tampered | Spring Festival [OPEN TO ALL!]

When; Friday, April 6 2012, afternoon into night
Rating; Various! Warn if you need to on individual threads.
Characters; EVERYONE EVER!
Summary; Spring festival
Log;

Xanadu is buzzing this afternoon with with food stands and booths with games to play and trinkets to sell or win. There are a couple of stages where people play instruments, sing, juggle, and otherwise entertain.

People donated money, time and materials to bring everything together. Some areas are very polished and professional while others have more of a homemade touch, but it blends together nicely and there is a little something for everyone. A little further from the main attractions there is space for relaxing or playing a game of frisbee or catch.

As the evening settles upon the City, paper lanterns light up an outdoor dance floor and a band plays a range of music from romantic to spirited. There are also tables set up for those who would prefer to star or people gaze.

(OOC: As mentioned here please feel free to have your character/business set up a booth or stand or to be performing under the appropriate headings! They can be doing if for money, free, or charity. General Mingle | Booths: Games/Merchandise | Food Stands | Entertainment/Street Performers | Dance)

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[Talk to a friend or make a new one or ten. Start up a game in one of the open areas. Or just watch for something to go terribly awry. It is the City after all!]

[Play, shop, and observe. There are some classics here and some oddities. Maybe you heard about the festival and decided it was time to make a booth for handing out advice or challenging others to arm wrestling. ]

[There are picnic tables for your convenience and a variety of restaurants offering their fare, usually with a price. But you might get lucky at the potluck tables. Share a dish. Savor the experience.]

[Come one, come all. Musicians, jugglers, illusionists, ~~scam artists~~, clowns, etc! Declare yourself a performer and interact with the crowd or just watch a show!]

[Kick off your shoes (or keep them on) and dance the night away.]

[Euphie is smiling and looking around the lantern-lit dance floor. She's so happy how everything came together. She really thought it would be a much smaller thing, but people had been so helpful and encouraging. She might have gotten a little carried away herself, but it was nice just to help with something others could enjoy too. There would be a lot of cleaning up later on, but for right now her thoughts were on the music and who would be her next dance partner. She didn't expect to do a lot of sitting.]

[There is a very small booth with a stack of brochures offering basic information about the City and about the welcome center and the services they provide for new arrivals as well as people who have been living in the City for some time. Euphie is manning it some of the day, but other volunteers are stopping in as well! Feel free to say hi whether you're a newbie or an oldie. It's also doubling as a welcome center for the festival if anyone needs help finding anything.]

[Justin doesn't dance. He's just there to see Euphie and to prove that, yes, he showed up, even if he isn't a particularly festive person.]

Hey.

Justin! [Euphie is on a festival ~~extravert~~ high, so she moves immediately to hug her friend, excited that he was there.]

[Oh, hello. Justin returns the hug with all due awkwardness.] Are you having a good time?

[It's a much, much shorter hug than last time. She pulls back with a bright smile and nods. Only the awkwardness she noticed in him kept him from getting a kiss on the cheek to go with the hug.] I am. It's all going so much better than I'd hoped. Are you?

Good. [And skipping the kiss was probably a good call.] I'm... not having a bad time.

[She smiles a more specific sort of smile just for him—fond and teasing.] That sounds like something you'd say about a festival. Which is good since it was something you said about a festival.

Did you come to steal me for a dance?

[Chekov invited Tessa to the festival in the hopes that it would be a more entertaining venue than the ones they usually frequent (no offense meant to the Youth Center or the library). It's a little busy, perhaps, but also lively and entertaining.]

[He has to smile back. Euphie makes it very hard to be miserable, especially when she's right.] What made you think I don't usually go to them?

[Good question.] Should I have?

[She likes seeing that smile. Nicer for how rare it can be.] I have my ways.

[She reaches a hand out for his, ready to step into the dancing area.] Of course. [She might do the stealing.]

[Euphie's hand gets the same look that a venomous snake might receive. He takes it gingerly.] Then I should warn you that I'm a terrible dancer, too.

[A happier end than the snake would receive. Maybe. This is Justin.] I wore reinforced shoes just in case. [She didn't of course. Her smiles says as much.]

[Euphie does rank higher than poisonous snakes.]

You should have. I'll try not to break your toes. [That's as much of an invitation to dance as she's going to get.]

[She is glad of that!]

I appreciate that. Such a gentleman. [She feels the coolness of his hand. It's not something she's discussed much with Justin and certainly not a conversation she wants to have at the moment. No, for now, she'll gently pull him to the edge of the floor. She won't try to take him to the center. She as a feeling a darker corner is more comfortable to him. Just as they arrive the lively song comes to an end and a ballad begins, so she gently guides his hands to where they should rest on her.]

Have you danced with anyone before?

[Was that snark? She sounds so sincere.

Snark or not, he follows Euphie's lead, more than happy to stay out of the middle of things. Dark corners and edges are always preferable whether they're literal or metaphorical. Justin keeps his hands where she puts them and watches his feet to make sure they don't do anything stupid.]

I danced with Shilo once. That was during a curse.

[It was sincere snark which is totally a thing! Mostly just light teasing. She feels like she can do that with him.]

Did you enjoy it? I mean besides the part where it was a curse.

[Sincere snark and teasing are both welcome.]

No one left prom with a limp, so I suppose it was okay.

[He disliked attending parties. Even when he was chairman for the Lycee du Cinq Fléches, the events were mere annoyances. The dressing up, the formalities and smalltalk. Impossibly boring. But boredom was precisely why he was here now. That, and hopeful besottedness. Perhaps Saya would be here. Around him, prey was on the hoof, male, female, child, whomever you fancied. An agenda formed in his mind: Have a few dances. A drink. Find someone amusing to toy with, feed on. Possibly in that order. And--]

~Karl. Do behave yourself.'.

[At the cool telepathic reprimand, he scowled. I know, Solomon. Naturally, his brother was nearby. Intermingling, yet keeping a watchful eye on Karl. And unless Karl wanted to lose his precarious new 'freedom', he had to... behave. No hunts. No thrills. What a waste of an evening. But better, he supposed, than nothing.]

[He was watching the periphery of the dance-floor, when he saw her. The long hair was eye-catching, that unnatural pink. He paused, smirking faintly. There was a familiar face.]

Hello, Ms. Britannia.

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Spring Festival [OPEN TO ALL!]

General mingle

Booths: Games/Merchandise/etc

Food stands

Entertainment/Street performers

Dance

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[Welcome Center Booth]

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