Summer Solstice

[lifemods]

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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Comments

OTA

[anesperience]

Speed Kidnapping

A Summer Solstice Festival seemed like a wonderful place to go to and get to know people. Or at least the city. Terra wasn't so good at the large social crowds. But she dressed as nicely as she could, hair up with a green ribbon and a red dress with long belled sleeves. She kept a dagger tucked in her tall boots because lets be honest, she grew up being a Magitek knight. She wasn't going to go to a strange place unarmed.

But it was so bright and beautiful! There was noise and laughter and music. It was like Edge had lit up over night, the melancholy lifted like clouds parting and sun shining down onto the people.

For once, she didn't feel like she was standing out with her choice of clothing colors but that didn't mean she wasn't accosted rather suddenly by two mascots. Despite her attempts to flee them, as politely as possible she somehow ended up agreeing to sitting down at one of the table, hands folded on top and cheeks pink.

This was not how her day was supposed to be going. She wasn't sure what 'speed dating' was but she was also absolutely certain this wasn't the time for it. She had hoped to reach the job fair....

This isn't Food

The sizzling is what caught her attention. She hadn't heard something sizzle quite that much. Sure, there was pan frying but fried food wasn't... It wasn't a thing. Terra had never seen it before. She ate either Vector slop, rations or the occasional extravagant meal provided by Edgar's kindness.

She leans to see what was just dropped into what appeared to be a very hot pot of sizzling oil and out comes a.... tube? One of the children beside her takes it and takes a big bite out of it, revealing it to be a cake filled with cream.

..Well that just.. .. She smiles incredulously, looking back at the selections.

"What is that...?"

OTA

[scntstnotmunky]

To his credit, Winston was not being looked on with fear. Instead, the children seemed to delight at the giant gorilla being a part of the fair. There was a lot of them hanging off him as he gave them rides, being paid in fried bananas and oreos, and peanut butter.

You can never forget about the peanut butter.

So the fair was definitely a place he was enjoying, showing off his skills at games and stopping at the Job Fair.

Adjusting his glasses as he read through the job listings and inquired to the person, "How much work experience is needed?"

Other times, he would strike up a conversation with someone as he munched on his lunch of fried food and peanut butter. "Uh, hi."

[shimmer_on]

Sunset was scarily good at the carnival games.

She was winning toy after toy and giving them to kids who looked on with awe. She, like Winston, was popular with the kids and she was playing her best. Sometimes she would pause for a snack, or maybe go on a fair ride.

Other times, she would be looking out for her friends, and then looking into finding a job at a mechanics or a research position.

She was very good, and when asked to demonstrate her skill with broken machines, Sunset would fix it, within minutes. It was almost magic.

[exturkishdelight]

Job Fair

The festival was certainly. .. Festive.

The last time Vincent had attended a Festival was when he was a child and he was beckoned by various recruiters to join the military. It was more uncomfortable than enjoyable and Vincent never returned to one. But..

He needed to get into contact with the Turks and Rufus Shinra. He also needed to scope out the different faces from the Lifestream and where was a better place than the job fair..? Besides the Festival itself, but he had an opportunity of killing two birds with one stone.

Hands were tucked behind his back as he walks slowly through the little cordoned area for the job fair, red eyes flickering over each option, one by one. It looked quite like he was a very strange appearing man here looking for a possible job but he was observing each and every face.

Some were obviously from Edge. They had a look about them. But the streamers did as well. That wide eyed, slightly confused wonderment. He made mental notes of each face and where they chose to go to.

As he himself drifted towards the ShinRa Tech. He remembered joining the company, when it was ShinRa Electric. How things had changed.

[fearedheir]

Food + Wandering (OTA)

[Rufus Shinra is once again in his incognito get up--jeans, a normal grey jacket, and a t-shirt with his hair lying naturally (read: all in his face). There's someone trailing him discreetly, and he has his gun, so he's perfectly safe.

He also happens to have two black couerl kits, each a few months old, on leashes today. A day or two of fun before their training begins in earnest, even if that means he gets dragged over to the food a lot because the girls are curious.]

Private Gazebo (Open to ShinRa employees + canonmates only)

[Look, Rufus burns easily. If he's not wandering the fair incognito, he's probably been ferried away to a private gazebo to cool down and keep from getting burned or too hot.

