And in to the third day... [Day 145]

[bastionmods]

Who: Everyone
Open: Open
When: Day 145
Where: All over the Bastion
What: Day 3 of the festival
Format: Any
Warnings: None


Day 3 - Day of Pleasure and Purpose

The next lamp appears in the Bastion, this time with mirrors on one side. And of course a certain Ura gets to light it.

Oddly enough, there seem to be roses everywhere in the Bastion, almost completely obscuring any of the previous decorations. They're still there, just... buried. Behind bushes, next to vases, under mounds of rose petals. You can't escape it! They won't do anything bad to you, of course, but you might start finding rose petals in your hair, in your pockets, or lingering on your clothes as the day goes by. Mirrors also join the decorations, but besides that, all reflective surfaces (windows and mirrors) will suddenly have clearer reflections, and be decorated in rose borders. Unfortunately this means looking through actual windows will be a mite difficult as you'll see reflections more than you'll see the other side of them.

Today will also be a day of blindfold games! Guess the object! Guess how many are in this box! Place this thing in that thing! All without looking! Prizes will be given out to those who get through these blindfold games - another charm for your bracelet, and maybe two or three shards per win.

Along with these games, there's one big challenge in the center of the Bastion - a giant thorny maze. Should you brave this mess, you'll find twists, turns, awkward corners and areas just barely big enough to walk through. However if you make it to the center, you'll be rewarded with a rose ring. And not just any rose ring. This thing is special! It will allow a user to call upon rose thorn vines that will attack an enemy at will. It is restricted to three times a day on the Skyway, but it will come in very handy, especially for those with no real defensive or offensive capabilities. (That said, if your character manages to get this item and doesn't need it for whatever reason, please be kind and give it to some one who can.)

As day winds in to night, another torch appears, this time with roses. Roses going wild on this lamp. It makes it a little difficult to light, though. And oddly enough, near the gear symbol on this lamp... the roses seem to be withered. Huh.

Dinner gives way in to a sort of "desert" for the evening, a huge selection of cookies in various flavors on tables all over the place, along with tubs of rose petal ice cream that don't seem to melt no matter how long they stay out.

But those cookies are not just any cookies - they are hollow ones. They're backed with a thin indented line down the center of them, and snapping them at this point will reveal that there is paper tucked inside. It will give advice to your character that is shockingly accurate to this person, some how. Regardless of who gets it, the advice will be pertinent to them and really only them. From there you'll be encouraged to take a second piece of paper, write your fears, weaknesses or secrets that you don't wish to tell anyone yet wish to get off your chest and then drop them in a strange mirror-decorated box sitting near the monument. If you do so, you'll find yourself oddly sleeping easier tonight...

This night closes out the same as the previous ones, with stories for the children as the adults relax in to the wee hours of the morning.

Comments

[croceamors]

Or perhaps you exist, but you're in Sora's place- the Other instead of the Nobody.

[coolerthansora]

[Roxas blinks, and he's kind of floored for a second.]

That-

But... How could I be me, without going through the stuff I've been through? Meeting Axel... Would I be friends with Riku? [Ew.]

[croceamors]

[That can't be a snicker from Saix, because Saix is eating ice cream. He sure is smirking, 'tho.]

That is a possibility. You might also be friends with Kairi, or whatever other children that were on that island.

[coolerthansora]

...

[Side-eyeing you there Saix. This is a strange thing for you to be amused about.]

I think this's a lot weirder to think about.

[croceamors]

[It's just nice to see someone else is on Roxas' shit list.]

Of course it's strange. Everyone always thinks 'what if things were different', but now we both know it's possible those 'what if's might actually be true elsewhere.

[coolerthansora]

[Would you like to hear about DiZ.]

Usually my what-ifs start from- the Organization.

[croceamors]

[Not particularly but Saix guesses he has to get used to this 'caring about other people's shit' thing.]

Like what?

[coolerthansora]

Like- if I'd stayed, or...

Well, Axel wouldn't have come with me even if I'd asked, but...

[croceamors]

..What would you have done if you had stayed?

[coolerthansora]

Doesn't really matter now, does it?

[croceamors]

No, it doesn't, but I'm still curious.

[coolerthansora]

[He shrugs.]

Guess you're gonna have to stay that way.

[croceamors]

How rude.

[Except Saix doesn't really seem offended, so yeah.]

You were right, by the way. This ice cream doesn't taste that bad.

[coolerthansora]

Some things are personal is all.

[And we aren't friends yet mister.]

But kind of good?

[croceamors]

Hm, a bit. It's better than I thought it would be.

[coolerthansora]

It is still ice cream.

[Ice cream could never actually taste bad, right?]

[croceamors]

...You realize that doesn't mean anything, right?

[coolerthansora]

What do you mean?

[croceamors]

Just because it's ice cream doesn't mean it's going to be good.

[coolerthansora]

I don't see how that makes sense...

[croceamors]

[Really, Roxas]

Not every flavor tastes good, and not every ice cream is made by someone who knows what they're doing, so it comes out bad. It makes perfect sense.

[coolerthansora]

If they don't make it right, then it's not really ice cream.

[croceamors]

...That's not how it works.

[coolerthansora]

Why not?

If someone tried to make a sword but it couldn't cut anything, would you still call it a sword?

[croceamors]

Yes, it would just be a failure of a sword. That's why we have words like 'failure'.