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bastionmods ([personal profile] bastionmods) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2014-01-01 08:28 am

The Festival Continues [Day 144]

Who: Everyone
Open: Open
When: Day 144
Where: all over the Bastion
What: Day 2 of the festival because that other post filled up fast
Format: any
Warnings: none

Day 2 - Day of Hope and Bravery

Once again, at midnight, another torch arrives - this time with a horse along with the gear and bullshead. As before, they are list by Zulf. Some of the other decorations fade out, to be replaced by Yudrig or Lemaign-specific decorations like horseshoes, saddles, hammers and plants made of colored metal. This will continue to happen throughout the festival, with new decorations overshadowing old ones, but the old ones still remaining here and there.

During the previous day, conversations with a any of the NPCs (or the recently arrived Uras) will bring up the topic of the second day of the festival. Should you care to listen, you'll learn that they use the very early morning of this day to make wishes, wishes that you must think in to a horseshoe that will be left on the side of your home that faces where the "sun" would be rising (the closest approximation to "east").

Speaking of horses! There seems to be a pen with stallions! Unlike Pyth, one must ride one of these stallions and try to stay on it as long as they can while it bucks and jumps about wildly. Good luck to whoever can manage this, it is not an easy task at all! Only one person can win Yudrig's favor, because at the end of the day the stallions will all take off back to... wherever they came from. The person that manages to stay the longest, though, will win a lovely pair of Yudrig boots, and will gain a single very fast horse for the Bastion to keep.

Along with the horses, there will also be races! Three legged races, races while balancing odd objects on spoons, so many races! Most of these are for the kids to make up for the lack of kid-focused things from the day before, but adults are encouraged to help and participate.

Incidentally, respect is also given to those considered soldiers. Be it by their own mental thinking ("I am a soldier for justice/I am a protector, etc") or by their actual title (this includes exorcists, exorcists in training, rebel leaders, etc) but they will be honored on this day for their bravery, comittment and efforts. The same goes for masons. There will be a table set up with charms for the bracelets, specifically hammer shaped ones - everyone is welcome to take one, but anyone who isn't of this persausion may find them too heavy to wear. The charm can be removed, though, but remember to keep the bracelet!

With that in mind, about midday the center of the Bastion will be cleared and people will be asked if they would like to participate in a game of "Defend Lemaign". It's basically Capture the Flag, but with a singular goal in mind - only one team has a "flag" (actually a small hammer statue) and that team must defend it from the other team. Teams can be any size, but once that statue is grabbed and brought to the other side, OR the timer runs out with Lemaign still within his "temple" the game is over. This will continue throughout the afternoon.

When evening falls again, the second torch for the day will appear to be lit, this one decorated with hammers as well as the standard gear and bull. The day begins to wind down, though there are once again other things to do - this time an entire area dedicated to various sizes of building blocks ranging from small to huge. Go nuts, build what you want, show off your creations! And keep them, they will come in handy later! This is not just for kids, even if it seems like it.

There's also jousting taking place. Nothing as dangerous as true jousting - just wooden horses on tracks that have to be manually pushed along (so be sure to take a willing friend with yout) and padded poles that strike padded armor. Winners will find more charms for those bracelets that were given out as their prize, and five shards per win.

Also, something to keep in mind: Since the day is focused around bravery quite a bit, anyone who shows off a particularly awesome show of bravery (be it personal like asking someone out that you like, facing a mild fear and not running away from it, or something even more spectacular) you will inexplicably find your entire room decorated with horseshoes. Horseshoes everywhere. Why? Yudrig, that's why.

And anyone who visits Lemagin's shrine, for whatever reason, will find themselves inexplicably hit with a wave of optimism. Just for the day, though.

This night winds down much the same as before, and again the children are encouraged to sleep outside while lulled to sleep by tales of Yudrig and Lemagin's adventures.
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-01 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Building things! Now this is a little more up N's alley. He used to construct things with the colorful blocks back in his room in the castle all the time. Granted he had a somewhat limited number there, but this seems to just scream possibilities at him.

Some time later, he'll have built several different sctuctures. None of them would do well in some sort of battle environment, but why would N worry about that? They're all pretty and very nice to look at!]
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[personal profile] wayofvoice 2014-01-01 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh hello strange green haired boy, how are you?]

You are very clever.

[Just an observation.]
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-02 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hello, dragon!]