The kits are at his feet, either sleeping or playing.]

[flamesbond]

Speed Dating

[Yeah, Lea has no clue either. He just followed the moogle, okay, and now he's here being told it's a speed date. He looks at his partner and leans in to whisper:]

What's speed dating anyway?

Food

[Lea, no matter where or when you see him, will have an ice cream in his hand. Even if he's eating something else at the time. There is an ice cream in his hand at all times, making a mess.

Of course that means at some point he has to drop it...and not realize it, slipping and nearly breaking something. Thanks for catching him, kind stranger?]

Isa Only

Hey, hey Isa!

[Lea tugs on his friend's hand, pointing to a giant plush dog with a crescent moon on its back]

C'mon on, I'm gonna get that.

[aiza]

[Isa rolls his eyes, but lets Lea drag him over to the game booth. Truth be told, he does think the toy is cute, but it's not like he's going to admit that.]

You'll be wasting your money, Lea.

[flamesbond]

No, I won't. Trust me, we both know I'm great at hoop toss games.

[He's got good aim. He drags Isa over and pays the man for fifteen tries. Each successful hoop tossed will get him five, ten, or twenty prize tokens and the dog is two hundred tokens]

That dog is mine.

OTA

[aiza]

Wandering around

At some point, Isa gets separated from Lea in the crowd. Rather than hunt him down, he decides to wander around on his own for a bit. Well, not quite on his own. He has a giant plush dog with a crescent moon on its back from one of the game booths. Which he keeps accidentally knocking into people with.

"Sorry," he says each time he bumps into someone. Most of them aren't paying attention, but surely someone will be and they're want more than a mumbled sorry as he walks away.


Food

Isa is trying not to spend too much money, but he's also a teenage kid at a festival. He's trying to balance holding the plush dog in one hand and a hot dog in the other as he makes his way through the crowd to find a place to sit. Of course, there's very few open seats anywhere, so when he finds one, it's of course next to some stranger.

"Is this seat taken?" he asks, pointing to the empty one next to them.

[aiza]

It's probably rigged.

[He's such a spoil sport sometimes. Anyway, he stands just enough off to the side to give Lea the space to maybe actually win it.]

What are you going to do with it if you win?

[flamesbond]

Give it to you.

[Said in the most "duh" tone imaginable as he tosses the first hoop. Twenty!]

What else would I do with it?

[aiza]

You don't have to do that.

[He looks away sheepishly because yes, the plush dog is really cute. And he knows that Lea knows he would never get it for himself. But still! It's not necessary.]

[flamesbond]

Doing it anyway!

[He grins over at Isa before focusing on the game. He manages to get all ten twenty bottles no problem, which leaves him with the last five hoops to get five tens. He stops to rest his arm a sec.]

Besides, it's your color.

[aiza]

[Isa watches as Lea lands hoop after hoop perfectly. Not that he expected any less of him, but still, a best friend has to heckle, right? It's his duty. Heckling and teasing. Besides, it keeps the attention off himself as he tries to be all cool about this.]

Maybe this game is rigged. No one should win that easy.

[flamesbond]

Nah, I'm just that good.

[Once more into the fray!...for all of two minutes while Lea aces the game and gets his two hundred and fifty tokens. The game runner gives him an extra hundred and fifty for a perfect game, which Lea hands over to Isa. Lea's tokens are promptly traded for the dog, which he also hands over to Isa with a huge grin on his face.]

[aiza]

[As Lea hands him the tokens, Isa shakes his head, rolls his eyes, and pockets the tokens.]

What am I, your wallet? Thanks.

[He takes the plush dog a little more happily, but he tries to hide it by only giving it a small squeeze and a tiny smile.]

[flamesbond]

[He sees that smile]

No, they're yours. I can get more at another game if I want, so you can pick something.

[aiza]

[Of course he does.]

Maybe later. I have to lug this thing around all day, I'm not lugging anything else until it's time to go home.

[He acts like it's such a trial to overcome, carrying around a super cute prize.]

