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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Faye gave him an amused smirk, though she did roll her eyes slightly at the way he was being all charming. Somehow, it was beginning to make her cyan hair morph into an orange colour. "I suppose it's nice to meet you, if you're going to be buying me a drink an all..."

She pointed to one of the little pop up bars that had appeared for the festival - little benches and tables. "Let's go then." And she started to walk towards, pausing a second to turn and look back over her shoulder to make sure he was following her.

Oh, he was following, though half a step behind her so he could appreciate the view. There was no short skirt to defeat his willpower but oh, he appreciated all the finer sights in life. All the more so when they came with an appreciation for a good, strong drink.

He went ahead once they approached the bar to order two shots of vodka before draping himself over one of the wobbly little benches, arms crossed behind his head.

"Waitress will be by with our drinks in a moment." His hair was relaxing into a spring green. "So what are you doing at a place like... this..." He made a disgusted noise and gestured vaguely at a very garish, very pink pink stall selling plush hearts and other assorted tokens of cuteness.

Faye knew fine well there was a chance that he was watching her walk, but she was more than okay with this. Let him look - why not? He was pretty attractive and about to buy her alcohol after all.

As they sat down, Faye's own hair was beginning to turn more of a spring green shade too. She laughed at the look on his face and waved a hand of dismissal at the stall. "Oh, I just figured that there might be a gentleman around who wanted to buy a pretty girl a drink..." No word of a lie - she was in it for the freebies.

Qrow chuckled, giving her another appreciative look. "I like a woman who knows what she wants. And if what she wants is a good drink, all the better in my book."

A couple ran past them, holding hands and giggling, and he rolled his eyes again. "But not sure if a free drink's worth it. Everyone's so..." He trailed off, unable to find the right words for all that giggly cuteness surrounding them.

Faye just grinned at that - if there was a woman that knew what she wanted, that was surely Faye.

She also watched the couple go by, her hair changing colour slightly to signal her disgust. "Yeah. This is pretty disgusting. Everyone's so sweet and adorable it's gross." She rolled her eyes at a nearby couple then focussed on Qrow, "So what brings you here then, hmm?"

"Just the drinks. Could do without the... everything. But it's as good a place as any to get drunk."

He looked around again, wondering idly if it's worth it, before his eyes settled on Faye again. "I was gonna say bad idea, but then I ran into you."

"Hmm... I suppose." At his comment, Faye laughed, apparently very much amused - what a charmer. "Oh yeah? Made you change your mind, did I?" She giggled again before grinning at him.

He flashed her a crooked little grin, complete with a wink. "Score one for you."

The waitress delivered their drinks and he picked up his glass. "Let's drink to that? To good company and a complete lack of Valentine's cheer."

Faye just smirked right back at him, though she was looking pretty entertained - being at this stupid event was a little better now.

"Let's!" She held up her own glass and tipped it to his, realising after a moment that he probably meant the holiday Valentine, rather than herself. She took a swift drink and nodded. "Good stuff."

He had indeed, but as long as there's drinking involved he could and would happily wing it.

"Mhmm... pretty good, for a place like this. I was half convinced I wouldn't find anything stronger than hot chocolate here." The entire thing had struck him as pretty childish when he read about in the newspaper, more appealing to teenagers than adults even though he saw plenty of couples their age enjoying the booths. "Guess they came prepared for spoilsports like us."

"Yeah, no. I wouldn't be here if hot chocolate was the best I could get." She laughed and took a long drink from her vodka. "Hey, we can't be the only ones cynical about all this lovey dovey stuff. Unless..." She paused and grinned at him, "Unless you came deliberately for the sad and lonely ladies?"

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