[starhuemod]

LET'S PARTY!
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A. Arrivals and Much More

You’re here because you were dropped somewhere that tried sending you home, or you're someone with a call to the heart to explore the vast universe. The buses run at odd schedules, so please pardon any interruptions! I hope you fellas make yourselves at home, here!

[ Marjorie’s whole speech rings through your ears as you begin to explore the area. It seems a few people who arrived on the TDM have already been here for a week, but you’re just a newcomer. So where are you when this all went down? Are you trying to get back on a bus that’ll take you home, or…?

B. Home Sweet Home

[ The dust has settled on the bus ride here, and you can’t help but notice that your farmland… well, it’s a mess. Rocks and grass everywhere, no matter which layout you were set with. You were given a set of tools, and the message that this land is yours to shape or change or build on no matter what you want, so long as it’s yours. The little crate by the edge of the house is what will hold your bounties from farming, collected nightly with money delivered to your mailbox the following day, like some kind of Produce Fairy visited.

The house is in alright shape. It’s not brilliant, but it has a kitchen, a bathroom, and a studio bedroom where all your belongings can be. It’s wide enough to accommodate several things until you upgrade it.

Sometimes you see a stray dog or cat at the edge of your property. Do you adopt it?

Anyway, it’s time to make what you will of your farm. ]


The Last Day Of
The Stardrop Celebration!
FESTIVAL PLAYLIST

[ Down a hill a little ways from Pelican Town is a remarkable festival set-up! Several attractions and vendors line the streets where everything is going down. Where will you go? ]

C. Food Stalls

[ Surrounding the entire property are dozens of food stalls, from all around the universe. Marjorie bussed in caterers from all around with a healthy sum of gold, and they’re happy to sell their wares in this strange place tonight. Where you might find octopus balls, you’ll also find kraken balls. Where you might find corndogs, you’ll find dogs selling corn.

It’s a veritable buffet! And the gold you’ve started with is more than enough to go shopping for food. Have fun! ]

D. Games

[ All manners of Carnival Games are set up! From throwing a baseball at bottles to catching goldfish with a paper net, everything you can dream of is here. There are even some unorthodox games, like dance-offs, karaoke, and a little bit of everything. Apparently, the NPC couldn’t choose who to go with what. It definitely makes for a big festival.

In addition to the above, there’s water gun races, squeaky duck ponds, skee-ball, target shooting, test your strength with a hammer, pitching speed, shooting hoops… and more! ]

E. Three-legged Race

[ You didn’t think this festival was going to go by without tomfoolery, did you? For the prize of 1,000 Gold, you can rally up a partner and get tied to them by the ankle, participating in a no-rules no-bars-held race. The winners will be randomized! But the real gift is going to be the fact that the ties around your ankles? Aren’t coming undone. You’re going to have to be tied together until 11 PM! ]

F. Fireworks

[ Errant magic and mishaps aside, you have to admit, the fireworks show at the end of it all is really something. Marjorie hired a pony for them, and the lights are as ethereal as they are non-traditional. It’s a good moment to snuggle up to someone or enjoy company with a new friend. ]

G. Wildcard

[ Exactly what it says! Make your own prompt. ]

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Comments

[shadowfrost]

[ Josie wasn't expecting that, so he's speechless as he tries to think up a rebuttal. He comes up with a whole lot of nothing, though, so he sticks to just growling as an angry cat would. ]

"You're annoying, meow!"

You walked right into it. [ Fatima's quip has the cat pouting the best he can with a feline face. ]

"Nooo!"

p.s. toshi is my fave - fireworks?

[odont]

Somewhere along the way, Odo had lost Julian in the crowds. Well, no matter. They were allowed their own fun. Or Odo's closest approximation thereof. He paid no mind to much of anyone, crowd watching out of habit, until there was a loud bang and flash of light. Coming from somewhere so recently war torn, he ducked where he stood. It was only when he realized no one else was moving that he stood and saw.

The sky was alive like magnificent and dancing art. Something he'd never really gotten the chance to see, though he had heard about here and there from his humanoids - both Bajoran and Human alike.