Gazebo :V

[notachocobo]

[Okay so, he'd asked Vincent to talk to Rufus. To deal with the ShinRa side of things but Cloud couldn't help but want to talk to him as well. It was less about business, so to speak, and more about personal concerns that Cloud had about all of this.

Not that he'd go into all of them but..well..he would try.

Approaching the gazebo, Cloud was without sword for once so hey look! He's not here as a threat! Even if he could hurt people with his bare hands. The blonde stopped short of the gazebo itself, glancing at the kittens then to Rufus himself.]

Can we talk?

[notachocobo]

Cloud had been expecting to see a lot of strange things thanks to the Lifestream malfunctioning, or whatever it was that was going on with the damn thing. People of all shapes and sizes, from strange places and times. One thing that had never crossed his mind though, and it probably should have all things considered, was seeing individuals that..weren't exactly human.

Like this guy.

The blonde had been wandering the fair to keep an eye on everything and make sure that no one started anything with the 'Streamers'--as Vincent had suggested--when he'd ended up standing a few feet away from the..um...whatever..this guy was.

Cloud startled out of his thoughts as the other spoke, an eyebrow lifting before he gave Winston a nod.

"Hello." Okay, no, you have to say more than that. "...What..are you?"

Smooth.

Food!

[seekthelight]

Considering he and his brother had, just a couple days ago, pickpocketed a huge crowd and made themselves a decent amount of money, Sora was itching to spend it on something good. He knew better than to use it all on silly things but..it was a fair! With delicious food and games and--okay mostly food. That's really all he cared about.

So Sora had picked out what he'd wanted and bound over to the booth, standing on his tiptoes to hand the gil over to the man in trade for the delicious treat. The young boy was quick to bite into it despite how warm it still was, bouncing on the tips of his toes in delight.

He hadn't even been paying attention to the woman standing there but when she spoke Sora looked up, licking his lips so he wasn't quite as messy looking--hint: he was still filthy--and giving her a brilliant smile.

"It's a snack cake! Deep fried!"

[more_than_words]

food:

[Seventh Heaven has a little booth set up with all the rest, though its not serving alcohol. If you want that you can swing by the bar once the fair winds down. Nope, this little booth is mostly serving different mixed juices with catchy names and flavored shaved ice. There's also a small setting of cookies and muffins if you need something with a little less grease to put in your stomach after that last stomach churning ride. Tifa will be manning it most of the time (but if you work for/live with her feel free to take over for a little while to let her head off to beat a few of those games and getting that embarrassingly large stuffed chocobo for Marlene. Or possibly Cloud.)]

Hey! You look like you could use something to cool off. We've got nice cold juice or some delicious ice cones.

carnival games:

[While Tifa is content to mostly watch, she's a sucker for the goldfish scoop game and she's more than a little dangerous with anything that requires things thrown at targets. She's more than willing to help someone and she just might have her eye on one of the stuffed chocobo that's ungodly large.]

So... does the green chocobo or the yellow one look cuter? I mean, in your opinion?


(ooc: wanted to get this up but fair warning (ha!) I'm going to be offline for most of the day. Will get to replies as soon as I get back!)

[sworntoblood]

Well, it was not every day that one saw a gorilla hanging out at...a faire. Yes, the strange device had called it a faire, hadn't it? Perhaps it was like the Darkmoon Faire she'd heard much about (but, being a busy elf, Liadrin had never really found the time to go. And she regretted it, a little.) Well, what better time than now to explore a place like this?

But, back to the gorilla. The talking gorilla.

"You aren't from Stranglethorn, are you?" The elf's tone is bemused, at least, and her eyes quite literally twinkle with amusement. Probably because they're glowing and green.

"That's not all you're eating, is it?" Liadrin does manage to look a bit horrified. She isn't certain what the brown goo is, but she's seen things like steak on a stake before, and the oily smell coming off of it makes her think that it's about as healthy as that stuff.

Which is to say, it's not.

[flamesbond]

Rent a wagon?

[fearedheir]

[One of the kits looks up when Cloud comes in and goes over to sniff his boot before growling, hackles raised. Rufus murmurs a quiet word in Wutaian; she backs off and curls up at Rufus's feet, tentacle flicking unhappily. She doesn't like Cloud's scent.

Her sister just goes over to demand attention from Cloud]

What is it?