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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Karla ducked under the flap to enter the tent, taking a deep breath to take in the scents, and admiring the overall atmosphere. She took her seat next to Lea, and then pondered over the options for a brief moment.

"Hmm...yes, I think the crystal ball will do," she agreed.

"Alright, crystal ball it is," Lea said, and handed over five redbills to Geneva.

She nodded and tucked them away in a container on the other side of the table before turning back to her two guests. "Thank you, she said, "Now, join hands and place your free hands on the table, and we'll begin."

Once they had done so she waved her hands over the crystal ball in a mystical fashion. "O mystic crystal," she said, "show me what the future has in store for these good people." The crystal, which had previously been clear, filled with what looked like a swirling pink mist and began to glow softly. "Ah yes... your relationship is full of possibilities. The bond you are forming will be a strong one, but what form that bond will take remains to be seen. The path ahead of you will have many twists and forks, but together, you can choose the ones that will lead you to where you want to go."

Gradually the misty glow of the crystal faded, leaving it clear and the tent lit by candlelight once more. "Well," said Geneva, "it seems that you two have a very interesting future ahead of you."

Karla watched in mild fascination as the crystal ball was filled with the pink mist. But the words Geneva spoke were quite similar to what Karla had been thinking herself. A relationship full of possibilities, a future full of mystery. Many twists and forks would await them, but the one question remains, where would they want to go? Not even a fortune teller could truly answer that...

"Well..." Karla glanced over at Lea. "We do have an interesting future ahead, don't we?"

She couldn't help but blush slightly at the thought.

Karla's repeating what the fortune teller said made Lea join his friend in a slightly sheepish blush and made Geneva herself give an amused smile. "You certainly do," she said. "And I for one, look forward to seeing how it turns out."

"Well, uh...", Lea started, trying to pretend he wasn't blushing, "thanks. That was..." Com on Lea, think of something cool to say! "...really interesting." Yeah. Nailed it.

To Karla he said. "So... ready go do something else?" Please say yes so he could stop feeling super-awkward.

Karla's blush only seemed to get brighter.

"Yes...I think we're finished here," she said. She then nodded to Geneva. "Thank you."

"You're quite welcome," Geneva said. "Come back any time you'd like a little peek into the future."

"Right," Lea said as he stood up, relieved. "Thanks again." He moved to the tent flap and opened it, allowing Karla to exit first before following her.

Once outside the tent he visibly relaxed. "Well... that was something," he said. "What would you like to do next? Maybe play some games?"

Karla couldn't help laughing as Lea relaxed. "Were you nervous? Or embarrassed?" she asked. She couldn't help teasing either, despite that she was as nervous and/or embarrassed as he was.

She then looked around at all the games. Playing games was so new to her, as she's never really done that before. But the only way to learn about them was to try them out.

"All right. Which game should we try first? I've never really played games before, so I wouldn't know which one to choose..."

Lea chuckled in turn at her laughter. "Kinda?", he said. "I mean, I'm not sure what I expected from a fortune teller at a love-themed fair, but it wasn't quite... that, you know?"

Lea looked around, eyeing the games that were within view of the fortune teller's tent. "Hmm... Ring toss maybe? I figure with me on the team, we'd probably be pretty good at that."

"Ah, well, we probably shouldn't think too much on it. Whatever happens, happens."

She considered the ring toss and his comment on it. Since his weapons were pretty much giant rings with spikes on them, she could see his point.

"I suppose so. All right, let's try that."

Lea rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Heh, yeah you're probly right," he said. "Anyway, ring toss."

They headed over to the ring toss booth, Lea pausing to watch as another couple tried it out. "Never tried this with someone else before," he said as they waited their turn. "Should be fun."

Karla tapped her chin with a finger, pondering as they watched the couple playing the ring toss game. "So the goal is to get the rings around those little pegs?"

She couldn't see herself doing well with this game at all. Even if Lea was good at it, she was sure she'd screw it up for both of them...

Lea nodded. "And the color of the peg determines how good a prize you win," he said. "The blue ones are the easiest, so they get you the smallest prizes, all the way up to red, which are the hardest to hit, and give you the biggest prizes. Though most carnival games actually make it a bit harder than it looks to hit even the easy targets in games like this; that way they don't have to give out as many prizes. But as long as everybody has a good time, that's what counts."

The other couple finished, walking away with a small plastic toy and Lea stepped forward, handing the man running the game a redbill and receiving three rings in return. Holding them up he turned to Karla. "Ready to give it a shot?"

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