Homecoming Carnival!

[wrnpcs]

[There seems to be a festive atmosphere all throughout Garden. Why? Because it's the Homecoming Carnival! The Garden Festival Committee and their unaffiliated helpers have been hard at work all morning and when 1300 hours strikes, it's finally open for everyone to enjoy.

The directory has been reprogrammed slightly:
It also has a piece of paper stuck underneath:
Kissing booth: Turn around
Food booths: Around 1F main circle
Triple Triad: 2F bridge
Carnival games: Front gate area
Ferris wheel, bumper cars, carousel: Road to Balamb

Each stall/booth has free, more elaborate maps:


Have fun, Garden!]

Each attraction will have its own thread. We've listed the people running shifts in the top comments as a reminder to those who signed up; feel free to make your character a thread for their shift even if you missed OOC signups.

Characters have different shifts which allow for everyone to enjoy other parts of the carnival as well instead of being stuck manning a booth the whole night. For the dunk tank, kissing booth, food booths, and talent quest it's best to leave your character's name in the subject of their comment to start off their thread indicating their shift/time onstage.

Proceeds will be going towards building and furnishing a student lounge for fun stuff, so most attractions cost money:
Kissing booth: 2 gil per kiss
Ferris wheel, bumper cars, carousel: 5 gil per person
Carnival games (throwing/shooting X at Y, water gun race, whack a mole, skee ball, Ring the Bell, etc): 1 gil per game
Face painting: 2 gil per person
Food stalls: Snow cones 3 gil, cotton candy 3 gil, and funnel cake 5 gil; "food from your home world" up to individual characters
Dunk tank: 5 gil for 3 balls, 10 gil for 10 balls
Fortune telling: 3 gil per reading
Marriage booth: 5 gil a couple
Balloon animals: 3 gil an animal
Wandering entertainers: Donations welcome
Judgmental Claire stare: 5 gil

Comments

Kissing booth: Bridge heading towards the directory, queuing into lobby

[wrnpcs]

2 gil per kiss

Characters signed up:

Ahri

Cissie King-Jones

Rose Lalonde

Ahri's shift~

[9tailedtemptress]

[The nine tailed vixen had walked up to the booth and sat behind it in some rather alluring clothing. Her smile shone brightly even if it possessed that hint of deviousness it usually carried.

Leaning forward on the booth Ahri looked over the passing crowd and would smile welcomingly at the passersby, beckoning them over without words as her tails swayed playfully behind her.

If things got late and there hadn't been many buyers, she'd make sure to use her... particular gifts to lure more and more to the booth and giving them what they really wanted whether they showed it or now! In the end, they'd leave lighter in their pockets but with a nice and pleasant spring to their step!]

Rose's Shift

[thorny]

[Rose looks about as pleased to be manning this booth as a turkey invited to Thanksgiving dinner. she's knitting furiously, needles flashing in the sun as she focuses steadfastly on the book neatly laid out on the booth's counter. hopefully her demeanor should be enough to discourage anyone looking for a smooch.

if she gets out of this unscathed she'll consider it a small miracle.]

Dunk tank: Front gate

[wrnpcs]

5 gil for 3 balls, 10 gil for 10 balls

Characters signed up:

Dolphin

Gaomon

Jecht

Lt. Furor

David Lalonde

Jecht's shift!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Looks like I'm stayin' dry today!

[Jecht's cheerfully calling out challenges and taunting to those who walk by, hands tucked behind his head in with casual arrogance.]

Guess I'll work on my tan while I'm out here!

Dolphin's shift!

[tempesting]

It's okay! Come and give it a try!

[ Dolphin's smiling encouragingly and cheering on the challengers. ]

Come on! You can do it!

David's shift

[tortileghostwriter]

[HE DARES YOU TO TRY]

Gaomon's shift!

[youngnobelman]

[So. Not. Pleased. with his partner for signing him up for this. Arms folded, clearly sulking.]

Dunk the Headmaster!

