Zephyras Flower Festival Details

[simpathis]

— ZEPHYRAS FLOWER FESTIVAL: DETAILS —


All right guys, we got a lot of information to tell you about for the upcoming event. First of all, this event is entirely optional. While characters can still mingle and walk around the festival, they do not have to actually participate in the activities.


Event Schedule.

ICly, the event runs from Friday, April 17 and ends on Sunday, April 19. However, this event is going to be a rather large one, so we're having it last an entire week. Thus OOCly, the event will start Monday, April 13 and end on Sunday, April 19. There will be an event signal post to signify the beginning of the event and a finale post on Sunday.

TO BE CLEAR: This event is being forward dated. You can still make posts and whatnot during the week for things set to happen prior to the actual festival. But if you do, be sure to clearly note the timing so that players won't accidentally tag it thinking it's occurring during the festival.

Here's the quick calendar:

• 4/13: Main Event starts
  
• 4/17: Flower King and Queen voting ends
  
• 4/18: Everyone finalizes their Petal/Emotion Tracker
  
• 4/19: Event Finale

The results of the event will happen a day or two after Sunday, depending on what happens.

Posts to Keep Track of.

Like before, there will be a couple of posts that you'll need to be aware of. Here's the breakdown:

• Main Event Log. This is the one that will house almost everything regarding the event and what everyone will tag into. It will last the entirety of the event. There will be subthreads for various activities, but you'll still need to prepare some engaging prompts for people to tag into. If you need to create a separate log or network post, you are more than welcome to do so.
  
  
• OOC: Petal/Emotion Tracker. Like before, there will be a separate OOC post where you will post your character's emotion. In addition, it will serve as a tracker for your character's flower (to be explain further in).
  
  
• Flower King and Queen Log. A special subevent that requires its own log. Details in its own subheading.
  
  
• OOC: Flower King and Queen Voting and Nomination. The OOC post where characters are nominated and voted for. Details in the subevent's subheading.

These will all go up on Monday. Now with the technical details out of the way, let's go to the content of the event itself.

Change of Tradition.

All the usual traditional activities of the festival will be available to the characters, however they will have an additional "task." As hinted before, Elios is going to make an appearance at the start of the festival. Along with wanting to observe everyone during this time, he is going to request the characters to further share their emotions. He wants to understand not only just love, but also what leads and forms that love. To do that, one must form some kind of bond. He wants to understand the development from a casual acquaintance to friendship and then more. He also wants to understand what people feel when such things are broken and thus lead to hate.

Thus Elios is going to modify the flowers of those who are willing will wear and the goal is to make these particular flowers bloom. He will make this optional, so the characters can choose whether to do so or not (he's apparently learned his lesson about forcing people to feel a certain way). He will also tell everyone that depending how well they do, he will "something." This does mean that if the characters don't do well, he won't show anything at all. And he might get angry again.

Now, what are they supposed to do?

Special Flowers.

All participating characters will receive a special white flower that is designed to house their crystal amulet. These flowers will only be partially opened, just enough to show the center opening. It's in this center opening that the crystal amulets will be slipped in and fastened to. Although it is not absorbing the emotions, the flower will begin to reflect the types of emotions that are collected within the crystal during this time period.

When an emotion is triggered, the petal will open and change to the color associated with the appropriate Arehtei. The shade of the color will indicate if it is positive or negative. Bright colors are positive, dull dark are negative. Because of Elios' influence, alignment will have no effect on the flower, but the emotions will still count more for the Emotion Tracker like always. Those aligned to Elios, however, will feel their flower quiver and hear the petals rustle whenever emotions of that alignment are acquired.

The strength of the emotion will also affect the flower. For instance, if someone feels a considerable amount of joy or love (be it platonic or romantic) toward someone, that could cause several petals to extend outward to "bloom." However, passive feelings may only cause one petal to react.

Elios wants to understand more about what it takes to create bonds and how people come to develop those feelings. Thus new and currently developing CR will have a greater effect on the event as opposed to established CR. Established CR will still count, but only strong emotions will have a noticeable effect on the flower.

As more people are met OR development between people is created, the flower will slowly begin to bloom. When it is in full bloom, a small, fiery dove will appear to collect it. At that point, characters will remove their amulet and both the flower and bird will disappear. When and how a flower gets to full bloom is up to the player. ICly, it could happen quickly or slowly.

