Tanabata: A River of Stars
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[Analyzing... Benign]
[Username: 織姫 "Weaving Princess"]
Is this...? Oh, good, these letters are appearing... I think it is.
My name is Orihime. I am a weaver... I have been a weaver for a very long time. My father tells me I can see Hikoboshi again if I work hard, so I do. I was supposed to see him today.... I miss him very much. But there's a wide river between us. Father says he didn't expect this river to be on the ground, and told me that he'd give me only a week to cross it. If I cannot by then, I will... have to wait another year to see Hikoboshi again.
My bridge is usually in the sky, forming piece by piece before today. But with the river out of the place lately, those stars must be lost. I have heard that they might be here. If you have seen them, please, send them to the river, by the center of the water-lake. Send them by boats made of paper. The pieces will know how to build themselves.
Please. I wish to see Hikoboshi again.
Scene Description
There is a river made of "stars" flowing through town, going on across the entire island and seemingly into the sea, splitting the place in two. However, to mortals, it's nothing but a bit of light and magical energy, and they can walk through it as if it were nothing. Ghosts, spirits, gods, and other metaphysically rooted beings may find its presence challenging, but still passable. After the festival, the occasional bamboo rod drifts down, one of many wishes, but it becomes just as immaterial as the river.
Part of the river goes through the lake in the town, and it appears to be the least wide there. On the bank of the lake is a small stack of colorful origami paper. If the paper is taken more than a few feet away from the lake, it vanishes and reappears in the stack. There seems to always be more paper of every color, no matter how many are taken to transport star pieces.
When a star piece is laid onto one of these pieces of paper, no matter whether or not it is folded into a paper boat or not (although we wish you would), and then into the lake, the paper and star piece are magically guided to the center, where they begin to fit themselves into a bridge -- they hover into the place they know they should be and wait for the other pieces to join them. Even if the star piece was formerly broken, it will still merge and form part of the bridge as long as all the pieces of it are there.
OOC
Please use this post ONLY if you have ICly and SUCCESSFULLY sent a star piece to the bridge. Comment once for each successful star piece sending, and link to the Star Piece comment you received (preferably with another link to the transferral if you received the star piece through IC interactions). So if you have two pieces, please leave two comments saying "Lucius neatly folded a paper boat, tucked a star piece onto it, and placed it onto the water. [insert url here]" If you make a mistake commenting, either delete your old comment or edit it, keeping the number of comments you make equal to the number of stars you sent. If you'd like to help us stay organized, reply to your first comment for your second/third/whatever star.
Feel free to post elsewhere about your various unsuccessful mishaps, or your desire to do Orihime against a wall, or whatever else you want. But keep this post uncluttered so it's easier to perform modwork upon it. You may ask all questions on the main Tanabata event post.
[Analyzing... Benign]
[Username: 織姫 "Weaving Princess"]
Is this...? Oh, good, these letters are appearing... I think it is.
My name is Orihime. I am a weaver... I have been a weaver for a very long time. My father tells me I can see Hikoboshi again if I work hard, so I do. I was supposed to see him today.... I miss him very much. But there's a wide river between us. Father says he didn't expect this river to be on the ground, and told me that he'd give me only a week to cross it. If I cannot by then, I will... have to wait another year to see Hikoboshi again.
My bridge is usually in the sky, forming piece by piece before today. But with the river out of the place lately, those stars must be lost. I have heard that they might be here. If you have seen them, please, send them to the river, by the center of the water-lake. Send them by boats made of paper. The pieces will know how to build themselves.
Please. I wish to see Hikoboshi again.
Scene Description
There is a river made of "stars" flowing through town, going on across the entire island and seemingly into the sea, splitting the place in two. However, to mortals, it's nothing but a bit of light and magical energy, and they can walk through it as if it were nothing. Ghosts, spirits, gods, and other metaphysically rooted beings may find its presence challenging, but still passable. After the festival, the occasional bamboo rod drifts down, one of many wishes, but it becomes just as immaterial as the river.
Part of the river goes through the lake in the town, and it appears to be the least wide there. On the bank of the lake is a small stack of colorful origami paper. If the paper is taken more than a few feet away from the lake, it vanishes and reappears in the stack. There seems to always be more paper of every color, no matter how many are taken to transport star pieces.
When a star piece is laid onto one of these pieces of paper, no matter whether or not it is folded into a paper boat or not (although we wish you would), and then into the lake, the paper and star piece are magically guided to the center, where they begin to fit themselves into a bridge -- they hover into the place they know they should be and wait for the other pieces to join them. Even if the star piece was formerly broken, it will still merge and form part of the bridge as long as all the pieces of it are there.
OOC
Please use this post ONLY if you have ICly and SUCCESSFULLY sent a star piece to the bridge. Comment once for each successful star piece sending, and link to the Star Piece comment you received (preferably with another link to the transferral if you received the star piece through IC interactions). So if you have two pieces, please leave two comments saying "Lucius neatly folded a paper boat, tucked a star piece onto it, and placed it onto the water. [insert url here]" If you make a mistake commenting, either delete your old comment or edit it, keeping the number of comments you make equal to the number of stars you sent. If you'd like to help us stay organized, reply to your first comment for your second/third/whatever star.
Feel free to post elsewhere about your various unsuccessful mishaps, or your desire to do Orihime against a wall, or whatever else you want. But keep this post uncluttered so it's easier to perform modwork upon it. You may ask all questions on the main Tanabata event post.