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

3/3

[secondhandsome]

[It's just when Tim's mind catches up to him and tells him to pull the fuck back already that Jack moves back himself. And thank god for that, because that's... no.

The apology is actually surprising and it's... okay, it's just for the last part, but fuck it, he'll take it. It's plenty.

Tim doesn't quite let out a sigh of relief, but his next few breaths are a little deeper, a little steadier. That sure was an experience he doesn't ever want to repeat.]

It's, ah, fine. Y'know. Whatever. No harm, no uh... [Man, how about he stares at the ground for a moment. Look at... all that interesting ground, wow.] Yeah.

[Nothing happened and that's the important part. Let's focus on that. Let's focus on that and absolutely nothing else forever.]

[thedifferencebetween]

Yeah, no, just...uh...got a little carried away. You know. Uh...gotta lot of feelings going on, and it's been a while and...well, you can't blame me. It's one tempting face. But, uh, no. No. That wasn't cool. You've got boundaries, I respect that.

[And hey, the memory's fresh. He'll just put it to use later, nothing wrong with that!]

[But he does feel kind of...not bad. He's got no reason to feel bad. But Other Jack's all freaked out now. And he really hadn't meant to do that. He likes messing with the guy, but it's just messing with him.]

[Oh, hey. He said he liked cats, didn't he?]

Hey, wanna see something? Just got it, you'll like it!

[secondhandsome]

[Well, that's... that's good, right? So this probably won't happen again? Okay. Okay, he's calming down a little more now. He won't really be okay until Jack's gone and he can start working on repressing this whole thing from his memory, but it's a start.]

Oh, uh. Well, it's alright. I mean... we're cool? And... stuff.

[Wow, is that a subject change? Okay, assuming it's not an awful subject change, because... well, it is Jack, he is all for it.]

...Sure? Yeah, okay.

[thedifferencebetween]

Oh yeah, we're cool. Look, you've made it very clear you're not interested. I mean, I don't really get why not, but whatever. There's a line, it kind of got scuffed a little, it wasn't on purpose. Here.

[Jack reaches into the depths of his robe and pulls out a Pokeball. He tosses it to release the critter inside. He's already forgotten what it's called - an Espurr - but it's cute and it's a cat so Other Jack can have something to focus on. Maybe calm him down some.]

[The purple psychic cat pops out of ball with a quiet 'purrrr?'.

Buddy of mine's catching Pokemon for me, caught me this little....whatever it is. Guy? Girl? I dunno how to tell...

[secondhandsome]

[Okay, that is a very excellent change of subject. Because that sure is a cat. That sure is a small purple cat with little folded ears and oh god, small white paws, what the hell, how cute can one animal even get?]

Holy shit...

[...Yeah, suffice to say, as far as distractions go? This is very effective.

Tim moves slightly down and just a little closer to the Espurr - trying to get a better look without freaking the kitty out.]

Okay, this is like insanely cute.

Man, this place likes cats, this is like... I don't know, the fourth different type I'm finding out about.

[thedifferencebetween]

Tell me about it! Dogs, too. I gotta say, I'm probably more of a cat guy than a dog guy. But dogs are scarier, and you know. Tougher looking. So I've been looking up all the dog ones.

[Not that that's been working out for him, as evidenced by the happy pile of puppy fat at his feet.]

[The Espurr makes another soft noise as Tim inches closer, blinking it's abnormally round eyes. One tiny white paw comes up, just a fraction of an inch.]

Hey, lookit that, it likes ya! I've got no idea what they do, if it spits acid at you, it's not my fault.

[secondhandsome]

[Yeah, he glances down at the not-so-tough looking dog for a moment.]

Sooo... how's that been going?

[It's... y'know, cute! Very cute, very good at being adorable, but uh. Yeah.]

I... guess that is an actual thing that could happen on this planet, huh? [He can't really bring himself to care though, because holy shit. This may be one of the cutest things he's seen in his life.] But it's probably fine.

[Maybe he can just... carefully pet it? He's making an attempt anyway. He can't resist this.]