Keeping Track: Petals and Emotions.

Similar to the Elios event, the game needs to keep track over the types of emotions that are developing throughout the event. This will tell us how well or how poorly the characters do. It will also tell us how Elios will behave next.

To make it a little easier for you guys, we will also provide an OOC tracking post for you. Directions will be given on the post, but here's a heads up. First you will create your own thread for each character (separate threads—no combining!). In this thread, you will reply to the top comment for every emotion your character experiences throughout the event. Along with indicating what emotion the character experiences, you will also indicate the state of the flower.

Because threading can take a while and not everyone will be threading out meetings with previously established CR, there will be some handwaving going on. Thus, you can also use this to go ahead and try and pre-plan so that everything is counted before the end of the event.

By Saturday, April 18, you will need to have indicated whether the character's flower will have bloomed or not. If it is not in full bloom, you will need to indicate how far along it is. Is it still completely underdeveloped? Halfway there? Close but not quite? From the emotions gathered, is it bright and colorful? Or is it dull and withering? These details will be important for us to figure out how well the characters did.

Flower King and Queen.

A festival centered around love wouldn't be complete without a "king" and "queen" of the festival, now would it? This is large enough to be its own little mini subevent. The locals have their own, but the Otherworlders Appreciation Organization is throwing one just for the Otherworlders. Located in the center of Merchant's Square, they've set up a giant billboard and tables where anyone can nominate their "king" or "queen" and vote. How is this going to work you ask?

• Nominees. Characters can either submit themselves as a nominee OR they can submit someone else. No permission required (except player permission, of course). Pictures of the character will be placed on the board. The picture will either be a photograph taken on site, a photograph given to them, or an artist rendition based off a telepathic image. Nominations must be done on site.
  
  
• Voting. Anyone can vote, and it can be done either on site or telepathically. Since votes are anonymous, they can be done multiple times. Instructions on how to vote will be given on the designated voting post, which will be in empatheias_ooc.
  
  
• Telepathic PSA. Everyone will receive a telepathic PSA about the contest, and there will be continual updates regarding nominations and the votes. We won't be able to do this "in real time" for RP, but the designated post for interactions will be updated to list the nominees and have a link to the votes.
  
  
• Communication. There will be an "interaction" log posted in empatheias where everyone can either react/interact with everyone else either at the site or telepathically. Directions will be given on the post itself as to how to format threads.

Voting ends Friday, April 17, 11:59PM CST. Results will be tallied and posted on the following Saturday, although ICly this would be happening on Sunday. The King and Queen will then be paraded forth and basically set up for a date. Just a dinner, maybe some music and dancing. They will also have to wear a special "costume" and they will have to wear it all day, even if they don't stay together. Isn't that fun?

Festivities.

Of course there are other festivities, all of which will be in the main event log. To help everyone meet each other, there will be a variety of activities that will encourage characters to interact with each other. There will be five (5) subthreads created for the event where everyone will comment under. In addition to a general social mingle thread, there will be four others for specific type of games/activities.

» Flower Viewing
This is going to act as the "general mingle" thread. There are designated areas in the various parks and outside of the city where people can just sit, have a picnic, and enjoy the flowers. There will usually be music and attendants to offer drinks and light snacks. Just watch out for the couples—they will be all over the place and the concept of "PDA" isn't as applicable during the festival.


» Food
There will of course be food available for everyone. Some stores will also be open and either offering their services for free or at a heavy discount. All food venues will be around Merchant's Square. In addition to the food are two specific activities that characters can partake in:

• Cake Feeding. One of the main attractions is a buffet of all you can eat cake. Chocolate cake, vanilla cake, strawberry cake, marble cake, ice cream cake, apple cake, and more are available for this tasting. The catch: you cannot eat cake all by yourself. You must find a partner to eat cake with! How, you may ask? By feeding it to them! Why, yes, this is mimicking the cake eating tradition found at weddings. Careful not to shove that cake in their face! Or maybe that's what you want to do.
  
