Let the Festival Begin [Day 143 | Day 144]

[bastionmods]

Who: EVERYONE
Open: Open
When: Day 143 & 144
Where: All over the Bastion
What: The first two days of the Harvest Festival
Format Any
Warnings: None

For the past week or so, it may feel like to some that the Bastion is gearing up for something. And not anything bad, either. Something good and oh so needed. It's not just the people, the Caels and the Ura that are aware of what the coming days would mean if the world was still intact. It's like the very Bastion itself has suddenly gained new life, and there's a power over it that's greater than any person, creature or Core.

Anyone who is still awake as dawn breaks over the Bastion may find themselves inexplicably tired for no reason at all, and unable to give in to an intense need to close their eyes, just for a moment.

When everyone wakes, and I do mean everyone, the Bastion will be transformed. Decorations, lights strung across every angle, wreaths, tables with colorful cloths over them, streamers and banners and so much stuff just seemingly out of nowhere! The entire Bastion, suddenly a vibrant, beautiful place for a celebration. And not just any celebration.

The Harvest Festival!

Comments

[notduchess]

[ The knight, unsurprisingly, has avoided the gambling and the headier drinks. Its not stopping Duke, in what is more or less a turtleneck rather than armor, from watching the Pyth-game and toying with that bracelet though.

Someone might be able to nudge the knight into trying it. ]

[dontyoujustwish]

[Oh, she recognizes this guy from Vatheon, or so she thinks. He was a little stiff before, but maybe the festival has loosened him up some.]

Oh, hello. I didn't realize you'd made it here, too.

[notduchess]

.... hmn?

[ The voice is the biggest difference, since the knight is sitting. That is most definitely not the same voice as that one in Vatheon. ]

... Sorry, I look familiar to you?

[dontyoujustwish]

[Yes, that is most definitely not the same voice. Anya falters.]

Well, I thought so... Do you maybe have a brother, you know, with a really deep voice?

[notduchess]

Ah-

[ It might be a little telling, the way the knight looks to see if anyone is around before studying the woman again. ]

... You've seen my twin?

[ It might be a painful hopeful note, before Duke pauses again, grimacing. ]

... but not here, huh. Dammit.

[dontyoujustwish]

Sorry.

[It may not be as sincere as coming from someone else, but at least she thought to say it.]

He's probably only alive in some alternate universe where everything didn't get completely obliterated.

[Anya, no. You stop at "sorry."]

[notduchess]

[ Here's a grimace. Thank you, for that. The knight really needed to think of that second bit. ]

Somewhere is better than nowhere.

[ Maybe. The way Duke says that might indicate that... its hard to stay convinced of it being better. ]

[dontyoujustwish]

As long as "somewhere" isn't a hell dimension of perpetual torment, that's probably true.

[notduchess]

I'm going to pretend you said something else other than that.

[dontyoujustwish]

Why? I'm saying he probably isn't in a hell dimension.

Although I suppose I don't have any reason to think that.

[notduchess]

I was happy without the idea of 'a hell dimension'.

[dontyoujustwish]

You mean the reality of them.

[notduchess]

I've never heard of one beyond 'you do bad things, you die, you end up in hell', until now.

[dontyoujustwish]

I did bad things, I died, and I ended up in an underwater bubble. You never can tell with these things.

[notduchess]

... Valid point.

[dontyoujustwish]

See? You can delude yourself into believing whatever you like about your twin and it has at least the tiniest chance of being true.

[notduchess]

... Now you have me attempting to think of ... a twin that has the appearance of an Kritya, complete with the odd color preferences.

[dontyoujustwish]

The appearance of a what now?

[notduchess]

Humanoids with long ears and antennae.

[ Duke indicates nearly shoulder length ears, and "antennae" that extend from the back of the head with both hands. ]

They're not known for being terribly coordinated with colors.

[dontyoujustwish]

So, basically, aliens.

I would never have known if Xander was body-snatched by one of these things.

[notduchess]

... I wouldn't know, 'aliens' is another of those things I have no idea about.

[dontyoujustwish]

Oh.

Is your concept of "other worlds" still closer to faerie land?

[notduchess]

... We... were more worried about the monsters on our doorstep, than what may or may not exist off world? Particularly when something was proven to exist right above us, wanting to eat the world.

[dontyoujustwish]

Eat the world. In the literal sense or the cryptic sense?

[notduchess]

... It looked like a giant purple-black octopus had decided that the sky was something to hold onto, suckers and all. I am pretty sure they meant literal.