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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[Ten smiles warmly at Martha and gently fingers through her hair and doesn't seem concerned when the boat jostles]

Alright, I'll tell you I've done this before.

[Then gives her a silly sort of playful mocking look]

[Later on; Ten wraps his arms back around hers and smiles back. Oh, she's going to want to acknowledge the silliness of this holiday and whispers softly back and will go in for a snog if she'll let him]

Happy Valentine's Day.

Would that be a lie?

[Martha grins at him as they settle into some semblance of a rhythm. ]

It's fun though, right?

[Oh yes, she is going for the Sap and Cheese of this corny holiday. She turns in his arms, her eyes bright, as is her smile, as she leans up to kiss him. ]

[Ten winks back]

You tell me.

[And gives Martha a smile]

Oh, yes. Absolutely brilliant. I love the carny. Even if it is ridiculously decorated.

[So very much teasing]

And it's extradoridany creative the sort of transport humans come up with. I mean look - here we are. Paddling above four feet of water. [Give or take]

[Ten holds Martha firmly but lovely back around her mid-torso and his bright eyes smiling back at hers. Gently fingers her hair a bit behind her ear. When she snogs him; he returns that and pulls Martha in; with his hands on her cheeks]

[ Martha laughs at him then, a small evil glint in her eye.]

You don't like it in the boat? Maybe you'd like it better out of it?

[ She rocks the boat just enough to knock it off balance ]

[ Martha leaned back into John, relishing the feeling for just a second before she was kissing or being kissed. She may have forgotten. ]

Can we go flying?

[Ten sees that glint in your eye, Martha]

No. No. Don't you - even -

[After having kissed her - there's a twinkle in his eyes about the question. That is before racing off towards The Tardis]

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