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

[veggie_vamp]

Oh My Ghoul, that's sooo sweet!

[She's practically jumping up and down in glee.]

You can do it! Love always wins! Go, go, go!

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Encouraged by the cheer-squad, Heather winds up her throw like a pitcher before letting fly.]

[It knocks the bottle clean off the stand-- to be fair, she's always had good aim.]</sub>

[veggie_vamp]

[SHE CHEERS EVER LOUDER i apologize to your eardrums]

You did it! Yaaaay! You're the best!

[foolishwren]

_{[She fliches to the side a little, covering one ear. BUT she's in a good enough mood that it doesn't faze her.]}

Hah, yeah, I am pretty great.

_{[The teller slaps a string of tickets down on the counter. She'll need to win a lot more to get the Gyarados plush, but IT'S A START.]}

[veggie_vamp]

Hey, how about I become your personal Fearleader for this game?

[foolishwren]

Fearleader?

_{[A glance at Draculaura is enough to tell her that it's probably just a quirky way of saying 'cheerleader', and after a moment's consideration, she shrugs her shoulders.]}

Aw, heck. Why not?

Encouragement never hurts.

_{[SHE WINDS UP FOR ANOTHER THROW.]}

[veggie_vamp]

Wait wait wait!

I need to know your name first. How am I supposed to rhyme without it?

[foolishwren]

--hah, oh yeah!

It's Heather.

Heather Mason.

[veggie_vamp]

All right then.

[She clears her throat - then begins to dance.]

It's Heather Mason, Heather Mason,
Simply the one you cannot take on!
She will not stop, will not hide,
Until she gets her hand on that prize!

[foolishwren]

<sub>[--okay, well, Heather literally can't throw the ball and hope to hit anything while that's going on right next to her. She starts to laugh.]

[It's not a mean laugh. She just can't help it!]</sub>

Oh my god!

You came up with that right on the spot!

[veggie_vamp]

Well duh! Any Fearleader should be able to come up with a god chant right on the spot! Cleo de Nile taught me that.

[foolishwren]

That's amazing.

Hey.

_{[Forgetting all about throwing the balls for a minute, she points at the bootleg Gyarados.]}

Do one about that!

[veggie_vamp]

Hmmm...

[She claps her hands, then dances again.]

Gimmie a R! Ready to fight!
Gimmie a O! Oh yeah, that's right!
Gimmie an A! All of our might!
One more R! Real tight!

ROAR, ROAR, what are we fighting for!
He's in your sight, get that score!

[foolishwren]

<sub>[By now, between Heather's winning streak and Laura's impressive cheers, they've attracted a little crowd.]

[When they applaud, it's as much for the on-the-spot rhyming as it is Heather knocking another bottle down. True to form, Heather whoops and gestures to Laura with an approving jerk of the head, inciting some more scattered applause and laughter.]

[The stallrunner wearily sets the bottles up again. AT LEAST IF THEY'RE DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE STALL HE MIGHT GET SOME MORE PEOPLE WHO... DON'T HAVE AIM AS GOOD.]</sub>

[veggie_vamp]

['Laura is just having the time of her laugh. When the next bottle does down, she bursts into delighted giggling and hugs Heather.]

Oh My Ghoul, you are the Queen of Games! You're so cool!

[foolishwren]

_{[As much of a hugger as Heather is, it's not often she gets huggy with someone she just met. But she returns the embrace with gusto, laughing out loud.]}

Dude, same to you!

I can't rhyme for shit, there's a reason I never went for cheerleading tryouts in school!

_{[Well, that and she'd been a cynical delinquent. When she had finally gone for extracurriculars, she'd picked track. Mostly because when the main goal is just to run as fast as you can, you don't really have to chitchat with your team-mates.]}

After I win this franken-dos, I totally owe you a snack from one of the food stands or something!