  
• "Pocky" Game. Of course, the label on these chocolate-covered biscuit sticks are not "Pocky" but "Tocky". For this game, two people must enter and share a tocky stick. Beginning on opposite ends, the two must slowly chew their way to the center. If you break the stick completely, you lose! But oh no, if you continue eating the stick, the two of you will kiss! Bailing results in losing, too. Good luck! Prizes include a free dinner for two at Devlin's on the Shore or free ice cream for two at Elui's Frozen Confectionery.

Characters are also free to set up their own food tables or help out with the locals.


» Games
There will be plenty of game booths and stands, all of which will be by the lake. They range from traditional shooting galleries, balloon popping, dunking booth, ring toss, mock fighting exhibitions, etc. Whatever you can think of, it will likely be there. However, there is one additional main attraction that's set just outside the city.

• Plant Invasion (2-Person Adventure Game). Remember those angry gardens from the Introduction Log? They're making a return, but this time as an interactive game. Set just outside of the city is a large enclosed greenhouse and its interior is filled with hostile plants. Some are naturally hostile and some have been influenced by angry and negative emotions. The goal is to make it through and rack up points.
  
  
  • Buddy system. All participants are paired into teams of two. This can be either voluntarily made or chosen at random.
    
    
  • Special gear. All players will wear specially designed "armor" and armed with specially designed weapons. The weapons range from firearms to standard melee blade weapons. Each weapon is coated with a special chemical that will cause the plants to relax and recede back, so no plants should be harmed in this game. For their "helmet," players will be wearing those special flower crowns. These flower crowns will help indicate how well (or poorly) the players are performing.
    
    
  • Flower Crowns. As more hostile plants are "calmed," the flowers on the crowns will bloom more and reflect the emotions of the environment. This includes both the state of the plants and the players. Even if the plants are "calmed," if the players are producing negative emotions toward each other, the crowns will react and start attacking the wearer by pricking them with small thorns and vines. If there is good teamwork going on and the players produce positive emotions, then additional flowers will bloom to produce a special pollen to help calm the plants around them. If players manage to have all flowers on the crown bloom, they'll receive max points and get a reward.
    
    
  • The prizes. Prizes range from a very lovely bouquet of flowers to a small potted plant version of one of the hostile plants. No worries, the plant won't bite. Unless you stick your finger at its "mouth."
  
  Game attendants will be on standby and if teams have a considerably difficult time, the sprinklers will go off and the plants will stop attacking. Players will come out drenched and may have a bit of a blue hue.
  
  
• Garden Maze. A festival about plants wouldn't be complete without a special garden maze. Constructed just outside of the city, near the Plant Invasion site, is a large maze made out of flower covered hedges. It's pretty straightforward—pairs go into the maze and work their way through. However, there's a small difference. Whenever the pair reaches a dead end, they must focus positive emotions and the plants will recede to allow them to progress forward. The additional catch is the emotions need to be about each other. They can be simple thoughts, like "I like their hair" or "They're a good friend." For couples, this is the opportunity for them to gush about their feelings. Thus whenever a pair reaches a dead end, they must try and focus positive emotions about each other to open the way. Once they do, they can continue onward. This happens several times throughout the maze, and there is a checkpoint at the center. This checkpoint has a special fountain and a beautiful garden where pairs can rest or even just stay there for a while. Rumors have it that many couples get engaged in this location.

» Music and Dance
No festival would be without its fair share of music and dancing. There are designated parks where these take place, although there are several "traveling" musicians going about, so it could really happen anywhere. But there is one special tradition that will also be available.

• "Ena Trees." Based off the European "Maypole" tradition, for those unfamiliar, it's a tradition where a pole is erected and a group of individuals take the ends of long streamers, ribbon, or garland and dance around it in a circle. The end result is a beautifully wrapped pole. Several of these will be the open parks and people can either join in willingly or dragged in by exuberant participants. The Ena Trees will have long, garlands of flowers, all of which will shimmer and glow various colors reflecting the lighthearted atmosphere.

Characters are of course free to participate in any musical activity.


» Miscellaneous
And finally, the catch all for everything else that doesn't fit in with the above categories. Arts and crafts, kite flying, sailing across the lake, popping fireworks—whatever else you might think of that might be fun to do, drop it in here!

Wait, wait, what about that flower matchmaking tradition!?

