genessia | Festival of Amore

Welcome to the Festival of Amore!
A wonderful festival dedicated to celebrating love of the romantic nature.

The whole park is decorated in the traditional colors of Valentine's Day, red, white, and various shades of pink. Hearts are the theme and though you won't be turned away, those without a partner to spend the evening with may get a few strange looks or start to feel rather lonely.

Festival Games
There are a number of activities to partake in, including festival games, the most popular of which seems to be the Super Ball Scooping, in which hundreds of balls float around in a pool of water, secretly marked with prizes- mostly goldfish, though there is one hidden that has a special romantic getaway to win! The challenge is that you must use a paper net, so the balls will often break as you try to get them into your bowl. Additionally, the balls are stirred up after each play of three scoops. Other traditional festival games like dart tossing, wack-a-mole, ring toss, and more. However, there is one challenge that you should be aware of for all games. You and your partner must do them together! This means two hands on the ring when you toss it! Hold the paper net steadily together! Good luck!

Food Stalls and the Chocolate Fondue Stream
There are a variety of foods from around the world available at the festival, most of which seem to have some kind of love-related theme to them. Spaghetti for two a la Lady and the Tramp, heart-shaped pizzas, pink french macarons, hearty waffles on a stick, romantic eggs in a basket, Shrimp skewers, and more.

Running through the inner circle of the food stall areas is a small stream raised above the ground with candy and fruit decorations lining it to hide the metal fondue heater that keeps the chocolate within the body of the stream warm and flowing. There are large bins of fruits like strawberries, bananas, rice krispy treat bites, and other fun things to dip in the chocolate river. It's very cute, and very chocolatey.

Paddle Boats
The large pond in the middle of the park has a number of paddle boat swans available for you and your partner to go through a tunnel of love, or simply enjoy the water and get some alone time away from the rest of the party for a good cuddle.

Live Entertainment: Eli Ayase and Nico Yazawa!
The live entertainment will be provided by celebrity idol Nico Yazawa and Eli Ayase tonight! Put your hands together for a special performance filled with their L-O-V-E for everyone! ♥ ♥ ♥ They've got a wonderful set prepared!

Feel free to enjoy the concert either by standing up close or putting down a blanket for you and your bae. Blankets are available for purchase if you forgot yours!

Fortune Telling
Love fortune telling, of course! Find out your romance's future from famed fortune teller Geneva Godiva! She won't give any truly negative fortunes of course, it's a positive occasion, so if your outlook is bleak she might try to phrase it more positively or offer advice to turn things toward the positive. Feel free to pick your own fortune- be it anything from "You might want to see a couples counselor to make it through a rough patch, darlings" or "I see triplets!" or just "Wowie, I can see clearly now- your rain is gone! Looking good for this next year, sweetie pies!" Enjoy and have fun, the accuracy of the reading is up to you, but she won't tell you that a relationship is going to sink at any point. She'll use crystal ball, tarot, whichever- but not seance or anything. It's happy lovey-dovey fortune telling!

End of the Night
The festival itself was timed with the arrival of Genessia's firefly season. The first night of fireflies rising coincides with Valentine's Day this year, so if you stay until the end of the festival, you'll be able to see the fields light up with little glowing bugs. It's a romantic sight, best seen with your partner.

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Being determined to have fun today despite her lack of a date, you can find Mikaela flitting all over the Festival of Amore.

She is spending a lot of time snacking on the chocolate fondue stream, that's the one thing she keeps returning to for another nibble, but you will also have a good chance of catching her dancing to the live music or standing in line for fortune telling.

There's one very annoying thing about this festival, though: you can't play any of the games alone, so that means walking up to random people who are also alone and asking them to play with her.

Hey, Ted's a random person! One who's read every network post Mikaela has ever made. It's not as creepy if he's done it with everyone, right?

For the moment he's concentrating fiercely on the dart board, trying to figure what cluster of targets is worth the most points. Look at his deep contemplation of maths and probabilities.

Then a pretty girl speaks to him, and out that goes!

"Oh, hello! Certainly! I'm Ted; good morning. You're Ms. Banes, correct?"

Yeah, Ted, try not to mention that you've been reading all her posts. You may be doing it with everyone's posts but it would still creep her out.

She does look a little confused at being addressed by name, but for now his friendliness is enough to shake off her suspicion. "Yes, I am. Mikaela Banes." She gives him a bright smile. "Nice to meet you, Ted. Are you good at darts?"

He's probably seen her around on the network or been to her workplace at the auto shop, she figures.

[It usually comes out one way or another; he might start talking about Autobots soon. Call it doing his homework. On everyone.]

"Ah, a lovely name. Lovely rhetorical question, too. Well, it's not a game I've played much, let alone with one hand upon the other. Would you like to play anyway? Shall yours guide mine or vice-versa?"

She chuckles. "I don't care, why don't you guide my hand for the first round and I'll guide yours for the secondß? Fair warning, I haven't played much either. But I don't mind if we don't win anything, it's more about playing anyway."

She picks up one of the darts and holds up her hand, waiting for Ted to grasp her hand.

"Ladies first; of course. And so content; wonderful. All right, let's try for the left side first. That one's more charitable to the green."

He puts his hand over her wrist. It's warm and calloused; it would seem it's had its share of roughness.

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