Foundation Day Festival: Games Area

[paixaomayor]

Character(s): anybody playing games
Content: people play carnival games
Setting: Joco da Crianca Fairgrounds, games area
Time: all day~
Warnings: Multithreaded posting format (please include time of day and sub-location in your comment's subject line)

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Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[notquitedracula]

Soma stood before the pillar, looking at the marked levels and wondering just how he was going to manage not to break it. The simple answer, of course, was to rein in his supernatural strength, and do this the normal way. With the strength of Soma Cruz, not the strength of the Minotaur.

The other problem was deciding on a prize. Mina loved stuffed animals, he knew, and there was no short supply of them here. Everything from cuddly little kitten plushies to gigantic panda bears was in evidence. With a mildly wry smile, he turned to Mina. "Which one do you want?" he asked, indicating the wall of prizes.

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[owns_soma]

Mina was overjoyed. SO MANY PLUSH ANIMALS. She ran this way and that way, looking at each and every kind of plush there was, only momentarily startled when one white puppy suddenly yipped and ran away, causing the booth manager to laugh uproariously

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[notquitedracula]

Soma smiled a wry little smile at Mina's selection, not missing the symbolism. Though, if she truly wanted a kitten, he could have summoned one for her... Ah well. Plushies and demonic attack kittens are a world apart.

Taking up the mallet - it was lighter than it looked - he surveyed the pillar again. "I'll try not to break anything - especially my own neck," he said, grinning for the sake of the man working the booth. Taking a step back, he set himself, took a lunging step forward, and whipped the hammer through a short flourish before slamming its head onto the little platform. The little weight rose up, up, and up still farther, finally reaching the 3/4 mark, well beyond what would have been required for the black cat plushie Mina had picked out. With a smile and a second flourish, he returned the hammer to its stand and offered his arm once again to Mina.

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[owns_soma]

Mina giggled, accepted the squashed plushie she'd chosen from the booth manager, and accepted Soma's offered arm, oblivious to his thoughts of summons, symbolisms, and demonic attack kitties as they wandered through the crowds arm-in-arm, like old friends or maybe lovers. Brightly-colored people moved like clockwork around them, children screaming and playing, teenagers trying to be aloof and cool, some adults putting up with everything good-naturedly while others grumbled and muttered and made themselves universally disliked.

"Where to next?" she asked. Maybe a game of wits or luck where she could win something for Soma? It didn't seem fair that he'd gotten her a toy and she didn't have anything to offer him... yet. Mina hadn't forgotten the need to get another talisman, but it didn't seem to be an immediate issue.

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[notquitedracula]

Soma smiled - a rare enough thing, unless he was with Mina as he was now - and looked around. "I dunno. What do you think we should do?" There were games, and games, and games to spare, scattered here, there, and everywhere. Quite a selection, and knowing Mina as he did, he suspected she would be wanting to win him something in return.

The swish and swirl of the festival-goers was just a tad too automatic, and cliche; Mina's comparison of the crowd to a clockwork construct was apt. But they weren't here to solve anything; they were here to have fun, and there was far too much to be done to people watch. There were prizes to be won, after all!

A barker caught his attention, and as Soma watched, the game he seemed to be advocating seemed nice and easy enough. Nudging Mina lightly, he pointed and grinned. Maybe this was the right one?

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[owns_soma]

Nah. Mina had other things in mind-- after all, she still had most of the afternoon to win Soma a prize or get something else for him. She smiled, shook her head, and delicately steered him away from the game booths-- toward the twenty-five foot Ferris Wheel.

"Come on, let's take a ride first!" Most of the buildings in Paixao were no more than one or two stories tall, so she knew they'd be able to see quite a lot of the city from the top of the wheel. Maybe they'd see something interesting they could visit later.

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[notquitedracula]

Smiling as he let Mina lead him, Soma considered the Ferris Wheel. It was the stereotypical romantic fairground ride, nearly identical in every culture such things can be found in. He wasn't all that surprised to find one here, in the melting pot of cultures that was Paixao.

"I just hope your new friend isn't scared of heights," he said with a smile. Of course, with it being a plushy and all, there was little doubt that it would be a problem - unless Soma changed the rules...

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[owns_soma]

"I don't think so," Mina joked back, then held up the squished kitten plushie and addressed it in the same lighthearted tone. "Are you afraid of heights, neko-san? Because if you are, we don't have to go on this ride..." She laughed and tucked the toy back under her arm, taking Soma's hand as the one manning the ride gestured them forward-- there was an empty car ready for them now!

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[notquitedracula]

Soma laughed lightly, shaking his head. "And away we go," he said, squiring Mina onto the car and following once the way was clear.

Or at least trying to. The door closed in front of him - apparently, the guy operating the ride had misinterpreted Soma's 'go'.

Had Soma been anyone else, this might have been a problem. However, one does not make his way through a very close replica of Hell, twice, without picking up a few tricks. Squaring himself, he waited till Mina's car reached the apex of its travel - and then -leapt- straight up, spreading his arms at the apex of his leap and floating down into the car like a feather.

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[owns_soma]

Mina had nearly panicked when the car door closed without Soma, but now she laughed and applauded his trick jump-- though she hadn't been the only spectator, from the looks of things.

"Oh, dear. You've upset the operator." She waved at the confused and startled man below, then took a good look out over the festival and a few of the shorter buildings. "Wow! It really is like a magical kingdom or something... only without the zombies and evil stuff."

Or maybe there were zombies and evil stuff. But if there were, she hoped that niether she nor Soma would ever meet them. They'd both had more than enough evil stuff in their lifetimes.

Re: Noon, Strongman booth and wandering

[notquitedracula]

Soma smiled and gave the poor guy a sheepish wave. "Going to have to start remembering where I am," he said, hiding a bit of a laugh. "People around here aren't used to things like that."

The average people in this city could certainly qualify as a type of zombie, but Soma wasn't about to complain. The worst they had done so far was give him dirty looks. The only real evil in the city that he had heard of had yet to rear its ugly head around him; which was probably a good thing, or else he'd likely be off on another damn fool quest.

"It really is wonderful," he said, enjoying the view. "Much better than that other place," he added, with a wry grin.