If your character is not participating with the Elios flowers OR the Elios flower blooms before the end of the event, then you are more than welcome to have your character participate in it. However, because the current event is already complex, we will not be doing anything official for it (so no randomizing pairs and the like). That said, if you would like to plot something out with others to have them receive the flower, you are more than welcome to do so. This is how the matchmaking works:

Everyone drops their flowers into designated shallow pools of water. The flowers have a unique signal transmitter attached to them and the owner will have the receiver. Participants then go around and pick a flower. The moment a flower is picked, two things will happen. First, the picker must send a signal through the device to make their own flower sink into the water, making it unavailable to be picked. Then, once the picker chooses the flower, they must activate the flower's transmitter. This will alert the flower's owner. The two will meet and off they go to have a date. If any mistakes were made, the flowers and transmitters are reset.

Thus if you want to play this out, you should pre-plan with your partner how the two got matched (who picked whose flower?) and then you'll be free to thread out the date.

And of course the locals will want to see lots of couples, so some may be roped into doing things together whether they'd like it or not. Feel free to incorporate that throughout the event.

Tag out!

You can consider this event as a giant CR building event. Not only is this to help develop your current CR, but it's also to help promote creating new ones, even if it's just one. So even if you make a top level, find another thread or two to tag!

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Phew, that's a lot, but that should cover most everything. If you have any questions or wondering if a certain activity would be available at the festival, just comment here. Otherwise, feel free to use this post as a plotting post.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[simpathis]

Re: QUESTIONS

[futuregrandmagus]

I know this is going to sound weird, but considering how the thread is going for the Elios event with Gwen and Elios would it be possible for characters to 'hang out with' or ask Elios to enjoy some of the event with them?

Hey man, she was totally serious about becoming friends with him.

[strategisch]

Might as well dive right in and make a nuisance of myself first!

Love this event, it's super cute and perfect for Armin who has met a lot of people but hasn't really become friends yet! To everyone he's run into, but hasn't had the chance to get to know, I'd love for them to get some petals during this event!

I'm open for any of these events, although Armin might need his hand held through some of them because he's probably never been involved in this level of merrymaking before! So if anyone wants to teach a kid how to have a good time (har har) he could use the company.

So yeah! I'm sorry I don't have a Plurk, but please feel free to contact me via PM or AIM (Otterbeans)!

[bondsofsuffering]

Hello!! Would you be up for some activities with Hizumi or Shun or both? Hizumi's definitely the more outgoing person who'd drag people into things, protesting or not, but Shun's up for pretty much everything listed too!

[sobored]

All right, so for sure, Junko's going to try and get her hands on one of those flowers because that sounds like a great idea even though that flower will have definitely seen better days by the end of it.

So I'll be tagging around with her for that, and also if anyone wants to do anything specific there, I'm completely open to that! She's had a lot of close calls lately with the effects of the last few events, and given her emotional state, odds are that flower's not going to help stop that trend.

Additionally since she's miss popularity back home (among other things), she's totally going to make an attempt at entering that Queen thing or just rolling with if someone wants to enter her. Because if she loses, that's something she can despair over.

And that's really all I have planned, so I'm pretty much open to anything else during the event. Throw cake at her, try and get her to do the tree dance thing, etc. I'm fine with pretty much anything!

[ledgerdomaingirl]

Charmy's feeling guilty about considering Junko creepy (even though she's totally right), so expect her to offer some sort of friendly gesture as penance.

[heismymission]

Bucky is going to actually make an effort to get involved, because A) Elios is actually telling them a concrete thing he wants B) the Arehtei are pretty much the only way home and C) he realizes he's not going to get out of here by doing stuff alone, and allies for serious business things are the same as friends right?? Right.

Because of that, if anyone comes up to him and asks him to do a thing with him, he will be surprisingly accepting of it. He doesn't really know if he's going to actually feel enough to do this flower thing but hey. He can put in an effort! Also shooting things is like the only way he knows how to have fun, so he'll definitely be doing the gallery. He'll probably be giving away prizes he wins because he doesn't know what to do with them.

I'm open to pretty much whatever, and I'll put up a couple of open threads and tag out as well, but if you want to do anything specific with him just let me know!

