The Festival Continues [Day 144]

[bastionmods]

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.

Comments

[ourlegends]

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?

[unwrittenformula]

I wouldn't mind building something together.

[ourlegends]

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. ]

[unwrittenformula]

Hm. What would you want to build?

[ourlegends]

I ... don't know.

...

Maybe we could rebuild Vatheon. Or something that resembles it. Or something that resembles somewhere in Unova.

[unwrittenformula]

Hm. What about the plaza in Vatheon? With the coral.

[ourlegends]

Okay, sounds good!

[ She closes her eyes and tries to remember what it looked like. It was a bit fuzzy, but ... it was there. ]

... think you remember it well enough?

[unwrittenformula]

I think I can recall it enough, yes.

[It hadn't been that long ago, but their time in that place had been short. Between the two of them, though...]

[ourlegends]

Between the two of us we should be able to recreate it, then.

[ The accident might have jostled around a few things in her head and made some things more fuzzy than others, but the memory was there. She'd be able to help. Kind of. ]

[unwrittenformula]

Alright. Bring some blocks over and we can start.

[ourlegends]

Got it.

[ She stood, moving to bring over a small case of blocks for the both of them to dig around in and find pieces for their reconstruction of the plaza. ]

[unwrittenformula]

[And thus the building commences! Of course N wants everything to be all geometrically accurate and whatnot but even Zoroark has to nudge him after a bit and tell him to not worry about making things perfect.]

Sorry...

[ourlegends]

[ She smiles at him reassuringly. ]

Hey, take your time. It's better if we put everything we can into it, right?

But if it isn't perfect, don't feel like it has to be.

[unwrittenformula]

I can't help being a perfectionist about some times...

[About a lot of things, N.]

[ourlegends]

I know. It's a part of who you are. You're really passionate about things like that.

[ And she really likes that about him. Sometimes it can be a bit of a pain, but it just shows how much he cares. ]

This is supposed to be fun though, right?

[unwrittenformula]

Well... yes. Of course it's supposed to be fun.

[How does I fun]

[ourlegends]

[ She'll show you. Somehow. ]

See, I can't do anything well with these ...

[ She starts trying to put together a very ... unimpressive looking tower. ]

[unwrittenformula]

Try it like this...

[He doesn't want to do it all for her, because that wouldn't be fair, but he does take a few of the blocks and place them in a better position.]

[ourlegends]

Huh ... that does look better.

[ She's still not very good at building blocks, but she's trying some new things now. ]

[unwrittenformula]

Try following that pattern, see if it works any better for you.

[ourlegends]

Okay!

[ And she keeps trying to build. It's looking a little better at least? ]

[unwrittenformula]

There, that's better.

[And he keeps helping, putting the pieces in place.]

[ourlegends]

[ She continues to construct things until there is a halfway-decent looking replica of the plaza. ]

... You could probably make this ten times better if I weren't helping you.

[ Let's be honest here. ]

[unwrittenformula]

But I want your help.

[Hilda pls.]

[ourlegends]

[ what is self confidence ]

... Even though I put all of these pieces in all the wrong places?