Higurashi paranoia event start!

[moextispicy]

[Today, if you wander around camp, you might find something a little...odd. Like the fact that there appears to be an entire Japanese village festival spontaneously appearing in the middle of a previously empty cornfield, complete with booths staffed with either zombies, or your fellow campers. You might even be irresistably drawn to run one

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Cheese stall

[runstowardsfire]

[Has a small selection of fresh cheeses and a fondue pot with various things for dipping like potato croquettes and toasted bread. She's not so sure about the cheese fondue though. Or how she came to be here.]

. . . There's a theme now?

[moextispicy]

Probably just for the day. It's the Watanagashi festival.

[runstowardsfire]

*focuses on Rika and her outfit*

Something from your world then?

[moextispicy]

It's the annual festival in my hometown. I rip up a futon and they put the cotton balls drifting in the stream to symbolize the sins of the last year being purified.

[runstowardsfire]

So you're a . . . priestess of some sort?

[moextispicy]

[nods] Oyashiro's priestess, to be exact. The god of Hinamizawa.

[runstowardsfire]

[It's tricky when gods are involved . . . And there's much more to read up on.]

Hinamizawa is your hometown . . . So this is Japanese?

[moextispicy]

[for the record, there's absolutely nothing useful in the library. It was one of the first things Rika checked.]

Mm-hmm. It's a pretty normal Japanese festival.

[runstowardsfire]

[Oh well--reading is still fun and there are a lot of Japanese people here . . .]

What do people do at Japanese festivals? I've seen some pictures in the library books and it's very colourful.

[moextispicy]

Mostly, it's a lot of small booths with games and festival food. A lot of people wear yukatas to them, but it's not really a big thing at Watanagashi.

[runstowardsfire]

. . . How did the festival originate?

[moextispicy]

I have no idea. It's a very old festival.

[runstowardsfire]

The rituals involved are very old then.

[moextispicy]

They are. How come you're interested in that?

[runstowardsfire]

[Because witch = instinctively nosy]

Because there are rituals everywhere and they're mostly responsible for the festivals even where I come from.

[moextispicy]

Mi- I guess that's not a surprise. What kind of rituals?