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

[secondhandsome]

Ha, well, exciting is one word for it. I mean, not... wrong, probably, but when you're living it it's more terrifying than anything. Well, for me. Don't think I can say the same for the other people involved.

[Actually, the only other person on his team who would describe the whole adventure as terrifying is... probably... Claptrap.

...Well, that's depressing.]

Wh-- Sorry, ah... You punched the moon?

[Okay, he's both amused and intrigued now, because... wow.]

Right, yeah. Just gotta think of... whatever works. Uh... [...Wait. Oh. Oh, this is uh...] Um...

So this is super awkward, but uh, speaking of names, I... just realized I don't think I actually caught... yours.

[He's been so flustered both times talking to her, he just kinda... didn't realize. Wow. Way to go, Timothy.]

[a_sin_for_him]

Well, to be fair, I did a great deal more than punch it. I was...how does that phrase go? 'Going through some things'.

[And she'd had her homunculus abilities returned, as they always are on those weekends. It's actually quite jarring, to wake up two or three times a year as a dead thing.]

Oh...yes. [She's been hoping he'd just assume she was actually called 'Miss Fitz'. There are certainly those that call her that, it's a perfectly fine pseudonym. Well, here goes. She smooths her skirt again, a nervous habit.]

I'm called Lust. It doesn't mean anything, it's the name my master gave me. Her name was Dante, she thought it was funny and clever. My brother's called Envy, the brother we lost from this place was called Greed. She didn't have near the sense of humor she thought that she did.

[secondhandsome]

Ha, well. If it helps, it helps, I guess.

[...Wait, is she feeling awkward? She kinda seems to be acting like it, anyway. Honestly, if she hadn't brought it up, he wouldn't have even given the name a second thought.]

I see. Well, I guess uh... technically speaking, it's nice to officially meet you, Lust.

[Since it's only now that the introductions are actually complete. God, he hopes that didn't sound really dumb, though...]

And, uh, don't worry about it? It's just a name and far from the weirdest one I've ever heard. Heck, I'd say it'd fit right in on Elpis.

[a_sin_for_him]

[Oh thank god, there was no awkwardness or questions or anything else. Lust lets out a visible (and audible) sigh of relief.]

And it's nice to meet you. I'm sorry if I seem needlessly defensive, but...I've gotten used to varied reactions to my name. Including the outright refusal to use it, and...assumptions about my profession. Which is a perfectly fine profession, just not currently mine. Goodness sakes, I knew it as the word that meant 'me' before I knew it as anything else.

Though now I have to wonder what the strangest name you've heard is.

[Because, really. What's stranger than being named for a sin from a dead religion?]

[secondhandsome]

Ah, no worries, I getcha. That'd probably get a little obnoxious, huh? But yeah, no assumptions here.

[Some names are fitting and tell you a lot about the person, but some don't say much at all. Can't just go making those type of assumptions about anyone, obviously.]

Well, there was this colonel called Tungsteena Zarpedon. That, uh... That was pretty weird, I'd say. [And really difficult to take seriously, even if she was a serious threat.] Oh, and then there's... well, this one's not so much a name as a title, but that kinda makes it worse since it means he willingly chose it... guy on Elpis who called himself, I shit you not, the Meriff.

Like... Like mayor and sheriff, just mashed together. I mean... seriously.

[And yeah, okay, that had ended... not so great. But that title is still stupid, okay.]

[a_sin_for_him]

[Lust doesn't mean to, but she laughs. It's more of a giggle, but she isn't one to admit to giggling. Still, it pops out of her and she covers her mouth with her hand half in surprise.]

Good god, those are ridiculous. I'm sorry, 'zarpedon' sounds like a fancy indigestion medication. And...meriff? Really?

[She's half tempted to accuse him of using his creative writing education to pull her leg.]

[secondhandsome]

[Oh geez, her laugh is really cute, oh no.]

Ha, right? I mean, first time I heard it I kinda thought it had to be fake, you know? I wanna say it got easier to take that name seriously over time, but uh. Not really.

And I don't even know how "Meriff" ever sounded good to anyone. Hell, I feel dumb just saying it.

[a_sin_for_him]

Alright, I think you do have my world beat, when it comes to names. Oh, though there's a town where I come from called 'Xenotime', I always thought that was rather silly sounding. ...and the Fuhrer's given name was 'King'.

[Because that wasn't pompous, Pride calling himself 'King'. Or Dante calling him that, she realizes she doesn't know who came up with the name. Either way, it's ridiculous.]

He was a prick.

[secondhandsome]

Everything was a little saner in, ah, my part of the galaxy, where I'm from, but man, yeah. Some crazy names out there.

[Eden was a little more normal in that area.]

King. Wow. Almost feels like you're just set up to be a prick when you got a name like that.

[a_sin_for_him]

I suppose when you're dealing with a galaxy, there's bound to be. And you know the best part? His name was actually Pride. And he went around being called 'King the Fuhrer' every day.

[Lust wrinkles her nose, her distaste for the man very clear. It's nice, really, to just talk about this sort of thing. And while Jack knows nothing of her world or history, he still seems to be able to understand and commiserate.]

Here, come. Let's see what other games we can waste money on, and think of a name for your companion. You can be my chaperone, while my brother's otherwise occupied.

[She rests a hand on his arm, not giving him much of a chance to protest. This one's nice, and a gentleman. And wandering around by herself...it's like Envy has recently said. She just attracts a small horde of men.]

[secondhandsome]

Wow. Jeez, with all of that, the guy must've had one hell of an ego. Pretty much... inevitable, really.

[Uh. Oh, wow, okay, that is her hand on his arm. That... Oh man, that sure is a thing that is happening? Oh god. Don't freak out, don't freak out, you've been doing so well so far.

He does manage to turn his brain back on long enough to put two and two together a little, though. Chaperone. Right, okay, makes sense.]

Um... Yeah! Yeah, sure, I can do that.

I mean. Sounds good. Let's go.

[Oh man, can he do that.]

[a_sin_for_him]

You can't begin to imagine.

[Ugh, Pride. Another one she hopes is rotting in hell.]

Thank you. I'm having a nice time, I don't want to be...bothered this evening. And I am enjoying your company.

[He's very easy to talk to, really. Thank god, since they're going to be working on radio scripts together. They shouldn't have any trouble working together at all.]

[Her Glameow makes a low yowl of annoyance at the turn of events, twitching her tail and fixing her eyes on the strange man her Trainer is touching.]

[secondhandsome]

Oh, yeah, i-it's no problem at all. I getcha.

And uh... same here? About the... enjoying your company part, I mean.

[He glances over at the cat. Aww... Okay, sure, that cat doesn't seem very happy about him, but still. Awwwww.]

[a_sin_for_him]

That's because I've had two years to learn casual social mores. Granted I've learned a great deal of it from television, so maybe I haven't learned as much as I think.

And don't mind Virago - she's named such for a reason. My own little personal stab at my old master. 'Miserable Bitch' seemed to cruel a moniker for even a sourpuss like this.

[Lust's voice is light, but she's absolutely serious. There's something satisfying in having an animal named for the woman who had kept her like some pet for so long.]