edgeoflife | Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice Fair

The sun is shining, the Mognet is working again, and the summer solstice fair is here! The WRO hopes to makes this an annual thing, but this is the first year they're doing it. Everything you could ever want from a fair is here and open to the public.

*Fair Rides: Ferris wheels, a mini rollercoaster, that thing that looks like an octopus and spins around--the WRO spared no expense to make sure everyone would have fun here today. There's even a gravity ride that takes you up to the top of a pole and then drops you!

*Food: So much food. So much unhealthy food. Funnel cakes, hot dogs, burgers, ice cream, you name it. And it's all fairly cheap too, since the WRO promised to pay for half of what the merchants sell!

*Carnival Games: And most of them aren't even rigged! The Gold Saucer donated games for the fair and there are so many games. There's your standard shooting games, some basketball games, a dunk tank, hoop tosses, you name it. A few are rigged, though, so buy beware! There's also a few card tables set up in a tent for those who like their games a little less wild.

*Speed Dating: ...yeah, the WRO has no idea. This came with the Gold Saucer stuff, along with a Cait Sith and Moogle mascot pair that will coax anyone they can into sitting down and participating.

*Job Fair: With the influx of new arrivals, both native and Streamers, some employers see a golden opportunity to get some jobs filled! In one corner of the fair is another, mini-fair fill with tables and presentations on various workplaces: the WRO, ShinRa Tech, the volunteer emergency services of Edge, and the Highwind Air Taxi Service, just to name a few. Anyone of working age is welcome to wander in and have a look around.

Of course, the fair is taking up the entire center of Edge, so there's lots more to see and do!

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Hearing from Rufus and the two different Clouds sort of put Zack on a mission. He was curious, if anything, about the other guy wandering around that happened to share his existence. Who wouldn't be interested in meeting another version of yourself? Zack always did sort of wonder what life might have been like if he would have survived. Again, no real complaints other than the obvious. It wasn't like he bemoaned all that had happened.

Now it wouldn't be hard to find a guy that looked like yourself only with a walking stick, right? Zack also held the advantage of, well, the guy being himself. If he thought about where he would maybe like to be during the festival, it made it all the more easier to scope out potential places to run into one another. In the end? Zack wasn't disappointed.

"Depends on what you're looking for," he commented, maybe purposefully sneaking up behind the other. It was all in good fun, right?

The voice behind him sent a chill up Zack's spine that caused the hair on the back of his neck to stand on end. There was nothing creepier at the moment than hearing yourself from behind you, even if a moment later rational thinking settled in and told him it was the Zack of this world back from the dead. Yeah, rational.

He turned slowly, steeling himself for whatever he may see, and locked eyes with someone brighter and younger than himself. Obviously the world hadn't beaten this Zack down quite as hard, and for that the older Zack was happy. Well, as happy as he could be that he'd died. Which wasn't that happy, but he was here now so that was what mattered, right?

"What do you think?" He asked flippantly, folding his arms over his chest and resting his staff in the crook of one elbow, leaning on it slightly as he sized up his counterpart. There was no need to make this weird. Just play it cool.

He knew that the man before him had lived. Zack didn't know quite what to expect when the older version of himself turned around. Obviously the walking stick was something he knew was coming. However, there was something else that was different. Zack wasn't quite able to put his finger on it, but something about this older man was a little more worn down than he was.

Briefly, Zack wondered about just how different things were for this guy. What was life like? Had any of the things that had happened here continued to happen for the older Zack? How much of what he was seeing was due to recovery from injuries or guilt? Well, he assumed it was guilt. He wasn't sure how he would have felt if Cloud wouldn't have made it and he had. It was bad enough with Angeal...

Mentally he shook himself free of those thoughts, hands on his hips. "Wellll. I couldn't really say! This is one of those weird things like 'do we like the same kinds of foods' or 'if I was me, which I am, what would I look for?' right?"

"Exactly," He nodded, a grin forming over his lips. "So you obviously knew to look for me around the food. If you were looking for fair food, what would you look for?"

And then the weird thought ocurred to him that maybe there was some strange happenstance that made those cookies unavailable in this world, like they'd never been invented. Maybe, somehow, that was the huge butterfly effect difference between this world and his. Cookie stacks. That would be wild.

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