Carnival Meme

[21stcenturyguy]

Step right up, folks! It’s a non-terrible AU Crystallis carnival! No Calamity, no Palitutu, no dead or crystalized friends. Just some good, old-fashioned carney fun.

• 1. Food: We all know why we’re here, and it’s deep friend and on a stick. Sample the local delicacies, like kupo nut funnel cake, deep fried Touch Me-nuggets, chocobo egg custard, and Marlboro tentacles on a stick (warning: may cause Poison).
• 2. Games: They’re rigged, and the prizes are cheaply made, but it’s a point of honor. Only the best and most skilled Heroes can win the prized Fat Chocobo Plushie!
• 3. Rides: Aqures Ixen doesn’t have much by way of roller coasters, but there are chocobos with brightly dyed feathers and even a modified magitek unit for kids to ride on. Maybe some Heroes will lend their various mounts?
• 4. Contests: There will be dance-offs, bake-offs, eat-offs, craft-offs. Whatever your Hero knows how to do, do it best and you may go home with a blue ribbon!
• 5. Music and Dancing: There’s a small dance floor set up, and some locals are playing their instruments and singing. Anyone who wants to can join in to dance or play. There’s been enough drinking and merriment at the carnival so far that nobody will care if you suck or not.
• 6. Charity Events: We have to think of those poor Hypello families whose boats have been commandeered by the Heroes of Light. Help raise money to get them back on their sea-legs by volunteering at the Kissing Booth, Pie Throwing Stand, the Dunk Tank, Face Painting Stand, or other such carnival staples. Won’t you pleash helpibble the Hypellosh?
• 7. Fortune Telling: Come have your fortune told by the great yet tiny tarutaru mystic, Madame Fortururu! (Accuracy of the fortune is NOT GUARANTEED)
• 8. Tunnel of Love: Yeah, there’s not actually a stream flowing through the middle of the city…but in AU-qures Ixen, there totally is. Float along in a scuffed-up old swan boat with that special guy or gal, and think to yourself, what a wonderful world.
• 9. Other Assorted Merriment: Make up your own carnival prompt.

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[21stcenturyguy]

[Thanks to the trick of the booth, Santa's actually further back than he appears. The illusion won't work against an opponent for more than one round, but it gets him through the first round mostly intact.]

[Well, actually, the pies land at his feet, splattering his shoes with whipped cream. It's actually more painful to Santa than a pie to the face would've been. But whatever. He'll tough it out. At least he thought to wear an old pair to the carnival.]

Welp, kiddos, looks like you're gonna have to try harder than that. [He is fully aware that his taunts are gonna get him SO MANY PIES in the face, but if you can't taunt a person throwing pies at you, what kind of life are you living?]

[damn_juicebox]

Then that's what we'll have to do.

[She nods firmly to her child accomplice who returns the gesture, and they both reel back before pitching another pair of pies. If they miss again, she'll just have to rope more kids into this. Her arm would get tired after throwing sixty pies, after all.]