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Yu Narukami ([personal profile] leaderkun) wrote in [community profile] thefolder2013-12-25 11:52 pm

New Years Festival!

Who: EVERYONE! Chosen and Partners, Damemon, Deputymon, Starmon too!
What: The New Year's Festival and Masquerade Ball
Where: Shinjuku Gyoen in the Park
When: December 31st



December 31st has at last arrived, and despite certain events depriving the Digital World of the original creator, the people involved with the New Years Festival managed to pull through. With Roze's work already underway and the designs and directions sent out, it wasn't hard to finish what had been started.

At mid-afternoon, a general text was sent out to all the D-Terminals announcing the festival grounds as open. Going to the Shinjuku Gyoen part of the park revealed a tiny wonderland of games and food manned by Chosen, Partners and Damemon alike.

Every Chosen and Partner have Damemon helpers and shifts rotate at each stall, making certain no one is kept from enjoying themselves to the fullest.

To either side of the festival grounds are picnic areas set up with several tables, all surrounded by bright white and yellow string lights. The four rows of game and food stalls are all decorated with large red paper lanterns, paper dragons and bright string lights, allowing the festivities to proceed well after dark.

At the front of the entire festival grounds Roze's Digimon - Julie the Impmon and Musashi the Kotemon - hand out copies of a simple map. On the back of each map the times for the masquerade dance are printed in case people forgot the time from their invitations.

In the Taiwan Pavilion, from the start of the festival to the end, Maya Matlin and Ryan Evans play music on piano and cello, rotating with Neku Sakuraba who maintains a steady flow of pre-arranged music. Several times throughout the day a handful of Digimon put on a simple but entertaining Taiko drum performance. Two long buffet tables filled with food and punch stay full throughout the day and night.

Jin Uzuki teaches calligraphy at one stall, as well as performs tea ceremony and lectures on Japanese traditions for those not educated on the themes presented by the festival.

Squall Leonhart stands sentinel over the Kingyo Sukui (goldfish catching) stall.

Campbell Saunders covers the ball toss, where people can try their luck knocking down milk bottles.

The Medicine Seller mans the Okonomiyaki cart, where people are free to order any combination of ingredients and eat hot food straight from the iron.

Mikasa Ackerman covers a colorful and pleasant-smelling stall where festival-goers can choose from dozens of bananas on sticks, the fruit dipped in different flavored coatings and numerous toppings.

Shannon Vaughn and Eli Delacroix cover the stall on the center walk where those at the festival can pick up sparklers and handmade papier-mâché masks for fun or the masquerade, if they have none of their own.

A ping pong toss with water-filled glass bowls sits with a pair of Damemon attendants cheering on participants.

Next to the Okonomiyaki cart, Saori Nakagawa and Laguna Loire provide fresh Takoyaki (octopus balls) on sticks, steaming and delicious.

The local Prince, Rowan, cheerily provides personal pies or slices of ready-made large ones and chats amiably with anyone who happens to be drawn in by meat or fruit fillings inside flaky crusts.

Cheerful little Miwako Sakurada watches the Yoyo Tsuri (water balloon yoyo) cart, balloons in bright splashes of color floating in a rotating pool of water, casting a rainbow across the cloth roof of the stall.

The ever large and boisterous Rider struts around a Strongman Hammer game, jeering and cajoling the men and complimenting the women, making bets and offering arm-wrestling competitions.

Little Wily-Kit has a raised platform surrounded by cushions where people can sit and listen to her play the flupe and regale them with tales from her homeland.

Dante sits at a stall of his own, playing guitar when he's not giving kisses for donations to the festival fund.

A ring toss game where one can try to put small rings around the necks of glass bottles stands manned by two Damemon arguing restlessly about the arrangement of the bottles.

Waver Velvet and his Wizardmon stand to dazzle onlookers with card tricks and details of magic performed in Waver's homeland.

Next to Wily-Kit's storytelling and Waver's tricks, Harry Potter serves up a variety of hot drinks close to the front of the festival so people have something to warm their hands and bellies while they enjoy the festivities.

Throughout the entire festival ground, Seifer Almasy and his hand-picked group of Digimon patrol the area, ejecting trouble-makers and seeing to damages while Yu Narukami and his team keep supplies full and assist Seifer with damage control.

The festival continues on through the day until the Masquerade Ball begins. All the stalls close and people are free to dress and attend as they like. Food and punch remains present and the music continues until midnight, when masks are to be removed and the New Year begins!
lilpoppa: (I remember better days)

[personal profile] lilpoppa 2014-01-04 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"I see" Tetsushi looked to the fish and thought about his digimon partner. He really like having Patamon around and would love having another digimon.

"Well in that case I will keep him, if you don't mind? I was wondering how is it that you have two digimon anyways?"
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[personal profile] oneeyedterror 2014-01-04 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't mind at all." That answer came out pretty naturally, and it's true. Well that and Whirl doesn't take that great of care of himself, let's not put a poor defenseless organic creature in his care.

"Oh that? Because of some scrap about one of 'em not being 'real'. It happened before you showd up, I'm guessing."

So helpful, so informative.
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[personal profile] lilpoppa 2014-01-05 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay then little Piston is going home with me." Tetsushi held the bag at his side and smiled at Whirl.

"So at one point the digimon you all had were not the real ones. So you mean that they weren't the ones you were meant to have or not that they are not real digimon? I am a little lost here." Tetsushi was never to quick on the up take so most easy things needed to be explained to him twice if not repeatedly.
oneeyedterror: (Bored now... which is a bad thing)

[personal profile] oneeyedterror 2014-01-05 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Slag if I know," Whirl doesn't tend to pay attention to anything unless he wants to. That or he just doesn't feel like explaining anything to Tetsushi.

It's probably a little of both options, as now he's absently adjusting his dress.

"What else do you want to do?" Best to change the subject, right?
lilpoppa: (Eh heh heh...)

[personal profile] lilpoppa 2014-01-05 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Tetsushi scratched his head as he tried to figure out what else they should do. It was a task to just to figure out they should play the fish game and he had no clue what their next step should be.

"Well I guess would could get something to eat? I mean if you are hungry otherwise we could go play another game."

He shrugged his shoulders. He looked around the place thinking about the original reason that they even were supposed to meet up at this thing.

"We could get a drink, if we can find a place to serve us?"
Edited 2014-01-06 01:52 (UTC)
oneeyedterror: (Bored now... which is a bad thing)

[personal profile] oneeyedterror 2014-01-06 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
"Food and drinks sound fine."

Honestly Whirl is getting bored, which is a bad thing. He has a bad habit of getting into trouble when he is bored. So even getting food and/or drunk is probably a good idea.
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[personal profile] lilpoppa 2014-01-07 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Well we could go to the buffet, the Okononmiyaki stand or the bananas on a stick stand, your choice I'm cool with any of the above." Tetsushi had no idea what Robots liked to eat let alone what she would like to eat in her current state.