"Incredible..." he said to the person next to him. Who happened to be tall and blond. "I take it this is common for you?"

Fireworks

[odont]

[ She might have notice him initially ducking and covering at the first bang of the fireworks. When no one else was running or screaming, he tried to stand again and maintain his composure. Embarrassing but. One does develop certain habits from a war torn country.

Still, he is now thoroughly awestruck. These were things he'd heard about but never really got to see in practice. ]

Does this happen regularly?

[ He asked the nearby girl sitting at the tree. It's hard to distinguish between native and newcomer. Especially if already humanoid. ]

[hellish_butler]

Chara doesn't have to worry. The only person who is with them is the mysterious tall man with short raven hair and wearing a butler suit. The deep fried chocolate bars actually looks good, so Sebastian helped himself to one also. He goes easy with the sweets, letting them have as much as she wants, and allow them to be...just themself.

"I don't see why not. Unless you wanted me to guide you back to your parents. Are they here with you?"

[lobsterquadrille]

[it may help that Alec is somehow less unnerving-looking than he was the first time they’d met. his clothes are more or less the same, but he’s swapped out his lumpy scarf for a large grey coat that seems to be several sizes too big for him. it makes him look like a kid presenting to wear grown-up clothes. he laughs softly and picks up an especially curly piece of pink, fried cephalopod.]

Yes, you see, just when I think they really are awful, they start to taste good? The strawberry aftertaste compliments the salt, perhaps?

[he pops one into his mouth, sounding very amused as he does a marginal job of talking around his food.] But then I have another one, and I’m fairly certain they’re awful again. Would you like to try some?

[he offers the bowl up to Horatio—because there is plenty, and he shouldn’t eat all of it himself.]

[skyknightone]

[His smile doesn't fade in the least, seeing that he knocked the poor cat off balance. Still, for his part, he held no ill-will to Josie. Yet, anyway. He just figured that like most cats, it'd take awhile to get to know him. Besides, it's not like he hadn't handled worse tempers as a mercenary, anyway.]

Yeah, I get that a lot. Also the whole "I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling mercenaries" thing too.

im piss

[deadouttalock]

[In that moment, the rest of the concert simmered down to dull background, replaced with the soft melody of Freebird's second verse lead-in. Time slows and their eyes met and McCree wondered who this stranger was and where he came from--was he delivered from heaven to make this concert even better... was he a long lost sibling, or, no--? His eyes comb over the other man and...

...Holy shit who the fuck brings a guitar to a concert...?! And why has he never been happier that someone decided to so tactlessly do so.

Reality snaps back in, a better reality, and McCree sidles up to Karamatsu.]

AND THIS BIRD YOU CAN NOT CHAAAaaaaaAAAAaaaaANNNNGEEEEE!

[Sorry, Pearl and Marina.]

[whisted]

[Trying new foods is still stunningly novel--and, frankly, even just the description of this is enough to press Horatio's lips together in something like concern.

But food is food. Wasting it has never been an option, intellectually speaking.

His lips don't quite unfold from their thin line even as he hesitantly takes an offered tentacle, examining it more closely once it's separated from the mass of its brethren.

And then, admittedly, studying Alec again a bit incredulously. This is the choice you made, friend?]

[lobsterquadrille]

[Alec giggles.]

A frog was selling them.

[as if that... somehow explains his terrible purchase. it doesn’t.

but he eats another one anyway.]

[kahunanu]

[He knows a stare when he sees it, sees where her eyes go past his an settle at the top of his head. He pretends he doesn't notice, though one of the ears twitches as if daring her to break her gaze.]

You here on your own?

[Similarly he knows of her through the other kids, none of which he's managed to run into yet.]

[righteyed]

There are worse things in life than to have his favour, I'd imagine.

[As beautiful as they all are, all things must live and die and that includes his goldfish; Kojuro apparently has few qualms about nimbly plucking one bug-eyed fish out and tossing it Josie's way.

