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STARDROP CELEBRATION: FINAL DAY

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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"Yes, Chocobo's are as tall as I am, depending on the race you breed them for, Recent discoveries on Eureka show that they may have had Dinosaurs as ancestors at some point!"

Ophie dismounted as soon as it looked like her bird had stilled enough to not bolt, patting her flank and rubbing her beak soothingly.

"Look, it's only a small thing, Poppy! Don't be silly. You've literally pecked at a dragonkin before and this is the thing that sets you off?"

And then a young man stumbles through the bushes. Are these bushed portals to another place, or something?

"I - Yes? This is my best Mare, Poppy. Where did I get her? She was with me when I was put on that 'Bus'." She explains.

"I had thought this not Eorzea, but you know of Chocobos?" She asks, a gleam in her eye. She holds her hand out for Noctis to Shake.

"Ophianne Fortemps, at your service. Best Chocobo Breeder on Three Continents!"

[Toby shrugs] Don't see why. We weren't trying to hide or anything. I'm just pretty crap at doing the whole mingling thing.

[well, okay, maybe she was sort of trying to hide. But that's mostly because Toby's pretty anti-social most of the time, and not really intentionally. It just makes it easier to pretend she's harder than she is.

But she's figuring out pretty quickly it's probably not going to be easy to be hard here, and she doesn't want to think about the implications of that. So, fireworks.

She tips her head a bit, nodding]

Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen this many races in one place. [which is actually a bit overwhelming in itself, which might be why she's glad to just sit] It's cool that everyone seems to be happy to watch the show instead of stabbing each other or something. Wouldn't have lasted long in a lot of places I've been.

[Spike chirps in seeming agreement as it stands, taking a couple padding steps to get a better look at the stranger]

To be honest, without Modeste by my side, I would have any difficulty living in this new world.

Ah, I see. Well, that's the bond between you two. [She grinned and winked.]

"Oh! What's that holiday about?"

Q'uila is practically drooling over the curry as she pays and wastes no time sampling it. One bite has Q'uila's moaning in delight, fur fluffing up as her tail curls happily. "Holy shit this is amazing! This would give Ul'Dahn and Ala Mhigan curry a run for its money!"

Q'uila softens at that. "He has Moenbryda back?! I'm so happy for him." Her ears fold down slightly, "I don't think any of us have ever truely forgiven ourselves for what happened to her..."

"Oh please do that would be hilarious-" She stares at Bolormaa. "Did you say...feathers?!"

Q'uila sobers up a little at Cid's response. "There is plenty of point if you ask me. People can only be so fulfilled by the successes of the whole. Personal success and joy and such...never underestimate the drive that provides."

"Nero...is concerned with himself first and foremost, even if he is surprisingly entertaining. You..." How to not be rude here? "You are well meaning." Nailed it?

Oh! Well, I suppose my Aura can be considered as such.

[Can’t blame anyone for that, really. Heck, she’s not going to correct Josie about it either; from an outside view, it does seem like Remnant is full of magic, all things considered.]

Anyways, since the night is still going- [She holds out her hand.] Weiss Schnee, by the way. Nice to meet you two!

[ For a moment, she hesitates to actually shake her hand. She's used to greetings kept at a distance, with or without some trepidation from the other party for this black-clad witch's sudden arrival. But, in the interest of not making enemies in a place she's going to be living for some time, the pause is too brief to even be considered awkward, and she extends her hand to take Weiss' as well. ]

I'm Fatima. And he's Josie.

"Hello, meow!"

[ For a second there, she totally blanks out. She's used to greetings that are just "hey, how are you?" and similar ilk. Hearing someone say they look forward to working with her as if they mean it is so far out of her element, she doesn't know how to respond. Josie gives her a nudge and she snaps out of it, and she removes her hat, holding it to her chest as she's seen some do in Carnava. ]

Ah...right. Of course. [ She bows herself, but her face is tinged a bit red when she rights herself again. It dawned on her mid-bow that usually the proper thing for ladies to do in Carnava was curtsy whether they had a skirt or not. Thankfully, nobody from home is around to see this fantastic faux pas. She tries to play off by nonchalantly moving her hat back onto her head. ] I look forward to it.

Hmmmmmm...

[ She ducks a little to get a better look at his face. It's an exaggerated gesture, openly telegraphed, her tail swishing. A schoolgirl's gesture, like she'd done to her (much taller) friends in school. ]

Not the best idea, huh... sour? Or spicy?

[ Luckily for Chisa (or maybe not), she has pretty much No Fear.* So when Koujuro ends up thundering like that, she just cheers again. All right! She has to complete her set! It's no good if this one red fish is all alone; it'll surely wither away and die from loneliness!! Can that actually happen to fish? Who cares.

* Life and experience has taught her Some Fear, but she's used to large and overly boisterous guys, not just grouchy stoic ones. This just feels familiar. She'll probably never see her students again, but it's nice to be reminded of happier times, even in passing.

But once she's focused... it doesn't actually take her long at all. The poor vendor loses three more fish in rapid succession, though Chisa only remembers to pay after she's made her catch. And after she's made sure they're in individual bags big enough for them. Once she has, she finally pays up, though she's radiating smug satisfaction. Do they have a place to keep these fish? She has no idea. But if they're consolidating the farms assigned to each of them, surely one of them will work... ]

Aha~ oops. ♥ Looks like I got the rest of the good ones!

