Even: Festival of Fools

[fearthefool]

 [It's January Sixth, and the Academy has undergone a very dramatic change.

It's
The Festival
of Fools
The Quad is packed with stalls painted in bright colors, patterned in stars, moons, flowers and whatever else the canvas's owner might like. The chemists' stall has toads painted on it. Go figure.

Flags flap from the spires of the tens, ribbons

Comments

VENDORS

[fearthefool]

Don't get too close. They can talk you into buying anything. They are currently betting to see who can sell you your own clothes.

[merelyaladdin]

[Aladdin isn't worried. It might be a bit more colourful than the market in Agrabah, but the principles are the same. While they wind their way through the stalls, the street rat - aided and abetted by Abu, as usual - are keeping an eye out for anything worth taking.

(It can take a while to break the habit of a life time, after all.)]

[fearthefool]

[Clopin has alot more to worry about than one kid strolling casually through the stalls, and so, probably, do the vendors. Just don't take anything too expensive, and Al will be just fine]

[merelyaladdin]

[Really, it's the monkey the vendors need to worry about.]

FACE PAINTING

[fearthefool]

Hearts, stars, horseshoes- clovers and blue moons.
A word of warning- Marcell is too free-spirited to take requests.

[alwaysaxefirst]

[She's never seen anything like this before... so Astrid decides, for once, to simply indulge in every new thing she finds- and face painting is no exception.]

Uh, does this stuff come off?

[fearthefool]

It's paint, cher'. Of course it comes off.

[alwaysaxefirst]

Oh. Okay, can I... get some? [She's really unsure about how to phrase that, but gestures towards the paints in the hope that someone will understand.]

KARAOKE

[fearthefool]

We highly encourage audience participation, hence the strategic location of the fresh fruit stall across the way.

Re: KARAOKE

[solar_surf_ftw]

[Jim just stands there, looking around at all of the colors.]

Oh..my god.

[letdownmyhair]

*She was peering at the fresh fruit stall nearby when she hears - is that music?? Attention, caught! She moves up next to Jim, looking at all the colors with her eyes alight*

What's this?

[solar_surf_ftw]

Mildly annoying that's what.

[Don't mind Jim, he's just being a grump.]

DANCING

[fearthefool]

We don't believe in 'dance floors'. Grab a partner and dance wherever you like.

[hoooly_ship]

[And after a few beers Tulio was looking around for someone to grab.]

[is_offlimits]

[Well, hi there. You might spot your girlfriend sauntering through the crowds.]

[hoooly_ship]

[Well, hi there. You might just be assaulted by a semi-Drunken Spaniard. He slides an arm around her waist and quickly pulls her into a very festive dance!]

FORTUNES

[fearthefool]

Looking for a lost love? Curious to know what your next big break will be? Fascinated by the mysteries of the beyond? All answers will be revealed by Madame Alumonde, played today by our most precocious medium, Robert!

FORTUNES

[slap_me_thrice]

Oh, readings done here, eh? I've misgivings about this...

[fearthefool]

I don't blame you, m'sieur. The future can lead to all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, and take you to places you never expected to visit. The Madame will be your guide and your guard through this perilous journey, and lead you safetly to more comforting shores... if you're brave enough to take the risk.

[slap_me_thrice]

Unexpected's not what I enjoy hearin' about, eh? But what's this about brave? Have at me, then! I expect my fortune's as fortunate as any other man's.