the_last_resort | Blackmoon Celebration

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Blackmoon Celebration

Who: Misc
What: Blackmoon
When: M6 D14 (July 10th) - M6 D17 (July 13th)
Where: All around the resort and village
Notes & Warnings: Up to players to put in subjects

OOC: This is a log post for the celebration for general mingling during the celebration (log and network posts are also still very welcome). Just tag into a starter and ask questions if anything is unclear.

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The shopkeepers are taking advantage of the larger crowds that the Blackmoon event draws in. Holiday sales announcements are displayed in windows in bright colors, and many of the streets are temporarily closed to vehicles so the merchants have set up booths outside their shops to catch the attention of foot traffic. Travelling vendors have flown in from nearby quadrants and the streets are lined with tables offering everything from cheap spider toys that squeak when you squeeze them in the right place to onyx cabochon jewelry ringed with gold in imitation of the eclipse. Food carts dot the area, selling to hungry tourists. All around are people shouting, talking, laughing, haggling. And every merchant would very much like to sell you something.

Pugsy isn’t cheerful (Pugsy is never cheerful), but the intoxicating beverages are pouring fast at the bar. The profits are good, but the eclipse brings out the lunatic in people and he’s expecting at least one bar fight before the celebrations are over. F'nayalip and Joe's have hired a few extra servers and have an enormous display of pies freshly baked and ready to sell. The Petal and Stamen brothel is offering discounts to anyone wearing a traditional spider mask and many of the escorts have painted their faces with web designs.

The parade is heard before it’s seen. Six drummers banging in practiced unison. Then come the ribbon bearers, carrying sticks with long paper streamers tied to them. They rustle and hiss in mimicry of the sound of spiders, the silver streamers themselves like webs.

And then following behind are the spider dancers, four people in each of the many spiders, each of the four making the legs, the head, the thorax move and bounce with the beat of the drums. The music swells dramatically, and then, at a climactic moment -- POP! Hissssssss. Streamers burst forth from the "spiders" into the crowd. Locals and tourists alike shriek with surprise and glee, and children duck to scoop up candy tied to the ends of the streamers.

The parade will repeat this performance as it progresses down the street.

Enjoying one of the nights on a rooftop? At another high vantage point? Trying to get away from the noise? It's beautiful and quiet, and you can almost see distant nebula off in the starry darkness and the passing of ships as they streak by the world. You can also see over the fence, hear the turrets going off occasionally. It's not surprising because the spiders are being especially active.

Occasionally, though, there might be something unclear and distant moving strangely out there in the moonlight. Only for a moment or two, though before it's gone again. Maybe the spiders act a little strangely during the eclipse. Still, no one is allowed outside the fence, so it's impossible to check.

The resort has made a show of the celebration this year because they want to earn the attention of their prestigious guests. The newcomers are very much invited, of course. They're warned everything for them is still for free, but someone might want to come up to them and talk to them about their world. Tonight they're part of the entertainment as well as partaking of it. Just try not to get physical if you don't want to deal with it or security (NPC or otherwise) will escort you out.

At least to make up for it, the food that's being prepared on the open grills and that's set out is very good. There is likely something to everyone's tastes here. The drinks range from refreshing to the most smooth intoxicating beverages you can imagine.

It's well lit, with strings of light (not lights, but lit string) that resemble webbing. Though everything will be turned down when the eclipse is at its height and the stars will be at their brightest.

-Make up your own.-

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