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

[coolerthansora]

You're not going to laugh at any of it?

[croceamors]

No. Most of it are things I've already considered in some manner... Besides the Chocobos, but I suppose I'm similar with my dog.

[coolerthansora]

Huh.

You really are- being pretty okay lately.

[croceamors]

I've been trying to reign myself in. It's... a bit more difficult than expected.

[coolerthansora]

Well, you spent like ten years being an asshole, right?

[Was that a little blunt? Oh well. He thinks this brandy stuff is starting to taste better somehow.]

[croceamors]

[WOW ROXAS, TELL HIM HOW YOU REALLY FEEL]

I wasn't as bad for all of those years. At least... I'm fairly certain of that.

[Maybe??? Booze will help him remember right]

[coolerthansora]

Even half of that's a long time. It's not gonna be easy to change.

[He's trying to dispense wisdom now okay.]

[croceamors]

[Fine, fortune cookie, he will listen to this dispensed wisdom.]

Hmm... I think I've already gotten on bad terms with someone.

[coolerthansora]

What'd you say?

[Has to be something you said.]

[croceamors]

[...Yeah, it was something he said.]

I told him to stop wallowing in his misery. Along with other things.

[coolerthansora]

I don't think you're supposed to say stuff like that to people- until you're friends.

[croceamors]

I'm starting to realize that. I've just never had to care about that sort of thing before.

[coolerthansora]

Well, if you already said it, then you gotta- apologize.

[croceamors]

[Ugh, you have to say that word? Saix leans back and takes another drink.]

I hate apologizing. I've already said I'm sorry to you and Axel.

[coolerthansora]

It's not s'posed to be fun. But it's what you do when you've- been an asshole.

[croceamors]

Have you been wanting to call me that for a while now?

[coolerthansora]

I haven't done it before?

[He's pretty sure he's called someone an asshole... Maybe that was Riku.]

[croceamors]

But you've done it twice in this conversation.

[Riku and Saix now have a way in which to bond- being called an asshole by Roxas.]

[coolerthansora]

[Too bad Riku isn't here.

Actually, no, that's fine by Roxas.]

The second time wasn't you, specifically. It was the 'you,' like the 'they.'

[croceamors]

[...Squint.]

The 'you' like the 'they'?

[coolerthansora]

You know how people talk about "them" doing stuff or saying stuff, but they don't mean anybody really?

[This is a surprisingly difficult concept to articulate, isn't there a word for it?]

[croceamors]

So... [Yes, there's a word, he just needs to remember it. Wait for it...] In general?

[coolerthansora]

Yeah, like that.

Everybody can be a jerk sometimes. Even Sora.

[croceamors]

That's not something I would expect to hear from you.

[coolerthansora]

Why not?