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? ]
bluescreenwhitedragon: Credit: iconic ([Smirk] Just another day at the office)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-14 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Time is relative. Or something like that. Maybe hell only takes 125 days to make a complete rotation.

Or maybe hell is actually flat.
rollwillpowercheck: (Is the T-Rex still hiding behind it?)

[personal profile] rollwillpowercheck 2019-07-14 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'd believe any of those explanations. "Flat Hell Theory" has a nice ring to it.

But maybe they're just messing with us.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Smirk] Kaibaman)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-14 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
They're always just messing with us.

Welcome back, by the way. Nine-Nine was going a bit stir crazy without you.
rollwillpowercheck: (Aren't I an INVISIBLE dragon now?)

[personal profile] rollwillpowercheck 2019-07-14 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I heard I missed some pretty rough stuff while I was gone.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Ira-ira] I don't care)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-14 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Must have been part of their one year celebration.

Hopefully this is the tail end of that nonsense.
rollwillpowercheck: (Tasteful side healing.)

[personal profile] rollwillpowercheck 2019-07-15 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
They have terrible taste. But I guess we knew that.

[sighs]

Feel like making any wishes yourself?
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Card] Card games are srs business)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-16 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
I might.

They did grant last year's one. In their own roundabout way.
rollwillpowercheck: (Do humans count as open containers?)

[personal profile] rollwillpowercheck 2019-07-16 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Did they? I don't remember what you wished for, honestly.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Smirk] Fake it til you make it)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-22 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Graduation requirements.
rollwillpowercheck: (I can blow a second lizard.)

[personal profile] rollwillpowercheck 2019-07-24 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Yeah, we definitely know more than we did before, but...

[makes an "ehhhh" so-so gesture]

There's still a lot of questions about that I want answered.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Smirk] Kaibaman)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-25 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Don't get too greedy, Anubis.

Otherwise you'll only get coal for Christmas.
rollwillpowercheck: (It’s a little vegetable man!)

[personal profile] rollwillpowercheck 2019-07-25 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Since it's one of the seven deadly sins and all, I think that being in Hell gives me a pass on being greedy.

But, you know, they really haven't given us any info in a while, I wonder if I should try asking directly.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([e] 022)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-26 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

Define "directly".

[Look he believes in Anubis's common sense more than most people, but---

LOW BAR
]
rollwillpowercheck: (It’s like sitting in an evil hot tub.)

[personal profile] rollwillpowercheck 2019-07-30 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think summoning a demon for information counts as self-care? If it's public, I feel like it might be harder for them to do something shady.

Just an idea I've been tossing around.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([Ira-ira] Who do you think I am?)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-07-30 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Have someone in mind you're thinking about?
rollwillpowercheck: Doujinshi by Konaki Akira. (Did we cure him to death?)

[personal profile] rollwillpowercheck 2019-07-30 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Ideally, someone from Pythia's faction? But I think the most likely outcome is that I'll just end up with SK again.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([e] 003)

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2019-08-03 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
There have been a few new hosts you can try.

But - as you mentioned - they seem to be much more reluctant to tell us anything.