The stars twinkle

[monster_san]

WHO: Anyone who wants to show up!
WHERE: Heropa neighborhood
WHEN: August 24, afternoon to midnight
WHAT: Tanabata!
WARNINGS: None!



[It's a couple of weeks late for Tanabata in 2019, but that doesn't stop Fuu. With some help from friends, neighbors, and new acquaintances, she's decorated the light poles, trees, and fences around the Heropa neighborhood with colorful paper streamers, origami, and lanterns. And of course, there is the traditional bamboo wish tree. A nearby card table holds paper tokens, sharpies, and bits of ribbon to tie to the shoots.

There is plenty of food and drink, some of it Japanese festival food like dango, grilled chicken and vegetables on skewers, okonomiyaki pancakes, fried soba, and cotton candy, but some American fare as well--burgers, for instance, thanks to Tina, and whatever the guests bring themselves. (If you want alcohol, you're on your own.) And, as promised, Fuu has managed to rig up a bamboo shoot chute with somen noodles flowing down it.

There are outdoor games too, like archery (with toy arrows, puncture wounds are NOT a Tanabata tradition), badmiton, etcetera.

At night, you may want to search out Vega and Altair--Orihime and Hikoboshi, on opposite sides of the Milky Way.]

Fae

[They are around, and while Fuu has planned for that as best she can by offering them sweet treats and giving them little tasks--well, they don't have the greatest attention span in the world, and as soon as a new amusement occurs to them, that's what they'll do. Whether it's unraveling paper streamers, or stealing tokens from the wish tree, or changing the color of your food, they're doing their bit to make Tanabata just that much more interesting.]

[ooc: If you want to handwave your character having helped Fuu set up, feel free!]

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Andrew Carter {{ Hogan's Heroes

[stlg13bomber]

[Carter has brought the 'soft drinks' - two large bottles of soda pop in a plastic bag, which he leaves on the food table. At first he hovers on the sidelines, afraid to make a fool of himself. He'd done his research on what he wasn't allowed to call Japanese people but given his track record in stepping on his own toes with normal American and European people, he didn't entirely trust his odds.

Carter spends the early stages of the party as an uncharacteristic wallflower, hands in his pockets. He's dressed in jeans and a t-shirt with cartoon animals on it, baseball cap tugged over his face. He sidles about looking at the streamers and tasting the surprisingly good foods. Slowly, as conversations with other partygoers don't end in disaster (or end in and then recover from disaster), he starts to get more relaxed.

Carter even tries out the archery, though he's very rusty and not used to working with a toy bow instead of the real thing.

Eventually he works up the courage to add his own contributions to the wish tree.]

I wish for a pet to live at my house here.

I wish for 622 to feel better.

[The third wish takes more thought, and he winds up chewing on his lip as he bends over the table, cap of the sharpie tapping his chin.]

I wish I could understand the future without getting a headache.

[dragony]

Mm. Not bad form.

[ The assessment on his go at toy archery comes from... one of the stranger-looking festival attendees, for sure. She's Japanese, sure, but that's probably going to be lower on the list of noticed features, leagues behind "bright pastel green hair" and "obnoxious red heart-shaped eye patch." Whether it's a teenage fashion thing or is just... what she looks like, it's not easy to tell by first impression.

She seems congenial enough, though; her arms are folded behind her back, posture straight, as she takes another glance between him and the target. ]

You've practice with the real thing, right?

[stlg13bomber]

Yeah, but not for a good long while. I used to go bow hunting with my cousin Jack back in North Dakota. [He's not yet looking at her as he says it, still focused on trying to get the bow to work properly.]