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[×] [o] Emma: I'd really like to have a parade followed by some kind of party/feast, and I have a couple of ideas sort of based on things like Mardi Gras and a certain Chinese festival but I'm not sure if a parade would work in RP haha
[×] [o] Liz: ohhhh omg
[×] [o] Liz: it could be ROMANCE THEMED
[×] [o] Emma: Well, I figured it would be a harvest festival for the turn of summer into autumn in Alexshire, or a spring festival for Daire... and I'm just now realising how stupid the climates are compared to each other since Daire surrounds Alexshire. What, the city has its own climate system. Darn it
[×] [o] Emma: A romance hteme for a spring festival would work though
[×] [o] Emma: I should start a feedback thread for it... Blah so much to dooooo
[×] [o] Liz: and xanth could make little mischievous cherubs who shoot unsuspecting elysians with magic arrows that make the person that gets hit fall temporarily in mad love with the first person they see
[×] [o] Liz: it could make for very, very good roleplaying
[×] [o] Emma: Well I wasn't thinking about Valentines. It'd probably be later
[×] [o] Liz: stillllll. can we do that? PLEASEEE?
[×] [o] Liz: i mean later. SAME DIFF.
[×] [o] Emma: I'd like to avoid real holidays if possible, given what happens at Halloween and Christmas Although we could have something like that for a later date. *pictures Daz being hit*
[×] [o] Liz: i just thought it would make for gud roleplaying opportunities
[×] [o] Emma: It would You relaise we have like... 2/3 active males though, right? Among... Oh wait, we actually have a pretty even ratio at the moment
[×] [o] Liz: fine then. it can be called find your heart day, and everyone has to be nice and civil for the whole day. including zeph. ) i'm jokinggggg.
[×] [o] Emma: If we can keep them active for the event, then sure
[×] [o] Liz: : D i'm excited nowwww
Any ideas? Personally, I'd like to do something that involves masquerade masks, lots of bright colours, a parade and something to do with changing seasons, except rather than the harvest festival it's probably going to have to be the coming of spring. Maybe we can say that the halloween event is the harvest festival this year and change the date a bit.
I also had this idea about a couple being chosen as the king and queen of the parade, dressed up in fancy clothes, and given the responsibility of leading the festivities. They could be chosen by a lottery system (OOCly, you'd buy a ticket, not sure how it would work ICly yet). We could have an OOC contest for favourite costume (dollmaker contests are always fun ) and maybe I could do a masque template so you can design your character's mask and we could have a contest for that too?
I like Lizzie's idea about Cupid arrows. I think we could have some serious fun with that, although I'm not convinced Xanth would mess around like that even in good fun. Maybe there's another way to do it?
Rather than it being Valentine's though, I was thinking closer to the end of February or early March. I was really hoping the plot would be finished ages ago so I'm worried fewer characters will attend as they're still wrapped up in that, but maybe we could pause those threads while we have this festival, I don't know yet.