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Ruby City Mods ([personal profile] rubycitymods) wrote in [community profile] rubycity_ooc2012-04-23 03:20 am
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EVENT - Spring Fling

Spring has sprung, Ruby City! Yes, it's getting harder and harder to ignore the changing of the seasons lately. Snowy days have turned into rainy ones, and gradually, those have turned into sunny ones. More and more flowers of various shapes and sizes line the streets of the city, turning up in all the expected places. Birds are chirping, bees are buzzing, and whatever else they might happen to be getting up to is best left to posts a little more private than this one. Yes, Spring is here.

In keeping with the captors' fondness for seasonal events, a little Spring celebration has been sprung upon the city with no more warning than the very flowers it's themed around. Because who doesn't love a nice festival?

Monday morning, the city will awake to find itself positively overwhelmed with a rather over-the-top set of Spring-themed decorations. Garlands of ribbons and flowers in cheery pastel shades hang on and between the buildings, filling the air with their sweet perfume and lending a decidedly happier feel to the city in general.

~ All around the flower-littered fountain surrounding the obelisk at the city center, stalls of all sorts have been erected. Manned by identical, human-looking but silent and vacant-eyed strangers, the stalls provide most of what one might generally expect to find at any sort of celebration along these lines; Hot and cold treats, popular sweets prepared on the spot, clothes and jewelry and knickknacks of all sorts can be had free for the taking.

~ Lining the streets various old-fashioned rides and carnival games can be found and enjoyed, again free of charge. Nothing very modern or flashy, true, but old favorites such as ring-toss games, skeeball, shooting galleries and so on can be enjoyed by anybody who cares to try their hand at winning a prize. The prizes are, naturally, almost all stuffed animals-- Though the especially-determined among the city may find themselves the proud new owners of the occasional goldfish or songbird, if they really try. The rides include classics like simple roller coasters, a large bumper car set, fun houses, a truly immense ferris wheel set up at the entrance to the park, and many others.

~ For those inclined to offer performances, a stage has been erected in front of the cathedral. It offers only a basic curtained-off "backstage" area, but attached is a spacious shed full of all the props, costumes, instruments and makeup any aspiring star might hope to find. Feel free to take turns putting on whatever puppet shows and rock concerts strike anybody's fancy! Who knows who might be impressed by what they see?

~ In front of the library, a large and apparently bottomless wishing well has been dug, or at least a structure that resembles one has been erected. Given that Ruby City operates without currency, one will simply have to try and find some other suitable items to offer it if they'd like to try and wish for something(Please no songbirds or goldfish). But be careful! If the well deems the offering to be somehow insulting, one's wish may go somewhat awry...
* The well's abilities are considerable, as it operates under the captors' powers. While it's (thankfully) not as capricious as they are, it's still a little unpredictable.
*Wishes that grant something physical(a new bicycle, minor changes like a different hairstyle, whatever) will last even after the event has ended-- Meaning those will be permanent(at least until the character breaks their bicycle or gets a haircut, anyway).
*Other wishes, however, that grant less tangible things("I wish I was braver/more confident/multilingual") will last only until they wear off on their own or the event ends, whichever comes first.
*Wishes that grant extreme/unfortunate results(You always wanted to be a giant pigeon, right? How about the inability to speak in anything but song?) will also last only until they wear off on their own or until the event's end, whichever comes first.
*A separate IC "Wishing Well" post will be set up so that players can make wishes in it and have them answered "by the well," but once their wish has been either granted or botched they may feel free to make posts of their own, announcing it.



Happy Spring, Ruby City!

This is a CITY-WIDE event. Participation in the festival itself is of course not mandatory, but it will be going on regardless! The event will run from MONDAY, APRIL 23 until SUNDAY, APRIL 29. If you have any questions, please see the QUESTIONS THREAD in the "Comments" section of this entry. Otherwise, have fun, and thanks for playing!
morethanpasta: (bloody white flag)

Re: [QUESTIONS]

[personal profile] morethanpasta 2012-04-23 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
*innocent whistle* If you speak of wishes going awry, how awry are we talking here? Innocent prankster-style awry or malicious, dangerous awry?
only1highlander: (Smokin aces)

[QUESTIONS]

[personal profile] only1highlander 2012-04-23 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I should have known you'd try to torment him again. Poor italy XD
morethanpasta: (heart chibi)

Re: [QUESTIONS]

[personal profile] morethanpasta 2012-04-23 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
You know me too well XD

[QUESTIONS]

[personal profile] bewaeltigung 2012-04-23 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I enabled you once or twice before, dear~
morethanpasta: (content smile)

[personal profile] morethanpasta 2012-04-23 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome *grin*

What are the extents of the well's powers? Is it powerful enough to affect your own or another's emotions or generally grant heart's desires?