[wrnpcs]

[One of the GFC members standing by is holding onto his glasses for him...]

Lt. Furor's shift

[cigardog]

[Aw look at the cute puppy. How can you want to dunk the poor thing?]

[Wait, is that a cigar? He's smoking?]

[Look closer, and wearing an eyepatch? What the hell kind of dog is that? Quick! Dunk the abomination!]

Food booths: Main circle around the first floor

[wrnpcs]

Including snow cones (3 gil), cotton candy (3 gil), and funnel cake (5 gil) as well as "food from your homeworld" (pricing up to characters).

Characters signed up:

Reno: Wutai (Japanese and Chinese) food (including sushi), Midgar-styled sandwiches and pizza, alcoholic drinks

Roy Mustang: Xingese (Chinese) dishes and Amestris desserts (apple pies, sundaes, etc)

Ellyn Vitner: Flame-seared beef on a stick

Flame-seared beef on a stick

[combustible_me]

[It's 10 gil for the entire shebang, but Ellyn has marinated beef, pita-like slices of bread, and a surprisingly creamy sauce to go along with her spiced beef. She does make a show of searing the stuff up, too; her area is delineated with a five-by-five square where she does a few tricks as she cooks, while her customers wait. All in all, she figures it's a good draw.]

All'a ya step right up, y'ain't gotta be shy! Ya get yer beef sticks, bread an' sauce, an' ya enjoy, both this an' the rest of yer fair!

Now who's next? One at a time, if ya will!

Ferris wheel, bumper cars, carousel: Road leading out to Balamb

[wrnpcs]

5 gil per person

Characters signed up:

Thumbelina: Ferris wheel

Tom Bronson: Bumper cars

Also, SeeD characters may patrol the area for monsters. (It's a good way to keep your rank up!)

[bunnypassingby]

[Mikuru is kind of curious about the ferris wheel... but she is also too scared to go on it alone.

[So she's hovering around the area trying to find someone to ride with, while also trying not to look like she's doing so.]

Thumbelina's Shift

[thumbsize]

[ Lina's dressed in a powder blue dress with boots, and smiling brightly at the customers.

Come and approach her. By the rumbling of her stomach, bringing her a cupcake wouldn't hurt. ]

Carnival games and marriage booth: Front gate area

[wrnpcs]

Including throwing/shooting X at Y, water gun race, whack a mole, skee ball, Ring the Bell, goldfish scooping, judgmental Claire stare, etc. 1 gil per game, except for judgmental Claire stare, which is 5 gil.

At the marriage booth, two characters get handcuffed together, and people at the booth will only uncuff them after an hour. 5 gil per couple.

Characters signed up:

Princess Luna: Marriage booth

Tom Bronson: Toss the ring onto the bottle

Claire Farron: Judgmental Claire stare

Chase Kelly: Water race game, shooting moving ducks

Water race game/duck shooting game

[hispeedchase]

[Today Chase decided that dressing like a traditional carnival barker was loud enough, with his bright red hair to match. He's got himself an old school megaphone and doing his best to bring people to his booth. If you happen by in the morning, he's manning the water race game, and if you happen by in the afternoon, he's manning the duck shooting game.]

Hurry hurry hurry! Step right up and test your shooting skills! Are you good enough to win a prize? Step right up and find out! Just 1 gil to try! [Motions to the prizes in a mock Vanna White fashion.] Look at all the amazing prizes you can win! Step right up and try your luck!

[And, if you happen to walk past as he's manning the duck shooting game, he adds.]

Think you're a good shot? Then take this blindfold and show the world just how good you are! Are you man or woman enough to give it a shot? Win amazing prizes!

Marriage Booth

[lunar_princess]

[Luna's taken it upon herself to take this way too far than is probably necessary, having set the booth up to look rather regal with a quickly put together arch out of what appears to be lattice in front of it. The archway itself is decorated with various flowers ranging from red roses to some darker colored flowers, particularly incorporating her own adoration of the darker colored flowers.