[young_oldman]

Would Bucky be up for the plant game? There could be a little girl who wants a bouquet of flowers REAL BAD, and these two happened to be the only guys around at that point!

[healinguilt]

Naomi Will probably sit this event out. IT'S GROSS AND CUTE AND UGH she's single, no thanks. But. But, Elios is giving them flowers and if she hears about that, hell yeah, she's going to drag herself over because she's not missing an opportunity to interact with an Arehtei or do whatever it is that he wants them to do with those flowers. Yeah. Buuuut... I don't think she'll be doing any of that not!laser tag. Tho she would totally rock at it, so maybe she can be convinced to do that.

Sanae will be.. ahaha actually she'll be doing just about everything. I plan to comment w/ her to mostly everything. But yes, pocky, maypole, cake, all that stuff. Sanae likes to interact with people and spread LOVE. Because she loves everyone in this bar!! Which means everyone is going to get a vote from Sanae.

[greatcleavage]

Naomi is welcome to spend some time with Princess Celestia, who is the platonic ideal of Forever Alone, just to be good representative examples.

[dragonsinmy]

I dare someone to nominate Saber for Flower King.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Someone nominates Saber for Flower Queen. Saber's all "Not sure if want...?"

[not_good_not_wicked]

Got a few ideas for Marisa:
- Start out the afternoon being a "Happy singles awareness day you jerks" style of party-pooper and sulk because no bae
- Time, friends, and possibly alcohol conspire to revert her back to her normal cheerful self
- She wants one of those carnivorous houseplants so bad guys you don't even know someone help her win the garden of terror!
- What is this "Tocky" you speak of? (She will do it! She will play the game! Alcohol fueled courage!)

Got a few ideas for Akame:
- Finding out if anyone she knows has a partner today and if they do checking to make sure they're good enough for her friends.
- Maybe taking a moment to miss Leone
- Playing carnival games and acing them with masterful hand eye coordination and reflexes
- Giving out giant stuffed animals won from carnival games to children or children-at-heart.

Anyone else have any ideas for my characters:
- No seriously tell me
- I will do stuff if it sounds fun and/or cute
- Here are some pictures of gourmet muffins.
- Don't ask questions. Just bask in the muffins.

[shanghaiworld]

Alice will be baffled by Marisa being a sour puss.

[bondsofsuffering]

HELLO I AM ALL KINDS OF UP FOR THIS. Both of these kids are gonna be participating in Elios' thing!

Hizumi will aggressively friendship just about anyone, which is great because he's brand new and could use some friends. He'll be around doing pretty much anything and everything I think, because a. it seems like fun and b. there is free food to be had and he doesn't have a whole lot of money. That said, when it comes to games or food that needs paying for, he miiiiight end up mooching off of others a bit. Please help him he is new and poor. Flower-wise, he's actually a bit apathetic towards others even if he's good at acting otherwise, so jury's out on how open his flower is by the end of it. Either way, it'll probably be slow going.

Shun will be less aggressive but still totally up for befriending people. This kid's kept his nose in books pretty much the entire time, so people willing to play around with him would be great! He's still a kid after all, so he'd really appreciate the time to sit back and have fun for once. He'll probably give the games a go, and as per the rules everyone plays by at home, he won't use his cantus for it so he'll probably be pretty bad at them, aha. Any of the more intimate ones like cake or pocky tocky are things he also won't really bat an eye at because his society is normally very intimate anyway, so it's no big as far as he's concerned. I'd like to get his flower full of positive feelings, if possible!

I also don't mind threading with the same person with both characters since they're both quite different, so please, by all means, hit me up! c:

[trademark_skull]

Demon befriending, y/n? I'm keeping him away from the intimate related things but they can probably play some games together, or do some exploring.

[greatcleavage]

Roy needs a partner for the plant games. Beyond that, I'd really like for him to get involved in all sorts of shenanigans with this event, so I'm very much open to things. In particular, if you're a friend of his already, he's likely to ask to spend some time with you during the event.

Princess Celestia is going to be talking to and attempting to befriend everyone she can find.

Klavier is going to be playing music for all of this! I'd like for him to get involved with other musicians, and to also have various shenanigans with people. He's a cool, handsome rocker, ladies.

