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

[harlequinhater]

I don't know! Believe it or not, I have not had a lot of opportunity to scoop up many fish in my time. But I mean, how much technique can there even be to something like this?

[He decides to demonstrate, though. More money slapped down for another scoop, and John gives it his best attempt. He's taking things a little too horizontally, swiping the scoop from side to side.

...It's not very effective.]

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[Oh no, laughing is getting harder to fight...!]

Here, lemme see if I can give you some pointers. I think I can see where you're going wrong.

[She places her Eevee down (and he leans over to see all the fish) and waves down someone so she can pay for her own Goldeen Scoop.]

[harlequinhater]

[John gives up on his own Goldeen attempts for now in order to allow Ashley to do her thing. After all, if she actually knows what she's doing, then he needs to be paying attention.]

You think so? Have you ever done fish scooping before? Because let me tell you, it is harder than it looks!

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Oh, I'm nothing like a pro.

[As she demonstrates by missing a Goldeen, quite obviously. But she stares at it, scrunches up her face and gets ready for another pass.]

But...I think what you gotta do...is put a little more of a...subtle sweep- [And she tries a diagonal approach, slow and then fast...and success?! She looks more than a little surprised at that.] Aha! There we go!

[harlequinhater]

[John slams his hands on the set up, causing the water to splash and the vendor to give him dirty looks. He quickly apologizes and steps back.]

That was so good! What the hell! I'm going to try again.

[More Pokédollars down the drain, and John has another scoop ready to go. He tries swiping diagonal and sweeping, but all he ends up doing is angering one of the fish Pokémon, which promptly leaps out of the water and slaps him in the face. John drops his scoop and steps back, sputtering water.]

Ughhhh, this game is rigged!