She's standing off to the side of the arch, humming softly to herself as she waits. Mane is somehow put back into a bun decorated with purple and black flowers and she's sporting her armor rather nicely polished and meticulously presented.

Someone please tell her that wasn't all necessary at all.]

Face painting and balloon animals: Cafeteria

[wrnpcs]

2 gil per painting; 3 gil per animal

Characters signed up:

Pinkie Pie: Balloon animals

BALLOON ANIMALS

[laughafterme]

[Come get your balloon penguins and alligators!

Don't mind Pinkie playing with Gummy, who's chewing on a balloon.]

Fortune telling: Garage

[wrnpcs]

3 gil per reading

Triple Triad: 2F bridge outside the elevator

[wrnpcs]

It's time to d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-duel!

Talent quest: Quad, lunchtime

[wrnpcs]

With Russell Drake from the date auction MCing again. We're not going to write his intros again, but expect more stupid puns.

Characters signed up:

Princess Luna: Transformation

Snake: Snake charming

Rainbow Dash: Flying

Re: Talent quest: Quad, lunchtime

[silentscales]

Snake comes onto the stage shirtless, showing off the scales that covered his body and carrying a small basket and a flute. He sets the basket down, takes off the lid and begins to play a hypnotic song, swaying from side with the music. After a moment the head of a coral snake appears over the top of the basket, with the head of a green mamba just underneath. They both swayed with him until he began changing his motions to introduce more variation. Likewise, the snakes began to make more complicated moves, twisting around each other.

He begins to play a more intense song, hitting hard, sudden notes as he seems to lean back just in time to avoid strikes from the snakes. After one strike, Snake catches the green mamba, setting down the flute and begins to dance with it, seeming to entrance the animal in his movements and 'charming' it into dancing with him while a recorded song begins to play.

He makes his way back to the basket, still dancing and winds his arm around the coral snake, letting her twist her way up and around his neck as he lifts the mamba and brings it close to his face with no fear, despite this being the same animal that just struck at him. As he dances, he twists the snake around his neck while lifting the bright coral and holding her above him. He opens his mouth and lowers her so that her head was actually in his mouth in a show of just how much control he had over these deadly creatures. He even seems to bite down on the snake, lowering his head and letting her body twist as he hold her tail up. He gently pulls her out and shows them both to be unharmed. He lets her twist around his abdomen as he spins back to his flute, picking it up as the music cuts, and beginning to play again while swaying. He charms both of the snakes back into the basket before closing it with apparent concern.

He places his flute beside the closed basket and bows for the audience with a faint hope that he might win with his act. Either way, he was sure Emily and Oscar had fun with him.

Wandering entertainers: EVERYWHERE

[wrnpcs]

Donations welcome!

Characters signed up:

Ellyn Vitner: Fire stunts

She really is everywhere she can find room...

[combustible_me]

[With this sort of thing, Ellyn has to be safety conscious. Which means there are a lot of chalked 5x5 'safety circles' (boxes, really), where she bellows out a few minutes before she starts up each show that the squares are for peoples' safety, and please stay out of them. It also means that her customary red silk robe is outside the square, piled small in one corner. Right next to the empty cigar box she's using for "tips/donations".

The first part of her show involves a controlled burn of colored powders that she throws around. Half of it goes into the air, to rain a shower of multicolored sparks around the pyromancer. The rest goes into patterns on the ground, so she can light them when she starts dancing with the poi.

The dance itself is fairly simple, a foot-stomping and shuffling number that keeps Ellyn pretty centered in her square. It's the fiery strings that are doing most of the moving, in circles at shoulder height, or waist height, or even twinned over her head, blazing with light. It's a spectacle even during the day, but it's as dusk draws near that her shows really take on a new dimension, glowing to rival the carnival lights, and almost Balamb itself.

When she's done, she takes a bow.]

Hope ya enjoyed the show, folks. Enjoy yer carnival, an' don't f'get th' orphans!