paixaorpg | Foundation Day Festival: Games Area

Character(s): anybody playing games
Content: people play carnival games
Setting: Joco da Crianca Fairgrounds, games area
Time: all day~
Warnings: Multithreaded posting format (please include time of day and sub-location in your comment's subject line)

Scattered through the western half of the fairgrounds are the game tents. They've got everything, from knocking over bottles to darts to a dunk tank; if you can think of it, chances are they have it. There's even a "Guess Your Age Or Weight" booth. Typically there is more than one game to a tent. This is a very loud area, with all of the games staff calling at once to get people to come over.

Naturally, there are prizes for those who win, ranging from little knickknacks and candies to giant stuffed animals - nothing particularly useful, but a lot of cute things.

The piece de resistance is a 25-foot Ferris wheel. It seats two to a car (three if you squeeze), and children under four and a half feet tall aren't allowed to ride without an adult.

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Soma smiled - a rare enough thing, unless he was with Mina as he was now - and looked around. "I dunno. What do you think we should do?" There were games, and games, and games to spare, scattered here, there, and everywhere. Quite a selection, and knowing Mina as he did, he suspected she would be wanting to win him something in return.

The swish and swirl of the festival-goers was just a tad too automatic, and cliche; Mina's comparison of the crowd to a clockwork construct was apt. But they weren't here to solve anything; they were here to have fun, and there was far too much to be done to people watch. There were prizes to be won, after all!

A barker caught his attention, and as Soma watched, the game he seemed to be advocating seemed nice and easy enough. Nudging Mina lightly, he pointed and grinned. Maybe this was the right one?

Nah. Mina had other things in mind-- after all, she still had most of the afternoon to win Soma a prize or get something else for him. She smiled, shook her head, and delicately steered him away from the game booths-- toward the twenty-five foot Ferris Wheel.

"Come on, let's take a ride first!" Most of the buildings in Paixao were no more than one or two stories tall, so she knew they'd be able to see quite a lot of the city from the top of the wheel. Maybe they'd see something interesting they could visit later.

Smiling as he let Mina lead him, Soma considered the Ferris Wheel. It was the stereotypical romantic fairground ride, nearly identical in every culture such things can be found in. He wasn't all that surprised to find one here, in the melting pot of cultures that was Paixao.

"I just hope your new friend isn't scared of heights," he said with a smile. Of course, with it being a plushy and all, there was little doubt that it would be a problem - unless Soma changed the rules...

"I don't think so," Mina joked back, then held up the squished kitten plushie and addressed it in the same lighthearted tone. "Are you afraid of heights, neko-san? Because if you are, we don't have to go on this ride..." She laughed and tucked the toy back under her arm, taking Soma's hand as the one manning the ride gestured them forward-- there was an empty car ready for them now!

Soma laughed lightly, shaking his head. "And away we go," he said, squiring Mina onto the car and following once the way was clear.

Or at least trying to. The door closed in front of him - apparently, the guy operating the ride had misinterpreted Soma's 'go'.

Had Soma been anyone else, this might have been a problem. However, one does not make his way through a very close replica of Hell, twice, without picking up a few tricks. Squaring himself, he waited till Mina's car reached the apex of its travel - and then -leapt- straight up, spreading his arms at the apex of his leap and floating down into the car like a feather.

Mina had nearly panicked when the car door closed without Soma, but now she laughed and applauded his trick jump-- though she hadn't been the only spectator, from the looks of things.

"Oh, dear. You've upset the operator." She waved at the confused and startled man below, then took a good look out over the festival and a few of the shorter buildings. "Wow! It really is like a magical kingdom or something... only without the zombies and evil stuff."

Or maybe there were zombies and evil stuff. But if there were, she hoped that niether she nor Soma would ever meet them. They'd both had more than enough evil stuff in their lifetimes.

Soma smiled and gave the poor guy a sheepish wave. "Going to have to start remembering where I am," he said, hiding a bit of a laugh. "People around here aren't used to things like that."

The average people in this city could certainly qualify as a type of zombie, but Soma wasn't about to complain. The worst they had done so far was give him dirty looks. The only real evil in the city that he had heard of had yet to rear its ugly head around him; which was probably a good thing, or else he'd likely be off on another damn fool quest.

"It really is wonderful," he said, enjoying the view. "Much better than that other place," he added, with a wry grin.

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