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

[pipers_son]

Ah, well, who can say?

[That is to say, as a circus owner, he knows they are 100% fucking rigged to Hell and back but he’s not going to say that out loud. Would ruin his own business model.]

Still, you’ll never know unless ya give it a try, right? Sometimes things seem harder than they actually are. I’d give ya tips, or try it myself, but, ah. I ain’t exactly welcome at these sorta games anymore.

[cyan_maid]

I'm fairly certain they are.

[Said without judgement - hey, business is business.]

Oh? Are you simply too skilled at them? That'd be quite a quick way for the stall to lose their stock of Goldeen.

[pipers_son]

Ha! Nah, not particular, just… Well. Let’s just say that ya shouldn’t have overenergetic pokemon like Furrets out with ya who get ideas like “hey, maybe I should jump inta this pool full of Goldeen too”.

[Joker isn’t particularly angry, at least. He’s more amused than anything.]

[cyan_maid]

[Forgive her for the chuckle at that.]

Oh my! Maybe it wanted to go swimming?

[pipers_son]

I think he was tryin’ ta get a Goldeen, but since he doesn’t the, ah, dexterity for holdin’ a scoop… He went about it his way, the little menace.

[cyan_maid]

Hoo hoo! Well, I'd give him points for trying!

[But yeah, that's a reason to keep a trainer out of someone's business.]

[pipers_son]

Ha! That’s much kinder than the stall owner gave us. But I think so long as ya dont’ try ta have a bath, you and any of yer own outta be fine.

[cyan_maid]

Oh no, we'll keep our baths strictly to the Inn's bathtubs, don't you worry.

[Though now that he mentions it...if she DID get her hands on a Goldeen, a bathtub would be a nice place to get to know it AND not let it dry out, wouldn't it?]

[pipers_son]

Good ta hear. Let me be an example of what not ta do~.

[Unless you’re looking on how to open a circus. There, he’s great.]