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{ GAME OPENING LOG }

✵ GAME OPENING LOG ✵
Normally our TDMs serve as intro logs, but we have prepared a special character intro log for game opening! It is a massive, chaotic feast that can only be found in a dreamworld like Songerein. You can also use this to continue ongoing TDM threads, especially as it nears captcha. Reminder that any thread from the TDM can be carried over. Players are also welcome to make their own logs for things if they would rather skip this part. Be sure to read the Mod Announcement for other information and you can ask any questions regarding the log here.

I. THE FEAST

As the sleepy looking sun begins to set, the small little tapir fairies will buzz around to find all the new inhabitants and usher them to the plaza. There everyone will find several tables of various lengths, sizes, and shapes. Yes, that is a star shaped table along with a moon one. A special feast has been made just for them to welcome and celebrate their arrival. Some may even recognize decorations: leaves mottled and changing to an assortment of colors, festive streamers, popcorn strings, glittering garlands and bows, string lanterns, and maybe a few small gravestones here and there. Some areas might look a bit brown and withered while some of the trees take on a more cherry blossom look. It's a bit of a strange mashup, and yet the chaos seems to have a sense of harmony as well—especially when considering everything else that the feast has to offer. This is one divine feast that is going to be completely topsy turvy.

A. What's Your Sign? Everyone will find themselves mysteriously "tagged" with a special sticker and will suddenly gain special characteristics based off the animal: ears, tails, behavioral traits. They're mostly mild and to add flavor, but they may also feel different compatibility towards another, such as more attracted or opposed. The sticker will be hard to remove, but it is possible to swap with someone if they want to try a different experience.

B. Special Bowls. There are many tables and anyone can sit wherever they want. Just don't forget to pick up the special dinner bowl already personalized with their name on it. Of course there are some extra paints and decorations that can be added to it if one desires.

C. Wild Food. Every table has the same kind of food, and there is plenty to go around. Of course, that's only if the food can be caught and if one can keep an appetite for some of them. The boar's head is a bit talkative and might settle down if someone stuffs an apple in its mouth or tells it a joke. However, it might just get several laughs by the barrel of monkeys funnel cake nearby, monkey shaped pastries hiding within it to chuck out various candies and fruits. Not even the candy is safe, at least not the stringed ones. Licorice, chocolate coated taffy, and others will start slithering around and even hiss, sometimes wrapping around the arm of those who try to eat them. Playing some music might calm these sweet serpents so they can be eaten properly. How about that special carousel cake stand with the horse cookies prancing about?

D. Spice Up Your Li—Meal. However fear not. There is normal food around so it is possible to have a proper meal. However, some helpful little dragons may fly by to add a few herbs and spices to the dishes. They are quite friendly and will listen to requests, however if one is rude or too demanding, they may just dump a bunch of a hot pepper and other unsavory seasoning instead. Make a good enough impression and they might make house calls, even follow someone home. They live to spice up food, after all.

E. Drink Tea. Although there is an assortment of beverages, the prevalent one will be tea. They are similar to the ones found in the cafe and all will help bring out festive dreams and restful sleep later for everyone. However, someone is clearly making mischief as they have slipped in some rodentia tea. Drinking it will cause the drinker to shrink to the size of a rat. The only way to return to normal is to find the elusive cat cookies, which can be strangely hard to find; they seem to vanish and reappear at random, but only the ones with wide grins and “Eat Me” written on them can be eaten.

II. FUN & GAMES

Perhaps the food isn't up to one's tastes, or they just would rather have some fun. There are a few games around the plaza that everyone is welcome to participate in and they are encouraged to play to their heart's content. Just beware of the geese as they are being a menace not only at the tables but disrupting games as well.

A. Playing Chicken. A simple game, really, one that will test one's creativity and taste buds. There is a goat cheese fondue fountain surrounded with various platters of cooked chicken: grilled, steamed, boiled, baked, fried. This fondue fountain, however, is special. The flavor of the fondue can be altered depending on the kinds of emotions near it. Joy and love make it sugary sweet, anger and jealousy spicy hot, despair and distrust salty sour. And of course everything in-between including a chaotic mix. The challenge is one person will try and alter the flavor of the fondue, lather it on a piece of chicken, and then hand it to their opponent. The chicken must then be consumed. If not, the one who "cooked" it wins. If it is consumed, then the second person can now do the same to the other. This continues until one forfeits. It should be noted that the emotions of the one eating can also affect the fondue. (It is of course possible to take either the fondue or chicken without playing this stomach churning game.)

B. Gravity of Luck. There is a special wheel lottery set on a table decorated with rabbits. In fact there are a lot of rabbits congregating here and would love a few carrots. Anyone is free to spin the wheel one time per round to determine what kind of special "gravity" effect they receive. Each time the wheel is spun, a ball will drop and the color will indicate the type. A gold ball will cause them to lose all sense of gravity, their bodies starting to float away and although they can fly and float around, they'll need help being tethered down. White balls allow them to jump higher, small mushrooms appearing at their feet so others can follow. A black ball will cause them to be stuck in place, even fall flat all the way to the ground and need help standing up. Those imbued with the power of the different balls can help balance each other out until the effect wears off in half an hour.