Mmm... it's better here than where I came from.

[ Not Koriko, not Arden Grove, but the Japan she'd known. She hadn't been in either of those places long enough to really feel like they could claim ownership of her, though Arden Grove had come close. But ultimately, when she thinks of home, her mind still goes back to Hope's Peak. ]

That was a place where the worst of people came out... the worst of the world, honestly. Things are already better here.

[Another soft wave of relief seems to pass through his shoulders. Maybe this will wear off over time, but it hasn't yet fully set in, he expects.]

Isn't that... why most of us are here? From... times and places that were... inclined to cruelty?

[ Chisa huffs a little at that, a noise that's between a laugh and a sigh. ]

Mmm, I know how that is. Where I came from... it's been a long, long time since I was able to do something as simple as this.

[ What does one do with cats? Even if they're not cat-cats, but living plant-cats? Boy would one of her old students have a field day with this. Chisa herself isn't super familiar with them -- of course she'd seen strays wandering around back in Japan, but overall she's always leaned towards being a dog person.

But she wants to be polite and she wants to be friendly, so she hesitates and holds out a hand. Isn't this what people do to cats? (And dogs.)

At first glance, she looks like a fairly ordinary pretty girl, but she does have a tail of her own (red-furred and ringed; a red panda's tail, though it's enough like a racoon that it's fooled people). She'd kept it tucked out of the way at first ~~also because I keep forgetting to mention it~~, but it twitches a little, thoughtlessly, the way things do. ]

[The most disgraceful part? He entirely means it, even if it had been more rambled out of habit. Not just working as business associates, but making new friends (who aren't boisterous grownass men playing scalies). Kojuro has a load of flaws, but lying or misrepresenting his feelings aren't part of that list.

And anyway. Fatima's hat-salute looks plenty proper to him, even rather fancy and full of mystique. He's definitely not bothered by it.]

Now that we have our business dealt with, and my pond's stock has been taken care of, would it suit you if I could escort you and Josie to your next stop at this festival? I fear that, if I push my luck at this stall, I might very well lose my scooping privileges; you would both do me a favour in this. [That, and it keeps them all from just kind of standing there awkwardly. If she wants to go her own way, then he'll let it drop and toddle off to find a firework-viewing spot, but why not at least offer, right?]

[DAMN CHISA DAMN YOU HARDCORE AS HELL. Kojuro's stuck here looking even more impressed. What a gal. What a fast learner. He tucks his own very large, but singular bag of fish into his yukata so that it stupidly bulges out, just so he can applaud her properly.

That seems a little more fitting than bowing or anything, anyway.]

Spared from my own greed; that's not so bad an ending to this. You did even better than I expected, and I expected much of my student; Yukizome, you deserve those fish as they deserve you to look after them.

[And then he puts a hand gently on her shoulder; he might be slipping back into his more brutish habits right now, but that doesn't keep him from being gentlemanly about it. If that even makes sense. What is a Kojuro.] Ｇｏｏｄ　ｗｏｒｋ．

[How is he speaking Dragon Tongue when everything is probably autotranslated? Who knows.]

[It doesn't take long. By the time the game is over, the attendant is sighing as he tells Lance to pick out whatever prize he wants. As promised, he grabs the hippo plushie before placing it into Keith's arms.]

Aaaaaand here you go! Happy...uh...fun time at the festival day.

That. That is a lot of yellow. Then again, considering that his best friend is the yellow paladin, he's pretty used to seeing someone in a lot of yellow.

And holy quiznak, that's a huge bird.

"Oh maaan... I've only just started, but so far? There's one stand selling just plain ol' turkey legs, but they use this amazing seasoning on them! And I haven't had any yet, saving it for dessert, but the pie stand smells like heaven."

Rose. That's a beautiful name.

[He takes it, shaking it.]

Crystal Gems? Is that your own team?

[That last part, though... Now doesn't that sound familiar.]

Back home, the princess and Coran...part of our team, they were the last two of their race. Can only imagine how sucky it feels. Er, sorry for the casualness of that, but...you know.

That would be nice. Thank you. [ She does her best to regain her composure, forever grateful Sadie isn't here to laugh at her. However, now she's struck with another conundrum: they were mostly wandering around the festival, so they have no set destination. Would it be rude to make him escort them in meaningless meandering? ] We were just kind of wandering around, though, so...

"I want some of the barbeque, meow!"

[ Oh, well, problem solved, she supposes. Thank god for cats and their appetites. ]

Well, I guess we're going there, then.

"...When time went back... she came back to life. With her memories intact, unlike most of the others," Bolormaa said, quietly. "She-- Urianger's married her now - and has promised she'll live forever. And since he's an Ascian, that's a little scary." Even if Bolormaa knows he's a good one, she WAS meant to be like a Blade of Light.

"...Yes? Has he never removed his gloves around you?" Oh, Bolormaa. "He's a siren-- or it might be another difference. Minfilia thought he looked strange..."

...Hell yeah. [ Fordola replies, trying not to wiggle too much. But she then pauses. ]

Though, if we've got a farm? I'd... like to try growing some... Ala Mhigan food. [ She admits, the last bit a whisper. ]

"...Wow. So you've got mutant dinosaur bird running around. Where exactly are you from?"

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oh no she's extra cute please murder me

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no me first, Kojuro is fantastic

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