Harvest Pet Adoption Festival Log!

[whiteas]

The Harvest Pet Adoption Festival is finally here! There are plenty of things to do and animals all around. There's even a petting zoo for farm animals! (Though unless you have experience taking care of them, you might not want to ask about taking them home since they're a little harder than your standard pets... besides, there are plenty of animals that need adopting that aren't from a local farm!) In addition to potential new animal friends, there are food booths everywhere for fresh cooked meals, farmers' market fresh produce, and your standard festival deep fried everything. Low on money but still hungry? Try participating in the pumpkin-pie eating contest! It seems like there's a trophy and a special Harvest Pet Adoption Festival Dough* prize for the biggest stomach!

A number of rides are around the festival, including a Ferris wheel, a mini-coaster, and a horse-drawn hay ride. Get your face painted or have a local artist draw a caricature of you! Maybe learn how to make your own pottery at the hands-on arts and crafts area where masters of various crafts are helping to involve new people in their arts. Various carnival games are available in the Arcade section of the street, where a number of vendors have set up their traditional carnival games for your enjoyment. Maybe free entertainment is more your style- check out the live concerts, DJ, and outdoor dance floor near the back end of the festival!

There is a costume contest at 4:00pm open to anyone dressed up as something other than themselves.

QUICK LINKS:
Costume Contest Entries
Pet Adoption Randomizer!
OOC Questions

All other threads: Please just put where/what your character is doing in the thread or subject line so people know where your character is! Have fun!

*Harvest Pet Adoption Festival Dough is only spendable at the Festival.

Comments

OOC Questions

[makelove]

Have a question that needs answering from one of the players running the event? Comment here and we'll let you know as soon as possible. All threads on this post EXCEPT for this one are IC threads, so don't ask them there!

Re: OOC Questions

[jerks22]

Are there rats available, and if so can this muse adopt all of them?

Costume Contest Entries

[whiteas]

QUICK RULES:
1. Your character cannot dress up as themselves- it doesn't matter if it's an alternate costume or whatever, if it's from canon then it's not counting for the contest. Have fun picking one out!

2. Your character will be ICly disqualified if they terrorize any other contestants / otherwise need to have security called on them.

3. The Prize is a gift card the equivalent of $100 and a month's supply of pet food for a pet of your character's choice.

Just reply to this comment with your character's name and their costume (picture of description) to enter!

[youfool]

Ted is dressed in an incredibly colorful box with holes for his limbs. It glitters, with an ornate bow. On the tag is written: "To: Mankind. From: God"

In such startling ages as ours, where we must sacrifice dignity for the chance of money and poke-fixings...well, he was the Guardian. Ted had to get used to making tough choices.

Pet Adoption Randomizer

[whiteas]

Your character can adopt any pet they want- but if you want them to have a pet, or even just have them be followed around by a pet who decided to adopt them and you don't have any ideas/preferences, then you can comment here! It's a Pet Adoption Randomizer! When you reply here for your character along with any species preferences (cat, dog, hamster, fish, etc.) then we will come up with 3 options of pets for your character to pick from.

[are_you_cereal]

Anything small and fluffy would be great.

Re: Pet Adoption Randomizer

[aphotic_auror]

[[Ooh, Maria here, would LOVE a snake, or iguana, or even a chameleon, or-- anything scaly, really... Though of course the TYPIST would infinitely prefer if something small and fluffy latched onto her, during the course of the event.... : ) <333 I mean, seriously: I would LOVE to see her take a bloody goat home, if she really got caught up in the Petting Zoo... x D<333 Just so she can take after her favourite crazy!wizard, Aberforth Dumbledore... x D<3333]]

Ryo's Food Cart

[kyoken]

[Ryo had his little mobile cart set up. He wasn’t here to adopt any pets or anything, but he approved of what was being done. Giving animals a good home was a good cause. And he assumed it would draw in a good amount of people as well. His typical menu was out, as was samples of most of his foods.

There is a small area with a small table right in front of his car tray on it. On the tray are homemade cat and dog treats, each labeled with a little sign behind it. He has two forms of cookies for dogs, one with peanut butter and bacon (which are all bundle in threes) and another with vegetables, spinach and yogurt. He also has cheery oatmeal muffins for the dogs.

For the cats, he has two forms of cookies too. One that has some honey and catnip in it and another that has dried catnip and tuna in it. He researched all the ingredients for the treats and made sure it was all petsafe. He even makes sure to put Pet Safe on the signs labeling the treats. They are human safe as well. The treats are free, but there is a tipjar next to those treats with a sign that says the proceeds will go to Whatevfur.]

Animal Food!

[watercharm]

[Aqua smiles seeing the change in menu. It isn't that she's expecting otherwise from Ryo but she's happy to see it anyway.]

Can I have some of the Vegetables, spinach and yogurt treats and tuna for the cats?

[She wants to feed the animals at the petting area however she hopes that's okay.]

[youfool]

Ted ogled the food cart, admiring the simple aesthetic and the pungent odors.