C. Ox Go-Kart. For those who really want some speed and action, there are ox driven carts stationed by various streets. Two people can partner up with one driving and the other serving to help try to slow the other cart down. In this race, all non-lethal, non-destructive abilities are allowed to try and disrupt the other racer. Perhaps utilizing dreamotion based abilities may fare better. Just beware of other obstacles, especially any random crying dodos that create giant pools of tears as water hazards.

D. Tiger Fishing. There are special colorful ponds filled with sparkly gummy koi fish. At each one there is a little round tiger(?) with a pair of tiger mittens. In the same vein of fish scooping games, players must wear the tiger mittens and catch the gummy fish with them. It won't be easy as the gummy fish are even more slippery than normal. Perhaps some other skills could be used...but the little tiger will be watching and will latch onto anyone's heads who try to cheat. But if caught, they will make for a delectable treat—or interesting pet.

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🌠 test drive

If you'd like to tag into one of my test drive prompts, please feel free to leave it here! I'll be continuing threads below.

🌠 what's your sign?

[Tifa isn't usually one to complain about decorations. Hell, she's been guilty of going out of her way to decorate for birthdays and special occasions before, maybe a little too far out of her way, but that's neither here nor there. The difference between then and now was that in the past, she didn't have a pair of sheep's horns curled around the sides of her face to interrupt her evening at the party, and while the streamers are nice, some hang a little too low for her tastes, and on her way to the food table, she's found herself caught.

And in trying to get herself out, she's only become more tangled in the streamers and popcorn strings.

She has plenty of patience to spare, but even hers starts to run on fumes, and the feast has barely begun. She hasn't even had the chance to grab a plate of food yet! So here she is, groaning low with frustration while she tries to untangle herself, succeeding only in getting pieces of popcorn stuck in her hair. The small, wooly tail that she's magically obtained flicks back and forth.

Please... help...]

🌠 tiger fishing

[Tifa was never one to let a small snag (like a pair of horns) ruin her time at the feast, so to make up for it, she finds herself at the koi ponds, intrigued by the idea. She's heard about these sorts of minigames but had never seen them for herself until now, so it's hard not to take an interest in them.

With the mittens slid over her hands, she flexes her fingers to stretch them out and test them before she kneels at the pond. The fish flit about beneath the surface, away from her like they already know what's about to happen.]

... Just gotta be quick. Sorry, little guy, but...

[Her hands snap into the water just as the one she's been watching passes close, but it slips right out from between her hands and onto the ground near someone's feet! Oh no...!]

🌠 mingle/wildcard

[If neither of these prompts or the tdm stuff work for you, feel free to leave something else below. She'll be around the feast eating and people watching and will happily chat up anyone who approaches her! Just try not to stare too hard at the sheep horns or tail... Feel free to PM me or poke me over at crystariums if you'd like to plot out something specific!]

Edited 2021-09-06 01:10 (UTC)

[It's been quite the adventurous day. Bumping into old friends, emotions running rampant, beetle herding, and now this magical sticker she can't peel off that's given her a pair of horns and a small tail, it's time now for a breather. How long she spends walking before she stops is anyone's guess but hers, or if she's even walked at all—maybe she's just dreaming it!—but her feet have carried her further than she consciously would have allowed them to. With her mind shuffling through her thoughts, at some point, Tifa stopped paying attention to where she was going.

It's the sound of rushing water that wrenches her free from her own mind and... jeeze, how far did she go? The plaza is still within view in the distance, but it's far enough away that she can't hear anything but the water now. Peace and quiet... She can work with this.

Heaving a sigh, Tifa kneels at the bank of the river and reaches her fingers into the stream. The water is cool and brisk, and she has half a mind to splash it across her face with the hope that it will wake her up from whatever fever dream this is, and she's just about to scoop some into her palms when she hears a rustle not much further down. Past the bushes, she spots a familiar set of ears, and her footsteps stop, her heart practically leaping out of her chest and into her throat.

Should she say something or leave him be? After they left things earlier, it would be for the best to just turn and walk away, but he's probably heard her by now. For whatever reason, she can't compel herself to move, and she even pipes up, her voice tentative and strained, even through the forced lightness.]

... Didn't think I'd find someone else way out here.

[After his not-so-great encounter with Zidane, Eustace had swam over to the nearest place he could and pulled himself out of the river. Although he had dressed lighter for the feast, he still had some armor pieces, his cloak, and jacket that he needed to try and shake off before heading back to his new home.

So when he hears someone walking nearby, he only pauses before pulling off his shirt and starting to shake it off, contemplating if he can somehow dry it off with dreamotion energy... He's already notice that subtle changes that occur with his mood, and he's managed a few other things. Heat...can he create it? What would he need to do, think of punching that stupid monkey brat's face—

Although it does get a little more heated, the voice he hears is not one he expects and he turns to see Tifa past the bushes.

...

What kind of night is this...]

...I had no choice.

[Not entirely wrong.]

tifa lockhart | final fantasy vii

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Tiger Fishing

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What's your sign?

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tiger fishing

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what's your sign?

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Tidying up

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