He does make sure to avert his gaze back to the pool, however. There's some deep thought about mortality in how he doomed a random fish to its assumed death, and he doesn't want to dwell on the how of it all for very long, no thank you. Time to put the scoop down altogether and tie up his bag of winnings.] ...Might I ask how a woman such as yourself came to be in the company of a bakeneko, or is that too personal for acquaintances to know?

[kahunanu]

They're not quite like Pokemon, from what I've seen. [Bland normal animal-y animals, as far and as vaguely described as that gets in Pokemon seems to be about the same here. Nanu shrugs and rises from his hunches, knees threatening to creek. Fortunately it's drowned out over the general ambience of the festival, though he makes a show of stretching his back, making that crackle audibly. ]

Admittedly I haven't taken these old bones very far yet.

[He gestures vaguely towards the woods. He wouldn't call it exploring so much as scouting or patrolling and learning the lay of the land. He's in no rush to do so, still feeling like he doesn't belong here or is meant to live here, but the vague offer is there to go for a walk.]

[shadowfrost]

[ It doesn't take much for her to assume that by bakeneko, he must mean some kind of monster cat. Looking at Josie, she can certainly see why someone would think that. He tends to take everyone by surprise unless they're a Witch. Though, as he chows down on the unfortunate goldfish, he might as well just be a regular cat in a strange cape. ]

Josie is the familiar of my Master and the Masters that preceded him. [ beat ] He's my friend.

[shadowfrost]

[ Fatima offers a flippant shrug as she turns her gaze upward to the fireworks. ]

It's a mercenary's job to meddle.

[ Josie's taken to full on pouting, and he floats away as Fatima drops her arms from her chest. As baffling as their talk has been, she can tell when Josie's getting ready to go home, if their little house can be called such. ]

Well, Manfred Vaeris... [ She casts her gaze over to Manfred again. ] Remember to stay away from the trees at night. It's safe near town, but I've had to fight more than a few monsters here and there.

[righteyed]

[HM. That Look has Kojuro mildly suspicious with how easy it is for her to slide into it, but for now...Chisa gets a free pass. (She'd get a double free pass if Kojuro knew that the dude he'd harassed about cotton candy was her Dog Pal, oops. He's still going to feel bad about that once it happens.)

And I mean, it's not like she's the one who had her party tit out anyway. So he can't go getting all high-falutin' about it.] There's something appealing about an animal whose emotions you can read so openly, I suppose. But I prefer the serenity of fish swimming and co-existing with each other, and I cannot say that I'm any kind of marksman, either.

[If he were ruder, he'd say something about how that speaks about them both, maybe. But he just smiles, small and polite, and pays for a new scoop.] Show me how you shoot, and I'll show you how this is played in turn. Deal?

[righteyed]

Josie...[That sounds familiar. Josie, Josui-- wait, wrong samurai. Anyway.] A 'familiar', and not a youkai? My apologies for assuming something like this of your friend, then.

[He doesn't exactly know what familiars are, but...Well, he can infer. A talking cat companion passed down from generations of masters (what they master, he'll find out hopefully)? Just a more polite manner of phrasing tamed bakeneko, he supposes.

And Kojuro will not debate the finer points of something he clearly cannot fully define, at any rate. Not to someone who hasn't proven herself anything other than respectable.] You study an art that he assists in, then? That is very admirable, Miss; for the both of you, at that. My sacrifice seems to be more and more the correct move to make.

[coldandyearning]

A)

[This...

is definitely the wrong turn to Albuquerque. Or wherever Weiss was going to on her errand. Admittedly, the place does look nice, but on the other hand- it's too nice. Maybe a spirit's candid prank?

She shakes her head. Nah, can't be. No other spirit would be more powerful than the Witch. The bus driver probably misheard her, yeah!

In any case, she's gonna tap on the shoulder of anyone who might be nearby her.]

Excuse me, but do you know what time the bus to Koriko comes back?

B)

[WELP, SO MUCH FOR GOING BACK TO KORIKO. But, hey! Taking a brief tour around, the place was pretty decent! So long as she can ignore the wreck that was that patch of farmland.

...eventually, she'll does try to cut the grass. Albeit rather haphazardly...]