"Excuse me, sir. Are these treats suitable for, say, pokemon?"

[behindthefakesmile]

[Fai knew that Sakura wanted a pet of some kind and so had taken it upon himself to get one to add to there vast collection of animal friends. He couldn't help but chuckle slightly at the thought they were very much like those princesses that were in those fairy tail books.

Standing by the stand he could help but seem fascinated however.]

Did you make these yourself? Impressive.

[whiteas]

AROUND
[ Weiss is simultaneously easy and difficult to find around the Festival. Because she's making sure things are going according to plan, she's often rushing about the Festival with different people to solve any problems before they get out of control. Have an issue/need some help? Find her running around in her costume- she's dressed up as Yang complete with a stuffed push-up on to try to complete the costume. She didn't wear a wig or dye her hair, but she did curl it and has it down instead of her usual pony tail. ]

HAY RIDE
[ Break time? Break time. And what better way to take a break than to ride around on the horse-drawn carriage where no one can catch you with business? Weiss is just quietly enjoying the ride around the fair and sipping on a coffee as they go. ]

PUPPIES
[ There is definitely one point during the day that Weiss absolutely laid a blanket out in the puppy pen and just sat there and is enjoying letting puppies crawl all over here. She's not even trying to avoid smiling, which probably looks very strange for those who aren't close to her. ]

Hay Ride

[infinitejustice]

[While he's wandering around, Athrun decides he's had enough walking. He'd like to continue checking out the area, though -- and what better way to that than on a hay ride?

He hops on at the last minute before the ride heads off. He notices that he's not alone, but since Weiss is in costume, he doesn't recognize her right away.]

Aah...this feels better already.

[He's also got a treat of his own -- funnel cake. He begins to pull pieces off and pop them in his mouth, before shifting around to get a better look at his fellow passenger.

Wait a minute...]

Hey...you're the woman of the hour herself, aren't you? I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you right away. Long time no see.

Puppies

[innocent_royal]

[While Anastasia was wary of holidays and festivals that were not native to her world now, the whole idea of cute little animals being involved was just too much for her to ignore.
So here she was, browsing around trying to deduce for herself what this was all about, but then suddenly stopped in her tracks when she heard the sound of yapping. She found the source to be puppies!

Anastasia planted her feet by the puppy pen and just silently watched the puppies play and pluck her heart strings like a lyre.]

Puppies

[eighthchild]

[Hikari knew that it would be feeding time for the puppies soon, some had to be bottle fed and others could eat solids, so she managed to bring the bag with her with both bottles and normal feed as she could see Weiss sitting on the blanket with them.]

Ah Weiss-chan, do you want to help feed the puppies?

[infinitejustice]

[Athrun is simply wandering around the fairgrounds at the moment. He's not entirely sold on adopting a pet, but he's going out to partake in a festival -- as well as perhaps a donation. He's got more than enough money for it.

He's not really hitting the rides all that much, though. He's more interested in the food and watching the animals. As well as talking to people. Might as well socialize since he's here. Though he's going to favor people he's spoken to before.]

[greenmagick]

Are you having fun?

[Terra walks up with a warm smile, her eyes on the little pets that need a home. Her heart reaches out to them but she doesn't know if she can keep any of them. So she wanders around the area wonder what might be around the fair.]

[swordprincess]

[Karla will show up for the festival, browsing around at the available pets and then the food carts. She'll even take a look at the rides, curious about those huge contraptions.]

[When she's ready for a break, she'll return to the pet area and start petting the animals.]

[namemeansbeauty]

[Belle knelt down slightly at one of the kittens. They were cute and she couldn't help but pet the little things. However she didn't think she could take any of them home right now. But petting them was always a good start. Turning her head slightly, she could see someone else around.]

Coming to see the cute animals as well?

[orlokbutterfly]

[Gale was curious enough to wander out to the festival- mostly to check out the animals there, looking to see if there were relatively sane animals in this world or if they were some form of weird other worldly creatures. It was a mild relief to know it wasn't the latter, honestly.

He's not too interested in the other activities, aside from the food, anyway, so he can just be found checking the place out... but not without a companion. He noticed he was being followed by a small german shepherd puppy, so occasionally he stops to dote on it. ... and give it small bits of a soft pretzel he had at the time.]

Hello~

[spitfireprincess]

If you keep feeding him he'll follow you home.

[Sakura smiles brightly as she leans down and tosses the dog a few treats. There is a small furry animal in her arms though it's hard to tell if it's a dog, a cat or something else entirely.]

It's nice to see you in person.

[She remembers him from the phones.]

Aqua || Around || Open

[watercharm]

[She doesn't know what she expects to find but she's excited to see the celebrations of this area. She watches the different attractions: the rides, pets, food. Everything is more amazing than she thought possible.

Aqua looks like a spectator with her back lightly pressed against the wall behind her and her eyes on the scenes in front of her. She doesn't look like she plans to particulate but it won't take much to persuade her. A soft sigh leaves her lips while a smile plays across her features.]

There is so much to see.

[strawberrypenguin]

[Nagisa was quick to spot a familiar face as he went on over with a small smile.]