[trademark_skull]

Since Emizel and Celestia never got to do anything for Valentine's Day, wanna make up for it here?

[opportunitycosts]

Alvin: He'll be part of the Elios flower thing because why not. Sounds interesting, let's go for it. I have no real concrete plans for him other than probably nominating himself for the Flower King thing if no one wants to HAHA. Although, that said he would totally write in other people's names in. So if your character knows Alvin and you want them on there, just let me know and consider it done. XILLIA CAST, YOU'RE ON THE LIST NO QUESTION except Elize. She would win hands down but she's too young. Otherwise, I'm very open for anything! He'd be ace at the Plant Invasion thing, by the way, so that's another thing I'll probably throw him at. (No Dunking Booth this time |D)

Hori: He'll also be part of the Elios thing, but I think he'll just stick around the main city areas and actually help with out with the various booths. So if someone wants to drag him around, he is completely game. Otherwise, I'll probably have him poke other people.

Shizuo: Also part of the Elios thing. Like Hori, I don't really have much planned for him, so also open for anything! I also dare someone to nominate him as a Flower King. He got on that IC gossip thing once, let's go for a twofer.

Hak: NOT going to do the Elios thing. Mostly because......he's not planning to be that sociable and he's actually skeptical about the Arehtei to begin with. Should we really be trusting this bird with some magical flower that's attached to our very special and important crystals? You know the bird who tried to blow up the island? So yes, he's wary. However, he'll probably go around the festival, especially because of castmates. Maybe partake in some of the games. Haven't made concrete plans with castmates yet, but if anyone would like to do anything with him, I'm game!

[oyogihoudai]

RIN AND HARU AND HORI SHOULD HANG OUT THEY HAVEN'T IN A WHILE

Haru promises he won't get drunk this time.

[wellpreserved]

Why no, I didn't time a particular plot to ensure this event would be doable. Nope.

So Creed will be there. Of course that will definitely have some awkward to it considering that he'll have just recently come back from being dead (and this may be an openly known fact as well) and that sucks and takes time to recover from and the main reason he's going to go is because he needs to get out and do something or he'll lose his mind. That and once Elios shows, he'll definitely make some effort.

He's not much into cute fluffy stuff, but I welcome people into trying to drag him into some. He can definitely use more CR because he's so not sociable in the least bit and had no reason to really befriend people in the past month.

Feel free to hit me up here or on plurk or AIM if you want to plot. Usernames for both are ladynadiad and feel free to friend me if you want too.

[sobored]

I keep meaning to get CR with Creed since she talked to Kor about him a while back. Did you want to do something during the event?

If you doesn't want Ms. Doom and Gloom here hanging around so close to him coming back, that's totally understandable, I just figured I'd check on that one.

[itwouldbeatragedy]

My only real plan so far is to have Kaneki stand around and stare longingly at all that cake. ;o;

Other than that, I am open to anything anyone would like to plot with me! This event is too adorable to not try to do as much as possible.

[sobored]

Aw cheer up Kaneki, if you need a partner for the cake thing, Junko'll help.

I'm terrible ignore me. Or don't.

[spirialink]

This event sounds super cute, so I'll be sure to have Kor all over it. Coming from a game all about the strength of bonds, this is made for him. So I'll be having him do the flower thing, of course.

If anyone has any particular interest in doing anything in particular, let me know, I'm down for anything and everything. I don't have any particular plans quite yet. Probably shouldn't think about these things right before bed, huh... I'd love somebody to nominate him, but he'd never do it himself. If you have any ideas, let me know here or just hit me up on Plurk!

[wellpreserved]

Kor is welcome to drag Creed into doing anything he wants. And I can arrange for that nomination.

[aleatore]

This is such a cute event. Unfortunately, Izaya will be lurking during most of it. I'll be tagging the threads he's already got going atm as usual, ofc. I won't rule out the chance that he might hit some characters up and mingle, but... we'll see. He's more about staying lowkey and gathering information right now.

But the long-term plans I've sorted out for this guy shouldn't get in the way of CR, so I'm still open to plotting for logs and stuff. Just let me know! I'm sure we can work something interesting out.

