Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote in [community profile] imeeji_frontstage2019-07-12 07:10 pm

tanabata

Who: Princesses & Cowherds
Where: Various parts of the city
When: Day 137, morning

[ Good morning, idols! It's. . . it's morning, right?

Even though your clocks are correct and it is the AM, the sun isn't out in the sky yet. More than that, the stars are shining ever so brilliantly today - you can see the entire Milky Way system here, in fact so clearly that it feels like you could reach out and touch them.

It might be a familiar sight to some of you idols, though there's no message that accompanies your phone.

Step through any given doorway outside of the dorms - the elevators for example, or the lobby doors - and you might find your clothes mildly transformed: the style and colors are still the same, but white constellations and stars glitter the fabrics, twinkling like the night sky. (If you're wearing white, the stars have a black outline, still twinkling against your clothes.)

This will likely persist throughout the day, although depending on the doorways you go through the constellations may change. (When the clock strikes midnight, the constellations will no longer move or twinkle, though it's player choice if they want to keep the clothes transformed to have unmoving stars.)



Outside, you'll find a lit-up pathway to Shinjuku Gyoen from . . . anywhere you are, honestly; the pavement seems to reflect the sky above to make a river of stars that run down to the park. There, you'll find a wooden platform lined with white cloth just outside the park, as well as a few fold-up chairs and cloth-lined group tables - you know, the long ones. There's nothing on them, though. The place looks primed for a potluck, but only if you're the ones bringing the food!

Lining this side's edge of the park are tall stalks of bamboo, with a wooden plaque hanging from one of the stalks. It has this written on it:
Long, long ago, the Sky King's daughter began to weave him a beautiful cloth. He loved it so much that the Weaving Princess would work diligently every day in order to please him - but her weaving left her in solitude, alone and loveless. Seeing this, the Sky King arranged for her to marry the celestial Cowherd. The Weaving Princess and the Cowherd fell in love, happily spending their days together ☆

However, in their love was tragedy. The two were so enamored with one another that they forgot their duties - the Cowherd his heavenly cows, and the Princess her weave. Displeased by this, the Sky King separated the two across the heavenly river - but at the behest of his daughter, he promised that the two could meet each other once every year should she finish her work.

And so, we celebrate Tanabata, for the two's reunion. When we celebrate the day when the two lovers can meet once more, we also ask to be granted a single wish! Write your wish on a paper tag and tie it to the bamboo tree; it very well may be granted to you.

The paper tags are neatly placed in front of the bamboo, several inkwells in the ground - that is, the cement seems to be dug into in order to fill with ink - and some bamboo stalks lend to disposable one-time use brushes that start to dissolve once it's written a tag, although if you want like, you know, nicer writing implements to write with or more space on the paper you can always hit up a Taisho.

The first tag is already on the bamboo: STOP BREAKING MY CITY . . . One year later . . . things haven't changed.



At the café, the decorations inside have been replaced with Tanabata-themed items: bamboo stalks, star wallpaper and flooring, and black-and-white spotting on the seats and tables like they're for cows. The door is fixed, so that's nice - for today only, the outer walls have fencing as decoration too, as if the café is a cowpen.



The station has been cleaned up, with constellation paths going to each train. The missing train has returned, and upon searching, you won't be able to find it at the bottom of the bay, so . . . there's that! There's also a building somewhere that had a hole in it . . . but the hole is gone . . .



There are various vending machines to be found today only, both in the arcades and just around: 50 points for a broach or lapel or hairpin themed Tanabata, taking form of one thing or another: a little cow face, a constellation, weaving instruments, kimono, or other things. You know, just stay in theme. There's no option to select anything, just a little scanner where you can beep your phone and you'll get something random out of it. In other words, it's a gacha.



Nothing to be heard from the Producers today, it seems. It's quiet. It's nice, isn't it? ]
asonoficeandfire: (213)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-13 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
It's happened before?
bluescreenwhitedragon: TRANSCEND GAME ([Lab] 06)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-13 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
You could say it was the first holiday the producers hosted. Coincided with the first arrival of new idols.
asonoficeandfire: * (365)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-13 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh...

[well that makes it less exciting]
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Card] No one holds cards like this)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-14 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
...

[Holds out the sparkler to him]

What were you expecting?
asonoficeandfire: * (360)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-14 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[...taking the sparkler]

I wasn't expecting anything.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([--] 102)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-14 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lights up another one]

The event was fairly early on in the show. I'm not sure even two weeks had passed by that time.
asonoficeandfire: (222)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-14 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[you have a thing for sparklers, Intensity?]

So it's not a good memory, considering?
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Ira-Ira] Hand pron)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-14 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[He has a things for special effects, yes, cheap as this may be]

Not necessarily. There was nothing bad about it.

But it does highlight how little progress has been made in the course of a year. Even if it's a fake year.
asonoficeandfire: * (327)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-14 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes sense.

But you've made some progress, right? You know more than you did then.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Ira-ira] Who do you think I am?)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-14 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps.

But I also don't want this to turn into a long, drawn-out reconnaissance mission.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([DEATH-T] 005)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-14 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
...

How's it like being the third oldest member?
asonoficeandfire: (359)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-14 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't really considered that I am. But when you say it like that... we're all kind of young.
bluescreenwhitedragon: Credit: iconic ([Smirk] Going to kidnap you)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-14 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I meant in tenure, not actual age.
asonoficeandfire: (308)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-14 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

Everyone before me besides you and Angel left...
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Ira-ira] Who do you think I am?)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-15 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yes this time last year, we had two moms, a murderbot and a lazy brat who preferred to live outside of the dorm rather than in it.

[The latter is completely Intensity's fault]
bluescreenwhitedragon: TRANSCEND GAME ([Smirk] 002)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-15 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

A robot who was programmed to be good and just, but really was just that - a programmable android. You can see how that could have easily turned out if he had stuck around.

I was barely three powers into our set before he got transferred.
asonoficeandfire: * (318)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-15 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That could have gone very wrong, if he didn't remember anything...
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Smirk] Create a virtual world)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-16 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Possibly. Either way, it would have been a great character arc probably.
asonoficeandfire: (11)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-18 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
... was he similar to Jane Doe?
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([e] 010)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-22 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
No. He had way more opinions. Kind of like---

Generally good-hearted but naive male protagonist.
asonoficeandfire: (260)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-29 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[isn't that like half of Imeeji]

A lot of people are like that, though.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Ira-Ira] Hand pron)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-30 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
As people yes.

But not as outward facades.
asonoficeandfire: (352)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-07-31 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
What are they outwardly, then?