Aqua-chan~ Not participating in anything?

Levy Mcgarden | Open

[skilledwithwords]

Rides!

[Levy looks more than a little excited watching the Ferris Wheel and coaster roll by. Her eyes light up and her step has a little bit of a bounce as she walks closer. There is a wide smile over her lips as she takes the time to walk through the whole area before deciding what to to. Besides the two rides there is a hay-ride and her inner child wants to do that as well.

Her confliction is noticeable since she does nothing to hide it and it looks like she could use some advice as to where to start.]

Entertainment

[After checking out the rides she goes for the back of the festival. She'd go look at the pets but with a bunny and pokemon she was swamped and she knows herself well enough to know that someone might convince her to take another cute furry creature home.

So she focuses on the parties: Concerts, DJ's, and dancing! It's something that reminds her a lot of Fairy Tail, not how it is now but how she remembers it. How her friends sang and dance and had fun. She misses that now but it will not dismiss her smile. There is to much that keep her spirit a live.]

Rides

[behindthefakesmile]

[Fai looked around, wondering what he should do. He had some ideas, but nothing that stood out. So he decided that for the moment that watching and seeing what others were doing will help and he could tell there was someone else that was doing the same thing.]

Checking out what there is or unsure of what to do?

Terra Branford || Open!

[greenmagick]

Pets!

[Terra has an infinity for animals and she can easily be found surrounded by the little critters at the petting zoo. Kittens jump over her lap while pups and other animals seek to grab her attention. They paw and play at her fingertips as she teases and entertains the small animals.

They really are cute.

A slightly smile pulls at her lips as she enjoys the company of the small animals. Nothing can be more entertaining than this!]

Hey-rides

[This is not what she's expecting but she's having fun. Her eyes are on the landscape as it slowly moves passed the moving cart. She leans against the railing with her fingers laced in her lap. There is so much she isn't used too. So much that her world doesn't have that is here.

There is so much to experience and yet her lips stay solemn as she enjoys the hey ride.

She isn't really sure where it's going either.]

Pets

[eighthchild]

[Hikari always made sure that the animals were happy and healthy and she knew some needed to be checked on sometimes. So Hikari had gone to the petting zoo and couldn't help but smile slightly.]

Are you hoping to adopt today?

Sakura || Volunteer || Open!

[spitfireprincess]

[The young princess has a costume on, a ninja since a cat might be problematic while she is taking care of the animals. There is a little furry creature in her arm as she steps up to the closest patron.]

Come to the petting zoo! There are many animals there to play with!

[She smiles brightly with the sort of grin that rivals the brightness of the sun.]

[firefandance]

[Yukiko smiled slightly. She had already gone to see them, but she had to think a few things over due to her pokemon companions.]

I just came from there, but I'll be back later.

Blake Belladonna | Cat caregiver for the shelter | terrified of dogs | OPEN

[deadly_belladonna]

[Not that keen on the cold, she's bundled up with her hat hiding her cat ears underneath. But, she sits there like a proud Mama in a small hay pen that has a group of black, white, tuxedo and calico kittens running around while some nap beside her.

She's sad to see they may go but as long as they have a forever home, she's happy.]

warning dog incoming

[gammavirginis]

There was an ominous scuffling nearby as a large bony dog wandered into the pen, sniffing intently at everything in reach. He perked up when he spotted Blake and the kittens and started to saunter over to investigate.

Joruk , sort of volunteering

[filchedfruit]

[ Joruk came for the food, then he noticed the horses used for the Hay Ride. He did speak to Kathryn about helping when horses were involved. He hasn't personally followed up with Hikari, but other volunteers still let him through.

He was checked the horses to make sure they were in good shape. They weren't in bad condition, and they seemed happy to see him. One of the nudged him for pettings.

"You guys could use some fresh grazing."

Puppet Show | Main Area | Open

[superficially_busy]

[Alice was the kind of girl to really just hide away in a house somewhere researching magic and making dolls. But if there was one thing Alice absolutely needed to do, it was attend festivals.

Making a profit or gaining only a few minutes of fame was not in her agenda at these public gatherings. Nor was looking for a pet. With her collection of dolls floating beside her, she was going to show off.

The puppeteer took a clear and open spot where the most people were and set up her little stage. With the minimal of finger movement, her dolls took their places, and the show began.

With no narration from Alice, the story told of a sweet girl and her dog. The dog had been taken away by a mean and nasty girl who was jealous. The sweet girl went on a quest to save her doggy friend. At the climax, the sweet girl battled the jealous girl in a rather adorable sword fight until the jealous girl surrendered. Reunited, the sweet girl made a gesture of friendship to the other girl by bringing her along to adopt a puppy of her very own and they could all play together.

A very child-friendly puppet show and Alice would be glad to repeat it as many times as she feels necessary.]

"I'm free to answer any questions between shows."

[youfool]

Ted was enthralled, clapping louder than decorum dictated. "Is that based off a true story? It's hard to picture girls sword-fighting over dogs."