- RP Date
- YE 43.8
- RP Location
- Kyoto, Yamatai
Kyoto, Yamatai
YE 43.8
Orange banners and lanterns lined the people-filled streets of Kyoto, shining in the cool, crisp autumn night in YE 43's eighth and penultimate month. Jack-o-lanterns flickered candlelight faces and shop windows were decorated with spider webs, skulls, and flying bats. It was time for an annual tradition, the Candy Festival. Every year, for over a decade, the Star Army of Yamatai would deploy its troops in massive numbers to bring candy to every citizen in Yamatai. It began (and still was) a training exercise for some unspecified emergency where the Star Army had to find and provide something to all Yamataians, for example emergency food supplies, a vaccine, radiation meds, water bottles, or something of that nature. Some citizens made themselves easy to find by going out distribution points to get their candy, and some made themselves hard to identify by wearing costumes. Eventually these traditions blended into something like the ancient holiday of Halloween.
This year the Star Army had chosen a theme for the candy festival: Love. Because of this, it was giving out a lot of chocolates, heart-shaped treats. This made this particular Candy Festival something of a mix between the typical Candy Festival with its gothic and spooky themes and Love Day's sexy/romantic vibe, and jokes were that it was "Goth Love Day."
Star Army soldiers, dressed in their black peacoats over duty uniforms, moved around the mega-city, some on duty and carrying bags of candy from trucks and LTSVs (essentially an ATV), and some were there simply to enjoy the cheer and festive atmosphere, or to find someone to fall in love with (or bring to The Pulsing Pearl?). Some of them were tall Nekovalkyrja from the Rikugun's legions, and others were fleet personnel who came in all manner of species: primarily Minkan, but also humans, anthros, Nekovalkyrja, even some Phods, Elves, Trolls, and robots.
Candycorn, a young Nekovalkyrja from Army Logistics was the event's mascot this year. She had twin pigtains of yellow hair, yellow-orange orange eyes, and hearts on her cheeks. She was handing out chocolates molded in the shape of her lips outside of the Uesureyan Fortress.
Meanwhile, after their battle with space pirates, the YSS Resurgence was in port for repairs and that left the crew able to wander around during the festival.
OOC: This is an open thread, feel free to RP a character dressing up and going out to get food, or handing out candy. To give everyone a chance to participate, the thread is open for the rest of February I encourage everyone to have their characters interact with the other characters in the thread. Make it a social event and meet people! It's in Kyoto but ALL FACTIONS ARE WELCOME. At meeting it was suggested to do the fest at the international station but once I started writing I found it didn't really make sense to move it from its home in Kyoto and I will try to create another RP at the station - if nothing else the IRC can be there in 2 months.
YE 43.8
Orange banners and lanterns lined the people-filled streets of Kyoto, shining in the cool, crisp autumn night in YE 43's eighth and penultimate month. Jack-o-lanterns flickered candlelight faces and shop windows were decorated with spider webs, skulls, and flying bats. It was time for an annual tradition, the Candy Festival. Every year, for over a decade, the Star Army of Yamatai would deploy its troops in massive numbers to bring candy to every citizen in Yamatai. It began (and still was) a training exercise for some unspecified emergency where the Star Army had to find and provide something to all Yamataians, for example emergency food supplies, a vaccine, radiation meds, water bottles, or something of that nature. Some citizens made themselves easy to find by going out distribution points to get their candy, and some made themselves hard to identify by wearing costumes. Eventually these traditions blended into something like the ancient holiday of Halloween.
This year the Star Army had chosen a theme for the candy festival: Love. Because of this, it was giving out a lot of chocolates, heart-shaped treats. This made this particular Candy Festival something of a mix between the typical Candy Festival with its gothic and spooky themes and Love Day's sexy/romantic vibe, and jokes were that it was "Goth Love Day."
Star Army soldiers, dressed in their black peacoats over duty uniforms, moved around the mega-city, some on duty and carrying bags of candy from trucks and LTSVs (essentially an ATV), and some were there simply to enjoy the cheer and festive atmosphere, or to find someone to fall in love with (or bring to The Pulsing Pearl?). Some of them were tall Nekovalkyrja from the Rikugun's legions, and others were fleet personnel who came in all manner of species: primarily Minkan, but also humans, anthros, Nekovalkyrja, even some Phods, Elves, Trolls, and robots.
Candycorn, a young Nekovalkyrja from Army Logistics was the event's mascot this year. She had twin pigtains of yellow hair, yellow-orange orange eyes, and hearts on her cheeks. She was handing out chocolates molded in the shape of her lips outside of the Uesureyan Fortress.
Meanwhile, after their battle with space pirates, the YSS Resurgence was in port for repairs and that left the crew able to wander around during the festival.
OOC: This is an open thread, feel free to RP a character dressing up and going out to get food, or handing out candy. To give everyone a chance to participate, the thread is open for the rest of February I encourage everyone to have their characters interact with the other characters in the thread. Make it a social event and meet people! It's in Kyoto but ALL FACTIONS ARE WELCOME. At meeting it was suggested to do the fest at the international station but once I started writing I found it didn't really make sense to move it from its home in Kyoto and I will try to create another RP at the station - if nothing else the IRC can be there in 2 months.