Homecoming carnival! (backdated to Week 6 Friday)

[wrnpcs]

[There seems to be a festive atmosphere all throughout Garden. Why? Because it's the Homecoming Carnival! The Garden Festival Committee 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
Chocobo rides: Road to Garden

Each stall/booth has free, more elaborate maps:


Have fun, Garden!]

Each attraction has 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 split between further events and building and furnishing a student lounge for fun stuff, so most attractions cost money:
Kissing booth: 2 gil per kiss
Chocobo rides: 5 gil per person
Carnival games (archery, 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

Comments

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

[wrnpcs]

2 gil per kiss

Characters signed up:

Fionna

Ace D. Portgas

[mera_mera_ace]

[Ace is leaning against the booth with a wide grin on his face. He was excited about this even if he still was pretty indifferent about Garden. It seemed...nostalgic to get into an event like this again. Fairs and festivals had always been something he enjoyed while out at sea and plus, this way he could meet some more people.

So here he stood shirtless, with his cowboy hat and his rugged, charming smile. It's only 2 gil per kiss, surely someone would love some affection from him.]

[espio]

A kissing booth?

[Espio leaned against a low wall, watching Ace critically.]

Are you really so desperate?

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

[fionna_time]

Fionna is taking her spot at the booth, whistling casually, a few books stacked right next to her, in case she got bored and wanted to study some more stances. She did, however, have her hat off for once, and was wearing a light blue blouse and pink skirt].

[gotgreedy]

Looks like they went all-out to get a cute girl here in the booth, didn't they?

[A grinning Greed, hands in the pockets of his coat, steps up.]

You sign up, or did they sneak your name onto the list and kidnap you in the night?

Dunk tank: Front gate

[wrnpcs]

5 gil for 3 balls, 10 gil for 10 balls

Re: Dunk tank: Front gate

[fionna_time]

[Since no one was doing this, there were requests for a last minute participant..and here was Fionna, decked out in something far too cute to be taken seriously she's already catcalling.]

Come on you bums! Let's get five gils goin'! Don't pansy on me!

Re: Dunk tank: Front gate

[tempesting]

[ Dolphin was passing by when she saw Fionna and came over. ] Are you sure that's what you want to say to get customers? [ She's smiling, happy to at least see Fionna's enjoying herself. ]

[om_nom_namur]

[Namur sees the tank, ostensibly with a person in it, and feels his stomach drop. A familiar, cold rage wells up where his gut used to be.

But no. This is just a game. It isn't slavery, the people in the tanks can leave whenever they want. It isn't punishment. It isn't anything. Just a stupidass game.

He wanders on, looking at other things. But the tank's kind of hard to miss. It keeps coming back into his field of vision, his range of hearing. Splashing inside and laughter from those on the outside, typical, and man, he really really needs to figure out how to let. this. go.

When it's Fionna in the tank, though, he just can't.]

Damn it Fionna! Get out a the shitty tank!

[She may, if she's paying attention, notice it isn't his usual bossy gruffness but something more plaintive tingeing his voice.]

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).

Espio - Curry

[espio]

[As mentioned in his far-too-long BBS post, Espio's decided to go with the whole curry idea for this, preparing two different curries (a fairly hot meat curry, and a mild vegetable curry), to be served with simple steamed rice. It smells pretty damn good, actually!

Espio's a little uncertain, given that the idea of selling his food never really occurred to him before. He just hopes people will be buying.]

[windbreak]

[Espio can't be nearly as uncertain as this guy, hanging back a few steps with his hands in his pockets and a vaguely conflicted look on his face. The smell is making him kind of hungry, and it looks good too, so it's probably at least edible... right? Then again, he didn't take it out of a packet himself, which means... Argh, why can't he decide?

He's so preoccupied, he hasn't yet noticed who's actually running the stand.]

Re: Food booths: Main circle around the first floor

[tempesting]

[ Dolphin's getting a nice helping of steamed seaweed. ] Thank you! [ She waves goodbye to the vendor and takes her paper plate and fork to a nearby table and sits down. ] This looks so good.

Chocobo rides: Road leading out to Balamb

[wrnpcs]

5 gil per person

Courtesy of Balamb's chocobo ranch and the new chocobo forest! So some of these chocobos might be a little undertrained.

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

[ascendit]

[Nate is stalking about with his beginner gunblade, engaging the odd Bite Bug that gets too close to the chocobo. When he thinks no one's looking, he may be caught looking wistfully at the chocobo, or taking surreptitious looks at the groun--

[Is that something shiny like a gil coin on the ground? Nate starts sidestepping towards it, trying to look casual.]

[youngnobelman]

[Speaking of undertrained chocobos, is that a ball of blue fur flying through the air from a cranky chocobo?

[Yes. Yes, it is. Stepping out of the way might be an idea, before you get crashed into by a bipedal blue dog wearing boxing gloves.]

Carnival games and marriage booth: Front gate area

[wrnpcs]

Including archery, throwing/shooting X at Y, water gun race, whack a mole, skee ball, Ring the Bell, goldfish scooping. 1 gil per game.

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:

Mikuru Asahina: Goldfish scooping

Sigyn Freyasdotter: Archery

goldfish scooping!

[bunnypassingby]

Step right up for goldfish scooping!

[Look, Mikuru's even (sadly unintentionally) making it easier for you: She keeps feeding the goldfish when she doesn't get any takers.]

archery!

[fotlenke]

Please! Do come test your skills as a warrior!

[ Sigyn's smiling pleasantly as she sits on the edge of her booth's top surface, content with watching carnival goers walk by, smiling at them as they do. ]

Face painting and balloon animals: Cafeteria

[wrnpcs]

2 gil per painting; 3 gil per animal

Characters signed up:

Mikuru Asahina: Face painting

Pinkie Pie: Face painting and balloon animals

face painting!

[bunnypassingby]

[Between careful looks at the facepainting 'menu', Mikuru smiles hopefully at anyone who comes by.]

It's been a while since I really painted, but I'm sure I can paint something nice for you!

Fortune telling: Garage

[wrnpcs]

3 gil per reading

Triple Triad: 2F bridge outside the elevator

[wrnpcs]

[youngnobelman]

[While he's not actually playing a game himself, Touma's watching other games and talking to people.] Would you like to trade cards?

Talent quest: Quad, lunchtime

[wrnpcs]

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