I'm thinking Feliciano might be tempted to mess with his own emotions to fix his depression.
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[personal profile] morethanpasta 2012-04-23 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
...aaand last question for now. Sorry. My thoughts are oozing along at a snail's pace.

I assume the wishing well's effects are going to disappear once the event ends?
notthebee2: (Default)

Re: [QUESTIONS]

[personal profile] notthebee2 2012-04-24 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I just need to ask a small question, if you don't mind. Does Sollux get fins along with the tyrian blood?
renaissancerevenge: Ezio walking through the dispersed crowd of nobles in the streets [Florence] (Default)

Re: [QUESTIONS]

[personal profile] renaissancerevenge 2012-04-25 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Regarding the well's answer to Ezio, does he have to shout to Cristina via the well? Or can/will he be compelled to a mirror and she be able to hear him when he shouts to said mirror? Not like she can answer back of course, but I suppose it'd make a difference to see if she would react or not.

And in the case she does hear him and answers back, can he hear her? Or just see the visual reaction?
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[personal profile] rubycitynpcs 2012-04-25 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
It is like you looked into my mind and pulled out every last thing that I wasn't entirely sure about. xD

If Ezio speaks aloud now, at the well--Or by any reflective surface, really. One will make itself briefly visible in the well for him if he does it there--he will get to see but not hear Cristina's reaction. Even if/when he follows the compulsion to find a mirror later to see her, he still won't be able to hear her. It will take a bit of lip-reading skill if he even wants to wager a guess as to what--if anything--she's saying.
renaissancerevenge: Ezio hanging around on a building. You know, the norm. (Stop monkeying around)

[personal profile] renaissancerevenge 2012-04-25 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Doubt is not logical, even for us assassins. XD

But that clears up pretty much everything! :D
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Re: [QUESTIONS]

[personal profile] y_marchog_du 2012-04-25 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
So, ah... Not sure if here's the right spot, but can I get a hint on what I should be doing with Wales now, after how his wish was granted? :D
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[personal profile] rubycitynpcs 2012-04-25 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Here is precisely right! You can ask either here or in your characters' individual wish threads, for the record.

What I was rather obscurely(my bad!) hinting at was that Bran might find himself quite literally "bumping into" people... Some might only be other residents, yes, but one or two might be something "more."

If you'd rather, of course, we can work with his current post. I didn't expect everybody to be so quick on the draw! :p
y_marchog_du: (Default)

[personal profile] y_marchog_du 2012-04-25 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I wasn't sure what to do with that, so I just had him be drawn to the cathedral. Might be easiest to just pick it up there, if that's all right - especially as I have no idea who he should bump into. :)

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[personal profile] nanchoparty 2012-04-23 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
totally gonna use that stage AYOOOOO

[personal profile] beepbeepmeeow 2012-04-24 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Good be sure to fall on your face strider!
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[personal profile] nanchoparty 2012-04-24 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
nope
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[personal profile] y_marchog_du 2012-04-23 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
What about wishing to stop one of the city's effects? Namely that when people leave, they lose all memory of their time in the city? Also, can you wish an effect on someone else, only yourself, or both at once?

No, I don't have a very specific wish with very specific characters in mind, whyever would you think that?
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[personal profile] y_marchog_du 2012-04-23 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, worth a shot. Speak to a captor, hmm? Also, what I am plotting is pretty self-evident based on recent threading, lol. But it's nothing too serious; I just have a character who would really like to not lose one good thing that's come of his stay here.

Er, characters are supposed to get their memories back? I did not know that, that is very relevant to a different character of mine.
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[personal profile] y_marchog_du 2012-04-23 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it gives me a plotline for Canada, so it looks like it's to the old LJ with me to see what the previous mun(s) did with him.

I will definitely keep that in mind.