[schrodingers_man]

Yomiel is seethingly bitterly lonely so he will be spending this event in a Bad Mood (sorry, Elios and also Aiada). He spent Valentine's aggressively sulking all alone at his place but for this, he may very well venture out and actively ruin other people's good times because he is a mature adult man who does mature adult things.

Bols will probably be participating in the flower thing and has also signed up to do cooking for the festival, but I don't really have any specific plans for him. Come at me.

Bols for Flower King

[cilantro]

Cilan signed up to help cook and provide food for the festival--so, you might be seeing him hanging around the booths for that, as he also might help them serve the food as well. By all means, please accost him for food, he is a really good cook and you will not be disappointed.

Other than that, when he's not doing that, he's free for about anything! He'll probably participate in the flower thing, as well as any games and activities if someone ropes him into joining them for something, so if you wanna drag him along into any shenanigans (or vice-versa, he isn't above literally dragging people along to go do stuff with him either), we're all for it. 8D

[bondsofsuffering]

hello fellow green haired person

Hizumi's also on the cooking team, and he's... pretty decent for having no formal training, and quick to pick things up after being shown once. Maybe Hizumi could learn a few tricks and tips from Cilan?

And grab some stuff to eat later too, he does so love his food.

[futuregrandmagus]

Gwen: Gwen will be wanting to spend some time with Elios, but other then that she'll probably try to help him out with the flower event. Aside from that I've got nothing planned for her.

Pepper: Just arrived so I'm not sure what she'll be doing. Probably just enjoying the flowers for this first event round and trying not to kill them anymore.

[ledgerdomaingirl]

Although Gwendolyn's likely sick of meeting Charmcaster in person now, each of their previous encounters have inspired slow changes in Charm's outlook on things, and Gwen's brutal honesty last time was a big push. If they meet up again here, maybe their CR can begin moving in a more positive direction? (Mainly on my character's end, as I expect Gwen to bear her a good degree of reasonable distrust for quite some time...although maybe her chat with Elios will help, 'cause Charm's issues bear more than a passing resemblance to Elios', and many of the things Gwen said to it apply to her too. It's all a matter if Gwen picks up on that or not.)

[cykedfists]

OH MAN! I'm so excited about this event like wow! Both Athena and Elize will participate, but there are things that wouldn't work for both for reasons.

Athena Cykes
Athena would love to invite someone to go with her, but as of right now there's nobody that she's interested in romantically. Although, I'm always open for platonic friendship stuff too. I'd be amused if someone nominated her for Flower Queen though, since she's not likely to do it herself.

I may have Athena try packing a picnic, but I'm not totally sure at this time. Cake feeding would definitely be amusing for Athena, since Elize wouldn't likely participate in that, despite there being cake. I would LOOVVVEEE to do the "Tocky" game with Athena because of so many lulz!

But that aside, I think Athena will probably try to help out the locals by attempting to help with food and other things that they might need her for. Which means, I'm totally up for Athena being put into an awkward situation simply because "she said she'd help out". Like say any match making shenanigans. Games are included in this as well so if she somehow ended up in the dunking tank or something, that would be cool too. Just... plot with me about this though.

She'd be up for dancing horribly and just over all having fun. I'd love for her to do everything since she didn't have much involvement in the other events with Elios.

Elize Lutus
Elize is a bit young to be nominated for Flower Queen. Although, let's face it, she'd win because of how cute she is. But Elize is all about food and will most likely be getting a lot of it over the period of time. I'm tentative about the cake feeding, but it would be nice if she could eat some....

Even though the Flower nominations and cake feeding aren't likely, she'd be all for any and all of the games! She'd like to actually go around and play different things and even better if people want to join her. Even better if Elize somehow gets lost in the garden maze.

[opportunitycosts]

So. How much more cute could we possibly do this time?

[evokingfool]

Minato will be all up for food and merry Social Linking bonding time!

- He would be curious enough to try going along with the flowers.
- He won't nominate himself for the Flower King competition.
- Will be up for both cake and "pocky" game. And yes, he doesn't mind kissing for this (with high prefs for cute girls--)
- Tempted to do the Garden Maze, if anyone want to pair up for it.

[dramapolice]

After that horrible Elios incident, I feel like these two should proooobably have some fun times.

[nepu]

Neptune is going to be all about the food. So she'll be at the cake buffet trying to eat everything and also shove cake into other people's faces. As for the pocky game, she'll be entering that but is more interested in the chocolate part.