Why aren't they turning out right?!

[God, someone help her.]

C)

[Games...! Weiss wasn't much for them back in other festivals, but with how everyone else seems to be jovial here, she's getting swept up in the excitement as well. Hence, she can be found at the karaoke stall, belting out a tune with all of her heart and soul.]

F)

[Feeling exhausted after all the fun, she can be found on the grass with her knees curled up and hugging them to her chest as she watches the fireworks. All the while, she keeps up a pensive look.

The show was nice. Heck, more than that, it was spectacular. But, just being by herself...ah, it kind of brings back a lingering sense of loneliness.]

G)

[Wildcard, for anything else that didn't fit on here!]

otaaaaa

[sweetlies]

C.

[Of course, Ciel isn't getting proper food from the stalls. Oh no, he's found the sweets and one stand that's offering ice cream. Many of the flavors are strange but as long as it's sweet. And they offer any kinds of toppings. Of course, he goes for something he'd never even heard of, in Riverview or back in England, with sprinkles of shaved chocolate over top of it all.

Yes, it might spoil his appetite. No, he doesn't rightly care. With his right eye still bandaged, and his bag of belongings over his shoulder, he's entitled to indulge a bit.]

D.

[He's best at target shooting, even with one eye, than the other games. It helps that he was trained with a gun only after he'd first gone blind in that eye though.

That's not the only place he'll be found. He'll try throwing a baseball at bottles. His throws aren't the best but his practice for Weston's annual cricket match had paid off a bit at least. He misses every couple times but he'd decent.

The teen has no idea what skee-ball is but, after watching a couple of other people at it, he makes his attempts. And fails miserably.]

WILDCARD.

[I'm up for anything as long as it's before the fireworks! Since he comes from a previous game shortly after having been released from the hospital, he tires quickly for a little while.]

Re: D

[megabond]

[While he is surprised that Modeste escapes from her Poke Ball, he is relieved that she managed to catch Bulle on time.]

Thank you, Modeste. As for you, Bulle, this is what happens if you keep up with your tomfoolery.

[He then takes the blue frog from Modeste's hands (or claws).]

I suggest you should behave next time if you don't want that to happen again.

[Bulle frowned in guilt, realizing his owner's words were right. If Modeste wasn't there to rescue him, he would have injured himself or worst. He then left Augustine's arms and stayed near his seat to sulk.]

[stormsprite]

Sora mea those are huge heck yes I'm interested!

[She checks to see how much she has left to spend. She'd started with a pretty good amount thanks mostly to Manfred's work back in the havens—and it helped that she had actively helped him whenever he allowed it—but she's spent a pretty good chunk of that by now and doesn't want to run her allowance completely out already.

She puts down 400.]

Can I get like, ten of 'em? Any ten, doesn't matter which ones. [Look, she's not terribly picky with her sweets; if Rena decides she wants to offload a bunch of just one particular type, Celia won't complain.] An' do you have any little bags or somethin' to put them in so they don't start melting all over the other stuff I got?

[megabond]

Oh, you like her curry?

[His fox nodded enthusiastically.]

I see. I'm not surprised considering your abilities.

[Augustine smiles at the young woman.]

Yes. I just named her after a French word "Feu" or "fire" in English.

[hornedskull]

[ Fordola turns a little, looking to the other man.

Looking to his muscles (or lack thereof), and giving a smirk - handing the hammer over. ] Show me, then. [ This should be worth a laugh. ]

[sheepdad]

"Men are as foolish as Gods," Belias answered - calmly. "Back then, however, I had a man as part of me."

They couldn't help but frown at that.

[sheepdad]

[ A liger - wow, that's quite curious. Belias can't help but chuckle - but the big brother of this child? (Most people were children to Belias, mind you.) ]

The sun... that's the kindest my flame has been called before.

[sheepdad]

[ ...

That was quite a voice, and Belias paused. Ah. So the smell was not simply... a scent. This was no child - but that did not bother Belias, who still moved a paw closer to Chara. ]

They show promise - free of Gods, Man could show worth.