[MINI EVENT] ☆T A N A B A T A☆

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Those from the four regions of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh will be very familiar with the sight of bamboo stalks that are left outside decorated with colorful and sparkly paper decorations. There are people gathering around, helping one another put up paper amulet of varying colors to tie around the bamboo branches. On each amulet is a single wish that’s been handwritten by someone.

One can only hope that their wish will be heard…

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At night, there’s a surprise to be found: an alternate colored Jirachi is out dressed in what’s clearly a handmade costume. Around its neck, is a colorful paper chain made of sparkly origami paper.



Not only has Jirachi come to grant wishes, Miniors are out and about bright and colorful. They’ll be dancing around seemingly trying to invite people to come join them in the festivities.

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((OOC: Happy Tanabata! In the morning is a general mingle post. But as the evening sets in and Jirachi appears, it will start granting the wish written on your amulet whether big or small -- wealth, a long life, or maybe a way to return home. You're free to catch Miniors too, and there's a slightly better chance of encountering a shiny one as well. Just be careful of the ones still in their shell or you might just get a rather explosive surprise...

This event can take place at any town, so feel free to specify a location!))

Comments

[ in which Volo thinks video calls are movies...sorry, Gold... ]

[unchcsen]

"It is a very nice outfit! You must feel very proud to wear one! And it's heartening to see that some traditions don't change." Realising that his last remark might have made no sense without an explanation, Volo adds, "I went to a festival once, in...in my time, in Hisui. I don't think it was Tanabata, but people were wearing similar things then."

Not Volo, he'd just been wearing his merchant's uniform, as usual. Unsure whether he should mingle or not, he'd mostly stayed on the edge of the celebrations, with some of his fellow merchants. Familiarity is comforting.

Volo finds himself mimicking Gold's gestures, as if that will help him to understand.

"Screens, like...the ones they have in the library, and in the Pokémon Centre? But...aren't they called computers? I'm sure I've seen people watching moving pictures on those! Even speaking to them, sometimes, and they talk back! Is that the same as a TV? Are those...movies...?"

[gold_drum]

"Yeah, when I'm wearing this it kinda feels like I've got some kinda connection with the past? Like time's stopped, or like, history repeats itself or... Hmm..." Gold's mouth goes thin with thought as he tries to figure out a way to convey how he feels. He looks up at the stars. "It's like, these stars were there a hundred years ago, and so were people who wore yukatas, looking at those stars. So it's like, I'm the same as those people, to the stars, or something. You know?"

It's a bit unusual for Gold to feel so poetic, but something about Tanabata just put him in a mood. And meeting Volo has him thinking about people from ages past more than he usually would.

Gold frowns in helpless confusion as Volo misunderstands.

"No, those are video phones! Or, uh..." He makes a few more vague motions. "Okay, so there's a bunch of things with screens like that. There's TVs, computers, video phones and other stuff too probably... There's a lot of things they're used for, but when you're talking with somebody on the screen that's a video call. But when it's like... Oh! You know plays, like theater, right? Movies are like that, but on the screen! Except I guess in plays the performers can hear if you talk to them, but in movies they can't. It'd be like trying to talk to a photo. Photos are super old so you know about those, right?"