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sticksandbones2025-06-08 05:21 pm
unheiring) wrote in sticksandbones2025-06-08 05:21 pm
OOC Plotting: The Festival Of Bonds
Luca is worried about all of you, which is saying something considering the fact that he is like the king of depression. Thankfully, both he and Nightvale have a plan. Nightvale already has the rough framework of some strange rainbow-y festival in the works, while Luca is planning on incorporating the festivities into a holiday from home. The Festival of Bonds.
Mid-June, Luca will begin advertising his little celebration, and accepting volunteers for performances, food, you name it. I’ll have a sign-up down below for anything official anyone wants to contribute, but don’t feel like you’re locked in. If you decide at the last minute (or perhaps your character is involuntarily subjected) to participate, go for it.*
Beyond that, at the end of the month (nebulously, to allow for the rescue plot to change things up), a number of festivities will begin over the course of a weekend.
Some things to look forward to:
A drag show/karaoke competition. While you can sign up, the Sphere also makes a surprise appearance outside of fashion week that will also select competitors at random.
A photobooth that will change your outfit and put you in a pride themed costume. This can be used to divine your character’s hidden sexualities, or to just dress them up for the drag show if they’re feeling uninspired.
Occasionally, the photobooth puts you in a rainbow rain ponchos. This proves to be most fortuitous, as the Glow Cloud (all hail) has deigned to join in on the festivities. Wherever the Glow Cloud (all hail) goes, a rain of painted and dyed animals falls down. Thankfully, these ones are alive for once. Thank you, Glow Cloud (all hail).
A sinkhole opens up in Mission Grove Park, revealing the long forgotten Nightvale Colosseum. Those who venture down will be captured and sent into the arena, where they will have five minutes to craft the most sturdy glowstick weapon and fight their competitor. The first one to break and spill glow goo all over its fighter will be deemed the loser.
On the night of the new moon, a gender neutral bellowing to summon the ancient gods will occur. Please wear your nicest pride outfits.
The car lot will be hosting a drag race of their own, in which participants will be assigned to a team according to their sexuality and/or gender, and forced to race in a respectively patterned dragsters.
The volunteer committee for Wrath Month will be advertising all month long. They will gladly tell you about the midnight ball drop approaching at the end of the month. While certain events will likely keep characters from participating, they are welcome to submit the name of their most beloathed into the massive crystal ball. When the ornate structure shatters, the names will be scattered to the wind. ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ.
And last but not least.
Special thanks go to Kaed, Kei, and Billie Sue for overall event ideas, while Wolfie, Kaed, and Weasel deserve credit for many of the pride parade ideas. You all are very helpful and I appreciate you all.
*The Drag Show will be publicly judged, and will thus require “submission” to the event by leaving a comment when the post goes live. The winner will be chosen at random. The prize will be something that the local population deems “truly magnificent.” Maybe you don’t want to find out what that is.
Mid-June, Luca will begin advertising his little celebration, and accepting volunteers for performances, food, you name it. I’ll have a sign-up down below for anything official anyone wants to contribute, but don’t feel like you’re locked in. If you decide at the last minute (or perhaps your character is involuntarily subjected) to participate, go for it.*
Beyond that, at the end of the month (nebulously, to allow for the rescue plot to change things up), a number of festivities will begin over the course of a weekend.
Some things to look forward to:
- A Pride Parade that lasts several days, going in circles around the perimeter of town. They never tire. They never sleep. Of note,
- Every member of the transgender track club is entirely invisible. Their clothes and adornments are not.
- A green-tinted glass float goes by, sponsored by the antique shop. Two men sporting matching MLM capes cryptically remind you “doɥS ʇ,uoᗡ 'ʇdop∀”. At night, the float is accompanied by black lights, revealing an eerie glow from the float itself.
- The Aces and Arrows poker and archery club hosts a mobile display, featuring targets color coded to the Ace and Aro flags. The poker players throw their cards with deadly precision, while archers deftly shoot through any cards that land in the bullseye.
- The standing pansexual army is adorned in armor sourced entirely from their kitchens
- The Sapphic Sword Fighting team participates in a unique dance of swordplay and theater. A dragon dodges out of the group every few blocks and steals the hottest woman they can find. There may be makeouts.
- A float with a banner declaring “Protect the Dolls” rolls through. A number of life-sized ball jointed dolls stare eerily into your soul. For those of you who are not out to yourselves yet, a number of realizations may occur soon after.
- There's a gay float brought to you by the joyous congregation of the smiling god, who misunderstood the assignment. Gay vore enthusiasts may still find something to love about this, I’m not your dad.
- The kink pride group is infiltrated by a number of bears in leather gear. Any homophobes in the audience will be ritually fed to them.
- The local association of realtors have created their own float. Strangely, it is occupied by a number of deer. Fortunately, they are very in the spirit of the festival, and will be throwing candy and mardi gras beads into the crowd.
- Every member of the transgender track club is entirely invisible. Their clothes and adornments are not.
And last but not least.
- A date auction, hosted by Luca himself. Characters will place their names into a box to be auctioned off. Any shell based proceeds will go… somewhere. Or perhaps they disappear. Who’s to say. You can sign up here!
Special thanks go to Kaed, Kei, and Billie Sue for overall event ideas, while Wolfie, Kaed, and Weasel deserve credit for many of the pride parade ideas. You all are very helpful and I appreciate you all.
*The Drag Show will be publicly judged, and will thus require “submission” to the event by leaving a comment when the post goes live. The winner will be chosen at random. The prize will be something that the local population deems “truly magnificent.” Maybe you don’t want to find out what that is.
Suggestions
Would you like your love life judged by a teenager?
Word is that the advice is strangely sound given the source...
Questions
No, next.
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Wolfwood: I NEED someone to fight him with glowsticks. Please I'm begging
Also will be doing drag racing because he craves speed
Sesa: Sesa will be here he is a newly married gay man and he is VIBING.
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Date Auction Sign-ups
(Yes I forgot shhh)
RAZLO
Thorns / Isidro if you want the real name
White Lily Cookie
Joshua Rosfield
Meryl + Verso
Sidney Wolfe
Flamebringer
Aira Shiratori
Till
gnosis is not on here bc this isn't his scene ok thanks
Flamebringer: Will be beating people's asses with glowsticks. Will be racing cars and being a douchebag about it.
Thorns: Probably will sign him up for the date auction?? Warning: he's stupid. Warning for girlies and femme-pronoun-users: he's just flat out gay. But he will still take you on the rizziest platonic date ever if you can get past the fact that he's fucking weird.
Passenger: busy kissing his husband in front of everyone sorry—
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He's found out the word for what he is and now he has a cute little pan flag scarf and he's pleased as hell about it. Please keep him from the pan army, he doesn't need to be swinging a ladle around like a sword.
More important to the others than the chaos he's unleashing in his excitement is the fact that he has a relationship booth that I mentioned above.
"Relationship Advice" is extremely vague and its that way on purpose. If it's in his capability to see he's fine talking about it.
Have fun he's here to help. And to meddle.