I spent most of my childhood playing alone.

[He lifts the structure that looks like a very rectangular house set in to a forest with a waterfall coming out from beneath it]

Building structures with blocks was fairly rudimentary by the time I was five but the idea of making small structures out of perfectly formed blocks and nothing more was always fascinating to me.
wayofvoice: (Zul Mey Gut + Years may wrinkle the)

[personal profile] wayofvoice 2014-01-02 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It is something that I imagine can challenge the mind.

[He wouldn't know, having more difficulty with this sort of thing considering... yeah. Dragon problems.]
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-03 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
It was all I had, growing up. That and the Pokemon my father brought me.

[But that's a story for another time.]

Would you like me to build something for you?
wayofvoice: (Laas Yah Nir + We grow old by)

[personal profile] wayofvoice 2014-01-03 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I would not decline such an offer, but I am unsure of what you could build for me.

[Unless it's a perch. He is totally down for a perch. People won't let him on top of the Tower.]
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-03 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[N can't quite build that big, not with these supplies. Maybe later he could help Colin with something, but for now, he has a better idea.]

I'm sure I can think of something.
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[personal profile] wayofvoice 2014-01-03 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
It will be a pleasure to merely watch you work.
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-03 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[N nods, and starts gathering up blocks, taking a good half hour at least to choose just the right ones. He's very patient about it, not at all bothered about the length of time it takes to even get started.]
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[personal profile] wayofvoice 2014-01-03 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[For now, Paarthurnax gathers himself to watch. He rests on his back (and only) legs, wings folded up against his sides.]
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-03 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes quite a while to finish, too, but once he's done he presents Paar with a rather impressive castle.]

What do you think?
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[personal profile] wayofvoice 2014-01-03 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Lowering his head, Paarthurnax looks down at it closer.]

It is very fine. Solitude has such a castle, although it has been many years since I have seen it.
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-03 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[N nodded slowly.]

In Unova, there was a legend of two brothers who ruled together, but one ruled with ideals and the other ruled with truth. Between them they held partnership with a single Pokemon, but their differences caused it to split. It became the legendary dragons, Zekrom and Reshiram.

It was my favorite tale growing up, and while there is little more than ruins left where their castle is said to have once stood, illustrations depict it looking similar to this.

I felt it was fitting for a dragon such as yourself.

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[personal profile] ourlegends 2014-01-03 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She kneels next to N and looks at everything he's built. She'd known that he had things like this in his room back in the castle, since she had been let in before she faced him for the final time so she could get a better understanding of him ... back then it had been such a strange realization, to realize the kind of life he had.

Now, though, this was just adorable. ]


These are really pretty, N.
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-04 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[N actually smiles at her, lifting his head and brushing some hair out of his face after placing one last block on one of them.]

Thank you.
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[personal profile] ourlegends 2014-01-04 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ She smiles back at him and actually sits down next to him. ]

You look like you're having a lot of fun with these ...

[ She shifts a bit from where she sits. ]

I remember seeing blocks kind of like these when they told me to take a look at your room ... you played with things like this all the time when you were younger, right?
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-05 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[N nods slowly, inspecting the structure before setting it down gently.]

I spent most of my childhood in that room. Father made certain I was isolated from all but him, my sisters and the Team Plasma scientists. I never even met the rest of Team Plasma until my "coronation" as their King.
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[personal profile] ourlegends 2014-01-06 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hilda nodded, looking up at him. ]

Do these blocks make you happy, even despite the past being what it was?
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-06 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose so... it was one of the better things about being where I was. I didn't want for stimulation.
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[personal profile] ourlegends 2014-01-06 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
That's good, then.

[ She picks up a couple of blocks and waves them in front of him. ]

Do you want to build something together, or would you rather keep building things yourself?
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-06 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't mind building something together.
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[personal profile] ourlegends 2014-01-06 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Okay! Do you have anything in mind?

[ She's a bit of a noob to building blocks. Not in that she's never played with them before, but more that she doesn't build anything particularly pretty with it. N was going to find this out. And guide her. ]
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-06 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. What would you want to build?
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[personal profile] ourlegends 2014-01-06 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
I ... don't know.

...

Maybe we could rebuild Vatheon. Or something that resembles it. Or something that resembles somewhere in Unova.
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-01-06 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. What about the plaza in Vatheon? With the coral.

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