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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Cloud couldn't help it; he snorted, hiding a suppressed smile behind a hand. That did sound really possible, especially when there was rides and food and... well, alcohol around the place, and it was rather warm.

Not as hot as Midgar summers could get, just yet, but still more than warm enough.

"Sorry," he said softly, but there was suppressed amusement still in evidence. The question made him sway back on his heels a little though, and he crossed his arms.

"... maybe. Like what?"

He was pretty sure the new ShinRa didn't keep an army on hand, after all. If he'd want to work for them at all, but it didn't hurt to ask. Wasn't like he'd have to decide anything now.

That was a smile -- Reno was sure of it. He hadn't seen Cloud smile in... well, he wasn't sure if he'd ever seen Cloud smile. The rare times he'd seen Cloud as a Shinra grunt, the kid had his helmet on and Reno hadn't cared. And since then, Cloud hadn't had much of a reason to smile. Seeing it now, Reno couldn't be too upset.

"Well." Reno gestured to a seat in front of the table with a smirk. "If you're thinkin' we don't have an army -- and I'm sure you are -- you're right. We're a lot smaller, a lot more focused. But there's obviously always a need for security where cutting-edge technology is bein' developed."

He sat down a little hesitantly, but figured it couldn't hurt. Nodding, grinning wryly, Cloud silently admitted to having been thinking just that, but well. Couldn't fault him, right?

Tilting his head a little, Cloud hesitated for a moment, glance flicking from the tabletop and back up.

"Wasn't 'security' what the army, SOLDIER and the Turks were?" Cloud asked finally, dryly. A few months ago, he wouldn't have been that cynical about it, because well... he did believe it, then, but even from what little he'd found out so far here, and what had happened in Nibelheim, that wasn't true any longer.

"... what sort of technology?"

Did he expect a completely honest response on that one? Not really, even if ShinRa had cleaned up its act.

Reno winced slightly. "Ouch, man." But Cloud was right, of course. He shook his head.

"Yeah, Turks are still special." Because of course he was special. "But no army, no SOLDIER, none of that global 'security' power."

He even allowed himself to make air quotes.

"So when I say security, I mean really, like, fuckin' security guards. I ain't promisin' you glamour, but at least your trainin' isn't all goin' in the toilet." Reno shook his head. "Any promisin' business, and especially anything Shinra does right now, always has a risk a' someone wanting to ruin it or steal shit. That's just the way the world is."

"Now, technology..." Reno smirked. "Couple different projects in the works. Some are still confidential t' employees while they're in development, obviously. But, y'know, everything is about improvement, everything is about accessibility -- like, developing a more efficient engine, or better phones. Hell, maybe we'll restart the space program."

Of course they still were. Cloud barely kept from rolling his eyes, wary still. At least the rest sounded... okay. Good enough, maybe. 'Glamour' was something he'd had thoroughly had to drop, considering how the whole thing with SOLDIER went... maybe just as well, even if the failure still stung.

The point about his training, though, that was true, and he'd been thinking of ways to keep it up. It'd be a waste not to, whatever else. Nodding slowly, Cloud snorted a little over the comment that that was just the way the world was.

"That would be cool. The space program, I mean," Cloud said quietly, cocking his head, "... I'll think about it."

Reno shrugged with a smile. "Can't ask ya t' do any more 'n that. But you would be an asset, Cloud. I'd love t' have ya."

Knowing how "his" Cloud grew up, the younger one had a great untapped potential for good things.

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