Gawain is going to be entering the Plant Invasion and will need a partner for that! Also he'll be trying to help people in the maze if they get lost since getting lost in a maze is horrible.

Besides that I'm open to anything else people want to throw at Nep and Gawain for the event.

[faeofmoors]

Maleficent is going to be all over the festival, so feel free to bump into her as she watches everything. She will be in awe of the festivities and willing to try the food and wear the flower crowns. Just be gentle with the small Faery. She has never been around so many Humans at once.

[thiswarrior]

Gonna respond to other people's comments soon, but activities I'm up for throwing Tiz at:

If your character wants to nominate Tiz for Flower King, go for it. He'd be flustered to even hear he was in the running like WHY. He will nominate CR only if they seem to want to be King/Queen.

He's going to wear a flower, yeah, just to try it. That said he might be a little odd? No one so far has been able to give him a satisfactory answer about nothing happening when the crystal's full so he's going to be a little conscious about that, possibly. (This may entirely be a false alarm.)

He's going to go to the flower viewing. He's going to be massively embarrassed about the pda and trying to ignore it...but also end up accidentally staring sometimes because it's just that different from what he's used to.

CAKE EATING someone mash cake into each other's faces with him. Yeah, he might be mildly embarrassed at first, but then he'll be more than happy to poke cake in his partner's face if it means they get free cake. (he might be aiming for little cheek swipes sometimes...) The pocky challenge though, nope. While someone pushy enough could possibly wrangle Tiz to try, he'd bail so hard.

He's up for plant games too.

[tenyearslost]

DID SOMEONE SAY cake FRIENDSHIP

This is definitely Oz's kind of event, ehehe. He'll be voting for the flower king/queen (not entering), drooling all over the cake table, watching the music/ena tree and allowing himself to get pulled into it if anyone thinks he should be dancing, etc. etc.!! He probably won't do the pocky game unless someone ropes him into it but other than that he'll be sparkling all over the place.

Due to my work schedule I'll probably be tagging out more than top-leveling myself, but if you want him for anything just let me know! I'm open to pretty much everything and I'm really excited for this event, so. Yay!

[faeofmoors]

Can Oz and Mal have a dance, please?

[becomeashield]

In all honesty, I think Zeno here will be all over most of the things. Cake? TRY ALL THE CAKE!!1 Flower viewing? Yes, it's adorable! Music? He'll dance! Maypole thing? Seems fun! Garden maze? Okay, positive thinking! He'd probably opt out the king and queen voting because he doesn't know enough people yet, and he might consider the plant invasion only if someone really wants to drag him. He'll also be juggling because that's what he does in festivals and parties.

So anyway, hit me with anything because this event is his kind of jam, and he needs more CR like whoa.

[raijuu]

I'm trying to imagine Hak and Zeno stuck having to do something together. It's a great image. We should do it. Specifically something that would put Hak way out of his element and not be so ~cool~ all the time.

[unghosting]

So Kevin will not be taking a flower for himself, and I've worked out most of the Serious Business Fluff with his closest CR in private. That said, due to RL being so hectic this past month I had to miss the intro log entirely, so I really want to tag out to people he hasn't met yet in this event if I can! For those new to the game, Kevin is a recovering brooding ball of angst with issues in regards to self-loathing, and a dashing and gallant swordsman when he can bother to try being dashing and gallant. He's had a lot of character development over the course of the game and recent events are causing him to really unfold as far as people goes, so now is a fantastic time for his circle of friends and acquaintances to be expanding. At his best, he's playful and teasing, and he's got latent big brotherly tendencies too, so if you strike the right chord with him he might wind up adopting you later.

If your character has met him before and you want to use this event to strengthen their CR with him, please let me know! I'll also be tagging out where I can. I'm keeping all the really squishy stuff to the people he's closest to and I'm not up for writing out fights at the moment, but the maze sounds like great fun, anything listed under the "miscellaneous" section is cool with me, and you can feel free to drag him into the dancing, too. Just keep in mind that he can't dance for crap and he'll resist and make faces at you. º3º

[sobored]

I think they only talked during the firenado incident, so would you be interested in Junko running into him again?