GHOST TRICK PART ONE: Festival Log!

[indigo_league]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Either Ecruteak City or Lavender Town; please mark your toplevel comments accordingly!
When: August 13th-15th
Summary: Celebrate O-bon at a festival near you! For details, see the infopost.
Rating: Will vary from thread to thread. Warn for common triggers if something comes up.
Log:

The streets are lined with NPC-run stalls for food, games, and the assorted tchotchkes of every summer festival you’ve ever seen in your animes! There’s Goldeen Scoop, heaping cones of Swirlix Candy, Test Your STRENGTH (there are two different machines for people and Pokémon; HM04 not required); basically, if you can think of it, it’s there. There will also be a yukata rental stall if you want to go full hog on the cultural side of things. Ecruteak boasts a small stage where the Kimono Girls give a short performance once every two hours; the festivities in Lavender Town are a little quieter, but they also have Haunter-shaped ice cream treats. When you lick them, they Lick you!

On the last evening (August 15th) of the festival in either location, there will be a large bonfire and traditional bon-odori dance in which everyone is welcome to participate. In Lavender Town only, they also set paper lamps afloat in the water past the cliffs.

The closer you get to midnight on the last night of the festival, the more ghosts pop up.

Again, please say which city your character's in and note what dates/times they're there in the header of or within your top--level comment to avoid confusion. Play nice and have fun!

Comments

[thedifferencebetween]

[Jack reaches inside his fancy robe and pulls out a slim silver engraved cigarillo case. It has an 'H' on the cover.]

Blap.

[He flips it open and offers it to the other man.]

They're like the bastard child of a cigarette and a cigar. Got a nice sweet flavor. Not like candy sweet, though. I dunno, they're good!

[cardboard_boss]

Thanks.

[Snake took the smoke and placed it in the corner of his mouth, as he would a cigar. It felt good to have something there again after the long absence of being disallowed his cigar.]

Got a light?

[thedifferencebetween]

[Jack's hand disappears into his robe again and he flips open his lighter to get Snake's cigarillo going.]

No problem. How can you enjoy a bonfire without a good smoke? Could do without all the little spooks, though. What's up with them?

[cardboard_boss]

[Snake inhaled the cigarillo and blew out a thin trail of smoke above his head. Oh, that tasted and felt good. It had a nice taste to it.]

The ghosts? No idea. Some say it's to do with the festival. Japanese culture I guess.

[Kaz could explain it better this time.]

[thedifferencebetween]

Well, it's not like they're real ghosts, they're Pokemon. Kinda weird, though. Maybe they figure it's atmospheric. Gotta say, a big carnival seems like a kind of a slap in the face, as far as revering the dead goes.

[Mourning's supposed to be a private, somber thing. This...what the hell is this?]

[cardboard_boss]

Yeah but they act like real ghosts. The whole not being there but still there kind of shit.

[Yeah, Snake's not really one for supernatural stuff. He's dealt with far too much crap to be dealing with actual Pokémon that are ghosts. The Skulls were enough supernatural weird shit to deal with in one soldier's life.]

It's like making a mockery out of the dead. I don't really get it but it's almost like they want us to have fun out of dead people. Weird shit.

[That sounded wrong, right?]

Back home I respected our dead soldiers by crafting their bodies into diamonds. Then had each diamond sewn into the living soldier's uniforms. That way we'll remember them and take them into battle with us. Their spirits live on in us.

[Snake showed Jack where the diamond would be just on his left shoulder. Of course, that was back on his sneaking suit, which was now back in his own world.]